Bryan Leads Democratic Platform With Broad Reforms
Omaha note says nearly 1,000 delegates and thousands of citizens approved a Bryan driven platform. It condemns Aldrich and Fowler currency bills, calls for emergency federal currency, tariff revision, eight hour workday, opposition to Asiatic immigration, direct senator election, stronger trusts laws, income tax, Panama Canal expansion and inland waterways funding. Imperialism condemned and state and federal railway commissions urged to expand powers.
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Omaha
Neb
Bryan
United States
Aldrich
Panama Canal
Congress
Iowa Grinnell Resumed Hoops Rivalry For State Title
Iowa and Grinnell renew basketball relations and will decide the state championship at Grinnell. The decisive game is set for Wednesday evening March 11. The Hawkeye team is not at full strength and faces a strong chance of losing the laurels.
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Hawkeye
Iowa City
Iowa
Grinnell
Blizzard Rages Through New Richmond Wisconsin
A severe snowstorm floods New Richmond Wisconsin with heavy snowfall since midnight Wednesday. Residents report the worst storm of the season with winds and deep drifts impacting travel and daily life.
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New Richmond
Wis
Rail board seeks forced link between interurban and sanatorium
Iowa City March 6 The state railroad commissioners and Rock Island Railway officials inspect Rock Island Iowa City Cedar Rapids interurban tracks and the state sanatorium. The state board of control wants Rock Island to connect with the interurban to ease transfers to the sanatorium. If ordered, few blocks of South Capital street would receive trackage to the Rate tannery. The interurban can add the extra track at any time and commissioners hints suggest a possible ruling establishing a precedent.
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Iowa City
Iowa State Railroad Commissioners
N. S. Ketchum
W. L. Eaton
T. J. Farmer
Carroll Wright
W. P. Brady
Rock Island Railway Company
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State
Iowa State Board of Control
Mother loses child in desperate courthouse incident
In Des Moines Indiana on March 6 Jacob Haugh won a divorce in Judge Brennan's court. Mrs Haugh, whose children were removed, attacked her young daughter in the courtroom and attempted to choke her. She threatened suicide and had bought laudanum. police hunt for her as she may have hidden and harmed herself.
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Des Moines
Jacob Haugh
Brennan
Haugh
Admiralty Explanation Leaves Questions Unanswered
Times explains naval inquiry but provides insufficient answers. Officials offered statements yet left key points unclear about procedures and outcomes. Readers await fuller, transparent disclosure from authorities.
Emperor William letter described as personal communication
London reports Lord Tweedmouth dismisses the German emperor’s letter on naval policy as a personal note with no reference to British naval estimates. The admiralty intends to reveal more in the House of Lords as controversy grows over perceived imperial designs on British independence.
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London
Lord Tweedmouth
Admiralty
London Times
William
Tweedmouth
Germany
House of Lords
Emma Goldman to Speak in Chicago Amid Police Crackdown
Chicago rumors swirl about Emma Goldman delivering lectures tonight despite police bans. Averbuch, the would‑be assassin of Chief Shippy, was buried at Dunning under heavy rain with Olga Averbuch consenting after exhaustion of resources.
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Chicago
Ill
Emma Goldman
High Priestess of
Anarchy
Emma
Averbuch
Shippy
Lazarus Averbuch
Shippy Monday
Potter's Field
Olga Averbuch
Dunning
New York Man Arrested Over German Secrets Bid
William Esser, 40, a Brooklyn machinist, was arrested on grand larceny charges after a fight with detectives. Authorities say he was accused of negotiating with Berlin to sell the E. W. Bliss projectile secret used in U S government explosives. Bliss officials allege Esser stole tools from the Fifty-third Street works.
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Washington, D. C
New York
William Esser
Navy Department
Bliss
Esser
N. Y
Flatbush
E. W. Bliss Company
United States
August Kuhne
Brooklyn Detective Bureau
Berlin
Francis Page
Fifty-third Street
Brooklyn
Banker Kills Self Amid Finances and Tragedy
Detroit officials report Ellwood T. Hance first vice president of Union Trust Co and former Detroit postmaster killed himself amid worries over finances and ill health. Bank denies Union Trust and City Savings affairs are involved. In Arcadia Wisconsin cashier John Ruth faces a 13000 shortage. directors cover loss. Avon Connecticut John J. Lynch under liquor killed mother in law shot his wife and killed himself.
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Detroit
Mich
Ellwood T. Hance
Union Trust Co
Hance
City Savings Bank
Arcadia
Wis
John Ruth
Bank of Arcadia
Ruth
Avon, Conn
John J. Lynch
Look for His Own Body in River in Iowa
Davenport March 6. George Cramer joined a river search after spotting a derelict skiff. He briefly fell overboard but righted his boat and helped search for a missing man before realizing the victim was someone else. He then left the scene and later joined the group again.
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Syndicate
Davenport
George Cramer
Mississippi
Cramer
Harry Christenson
Rock Island
Illinois
Japan grows angrier over seizure of Japanese steamer
Tokio reports via Associated Press that talks with China on the Tatsu seizure have not reached an ultimatum. Minister Hayashi in Pekin has not been instructed to threaten force, though a single course remains if China refuses to yield.
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Tokio
Associated Press
China
Hayashi
Pekin
Wind Rips Through Chicago With Wreckage and Floods
Chicago reports the strongest March wind in three years reaching 55 mph. Chimneys topple while store fronts crumble and gravel rains down on pedestrians. Water from thaw floods yards as waves lap houses. a funeral is halted as a bridge is built for the hearse. An iron smokestack falls at the Grand Pacific. an unknown man is badly injured.
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Chicago
Yage Park
Grand Pacific
Raging Rivers Flood Toledo and Peru Homes
Toledo sees the Mau mee river rise and jam a steel boat against a bridge halting traffic as water floods streets and cellars. In Peru Indiana the Wabash overflows its banks, putting 75 homes at risk and leaving about a thousand workers idle.
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Toledo
Ohio
Maumee
Peru
Ind
Fire destroys village in Noda Soy near Tokio
A serious morning fire in Noda Soy, a brewing town near Tokio, destroyed four hundred of its one thousand houses. The damage is estimated at two and a half million dollars.
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Tokio
Noda Soy
Dr Swallow Improves From Illness in Harrisburg
Harrisburg March 6 Dr Silas C Swallow noted prohibitionist is dangerously ill but slightly better today with his condition under observation and his medical team reporting cautious improvement.
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Harrisburg
Silas C. Swallow
Fire ruins at Collinwood school. death toll hits 167
Ohio reports 167 recovered bodies in the Collinwood school fire with 23 still unidentified. Miss Katherine Weiler identified by gold teeth and Rosetta Machnich by her shoes. funerals planned for many victims as investigations consider incendiary origin and door safety failures.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Katherine Weiler
Collinwood
Rosetta Machnich
Weather Outlook Iowa Illinois Fair and Colder Front
Iowa fair tonight and Saturday with colder conditions mostly in the east. Illinois sees generally fair weather and colder tonight and Saturday. Sunrise 6 19 a m sunset 5 48 p m moon set 10 30 p m.
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Iowa
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