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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1894
Page
5
KalispellMont July 28 1894 crop outlook prom and town building growth in Flathead Valley steel bridge Mat head river Methedists church grain elevators new school brick blocks and growing residences railroad into coal fields contemplated
Seized records in Beaver Falls Minnesota as a courthouse raid prompts officers to recover items from Olivia. Across Minnesota and Wisconsin forest fires devastate vast areas along the North Wisconsin division of the Omaha line. Crops damaged as drought worsens. towns like Virginia and Eau Claire face embers, with rail service and protection efforts ongoing.
Forest fires rage near Duluth Minnesota threatening crops and farm buildings. Fire department remains at work as heavy winds spread flames through timber and stubble. Officials warn no twenty years have seen such losses. Heavy showers may save property, while farmers face ruin and hardship this winter.
In Minneapolis the preliminary round of the dispute with the gas company over lower rates continues. Most arbitrators favor a report to the city, while the gas company's side will present a minority report. If the company rejects the report, the matter may go to court after Friday's council session. Also noted are resignations in Sioux City as a bank examiner post is filled, and a diphtheria outbreak in Humbert, South Dakota, where seven of eight Krust children have died or fallen ill.
July 24 report from Ulin Minnesota notes a complete victory for the anti-Corner party in the New UK school election. Three candidates Siverson Hornburg and Weyhe won majorities totaling 170 with 2,001 votes cast. The vote ends the school question for two years and preserves Superintendent Gricchett and the current staff.
A garbled report recounts a man named Joln Brown killing his wife and fleeing, with unclear spellings and dates. The fragments mention a incident late Saturday night near Conls Gary, about twenty miles south, and describe a deserted Lin area as a possible location.
Forty six men from Barnesville with others from St. Cloud and St. Paul charged in a U S district court with conspiracy and interruption of the government mails during the Great Northern railway strike. Defendants include J. Knowles Elon Brietsin Saunet, and many more. bail set at 1100 each. Trial slated for the September term at Fergus Falls.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals in St Paul reversed a lower court ruling in the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier v The Bond of Education of the City of Huron South Dakota. The decision upholds bonds issued by Huron’s board of education, finding the act governing them constitutional and ordering a new trial.
Jeff Hildreth and partners arrived at Rainy Lake City with twenty seven ounces of free gold and rich concentrates from one and a half days work at the Little American mill. The free gold valued at 499 dollars came from thirty tons of ore. Capt D N West, builder of the Deadwood Womestala mill and Rainy Lake stamp mill, joins to pursue properties in Colorado. Rainy Lake mill runs day and night and will double stamps and add mills. The Little American vein is seventeen feet wide and widening.
In Butte Montana crews return to work as trains move under guard of regulus amid no resistance from strikers. Northern Pacific employees reported back yesterday after twenty five, reinstated. Montana Union employer to decide at tonight meeting. President Calderhead says strikers lost ground due to government intervention.
July 24 Dunbar area suffers a late night explosion under a non union worker named Waugh as a building collapses. A second bomb near William Boden’s home failed. Earlier fires at Gelwelu lumber yards destroy Cole Wing and King properties valued at tens of thousands with multiple injuries. Fire deemed incendiary. Connor and Swiska badly injured by a falling log building.
The United States circuit court opened as Debs and American Railway Union leaders faced contempt charges. The defendants deny aiming to concentrate power to order strikes and vow to uphold injunctive limits while labor factions plan funding and potential congressional reform to curb federal court authority.
Minneapolis reported rumors the A T U is ready to press a broad move toward Chicago on Wednesday night. Sources say non-union workers and wavering unionists may be urged to quit en masse, aiming to renew the general strike that disabled operations for weeks.
A life ending tale from Wheaton details a former school superintendent, Paul Sulla Whenaton, who died in Minneapolis after a weeks-long descent into temporary insanity. Born in New York, he pursued education across multiple states, taught and led in Minnesota, and finally served as superintendent of the Bismarck school. He moved to Asbury hospital and, declaring a conspiracy against him, sought confinement before using a pocket knife to attempt suicide. he died after days of failed efforts.
Judges Mitchell and own hold that under General Laws of 1878 a private Minnesota corporation must maintain the place of business and keep its books in the state. The Park & Nelson Lumber Co is found to have evaded this requirement for three years by keeping records in Wigconaln, leading to charter vacatur and annulment of its corporate existence.
July 24 report from Stonx Mally labor men and prohibitionists clash over saloon closures. Mayor Williams directs fines paid to a state bank, while workers demand labor funds. unions threaten injunctions under prohibition law to bar money to owners or liquor sales, aiming to shutter every tavern in town.
At Otsexo Lake Cheysetime and Mrs J W Nawards with son and a book agent began a rowing race to cross the lake. Four people were last seen in a boat off Hatters Point with two rifles and a whisky bottle found aboard. Rescue crews found the scene empty as the boat drifted away.
The official notice states the dispensary law is in force and will be enforced. County dispensaries will open on Wednesday August 1. All parties, including liquor carriers, are warned that liquor importation will be seized and confiscated within the state borders.
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