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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
6
Chicago supplier Michael Cudahy says correspondents across farming regions expect a large corn crop this year but not as big as 1896. He estimates about 1.9 billion bushels nationwide with Nebraska leading and Illinois second, noting high acreage and mixed quality.
Dispatch from San Sebastian reports General Azcarraga opposes mediation in Gaba while Spain would submit Cuban claims to a commission limited to damages caused by Spanish forces. Autonomy would be refused if Cubans refuse American terms, with emphasis on autonomy tied to moral and tactical support.
The Agriculture Department reports numerous invitations to Secretary Wilson from southern states and county fairs asking him to inspect agricultural conditions. He plans to be away from Washington for a day, with a likely fall trip to Nashville to view fairs and agricultural events in nearby states.
A deputy sheriff confronts a killer at Baxter Williams Arkansas where a house fire ends with Williams shot by a posse. The report also notes bread price debates in France and a Boston poultry house fire tied to a murder witness, Roubert Lathram.
A San Francisco report notes the American flag remains on Clipperton Island after residents resisted Captain McMurtey of the JRinkora who tried to raise the British flag. The London Daily Chronicle cites a Wales strike at Lord Penrhyn quarries ending in victory for workers who gain the right to unionize.
A dispatch from Sande Norway reports a balloon observed moving rapidly northward at great altitude. A tethered apparatus dangled from the balloon and appeared to emit light, drawing attention from observers.
A Cleveland dispatch reports Ohio congressman Stephen R. Harris sits among four venerable men at a theater watching a melodrama about a son driven from home. Harris discovers the prodigal is Gavin Harris, his own son, and later reconciles with him after the show.
A crowded Toronto harbor float capsized Sunday, killing five children. Albert Driscoll eight Gertie Harvey eleven Ack Bethel ten and two others unnamed were aboard a twelve by six foot rough timber raft carrying 21 youths aged eight to eighteen. The three named bodies were recovered while remaining victims were not.
T P Riley formerly of the Northern Pacific at Alderton leads twelve men from Tacoma to the Yukon Trek returning with 85000 in nuggets after ten years. Flannigan and O'Brien share equally and plan travel to Pennsylvania. The Blondyke claim near Dyea involved a 23 day trek and carries distant dangers. A pension ruling affirms death in the line of duty for a widow claim in a separate case. A Twin Lakes placer crew ship robbery ends with a gold retort seized and bandits fleeing. A Canton Ohio officer stands ground in a bank burglary where a guard fires. a Vermont judge is wounded in a separate shooting linked to guardianship and custody disputes.
At the convention’s close in Cleveland Ohio a missions collection raised 11000 dollars in minutes bringing the total to 14044. Several wives threw diamond rings into the boxes and many men did the same with their watches and jewelry.
A mob seized Yoany Sullivan, convicted of raping Sarah Lawson in Williamsburg Kentucky, and hanged him from the county bridge over the Cumberland River at 1 o clock Monday. Sullivan was serving twenty years in prison before the mob action. Banished from Skagway, a man was driven out after attempting to extort a toll by blocking a trail with a felled tree.
The Manitoba government reports total wheat production this year at 22,284,274 bushels, with an average yield per acre noted as LAY bushels though the exact figure is unclear. The release emphasizes overall output and regional farming data.
Chicago traders saw September wheat rise to 1.0214 dollars earlier, then slip to 96.0 cents by close. December also softened to 95.25 cents, with overall September down 0.50 cents from Saturday. futures fluctuated widely as nerves and profit-taking hit the market.
The Georgia special commission reports convict camp conditions are horrific and inhumane. It notes brutal dormitory living, forced cross gender housing, and women forced to wear men's clothes and toil in ditches alongside men.
Court at Hutte Montana will hear a division plan after Davis fortune disputes end with a compromise among claimants. The will contest seeks share of an estate once valued around 12 million dollars, now reduced to roughly 3.5 million amid ongoing claims and forgery allegations.
Veterans and friends pour into Buffalo as the Grand Army encampment opens in fair weather. Clarkson arrives Monday as commander in chief. reception follows at headquarters with local G A R aides. A jockey, Jerkey Jesse Clater, dies after a race fall at Kansas City expo course. horse Duchie veers and rider is injured. other horses stumble in early races.
Peter Crozer secretary and treasurer of the Mercer and Merchants Building and Loan Association of Trenton New Jersey is alleged to be short forty thousand plus in his accounts according to a Tuesday investigation report. He is about sixty three years old has not been arrested and denies the figures while his wife and family remain in the community.
Police arrest two Armenian suspects in Constantinople after bombs found at their homes. They confess plans to bomb the Russian and German embassies by the 13th. Noted Pawnee Chief Curley dies at Perry Oklahoma aged 190 after a career in Indian wars.
The New York weekly bank statement reports a reserve increase of 870000 dollars with banks holding 89738 dollars above legal requirements.
At Washington Park Chicago on Saturday 15 000 spectators watched Star Pointer win all three heats against Joe Patchen in a trotting showcase. Pointer edged Patchen in the first heat by a nose and led wire to wire in the second and third heats finishing in 2 04 and 2 04 respectively.
Report from Chelsea, I T, says the Keetown Society of Cherokee full bloods has threatened harm to Cherokee commission members if they enter a agreement with the Dawes commission that could destroy the tribal government. The 600-member Keetowa society wields district politics and alarms full blood communities about possible early action in Arkansas.
Washington receives unofficial tips that Dauntless Jie fled Savannah with a beige and may be intercepted near Hathras by Alexander Jones 31.4 paint while an expedition nears Tampa. Secretary Hage orders customs collectors to enforce neutrality laws as reports of a Tampa rendezvous surface. A 3090-strong Athens meeting urges King George to reject Greece Turkey peace talks. public opinion largely condemns resumption of war.
James Reynolds known as Catalpa Jim, a leading Fenian Brotherhood figure, died at his New Haven home. His role in the catalytic expeditions made his name widely known across the country.
Multiple city markets show cow and hog prices ranging across regions with grain quotes for wheat corn oats and rye. Prices vary by city from Chicago to Milwaukee including Detroit St Louis Cincinnati New York and Buffalo with notable spreads for cattle hogs and sheep and mixed grain futures.
Mrs. Morgan of near Lewis in Pottawattamie County was attacked by two masked burglars who gagged bound and tied her, stole 40 cents, and left her prostrated with feared fatal results as her daughter found her the next morning.
A Davenport glucose plant elevator exploded from a dst fire on Thursday. William Wolf and his 11 year old daughter were buried by the south wall and died. her father survived briefly. John Hamm and Jobo Rapp were atop the wall. Rapp fell sixty feet and died. Hamm perished after injuries. Rescue efforts failed to save the others. families mourned.
A labor clash at Burlington three days after July 5 left several workers injured. Foreman Jerry Ditch was attacked by strikers, knocked down, and beaten as others joined in a chaotic scene with intoxicated employees and property damage.
A bad accident occurred at the Witneis Central gravel pit near Cheryher. Rain made the track slick and in backing a long train of carts down a steep grade the brakes failed. The entire train ran onto a trap, and engineer Marlin O'Neill was crushed between the trap and the engine. he is not expected to live.
Rival to the Hell Company Vex- Mayer Stawart of Tahuque organized the Interstate Telephone and Tectric Company to establish an exchange in opposition. Capital stock is 3100000. OT. TP. Sapp of Chicago is president with KE Theimar Dubagne as secretary. Stawart announced funds raised and construction will proceed.
A Friday night 18:35 arrival on the Musca line from Wilton reports a man found on a car roof with a severe head injury from an overhead bridge. He died before reaching the platform, leaving a widow in poverty in Geneseo.
George Heed a Crescent Coal Company miner at What Cheer died instantly when slate fell during a blasting cycle. The accident occurred as miners Hastings and Lid encountered smoke and trouble after Reed fired the first shot and the second blast released dangerous fumes.
A head end collision between west and fast hound freights occurred in the Vil-Hsen yards due to an open switch. Both engines and several cars were wrecked, No. 5 delayed three hours, with no serious injuries reported.
Two vagrants found ill on Nome streets were taken to the police station. Doctors treated them but one died within minutes and the other within two hours. A companion claimed the trio bought what they thought was liquor at a local store, and one man, Etis Waenghet, drank wood alcohol.
The Iowa Union Telephone Company loaned 750090 dollars to Wingis Trust Company. The mortgage traveled through nearly every Iowa county in a tin tube and vanished after reaching Grundy Center. Officials doubt theft, believing the document may reappear in unclaimed mail, or a duplicate will be issued and recorded in counties already visited.
John Frankot and Hurley, laborers at the Cherokee Asylum, were bound over on $1,000 bonds to appear before the grand jury on charges of highway robbery and assault. They allegedly attacked Sunday night, stabbing fellow worker John Bondmant multiple times in the back and shoulders, after robbing him.
The post office department announced numerous postmaster appointments on Saturday for towns including Baxter Jasper County D B Mann succeeding F L Phipps in Bryantsburg Buchanan County J M Barclay replacing C W Covell in Charleston Lee County L A Bassett filling Archie Vermazens prior post resignation in Given Mahaska County David Owens at Gosport Marion County W W Adams succeeding A G Spencer in Grafton Wortl County George Swallow succeeding Charles Christians in Green Mountain T F Bovee filling Green Mountain vice W H White removed Henderson Mills County A E Harland replacing Theresa Baumgartner in Henderson Jerome Appanoore County J F Stephenson succeeding Hamilton Lowrie in Jerome Letts Louise County Sandy Van Horm succeeding M G Goder in Letts Leighton Mahaska County L L Walker filling I B Biching in Leighton Norway Benton County L J Norland replacing Frank Ricket in Norway Swan Marion County Jane Stradley succeeding B M Roller in Swan Viele Lee County Ti Rerau replacing Mary Bubner in Viele Wesley Kosuth County R J Barrett succeeding W R Giddings in Wesley Westphalia Shelby County Joseph Zimmmerman succeeding Joseph Rueschenberg in Westphalia White Elm Davis County J Carrall succeeding W A Davidson in White Elm
Tallas Gremwald former Dew Moines resident now jailed in Evanston Wyoming on a murder count of his wife. Preliminary hearing attended by Mr AE H Cohen of Flex Moines, brother-in-law to the accused. Gremwald reportedly moved to Des Moines decades ago and ran a cigar shop with a checkered reputation.
Work has begun on the theater railway at Boone with electric cars expected in operation within sixty days. A 200 horsepower boiler and a 2 horsepower compound engine have been ordered and will be installed, with foundations already in place and machinery prepared for operation.
The twenty fourth town Heaman remint of the association of survivors of the Twenty fourth tows Infantry Volunteers will be held at Tipton on September 2 and 30 1897. A rate of one and one third fares will be charged to Iowa points on the certificate plan. Longley is secretary of the association.
John Bilis of Davenport, a leading Scott County attorney for thirty years and a top statewide figure, shot himself in the head and died instantly. Five weeks earlier he had been prostrated by heat and did not recover, fearing insanity though no intent was shown.
Henry Kelmemann a German tramp from Adair County was attacked by several tramps on Sunday near Maine. They robbed him with two large satchels and then sandbagged him, leaving him for dead. His facial injuries were severe and police arrested several suspects.
A shooting at Independence last week left Sidney Seward and Frank Mitchell, brothers-in-law, with seven shots exchanged. Both men were arrested and charged with assaults with intent to kill amid a four year family feud stemming from Seward marrying Mitchell’s sister.
Henry Hrawster of the Algona G A R post fell from a Lake Shore train near Whiting Indiana on Sunday night and was fatally injured while en route to Buffalo.
Frank Vess of Murray was fatally crushed when he fell under the wheels of a Burlington freight train Tuesday.
Marshal Krait lies near death after a riot at a dance in War Horne near Bella Plame. In the attempt to arrest him his revolver was taken, he was dragged from the room and beaten with clubs and brass knuckles. Doster officials fear he will die.
Minneapolis dispatch reports Jonn Cook of Town was fatally struck by a Northern Pacific train at West Superior Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon as he headed toward North Dakota.
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