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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1900
Page
1
Philadelphia June 19 Republican National Convention opened at 12 30 p m with M A Hanna as chairman The temporary chairman was E O Wolcott Senator from Colorado named by Hanna The convention adjourned until tomorrow noon at 3 00 p m with no further action.
In Wabash Indiana June 19 Frank Williamson a Panhandle Line passenger engineer confirms Jennie Creek saved a passenger train from wreck at Mill Grove. He says the girl warned of a burning bridge and that her foster father Sam Personette acted to fight the flames. The incident now brings Miss Creek public scrutiny and nervous strain over alleged miscredit.
The Third Michigan cavalry Company was formed in September with 100 Van Buren County residents and held its tenth annual reunion at Lawrence. Thirty-three aging veterans attended as they recalled a four and a half year service ending in spring 1866. A Bangor, Sept 17, 1901 reunion was planned to mark the enlistment’s fiftieth anniversary with officers named: Captain R G Wyman, Lieutenant P Goss, Quartermaster S P Harvey, all of Bangor, and Secretary O Rowland of Paw Paw.
Fire swept the Des Moines commercial exchange auditorium, built a year ago for $50,000 and leased to Chase Amusement. Insurance covers $25,000. Seats, seats, and scenery valued at $5,000 were lost. Origin under investigation with incendiary doubt.
The Auditorium company board met Sunday afternoon and ordered immediate rebuilding. The national musics convention will move from the building to the Chautauqua grounds and Foster's Opera House for a three day session. A new auditorium will host the Republican state convention on August 1. Ex Governor Sherman of Iowa, a veteran of Shiloh, has been granted a $50 monthly pension and now runs the failed Waterloo fire insurance company’s duties in his Masonic office.
Ed Glendy from Clarion leads a rush in Wright county Iowa as lightning rod sales surge. The revival follows years of sparse installations with many farmers buying two to three steel rods to shield homes and barns from electric storms. In Chicago a separate report notes Mrs Anna Gawlowski died on Western Avenue after an ulcer burst, causing blood to flood the sidewalk before help arrived.
Terre Haute June 1. President Van Horn and Secretary Kennedy of the Indiana United Mine Workers have called off the assessment for the strike fund. For the first time in years relations between workers and operators are harmonious and there is no need for an assessment.
June 19 Philadelphia delegates report Roosevelt says his best use is in New York state and pleads friends to respect his judgment if renominated for governor. He reads a handwritten statement in a room with Littauer Sherman Jenks and others present, while others at the meeting assess Dolliver’s prospects and Roosevelt’s possible future.
Indiana delegates favored Dolliver in the party’s presidential contest with Senator Fairbanks presiding and Col. Charles Jewett named to the permanent committee. Lori Ner of Chicago indicated Dolliver is preferred among party supporters while questions persist about Roosevelt’s stance and the Indiana slate.
Reports from Che Foo and Washington detail bombardment of Taku forts by allied ships. Casualties listed among British German Russian French and Chinese forces. Empress Dowager issues edict amid conflicting dispatches. Russian losses blamed on magazine explosion. Allied forces claim occupation of forts.
A blood-stained butcher knife linked to the New Year’s murder of old man John Doering is in custody, with investigators aiming to press the charge on a young man serving in a Missouri regiment in the Philippines. The report spans other items from Belleville, Grand Rapids, and Chicago including ice trust dissolution, baseball scores, and weather-driven crop losses across Illinois and nearby regions.
A group of vagrants who had loitered in Chippewa Falls for a week joined forces Sunday night to loot seven ice boxes in residential areas. They fled the city with about $100 in goods and cash, police report.
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