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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1912
Page
1
The platform blames the high cost of living on heavy duties and calls for a revenue only tariff. It condemns President Taft for vetoing tariff bills and supports regulation of railroads express companies and telegraphs. The platform won’t be presented until after nomination of candidates.
Des Moines reports detail a drowning incident where John and Will Gordon both aged twenty perish while attempting to save a relative. Two brothers survive but are in shock with injuries and unable to recount events. All body-recovery efforts by dragging prove futile as shore crews persist.
Des Moines will host another apple show this December likely in the Auditatorium. The Horticultural Society will use the council building for the event with a prospectus inviting growers to participate. Last year Iowa apples proved superior to imports, bolstering a continued show. In a separate item, Walter Scott killed his sweetheart May Phillips and then himself in a Des Moines rooming house. their bodies were found.
In Mason City a couple, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Thompson, were found dead after a domestic dispute. Mrs Thompson shot her husband in the back and then killed herself with a revolver she had bought days earlier. Carrie Pence Thompson had worked at Western Electric Telephone and had recently suffered a severe shock from a wire incident. The couple had been married a little over a year.
The will of Hamilton County's millionaire Jig Goepan HL Rednic is filed for probate in district court. It allocates small sums to personal friends from $1,000 to $19,900, with the bulk of the estate going to his sister Elizabeth R. Herr. He also bequeaths $5,000 to the Methodist society in Webster City and previously gave $300 to a new church building project.
Will Doris, a life ferrier at Fort Madison prison and a six year convict for criminal assault, escaped and was pursued by Warden Sanders and guards in an automobile. He was traced to a deserted cabin boat a mile south of Burlington and captured without resistance. Doris had fled after the escape and had taken refuge in the cabin where Dave Geiger was murdered by Smith Dodge on Thursday.
Bodies recovered after disappearance of Charles Bauer of Plainchester Indiana found in Chicago steam box. Bauer last seen late April. brother searched locally. Clothing, drafts, and cash over 109 dollars found. investigation shifts from missing person to possible homicide or accident.
Statewide watch issued for a five passenger Cadillac owned by Fred Shuler of Monticello Ta. The vehicle was stolen. Arthur C Gordon, former Iowa golf champion of 1906, set a new local Country Club nine hole record by three strokes at Iowa City on June 29.
A broad range of domestic and international events fill a crowded page. Allen M. Fletcher is named Vermont governor contender, a campus dormitory fire claims two lives and injuries, and labor strikes surge in New York Boston and Philadelphia. Military actions unfold in South America amid gunboat incidents, while fires, drownings, and a series of deaths touch communities coast to coast. Major corporate price hikes follow steel market moves, and a string of legal and social troubles surface across the nation.
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