Iowa items bring funding chase and oddities across state
The column reports a street car funding offer in Toetlo and a parallel call for residents to match $10,009, a missing Sioux City youth, and a $251.58 loss from Sibverhorn packing house. It also notes cherry varieties from Poland and Russia, corporate filings, artesian-well depth, state fair premiums, a drug store license violation, school attendance, a Des Moines convention, and a string of local oddities including a dwarf wedding and twin-mortality coincidences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Ewing
Sioux City
Sibverhorn Packing House
Prof. Badd
State Agricultural College Farm
Poland
Russia
Iowa State Normal School
Cedar Falls
Anti-Horse Thief Association
Des Moines
Town Detective Association
B. R. Vale
Bonaparte
M. B. Frisbie
T. P. Henry
Iowa
Missouri
National Association
Ottumwa
Fatal Train Crash Near Tara Strikes Farmer and Wife
A farmer and his wife were crossing Fort Dodge road south of Tara when a train struck their conveyance. The wife died instantly and the husband suffered serious injuries likely to prove fatal. Also noted: Dawson, a new town on the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul line, sits seven miles west of Perry in Dallas County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge Road
Tara Whem
Dawson
Chicago, Milwaukee
St. Louis
Davenport
Rebellion Fears as Rail Crossing Sparks Manitoba Tension
The dispute pits Dominion and Provincial governments over track blocking by Canadian Pacific at a Northern Pacific crossing. Police, militiamen, and mounted troops mass as track work stalls, with potential for armed confrontation and a feared open rebellion surpassing 1885 Northwest events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
Canadian Pacific
Northern Pacific
White
Pres'ent van Horne
Winnipeg
Greenway
Mounted Infantry
Battallion
Mounted Infantry School
Northwest
Locomotive collision at Hooper Neb kills three
A deadly accident at the Elkhorn crossing in Hooper Oct 21 claimed the lives of Henry Shaffer Sr David Minnik and Percival Shaffer. Henry Shaffer Jr escaped after being thrown 40 feet. Thomas Roe and Mr Lenig were injured with uncertain recoveries. Coroner censured the train crew for excessive speed and lack of signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooper
Neb
Henry Shaffer
David Minnik
Percival
Daniel Shaffer
Thomas Roe
Lenig
Elkhorn Railroad
Peculiar Death by Own Action in Greensburg
Reported in Greensburg Pennsylvania a morbid case of death by own action involved Maggie Lloyd and Maggie Galvin who sought suicide over attire. They bought laudanum at four drug stores totaling 45 cents. Lloyd died in bed. Galvin fled, saying she would not follow through.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
T. J. Barclay
J. 8. Crawford
Maggie Lloyd
Latrobe
Maggie Galvin
Greenburg
Miss Lloyd
Miss Galvin
Fifty Congress closes with adjournment sine die in 1908 era
The Fifty Congress ends after long sessions with adjournment sine die. House and Senate finalize debates on tariff measures and land allotments for Indian tribes while preparing to adjourn. Presidents’ communications are noted and committee actions wrap up the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudd
Wisconin
Senate
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Wis
House
Washington Aqueduct Tunnel
Secretary of War
Illnois
Committee On Labor
McMillin
Tennessee
Oates
Lanham
Texas
Wasnixeton
Indian Territory
Connecticut
Allison
Brown
Georgia
Tenn
Congress
Farquahar
New York
Cox
Committee On Appropriations
Washington
Finance Committee
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Cockrell
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Minnesota
Dakota
Montana
Robbery on the Chicago levee targets traveling cattle handler
Arthur Dunkerly 28 from Rockwell City Iowa arrived in Chicago to ship cattle. After drinks with two colored men and a tall white man he was seized by the throat and robbed of 161 dollars. One suspect previously with the group was booked on vagrancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Cockrell
Allison
Wilson
Iowa
Democracy
West
Spooner
Arthur Dunkerly
Chicago
Rockwell City
Dunkerly
Dunkery
Floods in China Reach Pekin Area After Heavy Rain
A China mail report from Hong Kong and Yokohama describes a devastating flood near Fant-Shan-Hsien close to Pekin. Pekin saw seven and a half inches of rain as waters inundated about Llen-Li-Ho, drowning over 10,010 people and many animals. valleys near Pekin remain perilous each season due to treeless hills and torrents. Missionaries living near the disaster conveyed the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China Mail
San Francisco
Pekin
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Fant-Shan- Hsien
Llen-Li-Ho Brokia
Destitute Ramsay county farmers distress in Dakota cited
Minneapolis dispatch reports M. J. Herpman found several families in Ramsay county, Dakota destitute and starving due to crop destruction. Frost in August ruined wheat and vegetables, assets mortgaged, with urgent calls for immediate relief. The note also covers European press comment and other brief items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
M. J. Herpman
Ramsay County
Dakota
Herpman
France
North German Gazette
Temps
Floquet
The
Tagblatt
Daily Telegraph
Rome
Crispi
Italy
Germany
Austria
England
William
Poisoned NER MWOSBAND Noted Actress Diggle Indicted for Murder
Grand jury in Wright county returns an indictment against Mrs P Bertha Diggle for the murder of her husband Geo Diggie on May 24. The case follows her stage career with the Andrews Opera company and Ford Crestfath company. Evidence shows morphine poisoning after a night at a boarding house and a beer drink. The coroner ruled death by morphine overdose and a later grand jury indictment follows the inquest. Proceedings set in Judge Stevens court, promising sensational details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarion
Diggle
Wright County
P. Bertha Diggie
Geo. Diggie
Andrews Opera Company
Ford Company
Babe
Ford
Lin
Troune
Stevens
Fatal shooting during attempted burglary near Stilesville
In Hendricks County Indiana, sixty year old farmer Jesse Mason faced a robbery attempt by Logan York and an unknown man. York was killed when Mason's son Oran Mason discharged a loaded shotgun during a struggle, while the other assailant fled. Mason’s daughter defended herself with a chair during the confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Mason
Stilesville
Hendricks Co
Ind
Logan York
Mason
York
Oran Mason
Chicago Old-Timer John Wentworth Dies at 73
Chicago dispatch reports John Wentworth known as John John dies at 7:45 AM. A prominent figure in the west he served as mayor of Chicago congressman and editor. He was 73 and left an estate of at least 1.6 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Dispatch
John Wentworth
John John
West
Wentworth
Suicide Sermon in Brooklyn Warns Infidelity and Self Destruction
The Rev. T DeWitt Talntage delivers a firebrand sermon at the Tabernacle in Brooklyn arguing self destruction is the worst crime. He cites biblical figures and condemns infidelity while urging Christians to endure sufferings and seek a Christian death and immortality.
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Demosthenes
Alexander
Isocrates
Philip of
Macedon
Cato
Julus Casar
Mithridates
Pompey
Hannibal
Lycurgus
Moscow
Puoris Green
Belladona
Orteilo
Balter
Paul
Christ
Gadara
Scotland
Huch Miller
God
Hghland
Donald Roy
Buckland
Murchson
Cislmer
Cromarty
Hugh Miller
Portobello
Earth
Heaven
William Cowper
Isaac Watts
Charles Wesley
Thames
Paris Shopping Etiquette From Olive Logan
Olive Logan laments Paris shopping crowds in Louvre Bon Marche and Printemps. She contrasts American buyers with French clerks, noting pushy, improvised tactics, lack of receipts, and crowded reading rooms used for illicit rendezvous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Louvre
Printemps
Olive Logan
Boston Transcript
New York
London
England
Co-Operative
Paris
Poor Dog Found and Drowns After Master Loss
A dog wanders collarless in Montrichard and finds shelter with kind strangers but vanishes. After weeks of restlessness it returns to be beaten, then swims to drown in the river. Witnesses call it a felicide case and mourn the dog’s inconsolable fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montrichard
London Telegraph
Crushed Hopes In Courier Text
A dramatic exchange unfolds as James pleads for an appeal while a woman kneels, confessing she cannot answer with support for a husband. The Courier presents the emotional scene with a focus on suspense and resigned acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Out of Order Meters and Rumored Gas Trouble
A garbled 19th century style note hints at gas-tick fever when meters fail. The piece, in a fragmentary fashion, references phrases about the brain of the average dude and a bogus egg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picllsburg Chronicle
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Toleto
Polk County Building and Loan Association
Secretary of State
Sigourney
Shaffer
Agricultural Society
Bowman Bros
Waverly
Leonard Miller
Sfartley
O’brien County
State Women Suifface Association
Ames
Ost
Dunham
Burlington
Prof
Wran
Kansas
Callanan
Anna Ankeney
Treasury
FE. H. Hunter
Suffrage Bazar
Fair and
Woman's Standard
Susan B. Anthony
F.C. Raymond
Thomas Sullivan
Moore G. Kiplinger
Council Bluffs
Sioux City Printing Company
Burlington Edison Electric Company
LeMars Water and Light Company
Benj. F. Shuttler
Ila
Thomas Cascaden
Waterloo
John J. Henzie, Jr
Deep River
Warren C. Johnson
Oskaloosa
John P. McKie
Wayne
Georges. Montgomery
Atlantic
Elias C. Walker
Calmar
Elias Weeks
What Cheer
Hamilton County
Davenport, Iowa & Dakota Railroad
Commission
Rock Island
Fulton
Pine Oak
G. Simmons
Emma Meyers
Mr. Simmons
Simmons
Garry Owen
Dubuque
William Shanahan
Dennis Donovan
LeMars Light and Water Co
Sioux Oe Cable Railway Company
Brussels
Congo Free State
Bartellot
Lord Mount Temple
Dakota Territory
Tiouse
Aberdeen, Bismarck and Northwestern
Teller
Morgan
Committee On Pensions
Kilgore
United Peoria
Miami
Nouse. Kilgore
Rice
Hisneton
Chaplin
Ingalls
Mitchell
Paddock
Saulsbury
Blackburn
Reagan
Sawyer
Select Committee
United States
McMilin
China
Witeat
Louis
Depesne
Kansas City
Eassene
Evi
Dence
Rev. Talmage
Brooklyn
Tabernacle
T. DeWitt Talntage
Sias
Saul
Bathshan
David
Flere
Fuator
Abithophel
Machbiavalii
Judis Isesriot
Donne
Aimarcyr
Aaron Burr
George Saud
Ciartiggon
Saart
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscaor
Job
Elysium
Jesus Christ
Mr. Owen
David Hume
Rousseau
Voltaire
Gibbon
Montaigne
Hudson
East
Temple
Israel
Caius
Agrippa
Algerius
Orcherd
Leonine
Church Triumphant
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