News From All the World Congress at Work
A roundup of Senate and House actions includes Panama treaty ratified 66 to 14, naval and agricultural appropriations, naturalization record checks, and isthmian canal commission appointments. Fires, hangings, wrecks, embezzlement, and international tensions amid Balkan rumors complete the week’s items.
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Hoar
Mass
Senate
Cullom
Roosevelt
Hay
Canal
United States
Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Political and Crime News Roundup Across Several States
Resolutions by the Citizens Industrial Association in Indianapolis amount to a near war stance against unions. Judge Grosscup speaks at Western Reserve, while unrest and political shifts roll through Iowa, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky with deaths, firings, and indictments.
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Citizens’ Industrial Association
Indianapolis
Washington
Evans
Peter S. Grosscup
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Stephen Mauck
Sioux City
United States Supreme Court
United States Marines
Isthmian Canal Strip
Panama
Michael Pallone
Brookville
Rosso Crocco
Socorro
N. M
Fort Dodge
Westville
Conn
Baltimore
Elmer Dover
National Republican Committee
Chicago
Hay
Japan
Corea
Frank Lewandowski
C. M. Warner
Waukegan
Ill
W. R. Loveless
Farmer City
George Aderhelt
Canton O
Carrollton
Global upheaval and disasters dominate news from 1904
Reports describe tin deposits in Lower Burmah near the Siamese frontier and a series of violent events. Russia and Japan clash in Corean waters while battleships confront each other near Port Arthur. A deadly train attack in Alabama, a Madison capitol fire, and multiple large-scale fires mark a turbulent period.
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Lower
Burmah
Thomas Longley
British Empire
London
Newfoundland
Japan
Pigeon Bay
Tailenwan
Port Arthur
Russia
Corea
James Martin
Butt Mont
J. R. Williams
Silver Bow Junction
China
Shanghai
Jerry Dugan
Terre Haute
Ind
Benjamin Ramsey
Iowa State Banking Report Shows January 22 Conditions
State Auditor Carroll releases a summary of Iowa banking on January 22 listing 366 savings banks and 241 state banks, with shifts in investments, reserves, overdrafts, property, deposits, capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits.
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Carroll
Iowa
Given Her Freedom Case of Hossack Dismissed in Iowa Courts
The state of Iowa versus Margaret Hossack for the 1900 murder of her husband John Hossack was dismissed in Winterset district court on motion by county attorney W S Cooper. The case, tried in Warren and Madison counties and the state supreme court, ends after more than three years with Hossack, now 68, having served 4 years and three months in the state penitentiary.
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State of
Iowa
Margaret Hossack
Warren County
John Hossack
Winterset
W. 8. Cooper
Warren
Madison
Supreme Court of
Kidnaper Convicted in Tipton Case
August Leuth was found guilty in Tipton of abducting Mrs. John Tels tow wife of the county's wealthiest man and holding her for a $50,000 ransom. She was lured home by word her son was ill and abducted at gunpoint to a vacant farmhouse cellar. She escaped, Leath was arrested and convicted.
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August Leuth
Tipton
John Telstow
Leath
Oldest Odd Fellow John Norwood Clark Dies at 90
John Norwood Clark, oldest U S Odd Fellow and past grand master of Iowa Grand Lodge, died at Iowa Falls aged 90. He joined the I O O F in 1837 in Baltimore and lived in Iowa City over 50 years. He held public office more than four decades and leaves one daughter, Mrs Amanda C Webb of Iowa City.
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Stockton
Cairo
Sam Cortes
Ogden
Utah
Chicago
National Broom Company
Havana
Cuba
United States
New York
Hiram Cronk
Dunnbrook
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Republic of Panama
Jesse E. Soles
Jim Stanley
Whiteville
N. C
Jabel Registar
Dyersville
Harry A. Zillafro
Kittanaime
John Conroy
Pittsburg
Conneaut Harbor
Hanna
Wallace H. Ham
Boston
Elsie
Robert Shonafelt
Johnstown
Carmack McAleer
Isthmus
John Norwood Clark
Iowa Grand Lodge
Iowa Falls
Odd Fellows
America
Iowa City
Amanda C. Webb
Titus Swindlers Take $6000 in Mortgage Plot
One hour after giving two strangers a $6000 check for a mortgage on a Muscatine county farm, ex Senator George M. Titus of Muscatine grew suspicious, learned the landowner never transferred title and did not intend to. The swindlers have not been heard from.
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Muscatine County
George M. Titus
Muscatine
Iowa
Indiana mother recovers kidnapped son in Waterloo
After a nationwide chase spanning three states, Mrs. Harry Williams of Indiana secured her seven year old son in Waterloo, abducted by her husband. She boarded a train back to Indiana while the husband remained in Waterloo plotting another escape.
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Harry Williams
Indiana
Waterloo
Des Moines man learns of $20000 New York inheritance
Charles Rowen an electrician active around City Hall in Des Moines received a letter from his sister announcing a wealthy uncle had died leaving him a $20000 legacy in a Syracuse bank. A check for $664.80 accompanied the notice confirming the inheritance.
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Charles Rowen
Des Moines
Syracuse
N. Y
Rowen
Obituary and briefs from Iowa and nearby states
News in Brief reports deaths and incidents including Mattie McVicker of the Milwaukee Western League, Selby Moran in Eldora, and Father Samuel Westcott of Toledo. It notes Cairo safe robbery, a Cedar Rapids knife assault, a murder case closed in Sigoonney, a suicide prospect near Westville, a Tama county birthday record, and a Klondike boxing result. Also mentions a fire insurance agents group forming in Sioux City and Charles Bell’s grand larceny sentence in Iowa City.
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Mattie McVicker
Victor
Cairo
Daque Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Sigoorney
Selby B. Moran
Hardin County
Eldora
Robert J.rich
Yale
Fort Dodge
Westville
Conn
Samuel Westcott
Toledo
Tama County
A. Trimbell
Cedar Falls
Cedar River
Klondike
Chicago
Frank Mayo
Beloit
Wis
Oelwein
Mayo
Sioux City
Charles Bell
Iowa City
Byington
Doans Kidney Pills Credited by Arkansas Doctor
Foster Miburn Co of Buffalo transmitted a testimonial from THos Orell of Bear Ark praising Doan's Kidney Pills. The letter notes kidney disease symptoms including back pain urinary issues and malarial exposure with claimed recovery after four boxes.
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Foster-Miburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Yorktown
Ark
Arkansas River
Doan
Orell
Bear
Dean
Brownias
Wynne
Evijan Evisiort
Tarry, Ark
Foster-Milburn Co
Bualo
Western Canada Agriculture Climate and Prospects
A description of Western Canada covering climate soil and agriculture. Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Assiniboia are noted with wheat friendly black clay loam soil and frost-retaining subsoil. Rainfall averages 17 inches and irrigation is variably needed. A Moose Jaw farmer testimonial claims rapid land value gains and profitable management.
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Northwest
Canada
Ontario
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Athabask
Western
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
United States
Western Canada
Moose Jaw
Railroad Pass Prices and Sleeping Car Route
$30.00 from St. Louis to California on The Iron Mountain Route. Tickets on sale daily in March and April. Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars operate daily between St. Louis Los Angeles and San Francisco. Details from agent H C Lowxsenp G P T Agent St. Louis.
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St. Louis
California
Iron Mountain
Pullman Touris
Los Angeles
San Francisco
H. C. Lowxsenp
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Iraparita
Possiet Bay
Vladivostock
Hunchun
Europe
Ohio
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Abrey Kampo
United States Army
J. E. Nash
Minneapolis
W. Bourke Cochran
Congress
Sarah E. Castleman
Kentucky
Louisville
Abraham Lincoln
Sarah Gale
Richmond
G. S. Griffith
The
Prisoners’ Aid Society
Charles Dick
Columbus
James Parish Lee
Short Beach
W. A. Calderhead
Marysville
Kansas
Henry M. Pollard
Missouri
James Bare
Bare
Charles B. Landis
William Ratcliff
Old Hickory
Andrew Jackson
Wisconsin
James Warden
Mahala Altman
Caroline Early
Huntington
Taunton
Birmingham
Opelika
Ala
Shepard Bank
Western Union Telegraph
Manila
Chemulpo
Ping- Yang
France
Spain
Bunan Varilla
Dun
West Scranton
C. B. Fountain
A. Hoch
Valley Junction
Capitol Building
Michigan
Lansing
C. J. Lamb
Dryden
James Byron
Sikeston
Franklin Union
Judge Holdom
Rochester
W. Machen
George E. Lorenz
Samuel A
Diller B. Groff
Nicholson
Dalny
Corean
Iowa State News
Smith
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Bright
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Cethe
Cara
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Pepsin Syrup CO
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TIGR
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