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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
4
Jurors reported a hung verdict after four days deliberation. Nine favored acquittal while three urged conviction, prompting Judge Shinn to discharge the panel. Foreman Alexander Hewitt noted initial ballots and a shifting process that ended in no decision. The case will await spring term proceedings.
Desperadoes who robbed Doerschuck’s bank at Zanesville Ohio boarded the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling line toward Bridgeport after a Holloway theft. Officers captured Lang and another, four escaped, a fierce gun battle left patrons terrified and a leader captured in the ladies’ coach. Cash valued at 850 dollars, counterfeit bills, nitroglycerin and dynamite car cartridges found among loot.
In Bronx City Iowa two masked robbers barged into the Grand Opera House box office at 9 26 pm aiming to hold up treasurer Harley Rounds and manager Wilson Ross. Rounds grappled a robber and was struck with a gun butt. A shot fired went through his sleeve. another table hurled, but no one was harmed and the robbers fled. Rounds bled but recovered. stampede followed the incident.
Fragmentary report notes a military action where Boers gain a victory forcing senior officers to retire. Names and specifics are unreadable, but the outcome implies a collapse of command and possible reshuffle amid ongoing conflict.
The Senate Committee on Elections spent 324745.74 on the Clark Montana investigation, enough to cover Clark’s salary for years. Blumenberg was paid 266 for shorthand, witnesses earned varied amounts from 0 to 489, and travel plus subpoena fees added to expenses. Traveling costs from Montana to Washington totaled 266.50, with additional bills for subpoenas and photography of checks.
The Burlington fast mail wrecked near Kirkwood on the way to Council Bluffs after passing mouth. Fireman Shan non died and Engineer Samuel Dove was seriously hurt as the locomotive left the track and portions of the mail cars burned. Train No 15 was en route from Chicago at sixty mph when the accident occurred delaying mainline service via Oquawka and Keithsburg.
Abraham Bloom, the Nebraska cattle king, had his one year jail sentence and $1,000 fine for defrauding Strayhorn-Evans Commission upheld. Remanded to jail in default of bond, he plans to appeal to the supreme court. Moore runs ranches near Salem, Nebraska City and Superior.
A committee of wealthy Dunkards including Elder J. Harrison of Sunnyside and banker C. Rowland of Lanark purchase Sunnyside townsite in Yakima country Washington. They intend founding an ideal colony with temperance Christianity and educational institutions. A college modeled after Oberlin Ohio will be established and no saloons will be allowed.
In Shanesville near Canal Ohio four masked bandits robbed the private bank of John Dorescusk blowing the safe with nitroglycerine. They escaped with about 3000 to 4000 dollars on a hand car pursued by townspeople and a trail of blood.
Chicago women mothers daughter and granddaughter were badly burned while attempting to extinguish a kitchen fire and rescue each other. The grandmother’s clothing on fire led to the others being enveloped in flames until neighbors arrived.
Chicago judges Tuley Waterman and Dunne ruled Illinois anti trust law requires corporations to file affidavits stating no connection with trusts. The court upheld the mandatory affidavit provision while striking down the definition section as unconstitutional, affecting nearly 100 corporations facing $50 fines. Attorneys view the section 1 ruling as a major setback to the law’s reach.
At Uintah agency in White Rock Utah Troop IK from Fort Duchesne was ordered out by Agent Myron to quell trouble. More than thirty children at the school are ill with measles and other diseases amid parental dissatisfaction as homes were denied. A girl died, Blackhawk demanded child release, and teacher O Connor was knocked down as children were taken away. Other Indians removed additional children with threats to burn school buildings prompting Bon Maj Hughes call for help.
General Russell A. Alger was awakened December 19 by a prowler in his Detroit residence. He confronted the burglar at the stairs, was tripped, and fell heavily. Police reported $800 worth of silverware stolen as the thief escaped.
Trades and Labor Council organizes servant girls into a union in Minneapolis to address alleged abuses and secure higher wages and privileges. Estate of Late Senator Cushman K. Davis filed for probate. widow Anna M. Davis named as executrix with $65,000 estate.
Copenhagen reports a brother of Prof. Andre the missing Arctic balloon explorer living in Moethenberg. He has deferred opening Andre’s testament for four years, hoping for the polar explorer’s return from the polar regions.
A dense market page lists cattle hogs and sheep quotes for Sioux City Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and more with prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes across several grades and departments. It consolidates bid ranges and commodity values in a single historical reference.
A Rice Township farmer repents for twenty year old cash withdrawal from a Mt Ayr bank. He paid back $80 in compound interest after confessing to bankers Morrin and Allyn, with half sent to Morris’s widow and half kept by the Allyn brothers.
Mrs. Amelia Sullivan wife of Daniel Sullivan died by self immolation four miles southwest of Farmington. She saturated her clothes with kerosene and ignited them while her husband was in the barn. Her body burned severely and despite a physician's attempt the injuries were fatal. She had recently feared insanity and begged to be sent to an asylum.
Judge F C Plaun of the Usutiet court in Black Hawk County rules in the Cedar Malla will dispute involving Mrs Della Henderson who left much to Cedar Fally Congregational Church. Protests over probate allege incompetency and later challenge the witnesses as beneficiaries. Judge Plaun holds Mrs Thompson a total witness despite her recipient status.
The report blends a Monona County land dispute over a 1200 acre swamp land resurvey requested by J Callanan with a tax litigation in Palo Alto County where Judge Bailie rules against constitutional challenges to omitted tax collection. Additional brief notes cover a fatal self defense shooting in Linville Cray, a petition for a pardon in Clinton, San Francisco flood victims, a near-fatal bull attack, and local civic plans to rebuild a Des Moines grandstand along with a county tax-collection effort in Burlington.
Heitman, adopted son of L Jacobson, was charged under section 4802 for defacing a public building. George O Holbrank, president of the Onawa school board, filed the information. Mayor Brown heard the case. Heitman pleaded guilty and faced a $100 fine or thirty days. The judge suspended the sentence after a lecture on the offense’s gravity and future behavior. Heitman’s anger over a teacher’s action led to vandalism including jackknife use and damage to a baristats and front door, an act misaligned with the president’s artistic views.
Authorities at Council Blufts fear an outbreak as three more smallpox cases appear at the Women’s Christian Association Hospital bringing total to six. The hospital, with twelve nurses, sixteen patients and three servants, remains quarantined beyond initial fourteen days for forty more days. The newly afflicted include aged infirm county patients, one colored woman, amid wartime public health alarms.
The annual Iowa State Agricultural Society meeting, now titled the State Farmers Institute and State Agricultural Convention, was held under the Department of Agriculture at the state house in Des Moines. A large crowd attended the three day event, the first under the new law.
A partial report describes a fire that destroyed a grand stand at a local event site. Officials investigate the blaze while nearby spectators stand by. No injuries reported as crews battle the flames and secure the area.
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