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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
12
The text lists candidates for city offices including Mayor A J Oliver Treasurer E E Davidson Assessor C S Kincaid Police Judge Jesse B Jarvis and Wharfmaster Rank Custer with further alderman candidates not specified. Voters are advised to note names for local elections and ballot positions.
Representative Blake proposes a ten year tax exemption for beet sugar plants, drawing opposition from Theophilus who calls it unconstitutional class legislation. Supporters say exemptions attract eastern capital and boost Iowa sugar beet industry while the judiciary committee will rule on legality.
The Senate passed a gold standard bill by a 17 vote majority, with Western Republican support. It sets gold as the monetary standard and the unit of value, redeems treasury notes in gold, and allows bonds to sustain a gold redemption fund. Silver becomes subsidiary currency with silver dollars and notes to retire. The secretary may refund debt in 2 percent gold bonds and banks may issue notes up to bond values. Fast-tracked to probable agreement with the House, amid strong economic conditions.
Pat Crowe, once detained on suspicion of taking part in a Chicago area Northwestern fast mail robbery, has been released after evidence exonerated him. The $50,000 train robbery was described as one of the smoothest in history.
The statement asserts that Texas anti trust law covers labor combinations just as it does capital. It argues that recognizing conditions in Chicago and other cities with strong organized labor supports applying the law to unions.
In Denver Colorado last year deaths from consumption exceeded all other causes at 536. The city attracts consumptives with its climate and high altitude, drawing people with tuberculosis tendencies to Colorado.
The line suggests success comes from effort and momentum, with a hint that occasional support or guidance can aid progress. It frames work as active pressure and potential leverage from others to reach goals.
The war in the Philippines is near its end after a little over a year of fighting. Gen Bates leads an expedition in southern Luzon, after which operations will stop and troops garrison key towns as military police. Aguinaldo’s 1899 Manila assault failed, the rebels driven from Manila’s outskirts, ending a four year campaign through rainy season pauses and resumption.
Senator Clark's election is challenged by bribery allegations as testimony from Justice Hunt and Attorney General Nolan describes offers of large sums to stop proceedings in the Wellcome case. Montana Supreme Court justices defend integrity, saying no amount would sway them. Rumor texts suggest expulsion if Clark resigns before a vote.
Des Moines Capital notes Keeley who died in Los Angeles and questions the cure’s value while praising some benefited and noting relapses. Iowa City Citizen cites Gov. Lee at Chicago anti trust event criticizing wealth concentration. Humboldt County Independent recalls a critic’s later crop price predictions. Clinton Herald mocks corn shrinkage studies by Iowa State and notes neighbor honesty and padlock use.
The Keokuk Board of Education started a penny savings bank in public schools ten weeks ago. Students have deposited $1,102.50, averaging about $110 weekly, predicting nearly $4,000 by year end with 36 weeks of school.
Citizens of Indianola discuss selling the city lighting plant to finance a sewerage system with a local businessman offering 15000 dollars in cash. Guthrie Center holds mass meeting against saloons urging representatives to back suppression. Des Moines agent of Bashaw sues Drake University Y M C A over 200 dollars for varsity baseball tickets. Iowa Retail Grocers Association plans Cedar Rapids meeting the week of March 21 with about 400 delegates. Pray moves from Webster City to Des Moines. Davenport land sells at 100 dollars an acre, highest in years. Onawa Council weighs granting a franchise to a telephone company.
Felix Vannatta hauled straw last Monday. Mrs. Dow Doty visits with Sam Boruff family. Mrs. Lee Lambert visited sister Mrs. Murdock Friday. John Boru Jr and wife visited his father last Sunday. Mary and Lizzie Boruff visited Mrs. Max Colberg Monday. Dan Barrett and Ella Seawright visited Mrs. Mattie Ryan last Tuesday. Ed. Potter, Muscatine caller, had dinner with his father H. B. Potter. A sled load of youths attended church at Eliza last Sunday. Brookheart returned Friday from Iowa. sister ill. Barrett guided Mrs. Seawright to Muscatine Friday. Priest Marston held a sale at Buffalo Prairie. Levi Lambert bought 28 head of sheep. Sam Baruff delivered hogs to Shingledecker. William Baruff hauled hogs to Joy. Yescribe attended Fuhlman sale. large crowd, good prices. Sam decorates telephone pole with stars and stripes. French school closed winter term last Saturday. Miss Jordan popular. will teach nearer home in spring. Last Saturday described as a holy terror western blizzard. ears nipped, Dixie near fire. Next Sunday 4th preaching at French schoolhouse 3 pm Rev Kittlecamp. Also next Sabbath services Hazel Dell church 3 pm Rev Shepherd. All invited.
Armstrong hurries to camp then to a Presidio cottage amid fog and surf as a political feud swirls around a sick Gray and a promised Manila passage. Disturbing letters hint at fabrications by Mrs. Garrison while Canker's suspicions and military movements intersect at the Cross Roads of the Pacific.
J Stuart sold fruit trees in the neighborhood on Monday. Meetings begin at North Prairie church Thursday evening. J S Long suffers a bad cold but is recovering. Vehicles and movers are busy on the roads. Local youths attended the Woodman dance in Wilton Monday. Ladies Sewing Society meets with Mrs Chamberlain on Thursday March 1. Mr and Mrs G A Scott move to Capt Jamison farm Thursday. Alf Armstrong plans to haul hay to Muscatine this week hoping for better luck. Wilton visitors came by bob sled to the Kramers home for crokinole and oysters.
Fort Dodge Iowa Feb 27 The Humboldt county grand jury has indicted Frank Michalak and wife for causing the death of Michael Chess They were arrested with bonds set at 1500 each and posted They will face trial at the April term Chess an insane man was found dead in Michalaks barn with evidence of mistreatment present
Post era suspense centers on Mrs Garrison and Mrs Frank as Camp Merritt life at the Presidio grows lively. Rumors swirl about travel to Manila, with Mrs Stockman and others joining late night gatherings. The piece teases Mrs Garrison returning or sailing when the Queen of the Fleet is ready.
Hurrah for the snow and local happenings as residents share visits and events. Willis Littrell works for Doc Lee while Carl Bedwell wears a sling. funerals for Mrs. Harry Cochran draw a large turnout. families attend gatherings at Lane and Waltman homes. multiple visits between neighbors and kin fill the Monday to Sunday period.
The First National Bank was asked to honor a dollar draft placed in Mull's Pioneer Cure boxes. The bank promptly paid the draft, guaranteeing funds for patients if the medicine failed.
Riverside reports H L Swift & Co. completed a brick season at the yard with 1 500 000 bricks. William Parker hauls corn near Lone Tree at 27 cents per bushel. A recent opera house dance sold eighty five numbers. New buildings planned pending better weather. Sleighing active aiding moves. Henry Walker relocates near River Junction after selling property. Holtz family reaches settlement with the telephone company over a fatal pole accident. judgment reached for 1200 dollars after a claim of 10000 and 2000 respectively.
The revenue cutter Onondaga under Captain Hamlet left Philadelphia to aid the Spanish steamship Minerva and its crew of forty. The Minerva, carrying 5000 tons of iron ore, sailed from Puerto de la Pietra for Baltimore January 27 and later planned to load goods in Philadelphia or Baltimore for St Nazaire. Sighted adrift February 21 with no coal, she was towed by the Parana but the tow line parted. The 2515 ton steel vessel with triple expansion engines, valued with cargo at over 300000 dollars, lies about 250 miles off the Delaware capes.
Wayne Smelser, a Greene township farmer, was declared of unsound mind after years of brooding over a secret birth. Thirty nine years earlier a woman left a baby with him at a Richmond railroad depot, he raised the child, and only later learned the mystery and failed to identify his mother. The case follows amid other foreign relation notes from Peking.
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