FLOCKING 10 The Capital Educational Forces Unite
Des Moines reports a busy ten days as legislature members and politicians converge for the speaker of the house and US senator contests. Eaton and Bowen stand as leading candidates with a January 8 start for session and January 16 senatorial vote. Strong focus on education, butter shipments, oleomargarine law, and Iowa’s congressional delegation assignments.
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Iowa
Congress
Des Moines
House
United States
Eaton
Cummins
Bowen
Gear
Forgery Case Dismissed Over Stamp Type
Jack Shields faced forgery charges in Council Bluffs for using a proprietary revenue stamp on a forged check. Judge Green ruled the stamp lacked legal efficacy since it was proprietary, not documentary, so the instrument could not be forged and the case was dismissed and the jury discharged.
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Jack Shields
Council Blufts
Green
Tragic Death by Own Action in Springfield Lodging House
A well dressed man identified as Charles Reynolds, formerly a farmer near Greenfield, Illinois, died by self inflicted poisoning at a Springfield lodging house after transferring several thousand dollars in property to his wife and three children following family troubles. He had visited a sister in Springfield before the act.
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Springfield
Ill
Charles Reynolds
Greenfield
Reynolds
Bankers Raise Farm Loan Rates Amid Cash Tightness
Town bankers report farm loan rates rising from five and four percent to six and seven percent as demand for money matches supply for the first time in two years. They attribute the move to a tight Eastern money market and cash withdrawals from Iowa.
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Towa
Smallpox Cases Reported in Hocking Town
Two well developed smallpox cases appear in Hocking Monroe county indicating possible local spread though not considered serious and not expected to extend beyond the immediate locality.
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Hocking
Monroe County
Henry Barber of Lost Nation Falls to Century Question
A prominent mathematician Henry Barber is said to have become insane from obsessively pondering when the twentieth century begins. He wandered the streets snapping at objects and tagging fences with strange markings before being placed under restraint.
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Henry Barber
Youu
tLe
Death of Maj. Gen. Lawton in the Philippines
Manila reports Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton was shot and killed at San Mateo while leading troops against insurgents. Official confirmation cites his sudden death at 9:30 am as he pursued Geronimo and insurgents, with Col. Lockett assuming command. The United States mourns a gallant officer.
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Henry W. Lawton
Philippines
Manila
San Mateo
Lawton
Lockett
Twentyninth
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Sargent
Geronimo
Col. Lockett
Washington
War Department
Gen. Lawton
Luzon
Otis
Witherto
Breckenridge
Executive Mansion
Eighth Corps
Senate
Ninth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry
William M'Kinlesey
German Annexation of Samoa Declared by Authorities
The German flag was raised over the Apia courthouse marking annexation to Germany by agreement. The German consul aboard the Coormoran told Samoan chiefs they could keep a king and chiefs, with Mataata to be chosen. Mataafaites drive Malietonus from villages as trouble looms.
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Apia
Samoa
Auckland
N. Z
Germany
Coormoran
Mataata
Death of Iowa's oldest traveling man A W Fleming
News from Nashua Iowa reports the death of A W Fleming aged 88, a veteran traveler in Iowa and a member of the Dubuque Traveling and Business Men's Association. He was widely recognized as one of the oldest traveling salesmen in the state.
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Dubuque, Ia
Nashua
A.W. Fleming
Iowa
United States
Dubuque
Wall Street Flurry Reflects Big Year of Business
R G Dan Co reports a major stock market slump tied to broad prosperity. Industrial and transportation shares fall while overall year end activity shows strong clearing house volumes and a high buying capacity, with limited unsoundness in industry.
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New York
R. G. Dan & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Wall Street
United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
British On The Defensive In Natal And Cape Town
London dispatches report British forces holding defensive positions across Natal and Cape Town. Gen Buller orders reinforcements to Durban to support the Natal column while absences from commanders raise concerns of stalled communications and dangerous positions.
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London
Buller
Cape Town
Durban
Natal
White
Lord Methuen
Chieveley Camp
Colenso
O’clveck
Frere
Tragic Ice Disaster Drowns Dozens of Belgian Schoolchildren
In Frelinghem near the French border on a holiday outing, more than 40 children drowned when the ice on the Lys broke. Rescue efforts recovered 36 bodies with many still missing, shocking the town and leaving most families grieving.
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Brussels
Frelinghem
Lys
Moody Evangelist Dwight L. Moody Dies at East Northfield Home
Dwight L. Moody, famous evangelist, dies at his East Northfield Massachusetts home from general breakdown due to overwork. He spoke to his family at length, died peacefully as Heaven opened, with son James Moody and others nearby. Ira D. Sankey recalls twenty seven years with Moody and his England tour and calls Moody the greatest human he ever met.
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East Northfield
Mass
Dwight L. Moody
Frida
Mr. Moody
New York
Ira D. Sankey
Sankey
England
United States
Moody
Frightful Deed in Missouri Blaze Ends in Tragedy
In Chillicothe Missouri a farmer William J Thomas and his three children Edna David and John were found dead in a burned home eleven miles southwest of Chillicothe. Authorities suspect Thomas killed the children then himself after his wife suicide a year earlier following a deathbed promise. The affair unfolded after a neighbor spotted the house ablaze and locals gathered. investigators cite financial reverses and a possible motive tied to a mortgage foreclosure and despair.
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Kansas City
Chillicothe
William J. Thomas
Thomas
William Thomas
Edna
David
John
Kansas City Livestock Commission
Tragic Parish School Fire Claims Ten Young Lives
In Quincy Newfoundland and Labrador on December 23 a gas jet ignited a dress during a rehearsal at St Francis parochial school on Seventeenth and Vine streets. Ten girls aged nine to eleven died, four died within ten minutes, five more before midnight, and several others were severely burned. Teachers and staff including Helen Loebbing Father Nicholas and Prof Mushold suffered injuries while attempting rescue.
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Quincy
St. Francis Parochial School
Seventeenth
Vine Streets
Irena Freiburg
May Mavering
Mary Althoff
Bernadina Freund
Colletta Middendorf
Mary Hickey
Wilhelmina Guttendorf
Oliva Timpe
Addie Futterer
Josephine Bohme
Margaret Warner
Helen Loebbing
Nicholas
Frank Mushold
Rock Slide Levels Amalfi Hotel Complex
A massive rock from the Cappuccini area slid into the sea at Amalfi on Friday afternoon, carrying the Cappuccini hotel the old Capuchin monastery the Hotel Santa Caterina and several villas. The debris crushed four vessels and buried many people. The mass of earth involved was about 50 000 cubic yards.
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Rome
Amalfi
Gulf of Salerno
Cappuccini
Santa Caterina
Sol Smith Russell to Retire From Stage for a Year
Sol Smith Russell will retire from the stage for a year or more after finishing his interrupted engagement at the Grand Opera house in Chicago. He has recovered from the attack that forced a pause last Monday and may resume next Monday, but will not overtax his weakened constitution. All engagements for the rest of the season are canceled.
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Chicago
Sol Smith Russell
Grand Opera House
Cabinet Resignations Accepted in Cuba
Maj. Gen. Wood announces the insular cabinet resignations are accepted with the offer of earnest intent. The ministers will stay on until successors are named, likely by January 1, as criticism of the Brooke cabinet prompts a new lineup to address ongoing disputes.
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Havana
Wood
Cuba
Insular
Brooke
Christmas Tragedy At Brazwell Mine Deepens
Brownsville Pa December 26 News from the Brazwell mine comes slowly due to impassable roads and no telegraph. Four more bodies recovered not identified. families suffer as stores ship provisions. Workers toiling in grim search, pay day spared many from the mine, morgue scenes haunt witnesses. Slavonic society canvass reports eight members missing in the wreck.
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Brownsville
Brazwell
Draznell
Uniontown
Plague Reported in Noumea New Caledonia Colony
The plague has appeared in Noumea capital of New Caledonia. Ten Kanakas have died and four whites have been attacked. The disease is reported to be spreading in the French penal colony.
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Sydney
Noumea
New Caledonia
Death of Dr Edward T W Williams Rail Pioneer
A telegram from Santa Barbara California reports the death of Dr Edward TW Williams senior partner of the Baldwin locomotive works in Pennsylvania. He died of heart trouble and was a prominent figure in early Wisconsin railroads. He was knighted by the king of Norway and Sweden.
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Milwaukee
Dee
Wisconsin
Fort Allinson
Wis
Santa Barbara
Cal
Edward TW. Williams
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Pennsylvania
Williams
Tfe
Norway
Sweden
James Duane Taylor Dies by Suicide in Washington Hotel
James Duane Taylor 63, a leading Wagner Palace Car Co officer and son in law of the founder, killed himself at the Grafton hotel in Washington on Thursday noon by cutting his throat with a razor. Illness and nervous affection were given as the motive factors. death was instantaneous.
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Washington
James Duane Taylor
New York City
Wagner Palace Car Company
Grafton
Corbett Identified as Suspect in Cheney Stabbing Case
Racine Wisconsin Henry I Corbett arrested on suspicion of shooting Rev David J Cheney and his wife two weeks ago was identified by the Cheneys on Wednesday as the man who called at the house and did the crime. Corbett was taken before the Cheneys separately and immediately identified as the guilty party. He will be held.
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Racine
Wis
Dee
Henry I. Corbett
David J. Cheney
Cheneys
Corbett
Cheney
Bhim
Just About Women Highlights in Public Life
Signora Riva Monti is named professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Pavia. Mrs. Phoeb Hearst forecasts California's new university will mature in ten to fifteen years. Mrs. H Henley runs a 4000 gallon monthly distillery on Cumberland plateau Tennessee. Emma M Hery leads Denver public schools as superintendent after a career in journalism and the Denver Woman's Press club. Cara Barton, noted Red Cross worker, quips on committee numbers with three as optimal due to absentees.
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Signora Riva Monti
University of Pavia
Phoeb Hearst
University of California
H. Henley
Tullahoma
Tenn
Cumberland Plateau
Emma M. Hery
Denver, Col
Denver Woman’s Press Club
Cara Barton
Red Cross
Miss Barton
Detroit reports Pingree demand resignations over military board
A Lansing dispatch says Gov. Pingree asks Adjt. Gen. Case Quartermaster Gen. White Inspector General Marsh and others on the state military board to resign after a grand jury probe into a sale of about fifty thousand dollars of military supplies to the Illinois Supply company for ten thousand five hundred dollars. The governor aims to recover state funds and cites possible collusion or lack of due care. Case may refuse to resign. White Marsh and Bickerstaff have resigned.
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Detroit
Mich
Tribune
Lansing
Pingree
Adjt
Fred H. Case
Three Rivers
William IL. White
Grand Rapids
Arthur S. Marsh
Allegan
State Military Board
Grand Jury
Illinois Supply Company
Henderson-Ames Company
Kalamazoo
Inspector General
Case
Gen. Case
W. Tu. White
A. F. Marsh
Samuel N. Bickerstaff
Kalamazoo Asylum
Gompers Reelected as AFL Leader at Detroit Session
Detroit December 21 The American Federation of Labor unanimously reelected all its officers including President Gompers. Contests emerged only in selecting fraternal delegates to foreign trades congresses. Delegates urged unions to clearly define craft work and warned building trades councils against jurisdiction over trades unions or chartering national unions. Louisville Ky selected for next convention with other candidates named.
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Detroit
Mich
American Federation of Labor
Foreign Trades Congresses
Gompers
National
Louisville
Cleveland
Columbus
Scranton
T.a
Salt Lake City
Galveston
Bay City
Boston Bank Fails After Copper slump hits Globe National
Comptroller Dawes closed the Globe National Bank of Boston on a recommendation from Special Bank Examiner Wing, who had been named temporary receiver of the Broadway National Bank. The failure follows copper market declines and the Squire failure, with a likely 50 percent recovery for depositors and total loss for stockholders.
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Boston
Dawes
Globe National Bank
Special Bank
Examiner Wing
Broadway National Bank
Globe National
United States
Elephant trainer Patsy Forepaugh killed by Sid in Columbus
J Meagher a veteran elephant trainer known as Patsy Forepaugh was killed at Sellsville when the elephant Sid, calm for 20 years, became unruly mid training. Sid lurched and hurled Meagher, then crushed him with his body and tusk piercing the chest with a brass ball.
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Columbus
J. Meagher
Patsy Forepaugh
Sellsville
Sid
Meagher
Mrs Sanderson Acquitted In Ground Glass Attempt Murder
In Marshall Michigan Mrs Sanderson faced trial for allegedly attempting to murder her elderly husband byputting ground glass in his meals. After two weeks the jury rendered a not guilty verdict as court recessed Friday evening.
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Marshall
Mich
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Militia
Hepburn
McPherson
Dolliver
Department of Justice
Ways and
State Board of Control
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State Agricultural College
MacLean
Medical
State Agricultural Society
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
W. F. Harriman
KR. J. Johnston
Humboldt
P. L. Fowler
George H. van Jlouten
Phil Kell
Prouty
Polk County District Court
Anti-Saloon League
F. W. Bicknesll
Way Department
Adjutant General
Indiana
States
Red Travelings
Dan
Belgium
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody
Missouri
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Samuel Gompers
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