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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1896
Page
6
A dire crisis grips Gogeble range in Northern Michigan where 3000 iron miners drop from $1,756 daily to 1000 employed at $10. Merchants refuse credit, mines idle, army worm devastates crops, taxpayers boycott taxes, and outside aid is awaited to stave off starvation.
Aug. 4. In Minsiweipy Hilver near Groske Wisconsin Henry Hendrickson and two others Anna Amsrud and Lizgle Oldstad drowned while boating on the Mississippi below the city. The craft swamped near moored barges as swift current carried it under. None could swim and bodies not recovered.
Elevators Belt Line Terminal Globe and Great Northern in Otone West Superior Wis announce permanent closure in days as the Superior board of trade adopts a new Wisconsin law inspection system. Commercial club supports change amid high level bluffing charges while Minnesota inspection ends. Dakota farmers pledge to ship wheat to Superior under Minnesota grading system once enacted, with broad cooperation.
The professional four oared final for world championship honors and a $1,000 purse was raced last evening. Canada, England, Halifax, and Bedford competed with Canada taking the lead early and finishing two lengths ahead of England, Halifax third. The Canadian crew, Ganda Duran Hackett and Rogers, clocked 18:30.
Perry Oklahoma August four reported a mail carrier Hempmeyer aged nineteen confessed to a robbery between Okence and Lacey. He had been acting strangely and spending money freely since the event. He named outlaws "BE Doolig" and "Dynamite Dick" as the suspects, who had recently escaped Guthrie jail.
Reports from networked sources claim Cleveland strikers are arming and drilling to avenge two deaths in clashes between union and nonunion factions. Senator Nelson delivered a partisan speech at his Alexandria home amid the unrest.
Miss Charlé, a writer known for Spanish American topics and sympathy with Cuban insurgents, sailed from Havang aboard the Washington after evading a detention order. She studied the rebel situation two months, met Gen Znyrs, toured Havana, visited prisoners, and escaped arrest by fleeing a Havana suburb house and walking for a day without food or drink before boarding the steamer.
Word reached Winnipeg on Aug 7 of the death of Mr Abbott, Milwaukee railway figure, while mountain climbing with Prof Hay’s party near Banff. He fell from a cliff, remains unreached, and the son of President Edwin H. Abbott died amid planned excursions from Laggan. Abbott graduated top of Harvard Law School class and led the Harvard Law Review.
Gov Eich receives a letter from Carl G James of Grand Forks North Dakota who says he was stolen from Port Huron in 1803 or 1864 by Canadian Indians. He recounts exile in the West, escape after being tied to a stake and burned, leaving scars. D P Ryan of Grand Forks verifies the tale though James lacks his true family name due to his captors.
In Slithe, Aug 7, a crowd at Five Points clamored over a Johnston campaign vote. George Cumbie a Democrat arrived on a horse and was shot by Populist Jap Trammell, who then sawed Cumbie’s head from his body as violence spread. White and Frank Cumbie fired on three Trammells and Sadie White. Casualties include George Cumbie Milt Trammell Jap Trammell and White with serious wounds.
Doctors Han ning and Carpenter conducted an autopsy on May Baird the stenographer who died yesterday. Wil testify before the coroner's inquest this afternoon, with results pending. The examination indicates she had cucleyte for at least four months but shows no sign of attempted abortion. Cause of death not yet announced.
Prof. S Tarr of Cornsl university reports the steamer Hope on a Arctic geological expedition has rung up in the five ice off Greenland with Peary onboard.
Manitoba reports crop disruption from a Sunday storm reducing wheat output by two million bushels. Several settlements suffered total ruin. Daugs & Weal, brick manufacturers of Belle Plaine and Blakely, have assigned assets valued at six thousand with liabilities near double.
A Reading Company express from Philadelphia to Atlantic City collided with a Bridgeton bound excursion train just outside Atlantic City. Reports say up to 100 were killed or injured as wreckage spread across signal towers and surrounding fields. Rescue workers and hospital staff rushed to the scene amid chaotic conditions, with mangled bodies and improvised relief efforts throughout the night.
The list of dead from the railroad wreck rises to forty three with possible more bodies in debris. Injured count unknown. The crossing between Philadelphia and Atlantic City has long served travelers. A black tower houses an operator and monitors right of way while officials investigate which train had priority.
A long letter from Senator Justa to the Upper Des Moines editor discusses the belief that an international agreement on a subject is probable and necessary. He argues for a reasonably fixed exchange value and stresses the need for stable terms in world trade.
Aug. 7 dispatches report extreme heat in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan with temperatures from 90 to 112 degrees. Prostrations occur in Racine and Milwaukee with two near-fatal cases and one death. Outdoor work halted, milky factories suspended, and a Chicago & North Western viaduct damaged. Widespread crop and building damage noted across Red Wing and surrounding towns.
Parkville Mo August 7 Prof C W Winchell holder of the Greek chair at Park College has mysteriously vanished. He had been vacationing in the East and last wired from Cincinnati saying he was returning home. No further word has been received.
A Molwmetan boy broke a Turkish cordon at the third attempt and advanced toward the insurgents near Goprans but was repulsed with heavy losses. Cretans captured arms and ammunition from the Mobom metens and pursued them back to the cordon as Turkish troops intensified fighting.
In Lincoln Nebraska Aug Day greets visitors at the Beyun home as Governor Prouk A Day of Minnesota arrives. Day, a Republican now aligned with the free silver movement, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats and Populists of his district.
A divorce petition filed in New York names Henry By Adhes, a noted theatrical manager, and his wife Morence B. Abbay alleging cruelty and abandonment. The case appears among local notices of civil actions and reflects ongoing marital dispute.
In Chamberlain South Dakota Aug 41 farmers and stockmen describe the completion of the Odgemont canal system along the Cheyenne river Beaver Pass and Big Foot creeks. Dams and backwaters create storage to feed a canal that irrigates eastern slopes and provides hay and grain, turning barren land into productive farms and stabilizing local water supply. The project, using dammed rivers and head gates, extends to Cottonwood creek and boosts regional agriculture.
Clinton, Aug 4. A southbound and a northbound Illinois Central passenger train collided near Birkbeck station. Engineer Charles Burchbaugh and mail agent William Baker were killed. about a dozen others injured. Both engines and a mail car were wrecked. one mail car and two baggage cars damaged. Burchbaugh, who refused to jump, left a wife and three children.
Cincinnati residents toured storm scenes in the northern suburbs as a hurricane raged yesterday. Winds reached sixty miles per hour with two inches of rain in two hours, yet the weather bureau said property damage was limited. One death was reported, Chas Bouhe, struck by a telegraph wire blown into his yard after it crossed a trolley line.
The treasury department shows July receipts at 20,029,200 and expenditures at 42,088,468, creating a monthly deficit of 14,050,250. Also notes the death of W P Bolden D D secretary of the International Missionary Union from paralysis at Clifton Springs.
Grand pyrotechnic display called the Last Days of Pompeii will be produced in St Paul Minnesota during encampment week. The spectacle, last seen at Manhattan Beach New York, requires twenty cars to transport scenery and paraphernalia. Visitors will view the vividly described East Days of Compell saga in the opening chapter of Lord Lytton's novel, brought to life in this realistic production.
Grand Army headquarters in St Paul lists rail rates for encampment travel to the Northwest. Local agents can provide details. Most fares are one fare for round trip with tickets valid fifteen days, extendable to Sept by depositing at the St Paul joint agent before Sept 15. Half fare tickets from Western points available for trains arriving in St Paul Aug 31 or Sept 1.
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