Sioux City and Iowa News Briefs Mix of Crimes and Trials
A Sioux City court day features saloon legal clashes, a contempt ruling, and a theft case led by Becker against Magner and Walsh. A midwife’s case returns a modest verdict. Fire at a Sioux City police station looms as a boy and girl survive gas exposure. Fire, accidents, and a murder verdict in various Iowa locales are reported along with pardons and local political notes.
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Fred Peasley
Ft. Dodge
William Miler
Clarion
Charles Webster
Miller
Peasley
Fferman G. Norgard
Council Bluffs
Wharlan
Amos Seymour
Anamosa
Flifeth
Cummins
Anamosa Penitentiary
Seytour
Rita
Abcesses
Seymour
Sioux City
Magner and Walsh
Magner and
Walsh
Claude Klegin
William Greusel
Patsy” Magner
Andavits
Klegin
Greusel
Becker
Bevington
Joseph Schulein
Grace Shoop
S. H. Shoop
E. Stark
Chicago & Northwestern
John Kruger
Willie Kelleaney
Stark
Deloit
North Western
Mr. Stark
Thas Willie Killeaney
National Hotel
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke's Hospital
Independence
Marriage Law Attacked In Iowa Remarrriage Question
In Council Bluffs Nebraska divorce decree bars remarrying within six months, but Iowa courts may treat the decree as binding across states. R A Ball sues M A Sweney for allegedly marrying the wife of another after her Nebraska divorce. The case could reach Iowa Supreme Court, affecting many marriages in Council Bluffs where Nebraska divorce laws apply.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nebraska
M. A. Sweney
R. A. Ball
Ball and Sweeney
Iowa Supreme Court
M. A. Sweeney
Wragg Buys Des Moines Midland Nursery Firm
Wragg purchases Midland Nursery Company's property at Twenty eighth and Grand Avenue Des Moines and takes over all nursery stock and assets. Manager Chapin died recently and the property was auctioned by court with Wragg's bid accepted. The acquisition expands his Wrage Nursery firm and landscape gardening work.
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Des Moines
Wragg
Midland Nursery Company
Twenty-eighth
Grand Avenue
Chapin
Wrage
M. J. Wragg Nursery Company
Costly Adel fire destroys four brick stores
A fire in Adel at dawn destroyed four brick buildings including H. V. Rickerson’s clothing store Heston’s drug store Riggs’ dry goods and Adel Furniture Co. heavy losses totaled about 65 000 with Des Moines sending a fire chief and chemical engine to assist.
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Adel
H. V. Rickerson
Heston
Riggs
Adel Furniture Co
Des Moines
House Mover Falls Twenty Feet, Dies in City
Edward Murray, a town house mover, fell twenty feet from a house yesterday morning and died shortly after. The accident was blamed on a broken guy rope. Three other men fell with him but escaped injury. Murray is survived by a wife and child.
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Falla
Town City
Edward Murray
Renwick Fire Destroys Three Blocks of Business Area
Webster City reports a morning blaze yesterday that swept through Renwick’s business section, destroying three blocks. Estimated loss around 15000 dollars. Fire department crews fought the flames, with investigation to determine origin continuing.
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Renwick
Webster City
Businss
Renwitts
Fire destroys home in Marshalltown amid flames
Fire raged at 2 o'clock yesterday morning destroying the residence of MH A Courch and Br CG G Cotrele, likely the town's next home. Defective wiring is blamed. The family escaped with a child hurt in a narrow exit. Loss about £39,000 with partial damage to contents.
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Mershalltown
Marshalltown
Orning
MH. A. Courch
Br. CG
McWilliams Confesses Brutal Family Murder in Independence
William McWilliams, in Independence jail, confesses to the murder of his wife and five children and says they were better off dead. He details a two year pattern of jealousy, nagging, and occasional outbursts while describing a home life he found unbearable and plans that were foiled by the need to care for his children.
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Independence
William McWilliams
Wte
Uberty
Melliams
Thp
Grand Jury Room
McWilliams Mae
McWilliams
Supreme Court Upholds Blanchard Law in Iowa Fire Insurance Case
Washington November 28 The U S Supreme Court Justice Holmes delivering the opinion reverses a lower ruling and upholds the 1896 Blanchard law prohibiting fire insurers from entering rate and commission agreements in Iowa The decision favors Attorney General Mullan and Cedar Rapids counsel Col Charles A Clark pledging support against combinations among foreign insurers The case draws east coast attention due to many foreign insurers operating in Iowa
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Washington
United States Supreme
Smith Me
F. Carroll
Yg. Fire Insurance Company
New York
Holmes
Iowa
Mullan
Cot
Charles A. Clark
Cedar Rapids
Supreme Court
East
Ure Yester
Pherson
Beryl
Greenwich
Confession Could Free Burns Case Tainted by Perjury
Des Moines December report states George Beveridge now says his 1913 testimony against James Burns in the knock-out drops murder was perjury. Beveridge confirms he did not see Tom Burns morphine in beer for Jerry Corcoran at 116 East Court Avenue, and asserts Corcoran died from drug effects after a table full of laborers drank morphine.
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Des Moines
George Beveridge
Slim" Burns
Ft. Madison
Jerry Corcoran
Beveridge
James Burns
Tom Burns
Beveringe
East Court Avenue
Corcoray
Burns
Corcoran
Postoffice Robbed and Market Burglary in Story City
Story City police report a Wednesday morning break in at the local post office with stamps valued at 3850 and 150 in cash stolen. Alsager Brothers market also robbed, safe rifled, 30 dollars taken. No clue beyond a missing Iowa General handcar and cut wires. authorities suspect the robbers fled eastward with the loot.
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Story Postoffice
Story City
Alsager Brothers
Iowa
Ambrose Hunt Sentenced for Counterfeiting in Avoca
Ambrose Hunt was found guilty of possessing counterfeit coins with intent to pass them. Judge McPherson sentenced him to three months in the county jail at Avoca and a fine of five dollars. The trial occurred yesterday morning amid local crime coverage and editorial commentary on rights.
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Ambrose Hunt
Judea McPherson
Avoca
Iowa to Attend Washington Conference and Divorces Law Debate
Des Moines reports Governor Cummins named delegates Wallop I Smith GB P Birdsall and Billay bard to attend a Washington conference next February likely too late to aid Iowa law ideas. Talks cover divorce remarriage restrictions and a new Yeoman aligned political group forms after Colorado Springs. A veteran overseer of the poor case from Appanoose County proceeds to mandamus. Adjutant General Thrift seeks 100000 annual guard funding with total needs around 167223 and a 21000 deficit. Kennedy urges vital statistics codification with clerks paid per birth or death certificates and a state registrar plan. A Topeka party dismisses a child after 11 pm urging departure. Philadelphia nurses school in Witherspoon Building offers free training and wages for country applicants.
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Matthew Traldes
W. H. Shaw
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Soux City
South Dakota
Iowa
Pansy
Joseph Penney
James Penney
Swaledale
Messrs
G. L. Cook
F. R. Pember
H. H. Snyder
Bureau of Soils
Washington
Towa
Snyder
Mr. Cook
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Pewder
Iowa National Guard
Summins
Adjutant General Thrift
Lincoln
Thrift Pelieves
War Department
Harrison County
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Willam Boyle
le Mars
Captoyer
Alphonsa Dunn
Dunn
Plymouth County
Dima
Des Moines
Oor
Cummins
Wallop I. Smith
GB. P. Birdsall
Bard
Thrift
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Kennedy
State Board of Health
Seer Kennedy
Oval
Secretary of State
State Registrar of Vital Statistics
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