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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
4
Brief miscellany from Iowa items of local interest. Short notes cover events, sightings, and curiosities in various towns, with occasional dates and names as readable. The column compiles miscellaneous updates, confirming a slice of regional life.
Des Moines Iowa County Attorneys Association will consider abolishing the grand jury system as urged by a law reform committee The plan backs district judges calling grand juries as needed and replacing routine indictments with trial by information or justice court action The committee also proposes pay reforms for county attorneys moving to per case or per day compensation and changes in grand jury drawing to require three member commissions for selection
A. H. Davidson reports totals for Iowa railroads showing eight lines own all but 702 miles of 9 801 miles of main track. Mileage remains steady with a slight decrease in main track due to reporting changes. Main track last year 9 304.92 miles, this year 9 891.33 miles. Second track last year 707.66 miles, this year 721.05 miles.
Dr Grant J Ross won a mandamus suit against St Louis city council in district court ordering the council to appoint him city health officer replacing Dr RB Hoskins. The case relied on the town ald soldiers preference law granting preference to an old soldier when applicants are equal. Ross had served as health officer two years.
Captain J. L. Merry of Manchester state monument commissioner has prepared the program preliminaries for dedicating the soldiers monuments on northern battlefields. A special train funded by winter legislative appropriation will leave Des Moines carrying the governor and staff and the monument commissioners plus invited participants for the dedicatory ceremonies.
Arthur Peterson of Atlantic region was seriously injured when a mad bull he was driving home charged, knocked him down, and struck him after he fell. The incident occurred near Elkhorn and involved the frightened animal.
Outlook in Cass County reports crops in good condition with corn at peak for the season. Cherries and raspberries are plentiful and the blackberry crop is promising, signaling favorable fruit harvest prospects.
Botna Valley Veterans association covering Cass Audubon Shelby Adair parts of Pottawattamie and Montgomery will hold its annual reunion in Atlantic from August 20 to 22. Also an unrelated classified notice offers a position paying fifty dollars a month plus extras for a trustworthy man as agent with applications to Lock Box 1525 Lincoln Nebraska.
In Webster City and nearby areas potato bugs have reached a serious stage, destroying potato patches. Merchants report possession of Paris green and possibly another insecticide. Infestations have appeared in several localities as their numbers rapidly grow.
Potatoes cause damage in parts of the state. Washington Zarr aged 81 died at Washla after living on a nearby farm for decades. Earl Polk suffered a thumb injury while tending a horse near Spencer. Governor Cumming is set to speak at the Chau tauqua in Goldfield August 9 to 18. Capple Hoffman surrendered after a fatal quarrel in Davenport. Rev W D Crewdan resigns for a pastorate in Salida Colp. Atlantic labor shortage leads W A McWard to Omaha for workers. Basil Hederer found dead in Goose Lake hotel. Gladstone fire damages Burlington area. Jefferson county normal institute honors Hattie Moore Mitchell at Drake University. Marshall County fair dates set for Sept 17–20. Britt Fourth of July features a cow, a calf and two hogs as prizes. John B Platte drowns while fishing at Cedar River near Waverly. Des Moines hosts next Iowa Christian Endeavor meeting. South Dakota Knights of Pythias elects John Harley Jenkins Black as grand chancellor in Sioux Falls. Bert Clausen arrested for liquor without license in Fort Dodge. John Ulack, LeMars native, rises in South Dakota Pythians. Otto J Sala Keokuk clothing store closed on bank attachments. Sala left for Chicago. A Stauffer infant saves sister from drowning. Monona county wins Sabbath school banner at Council Bluffs.
Map shows locations of Shoshone Wind River and Crow reservations in Wyoming and Montana. Each area holds about 6,500 homestead tracts of 160 acres. Crow lands registration ran June 14 to June 28. Shoshone registration July 16 to July 31. Shoshone drawing set for August 4 at Lander Wyoming. Crow drawing held July 2 in Billings Montana.
New York reporter detail shows Harry K Thaw entering a formal not guilty plea at the general sessions arraignment for the murder of Stanford White. The defense hints at possible insanity plea while witnesses and investigations probe motives and the Bohemian underworld of the metropolis.
Bemidji Minn. Martin Branley a lumber jack was found unconscious on a sidewalk with his face and head badly cut and battered showing shoe calk imprints. He died an hour later. Eight men are in custody. Royal Heir Expected as Emperor Leaves Travemunde for Potsdam to greet Crown Princess Frederick William.
White-Dunham Shoe company failure shocks Brockton and Boston with 3400,000 facility value and assets over 390,000. Indicted voter selling case includes Carmi, M. pleads guilty. Micka jailed three months and five year disfranchisement.
National crop estimator H V Jones reports U S winter wheat production at 420 million bushels, up 60 million from last year and a record. States like Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and California show strong gains, with railroads and overall national prosperity tied to crops despite a soft Michigan.
W A Conant of Colorado Springs received a letter from President Roosevelt via William Loeb Jr stating the president will not be a candidate next time and that Conant should support another Republican. The reply confirms Roosevelt’s decision and thanks the correspondent for his praise. A separate item reports a panic at Ringling Bros circus in Aurora as a windstorm wrecked the main tent injuring several, with one man killed and another dying in fright.
Judge Worthington of the circuit court ruled that the Peoria school board elections have been illegal for the past 25 years. The decision follows proceedings to oust eight hold-over members. An immediate new election will be called to select a new board. The ruling bars past elections by the city council and bases the decision on that action.
Governor E W Hoeh of Topeka Kansas endorses a state denatured alcohol distillery. He argues it would employ many convicts and lower light and fuel prices for consumers, mirroring expected oil refinery effects.
Severe rainstorm upends public plans for King Edward’s birthday in London with over two inches of rain in eight hours causing cancellations and disruptions across major events and gatherings.
On authority of the president of the San Jose board of underwriters, rates in San Jose will rise from 25 to 100 percent.
The report by Representative Tawney outlines the fiscal year 1906 appropriations totaling 880,183,203 with 740,100,951 regular and 140,070,220 permanent, noting an excess of 69,009,000 over last year and detailing major increases in meat inspection, army and navy funding, pensions, post office, and public building expansions.
Robert McKnight twenty one son of Harry C McKnight of the east end Nes in Pittsburg hospital in critical condition with a bullet in the head. Physicians express little hope for recovery. Father claims accident but withhold details. McKnight from a prominent Pittsburg family.
ST. PETERSBURG interior minister Stolypin announced that after examination the government is prepared to accept the laws under consideration by the lower house to establish liberty of conscience and freedom of meetings and associations.
Sheriff John R. Pickett of Lyman County returns from Stanton County Nebraska with Nick Swenson, a fugitive who escaped Lyman county jail about twenty months ago by jumping the yard fence and fleeing.
In Bloomfield today claimants distribute pamphlets announcing Dr. D A Wray will lecture on the subject Eighteen Days in Hell. The lecture will address inhuman prisoner treatment in Ottumwa jail following Wray’s recent arrest in Ottumwa.
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