Tragedy and thefts ripple Cedar Falls to Denison
A sequence of Iowa stories fills the page. Joseph Harn, a Bloomfield farmer, hanged himself after a prairie blaze stress. a Cedar Falls library gift from Andrew Carnegie is eyed with approval. Creston reports a deadly clash over a gambling den ending in a boy’s death and two wounded men. Student Roy McNamara vanishes under troubling signs. search efforts liken the case to Bagley’s. John W. Pierce is arrested in Waterloo for mail tampering and check forgery tied to Denison drafts, with investigators tracing a supposed Bank of Denison authorization that proved counterfeit. Barnes faces arrest after a chain of fraudulent bank telegrams cripples cattle deals, while Lloyd Shriver’s firm sues Western Union for damages. Henry Rockfield dies after being struck by a train. Tennessee contest winners claim silver cups. Lacona market fire scars area, with multi-building losses and partial salvaged contents.
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Joseph Harn
Bloomfield
Andrew Carnegie
Cedar Falls
John Jackson
Jackson
Robinson
Flannery & O'Connor
Albert Oschlager
Roy McNamara
Iowa College
McNamara
Grinnell
Onawa
Thut
Sanders’ Pond
Lake Nyanza
Bagley
John W. Pierce
Waterloo
United States
Healy
Cedar Rapids
Galena
Post Office
Stewart
Dubuque
Independence
Manchester
Marshall Healy
Pierce
Barnes
Denison
Havelock
Bank of Denison
Selliver ‘Bros
Shearn
Schriver Bros
Chriver Bros
John A. Sennell
Britt
Bank of
Omaha
Lut
Arnes
Shriver Bros
Western Union Telegraph Company
Henry Rockfield
Chelsea
Northwestern
Marshalltown
Tennessee University Agricultural
Knoxville
Tong
W. B. Tade
Willsboro
Tennessee Farmers’ Association
A. H. Hall
Lacona
Lacona Ledger
G. T. Tilden
Tilden
May Expend $1 527 963 Appropriations by Committees
Des Moines March 21 Appropriations totaling 1 027 968 are practically agreed upon by legislative committees. Excludes 145 000 for Vickburg and 30 000 for Lookout Mountain soldiers monuments to be spent next biennial period. Committees list items totaling 1 527 963 42 for extraordinary appropriations including capital improvements Cherokee figures extra support for Vinton and C Butts transport to Cherokee and various state institutions. Potential deficit estimated at 515 963 65 for the biennial period. surplus and future levy may offset.
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Des Moines
Vickeburg
Lookout Mountain Goldiers’ Monument
Vinton
Butts
Historical Society
McFarland
State University
Agricultural College
Normal School
Board of Control
Vicksburg Monument
Lookout Mountain
Supreme Court
District Court
Marshalltown
State
Babies Home
St. Louis Exposition
Senate
Bill Passed to Condemn and Build Des Moines Fishway
Des Moines March 24. The House approved a bill to condemn the Bonaparte dam fishway and erect a new one with state funds, enforcing penalties for harming fishways. Estimated cost ranges from 100 to 2000 dollars. The measure ends long sportsman opposition to blocking fish passage from the Mississippi to smaller streams.
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House
Des Moines
Bonaparte Dam
Sweeley
Woodbury
Committee On Appropriations
Bonaparte
Meeks Bros
Supreme Court
Meeks
Mississippi
Des Moines Legislature Passes Multiple Bills in March Sessions
Des Moines reports the Senate and House enacting road law amendments, child labor limits, public monuments funding, and municipal reforms. Key actions include updating railroad access rules, dictating certificate revocation by medical boards, and authorizing public works and tax measures for Des Moines and state projects.
International shifts and uprisings reported abroad
Reports from Shanghai and northwest China describe a major southern Chinese uprising backed by Tung Fu Hsi and Mongol princes, with 10,000 rebels near Kwangsi towns. Germany’s Shanghai garrison prompts allied forces to maintain presence. Shanghai becomes an international garrison town. A separate Japan disaster details an avalanche at a petroleum works in West Japan killing over a hundred, with mass burials and fires.
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Shanghai
Victoria
B. C
Orienti
China
Kan Su
Monolla
Tung Fu Hain
Shanghai Mercury
Germany
France
Great Britain
Japan
Li Hung Chang
Russia
Manchuria
The
Mercury
Linot
Weather signals and pardons dominate capital notes
Notes from the capital report Chappel’s plan to dispatch weather signal flags via rural mail wagons. It covers the Iowa Senate’s stance on Wes Elkins’s murder case, appropriations for the St Louis exposition, and the history building additions with conditions on bond claims. Also details on osteopathy certification reform, inebriate hospital proposal, bread weight law, and liquor-procurement penalties alongside assorted editorials and jokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Wesley Elkins
Anamosa
House
Reach Cuban agreement on 20 percent tariff cut
Washington March 19 Advocates of Cuban reciprocity won a key House vote as the Payne plan for a 20 percent duty reduction with the Sibley amendment limiting duration to December 1, 1908 was approved 85 to 31. Debate, roll calls, and factional splits marked the session with Speaker Henderson and other leaders present.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Payne
Ways and Means Committee
Sibley
Ohio
Cuba
Morris
Minnesota
Chamber
Spearker~ Henderson
Dillon Suspended After Parliamentary Outburst in House
London scene ends with John Dillon's suspension after he calls a fellow member a damned liar. Campbell-Bannerman and Chamberlain clash over alleged malignant slanders as the debate on South African affairs escalates. The motion to suspend passes 248 to 48, with one-week limit under present rules. Other items include seed oats sold to Germany, a submarine cable between Brussels and London, a New Zealand geyser, and an Odessa hoax advertisement seeking a name.
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Chamberlain
Dillon
London
House
of Commons
John Diklon
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry
Wm. Court Gulley
Henry Campbell- Bannerman
Mr. Chamberlain
John Witson
Dilon
J. Halfour
Brussells
Rotomahons
New Zealand
Fharea
Odessa
Occult Diviner
Lear
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May
W. A. Tris
A. M. Linn
State Board of Health
Tama Indian Reservation
Lilag Johnson
Lake Cairo
Siven
King's Court
J. A. Helabaough
Stuart
John Baker
Paola
Kaw
Sam L. Delahey
Heinbaugh
Franklin County
Kauses
John T. Baker
Baker
Wm. H. Sallivon
South Congregational Church of
Bridgeport
Vicksburg
Vicksburg Field
J. J. Neater
Nate BH
Kendall
Des Wfoines Fire and Police Commission
Emmert
Courtright
Dowell
Fitch
Patrick
Garst
Trarper
Hubbard
Lyons
Maytag
Townsend
Edwards
Towa
L. G. Kinne
T. EB. McCurdy
J. D. McGarraugh
Capitol
Harriman
McCurdy
Crossley
Greene
General Assembly
Hamann
Fire and Police Commission
Executive Council
Auditor of State
Iawa
Clarke
Sargeant
Peoria
Frank P
Jens
Bih
Conference
House Committee On Insurance
Merriam
Department of Insurance
Iowa
Conference Committee
Temple
Harper
Clinon
Miles
Nelson A. Miles
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Manley
War Department
Trust Companies
St. Louis
Colonial
Missouri
Germania
Colonial Trust Company
Clark H. Samson
Wisconsin
Badger
Marcell
Chappel
Government Weather Bureau Service
House Committee On Appropriations
Tha
Twelfth Street
Secor
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Benedict
Mece and Babies’ Home
Stouxity
House Committee On Public Health
Incorporated Colleges of Osteopathy
IL. NH
Abrams
Hughes
Langan
Crawford
Senate Committee On Ways and Means
Atlanta Constitution
Oswego
N. Y
Nellie Stone
James Fr. Duncan
John Dillon
Sherman
Tex
Ww. P. Harrison
Texas Grain Dealers’ Association
New York
Harrison
Europe
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