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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
1
A miscellany notes auctions of British army uniforms raising funds, Mexican literacy stats, France wine yields, Transvaal politics, Beaconsfield memoirs delay, a new hybrid fruit, and gas from trees. It sketches diverse topics without a single coherent story.
Work has begun in Baltimore on a silver service for Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, to be made from coin seized on the Spanish cruiser Christobal Colon. The set includes eighteen dimer Diates, a gravy boat, laile, four vegetable dighes, a game platter, ing uish platter, an entree platter and a soup tureen, totaling about 2000 ounces and costing $7,999 to $9,000. Meanwhile in Java Dr Dubois unearthed fossil remains prompting Professor Haeckel to visit and study a possible intermediate species between apes and humans.
Collectors chase limited sets as 1892 die error shields bullion wagons from normal minting. A $1.25 piece fetches $12.50 while an extraordinary crown reaches $50. Each half sovereign and lower pieces were struck for orientation before the error was found. Transvaal stamps overprinted to $1,500,000 value may trigger a rating shift, per Pretoria official.
Rev. A. W. Mann, a deaf mute missionary and expert penman, has spent twenty five years visiting deaf mute churches at home and abroad. He communicates with reporters by writing questions on paper while Mann reads them inverted and then writes the answers upside down without moving the pad.
It costs about 47000 dollars yearly to maintain Moody educational enterprises beyond hymn book royalties and tuition income. Tuition is kept low to aid students forced by finances, even as many from affluent families are denied admission. This year the endowment fund receipts are growing slowly but steadily, with the deficit largely covered.
A massive cyclone struck Biwabik Minnesota late Saturday afternoon, tearing a 160 foot wide path over a quarter mile long. Nine people died including an entire family, with many injured. Property losses reach about 75000 dollars as shaft houses and mine facilities were wrecked. Rescue teams aided survivors while wreckage scattered across the Austrian district and surrounding countryside.
New Richmond Wisconsin saw the first snow flurries following weeks of rain. A severe hail storm damaged plate glass, awnings, and signs in the business district as cold winds from the northwest pushed temperatures down.
In broad daylight two masked men robbed a Sioux City gambling house on October 9. They forced the manager and three others to the wall, took all available cash exceeding $000, then locked the victims in a back room and escaped.
Armour & Co of Chicago plans a huge ice house at Round Lake Illinois this fall with a budget around $500000. Site grading on the lake's south bank is finished. Round Lake lies on the S J Paul railroad's Fox Lake extension about forty miles from Chicago.
Brenham Texas October 9 King Howard was hanged here for the murder of his wife and Juke Taylor in a jealous fit on March 4 last. The trial and execution followed his conviction for the killings.
Washington October 9 May 7. M B H Kendrick of the Seventh Infantry has been placed on the retired list on his own application after more than forty years of service.
An imperial decree in nine leaders is issued by Emperor Kwong Su denouncing the Boxer movement in Pekin and Shangshi. Princes and nobles face removal from office and trial. Tuan to be tried by the board of clang. Li Hung Chang departs for Pekin. German force clashes near Tien-tsin.
Philadelphia reports President Mitchell may call a United Mine Workers convention to decide on the proposed wage increase. A Hazleton conference of officials yielded no date for the gathering, with committees to meet operators to gauge permanency and distribution of raise. Sheriff Harvey warns strikers to halt marches or face consequences, while Mitchell pledges peace efforts.
Telegraphic reports from Tampico describe the Panuen and Tamas rivers in Tampico Mexico rising to record levels. Floodwaters wash away hundreds of houses near Chile station on the Mexican Central line and uproot crops across southern and eastern San Luis Potosi. Drownings are reported as all river tributaries flood out of banks.
Special commissioners appointed by the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras have amicably concluded their long disputed boundary work.
Lord Roberts of the Daily News reports he will leave South Africa in the last week of October as part of colonial troop movements. Authorities will not reveal the exact number of troops designated as the queen's guests, stating a figure of 600.
The dead body of Lawson Harwood, twenty, with a crushed skull, was found in the Ohio river three miles below Gallipolis. Edward Burnett, last seen with Harwood, was arrested.
State Department staff were notified that civil service rules protect them from required political contributions or service. Under Secretary Hay's direction, Chief Clerk Michael conveyed that no obligation or discrimination will arise from refusal to subscribe or contribute. The notice cites the Civil Service Act and a warning from the Civil Service Commission president.
Chen Yoursey trial in Georgetown Kentucky progresses with key witnesses James Todd Frank Johnson J B Matthews Louis Smith and Wade Watts giving circumstantial testimony against Yoursey. Attorneys claim to undermine any presumption of involvement while further witnesses Oaton Goldman and others are set to testify on steel bullets and a key received from John Powers.
Bloodshed followed Chauncey Deepow and a three mile escort of Republican marching clubs in Chicago on October 10. An organized band concealed in a dark alley charged the rear of the line near Sedgewick Street and Chicago Avenue. The rioters were repulsed, leaving three or four Republicans injured.
A new society called the Knights of the Antilles is rapidly forming in Key West Florida. Its aims are guarded and include freedom for Cuba. The order has reportedly caused alarm in the West Indies and is said to be spreading among Cuban communities in Florida.
Oct. 10 Philadelphia Former General Superintendent I A Swiegard of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway was arraigned by U S Commissioner Bell on a Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen complaint alleging violation of the federal prohibition on discharging workers for union membership. He waived a hearing and posted nominal bail for trial. Founders Day speakers Wu Ting Fang and Christopher Magee announced for Nov 1 at Carnegie Institute Pittsburg. Wu to speak on educational matters in native costume.
Telegraphers in Seaston St Louis met in a special session yesterday over differences between W W Powell president and H D Perham secretary treasurer. Charges of misuse of funds are involved and the meeting may develop a tension.
Washington report states the census bureau confirms Delaware population at 184,735 in 1900, up 16,242 from 1880, a 96 percent rise. District of Columbia reaches 278,718, up 48,026 from ten years earlier, a 20.9 percent gain.
A heavy wreck on the Erie Wyoming Valley line left General Superintendent Sydney Williams of the Pennsylvania Coal company seriously injured and possibly fatally, after a yard engine collided with a large special car. Engineer R. W. Winter-Blein sustained minor injuries.
In Louisville Kentucky last night Oscar Gardner pressured Dave Sullivan over fourteen rounds of a scheduled twenty. Gardner refused to continue in the fourteenth claiming a foul, which the referee did not permit. Sullivan was awarded the decision.
James Fitzhare, known as Skin the Goat, was rearrested in Liverpool on October 10 after failing to report to his prison release terms. He is likely to be held temporarily while authorities investigate the breach.
Five thousand pilgrims gathered at the St Nikander monastery for a religious festival when an upper floor collapsed, killing four men and thirty six women in St. Petersburg on October 10.
Ottawa Ont Oct 10 4 special order in council was passed dissolving the dominion parliament. Nominations will take place on Oct 31 and the election on Nov 1.
Wheat and corn prices across St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago show mixed moves with No 1 hard wheat around 10 dollars at Duluth and cash bids in Chicago for No 2 red at about 77 to 78 cents. Cattle hog and sheep prices vary by region with good to prime steers near five and a half dollars and hogs around five to six dollars per hundredweight.
President Mitchell issued a call for a miners convention in Scranton to decide on the operators offer of a 10 percent wage rise. Representation is one delegate per 110 on strike, with plans for parades and mass meetings in Shamokin and Scranton as the strike enters its third week. Mitchell is expected to attend and speak, signaling potential early settlement.
Annapolis Oct 10 A general court martial will convene today to try naval cadets now under arrest and others implicated for hazing. The penalty, if convicted, is dismissal from service.
Postmaster William Goodwin of Attic Oregon County Missouri was arrested yesterday on a charge of rifling registered mail. He is held to await trial in the federal court at St Louis.
A dispatch from Aingun Ku states Li Hung Chang’s orders punish Boxer forces in the Gho chan district with leaders beheaded and eighteen villages to be destroyed. The emperor is said to be in good health while Chaffee and Wilson stay in Pekin. Russians are aiding railway repairs and securing the line to Tian-tain.
Dawn dispatch from London says Ying Nieh, cashiered alongside Prince Tuan, is already reappointed to a high post. China continues intensive armament production and fortifications while Hankow viceroy Chang Chit Tung is ordered to speed up completing the Hanyang arsenal.
A Paris dispatch reports all powers except Great Britain favor Debasge proposals to settle the Chinese crisis. Lord Salisbury has not replied, seeking information from Sir Claude MacDonald. French troops reportedly hold Kechio on the Lu fan railway while Russians and Germans secure Tang Form and Lo Shai Kai Ping mines. Five thousand Triads defeat imperial troops between Mira Bay and Deep Bay, moving south. Imperial court en route to Lingan, plan to set up there. chances of Pekin return fading after a week of effort.
Chicago prosecutors charge three men with conspiracy tied to murder suspicions in an elaborate life insurance plot. Marie Defenbach, the alleged victim, died as the plan progressed with forged deaths and multiple policies totaling 12,000 dollars from New York Life, Canadian Order of Foresters, and Knights and Ladies of Honor.
Washington October 10 Secretary Root, who has lately been at his Long Island home, is expected to return to his desk tomorrow. He is reported to be in improved health after recent illness and will resume duties promptly.
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