Fires and accidents plague Burlington and Iowa towns
The report lists multiple Iowa incidents: two arson fires in Burlington with claimed incendiary origin. injuries including Grovor Hertz’s hand loss. Arthur Chewning and others drowned after ice breaks. Klide elevator fire at Rockwell. Lis Staley mill boiler blast near Moulton killing Ben O’Neal. SALLPox outbreak in Dubuque. various robberies, disappearances, and legal notices across Cedar Rapids Dubuque and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Grovor Hertz
A. J. Hertz
Iowa City
Arthur Chewning
Dubuque
Gren
Klide
Rockwell
Lis Staley
Moulton
Ben O’neal
Re-election Notes and Conventions Mentioned in 1894 Records
Fragmentary notes show Miss Fran re-elected president of a western conference group. References to Italy and Brazil dispute and a year 1894 accounting total of 9,243,935. Knights of La New Orleans and the Workman Sovereign annual convention are noted as re-elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Bry
Brazil
Rej
Department
The
Knights of la New Orleans
Nual
Springfield Fire Destroys Multiple Buildings in Business District
A devastating Springfield fire consumed half a city block's buildings including Little's barn Salzenstein's livery and other firms. Two men, George Ter and a colored man named Davis, died in a barn fire as flames spread, with losses around one red thousand dollars. News also covers international conflicts, trials, and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Little
Salzenstein
Ith & Lyon
Cora Hut
Aros Co. C
Fifth Infantry
Srigperchant
W. Anderson
George Ter
Davis
Bank Fails to Survive the Panic in Spokane
Citizens' National Bank will not reopen after a directors' meeting. The bank enters liquidation with assets around 25,000 and liabilities about 240,000, reflecting the panic's impact in Spokane, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Citizens’ National Bank
Archbishop Chappelle Dies Ill After Washington Trip
Archbishop P. L. Chappelle of Santa Fe New Mexico is dangerously ill with pneumonia contracted while in Washington for the national conference of Catholic bishops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chappelle
St. Santa Fe
N. M
P. L. Chappelle
Washington
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Dancing-master Vestris Dies After Ad Advertisement
The famed dancer Vestris died at eighty three after reading an advertisement seeking a dancing professor in Calcutta. He reportedly collapsed upon seeing the notice and never recovered, blaming it for his mortal blow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kliled
Vestris
Calcutta
Bids Opened on $50 Million U S Bond Issue
Secretary Carlisle announced the treasury opened bids totaling 297 for the $50,000,000 bond issue, aggregating $154,370,000. The largest bid came from Drexel Morgan & Co for the entire issue at 117,077. The government will pay 2.878 percent interest on the $50,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Adicate
United States Just Company
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Defalcation of 354000 Strikes National Shoe and Leather Bank
New York reports a bank examiner’s finding of a 354000 defalcation by clerk Samuel Secily of Brooklyn at the National Shoe and Leather Bank. The bank has 1 million capital and 200000 surplus. stockholders will cover the impairment of about 150000. The book-keeper vanished days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Shoe and Leather Bank
National Bank Examiner
Samuel Secily
Brooklyn
Tragedy in Hastines as Three Farmers Involved in Shooting
In Hastines Iowa on November 27 Albert Bowen killed Phil Booth and wounded Charles Bickford after a general drunk and careless handling of a revolver at a livery stable. Bowen died an hour later from a gunshot. Bickford sustained a knee wound. All three were farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastines
Iowa
Phil Booth
Charles Bickford
Albert Bowen
Bowen
Bickford
Gilbert Will Leaves Estate to Relatives in Grand Rapids
The will of Thomas D. Gilbert, who died Sunday, has been filed for probate. His estate is estimated at $500,000. A public bequest of $5,000 goes to the Union Benevolent Association, of which he was president. The remaining funds go to immediate relatives, including about thirty nieces and nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Foote
Lime Springs
A. A. Adams
Adams Boot and Shoe Store
Burlington
F. C. Adams
Chicago
St. Louis
Cedar Rapids
Charles A. Donaldson
J. B. Ryan
Phil Armour
Poweshiek County
Grinnell
Arthur Gilbert
Barton Brothers
Darius Clark
Gilbert
Schumacher
Montezuma
W. Tilden
Des Moines
Hansen
Grand Rapids
Mich
Thomas D. Gilbert
Union Benevolent Association
Drowned Under the Ice in Baraboo and Minneapolis
James Whitty Jr. and Arthur Paulley fell through ice in Baraboo River and Mississippi River respectively. Whitty was a Baraboo high school senior. Paulley, aged years, remained missing after the accident yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bararoo
Wis
James Whitty, Jr
Baraboo
Minneapolis
Minn
Arthur Paulley
Mississippi
Illinois Horticultural Society to Meet in Dixon
Dixon Illinois November 27. The annual meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural Society will be held here December 11 to 13. Eminent horticulturists and specialists from Illinois and nearby states are on the program. All interested in fruit growing for family use or market will find it profitable to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
Ill
Illinois State Horticultural Society
Czar Nicholas Plans Clemency Manifesto at Marriage
Czar Nicholas prepares a manifesto of clemency to mark his marriage to Princess Alix of Hesse. The document is expected to remit arrears of taxes and modify certain sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Prieissure
Nicholas
Alix of Hesse
Diphtheria Claims Boltz Child in Earlville
In Earlville Michigan on November 22 the year old son of Charles Boltz died from diphtheria, the third Boltz child to die within a week. Schools are closed for two weeks due to the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earlville
Earlville, TL
Charles Boltz
Chemical National Bank Hit by Defaulter in NY
The Chemical National Bank in New York was first struck as a defaulter in fifty years. The loss amounts to 15715 dollars and centers on a single defaulter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemical National Bank
New York
Obituary summaries span inventors, leaders, and notable figures
Charlton B. Hutchins inventor of a refrigerator car died in Detroit of heart failure. Rev. John L. Dudley former western Congregational figure died in Boston aged 84. John H. Sickles inventor of a hand fire engine died at his Port Chester home aged 76. William T. Walters art collector and philanthropist died in Baltimore at 74. Gen. William Harvey Gibson orator died in Tiffin, Ohio aged 74. George Washington Brown cousin of Osawatomie John Brown and a prominent G A R man died in Caldwell, Ohio. The duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach died at Cape St Martin from pneumonia aged 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlton B. Hutchins
Detroit
John L. Dudley
Boston
John H. Sickles
Port Chester
N. Y
William T. Walters
Baltimore
William Harvey Gibson
Tiffin
Ohio
George Washington Brown
Osawatomie
John Brown
Caldwell
Duke of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Cape St. Martin
Japan closes on Port Arthur and Shan Hai Kuan
Dispatches from Chee Foo report Japan has seized Port Arthur and advances on Shan Hai Kuan. London papers note U S mediation offers were rejected. China talks peace terms seeking $175 000 000. earthquake disasters hit Reg gio. homeless crowds fill streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chee Foo
Port Arthur
Shan- Hai-Kuan
London
Japan
United States
China
Reggio
C. H. Wetmore
Chicago
Hawaii
New Guinea
Lombok
Rajah
Gresham
Denby and
Dun
Quad bicycle team sets unpaced mile mark in Louisville
Leavy Steenson Rhodes and O Connor rode the quad team to 1 54 unpaced mile in Louisville beating the record. Governors of the Kentucky Racing association extend the meeting at Lexington to December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky Racing Association
Lexington
Louisville
Leavy
Steenson
Rhodes
O'Connor
Reyal Santa Anita
San Francisco
Senator Irby
Gresham and Kurino Sign New United States Japan Treaty
Secretary Gresham and Minister Kurino sign the new commercial treaty. Cabinet divisions arise over reform methods for state finances. Sugar tariff cases proceed against the U.S. Gen Casey urges fortification sites at major seaports. Officials decide troops are unnecessary in the Indian Territory against the Cook gang. Cleveland era horse dock claim found untrue. Morgan reports large declines in government receipts and rising debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresham
United States
Kurino
Japan
Gen
Casey
War Department
Indian Territory
Cook
Cleveland
Morgan
Notable Crime Roundup From Across the Midwest
Five Kansas City medical college students were arrested for grave robbing. Clinton students were jailed for a scheme to extort a woman of 1000. Myron Kent was condemned to hang for murdering his wife to claim life insurance. J L Keith died after a fight with Elmer Stout who attacked his daughter. Joseph Beck, Toledo architect, hanged himself after a personal crisis. Charles Allen in Indiana killed by suicide amid his wife’s illness. Bur lime station robbers wounded by agent. Brindle and Hart confessed to murdering the Good children near Paulding. Yankton’s J L M Pierce disappeared with 1 million pounds from spurious papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical College
Kansas City
Clinton
Myron R. Kent
Mandan
N. D
J. L. Keith
Guthrie
Oklo
Elmer Stout
Keith
Joseph A. Beck
Toledo
Ohio
Charles E. Allen
Crawfordsville
Ind
Tramps
Burlington
Livermore
Iowa
Clarence Brindle
Charles Hart
Paulding
J. L. M. Pierce
Yankton
Multiple Disasters Reported Across North America
A slip in New York harbor injures twenty passengers while three die and four are seriously hurt in a Omaha motor car crash. A Monticello Ont saw mill boiler explosion kills two and injures several. Charleston West Virginia dynamite drying caused an explosion with two dead and two injured. In Hastings Colorado a mother abandons two children as a house fire breaks out. Okaw river bottoms forests near Pana Illinois burn ten dwellings. Netherlands ferry in Carson Iowa burned and business street swept away. Eldon Iowa fire destroys Rock Island chutes coal cars and two homes. Be loit Wisconsin Salmon Brothers roller mill burns for unknown reasons, $35,000 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huckleson
Des Moines
Steele & Graves
Tracy
Graves
Eldon
Rock Island
David McHaffer
Joseph Wn
Hardin County
Hans Weisner
Eldora
Godfrey Weinich
Livermore
G. Wilson
Wilson
Estherville
Moorneap
Keokuk
Mary Zimmerman
Dubuque
Post
Miss Dower
Co. G. W
Waterloo
Oelwein
C. Yerzer
Cass County Bank
Atlantic
Farley
Dubuque County
Wibber & Heald
Ranson Bros
New York Harbor
Omaha
Monticello
Ont
Charleston
W. Va
Hastings
Colo
Martino
Carson
Iowa
Rock Island Chutes
Salmon Brothers
Beloit
Wis
Addicks Presses Bid for Senate Seat in 1890s
The report notes J Edward Addicks, a Delaware millionaire, linked to attempting to buy a U S senate seat. It covers contests such as McGann declared elected by commissioners and Belknap appealing to Congress. It mentions state reapportionment talks in Indianapolis and Wisconsin’s record election turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Addicks
Delaware
United States
Senate
McGann
Belknap
Congress
Sest
Indianapolis
Wisconsin
Fishback
Arkansas
New Silver Party
John T. Morgan
Alabama
William Lloyd Garrison
New England Tariff Reform League
Dr. Parkhurst
Strong
New York Chamber of Commerce
Trade Review Notes Mixed Signs Of Recovery And Turbulence
Dun s Review of Trade sees hopeful signs in rising employment. Marshals and Indian police capture Cook gang near Muskogee Oklahoma. Whisky trusts face outside competition and possible reorganization. Webster City Iowa agent Heinebaugh whipped for alleged slander. Hester s Cotton Exchange reports season records up 26 000 bales. Sidle ex president Minneapolis bank assigns for debt. Chicago excursionists welcomed at Waco Texas exposition. Sacred Heart Oklahoma hog kills baby and injures mother. Mississippi wind storms cause property damage near Meridian. U S bank clearings rise 7.8 percent nationwide. western cities rise sharply. Milwaukee smallpox drives school closures as many exposed. Knights of Labor head cuts salary from 5500 to 2500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dun
United States
Cook Gang
Muskogee
Stong
Whisky Trust
Hi. H. Heinebaugh
Webster City
Iowa
Hester
Cotton Exchange
Henry G. Sidle
First National Bank of Minneapolis
Chicago
Waco
Texas
Sacred Heart
Okla
Mississippi
Meridian
Milwaukee
Workman
Sovereign
The
Knights of Labor
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Ames
Intelligencer
Hudson Bros
OWA
Sallpox
Thomas McKay
Nebraska
John Gould
Johnson County
Silas Wilson
West Virginia
Barney Kelly
Agnes Clark
H. H. Himebaugh
Gerber
Kelly
Himebaugh
Anamosa Daily Call
Irving Curtis
B. F. Scott
Peoria
Herald
Angola
W. Irving Curtis
Huntington Democrat
Lacon
Center Junction
Serid
Fran
IT. G
Érth
Embi
Yale
Central News
Shanghai
Elsie
Ashby
Hart
Tokio
Denby
Pekin
Gibson
Vienna
Syracuse
Cornelius Riordan
Bob Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Shove
Tur Czar
Kasan
Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Geo. A. Gates
Iowa College
World Herald
Atim
Carlisle
Booth
Illinois Horticulturist
Sporting Notes
Johnson
Robert Fitzsimmons
Don Riordan
Carver
Capt
Brewer
D. D. Davis
Hickory Jim
Hoboken
N. J
Harper
University of Chicago
CRIME
Caricaggo
Baku
Renee Il
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