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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
2
A bank cashier, Benoa Me Oh, was sentenced after an inventory theft case. The court described the crime as embezzlement from the bank’s cash vault, with authorities noting recovery efforts and a restitution plan.
An explosion at the Century mine south of Fairmont, owned by Shay Bros of Baltimore, traps workers and halts shaft operations. Over 250 miners are employed daily. a relief party retrieved ten men in the first trip with five dead and five badly burned. A second expedition searched the main shaft while repairs to the shaft fan were completed.
A freight train and an Illinois Central westbound passenger train collided near, Iowa, after the westbound engine failed to meet schedule. The front engine was wrecked, five freight cars telescoped, and both engineers suffered injuries while conductor Walter Cut was fatally injured.
A cryptic OCR fragment references an attorney general and a section in a historical document. The readable portion names Fextanaba and hints at legal or governmental context without clear actions, dates, or places. Further readable details are unavailable in the fragment.
Judge J Otis Humphrey ruled Wednesday that individuals named in the indictments receive immunity from criminal prosecution while corporations remain liable. The decision, delivered after an hour, left in place government claims against the corporations though sparing the individual defendants. Court fans and defendants celebrated as several Armour & Co. employees appeared to congratulate one another.
London report states Prime Minister Campbell-Bannerman declined to crusade against hop pools in America or elsewhere. A question cited an alleged pool by a Wheatland California exporter using Chinese labor, and Oregon hop growers’ copies. The premier would not take action despite calls to curb the pool's impact on Britain’s hop industry.
The 51,000 French miners at Lens rejected the company’s 10 percent wage increase proposal. The decision will be referred to a referendum of the 61,000 strikers. A manifesto urged calm and avoidance of revolutionary agitators to improve conditions.
In Chattanooga at the Roos Mehan Iron Foundry on Wednesday a white overseer named Rogers fired a shot and wounded a Black worker amid racial tensions following the lynching of Negro Johnson. The incident appears linked to ongoing race clashes between communities.
Hamilton County political figure George B Cox faces grand jury scrutiny in Cincinnati over alleged county treasury deposits and gratuities. Separate Chicago tragedy report: Nicholas J Dickhart, 23, a Cincinnati cook, shot and killed by Jacob W Young in a boarding house. Young, 118, and Mrs Amani and Mrs Mabel Grief, all of Cincinnati, were arrested two days later. In rail news, Central train service faced issues with a stalled car pile up and a Pere Marquette order for joint use of mined coal in the Belze area.
Castana special reports an attempted bank robbery near Castana Savings Bank Tuesday night. Newton editor of the Castana Times and his wife witnessed the scene, grappled with a burglar who fired a shot missing Newton’s head but burning his hat. Two men fled. Newton bears injuries but survives. The incident recalls a prior Turin bank burglary.
Tin Grove litigation led by Baye nt of $625 ends when Carl Leopold, a local saloonkeeper, pays Mrs. Gareth M. Wiggins of Ida Grove $626 in cash to withdraw the saloon-closure suit. The jury ruled for Leopold, a temporary injunction kept his saloon closed, and he then moved the property to a new location.
An Omaha traveler claims Des Moines insurance agent George Griswold, long thought dead after a river discovery, is alive. The report cites a Des Moines partner, Stephen Essex, who supposedly received a Griswold letter saying he is beyond the law. No location is given in the message.
In Kansas City Missouri A C St John a traveling salesman was arrested on information he defrauded a Marshalltown Iowa post office clerk with a worthless check. Sheriff C S Hutson and Kansas City detectives identified him as Gordon Gray who allegedly used that name to defraud the clerk. St John was taken to Marshalltown in custody.
Sunday Bild reports a Des Moines Senate judiciary committee amendment to extend Decoration Day protections from sunrise to 4 PM. The change aims to keep baseball, sports, and theater from interfering with observances, allowing post 4 PM events. Also notes a horse killed in Colliston in a separate crash and a party-related collision in Treton involving two young men and their rigs.
Very little business was transacted at Logan on Tuesday at the joint meeting of the Monona and Harrison County boards of supervisors. Bills for publication of notices to landowners were cut to 60 percent of the claimed amounts, newspapers alleging standard legal rates and threatening suit to recover the balance. The next joint meeting is scheduled for Onawa on May 1.
The Cummings anti-discrimination measure passed the Iowa House 60 to 13 at Des Moines on Wednesday. It aims to curb price discrimination across the state and to challenge Standard Oil practices, with supporters portraying it as a broader reform effort.
At Stormy Lake the jury failed to reach a verdict in the estate case of Stevert Enderson versus the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. The Buena Vista County court closed the trial after a week. Anderson was injured crossing a railway crossing near Rembrandt last August and died subsequently.
Des Moines reports say A. D. Storm, convicted of murdering a mother and daughter in Des Moines County and sentenced to life in prison, will not pursue a pardon now. His attorney claims alibi evidence could be secured but is not yet available.
A sprawling OCR clutter lists battles, sieges, explorations, and political shocks from 1621 to late 19th century. Entries mention insurrections in Mujoven, port attacks, colonial campaigns, royal successions, battles at Linden and Bentonville, fires, earthquakes, and notable figures like Lord Bacon, Admiral Hying, and William of Greece, among many others.
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