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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1911
Page
7
Insurrectos slip into Juarez by night and engage in hand to hand combat. Rebels claim victory as a white flag rises over Navarro’s Bar racks. Federals lie dead under a blistering sun amid the siege.
As Navarre fights to death in Juarez, General Madero and Col. Villa push rebels toward the town. Fire, shelling, and dynamite blast through streets while inhabitants and refugees cross the border to El Paso.
Dubuque Iowa May 10 Superintendent Harris urges outdoor classes in public schools during warm weather. He says many indoor lessons can be effectively carried out outside, especially physical drills reading and kindergarten activities, though tasks like arithmetic or penmanship require indoors. He cites health and spirit benefits and stresses existing attractive grounds support more outdoor time.
The El Paso dispatches report over 100 federal wounded with about 20 likely to die. Bodies lie in streets near the custom house and fall, while Col Tamborel is wounded. Raoul Madero reports Navarro surrounded and still fighting. Americans plunder stores as Agua Prieta evacuat es. Red Cross hospital appeals and rising casualties mark the day.
Reports from Laredo say Insurrectos seized the town with General Orozco claiming chiefs unharmed. Fifty six federals killed near Saltillo, including a slaughter at a cotton mill where sixty federals sheltered. Col Tamborel dead. Col Pushlito wounded in the eye. General Orozco orders aid to wounded and greets federal prisoners.
New York May 10 Mme Olive Fremstad sailing for Europe today will face a future as she sings in Tosca. She battles Baron Scarpia struggles from her last appearance and faces surgery to repair torn ligaments in her left arm after weeks of massage yielding only temporary relief amid intense rain.
Nine federals and seven rebels were killed and eighteen federals and twelve rebels wounded in the capture of Tijuana by rebels under General Pryce. Casualties are ascertained up to morning. more may be found in the hills surrounding the town. Five of the dead are well known citizens.
Mrs C A O Rourke died on Wednesday May 10 at Presbyterian hospital. Funeral private. The family home is 266 Campbell avenue.
May 10 Prince Albert Sask reports flames engulfing Big River mill area and spreading to a 600 mile zone in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Firefighters(), relief train from Prince Albert aided towns as smoke blankets a large region. countless livestock losses and rumors of burn injuries. Rain needed to halt devastation as fires continue despite some local extinguishing efforts.
May 16 a letter to the White House from P. W. Tibbetts village president of Warzata Minnesota approves Senator Kenyon's suggestion that President Taft open his summer vacation in the middle west Tibbetts offers a site for a presidential summer home on Lake Minnetonka West Washington.
Washington on May 16. The decalogue and the golden rule are urged as standards for government in a joint resolution drafted by Representative Pepper of Iowa at the urging of the United Christian party.
Crowds of about 5,000 expected as Peoria faces Danville in Dubuque and Davenport hosts Rock Island under ideal weather. Mayor Lewman and Mayor Schriver pitch first balls, with parades precedeing the games and early season scoring noted between Davenport and Rock Island. In Dubuque business halt precedes the Dubuque versus Waterloo clash. Three female prisoners gain freedom from county jail, Goldie Adams Frances Allen and Lillian Anderson escorted out on a clear spring morning.
Proceedings report a 9:30 a m start in Russell Lamson hall with a resolution to remain a grand lodge. Mrs Etta A Branson praised, officers reelected, and the group adjourned for club rooms. Dr Clever and Supreme Master William Narvis greeted the Degree of Honor members.
Fort Tiedge Tennessee May 10 The surviving Paton Postoffice robber shows no threat of death per post office inspector George W Bassett who interviewed him yesterday Bar Nett says the man is educated wellborn but has gone wrong He discarded a cheap novel and told investigators he wants history or biography to read He will not reveal his identity to save family disgrace
In Shelby on May 10 a Baltimore & Ohio train struck an automobile driven by James Hissong, killing him and three others instantly. The victims named are Samuel Winner, J. J. Bell from Bucyrus, and Mack Esterhing of Shelby, all dead from the midnight collision at Majin street crossing.
Davenport Iowa May 10 Attor neys struggle to empanel a jury for Rudolph Brandenburg charged with murdering his stepfather Claus Menter. The regular panel is exhausted and twelve more men are summoned but a full jury seems unlikely today.
In Cedar Rapids on May 10 Judge Crieghier ruled the saloon gent petition in favor of the wets, granting their request in district court.
Cedar Rapids May 10 The State Hannemann Medical Society elected officers in session. President Dr S A Studds of Sioux City. Vice presidents B C Lynn of Des Moines and Alice Ross of Whittier. Secretary G N Huntoon Des Moines. Treasurer M A Royal West Liberty. Next year’s convention planned for Des Moines.
Lieutenant George M. B. Kelley of the 30th Infantry US Army died after a Curtiss aircraft accident at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. A separate item from Springfield notes May 10 as the day the constitutional revision resolution failed in the house by 78 to 68.
Edinburgh reports eight bodies recovered from the Empire Music Hall fire. Identified are LaFayette the Great and two company members Alice Dale and Joe Coster. others include two orchestra members and three unidentified. A trained lion reportedly blocked the stage door during the panic before LaFayette freed the beast.
Des Moines on May 10. Attorney General Cosson issued an opinion stating a man cannot serve as mayor of a town or city and hold the position of deputy sheriff simultaneously. The ruling follows the Sidnex case where Mayor Gindorf recently qualified as deputy sheriff.
Fire at State Center destroyed the municipal electric lighting plant and its contents. Origin unknown. Loss $7,000 with $3,000 insurance.
Clinton Iowa May 10 Gilbert Temple a Clinton photographer for over thirty years and active Mason and Elk died last night He is survived by a daughter Mrs Charles B Knox of Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Washington May 10 Neither branch of congress was in session today but committees active in both houses. In the senate the finance committee continued hearings on Canadian reciprocity, attracting attention as the day progressed.
Earthquake shocks were recorded by the seismograph at St Ignatius college from 6:30 to 7 o'clock last night. The maximum shock occurred at 6:43 p.m. in Cleveland.
Des Moines reports a fire early today razed Story City electric plant. Damage estimated at 35000 dollars, leaving the town in darkness tonight.
Keokuk Ia May 10 A lawyer Willam Timberman married Misa Hazel Salzer within hours of their engagement. The couple secured a license at noon and wed at the bride's home with Rev R C Mellwain officiating. They left for the south then planned a three month honeymoon after return. Salzer a 21 year old pianist and vocalist, Timberman about seven years her senior, said the match was a spontaneous decision following a stroll and a vow to marry.
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