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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
10
A collage of notes and anecdotes from The Newton Record covers global topics from English forestry bias to harboring jokes about Cap’n Anson. It mentions a Chicago corner lot sale, Russian opinions on Nansen, a Sing Sing sentence, and a curious wife who masks her husband’s debt scheme with a blackened eye.
In Washington Mrs William H Felton appears as her husband’s attorney in his contest with John V Maddox for Georgia seventh district House seat. Her brilliant arguments and legal knowledge are noted as the spectacle draws attention. The text also hints at discovery of X ray dentistry claims later in the week.
The jury in Griffis vs Rock Island returned a $15000 verdict for the plaintiff, a 21 year old Car son drug merchant who lost a leg placing a trunk on a depot platform, claiming no lights or signals warned of the moving car. Defendant seeks a new trial. May 3 Avoca Iowa. A grim series of reports follows including a mother’s suicide and a deadly tavern brawl over eggs in Towarry county.
The report of Robert L. Berner, special commissioner, verifying claims on the Des Moines river land grant, is approved along with the land office findings on lists A and B. List A claims are paid, while modified BR items from Berner’s supplemental report are rejected. Other claims await congressional action.
Charges of embezzlement and burglary hints are directed at ex mayor Olinger in a message from Mayor Duffy to the council. Duffy alleges Olinger issued licenses to peddlers without ordnance approval, failed to report to the treasury, and kept the funds. West Union fire and other items follow.
Des Moines reports a favorable week with no major flood damage. Small grain and grass thrive, pasturage is abundant, hay crop looks heavy, and corn planting begins in the south. If weather holds, general planting will continue next week.
The federal jury in the Administrators vs Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul case was discharged. Plaintiffs seek 815,000 over Judge Hateh’s death in McGregor after a bridge collapse. Dr Reid is acquitted in Davenport of criminal operation against Annie Dierters. Keokuk saw guilty pleas in green goods fraud by Hurd Gray and Smith. Bond suit by insurers against Lyon county valued at 53,000 moves to court. Cedar Rapids reports G A R encampment activities and elections. Cedar Rapids also notes a 20 year penitentiary sentence for Thomas Lally and manslaughter conviction for Gus Trainor. Adawa City reports a cruel train accident. an elderly pioneer of Iowa City perishes crossing railroad tracks.
May reports from Cuba and surrounding areas describe Gomez leading ten to twelve thousand troops with artillery toward Matanzas, poised for an attack along the trocha with Maceo. Calixto Garcia’s insurgents defeated a Spanish column near Zanja, driving 2,800 troops into the river with heavy casualties. Reports from Seville and Key West discuss Spain’s Cuba policy and ongoing mediation rumors, while Havana notes Maceo directing battles from Cacarajicara to the sea as Gomez marches toward the trocha, devastating eastern cane fields.
London dispatch cites Pretoria telegrams as evidence that the Chartered South Africa Company aided Jameson raid plots. Documents allegedly show a 400000 pound credit in Rhodes name to organize the raid. Revelations threaten Rhodes and company officers with arrest and possible revocation of the charter.
In Cixcinxatt on May 5 a gasoline explosion leveled the five story 430 and 432 Walnut street block, killing six and injuring many as walls and windows shattered across Fourth and Fifth streets. Debris spared fire, but damage to Gibson house and J Unson building was extensive.
In New York and Minot, workers face wage cuts and longer hours prompting a strike that could involve up to 10,000 Adams Express employees. In Winnipeg streetcar workers walkout with only a few cars operating. Carpenters win an eight hour day reforms, with two contractors opposing and their crews discharged. Reports say Italians have entered Adigrat, relieving the garrison after Adowa.
Report covers the Volkesraad opening in the Transvaal by President Kruger, a motion to ban option trading in grain, U.S. and world items including Illinois governor nominees Tanner and Northcott, commutations in the Transvaal raid cases, missionary news, ship collision near Woo Sung with substantial loss, Holmes execution stay denied, Booth-Tucker ill, Cripple Creek fire’s destruction, Arizona Republican convention split, Havana seizure of arms cargo, Persian shah assassination, and Bulawayo dispatch on Earl Grey arrival with native threats subsiding.
Reports from Washington detail Teller and Sherman urging decisive public opinion on the tariff and gold standard, with a crowded agenda on naval appropriations and bankruptcy legislation. Senate and House debates continue, including battleship counts, Alaska delegate, and bond investigations, amid foreign policy and domestic economic issues.
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