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Newspaper
Inter County Journal
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1906
Page
3
An Inter-County Journal note discusses many milk handling inventions at fairs and cites a state agriculture official on bacteria in milk. It highlights the need for cleanliness on farms, noting typical counts of 300 to 13,000 germs per cubic centimeter and up to 40,000 in unclean milk, urging farmer action to meet consumer health demands.
The article discusses alcohol as an ideal clean fuel with a bluish nonluminous flame, noting its colorless burn, water miscibility, noncorrosiveness, and low soot. It argues large scale production is simple from starch or sugar crops, making it a viable power source for farmers and industry, outperforming costly gasoline in efficiency and safety.
A Boone resident, P. H. Nelson, found natural gas while drilling near Seventeenth and Linn streets. Gas erupted with flames up to five feet, then a second bore ninety feet away yielded heavier gas with explosions shaking the ground and people nearby. Both wells burned into night with strong, sustained flames.
Dickinson released on ten thousand dollar bond from Polk County Jail after Justice Duncan, aided by County Attorney Miller and Chief of Detectives McNutt, raised the bond from five thousand citing new evidence. Dickinson, pale and haggard, greeted by his wife as he left the cell.
A freight car loaded with 450 boxes about 20 000 pounds of high explosives exploded on a track near Jellico on a Friday morning. Eight thousand residents affected as wrecked buildings, shattered depots, and cancelled telegraph services spurred panic and questions about causes.
Des Moines man Carl Klumb, missing since August 9, was found with a bullet hole in the chest in a ravine near the Golf and Country Club. Investigators believe suicide. his partner C J Spitz had reported the disappearance and said Klumb had about $400 in his possession, though only small change remained on the body.
Mrs. Margaret Hamlin of Audubon County, widow of Alexander Hamlin and early settler, died at 82 after fifty five years in the county. She leaves ten children, 63 grandchildren, and 64 great grandchildren, totaling 137 descendants. She had been frail for six months and was born in Kentucky.
Iowa City records report Howard Mack, a Negro, charged with murder in the first degree after an attack on his wife and mother in law. He was arraigned on an assault with intent to kill indictment but a new murder charge was added as Mrs Dixon, the mother in law, died from injuries. The court remanded him to jail without bail, Mack pleaded not guilty and was assigned counsel.
August Napier aged years was found guilty of murdering his playmate in Albia Iowa. The juvenile law does not apply to murder and he will be sentenced as an adult. The killing happened months ago when Napier shot the other boy in a fit of passion. Farm girl dying in Hayman Intire Miss Isle Tiederman found in barn after six days. Doctors say lack of food causes her condition and she may recover enough to explain why she ran away to die.
Washington reports a proposed convention would keep the United States from acting as paymaster for Santo Domingo in restructuring its indebtedness. The plan, backed by Frederico Velasquez, Dominican foreign minister, has approval from state department officials and will lead to formal negotiations for a new treaty.
A four year old boy, son of P. Branstad of Leland, drowned at a farm near Forest City after a tin cup dropped into a water barrel. While feeding chickens the child leaned over to retrieve the cup and fell head first into the barrel, unable to escape.
In a report from Wiseb a firraaan om the aingis Cent was dacked after a collision with a iron. A piper or was driven deep junta vis shin but lis SH Wives. A dele ling was performed in the sayin his Hit. Cooper a drape ats.
A dramatic blast at Martin Mortenson Saloon at 718 Sixteenth Avenue wrecked the front and forced open a safe, with about $100 in cash taken. Six slot machines were damaged but yielded nothing, and burglars secured several doses of liquor. No other thefts found.
A mower severed a boy's leg just below the knee while he and his mother weeded along the road. Bystanders rendered aid as the injured boy was transported for medical care, with authorities reporting the accident occurred in the Pi AL area near Depew.
In Atlanta a violent race clash Saturday left thirteen dead and many wounded as mobs attacked downtown. A white man killed a Black man, sparking fear and widespread property damage. National guard or soldiers were summoned as authorities urged calm and sought to restore order amid reports of ongoing violence.
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