Iowa items of interest from multiple towns and incidents
The report covers a wide range of Iowa notes including progress on Algona school buildings and gas exploration funds in Waterloo Shenandoah Cedar Rapids and Davenport. It cites drownings in Dubuque Sioux City and Keokuk accidents at mines and yards and a pool hall ban in Chicago plus local crimes and incorporations in Cresco and Creston with various personal misfortunes thefts and legal actions.
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Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific R
Northwest
Rock Island
Joliet
Ottawa
la Balle
Peoria
Geneseo
Moline
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
West Liberty
Iowa City
Des Moines
Indianola
Winterset
Atlantic
Knoxville
Audubon
Harlan
Guthrie Centre
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Gallatin
Trenton
St. Joseph
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth
Atchison
Kansas
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Dakota
Missouri River
OCOAC
Ckie
Chica
Vis
Esakekso
Cincimnat
Indianapoalis
Yette
Council Liffs
Steverpe Atchizen
Leave
Algona
Waterloo
Shenandoah
Cedar Rapids
Nationwide Dispatches Report Turbulent Week Of Violence and Storms
Reports from across the country detail prison release and murder in Harrisburg, a murder appeal in Missouri, July storms and fires in Carlisle and Reading, a fatal train and river accident near Pittsburg, and a series of lynchings and criminal cases..spyline
Clarendon Fire Leaves 1100 Homeless In Oil Region Town
A major blaze in Clarendon, near Warren on the Philadelphia and Erie line, destroyed over a hundred business houses and hotels and forced about 1100 residents to flee. The town lacks a fire department and the flames spread through oil tanks, with one man cremated and threats of lynching after a hotel fire. Insurance is low and losses may reach half a million dollars.
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Erie
Clarendon
Philadelphia & Erie
Weaver's Hotel
Logan's Hotel
John Stewart
Warren
Seug disaster swallows lakeside quarter and hotel
July 6 subsidence along Lake Seug reports engulfed homes and the Hotel Zurich with many guests. Initial counts cite at least 100 dead and 20 to 27 homes lost, amid large rescue efforts and shifting casualty estimates. Survivors and officials, including Cantons Zug, seek the living and recover the dead.
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Berne
Lake Seug
Seug
Zeunion
Lake of
Hotel Zurich
Mr. Collins
Canton of
Zug
Unsettled dynamite scare tied to royal jubilee missions
Scotland Yard continues special detectives on the dynamite scare tied to the Queen's jubilee. Investigations seek conspirators and meeting places, while dangers of treason are pursued though active plotters remain undiscovered. A Cedar Rapids boat ride scare ends with a harmless water snake. A Keokuk brick relic from 1544 ties Mormon history to the city. An Ohio man dies by own actions in a well.
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Rome
James O'Reilly
Wichita
Kan
Richard Seanel
Concordia
Thomas Bonacum
Lincoln
Maurice Bourke
Cheyenne
Lord Salisbury
Matthews
O'Brien
Ireland
Bundesrath
Germany
Vienna
John Bright
England
W. H. Smith
House of Commons
Gladstone
Hulligan
Cleveland
Ohio
Detroit
Central Police Station
Central
Little Rock
Bradley County
Harry Hamilton
Hamilton
Deberry
Harris
Scotland Yard
Cedar Rapids
Irwin-Phillips Company
Keokuk
Nauvoo
New York
Arrest in Church Reveals Shoe Gang Leader
A former Oil City police chief recalls arresting a suspect kneeling in a church after spotting branded shoe bottoms from a stolen carload. The arrest exposed a broader gang and led to solving the series of railcar burglaries tied to the Pennsylvanian line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Pennsylvania Road
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Evangelist on Kearney Street Sparks Crowd Outburst
A lusty evangelist near Kearney Street urges salvation as crowds press to front seats while a heckler jeers and mocks. The Post cites a rough exchange ending with a man leaping toward the evangelist amid tension on the pavement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearney Street
Perdition
North Beach
San Francisco Post
Tribune job printing services advertised
The Tribune advertises job printing of every description neatly and promptly at reasonable rates. Estimates are furnished on pamphlets or short work. Work solicited from any part of the state. Commercial stationery specialty.
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Trea
Spitialty
Vast array of curious notes from early America history
A garbled yearbook of peculiarities covers topics from English sparrow laws to observatories in Los Angeles, a New York brokered ice cream origin, and odd animal tales. It mentions rail work on the Northern Pacific, Panama’s climate hit, and a Toronto-like coin reform. It also recalls a drowning hoax, a boy’s death from a rattlesnake, and Harvard student job interests.
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New York
Roscoe Conkling
Owens Valley
Nevada
E. F. Spencer
Los Angeles
Cal
Washington
Dolly Adame
Portland
Europe
Paris
Oregon
Tacoma
Washington Territory
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Buffalo
N. Y
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the Tribune
C. M. McElroy
J. B. Monfort
J. L. Sharp
James
Clarke
T. L. James
Crawford Building
Leggett House
Fairfield Iowa
Wells & Garrettson
North Side Park
Fairfied, IA
First National Bank
Capital
Jas. F. Wilson
B.S. McElhinny
Southeast Corner Park
J. D. Freeman
Jordan Block
Parsons College
GALL
Ewing
W.C. Lewis
Bright & Son
Bealers
East Side Square
M.A. McCoid
Attorney AT Law
Fairfield, Iowa
Co. W. Coykendall
Howlett's Clothing Store
R. J. Wilson
J. M. Binell
Jefferson County
P. O
J.B. McCoy
McGaw
H. C. Raney
Bell’s
Northwest Corner Square
M’kemey
E. F. Simmons
McKemey & Simmons
Leggett & McKemey
Law
Offce South Side Square
Brichton & Jaques, Attorneys AT Law
Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
S. F. Hammond
Calvin Snook
Dr. N. Steele
D. H. Worthington
M. D
Clark's Drug Store
Northwest Cor. Prk
Oppite the Baptist Church
J. E. Roop, M.D
A. P. Nelson, M.D
Roop & Nelson Physicians and Surgeons
Sullivan's Grocery
H. E. Woods
Libertyville
J. D. Jones
C. D. Fuligen
Attorneys AT Law
Wtson
E.st.louis Ferd
Avi
R. R. Cable
Pres't & Gen
L M’g’r
E. A. Holbrook
Gen'l Tkt
Pass, Agt
Anwa
OWA
Thomas Dodge
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Dr. Cross
Red Oak
Excelsior
Mahaska County
Mike Haluska
Sam Sport
Gus Thompson
Minnie Ikema
Eldora
Hubbard
Milford
H. 8
Courtright
Joseph P. Lewis
Lewis
Odd Fellows Lodge
la Verne
Sue Swan
Stuart Schools
Lake Michigan
Iit
Mississippi
Burlington
Win. Crawford
Sioux City
Crawford
Garretson
Union Pacific
Barney Donahue
East Dubuque
Geo. Leffeolhotz
Patrick McFalls
Louis Wilson
State Center
Cresco Land and Mining Syndicate
Cresco
Western Clay Ballast Co
Creston
Tom Dodge
Emma
Roy Nance
Wm. Forney
Sycamore Township
Eldorado
Nance
Nebraska
Nace
J. B. Tate
Dysart
C. B. Stewart
Marshalltown
Landord
Daily News
Dispatches
Schuylkill Valley
Reading Iron Works
George Neurich
Harrisburg
Samuel Drumbeller
Selina’s Grove
Drumbeller
Neurich
Jefferson City
State Supreme Court
Brooks
Maxwell
C. Arthur Preller
United States Supreme Court
Cellenits Manufacturing Company
Arlington
August
Carlisle
Jacksonville
Ark
Juyo
Reading
Pennsylvania
Wesenburg
Lehigh County
Blue Mountain
Lake Store & Michigan Southern Railroad
Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
White Mountains
Wm. Turl
J. J. Leeds & Co
Gordon
Georgia
Atlanta University
John Shade & Co
Walter S. Warren
Pittsburg
Mass
Fetchburg
John Feisthbauer
John Orkner
Orkner
Pinkerton
J. Q. Prebble & Co
Franklin
White Streets
Prebble & Co
Caperton
W. Va
Lolly Robison
Chas. Williams
Williams
Robison
Robinson
Ohio River
J. M. Bowell
Richard Lane
Frank Paine
Baby
Brown
Lane
Paine
Louis Andrews
Herman Fiddler
Buchtel
Edgefiecd County
D. C
Sallie Barnes
Miss Barnes
Zehring & Dunn
Neb
Varnell
Insane Asylum
John Bark
Mascoutah
John Plob
William
Herman Lenkemeyer
Edward Schutler
John Wilson
Chatham
N. J
Foreign Intelligence
James G. Blaine
London
Hale
Edinburg
Maine
Blaine
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Montreal
United States
Spain
Skagefjord
Iceland
W. BE. Gladstone
Bishop Andrews
President Capen
Cardinal Gibbons
Rev. J. de Normandie
Smythe
Rev. T. de- Witt
Stev. D. J
Jesus
Worsip
Jericho
J. Fylymer
America
Republic of God
Lyman Abbott
Christ
God
Howard Crosby
Northern Pacific
Natchez
Miss
Manzanilla
Cuba
Panama
Canal Company
Parkersburg
Hey
Americus
West Monroe
Riordan
Castle Garden
Ile
Bayside
Lundon Gazette
Wheeling
Boyle
Boley
Samuel Scott
Guntersville
Ala
Harvard
Windsor
Ont
Fort Erie
Niagra River
Dominion
Canton
Ferward Maguire
Chas. Danzisen
Hell
Tribunal
Birmingham
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