Law Makers on the JO3 Return From Week of Home Contact
Des Moines reports the Thirty-fourth General Assembly returned to work after a home week as senators and representatives hold to their lines in the senatorial deadlock. Pickett and Cummins are discussed as possible break points while suffrage moves forward with a large suffrage hearing from Federated Women's clubs. Governor signs 28 bills as Oregon veto looms over US senator elections, with multiple acts affecting cocaine, public exhibitions of deformities, county seat retention, and county auditor fee transfers.
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Oregon
Des Moines
Ja. Mar. T
Thirty-fourth General Assembly
de Moines
Hia
Ines al Fonds Fala
Tebes
United States Senate
General Assembly
Pra
House
Tha
Judge Deemer
Claude R Porter
Nough
Young
Chas. Bl. Plekett
Waterloo
Congressman Pickett
Tom
Pickett
Washington
Kenyon
Cummina
Cummins
Funk
Spirit Lake
Cum
Towa
Federated Women's Clubs
Iowa
Benale
Gilliand
Mills County
Extra Session Fights Likely Over Taft Tariff Plan
Washington March A prolonged and stubborn contest over tariff revision and other legislation at Taft s extra session is predicted by leaders of both parties. The session to begin April 4 may last through summer and into December when the Sixty second congress assembles. Members prepared to stay in Washington indefinitely. Des Moines March Des Moines links Lehigh and Webster City by interurban lines as Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern builds from Lunderen to Lehigh and Lehigh Webster City via Crooked Creek line. The suffrage hearing before the state senate committee will feature Ella S Stewart as main speaker, with Major James R Hanna Nye and Rev Howland Hanson to plead for the amendment.
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Washington
Taft
Capitol
Sixty-second
Congress
Representative Underwood
Ways and Means
Des Moines
Lehigh
Webster City
Fort Dodge
Des Moines and
Southern
Lunderen
Crooker Creek
Crooked Creek
Lundgren
Local
Senate
Elia
Stewart
National Suffrage Association
J Hnois Suffrrage Association
Reign of Terror in Haiti Strikes Cape Haitien
In Cape Haitien on March 6 the city endures a reign of terror as military arrests continue and prisons fill. Citizens fear disloyalty accusations, peasants halt food shipments, famine looms, and hospitals overflow with soldiers and the ill. Only military authorities and foreigners may be seen in the streets.
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Cape Haitien
Watt
Alexis
Popular subscription to pay court costs in Kansas
In Clay Center the $27.60 costs from the contempt case of Mayor Hanna and aldermen, ordered by the U S Supreme Court, will be raised by a dime limit per person. Earlier, municipal officials cut electric light poles before the decision took effect. Joe LeFore, Cheyenne detective, says raids near Avada and Crazy Woman Creek tied to cattlemen are being investigated and two suspects have confessed.
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Clay Center
Kan
Hanna
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Cheyenne
Wyo
Joe Lefore
Sheridan
Johnson Counties
Advada
Crazy Woman Creek
Mary Wrey Civil War slave who helped build Nashville rail line
Seattle obituary notes the death of Mary Wrey born February 1807 a former slave from Virginia. She was sold to John Lovell of Nashville and lived there until the Civil War. She helped cut and haul ties for the first railroad into Nashville and leaves two children aged eighty-two and eighty-eight in Nashville.
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Seattle
Wash
Mary Wrey
Virginia
John Lovell
Nashville
Tenn
Pacific Fleet Moves to Hawaii for Demonstration
The Pacific fleet will sail from California to the Hawaiian islands to test where a successful attack might be made on the coast. In Centralia Illinois a coroner's jury exonerated Annie McGreavy, saying self defense, after she killed her husband with a milk bottle. Mrs Schuyler Colfax, widow of the former vice president, died in South Bend Indiana aged 73. Walter Smith died in Fridley Montana from injuries in a Montana Utah agricultural college football game a year earlier.
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Pacific Fleet
Hawaii
Washington
California
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian
Centralia
Ill
Annie McGreavy
Central City
Schuyler Colfax
South Bend
Ind
Wren Wade Colfax
Helena
Mont
Waltsc Smith
Fridley
Montana
Utah Agricultural Colleges
LEGAL BATTLE FOR HEIRESS IOWA NEWS BRIEFS
Numerous brief items from Iowa announce a variety of events and occurrences. Names include Galix Riley Adame Gustifson Quigisy W.H. Reeves Frank Teneyck and others. Notable notes cover deaths, business openings, crop and dairy activity, public figures, and local incidents across cities such as Onawa Maquoketa Clinton and Burlington with scattered dates and ages.
Multiple Local Changes and Incidents Spark Iowa News
Re-elected GP Pro in Forest City presides over school board. Northwestern Railway plans $500,000 improvements at Boone. Farmers’ Butter and Cheese association to erect Milford plant. Mrs. Innes of Monticello dies of pneumonia. Twenty new Davenport houses to ease scarcity. Frank McClellan injured by dragged team at Stairwood. nose broken. Ray Fontana dies from severe electrical shock in New Sharon last October. Local talent to present The Border Land to fund piano for Lost Nation high school. Herne Unnen, Des Moines bank clerk, dies after appendicitis surgery. Congregational church in Movilla causes sparks from ceiling as chimney catches fire. Mayor Ralph Otto of Iowa City not seeking reelection. recently named kinesiology professor at Iowa University. Miss Wilma Holcomb held up by masked man in Mason City. purse stolen. Ralph Heights of Mason City loses two fingers at work. Wil Carver of Fort Dodge injured after fall from box car. Joseph Kane accidentally shoots himself in finger with shotgun.
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Board of Education
Forest City
Northwestern Railway
Boone
Farmers' Butter and Cheese Association
Milford
Innes
Presbyterian Church
John Innes
Monticello
Davenport
Frank McClellan
Stairwood
New Sharon
Ray Fontana
Marshalltown
Nnon
Herne FL Unhnen
Ralph Heigbht
Mason City
Wil Carver
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad
Joseph Kane
Nia
Tragedy on Bloody River Bridge Ends in Death
Keokuk Iowa March 6 Joseph Abuela captain of the West Keokuk fire department shot and killed his wife Essie Samuels in a jealous rage on a bridge over Bloody River then shot himself but survived. He was taken into custody. Also injured farmer Charles J McCall trampled by 75 hogs near Coal Valley. Jury finds Harry Cunningham guilty of manslaughter in the fatal adoption case. Davenport banks loaned a million dollars in three days of March. Major James Whipple of the Fifty third regiment stricken at the statehouse in Des Moines.
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W. P. Gibson
Frank Northam
Marshal
Town
Bloomfield
Neb
Justice Court
Gibson
M Northam
Chil Leila Glason
Martin Braddock
Nebraska
Warran
Northam
Keokuk
Joseph 8Uela
West Keokuk
Essie Samuels
Boone,a
Charles J. McCall
Coal Valley
Newton
Harry Cunningham
Young Cunningham
Ola Cunningham
Willcocks
Davenport
Des Moines
James ¥. Whipple
Vinton
State House
Fifty-third Regiment
Town National Guard
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Washitton
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Haiti
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Ryan
Frank Knight
Sarah Sharp
Burlington
Frank Worrell
Denison Creamwry
L. H. Minkle
Waverly
Peter Flammangy
Mapleton
John Stanton
James Matt
Concrete Stone Co
Ida Grove
Irwin
Albert Goalby
Hoone
Lawrence Finley
Altamosa
Ingeborg Wangsney
Norway
Ridgeway
Lester Delivery
Glenn Connor
Ralph Kirch
Grinnell
Herald
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Clarion Fs
George Kniggs
W. Warner
Rusk
Iowa State Board of Education
Iowa State College
Amen
OTM
Margaret Reed
Underwood
Mia
Margaret Craven
Edward B. Morrison
Orin Rogers Co
Magon City Jewelers
Morrison
Mike Miller
Atairfield
Wiliam H. Coop
Coop
Jefferson
Keokuk Man
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