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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1900
Page
5
Local notes list residents and visitors including Monday's arrivals from Grandview Pleasant Prairie Davenport and Iowa City. Mentions of travel to Ainsworth Wilton and Columbus Junction accompany other social updates and brief notes on area happenings.
Notice from J. F. Williams placing a color mouse colored mule at his place one mile east of the lower Cedar bridge. Property claimants who prove ownership and cover expenses may claim the mule.
The National Congress of Mothers convenes in Des Moines May 21 guiding sessions through May 25. Governor Shaw and Des Moines officials greet attendees while public schools close to allow teacher participation. Discussions cover child study, women education, early childhood training, and motherhood benefits with notable speakers from the United States and Canada.
J A Gregory, an habitual criminal, was sentenced by Judge Smith in Council Bluffs to twenty years in Fort Madison prison after being found guilty of habitual criminality. The case marks the first use of the habitual criminal act in the state. Gregory previously served four prison terms for horse stealing across Jefferson Adair Greene and Harrison counties.
Samuel J. Richey alias Scott alias 8 J Bryant arrested in Baltimore charged with involvement in the Bradley bank robbery of Elven Iowa in February 1897. He ran a hotel and saloon and is linked to the nitro glycerine gang with other members already jailed.
Acting on Gen. MacArthur's advice, Bandmaster Sanders of Centerville led the Fifty-first Iowa band on a western tour. In the Philippines the musicians fought as they trained, packing instruments away for two months near Manila and serving on firing lines, guarding prisoners and trains, and aiding hospital crews. They brought home a Filipino youth, Filemon, age 18, for education before returning him home.
Bids for the new East River Bridge opened in New York on May 21 describe steel heavy approaches versus the existing stone arches. The Broadway side uses about six thousand tons of steel, the Manhattan side twelve thousand. The design places roadways outside, trolley tracks inside, and an elevated railroad center with mid span footwalks and bicycle paths over trolley tracks. Pedestrian paths exit at Driggs Avenue Brooklyn and Attorney Street Manhattan to avoid traffic danger.
The Council Bluffs ministerial association adopts a resolution urging the public to avoid Sunday funeral services when possible. They state that pastors are taxed by regular church duties on the Lord's Day and urge consulting the minister before finalizing burial arrangements.
A Chicago Record snippet humorously cautions Ralph to avoid mentioning strawberry shortcakes in letters to Harry in Manila to prevent spurring mutiny and a homeward departure. The quip underscores playful wartime homefront chatter.
A street scuffle after 5:30 p m last Saturday left Frank Macklin and Walter Settlemire among others with knife wounds. Ed Settlemire intervened, another man fled to a carpenter shop, and seventeen stitches closed Macklin’s back and shoulder. Police later arrested Dave Settlemire as the fracas drew onlookers and witnesses.
Ev Mull departs on the Firefly bound for Minneapolis. William Funck and family visit Mrs. Funck’s mother, Mrs. Margaret Diercks, in South Muscatine. John Boke plans to move to Anamosa for a penitentiary guard post. Forepaugh and Sells Brothers advance agent arrives for June 28 show. Mass meeting at Assembly Hall invites all to discuss live topics. Mrs. J Q Beatty leaves for Des Moines for Mother's Congress and Ames College visit. Mechanics Band announces free summer concerts at Court House square. Will Beardsley to Wellman for family business. Ola Olson of Iowa City has a runaway incident on Front Street.
About twenty friends gathered Saturday evening May 19 at Geo Kirkpatrick's home to celebrate Miss Olive Kneese's eighty first birthday. They enjoyed games, conversation and refreshments, and departed late with best wishes for the hostess.
At the Methodist general conference in Chicago on May 19 votes fray with Berry still leading and Spellmeyer dropping after a strong speech on episcopal limits. Dr T B Neely rises to 235, while on the twelfth ballot Berry had 296 Hamilton 272 Neely 235 Moore 234 Spellmeyer 181. A Presbyterian greeting was read from St Louis.
A 21 year old Swede named Levander Johnson hanged himself to a cottonwood limb on farmer P N Anderson’s land four miles west of Forest City Iowa. Discovered by school children this morning after Tuesday night. He had been in the country about six weeks with no known reason. His only relative appears to be Mire Nellie Noreen living near Britt.
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