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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1889
Page
7
Gen Hastings announces a coordination plan for dam repairs after the collapse fears. Contractors in Pittsburgh Altoona and Johnstown to deploy hundreds of workers with Col Douglas supervising engineering tasks and five divisions handling gorge sections and rail route reinforcements.
General Hastings assumes supreme command after a night of strike with Booth and Flynn over pay and rationing for enthusiastic but restless laborers at the Johnstown ruins. Flynn refuses to aid, demands larger contracts, and threatens mass walkouts unless authorities yield to 6,000 to 10,000 workers within days. The crisis compounds as a fallen flood body and a missionary’s fate also surface amidst ongoing relief efforts.
Comptroller Onahan denies a Chicago to Pittsburg fund transfer claim. He states the $17,000 remains in Pittsburg and the committee approved the work. Outside money will be used by the state for relief of the destitute.
The article details urgent orders for food and fresh bread in the Beluged Valley, with steps taken by General Spensia at Jobootown. It notes rapid fulfillment, labor mobilization, and ongoing funding for relief efforts, including railway and bridge work across the Juniata valley, affecting Pennsylvanian lines and traffic restoration plans.
A June 13 fire at Treat & Co s elevator in Grinnell Iowa sparked a blaze that swept the southwest business district. Despite aid from Brooklyn and Marshalltown the flames destroyed forty one business houses with losses around 160000 and insurance of 15000. Stocks were saved in the park under guard. Heaviest losses include Treat Co Bowler Bros Herald and Morrison McIntosh J G Johnson Co and others.
In St Paul Minnesota on June 10 a sensational divorce suit begins in Washington county court. Ex Senator Sabin sues his wife Sabin alleging habitual drunkenness and morphine use before and during their marriage. The woman, once a famed society hostess in Washington, faces a public, private collapse amid scandal and private asylum care. The case unfolds amid high society scrutiny.
Emma Bond, once an invalid and respected schoolteacher near Taylorville, married C E Justus, a Hepler Kansas wool merchant, after a secret ceremony in St Louis last October. The couple planned to reside in Kansas, traveling from Taylorville to Soula before heading to Justus’s home state.
The June 12 cabinet session in Wasaisatoa City lasted an hour with Proctor Tracy and Attorney General Miller present. The Department of Justice was represented by Solicitor General Chapman. Secretary Rusk returned from Wisconsin. the Samoan treaty dominated discussions.
Anti-ministerial riots broke out in Ghent and Lingbo yesterday with clashes between protesters and police. Numerous injuries were reported as demonstrations extended to Brussels and other cities.
Michael Cronin a laborer from the city’s east side threw a heavy tea cup at his wife during a Sunday incident. The cup struck the couple’s 18 month old child who was in the woman’s arms, and the infant died late Sunday night.
The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring separate but equal railway accommodations for blacks and whites. Other notices report agriculture: June crop condition notes for winter wheat oats and barley with small changes across regions.
A Texas district court decision favors the state in the case against the Southern Pacific Railroad to recover half of lands acquired since 1876. If upheld, 15 million acres could have unsettled titles and trigger widespread litigation, alarming real estate interests statewide. In Cincinnati the jury foreman George Jennings admits perjury in a liquor case and seeks punishment.
A set of terse rail timetable fragments listing lines and destinations such as Chicago to Minneapolis, Trenton Missouri, Kansas City, Denver, Council Bluffs, and Kansas City. notes include east and northward departures with times like 6:00 and 7:00, and sparse line references.
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