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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1895
Page
1
A garbled mix of observations and anecdotes covers topics from geography and space to crime, commerce, and politics. It mentions the Niagara River, lunar inhabitants, bees, New York police, pickle shipments to Boston, and European cities, with stray notes on Greenland death rites, Madagascar conflicts, and Washington housing reforms.
A digest includes payment of 600000 to Nez Perces, delays in torpedo boat Mk Madison trial due to an accident, defective cylinder castings requiring new work, and multiple fatal or injurious incidents. Notables: ex-Gov Gear of Iowa struck with apoplexy. Beatrice Harraden comments on America. a Vermont-NJ crash kills three. Great Britain storm claims many lives. various rail and train accidents worldwide including a fatal self-inflicted shooting and a fatal fall in Indiana.
A string of crimes and investigations unfold from Ohio to New York. Henry Kinnett reports a $3000 loss to a tin box scheme near Preble. Two Maggard gang members are jailed in Eldorado Springs. Albert Gordon of Rockford Aln faces gambling arrest and suicide in custody. E D Yerkes, nephew of a street railway magnate, jailed in New York after a cab fare dispute. Eugene T Casey, Covington post office clerk, faces theft charges for $2000 to $3000 from the mails. Muskogee fears a Cook gang raid as marshal McAlester receives a defiant message. Virginia authorities face heavy opposition to Morganfield transfer from Cincinnati to Roanoke. A fatal shooting occurs at Aldercon Ind, with all parties listed as colored. Bogus checks pass at Ishpeming with Dead River Lumber Co Rang. Slocum burglary ringleader and accomplices arrested in Erie. W B Crosby, Des Moines politician, indicted for $225 embezzlement. Tennessee law on private executions faces mob disruption of a stockade.
Reports from multiple states describe hanging and escape incidents. John Stanley and Clay witnessed a hanging. Will Price, convicted of murder, escapes in Arizona. Micajah Rowsey killed by Town Marshal Wilts in Kentucky. Mrs. Tizale Martin dieing after her husband vanished. Prison guard J. Temple shoots a prisoner in Ohio. Joseph O Day, from Cleveland, for forgery. Decker, Chicago, jailed for bad checks amid alleged mental disturbance.
Reports from various regions describe the porte allowing foreign delegates to question witnesses before the Armenian commission, Peru proposing a tobacco tax for revenue, and Germany's Hohenlohe facing backlash in the Reichstag. Madagascar hosts a campaign with Fort Tamatave captured and Ivandros burned, while Warsaw gains a new military governor. Tensions rise in Tarfan Kashgar as Muslims seek Russian suzerainty, and The Paria Figaro calls for an Atlantic shipping ban during fishing season. Argentina earmarks gold display funds for Atlanta expo. Oyama’s forces suffer casualties near New Chiang. Mexican authorities expose counterfeit rings and an organized colony producing fake coins. Portugal plans a long-term naval loan, and a US-UK led venture seeks shipyard bids with a Soto La Marina project in view.
A jumble of brief items includes Jet Garrigus’s will donating his body to Indiana Medical College, calls to abolish tribal government and severally allot lands for Osage, a sermon on gambling in Winchester Ohio, Rev War den’s three card monte act, and a decree on secret societies by the Catholic Church. Also notes a $2,400 loss from Mrs. Kelber English, a farmer’s death near Toulon Illinois eaten by hogs, Oregon Pacific rail sale at $100,000, land valuation in Lockport for drainage, Grand Trunk disruption threat, Frisco mine fatalities near Gem Idaho, H S Grant declaring Michigan Senate bid, a San Francisco water tower battery for firefighting, and the Boughen Arelheering Co of Cincinnati signing with Andrew J. Marsh.
Two suspected robbers derailed pursuit on a northbound train near York station. Marshal McCune and Sheriff Darrah were disarmed during a confrontation on the plank walk as the thieves escaped with weapons. Bloodhounds and thirty mounted men are sent to pursue. one robber is believed to be a county resident recently released from Alabama penitentiary for horse stealing in Picking county.
Mrs. Uuwehes Tulke of Louisville reveals her husband Charles Hughes died of apoplexy in Boston after moving through Helford Indiana Dayton Ohio and Massachusetts. He planned marriage with Mrs. Livermore but was barred by prior wife and two children. She says he sought no divorce and claims God’s avenging hand pursued him.
Nelson Morriatas reports from Antwerp that Belgium has banned importing live cattle from the United States due to pleuro-pneumonia. The move blocks continental European ports to American cattle and beef products, leaving the export market mainly to Britain, which is currently unattractive. The ban follows earlier moves by Austria, Germany, France and others in retaliation for the U S abolition of the reciprocity treaty aiding their sugar industries.
Buffering in the Strin Boston reports the Congregational Slame Missionary society notes the widening suffering in parts of the West, including the Cherokee site in Oklahoma opened for settlement last year. The miss states mention a special need of clothing as temperatures drop below zero. Thirteen men at an am religious service wore no overcoats and lacked wraps.
In Chicago on January 4, the grand jury returned a unanimous verdict not to indict State's Attorney Jacob Kern on charges of visa irregularities. They found the evicteren not conclusively proven and noted concerns over alleged improper money collection linked to criminals.
Newark New Jersey January 4 Robert Mc Mullen awarded twenty five thousand dollars damages against Western Union Telegraph company for injuries suffered while working as a lineman.
Fire swept a snucdry on Edgar road at 1 AM, rapidly consuming the building. Charred remains of two inmates were found beneath the ruins, indicating a deadly blaze that overwhelmed the laundry workers.
A Chippewa house at Holden Street in Ashland burned yesterday. The total loss is estimated around 5000 dollars. Fire damage reached the kitchen area before investigators secured the scene.
Reports from O Neill Nebraska and Sioux City Iowa describe mob activity around the Barrett Scott case. Mose Wilcott is arrested by lynchers near Scott’s wagon as residents fear Burnett Scott’s murder and body cast into the Niobrara river. Authorities doubt a lynching occurred and search the O Neill region for Bartlett Scott, the embezzling county treasurer, amid widespread but unconfirmed reports of his capture and disappearance.
Kavens City January reports judge of election Thomas C Kenny testified before Commissioner Evans in the damison Bremmerman race for county prosecutor. He said 217 Republican ballots were removed before closing and replaced with Bremmerman names. Republican ballots were destroyed. Kenny claimed intimidation and fear, citing witnesses blocked from booths and threats of violence.
Martin Green of West Superior Wisconsin returned home from Oshkosh after six months in a neglum sent for insanity nearly dead from cold and exhaustion. His feet were frozen. railroad men helped his journey. Doctors report mental health intact and insanity caused by sunstroke. full recovery expected.
Meager reports from the Sisseton reservation indicate a devastating blaze nine miles south of Ransom last night. Names Crooked include Sam Gibson. Peter Resau. Vabeile. County coroner and volunteers head to the scene as a carougal fire rages, killing about a dozen people.
In Matamoras on January 4 Col Manuel Perez de Leon paymaster in the Mexican army faced Manuel Cardenas a wealthy local merchant in a duel. After three shots each De Leon was killed in the third round by a shot through the head. Cardenas was arrested amid ongoing trouble between the men.
Reports from Western Nebraska detail severe destitution in Perkins Chase Dundy York Hayes Hitchcock and Frontier counties. Many counties lack food and coal as hundreds seek aid amid scarcities and disease. Relief efforts struggle to reach all affected households as stock is driven out to stave off starvation.
In Chicago on January 1 a four man gang raided two North Side saloons. At M I Melin shop a bartender Nelse Keck was killed after a brief struggle. McGrail shot a robber in the heart during the confrontation. Police work to round up the fleeing assailants. Also noted a nail mill fire at Sunbury, Pennsylvania destroying the plant with $100,000 loss and 200 workers. A US minister met the sultan in Constantinople.
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