Byers Interprets the Election Law
Des Moines Iowa January 28 Attorney General Byers issues an opinion affecting nearly all Iowa cities and towns. It states second class cities with odd year mayors will skip council elections this year while terms extend. Even year mayors vote this year as usual. next year no election. Towns with odd year mayors vote normally in 1908 1909 and 1916 no election thereafter biennial. Even year towns vote now and in 1909 with biennial afterward. The opinion will be mailed statewide to address many inquiries.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Byers
Barber Elopes With Wealthy Aurelia Girl
Lloyd Wilson a popular Aurelia barber and gambler elopes with Miss Gertrude Waddell 20 daughter of wealthy landowner O D Waddell. They drive to Storm Lake leaving behind a penniless family and debts around $1000. Sheriff and warrants issued. reward of $300 offered.
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Aurelia
Lloyd Wilson
Gertrude Waddell
Oo. D. Waddell
Storm Lake
Wilson
Laurey
Northwest
Waddell
Elopers
Evenigs
Dynamite Explosion Wrecks Iowa Town
Mocking, Iowa residents faced a catastrophic blast at 2 a.m. when 500 pounds of dynamite stored in a freight car exploded amid a fire at Hocking Supply. The shock leveled homes, injured four spectators, destroyed twelve boxcars, tore rails, and gutted the business district. Total losses estimated at 60,000 dollars.
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Mocking
Hocking Supply Company
Robberies Follow Closing of Bluffs Gambling Houses
Four burglaries were reported last night in Council Bluffs with about 3500 in loot. The night before two safes were blown open, but the takings were small. A citizen commented on the gambling house closures.
Car of dynamite explodes at mines in Iowa
A car of dynamite exploded at the Hocking mines in Oskaloosa Iowa this morning causing the coal company's store and nearby property to be wrecked the loss estimated at 100000. The blast was felt for miles in all directions with no casualties reported.
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Oskaloosa
Hocking
Waitress Heiress to 200000 Estate of King’s Paramour
Smythe a Cambridge street lunch room waitress in Boston reports from New Brunswick that she is entitled to about 200000 as a great great granddaughter of Marie Fitzherbert famed for a royal match with King Oscar IV of England though not officially recognized. Papers opened at Windsor reveal heirs are to claim shares from a 12000000 fortune with Smythe’s portion estimated at 200000.
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George IV
Windsor Castle
Edward
Heir to wealth killed by train in Dubuque yards
C. B. Brandlee aged 33 of Kansas City was run over and killed by an Illinois Central passenger train in the Dubuque yards while beating his way on the blind baggage. He was the son of a wealthy Kansas City real estate man.
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Dubuque, Ia
Brandlee
Kansas City
Illinois Central
Dubuque Yards
Investigation Ordered Into Fort Dodge Theaters
Fort Dodge Iowa January 23 The mayor and council ordered an investigation of local theaters and public meeting places after a sensational report on the Midland theater by electrician C V Jones.
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Fort Dodge, Ja
Midland
C. V. Jones
Electrician
Prodigious Name Mix Up In Clinton Iowa Storefront
T H Lindleff, a young Clinton grocer, signs only part of his name on his storefront, claiming the initials form a biblical line. His full name reads Through Trials and Tribulations We Shall Enter the Kingdom of Heaven Lindleff, a matter said to have arisen from a random Bible verse chosen in infancy. He omits the full spelling, and hints the H stands for Heaven while debating whether the T stands for Through or Trials.
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Clinton
T. H. Lindleff
Kingdom of Heaven
Lindleff
Leander M. Shubert Nominated for Council Bluffs Surveyor
President sent to the Senate the nomination of Leander M. Shubert to be surveyor of customs at Council Bluffs Iowa. Nomination announced from Washington on January 23. Shubert would oversee customs operations at the port.
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Washington
Senate
Leander M. Shubert
Council Bluffs, Ia
Divorce Ends Another Want Ad Marriage in Sidney
R P Tuten former Fremont County Sun publisher wins divorce from Rebecca Tuten on grounds of desertion. The couple had met through a want ad and the wife has been living in Chicago. This marks his second marriage termination.
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Iowa
WANT
Sidney
R. P. Tuten
Fremont County
Badger Woman Sarah Hanson Dies at 102 in Iowa
Mrs. Sarah Hanson of Badger dies of pneumonia at 102. Born in Norway Maryland she lived 40 years in Webster County Iowa. Survived by husband and a son aged 70. She remained active daily spinning and weaving.
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Badger
Fort Dodge
Sarah Hanson
Norway
Webster County
Divorced Couple, Both 73, Reunite in Fort Dodge Marriage
In Fort Dodge Iowa on January 2 Frances J Johnson and his ex wife reconciled after divorcing at seventy. Johnson had remarried in Beaver City Ohio but his new wife died recently. He returned to Fort Dodge and won consent to remarry his former spouse now aged 73.
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Fort Dodge
Frances J. Johnson
Johnson
Beaver City
Ohio
Texan cleared in old Iowa murder case
Nicholas Pickard of Conroe Texas proved not to be William Pickard sought for the 29 year old Grand View murder. He had been handcuffed, but Grand View residents confirmed he was Mansfield Ohio resident at the time. Sherman Leets returned his ticket and paid $100. The man left Muscatine for Texas the same night.
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Muscatine
Isa
Nicholas Pickard
Conroe
Tex
Wm. Pickard
Wapello
Leets
Grand View
Pickard
Texas
Mansfield
Sherman Leets
Oklahoma
Death of Rufus Ammon in Estherville at 73
Estherville Iowa January 27 Rufus Ammon died Monday of pneumonia at his son Arthur E Ammon home He was 73 and had lived in Estherville since 1887 after moving from Osage Iowa He served with Company H First Regiment California volunteer cavalry as a boy Funeral services were held at the Ammon home Tuesday at 2 pm and the remains sent to Osage Iowa for interment
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Estherville
Rufus Ammon
Arthur E. Ammon
Osage
California Volunteer Cavalry
A. E. Ammarn
Injured in Saloon Sues for Five Thousand Dollars
Ed Mulvehill of this city sues saloonkeeper Eugene Beaufils for 5000 damages for injuries alleged in November 1906. Mulvehill says his wrist was broken his eye injured and a double rupture of the groin from Frank Calhoun who was drunk in the place. Attorneys are A. D. Collier and J. A. Metcalf of Sioux City.
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Mars
Ed Mulvehill
Eugene Beaufils
Mulvehill
Frank Calhoun
Calhoun 18
A. D. Collier
J. A. Metcalf
Sioux City
Mulvehili
Mrs. Hough Affinity Moves West Toward Wyoming
Alonzo Hough and wife, famed as Representative Cottrell's affinity, are packing to move to Wyoming. Mrs. Hough confirms once more that she renounces Cottrell for good.
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Des Moines
Alonzo Hough
Cottrell
Wyoming
Hough
Bomb Wrecks Italian Bank in New York
An explosion destroyed the front of the Italian Pasquale A ali & Son bank on Elizabeth Street. Salvatore Pati, the junior partner, was injured by shattered glass but the money was secured in vaults. About a crowd of Italians gathered as investigators pursued the motive, initially suspected robbery.
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New York
Elizabeth Street
Pasquale Aali
Pati
Holstein Residents Demand Interurban Rail Line
Holstein Iowa residents protest the Sunday train discontinuation on the Northwestern branch. Travelers face 41 hours without eastbound rail service from Saturday evening to Monday noon, while westbound trips are nearly as difficult. Wealthy locals urge an interurban road through herd.
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Holstein
Towa
Miners Re-elects A Duke Of Labor Ends Era Of Mitchell
Indianapolis January 93 The United Workers of American opens its 19th annual convention at Tomlinson Hall with about a thousand delegates from coal regions. The event marks the retirement of President Mitchell after nine years directing the union and his health prevents re election. The body notes growth in paid up membership from 9731 in 1897 to 263726 in 1907 and urges tougher mine safety laws. Secretary Treasury Wilson reports 864000 on hand and argues for a reserve of 10000000 in case of a general strike.
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Indianapolis
United Workers of American
Tomlinson Hall
Mitchell
Wilson
Treasury
Supreme Court Decisions From Des Moines Docket
Decisions handed down today include Hallstad versus Hardin County dismissed and Graham versus Machine Works Delaware modified. Boylan versus McMillan listed as appellant.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Hallstad
Hardin ‘County
Hardin
Graham
Machine Works
Delaware
Boylan
McMillan
Rich wife elopes with Englishman in Paris exile
In Hyeres France on January 27, Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander and London attorney William Graham Blakeston vanished after a note to her husband saying she could not live with him again. Alexander, once counsel for the American embassy in Paris, suspects Blakeston sought Mrs Alexander's fortune from her railroad-man father. He cites years of ill health as a factor.
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Hyeres
Chicago
Henry A. Collins
Elizabeth Wederts
Burlington
Lawyer at Whom Woman Shot Dies of Pneumonia
Samuel R. Hamill of Chicago once counsel for John R. Walsh in a Terre Haute banker’s trial died today from pneumonia. He had been at whom Beatrice Metcalf fired several shots as she left the courtroom, during the recent proceedings.
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Samuel R. Hamill
Chicago
Terre Haute
Ind
John R. Walsh
Beatrice Metcalf
Iowa Judge Upholds Anti Pass Law Test Case
Des Moines reports Judge Zara A. Church sustains the 1907 Iowa anti pass law and declines habeas corpus for H F Schultz of Storm Lake. Schultz challenged the law after being arrested for using a pass, with rails arguing interstate use. appeal expected to reach the supreme court.
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Des Moines
Zara A. Church
Greene County
Iowa
H. F. Schultz
Storm Lake
Illinois Central
H. W. Byers
Schultz
Church
Supreme Court
Judge Church
Attempt to Send Prominent Iowa Surgeon to Asylum
Marshalltown Iowa January 22 Dr H J Getz one of the most prominent medical men in Iowa former president of the International Association of Railway Surgeons was charged with insanity today over continued drug use Getz has retained an attorney and will contest the hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon If found insane he will appeal to the district court Fears for his life followed a prior incident four months ago when he stabbed himself at West Liberty
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Marshalltown
H. J. Getz
Iowa
International Association of Railway Surgeons
Getz
West Liberty
Liquor Fatality Claims Onawa Native
Frank Hilton 35, born and raised in Onawa, died from alcoholic poison after a prolonged spree. Funeral set for tomorrow at his father's Onawa home. Parents Mr and Mrs Theo Hilton are among the town's best known residents.
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Onawa
Frank Hilton
Theo. Hilton
Iowa Attorney General Speaks on Law Enforcement in Council Bluffs
H W Byers addressed a mass meeting at the First Presbyterian Church on law enforcement. He discussed an injunction suit started about eight years ago by J Brown of Cuba Kansas, later dismissed by Judge Co D Wheeler due to Brown’s nonappearance and non-domicile. He urged substitution of other plaintiffs and proper prosecution of the cases.
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LAW Enforcement
Council Bluffs
H. W. Byers
Iowa
Ministerial Association
First Presbyterian Church
J. Brown
Cuba
Kas
Co. D. Wheeler
District Court
Brown
Byers
Iowa Miners Sued For Back Taxes
Oskaloosa Iowa January 22 tax suit filed against United Mine Workers of Iowa to pay 170 in back taxes on a defense fund accumulated over years claimed as charitable and not subject to taxation.
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Oskaloosa
United Mine Workers of Iowa
Sheldon Bank Assets to Be Sold at Auction
The remaining assets of the Sheldon State Bank will be sold at receiver's sale February 1 in Sheldon Iowa. Assets are notes many outlawed and canceled by bankruptcy with face value after credits under 10 000 dollars. Receiver R W Ady has pursued collection since the bank's failure November 3 1903.
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Sheldon
Sheldon State Bank
R. W. Ady
Curator Aldrich Seriously Ill In Boone Home
Hon. Chas. Aldrich curator of the state department of history is seriously ill at his Boone home. Friends fear he is in a critical condition. Des Moines.
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Aldrich
Chas. Aldrich
State Department of History
Boone
Des Moines
North Dakota Gets Episcopal Conference
Des Moines Iowa January 22 the missionary council of the sixth department of the Protestant Episcopal church will meet in Fargo North Dakota in October date to be decided by Bishop William Hobart Hare of South Dakota and secretary Rev Thomas Payne Thurston of Minneapolis.
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North Dakota
Episcopal Conference
Des Moines
Missionary Council of the Sixth Department
Ehqpiscopal Church
Fargo
N. D
William Hobart Hare
South Dakota
Thomas Payne Thurston
Minneapolis
Lord Curzon Elected to Succeed Lord Kilmaine
Dublin reports Lord Curzon viceroy of India won a majority of votes in the election to fill the vacancy among representative peers of Ireland caused by Lord Kilmaine's death.
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Dublin
Lord Curzon
India
Ireland
Lord Kilmaine
Demolition at Wood Norton Marks Bourbon Wedding
Demolition of buildings at Wood Norton London completed at a cost of $50,000 to mark the wedding of Princess Louise and Prince Charles of Bourbon.
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Wood Norton
London
Louise
Prince Charles
Bourbon
Iowan heir 10 fortune gives up farm work
Massena Iowa January 25 J B Sullivan a farmer here has received word he is heir to 150000 bequeathed by a brother who made a fortune in Australian gold fields Sullivan will leave the farm and move to Chicago to enjoy life Des Moines January 25 H E Sampson argued the Des Moines plan case before the supreme court with other lawyers on the briefs the court may decide after reconvening February 1 and not before then officials and attorneys for the parties are listed
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Massena
J. B. Sullivan
Sullivan
Chicago
Des Moines
H. E. Sampson
Supreme Court
W. H. Bremmer
M. H
Rough Rider Heads Des Moines Ticket
After numerous conferences a 300 member committee chose a slate backed by businessmen for Des Moines city offices. Eugene Waterbury for mayor, with council candidates Charles Worth H C Evans J R Hanna and B S Walker. Evans is a soninlaw of General J B Weaver.
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Des Moines
Eugene Waterbury
Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Charles Worth
East Des Moines
H. C. Evans
West Des Moines
J. R. Hanna
North Des Moines
B. 8
Walker
South Des Moines
John McVicar
Vicar
Worth
Hanna
Highland Park
Rock Island Eyes Closing Eight Stations to Cut Costs
Des Moines Jan 2 The Rock Island plans to close eight depots to reduce expenses provoking protest from Fairmount. The case has been submitted to the railroad commission. Other lines may shutter many stations as well.
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Des Moines
Rock Island
Fairmount
Railroad Commission
Central Trains Hit Open Switch in Iowa Crash
A Central passenger train derailed at an open switch near Dubuque Iowa when it ran into a switched track at Dyersville. The car overturned but no injuries were reported for passengers or crew.
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Dubuque, Fa
Dyersville
Mai
Dahl pleads not guilty in Bowen slaying case
Fort Dodge Iowa January report shows Dr. Dahl arraigned for manslaughter in Dora Bowen death and entering a not guilty plea. Judge Wright assigns trial for the fourth week of February term. Bowen sues for $26000 against estate administrator as part of the action.
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Fort Dodge
Dahl
Dora Bowen
Wright
Bowen
Letter mailed 43 years ago finally reaches writer
Washington Pa January 26 43 years after he wrote it David H Sumney a Civil War soldier sent a letter to his brother Daniel Sumney near Washington The missive traveled the nation and even visited the local post office before being received by the author who notes he has lost a pair of boots and jokes about stolen footwear Daniel Sumney died three years earlier The envelope was nearly worn through by the journey
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Washington, Pa
David H. Sumney
Washington County
Daniel Sumney
Washington
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