Trade notes from The Advance We Iowa overview
The Advance we Iowa reports on international commerce trends and equipment imports. It notes Warsaw as a gateway for foreign goods into Russia, anti German sentiment boosting imports from France Britain and Austria, and British fishing expansion. It covers tin finds in Transvaal Rhodesia bridge work on the Zambesi, Italy cork loss, Nanking literary degrees, Italian silk and cork, Osaka sugar refining, Chinese workers in Manchuria, Johannesburg city valuation, and various global economic snippets.
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cMle
Nanking
Presidency boom 17 for Gov and Cummins at bar
Iowa governor Cummins attends Kansas Bar Association meeting in Topeka and hints at a possible future presidential run. He argues rights of man require clear government definitions and enforcement, urging law obedience and restraining corporate power while defending liberty and order.
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Kan
Med
K. A. Valentine
State Barration
Immings
Iowa
Kansas
Cumming
Kansas Bar Association
Cain
Aftalvic
Tweralle
Theodore Roosevelt
Tistull
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ia Khobh
Toetier
Dilestaat
Maite Oles Steel Corporation
Stein Compact
Pune
Congress
Bor
Lowever
Iowa Mine Disaster Kills Two Miners and Hurts Many
An explosion at a Foster wind shot mine in Iowa killed two miners and badly injured several others. Firemen struggled to reach the victims for about an hour before locating Carl Carlson and John Stevens amid debris. Carlson was likely uninjured while Stevens suffered fatal injuries.
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Foster
Jin
John Stevens
Stevens
Storm Lake business leader W. C. Kinne dies of heart failure
W. C. Kinne, a leading Storm Lake merchant of over thirty years, died this morning from heart disease. He had run a general store here and was a prominent local businessman. Survived by a wife and three grown sons.
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W. C. Kinne
Sturyja Lake
Dun
W. tSinne
Iowa Legislature Session Highlights and Debates
Des Moines reports detail measures from the January sessions. Senator Smith seeks 100000 to convert Knoxville building into an Inebriates hospital and enacts escape punishments. Weeks pushes a state highway department with a governor appointee. Cummings backs child labor limits and schooling certificates. Friday introduces biennial election amendments and a plan to remove the circle from ballots. Other motions cover clerks, salaried wages, penalties for unlawful decking of horses, and end to blackmail under liquor laws. A concurrent joint resolution seeks March 2 adjournment. new rules require department heads to justify expenditures before appropriations committee.
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Des Moines
Inn
Senator Smith
Mitchell
Knoxville
Weeks
Guthrie
Cummings
Marshall
Senate
House
Ito
Harper
Harris
Greene
Hambleton
Moman
Stanberry
Cerro Gordo
Iowa
Saul
Cassell
Committee On Appropriations
Blydenburg on Stand In Arsenic Fatality Trial
Blydenburg testified in his own defense claiming he did not poison his third wife with arsenic and denying purchases of poison. He supported his daughter Irene’s account that she cooked the meal containing the poison, and said his marriage was honorable while his wife fell ill after a Sunday meal. He stated he was not cross examined, and the state aims to weaken his testimony in cross examination.
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Eldora
Tia
Dan
Pen S. Blydenburg
Blydenburg
Irene
Pioneer Engineer Philip Ilowes Dies at 74
Philip Ilowes, a pioneer Northwestern railway engineer, died in Ta. at age 74. He piloted the first Northwestern train across the Mississippi on a track laid on ice in 1859.
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Inten
Philip Ilowes
Northwestern
Mississippi River
Iowa Supreme Court Affirms Most Appeals in January Term
Des Moines January 86 court handed down rulings in Kinney versus Meuul and several other cases. Appellants in Woodbury County and Dubuque situations saw affirmations while Root versus Des Moines Railway Company faced reversal.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Des Moines
Supreme Court of Law
Kinney
Meuul
Woodbury
Bowen
Gilbert
Wapello
Schnee
Administrator
City of Dubuque
Dubuque
Boyd
Woodbury County
Anderson
Brown
Cass
Root
Appellant
Polk
Hattie Pilcher Acquitted in Drugstore Robbery Case
The January 12 drugging and failed hold up at Collins drug store ended with Hattie Pilcher discharged for lack of evidence. Witnesses testified to her good character, while prosecutors pursued the still-murky shooting and holdup mystery. Ex Judge Pusey urged fairness as Pilcher, an orphan, received broad sympathy.
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Pusey
Fee
Miss Pilcher
J. H. Cale
Briggs
Pilcher
Declared Not Guilty in Kennedy Murder Trial
Lulu Kennedy Kraemer, on trial a second time for the murder of Philip Kennedy, was found not guilty in Kansas City Missouri. The jury acquitted on grounds she was insane at the time of the shooting but later regained sanity.
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Lulu Prince Kennedy
Kansas City
Lulu Kennedy-Kraemer
Philip Ti. Kennedy
John Kraemer
Will Prince
Edwardsville
Prince Home
Kraemer
Gile Hardware Company
Fielst
Wil Prince
Kkennedy
Ennedy
Uncle Joe Smoked on House Floor Despite Rules
Washington reports Speaker Cannon disregarded the anti smoking rule in the House. He repeatedly left his chair for the cloak room then returned to smoke near the rear brass railing while listening to Representative Brautell of Chicago. The presiding officer did not summons him to stop.
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Washington
Cannon
Brautell
Chicago
Foreign Life Policies Pay in Blair Death Case
New York, Feb. 1. Thirteen foreign life insurance companies, mostly British, have been asked to disgorge 575,000 by the death of James L. Blair of St. Louis. New York Life held policies totaling 776,000 on Blair, with 200,000 limit per individual. Of 775,001 on his life, 576,000 was reinsured with firms including British Empire, Commercial Union, English and Scottish, and others to distribute these claims among beneficiaries. Details outline reinsurance and total claims under fourteen policies.
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New York
Trf
Blair
British Empire
Commercia Union
Law
Legal and General
North British and Mercantile
Norwich Union
Pelican
Ock
Scottish Union
Sun
Bez
Aoid
Steel Works Combine Unites Racine Iron Firms
A consolidation forms uniting Racine Iron and Steel, Grand Crossing US Iron and Steel, South Bend Iron and Steel, and Columbus Iron and Steel with 3.5 million capital. Plant capacity at Racine will rise from 200 to 600 workers and may close other plants. Senator J. Jones, ex Democratic head, is among major stockholders.
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Wis
Racine Iron and Steel Company
Grand Crossing Us, Iron and Steel Company
South Bend
Ind, Iron and Steel
National Democratic Committee
New Concern
Poisoned Salad Kills Girls at Darmstadt Cooking School
Berlin February 1 A medical inquiry probes a strange case at Darmstadt where a salad made from canned beans sickened several girls from a cooking school. Four are dead and nine dying as investigators seek the exact poison source.
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Berlin
Darmeladt
Louisiana Purchase exposition seeks 4.5 million loan
A Louisiana Purchase exposition delegation led by former Governor D R Francis testified before a subcommittee of the appropriations committee. They requested no direct loan from the government but proposed a 4.5 million loan to be repaid from receipts after the exposition opens, with protection mechanisms explained.
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Washington
D. R. Francis
Committee On Appropriations
Fruncis
Amended and Passed on Panama Resolution Query
The Senate today passed by party vote a Democratic resolution asking the president to inform the Senate whether all papers to possession of the executive heard upon the Panama resolution had been sent to the Senate. A clause exempting the president from supplying documents if deemed against the public interest was added.
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Panama
Washington
Senate
Melonery
Democratic Caucus
University of Chicago sheds denominational ties on progress claim
Chicago February report notes President William Harper told seniors that the University of Chicago outgrew denominational character. He said the faculty and 118 students had spread beyond Baptist allegiance, calling denominationalism in universities narrowminded and citing the school's break from class as evidence of mental progress.
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Chicago
Willian
FH. Harper
Chicago University
Baptist Church
University of Chicago
Skyscraper Fire Strikes Cosmopolitan Building in Chicago
Fire on the sixth floor near the Masonic temple caused chaos as women cried out and some tried to leap from windows. Hermit Verba died from chemical explosion injuries. Edward Stokes aided the rescue and is likely fatally burned. About thirty five passengers were aboard the car. twenty five were women. Loss estimated at $75,000.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
Cosmopolitan
Hermit Verba
Edward Stokes
Miss Verba
Macedonian committees plan rewards to kill foreign officers
Constantinople reports that the porte informed Austrian and Russian embassies that Macedonian committees, with Albanians, have arranged for financial rewards to kill every foreign officer aiding the gendarme reorganization under the powers reform scheme.
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Constantinople
Porte
McKinley Memorial Celebration in New Haven
The McKinley Association of Connecticut hosted a memorial banquet in Harmonic Hall New Haven with nearly 350 guests including notable figures. George B Cortelyou wrote a tribute praising McKinley’s life public service and devotion. Stewart L Woodford spoke on McKinley and the Spanish American War outlining expansion and the Panama to Arctic reach.
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Conn
McKinney Association of Connecticut
Harmonic Hall
McKinney
John S. Gaffey
Association
Hanna
McKinley
Jaffey
George B. Cortelyou
Department of Commerce and Labor
Stewart L. Woodford
New York
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Hee
San Domingos
Panama Canal
Arctic Sea
Porto Rico
San Domingo
Far East
Orient
Pacific
Panama
Arctic
Woodford
Roosevelt
Hay
Wilbhing McKinley
Celebrated at Omaha Honor Speakers at McKinley Birthday Banquet
The Omaha McKinsey club held a banquet for William McKinley with Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and others present. John L. Webster spoke on The Republican Party, praising Lincoln McKinley and Roosevelt. Murat Halstead from Cincinnati discussed Ohio politics and anticipated Roosevelt in the national scene.
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John L. Webster
Murat Halsteag
Omaha
Neb
McKinsey Club
William McKinley
van Sant
Minnesota
Mickey
Harry A. Foster
Nebraska
Republican Party
Webster
Lincoln
Europe
McKinley
China
Roosevelt
Venezuela
America
Murut Halstead
Cincinnati
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Halsted
Ohio
Hanna
Chicago
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