Burglary at Centerville and County Legal Action Updates
ROR RS y out THE NEWS IN IOWA reports Randle's Centerville store burglarized. assorted res olvers and ammunition stolen. witnesses before Spencer grand jury for indictments. Welshmint murder trial witnesses and Wrightman acquitted in Spencer. Omaha suit by Tom Dennison against W OW reveals county policy leaks. Gunslie admits owing 3409 tied to political influence claims. Atlantic church to receive 1000 for a 2000 organ. remodeling at 1000 cost. Santee and Wilson escape death near Great Western station. shot believed by a tramp. Council Bluffs pastors plan anti saloon crusade and police records sealed. Des Moines interurban plan expands with Belle Plaine Vinton route. 100000 capital. Various local incidents follow including assaults, jettisoned jail escape, and court actions. Webster City debates municipal ownership of gas plant. council blocks private franchise. Iowa-Nebraska coal deal protests demurrage costs. railroads urged to guarantee daily movement or pay damages. Miller of Council Bluffs disinherits adopted daughter in will over marriage. Missing husband finds wife. farm and buried gold tale unfolds with legal costs. Death of a man in Muscatine linked to buried money dispute. boy entrusted with funds disappears. Suspect in train wreck case files quash motion. jury composition contested. Oddities and local quips conclude the odd compilation.
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Randle
Centerville
Spencer
Worightman
Omaha
Tom Dennison
W OW
Gunsolie
Eustish
Gunsolis
Mma
Denison
Ile
B. 12
Ogenfilly
Atlantic Methodist Episcopal Chlurch
Andrew Carnegie
Des Moines
Methodist Church
Charles DB. Santee
George FP. Wilson
Cedar Falls
Great Western Station
Fred
Statin
Santee
Wilson
Council Bluffs
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Iowa
Colfax
Grinnell
Belle Plaine
Vinton
Chicago
Entonconty
Iowa Valley Interurban Company
Keystone
Garrison
Helle Plaine
Cedar Rapids
Town City
M. McNeeley
J. W. Carter
McNeeley
Ded Moines
Carters Young Wie
Waterloo
Michael Walter
Pollawattamia Equnty
Forever County
Adamney Killpack
J. W. Garrett
Marden
Currie
Killpack
Fahey
Conneil
Moor
Anamosa
J. W. Dean
Medical Department
The
State University
Seymour
Jones County
Webster City
Brown & Wortham
Iowa-Nebraska Coal Dealers’ Association
G. H. Chisam
Nebraska
Henry Miller
Mn Miller
Alice
Collanier
Louis Rouret
Mercy Hospital
Michael Conroy
Iawn Supreme Court
Clinton
Davenport
Conrey
Flamey Monrog
Woodhie
Monroe
Geld
Mary Leonard
Muscatine
Richard Moorgan
Deadwood
Leonard
Erich Kutzschen
Rock Island Rocky Mountain Limited
Homestead
Kutgleben
John Willie
Willie
Puck
Nell
Bell
Philadelphia
Ledger
Oklahoma and Washington chase Shercliffe for long past burglary
Des Moines reports Oklahoma and Washington officials pursuing Franke Shercliffe to face burglary charges from fourteen years ago. They aim to induce a venue change for Tom Dennison’s Logan trial on April 17. Oklahoma seeks a warrant to take Shercliffe to Oklahoma. Iowa may release him for trial. A shirt with a claimed bullet hole is used as evidence. Shercliffe blames Dennison for the renewed action.
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Des Moines
Amil
Washington
Territory of
Oklahoma
Franke Sherelfite
Tom Dennison
Logan
Dennison
Cummins
Shercliffe
Iowa
Shereliffe
Utah
Salt Lake City
Penitentiary
Assumed Risk Quashes Damages In Brooks V Joyce Co
Des Moines April 9 The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that an employee who understands dangerous working conditions has assumed the risk. In J F Brooks versus W T Joyce Co of Carroll County the lumber yard’s un-stacked hard wood flooring slid and broke Brooks’ leg. The court held that Brooks knew the danger and cannot claim damages, distinguishing cases where workers were unaware of risks.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
J. F. Brooks
W. T. Joyce Co
Carroll County
Joyce Co
Brooks
Man Dies After Being Struck by Burlington Train
An unknown man believed to be a Russian Jew was struck by a Burlington freight near Ottumwa Tuesday afternoon and died in a local hospital yesterday. He was unconscious and provided no identification. In Spencer a grand jury is to hear indictments against witnesses in the Welghman perjury case, with Welghman recently acquitted there. In Des Moines detectives arrested three young boys aged 8, 10, and 11 after a burglary at the Iowa Seed store that saw high priced fowls stolen and sold for 15 cents each.
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Ottumwa
Burlington
Spencer
Stat
Welghman
Roy
Des Moines
K. A. Guthyle
Iowa
West Locust Street
Jesse, Ardys
Albert Beck
JUDGE JAEGER INDICTED IN KEOKUK BANK CASE
Judge Edmund Jaeger former head of the defunct Commercial Bank of Keokuk was indicted on three counts by the district grand jury. He is jailed after bail was set at 5000. His son Edward Jaeger, cashier, faces related scrutiny and both were leading Keokuk figures before the bank failure.
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Commercial Bank of
Keokuk
Edmund Jaeger
Commercial Bank
Jeger
Edward Jaeger
Lee County
Keokuk Club
Chamberlain-Harrington
Iubinger
Judge Jaeger
Jaeger
Commercial Bank, Incorporated
Germany
United States
Matthews Charged with Double Murder in Des Moines
Roland Diggs and Bud Travis were slain in Des Moines on November 2, 1904 after Matthews returned from Texas. He allegedly shot Travis and Diggs at the Diggs home at 753 West Ninth Street, then wounded Mrs Diggs who escaped to an inner room. Mrs Matthews had left him after an affair and divorce, and he had since married a Black physician in Highland Park.
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Roland Diggs
Budd Travis
Des Moines
Neil Matthews
Texas
Ronald Diggs
Bud Travis
West Ninth Street
Diggs
Matthews
Travis
Grain trust contested by independent elevators in Iowa
Des Moines reports seed corn specials organize farmers to form independent co operative elevators amid claims the Iowa Grain Dealers association fixes grain rates. Lon Messerole and two Chicago agents push the effort while Geo Wells counters at stations on the train tour. Des Moines locals note tense exchanges as the seed corn campaign unfolds.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Grain Dealers Association
Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Lon G. Messerole
Farmers’ Elevator Association of Iowa
Chicago
Geo. E. Wells
Wreck Near Muscatine on Tramcar Injures Two
A passenger tram of the Muscatine & Western was wrecked a short distance from Muscatine yesterday. Two people were injured in the incident.
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Muscatine
Muscatine & Western
Governor Gummins Goes to Washington for Inscription Hearing
Governor Gummins travels to Washington with Secretary John Hayes of Rea Oak and James W. Carson of Woodburn to press Iowa Shiloh battlefield monument commission on disputed inscriptions. The party, veterans of the involved regiments, seeks a favorable rehearing before the secretary of war.
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Washington
Des Moines
Gummins
Iowa Shiloh Battlefield Monument
John Hayes
Rea Oak
James W. Carson
Woodburn
Notes From The Capital Des Moines Iowa Audit Updates And Tax News
The Des Moines notes report an appointment for Grinnell’s BoaT Haines as assistant to the state Insurance examiner Withington and Eldridge Dawson as another assistant. A quarterly state audit reveals 1 733 649 64 in state treasury cash assets with 1 722 02 on hand and 1 074 027 68 in banks. Automobile investments total about 1 090 000. The legislative commission debates a single board of control for three state educational institutions and hears judges Kinne and Robinson on penal and charitable administration. The Hubbell estate pays 20 000 in taxes. Des Moines Union adds about 20 000 annually. Depositors at the defunct Corning State Savings Bank are to be paid first under state law, while the supreme court clarifies depositor preference in asset distribution. The court declines to resolve the rural roadways vacancy issue in the Potawatomi case, noting private rights are involved and constitutional questions aren’t necessary.
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Des Moines
Aperdia
Joan
Carrell
Boat
Iaines
Grinnell
Haines
Withington
Quiler
Eldridge Dawson
Deepartment
State
Agricultural College
Legislative Commission
Vermillion
D.D
South Dakota
Kinne and Robinson
Board of Control
Hubbell
Murrow
Des Moines Union
M. Hubbell
Iowa
Goring State Savings Bank
C. F. Andrews
Lashier Leroy
Owa
Corning Bank
Supreme Sourts
Supreme Court
Pottawattamie
Council of Council Bluffs
Nebraska Or Gell Telephone Company
Dorothy
Tye
Chicaze News
Fluffy
Detroit
Reg. Press
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Best Grain Trust
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George Coffey
Joe St. Pierre
Oliver
St. Pierre
Coffey
Reinbeck
Juige Reed
Federal Court
James Moore
John Roach
Stte
Automobilea
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