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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
8
Avoca resident suffers burn loss while other notes promote Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Preventics and Kodol along with cures for eczema nasal catarrh and epilepsy claims. Fire destroys barn in Thurman area with no insurance and a Fairfield students collect hip braces for a boy, all in scattered community notices and ads.
A feature on W L Hill from Bowie Texas who rose from 90 to over 180 pounds, crediting Dr King s New Discovery for consumption cough and cold after a near death illness. He testifies the cure is guaranteed by C S Royce druggist with trial bottle free. Mentions other patent remedies and local business ads including Kodol and DeWitt salves.
In Dubuque Myron Clark, a confessed wife murderer, received a life sentence at Anamosa. Dubuque High defeated West Des Moines 5 to 0 to win the Iowa high school football championship. A Chicago woman posing as a man was nabbed in Perry with two youths after riding here by stowing away. An Iowa City train engineer died in his seat while the Rock Island train sped along. Nellie Zarthager married Gus Vonderschloss to escape a difficult name. Des Moines hosts a meeting of deputy game wardens to push a hunters license law. Webster City reports a debate over tuberculosis cures as Dr Kime bets $10,000 no drug can cure tuberculosis while Dr Lindley takes the challenge.
W V Sibert and Joseph Bridges were arrested in Cedar Falls Iowa on a warrant from E H Campbell of St Paul charging uttering forged time checks. Sibert recently served as station agent for the Chicago Great Western Railway Bridges a baggage man at the same station is his cousin. Bonds were posted for December 7 trial after weeks of investigation into account shortages.
Iowa plans consider trading the 160 acre permanent National Guard camp south of Des Moines for a larger 400 acre tract adjoining Fort Des Moines that would provide permanent camp grounds and a rifle range, addressing proximity to regular troops and seeking a bigger facility.
Iowa railroads report a $7.35 million gain in business to $65.856 million gross earnings for the year, up over 12 percent from $58.475 million. Employment rose by 3,000 to 42,560 with wages totaling $26.785 million, while total state expenses exceeded $46.716 million. There were 22 fatalities and 1,722 injuries among railroad workers last year.
A man believed to be Charles H Green a Colorado boilermaker was arrested at Lawrence Kansas charged with shooting EBC Ward a Santa Fe train passenger at Holiday Kansas Ward wounded in leg and hand with glass fragments in the cut He is identified by W B Ball a clerk at 254 West Fourth Street as one of two robbers who held up the Fourth Street drug store Monday night before the Santa Fe train left.
The Missouri Supreme Court reversed and remanded for a new trial in the Vaughan Raymond and Ryan murder case. The court found error in denying separate verdicts for each defendant, saying the jury could convict any one independently. The case returns to Cole County circuit court next January for trial.
In Chicago a lengthy Shea trial hearing featured Albert Young on the stand with continued cross examination. Attorneys for the defense pressed to sway his testimony from the confession while proceedings adjourned with Young still under oath.
United States Deputy Marshal James Laforse led a posse of eight men from Cheyenne under orders of Special Agent Hughes to cut and destroy alleged illegal fences owned by A Bristol and other ranchmen in the county. The group was heavily armed but no acts of violence are anticipated. Good Roads Association Meets in Muskogee Oklahoma. The National Good Roads association held sessions with plans to build a model road one mile near the national cemetery at old Fort Gibson.
Telegrams terse report the Jewish press poet Miss Cora Wilburn died suddenly at her North Duxbury home in May. Other obituaries note Rev Arthur Bell Nicholls dying in Banagher at ninety, husband of Charlotte Bronte.
Iowa City declares a new My Sigma Nu fraternity chapter will establish a presence in town as part of campus life transitions. The item notes local collegiate expansion and Greek-system growth in the Iowa City area. The report reflects early 20th century college fraternity activity and regional college culture.
St Louis University defeated Town University 90 to 0 in a highly exciting football clash at St Louis on November 30. The game was marked by fair play from both sides, with St Louis taking an early lead by scoring a touchdown within the first six minutes. A season high crowd attended, underscoring the spectacle of the matchup.
Des Moines reports that an important convention opens Wednesday to launch a movement for electing United States senators by direct vote of the people. Iowa's legislature adopted a resolution for the convention after Governor Cummins urged action. About twenty five governors back the effort and thirty have named delegates. A committee will pursue state legislature cooperation to secure a constitutional convention call with Oklahoma's admission increasing the needed legislatures to thirty one.
Irving D. Hull testified in the federal case against Bartlett Richards and Will G. Comstock describing a plan to file Iowa soldiers on Nebraska homesteads. He said he gathered declaratory statements in Woodbine and Logan and Missouri Valley, with $600 per section as consideration, $300 to the soldier and $300 split between Huntington and James Hull.
The U S Supreme Court moved the Chicago Great Western rate dispute to March 4 for arguments between the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroad over alleged unlawful live stock rate changes from western points to Chicago. The case asserts Missouri River markets are favored over Chicago by the new rates. In Honolulu, December 4, reports indicate arriving Japanese with military experience are being selected and will travel onward with passports.
A federal grand jury at Creston indicted Francis Stuteville and Edward Elliston, youths living between Davis City and Pleasanton, for malicious destruction of mail boxes. They pled guilty, Judge McPherson fined each ten dollars plus costs. They confessed to shooting holes in several mail boxes after a prior alcohol incident.
Horses from three to ten years old weighing 1000 pounds to large as they grow, well broke and fat. Mules from three to twelve years old, all sizes.
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