General Assembly Ends Busy Session in Des Moines
The Thirty third general assembly adjourned after a long session. A revenue bill set state taxes at 4.6 million for the biennium, and 279 bills passed. A new nine member state board of education would replace the old trustees. The Whipple bill gives executive council removal power for cause. Prohibition failed but saloon restrictions remained. F. F. Jones of Villisca, a governor appointee to the board of control, was turned down by the senate 26 to against confirmation.
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Des Moines Lineman Dies After Live Wire Contact
Des Moines on April 13 Patrick Dunleavy was electrocuted while working on an Iowa Telephone pole in Highland Park. Benjamin Sickler, burned and severely shocked, fell twenty five feet while aiding Dunleavy. both men were linemen for the Iowa Telephone Company. Sickler survived, hospitalized at Mercy, with improving prospects.
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Rock Island plans double track extension to Des Moines
Des Moines reports the Rock Island line will extend its second track from Iowa City to Des Moines with construction starting by June. The project includes an electric signal system westward to Valley Junction and enhanced facilities for faster traffic flow, funded after executive board chair Daniel G Reid’s Europe trip.
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Clayton Convicted in Manslaughter Murder Charge
Sioux City April 12 The jury finds Harry Red Clayton guilty of manslaughter in the shooting of Mell Powers, a Missouri river captain and boat owner, on the night of June 29, 1908. Clayton claimed it was an accident while aiming at Al Scheeler.
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Bolt Strikes Three Homes in Des Moines
A bolt damaged Grace M. B church at Nineteenth and Crocker and struck Butler flats at Sixteenth and Grand, and three dwellings near Seventeenth and East Co streets. All three houses suffered damage in one strike but every occupant was spared.
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Bogus Priest In Confessional At St Patrick’s Church
In Iowa City an unknown man occupied the confessional at St Patrick’s during Father Ward’s absence. A female observer saw no stole through the grating and, upon questioning, the man fled the church. Ottumwa Sinks Wins Victory. In Ottumwa district court Judge Vermillion refused a temporary restraining order against two saloons reopened after a closing petition was rejected in police court. The Law and Order league plans a Monday hearing as the establishments resume brisk business.
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Sidney Widow on Warpath Firing Revolver at Former Auditor
In Sidney Iowa on April 13 Mrs. C M Swearingen widow of Colonel Swearingen fired a revolver at Roscoe Williams former county auditor while he rode a wagon and escaped unharmed. She was jailed and may plead insanity. Both are longtime prominent residents. A separate note from Hiwood Iowa reports a new interurban line from Davenport to Dubuque will soon begin construction, passing Clinton Delmar Maquoketa and other towns with Dubuque as the terminus.
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Fort To Separate The Men In Cold Blood Murder Case
Scheeler testified on the stand denying the quarrel and maintaining it was a cold blooded murder. The defense disputed the events claiming motives and sequence remain unclear amid the proceedings.
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Woman Kidnaps Daughter Shocks Marshalltown Community
In Marshalltown Iowa on April 12 Mrs H G Kreis allegedly abducted her seven year old daughter Lucile Colebourne from her aunt Mrs Frank Ensminger of Gilman. The pair escaped through an alley and were not yet located by sheriff officers. Ensminger as guardian has a supreme court suit seeking custody. Police believe the couple fled town by automobile.
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H. G. Kreis
Lucile Colebourne
Frank Ensminger
Gilman
Three Girls Killed By Train Near Dubuque
In Dubuque Iowa on April 12 an Illinois Central passenger train struck and killed three girls, Anna Mabel and Ruby Foldorff aged seven eight and fourteen, four miles west of the city. They walked the track with heads down due to a strong wind, failing to see the oncoming train. the engineer could not stop in time.
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Iowa Supreme Court Rules Tax on Collateral Heirs
The state of Iowa won a tax case in the supreme court involving the estate of the late George Wells in Grundy county. Two wills left and no direct heirs led to a settlement where three collateral heirs received 150000 to drop a contest, with the state entitled to collateral inheritance tax on this payment. The $10000 case sets a precedent valuable in other matters.
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