08 Oct 1890
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1890
Page
1
A Vermont Supreme Court case asks whether a man can move from his former fiancée who jilting him. The story notes related legal questions and the broader context of the state’s court actions. The item also mentions New York City sanitary inspectors and the provision of free disinfectants and medicines.
Dr Henry Schliemann reports slow progress at the Troy dig due to deep earth deposits. Seventy workers and three locomotives are employed as he prepares to present art treasures to the Berlin Trojan antiquities museum. Dion Boucicault is said to have earned vast sums from plays, with Colleen Bawn and Shaughraun among his top successes.
A proposed telescope assembly to be built in an observatory miles from Los Angeles at 6,000 feet elevation aims to view the moon as if from 100 miles away and could reveal cities or large structures on its surface. It may also test signals thought to be from Mars inhabitants.
Latra reports confirm fears of irreparable loss from the Alhambra fire. The damage totals only a few thousand dollars in money, yet the Moorish artworks destroyed cannot be replaced. The landmark remains among the finest architectural and decorative achievements, with its glory diminished but its remaining beauty now more cherished.
The New York Sun records Chicago progress with cultivation. Burglars in Chicago cracked a safe and fled with cash, seen by a messenger boy who noted the door was closed quietly as they hummed a tune. London film promotes electric advertising using vacuum tubes and high tension transformers for light effects in displays. Chicago plans motorized tricycles with storage batteries for street advertising in a novel method.
A Jesuit priest in Havana, Papre Vints, famed for twenty five years of weather predictions, declined a government salary due to his faith while steamship lines funded telegraph services for his forecasts. A US Navy officer inspired a device to drive musical strings with electricity, hinting at future electric pianos and telegraphy uses. The piece mixes fiction and science with a note on changing times and a tale of a Unitarian preacher whose wife filled in a pulpit to praise him.
The Republican and Democratic parties have completed their congressional nominations. The slate includes John H. Gear J J Sealey Bruce Sheaman Walter Hayes Henderson C F Candi Swemos W H Butler R Struve J T Hamilton John F Lavey F E White A T Hush C Hargis W J P Plick A R Antorson H Reed Thomas Bowman R Dollivext L Wook Eleventh George D Perkins J P Allison and others.
Christophe Conrad, the town’s oldest man residing near Manchester, marked his 110th birthday in fair health with clear mind and memory. He has fifty-five grandchildren, forty-one living, fifty-three great-grandchildren, about forty present. His wife remains living and they have been married sixty years.
Northwestern Iowa agents for an Illinois firm canvass Webster and nearby counties and have contracted about four thousand tons at 3.50 to 4.0 per ton. Delivery occurs at the nearest railroad station for pressing and shipment to districts where hay has failed.
Theeugen Tieatin on an Omaha and St. Louis freight train with eighteen traded cars derailed a burning trestle fifty feet high seven miles south of Council Bluffs. Twelve cars destroyed, damage around $200,000. Victims include Martha Eakridge engineer Stanberry Missouri and Joseph Burke fireman Stanberry Missouri. R S Williamson head brakeman Acom Missouri.
A cascade of short notices recounts a boy fatally injured by a thrashing machine near Inwood, oil strike at Oriony, a Davenport orphans home cost, Jones County jail plans, and Poweshiek farm sales. Additional items include a Davenport reunion, a bank broker’s death in Winterset, prairie wolves in Webster County, a Keokuk rail collision, and a Winnebago or Davenport population update. The long dispatch also covers a Senate session ending, tariff passage, and house postmaster investigations amid a national political backdrop.
The Fifty-First Congress session closes amid extensive activity and reforms. It notes 16,072 bills and resolutions introduced in House and Senate, hundreds of reports, numerous acts including tariff, silver, and anti-trust measures, and major rules changes. Debates on election contests and vetoed bills shape final outcomes, while executive nominations reach thousands with most acted upon.
An advocate argues for protective tariffs to shield American industry against foreign competition. He cites European immigration, savings deposits, and British trade policies, contrasting ad valorem duties with fixed rates. He asserts Britain’s free trade harms American workers and urges continued protection to spur domestic manufacturing and employment.
Vienna September 30 A report says a deliberate plot targeted King Alexander of Servia and his father ex-King Milan in Belgrade. Authorities allegedly minimized the event by claiming a bomb exploded under the royal carriage by accident.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce reports on Senate commerce debates over protectionism versus free trade. Senator Page defends tariffs to revive American merchant marine while Senator West opposes subsidies, arguing against federal support for industry.
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