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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
1
Special to Evening Journal reports former Senator John J. Ingalls died in Las Vegas New Mexico after a illness spanning some time. Born in Middleton Massachusetts in 1833 he became a Kansas lawyer and statesman serving as secretary of state in 1861 and state senator in 1862 before his election to the U S Senate in 1873 and re election in 1885.
Dr. Robert Kitto of Racine files suit against Frankfort Insurance of Germany seeking 4000 dollars for injuries from a Milwaukee Electric car accident. A window fractured his eye and required a glass eye after treatment in Italy. He held 5000 accident insurance, with 17000 payable, but Frankfort refused to settle while others did.
Reports from Richland Center Marshall and Janesville describe injuries to Henry Hanke and Will Kik ing from threshing equipment incidents. Jacob H. Snyder, a hotel proprietor, dies of apoplexy in Janesville. Lincoln hearing on free silver on the Australian ballot faces Republican objections. In Tacoma the Republican state convention endorses McKinley and nominates a full ticket led by J M Frink with loyalist platform.
The post office department orders rural free delivery to begin September 3 at Boone and Breda Iowa and at Normal Illinois with added service at Eau Claire Wisconsin. Milwaukee bankers convene as Wisconsin Bankers Association marks seventh annual meeting with President Bigelow delivering the address. A Joliet rainstorm drenches the city with heavy thunder and lightning causing widespread disruption.
In Aberdeen a bartender named Harry Knowles suffered severe cold damage to his hand when a safety plug blew from a carbonic acid gas cylinder used to chill beer. He briefly tried to cover the leak with a damp towel before the proprietor advised releasing the gas. The incident occurred while temperatures in the shade supposedly reached 100 degrees.
The Ilinola Held club an association of general and special insurance agents of non union companies met in Quincy. R D Harvey of Chicago presided as president and members discussed insurance conditions across the state. This afternoon the fire department gave an exhibition for the benefit of the agents.
Chicago hogs ranged 3.60 to 5.32 as bulk sold at 5.00 to 5.20. Cattle quoted from 2.50 to 6.50 with good to choice steers at 5.25 to 6.50 and veal calves up to 6.75. Sheep and lambs showed wide spans from 1.50 to 6.00, with western and native lists. East Buffalo and St. Louis grain markets noted steady to weaker cattle and varied wheat and corn prices on Aug 15.
Shanghai and Paris wires say allied forces may have entered Peking with official caution. In Washington anxious officials report mixed dispatches from China, noting General Chaffee near Ma Tu and possible peace talks as tensions rise and cipher messages complicate the record.
London reports that William St John Broderick says the government hopes Pekin legations will be relieved soon and would land troops at Shanghai if needed to protect British lives. He praises Waldersee's appointment and notes viceroys in Yangtse valley could oppose the insurrection.
A foggy morning, a change of orders, and a drowsy telegraph operator led to a collision on the Grand Rapids and Indiana line. Seven people died, about a dozen injured, most are company employees. Victims include conductor M Lettx and engineer Gilbert Groetvold. Bodies and injured were taken to Grand Rapids. Both trains traveled at sixty miles per hour on a straight three mile stretch when the crash occurred.
Monday a woman with a baby in her arms appeared at St. Mary's hospital in Detroit and begged admission citing poverty and her ill child. She claimed to be the widow of George H. Ward, formerly a grain broker in the city and at one time president of the local Board of...
The death of Collis Y Huntington sparks possible changes in his western enterprises. His nephew TH. B Huntington faces a higher chance of removal from the first vice presidency as allies of General Stubbard and Speyer & Co. push for new leadership. Charles H. Tweed of New York emerges as favored successor for the road. Newport News mourns with flags at half mast as Huntington’s funeral nears.
Two women claim to be Ward's widow, Ada Mary Lavoy-Ward and Mrs. Coffey-Ward, with Lavoy-Ward providing proof and stories of Ward dying in New York in her arms. Meanwhile, Chicago reports baseball scores, and other city notes discuss Huntington’s finances, a child abduction case in Wisconsin, and Fond du Lac waterworks funding hurdles.
Mrs. R. Goodell of Rockford Illinois and fifteen other American heirs stand to share fifty million dollars from a death in England. The heirs expect settlement and transfer of funds by September as the estate clears through courts. All heirs are in America.
A Las Vegas New Mexico report says ex United States Senator John J Ingalls rested well Tuesday night and ate fairly well yesterday morning His condition is not materially changed according to the special dispatch from Las Vegas NM dated August 16.
LaCrosse Aug 16. Mrs Barney Kolbo, distressed by her husband’s longer downtown stay, made two suicide attempts within an hour, both unsuccessful.
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