United States and world notes from 1900s press
A mixed digest reports on Quebec fortifications costing about 3 million dollars, Okakura Yoshishiro on Japanese womanhood, Johns Hopkins appoints Klavence Sabin as associate professor, a Hindoo festival at Hardwar with gifts to priests, dramatic New York real estate sale at Wall and Broadway, a London servant divorce case, Sandy Hook maneuvers with record five inch gun hits, British Speaker’s lavish official salaries, and the American navy’s oldest ship the Constitution versus the Constellation.
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New York City
Wall Street
Broadway
Sandy Hook
Robly D. Evans
United States Navy
Philadelphia Board of Education to expand school garden program
The Philadelphia Board of Education plans a spring increase in funding for school garden work as they extend the first year of elementary agricultural education in the city. Two gardens operated at a total cost of 3500 dollars.
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Board of Education of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
West Point
Alex Ander
Webb
Charles B. Momstock
David McM. Gregg
Nichols
Supreme Court of Louisians
Samuel Breck
Electric cars meet in fatal collision near Swisher
A wreck on a sharp curve near Swisher involved two Cedar Rapids line electric cars at dusk. Twenty injured, many seriously. motorman J Q Genl died, others rushed to hospitals in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Conductor Tingeeriy blamed for orders. railroad officials dispute.
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Cedar Rapids Iowa City Line
J. Q. Genl
Swisher
Tingeeriy
Cedar Rapids
Taduly
Lawn City
Gwenty
Love City
Charles McCraken
J. D. Bewls
Matormen
Toth Tees
Anton Jove
Walford
Mia
Mary Moo
Cine
Renwood
Buck Mul Nevk
Hugh Haugenback
Jowna City
Huyt
Witt Higenbach
Lowa City
Large list of Iowa fireworks injuries reported
July 7 Des Moines reports many celebrants injured by explosives statewide. Davenport man shot during a celebration. Burlington, Ottumwa, Cedar Falls, Newton, Iowa City, Centerville, Storm Lake, Winterset, Leon, and other locations record severe injuries and losses of fingers eyes and hands. About fifty injuries in Des Moines alone.
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Iowa
Bes Moines
Henry C. Thompson
Gervian Savings Belt
Davenport
Burlington
Ottumiuwa
Charles Lest
W. AM. Jinckman
James Kirk
Elden
Alex Brown
Af Newton
Richard
Harry French
Cedar Falls
Wayland Gray
Richard Booth
Harland
Edward Albaugh
Leon
Prank
Winterset
Erin Rowe
Iowa City
Bert Thayer
Lowa City
Harold Swettert
Centerville
Ivan Wagner
Storm Tike
Des Moines
Charles Kennedy
West Tsain Street
Harry Sidwell
East Ninth Street
Dee Durford
Highland Park
O. P. Harding
William Brace
Pital Avenue
Dr. Irvine
South Eighth Street
Jeverett Matheney
Warren Avenue
Des Moines Mother Finds Baby Drowned in 14 Inch Well
Des Moines July 7 A mother left her 2 year old on the doorstep while she tended to chores. The child fell into a 14 inch well and drowned before help could reach him. Neighbors failed to descend the shaft. the body was pulled to the surface with a rope and a hook. In Ottumwa a young Black man Fred Roots is dying from a gunshot wound to the head. His white landlady, Mrs. James Merrice, is charged with the shooting.
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Okakura Yoshishuro
Des Moines
Arlen Cunningham
Maying
Ottumwa
Fred Roots
Ottumwe Hospital
James Merrice
Body of merchant found in Missouri River near Council Bluffs
In Council Bluffs Iowa July 7 the body of merchant William Spelman who drowned himself in the Missouri river last Sunday was found by two fishermen Edward Hales and John Knapp. They spotted the garment and the swollen corpse about a quarter mile from where Spelman threw himself in.
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Council Bluffs
William (. Spelman
Missouri River
Edward Hales
John Knapp
Sheunt LO
Spetman
Bandit Paroled After Iowa Bank Robbery Case
Jesse Crawford, jailed for one of Iowa’s most sensational bank robberies at Adel ten years ago with Orlando Wiking, has been paroled. He helped seize thousands from the Dallas County Sayings bank, shot S. M. Trach, and faced a brutal pursuit that included a barn fire and a log chase. Crawford, who served most of a 21 year sentence, was released quietly by the governor and is now employed as a blacksmith in Patterson, Madison county.
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Des Moines
Jesse Crawford
Orlando Wiking
Dallas
Adel
S. M. Trach
St. Louis
Brate
Patterson
Madison County
Crawford
Iowa
Wilking
Billwater
Minn
Mr. Leach
Via
C.D. Batley
Tamen
Wilkins
Ami
Appeal to Governor Mdonald over McWilliams murder case
Richard McWilliams, killed three months ago near Hoehne Colorado, sparked a public appeal as Miss Juntle Brest of Diagonal Iowa urged Governor McDonald to pursue justice. McWilliams family contested a coroner verdict of suicide, exhumed the body, and pressed for a full inquiry. The Diagonal couple are prominent locals seeking accountability.
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Richard McWilliams
Justice
Denver
Colo
Jnttle Brest
Diagonal
Mpnorth League Assembly
J. J. McWilliams
McDonald
Richard McWiliams
Hoehne
Calo
Colorado
Father Finds Virgil White Returns to Scotia Farm
Fred Witte of Des Moines located Virgil White the missing young attorney near Scotia after a cross state search with Sheriff Taylor. White agreed to visit Grand Island but refused to return home, saying he would stay at Scotia at least for now. The rumor of insanity was disproved during the reunion and search.
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Des Moines
Grand Island
Neb
Fred Witte
Virgil
Lowa
Fred White
Sheriff Taylor
St. Libory
Taylor
White
Scotia
Painter George Woods of Clinton shoots self thrice
Clinton July 10 George Woods a well known painter aged 4 shot himself three times in the region of the heart with a four caliber revolver while partially intoxicated. He is alive the bullets failed to pierce the heart and he will likely recover. He previously attempted suicide by poison and was saved by physicians. He has a wife and family.
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George Woods
Clinton
Free Methodist Pastor Arrested in Dunlap Rape Charge
Council Bluffs Ta July 10 Rev R W Meeker Free Methodist minister at Dunlap arrested on information filed by Grace Merwin charging him with rape. Victim identified as Mrs McElwain Meeker’s sister in law. Preliminary hearing set for July 1v before Justice HK Gullek.
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Dunlap
Council Bluffs
R. W. Meeker
Grrce Merwin
McElwain
Meeker
Justice HK
Gullek
Verdict of murder in Mason City death case
Coroner's jury in the case of Edward Anderson, found Tuesday morning in a creek, returned a verdict of murder by some unknown person who pushed him off the bank. Witnesses were examined and an arrest of a well known woman in the city is expected to follow.
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Mason City
Masonity
Edward Anderson
Anderson
Killed Near Hull A Rail Fatality Reported
Hull Iowa July 30 while walking along the Milwaukee railroad track about three miles east of Hull Charles Huson aged 26 was run over by a westbound train and killed with legs severed. The dispatcher's fault is implied. Iowa City January 7 coroner's jury reports engineer Phil Barnhart death in a wreck June 24. Jury cites dispatcher at Des Moines for allowing the limited to follow the freight too closely.
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Charles Hanson
Hull
Charles Huson
Towa City
Phil Barnhart
Rocky Mountain
Rock Island and Puecittes Railway Company
Des Moines
Limited
Would Cheat Gallows During Jail Execution
Owensboro Kentucky July 11 Robert Mathieu hanged at sunrise today after a failed attempt to cheat the gallows. He tore veins in his arms and nearly bled to death before the death watch intervened. Mathieu, a contractor, had killed William Watkins and James Gregson in June 1604 amid jealousy. On the scaffold he claimed a woman had sworn his fate.
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Owensboro
Robert Mathieu
Mathley
William Watkins
James Gregson
Woman Is Formally Accused in Pratt Death Case
Arsenic found in the stomach of Josiah M. Pratt, who died on his farm June 24, leads to the arrest of Mrs. Josiah M. Pratt on complicity with Will Persing in the Pratt murder. Persing proclaims innocence while facing rape accusations in Polk County. A shoe imprint near the cliff where Ad Anderson fell raises foul-play fears.
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Kinney
Josiah Pratt
Take City
Tuly
Jb. C. Kinney
Josiah M. Pratt
Here
Hutchison
Will Persing
Pratt
Mason City
Ad Anderson
Victim Dies From Bernard Street Wreck Injuries
Charles McCracken of Tower City succumbs in Cedar Rapids after a metro crash near June 7. He died from injuries sustained in the collision. Other injured passengers expected to recover.
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Chas. McCracken
Cedar Rapids
Charles McCracken
Tower City
Formal Accusation in Pratt Death Stirs County
Kinney declares poison could not be placed after death by embalming fluid and authorities swear out a warrant at least for Mrs Pratt and Will Persing. She faces a murder charge for Josiah M Pratt via slow poisoning, with hearings set for Saturday as Persing and Pratt widow await preliminaries and counsel, while coroner’s jury implicated both in the case.
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Kinney
Perging
Fouts
Josiah M. Pratt
Josiah Pratt
Will Persing
Persing
Rock Rapids
Parsons
Northwest
Pratt
Peresing
Pie
Embalming Fluid Report in Death Case
State Chemist Kinney notes stomach condition and arsenic presence before death. Embalming fluid used in burial preparation. Auburn undertaker Jones autopsied and injected fluids via arteries and into the mouth. Small amounts likely insufficient to affect outcome.
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Goodby
Kinney
Jones
Auburn
Woman Leaps From Train In Despair Over Love
Clara Meyers 20 of Faribault jumped from the ladies toilet on the eastbound Chicago Milwaukee St Paul flyer between Beulah and Monona in an apparent suicide attempt. After wandering to the track she stood in the path signaling the engine with her white shawl. A physician in North McGregor found only a bruise on her left shoulder.
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Clara Meyers
Fairbault
North McGregor
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Miss Meyers
Mr. Wilkening
Novel sight in Paris as American marines march with French troops
In Paris on a July morning 500 American sailors and marines paraded through central streets with a French infantry escort. The display drew enthusiastic crowds as the American flag and naval ensign were unfurled, the French standard dipped, and cheers rang out for both nations. The march led to the military school for the delivery of Admiral Paul Jones's body to American representatives later that afternoon, with ceremonies at the American church on Avenue de l Alma. The cortege then returned to Cherbourg by train, guarded by French and American marines.
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Paris
United States
Cherbourg
France
Paul Jones
Admiral Paul Jones
Avenue de l’ Alma
Mfluiry Wand Bayal
Diplomatic Corps
Nary Couuntries
Russians Kills Sealers in Kamchatka Raid
Montara reports forty Japanese sailors attempted a raid on Kamchatkan seal rookeries. Russians armed with rifles repelled the attack, captured forty invaders, and executed them after brief examination on the mainland while remaining Japanese sailors fled by boat.
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Siberian
San Francisco
Montara
Kamchatkan
Estimate of Loss of Life in Guanajuato Flood
Governor Obrigon puts dead at over two dozen with many more bodies found after a cloudburst floods Guanajuato. Hospitals overwhelmed as patients drown. Jugreg theater submerged to the first balcony and soldiers seek refuge on higher levels. Property loss estimated at $2,000,000.
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Guanajuato
Obrigon
Fourth of July Accidents Report From Several Cities
Four Independence Day incidents reported across Manortine Mason City and Des Moines leave several with burns and injuries. Names of victims include Roy Bittert Freddie Altimeder and H. Tolvenan though spellings are unclear. Torpedo related blasts and powder explosions caused facial chest and knee injuries amid the holiday celebrations.
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Manortine
Mason City
Des Moines
Muscatine
Roy Bittert
Freddie Altimeder
Tolvenan
A. Comrudi
Two Hurt At Mason City Fireworks Incident
In Mason City Iowa Howard Farmer suffered facial hand lacerations and Victor Hansen lost both eyes after a public celebration accident. Investigations indicate a misfire during a fireworks display caused the injuries leading to emergency amputation concerns for Hansen. Local responders rushed to the scene and directions for public safety were issued.
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Howard Farmer
Victor Hansen
Mason City
Bette
Des Moines Man Severely Injured by Firecracker Blast
Des Moines reports Harry Bindwell of 1007 East Ninth Street lost a thumb when a large cracker exploded. Doctors fear potential complications from the blast as they treat him and monitor for further danger arising from the injury.
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Des Moines
Harry Bindwell
East Ninth Street
Disfigured for Life by Toy Cannon Blast
Charles Kennedy is left disfigured after a toy cannon exploded in his face when he inspected a misfiring barrel. The incident occurred yesterday morning and another boy, 12, accidentally discharged a revolver at 802 Elm Street, wounding himself. Two younger children found four sticks of dynamite during the same day, causing alarm over the dangerous play.
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Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy Awitt
Charles Courtney
Jaw Dislocation After Nap At Muscatine
Local man Whylianny Schulpke dislocated his jaw while waking from a nap in Muscatine Iowa. Three doctors and an hour of effort were needed to reduce the injury after he opened his mouth to its full capacity and refused to close it until pried shut.
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Muscatine
Whyliany Schulpke
Schulpke
Death at Dubuque House stable shocks LeMars town
Old John a well known town character died at the Dubuque house stable under suspicious circumstances. County physician T E Cole found death due to acute indigestion aided by alcoholism. Coroner did not order an inquest. Deceased age 2 years, native of Luxembourg, came from St Louis to Le Mars in 1876, worked on a farm and as hostler. He was noted for heavy drinking.
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LesVars
LeMars
Old John
Dubuque House
Ilewan
T. E Cole
Luxenbourg
St. Louis
le Mars
LeMars Youth Kelso Charged with Rape Following Dance
The 8 complainant Nellie Smith from Kingsley accuses Kelso, a well known LeMars youth, of violating her as they rode home from a local dance on June 80. Smith, aged 18, has a clean reputation. Kelso from a farming family near Wingsley is described as two years younger.
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LeMars
TeMars
Kelfsa
Veteran Tim Murphy Prisons Over Pension Delays
Des Moines reports Tim Murphy a Civil War veteran who receives a monthly pension of 51 dollars. He spends the funds quickly on liquor, leading to repeated arrests. Police Judge Mathis sentences him to fifteen days in jail until his pension paperwork arrives.
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Des Moines
Tim Murphy
Tim
Murphy Nyes
East Dee Moines
Mathis
Dubuque Wife-Arrest Case Ends In Court Fit
Barbara Forrester of Dubuque Iowa was arraigned when her husband pressed serious charges after alleging she was found in a compromising position with another man. At the start of the hearing she collapsed in court and the case was dismissed.
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Dubuque Fiusband
Dubuque
Irl
Barbara Forrester
Forrester
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