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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1900
Page
1
A carriage accident near Dresden claims the life of Prince Alberto Saxony today. The report notes continued labor unrest in Philadelphia with thousands quitting work, and officials predict many more will leave before tomorrow morning.
Li Hung Chang has arrived at Tien Tsin. The contemporaneous dispatch notes his travel status and arrival at the port city during September.
Grand Rapids plans to obtain pure water from Lake Michigan about thirty miles away at an estimated cost of 3 to 4 million dollars. Philadelphia financier J. M. Jackson claims to represent capitalists in a proposal to build conduits reservoirs and pumping stations and supply water to the city under a fifty year contract after which the city would own the plant.
In Oshkosh Wisconsin on September 17 a clairvoyant named Professor H Ball used hyp notism and confidence work to extract about 1000 dollars in a week. Clients placed money in envelopes labeled Faith Hope and Success with promises the sums would double. When opened the envelopes contained only waste paper and Ball departed.
Mrs R Pearson wife of General Pearson of Chicago died at Kankakee emergency hospital after being stricken with paralysis while returning from a visit to Desota Illinois She was 68 born near Desota and was sister of Judge Tuthill of Chicago. A separate dispatch from Milwaukee notes 20 above freezing with snowfall in Negaunee Wisconsin threatening crops.
Sybrant Wesselius as chairman of the committee of organization has sent out a call for a gathering in Chicago on September 25 to launch the American Transvaal league as a national organization.
Lord Salisbury attends to business at the foreign office after arriving in London yesterday from Hatfield House. The unexpected appearance signals continued active involvement in government affairs.
New Boston Michigan reports frost on Thursday night damaging corn buckwheat and garden crops in low lands with widespread effects on those fields and produce.
Oshkosh population reaches 28 284 up from 22 836 in 1890 while Superior City forms 31 091 from 11 958. Pandora business district nearly all burned on Saturday with estimated loss of 50 000. Susan B Anthony, 80, ill at Rochester home. A global railway congress gathers officials and financiers at the Paris exposition.
Henry Fuchs of Tell City bakery, a native of Switzerland, was betrothed to Anna Lehman of Cannelton. The notice notes the engagement as a social event in Tell City dated September 17.
The bride-elect repeatedly delayed the ceremony despite Henry Fuchs’ persistence. Fuchs traveled to Cannelton to fetch his bride for a planned city wedding, but she again postponed citing her brother-in-law's death. Fuchs returned home after dismissing the minister and set a wedding trip to Evansville.
William Flick and his sister entered a mid Pennsylvania mine on a farm to recover coal. They were overcome by black damp and died alongside Flick’s mother who also entered seeking them. A rescue team reached the trio but one rescuer was overcome and saved only after extraction.
Des Moines reports the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen denouncing martial law in Queer d Alene and calling out government troops and Congress for not releasing testimony. Lisbon notes Kruger's European departure plans, with Mozambique and Dutch offers to bring him to Europe. Sioux City covers the Lutheran Augustana Synod’s new fifty year Board of Ministerial Aid Fund charter to aid sick and retired ministers and their families.
William H. Mayo announces that Hon. Henry B. Stoddard deputy grand master’s correct address is Houston Texas not Galveston and that all funds should be sent by New York Exchange not by wire as previously advised for grand and subordinate commanders nationwide.
A $1 500 000 suit was filed in the United States district court Saturday the Central Trust company of New York suing the United States Flour Milling company of New Jersey and doing business across the country for default of interest on bonds. Washington dispatch reports Cuba elections proceeding quietly per General Wood. McCurdy park in Corunna Michigan will open Oct 1 with Judge Hugh McCurdy as guest of honor and landscape gardener William Dilger. In Calumet Michigan Lazarus Petero was killed when a descending mine skip trapped him. Rushville Indiana Dr Edward D Beher the town’s oldest druggist died suddenly at 72.
Galveston scene shifts from gloom to effort as relief pours in and military authorities coordinate clean up and evacuation. Cash remains the urgent need to pay debris crews while planners emphasize no public complaint and rapid burial and removal of the dead across the island and await broader aid.
Three members of the Prussian cabinet Herr Thielen Dr Studt and Herr Brefeld left Berlin to visit the Paris exposition in a move indicating official commemoration of the international event.
Deadwood South Dakota reports its first snow storm of the season. Rain turned to snow Saturday as two inches settled on Bald Mountain and frigid temperatures followed.
Chicago toboggan reports branding of league clubs in pennant race with Philadelphia games noted. Cincinnati defeated Philadelphia 5 to 6 in a split Saturday bas eball record summary from Chicago dated September 17.
At Avoca Iowa the fair featured a hypnotist who buried a subject for 24 hours with a pipe for air. Water leaking into the grave from an overturned barrel nearly drowned the buried man, and rescuers dug him out in time to save him.
Thomas Ratcliffe, a prominent Populist in Greenup Illinois, went missing after a derangement. Searches spanned Friday and Saturday until he was found at a farmhouse eight miles away, hiring a farmer to bring him home as he believed pursuers roamed with bloodhounds.
Henry G Barbour son of Rev Henry M Barbour shot himself at a Brooklyn dime and a young woman identified as Miss Helen Forbes 19 was wounded in the brow. Forbes once fostered by Bishop Horatio Southgate studied in Georgetown and later joined Roman Catholicism. The pair had been at a Brooklyn bee and then vanished. Forbes later survived with a bullet wound and Barbour died by his own hand.
Miss Forbes recounts meeting Henry Barbour at a hotel where they plotted to die together. Barbour shot Forbes in the right breast and killed himself after burning laundry marks. Forbes fled to Seney hospital where doctors expect recovery. Pawn tickets later identified Barbour, unraveling the deadly plan and revealing Forbes's long acquaintance with Barbour since childhood.
Prairie river at Grand Rapids Minnesota has risen fourteen feet in two days and washed away every dam and bridge along its length. The Mississippi River is high due to backwater and low land is flooded with thousands of tons of hay submerged atop stacks. Eddie Knauff, once a famous baseball player, died in Philadelphia after lingering in a hospital for three years from a broken back.
Mason City Iowa September 18 A A Hubrett a prominent young farmer was indicted yesterday by the grand jury on arson charges. He is accused of setting two fires in the stock of N Grant a Manly general merchant causing heavy losses.
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