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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1899
Page
1
A series of quips from Elgin Iowa criticizes talkative egotists religion as a crutch and the high price of automobiles. It notes foreign entanglements in the administration and mocks missing cats and postmaster appointments as the work of busybodies. A New York woman sues over a tailless show cat with a mocked prize.
A critic argues that the prevailing system of organized charity is flawed, favoring real charity yet condemning selfless acts that shame individuals. He contends charity should not require personal histories or soul-searching before aid, highlighting the mismatch between need and bureaucratic process.
War correspondents in Manila report Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana, zigzagging across Luzon and Sulu. He has traveled 2000 miles by water and 600 miles on horseback, visited native huts, met the sultan of Sulu, rode atop iron roofs of rail cars, and stood at front-line scenes multiple times. The motive may be to inspect new possessions and assess progress.
The passage recalls Rufus Choate as a famed American lawyer noted for wit and forceful phrase making sharp quips. It contrasts him with the current ambassador’s ready wit and situates Choate among the greats, citing his ledger of bold, caustic remarks about a debtor and a woman, illustrating his acerbic humor and memorable flights of rhetoric.
A historic stretch of over fifty years notes Japan's rapid modernization and rising status. New treaties took effect July 17, signaling full equality under international law, with diplomatic and historical significance. It critiques palace car firms training employees and jokes about lawyers dividing judicial offices and a fable about the Jayman and the cheese.
Weekly digest highlights John S. Johnson’s retirement from sports and a Sioux City boxing bout between Australian Bill Murphy and Patty Magner for a $1,000 purse. It also notes Kennedy’s heavyweight ambitions, Lenox event, and a Cuban census overseen by Gen. Brooke.
The Persian minister of foreign affairs died suddenly in Paris. Leonard Goukl of Chicago collapsed on Spring House piazza at Block Island. German diplomat and chess figure Herr Vonderlusa died. The Rev D L Lloyd former bishop of Bangor has died after resigning his see due to ill health. Robert Porter Field, noted shipping master, passed away in Brooklyn at eighty six. John B Russell, manufacturing pharmacist, died in New York aged thirty two. Andrew Carnegie donated £10 000 to establish a public library in Keighley England. Mrs. Benjamin Grosseup, mother of Judge P S Grosseup of Chicago, died in Ashland Ohio at seventy eight after fifty seven years of marriage.
Nora Springs mayor G Blythe dies of acute gastritis during Pythian grand lodge meeting in Draven port. Mrs Lucy T Wolcombe Pickens, widow of I W Pickens, dies at Edgewood aged sixty five. Rev George W Pepper D D dies in Cleveland after long illness. Howard J Rowell of Lowell Courier Citizen dies on a train. Various imperial and international notes: Wilhelm visits Victoria in Windsor Castle. Rothschild Louvre bequest. Consul reports plague in Alexandria. cyclones and earthquakes in Corsica and Oklahoma. financial surplus in the West. many bankruptcy petitions filed. Alaskan boundary tension easing. horse-drawn and steam transport updates.
In Rennes on August 18 the second court martial for Captain Alfred Dreyfus continued. Maj Carriere blocked adjournment, while witnesses including former ministers Lebon and Guerin testified on Dreyfus’s harsh confinement on Devil's Island. Dreyfus wept when the court read details of his imprison ment and mistreatment, as spectators reacted with sympathy.
Rennes Ang 18 Emil Zola telegraphed expressing indignation and admiration for you. M Demauge held long talks with M Dreyfus about the court’s gravity. Demange unsettled by loss of Labori’s assistance and secretary’s absence. Court’s refusal to adjourn viewed as evidence judges have made up their minds unfavorably against Dreyfus.
In Wore Rennes on August 18 Maltre Labort suffers rising fever while physicians delay another extraction attempt. They doubt he can attend court Monday, deeming it prudent to keep him away from the proceeding.
In San Francisco on August 18 Frank Bfe Connell defeated Jimny Franey of Cluchimath in the fourteenth round before the Vic National Athletic club, delivering a decisive knockout to claim the win.
The U S transport Watton arrived at San Francisco with the First Colorado regiment and 40 others, about 200 fewer than last year. Col McGoy commands, men in fine form and spirits, health better than most regiments except Pennsylvania. Colorado delegation led by Guy Thomas met the transport and troops after arrival.
Aug 18 Winnipeg Manitoba report on pre trial hearing in a bank robbery case. An accountant testified about bank logs and a teller Nelles described the recovered money in a opened bag. About £50,000 was recovered with $2,000 missing. Startling developments expected as more than one person is believed implicated.
The California Passenger association in San Francisco routes homeward bound soldiers on the most direct lines to their residences. Soldier fare for second class is set at 7.50 from San Francisco to the Missouri River.
Duluth Minn August 18 The Fidur City timber company has sold 2,000,000 feet of hemlock timber for use in a grain elevator in Duluth This is the first hemlock timber sale to this market and likely the largest ever by a Minneapolis company for Lake Superior hub consumption.
Terrific gales and heavy floods devastate areas near Santiago and Valparaiso. A train plunged from a railroad bridge, drowning fifty persons. A house was washed away and all its nine occupants were drowned.
Citizens committee prepares reception for Company O on arrival in Juniustown. They aim to raise about $1,200 for decorations, a formal dinner, and a mid day banquet as part of the city celebration.
The quarrel among the Port Alberts steamer crew and petty officers centers on unpaid wages for Indies transported from the city to Am elly aboard a British charter. They threaten to delay sailings after two years of lower wages under the American charter.
Prof Tre Whi Shepard, secretary of the National Educational Association, left for his Minnesota home after noon, reporting recovery from illness with no peritonitis symptoms.
On August 18 at Margee the forward baggageman car of a coast-bound Northern Pacific train smashed the front track torn up the rails. The passenger cars remained on the line and not derailed, though a perilous moment arose with a near miss for travelers aboard the frenzied express.
Ashland Wis Aug 18 George Hughes a carpenter working on Werder's residence fell from the roof sustaining serious back injuries. Moments later another man also fell from the same place injuring his arm both incidents reported from the building site.
Unaccountable death in Spring Valley Minnesota on August 18 as Mann, who lived twelve miles south west of town, hanged himself in his granary. Relatives offer no reason for the rash act.
Lodged in Jalil Casselton North Dakota August 18 Eugene Andrews the man accused of attempted rape and horse stealing was captured in a corn field five miles east of here and safely jailed.
Detectives arrest William Neufeldt, an ex convict from Chicago, on charges of mulleting Mrs. Nathan Kronmann at her home in this city on August 7. He was detained and later released.
Jol Thompsen, a member of the Ketehung garg Giant, held up a tram near Polsom July 20, was pursued twenty miles east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, by the slur and posse. We made a desperate fight.
Washington reports a sharp clash near Angeles as MacArthur’s troops press from Cundalla to Parac and Santa Anita. Ten Twelfth Infantry companies and artillery hit entrenched insurgents, about 2,500 strong, killing and wounding many while the Americans tally two killed and twelve wounded. Angeles is occupied as the battle ends in a Filipino defeat amid heat and heavy exchanges of fire.
Gen Isidro Jiminez, Dominican presidential aspirant, may depart Havana for Santo Domingo aboard a south coast steamer from Batabano. He travels unarmed with two friends to lead the movement in his favor, disputing Cuban adventurer influence and rejecting a report of a revolutionary defeat.
Chicago dispatch reports Gen Torrey’s forces routing Yaqui rebels on the left bank of the river between Patami and Yedom. A flank surprise chased the Indians into the forest with seven killed and many wounded. Federal losses were one soldier killed and one man dead from sunstroke, signaling the rebellion’s near end.
Private advices report a hurricane striking the Andars island group inflating no damage and wrecking sponging fleet. About 150 bodies wash ashore at Dewey on Deck as Admiral Dewey recuperates aboard the Olympia. Officials doubt an official reception before Florence departure.
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