Emmetto Republican Jenkins and Nichols in race
Readable text notes Emmetto Republican Jenkins and Nichols in a local political contest with names presented. No further details available in fragments.
23 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1899
Page
1
Readable text notes Emmetto Republican Jenkins and Nichols in a local political contest with names presented. No further details available in fragments.
Bradstreets notes a revived spring trade despite a cold wave and heavy snow. Reports of crop damage in the South and West, livestock losses near one percent, and wheat and corn shipments showing modest declines amid adverse weather.
The Canadisen American High Commission proposes a permanent arbitration board to settle disputes arising from cross border shipping and transportation between the United States and Canada. One member would be named by Great Britain, one by the United States, with a neutral third member possible. The tribunal would be limited to commercial questions and operate like a permanent interstate commission.
A major blaze on Market Street below Thirteenth destroyed three six story business buildings and multiple rear structures, with losses near 400000 dollars. Near Wannamaker's department store the damage was minor. The Emerson Ship Company building collapsed a wall amid firefighting, killing William Chance Hugh Duffy George Stinle and injuring five others.
Fresno California Raisin Growers Association issues address to all in the state in the combine. Mass meeting planned for March 1. Directors to resign, conceding this year’s combine failure. All contracts to be canceled. Only about a third of units secured. less hope for more.
The Siberian Government orders further measures to verify a report that the bodies of Herr Andree and two companions were found on the Timur peninsula. Several search parties are active. officials doubt the report but vow diligent investigation and no further news has been received.
The Senate on Saturday adopted a resolution directing the Vice President as president of the Senate to convey the sympathy of the Senate and the American people to the government and people of France in the bereavement following the death of President Puure.
The report favors passage of a resolution supporting the enlistment of Illinois volunteers from home stations to muster with U S service. Sprague in Gibraltar cabled the War Department that the transport with 1300 reinforcements for Gen Otis at Manila has sailed for Port Said. All aboard are well. In Chicago Robert Howard, colored, was hanged for complicity in the murder of F C Metcalf last November for robbery.
The Senate committee on appropriations raised the postoffice appropriation to 105 million six hundred thirty three thousand six hundred thirty four dollars, adding 883 thousand seven hundred thirty eight, and required bidders for star route contracts to reside near the routes. Galesburg Votes Against Saloons In Tuesday Ballot Galesburg residents narrowly rejected saloon licensing by a 22 vote margin.
Washington report notes a dramatic Thursday House debate on a 20 million dollar Spain payment under the peace treaty. A Kentucky Democrat Wheeler blocked the paragraph by rule Zi arguing the treaty not yet law without further ratifications. Other members cited Supreme Court decisions while arguing the treaty may be law if ratified.
Dramatic court scene as Prof. George H. Stephens confronts charges of burning Pardee Hall Lafayette College. Defense offers a confessing statement the day after class but pins responsibility on College President Warfield amid tense testimony and sharp cross examinations.
Fragmented OCR reports Faure dying during a reparration mishap and a late dispatch notes confusion in leadership. It claims Duar and Bebussee figures and mentions Carrer orders amid Belgian involvement.
Work on the new battleship Mavne began on the anniversary of the Cereal Peaples on a public ceremony. Shipyard officials and local leaders attended the event marking progress in the defense project amid wartime mobilization.
A fragmented report details legislative wrangling over a Nicaraguan canal measure. It notes party divide in committee, chairmanship actions, and hopes for or against quick passage amid procedural maneuvers and attacks on the bill’s fate.
The article reports Britain initiating a warship voyage to Polivia to safeguard property and lives of British residents amid a revolution. It lists chaotic dispatches, commodity price lines, and January export totals showing a large trade deficit, with multiple raw price quotes for grains, cattle, and pork across U.S. markets.
Fraser news reports a violent clash between men and a woman wounded in a street battle sparked by miners and locals. A man shot at a house, another wounded in the elbow, and fires during the melee left several neighbors injured as authorities fear further violence. The tale widens with tragedies including a Clinton fire death and a train wreck near Dyersville.
A fire at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday night damaged the largest machine shops in the country, valued at between 81,000,000 and 32,000,000, with 1,000 workers affected. The blaze, tied to the Maine anniversary, consumed plans, models, and patterns for war vessels, hindering repair work until replacements arrive. An inquiry will be held.
Reported uproar in Nebraska over sale of Union Pacific lands amid claims of fraud and government interference. Regulators consider forfeiture actions as the company allegedly seeks to buy land and defy authorities. Also brief dispatches note strikes in Choctaw and Indian Territory mines, an East Tennessee earthquake, a fire at Thomas Building and Lumber Company, and other scattered incidents across Ohio and Tennessee.
Washington announces prohibition of sale of malt or alcoholic spirits on ships and within naval limits except in medical department. Secretary Lovett says the ship canteen is a thing of the past amid a broader reform of naval facilities.
Galena Kansas reports ore prices breaking records with vine ore selling at 47 to 50 dollars a ton in Galena Joplin and Webb City. Six months earlier prices ranged from 20 to 24 dollars a ton.
The Equal Suffrage Society in Des Moines chose delegates to attend the national convention in Grand Rapids Michigan from April 27 to May 4. Appointees include Adelaide Ballard Hull Rema Woods Sutherland Mary Enslie Mason City M Pardy Peck Davenport Emma Van Vetchen Cedar Rapids C E Dixon Cherokee Laura Colgrove West Waterloo M J Coggeshall Des Moines Isabelle Large Dubuque Clara Ritchey Des Moines Ide Light Taylor Des Moines Hannah Lecompte Corydon W H Trummer Chariton Alice Priest Shenandoah Louise B H Field Keokuk Alice M Ainsworth Onawa M L Romans Denison Evelyn St Belden Sioux City. Town field workers named are Clara Quitehey Adelaide Ballard Martin Callanan and Lena Morrow Freeport Illinois. Resolutions favored the national organization stance against Roberts of Utah and opposed the Hawaiian constitution wording.
Graft, the Colby Bros. theft suspect captured in Minnesota after a pursuit, was shot by Jailer Al Flint while resisting an attempted jail escape. Flint fired as Graft pushed toward the door. the ball struck the right breast area but did not lodge. Two Burlinton Cedar Rapids trains collided head on, wrecking engines and cars. brakeman Bert Majors was crushed beneath wreckage, others injured.
Residents near Dunlap react with indignation as a mob begins to ferret out suspects after a deadly arson and wife-abuse incident. James Holihan allegedly drove his wife from home in near freezing weather eight miles west, leaving her frozen and ill. Meanwhile at Webster City, crooks broke into Kamvar creamery, releasing $72 cream and wasting butter and machinery, with other costly depredations.
Hoisting works at the Deep Well Coal Company in Foster caught fire from an unknown cause and were destroyed. Restoration will take 30 to 60 days before mine operations can resume. Hard work saved adjacent buildings. damage regarded as not great.
A young married man, son of M. L. Curl, was accidentally shot near Defiance in Shelby County. His 18 year old brother, handling a revolver carelessly, fired the shot that lodged in the man's liver.
A special train carrying about sixty friends of the late Frank Bailey, the Sinois Central brake man killed in an accident, left Fort for Storm Lake where his funeral was held. Superintendent C K Dixon ordered the free trip for Bailey’s friends as a mark of kindness.
A fragile measles outbreak at the Home for Feeble Minded in Glenwood prompted strict controls. About two hundred residents received up to date vaccines and medical staff moved to contain the illness, with officials reporting steady progress despite ongoing concerns.
A Fort Dodge residence owned by J C Bunger burned in the early hours. A detective flue caused the fire and frozen water pipes prevented firefighting. The family fled in their night clothes, seeking refuge at a neighbor’s as temperatures stood thirty five degrees below zero.
A new banking concern named Te Securis Saying Banner Vagie Grove filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State.
The general debate on the sundry civil bill continued as Senate and House factions clashed over the Nicaragua canal bill and ship subsidy. Measures passed included reimbursements for governors in the Spanish American War and several bridge bills. A blizzard halted House business and the session adjourned after voting on the Sunday civil bill and a naval academy cadet admission.
The annual army appropriation bill totals eighty million dollars this year. General Brooke favors shifting tax collection in Cuba away from the Bank of Havana. The New Hampshire Legislature bans dissection of honorably discharged U S soldiers and sailors. Peter Holt of Dickinson County Tennessee was shot in his yard from ambush, a shotgun blast fatally wounding him.
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