Iowa News Snippets From Sioux City Items
Sioux City reports include C B Bird clothier failure with assets about thirty thousand and liabilities twenty five thousand. Also notes New Orleans Exposition Sundays open clergy approve. Lumber rate Dubuque to Council Bluffs up ten cents.
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C. B. Bird
Clothier
Sioux City
Dubuque
Council Bluffs
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Kittanning
New Orleans
Weekly Review of Banks Fires Robberies and Deaths
A digest of incidents includes Gibson & Weston’s failed Jackson Michigan bank dating from 1868. Accusations involve train robbers Parker and Clifford in Little Rock. Fires devastate Cambridge New York and East Cambridge Massachusetts factories. Trials, burglaries, and arson are reported across Illinois Ohio Wisconsin and other states with numerous losses and legal actions.
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Gibson & Weston
Jackson, Mich
Little Rock
Adolph Parker
Jack Clifford
Parker
Clifford
Pope Attacks Masonry and Paris Clergy Warn Secret Societies
Reports describe the pope resuming anti masonry effort while Paris archbishop tells priests to keep parishioners from joining. A Tonnere tragedy mirrors the Hugues Morin affair with an anarchist Brisbard shot dead after confrontation with Madame Francey who then surrendered.
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Tonnere
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Francey
Madame Francey
Baisbard
Spain
Explosion plot linked to Paris and America
A Paris arranged London bridge explosion is traced to a man in America with two men sent to London in September to execute the plot but delayed. The Windsor railway station fire on December 20 produced brass wheels and a bottle believed to contain an explosive, later deemed accidental and not Fenian.
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White
Dan Hayes
Charles Blackwell
Charles E. Stephens
Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Co
Chicago
Canada
Desler Station
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Vogel
North Carolina
Vim
Portland
Jacksonville
Fla
United States
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Dakota
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Wilmott
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Albert Deaves
K. Knudson
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Victoria
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Great Western Railway
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Murder at Exira as Peter Ryan is Charged
Exira area resident Claus Kleever dies after a stranger fires a shot at his home. His nephew John Kleever alarms neighbors as authorities arrest Peter Ryan, a 21 year old, with a coroner's jury declaring murder. The case proceeds to trial in Audubon with Griggs Statzell and others for the state.
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Canton
Ohio
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Akron
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Madisonville
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William Fleitas
Fleitas
Exima
State Register
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Audubon
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Oakfield Township
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Congress Debates Naval Bill and Rock Island Bridge
Senate passes Naval Appropriation Bill while House OKs Mississippi River bridge at Rock Island. Debates unfold on surveying expedition to Nicaragua and inter state commerce rules as adjournment plans and military measures surface amid turmoil over county seat conflict and potential troop deployment.
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Iowa
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Pacific Ocean
Quigley Crime Ties Two Ringgold County Figures
Dr Eli Quigley, in irons, is moved toward Ringgold county on a sensational grave robbery and life insurance scheme. He implicates a Ringgold merchant and physician in a conspiracy. Authorities expect a split reward after his Ames confession and local arrests.
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Redding
Ringgold County
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Davis County
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Kelley
Nevada
Ames
Canada
Iowa
Mt. Ayr
Voice and Hearing for the Deaf at State Teachers Meet
Report from Des Moines shows Miss Mary McCowan of Englewood presenting on deaf education. Her demonstration with four pupils illustrated teaching deaf children to hear and speak, including a boy of eight who learned under two and a half years guidance.
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Englewood
State Register
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Murder of William Drake near Floris prompts arrest
Joseph Carter, in Davis county, shot and killed William Drake during a timber dispute. Carter surrendered, claiming self defense after Drake advanced with a club. No witnesses exist. Carter is jailed in Bloomfield pending examination. Drake died about two hours after the shooting. Carter has a quarrelsome reputation.
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William Drake
Drake
Floris
Davis County
Carter
Bloomfield
Cater
Iowa Exposition Exhibit Tops in World's Fair Plan
A letter from New Orleans Superintendent Akers praises Iowa’s educational exhibit as the largest and best at the Worlds Fair, with Minnesota and Pennsylvania as likely rivals. The Brent factory in Muscatine burned on December 8, with estimated loss of 20000 dollars and insurance of 9600. The item about Miss Spriggs notes a bank teller position with a large salary.
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