Graphic (Newspaper) - January 20, 1898, Postville, Iowa The ONE DOLLAR PER Strictly in W. J. WALLIS & ISSUED THURSDAY EACH WEEK East Side second north oC In The Graphic VOL. NO. 1. JAN. 20,1898. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR The BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM In Northeastern Huh a LARGE CIRCULATION Through a rich Advertisers will make a note of Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Congress in Annual Session in BOTH HOUSES SETTLE DOWN TO la the Semite and Are Introduced and Discussed -In the Important Measures Arc of. Jan. 12.-The entire timo of the executive session of the senate yesterday was consumed by Senator Saris in u speech in support of Hawaiian Jan. 13.-In executive the senate yesterday further discussed the Hawaiian The nominations of Charles P. of as minister to Brazil; of now minister to as minister to and Mark S. of to be a civil service were received from the Jan. 14.-The nomination of Attorney General McKenna to be a justice of the United States supreme court was reported favorably to the senate also the pension appropriation and the Hawaiian treaty in executive Senator McMillan favorably reported a for the construction on the great lakes of a gunboat to cost not exceeding exclusive of the vessel to lake place of the steamship npw on duty on the Jan. 15. - By general the senate yesterday postponed consideration of the Hawaiian treaty until next Senator Honr offered a joint resolution proposing an intendment to the constitution extending the term of office of the president and senator's to April 30, 1001, and making that day instead of March 4 the commencement and termination of official terms in Nineteen pension bills were An adverse was made upon H. W. Corbett's to a sent in the senate from Adjourned to Tiie Jan. 11.-The opponents of the civil law had much the best of the debate in the house yesterday so far as the number of those engaging in it were nine of the eleven speakers being of the A memorial was presented asking the enactment of n law to provide the death penalty the crimes of train wrecking and train Jan. 12.-In the house yesterday the civil service debate was closed and the executive and judicial appropriation upon which the debate was predicates was The urgent deficiency was Jan. 13.-The urgent deficiency was passed in the house yesterday and the diplomatic and consular appropriation was 14.-Mr. Bland introduced a free coinage in the house yesterday which makes and silver the and declares all rules discriminating against the legal lender of such coinage The agricultural appropriation was reported with an amendment providing for the inspection of horse meat for export purposes in the same way that the meat of cattle and other animals is now Jan. 15.-The Laeey extending the homestead law to Alaska and granting rights of way to railroads was favorably reported in the house yesterday the agricultural appropriation Jan. In the house on Saturday two hours were spent in general debate on the army appropriation and the remainder of the day was given to eulogizing the life and public services of the late W. of who served for 14 years in the lower branch of CORPSE FOR A John Fries with Heart While in n Jan. 17.-When Farmer Von der Abe's horse reached home Friday night the reins were held by n John the hired bad driven to town to visit his parents and had been stricken with heart disease on 1he return The horse was found standing before the barn door and the driver lying dead against the Declared O. Jan. 14.-The supreme court has promulgated an opinion in which the separate school law passed last making it a misdemeanor for a white child to attend n colored school or a colored child to attend a white was declared null and void because uncertainty nnd of conflict both the letter and the spirit of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United Su Lives Jan. 13.-Latest advices from the orient state that the Japanese transport steamer of 2,810 bound to the was wrecked on December 24, and about SO lives The only survivors were five who were picked up by the steamer Lumber Mill Jan. 15.-A special to the Wisconsin from island says the lumber mill lugersoll Land and Lumber located three miles from was New Jan. 17,-Gen. William the head of the arrived in this city from lie will make a tour principal cities Of this country and BEN BUTTERWORTH DIES Quietly Airay Surrounded br Wife nnd Jan. 17.-A special to the Hon. Benjamin United States commissioner of who has been lit Woods hotel hero several died at 3:15 Sunday The end was peaceful and when it came bis wife and children BENJAMIN were at his ne came here to recuperate from an attack of pneumonia and recovered rapidly till two weeks when he Buffered from Butterworth was what ts known as a Thoso who know him best during his busy career nro unanimous In saying of him dally lite was as exemplary of the of that good old faith as that of any public could He was born In Warren October 22, 1S37, was a member of the state senate of Ohio from Warren and Bullor counties in 1873-74. was elected a representative In congress from tho First Including tho city of to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first From then until appointed to the position ho occupied at his ho most of his to the practice of especially patent in as he has always been best spent his earlier years around and Foster's tho Inner u Utile station on the Little Miami His father was William his mother a a family noted throughout entire lino for their keenness of powers of perception and strength In speech and Both parents were of Quaker Maj. keen intellect and remarkable powers of perception were inherited from his tirst acquaintance with law was made In the of Durbin then a successful practitioner in During the war ho attained thu rank of major in an Ohio He was commissioner of patents during tho administration of and and made then and subsequently had great weight with President McKinley In selecting him for that He was made secretary of the world's fair project early in tho Inception of that great enterprise at Chicago during tho early 90's, and wonted along in that capacity with honor to and profit to tho company until its A wife and four children the dead His wife was Miss Mary of Tho children aro Mrs. of D. a who married a Miss of 111.; young who was Injured in college game early in and whose prowess as a foot ball coach and full back Is almost BUSINESS The Year with a Very Satisfactory New Jan. 15.-li. U. Dun & the weekly review of year lias opened with a very satisfactory It is all tho better that there is no wild excitement in tho speculative and slocks advance a grain yields a The payments through tho principal clearing notwithstanding a decrease at New owing to less activity in are 2.0 per larger than In and 10.1 per larger outside New Earnings of all railroads In tho United States reporting for 513,301,279, Indicate substantially the same rate of exceeding last year's by 10.5 per and the earnings of for tho same roads by 1.3 per cent. Since on the the most prosperous year thus comparisons notwithstanding tho lowest prices ever that the volume ot business is larger in spite of some cutting of the earnings of railroads arc larger than in the bast year ot past wheat market has been curiously yielding a quarter of a although Atlantic exports amount to 0,050,-7SS bushels for the two weeks of against 3.P.S0.317 last and Pacific exports for the week have been 1,979,070 Western receipts so heavy that tho greatest accumulation of wheat at Chicago over known there is little encouragement for Corn continue although equal to last amounting to 3,136,083 against 4,113,652 bushels for tho week last and the price declined about three-fourths of a cent. AMERICANS ARE Ontario Legislature Pusses an Allen Labor i Jan. 17.-The Ontario legislature adjourned Friday night ana in its closing hours passed a providing that uo persons shall be employed in the construction of subsidized railways In Ontario who are subjects ot any country which has an alien labor law excluding Canadians from employ ment on public or other works This means that Americans need not expect employment on Canadian The legislature also passed the timber which require nil sowings cut in Ontario hereafter to be made into lumber in Dentil San Jan. 17.-Mrs. James L. wife of the millionaire mine died Saturday as the result of an operation recently performed at the California woman's The who was only 34 years of was a native of Kansas whither her remains will be taken for Dies of v Jan. 13.-Justice A. of the state supremo on an icy and sustained a fracture of the died a little before noon Judge Newman was 04 years of age and had been a member of the supreme court for the past four Lone Their Jan. 12.-By tho falling of n cage in the mine nt Minns eight men were hurled 500 feet to the bottom of the Five were killed outright and the remaining three are not expected to - A Tornado Sweeps Over Fort Causing Death and SCORES OF BUILDINGS at Women nnd Children Meet a Horrible Business In Persons Fort Jan. 13.-Two score of human lives and upward of worth of property were destroyed by a terrible tornado which burst upon this city a few minutes past 11 o'clock Tuesday The storm struck near the National cemetery and tore through the entire leaving its path marked by death and women and peacefully sleeping In their without a moment's awakened to meet a horrible death in the fearful while others momentarily more fortunate and who escaped the furies of the met a far worse fate a few moments later in the flames which soon engulfed many of the wrecked An The scene following the tirst terrific crash of the was one of awful Business handsome hotels and humble cottages were razed to the ground nnd in shapeless Several of the wrecks caught fire and the Inflammable timbers burned The city was crowded with rural many of whom were sleeping at For this reason the number of victims who perished may never be definitely In Crawford Van Jan. 13.-The tornado that descended upon Fort Smith crossed tho Arkansas river half a mile south of a path through this county and dealt death and devastation to everything in its The first house it struck was that of occupied by a colored who left the house just as it left its The house was but the occupants The next house in the line was Frank It was a large two-story frame and nothing remains of it but the a son nnd a were badly The Walter and were on an adjoining and were blown entirely not a vestige of them being The families of both were Jim store and dwelling were blown but none of the occupants were Charles Wright was blown from his house and fatally Ed was instantly killed his house blowing down on The house of Mrs. Bash was demolished and she was crushed into a shapeless mass of flesh and and two of her aged eight and 1G, were fatally Later Fort Jan. 14.-The latest official death list shows a total of 43 lives lost in the tornado which swept through Fort Smith Tuesday Not less than 70 others are a large number of whom are seriously and several are expected to In Crawford county three persons were three fatally injured and about 20 less seriously hurts WAS A No Truth of Reported of 0. Jan. 13.-There was great excitement here Wednesday morning over the reported uprising of the Seminole Indians and the report that they had slaughtered the people of Maud and the worst fears were allayed when reports were received to telegraphic inquiries seut out by Gov. The mayor of and the sheriff and county attorney of. Pottawatomie county replied that there was no truth in the reported uprising and They that the were - greatly excited over the burning of two of their tribe at the stake by white men nnd that a few bucks were urging the tribe to avenge this but that in nil probability the force of in the reservation and along the territorial line was now sufficient to prevent an actual outbreak of Observe n New Methodists are preparing to celebrate They surpass in numbers every other stale except New President McKinley will be the central figure of the but the background will be made up of circuit riders and similar picturesque features of early Methodism in the The exact date has not yet been but it probably will be near the college commencement season next of Jan. 14.-The British steamship lianza cleared Thursday for Bremen with bales of cotton weighing valued nt 5.524,952. This is the largest cargo of cotton ever shipped from an Atlantic port and is over 7,000 bales more than was ever shipped from on any other Sandy Jan. 15.-During a drunken quarrel here Smith John Williams and Tom Willson were killed and Will BurgesS Mini New Jan. 15.-In a fire which occurred at Thomas hotel in West nnd which did Leslie Stanley nud his wife were by TOOK THE of of Takes Des Jan. 14.-L. M. Shaw took the oath of. office as governor of Iowa Between and 7,000 people gathered at the state house to see him and they filled every foot of available space in the rotunda of the state tiie corridors GOV. L. M. and the After taking the oath of office Shaw delivered a somewhat lengthy address iu which he took strong ground in favor of the gold standard and reduction of the state At of the usual inaugural a reception to the public was held in the governor's At the request of Gov. there was no lie is a Methodist of strong HANNA Uc Will He United Sou a lor from Ohio Until 1005. Jan. 13.-Marcus Hanna was elected Wednesday to represent Ohio in the senate for seven years and two If Mi should be Senator Hauna would still be there to the end of the president's second MARCUS A. both the short and the long Hanna's time as senator will expire iu 1D05. Less than two years ago entered politics in advocating William candidacy for the He was successful as tho leader of the McKinley forces at the St. Louis convention and afterwards as chairman ot the national republican For almost a year he has been in the senate as the successor of Secretary John THE PULLMAN Tiie File an Inventory of the Jan. 14.-The inventory of the estate of the late was filed iu the probate court Thursday by Norman B. Ream and Robert T. The inventory lists the real estate and personal property of the though it places no valuation on the nud gives only the par value of the securities which form a major portion of the According to the estimates given at the time the will was tiled the real estate was worth about and the personal estate In the inventory the conservative policy of the executors is further borne and on the property valued the ligures are such as to leave little chance for Fire In Jan. 14.-Fire broke out evening iu the plow factory of B. F. Avery & Sons and did about worth of THE New Jan LIVE Steers 40 3 50 bp 3 SO & Patents B 00 c Minnesota 4 20 c 1 91%ci> CORN - No. 2.................. OATS - No. 2.................. 25-y,(iji> BUTTER - Factory H CHEESE - Light (i Cfl EGGS - 20 53 70 Texas 3 75 3 25 M Feeders 3 75 W Bulls 2 ii HOGS - 3 55 U 3 40 SHEEP 2 60 fa BUTTER - 13 Dairy 12 EGGS 14 POTATOES 52 c PORK - LARD 4 FLOUR - 4 SO 0 Straights 4 40 GRAIN - No. 2 27 6 No. 2 No. 2.................. Choice to 23 Q Spring 5 SS 0 3................. 27W No. 2.................. 24U(!J- No. 4GVi(fi> No. 2............... 41 ft PORK - 9 36 0 LARD 4 75 No. 2 5 90vJ No. 2................. No. 2 25VW No. 2.................. ST. Si 40 Stockers and 2 50 631 3 00 50 CATTLE - Native 7t> and 3 uo Stockers and 3 to if HOGS 3 40 CHEEP i 00 17. 5 00 4 4 10 5 211 i 50 1 01 92 211 20 15 5 00 4 00 3 75 1 35 4 00 3 00 3 50 4 60 19 17 20 02 9 42'-'. 4 75'" 5 50 I 90 91 27U 5i 41) 27W 40V4 42 9 40 4 SO 91 29H 25',b 5 20 4 60 3 70 50 1 10 3 SO 4 CO 3 60 i 40 Spanish Officers Lead a Mob in Havana Which Destroys Newspaper CONSUL GENERAL LEE MAKES A REPORT tile Trouble Is Over Condition of the in Cuba Is 11 Feature Command Little Jan. 13, - At ten o'clock yesterday morning about 100.army incensed by the violent attacks made by some of the local on the general in chief and the principal officers of the Spanish army in went to the printing offices of the Daily La Discussion and El and destroyed them and threats were made against all Everything Is Jan. 14.-Late the first news of the day came to the state department from United States who telegraphed that everything is very quiet iu Havana and that is no cause for apprehension of Orders have been sent to the Marblehead to proceed to Navassa to investigate conditions among the laborers thus disposing of rumors she would be ordered to Gen. Leo did not ask to have a warship sent to nnd in the opinion of the state department officials that is a sufficient reason for the assumption that there is no occasion for sending The officials are evidently not apprehensive of any trouble in the immediate future that will require the forcible intervention of oui disquieting feature of the situation is the horrible condition of the poor in According tc Gen. Lee's advices no less than 200,000 people on the are in the last stages of and are wholly dependent upon To feed these people on a ten cent ration per day would cost which sum is double the amount so far received in contributions during the past ten days by the state In the opinion of Gen. no less than 20 of these poor people are surely doomed to death from and In such a state of affairs the existence of any form of organized government is threatened aud the autonomy plans oi the Spanish government command little The serenty many rumors of radical such as the dispatch of warships to Havana and like Starvation Kills Jan. 14.-Advices from Maj. George L. major of now iu on whose information tlhe state senate has passed 3 strong Cuban say that 90,-000 persons have perished by starvation in the province of Santa Clara alone since January 1, 1S07. Maj. Donald says oue cannot go 20 steps without some poor starving woman or child begging for something to eat and that a person sit down 10 meal without being asked for bread by starving May lie Jan. 15.-Gen. Lee sends a cablegram from Havana saying that while he did not see any indications of the resumption of the yet in view of the inflammable situation in Havana he believed that there might be further He added that he did not anticipate another but yet would not be surprised at None of the he has been directed against the United States or American Death to Jan. is thought that the riots in this city have given the death blow to as they prove that not only the Cubans do not want but that the army volunteers and Spanish element generally are determined to light against it. Many residents are preparing to depart for the United The Spaniards declare they will have no autonomy or permit the publication of any papers that attack Weyler or any officer of the Spanish IOWA WANTS Oklahoma to Petition Con for O. Jan. 15.-The statehood which was in session here until a late hour Thursday brought over 1,000 delegates and other interested persons to The which was wholly adopted unanimously resolutions petitioning the present congress to pass an enabling act providing for the admission of Oklahoma as a Cut from St. 14.-A new party was born Thursday night in the conference of the populists and named the people's It has severed nil connection with the national populist committee and will take uo aid or advice from any outside There was a practical agreement among the delegates a national presidential convention should be held this Jan. 17.-The exports of domestic merchandise for December last amounted to an increase as compared with 1S!)G, of over For the 12 mouths the increase was over The imports during December to nud for the 12 months the increase was about 1'^utxil 15.-In a fit of jealousy Louis Alfred fatally Minnie his and then killed The Twenty-Seventh Assembly Convenes in lies Des Jan. 11.-The Twenty-seventh general assembly convened at ten o'clock tho senate being called order by Lieut. Gov. The republican caucus employes were elected as George A. Cedar C. 1-1. West second S. D. Nora E. C. engrossing Mrs. Carrie G. enrolling Mrs. Eva Journal F. C. and George A. Des 12.-In the senate yesterday Gov. Drake's biennial message was No business was Des Jan. 13.-No business of Importance was transacted in the senato Des Jan. 14.-In the senats yesterday Gov. Shaw's message was read and Lieut. Gov. Parrott was presented with two complimentary testimonials and a gold watch and from the He thanked the senate and handing the gavel to his Introduced him lo the Mr. spoke He advocated a short session and prudent expenditures and then announced his The membership of the three leading committees is as Ways and Young of The following are the chairmen of other and suppression of congressional and Judicial of constitutional building and senatorial and representative of public educational charitable public fish nnd engrossed enrolled Des Jan. 15.-Bills were introduced in the senate yesterday to prevent tho importation of diseased dairy to amend the building and loan laws so that the associations shall not have to publish their lists of membership for assessment to have the orphans in the home at Davenport supported by the state instead of by to make the limit of interest payable on state warrants four per cent. Instead of to empower county officials to loan money under and secure interest to make the season November and December instead of October and Senator Wilson introduced a joint resolution providing for a committee to investigate tho feasibility of having text books made iu the Des Jan. 11.-All the members of except Towner of who is sick in Charles After Judge called the body to order Mr. of Blackhawk was made temporary chairman and Mr. of temporary The committee 011 credentials received a contest In the but decided that John Jr. who held the certificate of was entitled to be sworn In. J. H. Funk was named as permanent speaker by In assuming the gavel ho said that the first duty of the assembly was see that the state debt was paid off. The deficit is now about The new speaker insisted that appropriations should be cut down to the bone in order to pay tiie Shaw announced the appointment of N. T. of Columbus as pharmacy commissioner and tho reappointment of Dr. J. 1. of as state Des Jan. 12.-After hearing Gov. Drake's Speaker Funk announced the house committees The membership of leading committees is as Ways nnd G. Van of Bucna In the afternoon the two houses met in joint session to canvass the vote for governor and lieutenant The results were as M. Shaw 22-1,729; F. E. White 194,S33; S. P. Leland C. A. Lloyd 5,290; John 4,290: M. J. Kremer 43S.273. Lieutenant C. 220.US; 1). A. Plummer 1S4,-575; M. W. Atwood 7.S92; B. H. Perkins 5,031; C. H. Mallory 5.374; M. A. 90S; 429.901, Des Jan. 13.-The house yesterday appointed a committee comprising Representatives and Brighton to take charge of the contest filed by F. C. Hartshorn against John Jr. sitting as the member from the In Joint caucus the republican members renominated F. R. Conaway and Young for state printer and state binder and nominated Warden of the Fort Madison for the third aud nominated W. A. Hunter for warden of tho Anamosa Des Jan. brief session of the house was held but no business was Gov. Shaw's message was lies Jan. 15.-In the house yesterday Mr. Cook introduced a substantially the same as the famous of last which failed of passage In the It provides in substance that no contract of insurance shall take from a railroad employe or his heirs the right to bring action for damages for injuries or death against the Other bills were introduced to do away with the circle In marking to repeal the the constitutional amendment to redistrict the state and make 115 representative and 50 senatorial IOWA STATE Tho most northern post office in the world has lately been established by the Norwegian government on the island of the north coast of There are practically 110 inhabitants to be but the post office is a convenience to excursionists who go there during the summer Pierre Loti has just finished a which has occupied him for several It is in four acts and six and the at tion takes place at the time of the revocation of the edict of Kevel In Burglars entered the home in Des Moines of W. A. agent at the neighboring Winnebago during the family's absence at ami spent several happy days emptying the drinking champagne and reclining in They were exquisitely and except for the valuables they took on their left the house in Their visit was discovered 011 1he Twelve George convicted at Mar of murder in flic was sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary nt hard labor after having been denied a new Application was made to Judge House to admit defendant to bail pending aii appeal to the supreme but his honor was of opinion that it was not a bailable offense under the new code and therefore denied the Local Option nt The board of supervisors of Dubuque county having found that the petitions of consent to the sale of liquors in Dubuque have been signed by more than 25 per of the legal voters at the general the sale of intoxicating liquors under the provisions of the so-called mulct law and in compliance with the provisions of the statute is Firms A fire that broke out in the building in Davenport caused heavy loss to several business firms and damaged the Masonic temple The ladies of the Eastern Star lodge were in session and a panic was barely McCullough Sons lose on on Other Sheriff Prevents a The traveling who assaulted a 12-year-old girl at Searsboro and who was threatened with lynching by a is safely behind the bars at lie was captured after midnight by the who with great difficulty prevented the moil from lynching The will not give his No further trouble is Iowa's Mortuary Tiie state board of health filed its annual mortuary Following are the death rates per 1,000 in the principal 13; 0.5: Council 0.2: 10.2; Des 7.S; 10.3, and Sioux 7.1. S. and himself .at his home iu six miles northwest of No cause was Mr. Lane had served three terms as county and at the time of his death was in the lumber business at ami John a lawyer at whose wife had secured a divorce from him on account of his cruelty and threats to end her sought the unfortunate woman out and murdered Several hours later he shot News In Sylvester aged 00, a and old dropped at Cherokee from a stroke of A new post office has been established at Pocahontas with Joseph D. Regan as The report of Superintendent F. C. Hoyt for the state asylum for December 31 shows 400 males and 209 a total of 600. The Norwegian plow works in Dubuque which have been idle for 11 year or more have resumed operations with a full force of The art store of L. & was burned in destroyed the Methodist church and parsonage in the loss being John an experienced has been panning Whitewater at Fillmore for and has found enough to encourage J. of has filed a suit in the district court in against Mrs. Andrew asking for alleged breach of promise of Mrs. John Kipke killed in a runaway while going to church in Cedar The Calvary Baptist church in Davenport has called Rev. J. W. of Dr. Nicholas of has invented a device for calculating the distance of an Tt is intended for the The range is 10.000 Tho supervisors of Boone county have found further shortage iu the accounts of Treasurer He is serving a sentence of seven years nnd due for former The and bank opened its doors with Britner ay This makes two banks for Miss who for the past three years has been teaching music ia Rock has been appointed private secretary tc her L. S. to Mrs. A. the venerable mother of Dr. J. celebrated her ninetieth birthday in. Iowa After loading the with his own drinks till lie lay helpless on fhe thugs took possession of John saloon in Sioux served drinks for an pocketed the emptied the cash register nnd Peter an inmate ot the Independence cut his throat with a butcher James aud his wife were located by coal gas in their home at Osburn W. aged 50, a known attorney of died very
