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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1902
Page
1
Sanitary work is being neglected at present. The notice warns of unsanitary conditions and calls for immediate cleanup actions. Public health officials urged local crews to address filth and sanitation lapses to prevent health hazards.
Havana reports deteriorating sanitary conditions with neglected streets plumbing and choking sewers. The death rate in the first month of Cuban government shows a marked rise from prior occupancy.
J W Collins of Helena police reports that Harry Tracy the Oregon bandit grew up nearby in Cokato area. Collins says Tracy learned rifle and pistol handling on farms and once struck apples mid air. Tracy left home after nearly killing an elderly man over cattle and later worked as a cook in Helena restaurants and dabbled in ventures before heading to Oregon.
William Carter, mate of the steamer Washburn, was crushed between the propeller shaft and wheel at Washburn. He was beneath the shaft removing a fouled log when a current swung the wheel and trapped him. He died after hours of struggle, leaving a wife and child.
The Forty-ninth regiment Iowa national guard encampment will begin at Cedar Falls on Wednesday. Adjutant general has forwarded camp trappings to the site though equipment is in poor condition after the Fonda camp was flooded this week.
The Manila dispatch reports a full scale cholera epidemic in Pangasinan with eighteen towns affected and rising deaths. Authorities impose strict quarantine and limit food options contributing to local suffering.
Dispatches from Cienfuegos report a general strike by butchers bakers and coachmen beginning this morning in Havana disrupting commerce and transportation throughout the area.
A blaze in Nice today destroyed six blocks of stores causing losses estimated at one million francs. Fire crews fought the flames as authorities investigated the cause and assessed the extent of damage to the downtown commercial district.
Rumor says the Chicago and Northwestern will extend from Anamosa Kansas to Parkersburg Iowa covering sixty miles via Walker and Waterloo. Construction would begin after the Clinton bridge over the Missouri River is rebuilt, a project currently heavily taxed and slated for enlargement.
A Montana official reports a plan to build a 700 mile wire fence along the Montana Canada boundary. The project aims to curb cattle smuggling after numerous cattle were seized by Canadian authorities. Cost is cited in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a joint Canadian American effort.
Joseph Stodela sustained probable fatal head injuries when an emery wheel exploded at Lach's planing mill in Cedar Rapids Iowa this morning. The accident occurred July 15 as advised by Special.
Ottumwa reports Des Moines River at eighteen feet and rising with eighty four families displaced. Rail service disrupted as Rock Island and Iowa Central traffic halted. Burlington trains detoured via Wabash. Skunk River washes out Iowa Central bridge approaches at Oskaloosa and washes away Searsboro bridge. What Cheer towns suffer nine buildings washed away. Keokuk flooding affects crops and levee breaches. Clark county may see quadrupled losses.
Rescue teams report additional fatalities at the coal mine near the earlier incident site as the death toll rises and investigators assess new hazards.
Officials refuse details after an explosion at Berlin White company mine 32 near Windber. The event is suspected as a serious accident with at least twenty miners still unaccounted for in the Rolling Mill mine. A local pastor notes many congregation members are missing and feared buried.
Seattle dispatch reports outlaw Tracy exchanging gunfire with two deputies at the Palmer schoolhouse Sunday night. A message via Emm enclaw says Tracy lured officers to Palmer, moved toward Emmenclaw, rode a freight to Palmer, and is believed heading toward Stampede Pass as a posse with dogs pursues from Kawasaka to Buckley.
Three youths died in separate swimming accidents in Sioux City on Sunday. Archie Housington, 16, drowned at Crystal Lake after the boat he was pushing sank him. Roy Blair, 18, and two companions attempted to swim to West Fork Creek when Blair tired and drowned. Harry Goodrich, 18, drowned in Wolf Creek after cramps seized him.
Delegates to the national miners convention begin arriving in Indianapolis as President Mitchell is among early arrivals. The prevailing view among attendees is that a strike of bituminous miners will be ordered.
Mrs. Hannah Lavellur was admitted to $1,500 bail at Newton awaiting grand jury action for the alleged murder of her husband in Des Moines Iowa on July 15.
Surveyors work near Newton to connect the Colfax line with the Polk interurban, providing Iowa Central access to Des Moines. The project advances toward bridging Des Moines with Colfax via an electric interurban network.
Des Moines reports say ex governor F M Drake of Centerville cleared about a million on a Chicago corn deal while his son John A Drake, a short in the same trade, lost heavily. General Drake denies involvement and threatens libel action as incentives shift with a 15 cent price drop. He is a wealthy financier with Drake University founded in Des Moines.
Ernest Homann of Dorans, Illinois, nearly lost 5000 to two confidence men posing as IL H Johnston of Charleston. He won 5000 but was forced to show cash. police seized fake money and pursued the swindlers as he left for Mattoon.
Moravia Iowa July 15 the Thirty sixth Iowa infantry has chosen Moravia for its biennial reunion to be held over two days in September likely the 17th and 18th Judge M Fee of Centerville is president of the Twenty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry association under whose auspices the reunions are conducted
Consul General Bragg says a quoted line about Uncle Sam making a whistle from a pig tail was wholly unwarranted and that he was not expecting publication. He telegraphed Washington to clarify the misquotation and explained the remark referred to evaluating an Anglo-Saxon Cuba. Havana reports say Cuba will take no action on the Bragg incident.
Four masked men robbed a Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge train at Mill Switch two miles east of Chester. They blew open safes in the express car struck the engineer with a rifle and forced passengers to surrender valuables before fleeing toward Marshall Pass on horseback.
Copenhagen reports Marconi successfully transmitted a wireless message to Pidhu from Capenkagen Denmark covering about 500 miles marking a major long distance link in wireless communication.
In Davenport Iowa yesterday the B C R N station at Brady street was closed and operations will be moved to the Rock Island line at Fifth street station and its freight house. Report says Rock Island will retain the Brady street depot for use as a storehouse with a future dignified designation.
The National amateur golf championship began today at Glenview links with pleasant weather and an superb course. T Gose carded 64 the best score of the day and will enter match play tomorrow. Western hopes rest on Walter Egan of the Glenview club as its strongest contender.
Soldiers in Chicago prepare Gatling guns for use as tensions rise in the city. Commanders oversee ammunition stocks and drill demonstrations amid mounting security concerns downtown.
Chicago July 15. The strike situation remains largely unchanged as four gatling guns arrive from Ft. Sheridan to deter trouble. Riot erupted at Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight houses with one teamster injured and eleven arrests for blocking traffic. About 3,000 residents clashed with West Side police for an hour while Western Electric teams tried to move freight. Railroad managers again rejected peace terms offered by employee committees.
The yacht Arab Four owned and sailed by J H Cameron capsized in a lake squall near Chicago. Two passengers May Taylor and Edward Haskins drowned. Cameron and six other passengers were rescued by a tug.
Miss Balluff of this city and Miss Elliott of West Liberty won second prizes in the Journal's Great Vacation Contest. The Journal will pay all expenses for a trip on the steamer Quincy to St Paul and return with a possible stopover in the north. The boat was the Diamond fleet's Quincy, with many passengers from St Louis and river points. The young ladies may extend their trip to about ten days or more.
Chicago July 15 special indications for Iowa suggest generally fair weather tonight and Wednesday. Warmer conditions expected in northern portions tonight.
The king left Victoria station bound for Portsmouth to board the royal yacht this morning. He was carried in a closed ambulance with the queen beside him. the depot was cleared and only doctors and attendants witnessed the departure. The royal train reached Portsmouth in the afternoon and the king was moved aboard the yacht to sail directly for Cowes.
Seattle reports the body of convict David Merrill, who escaped Salem with Harry Tracy, was found near the poor farm as Tracy claimed Merrill attacked him. Authorities believe Tracy killed Merrill in cold blood after the escape.
Des Moines reports director Sage of the Iowa weather and crop service optimistic about a bumper small grain harvest after earlier fears. Rain and wind damaged some low land crops, but recent favorable weather and dried fields have allowed harvesting to progress. Corn yields should rebound with normal weather, oats damaged by lodging, and rust noted on spring wheat. Hay may recover. rot in early potatoes and wind damage to apples also noted.
A river steamer sank at Warsaw on July 15 and thirty people were drowned. The disaster occurred as passengers and crew were aboard, prompting a swift search for survivors and casualty reports.
July corn prices fell after the market opened with Liberal offerings pushing prices down. The Gates Harris group claimed no harm from the decline and predicted a return to previous highs, while prices closed near day lows with September and December futures also sliding.
Special market dispatch shows wheat corn oats pork and livestock futures with July to December contracts, prices, and shifts. Chicago hogs and cattle receipts and carloads moving, with Liverpool and Northwest receipts and weather outlook for Iowa Illinois Kansas Nebraska Indiana Ohio.
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