Iowa Officials Rally for State Code Reform and Higher Pay
Sioux City August 20 officials from counties including supervisors recorders auditors and treasurers convene to demand revisions to Iowa laws. they seek greater salary and control over county affairs and urge reforms in property taxation birth registrations and clerk appointments with term extensions for some offices. elections for auditors clerks and recorders proceed as leaders discuss next convention in cedar rapids.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Recorders
County Clerks’ Association
F. W. Satvent
District Court
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Spirit Lake
Des Moines
W. S.lis
Montgomery County
James A. Palen
Dubuque County
Hudgkinns
Trumbolde County
W.S. Wadsworth
Winnébago County
Pleasantville Mill and Flour House Burned Down
Pleasantville mill and flouring mills owned by Sam T. Maddy and J. W. Terry were destroyed by fire along with 000 bushels of wheat stored inside. The blaze started in the hooley room and spread to the roof, reaching the cribs 100 feet away. The mill recently cost about 6000 dollars with grain insured for 2000 dollars, leaving a total loss near the original mill price.
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Knoxville
Pleasantville
Getz Dies at Jacksonville After Mental Health Strife
Word from Jacksonville confirms the death of Dr Ham G L Getz a longtime Marshalltown physician and former president of the International Railway Surgeons Association. Once treated for morphine addiction he stabbed himself at a West Liberty depot platform fearing return to an asylum. He left Marshalltown two years ago after resisting insanity charges.
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Marshalltown
Jacksonville
Ham GL
Getz
International Railway Surgeon's Association
Jeiz
West Liberty
Independence Insane Asylum
Des Moines Boy Drowns Near Hed Rock
Des Moines Aug 20 Curtis A. MacMillan 18 son of Mr and Mrs D H MacMillan drowned in the Des Moines river near Hed Rock Marion county He was part of a camping party with about twenty Des Moines boys and girls involved in the incident.
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Des Moines
Es Moines
Curtiss A. MacMian
MacMillan
Hed Rock
Marion County
Thaly
Girtsy
Beloit
Wis
Heloit
James McDonald
Rock River
Missouri railroad assessments rise in 1909 totals
Jefferson Mo Aug 206 The assessment of the steam railroads in Missouri by the state board of equalization for 1909 shows an increase over last year assessment of 6 156783 57 The total assessment for 1909 is 122 WEA TAPE
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Jefferson
Missouri
State Board of Equilization
Forty Five Years Alone, Louisville Man Dies in Kentucky
Taftl Hayden, a resident of Ireanhriar Nelson County, has died at age forty five after a lifetime of isolation within his yard since President Lincoln's emancipation. Local news notes his long seclusion near the picket fence and the end of an era in Louisville.
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Louisville
Ireanhriar
Nelson County
Taftl Hayden
Lincoln
West Point cadets dismissed for hazing Rolando Sutton
Seven United States military academy cadets were dismissed by Taft and the academy board for hazing Cadet Rolando Sutton. The action underscores enforcement of hazing laws, with the cadets named Booker Hooker Dunmore Devore Lefebvre Crane Fortner. The decision received support from military and civil officials as a firm stand against hazing.
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West Point
Taft
United States Military Academy
Rolando Sutton
Sutton
James Sutton
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Military Academy
Col. Sibley
Oscar J. Gharles
Seventh Infantry
M. F. Smith
Twentieth Infantry
John H. Booker, Jr
Richard W.W, Hooker
Kansas City
Parle W. Dunmore
Utica
N. Y
Chauncey C. Devore
Wheeling
W. Va
Gordon Lefebvre
Richmond
Albert
Crane
Hawarden
Jacob S. Fortner
Dothan
Ala
Washington
Dickinson
Army
Col
Scott
Secretary of War
Fearful Havoc of Flood In Colorado Rail Lines Disrupted
Denver Aug 20 Trains blocked in mountain passes as Arkansas river overflow floods tracks and washes the Royal Gorge, forcing detours for Colorado Midland and Denver and Rio Grande lines. People flee homes to higher ground amid Four Mile creek cloudburst rescues. Eastern tourists among those diverted over circuitous routes.
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Denver
Col
Arkansas
Four Mile Creek
Canon Guty
Pueblo
Royal Gorge
Colorado Midland
Denver & Rilo Grande
Taft Calls Tax Fight Expected and Normal
Beverly August 20 reports from Washington and New York say the constitutionality of the new corporation tax will be tested as soon as collection efforts begin. President Taft says the tests and protests were anticipated and natural. He asserts no new tax system has ever been submitted without a challenge.
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Beverly
Masa
Beverly Daily
Washington
New York
Taft
Brewer Charged with Larceny in Windsor Loan Case
New York August 20. The grand jury indicted Charles Katy president of Western Brewing Company of Brooklyn on grand larceny related to a Windsor Trust Company loan transaction. The case centers on alleged theft in a bank loan deal and charges proceed to trial.
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New York
Charles Katy
Western Brewing Company of
Brooklyn
Windsor Trust Company
Wellman dirigible voyage toward the North Pole
Paris reports Walter Wellman departed Spitzbergen August 6 in the airship Thalia bound for the north pole. Paris scientists think he may have reached the pole today and note the journey could take two to five days from Spitzbergen. Wellman has spent four years preparing the expedition. past attempts by airship America in 1907 were thwarted by a storm and did not succeed. He left New York May 12 for Spitzbergen to finish preparations for this start.
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Paris
Trieste
Hammerfest
Norway
Walter Wellman
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Pole
Wellman
Man
Chicago
America
New York
Woman with Baby Leads Strikers in River Battle
Pittsburg August 20 allegd strike sympathizers fired on steamer P M Pfeil carrying 50 imported workers to McKees Rocks steel mill. Unknown foreign woman with a baby at command of a volley led over 100 shots. State constabulary dispersed crowd as importees reached shore amid injuries and nervousness. Bread and provisions distributed to striker families. officials deny holding new workers against their will.
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Pittsburg
P. M. Pfeil
Ohio River
McKees Rocks
Famous Athlete In Toils In Wisconsin Burglary Case
Robert Taintor a Beloit college star was sent to Green Bay reformatory for two years after pleading guilty to burglary and arson at a La Crosse garage. He confessed to a fake suicide attempt to distract investigators and used the alias Arthur Dearborn to shield the Taintor family name.
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Taintor
Arthur Dearborn
Swift trials urged by prison reform report
Seattle reporters describe the American Prison Association gathering where delegates endorsed reform citing swift, certain justice as essential to public confidence. They warn against delays and technical reversals that embolden criminals and erode law enforcement morale.
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Seattle
Wash
Congress of the American Prison Association
Committee On Criminal Law Reform
TWO DIE IN MICHIGAN WRECK
In Grand Ledge Michigan on August 20 engineer William Bradley and fireman Fred L Graves were killed when a Pere Marquette passenger train boiler exploded two miles east of town. The wreck overturned the coach and derailed a sleeping car, but no passengers were seriously injured.
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Grand Ledge
Mich
William Bradley
Fred L. Graves
Pere Marquette
Here
Swedish Strike Near End Ends Labor Troubles in Stockholm
Stockholm reports the end of acute labor troubles as union leaders begin negotiations with employers to resume work. Rioting occurred at Gothenburg requiring mounted police to disperse the mob. Cipriano Castro arrives in Solares to take the cure.
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Gothenburg
Stockholm
Castro
Solares
Spain
Cipriano Casta
Venezuela
Orinoco Crew Lost in Gale as Capsized Vessel Drowns Eleven
Lunenburg Nova Scotia Aug 20 Eleven members of the Gloucester Mass fishing schooner Orinoco were drowned while asleep when the vessel capsized after 26 mines off Cambro and sank in under three minutes Captain William Larkin of Pubnico N S and three on deck were saved Eleven crewmen aboard the Orinoco perished in the disaster.
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Lunenburg
N. S
Gloucester
Mass
Orinoco
Cambro
Wiliam Larkin
Pubnico
N. 8
New York
Madden Persson
Arlington
Long Beach
Irene Mary
Beckman Street
Persson
Harmon quits receivership in Cincinnati railway case
Gov Judson Harmon of Ohio resigns as receiver of the Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton Railway Company and transfers control to road officers in Cincinnati. Detroiter Win Catter and J L Cramer named president and vice president, with Thomas J Walsh as secretary. Carter files court acceptance of Lurton order lifting receivership.
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Hallway Company
Lurton
Congress Upholds Pinchot Controversy Debate
Denver Aug 20 The Trans Mississippi Commercial congress debated and curtailed a Patterson resolution on Pinchot boundaries. Patterson argued a board of inquiry found definitions vague and lands non timbered should be opened for entry, citing President’s power. Ammons pressed for laws to require entry of uncultivated lands and private capital to develop power, limiting immediate government action.
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Denver
Col
Transissippi Commercial Congress
P Ballinger
Thomas M. Pal
Colorado
Gifford Pinchot
Patterson
Patterson's Reses Cited That A Board of Inquiry Posed of Mr. Pinchot
Pinchot
A. M. Ammons
Trade
Smithsonian receives Theodore Roosevelt quest shipment of 82 animal skins
Aug 20 Washington report notes arrival in New York from the Smithsonian African expedition under Col Theodore Roosevel t. The first month’s collection includes 82 specimens such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, hippos, zebras and giraffes.
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Washington
New York
Smithsonian
Theodore Roosevel
Roosevelt
Murder trial at sea links boxing incident to death
Washington August 20 A wireless message from Rear Admiral Scholer reports that David Williams a crewman on the battleship Vermont now faces a court martial on a manslaughter charge. The case grows from a boxing bout on the Vermont at Provincetown Mass between Williams and fellow mess attendant Harrison H FoFi later fatally injuring FoFi after he sought medical aid and died.
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Washington
Navy
Scholer
Atlantic A
David Williams
Verm. Ig
Harrison H. Fo
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Conn
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Ohio
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