Weekly rundown of national notes and political whispers
A digest of congressional probes, filings, and fiscal debate. Allegations surface of a $2,500 offer to Senator McCormick amid Lorimer loyalties while Admiral Togo’s visit prompts a $10,000 entertainments request. Hinman and Yates deny money in Lorimer races. Mormon Church ties to Utah Sugar halt sugar trust inquiry. Senate finance rebukes wool and farmers bills. direct election reform stalls. President Taft urges stronger pure food and drug law and laments drug frauds. Illinois waterway bill fails. Masonry opens La Grange home. Other items include crops, a Chicago lumber indictment, and a Memphis train robbery.
Pinchot matriarch recovering after appendicitis operation
Mrs J W Pinchot of Washington mother of Gifford Pinchot is recovering from an appendicitis operation performed at her son Amos's New York home. Minnie Ashley wife of William Astor Chanler, famed American singer, will soon return to the stage. Former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis announces engagement of his granddaughter Katherine Brown to Lieut Chester P Barnett of the Fifteenth Cavalry US. Roose Melcher and his twelve year old daughter were slightly hurt and Mrs Melcher seriously injured in a derailment near MacFarland Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Pinchot
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Amos
New York
Minnie Ashley
William Astor Chanler
Henry Gassaway Davis
West Virginia
Katherine Brown
Chester P. Barnett
Fifteenth Cavalry
U.S. Rose
F.O. Melcher
Chicago
Rock Island
Royal visit and theft amid warship pageant
Foreign King George and Queen Mary reviewed a grand parade of warships from England and other nations. Emperor William lunched aboard the American battleship Louisiana hosted by Admiral Badger. A handbag theft against Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Harrison, widow of Benjamin Harrison, occurred in Venice and was followed by an arrest. Contested seamen strikes and other unrest are noted along with a French religious congregation dissolution and embezzlement conviction of Ferdinand Edmond Duez as receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King George
Queen Mary
England
Big Spitheid
Emperor William
Louisiana
Badger
Ferdinand Edmond” “Duez
Jiey Iy Faris
Interesting Iowa News Roundup From Burlington to Des Moines
A sweeping Iowa news digest reports Henry Baumle killed at a Burlington grade crossing, Carl Sorenson buried on the Denison–Arion line, and a string of rail incidents. Paroles, bank settlements, German Methodist camp, and a Stanton of civic notices mingle with drownings, fires, lawsuits, and railroad yard accidents across cities like Garner, Sioux City, Dubuque, Mason City, and Ottumwa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Baumle
Burlington
Denison
Missouri Valley
Carl Sorenson
Denson
Northwestern
There
Arion
George G. Fancher
Charlton
Daisy Dukes
South Dakota
Garner
Margaret McCormick
Ft. Dodge
Great Western
Clarksville
D. T. Gilman
Sioux City
Iowa State National Bank
Ida Grove
Epworth League
Correctionville
C. H. Young
Wall Lake
Frank Butis
Nishna
Coburg
Lockridge
H. A. Dyer
Rochester
Minn
Herman Ackerer
Palace Clothing Company
Dubuque
Warl Hall
Nashua
Hall
Rock’ Island
Iowa City
Fred W. Craig
Des Moines
Grand’ Lodge of Iowa Masons
Cedar Rapids
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Manchester
James Matwott
Bakeer
Hartford
Jows
Ty Dellave
Turner
Colfax
Talbott
College of Osteopathy
F Reed
North Riverside
Richard Schnack
Hutchins
Crystal Lake
Wordeat
Praise the Press and Health Officials touted in Iowa bulletin
Des Moines editorials praise state health department for circulating epidemic and disease information openly. Secretary Sumner urges candid talks with newspaper men to ensure fair, factual coverage. Other items include Moon Law discussions at Oskaloosa, penalties for bootlegging, prison reforms, and appointments at Ames.
Iowa Parable of Road Dragging Payments and Parole Board Review
Des Moines reports on a drilling legal issue in which township trustees grapple with a Cunningham road dragging law paying 50 cents per mile traveled even if the same mile is dragged multiple times. The attorney general says beneficiaries may earn up to 50 cents per mile per trip, potentially yielding several dollars per mile. Governor Carroll and the state parole board investigate Nate and Frank Raingbarger life prisoners for release, conducting hearings in Eleadora and Anamosa. Also noted are Iowa pharmacist reciprocity expansions with 26 states, the Mitchell juvenile industrial school grand jury findings, fire-protection provisions, and band reassignment to the Iowa National Guard as the Fifty-sixth regiment band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Colby Motor Company
Farmers’ Co-operative Brick & Tile Company
Emery Styles
Hampton
Styles
Supreme Court
Oskaloosa
Louis E. Bourquin
Enadler
New Hartford Bank
J. F. Hoffman
Hoffman
Botrquin
Carroll
State Board of Parole
Eldora Ible
Rainsbarger Brothers
Davenport & Muscatine Interurban Railroad Company
Secretary of State
Hayward
Iowa
Spencer-Sheldon
Storm Lake
Waterloo
Roy Greenewald
George Wenton
Monticello
James R. Hanna
Des Moines
George Allanson
Anita
Allanson
Cass County
Percy “Bizer
Ottumwa
Colf
Bizer
Newell Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Town Seed Company
Altoona
Interurban Railway Company
Peter Freiden
Bellevue
Hinta
J. E. ‘Parker
Barry
Winterset
Parker
Mount Pleasant
Iowa City
Fort Madison
L River
Keokuk
Burlington
Oskaloose
State Bar Association
Supreme. Court
Estherville
Thomas J. Guth Hie
Q. A. Willis
Attorney General's Department
Parole Board
Hardin County
Nate
Frank Raingbarger
Eledora
Asman
Johns
Bildard
State “Reformatory
at _Anamosa
Moore
State Pharmacy Commission
Association, of
Boards “of ‘Pharmacy
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Delaware
District’ of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Maseaxchusetts
Maine
Michigan
Missouri
New ‘Mexico
North Dakota
Quahama
Oregon
South Dakota
Texxas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Connecticut
Polk County Grand Jury
Othe
MitchellyiNe
Coby Plains
Tonditiona
Board of Control
Grand Jury
Also Mentioned on This Page
McCormick
William Lorimer
Senate
Albert J. Hopkins
Congress
Lorimer
United States
Togo
London
George W. Hinman
Mormon Church
American Sugar Refining Company
House
Sugar Trust
Henry C. Havemeyer
Utah Sugar Company
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
United States Senate Finance Committee
Chanse of Representatives
Bristow
Tait
United States Supreme Court
Committee On Labor of the Concrcticut General Assembly
Jower House
Illinois
Grand Lodge of Masony of
Tlipoli
Order
Masonic
la Grange
Mrg
Dell Eovenia
Spade
Buthor
Boston
Oscar I. Spasto
Detroi
Mich
Kansas
Walter ‘Weilhouse
Aecthe State
Central’ States
Kansas City
Uffnois
Nebraska
the Trust
Federal Grand Jury
Landis
United States District Court
American Academy of Medicine
Los Angeles
Columbus
Ohio
Harvey Dixon
Orenogo
Ilinoia Central
Memphis
Tenn
Lee O'Neill Browne
Ilinois
E. Q. Phillips
Chicago Tribune
Adkins
Lyman E. Cooley
Taft
New York State Bankers’ Association
Manhattan Beach
National Reserve Association
Aldrich
Monetary Commission
Gulfport
Mise
Pifario
Wadsworth
Mary Mannering
James K. Hackett
Detroit
Frank Coffly
Newburgh
N. Y
White House
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Standard Oil
American Tobacco
Christian Sandborg
Frank T. Luce
Dorchester
Mass
Arlene
State! News
Caryl
C. Barr
Fort Dodge
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Ueon
Sumner
State Board of Health
Auarterly Health Bulletin
Department
State Board of Control
State Parole’ Board
John F. Wade
Hostor Brant
General Revenue Fund
Sparks
Estate Board of Education
Cedar Falls
State Agricultural College
Ames
Pennsylvania State College
Pennsylvania
Barney
Coal City Coal Company of
Kirkewile
National. Guard
Mangston
Iowa National. Guard
Logan
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