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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
2
A general banking business transacted. Farm loans negotiated. Collections made. Interest paid on time deposits. 48.5 Dimrexseen-President L. D. Gaxurn-Vice-President B. C. Dmexsecs-Cashier. Board of Directors S. S. Dilenbeck B. C. Dilenbeck John Law Jay G. Detton J. L. Davis Mary Hennis Chas. E. Walker L. D. Gumble Geo B. Bartholomew.
First National Bank of Perry presents D J Pattee as president and Allen Breed as vice president with H T Holmes as cashier. National Park Citizens’ National Bank, New York, and Des Moines act as correspondents. Directors include D J Pattee N Platy Allen Preed W Holmes among others. Foreign drafts bought and sold.
A compact notice from The Perry Advertiser references local names and a brief category tag, summarizing a small community item without detail.
The Herald reports a last one million dollars in prize money for American sailors from the Spanish American War. Most payments come under head money for ships lost in action, with Admiral Dewey and Admiral Sampson each set to gain about ten thousand dollars. A substantial portion will be turned over to the treasury for court distraint.
The World prints a dispatch from New York with General Shafter stating sickness followed by exhausted doctors, yet high care and low death rates from wounds. He notes heat and rains worsened conditions, with swift medical response and plentiful anesthetics despite fatigue.
Crowded hospital details show 200 sick from Santiago transported by Roumania to a detention hospital aimed to hold 450 beds with space for 560 cots. overcrowding beyond normal capacity led to removing cots and using floor mattresses. more tents and beds needed amid high patient load and limited space. Also notes on gold rush era ships and U.S. industrial commission appointments.
General Zurlinden, Paris military governor, has accepted the ministry of war succeeding Cavaignac who resigned. A prize of four pounds was raised at Meiss coppix by Z. W. Williams. The fragment mentions heights and measurements of hogs, noting one as possibly the largest.
Marshalltown hosts three separate conventions nominating Porter for secretary, Andersen for state treasurer, Gillette for auditor, Spurr for supreme judge, plus two railroad commissioners and a host of clerks. Platforms ratified. central committee listed.
Des Moines Sept 7 peace news does not cut daily circulation. The Daily News remains popular with readers, offering Siaywear subscriptions for months at five cents per week. In Greeley a double tragedy unfolds as John Gocksby shoots Glover and then himself, dying. In Denver, Henry Grains, threshers proprietor, is crushed when pulled into a machine, suffering severe injuries.
Thomas Green of Cedar Rapids chosen bishop of Iowa on the eighth ballot by the Episcopal convention at Juvenporb cathedral. Four candidates started. Green led clergy 40 to 1 and laity 58 to 40 over Edsall. Dr. Nelsell of Chicago was also nominated. one ballot was left vacant. Hoskins Mound guilty of criminal libel. James Tokins of Sioux Rapids convicted alongside J. Bruce of Rolle in a smear letter against Judge Nelsell.
Jaymaster Monaghan of Omaha paid off two batteries stationed at Camp McKinley. The five batteries were discharged from U S service and sent home by train to Cedar Rapids and Burlington. A Bad Man Convicted in Ames. William Odell found guilty of breaking and entering and carrying concealed weapons. faces life imprisonment.
San Francisco dispatch reports General Miller expects three regiments from the Presidio to depart to Honolulu or Manila within a month. Democratic convention in Waterloo nominates John T. Howell for Congress. Private John Cronin dies at Camp McKinsey from fever. Second District Republicans nominate Joe R. Lane of Davenport by acclamation. Various Iowa incidents include drownings, a fatal gun cleaning accident, a farmhouse fire near Linden, libel verdicts in Storm Lake, and mayoral league plans in Des Moines.
A Troy City Railroad trolley struck by a Delaware and Hudson locomotive at a grade crossing near the Hudson River bridge in Cohoes and Lansingburg hurled 35 passengers into disaster. Eighteen are dead and more may follow. The open car was crushed, with front occupants killed and others badly injured.
Two spans of the New York & Ottawa railroad bridge over the St Lawrence river collapsed with sixty men at work. Eighteen of thirty three rescued died at Cornwall hospital and twenty seven remain missing. The disaster followed the south pier foundation washout.
On September 8 Rear Admiral Schley General Gordon and their staffs arrived aboard the Seneca at San Juan Puerto Rico. The fleet saluted as the ships passed and the American commissioners met General Macias at the palace.
Reported at a meeting of twenty Filipino leaders, eighteen supported outright annexation to the United States while two favored a republic. The general view urged adopting Liberal inducements to gain cooperation from independent factions.
General Miles issues a lengthy statement defending his actions from Porto Rico to Santiago after delays in prosecuting the war, saying his views were rejected early by the president and Secretary Alger, later adopted too late, and detailing his role in Shafter’s dispatch and the Porto Rico campaign, which he calls a success. The report also notes a separate midwestern populist convention in Craversnarr and notices on Alsace Lorraine, Alger’s camp inspections, and Miles’ arrival with the transport Obdam.
The Fiftieth Iowa is ordered to Des Moines for mustering out. Recruits at Montauk east of the Mississippi are to return to their stations. A Cincinnati parade estimated 25 000 to 30 000 veterans, lasting four hours, marked the war’s public memory. Russia aims for a peace conference a month after the Spanish American accord. London says Britain is slow to reply to the czar, but cordial terms are offered. Japan’s annexation spread via Mare Island. Gramps delivers four ships from the International Navigation Co to restore them to wartime condition.
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