Iowa news reel reports gas deaths and bank robbery trial
A diverse Iowa roundup covers Des Moines assets assigned by Annie S Redhead and George Redhead 200000 liabilities 75000 Centerville gas incident Frink and Payton recoveries Cedar Rapids tuberculosis cattle culled near 8 W Baer's herd Fairbanks bobsled wrecks near Oelwein fatality at culvert and a bank robbery trial of Louis Kellihan in Rock Rapids.
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George Redhead
Des Moines
Frank Frink
Geo. Payton
Centerville
Gibson
8. W. Baer
Cedar Rapids
Fairbanks
Oelwein
Ferdinand Prink
Louis Kellehan
Sherburne
Minn
Fairmont
Kellihan
Rock Rapids
Iowa
Wm. Crooks
Clinton
Delaney
Rush
Lawler
Foley
Will Fountain
Arthur Magee
Ed Brown
Shenandoah
A. B. Stoddard
Stoddard
Mary McNamara
Sioux City
Lathrop-Rhoads-McCain Co
Andrew Bell
Reasoner
Young Bell
Bell
Alta
Linn County
Joseph Sirovy
Anna Holets
Cupid
Blackstone
Marion
Iowa Epworth League
Iowa Chautauqua
Colfax
Chautauqua
Assembly
Rock Island Railroad
Crete Crisis Deepens as Greek Forces Consolidate Control
Col Vassos proclaims formal occupation of Crete by Greece directing Greek control over Retimo and Heraklion with most towns under Greek mastery. Powers intervene delaying troop landings while Crete sees continued fighting and international pressure to halt hostilities.
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Vassos
Crete
Retimo
Heraklion
Greece
Ruiz
Havana
Lee
Olney
Land Bought for Colonists Near Paso Robles
San Francisco Feb 20 A sale of real estate in San Luis Obispo county closed at 22000 dollars for about 23000 acres. A syndicate representative will subdivide the lands for Iowa families perhaps fifty families to settle. The Ascension ranch 13200 acres and Cascadero ranch 11000 acres form the tract near Paso Robles on the Southern Pacific rail line. The soil suits grain and fruit raising and much land is grazing quality.
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San Francisco
San Luis Obispo County
Iowa
Ascension
Southern Pacific Railway
Paso Robles
Lawmakers Back Lorimer Plan to Bar Blacklist Conspiracies
Washington reports the labor committee approves a bill by Representative Lorimer to prohibit conspiracies that blacklist workers for strikes union membership or labor trouble. Any concerted effort to deny employment on a transportation line becomes an unlawful conspiracy subject to punishment unless linked to illegal strike acts.
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Washington
House Committee On Labor
Lorimer
Congress Debates Clayton-Bulwer Abrogation and Budget Bills
Washington reports show Morgan pushing a Clayton-Bulwer treaty abrogation in executive session while the Senate backed moving forward on the resolution. The House passed the sundry civil appropriation bill and settled a Louisiana contested election in Boatner's favor. Other items included pensions, sales of rifles, and bill readings.
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Senate
Washington
Morgan
Sherman
HOUSE
Benoit
Boatner
Louisiana
National Guard
Nelson
Iowa Patent Office Report Draws Patent Rights Contrast
Des Moines report explains revised patent office rules from February 9 1897. It compares patent rights to land titles noting invention ownership, public domain limits, and the need to clearly define claims. Names Tomas G Ann J Ratru Orowie appear as patent solicitors.
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Des Moines
United States Patent Office
Tomas G
Ann J
Ratru Orowie
Solicitors of Patents
Chicago Board of Trade Price Range Today
The Chicago Board of Trade table lists the range of quotations on the board for February 19. Prices vary across wheat corn and other grains with notable shifts noted by traders.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Board of Trade
Illinois Senate Adopts February to March Adjournment
Springfield Feb 18. A Republican senate caucus decided to adjourn from Feb 26 to March 9 to allow members to attend the inauguration of President elect McKinley.
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Illinois Senate
Springfield
Ill
Senate
McKinley
Illinois Libel Law Stands Defeated in House Vote
Springfield Feb 19. Revell's bill to repeal the libel law failed in the Illinois house by 66 to 63 with the emergency clause attached.
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Springfield
Till
Greek League Warns of Uprising Over Crete Union
The National League warns King George and Premier Delyannis that Europe’s rejection of Crete’s union with Greece will trigger a general uprising of Hellenists in Macedonia and the Balkans. A British cruiser barred the Thessalia from landing provisions on Crete, sparking excitement in Athens.
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Crete
Greece
Macedonia
Athens
The
National League
George
Delyannis
Europe
Turks Defeated on the Frontier Near Salonica
A Vienna dispatch to the Times reports the Neue Freie Presse says Turkish troops clashed with Greek insurgents at Naszlitza near the Greek frontier. The Turks were defeated and retreated to fetch reinforcements. Salonica's governor ordered troops to the disturbance site as frontier residents await a signal to rise.
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London
Times
Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Salonica
Naszlitza
Taorkish Troops Ordered Out to Greek Frontier
Salonica Turkey February 22 authorities order the reserve of the third army corps armed and dispatched to the Greek frontier as tensions rise along the border.
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J. A. Gary
Baltimore
McKinley
Canton
Cretan
Turkey
Thessalian
Piraeus
Athens
Great Great Britain
Greece
Taorkish
Salonica
Stampede at Everett School Sparks Injuries in Fire
Panic swept through the Everett school at Northampton street Boston as seven hundred pupils rushed to exit after a fire in a waste paper basket. Seventeen pupils were injured in the stairway crush many seriously. Fire marshall's assistants suspect mischief caused the blaze and an investigation may follow.
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Boston
Maass
Everett
Northampton Street
Mrs Gougar Argues Suffrage Before Indiana Supreme Court
Helen Gougar argued before all five Indiana Supreme Court justices that women possess equal rights to vote in general elections. She contended the issue is judicial, not constitutional, asserting the Constitution places no ban on female suffrage and that male misinterpretation has unjustly barred women from voting.
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Gougar
Indianapolis
Ind
Helen Gougar
Indiana Supreme Court
Carnegie Invades British Rail Market
Carnegie Steel confirms expanding into English rails market by underselling rivals. In the past week it closed export orders to England totaling 100000 tons and booked 11000 tons for Japan. Additional 30000 to 35000 tons were booked from other foreign buyers as the rail pool collapses.
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Carnegie
Great Britain
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
England
Carnegie Company
Japan
American Ax and Tool works resumes full-time operations
Running on full time in Douglass Mass the American Ax and Tool works have reopened after a short layoff. Sufficient orders have been received to keep the plant running for several weeks.
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Fast Douglass
Mass
American Ax and Tool Works
Iowa Legislature Listings From Feb Des Moines Sessions
Des Moines reports from Feb 13 to Feb 20 show the legislature considering election law revisions, charter city exemptions, ballot procedures, and criminal code changes. Bills address special charter cities liability, voting methods, finance rules, and state institution funding while railroad and property acts move through both houses.
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Des Moines
Ellis
Hipwell
Senate
Sta University
Agricural College
Sts Normal School
Butter maker wins first grand sweepstakes at national event
Webster City Iowa Feb 2 through Hamilton County Iowa winner at the National Butter-makers Association session at Owatonna. Butter from Rand creamery near here scored 98 percent in competition with pros from across the United States. The same Rand creamery won their sweepstakes at the last state condition.
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Nels Potts
Pleasant Hill
Hamilton County
Iowa
National Butter Makers’ Association
Owatonna
Minn
Randall
Webster City
United States
Hr. N. Miller
State
Grinnell
J. Newcomer
J. Paul
Paul
Newcomer
Mahaska County
George Netterfield
Wayland
George Golightly
Eddyville
Abe Lafferty
Arthur Epperson
Miss Criswell
Goldberg
Julian Hotel
Hamburg
Charles Goulding
Shenandoah
Griswold
Sriswold
Charles Lloyd Barney
Des Moines
Drake University
Barney
Ringling Bros.’ Circus
Drake
Dowe
Montreal
James Scott
Ft. Madison
Frank Milmeier
Milmeier
Scott
Atlee
Rand
Here
United Sta
Wife Murderer Hanged in Chicago Jail
Daniel McCarthy, condemned after a guilty plea and confession, was executed by hanging Friday morning at the Cook County jail in Chicago for the murder of his wife.
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Chicago
Daniel McCarthy
Cook County
Death sentence for father in fatal daughter murder
Columbia Mo Feb 20 John Hunt was convicted of murdering his 16 year old daughter and was sentenced to be hanged on March 26 after a drunken rage shooting.
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Columbia
John Hunt
Kansas Resubmissionists Defeated in Legislature
Topeka Kan Feb 18 The Kansas house in committee recommended a joint resolution to submit liquor question to voters as a constitutional amendment. In regular order the measure failed 62 ayes to 50 noes short of the two thirds needed. Resubmissionists concede defeat.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
House
Real bone statue arrives from Rome for St Patrick parish
A statue of St Patrick, sent by order of the pope to St Patrick's parish in Montreal, arrives from Rome carrying the claimed real bone of the saint's right arm. The artifact is part of the parish celebrations planned for this year.
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St. Patrick's
Montreal
Que
Rome
St. Patrick
St. Patrick’s
Duel Leaves Two Dead East of Guthrie
During a trial at Perkins miles east of Guthrie Oklahoma, John Doherty Jr and John Larkins along with Sam Larkins assaulted Amos Atkinson and his sons Jim and William, fatally wounding the two sons.
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Guthrie
Okla
Perkins
Here
John Doherty
John
Sam Larkins
Amos Atkinson
Jim
William
Justice Beasley Dead in New Jersey at 81
Mercer Ble y chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court died at his home in Trenton on Friday from pneumonia. He was 81 years old.
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Trenton
N. J
Mercer Bley
The
Supreme of New Jersey
Pneum
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