Violent farmer dispute and legal rulings in Iowa
John Koontz shot and wounded John Hullyer in a dispute seven miles east of Corydon, prompting a sheriff’s confrontation and Koontz’s arrest. The report also covers a string of local incidents from saloon petition rulings in Payette County to a fatal self-immolation case, hospital stabbings, tax assessments, and a parole move by Governor Shaw affecting Iowa’s prison system.
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John Koontz
Tnes
Corydon
John Hullyer
Koontz
Hullyer
Sherif Guinn
James Todd
Sle
Koontz Anys I Hullyer
Cornelius Madlchen
Ananiosi
Shaw
Iowa
Cornelus Moelchen
Webster County
Board of Supervisors
Swan Johnson
Dayton
3. G. Ryan
Wadger and CO
Boer Movement Checked by Roberta Statement
Lonpoy April 14 report quotes Lord Roberts saying Boers are being stemmed not by direct fighting but by dispositions to hinder their advance and block British routes. Relief heads to Wepener as Boers in Natal show limited aggression toward Elandslaagte. Dalgety’s forces at Wepener repelled a Boer attack with heavy losses and the enemy withdraws northward.
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Lord Roberta
Lonpoy
Lord Roberts
Wepener
Natal
Elandslaagte
Brorstvontery
Dalgety
Ub Wepener
American officers did not take part in Boer fight says consul
Pretoria April 14 United States Consul May states in an interview that reports claiming Captain Reichman the US military attaché participated in the fight near Samas Post are false Reichman was said to be occupied with tending wounded Dutch officers Lieutenant Nix has since died and the American Lieutenant Loosberg who served with the free State artillery is likely the one confused in the reports
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Supreme Court
Payette County
L. I
Pereadtrom Ytha
B. Rehn
Fort Dodge
B. Will
Elim
Ilill
Rehn
Hill
Board of Equalization of
Rolfe
Board of Equalization
Robert Bruce
Ferguson & Son
A. Grant & Son
PF. Martin
W. C. McEwen
C. F. Follesrude
Pocahontas Land and Loan Co
Pretoria
United States
Uay
Reichman
Samas Post
Nix
Tiny
Loosberg
Free State Artillery
Explanations Wanteding. Operations In South Africa In a Deep Mystery
The Berliner Tageblatt military critic says Lord Roberts’ inactivity stems from troops unable to field in numbers against MKroonstad rather than winter preparations. British defeats are blamed on troop discouragement from perceived bad generalship.
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South Africa
Rburnix
Berliner Tageblatt
Lord Roberts
Mkroonstad
Outbreak Contained by Governor in Coomassie Tribe
Lonnox April 14 sir Frederick Godgson governor reports from Coomassie that the native outbreak has not spread beyond the Coomassie tribe and he expects to announce no further trouble. Navy signs contract for Holland submarines at 1500000, with 1750000 future boats, new model larger than the old.
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Fraukle
Lonnox
Frederick Godgson
Gold Coast Colony
Ecolonial
Coomassie
Toland
Wasumetros
Navy Department
Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company
Navy
Holland
Landslide Threatens Klappai Village in Bohemia
A landslide unsettles the hill housing Klappai Bohemia. Of 160 homes two fell away and twenty more risk collapse. Residents had warning and escaped with no loss of life. Klappai lies about fifty miles northwest of Prague. In Durban Britain blocks Mushons voyage. cargo bound for Delagoa Bay. Colonel Dalgety surrounded at Wepener. censorship tight amid tense developments.
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Austria
Prague
Klappai
Bohemia
Vessota
Durban
Delagoa Bay
Wolcott for Vice President endorsed by Colorado Gazette
The Colorado Springs Gazette editorially backs Senator Wolcott for vice presidency. It predicts he would win over Bryan’s bimetallist voters in the county. A separate note cites Wasumerox appointing George B. Cornelyou secretary to President Mel Ninley after Porter’s resignation due to health. Transvaal and British dispatches report on Gatacre’s recall and storms over Stormberg.
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Wolcott
Colorado Svamnes
Colorado Springs Gazette
Senator Wolcott
the Gazette
Bryan
Wasumerox
George B. Cornelyou
New York
Mel Ninley
John Addison Porter
Roosevelt to be drafted as McKinley running mate
The New Yorker reports Theodore Roosevelt may be drafted to join William McKinley on the national Republican ticket as vice president. Roosevelt says he wishes to remain New York governor and decline the nomination, while McKinley and party leaders press for his candidacy. Cabinet talks and recent New York conferences suggest mounting pressure to secure Roosevelt’s acceptance.
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McKinley
Iim
Wasuixaton
Theodore Roosevelt
National Republican Party
Roosevelt
New York
Ilanna
Bliss
Philadelphia
Roosevelt declines vice presidency despite McKinley push
Washington April 14 Governor Roosevelt shies at the vice presidency after a long distance call from President McKinley. He refused the nomination under any circumstances and stated his mind was made up. The president urged reconsideration but Roosevelt would not be swayed.
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McKinley
Roosevelt
Turley's Nonpayment Sparks US Response Over Indemnity
In Washington April 16 it is learned that talks on indemnity for destruction of American mission property in Turkey during the 1895 Armenian massacres have reached a close. The Sultan promised about 100,000 dollars and Minister Strauss renewed that pledge before leaving Constantinople. Sixteen months elapsed without payment, prompting questions on how the United States will enforce observance. The president has not accepted Strauss's resignation and has extended his leave of absence.
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United States
Wasuixeton
Turkey
Strauss
Constantinople
State Department
Mate
End of a Drinking Carousal Ends in Fatal Shoot In Chicago
Prominent Chicago capitalist Rufus Wright, treasurer of Morgan & Wright bicycle manufacturers, lies mortally wounded in the Leland hotel after a pistol shot from Mrs. Louisa Lottridge of Pawpaw Michigan. A friend with her earlier in the day is also arrested as authorities note the affair began in the woman’s apartments.
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Chicago
Rufus Wright
Morgan & Wright
Leland Hotel
Louisa Lottridge
Pawpaw, Mich
Congress news from Washington in April parliamentary notes
The article sketches Senate and House actions across April including rejection of a sectarian school amendment to the Indian appropriation bill by a 30 to 16 margin, and passage of the Porto Rican tariff resolution with 161 to 151. It notes near-term votes on Quay seating, cable funding for a San Francisco to Honolulu line, and the agricultural appropriation bill amid debates on seeds and vaccines. A memorial tribute to Howard Parks Cloud is included along with pension measures and a resolution on direct senatorial elections.
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Eunare ‘Whatington
Senate
Jones
Arkansas
Honndate
Rei Tye
Quay
Pennsylvania
Washington
House
Corliss
Mishipan
Rana
San Francisco
Honolulu
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
Porto Rico
Cuba
Philippines
United States
Talbert
Dem. S.C
Renate
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
Capitol
Calls Offic ers Stupid Onlook's View of Trouble in the English Army
In London April 1, the unused tone of protest over the Boer campaign grows. British papers denounce army officer selection methods as the cause of stalled Natal battles and costly mistakes by generals. The Lookout says our officers are brave but stupid, Vanity Pair concedes officers seem to play at war rather than fight it.
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Onlook
Lonnon
Buller
Natal
Methuen
Gatuere
Brule
Great Northern Railroad plans 20,000 ton steamships
Tavita President Hill announces orders for transpacific steamships with a capacity over 28 000 tons and deck space exceeding five acres per ship. He expects eighteen months hence to have vessels in operation equal to the Campania and Lucania combined in carrying capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Campania
Lucania
Estimated Boer Losses end of March Dispatch
The Daily Mail publishes Lorenzo Marquez report on Boer losses to date. Estimated aerial Boer losses including prisoners total about 12,000 with several thousand Boers in Natal and a further 5,000 in the Free State. Flood losses in Texas exceed 43 million with multiple drownings. A dam break on the Colorado River tributary near Austin caused eighteen to twenty deaths. Russia renews demands to Corea regarding Masampo as reported from Seoul.
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Toupon
Mat
Lorenzo Marquez
Hye
Natal
Free State
Austin
Texas
Colorado River
State board orders scrutiny of county insane asylums
Des Moines April 16 1900 notes from the capital report the state board of control moving to apply the new law to county and private asylums. Secretary Wilkinson will survey counties to identify inmates and locations and the board will inspect all institutions. About twenty five county asylums exist and will be visited. The auditor has issued warrants to banks advanced for transporting the fifty first town.
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Cedar Rapids
Magnus
State Board of Health
Ruthven
Grinnell
St. Anthony
Davenport
Oskaloosa
Highland Township
Palo Alto County
New Orleans
Manchester
Oneida
Delaware Eounty
Great Western
Milwaukee
Timnets
Harrison Declines Democratic Nomination for Governor
Mayor Carter Harrison repudiates his Democratic nomination for governor of Mlinovis. He warns that if elected he must take office in January, leaving Chicago without a mayor and forcing the council to choose a successor. Kentucky Chief Justice Hazelrigg grants a writ of error in the Bradley Taylor governor and lieutenant case, sending the matter toward the U S Supreme Court.
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Carter Harrison
Mlinovis
Harrison
Chicago
City Council
Kentucky
Squabhig
Franuront
Hazelrigg
Court of Appeal
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Bradley
Taylor
Washington
Supreme Court
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Conrad
Des Moines
Mamie Watson
H.W. Ryers
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LT. Swan
Atlantic
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A. le Lager
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Walter J. Smith
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Warker
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Valrtela
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Ile
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Transvaal
Pat Mam
Muller and
Jonkhers van Boeschoten
Milan
Gatacre Melleved
Lospex
Bloemfontein
Gatacre
England
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Stormberg
Reddersburg
Turley
Paris
Root
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Abe Dill
Nebraska
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Dana
E. Benjamin Andrews
Brown University
Chicago Public Schools
University of Nebraska
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Sproxstown
St. Siclena
Congress
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Carter
Burrows
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UDF
Russia
Yorouana
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Corea
Masampo
James Rush Lincoln Antil
J. A. Olmstead
Mercy Hospital
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Colorado Springs
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