Multiple Iowa incidents plus notable deaths and crimes
A wide summary details combined reports: Frank May, a Council Bluffs pianist, found dying after jumping from a train near Orvis park. Concurrently, a Grand Junction stabbing, a deadly railroad boiler explosion near Anamosa, and a Hartford banker death from fright. Also reported are thefts, a murder accusation in Davis county, a Cedar Falls accident, Bishop Hennessy and Father Ryan rumors, plus regional crop and rail news and scientific notes.
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Frank May
Council Bluffs
Burlington
Orvis’ Park House
St. Joe
Bluffs
May
Grand Junction
McEwin
Anamosa
John James
Mike Kennedy
James Ho
Rockville
Dick Lyon
Stone City
Thomas Latham
Peoria Transcript
Captain Hall
Bob Burdette
Kate Butler
Cedar Falls
Interean
Dubuque
Hennessy
Father Ryan
Hennessey
Gear
Lincoln Township
Black Hawk County
John Stutts
Big Grove Township
Benton County
Calista Hemphill
Center Point
Linn County
Snook
Newton
Robert Snook
Thomas Williams
Wm. Weston
Battle in Lake Valley Ends in Indian Defeat
A Santa Fe special recounts Lieutenant Smith leading 20 soldiers in a multi day pursuit of hostile Apaches near Mc Ever’s Rancho. George Daly arrived with 20 miners, turning the tide as the Indians were routed. Daly and Lieut. Smith died, four soldiers killed, eleven wounded. The clash adds to a string of hostilities across the region with settlers arming for protection.
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Lake Valley
Smith
McEver
Lake Valley District
Geo
Geo. Daly
Lieut
Daly
9Th Cavalry
Dimmick
Saylor
Norris
Chihuahua
Santa Fe
Taylor
San Matteo
Hatch
Cachel Negro
Col. Hatch
Lieut. Smith
War Department
Cummings
Bayard
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
John C. Haley
Haley
Peter McGeogh
Milwaukee
Don’t Wait Use Kidney-Wort Cure Advertised Medicine
Sediment or mucus in the urine signals illness. Take Kidney-Wort to cure, urged by druggists selling both dry and liquid forms. Thousands claimed cured, warning to act before it is too late.
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Otis
Cote
Evening Talk on Animal Sense and a Foolish Lecture
An evening program discusses animal intelligence with a quip that some dogs show more sense than their masters. Fitznoodle boasts of a similarly smart dog. A clergyman’s parish lecture on Fools drew a large audience aided by clever ticket wording that read Lecture on Fools Admit one.
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Dogsmith
Young Fitznoodle
Cured of Drinking By Bitter Tonic Proclaimed
A railroad official in Chicago touts a bitters remedy as curing an insatiable liquor thirst that ruined work. It calmed urges, steadied nerves, and kept a man sober for over two years with several others said cured.
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Florence Machine CO
Florence
Mass
GEO. P. Bent
Jackson St
Chicago
Mica Manufacturing CO
Michigan Avenue
Ilinois
W.H. H. Murray
Texas
Moturray
Temple
Fulton
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Denver
W. T
Vennor
Hazen
United States Signal Service
R. R
Tienes
Double Murder in Scott County Arkansas Details
Telegrams report a fatal robbery and two additional gunshots in Scott County near Waldron on August 22. Fabern and Hobbs, longtime gamblers, shot John Stewart after a dispute over debt and liquor. Stewart was killed with a single shot then six more shots were fired as he was dragged outside. Billy Messingate heard the shooting during a visit to Stewart’s home.
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Hiram Brooks
Floris
Davis County
Brooks
Bloomfield
Stewart
Scott
A. Lanten
New York
Ferdinand Jansen
Jansen
Mrs. Lanten
Lanten
Farmingdale
L. I
Capt
Howgate
Owingsville
Jas. Boyd
Boyd
Ben. Blanton
Cook County
Texas
James Todd
Todd
Blanton
Kate Hutton
St. Paul
Ed. Wright
Wright
Leamington
Wabash Railway
Edgefield County
H. c
J. W. Bussard and Son
J. W. Trimmerman
Trimmerman
Bussard
Rio Grande
Bracketts
Dolores
Charles B. Wright
Chicago
Lancashire Insurance Company
Charles Wright
Fred James & Co
Scott County
Arkansas
Waldron
Fabern and
Hobbs
John Stewart
Billy Mes
Singate
Socialists threaten Swiss tribunal and dynamite plot
From Geneva a special dispatch reports socialists sent a threatening letter to the federal tribunal over the Zurich grand council ban on a September social congress. They warn judges and claim enough dynamite to blow up half of Switzerland and ignite a world fire. A London dispatch notes Parnell plans a United Irishman daily next winter and English tenants move to press reforms on Irish land laws.
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Geneva
Federal Tribunal
Grand Council
Zurich
Social Congress
The
Tribune
Switzerland
London Dispatch
Parnell
London News
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Physicians and Surgeons
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Fairfield, Iowa
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Wilson’s Block
South Side
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Public Square
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East Side
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Clayton County
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Des Moines
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London
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Slagle
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Public Park
First East St
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McCoid & West
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Crime and Criminals
England
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