Split in National Live Stock Association creates American Stock Growers
In Denver on Friday the National Live Stock Association split over packer and railroad membership. A new body named the American Stock Growers' Association formed, aiming to bolster cattle growers. Sheep growers, commission men, and stock yards interests stayed with the old group. Distant from the original, the new organization will admit individual members only and plans a May convention in Denver with Doin W. Egleinger elected president.
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National Live Stock Association
Twain
Denver
Colo
American Stock Growers’ Association
Ursanizstion
Brown Palace
Brooklyn Suspension Bridge Must Be Rebuilt
Fear a great disaster looms as engineers warn the Brooklyn bridge suffers strain that could weaken it severely. The Department of Bridges plans a near complete rebuild over about two years, diverting traffic via the Williamsburg tunnel during construction. four to five years may pass before completion amid a major engineering challenge.
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Brooklyn Suspension Bridge
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Department of Bridges
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Tunnel
Bow
Trial near close in Gebhardt murder case
New Ulm dispatch reports the trial of Dr. Geo R Koch for the Gebhardt murder set to close with defense testimony and closing arguments slated for Monday and Tuesday. The case likely goes to the jury Tuesday night or Wednesday amid local interest in the historic 1904 slaying.
Bank Run Turns Stampede in East Side Dramatics
Report of a chaotic bank run at a Grand Street bank in New York's east side. Thousands gathered as authorities struggled to control the unruly crowd with police and emergency detail, while depositors withdrew cash, many in specie, amid panic over the bank's solvency.
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State Bank of
Grand Street
East
New York
Delanery Street
A. V. Voorhis
Drunkard’s awful crime rocks Chicago family
John Miller, in a drunken rage, killed his wife and infant daughter in Chicago then gravely wounded another daughter before an attempted suicide. Neighbors found the unconscious Miller family. Mrs Miller died en route to hospital while the younger child died soon after arrival. Preliminary reports say Miller will die.
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Chicago
John Miller
Wednesday
Miller
Wrecked Crew Drawn Lots for Survival After Sinking
The steamer Texas foundered in a storm off the Tebrides. The captain and twelve men perished after abandoning ship. Survivors drifted for days, suffering hunger and cold before rescue aboard the Zeno at Waterford, Ireland. They had drawn lots to decide who would be sacrificed for food.
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Waterford
Ireland
Texas
Tebrides
Moody Race Kier and Other Early 20th Century News
A mixed wire of clashes and crime reports: gang violence in Carter, Ontario leaves three dead and many injured amid Halians and Sinnish Jaborera tensions. Former Chicago educator Graham seeks nolle prosequi after accounting shortfall, while Germany faces a major coal strike with 70,000 workers out across 47 mines. German colonial warfare claims one side with multiple officers killed in South West Africa. The Chicago Motor Vehicle Company is declared bankrupt.
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Moody Race
Witheris
Africa
Janu
Barep von Naardendorf
Auto Company
Chicago Motor Vehicle Company
West
Wreck in dense fog kills five on Las Vegas line
A fog bound collision between a passenger limited and a freight on the Las Vegas division of the Santa Fe killed five and injured many. Engineers from both trains were hurt as wreckage flew and the track was littered with debris.
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Disinbard
Limited
Barber
Las Vegas
Ipton
The
Stolen Gems Recovered From Glass Jar Storage
Detectives recovered over twenty eight thousand dollars in jewelry belonging to Mrs Ambrose Clark the Cooperstown theft victim after tracing suspect William Coleman who was freed by a Cooperstown grand jury. Authorities found the loot buried in a glass jar in New York City between Eighth and Central Avenues. Coleman had been arrested in July for the Coopers Town theft and held, then released in November. He remained under surveillance until the discovery.
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West One Hundred
Willy-fifth Street
Eighth and
Central Avenues
New York City
Ambrose Clark
Potter
Henry C. Totter
Ternieigh
Cooperstown
Clark
William Coleman
Coleman
New York
Liberty
The
Wace
Run Keeps Up as Women Lead New York Bank Run
A freezing rain and fog drew depositors to the State Bank of New York, with about 400 people, mostly women, lining up for hours on Thursday. A truck delivered $50,000, and up to $200,000 in gold from the subtreasury was held in reserve if needed.
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New York Bank
State Bank
New York City
Poverty in New York as Unemployment Surges
Commissioner General Sargent of the immigration bureau received a letter from a prominent New York philanthropist, who cannot be named publicly. The letter portrays stark poverty in the city, stating New York has the largest unemployed share in the country with about 100,000 idle men, a 40 percent rise from last year.
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New York City
Sargent
Bureau of Inmigration
New York
Six Mayors McCue to Die
The Virginia supreme court of appeals refused a writ of error in ex Mayor McCue of Charlottesville case. He was convicted of wife murder and conspiracy and is to hang on the 20th. Several firemen hurt as smoke and a loss of 200000 arose from a three hour center Chelsea fire. A steamer stuck on a bar in dense fog while trying to reach the Indus from West Indian ports. St. Louis boodle fund case: judge orders 60000 fund used to pay a note borrowed by a former railroad company president.
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McCue
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Charlottesville
Chelsea
Mars
Bar
Indus
West Indian
Mire Ix
St. Louis
Ryan
Church Row at St Anthony May Disrupt Methodist Group
A church fight at the Methodist Church of St Anthony erupts as leading members clash over property. Pastor Rev J M Plumb accuses liquor traders of aiding rivals, expelling D H Buck postmaster and others amid claims of liquor shipments and church discipline.
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Church of
Plumb
D. H. Buck
Hog Survives Blizzard in Straw Stack With Six Pigs
A Fort Dodge report describes a sow buried in straw during a blizzard for seven days on Nels Jaggison’s farm. The sow and six piglets survived, the mother revived from a skeletal condition after careful feeding and is now out of danger.
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Fort Dodge
Nels Jaggison
Grave Crime Charged In Sidney Trial
The trial of Lewis Perry is under way in Sidney, charged by his 16 year old daughter Sadie with fathering her child unborn. She testified he had been intimate with her since she was 12, and that she is a young looking girl. The court scene when she spoke drew a crowded room and no male support for the girl.
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Lewis Perry
Sidney
Perry
Sadie
KRELD FOR MURDER Dan Shepard Arrested Again
Jefferson County Sheriff arrests Dan Shepard at Fairfield on murder charges in the death of Christian Womelsdorf dated January 5. The suspect, previously freed for lack of evidence, now faces a case described as one of the coldest and most mysterious in the region.
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Dan Shepard
Fairfield
Wright
Jefferson County
Fairfiel
Christian Womelsdorf
Shepard
Fires Hit Firms Across The State In Two Weeks
A two week span saw thirteen firms burned in Al five firms destroyed at Mitchell and eight fires. Des Moines reported four fires of minor importance. Creston Lake Ogden Rodney each had one or two fires. Most firms were insured, but insurers worry about collection as arson is suspected in some cases.
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Birm
Lort
Rodney
Will
Shot Through the Bowels Arnold Daane in Hull
Arnold Daane a 12 year old boy from Hull was shot while hunting on Friday afternoon. A 22 caliber rifle bullet entered near the navell and punctured eight times in the intestines. Surgeons from Hull Sheldon and Alton treated him, and though the boy’s condition remained serious, doctors expressed hope for recovery.
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Arnold Daane
Hull
WP. J. Daane
Des
Cade
Crane
Sheldon
Schelton
Alton
Believe Father Was Slain By Mysterious Clarke County Case
The two sons of I L DeLong of Clarke County obtained a court order to justify action and had stomach analysis done. The governor of Iowa offered a reward for the murderers after DeLong, a wealthy farmer, died four months ago from a whisky and quinine mixture. The sons suspected foul play due to a will and pursued an investigation that supported their theory.
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I. L. DeLong
Clarke County
Iowa
LveLong
Two Suspects Arrested In Treynor Bank Robbery Attempt
Word reached Council Bluffs from Creynor that the savings bank was dynamited Friday night, the building badly wrecked. Cashier could not confirm any money secured. Two men arrested south of Council Bluffs, jailed, named John Bernstein and James Arthur, both armed with revolvers. An empty nitro glycerin can found on one man. Neither man would talk.
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Treynor
Council Bluffs
Creynor
Council Raiiffs
Bank of
John Bernstein
James Arthur
Five fatally hurt in Dubuque crash with fire engine
A bobsted party of fifteen crashed into a fire engine on Fourteenth India Street in Dubuque Sunday night, fatally injuring five people W G Reynolds Hershe Wilmers Ive Collinson Grace Sellwind Mildred Srudden. The incident followed by damage to the engine and a horse with a broken leg. Nearby reports mention a two story house moved on a railway line near Fort Dodge and theater closures in Des Moines for ordinance noncompliance.
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Bobsted
Dubuque
Fourteenth India Streets
W. G. Reynolds
Hershe Wilmers
Ive Collinson
Grace Sellwind
Mildred Srudden
Houe
Lehigh
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
Bijou
Lyceum
Fifty Years Ago in Europe and America Highlights
A fragmented recap cites riots over saving machinery in England, a Portuguese queen aged 54, indemnities for American ships captured by the Lions, and unrest in New Orleans with railroad and bridge disruptions. It notes mass meetings in the North, Missouri emancipation talks, and a Mississippi River railroad project valued at $100,000 with ties to Clinton, Iowa.
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Ireland
Washington
Louisiana
Christine
Portugl
Americi Ing
England
Victoria
Lawrence River
New
Cail
Ordlum
Hlies
Savana
Clinton
Iowa
Chisago
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Myers
Paniianer
la Crosse
Wis
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Gratwick Pathoeal Laboratory
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New York Central
Roovevelt
Warner
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Prion
Germany
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Feaders
Stack
Des Moines Library Board
Lueck Finn
You Sawyer
Levee Cone
Bank of the Book Committee
Manchester
Carnegie Free Library
Mark ‘Twain
Ikleary Hoard
Wilson
Sidhey
Baying
George Borten
Custer Allen
Annex
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Bank of Everly
J. P. Baker
Bank of Eberly
Harrison County
Francis Xavier
Tamisiea
Missouri Valley
Chris Neuss
Northwestern
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Otho Grisby
Madrid
Pasteur Institute
William McKay
Missouri
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