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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1900
Page
3
Diphtheria cases reported better. William Stewart visits Havre on business. Senator Finley of Mt. Pleasant and residents from Ainsworth and Des Moines travelors visit or return home. Illnesses include Mrs. J H Dewis with pleurisy. Various locals including teachers, editors, and salesmen are in and out of the city.
Pulaski Maxwell visited Havre today. Charles Strain spent Sunday in Winfield. D. J. Eichelberger visited in Havre yesterday. Vern Mason went to Ainsworth on the Firefly this morning on business. A B Ross of Winfield was the guest of friends in the city over Sunday. Stichter spent Sunday at home and returned to Fairfield last night. Edworthy, Bird White and others went to Keota this morning to work on a new store building. Mollie Cheney hosts dinner tonight in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Elliott of Reinbeck. Will and Althea Montgomery left for school at Wyman and Crawfordsville. Mr. Sheppard, a baseball and football figure, is in Burlington. Methodist church meetings continue all week. Rev. Schreckengast delivers sermons and meetings grow in interest. Mrs. Wm. Fitzwilliam went to Keota Saturday night to visit relatives.
Advertisers must submit their copy by 10 o clock in the morning to guarantee a same day ad change. The notice emphasizes punctual submission to ensure processing, highlighting the urgency and deadline for daily adjustments.
Detroit reports no written protection for minority bondholders in the Detroit Telephone sale to Bell. Edward H. Parker says no formal agreement exists and foreclosure would yield about $200,000, likely insufficient to cover debt. The issue may go to court.
The Journal releases an authoritative statement from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul directors announcing two appointments General Superintendent Henry R Williams is elevated to general manager and Assistant General Superintendent Williams succeeds him as general superintendent Also Underwood takes Williams’s post. A second item notes a 70th wedding anniversary near Battle Creek with the couple both over 90.
W W Fiffirich sen former state secretary and Sixteenth district ex-representative and RUCK HINRICHSEN editor of the Union Democratic bulletin have been named general traveling agent for the national Democratic Ways and Means Committee. He will tour the southern states starting soon and meets Louisiana Democrats Thursday to gauge candidate viability and party issue tensions.
Smallpox appeared in Marshalltown with seven definite cases reported January 22. Five of the patients are African American residents in the central business district. A pesthouse east of town has been set up and patients moved there under the guidance of Dr. J. F. Kennedy and local health officials.
Friends of Governor Shaw oppose a vice presidential bid saying he would not accept and has no inclination for the nomination. A Des Moines report notes Shaw’s top supporters prefer his future over a second rate national post. In other items two Indiana bankrobbers are jailed in Chicago. police doubt their claimed brotherhood. In Panola Illinois Fred Sibley vows not to endure prison and threatens self harm.
The immigration bureau in Honolulu reports 17,800 Japanese landed since June 15. Andrew eel? donated 50000 to East Orange Public Library. Treasury secretary and Mrs Gage hosted cabinet dinner for the president and Mrs. Melkinley. Knoxville elected every Democratic ticket. Corinthia sailed from New Orleans with 1400 mules for Britain. Tug Hero sank in Mobile. engineer Robert Davidson drowned. Archbishop Kain to Rome after Easter for about six months. Chicago prison inmate John Gill died. killing traced to wood alcohol theft by fellow prisoners.
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