Iowa News Highlights From Ind Knox And Des Moines
A roundup of Iowa items reports Judge Blair issuing a permanent injunction against six Independence saloons. Keokuk convict TranS. Moyer gets 2 years 5 months. Onawa awards a deep well contract to J. H. Hams. Osage man injured eye in a nail cutting accident. Lead theft indictments assign five men. Grinnell bank dividend to depositors paid. Mercy hospital captors ID Italian suspect in a shooting spree. Iowa Child Labor committee forms seven member directory led by Mrs. Cummins. Bowyer appeals over a mistaken telegram hoax. Sheldon store fire losses set at 35000 with stock at 2600. Sioux City boys drown in a river during a picnic. Humboldt man drowns fishing. Meningitis appears in Muscatine. Clinton boy sent to Eldora for larceny and assault. Keokuk fireman killed by live wire. another man badly burned. Mrs Shrock of Waterloo dies in a mysterious house fire. Loser Moore case argued before supreme court. three years for conspiracy. Robbery nabs traveling salesman on Church Street.
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Blair
Independence
Messrs. Abrams
Acers
Trans
Moyer
Keokuk
Fort Madison
Onawa
J. H. Hams
Sioux City
Gand Rock
Smith
Osage
Charles City
Wabash
Grant Booten
Joseph Badgett
George Lattimer
Sylvester Stucker
Harry
Lattimer
G. W. Swords
First National Bank of Grinnell
George Evans
Nodaway County
Mercy Hospital
Wes Moines
Dominic Sparo
Marysville
Sparo
Parnell
Sheriff Evans
Iowa Child Labor Committee
National Committee
Des Moines
M. Lindsey
New York
A. B. Cumtins
T. D. Brigham
I. A. Loos
Iowa City
A. B. Storms
Ames
T. J. Metcher
Marshalltown
Julia Clark Hallam
A. L. Uriek
Cummins
Western Union
I. B. Bowyer
E. G. Bowyer
Algona
Supreme Court
Balfour
N. C
Pioneer Hotel
North Dakota
Bowyer
Wiliams General
Sheldon
Iowa
Joseph Greagor
Greagor
Eagle Grove
Humboldt
Greager
Glen Athouse
Newell
Hershey Memorial Hospital
Muscatine
Health Department
Charles M. Moore
Clinton
State Industrial School
Eldora
Fink
Mill Creek
Oscar Yeager
Walter Tucker
Yeager
Tucker
W. J. Shrock
Waterloo
Lawrence da Graff
Leon Moser
Ed Moore
Pottamattamie County
Council Bluffs
Missouri
Loser
Moore
J. Dawson
B.W. Sinclair Tea and Coffee House
Church Street
Sieg
Grinneh
Acquittal of Tom Dennison After Sensational Trial
Red Oak reports Tom Dennison the Omaha politician was found not guilty after two hours of jury deliberation. Verdict read at 11:23 p.m. by Judge Green amid courtroom heat and packed crowds. Defense and local officials praised the jurors as Attorney Connell and others clashed with Elmer E. Thomas in a tense ante-room exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Oak
Tom Dennison
Omaha
George T. Cooper
Green
George Egan
Egan
Dennison
Condell
Juakin
Hotel Johnson
Smith
Sidge Green
W. J. Connell
Elmer E. Thomas
Omaha Civic Federation
Thomas
Connell
Lightning Kills 17-Year-Old in Marshalltown Storm
Severe thunderstorm in Marshalltown on June 10 killed Sheridan Wickman, about 17, as a bolt struck a dairy barn where he sheltering with others. Five M Rubee, cemetery sexton, was shocked near collapsed elm where lightning tore a 50-foot trunk. The storm flooded streets and destroyed several cows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Shard
Sheridan Wickman
Rubee
Iowa Soldiers
A. B. Cole
Midland Chautauqua to feature famous speakers and acts
Des Moines June 10. The Midland Chautauqua in Des Moines will present a premier program including Jos Folk of Missouri Bryan Sam Jones Holden Toy okichi Iyenaga Hooker T. Washington Thos McClary and others. A season ticket costs 1.00 covering July 4. Single tickets for other days are 25 cents. Camping or attendance between June 24 and July 4 requires inquiry to Midland Chautauqua Circuit Des Moines Ia for details.
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Des Moines Assembly
Des Moines
Rost
Magician
Zwickey
Hinton White
Foreman Killed by Freight Train at Carroll
Frank Kuyper a 50 year old section foreman was struck and killed by a through freight engine yesterday morning as he watched a train depart in the opposite direction. He lived in Templeton where he worked for Milwaukee.
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Carroll
Frank Kuyper
Kuyper
Templeton
Milwaukes
Vienna Produces Blind Circulating Diary Project
Vienna has created a circulating diary for the blind, featuring 400 volumes of Geyrrar works printed in em pereed letters to aid readers with vision impairment.
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Vienna
Flood Devastation in Keokuk Area Reaches 3 Million
Floods across Iowa Missouri and Illinois cause widespread losses to farms tracks and buildings. Bridges in Lee county destroyed and rail shipments disrupted. River men estimate at least 3 million dollars in damage including Keokuk lumber yards and tomato cucumber farms. One man Riley Smallwead 75 drowned near Alexandria after a wagon overturn.
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Keokuk
Wii
Iowa
Milinois
Krinkman
Lee County
Standard Oil Company
Missouri
Illinois
Keokuk Canning Company
Mississippi
Des Moines
Alexandria
Riley Smallwead
Mystery Explainer Henry Lochty Reveals DuBois Secret
In Des Moines Judge Howe's court Henry Lochty an old German and close friend of DuBois disclosed the secret that would have sent DuBois to prison. Lochty confessed to handling the three wives addresses and sending telegrams that drew Mrs Mary DuBois of Denver and Mrs Melyina DuBois of New Orleans to join Mrs Victoria DuBois in Des Moines. He had initially used a fictitious name for the telegrams but later signed his own. He kept silent to avoid involvement in the case.
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Henry Lochty
Des Moines
DuBois
Howe
DuBoig
Lochty
The
Sherif
Hoffman
Mary DuBois
Denver
Melyina DuBois
New Orleans
Victoria DuBois
Sarah Kuhn Dead After Poison Self-Destruction
Des Moines reported Sarah Kuhn died at the Anamosa state penitentiary after three weeks of agony from ingesting poison similar to lye. Prison staff hurried to get medical aid but the throat and stomach damage proved fatal. Her exact age remains unknown to authorities.
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Des Moines
Sarah Kuhn
State Penitentiary
Anamosa
New World’s Record by Des Moines Horse Team
Council Bluffs June 3 Jack and Jack from Des Moines captured first in the race yesterday and shattered their own world record with a 1:15 flat ride after a sharp start. Black and Tan finished second in 1:19, Sioux City took third and fourth.
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Council Bluffs
Jack
Des Moines
Black and Tan
Sioux City
Iowans Sail for Europe on the Steamer New York
Senator W B Alison Congressman Robert G Cousins of Iowa Mrs Paul Morton wife of the secretary of the navy and Miss Morton sailed on Saturday for Europe aboard the steamer New York city news brief notes their departure and destination.
Insanity commissioners fault Mount Pleasant diet
Davenport officials J A Hanley Dr Fred Lampach and William Gruenwald report to the state board of control after inspecting Mount Pleasant asylum. They criticize apparent economy in feeding patients and urge more varied and larger meals.
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Board of Control
Davenport
J. A. Hanley
Fred Lampach
William Gruenwald
Scott County Board of Insanity Commissioners
Mount Pleasant Hospital
State Board of Control
Shercliffe Surrender Denied. Dennison to Face Second Charge
Des Moines report says Governor Cummins refused Oklahoma's requisition for Shercliffe due to fatal defects in papers. Officials expect to retry Tom Dennison on the second indictment for participation in the crime linked to Shercliffe, with Red Oak venue in October. Estimated trial costs run into the thousands.
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Des Moines
Cummins
Oklahoma
Shercliffe
Chief Land
Sheriff's Office
Police Department
Iad
Cumming
Supreme Court of
Towa
Lund
Elmer EH
Thomas
Smith
Tom Dennison
Red Oak
Green
Harrison County
Civie Federation
Jewelers’ Union
Omaha Civic Federation
Witty maxims on marriage, money and morals
A collection of sharp, older style quips about men of few words, wives with influence, money rumors, a conscience of a druggist, and an honorable woman who keeps her rival's cook. The piece closes with a playful jab about the failures of this world and the next.
Commutation denied for Des Moines murder case
Des Moines notes say Joseph C. Smith will hang after the Iowa Supreme Court refused to commute his death sentence for murdering his landlady in Buxton. Gov Cummings to set a date, while the court held the power of commutation lies outside its branch.
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Des Moines
Joseph C. Smith
Supreme Court
Smith
Buxton
Department of Government
Hata
Iowa
Fort Madison
Cummins
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