Dubuque Political Tangle and State Reforms
The Dubuque mayor and eight aldermen face indictment for excessive salaries while two aldermen remain untouched. Town Soldiers’ Home inmates average over sixty and mostly frail. Allison club unites Republicans for Senator Allison at St Louis. Lothrop proposes two appellate courts with Supreme Court support. Governor Drake backs transient merchant tax. both parties approve as protectionist policy.
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Dubuque
Allison Club
St. Louis
Lothrop
Woodbury County
Supreme Court
Supreme Court limits district court on grand jury inquiry
The supreme court held that once a grand jury reports completion of its business, the district court may not resend it to investigate violations of the prohibitory statute after being previously instructed by the court about its duties.
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Supreme Court
District Court
Craig
Iowa
Shiloh
Dubuque Herald Souvenir Edition Praises City Prosperity
The souvenir edition of the Dubuque Herald issued last Sunday presents the paper as a leading Eastern Town daily in strong health. It highlights a flourishing condition of both the city and the newspaper, claiming the Herald as the area’s foremost daily.
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Dubuque
Herald
Woodbury County Families Sentenced In State Penitentiaries
The Woodbury county sheriff last Saturday delivered a mother and three sons to Anamosa for terms from nine months to one year ten months. The husband and another son serve three years at Fort Madison. The youngest child is in the state reform school. A daughter and two sons have escaped arrest.
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Woodbury County
Anamosa
Fort Madison
State Reform School
Destructive Farley Fire Destroys Block. Loss Estimated
A Friday night blaze in Farley Dubuque County gutted the opera house block five stores the Loomis hotel and several dwellings. Loss estimated 25000 to 30000 with little insurance. Catholic fair ongoing. casualties include Vibber Heald Loomis Bros Ransom Bros Newton undertakers and others.
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Farley
Dubuque
Wibber & Heald
Opera House
Loomis
Ransom Bros. Hardware
I. Newton & Co
Bank of Farley
J. H. Ewen
Vibber & Heald
Miss. Arquitt
Ellison family relocates for legislative session in Des Moines
Mr and Mrs Ellison returned home last Saturday and he goes to Des Moines Tuesday morning with their home left in charge by a ailing relative. Ellison has rented a furnished house at East Locust Street near the capitol for the session. Capt Loomis stays at Kirkwood while his wife visits Omaha then plans a Des Moines visit near March first. Anamosa Eureka.
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Capitol
Capt. Loomis
Kirkwood
D Shepard
Omaha
Des Moines
Anamosa
Eureka
Prairieburg Saloonkeeper Bonds After Murder Charge
Gus Trainor, Prairieburg saloon keeper, was indicted by Linn county grand jury for murder of Dan Turner. He posted bonds in district court last Saturday afternoon and was released from custody as supporters expect an acquittal.
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Gus . Trainor
Prairieburg
Linn County
Dan Turner
Trainor
Blanchard and the Times Expose a Turbulent Past
The article recalls John Blanchard’s earlier alleged church involvement and his rise as editor of the Minneapolis Times amid debates on his religious and political stances. It notes reactions from readers and figures like Capt. Loomis and Judge McKean, and cites Blanchard’s influence on editorials condemning hypocrisy. It also covers Iowa politics, the second week of the General Assembly, and measures on liquor, insurance, loans, and a memorial building, plus a vivid refugee tale from the Civil War-era conflict and a plea for aid.
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Tark Express
John Blanchard
Dubuque
John
Tur
Jones County
Blanchard
A. R. Loomis
John McKean
Major Farwell
Tenderfoot
Minneapolis Times
Times
George K. Shaw
the Tribune
Fowler M
Lowery Hill
the Times
Cleary
the Express
Turkiye Mission Memo Amid Turbulent Massacres
A year after arriving Marvin Turkey details the Sassoun massacres and a wider brutal wave. Widows and orphans, many from Christian families, press for aid as pastors are killed and Christians renounce faith to avoid death. Julia, wife of a preacher, is captured with her child after her husband is killed.
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Marvin
Turkey
Europe
America
Julia
Diarbekir
Hanna
John
Kit Carson's Sister Remembered in Warrensburg Memoir
Mary Carson Ruby of Warrensburg Missouri offers a personal link to the famed frontiersman Kit Carson. Born May 25 1814 in Cooper s Fort Howard County Missouri she recalls log cabins Indians and the young Kit leaving home to seek the west. He later became a prominent hunter and scout and died soon after returning from Washington. Field and Farm.
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Kit Carson
Kit
Mary Carson Ruby
Warrensburg
Cooper’s Fort
Howard County
Walter Lindsay Carson
Madison County
Ruby
Independence
Washington
Mexico
Denver
Field and Farm
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Monticello
J. W. Doxsee
Legislative
Warden ‘Madden
Drake
General Assembly
William B. Allison
United State
House
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Representative -Funk
Judiciary
Cornwall
Appropriations
Wood of
Madison
Lauder
Union
Insurance
Sac
Reed of
Story
Ray
Agriculture
St. John
Building and Loan Associations
Martin of
Funk
Tama County
United States
Young
Delaware County
Mahaska
Perrin
Loan and Building Association
Benson
Francis J. Herron
Carney
Marshall County
Pennsylvania
Shaffer
State University
Aldrich
Treasury
Allison
Lena Byers
Lucas. Compry
Babb
Mt. Pleasant
Lawa
Diarbektr
Jonanna L. Gra
Johanna Graf
American Board of Foreign Missions
Mardin
Kit Carson's
Awaraea
King’s Cash
King’s Cash Store
Maquoketa
Dunn & Manony
J. HW. Ginrimnan
P. Mrrowxnn
J. W. Dolls
J. A. Whiear & Co
S. T. Holmes
D.D.S
B. F. Thomas
Uiluuulais
Remley & Brcanbrack
Ttorneys
M. W. Herrick
Ptorney
Mon Aioelto
Jones Up
Delaware
Linn
Jones
J. W. Coxsee
Monticello Bank
J. N. Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Laws
C.w.&g.l. Lovell. Ankers
Bidwell’s Block
A. Mirick
D. P
Suhgeon
Congregational Church
W. Hunter
School House
Geo. Inglis
C. H. Shipman
First Street
T. B. Kent
Center Junction
J. E
E. Cilmore
M. D
Hysidians and‘ Surgeons
Bycamore Street
First
Monticello, Towa
B. Rundle
Entiat
Over Postoffice
Wm. J. Coughlan
D. D
Hicks & Ellers
B. Pearson
Shaw's Block
J. H. Lathrop
Actioneer
Oxford Junction
Towa
J. B. Smith
Hawks Nursey. Co
Milwaukee
Wis
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