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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1900
Page
15
Clearing sale at the Boston Store offers deep cuts on dress goods silk jackets capes shawls undergarments hosiery blankets and rugs. All wool dress goods priced at 39c and 49c and plaids at 25c and 50c with samples available.
The Boston Store advertises half price jackets with prices dropping from 22.00 to 8.00 and 5.00, in colors black castor navy brown and more. It also unveils fifty collarettes scarf collars and related items priced from 2.00 to 15.00 and 1.00 to 12.50 as stock clears.
With an excess stock for the season the Boston Store advertises ladies fleeced vests and drawers from 18 to 37 12c, gents fleeced at 39 and 50c, and boys and girls fleeced shirts and drawers from 10 to 35c plus all wool vests and drawers at 18 to 39c.
Fully three hundred pairs of blan kets in stock to be slaughtered. Great, large, extra heavy blankets at 50c and 59c, worth 75c and 85c. All-wool blankets at 1.98, 2.48, 3.25 and 4.50, worth up to 6.50. Elegant white blankets, worth 7.00 and 8.00 pair, to close out, at 5.00 and 5.50 pair, at the Boston Store. Carpets are Cheap. To clean up stock we will offer all-wool carpets at 39c, 45c and 50c, and choice in grain carpets at 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c and 39c yard. Good style moquette carpets at 75¢ yard. Rugs at reduced prices. The Boston Store.
This week offers about one hundred elegant wool waists in latest styles and all colors including black. Prices reduced by 25 percent to close out. Come see the waists for little money.
London reports Gen. French's success in crushing Boer resistance and seizing Colesburg with troopers and artillery. Descriptions detail night maneuvers turning the Boer right, pursuit eastward, and capture of wagons and stores, while noting limited British losses.
New York January 2 Kid McCoy defeats Peter Maher in a brisk five round bout at Coney Island Athletic Club. The fight ends with a devastating left to the jaw and is hailed as one of the cleanest knockouts in ring history amid a smaller than expected crowd and a purse totaling twenty thousand dollars to be split on gross gate receipts.
The French parliamentary opposition and agriculturists mobilize against the Franco-American commercial treaty. Despite a favorable customs committee report, farmers and industry groups object to minimum tariff concessions for the United States and advantages for American rivals. A motion seeks to postpone ratification until objectionable clauses are altered.
Fire swept the Isham building in Elizabeth New Jersey on January 2 causing an estimated loss of 75000 dollars. The tower floor housed five stores while the upper levels served as offices and a lodge room.
Journey men painters in St. Joseph Missouri won a 20 percent wage increase and an eight hour workday, down from ten, after threats to strike.
A Times dispatch reports Pembina North Dakota recorded the coldest day of the winter at 34 below zero. In Lima Ohio on January 2 a gas leak asphyxiated Lester Queen, a clothing clerk from Youngstown in a private boarding house.
Vienna reports the death of Milbecker the composer after a paralytic stroke. He had been ill and died Sunday.
A three days convention of the Canadian Furniture Manufacturers Association in Stratford results in the creation of the British American Furniture Company with a $3,000,000 capitalization and an issued charter.
Vorwarts prints a second peace manifesto from the czar urging rulers to pursue global peace and curb sea and land armaments. He laments wartime costs, hopes continued peace conferences, and calls for justice guided by Christian values as the century begins.
Lancaster Pa Jan 2 The continued absence of County Treasurer F H Hershey and circulating rumors of misused funds led to his designation as a defaulter and absconder. Records show a defalcation of 65000 with 1840 on bank deposit and 126840 in books. State tax on money at interest for 1899 totals 84000, leaving a net 21000 payable to the state. Hershey is believed to have fled to Canada.
Richard Croker, staying at a Wantage country house in Berks, slipped when mounting a swerving horse Monday morning and broke his leg. Dr. Emerson is attending and has reduced the fracture. He is resting easily.
York Pa Jan 2 George W Mervel founder of the Improved Order of Heptasophs died suddenly at his Stewartstown home Monday morning. He was aged 75 years. He celebrated his golden wedding on December 12. A Baltimore native, he had lived in this county for 25 years.
In St Louis the Mississippi River has frozen for the first time in years after a week long cold snap. A solid ice sheet stops riverboats and ferries from operating, halting traffic in and out of the city and disrupting river transport services.
The Staten Island rapid transit railroad freight shed at St. George burned on Monday. Six freight cars loaded with merchandise were destroyed. The building measured about 150 by 50 by 40 feet and the loss was about 15000 dollars.
In St Joseph Missouri on January 2 a grate fire at the home of J C Blackburn 1411 Olive street set ablaze the clothing of two children including an infant The mother and the other child were severely burned while attempting to extinguish the flames and the infant died from the injuries.
Wyatt Sharp who escaped last May from the Arkansas penitentiary where he was serving 12 years for murder surrendered to Denver police. Sharp killed B A Whetstone in a Huntington Arkansas fight in 1836.
In Concord New Hampshire on January 2 the grand jury did not return an indictment against Senator Gallinger for alleged civil service law violations tied to soliciting campaign subscriptions from federal officeholders.
Frankfort Kentucky January 2 Senator Goebel was nominated by the senate caucus for president pro tem Claude Desha as chief clerk and William Cromwell as assistant clerk The full slate of Goebel supporters across the state was presented though some details remain unclear due to damaged text.
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