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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1901
Page
4
The cabinet says there is no necessity for an extra session of Congress in Washington D C. In other news miners are killed and an explosion in a mine leaves thirty children fatherless.
For sale. House and lot two blocks from the square in a good neighborhood with an excellent location. Price 1260 dollars. Apply at the JOURNAL office. This place will make a nice home.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with possible showers and thunderstorms. Various local movements and events noted, including people visiting Kalona Keota Ainsworth Brighton Bloomfield and Mt. Pleasant. Hotel Colonnos Sunday dinners rise to 50c for non-boarders. Academy commencement June 7 with Rev D R Brown speaking on "The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century."
Mr. and Mrs. G. Logan Payne and children visit the city while Mr. Payne oversees advertising for Iowa dailies in Chicago. J.M. Allen plans to open a new restaurant by about the 10th. Rev. O R Brown speaks at the Academy commencement on The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century. Forty children attend a party at the Nicholson home with games and refreshments.
At a Nira social on May 28 Harry Slocum and Chas McDowell quarreled. Slocum drew a revolver and fired. Charges: disturbing the social ten dollars, carrying a concealed weapon five dollars, assault to commit murder. The third charge decision pending before Justice Vic Carris. Twenty witnesses testified for the state and fifteen for the defense.
Iron Mountain Michigan reports eight miners killed in a Chapin mine powder explosion this morning leaving thirty children fatherless.
Fred Kreb's residence in the south part of Iowa Township burned at nine o'clock this morning due to a flue fire. The home was insured for 200 dollars in the Farmers' Mutual.
The B and N W special train chartered by the Evening Gazette of Burlington runs with no railroad involvement beyond leasing the train. A Gazette June 1 item outlines motives behind the charitable excursion, with plans to distribute the Gazette aboard the BK and NW line from Burlington to Washington and solicit local merchant contributions by Monday morning. The Journal notes a city barber shop upgrade in two rooms near the Civic Hotel and invites patrons to visit and support the new venture.
Admission to the Academy commencement exercises costs 25 cents for all seats. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at the opera house. Also notes Johnson the baker making two bread batches daily with about ten kinds each. he bakes to meet customer demand. Other items mention Mrs Maida Simpson's Burlington visit, Mr A Carrier visiting city, Mrs G M Roberts returning home, and Mr W J Hamilton's Crawfordsville travel.
The Presbyterian church ladies social will be hosted at Mrs. R. H. Walker's home next Friday at 2 30. J A Guest travels to Muscatine on business. Academy chapel hosts an open literary society session at 8 pm with a special program and no charges.
Control of Michigan maple production moves toward forming a state wide corporation with every maple manufacturer as a stockholder to regulate prices against other hardwoods and coordinate lumber sales through the association. Denver strikers push for higher pay as 800 union hod carriers walk out halting most building work with brick carriers at 2.50 and mortar carriers at 2.75 daily demands rise to 3 and 3.50 with eight hour day.
The American Telegraph and Telephone Company raised its capital stock from 100000000 to 150000000 dollars. Lord Pauncefote the British ambassador sails for a stay of several months in England. Mrs Alicia Excell aged nineteen attempts suicide in Chicago for the third time in four weeks and fails. Vassar students gain self government in discipline and social affairs. The wholesale hardware house at Quincy Illinois is destroyed in a fire with losses around 75000 dollars.
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