Heavy Fighting Looms Near Thaba N'Chu
Dispatches from Bloemfontein report Ian Hamilton advancing from Thaba N'Chu meeting a strong Boer force led personally by General Botha. Reinforcements and French strengthen the Boer position as British forces push toward Pretoria amid mounting expectations of a major engagement.
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War Office
Bloemfontein
Thaba N'Ohu
Rundle
Gordon
Dickson
French
Smith-Dorrien
Ian Hamilton
Pole-Carew
Denersdorp
Ladysmith
Thaba N’chu
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Botha
Boshof
Lord Methuen
Warrenton
Mafeking
Corsi
Morning Post
Plumer
Boars
Windsorton
Koenig
Beira
Transvaal
Lord Lansdowne
House of Lords
Lourenzo Marquez
Breckenridge Sentenced for Embezzlement in May
May 1 report states A. I. Breckenridge will be sent to the Anamosa penitentiary to serve a five year term for embezzling 10884 dollars from the Perpetual Building and Loan association.
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Breckenridge
Warmroo
A. I. Breckenridge
Anamosa Penitentiary
Perpetual Building and Loan Association
Commins Withdraws from GOP Convention Race
Des Moines national committeeman A B Com ming withdrew from the race for delegate at large to the Republican national convention Lafayette Young becomes Des Moines candidate.
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Commins
Des Moines
A. B. Comming
Lafayette Young
Dos Moines
Woman fatally scalded by boiler fall near Beraonv
Mrs Van Ostren wife of a prominent local farmer four miles west of Beraonv fell head first into a boiler of scalding water while carrying it. She died from the injuries sustained in the incident.
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Beraonv
van Ostren
Grant Birthday Banquet Held at Savery House
The Grant club celebrated General Grant's birthday with a banquet at the Savery house. Plates were prepared for 850 guests. Luther Laflin Mills and Frank Lowden of Chicago spoke as the principal speakers. Prominent state leaders attended this elaborate city event.
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Grant
Kuba Gets Fifteen Years for Dynamite Threats
Albert Kuba, saloon keeper, convicted of attempting to dynamite Attorney Corn's house on Thanksgiving night and claiming it was to scare off blackmailers, sentenced to 15 years at hard labor. Co-defendant J. O. Bowman, who planned to rob Sinclair & Co. with forged hog tickets, received seven years in the penitentiary.
Iowa Grocers Adjourn After Large Cedar Rapids Meeting
The second annual convention of the Iowa State Retail Grocers Association closed in Cedar Rapids with over 2,000 grocers present. About 500 from Burlington and similar numbers from other cities traveled on a special train. Thirty to forty papers on trade topics were discussed, with resolutions favoring an exempting law, repeal of the bankruptcy law, and support for the national food law. Officers elected: Eugene Buttles president, A. S. Johnson vice president, Ira B. Thomas secretary, John W. Ray treasurer. Next meeting likely to be in Waterloo.
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Cedar. Rapids
Crdar
Eugene Buttles
Burlington
Johnson
Bloomfield
Ira B. Thomas
Des Moines
John W. Ray
Waterloo
Iowa Road to Link Des Moines and Boone Area
Des Moines Northern Iowa Railroad filed incorporation papers with the county and state. Capital stock starts at 50000, planned to rise to 14000 per mile and bond for 16000. A 200 mile line would run from the southern boundary near range 22 north through Des Moines Boone Webster City and Clarion to the northern border, with construction likely within 12 months and coal fields along the route to be opened.
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Boone
Webster City
Clarion
Freed from prison after twenty two years
Cornelius Moelchen is released after twenty two years in Iowa’s Anamosa prison. Convicted of first degree murder in 1878 for his uncle John Moelchen’s death, he won executive clemency during the last General Assembly session and walks free at last. The story also reflects on political figures and shifts in era.
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Anamos A
Cornelius Moelchen
Moelchen
Annals of
Iowa
America
Germany
Dubuque County
John Moelchen
Cornelius
Young Moelchen
Anamosa
Genera Assembly
Moslohen
Peace Reigns Among Ohio Republicans In Deathly Style
A critical Washington column decries Ohio Republican power brokers led by Hanna and Foraker. It portrays Grosvenor and Dick as central to the Big Four while lampooning Foraker, Chandler, and the party platform and mocks the self named leaders amid Philadelphia convention hype.
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Hanna
Grosvenor
Charles Dick
Ohio
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Elaine and
Associated Press
Whilem
Hanna—Foraker
Grosvvenor
Mr. Dick
Washington
Warsaw
Bushnell
Charlie Foster
Ohio Republican
Arouria
Ile
Prince “Albert
Athenis
Aurora
Brotherly Love
Joseph Benton Foraker
Nash
Foraker
White House
Charles Henry Grosvenor
McKinsey
Philadelphia
Senator Foraker
Serena Lt. Payne
Lregard
Republican Party of
Ion
William Eaton Chandler
New Hampshire
Marcus A. Hanna
Chandler
Granite Mountain
Sisyphus
Hercules
Mark
Columbus
Lindbad
Iowa and regional reports from May and April events
A batch of terse Iowa items covers political moves at county and state levels, including the Albia convention delegates backing J F Lacey for Congress, and a governor signing a new building and loan law effective July. Also noted are local crimes, a strict Sunday law in Clarinda, and multiple family tragedies and a Des Moines Democratic convention preview with Bryan support signals.
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Shaw
Des Morais
Toth
Hecomes
Iowa
Des Moines
Des Mouins
Kansas City
Bryan
C. A. Walsh
Ottumwa
Boy Clubs His Mother in Fatal Iowa Tragedy
Mason City Iowa May 2 James B Law 19 son of Thomas Law Lincoln postmaster and civic leader clubbed his mother with a gun barrel severely injuring her then killed her with intent after an imagined wrong He surrendered to authorities and says he is glad he killed her Doctors deem him insane with no hope of recovery for the victim
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Sioux City
Ernest. Meyer
Meyer
Hussband
Lake City
Calhoun County
William Wilcox
A. J. ‘Wilcox
Mason Crry
James
Law
Thomas Law
Lincoln
Des Moines Newsboy Vanishes in New York With Thousands
Des Moines teen newsboy H A Gould aged 21 disappeared in New York after visiting his uncle Julius Friedman at 145 Madison Street. He arrived a week earlier to start his father in business and carried several thousand dollars. Police were informed.
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Des Moines
New York
H. A. Gould
Julius Friedman
Madison Street
Gould
Nutter
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