Iowa Supreme Court backs telephone notice in injunction case
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a district judge may rely on a telephone transmission of a decision. In a Greenfield sidewalk dispute, Judge Gamble dissolved then revived a temporary injunction. The court found the city council fined for contempt invalid, as the injunction had been dissolved earlier and the telephone notice was sufficient.
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Dus Mones
Iowa Supreme Court
District Court
Adair County
Greenfield
Applegate
Gamble
Postmaster Wanders Away to Die in Illness
Halsey Ross postmaster and Lehigh businessman died at his home in Fort Dodge Iowa after being exposed while away from home during a period of temporary mental aberration. He left Thursday night and was found on a hillside Saturday unable to move. Friends searched after being alerted Sunday. he had no food or shelter since leaving home. Despite efforts, the shock to his system proved fatal.
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Fort Dodge
Halsey Ross
Lehigh
Mr. Ross
Nothing Heard from Carnegie in Council Bluffs Library
Council Bluffs Iowa October reports the library board committee found no progress on securing a permanent home and no further word from Andrew Carnegie. Yet the committee still hopes Carnegie will fund a city library building.
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Carnegie
Council Bluffs, In
Public Library
Council Bluffs
Stock Poised to Die After Grass Poisoning
SHENANDOAH Iowa Oct 15 Farmers along the Nishnabotna River bottom report livestock losses after feeding on semi decomposed grass from overflowed pastures. Cattle and other animals die within hours from apparent poisoning as the grass decays in the flooded areas.
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Shenandoah
Nishnabotna River
Railroad name changed to Louisiana Purchase System
Notice filed with the secretary of state states the Duluth Springfield Gulf railroad with headquarters in Springfield Missouri will run through Iowa and has changed its name to the Louisiana Purchase System.
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Des Moines
Secretary of State
Duluth, Springfield & Gulf Railroad
Springfield
Iowa
Run Down by Bloodhounds
Ottumwa reports Howard Egbert 26, son of a Melrose farmer, under arrest for assault on 13 year old Gertie Kil Vier. Bloodhounds tracked the suspect to his room. Waterloo notes Julian W. Richards gifted a gavel from the US Supreme Court door panel to the local IAR chapter for up to 2500 dollars.
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Ottumwa
Howard Egbert
Gertie Kil Vier
Waterloo
Julian W. Richards
Supreme Court Room
United States
Washington
Importing French Horses
Shenandoah dispatch notes M. L. Ayres traveled to France to buy horses, reporting purchase of several of the best available stock and paying a case price for the lot.
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Shenandoah
M. L. Ayres
France
Transit Company Files Heavy Mortgage in Waterloo
Waterloo, Ia October 15 The Transit company filed with the city recorder a trust deed for twenty years secured by a first mortgage on all company property in favor of Northern Trust Company of Chicago. Paper rolls for twenty years bearing 6 percent interest. First payment of 15 dollars due January 1, 197 and a small payment due each year thereafter.
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Waterloo
Stupid Transit Company
Comety Recorder
Fouuuuy
Norther Trust Companiy
Chicago
Matt Hunter Case Attracts Supreme Court Attention
The Matt Hunter murder case from Ringgside County was argued before the supreme court of Town with United States Attorney Miles leading the appeal for reversal and a new trial. Hunter admits self defense after shooting Homer Holland in Mount Ayr eleven months earlier following a gambling dispute. The defense claims erroneous instructions and an unusually harsh second degree murder sentence. Attorney General Miller defended the verdict and sentence.
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Des Moines
Matt Hunter
Ringesid County
Supreme Court of Town
United States
Miles
Hutter
Homer Holland
Mount Ayr
Hunter
Holland
Miller
Development in Burns case sparked by ruse arrest
Sioux City Iowa October 15 A man offering to sell information about missing socialite Mrs T F Burns was arrested after delivering a letter demanding 1000 and directing money left in a mail box at Eighth and Pierce streets Earl LaQuea an employee of W H Burns brother of T F Burns admitted writing the note but declined to discuss Mrs Burns whereabouts
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Sioux City
T. F. Burns
Sioux City Society
Sioux River
Earl LaQuea
W. H. Burns
Iowa Knights of Pythias to Meet in Creston Next August
Des Moines reports the grand lodge of Iowa Knights of Pythias chose Creston for the next annual meeting in August. Oskaloosa was a runner up. A sanitarium project at Colfax was postponed to next year after a feasibility review. A Colfax ground donation proposal was reviewed, with a committee tasked to continue investigations.
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Iowa Knights of Pythias
Des Moines
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Knights of Pythias
Creston
Oskaloosa
Colfax
Lodges of Pythians
Grand Lodge
Cerl Kuedale
Denison
E. W. Weeks
Guthrie Center
D. W. Telford
Mason City
I. L. Stewart
Hampton
F. M. Mossberry
Columbus Junction
Judge orders eighteen months for Stolley seduction
Atlantic Ta October 15 Judge Green sentences Claus Stolley to eighteen months in the penitentiary for seduction. Stolley was tried last week and a verdict of guilty was returned. Several jurors, after the verdict, petitioned for a lighter sentence.
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Atlantic
Green
Claus Stolley
Stolley
Library board approves first Carnegie appropriation
Beatrice Nebraska October 13 The library board voted Tuesday night to requisition from Andrew Carnegie the first five thousand ninety dollar installment of funding for a new library building to be erected in the city.
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Carnegie
Beatrice
Pleads Guilty to Robbery in Iowa Court
Waterloo Iowa October 13 in district court James Stewart pleaded guilty to robbery and received a two year sentence at Anamosa. The report notes the case and sentence with minimal filler.
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Waterloo
Fistrick
James Stewart
Anamosa
Church of Christ Convention in Onawa area
The tri county convention of the Church of Christ at Woodbury Plymouth and Monona counties has met in Onawa with fair attendance for two days. Speakers included John Williams of Whiting M Elston of Moorhead and others. C W S M representatives Mrs Ligrand Face of Alten and Mrs J C Auf spoke.
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Onawa
Tri-County
Church of Christ
Woodbury
Plymouth
Monona
John Williams
Whiting
WY. M. Elston
Moorehead
Ligrand Face
Alten
J. C
Iowa Vicksburg Monument Commission Plans Designs
Captain J H Dean reports from Washington on Iowa Vicksburg monuments. Iowa appropriated 150000 dollars for a general monument and 38 regimental and brigade memorials. Committees were formed for state, regimental and brigade monuments. No contracts will be let this year. designs to be completed over the coming winter. Over 100000 dollars will fund the Iowa soldiers monument.
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Iowa
Des Moines
J. H. Dean
Vicksburg
Vicksburg Park
Gettysburg
Merry
Blanchard
Rood
Governor Cummins
Bealer
Fitzpatrick
Haggard
Mitchell
Jaques
Dean
Largest Deaths Reported at Soldiers Home in September
DES MOINS Iowa Oct 14 The State Soldiers home at Marshalltown reports seven deaths in September the highest monthly toll since opening in 1887 totaling 474 deaths with 316 buried in the home cemetery. The institution now numbers 761 residents including 606 men and 71 women with 79 men hospitalized and 23 men and 54 women among civilian staff.
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Des Moins
Marshalltown
New Inebriate Hospital Opens in Cherokee
DES MOINES Oct 14 The state board of control has opened a second hospital for inebriates and morphine victims at Cherokee. Patients from the northern part of the state now at Mt. Pleasant will remain there, but future northern commitments will be sent to Cherokee as the number of inebriates at the state hospital rises.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Cherokee
Mt. Pleasant
State Hospital
Body Found in the Sioux River Solves Missing Musician Case
Sioux City Ya 14 The mystery of Mrs. T F Burns a leading local musician ended with her body recovered from the Sioux River She had boarded a boat at Riverside Boat Club last week and had not been seen since Authorities believe the death was accidental and consider the case closed with the find
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Sioux City
T. F. Burns
Sioux River
Paralyzed J Ty Moran of Railroad Division Feared Dying
Stricken with paralysis in Waterloo Illinois October 14, J Ty Moran former roadmaster for the Illinois Central for this division is feared will die.
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Waterloo
J. Ty Moran
Imincig Central
Foul Play Feared in Waterlog Missing Umbrella Mender
Waterlog Oct. 14 Gis Anderson a town umbrella mender and carnival attendee is missing after Cedara Rapids carnival. It is feared foul play occurred as he took all his savings with him and intended a short absence but more than a week has passed with no word.
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Gis Anderson
Cedara Rapids
Hihn
Bin
State against Brady over presumption of guilt rule
In Des Moines area cases the court reverses late Judge Conred rulings and declares that possession of stolen property is only an indication of guilt, requiring other evidence to connect a suspect to the crime. It cites Brady from Poll county where stolen harness were found after a burglary and alibi was overruled.
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Dus Moines
Brady
Poll County
Conred
Des Moines
A. S. Perry
Sioux City
Irwin
Earlham
Leprosy in Iowa Reported Two Cases
Des Moines reports two leprosy cases in Iowa to the state board of health. One is a 21 year old Norwegian pauper near Humboldt to be isolated, while details on the Gilmore County patient are sparse and under inquiry.
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State Board of Health
Des Moines
Iowa
Humboldt
Kennedy
Private Bank Closes Doors in Oto
SIOUX CITY Ia Oct 11 The Bank of Oto a private bank owned by F H Cutting mayor of Oto and J T Willett representative from Woodbury county closed its doors because of the stringency in the money market notes being called in faster than it was able to meet them Liabilities 20000 assets 15000
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Sioux City
Bank of
Boiler Explosion Strikes Creston Laundry
The Join's laundry boiler exploded in Creston Iowa on October 11. All occupants escaped injury. The boiler was hurled several hundred feet and lodged in Justice Gould’s office half a block away. Cause of the blast is unknown.
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Creston
Join’s
Office of
Gould
Drunkard Sentenced to Inebriate Ward Prison
Webster City Iowa Oct 11 Judge Richards heard EH McNeet of Eagle Grove charged with habitual drunkenness under the Iowa inebriate law. He was sentenced to one year in the inebriate ward at Mt Pleasant insane asylum.
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Webster City
EH. McNeet
Eagle Grove
Richards
Mt. Pleasant Insane Asylum
Rev Mecum Impersonates Tramp To Test Congregation
In Independence on October 11 Rev EB Mecum returned from vacation and, concealing his identity with a beard and coarse clothes, asked about half of his congregation for bread as a prank. He was refused in most places, and when revealing himself there was wide confusion.
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EB. W. Mecum
Poor Crop Situation in Union County Iowa
The crop situation in Union county is very gloomy with only about 25 percent of the crop likely to be saved. Oats remain unthreshed due to wet ground, early corn has been cut and shocked but ruined by rain, and oats and wheat yield is heavy yet damaged. Much corn is unmarketable from early frost.
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Creston
Union County
Governor OKs Funds to Return Embezzler from England
Des Moines October 11 Governor Cummins authorized spending to repatriate J. W. Bishop from England where he is under arrest for embezzlement in Burlington The decision followed a legal ruling that the governor may authorize the expenditure needed to bring a prisoner back to Iowa for trial The attorney general had weighed the authority before the funds were released
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England
Des Moines
Cummins
J. W. Bishop
Burlington
News in brief from around the world and U S states
A wide collection of short items notes honors such as Ambassador White in England and cellist Anton Hegner named, Carnegie library gifts to Belft and Limerick, volcanic activity near Mount Pelee spurring emigration plans to Guiana, a fatal shooting in Iowa, post office site leases in Lawton, education law debates in Britain, a Chicago McKinley memorial tablet unveiling, bankruptcies and crimes, school prayer rulings in Nebraska, a gas explosion fatality in Scranton, murders in Indiana, illness in London clergy, a threshing dispute leading to murder, preservation funds for John Brown house, a government agent's death in Montana, a Washington office shooting, Indian poaching ambush in Colorado, postal revenue records, navy instruction tweaks, and party club elections in New York.
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Lawton
C. T
British Baptist Union
Seasion
Birmingham
Eng
McKinley
Chicago
Quinn Chapel
Earl of Euston
Henry James Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton
London
Wiliam H. Wright
Hawai
Trig
Alameda
Nebraska Supreme Court
Scranton
Robert Rankin
Lewis Dorsheimer
David Morton
Rankin
Indianapolis
Inud
Pleasant Pruitt
Winnie Pruitt
Forest, Fish and Game Commissioners of
New York
John Brown
North Elba
Hayes
Montana
St. Paul
Minn
Horace Hayes
Elizabethtown
Aliee Fishe
Government Printing Office
Washington
William Dougherty
Dougherty
G. W. Harris
Colorado
Rangely
White River
Rio Blanco County
United States
Navy Department
Casey
Isthmay
Italian Board of Trade and Art
The
Press Association
Signor Luzzatti
Treasury
St. Louis
William R. Hearst
Mex Simson
National Association of Democratic Clubs
Democratic Congressional Committee
Live Stock Market Quotations From South Ondha and Kansas City
Latest cattle hog and sheep quotations show steady or slightly lower prices across classes. Cattle demand favors heavy cows while packers bid lower for hogs and stockers remain slow amid abundant cattle on hand. Sheep and lamb values edge between fair to good with steady tone overall.
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Ondha
Kansas City
Omaha
Packera
Will Lightning Avoid Water Surface, Harvard Experiments
Harvard professor John Trowbridge reports that lightning does not strike water. Using a 20,000 cell battery he generated sparks up to seven feet long, finding that such discharges jump to nearby objects rather than the water surface. Only much larger sparks strike water, while over a million volts favor air discharges and adjacent objects.
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Boston
John Trowbridge
Harvard University
Fear an Indian Uprising in Rangely region
A Mercer Colorado dispatch reports about 400 Utes near Rangely for days slaughtering game. Since the fatal clash with Harris the bucks have sent their wives and children back to the reservation, signaling potential renewed hostility.
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Denver
Mercer
Cole
Meeker
Rangely
Harris
Kruger Appeals for Relief at Dutch Birthday Church
In Utrecht on October 11 Boer generals greeted Mr Kruger on his birthday. The party attended a divine service during which Kruger spoke from the pulpit praising the generals service and urged the public to help relieve distress among the Boers.
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Kruger
Utrecht
Holland
Plans to buy all flint glass plants in nation
Pittsburg October meeting of flint glass manufacturers discussed plans to purchase all plants in the country.
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Pittsburg
Iit
G A R Women Elect Officers This Year
Washington Oct 14 The Grand Army of the Republic ladies elected officers for the coming year President Mrs Alma Hall Wheeling West Virginia Senior Vice President Mrs Smith Pittsburgh Junior Vice President Mrs Lydia Hinkley San Francisco Treasurer Mrs Anna Weichener Germantown Ya Chaplain Mrs Mary Stark St Louis Missouri Counsellor Mrs Lawrence Kansas
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G A. R
Washington
The
Grand Army of the Republic
Aluna Hall
Wheeling
W. Va
Smith
Pittsburg
Mia
Lydia Hinkley
San Francisco
Anna Weichener
Germantown
Mary Stark
St. Touis
Lawrence
Kansas
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GAN
Supreme Court
Church of Christ Convention
Commission
Leprosy
Oxford
Ambassador White
Christian
Denmark
Anton Hegner
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