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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1901
Page
3
Readable scraps recount Mr Francis Stanler of Peplow Hall near Market Drayton a millionaire philanthropist who kept over a hundred American and Japanese geese on a pool. He died after a long illness and the flock gathered around his window then vanished, a curious final image before their disappearance.
At Delmonico's a 450 guest 124th chamber banquet featured remarks by Governor-elect Albert B. Cummins on national prosperity. Secretary of State John Hay and notable figures including J Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie listened as Cummins urged protecting wage earners, balancing government power, and refining reciprocity and tariffs to sustain American industry and labor.
A mob of 460 marching miners in Vincennes Indiana attacked non union workers at a Prospect Hill Inn's boarding house. Five men were beaten severely while women inside fainted. Police and sheriff were summoned to the scene.
Storm Lake Grand Jury moves on pardon cases as Mrs Betsy Smith seeks pardon or parole for murder conviction after her husband Michael Smith poisoned by pie in 1894. Governor Shaw will present applications to the legislature later without recommendation. List of other pardon seekers includes George Stanley Joseph McCrary Byron Guinn and others with counties and commit dates.
Des Moines Nov 21 John Reuyers and John Steubenrauch of Knoxville Marion county pleaded guilty in federal court to securing naturalization papers for foreign coal miners to vote in the 1900 election. Each man was fined 40 dollars. The illegal votes risked tilting Mullon county toward the Democrats.
Storm Lake Iowa November 21 The grand jury has indicted two robbers in custody for murder in the Lindblad case. John Lindblad of Albert City died from wounds suffered during capture. Included are reports on state tax collections and county balances from Des Moines. A Storm Lake fire destroyed Roberts livery barn killing horses. Preston M Sutton, noted ex senator and criminal lawyer, dies at 66 in Marshalltown.
Friends of the President warn of a showdown between executive and Senate as Roosevelt seeks merit based army promotions. Secretary Root rejects congressional pressure, insisting records and merit govern all seven promotions. Senators vow to test the claim and may press for brigadier general nominations, fearing encroachment on Senate rights. The dispute signals a potential early session clash with the White House.
Ambassador White carried Roosevelt's goodwill message to Kaiser Wilhelm in Potsdam. The exchange praised peaceful cooperation and friendship between the United States and Germany. The emperor responded warmly, noting Roosevelt's prestige and influence on his nation's political development and admiring American energy and enterprise.
In Tremont temple Weston on November 10th a memorial marking Dr. Howe’s birth centenary heard Helen Keller express deep gratitude for his work at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Keller describes the relief of escape from darkness and isolation she might have endured without Howe’s mission and the education it enabled.
Carl Athena of Harper Kansas a noted hypnotist endures a six day burial beneath a coffin at Eleventh Wyandotte in Kansas City with 19000 spectators. He has trained a week eaten nothing since Saturday and relies on a visible viewing tube and alarm clock to signal exhumation while diggers stand by. He aims to extend the feat to thirty days as a hypnotist.
Fred Krist was executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison early today for the April 1900 murder of his sweetheart Kate Tobin at Waverly after she refused his advances. The killing occurred in 1900 and Krist faced the electric chair on November 21 in Auburn, N. Y.
Des Moines reports a bank heist at Greenville ended in a fatal shootout in Alberta City. A captured suspect confessed to the killings before dying, while two accomplices remain unnamed. Pinkerton agents failed to identify the trio, and Buena Vista county will hold two prisoners for murder in Storm Lake after recovery of $400 and nitroglycerin. Sixty three bullets were found at the depot, suggesting a long, fierce battle.
Marshalltown Iowa November 20 The grand jury returned indictments against five county officials and one former sheriff Wi B Willams and T J Shearer members of the board of supervisors are indicted for malfeasance in office It is charged individual mileage books from the Northwestern railroad in lieu of money to be paid into the county fund In connection with bringing the county road to grade when the railroad company built a double track in 1899 Thomas J Shoemaker sheriff and J W McPherson ex sheriff are indicted on extortion charges alleged excessive fees in expense accounts in taking prisoners to penitentiaries and patients to insane asylums
Unofficial dispatch from Tama county Iowa November 20 reports at least twenty five Indians on the reservation died of smallpox in the past month with not less than 100 cases. State health officials fear a serious outbreak amid friction among authorities over care. The government offers little aid, leaving the Indians nearly helpless.
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