Insurgent Republicans Win Big in South Dakota Delegates
Stalwarts are out victory of Dakota insurgents is assured with at least 800 of 1,369 delegates. Crawford likely to be governor, Martin and Burke retire. Gamble’s re election to the Senate assured, Kittredge rift attracts national attention and Black Hills counties shift to insurgents. Crawford to run against Kittredge later.
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Black Hills
S. D
Robert J.gamble
United States Senate
Sioux Falls
Kittredge
Martin
Burke
Gambie
Coe I. Crawford
Land
Crawford
Gamble
Doe I. Crawford
United States
Senate
Zion City assets restrained as Dowie insolvent ruling issued
Federal Judge Landis in Chicago issued an order restraining Wilbur G Voliva and all Zion City associates from dissipating estate assets. Dowie declared insolvent. creditors may contest. Judge found no misappropriation and said Zion City industries can pay 100 cents on the dollar with proper management.
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Zion City
Landis
Chicago
Wilbur G. Voliva
Workmen Near Death in Gloom at Shadyside Plant
A steam pipe exploded at the New York Glucose Company's plant in Shadyside New Jersey injuring about thirty workers in the engine and dynamo rooms. The blast blew off the roof and ignited fires, causing widespread panic and early reports of heavy casualties.
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New York Glucose Company
Shadyside
N. J
Cigar Sparked Fatal Shootout in Buxton Mining Town
Leonard Roberts and Tom Filmore, long time friends and both colored, quarreled Tuesday in Buxton Iowa over a cigar flame. Filmore shot Roberts fatally injuring him as authorities hold Filmore in jail at Oskaloosa awaiting charges.
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Buxton
Leonard Roberts
Tom Filmore
Filmore
Oskaloosa
Ben
Vinton Man Slays Wife in Quarrel Then Shoots Self
Lawrence Muren of Vinton Indiana fatally shot his wife in the neck during a Monday night quarrel over a division of money from a property sale and then killed himself by shooting his right temple.
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Lawrence Muren
Vinton
Widow of Senator Vest Dies in St Louis Home
Sallie Elizabeth Sneed Vest widow of U S Senator George Graham Vest dies at her daughter Mrs George P B Jackson's home in St Louis. She also leaves son Alexander S Vest. Born in Kentucky in 1832.
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Sallie Elizabeth Sneed ‘Vest
United States
George Graham Vest
George P. B. Jackson
St. Louis
Alexander S. Vest
Vest
Kentucky
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Tuesday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market show butcher steers at 4.50 to 5.06 dollars and top hogs at 6.20 dollars.
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Sioux City
Pines landowner warns of revolt in Isle of Pines
SAYS THE PINES WILL REBEL. A statement by 5S. BH. Pearcy, Isle of Pines land owner, says a revolt against Cuban authority will occur soon unless the United States resumes control. Pearcy and his brother met at the White House. the president declined to see them and they were referred to Secretary Root. Pearcy claims Americans own nine tenths of the island’s property, bought on assurances of McKinley and the war department that it was American soil. He says conditions are critical and many Americans will no longer endure oppression, with offers of aid from the United States in case of revolt.
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BH. Pearcy
Isle of Pines
United States
McKinley
War Department
Pearcy
Theatrical National Bank Opens in Chicago
Theatrical magnates form The Theatrical National Bank to be opened next month in Chicago with $1,000,000 capital, funded by the Klaw & Erlanger and B F Keith merger. The bank will serve theatrical managers and professionals and include legal and railroad departments with headquarters in Chicago. The railroad unit will oversee transportation for the merged theatrical companies, a multi million dollar annual flow.
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Chicago
Theatrical National Bank
New. Bank
Klaw
Charles E. Kohl
Fear Trouble on Isthmus of Panama Elections
A Philadelphia special reports danger of an outbreak on the Isthmus of Panama during the coming elections. The cruiser Columbia sailed from League Island with 600 marines bound for Guantanamo and Santo Domingo. Marines are shipped to Guantanamo in readiness for emergencies on the isthmus. The next month’s elections may bring revolutionary disorder.
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Panama
Philadelphia
Columbia
League Island
Guantanamo
Santo Domingo
Washington
Pennsylvania
Cuba
Militia Held in Readiness at Cardiff Mine
Riotous striking miners in Bloomington Bloomington Illinois have tried to burn the Cardiff Coal Company shaft in Cardiff Livingston County amid a non union labor dispute. The sheriff with rifle armed deputies defends the mine while militia companies are held in readiness and a call for troops is expected.
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Cardiff
Bloomington
Cardiff Coal Company
Livingston County
Prison for Senator Burton in U S case ruling
In Washington the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision sentencing Senator Ralph Burton of Kansas to six months in jail a $2 500 fine and a ban on holding future office under the government the order issued Monday in the United States against Burton.
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Senator Burton
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Ralph Burton
Kansas
Burton
Immoral Book Mailer Sentenced in Utah
Richard B. Shepard, owner of a Salt Lake City book shop and former Kansas and Utah legislator, was sentenced by Federal Judge Marshall to thirteen months in prison for mailing catalogs of immoral books.
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Richard B. Shepard
Salt Lake City
Kansas
Utah
Marshall
Fatal Auto Wreck Near Girard Injures Several
A Cleveland party of six traveling west on Lake Shore road collided with a telegraph pole near Girard Pennsylvania Saturday night. One person was killed, another dying, and two seriously injured while the remaining two escaped with lesser injuries.
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Cleveland
Lake Shore Road
Girard
Warship Columbia Prepares for Santo Domingo Mission
A Philadelphia special reports the cruiser Columbia is hastily prepared at League Island for sea and will depart immediately for Santo Domingo with 600 Marines drawn from Boston Brooklyn Washington and Norfolk.
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Domingo
Philadelphia
Columbia
League Island
Santo Domingo
Boston
Brooklyn
Washington
Norfolk
Explorer Captain Reports Living Okapi Seen in Congo
Capt Boyd Alexander of the Alexander Gosling expedition reports from Angu district on the Welle River in the Congo Free State that he has secured a living okapi specimen. No white man had ever seen a living okapi before this.
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Boyd Alexander
Alexander-Gosling
Angu
Welle
Congo Free State
Hungarian Parliament Holds First Sitting in Budapest
The new Hungarian parliament met in Budapest for its first session on Monday. Premier Werkerle was loudly cheered by the assembly and onlookers.
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Budapest
Werkerle
Victims Undaunted Tidmeless Michigan Settlers Ready to Repeay
Milwau kee Sentinel staff correspondent tours the Upper Peninsula district scorched by forest fires. Fires raged along the Hicanaba and Lake Superior Railroad for sixty four miles and thirty miles beyond Channing. About 2000 people are left homeless and 1000 desolate at Quinnesec. Quinnesec fire started in a field and wiped out all buildings except three residences and paper mills. Fire joined the Escanaba sweep, burning a thirty mile wide strip. Dozens of towns were saved by desperate fighting. Northland, a town of 1000, faced three threats and was saved within ten yards of houses. Refugees mostly端 determined to return, clothes their only possession, seeing land cleared for new work.
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Tidmeless
Michigan
Vey
Milwaukee
Wis.) Sentinel
Upper
Hicanaba and
Lake Superior
Channing
Hames
Escanaba
Northland
Tragedy in Kentucky at Lynnville warehouse
Three men found shot dead in a Lynnville warehouse owned by Mark Wilson. Proprieter Mark Wilson, his brother West Wilson, and Arthur West lay slain with revolvers beside Arthur West and West Wilson. Two witnesses say the men left earlier on good terms after drinking, fueling suspicion of a self inflicted shootout that may have killed Wilson.
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Lynnville
Mark Wilson
West Wilson
Arthur West
Monster Lake Ship Planned to Carry 14000 Tons Iron Ore
At a Detroit Club banquet Detroit Mich J C Wallace president of American Shipbuilding Company said within three or four months his firm would contract to build a Great Lakes steamer 640 to 645 feet long overall capable of carrying 14000 tons of iron ore on a nineteen foot draft The speaker did not name an orderer for the monster vessel
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Detroit Club
Detroit
Mich
J. C. Wallace
American Shipbuilding Company
Great Lakes
Mr. Wallace
Murdered American consul in Batum backdrop of revolt
Stuart, American vice consul and prominent Batum ship broker, was shot dead at his country palace Sunday night. The assassin escaped. Stuart, a British subject, had faced repeated threats during last fall's revolutionary unrest from longshoremen.
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Batum
Russia
Stuart
Heat Proves Fatal as New York Ends Warm Saturday
Two deaths and several serious prostrations were reported in New York on Saturday due to the heat. Officials noted the official thermometer read 85 degrees while street conditions peaked at 96.
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New York
Base Runner Dies at Saginaw Ball Game
In Saginaw Michigan during a Sunday ball game 18 year old Carl Stauber collapsed and died of heart disease as he reached first base after a liner into left field in the second inning.
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Saginaw, Mich
Carl Stauber
Frick Guards Wife After Anarchist Berkman Release
Henry C. Frick of Beverly Massachusetts stays under constant protection after fearing another attack by anarchist Berkman who was recently released from prison.
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Frick
Beverly
Mass
Henry C. Frick
Berkman
Western League Baseball Schedule at Sioux City
Western League game schedule lists Denver Lincoln Omaha visiting Sioux City for late May and early June. Denver appears May 22 23 24, Lincoln May 28 29 30, Omaha May 31 June 1 2 3.
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Sioux City
Denver
Lincoln
Omaha
German Warship Frithof Sunk Off Kiel During Fog
The coast defense ironclad Frithof sank Sunday off Kiel after a collision with the Norwegian sailing vessel Othello in fog. The captain of the Othello and one crewman drowned while the rest were saved.
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Coast Defense
Frithof Sunday
Kiel
Germany
Weral
Bomb Explodes in France Wounding several in St Chartres
Bomb explodes at St Chartres in France. Several persons dangerously wounded and several others slightly hurt. Advices from London indicate authorities tightening security as investigations begin.
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France
London
St. Chartres
Sioux City Fisherman Acquitted After Fatal Houseboat Shooting
Norman Rutledge, 31, a habitual patron of sporting houses, was shot by Harry Thomas, fisherman, at a beached houseboat in Sioux City during a confrontation over Rutledge’s demand to see his wife. Thomas claimed self defense as Rutledge attacked with an ax. coroner’s jury exonerated Thomas on Monday.
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Onry Rutledge
Thomas
Sioux City
Norman Rutledge
Harry Thomas
Virginia Street
Ohland
Nicholson
Rutledge
YOWA GRAND ARMY REUNION AT BOONE
Boone gears up for about 10000 attendees as the Iowa Grand Army encampment runs June 5 to 7 with national and state leaders addressing crowds. Ex Gov Van Sant Gov Cummins ex Senator Allen and other figures will speak in multiple Boone venues including Arie opera house and city park tabernacle.
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Boone
Iowa
Chas. A. Clarke
Arie Opera House
Tabernacle
Rowed Over Dam in River Fatal Adventure at Cedar Rapids
August Post aged 19 and Louis Bjornson 26 deliberately rowed over Cedar Rapids dam Monday afternoon. Bjornson was saved after clinging to a tele phone pole. Post was swept downstream, regained feet, then disappeared as the swift current prevented recovery.
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Cedar Rapids
Post
Louis Bjornson
Bjornson
Presbyterians of America visit Fort Des Moines event
Commissioners and visitors to the one hundred eighteenth general assembly of Presbyterians of America were entertained at Fort Des Moines Saturday after a morning session. A regimental drill reviewed by retired Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, guest of his son Lieut. Lewis Miles, highlighted the afternoon. A reception followed for Gen. Miles and the commissioners.
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Fort Des Moines
One Hundred and Eighteenth General Assembly of Presbyterians of America
Nelson A. Miles
Lewis Miles
Miles
Des Moines Boy Killed by Runaway Circus Horse
Sidney Carlisle aged 7, son of John Carlisle of 507 Southeast Fourth Street, was fatally struck by a runaway horse at a Des Moines school event. The accident occurred while children watched a circus unload. the horse bolted after being frightened by circus animals and dismissed floats and wagons.
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Des Moines
Sidney Carlisle
John Carlisle
Fourth Street
Democratic State Convention Held in Waterloo
The Democratic state convention will be held at Waterloo on August 7 with D. W. Hamilton of Sigourney named as temporary chairman.
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Waterloo
D. W. Hamilton
Sigourney
New Church Planned for Rolfe Presbyterian Congregation
Plans are well under way for the erection of a new church for the Presbyterian congregation of Rolfe. The project anticipates serving the local community with updated facilities and space for worship and gatherings.
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Tnolfe
Rolfe
Regents authorize new university buildings and tax plans
The state university regents voted to construct a college of law a women’s dormitory and a new physics building along with an engineering building funded by the million dollar mileage tax approved by the legislature.
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State University Regents
College of Law
Open Season Brings Bumper Fish Catches at Lake View
Lake View opened the fishing season on Tuesday with plentiful pickerel crappies perch bullheads and catfish. The lake shows favorable conditions for a record fishing year with many good catches reported.
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Lake View
Mystery Death Of Rinard Farmer Under Cloud Of Question
William Mardis a wealthy Rinard young farmer killed himself early Thursday morning firing a bullet through his heart. Mrs Mardis left the house to milk the cows and returned to find him dead. There was no note and no visible motive though he had spoken of business affairs recently.
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Rinard
William Mardis
Mardis
Cat Scratch Fatal to Iowa's Oldest White Resident
Mrs. Mary Ann Perigo aged 103 died at her daughter’s home near Leon Iowa from blood poisoning after a cat scratch while she petted the animal. Born October 11 1802 in Zanesville Ohio she was the eldest white person in Iowa with a noted longevity in her family. She married Davis Perigo in Ohio and lived there until his death in 1876 later moving to Iowa.
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Mary Ann Perigo
Leon
Iowa
S. H. Britley
Davis Perigo
Ohio
Presbyterians Elect Missionary Dr. Hunter Corbett Moderator
In Des Moines the Presbyterian general assembly elected Rev. Dr. Hunter Corbett, longtime missionary to China, as moderator after a lengthy contest. Final vote stood Corbett 329, Barkley 308, Hendy, with five nominees originally. Barkley moved to unanimous election.
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China
Des Moines
Hunter Corbett
Presbyterian General Assembly
Corbett
J. M. Barkley
Detroit
J. F. Hendy
Missouri
A. B. Marshall
Minneapolis
Barkley
Man Guilty, Wife a Maniac in Cedar Rapids Murder Case
In Cedar Rapids, 1905, William Garrity was found dead with a bullet to the heart on a farm of Joseph Usher. Usher was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to five years, appealed, and won a new trial with another manslaughter verdict. Afterward Usher’s wife became violently insane and was sent to Independence asylum.
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Cedar Rapids
William Garrity
Joseph Usher
Independence Asylum
Big Fire at Ottumwa Destroys Dry Goods Firms
A Friday night fire at 9:45 in the J. E. Chase Dry Goods Co. on Matin Street Ottumwa spread rapidly to adjacent buildings including W. J. Donelan Dry Goods Co. and the First National Bank. Losses estimated between 75000 and 100900 with insurance figures not disclosed.
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Ottumwa
J. E. Chase Dry Goods Company
Matin Street
W. J. Donelan Dry Goods Company
First National Bank
Boone Cereal Mill Burns in Wide Blaze
A huge fire in Boone destroyed the Boone Cereal Company's mill Thursday morning. Losses totaled 150000, with 110000 for the building and machinery and 40000 for contents. Insurance stood at 43250 across six companies. A fund drive among bankers and merchants aims to rebuild the mill, owned by Fred Fear & Co. of New York City.
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Boone Cereal Company
Fred Fear & Co
New York City
Unknown Man Drowns Near Locust Street Bridge
A man, unknown due to intoxication, fell from the Des Moines River bank near the Locust Street bridge on Sunday afternoon. He rolled down a steep incline and into the river, and the current carried his body away before recovery could be made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Town River drowning claims Stavanger student Arthur Sampson
Arthur Sampson aged 20 drowned in the Iowa River near Le Grand during a Stavanger school picnic. He and two others waded out, Sampson stepped from a reef into a hole and disappeared beneath the water.
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Town River
Arthur Sampson
Iowa
le Grand
Stavanger
Accidental shooting injures Alfred Quartz near Independence
Alfred Shoat, aged about six, accidentally shoots his brother, Alfred Quartz, aged 12, six miles south of Independence. The younger boy will lose his right arm due to the injury.
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Alfred
Independence
Horse Kick Proves Vital Death of Young Smith Son
G. I. Smith mourns his 20 year old son Fred after a horse kick to the abdomen caused fatal injuries at Mayard. The tragedy follows a day of riding mishap and hospital treatment.
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Vutal
Fred
G. I. Smith
Mayard
Swift pleads not guilty in federal mall blackmail case
John H. Swift former pastor of the Christian church at Winterset pleaded not guilty in Des Moines federal court to using United States malls for blackmail. The case was continued to the next term and Swift was released after posting an appearance bond of $100.
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Swift
Trev
John H. Swift
The
Christian Church
Winterset
United States
Federal District Court
Des Moines
Mr. Swift
Death of HW. T. Chesley
Henry L. Chesley, postmaster of Sutherland, died after a lingering illness of seven months.
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HW. T. Chesley
Henry L. Chesley
Sutherland
Fraud and politics mix in early 1900s public graft cases
The article recounts prosecutions of Post Office fraudsters Greene and Gaynor, and Captain Carter in Georgia. It notes Congress scrapping seed distribution for political gain, Sherman's route with Twelfth Cavalry causing South controversy, and diplomacy quirks with China. It also covers McWade’s charges against Peirce and a Treasury plan to shift gold import funding to banks.
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Yowa Grand Army Reunion
DR. Corbett
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Georgia
Carter
AVMY
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W. ‘Ly Sherman
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Father Sherman
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House Committee On Foreign Affairs
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Shaw
National Treasury
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