Iowa Firms Form New Corporations and Local Tragedies Spur Headlines
The Chamberlain Tile Ditcher of Tiffin and Greene Water Power and Mill of Greene organize with stock capital of 30000 and 16000 respectively. In Solon a farmer’s yard attack by two dogs injures Mrs Champion and a farm laborer dies nearby. A Des Moines poisoning case, a train wreck near Anamosa, and a looming capitol draping debate headline a day of diverse events.
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Chamberlain Tile Ditcher Company
Tiffin
Iowa
Greene Water Power and Mill Company
Greene
Solon
Johnson County
Mike Freeman
Champion
Freeman
Champion Tai
Whittenburg
Peter Miller
West Side
Roving bands and crimes headline a busy gentle week
A mixed weekly roundup notes a box from Black River Falls to Chicago containing a heavily armed man with two others aboard a train. It also reports hair snipping in Lincoln Park by a man named C A Solomon, who was jailed for seven months. Multiple fires, suicides, murders, strikes, and large public notices follow, including cholera updates in Europe and a fatal railroad accident near Leadville.
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Black River Falls
Chicago
Leroy
Wis
Ida Schrader
Lincoln Park
C. A. Solomon
Bridewell
Split in conservative ranks vexes political scene
News From Arizona notes signs of division among conservatives. Lord Churchill declines to speak in Liverpool citing local opposition to his Irish policy. The Morning Post and Standard voice government discontent over Irish policy. Salisbury delays Afghan boundary talks at Russia’s request.
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Lord Churchill
Liverpool
Morning Post
Standard
Salisbury
de Staal
DeGiers
Zulkikar Pass
Saulisbury
Villa Dail
Cork
Dublin
Munster Bank
Auditor Brown Responds to Governor Sherman in Iowa
Brown publishes a detailed sworn statement of all state auditor fees up to January 5 1885 and defends compliance with the law. He blasts the governor for delays and accuses officials of lax reporting while urging bond approval and legal action to end the dispute.
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J. P. Howard
Des Moines
Iowa State Land League
M. V. Gannon
Executive Council
Friends of Ireland
Davenport
Parnell
Iowa
England
Jasper Wetherford
Missouri
Council Bluffs
Ments
Des Mores
D. R. Sherman
The
Register
B. R. Sherman
Treasurer of State
Armanent
State of Iowa
Polk County
Ss. I. J
Treasurer
Republican Party
J. L. Brown
Will C. Kegel
Young
Hull
Jackson
Flelmer
Jay
B. F. Rehkorp
Auditor of State
Acts of Twentieth Genera Assembly
J. L. Bronx
Sallie
Griffith
Poli County
I. J. L. Brown
Uren R. Sherman
Jd. L. Brown
Wit. C. Keget
Notary Public
Polk Co
American Savings Bank of Des Moines
L. Brown
Mount McGregor Quiet After Grant Death Announcement
Quiet pervades Mount McGregor as General Grant's death is announced. Citizens and officials express relief at his long struggle end and gratitude for his sacrifices. Visitors come, workmen build a pavilion for excursionists, guards patrol the cottage, and a state capitol laying in state offer is discussed with Coloonel Grant.
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Burdette
Hayes
General Grant
Heapquartners
Army OF the Republic
Washington
Buckland
G. A. Rt
Citis
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Grant
Capitol
Ohio
Burdret
Governor Hill
Coloonel
Fred Grant
Albany
Gen. Beale
Judge Thatcher Seeks Trade Ties With Mexico and Americas
Kansas judge Solon Thatcher, leading a U S commission, arrives in Washington after tours to Mexico and South America. He reports broad desire to strengthen ties with the United States, notes official cold reception in China, favors steamship links, a North American convention, widespread interest in education and a common silver coin, and plans to report findings and propose a regional convention inviting Central and South American nations.
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Solon Thatcher
Kansas
Mexco
South America
United States
Washington
Liverpool
Thatch R
Chili
Chin
France
England
Germany
Italy
Spain
Argentine Republic
Mexico
Udze
Thatcher
Illinois Lynching at Mound City Ends in Mob Justice
In Mound City Illinois a mob broke into the jail early July 2 1900 lynching William Maupin who had killed his son in law John Daniels Maupin was dragged from the jail rope about his neck and hanged after a brief struggle Daniels died from the earlier shooting Maupin had opposed the match and threats preceded the fatal duel and capture followed.
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Baker City
Oregon
Fred Winkleman
John Cooley
Joe Brown
Wm. Land
Lewis Miller
George Plumb
Winkleman
Solomon Hensel
Marion
N. C
Carter
Joseph E. Johson
Virginia
Simeon Buckner
Kentucky
Hamilton Fisher
New York
8. Boutwell
Massachusetts
Geo. W. Childs
Pennsylvania
John A. Logan
Illinois
Geo. Jones
Oliver Hoyt
New York City
New Craton
William Cunningham
Tim Harrington
John Carr
Wm. Ryan
William Maupin
Mound City
John Daniels
Crane
Painter
Maupin
Sherif Crane
Mound Junction
Daniels
Manning disbarred by Alabama Claims court
Washington dispatch reports Justice Harlan and the Alabama Claims court disbar Jerome F. Manning, Boston New York and Washington attorney, for flagrant unprofessional conduct after being denied admission to the judges’ chambers. Manning denied intent to misbehave, but the court found his affidavit and client’s corroboration false and barred him from appearing or practicing before the court until further orders.
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Washington
Commissioners of the
Alabama Claims
Harlan
Jerome F. Manning
Boston
New York
Mr. Manning
Manning
Spoopendyke author Stanley Huntley dies in New York
Stanley Huntley, noted journalist and author of The Spoopendyke Papers, died in New York on July 30 from Brights disease. Born in 1845, he worked for western presses and Chicago papers before joining New York and Brooklyn journalism. He once aided a tribe chief and was adopted as a medicine man.
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Cleveland
Burdette
G. A. R. Fremont
Ohio
Gen. Grant
New York
Grand Army
Reublic
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Washington
National Monument
Fremont
R. B. Hayes
Stanley Huntley
Bright
Brooklyn Eagle
Western Press
Chicago
West
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Attorney At Law
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Stillwater
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Omaha
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