27 May 1891
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1891
Page
1
News notes from Mexico report Ger. Newson A Mites observing Apaches in the extreme southwest shifting to farming, possibly wheat, reflecting changing prospects. Other items include Germany buying coal, and a Japanese diplomat’s wife influencing Tokyo dancing trends.
Banon Faya the critic lived in Washington with modest private quarters on H street near Seventeenth and dined at the Metropolitan club while his wife was in Italy. Kansas farmers urged to combat wheat pests by disseminating contagious diseases among bugs. U.S. Senate ages show Clinton 36 as youngest. several men in their forties and fifties, with a few over seventy. A curious horse in North Dakota stands 19 hands high and 13 feet long, and Miss Asenath Philpott of Gainesville Texas bears the world’s longest hair, four feet long and ten feet seven inches total. Regular trimming keeps her health in check.
Iowa advances with Fort Dodge college expansion, Marshalltown sugar plant plans, Atlantic electric plant, and Des Moines two major blocks. Cedar Rapids railway consolidation, Creston waterworks, Spirit Lake summer home plans, Spirit Lake, Webster City bank and Y M C A projects, Muscatine bridge, and Iowa City university buildings. Multiple towns report hospital expansions, hotels, and real estate activity. Missouri River links and rail extensions noted. large endowments and premiums drive growth across cities.
Secretary Foster approves the design for the new five dollar certificates to curb counterfeiting. The late Secretary Windom is pictured at the center and a large numeral two appears prominently. The old certificates, valued at 30 to 40 million dollars, are being destroyed as they are returned to the treasury.
The navy department struggles to find able seamen as recruits run short. With lawfully allowed recruits nearly exhausted, a pro rata reduction of ship complements is expected until Congress acts to enlarge the fleet. The White squadron at Norfolk will be first affected, with the Chicago and Atlanta among ships slated for cuts.
The pope’s encyclical appears in full, urging the church’s guidance on social issues. He denounces socialist property abolition, defends private property, warns against state overreach, and calls for cooperation between capital and labor within moral law. The text emphasizes association among workers and masters, just wages, and state support for mutual aid while preserving individual rights.
A Brooklyn gum firm has reorganized into a stock company carrying a capital of 1 000 000 dollars. National crop outlook estimates U S hay output at 40 000 000 tons valued at about 397 600 000 dollars. A cedar wood carload from Arkansas was shipped to Europe with plans to return as lead pencils. 4 CONSLE RAEN, a single Londgg.
Assistant Secretary Andrews of Iowa's state board of health presents a table showing rising insanity counts across the state. In July 1880 Mount Pleasant reports 428 male and 336 female cases, Independence 890 male and 370 female, with Clarinda hospital not yet open. Through 1890 totals reach 1,940, with rural districts and farmers especially affected, wives and daughters cited.
Mrs Jennette Chisholm, born in Inverness Scotland in 1791, celebrated her 100th birthday at her granddaughter Mrs William Allen's home near Keokuk. She arrived in Baltimore at age 12 after a 13 week voyage, traveled by ox cart to Pittsburgh, moved to Town in 1860, married 82 years ago, and has four deceased children. Surviving relatives include a sister in Ohio, and she remains active, using her bridal bed and attending to her own room.
A two year old child died after wandering outside and being found beneath a horse with fatal injuries near Weaver. Thomas Saunders shot his mother in law Mary Leister then killed himself after domestic troubles. In Marshalltown C. H. Hildebrand received nine months in the penitentiary for burning his house to harm his wife and family, feigning insanity before being deemed sane.
May 20 in Dernor Mich the Presbyterian General Assembly adopted a motion to send the committee on revision of the confession of faith back to the Presbyteries for criticism before final report next assembly. The abstract outlines major changes including wording on Scripture inspiration foreordination and the universal offer of the gospel, with terms like papist and pope of Rome reclassified, and new clause asserting no papal head of the church.
Incendiary fire destroyed Carlson and Milburn wagon shop and Haunsman livery at Manson, killing twenty one horses including three stallions. Marshalltown buggy company lost eleven horses and a stack of buggies. The Pullman Car Company taxes estimated to yield about $25,000 back taxes. Ten thousand coal miners strike. Holbrook Lives jewelry and drug store in Dyersville robbed of $400. Frank Weber's body found in Muscatine River. Mason City burglars hit seven residences. Oliphant stabbed his brother in law in Richland township, Adair county. Lloyd Layman, 16, killed by a horse kick. Gay Long returns to Keokuk from Warsaw over social ban. Des Moines freight collision kills Engineer Richmond and injures Fireman Newman. Audubon county pays ten cent bounty on pocket gophers. Ogden post office robbed of $400. April state soldiers home inmates 444, cost $5,400. Axel Truedson dies by suicide at Villisca. educated, Swedish. Mrs. Celia White of Burlington contests oldest Iowa settler claim. Frank Fotler of Indiana university wins fraternity honor in Des Moines inter-state oratorical contest. Hin subject.
Denver report outlines favored bills and reforms including 810 million levee funding for the Mississippi, railway oversight, ship subsidies, New Mexico and Arizona statehood, and a push to repeal silver limits while seeking an international or regional currency accord. A minority backs free silver. A resolution condemns the Forty Ninth congress ban on foreign investment in real estate and mines amid a Louisiana lottery push in a close vote.
The archbishop of Erlau Hungary earns about 275000 dollars yearly. The tax prince bishop of Cracow Austrian Galicia takes in 200000 dollars annually. Faep Tsray, once a Harper Kansas boy, earned 19000 dollars yearly as a jockey and rides only half the year. Kore Guoger of Greece has a 440K tape of on AY spends.
A Missouri cyclone swept Audrain county killing three and injuring many, tears through twelve houses, with families including the Kunkel and Norris households badly affected. Doerger, Harrington, and others suffer injuries and stock losses. Centralia and nearby towns report destruction and deaths, while investigations in Des Moines reveal a federal indictment for mail padding. Additional storms near Morley and Emruna bring crop and property losses, with statewide damage tallies rising.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met on Thursday and adopted resolutions urging lawmakers to permanently exclude anyone involved in manufacturing or selling intoxicating liquor or selling intoxicating drinks. Representatives are instructed to vote accordingly.
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