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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
6
The Automatic Wringer is guaranteed by us for five years from purchase for family use. If any part breaks or wears out during that time we will replace some free of charge. It is warranted to fit the smallest article or one that opens the rolls an inch without altering the wheel screw or overstraining the spring. It is praised as the best wringer on the market by users.
Rock Island Route presents personally conducted tourist excursions leaving Chicago each Thursday via Colorado Springs and Scenic Route and Tuesday via Kansas City Fort Worth and El Paso to Los Angeles. Cars attach to fast trains with high popularity. Send for itinerary and free map. for rates and berth reservations contact John Sebastian G P A Chicago.
Water flows from Lake Michigan through the Chicago river the canal and the Des Plaines toward the Gulf of Mexico. The final connection was made at noon when the bear trap dam was lowered allowing the river torrent to join the Des Plaines 300 yards below. Gate lowered after approval by Gov. Tanner to prevent further litigation with St Louis.
A Caracas dispatch says anarchy rules Venezuela as bank directors including Frenchman M Montauban are arrested and jailed in the fortress for refusing to advance government funds Foreign consuls protests are ignored and Caracas calls for the French Atlantic squadron to sail to the coast.
London reports Lord Roberts dispatch from Cape Town dated January 16 says Boer assault on Frenchs advanced post held by New Zealand mounted rifles and First Yorkshires was repulsed. Boers suffered many killed and wounded, with prior long range artillery fire. Public anxiety over Ladysmith advance remains high despite the retreat.
Indianapolis January meeting under John Mitchell records 387 locals organized in 1899 with 90 reorganized, 91,019 members across 931 locals. Largest district No 12 with 27,756 members. smallest No 7 with 241. Receipts $111,663.57, expenses $72,277.52, cash $29,978.52. membership tax income $74,264.70.
President Boldenweck introduced Col Isaac Taylor of the canal commission who said opening the canal begins a larger work linking northern Great Lakes with the Mississippi. Taylor authorized a dam lift. Governor Tanner signed the drainage canal permit at Lockport to raise the gates, amid threats from St. Louis to block the move.
Durban and Pietermaritzburg dispatches claim Boer forces began an artillery duel with a captured British 15 pounder. British gunners silenced it as they pressed a long range bombardment on the Boer kopje and moved another gun to the Coleskopf summit.
Madrid reports Premier Silvela announces ongoing negotiations with the United States toward a peace and friendship treaty, extradition accord, and resumption of normal relations. He notes preliminary steps for a commercial treaty. In Iowa, Gear reelected to Senate. White concedes. Michigan notes Frederick Kimball Stearns presents a 1600-title musical library to the University of Michigan.
General Wood has subscribed for each daily newspaper and ordered monthly bill presentation. He tours the provinces of Pinar del Rio with Generals Lee and Chaffee to inspect conditions and visit smaller towns on a time-limited journey.
Captain Christ mas Dirknich Holmfeld of Denmark visited the state department to discuss selling the Danish West Indies to the United States. He claimed expertise but had no credentials and spoke only as a private informant. Secretary Hay thanked him and said the department would seek his information if needed.
The secretary of war sent to the senate a draft bill by the judge advocate general making it a misdemeanor to refuse a subpoena from a court-martial. The measure seeks to fix a defect in current law and strengthen military justice.
Greenville Tenn January 18 Mrs M Patterson only child of Andrew Johnson is critically ill at her home and not expected to live. She is over 180 years of age.
From Drescen dated January 18 the empress mother dowager duchess of Schleswig Holstein is reported gravely ill with irregular sleep and difficult breathing.
A nine man section gang was run down on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western tunnel near Oxford New Jersey. Two were killed instantly and a third died soon after. The remaining six were seriously hurt.
St Louis report says Charles Dough erty a lineman was killed and Edward Elins and William Kaiser were seriously injured while removing a wire that had crossed an electric light line.
Local citizens share experiences with Morrow's Kid-ne-oids for kidney backache and nervousness. Mrs J J Bowman of 817 East 6th street reports relief and improved sleep after using the yellow tablets sold at drug stores. Manufactured by John Morrow & Co. in Sprinkfield Ohio, price fifty cents per box.
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