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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1892
Page
2
Phoenix reports feverish excitement over a new placer gold find on the San Juan River. Rail workers abandon lines and telegraph operators flee the railroad, crippling service. An Atlantic and Pacific party heads toward the mines. one man loses seven hundred dollars and another claims two thousand from thirty-six hours’ work.
A young girl signaled by swinging a lantern warned an engineer when a guard rail had been removed on a trestle. The Southern Pacific train with 280 aboard stopped just before the trestle, averting a fatal plunge forty five feet into a rocky gulch.
A brutal triple murder in Convent St. James Parish shocks New Orleans as Luiz Luglio and accomplices attack and slash victims on the levee. Stephen Arda survives to tell a tale of promised work and staged violence, with a farm house escape and looming death.
Testimony at the State Board of Charities investigation reveals severe punishments at the Thomas Orphan Asylum. An employee describes underfeeding, confinement in a garret, and use of a whip on girls as well as harsh water-based punishments on boys, including a winter incident at the barn.
Four men hanged at Sunnyside Louisville Dennis McCarthy Stephen Hite Grant Thomas and Charles Lewis paid the extreme penalty for murders. Hite killed Albert Couroman McCarthy murdered his wife and unborn child Thomas killed Birdie Coleman and Lewis killed Guv Dean. Witnesses filled the jail yard as the dozen executed men faced the noose.
Turmoil over the county seat in Seward County flares as armed Liberal men march to Springfield to guard a vote count. A second party heads to Arkalone to seize county records, aiming to move them to Liberal, risking clashes when news reaches Springfield.
St Louis revival scene reports Rev Dr Lowry denouncing Emma Abbott Jay Gould P T Barnum and Col Gilmore in harsh terms claiming their lives set bad examples. He warned about temptation and declared if needed he would exhume graves to confront the dead. Local dispatches note lynching near Jellico and a sensational disguise story from Winona with debt troubles.
A Sheridan Michigan funeral ended in chaos as mourners pursued a coffin stolen from the graveside. Rumors and a suspicious incident followed the body’s relocation to Greenville. Other reports note a leper case in Detroit and a man’s confession to multiple poisonings.
In Mexico City excitement grows over a search led by Ignacio de les and local businessmen for 21 million dollars said buried under Tepozatlan’s old cathedral. Pierre Aguirre claimed plans to tap subterranean vaults, with Jesuit histories cited and a prior 530000 in gold reportedly found beneath the high altar during Comonfort’s era. if recovered, a portion would fund the national treasury.
Chicago telegraph operators on the Rock Island Railroad threaten general strike calling out 775 workers. The action spreads to Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern lines as union leaders warn of possible broader conflicts.
A compact row of Iowa news items covers fires at Redfield Reynolds mills and Des Moines area, a fatal train accident near Trenton Missouri, incipient diphtheria outbreaks in Williams township, and an array of robberies and assaults in Boone Council Bluffs and Hamburg. Also notes on railway statistics, stock cattle shipments, a Des Moines church property dispute, and a Des Moines hotel fire scare.
Iowa Board of Medical Examiners uncovered a scheme by Van Angelbach to sell doctored degrees for medical licensure. The alleged agent advertised degrees from an “international university” for 30 dollars and lectured in Dutch churches while traveling from Pella to Chicago and back. The case, now with the Attorney General, centers on whether these degrees would be accepted for medical practice permits in Iowa.
George F. Bagley of the United States Express Company pleaded guilty to larceny and embezzlement in Davenport. He withdrew a not guilty plea and faced a possible five year sentence after discussions and evidence from Col. John Byrne and M. I. Jones. The defense shifting toward insanity was noted but contested by the county attorney.
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