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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1896
Page
1
The article notes the Elgin Erho Vienna claims an American giant height of 240 centimeters. It cites support for the metric system among show people and mentions Misslastppi's new law against carrying concealed weapons with a maximum penalty of three months in prison and a $100 fine.
The cruiser Brooklyn travels at twenty four mph and can cover 1000 miles in three days with Paul Jones aboard. Weyler commands a cruiser bound for a fortified seaport while French papers debate Cuban relations. Scientific notes discuss eye color genetics and oxygen gas structures for space travel. Mars observers may already be studying us.
Mr Testa’s improved electric light converts 10 per cent of power for illumination, up from 8 per cent, reportedly filling a room so photographs can be taken in five seconds. The claim praises a brighter light for the same money, with Tesla’s intention seen as delivering more light for less money.
New York intends to stage an exposition for the year 10 to honor the formation of Greater New York. If a fair could be held anywhere in the continent after the world fair, it would be in New York to mark the establishment of the greatest city in the Western Hemisphere.
A plan outlines uniting Ceylon with Indie by a railway across Falke’s Straits. It would require a bridge of unprecedented length with 41 miles of span for 4¢, and engineers see stepping-stone rock and shoal routes at Adem’s Bridge easing the sea crossing.
Gloucester, once a Jenner opposition hub, enforces compulsory vaccination as an epidemic of smallpox sweeps the city with over 1,500 cases and 211 reported in one week of April. The illness is unusually malignant and the London Lancet cautions the outbreak’s lessons are not misread.
The river and harbor bill moves to the president for potential veto. In Ninth Alabama district, House committee favors T H Aldrich for the Republican Populist seat. Postmaster general bans lottery schemes by New Orleans Departure Redemption Co and A C Pickins of Mobile. Rep. Linton leads 321 signatures for railway mail clerk reclassification debate timing.
A long stream of 19th century curiosities lists Ann Wax of Central Falls as the heaviest woman in Rhode Island and other figures including a 400 pound weight, a Shah anniversary, and speeches in Teheran. Mentions Kruger, Bunker Hill, and a Maltese or English note on a cornerstone. Also notes a German concert, a French conductor Lamoureus, and Lt Gen Barker’s Bermuda governorship with veteran service.
A string of incidents across the Midwest and beyond describes a severe early morning wind storm in Indianapolis with two inches of rain, a large fire in Dallas at C Ott's gun store consuming two other firms and the American Express office with losses around 100000. In Lima Ohio a blaze at Westerly Granite Works badly burned Edward Cunningham and Limethy Daley with about 31000 damage. A Kalamazoo woman bitten by a tarantula from bananas became a raging maniac but is hoped to recover. A Norwegian bark Prudence wrecked near St Pauls Island with five men drowned. Society ladies Mrs Rickett and Bird Cassady perished in a boating accident when a city waterway overturn occurred. Grand Beach Maine forest fires threaten Speaker Reed’s cottage. 100 Old Orchard men join the effort. Mgr Reed’s house reportedly endangered. A poisoning at a Webs Jrire meeting involved William Maee giving George Lumsford candy leading to Lumsford’s death. Indianapolis Gas Co Pintsch gas department fire injures Alfred H Somerville during fuel preparation. his death is probable. Somerville noted as an athlete.
Iowa family of three found dead in Missouri under unclear motive. Report notes a related arrest of an ex postmaster in Bozeman Montana for embezzlement. A youth named Bowers suffers a fractured skull from a club in another incident, and in Cleveland Ohio August Guenther a 45 year old man shot his wife Min.
A string of robberies and killings tied to a family quarrel ends with Frank Hupman murdered near Huron Ohio by Frank Tierney after a watch and money refused. Chester W Cross, a Palmer National Bank teller, pleads guilty in Boston and gets five years. Id W Perry confesses to the Ava Missouri murders of the Sawyer family, naming accomplices Arthur Dougins and Sells/Brog, Vorepaugh’s circus. Governor Bradley of Kentucky indicted for tax land filings, lands reportedly of little value. Crockett Rags Sale indicted for embezzlement of 15000 at the National Bank of St Louis. A trio of swindlers, William Matzger, Franz Zeelig, and Henry Zeelig, operate from New York claiming a Greenwich Street grocer. Two men fatally shoot during a barges’ row on New York Bay fun excursion, Harmon and Solisky exchanging shots. both expected to die.
Foreign gossip records the deaths of painter Edward Stage in London and Marquis Louis Frederick Manabren del Val Dorn in Chambery aged 87, plus an inscription on the Matterhorn about bicycle danger. It notes a Paris St. Petersburg train in 48 hours, Roentgen ray uses, singer Paulis’ death near Hyeres, and other society items.
A collage of items notes inquiries about beef cattle in Yakima county. It also records tax exemptions for benevolent and educational institutions by Kentucky's court of appeal, counterfeit coin circulation by Chinese abroad, and travel of the English minister to Mexico to San Francisco.
Desolation remains in St Louis and East St Louis after a devastating tornado. Reports list over 200 dead in St Louis and about 200 in East St Louis, with thousands injured or homeless. Property losses are pegged in the tens of millions, while relief efforts and emergency services mobilize across the region.
In Lexington Kentucky on June 6 the Democratic convention favored free coinage of silver and endorsed Blackburn for president, denouncing the national administration as aligned with money power. Hardin urged unity, while Kansas delegates pushed for full silver support, with a platform demanding unbound gold and silver coinage and anti-money-power stances.
General Linares crosses the river and captures an insurgent position with five dead. Moro is killed while crossing. Troops under Morcady engage Aguirre’s band of about 1,000 near Viccarin farm. The insurgents blow up a passenger train at Underrias.
The house library committee will take no action this session on the Senate resolution to accept the Pere Marquette statues for Congress. The session’s early close and the committee’s plan for a thorough report on such practices prompted deferral. Wisconsin members foresee the legislature seeking the statue’s return.
In a June 1 public speech Portland mayoral candidate Pennayer hails from Ohio exposing plans to curb offenses and vows to continue his duties if elected. He asserts will take only half the salary, noting general price declines and stating the mayor’s salary stands at 4000 dollars per year.
Fragmented OCR describes an incident involving Charles Nelson found under a railway car and removed by rescuers after a derailment or collision. Names and details are garbled, but the event centers on an injury during a freight operation near a yard and questions about Nelson’s condition follow.
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