State Veterinarian Reports Double Workload in Iowa
Iowa's 1900 1901 biennial veterinary report notes doubled department activity amid strong livestock prices and rising demand abroad. Gibson warns Western horse importation may spread glanders urging state health board to require import inspections and tighter controls on cattle entry to curb tuberculosis and other threats to public health and herd vitality.
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Des Moines
James J. Gibson
Gibson
Iowa
State Board of Health
FACES JUDGE LEMLY On His Actions From Joining Sampson Squadron
Washington Oct 00 The cross examination of Admiral Schley continued slowly in the court of inquiry. The questions covered the cruise from Cienfuegos to Santiago and the decision to turn back after approaching Santiago. They debated coal difficulties at Cienfuegos the retrograde movement and whether the department’s dispatch was an expert order.
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Washington
Schley
Cienfuegos
Santiago
Admiral Schley
Senate
Sampson
Navy Department
Sigsbee
St. Paul
Nunez
Department
Adm Schley Ends Testimony in Santiago Battle Inquiry
Washington Oct 31 Admiral Schley concluded cross examination in the court martial probing the Santiago campaign. The judge advocate pressed 84 questions about retrograde moves and reconnaissance while Schley clarified helm orders and the turn toward the enemy. He noted he did not learn of the Texas incident until six months after the battle and testified about prior warnings to Captain Cook and the decision to ram if necessary. He discussed earlier reports and adjustments to his battle narrative, including why the first report differed from the original.
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Washington
Sehley
Battle of
Santiago
Judge Advocate
Brooklyn
Lieut
Hodgson
Texas
Schley
Cook
Senate
Department
Colon
Sampson
Key West
Lemly
Admiral Schley
New York
Schleys Foes Move to Rebut Evidence in Inquiry
Washington Nov 1 The Schley court of inquiry heard rebuttal testimony from several witnesses after Judge Advocate Lemly limited new evidence to material points. The proceedings centered on a Massachusetts aboard remark attributed to Lieut Sears urging to bolster Schley, a statement linked to relief for Lieut Commander Grant and other Massachusetts officers.
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Washington
Schley
Commodore Schley
Grant
Potts
Massachusetts
Mr. Seary
Testimony Concludes as Schley Court Receives Rebuttal Evidence
The court ruled witnesses may be recalled for new testimony but not to repeat prior statements. Captains Sigsbee Chadwick Eaton and lieutenants Roys, Southerland, and Anderson testified in rebuttal about actions surrounding the 1898 battle and related dispatches.
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Massachusetts
Rayner
Capt. Stgsbee
Capt. T. 8
Borden
Admiral Schley
Capt
Marine Corps
Brooklyn
Commodore Schley
Charles D. Sigsbee
Francis I. Chadwick
Joseph G. Eaton
John H. Roys
Neil Anderson
Chadwick
Navy Department
Schley
Sigsbee
Eaton
Dispatch
Lieut
Boys
Eagle
Cienfuegos
Southerland
Port Antonio
Merrimac
Anderson
End Is In Sight at Schley Court of Inquiry
Washington reports the Schley court of inquiry nears its end as Judge Advocate Lemly says no more witnesses will be called for now and Admiral Schley may return Monday to correct errors. Lieut Hood and Sylvester Scovil testified about interviews and press boat conversations from the Cuban campaign and Spanish war era.
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Washington
Schley
Lemly
Mr. Rayner
Admiral Schley
Department
John Hood
Hawk
Sylvester Scovil
Cuba
Lieut
Hood
Cienfuegos
Scovil
Sigsbee
St. Paul
Somers N. Smith
Hare
Santiago
Scovill
Welcome Home Duke and Duchess in Portsmouth Naval Pageant
Crowds cheered as the royal fleet greeted the return of the duke and duchess of Cornwall and York. The Victoria and Albert, Ophir, and royal yacht ceremonies featured the king in admiral’s uniform, the queen and royal children on deck, and a final greeting on board the Victoria and Albert.
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Portsmouth
England
Cornwall
York
Victoria and Albert
King
Ophir
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
Autograph of President McKinley Tops Auction in New York
The first McKinley autograph offered at public sale since his death sold for $6.25 to George L. Smith. The item featured his full name, William McKinley, on an original cabinet photograph. Bidders showed strong interest, indicating McKinley’s autograph commands high value among presidents.
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New York
President McKinley
Fifth Avenue
William McKinley
George L. Smith
McKinley
Students Pull Down Arch At McGill Grounds
In Montreal on November 2 a large wood and stucco arch modeled after Berlin’s Bradenburg Gate, built to honor the duke of Cornwall and York, was pulled down at night by several hundred McGill students. They say no offense was intended to the duke by the demolition.
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Montreal
McGill University
Cornwall
York
Bradenburg
Berlin
New Portuguese Minister to Washington Named
Lisbon November 2 Senor Horta Machado was appointed Portuguese minister at Washington and presented his credentials to the United States government.
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Lisbon
Senor Horta Machado
Washington
Body found near Sioux City linked to former minister
The body thought to be Samuel Crofton, once a minister, was found in a cornfield near Sioux City. A bullet hole and throat wounds were noted, with doctors estimating the body had lain six weeks. Crofton later worked as a snake man in a local side show due to poverty.
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Samuel Crofton
Sioux City
Crofton
Smallpox Outbreak on Tama Indian Reservation Reported
Dr. A M Linn of the state board of health reports sensational smallpox conditions on the Tama Indian reservation. Five Indians have died and more than fifty are ill. Refusal of vaccination and lack of state law prompting rigid quarantine and destruction of tepees houses and clothing. federal aid declined.
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A. M. Linn
State Board of Health
Tama
Memorial tablet honors early Scott County settlers in Davenport
The Scott County Pioneer Settlers association dedicated a memorial tablet in the Davenport courthouse listing about 300 pioneers who settled in the county before 1848. Capt. W. S. Clark of Buffalo, the oldest surviving Iowa settler, attended, as did speaker W. F. Brannan of Mascatine who delivered the dedication address.
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Scott County
Pioneer Settlers’ Association
Davenport
W. S. Clark
Buffalo
Iowa
W. F. Brannan
Mascatine
Doctor Disappears In Montrose Case
Dr C R Sanderson mayor of Montrose and pension examining board member vanishes. His wife files in superior court alleging improper conduct with Mrs Frank Sawyer wife of a Montrose farmer who also disappeared.
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C. R. Sanderson
Montrose
Pension Examining Board of
Keokuk
Frank Sawyer
Montrose Township
Bank Loot at Matlock: Six-Man Gang Wrecks Safe
Six heavily armed men looted Loota Bank at Matlock taking $2,000 with $300 in silver. Four guarded outside while two entered and dynamite blasts shattered the vault. Three blasts woke residents as the building suffered extensive damage.
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Matlock
Stranger Named Frank Payne Found Dead in Tama Hotel
A man registered as Frank Payne of Chicago died at the Midland hotel Tama by his own hand. He lay in bed with an empty carbolic acid bottle nearby and no papers on him. He had seven cents and was about 39 years old.
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Frank Payne
Chicago
Midland
Tama
Robbers Blow Safe at Arispe Bank in Union County
Two men entered the Arispe bank in Union county at dawn and blew the safe with nitroglycerin. They took about $450 and fled, leaving their safe-blowing tools behind in the one story brick building.
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Arispe
Union County
Des Moines and Iowa notes in a late October roundup
A broad Iowa summary reports a derailed Great Western freight near Tairbank with a possible fatality, the Des Moines Trades and Labor assembly urging a children’s labor law, a 1637 dictionary enriching the state library, Hotel Tremont fire at Rolfe, and other regional events including crimes, births, and obituaries across villages like Dubuque, Keokuk, Davenport, and Sedar Falls.
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Humboldt County
Humboldt
Great Western
Tairbank
Johnson
Northeastern Editorial Association
Waterloo
Des Moines
Iowa Octogenarian Society
Kirkwood
Noah Broadway Bacon
Treton
J. M. Cooney
Ackley
George McCloskey
Clinton
Davenport
B. R. Maltby
Streator
Ill
McCloskey
Des Moines Trades and Labor Assembly
Clarence Lenocker
Woodward
Livestock Record
Northwest
Sioux City
Dubuque Herald
Dubuque Telegraph
Telegraph-Herald
Merriam
Western Consolidated Underwriters’ Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Chicago
White Oak Township
John Quigley
B. W. Coyle
St. Patrick’s
Sedar Falls
State university biennial report to governor Iowa City
Regents report a 20 percent attendance increase for the biennium and note the completion of the liberal arts college building, plus plans for a new library. They urge $200 000 for a building housing medicine and engineering after last winter’s fire and $50 000 for land. Treasury shows $602 137.04 income and $611 242.01 expenditures. Enrollment rises to 2 122 students. faculty adds 33 instructors. graduate college created. scholarships and fellowships set at $125 and $225 respectively. Students come from 30 states, 10 European countries, and one Asian country. average age 24.
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State University At
Iowa City
College of
Lbneral Arts
College of Iberal Arts
Graduate College
College of Law
College of Medicine
College of Homeopathic Medicine
College of Dentistry
College of Pharmacy
United States
Europe
Asia
University of Iowa Rejects Buying Degree Proposal
President G E MacLean of the University of Iowa rejected a solicitor's bid to confer a doctor of laws degree on the son of a British MP. The letter called the agent a dishonest cad and warned that his parliamentary ambitions would be limited by such actions.
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G. E. MacLean
University of Iowa
Iowa City
North John Street
Liverpool
England
House of Commons
Middle Temple
London
A. Ogden Taylor
MacLean
George Maclean
Insurance Losses Hit Iowa Fire Damage High
Iowa insurance officials estimate a 50 percent rise in fire losses this year over year driven by drought and heat. Few individual losses reached 100000 while many fires caused 25000 to 75000 in small towns with wiped out business districts and lacking fire departments.
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Iowa
Clemons Found Guilty of Murder in Iowa Falls
The state of Iowa convicts M. O. Clemons of murder in the second degree for the killing of Will Burghduff of Union. Clemons faces a penitentiary term of ten to twenty years after threats and a dispute over alleged insults to his wife.
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Iowa
M. O. Clemons
Iowa Falls
Will Burghduff
Union
Clemons
Burghduff
Attempted bombing at Purslow block stuns Sioux City
An explosion was thwarted when a soap-filled safety valve on a steam boiler was discovered just in time. The Purslow block housing 80 tenants, including displaced women from Soudan row, is the scene of the incident and motive under consideration.
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Purslow
Sioux City
Soudan Row
Gospel ship Megiddo launched for Mississippi river voyage
The Megiddo a gospel ship built in Clinton by the Christian Brethren has been launched. It is described as having the strangest mission of any craft afloat and is expected to begin its trip down the Mississippi and its tributaries in a few weeks.
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Megiddo
Clinton
Christian Brethren
Mississippi
Mississippi River
State council funds Ames college for temporary quarters
In Des Moines the state executive council and Ames college committee, with Gov. Shaw, appropriated all remaining providential contingent fund totaling 3090.42 dollars for temporary livestock quarters after the Ames barn burned last week.
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State Executive Council
Des Moines
Ames College
Shaw
Providential
New Breed Cattle Founder Plans Polled Herefords
Warren Gammon of Des Moines, a breeder, has secured 11 of 17 known multipurpose Hereford cattle in the United States to establish a distinct Polled Herefords breed. Gammon owns the only two registered multipurpose Hereford bulls in the world.
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Warren Gammon
Des Moines
United States
Gammon
Postal estimates set for 1903 fiscal year totals
Washington estimates for the postal service for the year ending June 30 1903 total 135 885 596 including 1 037 370 for department salaries and 216 650 for contingent expenses. Rural free delivery rises to 6 250 000 and ordinary stamps issued are forecast at 4 870 710 731 with postal cards at 735 159 008.
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Washington
New York
Atlanta
New Orleans
Kansas City
Newton
Kan
Congress
Harbors Fortifications Progress and Budget Request
Gen. Gillespie reports 25 principal U S harbors now have enough guns and mortars for defense and outlines coast defense plans. He notes changes from the Endicott board, seeks 4 million dollars for new batteries, and 2 million for site purchases including Boston Narragansett New York Port Royal and Cape Henry.
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Washington
United States
Gillespie
Endicott Board
Coast Defense
Fortifications Board
Wisher’s Island
Port Royal
Boston Harbor
Ina Narragansetn
New York Harbor
Fort Newton
San Francisco
San Diego
St. Johns River
Fort St. Philip
Cape Henry
Big Sums for Pensions in Interior Dept Budget
The Interior Department requests a 170 million dollar budget for the coming fiscal year. Pensions and pension bureau administration total 142.161 million, with 1.965 million for bureau salaries and 350 thousand for special pension case examinations. Additional items include 7 million for Indian affairs, 2.287 million for the General Land Office, 300 thousand for forest reserves, 1.069 million for the Geological Survey, and 949 thousand for the Patent Office.
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Washington
Interior Department
Pension Bureau
Indian Service
General Land Office
Geological Survey
Patent Office
Nurse Charged in Davis Family Poison Deaths
New Bedford Massachusetts October 31 Miss Toppan a trained nurse has been arrested on a murder charge linked to the mysterious deaths of the Davis family of Cataumet within a month Poison was found in the stomach of Mrs Gibbs and authorities say the other deaths likely involved poison though not yet charged against the other victims.
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New Bedford
Mass
Miss Toppan
Davis
Cataumet
Miss Toppam
Gibbs
Massachusetts State Detective Force
Maso Enters Cuban Presidency Race With Manifesto
Havana Nov 1 Gen Bartolome Maso declares candidacy for Cuba’s presidency in a manifesto. He seeks autonomist Spanish and black support while challenging Tomas Estrada Palma and his followers.
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Havana
Bartolome Maso
Senor Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
Spring City resort burned in Waukesha
The Spring City, a leading summer resort in Waukesha Wisconsin, owned by George R Jones, burned Tuesday night. The loss is total estimated at 40000 with 30000 covered by insurance.
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Waukesha
Wis
George R. Jones
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