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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1894
Page
4
Pittsburgh and Louisville host a Grand Army of the Republic encampment with a parade through Monongahela and Allegheny streets. Highlights include the crowd turnout, depots of G A R posts, and the election for commander in chief won narrowly by Col Lawler of Rockford.
A receiver for the Chicago Nickel works was sought in a sensational bill filed in Chicago. The plaint alleges I Mc Gregor Adklyns, a noted capitalist and vice president, aided stockholders in disposing of their shares fraudulently.
Washed Wut by floods cuts 300 feet of track on the Mexican National west of Benavides and 400 feet west of Rialto. All trains are tied up as flood damage disrupts service.
Madison Sept 14 Gov Peck issued writs of election to fill vacancies in the Wisconsin Senate caused by the resignations of Bam Girvad of Fond du Lac and J W Murphy of Milwaukee.
Lexington dispatch reports a bitter campaign for the Seventh district congressional nomination. Col Breckinridge led a vigorous effort, aided by women organizers despite male voters being pivotal. Owens supporters praised orderly voting while Breckinridge factions prepared for possible contest. Official results show Owens with about a 410 plurality to Breckinridge’s 160, with final counts and certification due.
The steamship Falcon, Captain Henry Bartlett, returned with the Penry expedition personnel except Lieut. Penry Hugh Lee and Matthew Pen son, who remain at Bowdoin Bay for another year to finish the expedition. A baby was born to Mrs. Penny on Sept. 12, 1893, shortly after the Falcon sailed last year. October brought fierce storms at Falcon harbor damaging the ampho Tounch suit and washing away oil supplies. Various scientific observations were conducted successfully by Mr. Baldwin.
Frank B. Berry of Rosemark Frank Tucker W Thompson and Jim Walker of Kerrville were jailed under indictment for alleged complicity in the lynching of six negroes near Millington on the night of August 31. A sixteen year old son of Hon. Alex Fidden was accidentally shot while hunting near Jackson Minnesota and not expected to live.
The snippet notes wheat prices with September and December contracts and various opening and closing figures. It also mentions a slow hog market and steady cattle demand with limited supplies and receipts mainly from western sources.
Lyman Dayton, formerly of this city, died in Aberdeen after an amputation of a crippled leg. He was about sixty, moved from Providence to this city in 1840, owning large lands in Minnesota and Aberdeen, with properties tied up in court disputes. His remains are to be sent here for interment.
An international deep waterways convention opens in Toronto tomorrow, expected to be the continent s most far reaching gathering on freight transport from Western states and Canadian provinces to the seaboard. Prominent cities including Chicago Detroit St Paul Minneapolis Cleveland Duluth and Toledo plan to send representatives as talks focus on deepening canals along the St Lawrence River to twenty feet to permit ocean vessels to Duluth and other inland ports.
In Galesville, a triple fatal street duel between J. D. Bondman editor of the People's Voice and B. G. Armstrong editor of the Slax ends with Bondman and Armstrong killed. A bystander, J. C. Beaman, fatally wounded. Victims were prominent local figures and the feud stemmed from a prior news controversy.
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