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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
1
Paris is heated as ex Captain Dreyfus appeals to Prime Minister Waldeck Rousseau dated December 26 asserting innocence and calling for inquiry. The letter sparks fear of a revival of the long contested case and potential court hearing.
Kansas City reports Pat Crowe has twice stayed in the city police cell while under suspicion in the Cudahy kidnapping case. The account chronicles a career marked by robberies, jail escapes, and multiple arrests from Chicago to Denver and Milwaukee, with transfers and trials through 1890s.
Eight entries with dark horses compete for Nebraska's senatorial race, including D. E. Thompson Lincoln, George D. Meiklejohn, Edward Rosewater Omaha, Lorenzo Crounse Fort Calhoun, E. H. Hinshaw Fairbury, E. J. Hainer Aurora, L. D. Richards Fremont, and F. M. Currie Sargent. Friends push G. A. Murphy Beatrice, M. P. Kinkaid Broken Bow, and D. H. Mercer Omaha. Most expect a drawn out contest though Rosewater backs a quick finish.
Des Moines reports the resignation of Arthur L. Rule from the role of assistant inspector general effective January 1. Major John T. Hume, with eighteen years in military affairs and a former Fifty-first Iowa major who served in the Philippines, is recommended to fill the vacancy. He currently serves as chief clerk to Adjutant General Byers in Des Moines.
George Henry of Oto sues James Lawin owner of an Oto flour mill in district court for 1600 dollars claiming his 5 year old daughter Cecil May died after being caught by an exposed tumbling rod driving the power shaft. The suit cites the rod as being outside the mill and unprotected when the child played near the machinery.
Cedar Falls announces the Williams Manufacturing Company has filed articles of incorporation for 18500 dollars for twenty years. The firm will produce overalls gloves and workmen's blouse clothes and engage in wholesale and retail trade of related materials.
The St Louis chief of police announced he would raid prize fights if they were attempted tonight as advertised, signaling law enforcement readiness to intervene.
Atchison Globe notes a father gifts a ring engraved with Mary for his daughter on Christmas. The daughter learns the name has been forgetfully misremembered as Mae and feels offense. The reflection highlights sensitive family moments during the season.
Des Moines reports the first test of Titus biennial election amendment will be heard in Washington county district court. M. W. Bailey, county attorney elect, sues incumbent S. W. Brookhart, both Republicans. Brookhart seeks to resign. case aims to be decided before the Iowa Supreme Court session opens January 15.
Paris declares that luminous points observed north of the Icarian Sea are sunset reflections on Martian clouds. He doubts Martians are signaling Earth while we seek them but sees potential for interplanetary communication. He backs reproducing the Great Bear outline at several European cities.
Carrie Nation, national W C T U figure, attacked the Carey hotel saloon in Wichita with stones, destroying mirrors and paintings. She was jailed on malicious destruction charges as part of a broader prohibitionist push.
A woman damaged a painting titled Cleopatra at the Roman Bath and smashed mirrors in a saloon. The artwork valued at 500 dollars and mirrors at 400 dollars were destroyed as owners Mathan Bros. estimate total damage above 2,000 dollars. She was taken to the station after officers arrived and sought Governor Stanley for help.
London reports Kitchener’s Pretoria return signaling a possible Cape Colony crisis end, but scarce South Africa dispatches suggest Boer activity stems from an organized plan to keep the war alive. At Vryburg two large Boer commandos with many wagons trek westward, believed bound for German West Africa.
Chicago detectives after twenty four hours seized Della Jones and George Heiss, alleged members of the Murray gang, at the central station. Hundreds of yards of valuable silks were recovered and taken to headquarters, with Jones seen as key in the chain of evidence against Bloomington Red Murray and others.
Davenport police searched all night for Harry Robinson Carter of Astoria Alabama who escaped from Mercy hospital where he was committed as an insane patient on Christmas Eve. Carter is about 40, five foot eight with a deformity in one leg causing him to walk on his toe.
Indianapolis police closed the hunt for the so called blond woman after W. H. Smythe said he was shot in his office yesterday and the prevailing theory now holds he attempted death by his own action rather than an outside assault.
Washington on December 28 reports McDonald, who killed Auditor Morris, is improving enough that friends plan to raise a defense fund.
At West Point on December 28 the Military Court of Inquiry heard Horace C. Booz of Buffalo and P O Phillips of East Cleveland as chief witnesses. Booz defended his brother Oscar L Booz against cowardice claims and denied lack of mental capacity for academy exams. He said he had not seen Oscar at the academy in 1898 and cited letters describing hazing and illness.
A false report claimed forty nine children drowned near Foster Iowa triggering widespread alarm across Iowa and adjoining states. Train crew reportedly started the joke and editors and telegraph offices chased confirmation as the rumor spread before being debunked.
Indianapolis December 28 William HL Smythe grand secretary of the state Masonic organizations was shot three times in the head in his office. A unknown woman fired the shots and fled leaving no witnesses. Smythe remained conscious briefly then lapsed into critical condition. Dr Elmer E Smythe his son offered no identification of the assailant. Attorney A B Coleman discovered the scene and noted the gunpowder odor.
Warren Beckwith, husband of Lincoln's granddaughter, returned to Creston Iowa and resumed his clerical work after a Christmas visit to Chicago. He denies divorce rumors and says he and his wife are devoted. a Cres ton house has been rented and his wife will join him later this week.
Sydney Miller the 7 year old son of Samuel Dr. Miller and grandson of former U S Attorney General W H H Miller was recovered Thursday morning. They were found in Lawrence sleeping in a stranger's home and the mother surrendered the boy at daylight. no arrest was made.
Adolph Boeh line of Omaha loses a daughter while visiting Creston Iowa. Two doctors blame diphtheria and croup respectively. Public funeral planned but neighbor protests grow violent prompting authorities to intervene.
A clay bird shooting event will be held on the levee this Saturday, December 29, with participants expected to turnout for the match.
Chicago reports indicate a fair night and Saturday for Iowa with warmer conditions on Saturday. Northwest section expected to stay warmer tonight.
St Paul Minnesota December 28 reports indicate a strike by Northern Pacific telegraph operators appears imminent as the company sends men west for emergency readiness. George Hampton press committeeman says the grievance committee knows of precautionary steps.
Vienna reports Wisnitz was wiped out by a blaze that consumed six hundred houses and claimed forty six lives leaving the town in ruins.
Miss Ida Blackman a 23 year old domestic and her lover Will McConnell a 28 year old barber both swallowed morphine in a suicide pact in Decatur Illinois. They planned to die together after a walk Tuesday evening. Dr Hill saved McConnell. Blackman remains in critical condition and both persist in their intent.
Chicago December 28 By the annual report of State Factory Inspector Louis Arrington placed with Governor Tanner it is shown that girls and boys of tender years crowd out grown men and women as factory employees. The inspector presents full figures on child employment and urges broader more thorough and efficient child labor laws.
John Howard Jones, longtime agent for the Northwestern Associated Press in Chicago from 1868 to 1875 and for the Western Californian Associated Press for much of that period, died at his Chicago home aged 64. He was famed for his Chicago fire reports and long served as superintendent of the West Division postal division. Herlen N Higinbotham to quit Marshell Field Co. after forty years, retiring Jan 1 due to need of rest, not dispute.
A Pere Marquette wreck near Northville on December 28 dismantled engine 174 and spilled three cars of sugar and merchandise. A north bound freight entering the siding collided with a south bound train. air brakes failed. No injuries reported and the track was clear by 9 o'clock.
W I Dean alias W H Carr is detained in Sherbrooke Que as ICC reports he is wanted at Hinton Ia for absconding as an agent of the Great Northern Express company. A company representative is due Wednesday to press extradition proceedings.
Calcutta reports a boiler explosion today that killed eight and injured many. The incident occurred in the city as responders work to tend the wounded and determine the cause.
Five Arctic quests funded by wealth and government authority will launch next summer to discover the north pole. The expedition leaders include an American, a Russian, a Canadian, an Italian, and a Norwegian.
A late Nome Alaska report lists coal at 70 cents per ton hay at 200 per ton flour at 2 25 per sack and notes some residents feed bread to horses as a cheaper option than hay.
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