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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
10
A rapid spread fire raged nearly an hour consuming a frame business block. Women aided bucket brigades as flames destroyed multiple structures. Loss pegged at 15000 dollars with only 3000 dollars insured. residents claim the block will be rebuilt in brick.
Surgeon White outlines a strategy to defeat fever as a surge in illness rises. He discusses treatment steps, preventive measures, and the hopes for rapid recovery across affected communities.
Aledo resident M Kinney has been nominated for Congress at the Bushnell event, signaling a significant candidacy in the region. The nomination draws attention from local voters and party members awaiting further confirmation and campaign details.
Bushnell Illinois Republican convention nominates Aledo banker James McKinney on the second ballot to succeed the late B F Marsh in Michigan’s fourteenth district. Balloting shows McKinney ahead 81 to 41 with similar strong shows across Mercer and Henderson counties.
News from Trinidad Colorado reports a flood washing away seven houses in Tabasco and pockets of Austrian and Italian laborers families. The river canyon collapsed the Colorado and Southern line to Berwin and confirmed drownings with rumors of up to 35 deaths.
Alexander Buchanan, secretary of the Northwestern Trust Company, was arrested on a state charge of unlawful business. The office was closed by the sheriff and records are held. Stockholders petitioned for a receiver. victims number in the hundreds across Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The president is Peter B. Jacobs, a farmer near South Omaha. The company is unincorporated and only these two are known to be connected.
A late night blaze destroyed eight buildings including Masonic hall and barber shop. Losses totaled about 15000 with 3000 insured. Fire started around 11 40 p m during an alleged poker game in an empty house and burned for about 55 minutes.
A rear Woodman hall fire in Lettsville Iowa on August 24 destroyed the entire block in 55 minutes. Fire started near poker players, with northeast wind aiding spread, burning homes, a meat market, Odd Fellows hall, barns, and a widow’s dwelling. One family lost all household effects. overall loss near 15000 with 3000 insured.
Chicago August 25 after twelve years of work officials of the World’s Columbian exposition have closed the fair’s affairs. President Harlow N Higinbotham and Secretary H O Edmonds remain officers as 20000 dollars belongs to stockholders not located. Of 5500000 subscribed 14 percent has been returned to stockholders.
E T Rainey of Thompsonville Illinois filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a charge that the Illinois Central Railroad applies lower rates to members of the Central Traffic weighing bureau for poultry cooling ice. Non members are charged on full weight. The railroad has 20 days to answer.
The League of American Municipalities ended its convention in Toledo with Chicago named as the next meeting site. R. G. Rhett of Charleston South Carolina was elected president and John Mac Vicar of Des Moines Iowa was chosen secretary. Debates on municipal ownership were discontinued.
A circular to New York physicians from the New York Post Graduate hospital claims a vegetable fluid acts as a positive cure for consumption. The circular, under professional secrecy, outlines the preparation method and cites vegetables from markets as main ingredients.
Mrs. Laura Oxford aged 32 leaped from a Burlington train on the Eads bridge in St. Louis and drowned in the river after escaping her niece who was taking her back to Texas. Authorities cite nervous trouble as the cause of the self inflicted death.
Adolph Kreis of St Louis sues Miss Mary J Wilson for breach of promise claiming emotional harm after a preacher forced him to part with gifts. Kreis seeks damages and the return of his china cabinet dog and about 25000 dollars. The defendant is described as daughter of a retired Jennings furniture dealer in Clayton county.
Julius Metzer father of two girls drowned at Humboldt last night will be allowed to leave Anamosa where he is serving 25 years for murder to attend the funeral of his daughters. The case was reported from Des Moines Iowa with the authorization granted today by the prison authorities after the tragedy occurred yesterday.
Six thousand Boston union carpenters received higher wages under Judge George T. Wentworth's arbitration decision. Employers and unionists submitted the dispute to the special arbitrator, resulting in a new working agreement.
Chicago dispatch reports special indications for Iowa forecast fair weather and warmer temperatures through tonight and Saturday. Moon rises at midnight, sun up early and evening twilight listed with standard sunrise and sunset times.
Detectives, including Hyde Park investigators and the murder bureau led by Chief Collins and Assistant Chief Schuettler, failed to identify the killer of Mrs Theodore Mize. No arrests, and Mrs F A Wilson prepared to depart but would aid police upon request. A boy found Mrs Mize handbag near Fifty seventh street.
In Escanaba Michigan six women and children were rescued after a daylong search by 200 men. They had wandered since Wednesday, surviving without food or water amid swampy blueberry bogs and dense brush.
Robert A. Mortland and Katharine Zella Harding wed in Iowa City in the parsonage of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Pye. Mortland edits the Montezuma Palladium and Harding taught in Montezuma. They will spend their honeymoon in Chicago.
In Crete’s Retimo district Russian troops clashed with revolutionaries. Russians repulsed near Atispopoulos with 20 soldiers and 20 gendarmes killed. Rebels later retreated to Retimo after ammo runs, with six of their men dead.
Miss Jane Young daughter of a prominent Clinton Illinois family died at the Auditorium hotel after months of ill health. Her mother and three brothers were at her bedside when she passed away in Chicago on August 25.
Mrs. John Mershon wife of a leading Mechanicsville banker died in Iowa City after an attempted foot amputation to ward off blood poisoning. The Aug 25 report notes the special local dispatch.
In Vincennes Indiana on August 25 a race war raid dynamited a negro Baptist church. Bloodhounds track the dynamiters as townspeople fear mass expulsions if any arrests occur.
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