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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1895
Page
1
Two men were killed and thirteen injured when a boiler valve blew on the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus near Chicago. The Virginia, pursuing, pulled ahead as passengers crowded decks. chaos followed with women fainting from steam.
Crowds fill Kiel harbor as warships from fourteen nations fly flags and anthems play. The Mars hosts foreign admirals and a German military commandant before heading to Hamburg to meet the emperor. Trade news from Dun and Co notes brighter prospects, crop improvements, and renewed steel demand despite wheat and rail price movements.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Mgr Satolli orders archbishops to promulgate the papal decree condemning the Odd Fellows Sons of Scampersnce and Knights of Pythias with immediate effect. bishops may choose methods but publication is mandatory. Several archdioceses named as not yet published. Plus Minneapolis note: Gov stay grants 30 days for Harry Hayward case, likely July execution.
Charleston grand jury declined to find true bills in six indictments under the dispensary law. About 100 cases remain to be considered with similar procedure expected. Four murderers escaped from Poplar Bluff jail. a posse searches swamps for them. New York: Police Inspector McLaughlin jailed two and a half years for extortion.
Germany marks opening of Holtensa naval harbor with Emperor Wilias visiting the Russian cruiser Runk and laying the last stone of the Baltic North Sea canal. Chancellor Hohenlohe reads aloud a parchment as emperors, empresses and royals preside amid parade, salutes and bands.
Manitoba's legislative vote rejects all amendments and reaffirms the 1890 school act. Br Meyers and Mr Prendergast led debates criticizing Catholic privileges and Ottawa decisions while asserting constitutional rights against Catholic influence in Manitoba politics.
A lavish Cleveland banquet for Republican delegates to the National Republican League convention drew thousands of spectators. Elegant dress and lavish service marked the event, with speeches by J. H. Hoyt Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee and others on party unity and the New South. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and Senator-elect John M Thurston also spoke on related party topics.
A San Jose dispatch notes delays in negotiations with Nicaragua and ongoing armament while officials seek to avoid provoking conflict. In Canada, a fatal clash between rival miners erupts in Nice Aspen and Enterprise tunnels, with deputies on patrol and two men dead. London Ontario reports Manitoba school issues before a Presbyterian Assembly and Anglican Synod, urging no federal interference in provincial governance.
A young student nurse Maude Vearher of Clinton, stated as a favored, died at Counc Bluffs from an overdose after seeking rest in her room. Reports describe her as educated and beloved, with unclear motive and no definite cause for self destruction. Separate items note legal actions over pensions at Marshalltown and a spate of incidents across the state, including drownings, burglaries, and local disputes.
Colfax to build two twenty thousand dollar school buildings this summer. A series of local incidents include drownings at Clipton and Dubugne, a suicide at Clinton, and a liquor crackdown in Des Moines. Des Moines park plans to remove squirrels from Greenwood Park. Des Moines saloon closings follow Supreme Court action. Weather notes show varied rainfall and crop conditions across Iowa with corn prospects improving. Prohibitionists convene in Des Moines nominating a state ticket and proposing reforms including woman suffrage and railways public ownership. Civil appointments announced for governor and statewide officials. presidential offices adjust salaries and classes for several towns.
The state prohibition convention met at the Y M C A auditorium in Des Moines with about 206 delegates. They adopted a 500 word platform endorsing free coinage of silver and gold at 15 to 1, strict immigration laws, salary cuts for officials, income tax, and equal suffrage. The ticket named Governor Frank Bacon of Wilton for governor and W Atwood for lieutenant governor, with J W Rogers as supreme judge and I D Garhart for superintendent of public instruction.
William Carter and Scott Flanders report to Sergeant Bluits after a trip to Cherry County Nebraska to recover stock scattered over fifty miles. Henry Rey and John feshody led ranch duties and vanished with seven horses a farm wagon and several cattle believed stolen. They left unpaid bills totaling 150 dollars Carter and Flanders settled them. A reward is offered for their capture or information on their whereabouts.
Webster City faces its census rejection as state officials dispute data while a special council session seeks more assistants for census takers. About 500 names may be added to the tally under the revised count. Aged 77, a person known as Suman was sent to the pen, and Mrs Everett of Dubuque, 71, was jailed for abortion with an eight month sentence in a prior case.
Temperance activists discovered saloons operated on a petition signed by about 49 percent of voters in the last general election, with bogus names inflating the 6 percent figure. they plan to pursue legal action. Also reported: a boy nearly blinded by a fuse explosion, two drownings in Clinton and Dubuque, postmaster Hanson bound over for $4000, gang members tied to Orange County raiding, a Davenport boy hit by a train, and a Davenport woman killed by a Milwaukee Road car near Olin.
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