Pioneers and Local Tragedies Plague Cerro Gordo News
A long list of obituaries and incidents fills Cerro Gordo County news. Notable items include James Dickerson's grave in Clear Lake at age 90, Bert Tanieroux's drowning near Crystal Lake, and John Sherman’s suicide attempt and later death in Protivin. Additional reports cover a pure food case, births in Mason City, and a run of local accidents, arrests, and public notices across towns like Webster City, Armstrong, and Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Itsinger
Rtitant
Oswart
Morey
St. Francis
Nowy Haven
Minny
United States
John Sherman
Protivin
Bert Tanieroux
Crystal Lake
Lameroux
Laumeroux
Janie Jast
Webster City
W. R. Brown
Alya
Lihen
Mever
Mississippi
Cerro Gordo County
McConlogue
MM. L. Endanger
New York
Q. Otteson
Otleson
Cerro Gordo
Mason City
Rockwell
Jimmy” Dickerson
Iowa
Clear Lake
Clayton County
James Dickerson
Indiana
Nuwt
Joseph Hewitt
Clearlake
Fort Badge
Chickasaw County
George W. Hayzlett
Laporte City
Arizona
Elie
Old Fort Des Moines
Notable World Happenings From Brief News Items
The report compiles a string of brief items including Grover Cleveland's burial at Preston with President Roosevelt attending, War Secretary Taft’s Yale visit, Theodore Roosevelt Jr earning a Harvard bachelor degree, and several embezzlement and legal cases. It also notes political moves, battles abroad, fires, wrecks, and social events with multiple named figures and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Cleveland
Preston
Roosevelt
Warfafe
New York
New Haven
Looker T. Washington
William IL. Pettis
Sac County
H.W. Tiers
First National Bank
Pittsburg
National Bank Examiner
James S. Sherman
Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard University
John D. Rockefeller
United States
Stephenson
Wisconsin
Taft
Yale
Harvard
United States Steel Corporation
William J. Barnett
Colton
San Francisco
John Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Ilingis
Mexican revolts clash and fires devastate towns
Reports from across the nation describe Mexican revolutionists attacking Los Vacas near the Rio Grande and being repulsed after heavy casualties. A tally-ho coach accident injures delegates in Newport Rhode Island while Mrs. Sarah Shute dies of heart failure. Duluth endures a massive fire destroying elevator facilities and a dock. A railway collision near Baroda kills fifteen and injures many. Sultan Mulai-Hafid convenes a grand council in Fez to raise 118000 troops. Vermont Democrats refuse to instruct delegates for Bryan. The Turkish sultan awards Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt. A Cleveland home fire kills three children and burns parents. Raymond Wells dies from a fall in Chicago. The White City amusement park near Indianapolis burns, with substantial loss. Eleven Mexicans are arrested in El Paso for fomenting revolution on American soil. Milwaukee chamber files charges against railroads over grain-rate discrimination. Pope Pius receives wireless telegraph apparatus for St Peter's. A boiler explosion near Imlay City kills one and fatally injures two. A Missouri man kills his brother-in-law and shoots his wife. A tornado near Mountain Lake, Minnesota, causes fatalities and injuries. Twins and a triplet are born near President Roosevelt’s Albemarle County home, as Roosevelt and Taft plan to attend the Yale-Harvard boat race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Welsh
Colfax
Wis
Henry Miller
Hife
Warrodshire
Paris Green
Chicase & Northwestern
Hear Chadron
Ned
Wwarvard
Yale
Griswold
Pattana
Hoosevelt
Edward
Viesea
Coahuila
Mex
Chicago
United Norwegian Lutheran Slmtrch of America
St. Olaf College
Northfield
Minn
Munich
Teheran
Sheepshead Bay
New York
Dig
Justice Bischof
Frank J. Gould
Helen M. Kelly
Larache
Muros
Spain
Iowa
Sioux City
William J. Bryan
Locke
South Dakota
Pierre
Pennsylvania
Havana
Gov
Cummins
Allison
Jean Reid
England
John Hubert Ward
Earl of Dudley
London
Chapel Royal
St. James’ Palace
Queen Alexandra
United States
Venezuela
Legation
Jacob Sleeper
Russell
Caracas
Castro
Toledo Ice and Coat Company
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
la Roche
H. D. Everett
I. Tt. Wakely
Negros
Meyer Newman
George Willoughby
Milwaukee
Mary Whitecamp
Henry Whitecamp
Madison County
Navis
Whitecamp
Georgia
Denver
Camp Gregg
Manila
Duluth
Consolidated Elevator Company
Northern Pacific
Bombay
Baroda
Mulai-Hafid
Morocco
High Palace
Fez
Vermont
Bryan
Turkey
Theodore Roosevelt
Indianapolis
el Paso
Tex
Chamber of Commerce of
Pope Pius
St. Peter's
Imlay City
Mich
William “Mullie Hand
Springfield
Sappington
President Roosevelt
Albemarle County
Virginia
Roosevelt
Taft
Iowa Democrats Nominate Slate and Platform At State Convention
The Iowa Democratic convention backed A J House Mquoketa and L D Tigbie Creston for supreme court. Clint Price Indianola elected state central chair with John F Dalton secretary. Platform calls for Bryan for president, Porter for senator, White for governor, popular election of US senators, anti injunctions, stronger railroad regulation, good roads, and state insurance commissioner. New state central committee members named across ten districts with Dalton and others in leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
A. J. House
Maquoketa
LD. W. Tigbie
Creston
Supreme Court
Clint Price
Indianola
Democratic State Central Committee
John F. Dalton
Manson
A. J. Ma Guoketa
D. Ww. Thghie
W. H. Jacques
Iowa
United States
Claude RK. Porter
Cummins
Fred. J. White
House of Lords
Congress
Towa
Boards of Health
State Board of Health
Senate
Democratic Party
W. J. Bryan
Oklahoma
Progressives in Control at Iowa Republican Convention
The Iowa Republican state convention organized by the progressives selected Robert Healy as permanent chair and nominated Supreme Court Justices Scott M. Ladd and S. M. Weaver by acclamation. The platform endorsed Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Sherman, praised Gov. Gummins, and supported a statewide primary law, railway reforms, and education aligned with agricultural and manufacturing interests. The state committee was elected with ten men named from Des Moines, Scott, Wardin, Winneshiek, Fan, Malasha, Poll, Potlaw, Green, and Lyon counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Supreme Court
William 8. Hart
Allamakee County
Robert Healy
Fort Dodge
Scott M. Ladd
S. M. Weaver
William H. Taft
James S. Sherman
United States
William B. Allison
Jonathan P. Dalliver
Congress
Iowa
Albert B. Gummins
Lagi
People of Laws
William 2
Allison
Cleveland
Lamonte Cowles
Des Moines
A. P. Adler
Scott
Iranke
Wardin
B. Whitney
Winneshiek
W. G. Haskell
Fan
James Devitt
Malasha
C. W. Lyon
Z. P
Conoland
Lucas
George S. Wright Potlaw
Fame
M. M. Head
Green
S. 1
Riniker
Lyon
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Wiliat Fr
Neer
Traffley
Dsa Maines
Hame
Bea Moines
Wessory
Marshallloch
John P. Timncock
Dubie
SMM
Linrilsen
Silver Lake
Armstrong
I Dax
Lauritzen
Uwweaty
You Wan
Alfred Brenneman
Charlton
Leon
Heman
Agin
Lora Whalen
State Orphans’ Home
Davenport
Miss Whalen
Frank Pratt
Hoy
the Hore
John T. Whitmore
Grinnell
Whitmore
Albia
Albia-Hocking
Hiteman
Monroe Hotel
Ald Atbia
Yaice
Hoching
Albla
Frank Taylor
Thomas Taylor
Oakeley
Tarry Crawford
Decorah
Ottoway
Ottaway
Crawford
Los Vacas
Rio Grande
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Boston
Newport
R. L
Sarah Shute
Coon Rapids
Name House
Higbie
Party
Alex Miller
Wash
Ington
J. G. Vanlent
Muscatine
Thomas Duffy
Dubuque
T. MM. Donovan
New Trampton
J. R. Moore
Anamosa
N. F. Reed
Ottumwa
Cinl. Beice
J. R. Reynolds
J. J. Hughes
Council Blung
Mieventh
W. H. Beck
Sioux Chiy
Repulicans
Progressives
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