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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
1
In Cedar Rapids seven dynamiters were sentenced to police court with two men hit by $100 fines and five by $25 for unlawful assembly. Mettie returns from Michigan and will face the grand jury. In Van Horn gas blast deaths occur during log blasting with fatal injuries. In Quasqueton a house fire leads to a mother's rescue of a child, while another child perishes in the ruins.
Clarence Darrow testified before the Illinois Industrial Commission subcommittee in Chicago, urging legal regulation of unions, support for arbitration to avert strikes, and protection for workers free to choose employers. James Beard condemned unions as harmful, while A Bisnow praised union agents as honest and cited rising living costs.
Bertie Finch aged years shot and killed his father who was attacking his mother in an abandoned Wisconsin Central depot at Austin near Harrison street and Central avenue. The youth seized a shotgun and ordered his father to release his mother before firing to save her life. Police arrested George Finch, noted for domestic brutality, after the incident. Earlier, a proposed Gladstone statue site was announced in London. In Anderson Indiana, tin plate works faced a strike as 140 workers walked out over a foreman’s replacement.
Constantinople reports the death of Osman Pasha the famed Turkish defender of Plevna. Born 1832 in Toget Asia Minor he earned vast prestige for delaying Russian forces in 1876 and was celebrated as a steadfast ally of the Ottoman Empire.
In Wevyauwega Wisconsin at a meeting of independent telephone firms sixteen companies agreed to organize a state association to operate 1800 miles of toll lines under one system. The group includes Rock County, Jefferson, LaCrosse, Monroe, Dane, Walworth, Union and eleven other telephone firms representing about 5200 subscribers. The alliance appears as a counter to the American company within the state.
A young colored man M S Anderson saved six lives during a West 134th Street building fire. He carried children from a window as flames cut off their escape, aided by two passersby, while firefighters aided other occupants.
Washington debate on the Loud second class mail bill features Iowa's McPherson charging Ohio's Lentz with lobby ties. Lentz defends actions and cites telegraphic info on postage. Alaska governor Turner accuses Secretary Root of a Cape Nome gold mining grant, prompting a senate resolution.
A. F. Gill testified before the Coeur d'Alene investigating committee describing the prison bull pen incident where a guard wounded a prisoner. He indicated the permit system to seek work there creates a blacklist and an oligarchy, and noted social decay with drunken miners and night trains affected. Other witnesses described arrests and soldier harshness. officials discussed Bartlett Sinclair's role and a later bond exchange report.
North western railroads in St Paul estimate over 20000 emigrants will move from Minnesota and other older states to Montana and Washington. Four hundred settlers left on the Northern Pacific with many more from Wisconsin and Iowa en route. Next week 5000 more settlers have tickets, many already having bought farm lands.
London dispatches report Kruger and Salisbury exchanges while Pretoria notes three weeks of negotiations may avert further movements. Milner’s Cape Town departure unclear as talks proceed, with British pressure for fair prisoner treatment cited. Boer graves reveal thousands of soft nosed bullets at Pieters Hill.
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