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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1899
Page
2
The Graettinger Iowa publisher CG Richardson announces a local newspaper edition headed by W Richardson. The brief item catalogs the Graettinger Times as the town’s publishing outlet with attention to regional news and community notices.
A funnel shaped cloud struck south of Salix sixteen miles south of Sioux City on a Sunday afternoon, destroying farms and killing John Malloy, Kate Malloy, and their 16 year old son Harry. Nine Malloy children and relatives were injured with Bessie Malloy in critical condition and others sustaining serious injuries. The storm also damaged nearby homes, barns, and crops as Conductor J N Pollock halted a freight train to survey the wreckage.
At daybreak a force of 4 500 Americans under Tawton Wheaton and Oversiiing moved from San Pedro Macati sweeping the country between Manila Bay and Bay Lake south of the city. By noon the area was cleared nearly to Paranaque and the town occupied Sunday. Casualties were two officers killed and twenty one soldiers wounded. Rebels offered strong resistance at their main positions and left fifty dead in the trenches with many more wounded. Lawton’s force included two battalions of Twenty first and Ninth Infantry, six companies of Coloradoans, and artillery. Wheaton led the Nevada Cavalry, Ovenshine the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Infantry, Fourth Cavalry and light artillery. A separate report notes a schooner wrecked off Burnegat and presumed drowned crew. Cadets at West Point included George Mason Lee and Dinsmore, found deficient and discharged.
Fragmentary telegram from Admiral Kautz at San Francisco indicates plans to depart June 1 and reach San Francisco by June 10, with unclear destinations in Honolulu and Via San. Francisco.
The cabinet on Friday discussed enlisting volunteers for service in the Philippines and re enlisting skeleton regiments in Manila from volunteers who wish to remain in service. Officers would be drawn from volunteer corps mustered out to form a veteran nucleus. The plan, tied to future contingencies, did not advance to action. The attorney general cited the army reorganization bill setting 65,000 as the total, noting the hospital corps would not rise, leaving enlisted strength able to reach that figure.
Reports carried by the steamer Laurada arriving in Seattle from Southeastern Alaska recount numerous deaths among prospectors on the Edmonton trail to the Yukon. There are claims of fifty drowned at Great Slave Lake, twenty perished in Mud and Laird Rivers rapids, ten froze to death, twenty-five died of scurvy, and bodies of others exposed have been recovered. The Hudson Bay Company planned a relief party to Disease Lake with vegetables for the scurvy patients before Laurada sailed.
Far eastern press reports a large shipment of war stores and rails and about 2000 paid volunteers reaching Port Arthur. They are intended to guard the Manchurian section of the Siberian Railroad. The Russian garrison in the far East now totals nearly 40000 men.
Favorable reports reach Gen Otis in Manila about Lieut Gilmore and fourteen Yorktown sailors captured April 12 near Batar by Filipinos. The prisoners are reported as well and receiving fair treatment.
Manila reports say insurgent leader Aguinaldo has dissolved the Filipino Congress and proclaimed himself dictator. In Mt. Vernon, Edward Ware, a farmer, was shot and killed by his nephew Arthur Davenport while Davenport was en route to serve a subpoena on Mrs. Ware. Ware had recently separated from his wife.
A Voledo Ohio special reports the elm tree at Fort Meigs, famed in William Henry Harrison’s campaign, has fallen and the historic site is no longer marked. The tree was connected to the Navarre scout incident where Indian sharpshooters were engaged and attackers defeated. Efforts will seek to mark the tree’s former location.
The farewell manifesto of Gen. Maximo Gomez has drawn little comment from Ma rana papers and failed to stir public sentiment. Critics mainly question the document's authenticity as a genuine farewell.
Joseph Povelick a Polish immigrant fatally shot his boarding mistress Mrs Mary Smosti in Pittsburg Pennsylvania after she demanded overdue board money. He then killed himself and later was found on a river bank with a self inflicted gunshot wound.
John J. Lalor a translator in the mint directorate fell from the second floor of the Treasury Department shaft to the basement while the stairway surrounded it. He escaped fatal injuries, according to reports from Washington. Denmark’s finance minister told farmers a commission will consider a protectionist duty on agricultural products.
Jeffries defeated Robert Fitzsimmons in eleven rounds at the Coney Island Athletic Club Friday night. The West newcomer fought with speed and power, knocking out the world champion in a dramatic, crowd cheering bout. Jeffries, 24, has now beaten Fitzsimmons, Sharke, and Jackson, signaling a long title run.
A southbound Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf train derailed near Greenview Missouri due to rail damage after rain. About fifty passengers were aboard. three likely fatally hurt. Smoker and chair car overturned, baggage car remained on track. Rescue efforts aided by crew, with women and children rescued first amid darkness. Scene in woods with no nearby houses.
Former Dreyfus case figure Picquart was provisionally released Saturday afternoon and went to the home of his brother in law Mayor Gase of Ville d Avray. He had been imprisoned last July on charges of sending confidential documents and was later accused of fabricating a document to compromise Esterhazy.
Advices from Yokohama report about 7,000 Japanese laborers will depart Japan this year under contract to work in Hawaii plantations. The move follows U.S. permission to import Japanese labor for seven new extensive plantations on the island territory. A family feud in Kentucky resurfaces as Abe Lee, linked to the Lee faction in Harland County, is killed in an ambush, with Taylors suspected.
After twenty rounds referee Coulton ruled a draw in Newark Ohio between Eddie Gardner of Wheeling and Johnny Van Hoest of Cincinnati in the fast paced bout.
Report from Little Rock area says a landslide at Ross Hollow buried twenty eight men working in a pass between mountain ranges on the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad under construction. Farmers bringing word describe heavy rain loosening earth and a deep cut being excavated when the slide struck.
A massive blaze in Augusta Georgia reportedly caused quarter million dollars in losses, the largest fire in years. The Davenport and Phinizy drug store district and several adjacent frame buildings were burned as embers spread in high winds, with at least three cotton warehouses threatened. Separate items note Cuban soldiers near Santiago, oil field accidents in Peru, and a large gold shipment to Europe.
Chicago to Indianapolis to St Louis and beyond report cattle hogs sheep and grains prices from markets. Highlights include No 2 red wheat around 78 to 84 cents and corn 33 to 42 cents. butter 15 to 20 cents. oats 20 to 28 cents. rye 60 to 66 cents. live cattle 2.50 to 5.75 per unit. hogs 2.75 to 5.75. sheep 2.50 to 5.25. clover seed 8.70 to 8.80. pork 18.00 to 18.00. Article compiles regional quotes for traders.
The Alaskan expedition reports heavy deaths among 2,600 prospectors after yearlong isolation. Scurvy and disease ravaged camps near Milliver and Peasetala while only the strongest reached the coast. Names mentioned include Arthur M. Collins, C. dichter, J. Smith, W. P. Manson, and others amid cold, starvation, and wrecked hopes. The Windsor 4ay Company and Northwestern ports plan aid.
Bandits hijacked the Union Pacific Express in Wyoming, looting cash bonds diamonds and jewelry. Reports say the pouch held around 100000 dollars with three sacks filled with plunder. The express car was wrecked and sent to the scrap heap.
Explosives experts claim the gang planned a new way to work as they posed as ROMAD agents. The safe was split with a hatchet and a large treasure box emptied, money and valuables left intact. The incident involved a cinema display of their method and noted outcomes.
Nearly fifty passengers were seriously hurt and three perhaps fatally injured when train No 4 on the Mansi City, Duts ies and Ghilf Railroad derailed two miles south of Grandview Missouri amid heavy rain. The locomotive and combination baggage car stayed on track while the chair car and Pullman toppled or burned after derailment.
The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin notes May fire losses in the United States and Canada totaling 9,091,900. A comparative table shows monthly totals from January to May with a total around 58,084,000 for the period. The report records 162 destructive events in May exceeding ten thousand dollars.
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