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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1891
Page
2
The article surveys diverse topics from the British museum collecting newspapers to indies poker, Montana fertility, and autosomal curiosities. It notes Georgians prospering, Austrian troops compared with English and German soldiers, and petitions for religious freedom. There is mention of the Texas capital statue with a 17 foot Liberty goddess and bees, plus odd animal tales and literary figures.
Iowa items report a grand jury in action, new businesses forming, deaths and injuries, elections, and civic notes. Highlights include a bank prospect, a gas well venture, a man dying after shooting himself, runaway students, a Bohemian newspaper planned in Cedar Rapids, and infrastructure plans amid low river levels.
Jamestown North Dakota October 5 reports describe a dire harvest crisis as wet rains flood unthreshed grain. Forty one to fifty million bushels of wheat lie in wet shocks with thrashing delayed by ten days to a month. Costs rise for threshing while machines and rail rates strain farmers. Snow may cover shocks before harvest.
Wassington Oct 3 A week noon chamber of the clerks and letter carriers in the Philadelphia post office were suspended for attending the races at Gloucester and betting on horses. Some face dismissal. Postmaster Field leads the local action, with possible nationwide orders to bar betting at tracks to keep jobs. Investigations rumored in New York Chicago Cincinnati and other cities may mirror Philadelphia action.
The coast of New York Harbor gains a new protection vessel the monitor Mantomomoh just released from the Brooklyn navy yard commanded by Captain Montgomery Sicard. Built in the Civil War era famed as the most powerful ship she features iron armor two turrets and rifled guns with a seven mile range.
The Irish National League of America elected M. V W. Gannon of Omaha as president, with John P. Sutton re-elected secretary. Patrick Boyle of Toronto named first vice president and Wm. Lyman of New York treasurer. The convention adopted independence from Irish factions, fixed salaries at one dollar, and adjourned sine die. Sutton pledged resignation, citing political fatigue and financial strain from the role.
In Cusster Conn Deacon Hungerford and two sons aided by Preacher Hall and his hired man destroyed Deacon Hungerford's finest apple crop to prevent cider. The group, all prohibitionists, dumped the apples into the village mill pond rather than risk fermentation.
Oct 3. Jay Gould travels by buck board to a West Chester road county fair. He sits in the grand stand with a listless air, walks the track, chats briefly with a friend, but is ordered by a policeman to move on and returns home soon after.
German day organized by city clubs features mass meeting at Carnegie Music Hall with speeches in German and English by Carl Schurze and Park Goodwin on The influence of German Culture on American Civilization. A city chorus will perform, highlighting German musical traditions. Prolonged illness of ex-governor Robert Lo Bigelow outlined with guarded prognosis.
Ulster County Savings Institution in Kingston did not open as bank examiners traced embezzlement by Treasurer Ostrander and Assistant Treasurer Thumpdorf totaling about 47 000 to 50 000. Arrests followed, trustees pled resources reassuring depositors, while deposits redeposited amid public concern.
The president named Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T Alexander to succeed Colonel Yolinin as chief medical purveyor of the army, the second in importance to the surgeon general. Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of Battenburg, has given birth to a son in Lexipox on October 3.
Live market notes dated Oct 5 show hogs lighter and heavier ranges, mixed bids for cattle including steers and cows, with calves and yearlings listed. Chicago issues list flour and grain prices, oats and rye quotes, and whiskey and butter figures, reflecting a broad commodity snapshot for the day.
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