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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal notes convention dates for Republicans in Philadelphia on June 19, Prohibitionists in Chicago on June 27, Democrats in Kansas City on July 4, and Silver Republicans in Kansas City on July 4. It also lists subscription rates and mailing details for the paper.
The Republican Electors of Iowa will hold a delegate convention in Des Moines on Wednesday August 1 at 11 oclock for nominating candidates for Secretary of State Auditor Treasurer Attorney General Supreme Court Judge Railroad Commissioner Two Electors at Large and one elector per Congressional District. Representation assigns one delegate per county plus one for each two hundred votes or fraction cast for Leslie M Shaw in 1890. WEAVER chairman and C W Phillips secretary announce the plan.
Secretary Root testified the canteen aids the army yet generals and Surgeon General Sternberg condemned it warning it corrupts temperate soldiers and does not curb drinking. The Chicago Advance argues the old fallacy that one bad thing prevents a worse, urging abstinence in military life.
Hon Lafe Young a delegate at large to the Republican national convention backs Maj John F Lacey for vice president saying elimination leaves him as the sole viable candidate. If Lacey is unavailable Young suggests Maj Gen Leonard F Wood governor general of Cuba could strengthen the ticket.
Democrats oppose a proposed constitutional amendment giving Congress power to regulate trusts. The Globe-Democrat says the party denounces trusts in rhetoric but remains opposed to taking practical action on this or any other issue.
Real estate advertisement lists 80 acres near Annondale California for exchange for Muscatine city property or nearby farm land. Includes multiple houses and lots on Eighth Street near Mulberry with 7 to 10 rooms, plus properties on East Sixth, West streets, Newell Street, Lucas Grove Road, East Hill, Park Place, Oak Street, Woodlawn, Cedar Street and Fifth Street. Citywide lots and other lands offered. inquiries welcome for full particulars.
A surge of fires is linked to electric light wires with some evidence suggesting origin from wires. Dover photographs from a thunderstorm show simultaneous discharges from arc lamps, prompting fears of electricity as nature’s wireless telegraphy. Professor Stokes notes lightning can influence lamps via electric waves, urging strict safety devices and regular inspections.
Cedar Rapids Republican editor Mr Cole defends the men from insults in Chrisman’s critique of the Woman’s Congress at Des Moines. The piece argues against degrading aspersions and praises the editorial courage of the bachelor editor.
The Atlantic Constitution favors Congress approving a pension increase for General James Longstreet, a Mexican War veteran now past 80. It argues his final years should be comfortable.
The Iowa in Brief reports Iowa banks show improved reserves and rising loans and securities as of April 26. Centerville plans a crematory for animal waste, with penalties for improper disposal. Fort Dodge notes a barn fire caused by a child’s attempt to move a setting hen. Burlington saloon interests seek liquor-law consent under the Iowa mulct law. A horse thief, J A Gregory, receives a twenty year sentence in Council Bluffs. Eddie Kehm’s fire incident and other local items appear, along with census efforts in Dubuque and Eben W. Martin’s political standing in South Dakota. The Eldora industrial school is mentioned.
The Algona Opera House company declares a 20 percent dividend, its first in seven years. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia donates 500 dollars to Parsons College in Fairfield. A carload of corn will be donated to help famine relief in India.
A band of four masked men dynamited the savings bank in Sheldahl, twelve miles north of Des Moines, mid night Tuesday. They held fifty townspeople at gunpoint with rifles while looting the wrecked safe and escaped as flames rose from the ruined building.
In Venice Indiana on June 2 Mrs C T Westlake wife of Alderman Westlake and Mrs Horner encountered two well dressed men who blocked their path on the square. Mrs Westlake fired a pistol at the feet of one man and ordered them to move. The men fled. no injuries were reported.
Springfield June 2 Governor Tanner wires railroad and warehouse commissioners to conduct a thorough investigation into the Chicago elevator shortage and to report the full affair with details at the earliest convenience.
Allen's Foot Ease cures painful, smarting, swollen feet and growing nails. It relieves the sting of corns and bunions and makes tight shoes feel easy. Effective for sweating and tired feet, it sells at druggists and shoe stores with a free trial by mail. Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, New York.
Special excursions to Colorado and Utah on June 20 July 9 17 and August 1. Round trip excursion tickets limited for return to Oct 31 will be sold to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City and Ogden at the low rate of a single fare plus 2. Call on any ticket agent of the B C R N Ry for tickets and full information or address John G Farmer A G P T A B C R N Ry Cedar Rapids Ia.
Prof W Berry of Iowa City hails Mull’s Pioneer Stomach Trouble Cure as life changing, saying it revived him when he had nearly lost hope and made him a new man in a short time.
A dark verse from Maude Caldwell Perry in Century depicts a desert chase by a leopard clad man and a leprous witch. The pair pursue a man with a crimson stain, as the witch cryptically vows to whiten his beard and drag blood along his path.
The B C R N Ry names a one fare round trip from all Iowa stations for the Prohibition Convention June 12 13 Tickets on sale June 11 12 good to return through June 14. Agents of the line offer tickets. Jno G Farmer A G P T A B C R N Ry Cedar Rapids Ia.
New York on June 2 reports a wedding of Stuart Duncan and Jermain Stoddard daughter of Rev. Charles A. Stoddard. They will honeymoon on the bridegroom’s father John P. Duncan’s fast yacht. The vessel recently covered 100 miles in under five hours.
Steam-cleaned ladies items priced at 75 cents for skirts and 1.50 for suits. Men’s suits steam-cleaned at 1.50 and pants at 0.50. Cleaning, pressing, dyeing, and glove cleaning offered. Parcel delivery and citywide service from 216 Iowa Avenue next to Journal office. call 1154.
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