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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
6
Detailed Senate and House proceedings show a close Senate vote on the sugar schedule with 32 yeas and 30 nays shifting to Republican support, while House actions were brief and largely ceremonial. Debates centered on tariff implications for refined sugar and figures tied to Hawaii.
A compact oddball note cites that over 000,000 cattle are slaughtered yearly for beef extracts and that descendants of a single female wasp can number about 25 000. The brief attribution is Ince Benson.
Summary of a sanitized OCR of the Hawaii annexation treaty text dated June 16 1897. It details sovereignty transfer from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States and the creation of the Territory of Hawaii, land ownership transfers, public debt assumption up to 4 million dollars, retention of municipal laws, customs relations, Chinese admission limits, appointment of five commissioners, and ratification procedures.
A Madrid correspondent to a London paper harshly criticizes General Weyler’s year in Cuba. He reports mass displacement, scorched earth tactics across Pinar del Rio Havana Matanzas and Santa Clara, and insurgents still active outside fortified towns. Spanish losses exceed 44 000, with 20 000 invalids sent home.
Insurgents number about 20 467, or far less than Spanish losses. The report suggests Weyler recognizes a failure given the weak showing.
President McKinley transmits to the Senate a treaty for the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. The message reviews American interests in Hawaii from 1820 onward and argues annexation is the long anticipated, natural outcome of U S policy toward the islands.
Extreme June heat shatters records across the nation as Kansas towns report 100 degree readings and cities from Des Moines to Chicago endure stifling heat. A severe thunderstorm in Chicago brings hail, lightning and damaging winds, injuring several and knocking out electrical lines, with long rain showers flooding basements and streets.
Agriculture heads report generally favorable weather over most areas. Corn progress varies by region with best gains in the central valleys and Nebraska Kansas Missouri. Cotton improving especially in South Carolina and Georgia. Texas needs dry heat in northern parts. some replanting and showers advised. Winter wheat unchanged aside from Pacific coast. harvest underway in Kansas Missouri Illinois and advancing in southern states.
President McKinley has acquired a summer home named Cherry Valley seven miles southwest of Washington, behind Nort Myers, owned by ex Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri. He and Mrs. McKinley will stay there with Secretary and Mrs Porter during the heated months. The house sits well back from the public road amid a forest of trees.
The small summer cottage sits remote from the national capital area, requiring intimate local geography to locate. Access is via Hart Row Lane from the main road, about half a mile below the village of Ballston, amidst fruit and shade trees.
Prof A H Sayce contributes an article to the Homiletic Review on Light from the Tel el Amarna Tablets. Zangwill’s Dreamers of the Ghetto not urged till autumn. Z. Zanugwili’s A Nineteenth Century Miracle. New cover design for T Ap p incotes by Nan W Betts. William A Holdy plans bird’s eye photography of Grant parade but wind foils him. De Wolfe Make & Co to publish Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived In by N H Chamberlain. Nietzsche volume The Genealogy of Morals in Macmillan edition. Myra Augur Chisholm lullabies gain popularity. Dante’s Divina Commedia treatment by L Oscar Kuhns forthcoming. Julia Terry Hammond’s A Close Shave, a drama for the negro, battles race prejudice with crude melodrama.
A manager recalls a rough past and a sunny present as a Southern Ohio tour lands in a crowded town. Bill Meeker and Shorty Thompkine spark a mighty laugh with a box office roar, turning a quiet audience into a contagious, uproarious crowd that filled the hall past closing time.
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