Iowa Rifle Ranges and Equipment for National Guard
Iowa will receive $2,000,000 for militia up from $1,090,900 enabling every company and regiment to have rifle ranges and improved drill. Adjutant General Thrift says the measure allows regimental ranges, broader camps, and more ammunition for practice. The Iowa National Guard expects about $25,000 extra annually for maintenance and anticipates a rapid impact within a year.
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Thrift
Washington
Senate
Iowa National Guard
Iowa
G A R Appointments in Des Moines Area
Des Moines area Grand Army of the Republic officers announced reappointment of George A. Newgan of Cedar Falls as assistant adjutant general and quartermaster. Other appointments include Charles W. Kepler Mount Vernon mustering officer L L Caldwell Decorah department inquestor D R Witter Council Bluffs senior aid and staff officer J H Byers Des Moines patriotic instructor Robert Kissick Oskaloosa.
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Ulef
J. H. Byers
Des Moines
Robert Kissick
Oskaloosa
Death by own action in California jail case
Carl Hillers, a former resident, died by his own hand while jailed in Los Angeles on a Sioux City warrant. He was arrested at the request of Sioux City authorities and awaited officers’ arrival. His parents, described as hard working farmers nearby, declined to decide the body’s disposition.
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Jowan
California
Neogla
Carl Hillers
Los Angeles
Cal
Hillers
Sioux City
Boerda
Des Moines Woman Addresses State Treasurer on Warrants
A southeastern machine company in Des Moines asked the Iowa state treasurer when a $5375 warrant would be paid. The state replied that on June 16 the treasury held $1,125,979.02, and small warrants could be paid upon presentation.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Traveling salesman arrested in Cuba for embezzlement
Sigleton Chaudiron, 28, a traveling salesman wanted for embezzling 5000 dollars from Spaulding Manufacturing of Grinnell Li, was arrested in Pinar Del Rio Cuba after being followed across the United States and Canada, according to cable advices received in St. Louis.
Local Mason Cleveland Receives New Honor in Boston
F Cleveland of Harlan has been elected grand marshal of the grand council of Royal and Select Masters at a Boston session, following his recent rank as grand master of the Town Masons at the grand judges session here.
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Bes Mgines
Woi. F. Cleveland
Harlan
Degtad Rand
Boston
Smarshal
Itnyal
Half Century in Council Bluffs Enters Local History
Council Bluffs resident Grote Sr marks fifty years since leaving Germany in March and arriving here three months later. He is credited with laying the first brick used in Council Bluffs, highlighting his notable contribution to the city’s development.
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Council Bluffs
Grote, Sr
Germany
Council Butts
Hog disease harms farmers hog herds in county
In northern and South Hardin counties farmers report severe hog losses from a disease similar to hog cholera. Fred Clarke reports losing 176 pigs as the outbreak spreads through the region.
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Marshalltown
Hardin County
Fred Clarke
Birds Destroy Cherries in Humboldt Region
Farmers in Humboldt report a rapid cherry crop destruction by a large flock of birds. Local authorities have forbidden shooting the birds under Iowa law, leaving growers in near despair about saving the harvest.
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Humboldt
Iowa
Towns Push for County Boundary Change to Malt Vern
Mills County supervisors debated a petition to remove the western county line to Mal vern. A multi day hearing precedes a court decision. General Thrift announced the Fifty-sixth regiment will join regulars at Fort Riley for maneuvers from September 1 to 9.
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Glenwood
Mills County
Malvern
Fort Riley
Thrift
Eas
Iowa Briefs Crop prospects and local notices in Iowa
Monona county grain prospects are weak for several years. Alderman Younkerman and wife of Council Bluffs are in Germany on a prolonged visit. A Kime of Mason City bought the Antlers hotel at Clear Lake for 47000. The Fifty first Iowa National Guard in Carroll Pines received new blue uniforms. J Horwitz of Sumner died suddenly of heart failure. Rev. Charles Morrison and Miss Helen Randolph wed last week. EB & Squirts of Atlanta offer to build a state hospital near Lubereninsis. Miss Frantes Thornton seeks 3000 from Yankee Robinson Co for injuries at Sidney. J Homer of State Center injured in Woolstock railroad crash, loses leg. Sherry Bey of Creston wins Paris salon prize. Wright County veterans reunion canceled for lack of a host town. Arthur P. Wroody of Keokuk suffers mental distress after a real estate collapse. Uncle Sammy Dinsmore, oldest Mason in Iowa, dies at Fremont. Edward Brown of Waterloo saved from drowning by striking a tree. G C Kinser helps search for a missing boy near Wheeterwood. Judge John Murray Dowie travels to Chicago to prove identity with Dowie. Dr John A Hart resigns Waterloo pastorate to join Chicago church. Construction begins on State University power house. Rev RR Ramsay resigns from Miamnackl church and will study at Harvard. $25,000 in Mechanics Savings Bank to aid California sufferers. Five-year-old Freedike Beardsley drowns at Sioux City. clothing found in river. Fairfield English Lutheran plans July church improvements in preparation for a Town synod delegation.
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Monona County
Younkerman
Sounel Bluffs
Germany
A. Kime
Mason City
Antlers
Salic Lake
Fifty-first
Iowa National Guard
Carwell
J. Horwitz
Sumner
Charles Morrison
Bewton Episcopal Church
Theodore N. Morrison
Davenport
Helen Randolph
EB. &. Squirts
Atlantia
Cffy
Lubereninsis
Frantes Thornton
Yankee Robinson Company
Sidney
J. &. Homer
State Center
Woolstock
Iowa
Sherry Bey
Creston
Randmark
Odese
Strich
Sammy" Dinsmore
Fremont
Edward Brown
Waterloo
Minneapolis
G. C. Kinser
Wheeterwood
John Murray Dowie
Essex
Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Dowie
John A. Hart
First Baptist Church of
Watertoa
Earl
Belden Avenue
Ramsay
Miurnbakl
East
Harvard
Mechanics’ Savings Bank of
Des Moines
California
Debate Over Meat Inspection Amendment Reaches Conference
In a charged House session Williams and De Armond sparred over muckraking and expense of sanitary laws. Wadsworth defended the meat inspection amendment, noting changes were largely verbiage and calling for conference with the Senate after disallowing most amendments. A strong floor exchange ended with the amendment adopted and Wadsworth, Williams, and Lamb named as conference members.
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Williams
de Armond
Wadsworth
Washington
House
State of Union
Senate
Committee On Agriculture
Mississippi
Everyady
New York
DeArmond
Adams
Wisconsin
K. Willams
Messrs. Wadsworth
Scott and
Lamb
Iowa Congressman Seeks Fight Over Naval Appropriation
Washington report notes Congressman Jan gen of Iowa pushing to block a senate amendment in the naval appropriation debate. He promotes a professor tied to the Naval Academy, while Foss assures the House will press the issue and oppose the matter.
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Iowa
Washington
Jangen
Senate
Tilton Upeegraft
Decorah
Naval Academy
Foss
House
The Lady in the Moon Mentioned as Woman
A German astronomer asserts that the man in the moon is a woman with hair eyes mouth nose chin and bust distinctly observed. He adds that two women appear rather than one due to the prominence of features.
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London Telegraph
Harvest by Electric Light in Australian Harvesting
Australian agricultural news reports on the introduction of harvesting by electric light to improve productivity. The move aims to extend working hours and increase yields, reflecting modernization of farming practices in rural areas.
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Australia
Senate Backs Lock Canal Plan Across Isthmus
The Senate aligned with the president and House to back a lock canal across the Isthmus of Panama. A single negative recorded vote to table a substitute for the sea level bill ended in 31 to 96. Debate highlighted differing engineer reports and party lines as senators weighed cost, practicality, and the path to a sea level alternative.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
Thuwsday
House of Representatives
Panama
Kittredge
House
Thes
Cullen
Scott
Foraker
Mgr. Foraker
Stevens
Wittredge
SenatorMorgan canvasses sea level canal vision in senate
Ninety two year old Senator Morgan addressed the senate on Tuesday in support of the four sequence sea level canal across the Isthmus of Panama. He criticized the president's project and described the concept as executive foreordination, urging that the nation has the wealth to build the best possible canal.
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Washington
Morgan
Senate
Panama
Morgin
Bryan Defends Trust Stance At Coronation Speech
W J Bryan arrived Thursday to attend a coronation and stated his position on public questions. He said monopoly is indefensible, calling it the core Democratic plank since 1900 and 1904, and argued against trust control, likening it to control of burglary and asserting trusts must be stopped entirely.
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Tronormysem
Norway
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Burlington Railways Completes Positive Block System
Officials announce completion of the positive block system across all main lines, totaling about four thousand miles. The final sections installed are Kansas City to Council Bluffs and lines west of the Missouri River, reducing chances of collisions. New York Jews Mass Meeting Roosevelt Telegram Responds to Russia massacre with sympathy and plans to discuss with Secretary Root.
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Burlington Railroad
Chcago
Burlington Railway
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
Missouri River
New York
Roosevelt
Russia
Root
Morrison Is Retained as Special Counsel for Government
CHICAGO District Attorney C B Morrison announced Monday he has been appointed special counsel for the government to investigate the management of Standard Oil and several railroads and has accepted the post.
Fence Cases in Montana Arrests Stir Western District
BUTTER Mont A state senator and several wealthy stockmen of this Blab were arrested by federal officers on a charge of fencing public lands. Authorities allege illegal enclosure of government land drawing attention to Montana land use debates and political tensions.
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Montana
Butter, Mont
Congress Ends Year With Broad Federal Reforms Ahead
The fifty ninth congress ends its first session with advances in rail rate and meat inspection laws likely to pass, and pure food bills awaiting adjournment. Despite party lines, aims center on federal control. Congress added states, disposed of four territories, and debated tariff revisions for the Philippines, with a record number of bills introduced and large subcommittee investigations.
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Washington
Congress
Nethans
Union
Phe
Santo Domingo
Philippines
House
Phillipine
Treacher
One Case of Yellow Fever at Quarantine Station
A Cuban sailor on the steamer Holstein from Havana tested positive for yellow fever at the Mississippi river quarantine station 97 miles below New Orleans. This marks the first yellow fever case in Lommalana this year, reported by the State Board of Health. The Holstein remains detained at quarantine after disinfection and was ordered to anchor for six days before onward travel.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
New Grieeos
Lommalana
State Board of Health
Havana
Man in Big Luck Street Bridge Collapse Near Spokane
A bridge on How ard Street over the Spokane river collapsed just after a street car crossed. John P. Beem of Honey Creek Wisconsin was swept down but his clothing caught and he was left suspended briefly on the brink of the falls. He was removed unhurt and no other injuries were reported.
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Spokane River
Main Falls
John P. Beem
Honey Creek
Wis
Windup in Congress Inches Toward Friday Adjournment
Senate acting chairman Flale says the conference reports will favor the pension of most items and, with supply bills passed, no measure can keep Congress together except possibly the railroad rate bill. He expects work to conclude by Friday and not extend beyond Saturday.
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Flale
Allison
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Maine
Witte Telegraphs Czar on Baltic Massacre Impact
London The Times correspondent reports Gaunt Witte sent a telegraph to Emperor Nicholas blaming the ministry for the Baltic massacre at Bialystok. He says the atrocity has completely neutralized his attempts to sway foreign opinion.
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London
Times
St. Petersburg
Gaunt Witte
Nicholas
End of the Riots in Bialystok Sparks Polish Horror
A mass massacre of Jews in Bialystok is described with troops finally restoring order after two days of bloodshed. The correspondent cites brutal mobs, police complicity, and mass killings estimated at about 100 Jews and 20 Christians, with 160 Jews and seven Christians wounded. The article notes censorship hampering telegraphic reports and fears of wider anti Jewish activity in Poland.
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Ghgdno
Russia
Bialyslak
Associated Press
Tle
Dialyst
Dialystos
Bialystok
Pale
Poland
St. Petersburg
Ulalystok
Genghis Khan
Chtna
Central Asia
Enser
Bryan seen certain for nomination as Democrats meet
University of Nebraska Chancellor Benjamin Andrews states Bryan is virtually assured of the Democratic nomination, noting only a fatal unforeseen event could prevent it, aligning with eastern papers predicting a Bryan nomination unless he is killed before the convention.
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Denver
Galo
Benjamin Andrews
University of Nebraska
Bryan
No Government Monopoly in Paris Chamber Debate
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies clashed over state directed capital appropriation. Clemenceau spoke for the government opposing Deputy Jaw res socialist proposals for transforming industries into a government monopoly. He argued the socialist utopia cannot be realized and urged nonviolent avenues to reform.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
Jawres
Pulajanes Sack a Town on Leyte Island
A band of Pulajanes led by Ceasx Pastor attacked Burawen in Leyte on June 11. Five policemen were killed, five wounded, the rest captured except the lieutenant. Pastor was killed. A hand to hand fight followed as police, caught off guard, resisted with heavy losses to the attackers who took their dead and wounded.
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Burawen
Leyte
Manila
Ceasx Pastor
Pastor
Chicago Professors Resign From University of Chicago
Five faculty members quit the University of Chicago on Tuesday and their resignations were accepted. Among those leaving is Thorstein B. Veblen, assistant professor of political economy and author of works on the subject.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Thorstein B. Veblen
Saloon Licenses Raised in San Francisco Ordinance
SAN FRANCISCO The board of supervisors passed an ordinance fixing saloon licenses at 650 dollars per year. Saloons may resume business July 5 and for the first thirty days their doors stay open from 6 0 m to 8 a.m.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
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