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Algona Courier

Location

Algona, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 13, 1908

Page

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Fire damages Fort Dodge jail. arrests follow

A quirky report notes a small fire at Fort Dodge City Jail ignited by a police character named Tack the Ripper who is serving ten days for intoxication. The incident coincides with election news bulletins posted at Central Jail, while other Des Moines area crimes include burglaries at Grimes Creek and Clinton Copeland Manufacturing.

Fort Dodate Ripper Ttingis Ney 3 Maurice Pabst Colfax High School Colfax Athletic Club Hillside Club Des Moines Foyer Burlington Grimes Lleek Clinton Copeland Manufacturing Company Trea Nile Gting Geneva Warners’ and Merchants’ Telephone Company Econanxy C. A. Baughman Iowa Iowa Telephone Company J.C. Sanders State Reformatory Fort Madison Taft Bryan Carroll White Jesse Hexford Enterprise Fred Paulson Chicago Macon City Paulson Wes Tn Mattson James Tokles Steve Platis Greeves Felkles Louis Lylllis Wallace Drillis America Jos Mcines Milwaukee San Francisco Bernard Andrae Marshalltown Andrae Amd Wis Dewey Frey

Financier Morse jailed for 15 years in Atlanta prison

Charles W. Morse, New York financier, sentenced to 15 years for misapplication of National Bank of North America funds and false bank entries. Alfred H. Curtis, co defendant, granted liberty on suspended sentence. Taft party heads to Hot Springs for rest until Thanksgiving. Wilbur Wright honored by Aero Club of France with gold medal and special Academy of Sports award. Eliot resigns Harvard presidency effective May 19, 1909. Dowager Empress of China celebrated in Amoy on fleet visit anniversary. Mrs. Alice Cheney Brown arrested after swindling $20,000 in bonds then confesses. B C Whitney injured in Indiana auto crash. Grant Works postmaster Levis arrested for embezzlement and falsification of reports.

Charles W. Morse New York Atlanta National Bank of North America Alfred H. Curtis Morse William H. Taft Taft Fred W. Carpenter Cincinnati Hot Springs Cmpress China Amoy Alice Cheney Brown Chicago Denver B. C. Whitney Detroit Brownstown Ind Thomas F. Levis Grant Works Ill

Explosion at Bond mine entombs workers near Benton

An explosion at Col. W P Bond’s mine, three miles west of Benton, wrecked the shaft and left Your 2nd Teese Were entombed and probably filled. Other items report Sherman’s campaign expenses of 2800 dollars, a steamer sinking in the East River with heavy losses, and various international incidents from Amoy to Paris.

W P. Bond Benton II 2Nd Teese Sherman Albany B. M. Whitney Metropolitan Steamship Line East River Boston Amoy Philippines Union Telephone & Telegraph Company Rock Island Moline Ill Davenport American Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago Tungan China Rubena Herrera Bliss Electric School Takoma Washington James T. Muthall Leavenworth Kan Edgar McConkey Felix Nuathanson Milton Purdy Minneapolis Nicollet Creamery Company Theodore Roosevelt United States Senate Senator Platt New York Foreign Missions Methodist Episcopal Cbcrch St. Louis

Capital Gossip and World News Echoes From November

A collage of brief items spans university scandals, violent crimes, political resignations, natural disasters, and civic plans. Notable notes include university affiliations in Nebraska and Iowa, a fatal Riverside shooting, a church steeple crash, a Cannes royal wedding, a Panama independence anniversary, and Des Moines convention bureau launch.

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