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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1903
Page
1
A severe rail crash at Witham on September 1 killed ten people and injured many as an express from London to Cromer plowed into a Great Eastern Railway station building. The wreckage caught fire but rescuers recovered bodies before they burned.
Portsmouth reports the armistice is signed after treaty signing. A delay in cessation of hostilities stems from Japan's refusal to consent to an earlier time.
J M Rickard a nine year old boy died after slipping under an east bound freight at the St Liberty station while attempting to board. He was torn between the box and rail, taken to university hospital where doctors tried to save him. He had worked on the Soo Railway and recently arrived from Dakota with two companions.
The county board of supervisors holds its regular monthly meeting next Monday but will adjourn due to Labor Day. When reconvened, they will set the tax levies for the coming year.
J L Berry protests Wi Horrabin bid claiming city time made his bid 1.5 minutes late. Council to review bids and protest this evening. Bids list pipe sizes length, manholes, flush tanks and lampholes with per foot and per item prices from John L Berry & Co, R C DelaHunt, and William Horrabin.
The Daily Iowan released a six page issue yesterday with notable growth in dimensions. Production is overseen this year by Willis Mercer and K L Douglas.
A buggy carrying Mrs. Ed. Boerner overturned south of the railroad track on its return from a fishing trip. Her injuries were slight after a wheel slid into a ditch causing the accident. No runaway horse was involved, contrary to earlier reports.
Michael Ryan and Daniel Ryan sue Car ver Thompson and others to quiet title to a tract in Cedar township section 27. B W Reeve files a petition to recover a promissory note from Milton West dated April 1894 for 155 dollars due in six months, with 6392 dollars already paid and the remainder due.
Iowa City filed with the auditor a petition asking the county board of supervisors to return 473.52 to the city treasury. The city contends this sum is due as a commission for collecting the mulch tax over the past ten years at a rate of three quarters of one percent.
Sherman Searle, formerly editor of the Iowa Citizen and now of the Davenport Democrat, and Miss Maud Ewing departed last night for Nemaha in Sac county Iowa to visit Searle's brother for a week. Miss Nell Ewing and Ella Searle are already there.
County offices will be closed all day Monday in observance of Labor Day. Officials will adjourn after a nearby supervisory meeting noted elsewhere.
Postmaster H. D. Overholt announces no mail delivery next Monday Labor Day. Rural carriers and city routes rest. office opens briefly from 9 30 to 10 30 a m on the holiday.
Miss Clare Schultz leaves for Burlington this afternoon for a visit to her former home there. She is accompanied by Miss Helen Gilchrist who will spend time in the city as well.
Voters in Iowa City approved a park plan by a decisive margin yesterday with 751 yes and 330 no from a total of 1,081 ballots. Ward results showed strongest support in the second ward and strongest opposition in the fifth ward, while third ward backed the plan as much as others. Women voters participated, marking crosses in sizable numbers.
Mrs George Ewing returned yesterday afternoon from a three week visit with out of town friends. She spent two weeks with Sherman Searle in Davenport and the remaining week at Princeton Missouri with the Ortos family.
The Country Club hosts a clam bake from 5 to 7 30 PM at the Minnehaha boathouse with a concert in the afternoon and dancing in the evening. Menu includes clam chowder baked clam chicken white fish and sweet potatoes in a large outdoor basin. Mrs F R McKnight of Muscatine has returned home.
Flat Rock Michigan resident William Bedell reports Bucklen's AROHA Salve heals ulcers sores and cancers. The salve soothes and heals cuts burns and scalds and is sold by Henry Louis and W E Schrader with a guarantee.
George Manaugh, formerly of this city and brother of Wm Manaugh, hanged himself at his home one mile west of Windham. A horse halter caused his death by strangulation. Coroner Sies investigated. no clear motive found, believed a momentary lapse of sanity after financial troubles. Surviving children include two daughters nearing adulthood and a young boy. Funeral at Cosgrove tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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