Notable Iowa News Roundup Across Rail, Court, and City
Injured in Ames and Csile railroad crash recovers and returns to school. R. O. Stuart faces embezzlement charges from Lincoln operations, with prior dismissal amid accounting suspicions. Iowa House rebels rail against Speaker Cannon on public buildings bill amid petitions and pressure. Unidentified 9 months old found dead in Dubuque oil shed. rope strangulation suspected with coroner investigation pending. Len Richards forges checks in Winterset and evades bail as authorities pursue him. Iowa City mayor orders dog quarantine and containment due to rabies fears. cases tested in university labs. Sioux City deed transfers street rights to Iowa & Great Northern for $1 as Great Northern advances terminal work. Elish Ransom, 74, dies of apoplexy near Moulton while tending chickens. community pioneer remembered. Len Minterset seeks court move to Cherokee. local man’s mental state cited in press. Forged checks traced to Orris, who is arrested after attempting payment with mis-spelled signature. Cattle killed by Rocksland Flyer west of Oxford. seven survivors injured. a likely near-derailment avoided as cows straddle tracks.
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Costuite
Ames & Csile
Schoaal
R. O. Stuart
Rork Island
Atlantic
Wastinwel
Lincoln
Ife
Cannon
Illinois Central
Dubuque
Len Richards
Winterset
Lowi
I. K. Stebbins
Iowa City
University Medical Laboratories
Sioux City
Iowa & Great Northern Railway Company
City Recorder
James J. Hill
Great Northern
Elish Ransom
Appanoose County
Alvin Lundgren
Cherokee
Ha Head
Oxford
Death and assaults ripple through 1890s Ottumwa scene
A battered porter from Mason City sues Walter Reynolds and brother for 6000 in damages after a convention incident. Separate reports chronicle a man’s death by his own act using chloroform and carbonic acid, a stabbing near Fort Madison, a hoard of boiler makers striking in Marshalltown, a carload of World Fair champion stallions shipped to California, the arrest of Indian Joe Menard tied to the Eldon bank robbery, a poisoning case in Glenwood, and embezzlement cases in Lidderdale.
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Harry Norwood
Wilson Hotel
Mason City
Walter Reynolds
New York
Builermakers
Reynolds
S. S. McKinnon
Furlington
Joseph Dobson
Ft. Madison
William Nockaday
Keokuk
Iowa Central
Marshalltown
Oneida Junction
Manchester
Landis Bros
Roseville
Cal
Chicago
Express
Wells-Fargo
Joe” Menard
Eldon
Iowa
Ottumwa
Menard
Wanpella County
Glenwood
Emanuel Roach
Whitnall
Roach
Sheriff Schmid
Hubbard
Portland
Oregon
D. T. Bliss
Green Bay Lumber Company
Lidderdale
Carroll County
Bliss
Carroll
Schmid
Biss
Carrol County Grand Jury
Patrik Smith
Fort Dodge
Dennison Under Heavy Bond Returns to Omaha After Ordeal
Omaha man Tom Dennison, held by federal marshal George M. Christian, arrived in Logan at 1 06 pm. He posted 2500 bonds with J P Greenshields and Ernest J Hart and also posted 10000 bonds on a separate indictment for concealing stolen goods and diamond robbery. Dennison did not enter the courthouse or hotel and returned to Omaha with his attorneys Cochran and Egan, Sheriff Shinn, and Deputy Rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Tom Dennison
George M. Christian
Mr. Christian
A. J. Shinn
Northwestern
Dennison
Court House
Cochran & Egan
O. Rock
J. P. Greenshields
Ernest J. Hart
Council Bhiiifs
Cochran & Egan's Law Office
Omaha
Dennison Arrested by U S Marshal in Omaha
United States Marshal Christian of Des Moines captured Thomas Dennison in Omaha. Dennison, indicted for conspiracy in the Pollock diamond robbery, was taken to Logan after securing a Supreme Court mandate. Attorney Connell said a bond would be filed in Logan and Dennison would return to Omaha. Dennison resisted voluntary transfer to avoid warrants to be served there.
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United States
Christian
Omaha
Des Moines
Thomas Dennison
Logan
United States Supreme Court
Iowa
Connell
Dennison
Duresa
Declared Defaulter J G Caton Identified in Kansas
Mayor Too vey of Dedham Iowa identified the body as ex bank president J G Caton who died under peculiar circumstances after fleeing Dedham two months ago. Caton allegedly defrauded the bank of about 30000 dollars and detectives traced him to Oregon where he lived with a widowed daughter. Caton died after a brief bout of bilious illness. Mrs Caton reportedly in Des Moines.
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J. G. Caton
Kansas
Wichita
Kans
I. A. Toovey
Dedham
Dedham Bank
Toovey
Caton
Oregon
Joseph Corwin
Unle
Des Moines
Bernstein
Hepburn Addresses Farmers Institute in Corning
Col Hepburn spoke to about a thousand at the Corning opera house where he read letters from President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody endorsing Hepburn’s support for railroad rate regulation. The letters and President handwriting were presented to show Hepburn’s aid in the president’s favored legislation, drawing loud applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Institute
Corning
Adama County
Iowa
William Voters Hepburn
Opera House
Roosevelt
Moody
Jepburn
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Whler
Hepburn
Mabel Scofield Death Testimony Opens Drowning Theory
Des Moines Feb 24 Dr Charles Hoffman chemist bacteriologist and pathologist testified for the defense in the Thomas murder trial that Macy's stomach test for poison was insufficient and that frothy mouth substance after water removal suggests drowning He also noted embalming steps and Maroney’s water removal method while stating the post mortem would confirm drowning as the cause if conditions matched.
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Hoffman
Mabel Scofield
Des Moines
Charles Hoffman
Thomas
Macy
Highland Park College
Mabel Schofieldt
KK. H. Maroney
McDermott
Hell
Engineers Begin Route Survey for Des Moines to El Dora Line
Engineers started the Porter electric road survey from Des Moines toward Nevada and El Dora. The Des Moines to Nevada segment is planned this season, linking with Polk lines to enter Des Moines from near Saylor. Will Porter leads the project, backed by unnamed financiers, with H. H. Polk as incorporator and president in both firms.
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Eldora Electric Road
Des Moines
Porter Electric
Nevada
Eldora
Polk Lines
Polks
Saylor
Porter Interests
Polk
Ankeny
Will Porter
H. H. Polk
Interrurban Company
Eldora Company
Porter
Fifty go to Washington for Iowa lads at inauguration
Governor Cummins signed commissions for forty nine Iowa high school boys to represent the state at the presidential inauguration in Washington. Names span districts, reflecting high standing and development. State Superintendent Riggs plans to meet the delegation in Chicago March 2 before departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Qgovernor Cummins
Washington
Union
Riggs
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Great Northern
Bidney
George Otte
Sidney
Miner
Slate
John Peterson
Maple Street
Madison
Notes From the Capital Des Moines 1905 Unions and Legal Battles
Des Moines reports the annual meeting of United Mine Workers of America district 18 to be held in Des Moines at Odd Fellows hall on Tuesday March 2 with delegates from all Iowa locals. The piece notes joint wage scale history, Iowa insurance lawsuits against state officers, drainage protests over Swan Lake in Pocahontas county, and plans for state hospital extension in Knoxville. It also mentions Ames professor Golden and Milwaukee officials visiting Des Moines, and various local anecdotes including an old hen poet and a prison window bar invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Unitet Mine Workers of America
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Inelwline
Missouri
Eveladed
Nelweun
Gap
Walch
Hoth
Senate
P. G.olden
Ames
Milwaukee
Des Maines
Iowa
Trulden
Siermhake
Opera House
Halla
Pha
Nettels
Professor Halden
Turlington
Executive Council
Swan Lake
Pocahontas County
Knoxville
Pottstown
Philadelphia
Senate statehood clash amid party lines and naval bill passage
The Senate debated whether conferees on the statehood bill would be from the party that defeated joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico or the party that supported it, with no decision reached. In the House, the naval appropriation bill totaling 99,914,350 was passed, retaining the two battleships provision, as whispers about Grand Duke Sergius’s murder drew from Mr. Baker’s remarks criticizing Roosevelt’s condolence gesture.
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Washington
Senate
Arizona
New Mexico
House
Committee On
Naval Affairs
Grand Duke
Sergius
Baker
New York
Roosevelt
Sersius
United States
Elkins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Congress
Panama Canal Zone
Panama
Valdez
Seward
Alaska
Scott
Kansas
Swayne
Philippine Islands
Philippine
Beveridge
Vandiver
Missouri
Gorman
Hale
England
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