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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1900
Page
4
Information filed by C. M Porter charges James Gordon with violating Iowa game law after he hunted and shot a squirrel in Porter’s timber. Gordon waived arraignment and the case was continued to January 30 at 1:30 p.m.
County residents warned by tax collectors of penalties for unfiled property taxes may resist. They argue that three miles worth of the collected tax revenue belongs to the state and that the collectors have no contract or right to collect that portion.
A social at Pleasant Ridge school house Saturday evening raised twenty nine dollars for the library after expenses. The cake sold for sixteen dollars and ninety five cents. Miss Mary Centlivre was voted the most popular young lady. A magic lantern show closed the night. Jessix BE Rupr, Teacher.
Blair seen at his place of business after confinement. Chase Lister Co. arrives from Fairfield. Jas Zeck of near Bethel visits. Court Reporter J H P Robinson spent Sunday in Burlington. F E Swift departs for Burlington and Omaha on business. James Wilson of Rockford Ill, a guest of city relatives. Thomas Hanley of Kinross visits P J Hanley. Attorney P J Hanley returns from Nira after wife’s death and visits Kinross with his parents.
A red and white plaid shawl described as one yard wide and two yards long is reported as lost and can be recovered by leaving it at this office. The notice requests the finder to bring it to the office for return.
Mary Leche vesky a 17 year old white girl left her home weeks ago to live with a large colored family in a four room house. She preferred jail to returning home and was jailed on vagrancy charges after refusing appeal from her mother and sister. Authorities note the household’s poor reputation and her infatuation with a jailed black thief.
Federal court in Indianapolis issued a temporary injunction against the Indianapolis Union Railway and other railroads, barring discriminatory freight delivery to Interstate Stock Yards from out of state. The order remains in force until the final hearing, recognizing the yards' right to receive freight on their side tracks.
Waldo narrates Lyndall’s decline from illness to death in a remote ranch house. Gregory tends her though powerless to prevent her fate, while visions of faith, afterlife, and longing collide with raw grief and the question of what a soul truly desires.
The engagement of Alfred G. Vanderbilt to Miss Elsie French of New York is widely credited at Newport Rhode Island. Unrelated, all mechanical departments at the U S torpedo station Newport are shut for an indefinite period due to coal shortage. Humboldt’s grave at Tegel Berlin desecrated by thieves seeking metal ornaments.
F A Schumacher leads new Akron venture to oppose the American Cereal Company. Schumacher will back the effort and permit use of his home with the project. Derby horse Flying Fox wins as Sloan's Holocauste breaks a leg and is shot after finishing second.
A Kalamazoo special reports the Erie Telephone Company price for the Central and Dowagine lines at par value, $100,000 for the Central stock, with the same offer extended to Kalamazoo Mutual Telephone Company. Stockholders will meet to consider the proposal next.
Marshall Michigan January 29 the special committee reporting embezzlement accounts of county officers including the superintendent of the poor shows a total shortage of 16751 with 4337 already repaid. Hyde was arrested Wednesday amid the probe. Milwaukee January 20 officials deny closure of Daisy and Duluth mills while Milwaukee mills will keep grinding. New Orleans January 20 Jerome W Hoot alias Howard arrested charged with sending a la…
The Hook and Ladder Co of the fire department will hold a fundraiser supper on Wednesday January 31 at Armory D. Supper will be served from 5 to 9 pm with admission set at 25 cents. Everyone is invited to attend.
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