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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
3
Mrs Berta Watson of Cincinnati writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound steadies nerves and eases hot flashes during the climacteric. She credits the remedy with strengthening the system and providing lasting relief through the troubling period.
The article describes harvest workers known as hands who travel from the south to North Dakota wheat farms between May and mid July. They ride the blind baggage on passenger trains, travel from midwest towns, and bring skilled, hardworking laborers earning wages around 1609 000 in total. Many avoid rail fares and seek steady work with strict discipline and no drinking or gambling on the best farms.
A Greensburg Ind. notice recounts William Stimpson, a farmer, struck by paralysis after overwork. He attributes recovery to Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, supported by an affidavit. The advertisement promotes the pills as a blood and nerve tonic, selling 50 cent boxes and six for 2.50 through Dr Williams Medicine Co.
Acclaimed prospector Acuiduus Ward reports a rich gold find along a Alaskan river near St Michaels, with nuggets washed from dirt pockets by two Indian guides. He plans to develop a large scale operation using mechanical processes, aiming to keep details discreet while expanding claims in the region above the Yukon headwaters.
Spanish troops mutinied at Matanzas and refused access to deck on a Weyler vessel. About 2,000 wounded soldiers and Captain General Weyler were aboard. Factions pressed for overdue gold salaries, leading to clashes. several killed as guards forced them below. Reports place the disturbance near Tavann with growing discontent.
San Francisco reports quick uptake of the news that the United States Supreme Court decided not to interfere with the Durrant murder case. The ruling clears the way for the execution of five other condemned killers, including Harvey Allander and Blanks, with Durrant's parents notified of the decision and deeply affected.
Cincinnati November 10 Senator Foraker said before leaving for Washington that the fight against a common enemy had exhausted his efforts and that he would not back any Republican contest unless an unforeseen change occurred He believed the Republican legislature favored Hanna and that the sign of 197 was ended with him.
Judge Jackson rules that a transfer without trial cannot be a removal under civil service law. He says appointment under civil service grants equity to the place even if the officer must surrender for cause and that shifts in assignment equal dismissal without charges. The decision aims to reinstate a United States storekeeper or ganger in the Moving Service.
In Paris, Nov, a family including Captain Dreyfus's cousin and his wife with three daughters died in a group suicide by their own hand. The porter found them in their apartments, the youngest in the bedrooms. Dreyfus left 400 francs for funeral expenses and showed distress over the captain's sentence before his own death.
Captain Gould of the American clipper Challenger reports sighting a giant sea serpent eighty days from San Francisco. The creature appeared thirty feet off the starboard beam, with a head as large as a ship's bucket and a body two feet in diameter. It lay motionless, apparently asleep, in the shelly region, and Gould speculates it had dined well and was enjoying after dinner rest.
A large Texarkana Arkansas blaze destroyed four lumber kilns, five sheds, and over 1 250 000 feet of lumber belonging to Central Coal Coke and Lumber. Loss exceeds 100 000 dollars. Two mammoth sheds collapsed trapping about forty workers. three fatally injured include Charles Korn Edwin Barron and a black laborer. A sharp wind fed the flames and nearby structures were razed.
In Philadelphia area on November 10, work on Finns Point and Delaware batteries opposite Delaware Bay and the new Fort Delaware defenses is being pushed. Double shifts of laborers staff the fortifications as heavy guns are mounted. Battery TB Fifth Artillery, under Captain Chase, now at Washington Barracks, is ordered to Fort Delaware.
Names of sixteen of the nineteen men lost on the Idaho and details of the wreck above Long Point after a gale. Two sailors survived Louis Laforce and William Gill. Captain Alex Gillies spoke of the disaster and rescue as the Mariposa brought news to port.
Pensions granted Saturday include multiple individuals from Iowa Dakota and Nebraska with originals and increases listed. Postmasters appointed in Iowa Davis county and several counties across Nebraska and South Dakota are named with replacements and resignations noted.
Schuyler Nebraska November 9 1910 Helen Drake 13 daughter of Enemesy Drake of the Burlington and Missouri disappeared from her home nearly a week ago. She was seen at Edholm across the river Wednesday morning then at a railroad crossing where she is believed to have boarded an eastbound train. It is thought she went to Omaha where her parents formerly resided. She took a supply in clothing when
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