Grand jury indicts for false testimony in county doodling case
The Woodbury county grand jury indicted Patrick Brennan David Perley Frank Sumner and Mike Finneran for giving false testimony linked to the John Perry related supervisor doodling case. Across Boone Iowa turmoil left police protection absent for days amid mayor council conflict.
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Woodbury County
Patrick Brennan
David Perley
Frank Sumner
Mike Finneran
John Perry
Strange
Battles and wrecks fill news from Lima to Wyoming
A Lima Peru dispatch reports a three day battle with revolutionary factions and thousands of unburied dead. In Wyoming a deadly explosion at Red Canyon mine near Evanston kills many miners with a rescue recovering fifteen bodies and sixty one total deaths. Other items include diplomatic frictions Guatemala Mexico England Nicaragua and Spain. US politics football. rail wrecks. burglaries. and Li Hung Chang’s voyage to Japan.
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Lima
Peru
Central Pacific
Red Canyon
Evanston
Wyo
Li Hung Chang Visits Japan in Effort to Secure Peace
Li Hung Chang becomes the first Chinese elder statesman to travel outside China seeking peace. He would cede territory pay indemnity grant Corea independence and establish new treaties to preserve Japan's extraterritorial rights. Details on the indemnity currency and ceded borders are not yet fixed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Li Hung Chang
Japan
China
Corea
Murdered Merchant in Bells as Two Unknowns Shoot
Irving Justice a leading Bells Cherokee Nation merchant was shot six times at his doorway by two unknown men. He died instantly and no suspects have been located.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Irving Justice
Bells
Insurgents Put to Flight at Canto del Cristo
From Havana the Santiago report says Capt Gan ich led forty Spanish troops against about eight hundred insurgents intrenched at Canto del Cristo. A brief engagement ended with insurgents fleeing, five killed and wounded, supplies captured. Spanish losses were one sergeant killed and some horses. On Saturday Senor Ferrer captured a large quantity of ammunition.
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Havana
Cuba
Santiago
Ganich
Canto del Cristo
Senor Ferrer
Robbers torture McMillan family in Watts' Mills area
Five masked robbers bound and gagged a hired man and three women at John McMillan's house near Watts' Mills Newcastle Pennsylvania. They questioned McMillan about $1000 deposited in a bank and tortured him with hot coals and whipping before leaving. Mrs McMillan and her daughters remain in serious condition from fright.
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Newcastle
John McMillan
Watts’ Mills
McMillan
Alliance to sail for Colon amid gunboat incident
The steamship Alliance, fired on by a Spanish gunboat, will sail to Colon today. Agents confirm the ship will carry rifles and munitions of war, a routine trade for the line, supplying arms to the Colombian government and not violating any law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Steamship Alliance
Colon
Rear-End Freight Collision Kills Fireman in Aurora Area
A rear-end collision between the Chicago Burlington and Northern and Chicago and Iowa freight trains at Kinkley near Aurora, Illinois, killed Fireman Ben Williams of Savanna and seriously injured Engineer Spencer of this city. Other crew and stockmen escaped as the engine was demolished.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Denison
Seigei Dearth
Eldora
Manchester
Anamosa
Aurora
Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Chicago & Iowa
Kinkley
Here
Ben Williams
Savanna
Spencer
Flora mob seeks saloonkeeper for whipping daughters
In Flora Indiana a Tuesday night mob demanded Mahion Ehler a saloonkeeper who allegedly whipped his two daughters aged 12 and 17 for joining churches and aiding a petition in support of the Nicholson bill. Officials and calm citizens contained the crowd.
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Frankfort
Ind
Flora
Mahion Ehler
Free Pass Amendment Defeated in Wisconsin House
Madison March 22 hall's resolution to prohibit legislators state officers and officials from accepting or aiding in distributing free railway passes and franking privileges failed in the Wisconsin house by 62 to 27 after a motion to table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Wis
Latta
Senator Jones in Critical Condition in Arkansas
United States Senator James K. Jones is critically ill at his Washington home in Hempstead county Arkansas after contracting fever last week and a high temperature of 104 degrees with blood expectoration. His physician reports the situation as critical.
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Little Rock
Ark
United States
James K. Jones
Washington
Hempsted County
Schrage's WOMEN READ Promotes Rheumatic Cure in 1900 Ad
An advertisement lists endorsements for Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co selling 1.50 per bottle. It cites A J Osborne Newton and other names from Iowa towns urging purchase, claiming ten thousand testimonials and cures for gout and neuralgia. It warns against external applications and opiates and notes Mrs John A Logan uses the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Schrage
A. J. Osborne
Newton
A. V. Penn
Sidney
J. F. Faux
Sioux City
J. C. W. Coxe
Washington
Billy Samuels
Stream & McCammon
Walnut _ street
Des Moines
W. L. Weller
Cedar Rapids
G. F. Utter
Washington, D. C
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Arrests in Mrs Hilten Lynching Near Brooksburg
Butte Nebraska March 21 County Attorney C W Lear is at the scene of the lynching of Mrs Hilten near Brooksburg He has arrested two men named Hunt and Miller as perpetrators and will bring them in Attorney General Churchill is expected tomorrow on governor ordered probe into the case
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Illinois Central
Sprague
Marcus
Cherokee
Boone County
Waterloo
John Hogan
Charles Adams
Stephen Howard
Adams
Howard
Henry Burns Place
Morley
Lon Miller
Glidden
Carroll
Mr. Miller
Miller
Hilten
Butte
Neb
C. W. Lear
Brooksburg
Hunt
Churchill
Move for a Chautauqua college course under Prof Coulter
Indiana moves toward a state Chautauqua as Presbyterian Winona assembly directors travel to Bass Lake to plan immediate building. The college course will be directed by Prof John M Coulter of Lake Fruity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
J. W. Coulter
Indianapolis
Ind
Man credits No-To-Bac cure after thirty six years tobacco habit
Caldwell New Jersey, March 18 1895 A prominent citizen recounts thirty six years of tobacco use and withdrawal after trying No-To-Bac as advertised in a local paper He claims rapid relief and weight gain within a month and cites several others cured by Sterling Remedy Co No-To-Bac with a money back guarantee warning against imitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Hasler
Caldwell
O'Donnell Beats Kilrain In Eight Rounds But Draw Declared
Steve O'Donnell 170 pounds clearly outboxed Jack Kilrain who weighed at least 230 pounds. Kilrain's movements were slow and weak, while O'Donnell showed potential. The result leaves Corbett's claim that O'Donnell could beat Fitzsimmons in doubt based on the night’s showing.
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Boston
Mass
Steve O'Donnell
Jack Kilrain
Kilrain
O'Donnell
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Fitz
Fire Destroys Half of Iuka's Business District
Iuka Mississippi saw fourteen buildings burned in a large blaze that wiped out about half the town's business area. Estimated loss reaches 70 000 dollars with no insurance. Authorities suspect an incendiary origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iuka
Miss
Consumption Not Contagious
In Cincinnati on March 18, hospital trustees tabled indefinitely a resolution to isolate consumptives at the pest house after a protest by Dr. Amick. Two physicians urged sending consumptives to the pest house while Mayor Caldwell and another trustee opposed removal. Amick plans further action and mailings of his records to physicians and consumptives.
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Cincinnati
Amick
Caldwell
Rail travel groups clash over excursion rates
Knights Templars and the Society of Christian Endeavor object to hotel owner discounts. In New York the American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents elected William Davidson president. The St Paul road plans docks at Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin and a car ferry line to the east shore. A $310,000 judgment favors the Chicago and South Atlantic over the Monon in Indianapolis.
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Knights Templars
Society of Christian Endeavor
American Association of General
New York
William Davidson
St. Paul Road
Sturgeon Bay City
Wis
East Shore
Chicago
South Atlantic
Indianapolis
Japan grants patent law influence on Iowa inventors
OWA patent report notes Japan’s new patent system largely copied from the U S model with five ten and fifteen year terms and protective marks for fifteen years. Eight Iowa patents issued this week include a ka rake and loader a grading machine fence an automatic clay tempering machine and other devices. Printed drawings and specifications available by request for 25 cents. Valuable information for inventors offered free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Japan
Iowa
C. W. Baird
Millersburg
J. N. Barhite
Buckeye
H. Cook
Lyons
W. F
T. M. Walker
Thomas G. and
J. Ralph Orwie
Solicitors of
Patenta
Fatal Fire in New York Claims Two Men
A four story building at 168 West 26th Street burned yesterday at 2 45. John Kurtz proprietor of the Chimney Corner saloon and Tony Ketchum an insurance agent died from the blaze. Five others escaped with minor injuries and Miss R Scamp sustained neck and shoulder burns but was saved by a net. Loss estimated at $4000.
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Cornelius Judd
Clinton
Sioux City
Western Transfer and Implement Company
Linseed O1l Company
Annie Prugeman
Keokuk
I. C. Compagna
Walker Fruit Company
Fort Dodge
Millen
Farmington
JosephStrope
Croton
New York
West 26Th
John Kurtz
Tony Ketchum
Kurtz
Chimney Corner
6Th Avenue
26Th Street
Ketchum
R. Scamp
Japanese Imperial Movements Reported From Yokohama
The emperor will depart from Hiroshima for Kioto on Honjo and will not return to Hiroshima. The gunboat Tatsuta, detained at Aden by order of the British government, has arrived in Yokohama. Tatsuta’s captain and crew are British subjects and the ship was barred from duty due to neutrality laws. Prince Komatsu, commander in chief, will set his headquarters at Port Arthur.
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Yokohama
Hiroshima
Kioto
Honjo
Tatsuta
Aden
Bri Foreign Office
Prince Komatsi
Port Arthur
Reed leaves Washington for rest amid Congress in recess
Ex Speaker Reed departs Washington for New York and Maine to rest, declining public addresses. His health appears less robust than usual. He doubts an extra congressional session unless the Supreme Court rules the income tax unconstitutional.
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Washington
Reed
Congress
New York
Maine
Supreme Courts
Chicago Board of Trade market quotes today
The article outlines the range of quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade as of today March 20. It lists price movements and market activity across commodities traded on the exchange.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Board of Trade
Meade Heads Toward Cuba With Caribbean Squadron
Admiral Meade cabled the navy department that he has sailed with a squadron from La Guayra Venezuela for San Domingo. The plan calls for Port au Prince Hay and then Santiago de Cuba if not interrupted by events.
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Washington
Admi Meade
Navy
la Guayra
Venezu
San Domingo
Port Au Prince
Hay
Santiago de Cuba
American Cattle Act Is Published Rehearsing Restrictions
London dispatch reports the Gazette published the act listing import restrictions for the United States Canada and other nations. It notes that cattle import is utterly prohibited from many European countries and regions including Morocco Natal Portugal Africa Zululand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
the Gazette
Canada
Morocco
Natal
Portugal
Africa
Zululand
Revenue Chief Reports Eight Months Receipts Rise
Washington officials announce an eight month total receipts increase of 5,180,622 dollars. Cabinet members urge protection of Venezuela from foreign oppression. Alfred D. Tinsley is reappointed postmaster at Sioux Falls. The Supreme Court dismisses a bill in the Oakland waterfront dispute. President Cleveland and Lee Gresham mark birthdays, ages 58 and 62.
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Owa
Boone
A. A. Weston
Conroy
Marengo
Algona
Brower’s
Strilby’s
Valentine's Restaurant
Dodge’s
Slagle’s Harness Shop
Anderson's
Manning Driving Park Association
Samuel Bingham
Manning
Wm. Griffin
Church
Malcom
Carson
Avoca
Vachain
St. Ansgar
Osage
Burns
Richmond
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Dubuque
Hunter
Haggard & Peek Land Office
Kossuth County State Bank
Grange
Guatemala
Mexico
New Orleans
Salmouth
Germany
Savannah
Liberia
Harvard
Li Hung Chung
Gresham
Lorin A. Thornton
Sabbath Observance Association of
St. Louis
Bayard
Great Britain
Arcedo
James G. Fair
San Francisco
England
Nicaragua
Hatch
Bluefield
Mosquito Reservation
Jesup
Geo. Dickinson
Independence
Chas. Bigelow
Spain
Madrid
Senator Jones
Schrage’s
Matism
Gould
OWA Patent Office Report
John Kurtz and
Mikado
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