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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1901
Page
3
In a late edition report a suspect was questioned after a missing sum and purse vanished. A search of the room and yard located the money under the sidewalk and the purse in the water closet. Authorities expect to identify the culprit soon.
Captain J. T. Davidson departs after weeks with his family to report for duty in New York City aboard the transport Ingalls as quartermaster bound for Manila. Firefly carries him to the port for preparations before he sails again, a move friends hail as a reward for proven skill and promising service.
A Sunday report claimed a YMCA team would play a baseball game that day but the claim was inaccurate. The YMCA had no regular win and would not schedule a Sunday game, though scrimmages occurred in the past.
The New York financier Henry Clews and his wife dined cashless and borrowed time. Clearing the bill, Clews pledged his gold watch as payment until he could send funds from home.
Frank Brive Daisy Shepard of this city and Myrtle Pierce of Fruitland were arrested for fast driving and cruelty to animals. The trio allegedly overdriven a horse owned by Wm. Welk, causing severe injuries. the horse may die. Daisy Shepard was fined 100 dollars plus costs, Myrtle Pierce 56 dollars plus costs, both unable to pay and committed to the county hospital. Myrtle Pierce’s relatives reportedly live in Fruitland. Harry Phillips faces cruelty charges for overdriving a horse from Pred Bowman’s barn. trial set for next Thursday as the horse’s condition remains grave.
The Church of the Living God begins a camp meeting at Park Place near the street car line. Services run daily through July 1 with morning and evening sessions. Speakers include Rev A J Kilpatrick Payne Ohio Rev J Van Landen Chicago and Geo Martin Clinton laws plus others expected to attend.
Army company C prepares to leave for Dubuque tomorrow morning. Trunks are packed and blue uniforms pressed for a week's use as the unit assembles at 9 o clock and departs at 10 20 on a Rock Island special train.
Rumor reports a horsewhipping incident last evening in the city center. A woman allegedly attacked her husband and a young woman he rode with, while details remain unclear.
Local shoppers see Crescent bicycles at M. N. Bonds and large 14x20 pictures for 10 cents at Scheetzs. Emory McChesney of Toolsboro and F M Mulberry of Columbus Junction travel in on the Firefly. Wickless blue flame stoves from Henry Butz attract buyers. Nevins returns from Burlington on the Firefly. Fred Edwards visits on business. A good man is sought to chop pine wood for Mississippi Box Co. Mrs L Hacker travels to Chicago on the Firefly. Hon H E Weaver of Wapello visits on business. Nathan Hoefflin welcomes a daughter born July 21 weighing nine pounds.
Philadelphia Inquirer reports Rev Matthew P. O'Brien pastor of St Charis in Keilyville tracing his lineage back 130 generations from Adam, through Milesius and Brian Boru to 1014, claiming a 5995 year world creation timeline and noting Man Porvimhe as Ireland’s ancient monarch.
The 1901 river danger report cites many wrecks from 1896 to 1900 with losses ranging from a few thousand to over sixty thousand dollars. The May 27 note records the City of Paducah snagging near Brunkhorst Landing with about twenty lives lost and the Diamond Jo line steamer Dubuque striking a stump near Burling ton Iowa with no injuries and hull repairs planned.
Four thousand cigarmakers and 2000 allied workers announce a strike to start tomorrow in Tampa Florida The move targets a single firm and seeks to impose wage scales The dispatch also notes local social updates including a Davenport family trip and Burlington visits and features a quip about a cigarette in a jokey aside
Washington July 22 Commander Wainwright head of the naval academy enters the dispute over Maclay's third volume on the Spanish American War. He says the volume has not been adopted by Annapolis. Admiral Evans adds remarks on Schley and the Santiago affair citing missing code signals supposedly withheld from him.
Market reports list grain flour and meal prices, hay values, live stock quotes, vegetables fruits and dairy items with varied per unit rates. Included are eggs butter lard and coffee prices along with fish prices and a note on a Lehigh Valley Exposition Express train schedule.
Very favorable round trip fares are offered to New York via Burington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway. Prospective buyers should contact agents for full particulars or write to Jno G Farmer Cedar Rapids Iowa. Advert says call for details and address.
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