Iowa News Highlights Fatal Wartime Tragedies and Local Trials
A Colfax mule handler Sam Hise dies after a head injury. Collateral fatality Cole Sclivers killed near Cromwell by a river construction shovel. Swltchman Volker’s widow wins $5,000 in federal court for missing patent couplers. Port Dodge gypsum rate fight cuts plaster prices to $2 and $2.40 a ton. Fort Dodge elder Spencer Woodworth dies of a stroke after returning from New York. Big Sioux gang nets seized by posses and fish-law enforcement vows. Red Cross convention in Vinton prompts extreme resolutions suppressed for libel fears. Newton arrests Cel lerman Henry Myers and Herman Myers in murder inquiry. questions on Levelour murder theory. Roy McNamara missing Grinnell student yields first clue from Indianapolis druggist letter.
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Sam Hise
John Ross
Colfax
Cole Sclivers
Pburlingon
Cromwell
Tie
Aman
Lved
Creston
Swltchman Volker
Milwaukee Yates
Dubuque
Ife
Jia’*s
Port Donge
United States Gypsum Company
Sincco
Fort Dodge
Carbon Plaster Company
Iowa Plaster Association
Thincombe Stucco Company
Mineral City Plaster Company
Cardiff Gypsum Company
New York State
Spencer Woodworth
Mr. Woodworth
Big Sioux River
Wooedbury County
Iowa
Union County
South Dakota
Sioux City
Sioux
Red Cross
Vinton
Frank Merriam
Albert M. Potter
Reid Cross Society of Waverly
E. C
Henry
Herman Myers
Newton
Frenk Lawgethur
Law Leyme
Henry Myere
Levelieur
Merman
Levelleur
Roy T. McNarmara
Grinnell Lawn
Rev. McNamara
Onawa
G. W. Montross
Stoan
Indianapolis
Ind
R. ‘St. McNamara
Montross
Roy McNamara
McNamara
Turbulent Iowa News: drownings, crimes, and accidents
Toward Padgett, aged 25, hanged himself in Ottumwa after cocaine use. In Pekay, Hilward Davison sentenced to eight years for assault on Katie Gallagher of Exidsville. A mad dog traverses three southeast Iowa counties, causing fear of rabies. Hounds aid in capturing a burglar in Tracy. Greek dealer George Colomoskos found dead in Perry with a head wound. a dog tracked the killer’s trail. A Lake Mills man lost a leg after a train accident near Albert Lea. A funeral accident injures Mr and Mrs Snyder in Clinton. Miss Imogene Luske, a country teacher, leaves school to marry Win Field.
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Ottumwa
Vance
Vane
Hille
Vermiliion
Hilward Davison
Pekay
Katie Gallagher
Exidsville
Iowa
Brazil
Appanoose County
Binteh
Davis County
Salina
Petterson County
Buneh
Long
Coorrespond
Knoxville
Hutfmer
Des Moines
Peterson
Graham
Tracy
Ira
George Colomoskos
Perry
James Gorgoris
Frank Dodson
Cleve Wilson
Lake Mills
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Albert Lea
Port Wedge
Forest City
Mikhoid
Leland
Clinton
Adam Snyder
Imogene Luske
Epworth
Win Field
Richardsville
Cyclone Strikes Iowa Hit Towns and Plains
A May 3 cyclone season reaches Lohrville Bayard Van Wert and Hiteman with multiple degrees of devastation. J W Munini farm destroyed six injured including a mother likely fatally concussed. Bayard reports wrecked elevators and homes with one man badly hurt. Van Wert sees several farmhouses and barns blown away with three injured and others harmed. Hiteman records two houses demolished and cattle killed as funnel clouds merge nearby.
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Bayard, van Wert
Hiteman
J. W. Muniini
Jearville
Lonrville
Bayard
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
David Harden
Harden
van Wert
Weiden
Mary O'Hare
J. W. O'Hare
O'Hare
Monroe Williams
Williams
Tabler
John Mitchell
Ottumwa
Cummins Warns Monopolies Threaten Prosperity at Banquet
Governor A B Cummins of Iowa denounces trusts and monopolies as a danger to national prosperity at a Fourth Ward Republican club banquet in Minneapolis. He cites United States Steel and the Northern Securities merger, urges remedies including cutting down darks used to shield monopolies, and echoes the era’s populist distrust of big business.
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Cummins
Minneapolis
Minn
A. B. Cummins
Iowa
Fourth Ward
Republican Club
Uuls City
United States Steel Corporation
Northern Securities
Iowa Gets Her War Claim For $456 417 89 In 1861 65 Expenditures
Des Moines May 5 Governor Cummins received notice from the United States Treasury that the comptroller of the treasury has decided Iowa is entitled to 456 417 89 dollars for expenditures in equipping troops during the Civil War. The auditor says the treasury recommends the allowance. Congress must decide. If settled by court of claims principles Iowa could be owed 225 690 02, but Treasury favors nearly 456 417 89. Public speculation grows on whether Congress will follow the Treasury or the court of claims rulings.
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Treasury Department
Des Moines
Cumming
United States Treasury
War Department
Comptroller of the Treasury
Fins
Treasury
Iowa
Congress
Court of Claims
Wrehington
Cummins
Indiana
Maine
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Rhotte Island
United States
Towa
Mrs Levelleur Murder Trial Details Emergence of Conflicting Verdict
Newton May 5 coroner's jury returned a divided verdict after a week. Neighbors testified Mrs Langreen claimed Mrs Levelleur struck her husband with an ax and then set the barn on fire, while Mrs Levelleur denied the accusations. A 14 year old testified the couple tried to rescue a dog as the barn burned.
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Susan Langreen
Levellseurs
Levelleur
Delegates named to American Congress of Tuberculosis
Governor Cummins selects a dozen Iowa physicians for the New York meeting on May 14 16 and 16 with replacements noted for Park Holbrook. The list includes Drs Clark Gibson Kellogg Preston Harriman Porterfield Lattig Guthrie Dorr Matthews McCrae Nell Atains Lessenger Berry Confrit Jobson Porterfield Lauder Little Bigloff Poore Emmett.
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Des Moines
Cumming
New York City
the Isles
H. H. Clark
McGregor
J. I. Gibson
Denison
GC. F. Kellogg
Clinton
C. H. Preston
Davenport
W. E. Harriman
Ames
FP. W. Porterfield
Atlantic
L. W. Lattig
Iowa City
J. T. Guthrie
Dubuque
BE. W. Dorr
H. Matthews
D. McCrae
Connell Bluffs
George P. Nell
Ort
Madison
C. B. Atains
Estherville
Lessenger
Mt. Pleasant
R. P
Roosevelt Addresses Naval Academy Graduates Warship Duty and Victory
President Roosevelt spoke at the Naval Academy graduation in Annapolis, urging graduates to carry a strong sense of duty and preparedness. He warned that war may come and emphasized the navy as essential to victory, noting battleships require years of training and meticulous maintenance. The ceremony included a diploma handoff to Cadet Emory S. Long despite his illness, followed by plebe antics and audience reaction.
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Annapolis
Roosevelt
Naval Academy
Pennsylvania Railroad
Agai
United States Navy
Sery
Emory 8. Long
Wyoming
Lee
Evans Gets Appointment United States Consul General London
President nominates ST. Clay Evans for consul general at London to succeed late General Osborn. Evans previously second in the 1896 Republican convention vice presidential balloting and has served as commissioner of pensions since 1897.
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Washington
Senate
ST. Clay Evans
United States
London
Osborn
Evans
Mr. Evans
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