Iowa lawmakers swing into heavy work at early session
Des Moines reports the 29th Iowa General Assembly has begun active work with nearly 100 bills introduced. Notable items include a push to replace hanging with electrocution, a boundary commission with Nebraska, higher education funding, libel law changes for editors, and a statewide push for compulsory education and child labor safeguards.
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Des Moines
Twenty-ninth General Assembly of
Iowa
United States
Ninth Iowa Battle Flag Presented to Regimental Group
Gov Shaw received the flag from Miss Helen J Adams of Boston. The banner, carried by the Ninth Iowa during the Civil War at Pea Ridge, was given with a letter detailing its history and placed with other old war flags in the capital.
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Gov. Shaw
Helen J. Adams
Boston
Pea Ridge
Standing Committees Named by Lieut. Gov. Herriott and House Speaker
Lieut Governor Herriott lists senate standing committees with members for Ways and Means Judiciary Appropriations Agriculture Railroads Cities Suppression of Intemperance Congressional Districts and more. House Speaker Eaton names house standing committees including Ways and Means Judiciary Appropriations Railroads Municipal Corporations Banks and Banking Printing and others with numerous members.
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Healy
Lewis
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Classen
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Tréster
Brighton
Crossley
Trewin
Arthaud
Hartshorn
Hogue
Porter
Emmett
Lambert
Judiciary
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Hobart
Hazelton
Hubbard
Lister
Dowell
Moffit
Crawford
Whipple
Courtright
Mossberry
Ball
Townsend
Appropriations
Smith
Des Moines
Mardis
Harriman
Bachman
Mitchell
Young
Washington
Spaulding
Witchpatrick
Brooks
Winne
Lee
Tallman
Lyons
Waterton
Hleventh
Fitchpatrick
Mardus
Dem
Craig
Allyn Blanchard
Wabbard
Molsberry
Bishop
Allyn
Hayward
Maytag
Hopkins
Banks
Alexander
Wilson
Building and Loan
Marcis
Harper
Ulster
Mlister
Eimmert
Emmert
Garst
Marcus
Commerce
Mardls
Ryles--Lewis
Hall
Bruce-Emmett
Nolan-Crawford
Courtwright
Political Districts and Committees in Cottonwood County
Readable fragments list numerous districts and committees including Senatorial Districts Hulsinger Hurn Carter Cowles Payne Walden Nichols Flenniken Free man Greeley Dodds Herbert Representative Districts Hasselquist Temple Stratton Black Blakemore Coburn Cummings English Anderson Donohue Gilchrist Pritchard Langan Crawford Hufschmidt Springer Mines and Mining Kendall Graff Hasselquist Buchanan Hawk Lyman Warren Meservey Teachout Sweeley Cummings Koontz Jaeger Frodden Pharmacy Hawk Roome Townsend Coburn Sokol Kendall Eiker Pipher Bailey McClurkin Plenniken Calderwood Mattes Nichols Leech Walters Hufschmidt ... and many more.
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House
Ways and Means
Temple
Hughes
Clarke
Graff
Cowles
Sokol
Wright
Head
Hirlsinger
Sweet
Wilson
Buena Vista
Buchanan
Barkley
Stuckslager
Kendall
English
Carden
Gilchrist
Cummings
Larrabee
Freeman
Greene
McClurkin
Walden
Willett
Dodds
Whiting
Hufschmidt
Hurn
Dunham
Lyman
Edwards
Payne
Jones
Washington
Furry
Kern
Warren
Hilsinger
Garker
Campbell
Hamann
Sweeley
Marshall
Springer
Langan
Canton
Walters
Davenport
Hasselquist
Patton
Hawk
Boysen
Wise
Crouse
Calderwood
Donohue
Exolthoft
Pipher
Barker
Christianson
Fields
Warden
Keagy
Nichols
Pritchard
Robinson
Cruikshank
Mordhurst
Carter
Blakemore
Meservey
Bealer
Teachout
Jaeger
Cruikbank
Mordhorst
Black
Bailey
McNie
Cheney
Crawford
Leech
Herbert
Sfurn
Townsend
McClure
Wilett
Stratton
Wight
Anderson
Powers
Mattes
Nagle
Kling
Layman
McNly
Mc~Clure
Coleb
Hasschmidt
Kerr
Cassel
Clinton
Rurry
Frodden
Pharmacy
Roome
Coburn
Eiker
Plenniken
Public Health
Riker
Kolthoff
Wing
Hagselquist
Batley
Greeley
Moore
iKoont
Hertert
Elker
State University
Howards
Flenniken
Koontz
Aegriculture
Blake
Utterback
Jenks
Secor
Nagie
Cablo
Northoff
Coblo
Crui
Board of Public Charities
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McClurken
Cobl
Frudden
Hospital For the Insane
Hiker
Institute For the
Berkley
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Kxolthoff
Institute For Deaf and Dumb
MecNie
Woontz
Iowa legislators witness dedication of new liberal arts hall
The legislature led by Gov. Cummins along with Secretary Martin and other state officials traveled from Des Moines to Iowa City to attend the dedication of the new hall of liberal arts, completed at about $200,000. Cummins presided as speeches from Senator Dolliver, Speaker Eaton, and others were offered.
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Iowa City
United States
Dolliver
Cummins
Normal School
Wedar Falls
Knoxville
State Agricultural College
Insane Hospital
Cherokee
Vicksburg Military Park
To Forbid Marriages A Moral Society Urges License Ban
A committee of the Tristate Medical society plans to push the legislature to bar marriage licenses for anyone previously committed to a feeble minded or insane hospital or epileptic colony, or who is epileptic.
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Town
Missouri
Illinois
Venezuelan corruption alleged by U S church rep
J H Minner of the American Sunday School union reports from Eldora that Venezuela is in a state of corruption and favors Germany mediating an understanding with Venezuela. He says the corruption is severe and cannot be easily estimated.
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American Sunday School Union
Eldora
Venezuela
Germany
Mine Dust Explodes Kills Twenty-One Miners in Iowa
A noon explosion at Lost Creek mine near Os kaloosa Iowa killed 21 miners and seriously injured eight. The dust explosion followed a fizzle during noon shots, blowing debris from the shaft and wrecking top works. More than 100 men were underground. only those in the east entry suffered injuries. The Lost Creek Fuel Co owns the mine, operating about a year.
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Lost Creek
Eddyville
Tre
Dryden Wins New Jersey Republican Senator Caucus on Nineteenth Ballot
In Trenton on January 24 John F. Dryden of Newark and president of the Prudential Insurance company secured the 32 votes needed on the nineteenth ballot to be the party's candidate for United States senator. Main rivals Stokes and Griggs gathered early support, but Dryden led the field as the caucus action, binding on a 45 joint ballot majority, ensures his election.
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N. J
Sewell
John F. Dryden
Newark
Prudential Insurance Company
Dryden
Stokes
Cumberland County
United States
John W. Griggs
Gardner
David Baird
Camden
Barker Gunmere
Mercer
Messrs. Dryden
Griggs
Bowery Raids Target Notorious Resorts In New York
Nearly 100 police swept the Bowery Friday night closing several resorts and locking up 32 prisoners. Protests were quelled with little violence as owners were arrested. The operation signals a broader cleanup of the famed thoroughfare.
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New York
Bowery
Coroner's inquest finds tunnel danger signals proper
The coroner's jury verdict in the New York Central tunnel disaster case says the Fifty ninth street signal was correctly set but could not be seen due to smoke and steam. Officials are held responsible for ignoring engineers' ten year complaints about tunnel conditions.
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New York
New York Central Tunnel
Fifty-ninth Street
Wisker
Mrs Mary A Hunt Reaches Centenary In Beloit Wisconsin
Beloit Wis Jan 23 Mrs Mary A Hunt of Beloit celebrated her 100th birthday. Born in Goshen Litchfield County Connecticut in 1802 she attended Miss Pierces school for girls in Litchfield the second noted girls school in America. She retains her mental faculties remarkably well and remains quite strong.
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Wis
Mary A. Hunt
Goshen
Litchfield County
Litchfield
Miss Pierce
America
Chicago bowler Fred Strong wins U S bowling title in Buffalo
In Champion Bowler Buffalo N C Jan 25 Fred Strong of Chicago won the United States bowling championship with a 649 series in the contest held here.
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N. C
Fred Strong
Chicago
United States
Wealthy Man Sentenced in Manslaughter Case in Huntington
John S Farr a wealthy politically prominent figure in the state was sentenced in Huntington to two years in the state penitentiary for manslaughter after killing Owen Ross in a street fight last summer. Escaped convicts captured at McNeil's Island Tacoma report says all 11 inmates who escaped slept behind bars Tuesday night.
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W. Va
John S. Farr
State Penitentiary
Owen Ross
Tacoma
Wash
Ledger
McNeil’s Island
United States Penitentiary
Iowa Senate News Recaps Committees and Elections
Des Moines reports outline new committees on ways and means and judiciary with reform goals for railroads and corporations. Elections set Senators Allison and Dolliver for 1903 terms, plus a new telegraphs committee and several bills on primaries, child labor, university funding, and state finances.
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Allison
Dolliver
Shaw
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Ralston
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Carroll
Twenty-eighth General Assembly
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Ihe
Nebraska Commission
Iowa
Farmers’ Mutual Cooperative
Agricultural College
State Normal School
Hortman guilty of first degree murder in Porter case
Harry Hortman was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing 22 year old Florence Porter in Cherokee. The death penalty was fixed by hanging after Hortman, driven by rejected advances, shot Porter three times at her workplace on November 30. she died December 8.
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Florence Porter
Cherokee
Hortman
Hartman
James Lane Gets 25 Years For Second Degree Murder
Iowa Falls judge Whitaker sentences James Lane to twenty five years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to second degree murder the state withdrawing first degree murder charge. Lane over sixty admitted to killing his wife with a shot in the back while intoxicated and wounded his son in law who survived.
Fires Sweep Creston as Nine Barns Burn in Two Weeks
Creston faced an epidemic of incendiary barn fires with nine discovered in 15 days. Police arrested three youths aged 15 to 18. one confessed intent to destroy more, including the Christian church. They are held on $1000 bond.
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Creston
Christian Church
Mystery surrounds death of Mabel Schofield
Justice of the Peace Duncan dismissed the Des Moines case against Charles Thomas for Mabel Schofield’s death. He ruled the state failed to prove a murder and found the evidence against Thomas too flimsy to bind him to the grand jury. He walked free with family and friends.
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Mabel Schofield
Justice of the Peace
Duncan
Des Moines
Charles Thomas
Thomas
Fire destroys S H Thompson cooperage in Fort Dodge
The Fort Dodge cooperage works of S. H. Thompson burned to the ground causing about 25000 dollars in loss. Insurance coverage is limited. Fire Captain J W Lowry sustained severe facial burns from an oil can explosion while clearing debris and may lose his sight. The fire’s cause remains undetermined.
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S. H. Thompson
Fort Dodge
J. W. Lowry
Noted Horseman Robert Hall Dies in Sioux City
Robert T. Hall known as Bob Kneebs, a horseman of international reputation, died in Sioux City at 62. He had a 1894 German conviction for rigging and spent a year in jail, a case that drew attention from horsemen in Europe and America.
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Robert T. Hall
Bob Kneebs
Sioux City
Germany
Europe
America
Terrible Revenge in Guthrie Ends With Rescue
Pred Tiner a full blood Shawnee allegedly faced a mob of Shawnee men and women who tied him to a stake to burn him. Deputy U S Marshal Davis arrived from Arbeka I T and detained the crowd then freed Tiner and escorted him to Weweeka where he was jailed.
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Okla
Pred Tiner
United States
Davis
Arbeka
I. T
Weweeka
Tiner
Fire in Woodland Ave flat injures Mrs Higley
In a Woodland avenue flat fire in Des Moines Iowa on January 28 Mrs J W Higley suffered injuries believed to be fatal. The blaze started in her apartment and she escaped only after leaping from a window into rescuers arms as others in the building fled unharmed.
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Des Moines
Woodland Avenue
J. W. Higley
Higley
Missing Marine Force From Porter's Sa mar Expedition
Manila report states ten men from Capt. David D. Porter US Marine Corps detachment remain missing after returning to the coast of Sa mar January 21. No hopeful sign of their safe return has been seen.
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Manila
David D. Porter
United States Marine Corps
Samar
Porter
Notable World Facts and Local Incidents
A collection of brief items notes the U S army cost at a million dollars weekly and suggests two urgently needed tunnels in Europe the Caucasus and the Pyrenees. It reports Grecian petroleum purchases in New York 720000 gallons and cites population growth doubling per century. Lehigh University plans a new electro metallurgy course next fall. Three Bound Brook women face travel mishap at New Brunswick theater. Edward H Radel arranges special trolley transport to return them home.
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Europe
Causasus
Pyrenees
New York
Lehigh University
Bound Brook
N. J
New Brunswick
Edward H. Radel
Web ster City Meteor Aids Report Of Sky Event
A brilliant meteor lit the western sky over Webster City as it neared the horizon and exploded casting a shadow. The event was witnessed by local residents and reported in the news note.
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