Global Briefs Highlight Wide Range of World Happenings
A digest of international items notes deaths and trials in the United States and Alaska, indictments in Chicago, smuggling cases in New York, court actions in New Hampshire, and political shifts. Reports include a 61 year old Danville Pellagra death, Manhattan population rise to 2.83 million, a 28 percent express-rate cut in Illinois, and the Berthold reservation land draw in Minot. Additional items cover robberies in Chicago, hotel fire deaths in Juneau, a murder-suicide in New York, a streetcar crash near Chicago, a protest over Mrs. Eddy’s estate, and public notices on public figures.
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United States
Chicago
Nathan Allen
Kenosha
Wis
John R. Colling
Memphis
Helen Dwella Jenkins
Europe
New York
Sporting feats and war fears fill a busy year
Sporting figures Burgess and Gotch win matches as Burgess swims the English Channel landing at Cape Grisnez after nearly twenty four hours and Gotch defends the world title against Hackenschmidt in Chicago. European anxiety rises over the Moroccan dispute, with fears of war spreading through France and Germany. Cholera deaths surpass thirty thousand in Italy. Prince John Constantinovitch marries in Portugal. A rebel siege in Guerrero ends with heavy casualties. The Chilean steamer Tucapel wrecks off Peru, with eighty one lives lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Burgess
English
Cape Grisnet
France
Dover
England
Burgess
Matthew Webb
Slavery Free Speech and Des Moines Injunction Debate
Labor leader Samuel Gompers denounces Des Moines streetcar injunction as slavery perversion of justice. He warns that court coercion to work or face punishment expands government power, harming workers nationwide. The item includes related notes on state audits, costs, and upcoming governor appointments and cases.
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Des Moines
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Federationist
Washington
Iowa Bayous Dried Up and Hunters Open Season
Iowa reports bayous dried and streams too shallow for fish as warden Lincoln seeks Mississippi bayous to beach minnows. Quail and prairie chickens thrive, Chinese ring-neck pheasants return, and hunting opens with squirrel and prairie chicken seasons announced. State fair attendance nears 370000 with profits projected around 340000. Notable educators and mothers groups to speak at State Teachers and Mothers conferences in Des Moines. New Iowa Flour company formed in Des Moines with Pillsbury ties and flour as main line.
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Des Moines
George A. Lincoln
Cedar Rapids
Sabula
Lincoln
Iowa
Daniel Boone
New Iowa Corporation
Iowa Flour Company
Deg Moines
G. F. Comegys
Plilsbury
Pillsbury
Iowa News Roundup Highlights The Cannon And Crimes
A Carlisle Iowa report recalls an old Lincoln election cannon buried in a 20 foot well. Police seek Arthur Katerman for forging checks in Clinton. several forgery cases dot the region. Des Moines street car strike judge DeGraff honored. Riverside Park donation and funds noted. Fire losses hit Mason City and mass saloon licenses loom in Council Bluffs. Local incidents include arrests, accidents, and civic plans across numerous towns.
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Carlisle
Lincoln
W. P. Keeney
EH. F. Chapman
Eugene
Ore
B. F. Osborn
Iowa State Pioneers
Associaton
Arthur Katerman
Chicago & Northwestern
Iowa
Aterman
Ida Grove
People’s Trust and Savings Bank of
Clinton
Henry Pahl
Lawrence “DeGraff
Des Moines Street
Thrill
Lynn Armstrong
Wm. Armtrong
Wiota
Johnson Bros
Anita
Maseryey
Fry
K. Paul Hardware
Charles Nobanett
Farmers Savings Banch
Fiftyfourth Regiment
Ottumwa
Ball, Hollowell and
Haines
Jack Donahue
Charles Hix
Donahue
Mason City
Bailey, Marsh Company
Minneapolia
Clear Lake
Storm Lake
Des Moines
Town Falls
Buckeye
Mall
Lemgker
Bila Carruthers
Alvert Carruthers
Troy
Eagles
Council Bluffs
Johnson County
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Round About the World
Enoch Cronkhite
Danville (II
Pellagra
Cc. KE. ‘Wilkinson
State Board of Health
New York City
Manhattan
Bronx
Illinois
Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
B. &. Glick
Foxholm
N. D
Carbondale
Ill
Minot
North
Dakota
Glick
Houston
Tex
Joseph W. Bailey
United States Senate
Paul Geldel
William H. Jackson
Bing Sing
Raginia Park
Juneau
Alaska
McGrath
Carl F. Stoscerl
Marynville
Waah
Himmar Rosenlaff
Crystal Fills
Mich
Rowenheimer Company
Kewaskum
Raffaelo Richetti
Rosa
Richetti
Emil R. Klemm
Robert M. Wallace
New Hampshire
Mary Baker Eddy
Second Church of Christ, Scientist
America
Maroni
Edwin M. Stanton
Steubenville
Taft
Harmah
Frederick Dent Grant
Daniel E. Stokles
William R. Day
Robert T. Lincoln
Lewisa H. Stanton
Jersey City
N. J
Martin van Buren
Irene Lemberger
Madison
Martin Lemberger
Isborer
The
Baptist Church
Methodist Church
Newport
R.C
John Jacob Astor
Miss Madeling
William P. SheMeld
Colonel Astor
Edward A. Jobson
First Bay Tint Church
Rodney J. Diegie
Ohio General Assembly
Legislatora
Helen F. Dixon
Colorado
Denver
Howard N. Dingley
Kalamazoo
Evening Telegraph Press
Nelson Dingley
Maine
Congressman Cannon
Braeburn Country Club
Newton
Maia
O. H. P. Belmont
Political Equality League
Gerhart A. Wilson
First Congregational Church
Swampacott
Mass
Frank Gotch
George Hackensechmidt
Gotch
Lowan
Neconda
Berlin
Germany
Italy
John Constantinovitch
Constantine Constantinovitch
Helena
Peter of
Servia
Peterbo
Duwn Balgado
Guerrero
Mexico
Aguaie
Frederico Morales
Peru
South America
OAS
Gomperson DE Graff
Saya
I. J. Scott
Deyoe
State Executive Council
Ingersoll Park
Airdome
Executive Council
Miler
Newberry
Strawberry Point
Carroll
Governor Carroll
Colorado Springs
National Irrigation Congress
Pysblo
National Conservation Congress
Kansas City
American Mining Congress
David Melman
Marshalltown
W. C. McArthur
Lily
Iowa Streame
State House
Many
Red
Lass
C. W. Toutin
R. Harlan
State Fair Board
Corey
W. G.frost
Berea College
Kentucky
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee College
J. D. Eggleston
Virginia
J. M. Greenwood
Sarah Loulee Arnold
Simmons College
Frank McMurry
Teachers’ College
States Teachers’ Association
Iowa Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Association
State Teachers’ Association
Mothers’ Clubs
Fort Dodge
Good Roads Association
Wintera
Good Roads
Kamrar
Sac City
Barney Thompson
Webster City
Wheeler
District Court
J. P. Walkington
QO. K. Hanson
Nashua
Green City
Missouri
Western Iowa Editorial Association
Red Oak
Red Oak Commercial Club
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Emmetsburg
Soper
Iawa
Minneapolis
Nathan Keith
Lizete Keith
Calamus
Woodmen of America
S. F. Prenty
Ths
Iowa Letter Carriers’ Association
L. W. Rue
Jackson
Mian
Spirit Lake
Fred Gilbert
D. C. Lenihan
Dubuque
Blessing
J. R. Canty
Waterloo
Francis Ritchie
Ireland
Edward L. Allen
Clayton County
Twentieth Veteran Reserve Corps
Keokuk
West Iowa
Free Methodist Church
W. T. Hogue
Evanston
Clarion
William J. Nolan
Vinton
Fairfax
Ralph Chaney
Chicago & North~ Western
Jefferson
Rock Island
Sioux City
Davenport
Samuel J. Kirkwood
LeGrande Byington
O. A. Byington
Iowa City
Tinais Central
G. 8
Ward
Charles City
Ottumwalks
Mulwaukes
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