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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
2
In St Louis every reputable hotel restaurant and boarding house refuses to entertain colored delegates to the national republican convention. The city faces a crisis as black delegates and alternates may go hungry and unhoused unless tents and shelter are arranged.
The city receives a landmark park four miles southeast of Kansas City comprising 1814 acres with 100 acres of lawn and 1000 acres of timber. Donor Thomas H Swopa requires naming the land Swope Path and annual city spending of 1000 for ten years to improve the grounds. Swopa previously donated 226000 to Canter College.
An Indiana man Joseph Jaiga of Marengo survived a reported death with relatives alarmed by a miraculous recovery after doctors pronounced him dead. Also reported: Toledo wheel factories announce shutdowns, Frisco tragedy with editor John W. Hay killed, a physician murdered in Vincennes, a New York shooting case with no suspect named, a US Treasury money call, Jules Simon’s death, Shah enthroned in Tehran, a Barcelona bombing during Corpus Christi, and naval appropriations for three ships.
Egyptian troops clash with Dervishes at Firket on the Nile campaign's first engagement. They hold positions for ninety minutes before a cavalry flanking move routs the Dervishes. Losses estimated at 1000 for the Dervishes, with twenty Egyptians killed and eighty wounded. Train line extension aims to Firket for Nile water transport.
In spite of a storm St Louis readies for the national convention. Incoming reporters and visitors arrive by train while local hotels eateries and cafes stock up. Street cars repair crews and the convention hall prepare to welcome thousands with pomp and ceremony despite storm damage two weeks earlier.
London reports the Venezuela boundary dispute with British and American figures awaiting a recommended settlement between British Guinea and Venezuela. It notes no immediate accord, but warns that an American commission report could trigger strong U S sentiment if rejected. A separate item mentions Armour dismissals and a House seat shift.
RG Dun & Co weekly review notes summer crops improve supply and demand. Wheat exports reach 2,297,411 bushels weekly, western receipts 2,08,478 bushels, with a probable wheat yield of 600,000,000 bushels. Cotton crops forecast at 10,000,000 bales as prices fall and demand lags. Failures total 244 in the US versus 195 last year. Canada 29 vs 25 last year.
President Cleveland and party plan a August fishing trip to Winnibison Wisconsin at Brule River. They will be guests of Senator Vilay lodging in his rustic cabin and expected to arrive around August 16 for a three week stay with time for hunting September 1 opening.
Senator Alorgan urged a formal resolution demanding information on American prisoners held abroad and pressed for warlike measures against Cuba. The rhetoric accused the President of inaction, calling Congress to act before adjournment to secure prisoner release amid broader Cuban questions.
Des Moines River Land Commission will begin cash payments to indemnity claimants within about two weeks. Offices will open in Des Moines Fort Dodge Dayton and Stratford with most funds to Webster County claimants. Individual awards range up to 1000 each and Peter Reilly of Fort Dodge stands to receive the largest single payment as heir to a gypsum land patent.
A man on his Corner Bluffs porch narrowly escaped a stray bullet from an unknown rifle. The projectile struck an emplum on the front porch, suggesting a distant shooter, with no report of a gunshot. Nearby, a bullet also hit a neighboring barn from the same direction. In Des Moines, Geo W. Perkins, railroad commissioner, suffers a severe apoplexy attack, now at risk and in need of family support. Perkins has long served as commissioner and former state senator. Nearby, Valentine Kondora was killed near Iowa City by a passing B&O train after being struck while aiding horses, aged about 64. Governor Drakeling granted a pardon to Harry I. Weston, involved in a fraud case with the Oak-Rosh concern, who disappeared after shipping goods. Charles Harding, a wealthy farmer, died by suicide in his farm barn after earlier family tragedy, two brothers in the same lineage.
Arch bishop Henusasy consecrated the new St. Joseph Mere Hospital for ingane care at bugus. The Sisters of Mercy oversee the opening costing $100,000. He also consecrated Holy Ghost Church for a new German parish in the same ceremony.
Halph Mathews aged seventeen drowned near Orient while swimming. He was taken to a village and cramps and drowned before companions could reach him. Rector Seii Drops Dead in Marshalltown from heart trouble.
Cass County resident John Southwick describes a method to destroy army worms by tracing their movement and digging a deep ditch along their path. He advises daily log dragging from dawn to dusk to suffocate and end the infestation within days. He predicts the worms will die off between the 20th and 26th as vegetation repels them.
A severe hail and rainstorm hit Atlantic on the evening of the 7th causing extensive crop damage including oats corn and wheat. The Atlantic Canning Company reported 200 acres of peas damaged, losses around 1000 dollars. Windows lights galleries and greenhouses suffered. Bull Creek flooded, houses and barns moved by the water. No fatalities reported though rescues occurred through windows.
A city waterworks conference included the attorney for the city and the water company along with plant owners. After years of dispute over gates the company proposes turning the plant over to the city with no cost beyond assuming the existing debt of about 900000 dollars. The talks lasted hours and a formal proposal was submitted though details are not public. Action by the city was expected this week with plans to transfer within thirty days. The city previously eyed equity but now favors obtaining the plant for essentially free via debt assumption.
A traveling man known as Hincoin Laggecake committed suicide in Des Moines after domestic troubles and unemployment left him unable to support his wife and two stepchildren. He had drank heavily in the days prior and left the family to visit a neighbor before shooting himself in the temple with a revolver. His parents reside in Los Angeles where his father serves as a minister.
The body of Fred Sellers killed at Oakland Ned arrives in Cherokee with his brother John Sellers Charles Davis and Mrs Sellers. Funeral services are at Haplist Church at 2 pm Thursday Friends travel to Tekamah Neb to press charges against the HWiscoxes.
Catholic Foresters convention in Waukon named Cesar Napida as next meeting site and elected officers including Rev. J. R. Fogarty as Chief Chalaim, Peter Marlin as Chief Ranger, James O Neill Clinton as Vice Chief Ranger, T. Sullivan as Secretary, and Hawaii as Treasurer.
Ex-mayor Swartz of Sis City and his wife visited Des Moines and Sioux City on an annual grave visit for daughter Mabel Swartz. He announced a $70,000 libel suit against the Journal Cherokee County Pioneer Gene, while remaining residents of Texas. The piece mentions Adam Corzillzs burial in Cherokee County and a drowning accident involving John Twineh’s son in Winthrop.
Congress debates and votes on the river and harbor measure over presidential vetoes. The Senate passes the Butler bond bill 82 to 25 and backs a scientific Bering Sea seal fisheries probe. House and Senate clash over seating, deferrals, and Cuban questions amid a busy session with multiple votes and adjournment moves.
The passage presents a garbled mix of phrases about the Mississippi River length and sap emitting heat, rhino horn anatomy, dirt affecting skin, and storms revealing primitive life. It reads as a corrupted OCR with nonsensical and incongruent statements lacking coherent events or identifiable figures.
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