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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1895
Page
2
A miscellany of satirical quips and brief items travel through topics from international politics to local mischief. The column jokes about China, a wife bearing sixteen children, highway disrupting glass and nails, a cow offended by painters, and tales of distilleries and old telegraph schemes.
In September Stinson shot and killed Arta Moore and then died by suicide at the Asher House where the couple had registered as man and wife. A letter to the proprietor mentions Stinson and a plan to take their bodies. Moore’s tuition receipt shows she attended Grinnell College and her parents live in Panora.
A peculiar charge confronts Keo Seraaean before Justice Ricker regarding a contract with Mrs. Kessler to house her and her children. Dallas County woman Meacham dies after buggy overturn during a run with a sister and baby. one horse slips and the buggy collapses in town, baby unharmed. Conway reports Chas Hansell, long thought murdered, returning home in Taylor County, with the implicated killer still at large.
Sioux City report shows A Wynn Grose, teller at Iowa Savings Bank, arrested for bezzling 2100 dollars. He posts a 3000 dollar bond, denies guilt, and promises explanation. Also noted are two civil suits against Burlington Route for damages, a death by hanging near Fairfield, and a portable safe blow at Panora grain dealer W W Eaton with 3600 dollars in notes left behind.
A lightning strike on a Solihan farm twelve miles from Spencer killed ten horses. Storm damage included three Hull elevators destroyed and widespread destruction in Riverton, with chimneys barns and outbuildings toppled. Mrs Sherman Straits’ home front torn away and a C B & Q depot shifted from its foundation.
At Mineral Ridge in Boominty, two brothers aged 17 and 15 were playing when one hurled a butcher knife. The wound proved fatal to the older boy. The incident is described as the result of rough sport and involved James Condon’s family.
Chistox, August Swanson, the man who last March killed his son with a hatchet in this city, appears before Judge Waterman. Insanity is his defense and he will first be tried before eight jurors to determine mental competency.
A flood of tales from September reports in Iowa detail drownings, suicides, accidental shootings, and a bank suspension. Notable items include a drowning in the Mississippi, a student suicide in Mt. Vernon, a farm death near Lenox thought to be murder, and a Davenport chicken-thief ambush with a mysterious victim. Additional notes cover a man’s fatal assault in Clinton, a Polk-like train depot arrest escape, and a private residence chase ending in capture.
The jury found the alleged Cuban filibusterers not guilty after fifty minutes. Crowds cheered in the Wilmington court room as the verdict was announced. Separate dispatches report Barla Masso elected Cuban republic president and Palma, Gomez, and Estrada Palma named to key posts in Havana. A New York wire notes a battle where Spaniards were defeated and predicts a major Cuban sea action if the expedition sails.
An account notes Amare and others who sent money home in 1873 and later, with many Shawnee county families accumulating fortunes of around $1300 among the peasantry. It mentions a voyage bound for Russia and a group of emigrants who returned to their homeland in recent weeks and spring.
Damaged crop report from Topeka notes severe drought and heat cutting Kansas corn yields. Estimates vary with earlier figures of millions of bushels broken as late crop also hurt, with much corn set to be used for cattle feed rather than market sale.
A Shanghai dispatch reports Japan’s evacuation indemnity paid by China and a British demand to banish the ex-viceroy Huen. Nilgpo notes provincial placards in Klang and Kin Wha denouncing foreigners and Christians amid heightened anti foreign sentiment.
The New York Yacht Club rejoices after receiving a Royal Yacht Club Ryde Isle of Wight challenge via cable for a series of matches for the America's Cup in 1902. Charles D. Rose’s name appears on the challenge. Reactions welcomed the resumption of international races after the Valkyrie NT and Defender setback.
At a First Presbyterian Church meeting in Wasmxorox a letter was sent to Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage of Brooklyn inviting him to the associate pastorship with Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland. Talmage will accept at once.
President issues rule placing all consular service grades under modified civil service with pay between 1000 and 2500 dollars. No competitive exams. class standards only. Affects a little more than half of U S consular staff. The measure follows Secretary Olney's strong recommendation in a presidential report.
The British four masted ship Stoneleigh, 210 days out from London for Melbourne, was abandoned with a crew of thirty after danger at sea near San Francisco. Captain John C. Macclesfield and his wife Ipswich, along with two children, are aboard the vessel's fate remains uncertain amid a day of sweeping maritime and global news.
England and New York teams clash in a historicAthletic Association event in S C September 24. Americans win every event led by Kilpatrick and Weters. New York athletes dominate sprints jumps and throws while spectators count twelve thousand. The piece also notes a local September 21 boxing crowd and community backing for a fighter in a separate controversy.
The Union League Club Commission urged the national committee to choose San Francisco for the Republican national convention. A report showed nearly twenty of fifty six committee members favored the idea. M Shortridge, airman and committee head, was chosen to travel east to drum up support for the city.
In Oyster Bay New York during the national event the half waters race between Spruce IV and Ethelwynn was sailed after wind delay Ethelwynn finished six minutes five seconds ahead of Spruce IV earning the win for the American yacht
Damages for libel case in Virginia where jury found allegations against the state superintendent false. Attorney general reports that American Book Company’s contracts were consistent across states with no discrimination against Virginia. The piece contrasts businesslike practices of the company with opponents' lithographic claims. Also notes a London dispatch about a £1000 race offer between Defender and Valkyrie III in English waters.
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