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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
3
Col James A. Sexton recalls enlisting at 18 and leading a YMCA regiment. He tells how a beloved girl doubted a young captain's fitness, the farewell at Camp Douglas, and the grand dress parade that crowned his first command. The tale blends romance, duty, and military pride.
A Chicago Times-Herald account relays how a captain along with a dear girl navigates wartime distances a missed understanding and a wound. After confinement aboard an Illinois Central train the lovers reunite once the conflict ends and forgiveness helps restore their relationship.
In Richmond’s Confederate Museum a pistol once worn by Maj James Breathed of Maryland is set among relics from the Petersburg era. The account recalls his charge at Farmville, his rescue of a Union officer, and a later life gift of the weapon to Miss Shepherdstown. Also cited is Gen Horace Porter’s retelling of Lincoln’s sharp dispatch about Grant and the Northern draft.
Ven Adye tu lin notes a dearth of artillery recruits due to height rules. A recruiting sergeant says the Almighty doesn’t make men as ordered. Also a breach of promise suit resumes in North Adams, Masa, involving a retired lover and an overweight party.
Sioux City barber Linn ie Kasson inherits 250 000 after uncle James Knesop dies in Austin Texas. The Inter left 300 000 and Kassons share will be split between Linn ie and brother W F Kasson. Field Day at Hampton features Jackson Cedar Rapids winning 100 yard dash Morrey Fayette College wins high kick running high jump and 16 pound shot. Ed Elder Marshalltown shaves state bicycle record to 12 20. Rockefeller offers gifts to Des Moines Baptist College aiming for 80 000. M C McFarland pardoned after 2 500 citizens petition and legal team support. Des Moines to San Francisco Endeavorers train carries 300 attendees.
Miss Mildred Smith, 18, a graduate of the Vinton school for the blind, wed Melvin A. Mnon, 22, in Webster City after parental objections. The couple reportedly eloped due to class differences and secret nuptials.
Under a recent act of congress Judge Bhiran of Dubuque was appointed United States commissioner for the northern district of Iowa. Appointments include W J Keefe in Dubuque M M Cady in Cedar Rapids James Q Stewart in Fort Dodge W H Johnston in Clarion J A Rogers in Sioux City and Thomas G Henderson in an unspecified location.
News in Brief reports a family and a girl servant killed by lightning at Westfield Friends. Other items note a postal delivery extension postponement, a rich horse named Joknnie breaking neck in Napoleon, a Sioux City sewer pipe building collapse, Keokuk bowling club race results, a Cedar Rapids hanging victim, a drowning during a rescue attempt, a prominent judge's widow passing, a stock trail wreck injuring three, a fatal apoplexy at a wedding trip breakfast, a Burlington boy killed by an electric car, a Knoxville burial of Martha Pyle McMicken, and Eva Scevera chosen general secretary of the Des Moines YWCA.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention nominated Governor Horace L. Chapman and a full ticket including Melville D. Shaw and J. P. Spriggs, with plans for a possible U.S. Senate bid by John M R. McLean and mentions of Paul J. Sorg. The platform endorses the Chicago program, supports free silver at sixteen to one, and rejects gold monometallism while condemning federal bank bonds. Also notes a Cuban resolution and an anti trust plank, plus a separate item about the steamship Mayo rescuing Aden survivors after a jostled wreck near Socotra.
Arthur Gardiner of Chicago broke the world one mile handicap mark at the national bicycle meet held at the state fair grounds in Springfield I on Tuesday. Eight starters included Mertens and Will Coborn. Gardiner won in 8:05 3-5, surpassing the previous record of 2:05 3-5 set by Mertens earlier this year.
Columbus reports a national executive board order for a July 4 general strike by United Mine Workers of America, potentially affecting about 60,000 in Pennsylvania 40,000 in Illinois 3,000 in Ohio and 7,000 in Indiana. officials fear slow progress toward advance. St Louis notes company managers rush to mines and expect a long strike with rising coal prices. Pittsburgh covers joint wage conference failure idling 74,000 to 54,000 workers and clarifies the suspension as neither a strike nor a lockout, with repairs and overhaul timing delaying scales.
Chicago reports a two-section Christian Endeavor excursion train on the Northwestern colliding near West Chicago at 12:45. Four hundred passengers per section rode asleep. three killed and 21 injured as engineer Michael Courtney blamed. Injured taken to St Luke’s Hospital for care. Other items note ferry terminal plans for New York by Baltimore & Ohio, Central of New Jersey, and Philadelphia & Reading, effective July 12.
The president has nominated and the senate has confirmed Hon. John Russell Young of Pennsylvania as librarian of congress with first assistant A J Spofford, who has long served the library. The library now holds nearly 1,000,000 volumes.
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