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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1898
Page
2
The court of cassation of Iranea granted a revision of Alfred Dreyfus case and will institute a supplementary inquiry. It declined to order release and held the application in proper form and admissible. Public calm prevailed as the verdict was announced after a three and a half hour session.
Miss Maud Roudebush known as Miss Maud Rondebush, opera performer and Mohegan disaster survivor, arrived aboard Cunard Line Mtruria. She wore deep mourning and testified boats were difficult to access, with double rails and high surrounds, noting some lifeboats were not launched. She questioned the cause of the wreck and supported John Hyslop’s view on lifeboat access.
The trial of Orve and Max Penwell and Lewis Jeble for inciting the Pana riot on September 28 ended with the Penwells fined $23 each plus costs, Jehle’s case dismissed, and the Penwells set to appeal to the circuit court. Anarchists in Ponce case stirred officials after dynamite cartridges were found in two passengers’ handbags aboard the Philadelphia. Big grain shipments from Philadelphia surpass 690,000 bushels for Europe. Fire in Cashmere capital Srinagar destroys many buildings. one dead. Samuel Mutehmare, noted Presbyterian minister, dies in Philadelphia at 69. Zealandia sails to Manila with Tennessee regiment battalions.
Paris Supreme Court opened at noon with crowd present though no demonstration. Ticket holders admitted for precaution. Maitre Laborie, Zola’s prior counsel, sat in the front row. Mme Dreyfus attended, represented by Maitre Morvard. The appeal was called promptly amid reports of mob danger outside the palace of justice.
A Carlinville Illinois inquest into the Virden riot deaths returns verdicts that each victim died from gunshot wounds inflicted by unknown assailants. No defendants are censured and no grand jury recommendations are issued. The grand jury will meet November 9 in a special session to probe causes and indict the guilty.
A shooting affray on the south fork of the John Day River near Canyon City Ore leaves Dave Cuttings seriously wounded and two horses shot from under F E Duncan and F Mosier. The Indians then shot John High at his home but he survived. A well armed Canyon City posse pursued the attackers as trouble is expected and the Indians are described as well armed.
Five youths Herbert Donovan Alonzo Arteburn Charles Cook James Hathaway and William Hathaway were sent to the penitentiary for ten years for robbing a Burlington passenger train near St Joseph Missouri on August 11. The crime was completed but no loot was recovered. Lake schooner sinks St Peter sinks off Lake Ontario five miles southwest of Sodus. Captain John Griffin rescued in a precarious condition. at least eight perished. The St Peter was bound Oswego to Toledo with coal.
A syndicate of eastern capitalists plans to file articles of incorporation for the Continental Tobacco Company with a capital of 75 million dollars. Half the stock will be 7 percent preferred and half common. The group would control more than four fifths of the national plug tobacco output.
The seal season closure reports 27 865 skins from 35 schooners, the lightest haul in years. Catch distribution shows 440 from the Asiatic coast, 10 055 from the British Columbia coast, and 17 370 from the Behring Sea.
A 26 year old soldier Philip Ron Wildreth of troop A New York volunteers died by self inflicted gunshot in New York City while feverish from Porto Rico contraction. He was a cashier for William Br Grace Co. Also reports of drunken fights among soldiers in Lexington Kentucky and a double hanging in Richmond Texas. The plague epidemic is spreading in Samarkand Russia with higher mortality.
George Taylor, one of the killers of the Meeks family, has evaded capture for four years since leaving Carrollton jail. Detectives traced a tip to a ranch twenty miles from Galveston Texas and his Tuesday visits to Galveston, but he vanished again before officers could reach him.
The navy plans to send two light draft gunboats to the Philippines with Buffalo and Illelena preparing for a voyage through the Suez Canal. Yorktown is expected to be commissioned on the Pacific coast and dispatched to Manila, with more auxiliary cruisers likely to follow to replace sailors whose terms expire.
Nathaniel Childs press agent for the Way Down East company died at Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia after taking forty five grains of morphine and then shooting himself in bed. The act occurred October 25 but was kept secret until his death on Saturday. Despondency given as the reason, Childs was a well known figure in theater.
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a $600 annual tax on property where saloons are conducted for more than half the year. In the Herball Aborn case and others in Polk County, property owners sought refunds for last quarter payments. The court upheld the levy, aligning with Engelthaler v Liu County.
The Town state Baptist Convention at Cadat Rapids heard papers and elected officers led by President J. I. Clyde of Osage and Secretary Bartlett of Des Moines. The Eastern Star Grand Chapter closed at Cadat Rapids with officers named including Grand Matron M. Rathbun of Clinton and Grand Secretary Maria Jackson of Council Bluffs. Marshalltown hosted the Christian Endeavor gathering, praising the year's session and electing officers for continued harmony and service.
A sprawling set of Iowa items covers a violent murder case in which Adams stands accused of killing for property, with Russell leaving his estate to Adams. Other reports note a Waterloo death tied to Champlin and a Montour river pollution dispute prompting action. Cedar Rapids strike adjustments, a prize-winning pig event, a Washington robbery, and hog cholera losses near Duncombe fill out this dense summary page.
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