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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1893
Page
2
Miss Annesley Kenewly appointed judge of the hygienic section of the World's Fair arrives from Southampton. She notes strict quarantine in New York and warns cholera could appear this fall, recommending online injection, hot baths, and warm stimulating measures.
Honolulu officials press annexation despite instability amid treason trials. Judge Caver to decide on potential trials of Walker Crick and Sinclair as Provisional Government maintains stance aligned with President Dole and Attorney General Smith. Regular troops and a Krupp gun reinforce martial law in leper settlements. plan to dislodge lepers from Rock Bound Valley caves.
Allotting agents finished assigning Pawnee lands on the Cherokee Strip and sent reports to Washington for confirmation. The process clears the way for a proclamation opening the strip to settlement within days.
Heavy loss of life feared as four bodies are recovered from a mine. Rescue teams battle dense gas and smoke, returning several times to search lower workings. About 110 believed killed between 11 and 12, with 145 missing including men and boys. under manager found badly burned in the shaft.
New York special reports a large number of business failures and rising indebtedness in the United States, with New York and Pennsylvania showing the heaviest increases. The six months ending June show 6 289 failures, up over last year, while 144 825 600 in total indebtedness marks a strain on banks and merchants. The tone in business improves slightly but caution remains as money and crop movements affect expectations.
Wild fire sweeps the eastern Chestnut Ridge and Laurel mountains burning several farm houses and barns. The blaze threatens communities near Catantosim Lie undurbruch and Jenves as dry conditions aid rapid spread. A posse searches for suspects after a murder spree in Candee.
Rev J Wesley Hill of Heena Montana, connected with the University of Ogden Utah, accuses Mormons of planning to bribe Congress to grant statehood. He cites a fund raising effort reported at one million dollars from disciples to advance temple building and political influence, with agents allegedly in Washington and secrecy surrounding the effort.
A call from Wichita Lane Scott and other counties urges Governor Lewelling to convene a special legislative session to fund provisions feed and seed wheat for drought stricken western Kansas farmers. The plea notes failed crops drought depopulation risk and loans to be repaid next harvest with interest.
Sedalia Missouri special James Hamilton arrived from Knobnoster where eight days of digging for 1 500 000 in buried treasure have yielded two stones but no find. Residents remain hopeful though discouraged, with plans to search every foot of ground within a mile of the two knobs until success or the end.
Indictments for riot conspiracy treason and murder against ex strikers will not be pressed but moved to the September term for final disposition. Pleas of nolle contendere likely. a suspension of sentence will be asked and not opposed. District Attorney Burleigh will later address murder and treason charges to the court and seek no action until further order, likely ending the famous cases.
Fulford Colorado special reports a quartz ledge exposing 3000 feet with gold grades from 57 to 154 ounces per ton across assays. Dozens of tests show high yields amid a surge of mining men from across the country. Prospectors swarm the mountains as seasoned miners call it the state’s largest strike. The tellurium-bearing ore spans three to ten feet wide.
The schooner Matty Callins from Rasged Island was wrecked near Harbor Guerin with the crew clinging to rocks as waves broke over them. They spent the night securing ropes and were rescued in the morning after being pulled sixty yards to a boat.
The marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Victoria May of Teck took place at 12:30 in the Chapel Royal at St James. Archbishop of Canterbury officiated as the groom’s father is still heir to the throne. The bride wore her mother’s veil and a silver brocade gown. Afterwards a dejeuner at Buckingham Palace and travel to Sandringham followed. The couple receive lavish gifts and hold a historic position as the first time a son of the Prince of Wales married during his father’s reign. Prince George 28, naval veteran. Princess May raised at White Lodge with charity, praised as future queen material. Notes report silver mines in Chile may close, pensions warrants issued, James Lamar hanged, Drayton leads New York Post Office, several deaths from quarrels, Ringler & Co electrotyping plant fire, Provo bank suspended, and iron mills in Youngstown closed.
A three member committee led by E A Ainsworth F McClelland and F Harriet M Allen submitted a thorough report to the Governor on the Independence Insane Hospital. They fault management only mildly in two instances and condemn the doctors medicines practice at the State University Hospital and Hill’s handling of a discharged worker. They call selling hospital supplies to employees at cost bad though not costly to the state. They urge stopping medicine purchases from the State University Pharmacy and denounce Hill’s conduct with medical students.
John Nash found three water animals on his farm pond near Williamsburg. They resemble cats fish with legs and feet and swim using them. They have gills and ear-like fins, and are believed to be salamanders from fresh water in Mexico, inexplicably appearing in Iowa, possibly carried by a whirlwind.
James Milton about 30 dies at a Union Township Fourth of July celebration in Plymouth County Iowa. He used iron cultivator hubs as improvised cannon firing them near a box. fuse burned slowly and exploded when he bent to inspect, tearing his abdomen and causing instant death. Hamilton Browne of the Cincinnati and Chicago syndicate says coal lands near Boone County will be developed with two mines this fall and rail connections to two major roads.
A Franklin Park walker finds Edward Brohn shot dead in Ottumwa. Des Moines loses the Garver Block and Belknap works in a $30,000 blaze. Pension reform seeks lists of nearby pensioners. Des Moines vault theft nets $800. Dade Bennett and Young Stevens die after Milwaukee track injuries. Ottumwa financier A C Leighton insolvency flagged. An 8 year old is fatally shot near Des Moines. Mason Depot and contents destroyed by fire.
A sweeping Iowa summary notes Reilly’s death after a plow incident with tractors in Bancroft, elopement in Marshalltown, bank failures in Burlington and Cedar Falls arrests of bankers, a Dubuque street crash injuring John Webersch, and a child’s lockjaw from a foot injury in Anamosa. It also mentions railroad commission reports, a Dubuque enameled works project, Jasper County fair dates, and other local items across the state.
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