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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1900
Page
3
The Emmetsburg Democrat notes the Democratic National Convention will meet in Kansas City on July 4 and that William J. Bryan will be the presidential nominee. It includes editorial quips on taxation, governance, the board of control, and national politics, plus references to press stances on the Boer war and tariff debates.
A group of Iowa editors travels from Emmetsburg to St Louis and Memphis via Illinois Central lines. They tour Memphis industry including breweries and a cotton market, attend banquets and speeches, and visit Grenada and Jackson Mississippi with receptions by officials and locals.
The joint scale committee of miners and operators remains without agreement. Iowa reports include Robinson taking a state board of control seat, A I Breckenridge arrested for embezzling nearly $20 000, a fatal farm explosion in Waresn oo Iowa injuring two children, Hazel Rogers 12 suicides over a love affair, Crowe challenging Gotch in wrestling, and Joe Payne ex sheriff killed by a train in Welch Louisiana. Des Moines clocks in with saloons to open March 13 amid temperance wins and a major hunter license proposal requiring nonresidents to pay 10 per county. Des Moines hosts Drake vs Monmouth college debate on abolition of trusts.
Willa Halloway of Bussey Indiana was shot by John Davis after an altercation at a Weir City house dance. Davis, a miner, discharged a rifle from the door after Halloway returned with a knife, causing his quick death without a word.
A Boer war fund sent by J.W. Winchon of Algona was returned by the postoffice department unable to certify the money order for payment in the Free State or Transvaal. Earlier guidance allowed donations for the sick or wounded but the new action suggests it will be hard to forward such sums to the Boers.
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