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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
10
A bold ad touts an all steel cooking stove range with bottom top sides and insides. It proclaims the unit the greatest in its line and highlights availability of the Peerless model.
The congressional committee opened hearings on seated Utah claimant B H Roberts and Montana Senator Clark bribery charges. Roberts argued constitutional rights and moral capacity of constituents to determine his seat while Carlisle warned of polygamy implications. The panel adjourned with Roberts set to resume at ten a m.
Gov. Pingree pressed a bill to aid sick and indigent Spanish war veterans with 75 000 dollars after the 184 000 dollar fund was exhausted. The senate backed relief, but the house delayed immediate effect by one vote. A concurrent resolution urged covering lawful Ingham county expenses from the audit fund. The session neared end as investigations question salaries paid to state livestock official J H Brown.
Gen Otis announces the successful Northwest Luzon operation restoring all American prisoners including Lieut Gilmore. Col Hare and Lieut Col Howze arrived at Vigan with the captives, praised as remarkable. Navy reports seize Sibutu island near Borneo, with local sultanate affairs noted.
In Yates Center Kansas six men raided Neosho Falls after midnight storming J Bishop store. Two broke the front door while four guarded. They used explosives, finishing in 49 minutes and escaped with $1,000 in cash and other loot. No shots were fired. Local guards with guns blocked citizens from intervening.
A Thursday night blaze in West Lafayette destroys a livery stable, killing John Lynch who slept there. Twenty one horses perish, the Record newspaper plant is wrecked, six horses are saved, and adjoining buildings suffer some damage. The fire’s origin is unknown.
Muncie Indiana January 6 The Commercial block a four story brick hotel in Portland owned by George Hill of Chicago and occupied by Landlord Borden was totally destroyed by fire Friday. The loss is five thousand dollars with thirty five hundred dollars insurance.
A mob seized W W Watt from Newport News station house and shot him to death tied to a tree near the city edge after identifying him as the man who assaulted Mrs T M Simpson. Up to 40 bullets struck the body as thousands gathered. no arrests yet, grand jury due next month. Also Secretary Gage faces delay in sending bank and New York site documents to Congress due to copying hundreds of files.
Four quarrymen on the Tennessee Central railroad near Rockwood tried to thaw a frozen stick of dynamite. The blast killed Joseph Gleason and fatally injured three others, two dying within hours. In Milwaukee, Hiram Smith, president of the Manufacturers’ Bank and early Fox River paper mill pioneer, dies at 70.
Vintage patent medicine ad claims quick cure for lagrippe with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Money-back guarantee if ineffective. Signed by E. W. Grove on each box. Price 25 cents.
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