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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1896
Page
13
The Cuban junta of New York plans a 31 story high balloon station to observe artillery and troop movements in Cuba. Two expert aeronauts will man the hydrogen craft which can stay aloft 24 hours and features a parachute like lower section for safe descent.
New York City legislators face delays on height limits as architects push a thirty story building in Manhattan. The structure is planned to rise 686 feet with heavy equipment and deep foundations beneath the water line.
Okmulga Creek Nation court judge Adams disbars over 1700 blacks from Creek citizenship in a ship of tribal relations case. Emancipation act allowed negroes to share in annuities and benefits, but court rules unconstitutional actions by the Indian council. no appeal. Interior Department agrees with the ruling. Dawes commission defers.
Reports from Mansfield Missouri and surrounding counties describe land sinking after a year of drought. Crevices up to a foot wide appear across fields, with a large depression in Douglas County and a recent incident in Texas County where the ground swallowed a horse. Local Black residents fear judgment day as paranoia grows.
Janes Campbell the sugar planter of Ilanolulu disappeared for two days in San Francisco and says he was imprisoned and robbed by Oliver W. Winthrop and a conspirator who tried to force his signature with a $20 009 ransom. Winthrop, previously acquitted of a poisoning charge at Laurel Hill cemetery, has vanished along with the confederate. The gone case followed Campbell’s release as newspapers reported his disappearance.
The entire Northern Pacific Railroad lands in Washington state were auctioned. Edwin W. Winter, president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, bought the 11h sections of patented lands and unpatented lands for 7744.2a. Also reported: a Buckville fight among schoolboys with knife injuries. one boy Poole died. hogs sold for high prices at Springfield, and other brief items including a dead man on a railroad track near Columbus, an arm injury from a fly, a fatal shooting in Springfield, and a missing agent in Missouri.
In Oldenburg Tennessee on the Bluff line Cyclist E S Anderson rode a mile in 1 03 on a plank road paced by a locomotive. The run used a 92 gear and a central timed start with torpedoes. He plans another attempt August 23 with a 120 gear.
A trolley car on the Columbia and Donegal Electric Road derailed near Columbia, fatally injuring several and injuring about fifteen. The car slipped on wet tracks after a brake gear failed, dashing to the embankment before a relief crew arrived.
A mob hanged three men at a Louisiana plantation after freeing a jailed guard and breaking out prisoners. The victims were Jules Greymard killer and two others linked to the Ashley Plantation murders. In California, Harvey Allender killed Wally Fielner and V. Crossatte and attempted suicide after a love tragedy.
A blast at the Swift & Cola Diz packing house on the Kaw River in Kansas City fatally wounds Joe Hullowitz, while several others suffer serious injuries and a fire threatens the entire plant. The report also notes shipwreck statistics and a legal admission of Ellen Spencer Massey to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Dun and Co. weekly review notes a sudden market reversal after the Chicago stock exchange closure amid a speculator collapse in Diamond Match and New York Biscuit, tightening lending on similar securities. Merchant exports rise about 12 percent weekly while imports fall 7.7 percent, aiding balance of payments. Wheat movement remains strong with 1,761,038 bushels exported weekly and western receipts up sharply, while corn and oats movement shows varied receipts against last year.
The article reports widespread unrest in Spain with Valencia a hotbed of disturbances. It notes growing sympathy for Cubans and Republicans, distrust of Madrid, and concerns over reinforced Spanish troops in Cuba as evidence of government weakness.
A Chicago inventor seeks damages over a patent dispute with St. Paul alleging unpaid royalties for pavement work. A double murder case near Louisville involves a drowning of two women and a witness’s account. a sheriff arrests suspects. A Joliet hospital death follows long illness of a migrant woman living in Wing neighborhood. her husband seeks arrangements for his daughter.
Dr. J A Rawls of Creston, a leading physician, swallowed a dose of a proprietary medicine to test its safety. He fell unconscious and remains unresponsive at Dr. Sampson's office in southern Iowa. Recovery chances are doubtful.
A near Lake Fark gardener reports a rare cabbage sport where Salter's Lightning cabbages grew vinelike heads, ten feet of vine, with thirteen beadlike seed heads. The piece notes prolific yield and fast seed timing versus standard cabbages, plus other local tidbits on academic gifts, jail break attempts, and accidents.
Rev G E Scott of Waterloo area eloped with 16 year old Daisy Dorlan and was captured at Logansport Indiana. Insanity commission ruled him insane by eight to zero majority and ordered commitment to an asylum rather than the penitentiary. Iowa Falls Judge S M Weaver faced sharp criticism for guiding the case to the insanity panel. Likely only a few months in the asylum before release.
Miss Kinnie and Edward Murphy eloped from Boone on the evening of the Sth. They left with their parents unsure of their whereabouts. Murphy's home is in Plattsmouth Nebraska and he is a distant Marti relative to the Kinnies. The couple had known each other and disappeared together two weeks ago, with their families unaware of their plan.
The Legislature's new law empowers the Labor Commissioner to collect statistics and is working well with no refusals. Employers and employees have submitted returns and requested copies of the forthcoming report and to be added to the mailing list. The bureau covers all departments of labor and salaried help, not just manufacturing.
A -year-old man from LE Cass near Bristow was fatally shot when a 22 caliber shell struck him in the left side and kidney. The report notes such wounds are rarely survivable and cautions the injured man’s condition remains critical.
A storm washed Dorchester and Tughey of Bellevie into the river as two fishermen grounded at the mouth of Creel Creek. A reward of £125 offers news of their whereabouts but no trace has been found. The boat’s gear and papers were water damaged and most money recovered except about $29 in bills.
Report describes a wreck on the Hock Island Kaokuk division near Leight in the Tth area. One and a half miles west, Des Moines men died as a freight train derailed in rain at high speed while involved tramcar passengers, with wreckage and casualties reported.
A request for a receiver to manage Lor More Creamery Company at Creston comes from stockholder M V Jayses who says mismanagement caused ongoing losses since inception. The article notes the creamery has been a losing investment for stockholders.
A diphtheria outbreak in Neola has produced over a dozen cases in weeks with two fatalities. An unrelated traffic accident near Clarion injured Mrs. John J Tummpkey and Ma. Lalor during a return trip when a runaway cart overturned a buggy. Atlantic’s Chief Engineer Titus and an assessment crew surveyed the Atlantic to Ams route, with expenses totaling 7000 dollars funded by ESIL Whitney of Atlantic.
George Raible a prominent Gastern Iowa resident, described as the largest man in the area and weighing about 4% pounds, collapsed in his Davenport doorway. The death is attributed to excessive indulgence and traffic in the social evil.
The traveling salesmen of local town grocery houses gathered in a single meeting at Burlington on the seventh and seventh. A quota was issued to guide their deliveries and sales targets.
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