Iowa Headlines Tally Local Deaths and Public Notes
Wealthy Oxford farmer John Griffin dies from a horse kick in Iowa City. A Crawfordsville tile factory boiler blast kills two workers. Sioux City man William Priege dies instantly after a train collision near Leeds. Carrie Brown indicted in Des Moines for making and selling liquor to Buxton miners. Two drown in the Iowa River near Iowa City as a picnic ends in tragedy. Perkins strengthens primaries with delegates across counties. Iowa Federation of Labor elects officers in Ottumwa. Gass robbery suspects confess and plead five years at Fort Madison. Commercial Teachers’ convention opens in Des Moines with regional attendance. Knights of Columbus meet in Des Moines naming Waterloo next year’s site. Train crossing accident at Atlantic claims night watchman Mitchell Hayward. Dobson defends against Hull slander suit in Des Moines court. An aged telegrapher near Oskaloosa tests physician with poison placebo. Horace Ellis of Los Angeles seeks lost relatives in Des Moines after fifty years. Des Moines confirms kin via telegram.
Kilenton Runaway Accident in Page County Iowa
May 12 near York Town, Page county, Donald Morsman, farmer living on W P Hepburn's land, was killed in a runaway. He was brother to Omaha attorney W W Moraman and to Mrs Hepburn, wife of Congressman Hepburn.
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Donald Morsman
W. P. Hepburn
Yorktown
Page County
W. W. Moraman
Omaha
Hepburn
Political Advice to Labor Urich Urges Unions to Elect Men
Urich urged the Iowa Federation of Labor to outline a policy for Iowa unions to back candidates sympathetic to trades unions. Speaking at the fourteenth annual convention in Ottumwa on May 10, he linked state and national labor legislation battles, critiqued the Iowa Manufacturers' Association, and accused officials of opposing labor measures.
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Ottumwa
Iowa Federation of Labor
Iowa
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Iowa Manufacturers’ Association
Iowa fire chiefs tourney prep in Clinton Iowa
Chief Burnett of Des Moines and E. I. Alderman of Marion visited Clinton to inspect plans for the state tournament opening June 19. Clinton officers welcomed assurances that Davenport Des Moines Sioux City Council Bluffs Lincoln IL Rock Island Moline and one city will send teams.
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Iowa State Wiremen's Association
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Council Bluffs
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Til
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Moline
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