Iowa News Highlights of Lively Court and Tragedy Reports
A busy Iowa docket includes a clerks duty resolution and candidate-qualification panel, plus a flood of local tragedies and legal actions. Reports cover Boone widow suing Newton and Northwestern for damages after a band’s death, a Creston woman near death from scalding, a Fort Dodge infant rescue, a Griswold youth dying from uraemia, and a Prairieburg assault with skull fracture. Other items note grand jury indictments for railroad fraud, a Denison murder link, accidental deaths from fires, and fatal train incidents across multiple towns.
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Lettle Hicks
Boone
Robert H. Hicks
The
Newton & Northwestern Railway
Inesband
Creston
Biythe
Fort Dodge
Shaw
Mike Wagner
Dubuque
Wagner
Harold Ruff
Brand
Ruff
Mke Good
Hiram Martin
Griswold
Uraenle
Martin
Shenandoah
Prairieburg
Pat Burns
Polly Burns
Miss Burns
Burns
Anamosa
Margaret Sullivan
Dubvane
Milwaukee
Ing
John B. Hollendors
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Black Hawk County
Grand Jury
Hollenhore
Waterloo
Great Western
Holendors
Marshalltown
Oskaloosa
Charles Dixon
Dixon
W.v.sibert
Chicago Great Western
Cedar Fails
J. B., Hollenhors
Claude Johnson
Reinbeck
Sibert
Guy
G. B. Sibert
W. W. Sibert
Relnbeck
Congress Debates Retirement Power for Judges and Raises Salaries
Information from a condensed weekly column notes Representative De Armand of Missouri proposed a bill allowing the president with Senate advice to retire any judge if deemed for the public welfare and to fill the vacancy. The House voted to raise congressional salaries to 7500 dollars annually. Roosevelt asked Congress to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to handle emergencies like the current car shortage. Blackburn proposed an amendment to Foraker's Brownsville resolution. Senate Republicans voted down, Crane fined, and most Republicans expected to oppose the amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional
de Armond
Missouri
House
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Blackburn
Foraker
Brownsville
Crane
The Jamaica Disaster Earthquake Devastates Kingston
An earthquake and ensuing fire devastate Kingston Jamaica killing many and injuring others. Reports name Sir James Fergusson and 40 soldiers among the dead as thousands die and the harbor bed sinks. Famine threats loom while relief moves activate emergency aid and Marines land to secure the ruined city.
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Jamaica
Kingston
James Fergusson
House of Representatives
Evans
Mixed 1920s federal and regional events span disasters and trials
The Ohio river flood is reported as the worst in 20 years with towns cut off. David P. Dyer Jr. is acquitted of embezzling 61500 government funds. Chicago Grand Jury indicts John R Walsh on 182 counts including misapplication of bank funds. A Russian rural chief is killed by a schoolboy in Smolensk. Havana editors face duels over a police raid coverage. An Idaho anti-pass bill moves forward. Wisconsin debates two-cent rail fare and mortgage tax repeal. North Carolina Democrats nominate Simmons for a second term. A typhoon hits Samar Leyte taking 100 lives. San Francisco considers merging fighting and heating firms. Salvador's president-elect is Fernando Figuroa. Great Northern chief Hill presses for more railway construction.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Pittsburg
Fifteenth
Penn Uyenne
Ohio River
Hecht
Shawneetown
David P. Dyer, Jr
United States
St. Louis
Sub-Treasury
United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Smolensk
Russia
Senor Coronado
Havana
Wisconsin State Assembly
Democratic Caucus
General Assembly of
North Carola
F. M. Simmons
Samar
Leyte
Philippines
San Francisco
Fernando Figuroa
Republic of Salvador
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Gov. Johnson
Franklin
Santa Fe
California
Chicago Limited
Hutchinson
Kan
Honolulu
Yokosuka
Nebraska Senate
Southern Cotton Association
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Barstow
Cal
Alec Balianec
Pearl
Barton
Harvie Jordan
Southern Atlantic Car and Manufacturing Company
Savannah
Standard Oil Company
Philippine Islands
MacAndrews & Forbes Company
New York
J. S. Young Company
Baltimore
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Great Northern
St. Paul
Minn
Cincinnati
Southern Pacific
Santa Cruz County
Arizona
Ulinels Board of Charities
Industrial School For Girls
Peoria
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Pactfle Mail Steamship Company
Hner
Orient
China
John Winans
Janesville
Wis
William Fowler Thompson
Standard Glass Company
Pottsville
Philadelphia
McClellan
Notioe
Jackson
Hearst
Convention of
United Mine Workers
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Labor
Oscar Straus
Turkey
Mia
McCormick
France
Imperial Order of Nichan-l-Chefakat
Safford
Ariz
Fraid William Williams
United Mina Workers of America
Indianapolis
Mitchell
Findlay
Standard Oil
Rockefellers
Nebraska
Norris Brown
United States Senate
Colorado Senate
Simon Guggen_ bem
Turbulent News From Across States and Nations
A sweeping arc of items reports a Taulon merchant slain by his son, political resignations and appointments including Janes Wilson and Ralph Burnside, epidemics closing Cooksyne schools, floods and wrecks across Ohio and California, and national figures addressing commerce, crime trials, and notable deaths. Names include George Poole Ueward A Peale James Wilson and Roosevelt. Events span crimes public notices and disasters with multiple U.S. locales and institutions.
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George Poole
Taulon
Mass
Ohio River
Lille Kanawha River
Pittsburg
Weather Bureau
Reuben R. Adams
Arkansas Senate
William Lambert
Adams
Festus O. Butt
Roosevelt
Cannon
Association For the Extension of Foreign Commerce
Davidson
Texas House
United States
Dailey
Waters-Pierce Ott Company
Deneen
Ilinois
van L. Hampton
Macomb Journal
Joliet
James M. Phelps
Freeport
Laclede Gas Light Company
St. Louis
Hitchcock
Siskiyou
Modoe
California
Laurence J. Kavanagh
St. Joseph's College
Philadelphia
Count Henrt de la Vaulx
France
O. B. Gould
Minnesota Board of Control
Minneapolis
South Shore Stone Company
Monroe
Mich
Robert Adams, Jr
Nicholas Tolstoi
Moscow
Russia
Americans Leave Jamaica After Governor Swettenham Object
Kingston dispatch reports Governor Swettenham ordering Rear Admiral Davis and American sailors to re-embark after aid efforts in Kingston. Davis defended actions as humane while Marines patrolled streets, cleared debris, and aided wounded. Secretary Bacon denied any trouble between Davis and the governor and promised to share official guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
Davis
Swettenham
United States
Sassouri
Indiana
Associated Press
Daive
Washington, D. C
Hacon
Swettenhall
Achirad Davis
Ohio River flood leaves fifty thousand homeless in area
A severe flood across the Ohio River valley floods Cincinnati and northern towns. As water rises to near fifty to sixty seven feet, 50,000 people evacuate to schools and churches while wholesale buildings on Walnut Street collapse. Damages run to about $200,000 and riverside bridges and access are cut, hampering fire response and transportation from Parkersburg to Huntington.
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Ohio River Valley
Cincinnati
Ohio
Walnut Street
Weather Bureau
Kentucky
Parkersburg
Portsmouth Waas
North
West End
Madison
Ind
Huntington
W Va
Prominent New Rochelle Gentlemans Sudden Return to Church
A respected colored man in New Rochelle who had been away from church for a year returned last Sunday and witnessed a fracas among members. Missiles flew, one struck him unconscious, and he left vowing to avoid religion for the year.
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New Rochelle
Colchester
England
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Halvor Norem
Toland
Fred Nawfa
Denison
Joseph
Solotian Passan
Pasan
Shellsbury
William Kibler
Kibler
Ralph Halloway
Oskaloosa High School
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George MaGree
Rockford
Mason City
Nora Junction
Greene
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Charles City
Rainsbarger
Hardin County
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Towa
Hose Company No. 2
Sixth Avenue
Des Moines
Walnut
Jack
Carlson
J. L Clark
N. S. Edwards
J. L, Riggs
Carine Christiansen
Charlotte
Northwestern
Ife
A. L. Duyp
Ida Grove
Chicago & Northwestern
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Sigabee
John C. Furay
West
Omaha
Lackawanna Railroad
Scranton
A. T. Clinton
la Crosse
Rock Bridge Creek
Flat Rock
W. P. Frye
Maine
W. Murray Crane
Massachusetts
Simon Guggenheim
Colorado
W. E. Borah
Idaho
Robert L. Taylor
Tennessee
3. M. Dixon
Montana
H. BE. Burnham
New Hampshire
H. A. Richardson
Delaware
Capitol
Wisconsin
Sarah McCall
Mount Holyoke College
Academy of
Knox College
Galesburg
Ill
Prince Aga Khan
India
Bombay
L.T. Moore
Benton Harbor
Sherrif Pearl
James Dally
John Peterson
Red Wing
August Bloom
Thomas & Co
Ecorns
American Aid
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