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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1894
Page
5
A long dispatch lists numerous accidents murders arrests and political events across the United States and abroad. It notes drownings shipyard deaths and explosions, court actions, fires, railway incidents, robberies, and international developments including Britain Russia Italy and France. Names places and dates appear with varying clarity, highlighting a turbulent nationwide and global scene.
Redoubt era ceremony marks dedication of the Birch Coulie monument by the State of Minnesota at Morton. Gov Nelson and officials attend with Gen H B Grant and Bishop Whipple. Guests travel by special train to the opera house for welcome remarks, then dine and tour key battle sites along the Minnesota valley.
St Paul September 4 Arrangements by a committee of Supt Pendergast Andrew Ross and William T Shaw for a meeting of alumni and former students at the state fair grounds during the farm ers institute on September 13 Papers listed include Farm Chemistry Dairy Calves Minnesota Agriculture Spaying Told Experiments The reviews by professors will run through the day and into Friday evening with topics assigned to Hays Green Shaw Haveker Reynolds Andrew Ross and others.
A dated letter from Rhineclift on Hudson dated Aug 1904 shows Morton Baricis 18 willing to decline seeking a New York Republican convention nomination. He states he will support the convention winner, prefers retirement, and promises loyal backing if another name is chosen. He stresses service, belief in governor’s office, and unity.
Reports from Dinwator Defalis near San Antonio describe a flood that washed away a seventy five family settlement below Waldo, with fears all drowned. Three Mexicans and six others drown in Uvalde flood. Thirty miles of Southern Pacific line and many bridges are washed out. In Dyalde the Leona flyer flood submerged and wrecked homes, endangering families near the ditch south of town. A rumbling earth disturbance and cracks along the Leona river are noted as warnings.
Forest fires sweep the Puget Sound country threatening timber and rail lines. Northern Pacific crews defend the Stampede tunnel as two engines run to shield snow sheds and nearby property. A ten-man St Pat and Canton Smaber company fire force battles the blaze as smoke darkens the sky for days, with sun partly visible at noon.
The Government’s first nationwide study shows 12,600,152 families with about 40 percent owning farms and homes. Of owning families 28 percent have encumbrances. urban areas show New York leading in home tenantry at 93 percent, while non urban areas see 44 percent owner occupancy with 66 percent hiring. Values total over five trillion dollars with encumbrances exceeding two trillion.
An English syndicate led by Frank Butterworth of Chicago has agreed to buy all ripe and pulp mills in Wisconsin, totaling 34 mills on the Fox River, for 14 million dollars. Transfer planned March 1 with half cash and half bonds secured by mortgage. If finalized, this would be the Northwest’s largest manufacturing transfer.
Washington August 3 The supreme officers of Knights of Pythian elected to serve until the next general conclave. The slate includes Supreme Chancellor Walter B. Ritchie Ohio Supreme Vice Chancellor Pulp Colgrove Michigan Supreme Prelate Albert Siebhart Alabama Master of Exchequer Thomas G. Sample Pennsylvania Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal R. L. White Tennessee Supreme Minister of Arms A. B. Gardiner New York Supreme Inner Guard James Mounton New Brunswick Supreme Outer Marshal John W. Thompson Washington D C President Board of Control John A. Hinszey Chicago The prize drill was conducted today.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin on August 31 Abijah Moon, a released jailbird, was shot dead after a chase with deputy sheriffs following a burglary at James Hays home where about $200 worth of silverware vanished. Taylor led officers to a riverbank hiding place. Moon escaped briefly before being found near Elva and killed in a resulting confrontation.
In Milwaukee on August 31 a mob seized control of the smallpox district for nearly 48 hours. Health officials disappeared, the police stood back, and residents, mostly armed women, roamed quarantined houses as fear and lawlessness spread. State health secretary predicts 8000 deaths this winter. district not quarantined.
August 81 reports an explosion at Knudson and Thorson threshing in Stony Brook Grant County Minnesota. Engineer Hans Knudson aged 36 died instantly. supervisor Koute Hanson 62 fired nearby and died later after his head was shaved and brains scattered. Injured, Tollof Anderson 36 died four hours after being struck by a boiler fragment. Hans Horgon 28, an owner, was near the water tank and badly hurt. Cause unknown. several men near the boiler were hurled by blast with debris carried long distances.
From San Francisco August 31 The steamer Mariposa reports action by British and German ships at Apia Samoa to quell native disturbances. Skirmishes near La Titania left eight to ten natives dead and many wounded as forces shell rebel fortifications. Rebels reportedly surrender after gunboats resume fire.
Danny Edne Winslow, wife of Herbert Hall Winslow, seeks to overturn a divorce granted by Judge South and appeal to the supreme court while Abraham Korn, Brooklyn health inspector, petitions for divorce from Jilin Korn on desertion. Both cases involve cross filings in South Dakota and New York courts, with priority of jurisdiction in dispute.
American pilgrims to the Shine of Lourd arrived this morning from Paris and will spend two days in the city viewing the Eighth. The portion that left New York by Noordland on July 18 will sail for home tomorrow. The remaining pilgrims will visit Antwerp before departing on Wednesday.
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