Plea for Indeterminate Sentences Highlight Iowa Penitentiary Report
Des Moines dispatch notes Warder Willan A. Hier details the annual penitentiary report. He urges indeterminate sentence reform and a separate reformatory, explains budget requests totaling 7000 but notes 17000 for new buildings and 23900 for ordinary uses. 187 prisoners were received in the year, the lowest since 1892 except for three years, with prior years 279, 184 and 340 in earlier years.
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Des Moines
Willan A. Hier
Assanush
State Board of Central
Saunders
Lnwest
State tax levy to be fixed at three mills this year
The state tax levy likely to stay at 3 mills, a two mill cut from the fixed levy set by the executive council in 1905. Auditor Carrollling reports assessors’ figures show a $5,208,225 rise in real estate and personal property taxable value, with real estate not reappraised but altered by new buildings. Livestock values up by $8,860,804. money and credits up about $4,500,000. personal property assessment around $152,18?. railroad property much smaller in comparison.
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Executive Council
Carrollling
Yale
Line State
Former Inmate Charged With Burglaries in Davenport
CLINTON Harvey Lee, an imall former inmate aged S1, faces burglary charges for breaking into several homes in Davenport. He spent much of his youth at Eldoran 3801 state industrial school, where he reportedly led a disruptive camp routine. Authorities at Bidova said they made no progress on his reform and refused to take him back after locating him following a school departure, citing harmful influence on fellow students.
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Clinton
Harvey Lee
Imall
Davenport
Lee
Eldoran
Bidova
Professor Studies Monks on Monastery Visit
Professor J. A. Lass of Towa University visits the New Mellerny monastery in Dubuque to study the monks. He notes widespread attention and scattered, often unreliable information gathered by scholars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa City
J. A. Lass
Towa University
Dubuque
Mellerny
Big Damage Suit Decided in Dubuque County
Manchester reports that the Delaware district court overruled the motion for a new trial in Valentine fehmitt versus Dubuque county. If not appealed to the supreme court, Dubuque County must pay $8,000 damages awarded to Sehmitt for injuries suffered by his wife Sodorn in a runaway accident blamed on a defective Dubuque bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Valentine Fehmitt
Dubuque County
Lere
Delaware District Court
Stupreme
Sehmitt
Sodom
Dubugie
Anderson Shot at His Cabin After Moody Murder at Shoshoni
Lawan Shot t Shoshani recounts John Caldwell of Oakland learning his son-in-law Guy G. Anderson, manager of Green Bay Lumber at Oakland, was shot at his cabin door after War ner Moody was killed at Shoshoni Wyoming. Anderson had visited Fort Collins Colorado relatives and went to Shoshoni to register for land drawings. Caldwell was advised Anderson was not expected to live.
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Lawan
Shoshani
Council Bluffs
Guy G. Anderson
Warner Moody
Wyo
Green Bay
Prefers Pass to Office in Emmet County Coroner Situa
Dr CG B Birney of Estherville resigns as Emmet County coroner after two terms to focus on pastoral duties and his role as physician for a road entering Estherville. The move leaves the county short a coroner under the new anticpasan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Fpalls
Emmet
CG. B. Birney
Esherville
Esthervinte
Iowa Briefs Retold From Farm to Fire and Fateful Events
A crop bulletin shows hay quality above recent years as harvest nears. Land sales reach a record high per acre near Sun Grave. Potato shipments drop in transit from Minneapolis to Des Moines. Court actions include $99 damages against a railway. Old people’s day honors long-serving church members. A Wyomrotu man dies on the Great Western Viaduct near Winterset. A severe storm, hail, and washouts disrupt Monona and Castana areas. A smooth diploma faker targets horseshoers while a pastor seeks higher pay in Lincoln. State assessors eye telephone and telegraph lines. Greenfield fire causes $10,000 loss. Powell, ex-county attorney of Indianola, dies under suspicious circumstances in Parsons. An Iowa City Bohemian is dragged by a fishing line nearly drowning. Chicago Great Western abandons Sioux City extension plans. Pilgrim hotel changes hands in Marshalltown. Mason City worker suffers a knee wound from flying glass at the brick and tile plant.
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Conways
Gnawa
John Keick
Sun Grave
Ida County
Conway
Minnetolis
Des Moines
T. W. Brown
Chicago Creal Western Railway Company
M. i. Chures
Fort Dodge
A. Programnis
Robert Farnsworth
Great Western
Winteerlog
Qnawa
Court House
Ticenie
Monona County
Witnois Central
Castana
Maple Valley
Horseshoers
National Asociation
Horseshoing Advance Anatomy Scientific School
Aethodist
Lincoln
Neh
Marshalltown
Lincoln Chilren
Iowa ‘Telephone Company
American Telegraph & Telephone Company
Bell Company
Philip Kulivs Reed
Greenfield
A.B. Heaton
Iowa City
Iowa
Betugz
A.n. Stickney
Chicago Great Western
Sioux City
Stickney
Town
Middle West
Oranhe
Pilgrim Hotel
Birdsell Hotel Company
C. AM. Coleman
Guy 's'Tenticock
Mason City
Accounts of Railways Demand Uniform Accounting Standards
Washington officials announce a circular directing common carriers to observe the new railroad rate law. The Interstate Commerce Commission will, after August 25, inspect books and enforce uniform accounting forms once prescribed. Many railroad officials, including TL. Wood and HL. Lomax of the Union Pacific, travel to Washington to confer on rate bill administration.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oue
Commission
Gorse
TL. Wood
HL. Lomax
Union Pacific
Gamaha
Mrs Corey Granted Divorce In Nevada Court
Mrs William Ellis Corey wife of the president of United States Steel corporation was granted a divorce in Reno Nevada Second district court on grounds of desertion. The case was submitted without argument and the jury reached a verdict on one ballot after a brief absence.
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Reno, New
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Second District Court of
Nevada
Reno
Bluff man Westlake reported missing after wreck
Spokane dispatch reports Harry Westlake of Council Bluffs was a victim in the Great Northern wreck at Cimlen and was to have arrived in Seattle on the wrecked train. His wife notified Seattle friends seeking word, but no trace of him was found in the latest report.
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Spokane
Seathle
Great Northern
Cimlen
Harry
Westlake
Council Bluffs
Seathe
Seattle
Warl
Flies blamed for cholera outbreak in Philippine Islands
Washington reports cholera in parts of the Philippine Islands is traced to an unusually large fly population. Dr Heizer head of the bureau of health in the islands says screening of food storage areas is ordered and a general campaign against flies has begun.
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Washington
Phillippings
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Heizer
Bureau of Health
Islands
Illinois Shipper Files I C C Complaint
Washington report states 7. R. Lucas of Teast St. Louis UL filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company violates the Interstate Commerce Law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commercce Commission
7. R. Lucas
Teast St. Louis
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Rilroad Company
Death at 112 Years old oldest Indiana woman dies
Mrs. Ferdinand Rens, claimed oldest woman in Indiana and perhaps the United States, died in LaPorte aged 1172 years. Records say she was born in Volgravitz Poland in 1794 according to her documents.
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Laporte
Ferdinand Rens
Indiana
United States
Volgravitz
Poland
Allen Studies Signals Before European Mission
Brigadier General James Allen chief of the signal corps sails for Europe on August 1 to study foreign signal services ahead of the international wireless telegraph conference in Berlin starting October 2. Charlemagne Tower the American ambassador to Germany will represent the state department at the conference, with Rear Admiral H N Manney retired representing the navy.
Bryan Visits King Edward in Buckingham Palace Audience
William J. Bryan met King Edward at Buckingham Palace by royal invitation. The informal audience included Ambassador Reid and Mr Bryan, with discussions on peace and the interparliamentary union. Bryan and three colleagues attended a formal interparliamentary union sitting and a Crystal Palace dinner with American representatives.
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William J. Bryan
London
Ambassador Reid
Wis
Edward
Buckingham
Heid Liat
Bryan
Reid
Bream
Hmself
Interparliamentary Union
Richard Barnaldt
Misouri
T. E. Burton
Ghia
Rockwood Hoar
Massachusetts
Mr. Bryan
House of Commons
Union
Lord Wear
Crystal Palace
W. J. Bryan
Burton
Ohio
Allison in Serious Illness Raises U.S. Senate Concerns
In Dubuque, Senator Allison remains gravely ill with Bright's disease. Reports say his condition is more critical than publicly disclosed, with relatives attempting to shield the public while colleagues fear he may not return to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque, In
Allison
Bright
Washington
Rockefeller Will Appear In Local Court Proceedings
In Findlay Ohio attorney James Troup for John D Rockefeller waived service of the warrant and filed an appearance. He posted bond of 1000 dollars for Rockefeller's attendance, signed by James O Sroup and George P Jones of Findlay.
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Pindlay
James ‘Troup
Bowling Green
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Thresslay
James 0. Sroup
George P. Jones
Findlay
Opinion Finds No Authority For Fines In Army Battery
Washington acting Secretary of War Oliver approves an opinion by the acting judge advocate that no legal basis exists for a practice at Fort Myer Virginia where enlisted men who committed offenses could choose to contribute money to the battery fund or be tried by court martial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oliver
Fort Myer
Batters Fund
Judgment Against Dowie by California Supreme Court
San Francisco reports the California supreme court affirmed a lower court judgment ordering John Alexander Dowie to pay attorney Hugh Craig $1,764.90 with interest from 1882. Craig funded Dowie’s 1888 revival at Grand Opera House and Dowie agreed to reimburse from collection proceeds.
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Dowie
San Francisco
California Supreme Court
John Alexander Dowie
Superior Court
Hugh Craig
Craig
Grand Opera House
Express Clerk In Good Luck
NEW YORK It was learned that J B Bache & Co bankers bought the 5 500 000 Panama canal bonds elected by the Treasury for Samuel Byerly a city express clerk Bache & Co draped the bonds to Fisk Robinson who are bidders for their portion of the issue SALT LAKE CITY Joseph McManana an aeronaut from a Des Moines Iowa area town will likely die from a fall at the Fall palace Sunday He ascended on a cannon tied to a balloon When the cannon with a parachute was cut loose McManana tried to draw from the mizzie of the cannon with another parachute
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. B. Bache & Co
Treasury Department
Samuel Byerly
Bache & Co
Fisk & Robinson
Salt Lake City
Joseph McManna
Des Moines
McManna
Nebraskan Painter Falls to Death in California
C. W. Warner of Friend, Nebraska, was painting the roof of a Santa Ana house when he fell from a painter's scaffold and was instantly killed. The accident occurred in Santa Ana, California, while Warner was working on the roof.
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San Diego
Cal
C. W. Warner
Friend
Neb
Santa Ana
Warner
Revolt in Poltava Guards Shocks Tsarist Russia
Reports from Poltava detail a grave mutiny in the Levski regiment after the arrest of a private. Soldiers seized guns, attacked the prison and clashed with loyal troops, with several killed or wounded as the uprising continued into the early hours. Authorities suppress details as St Petersburg awaits official word. In Shusha Caucasus fighting between Armenians and Tatars escalated after a race line division, with bombardment and heavy damage reported.
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ST. Petersburg
Poltava
Russia
Shusha
Caucasus
Partars
Insurance Lapses In Frisco Report On California Firms
A report prepared in the office of the Insurance Commissioner Walt will show all insurers active in California at the time of a fire. It is believed the document will support the commissioner’s stance that the insured sums exceed 250 million dollars.
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Frisco
San Francisco
Cal
California
Walt
Mutiny Sentences Ring Sea Fleet Trial at Sevastopol
A naval court martial at Sevastopol sentenced Black Sea fleet sailors for the November 1965 mutiny. Four men received the death penalty, one life service, thirty-two penal servitude terms, and fifty imprisonment. Six were acquitted. Samenkof escaped jail after being charged in the May 27 failed assassination attempt on General Neptue off Sevastopol.
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Sebastopol
Black Sea
Samenkof
Neptueoff
Express wreck on the Hudson line injures many
Pacific Express No 27 on the New York Central & Hudson River RR derailed near Chelsea after a landslide from heavy afternoon rain. Engine thrown, fireman Stills escaped, engineer Ward Wells gravely hurt likely to die. Eleven miles south of Ponghieessie, fifteen passengers seriously injured and many others with minor injuries.
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New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
Grand Central Station
New York
Chelsea
Ponghieessie
Tadward Wells
Big Plans for Irrigation in Shoshone Reservation
C E Freeman of Arnold & Co Chicago recommends Ar nold & Co invest about 25 000 600 to build irrigation works power plant mills and related facilities across seventy miles in the Shoshone reservation. Freeman extols land prospects and community bids to construct irrigation that would water about 250 000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. EL Freeman
Arnold & Co
Chicago
Milla
Big Shoshone Reservation
Mgr. Freeman
Russian Revolt Delayed By Wariness and Famine Pressure
Report from St Petersburg notes workers hold back on a general strike until harvest wraps and peasantry mobilizes. Revolutionary council debates timing while moderates resist cabinet shifts and leadership shifts touch the interior ministry and estate owners league.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Revolutionary Council
Couneil
Constitutional Democratic Deputies
Mouromisei
Siolpgin
Peterhof
Presidin
Viborg
M. Gurko
M. Stolyvin
Ministry of the Interior
M. Eichinsky
Ane
Pluhyeum
Sviatopoll-Mirsky
Promice Stolypin
Payloff
League of Estate Owners
Phelan Plans Immediate Housing for Fire Victims
San Francisco welfare drive led by James D. Phelan, chairman of the Red Cross relief fund committee, seeks to inspect lots and begin building homes at once for burned out families. Units costing about $1,000 would be sold on easy terms to tent dwellers in public parks, with moderate interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
James D. Phe-lan
Red Cross and Relief Fund
Fuittice Committee
Phelan
Plan Opening of Campaign in Chicago Headquar ters
The western division of the democratic congressional campaign committee will open headquarters at the Pulver house in Chicago August 1. Arrangements were made by Congressman Henry T. Rainey and James Tripyd who were appointed by Chairman James M. Griggs to direct the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghicago
Flemocralic Congressional Campaign Committee
Pulver House
Chicago
Henry T. Rainey
Carrollton, IL
James Tripyd
Missouri
James M. Griggs
Congressional Committee
President Roosevelt Attends Special Service at Presbyterian Church
President Roosevelt and his family attended Sunday night services at the Presbyterian church in honor of the occasion. Rev Charles T Thompson secretary of the Board of Home Missions delivered the sermon. The president typically attends Christ Episcopal church but a special service was held in his honor at the Presbyterian church.
Saloon Closing Law Enforced in St. Louis Area
In St. Louis and East St. Louis, enforcement of the Sunday saloon closing law was strict, yielding no arrests. Gimmey gardens in the county near the city limits showed full compliance as officers reported a quiet enforcement day.
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ST. Louis
Gimmey Gardens
St. Louis County
East St. Louis
Union Pacific Rehearing Granted by ICC on Elevator Case
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted a rehearing on a petition by Chicago Great Western, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroads regarding Union Pacific elevator allowances. Petitioners claim Union Pacific contracted with Peavey & Co to build grain elevators at Council Bluffs and Kansas City to transfer grain between incoming and outgoing cars, paying 1 1/2 cents per hundredweight. They argue the Peavey elevators were not built for such purposes and have been used for the grain trade largely for Union Pacific’s own use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Chicago Great Western Railway Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
Atibhison
Wopeka & Santa Fe
Union Pacific Railway Company
Laisen Pacific
Penver & Co
Council Bliff
Kansas City
Union Pacific
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Owa
Ioowa Briefs
THE
Interstate Commerge Commission
Bluffs
Harry Westlake
Llinois
King Edward
Rockefeller
Express
Engne
Pacific Express
Union Pacific Railroad
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