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Newspaper
Eldora Enterprise
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1898
Page
6
The Shawneetown area is inundated after a levee gives way Sunday afternoon. Reports place the death toll around 200 with rescue trains and relief teams being dispatched from Mt. Vernon to the stricken town as telephone lines fail and uncertainty persists about the full extent of the disaster.
German ambassador reports Madrid fears an outbreak if USA Spain issues not resolved. Carlist movement grows, Weyler and the military party urged against. Royal castles ready for flight. Alfonso to be moved to Sanlucar de Barameda with yacht prepared. Queen seeks European intervention. replies deemed unsatisfactory.
Waco Texas reports Captain Thomas E Davis and Brann dead after a brutal Friday feud. Davis dying declaration accuses Ward, Braun business manager, of shooting him. Ward jailed for murder. Brann's funeral held Sunday as city reels from violence. Also notes Johnston Steel reorganization into Lorain Steel with 14 million capital.
The northwest sends 41 recruits to the east Sunday with 20 more enrolled and to follow later. The roster features a Scandinavian born man noted for his July birth, amid a steady flow of accepted candidates by the recruit board.
New York reports Liberia faces European pressure as a German gunboat demanded 18000 dollars in forty eight hours for an alleged attack on a German subject. President Coleman refused to sign any protectorate treaty and sent Bishop Hartzell to seek English and American intervention to block the German move.
Kansas passes a 1887 blacklist law to shield railroad workers from being blacklisted after discharge. Joseph Laas, bridge carpenter at Junction City, sues Missouri Pacific for 20000 dollars, alleging he was barred from work by garnishment and subsequent listing. The railroad challenges the statute’s constitutionality.
The Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific receiverships ended at midnight Thursday and the lines came under Union Pacific control. Existing Union Pacific officials will oversee their departments in the Kansas division starting April 1. Brinkerhoff becomes Kansas Pacific superintendent in Kansas City, Missouri, and Duel leads the Colorado division from Denver.
In Athens Karditzi and Georgii were convicted of attempting to kill King George of Greece on February 2. Karditzi, ill with consumption, said he acted after newspapers blamed the king for the country’s misfortunes and would have aimed at Theodore Delyannis if successful. Georgii testified he fired into the air.
Rufus Perry, a famed Texas veteran of the independence war and the U.S. Mexican War, reaches San Antonio from Hey Blenco County to file depredation claims. He joined Sam Houston’s army as a courier at fifteen, fought in twenty five battles, and bears twenty two arrow scars from Indian engagements.
The international Sunday school lesson committee meets in this city to select lessons for 1901 for the United States Great Britain Canada India and Australia. It is the thirty fifth meeting since the original 1872 Indianapolis appointment and the fifth consecutive committee to handle this duty. All but three of the fifteen members attend.
Gov Black sent an emergency message urging immediate approval of 1 090 000 as a contingent war fund. Legislation conforming to the suggestion was introduced and passed unanimously by both houses and signed by the governor. The New York National Guard is now prepared for war at a moment's notice.
Ohio Attorney General Monet argued that Standard Vit Company had not answered sufficiently to twenty six questions in the suit to break the trust in Ohio. Virgil P. Kline, attorney for the company, was given ten days to answer that, as he claimed, each reply in the interrogatories were sufficient.
In Columbus Ohio Attorney General Monet argued that Standard Oil had not answered sufficiently to many of the twenty six questions in the suit to break the trust. Virgil P. Kline for the company was given ten days to respond that each reply was sufficient.
A $75,000 fire gutted the American Biscuit Company plant in San Francisco Friday evening. Loss tallied at $375,000. The facility, running on double-time government contracts, was knocked out by the so called Terrible Swede. In Cincinnati Vans Olsen known as the Terrible Swede defeated Dan Dwyer of Buffalo in the seventh round Thursday night. Dwyer was badly used up. In Columbus Senator Riley introduced a bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to place Ohio on a war footing.
The Washington Post reports Spain's note to President McKinley on Cuba is vague and noncommittal. It notes Spain does not accept nor reject American demands, leaving the issue open for future talks. The Spanish ministry seeks delay pending cortes ratification and hints at counter proposals.
The French court began hearings on Emile Zola's appeal against a one year imprisonment and 3000 franc fine from February 23. Councilor Chambareaud urged irregularity in the trial due to the minister of war bringing the suit instead of the court martial president. If accepted, the condemnation stands but the sentence would not be executed, likely calm Dreyfus agitation and ease government tensions.
Dixon and White, famed featherweights, battled 20 rounds at Empire Athletic Club, Syracuse. White used reach and lefts to control the contest, Dixon’s power sought a comeback, crowd favored White but judges declared a draw amid steady action.
Horsemen from across the country gathered at Caicaco to form the National Horse Breeders Dealers and Exhibition Association. The group aims to develop draft and coach horse breeding and to strengthen ties among breeders and dealers nationwide.
The big search light that topped the Manufacturers Building at the World's Fair has arrived from Sandy Wook and will be in running order within a day. It is 35 000 candle power and will illuminate Hampton Roads from shore to shore.
The New York conference of the Methodist Church voted for equal representation from each annual conference, signaling a shift toward parity in governance and decision making. The measure aims to balance influence across regional bodies within the denomination.
A compiled list of livestock and grain prices from multiple markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Loledu. Prices cover cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with bid ranges and quality grades.
About 1000 Cornell College students and Mount Vernon residents gathered on campus for a Cuban mass meeting presided by Lt. J. My Waterman of the Fourth U.S. Cavalry. Faculty members and Rev. De J. B. Albrook spoke as resolutions praised Cuba’s people and pledged support for the U.S. administration and flag, with a copy to President McKinley.
Attorney Milner, counsel for Novak, urged Judge Burnham at Belle Plaine to order Benton County to pay about $400 for a 1,090 page transcript, enabling Novak to proceed after being declared destitute. The judge granted the order, with expectation Novak may win a new trial in October. Ex Governor Drake remains in Excelsior Springs Mo where condition remains unchanged since January but he shows nerve and hope while pursuing self care and strengthening.
Record of H M Lucas a schoolmaster living near Stanhope noting a tenth term completed recent. He began at Fairview school on the site of Midway Boone County and taught in Hamilton Webster and Boone Counties, with seventeen different schools and about 1008 pupils enrolled.
A frightening railway yard accident near Jewell claimed J A Lingle's life when his wagon was struck after his team bolted. He leaped from the load to guide the horses but missed the bridle, was trampled under the wagon, and died from his injuries. Other brief items note a murder suspect's mother denied access to a jail, a Doon area well death, a Cedar Rapids woman’s attempted suicide, a fatal family feud shooting, the death of a Paullina business figure, a failed gas franchise vote, and fire damage to Bristow north of the tracks.
In Cedar Rapids district court Lewis A. Wible sued Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern for ten thousand dollars after losing a leg while employed in Ellsworth Minnesota yards. The jury awarded him thirty two thousand. Governor Shaw vetoed a debtor redemption bill, with Westoneo arguing it would abridge contract rights and be unconstitutional.
Marion Sadler a Cedar Rapids machinist about 60 was shot twice in a family confrontation. His wife and son claim self defense after Sadler fired at them while intoxicated. The wife then shot Sadler, saving her son. Other items note Ed F. Dunn’s escape on a prison train and Iowa city election results with Republican gains in multiple towns.
The Iowa Senate approved a wide set of extraordinary appropriations for state institutions including funds for restoring the university library, Mount Pleasant Insane Hospital, Mitchellville Girls Industrial School, veterinary services, and the Cherokee insane hospital, with totals and conditions, while also passing reductions to per capita support funds, raising the minimum age for the Deaf home, and authorizing a major state debt reduction plan. The House and Senate debated salaries, express tax increases, and an overhaul of railway and freight taxation, with a rule limiting floor consideration to appropriation bills unless two thirds vote. The revenues for the next biennium are set at 3.1 million dollars, and the legislature plans adjournment by Thursday noon.
The piece discusses японese symbolism, describing accusing mirrors in temples as tools to reveal sins, the use of fans with mirrored surfaces symbolizing purity, and a refined flower arrangement art. It notes a concise Japanese vocabulary for sentiments and a formal, disciplined practice taught through detailed instruction.
The passage lists Miseries of the Great with Bacon driven to disgrace by avarice, Defoe facing Newgate and pillory, Cervantes harassed by creditors, Spenser and poverty, Cowper and lifelong gloom, and Milton blindness in old age, all reflecting severe hardship among famed writers.
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