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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1898
Page
4
Madrid May 2 dispatch indicates Spanish fleet destruction heightens calls for martial law and public alarm. Authorities impose extreme measures to curb unrest as Americans near Manila, newspapers urge retaliation and arming remaining ships to prey on American commerce.
A Perry Oklahoma special reports a cyclone struck Duncan I T Sunday night at 10 o clock destroying nearly every business house. A child died and ten people were injured with potential additional deaths. Rescue efforts are underway as neighbors assist in the aftermath.
A Chicago Daily News dispatch Monday said the Spanish governor general sent a flag of truce to Commodore Dewey. It is interpreted as capitulation of Spanish forces but could not be confirmed and authenticity is doubted.
A Paris dispatch reports Madrid advices saying no Spanish warship surrendered and most perished. The Spanish loss is estimated at 400 killed. Other items include talk of moving the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas refinery from Casper to Denver, a wind storm in St Louis causing damage, a shooting incident among striking Slav miners near Steubenville, an Augusta Georgia elevator and warehouse fire with $200000 loss, the death of John DeKoven in Chicago, and Behring Sea patrols being abandoned with coal transport contracts cancelled.
I G Dan Co Weekly Review of Trade reports that hostilities have altered conditions with postponed orders and bank restrictions slowing business. Clearing-house volumes are 8 percent higher than a year earlier while rail earnings rise 6.7 percent. Wheat prices advance despite claims of peak demand as government buys uniforms and supplies and ships for vessels and arms.
A near disaster at the California theater in San Francisco occurred during Mme Melba’s performance when a steam pipe from the fire department HQ building burst. The ensuing blaze and panic sent crowds fleeing, many women fainting. valuables were looted while few injuries occurred and management reassured patrons.
William Bestov and William Jewell, the robbers who killed an elderly couple and burned the bodies at Black Marth, pleaded guilty in Madison Wisconsin on Saturday. They were sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Waupun prison within thirty hours of the crime. Both confessed to authorities but each blamed the other for the actual killing.
The Alaska Commercial Company reports a new rich strike at the mouth of Ainsley Creek eighteen miles up the Yukon from Dawson City. prospectors sank forty five feet to bedrock on an island mouth of the creek and found pay dirt averaging four to eight dollars per pan. The strike is officially confirmed by two Canadian officials.
Sugar company of Lehi Washington plans about thirty drills for new beet planting and aims to finish this week. The 8,000 acres of beets are in good condition with little replanting expected. Mr. Austin just returned from the south praising timely rains and strong stands, signaling a favorable crop.
First tornado of the season struck Dixon County Nebraska crossing into South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota area. Fatalities reported include two children near Sheldon, Iowa, and a man near Elk Point. Destruction hit Maurice and Ash ton depots toppled, wind caused widespread damage to farms, homes, and windmills with hail as large as lemons.
Glucose Sugar Refining Company of Chicago reports a method to vulcanize corn oil to rubber. Five chemists worked months on the process claiming it could revolutionize the rubber trade and control tire manufacture. They say treated corn oil rivals South American rubber in resilience and longevity.
News reports a massive powder explosion on a pack train bound for Col. Dan Burns near San Vicente in Sinaloa. The train carried over 110 mules and about 40 Mexican attendants with ammunition caps and powder. About 218 boxes of powder and 20,000 caps exploded, killing fifteen men and sixty mules.
Masked robbers halted an east bound Southern Pacific passenger train two miles west of San Antonio, dynamiting mail and express and stealing the $20,000 safe haul. Also notes Mother Bickerdyke Day observed July 19 as Kansas G AR day. Ellsworth home named for her.
The week ending Saturday saw exports of gold 123163 dollars and silver 670088 dollars. Imports of gold 9016662 dollars and silver 90018 dollars. Imports of dry goods and general merchandise totaled 89809006 dollars. A double suicide in Chicago involved John Asquith and an elderly partner, who died by self asphyxiation Friday night.
Des Moines Camp McKinley hosts 2 888 guardsmen and 17 officers as Ward work marks a busy day of drills and marches. Col Lincoln commands four regiments in brigade and battalion drills before rain ends activities. Enlistment surges as captains report potential to fill full quota with volunteers from home towns and state institutions provide artillery recruits.
The yarnfall the past week was well distributed and sufficient for present needs of crops. In portions of the southeast district farm work is retarded by excess moisture. Rainfall was mostly beneficial to grass and crops and the soil is favorable for germination and planting. Plowing progress is good and warm weather will start corn planting. Overall outlook for Iowa agriculture is very favorable.
About fifty pens at the Sioux City stock yards burned Wednesday evening. Loss estimated around $15,000, fully insured. Twelve or fifteen head of cattle perished. The blaze fed by hay and litter, with a strong wind, but all cattle were moved to safety and pens will be rebuilt. Yards distant from the packing house, so operations unaffected.
A prairie fire and high winds destroyed the tee houses of the Hathaway Joo Company of Sioux City. The loss is estimated at $15,000 with $4,000 insured. Fire melted six thousand tons of tea and six thousand more are lost in the ruin. The fire started from a prairie blaze and wind made containment impossible.
A farmer George Cress from near Bartram was killed after being struck by a freight train near Otis when refused a fare. The following morning his body lay on the tracks, appraised as due to intoxication and lying on the rails. Also reported are notes from the Bankers association convention in LeMars where Group Two discussed banking subjects and a state architect appointment for Liebbe. A separate crime note records Thomas and George Norman sentenced to four years and three months for breaking into a railroad car in Dubuque. both have prior terms.
Sheriff Herron captures the suspect who hired the horse and phaeton, named Willian Downs, with prior residence unknown. Downs reportedly gave Mc Dowell as an alias in Lemurs Downs while drafting payments totaling 846.45 in two banks, using a check hook on Knott & Son of Waverly, with authorities deeming him a dangerous crook likely wanted elsewhere.
A key legal question will be decided in Marshalltown district court. The Chicago Great Western Railway is enjoined from laying a side track on land claimed by the glucose company. The case centers on whether the glucose company relinquished its rights by permitting the Chicago Northwestern to lay a side track and whether the Northwestern can stop a third railroad from crossing the glucose strip.
A collection of short items reports a seven year old boy named Itema struck by a street car at Keokuk and killed instantly. It notes deaths, anniversaries, local incidents, and civic matters across Iowa towns including Creston, Belle Plaine, Waterloo, Ottumwa, Des Moines, and Keokuk, with references to sheriffs, divorces, bank robberies, railroad work, and a Masonic temple opening. Names include Warren Smith, Mark Blanchard, J. S. Welch, and J. W. Waugh. places include Keokuk Creston Des Moines Waterloo Ottumwa and Atlantic. Various dates and figures appear in brief summaries of accidents, property sales, and public notices.
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