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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1895
Page
1
A jumble of short items covers UVa students aiding Indiana Tuoney after a fire, a Portland boarding-house mislaid address, Jamaica’s Life Tree resilience, a Chicago professor on Ophinicus, Nellie Bly’s matrimonial exile, Rhode Island road laws, and Cuba politics. Also mentions Dunraven, Irish extension studies for working women, Alaska coal prospects near Juneau, and curious antique fashions.
A sprawling foreign and domestic digest reports on diplomatic postings to Washington Coren, the death of a minister on leave, and dispatches about Interior department matters. It records fires, accidents, and deaths across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, noting political changes, scientific notes, and casualities with a neutral tone.
Criminial J W Collett was arrested in Columbus Ohio for causing the death of Young Guerin during a saloon wrestling match. Collett claims his home is in Chicago. In Georgia a mob lynched Lewis Jefferson at Homeraville after an attempted assault on Miss Fobal. his body was riddled with bullets.
Judge Nelson rules for the Meehans in a reservation dispute involving Monsi-Mah. Streeter & Brimmer’s Watertown clothing house fails. Ward & Logan of Newburgh assign to M. H. Hirenberg. Polish attorney Henry Du Lawrence expects 400 Poles in Cleveland by Nov 25 to join Cuban insurgents. A Cuba relief meeting led by Charley A. Dann is planned. Daughters of Cuba to hold a fund-raiser at Masonic Temple for wounded soldiers. Robert J. Leland named receiver of Patrons’ Mutual Fire Insurance in Worcester. Garment workers seek an eight hour day across United Garment Workers of America affiliates. Wort Tex packing plant reopens under Chicago management, hiring 200 with plans to grow.
Supreme Court decision on Hayward conviction with Chief Justice Start dissents on admission of Mrs Hazeltons testimony as original evidence. Attorneys for the defense enjoy ten days to seek reargument, potentially delaying execution into January as legal steps loop back through district court and governor. Jailer West informs Hayward of the ruling amid heightened guard plans and discovery of four $100 bills tied to the case.
In a fatal wreck near Rome, two youths John Hildreth and Frederick Bristol confessed to aiding the damage by removing fish-plates to steal from mail cars. The crash killed engineer Nager and injured survivors. authorities arrest Hildreth with Herbert Pinto and Theodore Hibbard named as accomplices. Delia Perry testified, recounting Hildreth’s admission and plans to contact his father.
The wedding of New York artist O D Gibson to Virginia belle Irene Langhorne has drawn wide attention. Langhorne is described as a striking beauty with a stately figure blue eyes and golden hair, noted for her poise and color.
A Southern woman of social prominence, famed as an actress in amateur circles, is linked with Mr. Gibson after meeting at New York's Patriarch's ball amid speculation about her as the "Gibson woman." Her Virginia-born parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chiswell D. Longhorne, figure in high society. The Gazette notes cholera in Petersburg on November 21 and reports a Dallas fire that destroyed a 200 by 50 foot three story building housing the Taxna Papoo and Deerleg Harvesting companies, with an estimated loss of 125000.
In Chicago on November 21 M. J. O'Brien, a new loonkeeper, shot and murdered his wife after repeated jealous quarrels. He was arrested following the incident.
A nostalgic reminiscence of family gatherings with old fashioned games. Queen Dido’s Dead and Simon Says are played in a circle guiding lively forfeits. Variations include The Thanksgiving Turkey and Monthsgiving Feast with food themed clues and antics.
An odd narrative fragment recalls the New Woman courting a balladed man and debating divorce as a dramatic plot turns, with a sharp exclamation about independence and an unsettling self-embarrassment ending in a violent kick.
A physician in a strange exchange questions a clergyman about salvation and hell. The doctor quips that their mission is to keep the soul out of hell and heaven, reflecting a blunt view on morality and afterlife in the Life anecdote.
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