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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1899
Page
1
A collage of aphorisms and snips on topics from arbitration and women’s roles to colonial affairs. It mentions gas trusts, Delawares whipping posts, Funston, Rufgara Waving, Yale President Hadley, California fish and game plans, Saint Lawrence fisheries, and an English envoy’s reception.
The report highlights boxing bouts in Whiteling West Virginia including Kid Goeller and Sam Bowlen drawing after twenty rounds. Featherweight champ George Dixon defeats Joe Bernstein over twenty-five rounds at Broadway Athletic Club. A series of destructive fires devastate industries and buildings in Augusta Georgia Pekin Illinois New Orleans and Youngstown Ohio plus the Republic Washington mine and a Bethesda Savannah orphan asylum. Authorities fear arson and plan rebuilding efforts.
May receipts at the Washington treasury point to 502,208 from San Francisco with total 2,874,739 since January 1 and an average monthly 576,047. Navy shift notes the Buffalo’s decommissioning as a signal abandonment of a regular Atlantic to Manila transport plan. Spanish legation moves and Dupuy de Lome offices shift. War Dept shows army enlistments 76,000 since war began, joining earlier 25,000 making 100,000 plus discharged Spain-war enlistments.
Willam Abels in Bayley Ga faces hanging for assault on Mrs Edgerton. Carrie Jones extradited from Elizabeth NJ for kidnapping Marion Clark to New York. Baker found dead in Kalumavoo Michigan after suspected poisoning. Mooney of New York arrested in Montreal for misapplication worth about 22000 dollars. Dr Jeunings Jr of Pittsburgh committed suicide. Titus arrested in Washington Pa for conspiring to bribe, bail set at 800 dollars, queried to influence Senator Quay.
A collection notes Abtant A Rice of Ohio named special census purchasing agent while J B Angell to retire from Ann Arbor and Dean Harry Hutchkins to be elected president. Henry L Clinton longtime New York lawyer dies after a year of illness. Gov Brooke names Senor Gonzales de Queseda as Cuba special commissioner in Washington with 5000 salary. Lieut Col Lews Morris S A retired dies in Philadelphia of Brights disease aged sixty. Dr John Bradley resigns as president of Minnots college in Jacksonville effective Jan 1 1900. Mrs Thomas Guray wife of ex Mayor Guray dies in New York after six weeks illness from heart disease. Frederick G Prince long time Boston mayor and 1906 gubernatorial candidate dies at eighty one. New York University confers honorary doctor of laws on Hon William St Joay secretary of eignes comuls ajpner.
A Bloemfontein dispatch says the Kruger Milner conference failed. Notes include British policy on the Indian Japanese law, a Gypsy musician’s death returning with Princess de Chimay, and political figures Cox Boyle Tort with various imperial federation, free trade, and reciprocity themes across Britain and colonies.
A wide range of topics appears including price advances and abandonments in agriculture and industry, sugar and glucose mergers, railroad and streetcar finances, warship maintenance, and public works. Reports cover tariffs, wages, funding plans, Cuban and Spanish military sentiment, and impending railway expansions from Cleveland to Indianapolis, with international arbitration hints over Alaska and numerous corporate reorganizations and incorporations.
James J. Jeffries defeats Robert Fitzsimmons in eleven rounds at Coney Island Athletic Club to claim the lightweight and heavyweight titles. The Californian used reach and speed, delivering a left with a powerful finish after trading blows throughout a dramatic, orderly bout.
In a brutal bout the challenger suffered a devastating flurry of blows as the champion faltered. The crowd roared while officials halted seconds, a ring ball stopped the action, and the victor stood amid cheers while the fallen man was aided away, bloodied but conscious briefly in the corner.
A May use veterans plan discussed by the cabinet envisions forming skeleton regiments in Manila from volunteers who wish to stay in service. Gen Otis to select officers to be mustered out, creating a nucleus of experienced troops ready for future contingencies. The move aims for a unit acclimated to climate and duties, supplemented by new recruits. The cabinet did not authorize completion and other items included Canal Commission names and Alaska boundary talks.
Chicago officials report Captain P. N. Hammas of the army recruiting station received War Department orders to enlist an unlimited number of men for service in the Philippine Islands. The goal is to secure many suitable white recruits for Infantry cavalry light and heavy artillery. Enlistees to be sent to San Francisco by telegraph with updates through June 10 and continuing until further orders. Over sixty recruits have already been enlisted and sent west since Monday.
In Sioux City Iowa on June 11 fourteen year old John Wilky was dragged from bed near Steach Branch and nearly drowned in a watering trough after being accused of a crime. He sustained injuries to his hand and hanged himself the next morning. An inquest was held and the grand jury will investigate. The boy’s father is a wealthy county farmer.
The Thomas Furnace Company of Duluth Minnesota has leased for three years the docks and 120 coke ovens at West Superior, formerly Lehigh Coal and Lyons property. Seventy ovens are in repair. the rest will be repaired and 100 more built. The plant will supply coke and several hundred tons of pig iron daily for Duluth works, with no metal shipped east.
The ninetieth birthday anniversary of Col Richard W Thompson was celebrated in Yerre Haute Indiana with a banquet by the Thompson club. Notables included Congressman Landis and James A Mount as speakers. A parade preceded the event, and Thompson praised his past Republican ties amid applause. Warsaw Indiana reports a tragedy as James Walker killed his wife and then himself in a jealous act. the wife survives with recovery possible.
Dispatch from Manila dated June 16 describes Taunton’s troops advancing along the Zapote river and into Ins. Washington notes severe fighting with 10 killed and 40 wounded. American forces cross the river at the Fourteenth Infantry’s charge, later encamping across the river. About 60 Filipino dead found in trenches. many captured guns marked U. S. Navy Yard. Civilians flee to ruins as shells devastate Bacoor.
Sixty two Oregon volunteers begin voyage home from Newport aboard the Oslo and other ships bound for San Francisco via Nagasaki. The departure marks the end of a long campaign with heavy casualties. ships were cheered as they left harbor and are expected to arrive July 12.
Riot at the Cleveland and Pittsburg crossing in Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, on June 16 disrupted transit as 300 workers blocked tracks and stoned streetcars. A non union motorman J. H. Anderson was seriously injured after bricks struck him. police reinforcements dispersed the mob and cleared the tracks.
An eye witness account states Lewis Patrick, a Black man, was seized by two men and possibly eight others from a fair in Beaufort on June 18 and lynched. Patrick and another man are charged in the murder of El K Weeks at Bogue on June 5 after robbing Weeks’s store.
More than thirty persons were poisoned after eating cream at a social hosted by the Ladies Aid Society in Delton Michigan on June 16. Several victims are in serious condition.
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