Servian Rulers Assassinated. Karageorgevitch Proclaimed King
Belgrade reports a military conspiracy in which King Alexander Queen Draga and several ministers were killed. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch is proclaimed king by the army and parliament, while a provisional government pledges to restore the pre 1905 constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Draga
Belgrade
Naga
Peter Karageorgevitch
Konak Palace
Alexander Maschin
Nanmovies
High Military Academy
Konak
Panajotovic
Karageorgevitch
Nikola
Nikodern Lunjevics
Zinzar Markovics
Pavlovics
M. Todorovics
Interior
Todorovics
Travelers Protective Association picks Springfield Ill as next meeting site
The fourteenth national convention of the Travelers Protective Association closed with Springfield Ill selected as the next meeting place. EL W Denham of Cincinnati was elected president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Indianapolis
Ind
Travelers’ Protective Association
Ill
EL. W. Denham
Cincinnati
Typhoon Ravages Cochin China Killing Natives
A typhoon of extraordinary violence struck Hanoi Namdinh and Thaibinh causing heavy damage. Many natives perished and several Europeans were injured. Three trains were overturned between Hanoi and Namdinh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Cochin China
Hanoi
Namdinh
Thaibinh
Roosevelt pressure on Colombia over Nicaragua route
Washington June 10. President Roosevelt warns he will break off negotiations and complete a deal for the Nicaragua route if Colombia does not ratify the treaty soon. Duluth fire losses total about $100000 with damage to timber camps dwellings and railroad infrastructure north of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Colombia
Roosevelt
Nicaragua
Duluth
Minn
Here
Venezuelan Revolution Ends as Matos Returns to Willemstad
General Matos and allied Venezuelan generals return to Willemstad Curacao signaling the end of the uprising against President Castro. The movement in Venezuela is reported concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willemstad
Island
Curacao
Matos
Venezuela
Castro
Roosevelt Receives Bnai Brith Protest On Russian Massacre
Washington June 16. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay heard a formal appeal from the Bnai Brith executive council urging official aid to deliver a protest to the czar over the Kishineff massacre. The talks were satisfactory though no definite action could be promised beyond serious consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Hay
Executive Council
The
B'nai Brith
Cur
Russia
Leo N. Levi
New York
Jacob Furt
Cleveland
Solomon Sulzberger
Joseph J. Cooms
Wilkesbarre
Adolph Moses
Chicago
Simon Wolff
White House
Dihem
Iray
Nishinoff
Judge Killed in Courthouse Shooting in New York
Charles F. McFarlane superintendent of the Anti-Policy society was shot and killed in the criminal court building by William Spencer also known as William Rogers. Philip Bray an Anti-Policy agent was wounded in the arm as Spencer fired four shots before being disarmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles F. McFarlane
Anti-Policy Society
Criminal Court
William Spencer
William Rogers
Philip Bray
Spencer
McFarlane
Bray
West Twenty-eighth Street
Kurds Open Armed Action in Kurdistan Dispatch Reports
A Cologne Gazette dispatch from Constantinople says Kurds are arming in Kurdistan. It notes that U S minister the British ambassador and the German chargé d affaires urged the Porte to respond to Armenian arrests and house searches at Kharput causing panic. The report also covers flag day celebrations in New York on June 16.
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Cologne
Rhenish
Prussia
Kurdistan
Constantinople
United States
Porte
Kharput
New York
Alleged Murderer Kills Himself After Bail in Wisconsin
William E. Tippetts, charged with Ira Shrake’s murder and released on $5,000 bail, shot himself in La Crosse. Bound over to circuit court for murder with a September trial planned. In California three miners died at Toltec tunnel from a 50 pound giant powder explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Wis
William E. Tippetts
Ira Shrake
Tippetts
Silverton
Cal
Toltec
Hoppner Flood Destroys Town After Sudden Cloudburst
A 20 foot wall of water swept through Hoppner Oregon on Sunday evening, destroying most homes, washing away bridges, and drowning as many as 500 residents. relief trains from The Dalles, Portland relief funds, and rescues followed as the town sought survivors and counts the dead. Nearby Lexington and Tone suffered property damage with no reported loss of life. In New Mexico, Albuquerque endures heavy rain and near floods, endangering homes as the Ito Grande rises and a levee breach prompts evacuations.
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Portland
Ore
Hoppner
Weppner
Morrow County
Meppner
Jone
Heppner
Tone
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Dalles
Lexington
Willow Creek
Albuquerque
N. M
Jemez Mountains
Ito Grande
Los Cerritos
Alameda
Santa Fe
Springfield Farmer Berry Webb Dies in Wind sor Field
Berry T. Webb a well known Shelby county farmer died in his Wind sor field Monday morning at age 78. He was a Mexican War veteran awarded land near Windsor by the government and had lived in Shelby county for 40 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Berry T. Webb
Windsor
Shelby County
Tennessee
City Solicitor Uses Humor In Suit Over Decayed Tree
City Solicitor W J McCoy answers D P J McConnell suit against Clin ton for 2080 dollars. He ridicules the petition noting the tree supposedly left every spring and shaded only a weary Willie. He denies conversion of the tree and says only suitable disposal was given as befits the solemn occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. McCoy
D. P. J. McConnell
Clinton
Paintiff
Willie
Work Mapped Out by State Geologic Board Des Moines
The Iowa state geological board outlined the 1900 field plan in Des Moines to expand clay investigations across Clayton Clinton Bremer Winneshiek Benton Emmet Palo Alto and Pocahontas counties and begin coal prospecting studies on area extent beds and uses. Uveal work will occur in Clinton Clayton Benton Emmit Palo Alto Pocahontas Winneshiek counties, and Prof. W. H. Norton will study artesian waters with Iowa Survey and US Geological Survey cooperation.
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State Geological Board
Des Moines
Clayton
Clinton
Bremer
Winneshiek
Benton
Emmet
Palo Alto
Pocahontas
Emmit
W. H
Crop Damage from Wet Weather Hits Warren County
Wet weather hurts Warren County crops with two thirds expected to be raised and a near 750000 loss. Late forage like millet and Hungarian may recover some yield. County bridges face about 5000 in damages, while township road and bridge losses could total 8000 more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Elgin Creamery bankruptcy closed in Des Moines court
The United States district court in Des Moines ordered the Elgin Creamery bankruptcy closed. Judge Smith McPherson ruled in favor of laborers' claims, granting full wages to milk haulers and skimming station workers in Iowa. Other creditors received about 40 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Des Moines
Elgin Creamery Company
Chicago
TIL
Smith McPherson
McPherson
Iowa
Robbed and Firebombed Store Sparks Theft Suspicion
Nason and Whitehall, general merchandise firm at State Center, found robbed after their store was set ablaze. Fire was quickly checked with chemicals, but part of the stock was missing, leading to belief that thieves started the fire to cover the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nason & Whitehall
State Center
Promoter touts electric railway linking Monroe county towns
M E Springer of Des Moines promotes a company to build an electric railway from Albia to Buxton Hiteman Hocking Hilton and Hynes in Monroe county with about 12 000 residents, many without passenger service. County Clerk Thomas Copp Meader of Town Falls issues the official programme for the Iowa Clerks of the District Court Association annual Des Moines convention to be held on the 29th and 30th of the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Springer
Des Moines
Albia
Buxton
Hiteman
Hocking
Hilton and
Hynes
Monroe County
Thomas Copp Meader
Town Falls
The
District Court Association of
Iowa
Bernard Murphy reports on Linnie Haguewood fund progress
Bernard Murphy of Vinton files the annual report to the governor as trustee of the Linnie Haguewood fund. He notes $280 on hand September 1 and $2,000 appropriated for Haguewood’s education, with $1,000 from the Twenty-seventh General Assembly and the rest from the Twenty-eighth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Murphy
Mills Haguewood Fund
Vinton
Linnie Haguewood
South Dakota
Dora Donald
Twenty
General Assembly
Murphy
Life Insurance Report Shows Growth in 1902
Part II of the thirty fourth annual Insurance report notes a healthy rise in life insurance in Iowa for 1902. Policies in force grew to 15 759 by year end 1902 from 382 661 in 1901 and total insurance in force rose from 534 394 495 to 582 751 699.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Iowa Life Companies
Towa
Towa Life Companies
Legal Reserve Life Insurance
Big Iowa real estate valuation jump projected this year
Abstracts of assessment received by Auditor of State Carroll show Iowa real estate values may rise by 300 to 500 million dollars, with taxable real property increasing 55 million dollars or more. Personal property values are also expected to surge, with a 30 percent gain in real estate assessments. The anticipated rise could lower statewide tax levies and affect railroad assessments, altering local taxation as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Revenue Department
Office of Auditor of
State
Carroll
Revenue Department of the Auditor's
Joseph F. Wall
Five Cattle Poisoning at Estherville Causes Loss
Poisoned pasture kills five thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle owned by Schaefer and West near Estherville. Loss about $2,000. Paris green taken from Schaefer barn and planted to mislead wind damage after a neighbor’s barn blew into the pasture. Id Brown arrested and charged with the poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schaefer & West
Paris Green
Estherville
Schaefer
Id Brown
Des Moines Fishermen Paroled After Net Violation Case
Andrew Sorensen and Ed Conklin were arrested in Adel on May 24 for violating state net laws. Sorensen was fined 500 dollars and costs, Conklin 450 dollars and costs. Unable to pay, they were jailed until Attorney Moon secured their parole release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Sorensen
Ed Conklin
Des Moines
Adel
Justice Neal
Sorensen
Moon
Supreme Court to Rule on AmEx Agency for Out‑of‑State Liquor Sales
The state v AmEx case from Ta ma county will go to final decision after the US Supreme Court granted a writ of error. The issue is whether AmEx can act as an agent for liquor sellers outside the state to complete C O D sales and collect payment. Sioux Falls figures Coughran Natwock and Lien join a syndicate backing an electric railway from Sioux Falls to Le Mars linking to the Sioux City Le Mars Interurban project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Express Company
Tama County
Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Express Company
C. O.D
Natwock
IL Lien
Inogene Coughran
Sioux Falls
le Mars
Sioux City
Burlington man named grand master by acclamation in Iowa Masonic session
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa met in Waterloo and elected Charles C. Clark of Burlington grand master by acclamation the first time in 23 years. Officers named include grand senior warden P. J. Martin Waterloo, grand junior warden Thomas Arthur Logan, grand treasurer T. J. Davis Marion, grand secretary N. QR Purvin Cedar Rapids, custodian I. Gilmore Turley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Iowa
Waterloo
Charles C. Clark
Burlington
C. C. Clark
P. J. Martin
Thomas Arthur
Logan
T. J. Davis
Marion
N. QR. Pur
Death of Guthrie Center farmer Cassmore ruled suicide
William Cassmore a wealthy farmer living near Guthrie Center was found dead in a barn hanging from a rafter with a horse halter. At about 55 he left a wife and five children. The 500 acre holding near Guthrie Center valued at $25,000 carried a $6,000 mortgage, leading to claims he killed himself over financial worry.
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William Cassmore
Guthrie Center
Cassmore
Grinnell
Nels Hansen
Kimballton
James Allen
Plains
West
Sargeant Bluffs
Hall & Pierpont
Whittier
Twentyninth General Assembly
Des Moines Park Commissioners
A. H. McVey
Des Moines
Chris Klasson
New Hampton
Creston
Moffit
Karn Hillyard
County Board of Supervisors
Kew London
Elliott Post
Fonda
Cedar River
Fruit conditions report shows declines across varieties
Secretary Wesley Greene of the Town State Horticultural Society releases June fruit summaries. Declines from last report range 10 to 30 percent in several varieties with percentages for apples 68, pears 22, plums 27, cherries 26, peaches 20, grapes 64, currants 36, gooseberries 34, red raspberries 75, black raspberries 72, blackberries 90, and strawberries 86 of full crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Greene
Town State Horticultural Society
Death of Alvero Hemenway Near Colorado Springs
The body of former Sioux City resident Alvero Hemenway was found on Bear creek bank a mile southwest of Colorado Springs Colorado. He vanished under mysterious circumstances and authorities say ill health and financial reverses destabilized him leading to his own death at age 65. He was once prominent and wealthy before recent losses caused embarrassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvero Hemenway
Sioux City
Bear Creek
Colorado Springs
Colo
Local Resident Killed Instantly In Gun Accident
Edwin K. Hurley of Wapello was instantly killed while cleaning his gun. He was preparing to go hunting when the accident happened. The weapon discharged and struck him through the heart. He was about 60 and left a wife and grown children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin K. Hurley
Wapello
Mr. Hurley
Five Drown In Des Moines River At Fraser
Five people lost their lives when a Fraser boat capsized on the Des Moines river. The dead are Thomas Coleman Andrew Marchona Steve Carmadine Carria Megalla and Nicholas Grometine. Most victims were Italian laborers from Fraser coal mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Fraser
Thomas Coleman
Andrew Marchona
Steve Carmadine
Carria Megalla
Nicholas Grometine
Coleman
Record of a 40.5 grain pearl found near Muscatine
Bert Roby, a shell digger, recovered a 40.5 grain pearl in the Mississippi near Muscatine. He declined an offer of $2,000, holding out for $3,000. The find is the largest recorded in those waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Roby
Mississippi
Muscatine
District farmer strike hits crop hopes near Waterloo
A roundup of Iowa brief items reports farmers near Waterloo discouraged by poor prospects, a Dubuque couple’s 55th anniversary, Des Moines fund drive for fish massacre survivors, mining engineers at Fort Dodge, and other local incidents from rail to river.
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Waterloo
Samuel Martin
Dubuque
Des Moines
Ames
Profs. Byers
Young
Fort Dodge
Underwood
Shields Bros
Otto Smith
Wheatland
Hull Educational Institute
Gallon
Cass County
Atlantic
Ford
Lawnhill
Rorbech
Shipley
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