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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
4
Advertisement urges use of Scott's Emulsion for failing infant and child appetite. It claims 15 to 20 drops in a bottle, 3–4 times daily, yields marked improvement. Advises consulting a doctor and notes benefits in all seasons.
London dispatches describe a continuing Peking deadlock as Li Hongchang awaits imperial edict to appoint new negotiators. Rumors tie Sir Robert Hart to European talks while Prince Ching returns to Beijing amid shifting foreign control of Li’s palace and the French quarter. In Washington, Hill reports no Chinese developments and Tokyo notes the royal family’s push for a legitimate foreign representative to settle affairs.
Dispatches report rebels seizing Turbaco near Carthagena and damaging railway lines as Colombian conflict tightens. A Cordoba troopship arrives amid heavy fighting. reports from Kingston and Calvi note ship movements and a brief Kaiser Wilhelm sighting near the Deutschland in a closely followed sea chase.
Harry Forbes of Chicago and Casper Leon of New York fought a twenty round draw at Lake Contrary near St. Joseph Missouri Thursday. Other items note Newport auto races success and Gans McVadden six rounds in Philadelphia with Gans slight edge. Stinson sets two hours' riding world record at Charlee River Dark.
Rev. Cravath former Fisk University president dies in Minnesota after 22 years in office. Captain Joseph Anderson of United States Glass Co. dies in Pittsburgh after brief illness. John MacDonald Basin Montana mining veteran dies in Cataract District, age unspecified. William J. Morgan Buffalo trailer of New York state dies in Albany after brief illness. Zack Montgomery former assistant attorney general under Cleveland dies in Los Angeles after several days’ illness. Thompson Kingsford head of Kingsford Starch and business leader dies after short illness, age 78. Charles Ruesgil acrobat and clown once with P. T. Barnum’s show identified after Wednesday death in St. Louis hotel. W. K. Mynwell Missouri Kansas railroad baggage agent dies in Heaton on Wednesday during hospital visit for appendicitis.
Iowa news brief notes W N Birdsell of Waterloo nominated for congress by Democrats in the Third Iowa district. Population figures show Sioux City decline since 1890, Davenport growth, and Des Moines events recount crime and political notices. Also reports on Dr Josiah L Pickard leaving ISU, Cornell College endowment, and labor convention plans in Des Moines.
Des Moines reports the state fair concluded as a highly successful exhibition. Total receipts will exceed $41,000 with $80,000 covering expenses. A surplus of about $18,900 adds to the already healthy $8,270 in the treasury. The event closed with a grand fireworks display.
On the eighth ballot the deadlock in the Republican district convention at Council Bluffs was broken. Orville D. Wheeler of Council Bluffs was nominated for judge of the Fifteenth Iowa District to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter L. Smith. The convention also granted Governor Shaw a memorial request to appoint Mrs Wheeler to the vacancy.
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