21 Jan 1892
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Newspaper
Eldora Weekly Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1892
Page
2
A long, scattered Iowa clipping notes deaths in Keokuk and Avoca, a Spencer waterworks outage, legal cases including land titles and bank failures, a Des Moines flood relief report, court actions in Dubuque, and a Wyandotte array of local incidents from Mason City to Sioux City, with railroad and telegraph anxieties, fires, and a murder case in Ottumwa.
The Senate and House bills and actions span January 12 to 18, detailing land cession talks with Indians, petitions on the World’s Fair, and bills on pensions, silk culture, and homesteading. Other items include congressional calendars, tariff debates, river improvements, and a Missouri bridge project. Executive sessions adjourned and new measures referred to committees.
A brief puff outlines a shorthand system named Bhort-hand Sposa. It claims speed comparable to modern writing and likens it to an old ox-wagon era. Members pay only $2, with hundreds expected to join.
The Des Moines legislature reports January actions with debates over permanent senate officers. A party split and failed ballots led to adjournment after governors’ cards and sworn in clerks. House organized with W. O. Mitchell as speaker and Charley Boverly as chief clerk amid Republican nominations.
The paper announces a twelve lesson course on Pitman shorthand edited by Professor Moran aimed at home study. It promises affordable instruction, mail lessons, and local clubs for mutual practice, with membership $2 and enrollment via University Extension Box 723 St Louis Mo. Next week more details will be published.
Four men stopped a mil wagon near the Sioux City post office. The driver fired after grabbing a robber s pistol. a bullet struck his hand. One robber began looting the mail but fled in fear. Police have not caught the assailants.
A new educational movement aims to bring college advantages to every home through lectures examinations home study and correspondence courses. The program is framed as University Extension work designed for broad readership appeal and will be explained further in an upcoming column.
Condensed telegraphic news from abroad and domes tic events including an explosion at the Pabat mine in Iron wood Michigan injuring three men. Dr Graves sentenced to death for murder awaiting reprieve. Rutherford kills his wife with shears amid ta grippe illness and possible insanity. Mob lynches suspect in Horner murder. wreck on Old Union Pacific line injures several. steamer Matthew founder and all aboard drown. Congressman McMillan acts as speaker pro tempore. Body of John Carson found with throat cut in New York. Missing steamer J esse L arrives after gale. Federation of Miners in England debates sympathy for hei presump tive. Chilean outrages prompt calls for apology. Mysterious Chandler County river criminals’ trap-house cavern. Andrews Opera Company wreck injures many. Mrs Ed Andrews perishes. Representative Scott bills to stop selling stamped envelopes postages.
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