Law Makers on the Job in Des Moines Deadlock Over Senate Seat
After a week home, the Thirty-fourth General Assembly returned to Des Moines and resumes work on the Iowa senatorial deadlock. Kenton factions, Cummins call, suffrage hearing, and Governor Signe 28 bills color a crowded session with potential adjournment by April.
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Waterloo
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House
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Beebe
Congress to Open Extra Session Across Tariff Fight
Washington March 6 The extra session to begin April 4 aims to tackle tariff revision and other legislation with leaders forecasting a stubborn fight. Taft’s call defies protests of party leaders as lawmakers plan to stay in Washington through December. Des Moines to Lehigh interurban links eyed. Webster City line also planned with Crooked Creek electrification. Des Moines suffrage hearing set with Ella Stewart as main speaker. speakers Hanna Nye and Hangon to follow.
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Tocal Suffrage Association
Senate
Elia B. Stewart
National Suffrage Association
Sinaia Snes Association
James R. Hanna
E. A. Nye
Reign of terror in Haiti sparks broad fear and famine threats
Haiti faces a rising terror similar to 1908 as arrests and prisons fill. Foreigners remain safe while peasants avoid the streets and hospitals overflow with soldiers. In Nebraska a court fight over custody of Leila Gibson escalates to gun play as W P Gibson seeks the child from Mrs Northam whose home the girl vanished from.
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Haiti
Alexis
Marshaltown
W. P. Gibson
Bloomfield
Neb
Frank Northam
Justice Court
Gibson
Court costs in Clay Center contempt case to be raised
The 927.60 costs awarded against Mayor Hanne and Clay Center aldermen in a contempt case will be raised by popular subscription. No contributor may give more than a dime. Earlier, municipal officers cut down electric light poles before a Supreme Court decision became effective.
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Kaw
Hanne
United States Aupreme Court
Supreme Court
Sheep Camp Raiders Identified in Wyoming
Cheyenne Wyoming March Joe Lafore the sheepmen detective returned from Sheridan and Johnson counting or a brief visit with his family. He states that the identity of every principal in the recent raids near Advada and on Crazy Woman oresk ars known. Two cattlemen confessed and gave full details and in due time the cattlemen will be arrested.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Joe Lafore
Sheridan
Johnson
Advada
Oresk Ars
Mary Wray a former slave dies in Seattle at 103
Mary Wray born in Virginia in 1807 died in Seattle in her 104th year. Sold to John Lovell of Nashville where she lived until the Civil War and helped haul ties for the first railroad into Nashville. She leaves two elderly children in Nashville. Washington and Centralia reports update on fleet and court outcomes follow.
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Mary Wray
Virginia
John Lovell
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Tenn
Fire dept captain kills wife on bridge then shoots self
West Keokuk fire captain Joseph Samuels killed his wife Besse Samuels on a bridge over a small stream nicknamed Bloody river in a jealous rage. He then shot himself but survived and was taken into custody by police.
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Joseph Samuels
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Besse Samuels
Polles
Farmer Injured by Hogs Near Coal Valley
Charles J. McCall, a leading farmer from near Coal Valley in Boone County, was seriously injured after hogs charged him following a pig shot. He suffered multiple broken ribs and severe bruises before rescue.
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Charles J. McCall
Coal Valley
Iowa News Briefs Roundup of Local Happenings
A scattered Iowa briefs roundup notes deaths of Gustafson 85 Molngena John Quigley 80 Clinton W 4 Reaves to open jewelry shop Onowa a firemen's four days end at Atlantic Frank Teneyck died Maquoketa Sheffield chair paid 3006 Waterloo Moore buys 344 acre Osage farm new coal and lumber firm Kyat Frank Knight Milford owns 100 ponies Burlington centenarian Sarah Sharp Turns 100 Denison creamery claims ton of butter daily Minkle named Fort Dodge schools head Flammang Milleton 16 children one son died Charter mayor candidates Mason City John Stanton James Mott Soo Gun club Sioux City cornice fire dumps at Grinnell Weeks boy weeks injury Keokuk canal drowning close Davenport fines shoplifting Mary Smith Davenport Wangenes Ridgeway Parole for Lawrence Finley Anamosa Norway born Mrs Ingeborg dead Ridgeway Louder Livery sale Sutherland Elston 90 Biggart 76 Chap man Hopkinton bones fractured by horse kick Paris green poison saved child.
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Molngena
John Quigley
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Reaves
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Atlantic
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Sheffield
Waterloo
J E Moore
Osage
Kyat
Frank Knoight
Milford
Biers
Sarah Sharp
Burlington
Frank Worrell
Iowa City
Denison Creamery
L. H. Minkle
Waverly
Fort Dodge
Peter Flammang
Milleton
Mason City
John Stanton
James Mott
Concrete Stone Co
Ida Grove
Irwin
Albart Goalby Ja Boone
Lawrence Finley
Vinton
Anamosa
Ingeborg Wangenes
Norway
Ridgeway
Lester Bidewell
Fraser & Updecraft
Sutherland
Mary Ann Elston
Mack Cox
Mary Smith
Folwell Crockery
Davenport
Jeannette Garvin
Schall-Hutchingoo
Wixoel Manufacturing Company
Sioux City
Marcus
Teachers’ Association of
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Dickinson
Emmet
Esberville
Robert Morrow
Manchester
Webster City
Morrow
Onthovt
Lone Tree
Nichola Christian
Center Point
Robert C. McIlwain
Keokuk
St. John's Episcopal Church
Bia
White John Chapman
Sidney
Glenn Connor
Ralph Kireh
Grinnell
Herald
O. A. Weeks
Clarion
George Knigge
S. W. Warner
Dex Moines
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