Iowa News Items Highlight Tragic Deaths and Local Ventures
John Parsons of Union township Wayne county shot himself after family distress amid a seduction case against a young man named John Roberts. Other items note Eddyville brewery converted to a creamery, pensions, arrests for impersonating an officer, Salvation Army arrest and release in Maquoketa, gas ignition demonstration by Mrs Carman in Cedar Rapids, and various local developments including marriage permits and court activity.
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John Parsons
Union Township
Wayne County
Parsons
Isi
John Roberts
Stit
Roberts
Parsons Moody
Eddyville
T. B. Kaufman
Belmont
Wm. Johnson
Ida County
Council Bluffs
Salvation Army
Maquoketa
Jennie Raff
Sweet
Salvationists
Ed. McSweeney
Columbus Junction
Davenport
C. P. Carman
Grand Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Extensive Rail Strike Paralyzes Gould Lines in St Louis Area
A broad strike on the Gould system spreads from St Louis. Knights of Labor orders shut down yard and freight crews. passenger and suburban services are curtailed. Freight traffic stops on Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain and other lines. some trains only carry essential cars as engineers side with the strikers.
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St. Louis Dispatch
Gould
Knights of Labor
St. Louis
Creve Coeur
Missouri Pacific
San Francisco
Powderly
Sedalia
Iron Mountain
Texas & Pacific
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
West
South
Kansas City
Lexington
Hannibal
Parsons
Pleasant
Fires and explosions mark a perilous era in 19th century America
Acting Comptroller of Currency appoints J Leslie Thompson of Vanderbilt Dakota as receiver at First National Bank Sioux Falls. A Hot Springs Arkansas fire destroys Central avenue business block and Dr Buchanan residence, losses about 150000 with 35000 insured. Gamble powder mills blast near Portland Maline, killing Clarence Clary and injuring Henry Cooper. Steamer Ike Bonham explodes near Vicksburg. several killed and others wounded. Trades Council in Los Angeles pressures removal of Chinese. Sisseton reservation mass convention approves opening request to President and Congress. Victoria cotton mills shut March 11 after a 500 worker strike over 10 percent wage offer. Embezzlement case in Bradford Pa proceeds to preliminary hearing. Iowa Minnesota Dakota livestock rate talks set new car-based scale. McIntosh foundry workers receive wage hike. Lebanon almshouse poisoning leaves many ill. Sayers brother suicide in St. Louis over love affair. Jerome B Chaffee death from meningitis. Chaffee was Grant Jr father-in-law. Boston tea and coffee firm Chaflin Allison fails. Uniondale mine explosion disaster details emerge. Multiple suicides and murders amid fires and robberies across states.
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J. Leslie Thompson
Vanderbilt
Dakota
First National Bank
Sioux Falls
Hot Springs
Ark
Central Avenue
Buchanan
Gamble Powder Company
Portland
Maline
Hatch
Clarence Clary
Gorman
Henry Cooper
Mil.l
Ike Bonham
Vicksburg
Wm. Landre
McElroy
Charley Girardt
Trades Council
Los Angeles
Cal
Sisseton Indian Reservation
Court House
Webster
Roberts
Grant
Cacd
Thomas Christie
Horatio King
First National Bank of
Bradford
United States
Chapman
W. W. Bell
King
Christie
Johnson and Huntley
Iowa
Minnesota
McIntosh, Hemphill & Co
Pittsburg
Purdy’s Station
Westchester County
N. Y
Jerome B. Chaffee
U.S. Grant, Jr
Chaflin, Allison & Co
Boston
Uniondale
Dunbar
Davis
John Cope, Jr
Bold Express Robbery Ends Messenger Murder Case in Illinois
A dramatic Chicago Rock Island express robbery west of Joliet on March 12 left messenger Nchols dead and the safe emptied of $20,000 to $25,000. Robbers masked and armed attacked the baggage man and messenger, ransacked the car, and fled into a snowy prairie area. Sheriff Reitz and Chief Murray led a growing posse toward Morris as Rock Island officials offer a $10,000 reward for the culprits.
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Illinois
Chicago
Kellogg Nichols
Morris
Joliet
Messenger Nchols
Reitz
Murray
Rock Island
Chamberlin
Rock Island Road
N. H. Watt
Nichols
D. C. Woods
Minooka
Wagner
Nicho
Hanged by a Mob at Shoals Indiana Jail
Three Archers confined in the Shoals Indiana county jail for murder were seized by a mob on the night of the 9th. The mob demanded keys, broke in, dragged the prisoners to the courthouse yard and hanged them from trees in a public execution.
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Shoals
Indiana
West Shoals
Legislature notes and committee actions in Iowa session
The Iowa House opens with a probe into Walter I. Hayes as ordered by resolution. House passes engrossment for a road tax timing bill and receives petitions on text books, Soldiers' Home, butter and cheese, county surveyors, and public officer impeachment. adjournment follows limited business.
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Walter I. Hayes
Seventh Judicial District of
Iowa
House
Weaver
Riley
Finn
Greenlee
Roach
Lyons
Guthrie
Holbrook
Hammond
Baldwin
Taylor County
Custer
Jasper County
Colfax
Smith
Jasper
Kealey
Totawattamie County
Butter and Cheese Commission
Committee On
Labor
Silger Fron
Tama County
Ball
Senate actions in Mahaska county mill tax and school bill debate
Senator McCoy presented petitions from G A posts of Mahaska county to place the soldiers home at Colfax and fix a mill flour toll. Bills introduced include mortgage assessment, state capital improvements, exemptions, senatorial districting, soldiers home near Davenport, and telegraph transmission standards. The senate passed a bill on prompt telegraph delivery with compensation limits and ordered engrossment of the supreme court seat bill after a lengthy discussion. Senate file 22 moves to require school attendance ages seven to fifteen and to empower truancy officers and enlarge school director powers.
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Underwood
Whaley
Scott
Dounan
Supreme Court
Parrott
Waterloo
McCoy
Doud
Wilkin
Winterset
Boom
Wilkins S
Weber
Roerts
Crawford County
Miles
Twentieth General Assembly
Tipton
Riverside
Washington County
Iowa
Gault
Vermillion
Appanoose County
State of Iowa
Zearing
Story County
Robison
Dent
LeMars
Plymouth
Clark
John W. Lyttle
Page County
Donnan
Moses R. Eastman
Buchanan County
G. A
Mahaska County
Colfax
Chubb
Duncan
Gatch
Young
Bayliss
Yeas
Carr
Casey
Chambers
Hutchison
McDonough
Jmles
Payneer
Robinson
Whiting
Wilson
Wolfe
Bayless
Bloom
Balter
Burdick
Carson
Cheseboro
Dean
Dooley
Earle
Johnson
Knight
Schmidt
Stephens
Sutton
Finn
Baldwin
Kobb
Lyons
Mahaska
Bradley
Weaver
Bailey
Supreme Court of Iowa
Reynolds
Secretary of State
Bruce
Stiger
House
Iowa Legislature Debates Tax for Soldiers Home and Textbook Bills
The house debated a bill to levy a half mill state tax for indigent Iowa soldiers and for repairs in state institutions with amendments to cover paying warrants. the measure passed 67 to 23. Another bill to regulate coal weighing and establish a uniform weight and measures system faced long debate and multiple amendments, finally ordered engrossed 65 to 21.
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Walker
van Buren County
Finn
Benson
Mason City
Pattee
Keatley
Council Bluffs
Hutchison
Storey
H. F
State Board of School Commissioners
Senate
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Executive Council
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Reynolds
Committee
Mines and Mining
Iowa Senate Debates Amended Liquor and Tax Bills
The senate considered Senator Clark's amendatory act on intoxicating liquors, adopted several amendments, and debated costs on prosecutions. Bills introduced covered school boards, baggage protection, fraud prevention, and highway taxes, with a focus on a miners bill and a tile drain construction act being sent to the judiciary committee.
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Clark
Twentieth General Assembly
Iowa
Johnson
Senate
House
Keatley
Dobson
Fairfield
Buena Vista County
Finn
Schee
Hote‘skils
Coleman
Walker
Bruce
Redman
Ramsey
Republican Party
Yeas
Thompson
Clayton
Clayton County
Benson
Redhead
Withrow
Judiciary Committee
Senate debates school bill and liquor enforcement measures
The senate debated the school bill with Senator Dodge voting negative and discussed H F 111 to authorize first class cities to build sewers. The liquor control bill faced amendments and extensive remarks by Senators Bolter Sutton Schmidt Young and Clark. McCoy and Gatcomb proposals on homestead and building clauses sparked a long afternoon. four appropriation bills were advanced before adjournment.
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Dodge
Jeave
Senate
Seventeenth General Assembly
Committee On Municipal Corporations
Clark
Twentieth General Assembly
Bolter
Sutton
Schmidt
Young
McCoy
Yeas
Bayless
Burdick
Caldwell
Casey
Chesboro
Chubb
Deal
Dunan
Dooley
Duncan
Earle
Glass
Gateh
Henderson
Hendric
Hutchison
McDonough
Miles
Parrott
Payneer
Reiniger
Robinson
Stevens
Sweeney
Cuaiivers
Gatco
Davenport
Doud
Iowa Prisoners Aid Associations
Sweney
Iowa Senate debates and new bills in session
The Iowa Senate discusses settlement with capitol commissioners and new bonds for the state. It passes a sewer cost bill for first class cities and considers mutual benefit association regulation. Numerous new measures are introduced on taxes, county offices, and state governance. Members clash over amendments as adjournment nears.
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Senate
Wilkin
Capitol
N.c. Lers
Dodge
Iowa
Bloom
Board of Supervisors
Johnson County
McCoy
Gatch and McCoy
Senants Wolfe
Reamger
Senaor Bloor
Tomeurrow
HOUSE
Lawmakers advance women suffrage and court reform bills
The house debated a municipal and school voting rights bill and postponed house file No 4. The county attorney bill dominated the day with amendments on salary and population. A bill to abolish circuit court and expand district court powers was sent to the reorganization committee.
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Committee On Reorganization of the Judicia
Weaver
Benson
House
Knights of Labor push Hennepin canal petitions in Senate
In Washington the Senate laments a flood of Knights of Labor petitions urging the Hennepin canal. Plumb Logan and Manderson discuss motives while Vance seeks civil service reform repeal. Brown moves to address national bank circulation. House includes Thurman act inquiry on Union Pacific. Hudd takes oath. Crisp's committee considers railroad land survey costs and patent duties.
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Senate Tealay
Knights of Labor
Hennepin Canal
Plumb
Logan
Manderson
Miiachi
Vance
Brown
Senate
HOUSE
Henry
Thurman
Union Pacific Rairoad Company
Crisp
Senate Proceedings and Rail Land Survey Bill Passed
The Senate adopted resolutions condemning the refusal to send Dakota papers after a longer speech by Edmunds, then went into executive session and adjourned. In the House a Navy Yard report was referred, and the Pacific railroads land surveying bill passed with required selection and costs. A prisoner labor non hire bill also passed, and Indian appropriation debate paused at 4:30 p.m.
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Beck
Tomorow
Senai
Edmunds
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Dakota
Pugh
Secretary of the Navy
Boutelle
Norfolk Navy Yard
House
Committee On Naval Affairs
Pacific Railroads
Crisp
Georgia
United States
Tribune Job Printing Ad Notes Rates and Services
The Tribune offers neat and prompt job printing at reasonable rates with estimates on pamphlets or brief work. It notes York separation from any part of the state and advertises commercial stationery as a specialty.
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York
Weaver Attacks Indian School Policies in Oklahoma Debate
In committee of the whole Weaver quotes the superintendent of Indian schools to argue Shilocco school lacks legal protection against Indian incursions and cowboy raids. He says cattlemen graze on the school farm, a race course and whisky selling exist, and drunkenness outweighs that at other agencies. He urges opening Oklahoma and Cherokee strip to settlement and supports his Oklahoma bill amid debate on cattle syndicate.
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Shilocco
Oklahoma
Cherokee
Weaver
Cutcheon
Peele
Rogers
Senate Debates Land Forfeiture Bill Amid Pending Suits
The senate reconsiders the land forfeiture bill aiding railroads and adopts Spooner’s amendment excluding lands tied to suits in the U S supreme courts. The body then discusses presidential removal information, with Renna opposing the judiciary report. A pension bill for Gen Hancock’s widow is reported, and the House handles private calendar business and adjourns after a long pension-bill evening session.
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Senate
Iowa
Spooner
Supreme Courts
Judiciary Committee
Renna
West Virginia
Swope
Penna
Hancock
House
Hatch
Missouri
Calndar
Senator Miller
California
Messrs
McKenna
Spriggs
Countt
Morgan
Heburn
Lafvon
Milliken
Explosion sinks tug John Markel near Long Island
A boiler explosion on the tug John Markel, departing Boston on the 10th, blew the vessel apart near Long Island. Five crew members died instantly, including Capt Cyrus Nickerson and engineer Dennison H Crooke. Capt Riley witnessed the blast from 300 feet away. Captain Nickerson was seen in the pilot house before detonation.
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John Markel
Boston
Long Island
Card
Cyrus Nickerson
Charles Hoskins
Nickerson
Riley
Dean
Tremont
Mob Executes Archers in Shoals County Jail Siege
A mob in West Shoals Indiana broke into the county jail and hanged John Archer Martin Archer and Thomas Archer after snatching them from custody for murder. The crowd Batterd the door, forced the entry, and led the trio to maple trees before the courthouse where they were suspended. Spectators gathered as the mob dispersed amid heightened tension.
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Shoals
Indiana
West Shoals
Uaul
John
Martin
Thomas Archer
Court House
Vermont Farmer Sues for $100,000 Estate Share
Rex Stewart, a Vermont farmer who claims heirship to A. T. Stewart's estate, sues Judge Hilton in a New York federal equity suit to recover $100,000. Stewart is described as a lunatic in Vermont, with guardian Benjamin F. Fielden bringing the action.
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Stewart
Rex. Stewart
Vermont
A. T. Stewart
United States Court
New York
Hilton
Benjamin F. Fielden
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