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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1897
Page
7
President McKinley amends civil service rules to require just cause and written charges for removals in competitive positions and includes all custom house offices in the classified service. The period also notes various incidents including mining strikes, accidents, fatalities, weather damage, and economic reports from 23 states.
Dr John H Love of Mount Clair dies assisting in a surgery. John Johnson a Black man hanged in Livingston Alabama for murder. Sig Newell executed at Selma Alabama for murder. Bullion value of silver dollar at 44 cents on the 20th. Northern cities report business gains. A hailstorm ruins 50 percent of small grain near Rock Rapids and Sioux Center Iowa. National League baseball percentages updated for the week ending the 1st. Waldemar P Leonhard appointed US vice consul at Hamburg. William Cummings, head of nonunion miners, shot in Scottdale Pennsylvania. no change in strike. Gen A V W Greeley doubts Andree will be heard from again. Hay crop outlook strong across New England to the Midwest. Government loss from tariff act import increases estimated at 35,660,427. Grant Hammond and Abner Morris drowned in the Wabash near Carlisle Indiana. Pioneer Fireproof plant in Ottawa Illinois buried. loss 100000. Mrs Margaret Lelong bicycle trip Chicago to San Francisco, first woman rider from Chicago to the Pacific. Brothers Willie and George Young and Henry Hall and Fred Bridgeford drown in Kansas City Missouri. First National Bank of Asheville North Carolina liquidates. Rich lead mine struck on Main Street near Joplin Missouri. At least 150 perish in Kerich Crimea floods. Frank Donahue slackwire bicyclist dies at Ridgewood Park. July heat record smashed. Golden Mud Silk Company of Paterson New Jersey fails for 100000.
Des Moines. Dr. FE L Eaton heads the state ticket with temperance and woman suffrage on the platform. Eaton’s eligibility for office is questioned for not meeting a two year Iowa residence. Also notes Roanoke convention: Capt Edward R Cocke nominated for lieutenant governor. Other races await fusion decisions. General Stewart L Woodford sails for Madrid. Lip: death of John T Lovell, arms manufacturer, aged 92. Capt John H Johnson dies at 51. Mrs Christiana French marks 103rd birthday.
A treaty unites Guatemala Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras and Salvador as the Republic of Central America to take effect September 15. Separate reports recount a fogbound ship collision near Newfoundland sinking the Scandinavian with four sailors and a captain’s wife drowned, and the Tasmania striking a rock near Napier with six drowned. Also, dispatches note the Greek and Ottoman peace preliminaries and Sinava outpost clashes as Spanish troops mobilize.
M Ralli official: Greece will never accept financial control and will aid itself. Reports from Capt Town say Portuguese expelled from South Africa. Floods devastate Silesia and Bohemia with millions in losses and 100+ drowned. Hall Brothers of Muncie plan new fruit jar blowers, risking job losses. Weyler orders Sun correspondent Garcia and Journal’s Bryson expelled from Cuba. Granite Ware works in East St Louis shut for coal shortage. Moonshiner Dudley Johnson killed in Alabama. Webster City storm hits 25 buildings. Minnie and Carl Luppus killed in accident. July public debt up 6,790,560. Kansas corn crop down. Blacksmith Mort Steward dies in Wisconsin accident. Queen reaches Tacoma. Northwest police screen Yukon-bound travelers without year’s provisions. Yukon river steamers contract awarded for three new boats and tug.
Minneapolis August 2 Wheat No 1 northern 6134 to 82 cents No 2 northern 77 to 07c Sept 725c Corn No 4 23 Oats No 3 white 20 to 22c Cattle Steers 3.20 to 3.75 cows 2.75 Hogs 3.00 to 3.35 Sheep Muttons 3.10 lambs 3.65 Sutter Creamery extra 12 to 14c Creamery firsts 10 to 13c dairy fancy 19 to 13c dairy choice to 10 Poultry Turkeys 6 to 7c spring chickens 12 to 14c
A proposed six million dollar steel bridge would link Boston with East Boston. The old house in Florida Missouri where Mark Twain was born was demolished. Trondhjem Norway marks its nine hundredth founding anniversary. Washington directory lists 49 George Washingtons 7 Martha Washingtons 19 Mary Washingtons. Delaware peach crop projected under 500000 baskets this year vs 1 million last season. Granite quarries at Concord New Hampshire halted work during a heat spell. Yang Yu China’s minister to the U.S. introduced his wife to Washington society. Virginia secession convention survivors to write recollections for the Virginia Historical Society. Missouri doctors face crackdown on bogus diplomas amid health board actions. London hospital for women now all female staff five surgeons among 90 operations only two deaths. John Crown longtime Philadelphia post office employee 54 years on same route. Charles Sumner served nearly 34 years on same post route. Rev R A Hrockway Egyptian Exploration Society secretary returns from Egypt with discovery of a bent built over 4500 years old. A New York naturalist notes 170 wild bird feather varieties seen in women’s hints 40 species 32 protected by law under 25 dollar fine. Bishop Creighton dons miter and cope at London confirmation first Protestant bishop to attend since Reformation.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Patrick Dolan district president of the miners organization was arrested by order of Thomas P. de Armitt for riot and unlawful assembly as he led 500 miners toward the De Armitt mines. Additional leaders were named. a large gathering formed at Camp Determination Turtle Creek to press for action with planned major meeting at McCrea's school house.
Simia Aug 2 Maulvi Sidayat Ra soul recently arrested at Lucknow for insulting Queen Victoria and the British government at a Mohammedan meeting. He had gone to congratulate the sultan on victories over Greece and stated that without the sultan's forbearance the old woman's ribs would have been broken years ago. He is sentenced to one year in prison.
In Scottdale Pennsylvania on Saturday night William Cummings leader of nonunion workers was shot dead in front of the Commercial hotel as strikers clashed with nonunion men brought by the Scottdale Iron and Steel company. One nonunion man James Dolan was arrested and Coroner Owens presided over the inquest. Hubbs, a former roller for the company, was arrested after witnesses described the fatal shot. Authorities fear continued rioting and bloodshed as tensions rise between striking and nonunion factions.
Charles Warren Spalding, former president of the Globe Savings Bank, was found guilty of embezzlement by a Chicago jury. The verdict was returned before Judge Norton, with the fate awaiting the supreme court and potential pardon. Conviction stems from hypothecating $28,000 in bonds to obtain a $25,000 loan while treasurer of the state University.
Prof Arion, real name McDonald, died after a bicycle act on a 75 foot high wire at a Hela festival in Ridgewood park Brooklyn. A pedal failure caused the bike to topple and pull an electrical wire, fracturing ribs and causing fatal injuries despite hospital care.
Thomas Cushing, 33, of Cleveland, attempted self destruction by cutting his throat at a boarding house. He then leapt from a mirror and fell 50 feet to a hospital engine room roof, crashing through a skylight and iron bar before landing. He survived but is not expected to live.
Four Carlisle residents died in a river drowning as a husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Gram Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Abner Morris, were seen bathing. Clothes were found on the river bank, and authorities believe a cramp may have struck one of the women, leading to a fatal chain of drownings during a Sabbath outing near Terre Haute.
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