State Council Angered Promoters Over Rail Proposal
Waterloo Iowa Jan 2. Cities including Waterloo Grinnell Chariton and Pella mobilize against the Iowa executive council after it refuses a stock issue to fund the Waterloo Pella and Southwestern railroad. Promoters say the line is worth 50 000 to 60 000 per mile and seek 700 000 to cover bond discounts. officials warn bonds cannot be issued without council approval.
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Waterloo
Executive Council
Iowa
Grinnell
Chariton
Pella
Peterson
Tthe
E. A. King
Thie
Courageous Hunter Slays First Cerro Gordo Bear
Plymouth Iowa January 9 The first and only bear ever killed in Cerro Gordo county was shot by W S Holcomb four miles east of town. He fired a single shot at a young black bear, brought the carcass to town, and bear meat was served at the local meat market while authorities learned the bear’s origin.
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Plymouth
Cerro Gordo County
W. S. Holcomb
Indictment Returned Against Clerk Battey
Two indictments were returned by the district court grand jury against H. V. Battey, former clerk of the district court, charging embezzlement of $700 in office fees and forgery for alleged erasure and alteration of office records.
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District Court
H. V. Battey
Battey
Wealthy farmer ends life by gun at Iowa farm
In Manson Iowa B H Johnson a wealthy prominent farmer shot the right side of his face and brain in an upstairs room of his farm house. He left a note saying a headache drove him to kill himself and asked his wife and family to forgive him. He died within hours as doctors feared impending death.
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Manson
B. H. Johnson
Iowa stockholders ask an accounting in federal court
Town stockholders in the Denver and Northwestern Fuel company filed a petition in federal court alleging misappropriation of funds wrongful transfer of stock and company property to the Union Land company by six Denver men.
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Denver
Denver & Northwestern Fuel Company
Union Land Company
Robbers Blow Up Bank in Melvin Nebraska
Robbers forced entry to the First National Bank of Melvin between 2 and 3 am and blew the outer safe door with nitro glycerin but could not open the inner time-locked door. They escaped on a handcar south, later abandoned near Hartley. The explosion damaged the stone building and shattered the plate glass front. cashier George A. Romey notified the sheriff.
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Sibley
Hartley
More suits against keepers of saloons in Davenport
Davenport Iowa January 2 ten more suits were filed today against saloonkeepers for violating the mulet law bringing the total to twenty one. The civic federation is active in enforcing the strict letter of the law.
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Davenport
Civic Federation
Confidential clerk vanishes over accounting shortage
Marshalltown Iowa January 2 Charles PD Swick confidential clerk in the retail coal business of President George Gregory of the Iowa Nebraska Coal Dealers association disappeared suddenly leaving a note confessing a shortage in his accounts and intimating he would commit death by his own hand. The shortage amounts to about $200. Swick is well known in Iowa as an Odd Fellow.
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Marshalltown
Charles PD. Swick
George Gregory
Iowa-Nebraska Coal Dealers’ Association
Swick
Iowa
Elopement Rumor Tangles Ida. Drugist and Deserted Wife
Otto Anderson a leading druggist and Mrs Minne Trissler owner of a general store eloped from Des Moines and returned to Sheldahl Iowa where crowds greeted them then both disappeared Detectives investigate and a writ of attachment closes Anderson drug store. A separate suit seeks 46000 from Milwaukee railroad over a train whistle frightening Lambert mules causing a runaway and injuries near West Union Iowa.
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Sheldahl
Ita
Otto Anderson
Minne Trissler
Des Moines
Nderson
Anderson
Mason City
George Lambert
West Union
Milwaukee Railroad
Lincoln's Birthday as Iowa Legal Holiday Proposed
Petitions circulated in Iowa Falls to add Lincoln's birthday February 12 as a legal holiday. Supporters plan to present the measure to the January legislature urging both houses to amend the holiday statute to include the Lincoln anniversary.
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Iowa Falls
Iowa
Lincoln
Actor killed by husband of woman actor in Denver
C Burbett Bell a laundry worker fired five shots at C Cavier Dury known as J Byron Allenton in a hallway of a rooming house. Dury died instantly. Bell surrendered and Mrs Bell remains in custody. Bell claims Dury influenced his wife to desert him. Dury had moved from Cincinnati three years ago with his consumptive wife now living with her mother in Englewood. Bell is a Dayton native.
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Denver
C. Burbett Bell
C. Cavier Dury
J. Byron Allenton
Dury
Bell
Queen Envy and the Reporter on a Railway Platform
Queen Maud of Norway noted for simplicity and humility once wrote a line in a passerby reporter’s notebook. She slipped away the page with the note I wish I were a reporter, revealing a candid moment on a railway platform.
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Christiana
Queen Maud
Norway
Princess Charles
Denmark
Tussaud
Wwaxworks
Father’s marriage triggers fatal shooting on Iowa farm
Edward McNamara, in Worth county jail, is accused of killing his father on a Grafton area farm after a dispute over the planned marriage to Miss Kate Coran. Police report says Ed, upset by a proposed property division, shot multiple times and the elder McNamara died at the scene.
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Mason City
Edward McNamara
Worth County
Grafton
MacNamara
McNamara
Kate Coran
Shotgun Paddle Wounds Teen in Fraternity Prank
Thomas Harvey 16 of Council Bluffs Iowa was badly wounded by a so called shotgun oldie a blank cartridge fired against his hip. The blast tore a three inch wound and damaged the lower spine with tetanus feared. He lies at Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital under Dr. Thomas B. Lacey care.
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Council Bluffs
Thomas Harvey
Febe. Harvey
Park Ave
Harvey
Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital
Thomas B. Lacey
Enraged Youth Fires Birdshot at Hunters in Forest City
In Forest City Iowa on December 30 three youths returning from a hunt clashed with three farmers. Lyle Prescott struck by a whip fired a shotgun wounding one man with birdshot. The youths Lyle Prescott Kenneth Christian and a son of Superintendent Brown were arrested and face a Monday hearing.
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Forest City
Lyle Prescott
Prescott
Kenneth Christian
Brown
Miss Mills Relatives Cut Her Wedding Plans
New York date line reports Be atrice Mills will wed the Earl of Granard on January 14 at her parents home. Grandfather Darius O. Mills plans a winter in California. Aunt Mrs Whitelaw Reid, wife of the ambassador, joins them. Mills and Reid depart soon, without explanation, stirring speculation.
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New York
Beatrice Mills
Earl of Granard
Ogden Mills
East Sixty-ninth St
Darius O. Mills
California
Whitelaw Reid
Court of St. James
Earl of Gran
Sam Small Admits Smoking Cigarettes in Interview
Oskaloosa Iowa December 30 An interview reveals Rev Sam Small admitted smoking cigarettes incessantly until two weeks ago. He spoke here three times in support of prohibition efforts.
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Oskaloosa
Sam Small
Returned to Answer to Embezzlement Charge in Sibley
R L Wolf, of Sibley Iowa, was brought back from Montana by Sheriff F L Stevens and awaits a court hearing on embezzlement charges involving $760 from Asthon Farmers Elevator Co He contends he did not steal the money and claims accounting errors may explain the discrepancy given his limited accounting experience.
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Sibley
R. L. Wolf
Montana
F. L. Stevens
Asthon Farmers’ Elevator Co
Stevens
Huntley
Mont
Wolf
Cowboy Baronet To Do Stage Turn At Hippodrome
London dispatch reports Sir Gentlie Cave Brown Cave will perform as a variety artist at the Hippodrome. His act features a dramatized climax about cattle raiding in America before he inherited the baronetcy after a global wandering life.
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London
Gentlie Cave- Brown-Cave
Hippodrome
America
Genilie
Petition Drives Removal of Ruthven School Superintendent
Fifty local residents sign to remove Superintendent Welty of Ruthven public schools amid a probe into a charge that he attempted to kiss a woman teacher. The case moves forward as inquiries continue.
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Ruthven
Welty
Stranger Kills Himself at Kiel Hotel in Council Bluffs
A man identifying as William Johnson from Montana killed himself with carbolic acid in a Kiel hotel room Saturday night. His body was found Sunday morning by the hotel porter. No inquest will be held. authorities seek relatives as no letters or identifying papers were found.
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Council Bluffs
William Johnson
Montana
Kiel Hotel
Major Howell Wins Fifty Fourth Regiment Col Election
In Iowa City on December 31 Major R P Howell from this city received 360 votes to 214 for Lieutenant Colonel Lambert of Newton in the election for colonel of the Fifty fourth regiment I N G last night.
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Iowa City
R. P. Howell
Lambert
Newton
Fifty-fourth Regiment
Spencer Bars Dance Halls and Skating Rinks
Spencer Iowa council passes an ordinance making skating rinks and public dance halls illegal in town after an altercation where J and Johnson struck cashier Mrs Anna Brown. The measure also bans fortune tellers clairvoyants and palmists. Johnson still holds a skating rink license but faces misdemeanor under the new rule.
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Spencer
J. &. Johnson
Anna Brown
Johnson
Byers Plan For State Law Officials Gaining Unified Power
Des Moines reports Attorney General Byers advocates organizing Iowa law enforcers into one agency with removal powers. Governors and executive council appeal options are debated while Governor Warren Garst and Auditor-elect Carroll weigh the plan and the role of the supreme court in removals.
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Des Moines
Byers
Executive Council
Supreme Court
Warren Garst
Garst
Carroll
Iowa
Juror Arrested on Rail Car Breaking Charge
Council Bluffs Iowa December 28 Charles Sayles a juror at the current district court term was arrested on a bench warrant under indictment charging him with breaking and entering a railroad car Sayles had served as juror in several trials and was indicted with Harry Hall.
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Council Bluffs
Charles Sayles
District Court
Benc
Sayles
Harry Hall
Medical Association Names Annual Officers
Esteerville IA December meeting of the Emmet County Medical Association elected Dr J B Knipe of Armstrong as president Dr Albert Anderson of Estherville as vice president Dr L F Richardson of Estherville as secretary and treasurer and Dr G A Woodcock of Armstrong as censor for the ensuing year.
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Esteerville
Emmet County Medical Association
J. B. Knipe
Armstrong
Albert Anderson
Estherville
L. F. Richardson
G. A. Woodcock
Traveling men tell rabbit story from Illinois to Decorah
A Mason City traveler reports a December train ride from Calmar Junction to Decorah where the Milwaukee line crew reportedly bagged 230 rabbits. He says the fireman and engineer fired with repeating shotguns, the train collected rabbits, and the brakeman picked up those killed at the caboose. The train arrived in Decorah on time.
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Mason City
Milwaukee
Calmar Junction
Decorah
Man Dies In Burning Barn At Kingsley Iowa
R A Jones 60 a well driller bachelor died in a fire that destroyed the Tibbits barn where he kept his horse. He was last seen intoxicated wandering near the barn with a lit pipe. The blaze spread to a second barn behind the Hotel Stowell. total loss about 600 dollars.
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Kingsley
R. A. Jones
Bachelor Affinity Sues Abbie Rice's Mother
N H Ruby sues Mrs Hattie Clarey mother of Abbie Rice seeking 1900 dollars claiming the amount he advanced two years prior. He argues she aims to erase the debt by forcing marriage.
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Sues
Abbie Rice
Des Moines
N. H
Ruby
Hattie Clarey
Clarey
Pupils Tour Des Moines Police Court To Learn Dangers Of Drink
Principal M. F. Morgan led 18 Altoona school pupils to the Des Moines police court to view the effects of liquor on Sunday drinkers. The group then toured jail cells and the detectives office to see crime relics and police work firsthand.
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Des Moines
M. F. Morgan
Altoona
Famous Sugar Refiner Clare Spreckels Dies at 80
San Francisco reports the death of Clare Spreckels, renowned sugar magnate, from pneumonia at age eighty. Born in 1828 in Lamstedt, Germany, he arrived in the United States in 1847, built a San Francisco store and brewery, founded Bay Sugar refinery in 1863, and became a leading investor in sugar properties and Oceanic Steamship Company.
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San Francisco
Cal
Clare Spreckels
Spreckels
New York
Hee
Lamsted
Hanover
United States
Charleston
D. C
Bay
Hawaii
California
Oceanic Steamship Company
Honolulu
Baron Cotte Killed in Clash With Revolutionaries
Moscow December 29 Baron Cotte chief of the secret political police was killed and Colonel Muraki wounded in a fierce battle with revolutionaries in a suburban villa. Police and troops fought amid heavy fire until artillery ended the siege. Widespread losses reported among the revolutionaries.
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Moscow
Baron Cotte
Muraki
Cotte
Mar
Standard Oil protests unfounded statements in press
The Standard Oil Company issues a public protest and warning in the New York World against false claims linking it to the Corn Refining Company or a proposed smelting ventures. It asserts no outside influence and demands that only executive officials or designated attorneys verify any statements.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
New York World
Broadway
Standard On Company
Corn Uc Refining Company
Urd Oil Company
Standard OU
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Ite
Chas, T. White
Asst
Burns Leases Entire Hotel For Defense Witnesses
James Burns, the defendant in the Doyle case, has leased all rooms in Henwood's only hotel for himself his attorneys and witnesses ahead of the January term in Mills County district court. Doyle and his counsel must find quarters elsewhere.
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Henwood
James Burns
Doyle
Burns
Mills County
James Corrigan Dies After Appendicitis Operation
James Corrigan aged 79 of Cleveland died after an operation for appendicitis. The story notes his long financial battles with John D. Rockefeller and his gains in ore coal vessel and furnace businesses.
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James Corrigan
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Missing cashier seen in Texas
John Standling former cashier of the State Bank of Corwith Iowa was reportedly seen in El Paso Texas by Iowa visitors. He has been missing since November of last year as creditors prepare to offer a large reward for his apprehension and claims against the bank total about $20000.
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Fort Dodge
John Standling
State Bank of
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