Cedar Rapids meeting attendees and local events across Iowa
Iowa news notes list Cedar Rapids Seventh-day Adventists leaders including Elder I. H. Evans and Union College president Frederick Griggs. Reports cover a West Liberty death-defying act, Creston horse show, Methodist conference in Schaller, bank robberies, hog cholera spread, local fires, and public notices across multiple towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
I. H. Evans
Washington, D. C
G. B. Thompson
W. T. Knox
M. FE. Kern
Frederick Griggs
Union College
College View
Nebraska
A. T. Robinson
Lincoln
O. A. Olson
Chicago
Charles Thompson
F. E. Painter
Minneapolis
Joseph Badham
West Liberty
Lonardo Anderies
Marshal Wiley
Grinnell
Badham
Creston
Ida Groe
The
Methodist Church
Schaller
Alfred E. Craig
Morningside College
O. M. Bond
Spencer
Henry Woodford
Waverly
PF. Murphy
Frank Smith
Marshalltown
Liberty
Murphy
Smith
Tabor
John A. Goetz
Maquoketa
Ackley
J. H. Schrader
Churdan
John Gries
John Findlay
Harlan
King’s Daughters’ Society
Perry
Woodford
Bennett
Verna Wareham
Hetch Hetchy Bill Clears San Francisco Use
Washington dispatch notes the house passed the Hetch Hetchy reservoir bill granting San Francisco use of the basin. Other items include Morgen thrau’s ambassadorial nomination to Turkey and a series of budget and trade measures affecting railroads currency and Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
San Francisco
Confessed killer named in Lukos murder case
Frederick Moeller a shoemaker confessed to St Louis police that he was one of the two bandits who killed Stephen Lukos a saloon keeper. The report lists other criminal and civic matters including naturalization delay for Balkan veterans and testimonies in Caminetti trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Moeller
St. Louis
Stephen Lukos
M. R. Bevington
America
United States
Global notes from 1910s era news items vary in focus
A diverse collection reports on wood imports for cars in Australia, vast irrigation plans in India, a 1914 student congress location change, a German aviator fatality, Turkish military movement near Xanthi, papal health updates, a major warehouse fire in Manchester, a Portugal royal marriage, a Prussian civil ceremony, London pearl theft arrests, and the Harris brothers cricket team in London.
Des Moines Electric buys Colfax Carlisle and Prairie City franchises
Des Moines Electric company, owned by the McKinley syndicate, buys lighting rights at Carlisle Colfax and Prairie City as part of a plan to consolidate central Iowa power and create an interurban network. The syndicate already operates at Oskaloosa and seeks Keokuk connections and more city franchises. Officials say plans are not yet confirmed but central Iowa power development is likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Carlisle
Colfax
Prairie City
Des Moines Electric Company
Iowa
McKinley Syndicate
Oskaloosa
Valley Junction
Pella
Middle West
Keokuk
Illinois Traction
Merrick Starts Drainage War
Samuel Merrick of Forest City argues droughts result from drainage and has distributed literature at his own expense to incite public agitation through press discussion of the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest City
Samuel Merrick
Merrick
Escape from E Capes State Insane Hospital Inquiry
Cherokee Graham Meadville formerly confined at the state insane hospital was reported to have escaped from the asylum after being committed on testimony from his wife and step-daughter alleging assaults on a 15 year old girl. The two women later admitted their testimony before the insanity commission was perjury and planned to seek his release by court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Meadville
State Insane Hospital
Sioux City
Seek Tools Find Money in Panos Case
Marshalltown officers found 1500 dollars in cash and certificates of deposit in the trunk of Gust Panos a Greek ice house foreman. Panos, suspected of stealing tools and having resigned, has disappeared without taking his savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Gust Panos
Panos
Iowa Editor Perry Hazelett Dies at 50 in Perry
Perry Harry Hazelett editor of the Perry Independent and former Eleventh district Democrat collapsed at home on Saturday. Officials cite heart disease aggravated by heat stroke as the cause of death. he previously edited the Ida Grove Record Era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Harry Hazelett
Perry Independent
Ida Grove
Man fatally shoots wife then kills himself in Chariton
George H. Maloney shot his wife four times after domestic trouble and a divorce filing, then died by suicide. Mrs. Maloney was hospitalized in Ottumwa with life-threatening injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Self
Chariton
George H. Maloney
Mrs. Maloney
Ottumwa
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Hawkeye
State News
Ft. Madison
Mississippi River
Harry Scanlon
Jefferson
James Gleason
Emmetsburg
Virgil G. Hinshaw
W. Stewart
Illinois
C. S. Lyles
Methodist Episcopal Church
Logan
State College
Ames
Council Bluffs
Anthony J. Goetz
Iowa City
Goetz
Hummer Mercantile Company
Paul C. Cassat
Birmingham
China
New Boys’ High School
Tsing Tau
Shantung Province
Mr. Cassat
Park College
A.S. Garret
Mills
C. E. Armstrong & Co
Clinton
Board of Control
Everett Stonebaker
Iowa Falls
Fred Dalton
Macedonia
Jesse Schroeder
Farnhamville
G. W. McCold
McCoild
R. E. Woods
Milwaukee
Charlies City
Civil Service
Redfield
Linden
General Readers
Washington
Foreign Relations Committee
Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
Lindbergh
Federal Reserve Banks
Senate
Spain
Cummins
Bryan
Edwin M. Borchard
Congress
Edwin H. Hart
Johnson
Alaska
Levy
Attorney General
United States Steel Corporation
Senate Banking Committee
Weeks
Massachusetts
Wilson
Pryan
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Chile
State Department
Henry P. Fletcher
Santiago
Kinkead
New Jersey
Europe
Rev. J. J. Lawrence
Binghamton
N. Y
England
Butte
Mont
City of
Los Angeles
Moss Wu. Love
Signal Corps
Army Aviation School
Here
Marshall
Great Falls
Rockk Island Railroad
Willard
United States District Court
St. Paul
Smiths
National Association of Letter Carriers
Omaha
Dallas
Tex
Dayton
California
Ralph Morris
Oakland
Cal
Morris
McReynold
Hard Coal Trust
Philadelphia
Reading Company
Lola Norris
F. Drew Caminetti
Caminetti
E. E. Gordon
Cairo
Harvey R. Fields
Gordon
Fields
Frederick C. Penfield
Austria
George D. Widener
India
Montevideo
Uruguay
International Congress of Students
Ithaca
Kahl
Strasburg
Xanthi
Deenghatch
Aegean Sea
Pope Pius X
Manchester Ship Canal Company
Oowell
Manuel
Portugal
Augustine Victoria
William of
London
Paris
Harris
Central Iown
Capes State Insane Hospital
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