Long list of Iowa local notes and incidents
The itemized report covers deaths including Over [OWA Christian Harlen] in Clinton aged 85, business moves by Atlantic Canning Co and Kenyon Cooper Bicycle Co, a Des Moines law school, miners settlement at Frazer, and the passing of Selig W. Greenbaum. Also noted are a Lyons-Clinton annexation, a Sioux City anti-saloon push, a scarlet fever outbreak in Maquoketa, a costly Dubuque bond sale, an arrest in Story City for theft, a Des Moines water works dispute, a Creston burglary shooting, Iowa Sunday School convention travel, weather damage near Manson, and various legal and civic actions across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Harlen
Clinton
Atlantic Canning Co
Des Moines
P. S. McNutt
Frazer
Boone County
Boone Valley Coal & Railroad Company
Selig W. Greenbaum
Burington
Ingalls-Chapman Co
Lyons
Lewis
Sioux City
Iowa State and
National Association of Expert Judges of
W.W. W. McClung
Waterloo
W. M. Lambing
West Liberty
Joe Patchen
Jno
Maquoketa
Physicians and Board of Health
Kenyon-Cooper Bicycle Co
Judge Towner
Union County District Court
Creton Water Works
Frank Patt
Creston
Patt
Ida Grove
Ames
Jewell Junction
Story City
John Johnson
Thos. Johnson
Hans Larson
Harris & Co
Chicago
Spurrier
National and local clashes noted in western mining and political events
Trouble rises between miners in Coeur d Alene Idaho and the protection league. The Illinois supreme court affirms ouster in a whisky trust case. Memphis hosts a large non partisan convention. Neutrality urged in Cuba. State treasurer Taylor expected to return to Pierre. Debs and ex union officers serve terms in Woodstock. Judson Harmon becomes attorney general. Secretary Olney becomes secretary of state. Lynching reported in Florida. Widespread crops forecast and general rains noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
Illinois State Supreme Court
Cook County
Whisky Trust
Memphis
Central Bimetallic League
Taylor
Pierre
E. V. Debs
American Railway Union
Woodstock
Methodist Missionary Society
New York
Chengtu
China
Judson Harmon
Lafayette
Florida
Kansas
West
Olney
J. K. Emmett
San Francisco
Chung Fue
Cincinnati
Olney. Mr. Harmon Has Been For A Long Time Judge of the Common Pleas Court
Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadley
Leather Price Surge Alarms Industry Leaders
Des Moines shoe wholesaler W. B. Bentley of Bentley & Olmsted reports a historic leather price surge with hides up to 150 percent higher and leather up to 38 cents per unit. He notes shortages and ongoing production at their West Pullman factory, which is producing over 2,000 pairs daily, aided by prior leather purchases to sustain lower prices for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Bentley
Bentley & Olmsted
Des Moines
West Pullman
Raleigh to aid blockers against filibustering expeditions
Washington confirms orders for the United States steamer Raleigh to proceed to Key West to cooperate with revenue cutters. The move aims to deter filibustering toward Cuba and show U S neutrality compliance to Spain and the Alabama Claims principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Raleigh
Florida
Cuba
Key West
Spain
Alabama Claims Commission
Gold Found in Oklahoma Near Boggy Creek
Rumors spread that rich gold ore has been located on Boggy creek fourteen miles southwest of Arapahoe county. Hundreds rush to stake claims as ore samples tested by an experienced miner show precious metal. Daily influx of claimants reaches about one hundred with reports of fabulous finds and high confidence in a major gold field discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
O. T
Boggy Creek
Arapahoe County
Modern Woodmen reform includes emergency fund and pay raises
Madison Wisconsin June 10 The Modern Woodmen voted to establish an emergency fund and banned certain professions from service adding football players brass finishers plow polishers and submarine operators An executive committee was created and an attorney to be hired outside the council. Salaries for leaders were raised and twenty thousand dollars set for a new Rock Island head offices building with officers elected including William A Northcote Charles W Hawes A H Hollister F F Farmilee and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Rock Island
William A. Northcote
Greenville
Ill
Charles W. Hawes
Fulton, Ill
A. H. Hollister
F. F. Farmilee
Rockford
E. C. Buckhart
Mexico
L. E. Menth
Carey
J. G. Johnson
Kansas
A. R. Talbot
Nebraska
J. N. Reece
Springfield
J. W. White
Rock Falls
Marvin Quackenbush
Dundee
C. D. Sharrow
Michigan
D. I. Thornton
Missouri
W. A. Doran
Iowa
Bank of England Rate May Fall to 1 Percent
London June 14 The Daily News reports the Bank of England directors consider reducing the bank rate to 1 percent. The potential cut signals easing monetary policy and could affect markets and lending costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
London
the Daily News
Fire Extinguished at Antonienhutte Mine
Berlin reports a mine blaze in Prussian Silesia is out. Captive miners are saved except for twenty six workers remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Antonienhutte
Prussian Silesia
Bering Sea Sealing Dispute Deepens With British Nonrenewal
Washington reports Great Britain refuses to renew joint sealing regulations in the Bering Sea leaving the United States to patrol alone. The British ambassador has left on leave and Ottawa’s pressure cited as cause, while the Bering Sea bill in Parliament seeks to replace the 1893 act and enforce sanctions on violators through council orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great Britain
Bering Sea
United States
State Department
Julian Pauncefote
England
House of Commons
Edward Gray
Russia
Canada
Patent grants boost Iowa inventors with six issued
Des Moines reports six patents issued to Iowa creators this week. G H Beebe of Marshalltown receives a compensating pump rod patent that reduces lateral bending and metal friction noises. N Cornish of Garner gets a band cutter and self feeder for uniform grain distribution to threshing cylinders. Patent drawings and specs can be ordered for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
G. H. Beebe
Marshalltown
Iowa
N. Cornish
Ot Garner
Thomas G. and
J. BaLru Orwig
Solicitors of Patents
Chicago Board of Trade Price Ranges Report
Chicago on June 12 shows a range of prices across contracts traded today. The table lists multiple commodities with opening, high, low, and closing values for each. Traders monitored shifts in corn wheat soybeans and livestock futures during the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Literary Notes on Harness Racing and New Volumes
Outing June features Trotting and Pacing Champions of 94 with portraits of Alix Jno R Gentry Fantasy Joe Patchen and Robert J. Breeding details and race histories. Nebraska Journal poet A L Bixby publishes Driftwood a modest collection of rhymes. Reviews cover Review of Reviews on student oratorical contests and McClures Life of Napoleon by Ida Tarbell with 250 illustrations and notes from Napoleon collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alix
Jno. R. Gentry
Fantasy
Joe. Patchen
Robert J
A. L. Bixby
Nebraska State Journal
Galesburg
Ill
Knox College
Til
Beloit College
Wis
McClure
Napoleon
Lafayette Place
New York
Ida M. Tarbell
Gardiner G. Hubbard
Prince Ictor Napoleon
Prince Roland Bonaparte
Baron Larrey
MacClure
Exports in May Show Mixed Gains and Larger Long-Term Losses
Washington reports May exports risen in cotton and breadstuffs with cotton at 9 837 361 dollars and breadstuffs at 11 80 697 dollars compared to May last year. Over eleven months provisions and several staples fall short with barley corn oats wheat and wheat flour posting large declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Secretary Hoke Smith Denies Michigan Land Appeal
In Washington on June 14 Secretary Hoke Smith denied Michigan’s appeal of a land office decision. The state claimed swamp lands were rejected though settled and approved by the Interior Department, with the original survey later shown erroneous. The lands were not swamp and thus not subject to the state's grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hokesmith
State of
Michigan
Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Princeton Student Ohl dies after shooting at saloon
Frederick Ohl, a Princeton student, died at 4 a m after being shot by Collins on Saturday night. Fellow student Cochrane remains seriously injured but improving. Prosecutor Stockton will present the case to the Mercer county grand jury in Trenton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
N. J
Frederick Ohl
Collins
Cochrane
Stockton
Mercer County
Trenton
Princeton College
Rot Ohl
Downes
Anderson
Discontent grows in Japan over Russian pressure
Advices from the Orient via the Empress of Japan report continued popular discontent with Japan's submission to Russian intimidation. Rumors say Russia plans to seize Port Lazard, Corea, provoking anger at Japan's inaction. Russia accelerates fortifications at Vladivostock while Corea's government appears demoralized under Russian financial influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Orient
Empress of
Corea
Noted reform leader Frances Willard not to wed this autumn
London reports circulated by The Mascot claim Miss Frances Willard president of the W C T U plans marriage to a wealthy English reformer. Friends deny the tale and say no wedding is planned for autumn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Frances Willard
Debs Surrenders to Marshal for Woodstock Jail Trip
Eugene V Debs walked into United States Marshal Arnold's office just after 11 AM to surrender for his trip to Woodstock jail He cited illness overnight and was taken to Woodstock at 5 PM The event occurred in Chicago on June 13 with Debs atop the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
United States
Arnold
Woodstock
Illinois Congressman Dying in Vandalia
Vandalia Illinois June 14 Congressman Remann has relapsed and is very low after a period of improvement there is believed to be no chance for his recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Vandalia
Ill
Remann
Populist Iowa Convention Adopts 9 Platform Resolutions
Des Moines June 12. The Populist state convention drew about 500 attendees at the YMCA auditorium, the largest yet. Temporary officers were A. R. Starrett and T. W. Ivory, with E. H. Gillette as chairman and Ivory as secretary, then permanent. Key planks call for Omaha platform principles, opposition to income tax court decisions, silver at 16 to 1, initiative and referendum, factory inspections, public officer salary readjustments, graduated state tax, and a 10 percent state tax on future gold contracts. Nominations: Governor Sylvester Crane, Lieutenant Governor A. R. Starrett, Supreme Judge T. W. Ivory, Railroad Commissioner E. J. Stason, State Superintendent L. B. Tabor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Omaha
Supreme Court
Wall Street
Europe
General Assembly
New York
Illinois
Sylvester Crane
A. R. Starrett
T. W. Ivory
E. J. Stason
L. B. Tabor
Lightning Strikes Seventh Avenue School in Clinton
A heavy storm struck Clinton Iowa on June 13 injuring no one seriously as lightning hit the Seventh Avenue schoolhouse housing 100 pupils causing a panicked exodus into the street before returning inside. Elsewhere June 13 reports describe wind damage in Sycamore Springfield St Louis with heat in the city reaching 9 degrees and several heat prostrations but no fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Iowa
Seventh Avenue
Sycamore
Ill
Co. O. Boynton
N. L. Cottrell
James Maitland
Hiram Holcolmb
Springfield
St. Louis
Taylor to Return to South Dakota within Ten Days
Sioux Falls reports no question of W. W. Taylor returning to the state in ten days. Attorney general Crawford and state prosecutors, along with Taylor’s bondsmen, say the state will indict, prosecute, and enforce every claim. A schedule of Taylor’s property is expected to nearly cover the state’s defalcation claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
S. D
W. W. Taylor
Crawford
Horner and Stewart
Pierre
Taylor
H. M. Benedict
South Dakota
Florida
Havana
Central America
Dutch Guiana
South
America
Notre Dame Golden Jubilee Exercises Attract Clergy
Notre Dame University in Notre Dame Indiana held part of its golden jubilee founding celebrations yesterday as friends arrived by train to honor the alma mater. A large clergy presence attended with fourteen bishops expected including Bishop Spalding of Peoria who will deliver the commencement address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notre Dame
Ind
Notre Dame University
Spalding
Peoria
Turmoil in Coeur d Alenes Strains Idaho Labor Relations
Tension between miners and law and order groups in the Coeur d Alenes, North Idaho, escalates after a man angered by the miners was killed. A coroner's jury returned death by own action. Governor McConnell organized several hundred arms and over 200 volunteers drill for potential conflict as Idaho lacks a state militia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Coeur A d’Alenes
Miners’ Union
Law and Order
McConnell
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W. D. Batchellor
Freedom
Inl
J. ©. Goodrich
Ohio
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Anamosa
Germany
France
Scotland
Italy
Holy Land
New York City
Manson
C. A. Owen
Christian Science
Davenport
Owen
Polk County District Court
John Rutherford
L. R. Hanson
Oak Grove
Poweshiek County
Hanson
Rutherford
Grinnell
Esquire Chafee
Cleveland
George M. van Leuven
van Leuven
Sam Smith
Jud Paign
N. Smith
al Rich
Fred Conrad
Maynard
Fayette
A. G. Rose
Parsons-Pelletier’ Company
Mitchel
Rose
Iowa City
Robinson
Joseph C. Burke
Superior Court of Keokuk
State Board of Medical Examiners
Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons
State Board of Examiners
Superior Court of
Keokuk
Kinne
Deemer
State Dairy Commissioner
Boardman
Delaware
Jones
Black Hawk
Bremer
Buchanan
United States Revenue Cutter
Oklahoma
Patent Office Report
Ohl
Japan
Eugene Debs
Peopile
Noth
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