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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1901
Page
2
Cedar Rapids dispatch reports a Republican convention showdown as Cummins faces a united opposition. Contests loom in Jackson Carroll and Polk counties to strip Cummins of votes, with credentials and floor battles likely to decide the nomination.
Herman Hohn aged nineteen son of Chris Hohn, a farmer near Audubon, was killed Sunday night after tying a 25 foot rope to a horse. The rope snagged his foot, the horse bolted, dragging him through barb wire fences for about 100 yards. He died before medical help arrived. this is the second son the family lost to accident in a few years.
Marshalltown August 6 officials of the Iowa Central railroad deny any current plan to consolidate with the Minneapolis and St. Louis. They say the $25,000,000 bond authorization will fund improvements and extensions to make the Iowa Central a first class road, with consolidation only possible later when the Iowa Central is as valuable as the Minneapolis and St. Louis.
Des Moines Iowa August 6 By enforcement of an eviction order John Halpin has removed his ex wife and her son from the Halpin house ending a twenty year family division marked by a chalk line. The couple divorced twenty years ago with a decree giving the man the homestead and the woman residence elsewhere. The line kept them apart until the son crossed it and the old man served ejectment papers.
Washington reports Terence Evans nicknamed Fighting Bob faced charges by ex secretary of the navy and former Senator Chandler. Chandler accuses Evans of conduct unbecoming and seeks a court of inquiry to probe clashes over Evans memoir A Sailor's Log and Chandler’s Navy Department leadership.
The Diamond Jo Line offers excursion tickets to Clinton and return for 1.25 on the M. V. Spiritalists convention. Sale starts today and runs to August 25, with tickets valid through August 31. For meal and berth details contact W G Block, agent, Muscatine Iowa.
Des Moines Aug 6 reports for the week ending Aug 5 show temperatures 1 to 5 degrees above normal with a 12 degree drop from the prior week. Cooler, humid, and July rains largely ended drought, boosting corn prospects though early planted areas suffered loss for fodder. Late corn tassels appear healthy. merchantable yield depends on weather, frosts, and fodder savings. Threshing returns look encouraging. pasture and immature crops improve. more rain needed.
Justice Bryant heard Mrs Mary A Smith describe her husband’s warm evenings away from home. She followed him to Lake Manawa where a pretty woman rode in his motor car and they swam at Manhattan beach. The judge said he cannot issue such an injunction and offered plain home advice, leaving the wife to depart with a compliment to the wisdom of Solomon.
Four decades ago miners in the Good Hope district faced starvation after supplies ran out. George Dean of Canton Ohio died after 43 days of hardship while Jack Houston and Joseph G Thiery of Davenport Iowa nearly died. Houston and Thiery allegedly cut and cooked their dead companion’s thigh before help arrived in Nome.
A J Cottingham of Lockland Arkansas visited his sister in Washington county and fell ill with flux. He used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and credits it with a prompt cure. He wrote the manufacturers praising the medicine. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
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