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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1906
Page
3
A collage of curiosities and brief items from around the world and science. Observations include irrigation costs in private and public works, encounters with wildlife in Africa and Newfoundland, plans for ocean voyages to test seasickness remedies, and notes on archaeology, biology, and industry. The piece records varied anecdotes and events with minimal narrative cohesion.
Lawmakers in Des Moines report tense sessions as the Senate passes a bill requiring a new petition of consent every five years, while the Senate committee defeats the state martial bill. Jackson and Smith squares off in a battle over five year term limits for cities under the measure, with temperance forces rallying as opponents push for changes. Several committees debate education boards and highway passes, with votes split along party lines and various public notices pending.
Edward Tipton a graduate of Wabash College was found dead in a dingy Des Moines area. A respected professor of geography his decline began after a promised marriage to a woman who dallied with another man. The case hints at motive linked to her mining interests in the vicinity.
The supreme court reversed a lower court decision and held the Vhivago Telephone Company must keep existing rates. It also affirmed a constitutional amendment creating municipal courts in Chicago, granting the city power to regulate gas prices and oversee newly annexed territory under the same rates as the core city.
A Websted collision injures several children, including Mieresa Gritfel and Joale dlylend. Surgeons report lifelong crippling for Gritfel, with one child sustaining a severe leg fracture. The event follows a crash weeks earlier, leaving families and the community seeking details and care.
Davenport Iowa February 17 Judge William H Gest faces a dual task to define liberty and decide if two self confessed murderers Nagel and Collet can be freed without trial after delays beyond the two term limit Their indictment for murder is challenged as illegal after release then rearrested and bound over on a minor charge The outcome hinges on Illinois law and rare courtroom parallels in Indiana awaiting Judge Gest ruling
Lulu Austin, a Buxton woman, stands trial in Albia on murder charges for killing her husband on November 11. County Attorney A. G. Parry leads the state, while Woodson and Brown defend. The defense contends the husband attacked her with a knife, and she acted in self defense after taking the weapon. They also allege bigamy, assault on a four year old daughter, and general cruelty.
Mason Way, who sold his shares in Western Electric Telephone, travels to Watertown South Dakota for a summer rail building push. He has a contract with the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway to act as a road agent and oversee town site sales as the line opens 160 miles northwest of Watertown through a rich farming and grazing area. His son Clyde will join as confidential secretary.
Oskaloosa Iowa February 17 A coroner jury investigates the puzzling death of Ed Minrs a prosperous farmer living three miles south of Fremont in Wapello County who was found under two feet of hay with a broken neck local neighbors seek answers as officials probe the mysterious case
Pehle-Henary Bourquain, employed at the State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda Iowa, was crushed to death when an elevator rope broke and the car fell while he stood in the area well beneath it. His skull was badly crushed and he died soon after.
Delegates of the Maple Valley Firemen’s association met in Denison on February 13. Mapleton was chosen as the site for the annual tourney to be held June 1. The Denison Commercial Club hosted the delegates with a marker and ball game to entertain them. Supreme Court opinions from Des Moines include affirmations and overruled petitions in several cases from Woodbury and other counties.
Des Moines Feb 19 Federal officers probe a land fraud tied to sixty seven widows of Civil War soldiers. Widows filed under congressional acts for land no longer inhabited, later allegedly used by cattle barons for grazing. Mrs Inia Billings admits arranging filings for Des Moines widows. funds traced to South Dakota and Nebraska, with government agents unnamed.
Two Des Moines women allege in affidavits filed with the police and fire commission that Chief Eli Hardin assaulted them in his office on official business, seizing and kissing them. Mayor George Mattern oversees the investigation, with more affidavits expected soon.
A coal miner named Swan Peterson, missing earlier, was found dead in his Boone Iowa room on February 1. The top of his head was blown away by a shotgun discharge to his mouth, discovered when friends broke into the room. No one heard the shot. The death is treated as self-inflicted.
At a farm near Tabor Iowa Hiram McClure died after a loaded shotgun fired during a pursuit of a cow. The accident left his foot badly wounded and doctors say blood poisoning left no chance of recovery. The incident followed an unsuccessful rifle shot at the cow earlier in the chase. McClure’s son, who held the loaded shotgun, was involved in the pursuit of the enraged animal.
Lake View Iowa Feb 17 Max Brenton son of Dr A T Brenton of Sac City and nephew of ex mayor Brenton Des Moines started at noon a walk to Bismarck North Dakota distance about 660 miles He wagered with a Sac City man that he can finish the trip in ninety days while covering expenses and leaving $100 He plans six miles a day on average and will return to Sac City after reaching the capital city of North Dakota
In Ames Iowa on February 12 a 16 year old girl Mias Badle White was instantaneously killed and her mother Mrs J T White was probably fatally hurt when the carriage they rode in returning from church was struck by a fast Northwestern train.
Mrs Rachel Hughes of Salem Henry County Iowa is described as the mother of fourteen living children with a total of 42 years among their ages. She is 96 years old and can count grandchildren in the fifties, great grandchildren in the score, and great great grandchildren at eight. Her oldest daughter is 77 and lives here, while the youngest Hughes child is 68. The family records a striking average age over 64 years for its sons and daughters.
Officers of the Club federation filed information against twenty places where slot machines are run, giving proprietors until midnight to remove the machines or face prosecution. A separate item reports Wilton Miles, a retired farmer near Lake City, badly injured when kicked in the face by a horse, likely not to recover. A fire destroyed the nearly new farm house of Charles Junes on the Hobert Mee farm near Aurelia, with upstairs rooms and seed corn lost, while furniture downstairs was saved.
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