NO NEWS OF A FIGHT Admiral Cervera Cruising
The navy department quietly waits for definite results in the West Indian naval program. Inquiries seek squadron locations and the timing of a possible battle. Officials differ on whether a clash will occur soon, but expect it may come within hours or days. Spanish coal shortages may hasten an engagement.
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Navy Department
Cervera
Cape Dé Verde
Martinique
Curacro
Santiago
Death Mystery in Topeka Man’s End Baffles Insurers
A Topeka man J S Collins died May 13 in his home. Insurers with 13000 and 15000 coverage debate whether death was self inflicted or murder. Observers cite financial pressure and alleged family knowledge as clues. John Collins reportedly visits home from university to guard against suicide.
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Topeka
Collins
Kan
Isé Insurancet Companies
J. S. Collins
Bing
Everone
John
Cervera's Alleged Plans Divide Naval Attention
A Madrid dispatch indicates Admiral Cervera's fleet now cruised to keep U.S. fleets guessing and prevent Cuban coast damage. At a Sunday cabinet meeting Gen. Correa and Senor Amon outlined war preparations and means, with the second squadron still at Cadiz practicing until ordered to depart.
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U.S
Madrid
Cervera
Cuban
Correa
Senor Amon
Cadiz
Levee Break Submerges 16000 Acres in Illinois Farmland
A Quincy dispatch reports the Crew levee failure in the Indian district floods nearly 16,000 acres of farm land with water up to three feet deep. About 5,000 to 6,000 acres of wheat may be a total loss as streams overflow the Missouri side and bottom crossings remain unavailable. Damage includes washouts and bridge failures.
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Illinois
Quincy
Indian District
Missouri
Edward Bellamy Dies in Massachusetts at 39
Edward Bellamy author of Looking Backward and humanitarian died early Sunday at his Chicopee Falls home in the 39th year of his age. Once ill after finishing Equality he moved to Denver for health reasons, but declined. Bellamy wrote Look Backward in 1838 selling hundreds of thousands of copies in the U.S. and abroad. He founded The New Nation in December 1891 to push reform. He leaves a widow, two children, and two brothers. Funeral at Chicopee Falls home will be simple per his wishes.
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Massachusetts
Edward Bellamy
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Myr
Bellamy
Colorado
Denver
Colo
America
Enngland
New Nation
Tie
Charles J. Bellamy
Springfield
Frederick Bellamy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Seven Die As Tornado Ravages Northwest Arkansas
A severe tornado hit northwest Arkansas Friday night causing extensive property damage and at least seven deaths. The storm tore through the White River valley near Elm Springs Lowell and Milltown wrecking homes orchards and livestock. Killingsworth and his wife near Elm Springs perished as a farmhouse was destroyed. The Kimbrough home near Springdale collapsed with W S Kimbrough killed. Dozens of houses blown down and injuries reported. damage also seen at Rogers and Siloam Springs.
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Arkansas
Northwest
Great Fruit Belt
Quark Fruit Region
Benton County
White River Valley
Elm Springs
Lowell
Milltown
Killingsworth
Itation
Fort Smith
W.S. Kimbrough
Springdale
Kimbrough
Rogers and Siloam Springs
Volunteers in a wreck near Chattanooga injures soldiers
A passenger train on the Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad collided with the third section of a military train carrying the First Missouri volunteers near Rossville, Georgia, killing one private and injuring several others. Engineer Wheeler and Fireman Hanby were arrested and turned over to civil authorities as a judicial investigation is ordered.
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad
Missouri Volunteers
Rossville
Wheeler
Hanby
Cavendas
Powder Plant Explosion Near Wammond Ind Wrecks Mill
A blast at the Economical Smokeless Powder Company plant near Wammond Ind destroyed the mixing room and damaged the building. About three thousand pounds of powder exploded, killing one worker and injuring three others. The plant, new and preparing to fill an $85,000,000 government cartridge order, had run only three days and investigators have not determined the cause.
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Economical Smokeless Company
Economical Smokeless Powder Company
Wammond
Ind
Siege Train for Invaders to Cuba and Interior Towns
The quartermaster's department arranges a aleca train to Cuba to support the invading army. It will carry 60,000 pounds of artillery and be used to supply bombardment of interior towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quartermaster’s Department
Aleca
Cuba
To Defend Manila to the Last
Madrid correspondent reports Governor General Augusti vows to distribute all rifles and cartridges and defend Manila to the last. He reaffirmed commitment amid intensifying conflict and supply concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Madrid
London Mail
Augusti
Decapitation murders shock upstate widow in Poughkeepsie
Insane widow Lena Sporri of Poughkeepsie New York murdered her two children a 2 year old son and a 5 month old daughter by decapitation. Arrangements for the transfer of Wei Hai Wei completed with Japanese withdrawal and British takeover. Chief Justice A H Carpenter of New Hampshire dies in Concord after paralytic stroke.
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Lena Sporri
Poughbkeepsie, N. Y
Wei Hai Wei
New Hampshire
A. H. Carpenter
Cons ‘Cord
Sensation in Hamilton County over county attorney case
A court in Hamilton County at Wabstar City saw the filing of a petition by George Barber through attorney alleging that County Attorney George GC Olmstead received money after Barber’s divorce and that the funds were to be held in trust and repaid later. The suit accuses Olmstead of misappropriating money and pursuing false pretenses, drawing wide town attention. Separately a case in New Slings reports a millinery worker fell ill after eating chocolate believed contaminated with arsenic, with poison later found in some candy in Oskaloosa.
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Hamilton County
Hamilton
Wabstar City
George Barber
George GC
Olmstead
Sunlouss Ait. Ltda
Barber
Patito
Cawthor
Intent
Webster City
New Slings
Oskaloosa
Law Student Praises Herring for Best Law Thesis
McClain of the State University of Iowa law department announces J C Herring of the senior law class as winner of the prize for best thesis. The prize includes choice of The American and English Encyclopedia of Law or The American and English Encyclopedia of Practice. Herring earns the set valued at $180 while working his way through college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fellor McClain
State University of Iowa Law Department
J.C. Herring
Wither
Herring
Child Found After Four Hour Search Near Tripoli
A party of movers camping near the Wapsipinicon River two miles north of Tripoli reported a lost child. Townspeople formed a search and after four hours in timber and river sloughs, the boy was found asleep on the river bank five miles away.
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Nita
Bank Safe Blown Open in Badger Robbery
Bandits blew open the Bank of Badger vault last Friday. They seized 659 dollars, then escaped by handcar toward Fort Dodge where the trail was lost. The bank carried insurance against loss.
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Bank of
Badger
Fort Dodge
De Welsh Faces Preliminary Hearing Over License Violation
De Welsh will have a Webster City preliminary hearing for selling drugs without a pharmacy license. He previously worked for a Minneapolis firm that argued the pharmacy law unconstitutional, and the firm says it will pursue the matter to the highest court to test the law's validity.
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de Welsh
Webster City
Minneapolis
Falls Heir to Money for Marshalltown Woman
Mrs Carr wife of a Marshalltown business man has been notified that she inherits $25 000 from two Moon relatives in Brown County NL The estate valued at $100 000 will go to Mrs Carr and her three brothers as the only heirs Photographers Choose Officers in Des Moines Ste Photographers Association elected officers with HE S Wrey Odebolt J C Wilson Cherokee S E Waters Chdora M O Reed Missouri Valley I W Medlar Spencer
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Money
Carr
Marshalltown
Moon
Brown County
Ste Photographers’ Association
Des Moines
Wrey
Odebolt
J. C. Wilson
Cherokee
E. Waters
Chdora
M. O. Reed
Missouri Valley
W. Medlar
Spencer
Hubbard in the Navy joins ship for Key West transfer
F M Hubbard Jr of Cedar Rapids has been assigned to the Justin, a recently purchased government ship. He expects to depart immediately for Key West where the vessel will join Admiral Sampson's fleet.
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Ubbard
F. M. Hubbard, Jr
Cedar Rapids
Justin
United States
Key West
Fire in Coon Rapids butcher shop arouses citizens
Citizens of Coon Rapids were aroused by a fire at Bruteho owned Childing property occupied by Lawrence and Co a butcher shop. Tabs valued at 1000 dollars with small insurance. Origin unknown.
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Coon Rapids
Childing
Bruteho
Lawrence & Co
Accident Hurls Man Between Two Buildings at Waacoma
William Vin Wormer suffered serious injuries at Waacoma while moving a building when jack screws failed and the structure closed in on him. Authorities report he will recover.
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Waacoma
Vin Wormer
Mr.v
Des Moines carriage Works head commits suicide in financial trouble
GO L. taker, president of the Baler Carriage Works at Des Moines, shot himself twice in the mouth and died almost instantly amid financial troubles. In a separate tragedy, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Abel Hawley, a farmer northeast of Oskaloosa, fell into a tub of water and drowned.
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GO. L. Taker
Baler Carriage Works
Des Moines
Abel Hawley
Oskaloosa
Crop Conditions Improve Seed Distribution Progress
Weather and crop bureau bulletin May 18 reports unseasonably cool, light frosts with no major damage. Rainfall ample statewide except southeast where dry spells persist. Conditions favorable for field work and growth of wheat, oats, barley and grass. corn planting advanced, nearing completion in central and northern districts. Soil is in first class condition for seed reception and timely rainfall aided growth. Coming week likely to complete distribution.
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Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Towns React Amid War Tension and Crime
A montage of events across Iowa from June 22 planning for a Republican district convention at LeMars to reports of burglaries in Council Bluffs and Jewell Junction. News covers suicides in Des Moines, a train derailment near Wayland, and saloon shutdowns in Marshalltown amid anti sin reforms. Additional notes include obituaries, a post office burglary, and enlistment-related support groups forming in Davenport.
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Iowa City
Burghu
Good
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Eleventh
LeMars
ER. M. Raab
Burlington
Joseph Brown
Cherokee State Bank
State Medical Society
MacVicar
George F. Jenkins
Keokuk
HW. P. Johnson
Council Bluffs
Keokuk & Western
Wayland
Iowa
U. W
Seceders
Waterloo
Iowa National Guard
Frank Keeley
Marengo
Rock Island
Jewell Junction
Iowa Supreme Court
Anti-Saloon League
Nelson Clausen
Neola
Young People’s Christian Union
United Brethren Church of Tawa
Lisbon
J. J. Williams
Gladbrook
Rock Rapids
Davenport
St. Paul, Minn
Connable
Judge Bank
Hartsell Judy
California
Bushnell
Cedar Rapids
Judy
James McCoy
McCoy
Mason City
Halacro Brothers
Gladstone Dies After Long Illness at Kinward Castle
England mourns as William Havart Gladstone, premier statesman of the era, dies at Kinwarden Castle at 5 o clock Wednesday morning after a protracted illness. Despite pain, he remained conscious at times, murmuring a French prayer, with warmth in memory that lingered into the final hours.
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Pim
Willian Havart Gladstone
England
Kinwarden Castle
Mr. Gladstone
Cadstone
Ife
Death in a Storm Hits Illinois and Wisconsin Towns
Tornadoes and cyclone storms devastated towns across Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa. Reported death toll includes at least twenty five with fifty plus injured as buildings depopulated and crops damaged. Structures leveled in Preston and Stillman Valley and a tabernacle roof collapsed in Joliet.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Lesa
Clinton
Charlotte
Riges
Cipton
Clarence
Stanwood
Lost Nation
Whwood
Upton
Quigley
Elk River
Wheatland
Muquoketa
Cellara
Preston
Charles Way
Tiinggold County
Des Moines
J. A. Miler
Blockton
Miller
Maley
Chicago
Batttle Dayngey
Pha Smalter
Pagalig
Great Western Depot
M. Nelson
Ad One
Johnson
Joliet
Big Tabernacle
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Tun
Alameda Branch
San Francisco
Texas
Bowen
Collua
Perpalge
Storm
Walso Pretence
Gladstone
Isis
Ana
William Ewalt Gladstone
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