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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1900
Page
9
Muskattine area braces for lumber season as Kaiser mill leads with new belts and refitted engines. Musser mill expects two week delay for logs and Hershey mill faces machinery delays from Chicago strike. About 1,500 workers rely on mills for six months work, with overall readiness across yards, tracks, and carriages.
The piece notes shrinking telegraph costs as business use grows. It recalls the first Atlantic cable setting a twenty word message fee of $100, later $5 per word, and compares current rates from London to New York and Chicago to New York with regional disparities to distant ports. It cites $2.87 per word to Auckland and $2.45 to Manila, while some South American and West Indian routes are near $2 per word despite shorter paths.
F W Swan continues business in the same old reliable way as painters and paper hangers vacate the store room. New cabinets and glittering stock display cases arrive, and a removal sale offers prices sure to move any item. The wall paper “of the Ould Sod” stands out among the improvements.
At a special stockholders meeting the Royal Pearl Button Factory decided to issue 5000 dollars of preferred stock, 50 shares at 100 each, with 6 percent dividends cumulating and priority in liquidation. Total authorized capital becomes 55000 dollars. The action was filed with the county recorder.
The Evening Journal reports continued rise in circulation with 1416 homes in Muscatine receiving papers Saturday night. Total paid subscriptions across Daily Journal and Tri Weekly exceed 4000, and advertisers are urged that Journal offers best value in town. The paper challenges rivals to refute the figures.
In Frankfort Kentucky on March 27 Special Caleb Powers Republican Secretary of State was held over without bail to the grand jury for further investigation. The defense showed a Governor Taylor pardon but the court did not recognize it. Sweeneys private secretary was arrested as the man who received the office key from John Powers and is charged as an accessory.
Des Moines news reports the Senate passed the Titus bill regulating pearl buttons and butter tubs plus a plan creating a Municipal Code committee. The Des Moines election saw McVicar defeated by a Republican ticket. two tickets contested mayoral and city offices as the capital faced a tense, snowy vote.
A surprise gathering for Adeline Klepper’s birthday brought together friends from Sweetland. Guests included Elsie Hesson, Oliver Duffield, Myrtle and Bessie, Daisy and George Pontle, Frank Longstreth, Kate, Minnie, Harry Asthalter, Robert Sheils, the Sinklers, Freers, Jessie Brogran, Paul Jesse, Fred Klepper, and several Crulls, Carter, Leach, and Cole. The evening featured games, music, and a fine supper, with all enjoying themselves and recalling the night fondly.
P. W. Norton was elected mayor of Muscatine by 79 votes. Other city offices went to opponents or Citizens' ticket: City Clerk George Holzhour 64, Treasurer D. C. Agnew 4, Assessor John Beinford 24, Councilmen George J. Nicholas 67 and A. P. Nelson. Election held in Wilton. Muscatine vote occurred three weeks earlier.
W. E. Bowers of the Muscatine Poultry Co. reported his team and wagon were stolen from H. M. Bartlett's barn on Front Street at seven o'clock yesterday morning. A. T. Leonard is charged with theft after confessing to Joe Beckey that he planned to take the team. Leonard appeared bold as he loaded household articles and fled. No trace of the property has been found.
Jule Walters a versatile comedian appears at Stein's Hall tonight with his new comedy drama How Hopper Was Sidetracked. Walters known coast to coast for established skill delivers commanding voice and eccentric character make-up. The show reportedly unfolds naturally with electricity a prominent element and remarkably realistic staging.
Reports on the new railroad project are favorable with encouraging surveying and finance. The surveying party near Moscow adjusts the route to improve desirability. Muscatine residents await fuller updates as the venture progresses.
The Academy of Science met at the High school building. Witter announced books for celestial studies and a telescope shipment is likely soon. Bowser presented a legal view paper on Trusts, sparking discussion. The April 2 meeting will feature Elmer Batterson on Psychic Phenomena.
February 1900 saw Chicago exports average five million dollars per business day, totaling 119,765,762, a 55 percent rise over any prior February. The balance of trade also exceeded February 1899 by 25 percent and surpassed any February by more than 50 percent, despite February often being a month of heavy imports.
March 26 report from Washington Iowa shows Fred Smith elected city treasurer on the Republican ticket by 299 over Clyde Bailey, Samuel Conner elected assessor by 226 over Al Keister, Carl Keck as First ward alderman on the citizens' ticket with no opposition, Daniel Aughey elected Second ward, J F Anderson Republican over Harry McCall by 20, and David H Lagan Republican to Fourth ward over D Hollingsworth by 26.
Capt. J. F. Thayer and wife from Mankato Minnesota arrive to assist Capt. Perry and wife in Volunteers work. Major Giffort, heading Des Moines effort, arrives to aid the city project. The Chicago singing brigade led by Adjt. Van Gundy is expected Wednesday. Meetings are at Volunteers headquarters 114 Chestnut Street.
A large gathering is planned this evening at the Trades Assembly Hall starting at 7 45 with an orchestra, a talk on trades unionism, and a sketch by the button cutters. The event invites broad public attendance for an entertaining program.
Captain J. W. Stewart died unexpectedly at his Clinton home on Saturday at age 70. A former Mississippi river steamboat owner and captain, he leaves a son J. R. Stewart editor of the Clinton Evening Journal and a daughter married to Rev. E. S. Carr of Stillman Valley, Illinois.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad markets its facilities for tourism to Florida, the West Indies, and Central America. It highlights double daily sleeping car lines from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis via Jacksonville to interior Florida and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans, ports for voyages to Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau. For folders contact Geo. B. Horner D P A St Louis MO.
Chicago dispatch notes rain in the north and colder weather in the west with warmer readings overnight. The Ways and Means Committee filed a bill extending the tax payment deadline for insurance companies to April 1, 1900, and the Senate set it as a special order for tomorrow. House adjourned, Senate met and planned for 3 pm today, with adjournment at 5:45 pm.
After a Lincoln club banquet in Lincoln Nebraska Governor Shaw of Iowa argued that a national issue could be created from Porto Rico revenue measures. He urged that the United States has inherent power to govern newly acquired territories as it pleases, within constitutional bounds.
Senator Hanna of Ohio challenged a Washington paper’s claim that a House member said the Porto Rican tariff bill was tied to a Republican campaign donation deal. Hanna called the interview false and malicious and urged an investigation.
Cato Sells Iowa Democratic committeeman spoke in Chicago on March 26 praising the Porto Rican tariff bill as boosting Democracy and predicting Republican seats lost. He said Iowa will send a solid Bryan delegation to the Kansas City convention and the May 3 state convention will choose delegates.
Hartford notices that Samuel L. Clemens known as Mark Twain will move back with his family to Hartford and establish permanent residence there. He plans to return soon after sending letters confirming the family's relocation.
Mrs. Matt Byrne of Muscatine accompanied by her daughter Edith and nephew Robert O'Brien visits brother George F. O'Brien on Iowa avenue.
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