Iowa News Roundup of Accidents and Crime in 1900s Era
A sweeping Iowa news montage reports Gus Larena near death after slate collapse in Bloomfield cal mine, while teens Moran, Jordan, and Frank Hurley face robbery charges in Ottumwa. Fires in Muscatine destroy houses and a carpenter shop, a baby dies after a horse kick in Audubon, and gravel crews clash with rail officials near Boone. Legal battles, kidnappings, and a Cedar Rapids travel association election frame a busy, grim week of incidents across the state.
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Gus Larena
Nes Moines
Bloomfield Cal
Merth
Jegs
Larson
Tow
Moran
Jordan
Frank Hurley
Lions City
A. Miller
Marshal Bros
Miller
Turley
Griswohl
Andy Silgore
Mr. Kilgore
Muscatine
T.fesiake
Yoseph Nyenhuis
Nyenhuis
Howard Rice
William Holmes
Hald
Jens O. Christenson
Audubon
Extra
John Stoner
Newton & Northwestern Brailway Company
Boone
Blake
Negvton
H. A. Ball
Mark A. Sweeney
Council Bluffs
Ball
Sweeney
Annter
Cedar Rapids
John T. Rock
Travelers’ Protective Association
B. B. Oiiver
Waterloo
Des Moines
Yutitus Shiwine
Week's News Condensed From World Reports
A condensed digest reports on parliamentary actions and international items. The British House of Commons unanimously passes the coal mines eight hour cap plan for 1969 while keeping wages intact. A U S schooner seizure by Mexico prompts a State Department information request. Senate agriculture weighs free seeds with limits for government propagated rare varieties. Foreign affairs committee backs a $2.744 million diplomatic and consular bill. The House disposes 320 pension bills in 90 minutes, a historic pace.
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House of Commons
House
State Department
Lizzie B. Evans
Republic of Mexico
Senate Committee On Agriculture
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Standard Oil Probe Reveals Bribes To Ministers And Rail Workers
At a Chicago hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission sensational disclosures emerged about Standard Oil paying ministers to spy on parishioners and report oil brand usage, and about bribing railroad employees to learn rivals’ shipment secrets.
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Miscellaneous notes from early 1900s harbor broad items
A collage of brief items: improved iron and steel labor settlements, weekly US and Canadian industrial failures, the Marblehead gunboat voyage toward Mexico, Secretary Newberry’s naval discipline efforts, a Zion City childbirth tragedy, Vesuvian eruption uptick with ash toward Pompeii, and a US court dissolution of a paper industry cartel. Also reports of Missouri students assaulting peers, Budapest ally Ignatius Batory’s death, Balfour extradition talks, California holidays, Zion management proposal, and quirky local curiosities from Illinois and Ohio.
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United States
Canada
Marblehead
San Francisco
Pichilinque
Mexico
Newberry
Ruth Cantell
Harry Eugene Cantell
Zion City
Mount Vesuying
Pompeii
Ottajano
Maynarl McDole
Craig
Ignatius Batory
Louis Kossuth
Catonsville
House of Lords
Pardes
California
Wright
Belvidere
Ill
Zion
Elmer Ellsworth
Warren County
Ilinois
Max Judd
St. Louis
Angina
Toris
Ashtabula
Ashtabula Bethel Church
Henry C. Hyde
Freeport
Czarspeech draws mixed cheers as amnesty snubbed
Report covers courtly and public reaction to the czars speech with spectators cheering while parliament members stay silent over amnesty. notes on appointments, deaths, disasters, and political moves from May.
Scattered World News Capsule from Early Dispatches
A mosaic of events from Washington to Europe and Asia. Senator Gorman faces illness and absence in the U.S. Senate. Edwin Greenfield confesses to embezzlement for a Philadelphia bank. Robberies hit the Imperial Limited on the Canadian Pacific. Venice harbor collision injures a yacht passenger. Looting by Salvadors and a German reciprocity address in Berlin are noted. Riots, indemnities, and a vast range of political and industrial items fill the column.
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Arthur P. Gorman
Maryland
Washington
Senate
Edwin $. Greenfield
Harrison Snyder & Son
Philadelphia
Imperial Limited
Canadian Pacific
Kamloops
Nahma
Rohart Godet
Venice
Italan
Malasita
Pangasinan
P. F. Hugene N, Foss
Igoston
Iice
Reciprocity League
American Association of Commerce and Trade
Berlin
United States
Germany
Reichstag
Canton
Levncow
R. M. Smoot
Abraham Lincoln
John Surratt
Lincoln
Potomac
Fort Smith
Ark
Masonic Temple
Indianapolis
Raper Commandery
Columbia Savings and Trust Company
Pittsburg
State
Victor L. Gangelin
Milwaukee Herald
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
A. G. Bentley
Pike County Times
Democratic State Central Committee
Springfield
New York
Charles P. Prey
Frank W. Lynn
Chicago
M. Wilkinson-Robert Shaw
The
American Tract Society
William Phillips Hall
Frisco
F. Wenham
Canadian Pacific Railway
Day
Syracuse University
Roosevelt
Standard of Company
Ohio
Ellis
Supreme Court of Ohio
Standard Oil Company
Standard Ol Company
New Jersey
Construction Bureau of the Navy
Orique Paper & Pulp Company
Marinette
Wis
James Henderson
Vesuvius
Charles F. McKenna
United States Court
Porto Rico
Thomas A. Combs
Lexington
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Cassatt
Barcelona
Doulon
Nentey
Frade
Roosevelt Denounced by Democrats Over Rate Bill Debate
Washington May 3 A Senate debate over the rate bill drew sharp attacks on the Allison amend ment with President Roosevelt's indorsement of it The discussion highlighted alleged presidential surrender on the eve of victory as Senator Dolliver defended the president while praising Senator Allison for counsel and leadership Allison remained in the chamber without speaking through the proceedings
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Washington
Senate
Allison
Roosevelt
Bailey
Raynor
Titman
Tillman
Chandler
Whitehouse
Moody
Lodge
Auibuu
Dolliver
Olliver
Riots Break Up Two Dowie Meetings
Chicago May 14 A Dowie meeting at Zion City drew 600 and broke up as Vollya followers plus outsiders clashed. Dowie called the Vollya overseers thieves, a guard was assaulted, and the crowd forced order before Dowie dismissed the session. A second disturbance occurred at the adherents meeting when a supporter’s wife illness was cited by Dowie in a comparison with a slain overseer’s wife.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Vollva
Dowie
Vollya
Zion
Gladstone Dowie
Deacon Arlington
Dowis
H. B. Caniel
Remarkable Runaway at Woodward Bridge
A livery team driven by Jack Brues escaped a buggy and crossed a 100 foot railway trestle bridge without breaking a tie. Two minutes after a train passed, the team was found at the far end calmly eating grass. A remark on human weakness follows the tale.
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Perry
Woodward
Jack Brues
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Iowa News
TE. M. Wilson
Eagle Grove
Sujette
Wilson
Sm Earl Booten
Booten
Newton
Ilis
Jasper Sparks
Stephen Sparks
Lyonville
Troy Kinmon
Sparks
James
Eganville Junction
Insane Commission
S. B. Starr
Starr
Charles Guy
Percy
Ruth Starr
Charles City College
Andrew Shuter
Kirs
Slater
Texas
Methodist Ladies’ Air Society
T. M. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Linn District Court
T. M. Sinclair
National Surety Company
Klondike
Sinclair
Alaska
Jack Johnson
Rose Butler
Korth McGregor
Schenblack
Johnson
Waukon
Ballard Carey
Shenandoah
Ballard
Carey
Hans Nelson
Edgar Skraggs
Alvert Neilson
Alvert Nelson
Narcy
Iowa
Horace Howard Ellis
Los Angeles
Ti. BE. Sampson
Deg Moines
Grinnell
Sampson
Bill
Citzen
John Morsman
W. P. Hepburn
Thamas Johnson
Clarinda
James H. Bionk
Porto Tico
New Orleans
Chapelle
Fairbanks
Gibson
Kansas Gilly
Kan
J. L. Yarnell
Joseph K. Winn
Ardmore
Brown Brothers
Crawfordsville
Faukia
India
Suva
Fiji
Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Andrew Carnegie
Duke
Trenton
N. J
James 3
Carbondale
William 2. Humphrey
Dupont Powder Works
Withington
Del
William McCrea
James Camac
Converse
Bureau of Navigation
Scott
James B. Smith
Intoig National Guard
Edward C. Toung
Peter Jameron
Coumbia Savings and Trust Bank
Henry Sewell
Evansville
Jeremiah Murphy
Murphy
Bank of
Thornton
J. D. Barlow
G. L. Thiers
Brad C. Bryant
Alexandria
Ind
W. J. Bryan
Col. Mora Wetmore
Panama
Canal Zone
Gay
Taft
W. H. Sylvester
Lrst National Bank
Montezuma
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Algernon
Crapsey
Epigcoja
Lefora
W. F. Dunham
Chicago Numismatic
BoGely
Shonts
Secretary of War
Panama Canal
T. B. Sadie
Lake
Dolliver Desclares
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