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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
4
Mrs Kainers letter recounts eight years of Change of Life suffering eased by Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and Pills. She praises Sana tiv Wash, credits cures for female diseases, and recommends the remedies to friends. A separate line notes a St Louis hospital death from lockjaw after a fight over shoes.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the vast miners convention in Pittsburgh okayed going to Columbus with discretion to settle the 69 cent wage dispute. Dolan aims to secure a fair permanent settlement for western Pennsylvania while warning ministers of a possible district secession if demands are unmet. Some mines resume work as talks proceed and miners press for reopening at the contested rate.
Pensions were granted yesterday with an extended list of original and increase awards for veterans in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota. Names include George W. Kays Sioux City Martha Banks Omaha Andree and others with widows and increases noted. Town patents were issued for farming and harvesting attachments including Bernard Guenzel Tracy a planter attachment Gerry Knowton Boone a windmill and others.
In Richmond Kentucky a band of regulators seized Charles Murray his unmarr ied daughter Mrs Clemans her husband Robert Clemans and James Begins from homes near Kingston and beat them nearly to death. Murray and Mrs Clemans who was near maternity are in serious condition. Several regulators were identified and will be indicted by the grand jury.
Leaders of the miners strike push to keep WV from being sidelined at the Columbus convention. Delegates are instructed to oppose settlements that exclude West Virginia, while many expect to return to work where possible. In Pittsburgh districts mass meetings nominate delegates to push for 64 cents or nothing, as 65 cents gains likely support. Fifteen hundred Wheeling division miners at the B&O rail line vote to stand for 6 cents.
The Mark Lane Express reviews the crop situation and warns a world wheat shortfall of fourteen million quarters if current conditions persist. It cites French and American estimations, notes adverse weather delaying harvests, and says high demand could deplete old wheat stores, risking a serious crisis unless spring 1898 brings better prospects.
Guthrie Sept 7. J G Roberts for negro taxpayers petitions Oklahoma Supreme Court to force Kingfisher county board to levy 4 mills for separate negro schools for 1897. County previously approved 3 mills but rescinded. 935 negro students would lose separate schools without the levy. Judges delayed ruling pending November term. district court to convene late October.
Sept. 7 Shepherd Mich. authorities seek a mysterious cattle buyer named Track Sutton who allegedly woke cashier Strubie to bank a forged 1000 dollar Jackson City draft. Police pursue lead amid public criticism. President McNamara vows further experiments and careful handling of mistakes.
Washington reports say no War Department record confirms any Spanish legation attache visiting Charleston defenses. Officials suggest Lieutenant Sobral, naval attaché, may be surveying South Atlantic and Gulf coast fortifications. If visits involved restricted works, investigations and possible expulsion would follow.
Mattson Wisconsin September 9. Cashier C A Norton of the Bank of Durand fled last Wednesday night leaving forged paper behind. He traveled through Madison in the same night driving a team that was found near the city outskirts next morning. Willy Thorn identified the team as Norton’s after responding to telegraph calls. Norton drove toward Madison and then likely toward the northwest on the morning train.
Foo Lee from Niles Michigan becomes the first Chinese rider to win a bicycle race in the United States. He trained with American riders, impressed crowds at a local carnival, and is urged to give up laundry work to pursue racing full time.
Express Messenger recounts a daring hold up seven miles north of Folsom New Mexico with masked robbers who fractured a safe with dynamite and escaped with baggaged valuables. Two other gunmen tried to force the messenger to open the safe while others covered him.
A party of fourteen prospectors aboard the yacht Mary Bell returned from Michipicotau reporting rich Eldorado prospects at Lake Wawa. They secured claims on four thousand acres, brought quartz samples with visible free gold, and described a growing mining camp with tents along the lake. A town site is being surveyed and transport to the region is expanding with regular Soo steamers and plans for a dock at Michipicoten.
A move by major operators led by F. L. Peavy of Minneapolis aims to alter rail rate bases to favor Superior Wisconsin shipments of corn to the lakes. The new tariffs reduce Chicago’s advantage, risking millions of bushels moving through Chicago. The Omaha line’s tariff shift ends discriminatory Iowa- to Chicago rate benefits, prompting industry pushback and market disruption.
A St Michaels report to the St Louis Republic describes Alaska as a land of luck where prospectors flock to the Klondike with dreams of fortune. The piece notes miners leaving urban life for remote digs, the fickle gold rush aphorism, and lore of elusive riches along Bonanza and Dominion creeks, while skeptics question the boom’s permanence.
Omaha city bonds totaling 206000 were sold at a premium of 50 358 13 with a 6 398 13 premium over par. Estabrook Co of Boston and others bid top prices in a U S record sale as wind and heat affected local crops in Gravido Florida and nearby areas.
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