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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1892
Page
3
A mixed clipping reports on a Baltimore fishing school in Ireland and its training in nets and boat building, hints at a French theater production, and ponders future ship design. It covers palm disease in tropical regions, age anecdotes from Sweden, carpentry shifts from Swedes to Italians, and notes on early explorers and literary figures.
The Rolfe Reveille reports an enlarged edition and notes Clay county’s tax levy of $102,000. It lists epidemics, store hours, a Cuumwe umbrella factory, business groups in Sheffield, and 1881 improvements totaling large sums in several towns including Webster City and Cedar Falls. Also covered are local deaths, court-house votes, church organizations, rail and port activity, rapid growth in Ottumwa cutlery capacity, and various civic notices across Iowa.
Reports from Cairo claim Dr Comanos favored a poisoning theory in the khedive death. The inquiry names Dr Salem Pasha and Issa Bey as private physicians, notes morphine overdose, and notes Salem’s disappearance. British and Egyptian authorities scramble to quell riots while policing gathers intelligence and reassures order.
The Times reports sympathy from President Carmot and Prince Abbas to Egypt’s new khedive. M. Varnot reportedly defeats French hopes for regency and end to interference with Prince Abbas’s accession. Gladstone’s followers are unlikely to abandon Egypt to a youth.
A mine explosion at the Osage mine in Krebbs last night left forty eight dead and many injured or missing. Victims identified include August Fetio John Williams George Lowery EL Hunt and others while six unidentified boys perished at their posts near the shafts. The blast, caused by a window shot, left a mass of limbs and heads at the shaft bottom. About 400 men were in the mine. ninety eight seriously hurt and forty eight dead so far. around fifty escaped uninjured with total missing expected to reach 146.
A funeral at Arlington for General Montgomery C. Meigs ended with the discovery the casket was too long for the sarcophagus. The body was removed and wrapped in the flag, the inscription plate moved, and the casket returned to the undertaker. The body was laid beside General Meigs’s wife as the ceremony concluded.
In Chicago January 9 Sir Edward Reed proposes a railroad across the British channel using two huge steel plate and concrete tubes twenty feet in diameter. The tubes would be built in sections joined in pairs and floated to the site where they are attached to completed lengths. The end stays afloat until the next segment is joined and sinks to form the final end. The method mirrors an American water works project that used a forty inch diameter pipe with a self adjusting joint.
In Philadelphia Eleventh Street Methodist Church Rev Gerbult Reed plans a loud brass band event by the First Regiment band of thirty. The pastor backs brass music as a prayer aid but many congregants oppose. a wealthy member funds the effort and Reed’s group contends for support as some members leave the church.
Ottawa reports a political scandal as minister E H Dewdney faces charges from MP N F Davin of Regina Leader over 1862 dealings with government land and town site planting at Regina. A parliamentary inquiry is expected. The Leader hints a powerful Ottawa figure linked to the affair, Lady Macdonald. The article notes a broader northwest venture collapse and hints at immunity for John Haggart via statute of limitations. Davin plans to present evidence before a committee.
Chicago architect David Adler has begun plans to remodel the Minneapolis exposition building interiors for the national Republican convention. Delegates and alternates will sit on the ground floor with spectators banked around, temporary seating rising to the gallery. Press will use a raised platform near the presiding officer. Capacity likely between 15,000 and 20,000.
Theatrical advance agent Walter Southgate, last seen in September in this city, has vanished with family fearing death or foul play. Investigations extend nationwide, but no trace of his movements or whereabouts has been found, leaving relatives in distress and locals anxious.
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