22 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
1
A collage of aphorisms on life, work, and society appears, alongside notes on progress in electricity and road building. The piece cites Sagasta on Spain, New York anti-swearing defeat, and Bradstreet's statistics showing U S electrical investments rising from under a million to about 1.9 billion.
A leading English paper contends the United States is not a nation. It further describes the states as an aggroupment fortuitous and colossal on a semicontinent of vast wealth, lacking roots traditions or resistances, yet thriving beyond measure as elementary organisms.
A weekly telegraph digest traces events from Washington including the net gold reserve at 228,823,887 dollars and McKinley’s Western tour plans. It notes possible ambassadorial move for Lodge, free port duty relief for starving regions, and recruiting officer deployment. Reports cover Sherman’s critique of the War Department, postal clerks’ reclassification aims, and US petroleum output for 1897 at 60,508,081 barrels. Also tallies casualties from Arctic whaling, storms in Missouri and Indiana, a fatal fire near Caserta, Empress Frederick’s injury, and a Stockton chemist death from benzo gas.
A wide array of brief notices reports illness and deaths of public figures including Gov Mount of Indiana and Prof Deitrich. Episcopal bishop elect Thomas Green of Cedar Rapids. Justice White declines peace commission service with Senator Gray possibly joining. Naval leaders Schley Gordon and Brooke arrive at San Juan for talks. Brooklyn’s Thomas Donnelly heads National Association of Postoffice Clerks. Prof Koch studies malaria in Milan hospital plans months in Italy. Marechale de MacMahon near death at Chateau de Calron. Heraldry authority George Marezioni dead in Hungary. D G Rossetti nearly chose telegraph clerk fate, J S Stranahan dies at Saratoga. Wyatt Randall elected science master at Lawrenceville. Col J J Van Horn of 8th US Infantry died in Wyoming, may have become brigadier general.
Corbett confirms a fight with McCoy set for October 15. Adamson of Chicago defeats M. Dwyer of Hancock in a Panorama building contest. Dunkhorst vs Gus Rhulin is signed for twenty rounds at Coney Island. Otto Bielo defeats Black Griffo in twenty rounds in New York. Dobbs stops Kid Robinson in Louisville to claim the light weight world title momentarily. Bald’s vast cash hoard and betting prowess are highlighted with rumored bets and election gains.
Reports claim a Kingston movement aims to gain admission to Canada. News notes Lieut. Gen. John Duncan dies in Poona and Crete garrison movements proceed. Paris hints at Esterhazy case and Treut du Clam arrest. European and imperial news include Britain leasing Lorenzo Hueques and royal hunting plans in Roumania. Sir John Bramston and Sir Elphinstone head to St John’s to review Newfoundland treaty rights.
Souvenir gifts from the Bristol trade union congress reach American delegates in a cultural exchange. U S consul in Kobe aids arrests of sailors Brady and Hine over suspicions tied to a ship fire. Politician W G McDonald is fatally shot near Taloga Oklahoma after years of disputes. Ell Kelly of Mallita Ohio dies defending Mrs Schoenfeldt from her late husband. Ella Williams shoots Hilal Lawrence in Newcastle Pennsylvania. both were celebrants at Labor Day. she is jailed. Mexican elites in Mexico City lean toward annexation expectations. Masked robbers torture James Bidwell and wife in New Hamburg Pennsylvania seeking a hidden fortune. Bidwell severely injured. Bodies of Matilda Mullins and Isaac Mullins found at Baker Fork. double murder unsolved amid historic feuds. Third infantry returns to Fort Snelling. National Editorial assoc meets in Denver. Bank of Sonolo shows recovery signs. Gen Pando praises Shafter over Santiago. Second Kentucky regiment to be mustered out from Anniston to Lexington. Three yellow fever cases in Franklin Louisiana and Taylor Mississippi. Chicago & Eastern Illinois declares 1 12 percent dividend payable Oct 1. Memphis health board imposes strict yellow fever quarantine nationwide. Mills family wells yield about 100 dollars daily on Senator Roger Q Mills farm. Mills may pursue wealth. Elkhart structural ajnthit P Delehanty severely injured in Hognebure bridge collapse.
Washington reports indicate President open to conviction on the Philippine policy after Cabinet discussion. Secretary Long returns to brief on peace commission instructions as the Campania crew sails Friday. Officials fear leakage about plans while stressing Otis’s diplomatic military role and continued suspension of hostilities with insurgents.
Miss M. L. De Rochared a French girl is jailed at Harrison Street station after hiding under a Fair store counter and stealing 800 dollars worth of silk. She planned to take more at opening but was disturbed by two watchmen. Reported as well educated with a Paris merchant father funding a lavish lifestyle.
Lexington Kentucky September 15 thirty three nurses deserted from the division hospital on Monday night and did not report in the morning. They were privates detailed from various regiments and returned to their regiments. They will be put under arrest as deserters and tried by court martial. Emperor William to attend funeral of the late empress in Vienna.
Crowds in St Paul bid farewell as Minnesota's newest unit the fifteenth marches to Camp Meade en route to Cuba. Spectators cheer as trains pull away, joining memories of earlier regiments like the Twelfth Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Families and curious onlookers fill the depot area, sharing farewells and handshakes with soldiers in blue.
Thousands cheer as the Third Minnesota veterans arrive at St Paul depot after Cuba service. A citizens committee greets each man with badges, lunch, and hot coffee, while ladies adorn uniforms and express gratitude for the homecoming.
In San Juan Porto Rico on September 17 the United States Porto Rican evacuation commission reports rapid progress with two sessions held yesterday. Both sides express satisfaction and plan to publish deliberations. A circulating report of a $7,000,000 payment for fortifications is denied as preposterous. The steamer Yucatan arrived from Ponce carrying Prof. A and the commission stenographers and staff. she will sail to Santiago after returning to Ponce.
Washington Sept. 17 The war department will soon decide how many general officers of the volunteer army should be mustered out after the force was cut. Regimental officers have left service but all general officers remain. Reorganization will base on fewer regiments and assign corps and division leaders before mustering out about half the generals.
Madrid reports the queen regent presided over cabinet talks as Sagasta says no reply from Washington on repatriation. Manila sources claim one third of Aguinaldo’s prisoners died from bad treatment. Peace commissioners to be appointed today.
President Melitoley hosted a private dinner in the White House for the Spanish-American peace commissioners visiting Washington. Cabinet members and other officials, long involved in war questions, attended in a formal setting.
Victoria will arbitrate the Chile Argentina boundary dispute with Queen Victoria as arbiter. The Agentina minister in Paris announced the boundary issue will be referred to the British sovereign for decision.
The Hurricane's victims in St Vincent, British West Indies, see official reports narrowing death tolls after initial estimates. Early counts of 300 missing lives are now believed to be greatly overstated, with exact figures still unavailable.
Washington reports say the cabinet met in special session to confirm the peace commissioners have been fully instructed, while declining to reveal the nature of those instructions to avoid arming Spanish negotiators. The five trusted appointees will proceed to Paris with access to cable consultations, meeting Gen Merritt and Admiral Dewey for context on the Philippine question. The Campania sails Saturday at 2 PM with all staff on board. Secretary Day states there can be no deviation from U S demands in negotiations.
Dispatches from Seoul report Corea King and crown Prince taken ill after a Sunday accession. Authorities suspect poisoning but rule out certainty. A lodgeholder woman is named as possible poisoner though motives remain unclear.
The National Colored Baptists association at its annual convention in Cuban, Missouri, Sept 17, decided to enter the missionary field in Cuba immediately. It was agreed to appoint two members and send the church to Cuba before year’s end, following President C Morris of Arkansas.
Secretary Wakfield announces that the exposition debt has been paid and the treasury shows about $15,000 remaining. The update signals a closing fiscal status with a small surplus in the final treasury.
Private Albert Kekdahl of Troop H Cal Grigaby's Rough Riders died after being struck by an electric car in Chicago. He had just alighted from an east bound car when another car moving opposite direction struck him. He died shortly after the incident.
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