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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
14
A Philadelphia woman reports being bedridden with ovarian inflammation and discharge, paying high medical costs, yet notes a full recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The letter lauds the product as a woman’s reliable aid and cites personal relief.
Medicine note promotes Allen's Foot Ease to soothe teething gums and relieve wind colic issues. Claims warmth for feet and cures for chilblains frostbite damp feet and bunions with 25 cent bottles. Sample offered. Allen and Olmsted LeRoy NY listed.
Poem fragment recalls an old clock and a singer named Eva Wilder McGlasson. Then a Philadelphia Record item reports Morris Golembiewski and his son in a snow drift incident near Bear Gap valley. the son was saved after being pitched from a sleigh. the father clung to a tree and survived. horse valued at $1,000 and sleigh wrecked.
A Detroit mother Mrs. John Tansey recalls using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Blood, claiming they restored her daughter’s health after a long decline. She urges mothers to keep the pills, touts their benefits for impoverished blood and weak nerves, and defends the medicine’s efficacy with personal testimonials. Also promotes Five Drops claimed cures with a mail offer from Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co. in Chicago.
The text notes mule spinners lead resistance to wage reductions in the Lowell and New Bedford cotton mills, signaling labor pushback in the textile industry.
New York reports a $25,420,000 surge in Standard Oil stock as prices leap from 420 to 446 a share. The rise fuels talk of a planned capitalization increase to sustain large dividends while evading anti trust orders, with trustees issued certificates replacing stock records to lump dividends under the trust.
Havana February 14 Captain General Blanco reportedly loses favor after failing to subdue insurgents in the island's east and may return to Spain before May. His cane of command fell overboard aboard ship, seen as a bad omen for his hold on command. Officials had ordered Havana aldermen to greet his arrival.
In the senate today a joint resolution to survey and determine the practicability of opening a navigable canal through the southwest pass of the Mississippi river was passed. Senator Allen of Nebraska introduced a resolution directing the foreign relations committee to inquire whether the yacht Buccaneer, owned by Mr Hearst, had been seized and is being held by the Spanish government.
Mrs Nobles the aged murderess was taken to Twiggs county for a third death sentence. Returning to Macon she passed her husband’s grave and read a tombstone created by her daughter bearing the inscription Murdered by His Wife. She was unprepared for the grisly charge.
Susan B Anthony called the thirtieth annual convention of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association to order in Washington on February 16, praising past gains and urging continued effort against the common enemy. The session then moved to routine business as reports came in from press and stock market briefs follow in the same column.
Secret autonomist meeting in Havana outlines terms to end rebellion including dissolution of volunteers, recognition of insurgent leaders, Cuban militia formation, and Cuba paying 100 million of 600 million debt with 2 million yearly crown list payment. Three cabinet seats assured to insurgent party, 15 day armistice proposed.
London reports Madrid censors halted cable transmission of news to American papers citing the grave, near war crisis. Both Spain and the United States reportedly restrained press to avoid public agitation as American warships moved toward Cuba.
The Journal reports Armour borrowed wheat in December to cover short sales to Joseph Leiter, using stock at Peavey and others and promising to replace it. A $3,000,000 guaranty was tied to the loan, explaining the prolonged wheat movement from Minneapolis and Duluth toward Chicago and London.
Abraham Lincoln's birthday was celebrated as a legal holiday in New York with banks and public institutions closed. The day marked by ceremonies and public notice of the holiday.
Atlantic Georgia February reports a second letter from Mrs Joseph Kingsberry defending antisculation views. She says she sees periods when the practice dominates in the south and notes reproaches from supporters who misread her stance. She admits the custom is less prevalent now but remains widespread in the north as well.
Washington notes Friday revisions with Iowa and Nebraska pensions new grants renewals and increases. Names include Jacob L. Cook Mitchellville Ebenezer Clifford Sumner and more with amounts from 3 to 12 dollars and widows recipients. New postmasters appointed in Iowa and Nebraska include Julien Schoger C F Netterson Natthew Farran Samuel McWellman and others. J W Hudson appointed day teacher Pine Ridge S C at sixty dollars yearly and Edwin Wiggenhorn promoted within pension office.
In London at the Old Bailey the May trial of Vladimr Bourtzoff editor of Narodnye Voletz and Weitzhech, the printer, begins. Charged with publishing material inciting the czar's assassination, they plead not guilty. Sir Richard Webster prosecutes, arguing the case rests on exceptional circumstances and direct incitement resembling the 1880 Winter Palace nihilist attack.
In St Louis on February 15 the Union Pacific reorganization committee and the government agreed that the government will be paid in full, with no request for postponement of the Kansas Pacific sale. Attorneys for both sides appeared and stated the sale will proceed as advertised.
The Santa Fe California Limited ran 202.4 miles from La Junta Colorado to Dodger City Kansas in 3 hours 44 minutes, averaging 56.7 mph after delays. The run eclipsed former western division records and outpaced the Empire State express on the New York to Buffalo route.
In New York on February, U S White accepted the governing committee’s verdict on a recent advertisement urging public subscription to a stock syndicate. The committee’s resolutions ban any advertisement by a member not purely legitimate business, deeming such acts detrimental to the exchange. Members who violate the rule face discipline.
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