Wide Range of Iowa News From Mines to Saloons
A Boons coal mine accident injures miner Gus Klute as a slate fall buries him. Sioux Rapids man Henry Pond jailed for a year in Cherokee for inebriety. Anti-Saloon league renews fights in Sioux City with suits and injunctions. Marr's Missouri River floating saloon conviction follows a Nebraska fight. Baby's strychnine death near Sully traced to family tablets. Vincent bank robbers fail. explosives found at scene. Davenport Catholics condemn prize fighting amid city reform drive. Embezzlement case in Boone County. Dayton death by suspected suicide. Waukee fire, several properties damaged. Iowa sheriffs face dues as Richards implicated in a murder case. Boiler inspection push grows after labor inquiry. Storm Lake sentences for bank robbers. MacMahon mystery revived via new clues. Pocahontas coal confiscation leaves town wary.
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Heaps Bros
Boons
Gus Klute
Henry Pond
Sioux Rapids
Cherokee
Pond
Storm Lake
Anti-Saloon League
Sioux City
Reve Gee. C. Haddock
T. E. Carter
League
Anti- Saloon League
Co. F. Williams
F. E. Day
J. H. Young
L. Wheeler
William Marr
Onawa
Wakefeld
Butch” Marr
Missouri River
Lake
Quinm
Holman’s Island
H. ©. Meredith
Sully
Vincent
Davenport
Henry Cosgrove
Iowa
Cosgrove
W. P. Dickinson
Boone Valley Coal and Iron Company
Independence
Hamilton Brown
Chicago
Oscar Martin
Dayton
Webster County
Axelyn
Spencer Smith
J. H. Slater
McWilliams
G. Hutchins
Kinyon
I. A. Kinyon
W. A. Richards
Hamilton
State Sheriffs’ Association
Richards
Carnes
Strain
Monona County
Sherif Jackson
Woodbury
Anderson
Association
Sheriffs of
Sherlock Holmes
Jackson
Woodbury County
Strath
Brigham
W. Spurbeck
Algona
Spurbeck
Hartford Insurance Company
Lewis Brooks
Albert G. Phillips
A. D. Bailie
Anamosa
Brooks
Phillips
Greenville
Albert City
John Sunbald
Marshal Lodine
Supreme Court
Parker
Buena Vista County
George MacMahon
Fort Dodge
Clare
MacMahon
Pete Soder
Soder
Mart Woods is silenced in Muscatine case unfolds
Mart Woods is found dead after completing a penitentiary term linked to dynamite plots against saloon owners in Muscatine. Authorities seize his unpublished manuscript while investigators probe a murder tied to the same tirade and a night of explosions on May 11, 1893.
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Muscatine
Mart Woods
Polson
John Mahin
BE. M. Kesinger
N. Rosenburg
Torey
Ae Woods
Kesinger
Woods
Capital City Commercial College tallest in West Des Moines
Des Moines reports Capital City Commercial College, housed on three floors of the M. A. building, hosts nearly 800 students since September 1902 with about 500 in the day school. The institution draws local pride and urges prospective business students to obtain a catalogue.
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Des Moines
Capital City
Commercial College of
Commercial College
West
McCauley
Capital City Commercial College
Robert Condron
Terminal Railway Company
Sioux City
Condron
Pocahontas
Claus Light
Light
Andrew Carnegie
Library Trustees
Indianola
Jackson County
Theodore Duetchen
Dubuque
Bar- Meier
Justice Varney
Deutchen
Dennis
Terrance
Parker Indicted in Des Moines Wine Room Raids
Grand jury returns nine indictments charging B F Parker wholesale liquor dealer and owner of thirty saloons with keeping and maintaining liquor nuisances at three East Second sites. Bail set at 500 for Parker and 600 for several aides. indictments also name Charles Gritton and others connected to the East Second and Grand and East Second and Walnut locations.
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Des Moines
Duncan
B. F. Parker
East Second
Grandavenue
Walnut
Mast First
Court
Justice Duncan
Parker
William Hayes
Judd
Grand
Charles Gritton
Gerard Embady
Walnut Streets
W. B. Adams
East Wirst
Court Avenue
Ast First
Richards Son-in-Law Claims Estate Shortage Is Overstated
Des Moines reports quote Ed Davis, son-in-law of W A Richards and uneasy magnate in the Graves estate case, asserting all heirs are paid and that Richards owes only one claim, a monument bill. Other investigators dispute the sum, suggesting a larger shortage exists beyond the stated $2,000.
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Richards
Graves
Des Moines
Davis
W. A. Richards
United States
Sullivans of Hamilton
One Express
Citizens' National Bank
J. D.C. McFarland
Black Hills
Senate Statehood Debate Across Congress and Manila Coinage Clash
The January sessions show continued Senate discussion on the statehood bill for Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico with various leaders urging votes and executive sessions while House actions center on Philippine coinage debates Alaska boundary issues and district appropriations. The Senate also tackles Cuban reciprocity and other routine measures as leaders clash over policy and names.
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Washington
Senate
Quay
Beveridge
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Hanna
House
District of Columbia
Alaska
Cochran
Missouri
State Department
Hepburn
Town
Republic of Texas
United States
Great Brilaln
Murnham
New Hampshire
Cullom
Hoar
Congress
Burton
Finance Committee
Committee On Finance
Hill
Rep. Conn
Shaw
Treasury Department
Insular Affairs Committee
Insular
Cannon
Hitt
Payne
Ways and Means
Tawney
Islands
Connecticut
Fowler
New Jersey
McGall
Massachusetts
Treas‘ury
Tafi
Philippine Commission
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Dyaks
Borneo
Fairbanks
Franz Siegel
Francis Negley
Hnry Picking
Territory of
House of Representatives
Spooner
Indianola
Miss
Cox
McLaurin
Mississippi
Lynch Trial Reports Treason Verdict and Sentencing
The Lynch high treason trial in London resumes with defense arguing naturalization was for journalistic gain and not treasonous intent. Prosecution says he joined Boer ranks as a discontented Irishman. Justice Wills sentences him, noting treason is rare and defection severely punished, while Lynch remains composed and is led away after sentencing.
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Transvaal
London
Arthur Lynch
Galway
Sir Howard Carson
Lynch
Wills
Great Britain
Dore
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the News
F. Parker
Gladiator Mining Company
Gladiator
Bulty-Garner
Britt
Messrs
Senneff
Hammill
Aldrich
Tom Duff
Towa Lake
Hamilton County
Kent
John J. Carr
G. W. Bryan
Michigan
Hushatds
Col. Lynch
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