Iowa News Roundup Records a Spate of Local Tragedies
Drowned farmer near Decatur City. Dexter and Mt. Ayr winners in Simpson College oratorical contest at Indianola. Maquoketa case ends with 500 page transcript for judge. Humboldt farmer Kinney commits suicide over note surety. Marshalltown man dies after drinking lye. Creston ice accident leaves Wilson and Fay Rawls dead. Clinton county selects Walter J. Slayes for legislature. Larrabee shooting jury exonerates Benedict. Des Moines hospital becomes surgery hub under Midland Company. Carson branch train derailment and fire injures crew. Sully bank robbers captured. loot identified. Newton abduction case linked to Thomas, Grace mother. De Soto boy shot during target practice fears for life. Des Moines cholera debate risks clash of courts and governor. Fort Dodge to gain parks via Johs Phinney donation. Rockwell hog cholera lectures challenge disease myths. Mason City Emmetsburg Algona road exhibitions planned. Local accidents and trials fill a crowded Iowa page.
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Robert Shelton
Decatur City
A. Forrester
Dexter
W. IL Beall
Mt. Ayr
Simpson College
Indianola
Watson
Maquoketa
Jndice
Samuel H. Kinney
Humboldt
William Rama
Marshalltown
John
Bloom
Summit Lake
Creston
Howard Wilson
Miss Fay Rawls
Wilson
Miss Rawls
Democratic County Central Committee
Clinton County
Walter J. Slayes
N. A. Merrell
Cherokee County Grand Jury
BE. L. Benedict
Imnery
Polk County
Iowa
Des Moines
Bradfield
Stranger
Clarion
Joe Wolverton
Chas
Hutchins
I Hutehins
Adel
Carson
Robert Atkins
Henderson
Wm. Mann
Sidney
Bank of Sully
Tripp
Harry Oliver
Ead
Oskaloosa
Charles “‘Burnham
James McCarty
Mr. Knight
James McNey
Buckary
Ties Moines
Midland Hospital Company
A. J. Martin
Fred Fenlk
Atlantic
Waulk
Faulk
Humboldt County
A. W
Lindsey
Trindley
Ile
Lindley
Board of Trade
Russell
Burlington
Jacob Vincel
Vincel
J. A. Rockey
Arex
Isaac B Rockey
M. Arnold
Samuel Vannire
John Threlkeld
Presbyterian Church
Spurrier
John R. Prime
I. M. Huarle
Mindamus
Prime
LN. G
Executive Department
Remley
Supreme Court
Fort Dodge
Joseph Phinney
Central Avenue
Glebe
Duck Island
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company
Phinney
Rockwell
Frank Baumgartner
Paotine
Cleaems
Dubuque
Calkins
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road
Baumgartner
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mason City
Emmetsburg
Algona
Hansen
George Netterfeld
George George Golightly
Carbonada
News of the Week Highlights and Political Turmoil
Summary of weekly affairs including dead Cameron Cuban resolution and Missouri senate nomination by Democrats, Arch ie McCullum and Neo G West mentioned. Reports from Honolulu say Minister Willis ill with pneumonia and a lynching near Sumter of Simon Cooper. Boer indemnity claims cited. London libel pleas and Jackson Day events noted. Pardonings in Illinois and bubonic plague impact in Bombay. Wichita mortgage sale and Senator Allison recovery. Queen Victoria abdication rumors. Pennsylvania Penrose nomination. Western storm and bank suspensions in Minnesota. Blue Cat robbers arrested. Corbett Fitzsimmons fight set for March 17.
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Uat
Honolulu
Willis
Phemonia
Democratic
Missouri
Neo. G. West
United States
Himsef Archie McCullum
Mort Theron
Mich
Ife
Simon Cooper
Wilsom
Sumter
London
Lady Beott
John Cockerton
William Aylott
Lord Russell
Scott
Jackson
Wremont House
Keng
W. 1 Bryan
Altgeld
Mlingis
Mombay
Wichita
Kansas
Allison
Washington
Westminster Gazette
Queen Victoria
Pennsylvania
A. Boies Penrose
Cameron
Penrose
Wautmaker
J. Bo Robinson
Charles B. Rice
Germania
Alemania
West Side
St. Paul
Minnesota Savings Bank
Kansas City
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Glassblowers attend at Washington tariff hearing
The tariff schedule covering earthenware glassware marble and stone drew fewer business men before the Ways and Means Committee than other schedules this week TF W Walker of Beaver Falls Pa urged tile reclassification and specific duties He proposed 10 cents a square foot or 4 cents a pound for tiles currently at 25 percent ad valorem and 20 cents a square foot or 6 cents a pound for those at 40 percent There was a large glass blowers delegation led by Louis Arrington of Alton Illinois who asked for reenactment of the McKinley rate
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Washington
Ways and Means
TF. W. Walker
Beaver Falls
United States
Louis Arrington
Alton
Til
New German Budget Shows Sobering Prussian Revenue Gap
Berlin January 11. In the Prussian budget for the coming year the revenues and expenditures balance at 2,046,031,385 marks. Permanent increases total 25,902,000 marks, including 19,590,000 marks for state officials and 6,312,000 marks for higher teacher salaries.
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Berlin
Prince of Wales Eyes Sandringham Visit for Bayards
The Prince of Wales signaled to Ambassador Bayard and Mrs Bayard that he would be glad to host them at Sandringham when convenient for himself and the princess. The proposed date of the visit has not yet been fixed.
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Prince of Wales Invitaw Bayard
London
Prince of Wales
Bayard
Sandringham
Governor Helcomb Thangurated Makes Local Address
Gov Helcomb Thangurated of Hacol Neb reads a two hour speech focusing on local affairs. He urges employees and officials to vote and comments on the conduct of state leaders and the slate’s administration.
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Helcomb
Hacol
Neb
Silas A. Hole
Tugu
Nepragha
Adaira
Democratic Banquet Notes Mixed Signals At Otago Rally
Gold Democrats gathered in Chicago to celebrate Jackson Day, with attendees from Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Ohio Wisconsin. Grover Cleveland sent regrets. no compromise talk. Toasts praised democracy while Palmer criticized Republican and Populist platforms for Indianapolis convention fallout.
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Stirton
Otago
Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Grover Clgvelond
Muich
Ilinois
Indiana
Iwa
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missour
Nebraska
Ohio
Wisconsin
Henry Watterson
Charles
Hamlin
John P. Irish
Elmaun B. Buckner
Washington Irving Habb
John M. Palmer
Indianapolis
Silver Men in Michigan State Conference Plans
A state conference in Lansing gathered delegates from the democratic, people's and union silver parties plus prominent silver men. They decided that each party’s state committee will call a Grand Rapids convention before February 10 to nominate justice of the supreme court and university regents, with Democrats naming the justice and regents divided between others. Resolutions reaffirm the 16 to 1 policy, protest retirement of greenbacks, demand government issued money be legal tender for all obligations, and urge a 2 percent tax on incomes over 1500.
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Lansing
Mich
Democratic
People's
Unien
Grand Rapids
Supreme Court
University
Pacile cable debate moves to House committee
Washington January 2 The deadlock in the commerce committee over two Hawaiian cable projects left the Pacific cable issue in abeyance. It is understood that action will be pursued with General Wager Swayne of New York set to appear before the committee next Tuesday to present a new Spaulding company proposal.
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Lake
Washington
Jan
Committee On Commerce
Premier Laurier denies joining Pacific cable project
Ottawa January 11 Premier Laurier states his government is not committed to the Pacific cable. He cites a policy of economy driven by declines in customs revenue and says Canadian commissioners' London conference reports do not bind the government to any cable plan.
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Ottawa
Ont
Laurier
London
Wages Cut at Illinois Steel Joliet Works
Joliet Hl Jan 11 It is learned that general cutly wages of the Illinois Steel Company will affect the Joliet works. Wages of about 75 percent of the men will be reduced from 10 to 20 percent. About 1800 men are employed with 460 exempt tonnage men under contract in red and billet departments.
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Joliet
Illinois Steel Company
Fight in Mexico Sparks Little Rock Visit Details
Dan Stuart and Secretary Wheelock stopped in Little Rock on the way to Dallas. Stuart said the Corbett-IMtasim fight would occur on Mexican soil with spectators ferried by special train from Hi Faso to the battleground. The report notes no exact ring location.
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Will
Mexico
Little Rock
Ark
Dan Stuart
Wheelock
Dallas
Stuart
Hi Faso
Militia Fire On Striking Miners At Hakes Colliery
A clash at Hakes colliery in Illinois left three miners seriously wounded as militiamen firing rifles dispersed strikers demanding back pay. A later conference prompted mine owner Hake to promise payment of arrears, amid a town-wide mood of misery and shutdowns across LaSalle, Streator, and Spring Valley.
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China
Jan
Ag i
Hakes
Tihind
TB. Hake
Bake
Hake
LaSalle
Streator
Spring Valley
Tate
Ladd
Oltcea
Butchered in a Trap
A Key West report to the Commercial Tribune describes a Cuban victory near Matanzas where Gomez’s lieutenant trapped Spanish troops with barbed wire and a roadblock. Cuban fire and grenades disabled over thirty Spaniards as they retreated, panicked when rear defenses failed, with more than forty-five killed and about one hundred captured.
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Cincinnati
Commerccial Tribune
Key West
Fla
Matanzas
Gomez
Ramsey bond missing after estate administrator named
In Carlyle Illinois January 11 a bond of two hundred thousand dollars for administrator Eirjah P Ramsey was approved and filed in the county clerk vault but has vanished under mysterious circumstances. Circuit Judge Alderman ordered a new bond to be executed. Also news from Washington and London covers naval blockades and Weyler’s measures while a long lost outlaw tale from Kinmundy and a flood relief story from Quincy appear.
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Ramsay
Carlyle
Ramsey Bank
Eirjah P. Ramsey
Alderman
Michigan Legislature Opens Thirty-Ninth Biennial Session
The Michigan Legislature in Lansing began its thirty-ninth biennial session at noon Wednesday with the usual opening routine. Both houses entered the session in Lansing, Mich., on January 8.
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Michigan Legislature
Louston
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Reports indicate weather impact through the week
Reports from the country indicate stormy conditions and heavy weather through Sunday and Monday, with forecasters tracking travel disruption and potential damage across regions. Officials urge caution as looser plans and shipments face delays.
Senate Debates Death Penalty Change and Cuba Policy
Washington reports the Senate moved to abolish the death penalty in many cases, retaining five offenses including rape and treason, while debates on Cuba policy and a resolution regarding Tully Sanguilly continued. The House and Senate discussed a Pacific railroad funding bill and related legislation amid partisan exchanges and investigations into government papers.
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Sexata
Washington
Fan
Senate
Call
Rute
Tolic Xongmily
Havana
Peffer
National Monetary Commission
Congress
Republic of
Cuba
Mills
Sherman
Secretary of Agriculture
Hale
Allen
Ouse
House
Pacific
Tlouse
Pacific Railroad
Johnson
California
Heart
New York Journal
San Francisco Examiner
Sutro
San Francisco
Cooper
Bearst
Hearst
Largest weekly patent issue record reported in Iowa
Des Moines reports a peak 510 patents issued in the week ending December 16, 1896 with state counts: New York 91, Iowa 13, Pennsylvania 7, Minnesota 8, Kansas 6, Nebraska 4. Several patents allowed but not yet issued list inventors and locales such as G R Baek Gothenburg Nebraska and J K Uhr Eagle Grove Iowa with designs for fly killers, tool openers, bed table attachments, weather doors, rotary engines, and weed cutter pulverizers. Trade information and solicitors are noted.
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Des Moines
Jan
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
New York
Pennsylvania
G. R. Baek
Gothenburg
Neb
Tog B. Nelson
Redfield
Tod. A. Norton
Odebolt
J. KK. Uhr
Eagle Grove
P. Bump
Lynnville
A. Roesch
Downs
Thomas Gavn J
Rap Orwie
Solicitors of Patents
Havana Cuba New System Troubled Junta Claims
Fragmented text reports Havana coverage on January events. The junta issues negations and United States tensions appear as a concern. Sscured phrases reference claims and alleged trouble between states and Cuban leadership.
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Havana
Snariy
Cuba
Hpa
Glyer
United
Sanrat
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