Iowa News Chatters from Sibley to Marshalltown
The Iowa report itemizes cyclone deaths in Sibley and injuries near Dubuque, river drownings at Iowa Falls, a bank robbery suspect death, and a Marshalltown shooting death. It notes telegraph links for Estherville Sioux City and Spirit Lake, along with local ordinances in Creston and Keokuk electric plans. Additional items cover university sprinter John Crum heading to England, gas strikes at Columbus Junction, and a water works vote at Rockwell City.
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Estherville
Sioux City
Spirit Lake
Sibley
Rock Rapids
Centerville
Grant J. Foster
Iowa Falls
Leonard Suess
Dubuque
Independence Insane Hospital
Iowa
John V. Crum
Iowa University
England
Memorial Day at Oakwood marks largest Confederate veterans gathering
A veteran gathering led the Oakwood cemetery dedication in Chicago for a monument to 6,000 Confederate prisoners who died at Camp Douglas. Generals Gordon Hampton Longstreet Lee and Fitzhugh Lee attended. Wade Hampton gave the dedicatory address.
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Formosa
North
Oakwood Cemetery
Chicago
Camp Douglas
Gordon
Hampton
Longstreet
Stephen D. Lee
Fitzhugh Lee
Wade Hampton
Pacific Mail
Colima
San Francisco
Panama
Manzanila
Acapulco
Grant Sails to Bering Sea With Sealing Patrol Orders
Revenue cutter Grant under Captain G E Tozier departed Seattle May 29 for the Bering Sea. The mission carries orders to the patrol fleet due to new sealing regulation changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Grant
G. E. Tozier
Bering Sea
Wire Nail Trust Forming in Pittsburgh Area
In Pittsburg on May 28 a wire nail trust is forming with only a few details left. The Beaver Falls plant may be sold to Consolidated Steel and Wire. It is claimed all U S plants will join except the Philadelphia and Joliet mills leased to Broecker & Co. Prices for delivery after June 1 are not being quoted. Cut nail manufacturers reportedly seek a separate combine.
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Lesure Lumber Co
Dubuque
Great Western Road
Creston City
Rockwell City
Holcomb
Thayer
Afton Junction
Iowa Coffin Company
Atlantic
Woodbury County Board
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Robert Jones
Chris Jones
Webster City
R. G. Clark
Hamilton County State Bank
Charleson
Lenning
Pittsburg
Beaver Falls
Consolidated Steel and Wire Company
Philadelphia
Joliet
Broecker & Co
Fiendish assault on 16 year old in Marshall sparks lynching threat
Lizzie Ana cher, 16, daughter of Augustus Anacher, was assaulted in her home by a tall, slender youth with a right nose scar. She escaped, neighbors alerted family, and threats of vengeance hinted at a Danville style lynching if the attacker is caught.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Lizzie Anacher
Augustus Anacher
Assa
Danville
Judge Dundy Dismisses Sheriff in Winnebago Case
In Omaha on May 31 Judge Dundy dismissed Thurs ton County Sheriff John Mullin in the Pender Indian troubles case. Mullin was indicted for alleged interference with Captain Beck of the Winnebago Indian police while serving papers. The judge warned Mullin to stay home until recalled and signaled restraint on federal troops if a petition is filed.
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Omaha
Dundy
John Mullin
Thurston County
Beck
Winnebago
Mullin
Federal
Flood Tragedy in Devil's River Region Claims Multiple Lives
Nat Sulzbacher of San Antonio returns from the Devil's River country noting a rapid flood that swept away the Prosser ranch and killed four Velasco family members plus three siblings. Two other relatives are missing. Dozens of houses and other property were destroyed as the river rose thirty feet in thirty minutes.
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San Antonio
Texas
Nat Sulzbacher
Devil’s River
Ozona
George Velasco
Prosser Ranch
Juno
Comstock
Heat wave and May freeze ruin Indiana crops
Reports from Indianapolis indicate wheat oats and rye damaged by May freezing and heat. A long moisture shortage since Jan 1 plus extreme heat near 93 degrees statewide has ruined crop prospects with fields plowed and replanted in corn and one fatal prostration recorded.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mercury
Heavy Nebraska Rain Drenches Central and Southern Counties
Despair gives way as one of the heaviest rains drenches Central and Southern Nebraska. Rain began 5 pm across Kearney Grand Island Broken Bow and Hastings and by 9 pm floods streets and cellars while windwork kills crop worm damage reported and rain expected to move eastward.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Kearney
Grand Island
Broken Bow
Hastings
Wheat market tap highs then retreat in Chicago trading
Wheat opened higher at 82 3/4 cents, slid to 80 3/4, then recovered to around 81, finally closing at 80 3/4 cents, down from Tuesday's close. A small rally occurred before the final price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mob Hangs Jacob Henson in Ellicott City
In Ellicott City Maryland on May 29 a mob overpowered the jail and hanged Jacob Henson, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of Daniel T Shea, a grocer. He was executed by hanging from a tree on a lawn after breaking prison doors with no resistance.
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Supreme Court
Eugene Debs
Debs
Oscar Wilde
Formosa
Japan
China
Cle
John Halls
William Royce
Danville
Lll
Inter-collegiate Association
New York
Johnnie Crum
Iowa University
Bedford
Hitkok
Yale
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Iowa
California
Dartmouth
Swartmore
Union
Ambherst
Columbia
Princeton
Total
Ellicott City
Jacob Henson
Daniel T. Shea
Ohio Vigilants Seek Farmer Life in Adelphi Mob
Tremendous excitement in Adelphi as about 200 men surrounded the local lockup armed with a rope demanding the life of Nelson Weatheroff a prominent farmer aged around 60. Weatheroff is under arrest for allegedly attempting to assault Strausser the stepdaughter of John Krashner. Authorities fear lynching but expect it to be prevented.
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Chillicothe
Adelphi
Nelson Weatheroff
Featheroff
Strausser
John Krashner
Gresham Dies After Long Illness as Secretary of State
Walter Quipton Gresham died at 1:15 a.m. in Washington after a four week illness attributed to gallstone in the bladder and pleurisy. He had served as secretary of state since 1884 and earlier held posts as district judge and congress candidate.
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Washington
Walter Q. Gresham
Woodley
Gresham
Johnson
Walter Quipton Gresham
Lanesville
Harrison County
Ind
Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Walter Gresham
State University
Bloomington
Corydon
Thirtieth Indiana Infantry
Fifty-third
Indiana Regiment
Grant
Vicksburg
Volunteers
Sherman
Atlanta
Seventeenth Army Corps
Leggett’s Hill
New Albany
Congress
United States District Court
Agreem Eeng
Arthur
United States
Seventh Judicial District
Cleveland
Body of former secretary of state moved to White House
At 9:30 yesterday morning the body of the late secretary of state was removed to the east room of the White House. Eight sergeants of the Fourth artillery bore the casket as Bishop Hurst led funeral rites in the Methodist Episcopal tradition. The procession, led by President and Mrs. Cleveland, cabinet members and spouses, and U.S. troops with the Marine Band, proceeded to the depot for a Baltimore and Ohio special train.
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Washington
White House
Fourth Artillery
Hurst
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cleveland
Cabinet
United States
Marine Band
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago
Remains of Secretary Gresham Laid at Oakwood Cemetery
The body was briefly buried in a vault at Oakwood cemetery as the family chooses a permanent resting place. A long cortege accompanied the casket from the depot to the cemetery and the presidential party returned to Washington.
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Currage
Gresham
Oakwood Cemetery
Washington
Collision Report Shocks Port Huron Residents
Colin Mc Lachlin of Port Huron reports a dispatch from Captain Bradshaw that the steam barge Kittie M. Forbes and consort was struck on Lake Michigan Tuesday morning by an unknown vessel, causing extensive damage. It is believed to be the schooner Guido.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Huron
Mich
Colin McLachlin
This City
Kittie M. Forbes
Consort
Bradshaw
Lake Michigan
Guido
Confederate Veterans In Mexico Arrival
Confederate veterans excursion arrived in City of Mexico with greeting from the G A T organization and music by the government band. Local readers note the event took place in May with civilian and veteran participants.
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City of
Mexico
Confederate Veterans
Patent Office Report Des Moines Inventor Receives Patent
A patent is allowed to Rev N P Mickelson of Des Moines for an article attaching to church pews to retain cards hold a pencil hang a hat and serve as a wardrobe hook. Six Iowa patents issued last week to W Britton W H Sutton J Greff M and R Hawkins W Louden L M Rich and G A Triggs. Printed copies of drawings and specifications available for 25 cents from Thomas G and J Raton Orwie patent solicitors.
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Des Maryxes
N. P. Mickelson
Des Moines
United States
Iowa
W. Britton
W. H. Sutton
Boone
J. Greff
Remsen
R. Hawkins
Beacon
W. Louden
Fairfield
L. M. Rich
Cedar Rapids
G. A. Triggs
Lake Park
Thomas G
J. Raton Orwie
Solicitors of Patents
Wisconsin Crops Little Damaged Despite Heat Wave
Madison reports near 100 degrees with hot wind drying soil as statewide farmers note crops show no major damage yet. Rain is generally needed though conditions remain manageable for now.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Marketlop Chicago Board of Trade May 29 price range
Chicago Board of Trade report for May 29 lists the closing range and movements from yesterday across grain and commodity futures traded on the floor in Chicago. Traders noted shifts in prices for corn and wheat amid market activity and interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Board of Trade
Literary notes in June magazines and journals
June issues feature Rudyard Kipling and Archibald Forbes pieces, Weyman and Barr fiction, Joan of Arc in Harper’s Personal Recollections, a Paladin humor tease, St Nicholas summer flavor with Lungren frontispiece and a John Barnett poem, Our Tiny Fleet tale, Howells charity confessions in The Century, Frank Russell Mackenzie River journey in Midland Monthly, Lafcadio Hearn in Atlantic, Percival Lowell Mars notes, Bangs The Water Ghost humor review by Boston Advertiser.
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MecCline’s
Rudyard Kipling
du Pont
Napoleon
United States
Grant
Stanley J. Weyman
Sedan
Archibald Forbes
Robert Barr
Joan of Arc
Harper's
Paladin
Sancho Panza
St. Nicholas
Lungren
John Barnett
Francis Churchill Williams
Great Lakes
W. D. Howells
Century Magazine
Tse
Midland Monthly
Frank Russell
British America
John Kendrick Bangs
Harper & Bros
New York
The
Boston Advertiser
J. K. Bangs
Bangs
Plan to license thrashers to certify grain yields
Washington May 27. Secretary for ton proposes licensing all thrashers and shellers at a nominal fee and requiring them under oath to report bushels thrashed and shelled. The plan aims to produce an unimpeachable national yield figure with state legislative cooperation.
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Washington
Forton
Union
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Hodgon Bros
AMES
John Bosburg
John Brodie
Freeman Bros
Columbus Junction
Marshalltown
Lewis Hall
Hall
Keokuk
Des Moines Rapid Power Company
Mississippi
Ellis Rinard
Oskaloosa
Rinard
Hamilton County
Williams
A. D. Terwilleger
R. Selber
William Clark
W. A. Robinson
Creston
Dr. Ego
St. Joe
C. Luthie
Melbourne
William Turner
Foster
Morning Side
Council Bluffs
Robert Stewart
Minnie Bird
Garner Township
Anamosa
Rolland Barnett
Iowa City
Crum
Ellen van Fleet
Pulaski
Boylan
Chariton
Runnells
Cadiz
Currabeda
Byrnes
Ohio Republican State Convention
Asa L. Bushnell
Oklahoma
Kansas
Germany
Russia
Corea
St. Louis
Victoria
Presbyterian General Assembly
Hugh McCulloch
Treasury
Lincoln
Free Silver Men
Memphis
Bryan
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Chicago & Northwestern
LaMoilie
Murray
Carter
Illinois
Devil's River
Ohio
W. Q. Gresham
Patent Office Report
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