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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1896
Page
2
A London gunsmith offers items tested by Roentgen rays and notes on royal Europeanwomen strength. Reports rumor of a toll syndicate, a fatal lightning strike in Liverpool, university library funding shifts, and varied global notes on emigration, mining, and water purification.
Officials at the Natural History Museum South Kensington report a letter from an American reader offering $500 for an unbroken cigar ash with the stub still burning. The money was not sent. The note mentions that 23 US colleges existed before this century, listing Harvard and others with founding years from 1630 to 1785.
Li Weng Chang faces punishment for attempting to enter the summer palace of the dowager empress without observing required formalities. The passage recalls that travelers once asked many questions in the country but lacked the proper courtesy of “by your leave.”
Fragments from ravines reveal shells and bones of extinct giant turtles. They were more than twice as large as any modern tortoise. The find supports claims of prehistoric fauna in the Hir alaya mountains region.
United States Minister Donby states the Chinese women awarded Baldwin Locomotive Works a contract for eight engines for the Imperial railway. Notable deaths include Dr Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch aged 63, oldest German university professor, and Mrs Frank Mayo in Gan ton Pa after tumor surgery. Marquis de Mer tayille of Limousis lineage continues feudal lineage. Miss Julia Jay, daughter of Col William Jay, ill at 22 Hast Severity-second street New York. she bridesmaid at the Marlborough wedding. divorce story linked to Belmont and Vanderbilt family.
A string of deadly accidents and disasters follows as 17-year-old Accidental Happentugsa and 18-year-old Grace Saylor drown in Wheaton Kansas after a boiling water mishap injures a child. A British steamer Isleworth captain drowns near Dunkhead after boatman overboard. A massive nitro glycerin explosion at John Hale’s farm near Geneva Indiana rocks the region. A hotel blaze in Manistee Michigan traps teen guests leaping to safety. A gun misfire near Oakdale and another hunting accident near Hagerstown claim lives. A Wilkes Barre mine disaster leaves six dead, twelve missing. A Montana mother fatally shoots her son during a domestic incident. Jewish Hospital fire damages Donald’s factory building in Brooklyn, with immense losses.
A series of violent incidents across Idaho Ohio and surrounding areas. G F Stenec fatally shot John A Murphy in Cataldo Idaho after an indecent proposal dispute. Ike and Ju Nan Cameron fatally cut Ollie Wes Arnold and Charles Tames in Ports mouth. Scott Anton killed William Metzler and Belle Gray then killed himself in Georgetown Ohio. Oklahoma Bill, facing trial, died by suicide. Mary Schiller of Summerville was badly injured during a burglary. Robbers wrecked Milson’s State Bank at Goldfield with a dynamite blast, no loot recovered.
Nation of Chicago man found dead in the river near the Wabash railway bridge east of Decatur Indiana, apparently thrown to hide the crime. Indian preacher H H Emmpett attempted suicide at his Springboro Pennsylvania home and is in critical condition. J W Hutchings stabbed during a meeting in Edmund county New York by Joseph Whittle, who refused to leave and is likely to die. Constable Campbell arrested Wills Smith at Shelbyville Indiana after a confrontation over voting for McKinley. Smith fatally injured the officer.
From Vordyn Shores to Peru and Belgium, a string of official moves and cultural notes unfolds. Bishops Creighton and Temple exchange posts in England. Edinburgh philosopher now visits Cornell. Bolivin considers recognizing Cuban insurgents. Chilean press seeks less crime detail. Havana fears a siege by Maximo Gomez. William Morris collects manuscripts. Eastlake previews Heroic Japan. French floods worsen as Selne river rises. Weyler receives farewell from Lee and Valencia voyage offered. Belgian painter Jan Verhins dies at 62, famed for genre scenes and child studies.
Obituary notes McClelland a Great Walls pioneer and former county treasurer. A New York judge sends two youths to reform school while two women fend off an attack by a bald eagle near Benton Harbor. Illinois builds its first hard country road at Monmouth Township with 4000 feet of brick paving. Ellis Island reports 600 Italians aboard Clive amid manifest gaps. Louisville youth O’Connor, treated for insanity, is jailed after fleeing Battle Creek. Rockover feeder survey plans shift from Sterling to Dixon with a creek route via New Bedford.
Gov Allin of Natth Dakota grants a one week reprieve for Kent the wife murderer awaiting execution. Judge McConnell, trial judge, sought clemency after extensive consideration of evidence and circumstances. Correspondence reveals plans for further deliberation and concerns over safeguards in the record.
Telegraphed messages from Judge McConnell suggest the governor faced pressure to commute Kent’s death sentence after prejudicial trial remarks. Fargo reports detail a flood of clemency appeals, while Minneapolis notes local doubt of Kent’s guilt. Kent maintains innocence as supporters press for mercy.
Mrs Walter Castle of San Francisco was released from Wormwood Scrubs on medical grounds after a clerkenwell sessions sentence for shoplifting. The home secretary ordered release to her husband, who will take her to the United States promptly. The couple spoke with an AP reporter as they left the prison, Mrs Castle appearing inconsolable and is to receive medical care.
Clara Johnson, from Toronto Junction, met Harry P. Warwick in Quincy Illinois after responding to a Chicago marriage ad. He posed as a New York life insurer, duped her into giving money, and married her at Palmyra Missouri before deserting her. She left jewelry as hotel security. Warwick used multiple aliases and led a regional scam network centered in St. Joseph Missouri.
Coxey, famed for his protest, promotes a platform demanding demonetization of gold and silver, state ownership of railroads and utilities, municipal control of streetcar lines and water works, public works employment, women’s suffrage, direct presidential election, and a national bank loan plan. He plans a St. Louis meeting January 12, 1897, with a conference in Missour...
Reports from Constantinople confirm a massacre near Katsarleh, with Everek the scene of the violence. About one hundred Armenians were killed and nearly all homes were looted in the village, making the affair more serious than initial notices suggested.
Troy XII, Y Nov 12 George TH Morrison, defaulter treasurer of Renssamer county, pleaded guilty to indictments. The total sum of his defalcation was about 240,000 dollars. He received a ten year sentence.
Travelers complain about delays and obstacles caused by the rigid laws governing bicycles on public roads in Germany. John Doe notes frequent barriers to movement for American riders amid strict traffic regulations and road conditions.
The United States and Great Britain agree to arbitration to settle the Venezuelan boundary dispute with King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway named as the fifth arbitrator. The court will sit likely in Stockholm, covering fifty years of possession as title, with four other arbitrators designated by England and the United States.
Nov 12 in New York reports John Rogers, a coachman for Richard Brandles, killed William Smith on the premises and then fatally shot himself. Earlier he attempted to kill Henry Weiss, coachman for Gustav Brandleis. No motive is known, authorities say Rogers may have been insane.
In Tacoma on November 12 Launet 8 Tucker, a painter, shot Dr. Wintermute in the body and then killed himself. Wintermute, dying, said he did not know the cause of the shooting.
A residence four miles southwest of Perrinton burned this morning. Sanly Campbell’s cousin, a nineteen year old youth, perished in the blaze. Campbell’s two children, aged two and six, escaped by jumping from a window. Local authorities report the tragedy as a fatal house fire.
Patsy Porter from Kiara City knocks out Forus of Wier City, Wan in three rounds at Galena Kansas, securing a purse victory. Porter dominates early rounds delivering decisive blows to end the bout.
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