Iowa News Roundup: Bigamy, Fires and Tragic Deaths
A Webster City defendant received four years in the state penitentiary after a heightened case of bigamy. Other reports detail a fatal shooting verdict exonerating Gustav Held, a fatal Morning Sun house fire, a Grinnell runaway accident with multiple injuries, and a Cedar Rapids milliner fire causing substantial losses. A Cascade church stabbing, Clinton-resident asylum history, and a Guthrie Center farmer’s suicide complete the day’s grim tally.
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Marshalltown
Hmma Mitchell
Webster City
Whitaker
Arghalltown
Wiliam ‘Hurtlg
Muscatine
J.F. Boeppie
Germany
Boeppie
Sait
Huttig
Gustav Lund
Henry Held
Mr. Held
Walter Jameson
Adking
Matteson
Wilcox
Third Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Lyman Bros
St. Martin’s Church
Cascade
Father Rouch
du Duane
Charles Monegent
Clinton
Frank Fraiser
Guthrie Center
Destructive fires, assaults, and a murder scare sweep Iowa towns
The day’s reports include a 3:48 a.m. blaze at the Mad-Raston building in Manson causing $6,300 loss with $4,000 insured, plus damage to the Hotel Long and the post office. A Perry assault ends in a $5 fine after Frank Bennett strikes City Superintendent J. J. Mosier over a boy called "Moses." A murder tied to a missing body near Extra is flagged as likely unsolved. Davenport host Rev. Giglinger fights saloons with injunctions as state fair plans progress and a Worth county coroner probes George Louge’s fatal head injuries, with Martin Wescott jailed for alleged murder. The Wootbine Normal school awards a large corn-prize to EB. Perkings, while Bergman’s McGregor opera house burns, with 56,000 in losses.
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Main Street
Manson
A. H. Hestloft
Restloft
Restloff
Perry
Frank Bennett
J. J. Mosier
Bennett
Mosier
Moses
Warfield-Hawelt
Des Moines
Young Robson
Extra
Roce
George Giglinger
Cosgrove
Davenport
Louis Martins
Henry Martins
Giglinger
Iowa
State Agricultural Board
Simpson
St. Louis
Worth County
Hanlontown
George Louge
Manon City
Loge
Longe
Louge
Lounge
Martin Wescott
Wescott
Northwood
Wootbine
Bergman
McGregor
Kramer
Murder Mystery Hovers Over Audubon Boy's Death
Audubon Dec 12 coroner's jury reports that 16 year old Dick Robson died by violent means in a suspected murder near Exira. The inquest withheld findings awaiting arrests nearby. The case links to family troubles, a prior suspicious death, and a strained Robson household amid rumors of foul play.
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Audubon
Dick Robson
Extra
Exira
Audubon County
Robson
Algo
Sherriff
Joseph Robson
Jake Schwinn
Schwinn
Robson Homes
Cape Breton Coal & Iron Co Emerges in Des Moines
Des Moines reports a new Cape Breton Coal & Iron company with $3,000,000 capital, led by President N J Coffin and officers Rufi corn, Deards, Reynolds. The merger controls about forty square miles of coal and iron lands in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, with plans for immediate development and favorable buy interest. The item notes strong backing by conservative business men and predicts a bright future. Also mentions Levy family death in Chicago and a series of jokes appended as notables.
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Iowa
Cape Breton
Des Moines
Cape Breton Coal & Iron Company
N. J. Coffin
Oren Ruficorn
Towa
H. J. Deards
H. H. Reynolds
Cracker Building
Nova Scotia
Canada
Gale
Levy
Chicago
Johnny
Aridman
Five Killed On 99 Westbound Train Wreck Near Albia
A Burlington railroad passenger wreck west of Albia left five dead and several injured. Victims include Mrs. W. H. Mitch en and child, Thomas Healty of Ottumwa, and Frank Lin of unspecified residence. Injured range from C. B. Blair of Lamont to Chicago diners and staff. Fire destroyed five cars and the bridge, with the infant burned to death and a boy of eight missing or dying from injuries. The No. 8 westbound train from Chicago to Omaha jumped the track at a culvert near the 310 tower, about three miles west of Albia.
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Lin
Albia
Burlington Railroad
Here
W. Hi. Mitchen
Ward Ferguson
Mitchell
Ned
W. B. Martin
Chicago
Caleb Allen
R. Price
T. Williams
Porter
T. Scott
Osceola
T. Browning
Yates Center
Kan
Omaha
Ottumwa Twety
Operlal Railroad
William Wallace
R. W. Robinson
Burlington
Adel
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Frank Finnicum
Des Moines
Walter Ward
Oscar D. Dyer
John 8. Flynn
H.M. Bellman
William Fields
George Chambers
S. L. Richey
Clive
Waukee
Redfield
Patti at the Auditorium and statewide rail concerns
The page recalls Adelina Patti's December 22 appearance at the Auditorium and notes Iowa's biennial railroad report to Governor Cummins. It cites concerns over rail worker overwork, proposed grade crossing changes, and omitted accident details. Burglary at Des Moines tannery nets fur thefts, police recover most goods, and local officials indict Thompson and Spring.
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State Railroad Commission
Cinemins
Iowa
BH. A. Dawson
Waverly
Supreme Court
Des Moines
Bayer Tanning Company
O. A. T. Thompson
Charles Spring
Thompson
School Street
Aboard the Limited and Dream of California
A vignette contrasts a past travel era with modern comfort on the Santa Fe Limited. The narrator recalls Bright's disease cure from old patent medicines, and recalls longing for the California Limited’s luxury as trains retreat to the west. A closing adage notes a small door leading to a large room.
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George Ade
Peggy
Paris
Prairie Junction
Santa Fe
California
Golden West
Untarrh Cure Advertisements and Miscellany
An assortment of old advertisements and aphorisms continues. Notable items promote Hall's Catarrh Cure with endorsements from J. Cheney & Co and local distributors in Toledo, plus testimonials and pricing. Additional pieces tout Rusa Bleaching Bilge, Defiance Starch, and moral maxims on life, weather, and conduct.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Weer & Puvax
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Whiting
Casady & Whiting
Whiting Bank
Baxter
Rust
W. ©. Whiting
Richard Kirk
Vinton
Lexington
Ind
Yiarmer
Washington, D. C
Brown
King
W. W. Carpenter
Ssocial
F. W. Thompson
Bank of Germania
Barrett
Adams
Intendent Or & Eonty Board of Education
Virginia
Barratt
Frank Johnson
Eugene Boyle
Eid
Baumberger
Corse
Osborn
Johnson
Boyle
Wicoilea County
Bright
Deati
Pilla
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Tiyland
Johnny Drummer
Gamy
Cronus
Pise
Q. Expanny
Vanburen
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