Iowa News Mixed with Crimes and Local Happenings
Farmers Travis and Perryman near Corning clashed as Perryman fired, seriously wounding Travis. A prowling wild animal in Shelby County unsettles residents. Funeral plans for pioneer John St Charles are set in Sioux City with cremation in St Paul. Goldfield school burns, no injuries, insured. Oskaloosa deputy arrests Jim Goldie for shooting Harris at Buxton. Iowa corn husking records emerge in Jefferson, Fremont, and Shenandoah counties. Grinnell sewage case verdict and repairs surface. Evans robbery costs Falkner $300. Warrington absconds with valuables. Santa Fe gates contract awarded to Cedar Falls firm. Webster county poor farm inmates escape. a large fire damages, insured.
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Matthew Travis
William Perryman
Mr. Perryman
Mr. Travis
Corning
Galiana
Grova F
Shelby County
John St. Charles
Sioux City
St. Paul
Charles
Goldfield
Moore
Oskaloosa
Enterprise Coal Camp
Jim Goldie
Edmund Enzer
Charles Harris
Buxton
Goldie
Harris
Hhe
Enterprise
Hans
Johnson County
Thomas Herriott
William Wiggins
Fairfield
Herriott
Jefferson County
Ora Hopkins
Omaha
J. B. Farwell
Fremont
Shenandoah
Young Hopkins
H. J. Roff
C. C. Roff
Connell Bluffs
Nishna
Montezuma
Voght
Grinnell
Ife
Supreme Court
Evans
J. D. Falkner
Falkner
James Warrington
Falliner
Fallner
Oskaloosa Savings Bank
Warrington
Iowa Gate Company
Cedar Falls
Santa Fe
Webster County
Patiente
Charges of saloon raids and a fatal shooting in Iowa
The Anti-Saloon League reports enough funds to sustain actions as twenty suits against druggists and others holding liquor permits are filed for suspected sales. In Vinton and nearby towns officers search premises and locate intoxicating liquor, while 17 year old Archie Harter lies at Mercy Hospital Des Moines after a 22 caliber rifle accident.
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Anti-Saloon League
Benton County
Vinton
Nynor
Archie Harter
Charlotte
Clinton County
District Court
Charlotta
Clinton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Fred Giler
van Nest
Franklin County
Chapin
Giler
Sherrif Wolfe
B. A. Richardson
Bella Plaine
Tas
Washington
Iowa
Spokane
Evangton
Parkersburg
Orphans’ Home
Innes Moines
Piow
New Hartford
Cedar Fills
Burr Hotel
Blow
Mulet
Grundy County
Grundy Center
Promioters
End-Saloon League
Compulsory Education Law Lost by Shenandoah Jury
A Shenandoah trial ends with a jury acquitting Mr and Mrs Frank Dek for failing to send their children to public school. The verdict accepts home schooling as adequate defense against enforcement of Iowa compulsory education law, prompting concern from State Superintendent Riggs over possible widespread use and erosion of the statute. The Dek children, educated at home by missionary parents, were found educated enough to match public school standards in most branches.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Shenandoah
Gitlorga
Riggs
Frank Dek
Dek
Des Moines Firms Ordered to Upgrade Fire Escapes
Des Moines fire department issued notices requiring apartment and department store owners to replace existing ladders with steel stairways and install additional exits to meet the stricter state fire escape law. Most large buildings will be updated at once as winter looms and fire risks rise.
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Des Moines
Station Agent Evans Disappears After Desertion at Buckeye
Buckeye reports C D Evans, agent for Des Moines Iowa Falls & Northern, vanished Saturday. About $164 belonging to the company is missing, with American Express also reportedly affected. Auditor F R Carson of Dubuque aided efforts to locate Evans, now traced to Ames and Marshalltown. He allegedly left to avoid discharge for drunkenness, and his wife departed last Thursday amid his intemperance.
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C. D. Evans
Buckeye
G. D. Evans
Des Moines, Iowa Falls & Northern
American Express Company
F. R. Carson
Dubuque
Express Company
Evans
mInselag
Ales
Marshalltown
Wapello Cashier Colton Confesses to Deficit
Wapello Dec 2 W H Colton cashier of the Wapello State Savings bank was arrested on embezzlement charges with an estimated deficit of 23000 to 25000. Stockholders and officers say the bank remains unimpaired as bonds were posted. Colton yielded to a grand jury inquiry and later faced indictment and sentencing proceedings.
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W. KH. Colton
Wapello
Ww.h. Colton
Colton
Des Moines
State
Carroll
W. H. Colton
Wansello State Savings Bank
Louisa County
Otto
Balliet in Red Oak Jail Three Months Sentence
Letson Balliet known as the White Swan Mining King arrived in Red Oak in custody and was placed in the county jail to serve a three month federal sentence. He ate a hearty meal and joined eight other prisoners in the reading room as Mrs Balliet secured lodging nearby and will be allowed to visit as regulations permit.
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Red Oak
Letson Balliet
Smith McPherson
Des Moines
Balliet
Daller
PLEADS GUILTY TO ROBBERY IN TREYNOR BANK HEIST
Karl Karrer, a Treynor saloonkeeper, pleaded guilty to the October 6 robbery of the Bank of Treynor. He admitted taking $1522 from clerk Frances Flood at revolver point, aided in recovering all but $100, and awaits sentencing set for Wednesday with a potential penalty of ten to twenty years.
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Karl Karrer
Treynor
Cornel Bhiiifs
Karl Kerrer
Bank of
Frances Flood
Karrer
Little Girl Fatally Burned in Exira Home Fire
The seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilson Huff near Exira was playing with matches when her clothing caught fire. Her dress burned away and she died within hours from severe burns to face and hands. Accounts of other brief items follow in this edition, including a man shot while hunting near Charles City and a wedding postponement in Webster City.
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Exira
Wilson Huff
Charles City
Michael Heddens
Heddens
Votes and amendments in Iowa 1904 canvass noted
Official canvass by the executive council records Secretary of State Martin's plurality at 145,566 while total secretary of state votes reach 482,204, down from 528,325 four years earlier. The report lists party tallies for 1900 and 1904, cites Temple and biennial elections amendments results, outlines county representation changes, and mentions arrests and awards in agriculture and postal robbery cases alongside various literary and public notices.
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Martin
Executive Council
People's Party i
United Christian
Hall of Representatives
Atatte
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