Strikers Use Dynamite This Morning Twenty Two
A terse alert notes strikers using dynamite this morning. The report mentions twenty two participants involved. Authorities have yet to release full details.
19 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1899
Page
1
A terse alert notes strikers using dynamite this morning. The report mentions twenty two participants involved. Authorities have yet to release full details.
In New York at an early hour twenty two strikers were placed under arrest on suspicion of complicity in a dynamite explosion that damaged a South Brooklyn elevated railroad structure and halted traffic. Police reserves were deployed to secure the scene.
In Waukegan Illinois on Sunday night Mrs George Krueger 32 shot and killed her mother in law aged 4 and then killed herself after wounding her husband who was struck in the arm. The coroner's jury finds death by self inflicted act while temporarily insane. The couple had quarrelled over the farm owned by the mother in law Margaret Voss ages 4 and two children survived the tragedy a boy 10 and a girl 9.
Marion Indiana July 19 J B Crosby a manufacturer is jailed after an attempted murder of his wife and 20 year old son He failed to secure a $1000 peace bond as bondsmen withdrew Crosby speculated on cartridge choice and revolver type saved them from a double killing His wife plans insanity proceedings Judge Rowell rebukes a recruiting judge Sellar over a prisoner’s suspension promise in Terre Haute Illinois July 19.
The Interlake Pulp & Paper company, capital 300000, will take over the Manufacturing Investment company plant in Madison and Appleton after court sale to O H Payne of New York. East t ested incorporators include J Sanford Barnes F S Rollins Edward Harding. Mrs Andrew J Hammond of Minneapolis, wife of a grocer, is critically ill after a tarantula bite hidden in a banana fruit.
The Portland arrives in San Francisco with 150 passengers and about $1 million in gold. Most returnees are destitute. critics claim transportation firms salted the Cape Nome district, while a few miners report pockets and widespread hardship. Many spent their last dollars to reach Seattle and Dawson, with two thousand leaving Dawson in the past month.
Brooklyn on July 19 reports show striking motormen and conductors gaining ground while the Brooklyn Traction Co. claims a nominal strike. Police guard lines as cars run at 60 percent, Nassau lines at 80 percent, and a Sixth Street incident leaves two hurt.
John O'Brien Lumber of Chicago added 10,000,000 feet of timber in Bayfield county to its holdings. Rittenhouse & Embres bought 3,500,000 feet from Knight & Vilas and 150,000 from Bigelow Lumber of Chicago, in an ashland region timber sale led by Colonel J H Knight and Senator W F Vilas.
Company leaders and district officials express confidence strikers will win while observing dwindling train car usage. Strikers lack funds and unified leadership, though most are earnest. President Rossiter offers amnesty if workers return, but none defected. Police report lenient handling of many arrest cases and overall orderly conduct amid ongoing dispute.
The secretary of war, Alger, has tendered his resignation to take effect at the pleasure of the president. The note appears in a dispatch dated July 19.
A four story Grace hotel blaze on Park and Reed streets in Milwaukee injured about twenty five firefighters with two likely fatally. The collapse trapped crews and debris filled the ruin as ambulances carried the injured to Emergency hospital and officials assessed damage and loss.
Reported shooting on the Iowa Missouri boundary near Dean in Appanoose county where John Frazee killed Brazil D. Coutts after Coutts offered him a drink. Frazee surrendered and awaits in Centerville jail. Coutts was 40 and unmarried. The item also notes other incidents and local dispatches from Joliet Joliet and Chicago events plus legal cases and a July 4 death list mentioning toy pistol lockjaw fatalities.
Cabinet meeting discussed the Manila round robin. decision made to drop the issue and let General Otis handle it as he sees fit. Formal announcement says the matter will be ignored. Also notes baseball scores from Chicago and a civil suit in Springfield for damages tied to credit blacklisting by grain dealers.
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