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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1894
Page
5
A digest of incidents from home and abroad includes legislation on federal reimbursements for Minnesota militia gear, labor holiday status, notable deaths and marriages, and scattered accidents and crimes. Highlights mention Gen. Wheeler, Edison’s illness, and various tragedies from cyclones to drownings and fires.
Exasperated Boers threaten to attack English residents in the Transvaal while Greece reports earthquakes across Pedoponnesus. Rome debates income tax, and Emperors prepare to mingle with northern waiters post Rio regatta. Nicaragua’s crisis deepens as Ortez withdraws support from Zelaya. cholera cases rise in Belgium. The French steamer Obock sinks after a collision. crew rescued at Cherbourg. England’s attorney general allows Bernard Coleridge to practice. Olympic committee forms in Paris. Britain guards booze laws. convict lawyer Donovan’s whereabouts unknown. Miners evict 200 families in Painter’s Run. MacVeagh vetoes senator bid. Pullman boycott cripples Chicago roads. Brand Whitlock named Illinois governor candidate. Yale foregoes commencement. Patterson amendments loom for interstate commerce. Duluth honors cornerstone. Sioux City approves bridge funding.
The Ways and Means Committee, awaiting formal sessions, leans toward preserving the Wilson bill's core protections as it heads to conference. Despite Senate amendments, influential members seek to back Wilson against Senate encroachments, signaling unity on key features and public sentiment shaping the outcome.
Otto Brewam of Bancroft Iowa tracked down sixteen year old Elie Dingst daughter of a Minneapolis justice who ran away with insurance agent J R Brown. Brown was arrested for defrauding a hotel and fined twenty five dollars. Miss Dingst returned home after efforts to separate the pair.
London July 2 The queen's breeding stud at Bushy Park near Hampton Court sold all stock in one day. Catalogue listed 78 lots including 30 yearlings 45 brood mares and foals and 3 stallions. Weillncle a ten year old dam of Best Man topped bids at 4 000 guineas. Sanda dam of Sainfain Golden Garter and Vereeh sold for 2 404 guineas. Arthur Dames paid 1 000 guineas for a Bend Nor filly out of Lucaunes. Total sale receipts reached 23 000 guineas.
Deat Muten reports the third annual convention of the fleur mutes of the Northwest in Minneapolis at the Y M C A building with about 100 attendees from western cities. Prof Smith presided over the opening business meeting and committees were named for officers and rules. Evening religious services were held, and many papers will be presented by faculty members and others.
Fragmented OCR describes a high speed dash toward a Chicago and Northwestern train wreck near the Merdioing creek bridge two miles west of Blynt. The engine and crew reportedly passed safely after overcoming an obstacle. investigators note a long object measured about feet long and four inches wide.
The article reports the funeral of President Sadi Carnot in Paris with immense public mourning, the procession to Notre Dame and the Pantheon, and remarks by Premier Dupuy. It also notes a solemn requiem in Washington attended by President Cleveland and diplomats. Additional items mention a balloon ascension at Lake Harriet near Minneapolis and a Chesapeake and Ohio train collision injuring several people.
St Paul July 2 ex county auditor James H Burns is jailed after a grand jury returned five indictments for grand larceny in the first degree. He allegedly defrauded the Second National Bank of 1820.40 and the Union Bank of 100 through a county printing claim repurposed as a loan. Burns surrendered with his attorney. no bail was set as bondsmen were unavailable. The Second National case appears strongest, while the Union bank matter remains unclear.
Judge Hicks denied the motion for an injunction to stop the Times sale to the Journal in Majotn. The court heard lengthy affidavits from both sides about the paper's value and debt. Evidence showed the Times had spent 181600 in running the paper, with stockholders funding needs. the sale was deemed the only relief to the ailing company. The plaintiff intends to pursue the suit despite the injunction ruling.
Toronto July 2 The international trade conference enters a second session with Sen Bowell Canada’s minister of trade and commerce saying Canada favors reciprocity only if paired with real national product terms. He warned the United States would not accept Canadian proposals and hinted Canada may push for further reforms.
Congress weighs final vote as the Senate enters the fourteenth week of the tar date. It is expected the last vote before adjournment will occur Tuesday night, with Democrats pushing to secure the decisive action. The House handles District of Columbia business in the meantime.
A troubled man named Kansas, 73, and his wife were staying with their son Wredterick when a three week family quarrel led to an attempted self injury. He was found behind a barn with a razor near his feet, a grisly scene and severe injuries described as likely from temporary insanity. His prognosis is poor as recovery remains doubtful.
A violent attack near a railroad line in Memphis and Birmingham injuries several, including a twelve year old, as a posse pursues suspects. One man is fatally wounded and another shot in the side, while residents recount a deadly bridge discovery linked to the incident. Police, sheriffs, and a posse pursue the assailants with no immediate success reported.
Market notes show wheat and corn quotes from Chicago and Minneapolis with July and September futures. Cattle and hog prices listed with ranges and averages, plus a fatal fire in St Paul where Mrs August Carleon died after kerosene ignition on Beeth Street, details of burns and outcome.
In a $40,000 damage suit by Willum Fullerton against Homestake Mining, judge awarded $24,000 to the plaintiff. O B Bolden testified Fullerton was out of the fight before the altercation, alleging intoxication and saloon drinking in Lead by a woman named Nan. Bolden faces a perjury claim based on his testimony, with Flowus named in the bond defaults.
Milnuenpalis July 2. The Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Twenty fourth avenue north and Fourth street was dedicated yesterday by a corps of assisting pastors and members of the congregation. The church with a main auditorium and basement was decorated for the occasion. Addresses were made by Rev. K G Borgo Red Wing Rev L Jorden Northaast Minneapolis Prov John Vieleskor Robinsdale Rev A G H Ovyern South Minneapolis and Rev John Halverson the poet of the new church
Richford Vermont July 2 1888 Alva Morell Baker of Montgomery hanged her four children this morning after a quarrel with her husband over jealousy. She attempted to hang herself but escaped and was later found wandering in the woods far from home in a ravaged condition.
The Deadwood area Republican county convention met Saturday to select delegates to the state convention. About forty delegates were chosen. Deadwood’s township treasurer candidate was supported. A resolution favored a tariff and free coinage of silver was urged.
In Sibley Iowa on July 2 a ceremony marks the Spirit Lake massacre of 1857. The landmark stands nineteen feet high and fifty five feet long. it will include a relief of the massacre and a brief historical account with a reward noted for the commission ordered by the twenty fourth Iowa assembly.
In Minneapolis during July, Harry Anmbrosy fought with a man named K. McGuire on Eastalüe street. Anmbrosy slashed McGuire's throat with a knife but did not inflict a dangerous wound. He was arrested at the central station on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Patton Arremtat of Duluth Minnesota reports on July day that William Patton fireman of the tug Record engaged with Engineer Sutton at the senilty which led to Sutton’s death. Patton returned to the tug office last night for the first time since the tragedy and was released on no charge. Sutton’s body has not yet been recovered.
Judge Payne delays execution in the Askusshi-Drendergast case due to ongoing hearings. Prendergast’s sentence remains on hold until the present hearing concludes in Chicago July 2.
Joway Warner of O'Brien County, sentenced to two life terms for killing his neighbor Maj. Inna, will appeal the decision. The appeal challenges the overhearing dispute between their farms as the basis for the homicide ruling.
Disjointed OCR notes describe a hurried exit of figures associated with Nicaragua and Guatemala as tensions rise with a U S backed stance. Mentions deposed regimes and claimed demands from a named minister, unclear due to garbled text.
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