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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1900
Page
1
Frankfort Ky September dispatch reports James B Howard convicted of participating in the killing of William Goebel. Jurors unanimously found him guilty on the first ballot and fixed his punishment at death after hours of deliberation.
In Galveston workers clear streets remove debris and recover bodies. Twenty five bodies were found Wednesday and thirty five Thursday. Governor Sayers travels to Austin to discuss a municipal operating fund until February 28 and a proposed $100000 relief fund, which he opposes.
The Democratic House caucus reached a compromise on an election bill creating a state board of one Democrat, one Republican, and a state officer who will appoint county boards with members from each party. An umpire from the submitted list will be chosen. The plan gives Democrats a county board majority with only ministerial powers except for questioned ballots. Senate Democrats are expected to accept.
A fire Tuesday night at F.M. Chapin’s implement house in Fairmont Nebraska destroyed the building and contents valued at about 5000 dollars. Insurance covered 200 on the building and 2500 on stock, while the adjacent well-boring and pump repair shop owned by C Crestensen was also destroyed with about 1500 dollars loss and no insurance.
A jealous watchman in Chicago shot his wife at their home after a supposed intimacy with Albert I Klick. He then swallowed carbolic acid and fired a final act, dying immediately from the wound. The husband, Joseph Sloup, worked in John Dauber’s lumber yard.
The tenth biennial reunion of Crocker's Town Brigade, including the Eleventh Thirteenth Fifteenth and Sixteenth regiments, opened in Keokuk Iowa. Officers reported strong society prosperity while a large campfire featured telegrams and speeches.
A blaze near Occidental California has burned 150 square miles over several days, with damage estimated at 1,500,090 dollars. A missing stranger fought the flames, and residents, including women and children, were moved into cars for safety. Engineers Phelps and Fireman Elliott made a daring crossing of a burning trestle on the North Pacific line before it collapsed.
Judge Haneey of Chicago ordered the release of Joseph Wyman a Cook county life convict on a technicality. Warden Murphy warned that if the ruling stands more than 600 convicts could gain freedom. The decision rested on the lack of a specific stated crime and reports indicate about 100 prisoners were committed similarly. Fifty four life convicts are among those affected.
Fire at the Malmgren implement house and blacksmith shop in Ceresco Nebraska Tuesday morning September 25 destroyed the building and stock. The blaze proved unsalvageable despite quick alarms and efforts to save neighboring property. The loss valued at 3500 with 1500 insurance.
Edward A. Stearns, reported by General Shafter at Nagasaki to have died on board the transport Grant bound for China, was a Hastings painter. He left a Missouri mother, a married sister in Cherry County, and a younger brother in the Philippines. Both enlisted with the Thirty-ninth around the same time.
An eight year old girl on East Fourth Street Grand Island Nebraska dislocated her elbow and fractured the forearm while playing with hay bales piled in front of Olson's feed store a bale fell on her and threw her to the sidewalk authorities report the injury without further details
News reports a hurricane striking Offord Teeland on September 20. Wind speeds exceed 120 miles per hour as fishing-smacks are driven ashore and houses razed. Several persons killed and widespread property destruction noted.
Zion elders Mark J. Loban of Chicago and James Watts of Hammond Indiana, both British subjects, arrived at Mansfield and checked into a hotel. Their identities were discovered and they were marched to the city prison and deported at noon.
The Adams Express depot in Keokuk Iowa reports a robbery of a thousand dollar package consigned by a local bank to Selma Iowa. The package was placed in the sack but missing when the depot agent checked out.
A lightning strike set the Marsland flour mill ablaze, destroying the structure. The mill was owned by Jd Roll, with no immediate report of injuries. Authorities are assessing the fire damage and cause.
General MacArthur cables that transport orders were issued as Sherman sailed from Manila on September 23 toward San Francisco. Due to Nova Scotia coal shortages in Halifax, an order for 200 tons of steam coal was placed in Virginia for immediate delivery to support British warships headquartered in Halifax. Burglars broke into Dr. Wrede's Berlin house and stole 20,000 marks in cash and securities worth 800,000 marks. police recovered all but 15,000 marks within a day.
The governor announces that by September 30, 1900, funds received for Texas coast storm sufferers total 672,476.29 dollars. Of this, 3,892.50 dollars remained from the Brazos river valley relief, with drafts in transit or uncollected. He promises a full, emittted statement of the fund’s total received and distributed.
A wireless dispatch from General MacArthur reports Captain Devereaux Shields and 51 men of Company E, Twenty-ninth Volunteers, plus a hospital corpsman, sailed from Santa Cruz for Torrijos and are feared captured with many killed or wounded. Colonel Anderson confirms the capture claim but lacks details. orders are issued to commence operations to rescue Shields. Maranique lies south of Luzon near Manila. Shields, a Natchez, Mississippi native, had previously served as lieutenant colonel in the Second Louisiana Infantry during the Spanish War.
Moody and Tiobaw, elders from Dowie, Chicago, arrived in Mansfield Ohio on September 30 and were promptly deported by city officials. Moody left early and returned with Tiobaw while two other elders were not allowed to alight. Police took precautions to prevent violence.
A gas explosion at the Eager Mercantile Company acetylene plant at Beaver Crossing Neb left Earl Eager with a broken jaw in three places and in critical condition. Homer Houchen suffered both arms broken and other injuries. Chas Simonton, a druggist, was badly cut about hands and feet. The blast was blamed on a heated stove.
Attorneys for James Howard seek a new trial as several affidavits remain unfiled. The motion hinges on juror expressions prior to the trial that could affect juror qualifications. Guffy, son of Judge Guffy, reveals new evidence of a man resembling a door supervisor with a 38 Winchester rifle in the executive building after Goebel’s shooting, stating Howard did not appear in the building.
In Lake Charles a mob gathered at the courthouse after a man named Pierce Scott was charged in a case involving Mrs. Oswald. Deputy Sheriff Paul Sloan and DSA Harmon warned the crowd and, when dispersed, Sloan was struck and fatally hurt, dying later that night.
The University of Chicago plans action after its official seal appeared on a Philadelphia whisky advertisement. Board secretary Dr. T N Goodspeed will confer with Attorney Noble B Judah to determine relief and possible prosecution. If grounds exist, university will pursue legal steps.
Late on September 30 in Akron C the mangled body of Patrick Mullen was found on the track of the electric railroad at Cuyahoga Falls. Discoveries indicate Mullen was murdered and his body placed on the track by his assailants. He had considerable money when last seen alive.
Governor McSweeney of South Carolina received a telegram from the Georgetown mayor asking for troops to be ordered out. Colonel Sparks of Georgetown is to hurry troops to the coast as the balance of power shifts with black residents outnumbering whites.
The Mikado summoned Marquis Ito to form a cabinet following the Yamagata ministry's resignation. He was entrusted to lead as Japan enters a new diplomatic stage, with Ito at the head of government deemed necessary by the emperor.
The jury in the Lloyd Smith case, manager of a Chicago elevator company, has been out thirty six hours with no sign of agreement. The panel stands eight for acquittal and four for conviction on charges of failing to cancel warehouse receipts.
A. D. Aikens, an elderly respected resident of Plainview, was found dead near his door with a bullet through the right breast. The case remains mysterious as no weapon or description of one was found on the body, and pockets were empty, arguing against robbery.
A Santa Fe passenger train wreck occurred eighteen miles north of Oklahoma City at Waterloo. Two people were killed outright and three others were fatally injured. Tom Mayers of Oklahoma City was among the traveling party involved in the crash.
London dispatch reports Germany nearly completes retreat from a untenable front. A Paris Morning Post correspondent notes a Chinese program agreement among France Germany and Russia to be submitted to other powers in days. Cologne Gazette cites growing pressure and says continued foreign movement depends on Prince Tuan’s defeat.
A naptha tank exploded at 1:45 this morning in the Central Gas Light works at East 138th Street. Flames shot high, windows shattered, and fireboats responded as firefighters battled to prevent spread to nearby gas holders. No lives lost.
A major blaze sweeps Hafenstrasse Hamburg gutting Paneesand Tietgen's warehouses and timber yard while flames threaten nearby buildings on elevated ground. Fire brigades struggle to save Busch's circus and adjacent structures as the fire rages through the area.
Two young men from prominent Hast Point families in Georgia fought with pistols after a two week quarrel. Sheffield Harrington was shot four times and Walter Hudson wounded once. Both are believed fatally wounded.
Twelve of twenty four Delta Sigma Delta members were poisoned at a Chicago fraternity banquet. Canned salmon is suspected as the ptomaine source from a burned storage plant in St Paul. Some victims remain seriously ill but no fatalities are expected. Health department sources say the tainted lot was brought into the city.
The body of Edward Cottrell, aged 58, was discovered in Central Park New York. He evidently died by his own hand using carbolic acid. Cottrell, formerly of Ohio, had worked at a produce exchange and faced financial embarrassment after short selling. He and his physician had traveled to Saratoga in June and stayed there until recently.
A fast freight train collided with a switch engine on the Detroit Grand Haven Milwaukee railroad at Grand Haven Michigan. Engineer Thomas Hemlin of Detroit and Fireman John Linde of Ionia were killed. Samuel Beck a brakeman was injured. Twenty four loaded cars burned, and both engines were demolished.
Father Fitzpatrick of Holy Trinity Church Omaha Neb glimpsed a man near a poor box Friday evening. He moved quietly toward the chancel rail and tackled the burglar, then turned him over to the police.
The body of Captain Murphy who was killed in the Philippines has arrived in this country and will be taken to Council Bluffs for burial or mounting services.
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