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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1898
Page
1
Dispatches from Hong Kong quote Admiral Dewey and U.S. officials noting Manila’s siege by land and naval pressure. Dewey’s prestige remains high, with reports that rebels surround the city and provisions grow scarce, signaling a likely early surrender by Spanish authorities.
The Spanish cabinet resigned on Sunday and President of the council Senor Sagaste will form a new ministry. The liberal cabinet, under Sagasta, took office October 4 after the assassination of Senor Canovas del Castillo, with reforms and continued war policy despite international tension over Cuba.
The Sunday evening hailstorm in eastern Kansas caused widespread damage. Hailstones large as hens eggs shattered south facing windows and skylights in homes and businesses, soaked goods, pierced streetcar roofs, and caused injuries and horse scattering. Fruit trees may suffer lasting damage.
Five masked bandits held up an Alabama Great Southern passenger train near Cuba Alabama Sunday night. Express money claimed stolen totals vary with officials stating only 300 remained, the rest hidden in a stove pipe. A posse with hounds pursued the robbers.
A Washington special reports a secret police and secret service probe into a plan to destroy public buildings. On Amalostan Island two men found a box with 959 pounds of dynamite a nitroglycerine canister and a white mixture. Police and agents suspect Spanish spies aimed to attack federal structures.
The article notes gold coin circulation in New York reaching unprecedented levels, with daily payments at the subtreasury totaling about one million dollars. Merchants and Wall Street brokers protest returning to heavy coin payments, while customs settlements show gold comprising half of receipts last month compared with minuscule shares earlier years.
A family letter describes Mr Gladstone as remaining in his room for two weeks awaiting relief. It says he shows no interest in earth or food, longs for peace, sleeps poorly, and can barely read a brief message. He has met a few visitors, but conversations are only farewells.
A massive blaze engulfed the Darmexe Dene elevator in Chicago, damaging the Chicago Barrington and Quincy Railroad asset and causing total losses estimated at 1.208 million bushels of grain and 900000 dollars in insured property. The fire also wrecked lumber stocks from Lord Bushnell Tate Beidler and Co firms as well as 40 freight cars. An explosion of grain dust wrecked the interior before the blaze could be checked, and two large gas tanks posed additional danger as wind spread the flames at 2 p.m. The elevator, holding 3289 thousand dollars value, contained 100000 bushels of wheat, 625000 bushels of corn, 90000 oats, and 150000 flax.
The 614 Henrickian pension bill was approved, granting Maj. Gen. Cassius M. Clay of Whitehall, Ky., a pension of 60 dollars per month. The House spent the Friday session on pension and private claims, passing 46 measures in committee of the Whole and six on final passage.
Spanish spy George Dairning suicided in Washington barracks after confinement, reportedly by banging himself. The incident followed his recent arrest and confinement. Protests Against Our Course arise as Cuban officials draft a protest through Spain to oppose American intervention. A Topeka murder shocks locals as J. Collins is killed in bed with Mrs. Collins wounded. Maher knocks out Peter in Philadelphia boxing match watched by ringside crowd. Elks leaders named in New Orleans as officers take office. London reports sale of a renowned Irish horse for £25,000 to Russia. Kruger takes oath as President of the South African Republic for a five year term.
A dense market list details cattle hogs and sheep prices by city including Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and New York with wheat corn oats rye and butter and eggs prices. Entries show range prices such as Chicago cattle $3.00 to $5.50 hogs $3.00 to $4.55 and New York cattle $3.00 to $5.50 with various grade notations and mixed corn prices across locations.
Re verend William Stevens Perry of Davenport, bishop of Iowa, was stricken with paralysis May 11 at the home of Judson Keith Deming in Dubuque. After collapse he remained unconscious, with the left side paralyzed, and doctors feared the first attack. He later died Friday morning, and the body was sent to Philadelphia to lie beside his wife who died a year earlier.
Frank Peterson of Sioux City says he discovered a lost method to harden copper and is demonstrating samples with notable results. He has secured a patent and operates a shop turning out the alloy, claiming it resists impact and wear, conducts electricity, and could suit trolley wheels and machine boxes.
The Iowa Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen begins its twenty seventh annual session in Waterloo with about two hundred delegates in attendance. Officers are elected. total lodge and auxiliary memberships are listed. reports and secret work planned. Also notes on accidents, weather, and local incidents follow.
Last week two prisoners escaped from Anamosa penitentiary while guards diverted attention with a potato cellar raid in the female department. They donned citizen clothes, fled to the clerks’ office, and were released by a clerical error before being recaptured at the river bank while attempting to swim Coal in Northern Iowa. Clare reports a six to seven foot coal vein at 23 to 253 feet depth found by drillers during a well project. Hartsook of Bondurant travels to Marshalltown in a gasoline motor wagon, claiming six miles per hour with low fuel costs. Supreme Court requires an exact copy of life insurance applications attached to each policy, in the case Wesley M. Johnson vs Des Moines Life Insurance Co.
Farmers organize Albion Farmers' Telephone Company to lay lines from Florenville to Cresco with branches to stockholders homes to save time for business inquiries and social interactions. The plan envisions connecting residences and facilitating communication among farmers in the county.
Justice Whyte of the United States Supreme Court reverses Iowa liquor law verdict. Rhodes, a railroad agent, was convicted for transporting liquor from Dallas to Brigh ton. The court holds the Wilson act does not validate state control beyond its borders and interstate shipments fall outside state jurisdiction. Dissenting justices argue state police power remains valid. Other items note hardships in Hungary, French cannon developments, and electric lights in Japan.
Rev. D Green of Grace Church Cedar Rapids resigns as chaplain of the First Regiment due to Bishop Perry's death and is likely to become the next bishop as president of the diocese. Meanwhile Jacob Dill a carpenter near Kingston Burlington is jailed for fatally injuring Charles Steffensthal with a pipe during a quarrel.
A discussion notes a determination by Prof Barnard using a sick telescope that the Neptune diameter is 32 000 miles, with a correction range from 5 000 to 4 000 miles less than standard text book values.
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