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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1879
Page
1
The item notes town health boards organizing and preparations for yellow fever concerns. It reports over 1,000 ex-union aidliets in New York state poor-houses and mentions broader regional actions and speculative outbreaks.
Richmond era suit claims ex Virginia officials who governed at Richmonds evacuation owed US about $20,000 total in gold and silver paid to soldiers. Government seeks restitution for funds taken by rebel Virginia government, including a former governor now aged around 80, who testified about actions after the citys capture in 1865.
Washington dispatches summarize government action on May 28. U S attorney for Idaho, West Virginia, and various cabinet and committee moves are noted including passage of the Warner silver bill to the finance committee, and a push for adjournment of Congress. Reports cover monetary standards, civil service, labor, and naval department irregularities with a focus on fiscal figures and policy shifts.
A sweeping May 27 dispatch covers bank suspensions and embezzlement reports, courtroom verdicts in Wisconsin and South Carolina, church thefts, a Dublin contractor assault, timber seizures on Ebey's Slough, and international notes on Baltic, Indian, and Darien canal developments with several drownings and arrests peppering the item.
Fire reports describe Brooklyn losses of up to 500000 in property, New Orleans damage at 100000, and Sunday night blazes destroying the 31, Charles Hotel and other properties. Michigan forests burn with vast timber losses, while New York warehouses collapse under flames with thousands of cotton bales and hops burned, insured values tallied, and historical arson hints noted.
A fragmented OCR entry mentions may have dates and representatives abroad, with references to irregular or garbled names and events. The readable parts do not establish a clear person, place, organization, or outcome.
A Calcasias dispatch notes a magazine explosion near Brighton, a fatal cyclone event near Roxbury, and a. thunderstorm in Vixursses Ind. The Calcasin river crash killed eleven aboard the Damos, including Captain and engineer. ten-year-old Cora Barton and sister Medorea perished. A fierce hailstorm left crops unimpaired but killed farm animals and two fish were found alive on a road. Obituaries for the Garrizon family funeral planned in Roxbury.
General notes and a May 28 report indicate better fruit crop potential after late rains. Dispatches from Iowa Illinois Minnesota and Wisconsin cite copious rain. A Darien canal duty proposal sets 16 francs per ton with an estimated canal revenue of 3.6 million pounds. Mounted police depart toward Canadian posts. Governor Miles travels to Fort Keogh amid frontier tensions with bands moving north toward Saskatchewan.
A 1908 news digest reports Italy seeking permission to cost within five years totaling 65,000,000 as it revises Latin Union terms. In the same round of items a Saratoga Presbyterian assembly condemns attendance at theatres and opera as immoral, urging church members to avoid worldly entertainment. A Revenue Commissioner clarifies rubber stamps for cigar tax cancellations, permitting stamped boxes with continuous markings. A New York bishop meeting at Cardinal McCloskey’s residence aims to liquidate Archbishop Purcell’s debts, with thirty bishops affirming a united effort and drafting a clergy address to secure funds.
Senate debated a bill on distance and adjourned without final passage. House proceedings included a morning session on transfer of cases to federal courts, then consideration of the Warner silver bill with amendments. Contagious disease penalties were debated and reduced. the House adjourned after voting on related measures.
A fragmented excerpt discusses opposition to clergymen endorsing medicines while praising Hop Bitter for family use. The text then shifts to historical notes on U S distilleries in 495 districts, production figures, and a fleeting mention of Bohemia jewelry and horticultural experiments, ending with a brief editor's note.
In Dighton Massachusetts Lonide Horton uncovered a canvas bag buried under an old barn wreck. She pulled up copper cents dating from 1700 through 1885 totaling 424 coins. Some coins decayed, others nearly pristine, with many decades of age and varied history. The site lies about two and a half miles west of Booth Dightoy.
A new observatory to be built on Mount Etna near Cassaro with funding from the Italian government the Cassaro municipality and Catania province. Work to start in June at Casa degli Inglesi 9062 feet up, using a twelve inch refractor from Messier Munich. International access planned for foreign astronomers with own instruments to study high altitude conditions. Prof Langley praised Etna’s light gathering and clear air after visiting Tacchini and London meeting.
Lord Derby ranks among England's wealthiest, with near a million dollars yearly, no heir, a wife earning from Lord Salisbury, and little rural property. His brother Col. Stanley, War Secretary, inherited £600,000. The Stanleys' ties with Liverpool are cordial but distant, while Hooton Hall was sold for extravagance after 600 years in the family.
A colored man rushed into Scott's store claiming a rattlesnake was in a gopher hole. Mr Beatt used hooks on a pole to pull the snake out, chloroformed Colton, and fed hydrocyanic acid, but the snake showed no effect. The incident drew a crowd and sparked a grim, improvised experiment.
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