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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1900
Page
1
Lieutenant Alstaetter and fifteen engineers were attacked by 350 insurgents near San Isidro. The entire party was killed wounded or captured, ending the Manila dispatch.
Mrs. Fred Frey drove ten miles to West Terre Haute with her unconscious husband to reach a doctor and stop bleeding after he severed an ankle artery felling a tree. He fainted, dragged by the buggy, and not expected to recover as bystanders aided lifting him aboard and she urged the horse onward.
Winnipeg Aug 4 a strike of large scale was declared against the Canadian Pacific railway. Machinists blacksmiths boilermakers fitters laborers and locomotive painters walked out from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast threatening broad disruption.
Scattered items include Dr. Avery in Constantinople offering carbolic gas to kill rats aboard ship, a Chicago parrot upsetting jewel burglars, fundraising for a Dewey arch in New York, and European city defenses. Reported also: Moorish forces repelled by France, a Chicago man dying before leaving for Italy, a butcher driven insane in St Louis, and injuries from a cable car grip in Chicago.
Michigan railroad earnings for June reached 3 872 062 50 dollars, up from the prior year by 216 352 67. For six months ending June 30 the total stood at 18 770 726 06 dollars, against 16 492 210 46 the year before, signaling a 2 278 507 50 rise and a projected 200 000 tax increase next year.
Chicago Aug 4 Scores by American League clubs yesterday Indianapolis 4 Milwaukee 2 Cleveland 7 Minneapolis 10 Buffalo 7 Kansas City 14 Milwaukee 2 Indianapolis 4 Kansas City 14 No National League games scheduled.
East Buffalo live stock merchants report hogs selling around 5.25 to 5.40 with a 30 car intake on hogs and a 2 000 head cattle slate. Cattle quotations span choice to common ranges. sheep and lambs show varied prices. Wheat corn oats rye and barley futures and spot prices listed for Milwaukee Detroit and local elevators.
Dispatches report a possible ally advance past Tianjin with disagreement over whether real action has begun. Washington notes Li Hung Chang’s evasive reply to Hay, while Goodnow links responsibility for the Peking massacre to Li Ping Hong. Diplomatic efforts continue to secure ministerial access and hostage concerns surface in Shanghai.
Reports from Tientsin and Chefoo note a reconnaissance between Japanese and Chinese two miles beyond the Hsiku arsenal with Japanese retreating after thirty casualties. American and German forces ordered to move forward. mass killings of Christians outside Peking reported. urgent truce talks and relief hopes voiced by officials and clergy.
In Georgetown Kentucky on August 4 the Powers case heard former State Auditor Stone testify that W H Cullen an alleged co conspirator was removed from office for a $1000 default Other Grayson Springs residents testified further about the case and its progress
London reports the shah canceled his England visit after the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha died. Paris dispatch identifies the would be assassin as Francois Salson, born 1876, a Frenchman with prior anarchist convictions. Bertillon measurements matched his police card. the suspect admitted, I am actson.
Findings of a court of inquiry at Camp Lincoln Illinois exonerate the cavalry squadron from blame in the powder blast last Sunday evening no deaths are expected and punishments are unlikely. The report details and reveals the acquittal alongside other previously released facts. In Canada the Seawan HakA cup race saw Red Coat defeat Minnesota by six minutes and twenty seconds on Lake St Louis with Red Coat at 25 7 and Minnesota at 25 6 feet.
Returns from Thursday’s vote show Aycock elected governor with a 55 000 to 60 000 majority. Democratic leadership predicts it will exceed 60 000. The legislature will be four fifths Democratic in both chambers, with at least 38 of 50 senators and 89 of 120 house members Democratic.
New York reports Jim Corbett prepares for his August Madison Square Garden bout with Kid McCoy training at Bath Beach and Saratoga. Meanwhile I H Clergue of the Algoma Central gains stock in the Hudson Bay and Sault Ste Marie Railway under a charter for a Missanabie Moose Factory route with large subsidies. Richard Lawson, Kinmundy editor and former postmaster, seeks first assistant postmaster general nomination in Illinois.
Yankton reports a mosquitos plague after July rainfall swamps low areas and lake beds. Dense clouds attack humans and animals from morning to night, forcing barns to shut doors and drivers to smudge stands as no relief is seen until dry weather and heat reduce the pests.
An unknown deaf and dumb man was struck by a freight train while walking the tracks west of Perry Iowa last evening and killed.
The article surveys proposed revisions to the U S gold stock estimate led by Mint Director Roberts and Muhleman of the New York sub treasurer. It cites prior methods, current miscalculations, and potential reductions of 50 to 100 million with emphasis on bullion movement and industrial consumption. It notes further inquiries and the stock’s implied still large size despite adjustments.
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