HAWK EYE S AN Wl STATE: NEWS
Interesting items from across Iowa report record pig sales by Isaac Overton in Knoxville township with six month old animals fetching up to 150 dollars and other animals selling for 85 to 134 dollars. The roundup covers accidents, arrests, elections, and local industry developments across towns from Dubuque to Des Moines, including revival meetings, bridge collapses, and plan to extend transmission lines.
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Isaac Overton
Knoxville Township
Marion County
Michigan
Ritter
Mississippi
Matt Dugan
Cr. M. Dug
Russell Rogerson
Eldon
Young Rogerson
Iowa
A. H. Corey
Des Moines
Congress
William Koch
Yeomen
Hawkeye Highway
Dubuque County
Rockwell City
B. J. Burgin
LeRoy R. Tillotson
Howard A. Whitten
Dan Henry
Santa Fe
Fort Madison
Ambrose Sayles
McPherson
Council Bluffs
Leslie Thomas
Henry Gonzolleys
Sayles
Marjorie Sarver
Ernest Sarver
Oskoeloosa
Uke
McGregor
Monona
Claude
Maude Blakely
Councy Bluffs
Monroe County District Court
Albia
C. D. Donalson
Cole Creamery Company
Justice Creager
Logan
Margaret Collins
Corneilman
F. W. Collins
Ft. Dodge
Sum of World Events Briefed for Busy Readers
Washington reports urge quick labor law passage with AFL chief Gompers pressing President Wilson. Tariff men set a $3000 income exemption, $4000 for war era relief. Wilson cites U.S. moral aims in Mexico, Huerta non-candidacy. Navy course extended. officers pay own baggage. Agriculture to hold corn grading hearing October 29. Will of William Gaynor bequeaths Brooklyn home and stock. Sulzer impeachment case gains new testimony. Alabama train robbery suspects jailed. $50,000 loot. Yukon river navigation near end of season. Tampa area judge reports rail cost concerns. Panama Canal progress marked by Gatun lock passage. Folk appointed solicitor for the Washington department. Mint theft rumors persist. Massachusetts probes New Haven payrolls. South American corn shipment reaches New York. Baseball commission sets World Series opener in New York. Thaw extradition case advances in New Hampshire. Mexico’s Gamboa and Rascon nominated for presidency and vice presidency. A Mexican train bombing kills fifty.
Foreign Frederick Penfield Named US Ambassador to Austin
Foreign Frederick Penfield, new United States ambassador to Austin, was received in special audience by Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna. Further conferences of the provisional Ulster government to administer affairs have been checked by Sir Edward Carson’s illness and bed rest. A mutiny broke out in a battalion of the Spanish Royal guard as troops left Algeciras for Morocco. The standard bearer was killed and several injured. Roland Gartoz made a Mediterranean flight from St Raphael to Tunis, a direct line of 600 miles. The first tea party aboard an airship occurred on the Zeppelin Bachgen near Berlin with 12 women and eight men as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Penfield
United States
Austin
Emperor Francis Joseph
Vienna
Provisional
Ulster
Edward Carson
Ulster Unionists
Mediterranean
St. Raphael
Bizerth
Tunis
Roland G. Gartoz
Feist- Wollhelm
Berlin
Germany
Zepperlin
Notable figures injured or slain in early 20th century crimes and disasters
Personal D. J. Campau, a Michigan politician and horseman allied with W. J. Bryan, lies injured in Harbor Hospital Detroit after a car crash. J. P. Pearson, a Minneapolis grocer, shot during a robbery attempt that failed to seize receipts. Samuel E. B. Marts of Limon, Colorado, a Rocksland freight conductor, killed by a tramp who earlier robbed Brakeman Reed. a fugitive is pursued. Captain J. R. Begipston, last survivor of the Confederate ironclad Merrimac, dies at Sewanee Tennessee. Proceedings report manslaughter charges against Tommy Burns. Luther McGarty dies near Calgary, Alberta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Campau
W. J. Bryan
Michigan
Harbor Hospital
Detroit
Mich
Samuel EB. Marts
Limon
Colo. A
Rocksland
Reed
Iowa suffrage group plans fund drive for Panama Exposition
The Iowa Equal Suffrage Association heads toward its annual four day convention in Boone with pride over the recent passage of the equal suffrage amendment. Waterloo will seek to finance its San Francisco Town building for the Panama Pacific Exposition, with a special chamber of commerce report due in October. Plans may raise $25,000 to $50,000 as Waterloo becomes the first city to back a state building when the legislature failed to fund it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa wreck wipes out beef and property in ditch
A Rock Island fast freight of twenty refrigerated cars derailed at Metz, thirty miles east of Des Moines, destroying about 100000 dollars in dressed beef and 150000 dollars in junk. The swinging meat aboard caused cars to lift from the track, with the train possibly leaving the rails as momentum carried the cars along. The crew escaped with only minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Rock Island
Metz
RESULT OF DRUNKEN MAN'S DEED IN IOWA NEWS
A Des Moines shooting from March 25 1911 surfaced in Council Bluffs involving Dr Harry D Kelly who killed deputy Clarente Woolman on his way to Knoxville. Mrs Woolman received insurance and widow pension funds, then used the money to support five children amid her poor health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Harry D. Kelly
Clarente Woolman
Pottawattamie County
Woolman
Knoxville
Dr. Kelly
Plan Country Life Meets In Anamosa Jones County
Five country life institutes will be held in Jones county during the middle of November under the direction of the department of church and country life of the Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plan Country Life
Anamosa
Jones County
Department of Church and Country
Ifc
The
Presbyterian Church
Foresters at Oxford Initiate Class of Twenty-Two
The Catholic Order of Foresters at Oxford initiated a class of twenty two candidates. About one hundred Foresters from eastern towns witnessed the ceremony and shared in the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Catholic Order of Foresters At
Lows
Wesleyan Knox Homecoming Plan At Iowa Wesleyan College
Authorities set October 11 for a homecoming event honoring old graduates and former students. The plan centers on the Wesleyan Knox football game at Mount Pleasant with activities tied to commemorating past college affiliates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Sampal
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Keokuk
Manly
People's Gas and Electric” Company
Mason City
Grantid.a
John Bernhard
Watertoo
Young Aeroplane Company
Kansas City
Clarence
John Gill
Durant
Davenport
Purity Oats Company
Lissie Bastese
Clayton
Nora Springs
F. F. Faviile
T. B. Saunders
Omaha
Hamburg
Board of Supervisors
Sac County
Coon Valley
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Clinton
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Carroll D. Power
Jeff Miner
Modale
Ackley
Hardin County
Iowa Falls
Los Angeles
Calif
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W. B. Crewdson
Christian Church
Elliott
Kossuth
Jon Long
Centerville
Malvern
Lindley
Rodgers and Wilson
Frank Smith
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Edward McGraw
le Mars
P. ©. Mote
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Grand Jury
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Estherville
North Dakota
Minnesota
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Wilson
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mexico
Huerta
Daniels Kan
Naval
Comptroller of the Treasury
Downey
Army
Department of Agriculture
Wiliam J. Gaynor
New York
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Royal Beking Powder Company
William Sulzer
D. W. Peck
Public Works
Sulzer
Henry Morgenthau
National Democratic Committee
Morgenthau
Eutaw
Ala
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Bibbeville Siding
Als
Yukon
White Horse
Dawson
Vancouver
Max Blanck
Triangle Walst Company
Panama Canal
Gatun
Gatun Lake
State
Department
Joseph W. Folk
Folk
Foss
Massachusetts
Macleod
Public Service Commission
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Buenos Aires
National Baseball Commission
Philadelphia
Giants
Harry K. Thaw
William Travera Jerome
New York State
Felker
Concord
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Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Fredarico Gamboa
Catholic Party
Mexico City
Eugenie Rascon
Senor Gamboa
Mexican National Railway
Saltillo
Nuevo Laredo
J. P. Pearson
Minneapolis
J. R. Begipston
Merrimac
Sewanee
Tommy Burny
Luther MaGarty
Calgary
Alberta
Jagt May
Pording
Waterloo
Bluffs
Harry Kelly
Ames
John Tallman
Squaw Creek
State College
Iowa Bank
Manchester
Dundee Savings Bank of
Dundee
Gontervillas-Tha
Dax'v
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Richfield
Dietrich
Shoshone
Gooding
Lincoln
Idaho Irrigation Co., Ltd
Carter
Silver Foxes
Weite
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Forest Park Bouleverd
Loula
Alrast
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