Printing Inquiry Reveals Parrott Evidence in State Mill Case
A sensational disclosure from Lieut Gov Parrott before the printing investigation committee shows his role in setting prices for blanks and jobs. He cites fair prices ranging from 10 to 26 percent and details costs for state printing work, indicating opposition in the house to Senate printing and binding measures.
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Atte
Parrott
Fair Commerce Pleas
Alwigh
House
Senate
Woman's Body Recovered From Missouri River Near Onawa
A woman's body, about 20, found in Missouri River at Onawa, removed Friday. It lacked most clothing and likely stayed in water over a week. Local speculation links her to a prior drowning of Mrs. Howard near Salix on October 24, but preservation raises doubts about identity.
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Onawa
Missouri
Onawwa
Bank Seeks Note Payment and Asset Seizure
A district court action by Catmet Rhots Savings Bank against N A Williams seeks $6,000 from a note dated last November. An attachment seized Williams property including Upper Broadway coal yard. Williams had deeded real estate to the bank except the coal yard and transferred it to Ralph to satisfy a salary claim.
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Catmet Rhots Savings Bank
N. AW. Williams
Petion
Willing
Bante
Williams
Bus Coal Yard
Upper Broadway
Ralph
Monticello Stirred Up by School Board Action
Monticello residents react to attempts to abolish the superintendent’s office cut high school studies to essentials for a teacher certificate and reduce the school year from nine to eight months. In Webster City, Company C will construct a large armory hall after poor quarters and landlord treatment, citing drilling disappointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Wall Milinia Inepetition Inspection at Hull Armory
The annual inspection of Company K, Fourth Regiment, was held Wednesday night at Hull Armory led by Capt. Olmstead of the Ninth Cavalry with Major Davidson of Muscatine directing. Company K expects a favorable report. Governor Drake had appointed Commissioner Leland, who faces a confusional pharmacy succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall
Hull
Olmstead
Ninth United States Cavalry
Davidson
Muscatine
Legislature Progress in Code Revision Halts Toward May Deadline
A legislative committee reports about half of the code revision work is complete as of nine weeks into the session. The House has enacted more bills than the Senate, but most measures require re passage in the House due to Senate amendments. The panel warns the session likely cannot end before May, possibly extending late in the month.
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Tyre
House
Senate
Dolliver
Iowa
Nebraska
Colleges
New England
Dingley
Allen
Hoar
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Territories
Binger Hermann
Oregon
General Land Office
E. G. Timms
Wisconsin
George B. Thummel
United States District of
John W. Henderson
Florida
Call
Elections Committee
Gallinger
Rep
Civil Service Commission
Phil Sheridan
Civil Service Committee
Five Children Cremated in Davis County Fire
Five children of Mr. and Mrs. J Rank Penrod perished in a house fire at Laddsdale, near Davis County. The parents were at church when the blaze started Tuesday night. Penrod pulled two burning children from the flames but suffered fatal burns. both died soon after. Coroner's inquest found no clear origin for the fire.
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J*rank Penrod
Laddsdale
Davis County
Penrod
Thames
Bears on Temple Amendment Ruling in Railroad Damage Case
Judge Caldwell of the Eighth Circuit rejects Burlington Relief Association's no-sue clause as against public policy in a Chicago Burlington and Quincy employee injury suit. The ruling keylies to the Temple amendment debated by the legislature, aiming to mirror the court decision.
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Caldwell
Eighth United States Circuit Court
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Burlington Relief Association
Tama strawboard mill contract to stay in operation
Iowa Butter and Kung Mem The Towa Wholesale Egg and Butter Dealers Association met at Burlington and decided to continue operating the Tama strawboard mill. Dealers protested exhorbitant prices from the American Strawboard Trust, noting a 40 percent cut in fillers to town dealers and a 10 percent semiannual dividend, while the trust profited near 100 percent. Officers named are Henry Rhinesburg of Pella as president and W M Verhey of Des Moines as secretary.
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Iowa
Towa Wholesale Egg and Butter Dealers’ Association
Burlington
Tama Strawboard
American Strawboard Trust
Lowa Shippers’ Strawboard and Filler Company
Tama
Henry Rhinesburg
Pella
W. M. Verhey
Des Moines
Ex Senator Cassatt's Prison Life Revealed
Ex Senator Cassatt of Pella serves an eight year sentence in Anamosa for fraudulent banking. Visitors included his daughter and her husband. He works as an assistant in the prison hospital and has gained weight while maintaining hope for public standing. Casstt's case contrasts with earlier life as he adapts to confinement. George Harris sues Modern Woodmen of America for $20,000 in Dubuque federal court over injuries from an initiation. He alleges being blindfolded and tossed during the initiation, causing months in hospital and a permanently stiff elbow.
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Cassatt
Pella
Anamosa
Snow
Ife
Modern Woodmen
George Harris
Dubuque
Tronwood Camp
Modern Woodmen of America
Death of Chas. F. Blake at 74 in Ottumwa
Chas. F. Blake aged 74 died at his Ottumwa home Tuesday from heart disease. He long headed the Iowa National Bank of Ottumwa and was a wealthy man. After mining losses he retired from banking and devoted himself to mining in a bid to regain fortune, having lived in Ottumwa since 1846.
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Chas. F. Blake
Deni
Chas. TF. Blake
Ottumwa
Iowa National Bank
Aid for Famine Sufferers Causes Local Aid Drive
Action begins to extend aid to famine sufferers near Town Falls. Citizens will be asked to contribute money and corn for distressed people in the antipodes. A meeting appointed committees to solicit funds and manage communications for the fund.
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Town Falls
Antipodes
Woman Shoots Self Near Ila Grove In Despondent Act
Word reached Ia Grove Tuesday evening that Mrs. John Bartley living nine miles northeast of Pen committed death by own action by shooting herself with a shotgun. She had been despondent and acted strangely. About six weeks earlier she went to town and tried to buy poison at several drug stores but was unsuccessful.
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Ila Grove
Ia Grove
John Bartley
Pen
Well Known Railroad Man Dead
Joel West of Burlington, master mechanic of the Iowa division of the Burlington system, died at Los Angeles Hospital after a period of ill health. He was one of the best known railroad division officers in the West. He was 64 years of age.
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Joel West
Burlington
Iowa Division
Burlington System
Los Angeles Hospital
Railroad Division
Weat
The Iowa Legislature Exonerates Speaker Byers in Lobby Probe
A legislative committee report clears Speaker Byers of influence by a building and loan lobbyist amid a dispute over a disbursed 2400 dollar letter. The session approves measures on building and loan access, court appeals, and salaries, while a Maine anecdote ends with sharp Yankee wit about a coat, debt, and a magistrate.
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Future Committee
Dyers
Byers
O. B. Inckman
Allen
Lambert
Jackman
Executive Council
Soll County
Senate
House
Dowell
van Houten
Feathers and pitch punishment in medieval war customs
The text recalls Richard Coeur de Lion and Philip Augustus enforcing theft penalties in their armies. Offenders were to have warm pitch poured over them, feathers sprinkled on the pitch, and then be abandoned on the nearest shore as punishment, illustrating early punitive regulations in crusader times.
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Judge Lynch
Richard Coeur de Lion
Philip Augustus
Queen's Bad Relatives (Leiningen kin in crime)
A Chicago News item recounts that English Duchess and Her Grice of Kingston, tied to Queen Victoria, faced imprisonment for forgery and bigamy. It notes the Count of Leiningen in an English prison and the Countess in Vienna for a string of crimes including forgery blackmail and swinching.
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Grice
Kingston
Queen Victoria
Leiningen
Lein-ingen
Vienna
Chicago News
Bones in a Silver Vein Discovery in Colorado Mines
A 400 foot depth at Rocky Point nine in Gilman yields surface bones embedded in silver ore. An ancient human find from half a dozen years ago supports the notion that humans were present on the continent when silver veins formed. Arrowheads and over $100 worth of ore clung to the remains.
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Colorado
Rocky Point Nine
Gilman
Mystery in a Sewer Near Dunning Asylum
A headless decomposed male body was pulled from a basin in the Cook County asylum grounds near Dunning. The jury ruled probable death by drowning. theories include inmate murder by fellow residents, by keepers, or out-of-town disposal.
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Cronin
Cook County
Dunning
Reynolds
Lange
Ward en of Joliet Prison Maj R W McClaughry Reappointed
Major Robert W. McClaughry resumes his post as superintendent of Joliet penitentiary at 62. A Civil War veteran, he previously led Joliet from 1871, later guiding Pennsylvania reform institutions and Chicago police against gambling before returning to Joliet and Pontiac reform school duties.
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R. W. McClaughry
Big Tiltots
Robert W. McCliaughry
Joliet
Penology
Illinois
Monmouth College
Major McClaughry
Pennsylvania
Washburne
Chicago
West Side
Efe
Pontiac Reform School
Gov. Tanner
Arenas
Notes of Current Events and Local Incidents
M Sata founder of Le Chart Noir dies in Paris amid obituaries. Canadian distillers ship whisky to the United States as American tariffs rise. Funeral for Rabbi Ignatz Grossman of Detroit held at Temple Rodolph Sholom New York with congregants from New York and Brooklyn. A Valley Mills Texas arrest reveals Joseph Blanther, the San Francisco murderer, died by morphine in jail after a teaching job and prior Austrian army service.
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M. Sata
le Chart Noir
Paris
United States
Ignatz, Grossman
Detroit
Temple Rodolph Sholom
New York
Brooklyn
Valley’ Mills
Tex
Joseph Blanther
San Francisco
National Solons Debate Tariffs and Public Bills
The House pushed two leftover appropriation bills through, agriculture at 3,182,002 and Indian at 7,670,220, then adopted a resolution for extra mileage and stationery. Debates covered tariffs, civil service tests, and open sessions in the Senate.
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House
Congress
Holman
The
Treasury
Bailey
Texas
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Great Britain
United States Supreme Court
Oscar
Norway
Sweden
Noted chess author Herman Lehner dies in Berlin at 64
Telegraphic briefs report the death of Herman Lehner a prominent chess writer in Berlin aged 64 Walter Scrymser of New York is named wealthy retiree Elizabet Bayard Ames wins a university oration contest with Castela Simons taking second Place and a burglary is noted involving two suspects at Ben Alford Shy Michi location and a reported failed kidnapping or theft of a child A fragmented line of details follows related to suspects and the incident
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Herman Lehner
Berlin
Walter Scrymser
Retir Vies
New York
Elizabet
Bayard H. Ames
Castela Simons
Tain Ben‘ Alford
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Center Point
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M. Rigelman & Co
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Drake
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Maine
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Hibernian
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R. W. M'Claughry
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