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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1903
Page
1
New York reports a clerk named Harry A. Leonard, employed by Haile Tieglitz brokers, is arrested for stealing about $359,360 in securities from the National City Bank. The case presents a bank theft linked to a brokerage employee.
Judge Jackson weighing postponing county court opening if this week ends without a verdict. Thirty witnesses for the will contestants remain, with eighty pages of testimony to hear, and deposition testimony by Carson and Albert Hemmer.
The Grade Down Indian Lookout Hill project near Liberty township received a 200 appropriation from the board of supervisors to cut the grade on the steep county hillside. The work will extend the road and stabilize the incline while improving drainage and safety for travelers.
Mr and Mrs Francis Kane returned to Iowa City last Friday after a five month wedding tour abroad They crossed the Atlantic visited many European countries including Germany with relatives of Mrs Kane They reported good health despite rough seas and variable weather
Rev L C Clark, pastor at Osage Town for two years, may succeed Rev Nathaniel Pye. Clark is a scholarly minister with fifteen years of experience and is a graduate of Cornell College Mt Vernon and Drew Theological Seminary.
Rev. Father Sinkmajer formerly of St. Wenceslaus church arrived last week after leaving Hennesy Oklahoma for health. He visited Cedar Rapids and today departed for New York City where he will reside in the future.
Coroner Sies suffered injuries in a wreck last Friday after dinner. He initially claimed minor harm but later noted more severe pain and visible bruising. A doctor was called to treat him.
Judge Jackson returned this morning from Muscatine where he spent Sunday. Court closed Saturday afternoon to enable him to catch a train for Muscatine.
Last Saturday after dinner on the new dam John Reynolds, a worker on the site, stepped on a nail while on a plank. The nail pierced his shoe and entered his foot, but he recovered after treatment in town. The injury is not expected to be serious beyond a few days off work.
Will Jones left the city this morning with Sheriff Rowland to begin a life of hard labor at the Anamosa reform school. The change from Ft Madison to Anamosa followed an appeal and a state board order effective Oct 1. Jones entered the Anamosa facility today as county officials had requested.
Last Saturday a group of botany students from the university and high school joined an expedition to Hills for study. Miss Alice M. Lovell is visiting her friend Miss Virginia Osborne.
Prof A G Smith and Manager Nyle W Jones, in Chicago for a Wabash College game, say Itowa has a good chance against Chicago next Saturday after a 15 to 0 loss for Wabash. Smith says Itowa is not hopelessly outclassed and attended the Big Nine conference meeting where no new actions were taken.
Plans to get rich are often frustrated by sudden breakdown due to dyspepsia or constipation. Brace up and take Dr King's New Life Pills. They remove clogging materials and renew energy, easing headaches and dizziness. Available at Henry Louis' and W. E. Suresher's drug stores.
Friday night a man robbed Michael Daly on the town's west side taking 65 dollars. Daly has not recovered the money or seen the robber since.
Engine safety plug blew out delaying operations at the university dam pump project by the river. Sunday work began yesterday and will likely continue from noon until completion, with progress described as fair.
Alderman Wilbur R. Shields remains seriously ill at the university hospital though officials report he is doing quite nicely after admission for illness.
A crowd of about two hundred from the city rode the seven o clock car to Cedar Rapids for the dedication of the new St Wenceslaus church. The procession visited St Patrick's and St Mary's churches before returning for the ceremony led by Archbishop Keane with assistance from Rev Fat of Omaha. A later dinner and entertainment followed.
Postoffice Inspector Stewart reports a shortage in the accounts of Miss Nellie Woodley formerly postmistress of Hansell Iowa and will prosecute. She has already been beaten at Clarion and bound over to the grand jury.
In a Congregational church Sunday school custom, pupils receive Bibles upon reaching seven years old. Yesterday John Shrader and Raith Smith became recipients of the church’s gift, celebrating their seventh birthdays.
Mrs. George Kubik died this forenoon in Oxford after a brief illness from peritonitis. Born in Sigourney in January 1883 she moved to Oxford as a child and married Dec 22 1903. She leaves her husband and parents four sisters two brothers and the adopted daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Murphy. Funeral Wednesday at Oxford Presbyterian Church. Mrs Kubik belonged to the Oxford chapter of O E S.
The remains of Frank Rogers the fireman who suffered a fatal injury in the wreck last Friday were taken to Des Moines for burial last Saturday. He was a relatively young man survived by a wife and other relatives. His death occurred early Saturday morning after a period of acute suffering.
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