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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1898
Page
6
The Maine state election produced a Republican sweep across offices. Governor Llewellyn Powers led the ticket, with Reed contesting for speaker facing McKinney. Returns show about a 25 percent statewide drop in turnout and notable shifts in the House, while the Senate remains solidly Republican.
Passenger on the Texas Pacific plunges through a trestle as floods surge after a noon Sunday rain that lasts thirty hours. Sulphur River rises flooded fields. train No. 4 on the Young and Pacific railway loses bridge support. One man killed and several injured as engines, cars and baggage plunge into water.
Benjamin Jotem Liter arrest for assaulting an 11 year old girl led to a mob taking 65 year old Benjamin Jones from Liberty jail and hanging him at the courthouse entrance Sunday night. Coroner’s inquest found death at the bands of unknown parties. Local reaction mixed but broadly satisfied.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, renowned jurist, died in Ann Arbor Michigan on Monday morning after a period of illness. He had recently left a private sanitarium and showed brief improvement before deteriorating into coma.
Gen Miles told the War Department a future army reorganization should aim at one soldier per 1000 population. He discussed mustering out volunteers and department command rearrangements, noting careful consideration and prompt action. Maj Gen Shafter, from Camp Meade, dismissed reports of a clash with Miles as unfounded and piratical rumor.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Ber in reports a fortnight ago an attempt to assassinate Queen Wilhelmina near Amers Fort in Utrecht province. A man fired from behind a tree on the road between Castla Soosdyt and Baars, missing the queen but injuring a lady in attendance. The would be assassin was arrested and is believed to be an English anarchist.
Secretary of War seeks a thorough investigation joined by Adjutant General Corbin. President undecided on action as war department inquiries unfold across a tumult of court cases and political motion.
Texarkana Texas and Arkansas areas reel as whitecaps drive Black laborers from northern cotton districts. Vigilance committees form to guard property as bands roam Titus Gass Red River Hopkins counties. Reports say mobs fired on workers forcing several wounded and possibly dead. Warnings to leave the area were ignored.
WW Treadford, aboard the steamer Fastnel arriving at Vancouver from St Michael, reports from Alaska that the richest gold strikes are on the American side. Bonanza Creek and surrounding areas show wealth requiring capital to develop, with capital influx next year expected to shift wealth to the American side.
Two bodies found by the schooner Moody near Sable Island are identified as likely victims of the La Bourgogne disaster. The deceased include a decomposed woman and a large man in corduroy with heavy shoes, a book of religious writings bearing the name Anton e Joneborac on the cover. A chewed bank note fragment from Buffalo and a Kansas cheek sketch were found nearby.
Rev Dr Green of Cedar Rapids elected bishop of Iowa by the Episcopal convention at Davenport after a brief balloting process on Tuesday September 6. Eight ballots produced Green ahead of four other candidates including Edsall Stires and Jones with clerical votes heavily favoring Green. Green, educated at Princeton, previously led Grace Church Cedar Rapids and built the largest parish in the state.
Rev Father Hogan left St Peters Church Webster City to take charge of a Catholic church in Waycoma Fay aia County. His successor is Rev Father T. Mr. O'Brien at Bunesmire. A burglary at Nelson P T Crank hardware store in Moantonr stole sample patterns valued at about $85 to Mo narth of collery.
Fort Dodge residents vented fury over the treatment of Sgt Wilber W. Browne of Troop B First U S Cavalry who died in Washington en route to Montauk Point. Browne’s body was embalmed and sent to Fort Dodge where delays and health rules blocked a public funeral, sparking protests. A formal complaint to the War Department is planned.
The Democratic Populist and Silver Republican conventions at Marshalltown adjourned after a lengthy session. Delegates awarded key state offices by acclamation, with Walter McHenry of Polk making the lone exception for Secretary of State, while party platforms condemn imperialism and endorse free silver, a Nicaraguan canal, and constitutional reform.
Mr. Gosse, aged 30, argues that great men reflect their era and asserts that if Tennyson had lived in 1050 or 1720 his poetry in verse would hardly resemble what we now know from his work.
A brief note misreads bread science with playful misprints saying to set bread in a goon position to rise while EL handles the yeast work. The fragment hints at a humorous or scrambled discussion from a Philadelphia Balletin context.
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