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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1907
Page
11
Iowa officials debate weed control and pure food legislation. The discussion centers on roadside weed management and the need for adequate laws to prevent adulteration while agricultural leaders push for public education and potential state measures. A separate note covers a railroad incident near Ottumwa with a pedestrian hospitalized after being struck.
June 29 report states William S. was badly injured at Maxon while walking on the railway when one train struck another as O’Bryan stepped from a switchyard. Police and emergency crews called. condition not listed.
The twenty second district convention of the Woman's Suffrage association and the W C T U met in Allison Iowa on June 29 30 with visitors from surrounding towns. Hon C M Greene and Rev Jesse Cole spoke on suffrage temperance and citizenship. The event closed as a grand success convincing many locals that women should have equal voting rights.
H C Reich of Mystic, manager of Hawkeye Lumber with offices in twenty Iowa cities, has been missing a week. Investigations show a $3700 shortage. Suit filed against bondsmen in Centerville, with stockholders claiming bonds cover the loss. Carl McCauley of Moravia also sues Reich’s estate for $600 over a signed note. Reich’s family remains in Moravia. company offices in Oskaloosa decline to disclose further details.
Salem Iowa reports John Wesley Stipes raised as a Stipes by Hesikah family learns he is Albert Overrocker. Abandoned in 1869 at a local hotel. Dr Albert Broll in Kahoka Missouri identifies his mother as Mrs Charles Overrocker’s daughter.
A large swarm of honey bees swarmed a switch near Sioux City, delaying a Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train from Chicago Tuesday morning. The crew avoided opening the switch with the bees on it, and the tie-up lasted until a local beekeeper captured the insects in a wash boiler.
Dora Baker arrives in Grinnell with veil and husband in pursuit of N B Baker who deserted her and their three children in Colorado. Confronted by City Marshal Shahan at the hotel, Baker confesses, as the detective wife files a claim to her husband’s return to Muscatine.
Council Bluffs residents report a sudden flood that swallowed thirty acres of topsoil and a thriving corn crop on land SW of the city. The Missouri River’s high water is reshaping landscapes, threatening Lake Manawa and prompting farmers to relocate buildings as the river inches toward its old channel.
Madrid, Iowa faces a governance crisis as five of six council members resign leaving one alderman. With no quorum and no clear path to fill vacancies, Governor Cummins is asked to appoint officials while the attorney general weighs whether such action is legal. Interim ruleless Madrid awaits an election.
Ottumwa Iowa June 29 Leroy V Furniss a barber attempted suicide during a Des Moines river boat ride with Miss Flossie Hill. He threatened to cut his throat with a razor and plunged into the river when she refused his marriage proposal but waded ashore as the water proved too wet for his plan.
Ottumwa Iowa report says Mrs Arthur Guile formerly Eva Ballard was operated on after swallowing a pin during delight over a wedding present. Surgeons used X rays to locate the pin and removed it from a tonsil, with no immediate danger and the ceremony proceeding.
In Davenport Iowa delegates at the state Sunday school convention tossed cash and jewelry at speaker Rev Bourer Allen of Toledo after his address on The Modern Sunday School Movement. Nearly $1,000 was piled on plates to fund Iowa Sunday school work. Other speakers included Mrs J W Barnes Rev A C Dixon Ralph E Diffendorfer Andrew Stevenson Prof Edwin D Starbuck. Iowa reported 4352 schools 363055 enrollment and 232202 average weekly attendance.
Two nine year old boys Lloyd Prizer and Leonard Bristow led two horses from J L Downs pasture. A frightened horse reared and upset a buggy carrying Mrs Hanlon and Miss Ester Kevitz. Mrs Hanlon was badly bruised but expected to recover. The boys returned to town, led the horses back, and bought tickets for Richland before their parents arranged return.
Sheriff Aden of Cedar Rapids is dying at his home after a dispute with Joe Scolaro, an interpreter, over a horse trade. The confrontation escalated, leaving the county official gravely ill from injuries sustained.
Acting for Phillip Ciaddo a 19 year old seized a brick and struck the sheriff on the head rendering him unconscious. Scolaro escaped after the attack Ciaddo was jailed though believed not to be involved. The sheriff has been unconscious for hours and is feared dead.
Owen Gibson, a farm hand, was nearly killed when trapped in a ten by ten foot marshy depression called the Devil's Hole on Gus Western's farm east of Creston Iowa. His cries were heard only as exhaustion set in, and rescuers faced difficulty freeing him.
Dr. W. H. Gibson of Des Moines has received a letter from Hartridge and Peabody asking him to consult on Harry Thaw’s mental condition. Gibson, once noted in Chicago as a nervous disease specialist, may examine the defendant’s brain storm status.
In Hancock yesterday six year old Frank Spangler, visiting relatives from Atlantic with his mother Mrs L T Spangler, was badly burned when a lit cannon cracker he picked up to blow the fuse exploded in his face. His forehead suffered deep cuts and his eyes may be permanently damaged.
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