Defalcations of Weeks Estimated Over One Million
New York lawyer Francisco J Weeks is the missing attorney tied to $35,000 attached by Mrs. Clements S. S Wish. Kenny W. DeForest testified a May 12 letter in Weeks hand was received by him. Estimates from counsel show five large estates lost amounts: 300000, 150000, 230000, 80000, 85000 totaling 845000, with potential defalcations exceeding $1,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M!lion
New York
Gherard Davis
Clements S. S Wish
Francis J. Weeks
Davis
Kenny W. DeForest
Weeks
DeForest
J. J. A. Busted
von Linden
Howland
Fish
Nebraska Officials Reinstated After Impeachment Trials
The Nebraska Supreme Court voted two to one to acquit Secretary of State Allen Attorney General Hastings and Commissioner Humphrey of impeachment charges. Justices Norval and Post held the charges were not sustained and urged the state rely on criminal code or civil action on bonds. The court called for a judgment of not guilty for each respondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Sixcoun
Supreme Court
Allen
Hastings
Humphrey
Norval
Post
Death from thirst near Sabine Pass
Advices from Sabine Pass report two Australian workers on Calcasieu Pass began a thirty mile walk through marshland to Sabine Pass. One man reached Juniorville and said his companion was exhausted a mile or two back. A search found the missing man dead on a salt water bayou bank. Captain Dillon and his life saving crew buried him.
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GaLvistox
Tex
Sabine Pass
Calcasieu Pass
Juniorville
Dillon
Life Saving Station
Discriminating Lightning Strikes Waycross House
In Waycross Georgia a remarkable lightning strike killed Osborn Dixon and Charity Lloyd who sat a few feet apart in a house. Bible agent Rutherford seated between them survived unharmed without any shock. The incident caused considerable public superstition and excitement among locals.
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Waycross
Osborn Dixon
Dixon
Charity Lloyd
Rutherford
Columbia Seeks Immigration via New York Prospects
The Columbian Immigration Commissioners plan to send representatives to New York to attract immigrants who land there and urge them to settle in this country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Panama
Columbian Immigration Commissioners
New York
Diverse 1900s News Tidbits From Across Regions
New York reports Marie Nevins Blaine's marriage to W T Bull in New York. Ohio notes a major fire at America Strawboard Association's main plant with $300000 insured loss. Cleveland covers a church climactic clash as Rev Dr Sprecher rejects biblical inerrancy and faces a storm of handclaps. New London reports Hamburg Steamer Wandlahn sailors aided in Montreal. Cincinnati notes C A Carlisle's trip to recruit 100000 Chinese for Brazilian coffee plantations post emancipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marie Nevins Blaine
James G. Blaine
W. T. Bull
Lisa
Ohio
America Strawboard Association
Charles L. Atterbury
National Cordage Company
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church
Sprecher
New Lonpox
Conn
Montreal
Saxton
Cincinnati
C. A. Carlisle
Brazil
China
Dom Pedro
Lost berries and treaty under claim of Brazil aid
Estimates show ten million six hundred thousand dollars lost to the Government due to planters failing to gather woeb berries. Brazil will assist the scheme and a treaty to protect China men secured will be negotiated. A steam line will start from the Rio carrying sugar coffee cocoa and rubber and return with rice coal and collies. Por svill special. Peter Haley of Girardville suffered stomach pains and after a doctor administered an emetic he expelled a seven inch lizard from his stomach. He recalls drinking from a roadside spring last summer near Rappahannock and swallowing the lizard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio
Porrsvile
Peter Haley
Girardville
Haley
Rappahannock
West and San Francisco Specials Across a Tumultuous Era
Aberdeen publishing venture collapses after debt mounts and stockholders shift to Northwestern Newspaper Union. Belgium pirates captured near Taichow Island with monks among the seized. Chicago moves an eighty room Latin Street apartment by crane to clear a right of way. Beaver Dam boy confesses to barn arson with $1,500 insurance claim. Old tree yields rotted money finds near Eleside bridge. Croton oil poisoning sickens Snerpy Egg family. Grant Locomotive Works faces stockholder meeting amid creditor pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
The
Publishers Printing Company of
South Dakota
George Schlosser
Aberdeen Daily News
Schlosser
Northwestern Newspaper Union
Dakota
Daily News
Iris
San Francisco
Belgic
Talchow Island
Ningpo
Taichow
Wenchow
Yingpar
Curiaco
Chicago
Latin Street
van Buren Street
Metropolitan
Beaver Dam
Wis
Arthur Grover
James Fisher
Lewiston
Brooks Brothers
Eleside Bridge
M. Schroepfer
Great Grant Locomotive Works
New Jersey
Foreign Jottings and Mexican Decrees Reach City
The San Luis Potosi mint fleet has arrived as Mexico hikes taxes on minted metals. A 3 cent per $5 stamp tax will raise about 300000 dollars yearly. Diaz issues a slaughterhouse decree forbidding shipment of slaughtered hogs into Mexico City, requiring live hogs for consumption. In Durango a land-rent dispute ends with four squatters chosen to ambush a official. the governor's force captures and executes sixteen conspirators. Italian heirs pursue damages from Anchor Line over the Utopia wreck. Gladstone denounces Churchill’s Midlothian bid as unfounded gossip. Australia reports heavy rains ending drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Mexico Special
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
Diaz
United States
Piroras Negaras
San Luis Caravanges
Durango
Anchor Line Steamship Company
Utopia
Crispi
Sig. Lebane
Gladstone
Lord Randolph Churchill
Midlothian
Sydney
Australia
Deaths in Walton County posse arrest and other regional items
In Walton County two men die during a sheriff posse arrest after a quarrel with liveryman W Z L Maulsby and driver George Connelly. Five Connelly brothers are jailed after the shootout, Maulsby dies, crowd tensions rise. Also reported are a Cleveland area hermit in a dry goods box, a Mississippi cyclone near Roseland, Miss with five fatalities, and storms in Southern Arkansas. John Whitney travels 1200 miles across Mexico to Santa Rosa. A Fort Worth Gazette dispute results in $2000 damages against F B Jones in Dallas court.
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Decatuh
Walton County
W. ZL
Maulsby
George Connelly
Malsby
Connelly
Hnis
Sheriffs Posse
George
Connelly Brothers
Huma
Gainesville
White County
Cleveland
Chere
Balus Cox
Mimouis
Tom
Rose
Mexico
Topolobampo
Whitney
Sinaloa
Chihuahua
Santa Rosalia
Santa Rosa
Dallas
Tex
F. B. Jones
Fort Worth
Jones
Guezette
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Crime, Unions and Fires
A wide sweep of Iowa items notes a Wesley bootlegger fined 300 dollars in Algona, several frame buildings burned in Grinnell with losses of 15000 and eight horses perished. Benton County old settlers reunion set for June 24 at Koszta grounds near Belle Plaine. County events include a Jefferson County Sunday School convention at Fackwood June 20 21 and a Northwestern Iowa veterans reunion in Rock Rapids June 13 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Bacox
Wesley
Algona
Costa
Dubuque
J. K. Graves
Benton County
Old Settlers
Koszta
Belle Plaine
Grinnell
Jefferson County Sunday-school Association
Fackwood
Maynorn & Lewis
Taiorn
Muscatine
Cedar Falus
Rock Rapids
Nellie Webber
F. N. Webber
United States Revenue
Newton
Washington
Marshalltown
McHouon
First National Bank of
Cedar Falls
Iowa City
John N. Coldren
E. Clark
David Philips
Peterson
Moulton
Dan Gregory
Worp
Logan
J. R. Richart
Savannah
Freight And Motor Meet At Council Bluffs Tragedy
A collision at a Burlington Road crossing in Council Bluffs between an electric motor and a freight train killed one passenger and seriously injured four others. E. I. Stormes died on impact. Maude Bryant, Miss Bryant, and William Mayman suffered severe internal injuries and broken limbs. Motorman Powers and Conductor George Burke were hurt and blamed for failing to stop and check the track. prosecution may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Burlington Road
E. I. Stormes
Powers
George Burke
Railroad Rule Violations and Bank Trouble Headline
Snap Shots in the Saloons reports Kodak evidence used to dismiss several Illinois railway yardmen for intoxication or saloon visits while on duty. Davenport Rock Island and Moline see multiple dismissals as detectives intercepted violations along the line. A separate note covers Wells & Garretson bank suspending payments at Fairfield with about $50 000 liabilities and $80 000 assets while Garretson, a former financier now in San Diego, may influence recovery. An attempted train wreck near Plymouth on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern involved ties placed on track to derail a northbound freight, with two suspects under watch as crews secured the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodak
Chicago, Stock Island and Pacific
Davenport
Rock Island
Moline
Wallough
Chicago
Denver
Fairfield
Wells & Garretson
Anks
GQ A Garretson
Muscatine
Sioux City
San Diego
Cal
Wells
Garretson
Hurlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway
Plymouth
Allen
Weather and Crops Week Ending May 29 Bulletin
The week was unusually cool with less sun. daily temperatures ran about 7 degrees below normal and light frosts occurred on the 27th but caused little damage. Rainfall varied from excessive in the southeast to near average in other areas. Grass and small grains prospered, corn germination was slow, cultivation is general and planting remains limited by seed defects and wireworms. Stand is generally good and conditions are favorable.
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Marshalltown
Newton
Muscatine
Patrick O'Donneld
Cosgrove
John Bevius
Bevius
Allen
Davenport
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Iowa State Reflector
Buren
Anderson
Fort Dodge
Granger
Keokuk
Walter Hardin
Hardin
Tue Town Weather Crop Service
Found Dead in Chicago Mystery of Orchard Man
The body of Henry Anderson from Orchard Jaws was found buried in a Chicago alley. He had traveled to Chicago a month earlier to visit a lair and conduct business and received $300 in money before disappearing. A relative identified the corpse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Henry Anderson
Orchard
Jaws
Evidence of Foul Play at Otumwa Trestle Investigation
James Chamberlain a known contractor was found unconscious under a Wabash trestle at Ot tumwa. He alleged he was slugged and robbed and named an assailant. Although initially discredited, he died and a medical exam confirmed foul play. The assailant remains under surveillance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Chamberlain
Ottumwa
Moro Federal Prisoners Arrive at Anamosa Prison
A large delegation of U S prisoners arrives at Anamosa prison led by Deputy Marshal Selvy from the northern district of Arkansas. The group includes eighteen inmates comprising four Choctaw Indians seven African Americans and seven white men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Anamosa
I'hoara
Marshal Selvy
Arkansas
Murder and Death Reports From Rossville and Nearby Areas
A deadly domestic dispute in Rossville ends with Thomas's son shooting his son-in-law Smith and allegedly killing himself. In Alaska a woman named Iannie Ferbers survives a 25 foot fall from a second story window with a broken leg. In LeMars a soda fountain accident shatters Neiderman’s arm, requiring amputation above the elbow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossville
Lansing
Doc Thomas
Thomas
Smith
Iannie Ferbers
Alaska
Davis County
Waite
Neiderman
LeMars Bottling Works
Corn Palace Opens Harvest Celebration in Sioux City
Preparations are underway for the Corn Palace in Sioux City Iowa opening September 20 and closing October 18 1803 The annual harvest celebration honors Columbus discovery and the golden maize as the New World food source highlighting its historic role for indigenous peoples and later civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
New World
Sioux City Corn Palace Festival described and urged
A lengthy piece extols the Corn Palace Festival in Sioux City as a national carnival emblem of the West. It highlights corn’s value to American prosperity, the festival’s history since 1887, escalating costs and artistry, and the event’s role in promoting the World’s Fair year, urging visitors to witness Sioux City’s display in late September.
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West
Therese
England
France
Freland
Scotland
Wide Republic
Sioux City
Captain Suter
Pacific Coast
Jim
Big Sioux
Floyd Rivers
Nebraska
South Dakota
United States
Middle West
Missouri Valley
Corn Palace
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Southern
Chivago, Dutifo
Commnion
Prino
Rhiaupcdatec Vaedscewdecetes
Harley S Iess
Butter—Western Dairy
Oeders
Omaha
News OF
Wangs
Cedar Falls Bank
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