Peculiar Accidents and Public Notes From Des Moines to Hamburg
Des Moines reports a peculiar accident in Hamburg where Brandy Butler died after a knife blade pierced his leg during a casual whittling stroll. Burlington man George W. Clayton faces fine and jail time for mailing obscene material, while Adolph G. Studer returns from consul posts and Anamosa prison inquiry uncovers payroll fraud by a clerk. Iowa at the fair aims for a grand commonwealth showcase with mass attendance planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Hamburg
Butler
Adolph G. Studer
Barmen
Germany
Harrison
Rounseville Williams
Singapore
E. Spencer Pratt
Alabama
Mr. Studer
Anamosa Prison
Penitentiary Investigating Committee
John C. Mitchell
Albert W. Swalm
James McCann
Boies
Anamosa
Madden
William Harlow
Harry Smith
P. Scrogg
Iowa
Towa
Hawk‘eye
Epworth League Sets Creston Convention Dates
The state Epworth League executive committee fixed September 1 to 3 in Creston for the next district convention with about 300 delegates expected from the district. It reports 800 chapters and 64 000 members in the state, with rapid growth of seven new chapters weekly.
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Epworth League
Afton
Creston
Lizzie Borden Taught School Near Glenwood Iowa
Lizzie Borden who was acquitted in Massachusetts lived near Glenwood Mills County Iowa from 1870 to 1883. Andrew Borden and family farmed just outside Glenwood where he married the stepmother Lizzie is said to have opposed. While the Bordens resided there Lizzie taught in country districts and spent little time at home.
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Lizzie Borden
Massachusetts
Glenwood
Mills County
Andrew Borden
Lizzie
Bordens
Glenwool
Union Trust Company Fails In Receiver Hands
The Union Trust Company with headquarters in Sioux City and main office in Kansas City is placed in the hands of receiver James Doughty. It reports paid-up capital of 69 000, 100 000 surplus, assets totaling 333 545 in stocks and cash and 123 083 in lands and mortgages, with liabilities of 550 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Trust Company
Sioux City
Kansas City
James Doughty
Fatal Shooting in Ottumwa Suburb Shocks Town
Amelia Evans shoots Thomas L. Lloyd five times in a Keb mining area wood after Lloyd allegedly slandered her and prompted separation with Jenkin Evans. The couple, once divided, lured Lloyd to a secluded spot where Evans fired the fatal volley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Lloyd
Amelia Evans
Keb
Ottumwa
Jenkin Evans
Amelia
Lloyd
Le Mars Secures Clothing Factory Site
Le Mars has secured a site for an overall and ready made clothing factory. A $3600 bonus will help erect a three story building. The plant is expected to employ 70 to 100 workers and start immediately with operations planned by January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Mars
Heart Breaks Iowa Woman in Sudden Burlington Death
Mrs Gus Walden died suddenly in Burlington. Post mortem revealed the heart burst by a convulsion or emotion despite her apparent good health. Doctors call it the only known case of heart breaking in Iowa physicians records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Gus Walden
Iowa
Miner Kills Wife Then Himself Over Money
Alexander Carey a 68 year old miner killed his wife at Oskaloosa by firing three shots into her body and then killed himself. He left letters indicating careful planning and motive rooted in money his wife owned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Carey
Oskaloosa
Twenty Eighth Iowa Sunday School Convention Held
Iowa news notes a Chariton gathering for the twenty eighth annual conv ention of the Iowa Sunday school association. Other items report Burlington builders Bennett and Franz facing 25000 in debts, Mary Muth leg amputation after a train jump, and various local tragedies and legal actions across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Sunday-school Association
Chariton
Bennett & Franz
Burlington
Mary Muth
Monona
Mason City
D. O. C. McCarthy
Lyons
Parson
Kan
William
Tesa Jones
E. R. Jones
Marshalltown
Frank Moriarty
Oskaloosa
Moriarty
Anthony McCabe
Whitmore
Henry Zimmerman
John Bascom
Sioux City
Zimmerman
Bascom
R. A. van Angelbeek
Des Moines
Davis
Henry Collier
Creston
Boone
Empire Manufacturing Company
Keokuk
Annie Middleton
Iowa
Afton Normal and Business College
H. H. Kellogg
State Board of Medical Examiners
Ebenezer Davenport
Davenport
Charles Wilson
New London
Fairfield
Peter Guthen
Mallard
St. James
Emmetsburg
Reiben
West Bend
Ole Nesse
Sioux City & Pacific
C. J. Fields
Cedar Falls
Des Moines Valley Medical Association
Ottumwa
H. C. Eschbach
Albia
Deadly Iowa cyclone leaves towns ruined and many killed
A string of Iowa towns including Pomeroy Fonda Cherokee Morningside suffered devastating cyclones on July 7. Reports indicate between fifty and one hundred deaths with hundreds injured. towns faced blackout, hospitals in churches, and widespread destruction to homes, barns, and crops.
Short in His Accounts Leaves Ex-Sheriff Missing
Joseph Curtis former Brooks county sheriff from Wellsburg West Virginia is reported short about 340000 in his accounts. He left home Monday claiming to go to Zanesville Ohio and has not been seen since. His bond does not cover his liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waeewine
W. Va
Joseph Curtis
Brooks County
Wellsburg
Zanesville
Demand the Silver Law’s Repeal
New York July 7 At a meeting of prominent businessmen resolutions were adopted calling for the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act A committee was appointed to go to Washington and work for repeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington
Fate of a Fiend: Mob Hangs Slayer in Kentucky
Sean J. Miller accused of murdering Mary and Ruby Ray was hanged at Bardwell Ky and his body mutilated and burned after a mob swarmed the depot. The crowd, about 5 000 strong, carried out the act despite appeals from the victim’s father John Ray and Miller’s protestations of innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay
Kentucky
Baronet
Sean J. Miller
Mary
Ruby Ray
Cairo
Sikeston
Bard's Point
Wickliffe
Frank Gordon
Mississippi River
Miller
John Ray
Sheriff Hudson
Springfield
North Second Street
Hudson
Ray
Downs & Hart Mill
Sprinereip
Bardwell
State House
African Methodist Church
World facts and figures from a late 19th century atlas
The extract lists varied data points including 18,000,000 sheep in New Zealand, Bank of England discount rate cut to 3 percent, 1852 introduction of gutta percha to Europe from Malaya, annual consumption of 4,000,000 pounds, Pomona orange yields from an 17 year old grove producing 3,500 boxes from six acres, two trees yielding 35 boxes, New South Wales May revenue down £120,090 versus 1892, customs down £50,000 and railway receipts down £39,000, pampas grass covering 1,500,000 square miles in South America, and market cultivation of pampas grass in California starting 1872 with a 28 acre ranch yielding 260,000 plumes in 1890.
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New Zealand
Bank of England
Europe
Malaya
Pomona
Cal
New South Wales
South America
California
Men of Might and Means
Gov Norrarn of Georgia is an old school teacher who spends much time at school institutes and commencements. Dr G C Granpsox a colored former Bennett college president is a noted orator with a touch of Indian heritage. A new president of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railroad, age forty one, leads a company with four hundred million dollars capital and twenty five thousand employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Wind Cyclone Devastation Hits Pomeroy Iowa Death Toll Rises
Within minutes a cyclone struck Quimby and Pomeroy Iowa causing at least seventy four dead and over one hundred injured. Five blocks of homes wiped out leaving 200 families homeless as churches and key buildings collapsed. Governors appeal for funds tents and relief to aid the afflicted and restore the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Doper
Pomeroy
Calhoun County
Illinois Central
W. E. Davie
White
L. W. Moody
Fonna
John Detwiler
Fonda
Amos H. Garton
Ed. Sargent
Sam Hersham
D. E. Miller
Meripen
Cherokee County
Cherokee
Srovux City
Buena Vista
Ida, Sac
Pocahontas
Quimby
Allen Warburton
Manson
Jacob Beecher
Charles Lotman
Thomas Wall
Joseph Slate
Thomas Johnson
Henry Straub
W. R. Clemens
Lakefield
Minn
Fort Doner
Bessie Banks
Neary
Thomas Harmond
Andrew J. Wilkinson
John Anderson
Hughett
Silas Buston
Neiting and Son
Frank Johnson
Benjamin Davis
Lillie Kiefer
Roy Banks
Ollie Frost
Arnold
Marie Adams
Harton
Maine
Lovejoy
C. R. George
E. O. Davis
Ollie Lundgren
Katie Davy
O'Brien
B. J. Harlowe
Tabert
Beckley
John Beckley
Dilmith
J. P. Lundgren
Molyneux
Lester
Aurelia
Samuel Burch
Mr. Johnson
Lillie
Belle Slattery
John Peters
Newell
Creroxkee
Des Moings
Boies
Cepar Rapids
Wright County
Norway Township
Labien
Schmidt
Iowa
Honack Bores
Queer Ways of Queer People Across Cultures
A compilation of curious beliefs about sexuality and marriage from diverse peoples. It notes Pacific Northwest Indians as inventors of the telephone chatter, South Sea islanders seeking paradise through physical perfection, Armenians fearing fasts if a maiden remains unwed, and Creeks tracing Pansvora as the first woman gifted by the gods with Venus beauty Mercury flattery and Minerva skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Northwest
South Sea
Pansvora
Venus
Mercury
Minerva
Figures and fees in a fragmentary 19th century note
The fragment notes the German emperor’s exclusive right to a couch in Berlin and a six in the city, the Prince of Wales gifting a portrait to Mme Adelina Patti with his signature, Lord Lorse earning six thousand dollars yearly as Windsor Castle governor with only the nominal duty of signing salary receipts, and Baroness Henext Repex, aged ninety nine, sent to the Vienna workhouse as a vagrant on the belief her relatives would not support her, widow of a millionaire and mother of a privy councillor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Prince of Wales
Mme
Adelina Patti
Lord Lorse
Winsdor Castle
Baroness Henext Repex
Vienna
Baron Reden
Rioters clash with Paris police in Latin Quarter fights
Riots erupted in Paris on Friday evening as mounted police blocked streets in the Latin Quarter. Dragoons and lancers charged crowds on Boulevard Voltaire and Boulevard du Temple, then again along the Canal Saint Martin, injuring dozens and leaving streets littered with debris and torn clothing.
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Paris
Seine
Boulevard Voltaire
Boulevard du Temple
Place de la Republique
Rue d'Angouleme
Richard Lenoir
Avenue de la Republique
Quai de Valmy
Canal St. Martin
Death of Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford at Newport
The longtime U S Supreme Court associate justice Samuel Blatchford died at Newport Rhode Island at 7 20 Friday evening after a gradual decline in health He was born March 9 1820 and educated at Columbia College He served as district judge for the southern district of New York and was named to the high court by President Arthur His funeral arrangements were not yet set and interment was expected in Washington D C
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
United States Supreme Court
Arthur
R. L
Samuel Blatchford
Washington
New York
Columbia College
William H. Seward
Supreme Court of
State of
Auburn
W. H. Seward
Christopher Morgan
New York City
United States Court
Southern District of
United States
Blatchford
Justice Hunt
Congress
Roscoe Conkling
Conkling
George F. Edmunds
Vermont
Fire at World's Fair hotel causes $40,000 damage
A spark from a passing locomotive started a fire on Edgerton avenue near Sixtieth street injuring eight people and causing about $40,000 in losses. The Oakview hotel rear fire spread to Hotel Lincoln. Jessie Bigelow leapt from a third floor window. C H McIntyre saved his wife. Three guards and others fatally hurt. surrounding midway attractions damaged.
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Cuicaso
Edgerton Avenue
Sixtieth Street
Oakview Hotel
Lincoln
Jessie Bigelow
Ogden
Utah
C. H. McIntyre
Powers
W. C. Sensibaugh
Griffith, Ind
C. S. Sullivan
Vicksburgh
Midway Plaisance
Blarney Castle
Lady Aberdeen
Clarkdale
Obscure Cases Drift Through Odd Local Notices
An Oregon man is suspected of insanity from incoherent religious talk. A young English woman is named lecturer on fruit growing for Derbyshire county council. A New Haven hermit is accused of annoying neighbors and a court will decide guilt. A Birmingham crank roams with a steel hat pin stabbing fashionably dressed ladies. A 94 year old Taunton Mass hermit tells war tales near the woods. In Lawrence Kansas a seven person family rides bicycles together each evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Derbyshire
Taunton
Mass
Lawrence
Kaw
Worth a Glance In Brief Local Snippets
Will of WorriaM Penn in possession of Frank T. Sabin of Philadelphia. Champagne traced to Dom Perignon monk who died in 1715. Warp Prentiss, ten, of Jamaica, N Y, lost sight of an eye from an air gun shot by a fellow boy. A four foot snake frightened Miss Mamie Lynch, sixteen, in Bridgeport Connecticut, driving her to insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrrriam Penn
Frank T. Sabin
Philadelphia
Petrus Perignon
Warp Prentiss
Dr. Prentiss
Jamaica
Mamie Lynch
Bridgeport
Five Die in House Fire After Lightning Strikes Michigan Home
In Gagetown Michigan during a storm lightning struck A Roberts near Cass City, igniting the house and five occupants were burned to death. George Frost of Silverwood and A E Babcock and wife with their 2 year old child from Fostoria perished. Wesley Roberts and others escaped. Miss Hannah Roberts is fatally burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaertown
Mich
A. Roberts
Here
Wesley Roberts
Mr. Frost
Wesley
A. E. Babcock
A.E. Babcock
Fostoria
George Frost
Silverwood
Roberts
Frost
Worst Storm Hits Reaper Pennsylvania Hailstorm Pa
Severe hailstorm devastates Reaper and surrounding towns on July 6 in Reading and Birdsboro with hail up to a foot depth. Flooding cripples streets sewers and rails while trains pause as factories flood briefly shutting down plants.
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Reape
Reading
Schuylkill Valley
Birdsboro
Rogersford
Phoenixville
Pottstown
Reading Forge
North Eighth Street
Miners Rescued as Ingram Colliery Still Yeilds Bodies
In Thornhill Yorkshire rescuers push to save survivors and recover dead after Wednesday explosion at Ingram's colliery. By late evening eighty eight bodies had been brought to the surface. Two men were still alive and breathing, while six uninjured prisoners were freed. Relatives greeted returning survivors with emotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonpox
Ingram’s
Thornhill
Yorkshire
Latin Union Moves to Protect Itself
Rome July 6 negotiations continue among Italy France Belgium and Switzerland to safeguard Latin union interests after India's policy on silver currency. Officials expect no withdrawal from the pact by any member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latin Union
Rome
Italy
France
Belgium
Switzerland
India
Union
Bronze Statue to Garrison Unveiled in Newburyport
Bronze statue of William Lloyd Garrison unveiled in Newburyport Massachusetts presented by William H Swasey. The event took place Tuesday and marks a civic tribute to the abolitionist leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrison
Newburysport
Mass
William Lloyd Garrison
William H. Swasey
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail line files $3.5 million mortgage
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad filed a mortgage in Indianapolis for 3.5 million dollars to refund all old debts and cover 5 percent bonds due in 1943. In Rockford, a 72 year old contestant Richard Sell collapsed and died during a Tuesday old men foot race at Scales Mound, a prominent town citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inpianapolis
Ind
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
Rockrorp
Scales Mound
Richard Sell
Cholera Deaths Reported Across Southern France
The Lancet notes 704 cholera deaths in southern France since May with 138 in Marseille in the last four weeks, plus 53 in Celie and 51 in Toulon. The report chronicles the spread of the outbreak and regional impact.
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France
London
The
Lancet
Marseillez
Celie
Toulon
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