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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1892
Page
1
A compact page item catalog of patent medicines and health claims. Henry Hall’s Catarrh Cure offers a $100 reward for cures. Rozodoro skin product, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, Hood’s Pills, De Witt’s Little Early Risers are promoted with testimonials and endorsements.
A Cincinnati May 14 report details a deadly Big Four collision near Cleves caused by a schedule change. Five people were killed and twelve to fifteen injured as an Aurora to Cincinnati passenger train hit a freight train. Names of killed and conditions of wounded are noted. the wreck split rails, tore up track, and delayed消息.
Hauirsx May 16 A 558 ton Norwegian bark Henry with its captain first mate steward carpenter and two boys foundered on a sand bar off the northeast end of Sable Island after striking a sand bar Thursday morning. The crew remaining aboard disappeared as quicksands swallowed the vessel and all aboard.
A Norfolk and Western fast train near Racerstown Maryland wrecked after leaving Hagerstown. Conductor Hayes was killed instantly and ten passengers seriously injured with two likely to die. A day coach sustained major damage as three loaded freight cars on a siding were struck. Several injuries included broken limbs and an amputation.
Four crew members on the steam barge W. BE left South Chicago at noon and caught fire four miles from shore due to an overheated smokestack. Flames raced along the vessel and the boats burned before lowering. The excursion steamer Sailor Bay headed to aid and all aboard were rescued just as heat intensified. Tugs later extinguished the blaze, with damage about 36,000.
Roslyn Washington May 14 11 30 pm the remaining bodies were taken from the slope total forty three men perished in the explosion Tuesday two hundred fifty children left fatherless as subscriptions pour in from Northwest cities and towns donations reach thousands. New York May 16 John D Rockefeller donates 50000 to the endowment fund of the temple church.
An accident at the Anaconda mine near Butte Montana on May 1 traps twelve workers between the 500 and 800 levels as a slope collapses. Three men near the top, Mike Callahan James Breen and Robert Works, are rescued alive but badly injured while nine others are buried under debris with three bodies recovered and recovery efforts continuing with care.
Negotiations in Chiago last week reportedly opened a vast iron field in the Hanover valley near Silver City New Mexico. Thirty one mining claims may appraise at 15 to 25 million dollars with fifteen million tons of Bessemer quality ore in sight. Development includes railways and possible smelting works to be owned by the company. A priest drowns in Missouri while crossing Moniteau creek on horseback. Rev Father Paul Engerer born in 1862 in Bavaria arrived in America twelve years ago. Body not recovered.
Berlin on May 17 reports the Walkes Oil works wiped out by a blaze with damages estimated at 2,000,000 marks. Two men are missing and presumed dead in the flames.
Reports from Washington detail the May 9 session where the ship Pingbill gave American registry to the City of Paris and City of New York and passed 41 to 10. The Boston Maverick bank failure probe was proposed by Mr Chandler. The river and harbor bill faced amendments, passing the measure 180 to 65 with some clauses struck. Yellowstone park boundaries bill passed 82 to 18. Sundry civil appropriations debates analyzed for five hours of general debate.
Several Iowa items span crime, accidents, and local commerce. Dubuque hosts a YMCA drive amid Creston and Clear Lake meetings. Marshaltown and Dow City report drownings and a train collision injuring a boy. A 12 foot coal vein found near Hawarden spurs development by What Cheer company. Legal actions include embezzlement cases in Carroll and Cedar Rapids Gas Light suit. Education milestones include a new state university English chair appointment and a school defamation suit verdict. Local figures like Joseph Higbee vanish, and Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharp buys the Spirit Lake massacre cabin. A subterranean lake forms near West Dubuque and a Des Moines grand jury probes a homicide in Des Moines area.
The Quadrennial Conference in Omaha May 10 to 16 discussed uniting the Methodist Episcopal Church South with the northern church. Resolutions praised the South Church’s growth from 4,000 to 120,000 in 26 years and urged reunion and organizational actions. Four new bishops were debated, then a revision would permit ordained pastors to solemnize marriages where civil law allows.
The May 13 Iowa Democratic convention drew over 800 delegates in Council Bluffs. J. C. Bills served as temporary chair, with J. F. Markley as permanent chair later and E. E. Watson as secretary. Delegates at large included J. H. Shields, L. M. Martin, Edward Campbell Jr., and J. F. Duncombe. The platform urged tariff reform and opposed standardizing values by metal.
Market report from Minneapolis and surrounding region shows hogs steady and active with good demand, cattle steady but quiet, prime steers around 4.40 and cows to 7.59, light ends and Minnesota steers sold to We' butchers. Sheep steady with fair quality and varied bids, receipts listed for hogs cattle calves and sheep. Minneapolis grain and Chicago futures show openings and prices for wheat corn oats pork lard ribs July contracts.
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