Curious anecdotes and travel notes from Benton County Times
The column strings together assorted items from abroad and home. It mentions a study on civilization and rapes, a multilingual king, an Indiana poultry farmer losing a diamond, a Berlin to Paris trip by Herr Arthur Reuter, and a tale about a gold Paul Jones medal found in a widow’s trunk.
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Berlin
Paris
Herr
Arthur
Reuter
Magdeburg
Brunswick
Hanover
Co- Aix-la-Chapelle
Liege
Philadelphia
Congress
Paul Jones
Jones
Atlantic
Belfast Lough
Flamborough Head
Paul
Military Automobile Trials by German Army and France
The German railway brigade plans trials near Eberswalde with a corps of officers, engineers, artificers, and soldiers to test various automobiles for military service. France will host grand maneuvers in the east featuring petroleum and electric vehicles, motorcycles, and heavy traction engines to transport freight and baggage.
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Soree
Eberswalde
Berlin
Leutenant
France
Italian women win degrees and a Santo Domingo premier
The passage notes 119 Italian women earned degrees from 1870 to 1897 with many in arts and science. It also mentions the new Santo Domingo prime minister, described as an Indiana newspaper man, capable of keeping a South American republic afloat for months.
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Santo Domingo
Indiana
Mian
Farmer Near Adel Drowns Himself on Riverbank
Charles Chaney a 60 year old farmer from Adel Iowa died by his own action in Coon River four miles northwest of town. He dressed after a night in bed and walked to the river placing valuables on a table before entering ten feet of water. His body was found next morning with no inquest. He was a widower and respected in his community.
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Adel
Charles Chaney
Coon
Chaney
Fell Forty Feet Workman Fatally Injured at Fort Madison Opera House
Darney J. Wilkin fell forty to fifty feet while working on the roof frame of the new Fort Madison Opera House. He landed on scaffolding and stage floor, was unconscious at first, later regained consciousness, with paralysed legs and possible internal injuries, including a spinal concussion.
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Ft. Madison Opera House
Fort Madison
Darney J. Wilkin
E. Ebinger
Premature Explosion Ends Arm For Quarry Worker
August 8 in Dubuque a quarry worker E A Benson of Dale and Baumgartner suffered a severe dynamite blast injury while preparing a charge for a blast. His right hand was shattered requiring amputation, left hand shattered, left arm broken in three places. He is 30 and employed by the firm.
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Dubuque
E. A. Benson
Dale & Baumgartner
Great Western
Graff Station
Finley Hospital
Benson
Ashes Cast on Mississippi for Des Moines Student
At Davenport on August 10 the ashes of Charles M. Bicknell, late University of Chicago student from Des Moines, were cast from a bridge pier into the Mississippi River. The service, led by Unitarian ministers Rev. Eleanor Gordon and Rev. Marion Murdock, followed cremation at Davenport with family present. The event marks the deceased’s final rites per family wishes.
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Davenport
Bicknell
Physical crisis and wreck report from Northwood and Lake City
Northwood reports Dr D S More killed himself in his office, leaving a letter to his invalid wife. Despondency and care for his spouse are blamed for temporary insanity. Lake City notes a Northwestern wreck five miles east, caused by a broken journal, thirteen cars ditched, no injuries, but property damage substantial.
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Northwood
D. S. More
Northwestern
Lake City
Carroll
Sioux City
Fire destroys double corn crib and 2000 bushels of corn
In Underwood August, Fred Nappling lost his life and two other buildings in a fire that consumed a corn crib holding 2000 bushels, an ice house, and a hen house. Insurance coverage was only 300 dollars. the fire’s origin remains unknown. Town cattle head to Scotland. Ewart Bros depart for Glasgow with 500 cattle, completing 1000 exported since May.
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Underwood
Fred Nappling
Scotland
Montezmina
Ewart Bros
Glasgow
Philadelphia
Burglars Rob Shoe Store in Laverne
Burglar s broke into the general merchandise establishment of J. R. Moulton in Laverne on August 6 and stole fifty pairs of men s fine shoes along with notions and other articles. Entrance was gained through the rear door and no direct clue to the robbers is known.
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Laverne
J. R. Moulton
Masked Men Rob Cresco Farmhouse During Supper
In Cresco August 7 two masked robbers entered the N. C. Peckham farmhouse four miles north of Cresco as the family sat down to supper. They cut telephone wires and threatened to shoot if resisted. The hired man was clubbed and tied, others bound, and the thieves seized money watches and other valuables.
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Cresco
N. C. Peckham
Mr. Peckham
Speaker Henderson in a wreck near Hugo Oregon
Speaker Henderson of the House and eight companions were badly shaken when a Chicago & Northwestern special car on the rear of the Oregon express collided with a locomotive at Hugo Oregon. They were transferred to a sleeping car and moved to Portland for care.
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Ashland
Ore
Speaker Henderson
House of Representatives
Hugo
Here
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Oregon Express
Rogue River Mountains
Portland
Nevada Woman Dies in Gasoline Stove Fire
Mrs. D. Black of Nevada died after her clothing caught fire while she tried to fill a gasoline stove. Neighbor Willie Bromson heard her cries and rushed to help as much of her clothing and all her hair burned before flames were put out. The kitchen woodwork suffered minor damage and she lived several hours afterward with physicians unable to ease the pain.
Killed On Top A Pole In Mt Pleasant
Mt Pleasant August 9 George Dugdale a lineman with the city light plant was killed by an electric shock while on a light pole behind Shaw's store He sat on the cross arm with his feet on the transformer and touching the fuse box completed the circuit receiving about 1040 volts Flames flew from his hands and he fell but hung by the cross arm Death was instantaneous Archbishop Keane Coming Home
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Mt. Pleasant
George Dugdale
City Light Plant
Shaw’s
Death by Own Action at Davenport
Emil Luehr a laborer of Davenport Aug 6 committed suicide due to sickness and worry. His son found the body hanging by a rope attached to the floor above. Luehr had suffered for a year and was unable to provide for his family, his mind at times thought to be affected. Mamie Derhake aged 2 drowned in a cistern near West Point on August 8 while playing at the farm of Barney Vonderhaar.
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Primghar
Everest Eakers
Eakers Nursery Company
Sutherland
Everett
Davenport
Emil Luehr
Truehr
Keokuk
Mamie Derhake
Drowned in Okoboji at Arnold's Park sailboat accident
Ward Witter aged son of D F Witter president of the Town Loan and Trust company of Des Moines drowned at Okoboji when his sail boat overturned while sailing on the lake.
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Okoboji
Arnold's Park
Ward Witter
D. F Witter
Town Loan & Trust Company of
Des Moines
Siege and relief details from Peking crisis
WIRE: Conger reports Beijing besieged by imperial troops daily rifle fire continues. Ministers endangered, supplies dwindling. Two female ministers beheaded. U S legation still intact with 210+ refugees. Britain notes halted shelling since July 16 but ongoing rifle fire. casualties total 60 dead, 10 wounded.
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Washington
State Department
Tonger
Peking
Lis Tome
Wu Ting Fang
Canton
Conger
Tsi-Nan-Yamen
United States
London
House of Commons
Broderick
Foreign Office
Claude MacDonald
China
Legation
Needs all his troops in South Africa delaying aid to China
London reports Lord Roberts is unable to spare troops for China due to severe sickness and rising casualties in the South Africa campaign. Guards have been sent from London to the Cape as the Boer threat remains, and the Mlands river garrison’s fall underscores ongoing pressure on the British forces.
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Lord Roberts
China
London
South Africa
Preoria
Cape
Mlands River
Delarey
Great Britain
Five Union Pacific robbers die in Colorado siege
Five men who held up a Union Pacific ruin near Mago Colorado were killed by a sheriff s posse at the Bartholomew ranch three miles west of that place yesterday. Deputies J B Riggs and George Tullens were shot during the fusillade. The posse set fire to the house, destroying it with the last robber inside. The robbers have been identified.
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Auburn
George Sargent
Grant City
Tyle
Union Pacific
Colorado
Woodland
Kan
Fve
Mago
Colo
Bartholomew Ranch
J. B. Riggs
George Tullens
Obber
Winchester
Porto Rican Gets No Vote In Lebanon Inquiry
Judge hh. D. Munroe issued an opinion answering J. M. Chamberlain Jr. of the Lebanon Leader. Miguel Panellas a Porto Rican resident of Tebanon for one year is not entitled to vote. The treaty with Spain left civil and political rights to Congress, which has taken no action, so Porto Ricans remain foreigners under naturalization law.
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Lebanon
Springfield, Jr
Hh. D. Munroe
J. M. Chamberlain, Jr
Lebanon Teader
Miguel Panellas
Tebanon
Munroe
Panellas
Spain
Congress
Towne declines vice presidential nomination in 1896 upheaval
Former Congressman Charles A Towne who was named as the Populist vice presidential candidate at Sioux Falls declines the nomination after careful consideration. In other news in London Baron Russell of Killowen the Lord Chief Justice of England died after a recent illness and operation.
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Towne
Duluth
Minn
Charles A. Towne
Sioux Falls
Notificaion
Chief Justice of
England
London
Ang
Allies Take Yang Tsun in Chinese Situation Dispatch
Washington August 10 The capture of Yang Tsun the first objective point of the international forces was the supreme news. Colonel Seviven reported from Che Foo on August 6 wire up Our own transportation all are well. General Chaffee added that Yang Tsun was occupied with about sixty American casualties. Terauchi to Japan says 50 000 international troops will be ready by August 15 for the Deking advance. Scriven notes direct telegraphic communication with the field.
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Washington
Yang Tsun
War Department
Seviven
Che Foo
Yane
Tsung Wo
Chaffee
Yang Sim
Frank I. Long
Ninth Infantry
Terauchi
War Ofice of Japan
Deking
Yangsun
Tien Tsin
Peking
Scriven
Brilliant Victory Won at Pektsang Battle
Cable from General Chaffee reports Chinese forces routed at Pektsang by Japanese troops with English and American support. Russian, British, German, and Japanese casualties noted. Chinese position fragile as the road to Peking opens. Ground limited and turning movements attempted. plans to cross the Pei Ho and advance toward Yang Tsun. Consul at Che Foo provides Tsung Li Yamen dispatch details from July 30.
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Pektsang
Washington
War Department
Chaffee
Yang Tsun
Che
Bryan and Stevenson Notified by Democratic Convention
Indianapolis August 9 crowds greeted William J Bryan and Adlai E Stevenson after the Democratic National Convention nominated them for president and vice president. James S Richardson chaired the notification at Monument Park. Bryan spoke briefly on expansion, Stevenson gave a longer reply after Charles B Thomas of Colorado nominated him.
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Hoe
Stevenson
Indianapolis
Ind
William J. Bryan
Adlai E. Stevenson
Kansas City
United States
James Ss. Richardson
Bryan
Monument Park
Jiryan
Iiryan
Charles 8. Thomas
Colorado
Mr. Stevenson
Chinese envoy named peace minister in imperial decree
Brussels reports an imperial decree appoints Li Tung Chang as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate peace. A related dispatch notes Chinese attempts to win foreign ministers acceptance of a Chinese escort to Tien Tsin, as conveyed to Paris and Beijing officials.
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Brussels
Foreign Office
de Cartier
A. de Cartier de Marchienne
Peking
Shanghai
Li Tung Chang
M. Pichon
Tien Tsin
Capture of Yangsan Report Sparks Peace Hopes
London papers react to latest China developments with optimism as Li Yang Chang allegedly pushes for peace. Dispatches note Yangsan taken after a British and American supported assault, Chinese lines breached and defenders routed toward Peking.
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London
China
Li Yang Chang
Yangsan
Daily Mails
Peking
Wil Accept Waldersee as China campaign commander
Washington declares the United States will accept Count Waldersee as commander of the international forces in China if needed when he arrives to lead the international army. Fitzsimmons defeats Ruhlin at Madison Square Garden in six rounds before the Twenty-First Century club.
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Sam Wil
Waldersee
Washington
United States
China
Fitzsimmons
New York
Fitzsimmonsi
Gus Ruhlin
Akron
Twentieth Century Club
Madison Square Garden
Ohioan
Message From Conger Describes Pekin Departure Request
A dispatch from Minister Conger reports a Chinese Yamen request for immediate departure from Peking under escorted protection. The message says foreign troops are needed to guard about 800 foreigners and 4,000 native Christians. U.S. Marines suffer casualties, including seven killed and sixteen wounded.
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Pekin
Washington
State Department
Conger
Department
Secretary of State
Tsung-Li-Yamen
Jeking
Yamen
Myers
Dr. Lippitt
Negotiations Reported For Surrender In Central Luzon
Manila reports say Major General MacArthur and General Alejandrino are negotiating surrender under insurgent amnesty in Central Luzon. Rebels under Lucena and Teeson captured Lieut. Alstaetter and eleven cavalrymen. MacArthur met Alejandrino at San Fernando to discuss peace terms. outcome undisclosed.
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Central Luzon
Muay
Hong Kong
Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Alejandrino
Central
Luzon
Cols, Lucuna
Teeson
Lieut
Alstaetter
Engineer Corps
San Fernando
Aguinaldo
Gold From Cape Nome Largest Consignment Yet Received
Three steamers from Cape Nome arrive at Seattle bringing large gold consignments and many passengers. The Oregon carries 345000, the San Pedro about 150000, and the Charles J Lane 50000. Smallpox has largely vanished in the northern camp amid sickness from pneumonia. Recent rains revived creek work with new discoveries reported. The Meteor aided Eskimos by relieving suffering and housing nearly all survivors in Nome under government care. Citizens seek a reservation for the Eskimo group.
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Seattle
Wash
Cape Nome
Oregon
Nome
San Pedro
Charles J. Lane
Meteor
Queen Is in for Blood in London Prorogation Speech
August 9 report from London notes Parliament adjourned after approving an appropriation bill. Queen's speech says relations with Europe and America remain friendly. It highlights Chinese unrest near Peking with alleged mob attacks on British legations and possible murders of inmates. The tone promises determined action against the attackers.
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London
Europe
America
China
Peking
Omaself
Peremptory Note to China Urges Immediate Action
Washington August 9 A high level conference produced a cable to Consul Goodnow with Conger’s dispatch. The message asserts the U S position as urgent and effectively an ultimatum though not strictly one. It directs communication to Li Tune Chang Sheng and other officials who can relay to the Chinese government. Indians May Go to Mexico Delawares Shawnees and Caddos seek Mexican land and citizenship amid complaints of US land allotment.
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Washington
Atlee
Root
Corbin
Goodnow
Conger
Ile
Clhang
Sheng
Mexico
City of Mexico
Indian Territory
United States
Notes from the Capital Yes Moines August 11 1900
Attorney General Remley submits an opinion to Warden Hunter of Anamosa penitentiary stating good time can be earned without solitary confinement and that any punishment can cause forfeiture under the code. State Labor Commissioner Wennerstrum begins factory inspections in Des Moines with Deputy Holder, plans statewide review, and aims to extend beyond Des Moines. West Des Moines school district reports successful use of free textbooks after a year and details costs and per capita figures. Building material prices drop, signaling more Des Moines projects may resume in fall and winter as demand softens. Weather and agricultural notes touch on a red spider affecting vegetables and a German American treaty discussion hints at possible shifts in commerce talks.
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Yes Moines
Remley
Hunter
Anamosa Penitentiary
Kemley
Wennerstrum
Arthur 3
Holder
Des Moines
Luther
West Des Moines
Sheakley
Big West Side
Limber
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Sweden
George Rogers
Richmond
George
Rome
Eath Ral
Belgium
Mrs. Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
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Iowa
A. Benson
Dubuqque
Newell
Chris Jensen
O.C. Jensen
Illinois Central
Lawson
Town City
Crescent Manufacturing Company
Iowa City
Keane
Monsignor
Ryan
Carl Warring
Sophia Lickband
Sioux River
Warring
Li Huang Chang
Van
Yang OU
Congep
Wesley Green
State Morticultural Society
Green
Wnys
Kreus Zeitung
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