Ship Owen Believed Lost After Lake Superior Storm
The steel steamer Owen with nineteen crew members is believed sunk after a severe Lake Superior storm. Debris and wreckage found near Michigan Island suggest the vessel foundered with all hands. The Owen carried 176,000 bushels of barley and was insured for 100000 dollars.
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Ira H. Owen
Lake. Superior
Owen
Bkater Island
Owens
Nye
M. K. Chamberlain
Sir William Sieridns
Ashland
Wis
Michigan Island
Chicago
Cleveland
Western Star
Cummings
Oswego
X. Y
Lake Superior
Qatanegon
Mich
Detroit Journal
Great Lakes
Courts Rule Chicago Charter Plan Likely Legal
Judge Mark in Chicago circuit court questioned a reform amendment that would create a new city charter. The ruling finds the amendment legal as it affects multiple constitutional articles, challenging the move to abolish existing municipal courts. The case advances to the state supreme court for final decision.
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Chicago
Atudge Mark
Just Legislatu
Ch Eago
Indictments None in Kenyon Student Death Case
Knox County grand jury at Mt Vernon Ohio reported Tuesday no indictments against Delta Kappa Epsilon members or Kenyon College affiliates in the Stewart Pierson death. Coroner Scarborough and jurors agreed Pierson was likely tied on the tracks or unable to free himself, but the responsible party or parties could not be determined.
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Pierson Cree
Knox County Grand Jury
Mt Vernon
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Wny
Kenyon College
Stewart Pierson
Scarborough
Pierson
Diamonds Recovered After Chicago Jewelry Robbery
Thieves looted Bauman Jewelry Company in Chicago Wednesday, stealing diamonds valued at $9,000. The larger portion, including a $5,000 diamond breach, was recovered Friday when a young woman found it on stairs to an elevated station and brought it to the store. A Knight of Pythias matter in Chicago was resolved, and Sioux City stock market notes and a bank in Mexico City were briefly mentioned.
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Chicago
Bauman Jewelry Companys
Catholic Bank
Arizona
Mexi- City
Wreck on Jersey Central Flyer Near Stoney Creek
Reports detail a Jersey Central New Jersey flyer's wreck near Stoney Creek ten miles north of Mauch Chunk with an engineer and fireman killed and about a dozen passengers injured. The train plunged into the Lehigh River after leaving Scranton. Nine injured were taken to St Luke's hospital Bethlehem. Also notes vast storm on Great Lakes with multiple vessels wrecked and many missing.
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Penn
Haven Junction
Aixty
Scranton
Mere
Slater Esate
Newman
Libbert
Mauch
Chunk
Jersey Central
Stoney Creek
Reading Railroad
Jersey Central Railroad
Philadelphia
Bethighem
Central Railroad
Company of New Jersey
New York Flyer
Mauch Chunk
Associated Press
Albert
Detroy
St. Luke's Hospital
South Bethlehem
Lehigh River
Concholao
Wedding Ban Branded Unlawful by Omaha Bishop
Omaha Bishop Richard Seannell excommunicated ipso facto all Catholics who attended the Kennedy Pritchett wedding in Omaha. Prominent attendees included Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy and bridesmaid Mae Hamilton, whose fortune was reported at over a million. Kennedy had a living ex-wife, prompting the bishop to issue a pastoral forbidding participation.
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Omaha
Richard Seannell
Catholic Church
Kennedy
Margaret Pritchett
Neb
Edward A. Cudahy
Mae Hamilton
Over & Wilion
Death in Strange Accident in Au Sable Michigan
Mrs William oe and her five year old son were killed when a wheel of their carriage became entangled with a wire attached to a flagpole. The flagpole fell after the pole toppled and crushed the heads of both mother and child. two other women and a child escaped unharmed.
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Au Sable
Mich
William Oe
Clifton Arizona Flood Ravages Town and Rail Lines
Heavy flood swept Chase Creek through Clifton washing away houses and destroying the Colorado railroad between Clifton and Metcalf. Station yards of the New Mexico and Arizona railroad flooded. The smelter nearby damaged and several bridges washed out. Morenci also reported damage.
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Clifton
A. T. Clifton
Ariz
Chase Street
Colorado ‘Railroad
There
Metcalf
New Mexico and Arizona Railroad
Chase Creek
Gila River
Morenci
Boilermakers May Strike Question Raised in Scranton
Labor readers in Scranton after a visit by Grand President George S. Dunne of the Boil ermakers and Shipbuilders Union say the craft plans a general strike in the United States and Canada on May 1 for higher wages.
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Scranton
George S. Dunne
Boilermakers’ and Shipbuilders’ Union
United States
Canada
Plague in Yokohama Rages on Steamship Dakota
Officers aboard the Dakota report bubonic plague in Yokohama Japan with four deaths aboard before departure and many sickness reports. No clear health clearance likely until the outbreak is contained.
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Yokohama
Japan
Dakota
Powers Seize Mytilene Amid Demands From Powers
Advises from Constantinople report detachments from the international fleet landed at Mytilene Sunday afternoon and seized the customs and postal offices. The governor protested but gained no relief. The Burrow festival runs Tuesday to November 30, after which fleet action may target Tenedos if demands are not met. The Porte seeks changes to the financial control plan to suit Turkish interests.
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Ialand
Constantinople
Mytilene
Tenedos
Asia Minor
Porte
Thrifty Convict Becomes Part Owner of Prison Broom Firm
James Hale, a federal prisoner moved from Jefferson City to Fort Leavenworth, owns stock in the Central Broom Manufacturing Company inside the penitentiary. Hale bought shares with hoarded barber tips two weeks before his transfer. his 99 year murder sentence stems from an Indian Territory case, and Gary Folk reacts with anger.
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Gary
Folk
James Hale
Jefferson City
Fort Leavenworth
Central Broom Manufacturing Company
Hale
Federal
Inain Territory
Corpse of Daughter Found in Eccentric Woman's Boyle Heights Cottage
The body of Mrs. Liore Thompson died years earlier lies in a hermetically sealed box in a storeroom of her Boyle Heights cottage near Los Angeles. The box contained the dismembered corpse of her daughter, with a disinterment certificate dated 1881 from an Amherst, Minnesota undertaker.
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Liore Thompson
Boyle Heights
Los Angeles
Cal
F. R. Rautelle
Amherst
Mnes
Trial ends in acquittal in Ottumwa fraud case
In Ottumwa district court Judge Michelbérseh directed a verdict for the defendant B A Lines after witnesses failed to prove the indictment. D Es Skinner, once treasurer of the Fort Madison and Ottumwa Railroad, faced related charges for insolvent bank deposits but the case collapsed. No further indictments stand against Skinner, and another arrest is possible.
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Ottunwa
B.A. Lines
Michelbérseh Ruing
D.es Skinner
Fort Madison and Ottumwa Railroad
Lnter
Burling‘ton
Birmingham
Sentingo
G. Riley
Riley S
Uiuney
Riley & Pesbacher
Skinner
Stoppered Trial Ends in Storm Lake Wedding
In district court at Storm Lake a drainage case trial was halted to allow Judge A. D. Bailie to unite W. Van Buskirk, 61, and Mrs. M. E. Mayes, 56, both of Alta, in marriage. The ceremony occurred without adjournment, with attorneys present as witnesses. Van Buskirk, longtime Buena Vista County resident and wealthy, wed a millinery businesswoman from Alta who has two great grandchildren in Storm Lake and many grandchildren.
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Storm Lake
Buena Vista County
Alta
Baldes Testifies Wife Struck First Blow in Murder Trial
Baldes on the stand in Orange City on charges of murdering his wife claims she struck the first blow. He cites her heart disease as a contributing factor. Defense evidence mirrors the preliminary findings as the court awaits a Sioux City doctor to bolster the accident theory.
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Matthew Baldex
Orange City
Baldes
Sioux City
Des Moines Railway Co Wins Temporary Injunction
United States district Judge Smith McPherson granted a temporary injunction to restrain Des Moines city authorities from tearing up street railway tracks. The dispute centers on property rights valued at $1,600,000 and stems from a resolution passed days earlier.
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Des Moines
Smith McPherson
United States District Court
Des Moines Railway Company
Commission Plan Discussed By Des Moines Business Leaders
At a meeting of about sixty prominent Des Moines businessmen Tuesday night tentative steps toward adopting the Galveston plan of city government by commission were discussed. A committee was named to devise a plan along the general lines presented. Fall Festival Opens In Mason City With speeches by A L Amex and others, events include a core contest and a Sig poultry show. An attempted bank robbery at Gilman nine miles south of Marshalltown used nitroglycerin on the vault door. robbers fled after the blast. In Sioux City Mrs Barbara Conley won a $1 verdict in a suit over injuries from supposed midwife negligence.
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Crescent City
Mataafa
W.bagland
Rosemont
Isaac’l. Elwood
JH. Outhwaite
City of Holland
J. M. Spaulding
Carey Mitchell
Harvey Bissell
W. A. George
Oliver Mowatt
Jim Sheriffs
Vinland
Pre
Alecon
Keen Bay
Duluth
Minn
Matnafa
Des Moines
Galveston
Dovin
Mason City
Agars
A. L. Amex
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Sage
Wallace
Holden
Seerley
Cedar Alls
Sig
Gilman
Bank of
Marshalltown
Sioux City
Barbara Conley
Mary Watterson
Pardoned murderer from Anamosa after life prison term
Maurderer in Pardowuch Anton Seymour of Anamosa received a gubernatorial pardon from Gov Cummins after a life prison sentence for killing his father in law Fifield, dated fourteen years prior. Dunlap Poultry Show slated for December 20 at Dunlap with the Layer Valley Poultry Association offering one hundred special prizes. Hawkeye Incubator Company of Newton reports a total fire loss of about 25 thousand dollars with insurance around 7 thousand. Requisitions from Booth Dy for Joby Burns and Fred Barton were honored by Gov Cummins at Des Moines.
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Maurderer
Pardowuch
Anton Seymour
Anamosa
Fifield
Guv. Cummins
Dunlap
Layer Valley Poultry Association
Mive
Newton
Hawkeye Incubator’ Company of
Rural Bank Growth and Farm Statistics Highlight Historical Report
A fragmented summary notes bank deposits rising across rural states and a farmer’s varied output. It cites 2.708 billion dollars in some measure, discusses hay crops cotton dairy products and eggs, and mentions bankers boosting rural credit while asserting farming progress over a decade and a half. The garbled text references individuals named Gondue and Phoua and a funeral context amid the tumult.
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Tie ‘Co
Egga
Automl National Banking
Agrieut Uch
Insurance Award In Storm Lake Suicide Case
Mabel Sandquist, alias Sindy, was awarded a $2,000 judgment against an insurance company and the Court of Honor after a legal battle over the insurance carried by her father Frank Sandquist. The insurer resisted payment claiming death by own action, in a long-running Buena Vista County case.
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Mabel Sande
Laures
Stormlake
Mabel
Sindy
Frank Sandqul Sandquist
Company 7
Fire at Marshalltown ruins homes and a child escapes
A fire at Marshalltown destroyed the residences of A. Church and Dr. C Lattele, likely from faulty wiring. A child narrowly escaped cremation as the bed caught fire. Loss estimated around 12000, with partial insurance. Also reports: Willing’s new trial reverses conviction. Mrs Downing of Britt chloroformed and robbed. Mrs Green to Anamosa. Carter and Blackburn sentences. Combe Beck case pending.
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Marshalltown
A. Church
de. C. Clattele
Willing
L. G. Willing
Waterloo
Anamosa
Tee
Wilteotienee
Supreme Court of Iowa
Downing
Downing Hay
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Evaston
Kan
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Spex Tisdale
Hintel Baville
Newark
Wassay
R. B. Martin
Andrew Patterson
Belcher
Shreveport
Mlinois
American Exchange Bank
J. F. Mitchell
Mt Carmel
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Decatur
Decatur Milling Company
Carnegie
Odronete
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Jadae
Michal Bayne
Des Moiners Railway Company
6&E
Ures
Lindsay
Wales
Wat
Phoua
Estherville
Gondue
Nemo
Rock Island
Pate
HONDA
Pottawattamie
Lottie Green
Council Bluffs
Blackburn
Malaballtown
Burnham
Arthur Blackburn
Fort Madisan
Marshall
Osph
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