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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1901
Page
1
Carrie Nation arrives from Des Moines to address a large audience in Muscatine Iowa and speak at the local venue tonight after her stop in Des Moines yesterday.
Centerville Iowa Feb 11 Lieut O M Cole of the Fiftieth Iowa a prominent young business man died last night at his home from typhoid fever He served in Co C 50 Iowa in the Spanish American war and was well known to Washington boys.
A five story brick building at Twenty third street and Allegheny Valley rail line and the adjacent Totten Hogg Tron and Steel foundry were destroyed by a large fire on Saturday. Loss runs to 750000 with 700000 borne by the Armstrongs and insured in full. About 1500 workers were inside the cork factory but all escaped thanks to fire escapes and ladders. The Armstrong Cork plant was the country’s largest of its kind.
Mrs. H. D. Fisher of Topeka Kansas died after aiding her husband during the Quantrell raid on Lawrence. She sheltered him under removed carpets as guerrillas burned the house, sparing him. Separate items note Senate naval appropriations, colonial policy debate in the House, and a Stuyvesant Fish banquet marking Illinois Central’s 50th anniversary.
Sioux City Iowa February 11 A committee of leading Republicans urged ex Congresssman George D Perkins editor of the Sioux City Journal to run for governor He agreed after frankly considering the request and said he would seek the nomination at the state convention He expects solid support from district and state Republicans
Lincoln Nebraska February 11 Governor Dietrich instructed sheriffs in Madison and Antelope counties to arrest all principals or promoters of a prize fight planned near Tilden Saturday night to enforce the law. He announced his intention to enforce the prohibition.
Colonel Lew A. Clarke, longtime St. Louis Elks secretary and former race track official, died here Saturday from complications after an operation.
Fragmentary report notes John Boals and others in a discussion about financial need and a project titled Alien Way. Text is unclear but references money and motive without full context.
Authorities jailed Joseph Goudie ex postmaster Nic Gregory saloonkeeper and accomplices after Gregory turned state's evidence. The group allegedly threatened dynamite and demanded 1500 dollars from farmers, meeting January 10 to plot further intimidation. Boals Fairman linked to Alton and Upper Alton families. case sparks regional alarm.
Marquis de Lafayette Swaim was convicted in Crawfordsville of grand larceny and sentenced to the reformatory. The Parke county area near Rockville has long been troubled by his criminal history spanning over a decade with numerous civil and criminal filings. A neighbor previously caught him stealing clover seed, and his past included a near-fatal dispute with his brother over wheat and multiple shootings involving his son.
Washington February 11 Representative Albert B Shaw of Watertown New York once commander in chief of the Army of the Republic was found dead in his Riggs House room. A physician said death was due to apoplexy probably about 2 am after returning from a banquet honoring his successor General Leo Russieur.
George M. Ray editor of The Daily Democrat was found guilty by a jury of conspiring to rob Shelby county by presenting a $1100 bill for printed blanks to the county commissioners. He and others remain under indictment for conspiracy. Penalty ranges from two to fourteen years in prison.
Havana reports the Saturday session adopted the first article of section 23. It states that all debts contracted before the constitution’s promulgation are repudiated except those contracted on behalf of the revolution from February 24, 1895 onward. Ann Arbor plans a theatre surprise with Carrie Nation for Ten Nights in a Bar Room. Birmingham vets praise McKinley Memphis invitation as in good taste. criticism unjustified.
Three thousand Topeka citizens meeting at the Law Enforcement League issue an ultimatum ordering saloons to close by Friday noon. They warn of 1,000 armed men if not obeyed, supporting Carrie Nation crusade efforts in a tense, mobilized push and calls to reaffirm Chief of Police Stahl.
Mrs Nation toured western Iowa on Saturday delivering lectures from a Rock Island train and addressing crowds in towns and saloons. In Atlantic and Acton wild demonstrations drew police attention. She urged listeners to fill pockets with rocks to smash saloons and spoke to 5 000 in Des Moines.
A mob of at least 1,000 in Holton Kansas dismantled nine liquor joints on a Saturday afternoon. They broke doors and fixtures and emptied liquor into the street, driving out proprietors who pledged never to sell again. A vigilante committee was formed to enforce the ruling.
Three men John Jackson John Stovall and Charles Hayes were arrested in Manilla Iowa in connection with the theft of a United States express safe containing $40 000. The safe disappeared from a Sioux City Chicago Milwaukee St Paul train on a Sioux City station platform.
London dispatch reports Boer forces under Louis Botha withdrawing eastward after heavy fighting with General Smith Dorrien at Orange Camp. Casualties include Spruit killed and Randemeyer wounded. British losses total 24 killed and 53 wounded as De Wet nears the line south of Jagersfontein. Sir Evelyn Wood not bound for South Africa. no peace commission planned.
W L Lamoreaux a freshman at the Michigan Agricultural College faced a rush of sophomores bent on raiding his room by showing a revolver and threatening to shoot if crossed. The incident follows earlier rough hazing and a freshman injury as sophomores tormented newcomers with snow baths.
General James M. Ruggles died at Hopping sanitarium Havana aged 81 a founder of the Republican party who drafted its first platform He was born March 7 1818 in Richland County Ohio practiced law in Illinois and served in the state senate He helped draft the Illinois drainage law and was briefly lieutenant governor candidate later declined He served in the Civil War and was brevetted brigadier general Four sons survive. Meanwhile George M Steiner is recaptured after a jail break near Monroe Wisconsin proceeding to Cherokee Oklahoma for return custody.
In St Paul Representative Deming introduces a house bill granting parole for life convicts after 35 years with deductions for good behavior or after 23 and a half years. The measure aims to pardon the Younger brothers if enacted.
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