Trial of Doxeys Begins in Murder Case in St Louis
Mrs. Dora E Doxey and Dr. Loren B Doxey face murder charges in a joint indictment. The defense seeks severance and a venue change with Mrs Doxey to be tried first as jurors are selected amid high public interest. Doxey admits marriage to Elder and says she will not live with her Nebraska husband even if acquitted.
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St. Louis
Dora E. Doxey
Loren B. Doxey
William J. Elder
Doxey
Cornerstone Laid for Holy Trinity Church in Dubuque
The cornerstone ceremony drew about 10 000 attendees as Very Rev George Heer led the event at Holy Trinity church assisted by 20 priests. Two sermons were delivered in German and English by Rev A Boeding and Dr D M Gorman. A Catholic society parade of 1000 men preceded the service, with occupancy planned for September.
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Dubuque
Iowa Evening Press
Holy Trinity Church
George Heer
St. Mary’s Church
A. Boeding
D. M. Gorman
Man Killed by Engine Near North McGregor
Patrick Barnett, a young man living three miles west of North McGregor near the railroad, was instantly killed Sunday morning after being struck by a Hill engine returning from Manona. Heavy rain and a swollen Giarg creek roared, concealing the whistle and preventing him from hearing the approaching locomotive.
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Iowa Evening Press
North McGregor
Patrick Barnett
Manona
Giarg Creek
Despondent man commits suicide over money worries
Cedar Rapids Iowa May 23 Carl Titz aged 45 despondent over slow earnings ended his life by turning on gas and hanging himself to a bed post. He leaves a wife and five children.
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Iowa Evening Press
Cedar Rapids
Carl Titz
Receivers Appointed for Chicago Railways Company
Receivers were appointed today for the Chicago Railways company in Chicago Illinois. At about the same time a judgment for 1 300 000 dollars in favor of certain bondholders of the Consolidated Traction company was entered against the Chicago Railways company.
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Chicago Railways Company
Chicago, Ill
Consolidated Traction Company
Wade Speaker at Meeting in Marshalltown Knights
In Marshalltown Iowa on May 23 a Knights of Columbus meeting drew a large crowd. Sixty candidates from Marshalltown and nearby towns were initiated. Hon M J Wade of Iowa City delivered the principal address at the event.
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Marshalltown
Iowa Evening Press
Knights of Columbus
M. J. Wade
Iowa City
Hankow-Sze-Chuen Railway Loan Reported to Close
London financial circles report the Hankow Sze Chuen railway loan of 39 million dollars to be finalized in Paris, marking a major international financing arrangement for China.
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London
lIt
Paris
Emperor William Departs London. King George Sees Him Off
Emperor William left London today with King George accompanying his royal cousin to the railway station. Their parting was described as affectionate in London dispatches dated May 23.
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King George
London
William
U S May Attack Lumber Trust in Sherman Probe
Washington May 23 The department of justice investigates lumber pricing to decide if the so called lumber trust can be reached by the Sherman anti trust law as a combination in restraint of trade.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
United States
See Comet and Its New Tail Tonight
Des Moines May 23 Prof Moorehouse of Drake university plans to observe and photograph the moon eclipse between 9 and 11 PM if clear weather allows the comet with its new tail to be seen in the western sky as Earth's shadow covers the moon. Meteors fall at Boone and Monona near 11 PM. a coallike substance with no fire is reported, possibly from Halley’s comet.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
Moorehouse
Drake University
Boone
Monona
W. B. Harris
Halley
Iowa Delegates Seek End of Liquor Trade in Washington
Washington May 23 delegates to the world’s Sunday school convention adopted a resolution urging Congress to abolish the liquor business in the city of Washington and the District of Columbia. State secretary Rev Fitch presented the resolution and it is expected to be adopted. W R Orchard of Glidden wrote the resolution.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Congress
Washington
District of Columbia
Fitch
W. R. Orchard
Glidden
Churchmen Confront High Cost of Living at Assembly
Atlantic City May 23 The Presbyterian General Assembly discusses effects of rising living costs and a bid to consolidate two executive boards. The report supports higher pensions for disabled and widowed clergy and the endowment fund is unanimously increased to 6 million dollars.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Presbyterian General Assembly
Inheritance Gone? Snell Heir Dies in Cheap Hotel Room
Albert J. Snell son of millionaire Amos J. Snell and heir to a fortune was found dead in a squalid rooming house in Chicago. The 1888 murder of his father created a large sensational case.
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Chicago, Ill
Albert J. Snell
Amos J. Snell
Insurgent Republicans Defy Caucus Call Over Savings Bank Bill
About a dozen insurgent Republicans in the House refused to sign a call for a party caucus on the postal savings bank bill for Wednesday night. Names include Norris Hinshaw Nelson Cooper Lenroot and Haugen. The Senate moved the naval appropriation and debated Burton amendment seeking one battleship instead of two. it failed 26 to 39. Senator Lorimer of Illinois did not appear.
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Washington, D. C
House
Postal Savings Bank
Norris
Hinshaw
Nebraska
Nelson
Cooper
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Haugen
Iowa
Tawney
Fitzgerald
New York
Tariff Board
Senate
Lorimer
Illinois
Waterloo firm sues Farm Implement News for 100000
Peerless Cream Separator Co of Waterloo files federal suit for 100000 in damages claiming libel in a Farm Implement News Chicago article. The piece allegedly omitted Waterloo from its 1910 Buyer's guide and implied the company cooperated with another Waterloo firm manufacturing separators for a mail order house.
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Iowa Evening Press
Dubuque, Ia
The
Peerless Cream Separator Co
Waterloo
Federal Court Today
Farm Implement News Co
Chicago
Waterloo Concern
Waterloo Company
Injunction Fight Over Remonstrance Petition Pro longs
A marshal reports the injunction against the Zundt saloon remonstrance petition will continue for weeks. Saloon attorneys threaten to block 150 witnesses. Six hundred petition names are challenged for various reasons, while Civil League members call the dispute a joke as most names are not in doubt.
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Ihing
Zundt
Civil League
Grain Merchants Durant & Elmer in Financial Tangle
Albany May 23 Durant Elmer grain merchants with offices in Albany Chicago Buffalo and Boston face a financial tangle over warehouse receipts. The National Commercial Bank of Albany holds papers for 300000 and First National Bank for 77500 with further sums said to be secured from other banks.
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Albany
N. Y
Durant & Elmer
Chicago
Buffalo
Boston
National Commercial Bank of Albany
First National Bank
Reed Trial Begins in Clinton on Murder Charge
Clinton Iowa May 26 District court opened with Judge House presiding The trial of John Reed charged with murder of A W Lundgren began after jurors indicated strong pretrial opinions making jury selection challenging in the tramp case context
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Clinton
Iowa
Judge House
John Reed
A. W. Lundgren
Reed
Woman finds her sister after forty years in census search
Beloit Wisconsin May 23 Mrs Gus Robles learned the whereabouts of her sister Mrs Catherine Blake of Ottumwa Iowa through the U S census bureau The sisters had not seen each other for 42 years and had no contact for 15 years Robles consulted the enumerator who advised writing Congressman Cooper He provided a list of names and she traced her sister through follow up contact.
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Iowa Evening Press
Beloit
Wis
U. S. Census Bureau
Gus Robles
Catherine Blake
Ottumwa
Iowa
Congressman Cooper
Cooper
Dubuque Man Dies After Lumber Yard Fight
Charles V. Eitzein, 60, died Sunday night in Dubuque after a head injury in a lumber yard fight. Frank Hutter, 35, is under arrest for murder. Autopsy showed a crushed temple bone and a brain clot from the injury two weeks earlier.
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Iowa Evening Press
Dubuque
Charles V. Eitzein
Frank Hutter
Weitzein
Hamilton youth dies of lockjaw after Iowa injury
Ivan Prouty aged 18 of Hamilton Illinois was visiting in Shell Rock Iowa when a gun accident wounded his arm a week ago. Lockjaw developed Saturday and he is not expected to live.
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Hamilton, Ill
Iowa
Iowa Evening Press
Shellrock
Ill
Ivan Prouty
Hamilton
Ili
Iowa Grocery Company Fights Interstate Rate Increase
Des Moines, May 23. The Iowa Grocery company appealed to the railroad commission against the planned June 1 interstate rate hike. The commission will press the matter with the railroad company. if rates rise, it may go to the attorney general to sue before the interstate commerce commission. The Iowa commissioners vow to protect state interests.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
Iowa Grocery Company
Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Iowa Commissioners
Iowa
Juvenile Court Called a Success at Conference Meet
Delegates at the national conference of charities and correction in St. Louis today held six sectional and one general session. Probation officers from many cities in the children sectional urged the enlargement of juvenile courts, marking the court's success.
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St. Louis
On Trail of Big Insurance Steal
State's Attorney Magill probes a Chicago insurance scandal muting the Fraternal Tribunes with embezzlements totaling $47,000 and deposits slashed from $300,000 to $58,000. Names of prominent figures discussed as grand juries may act in Rock Island Cook and Sangamon counties.
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Chicago
Ill
Illnois
Lawrence M. Magill
Rock Island County
Magill
Rock Island
Wayman
Cook County
Sagamon County
Order of Fraternal Tribunes
Fraternal Tribunes
Order
American Home Circle
Tribunes
J. F. McBride
Supreme Tribune
Mr. McBride
T. J. Medill
M. H. Sexton
W. C. Galloway
Robert Rexdale
McBride
Train wreck injures 39 near Rogers Arkansas
The San Francisco Fast Express wrecked near Rogers Arkansas on May 23 injuring thirty five people, with three believed fatally hurt. Railway officials deny any fatalities.
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Rogers, Ark
San Francisco
Death May Follow Assault by Thieves in Waterloo
Waterloo, May 23. Two hold up men hidden in a building assaulted T. Slifsgaard, 22, a traveling man for Rider-Wallace Co. of Dubuque, near the Chicago Great Western depot and robbed him of 50. He was taken to the hospital and may die. The man’s head injuries were serious, and the robbers fled as two women bound for the depot approached. The assailants tried to cut off his diamond ring finger before fleeing.
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Iowa Evening Press
Waterloo
T. Slifsgard
Rider- Wallace Co
Dubuque
Chicago Great Western
Love Tragedies Stir Iowa Towns In One Night
In Waterloo Mrs. Roy Vose nearly dies after ingesting bi chloride of mercury in a domestic crisis. In Keokuk Beatrice Keys wounds William Carter in Rag alley over love, Carter near death and Keys jailed. In Oskaloosa farmer William W Kentfield commits suicide amid ill health and wife’s death leaving five children. In Batavia John Keeter shoots himself with no clear motive.
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Iowa Evening Press
Waterloo
Roy Vose
Keokuk
Beatrice Keys
William Carter
Carter
Self
Batavia
John Keeter
William Keeter
Spring Surprise in Heike Trial Pardoned by Taft
In New York on May 23 Oliver Spitzer superintendent of Williamsburg docks testified in the Heike sugar case. Spitzer, previously convicted for underweighing and sentenced to two years, was pardoned by President Taft. He described scale manipulation and warning signal lights used to alert weighers to approaching officials.
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New York
N. Y
Heike
American Sugar Refining Co
Stimson
Oliver Spitzer
Williamsburg
Atlanta
Spitzer
Taf
Quits Long Motor Boat Race
The Loantaka, a leading entrant in the Philadelphia to Havana motor boat race, returned to Delaware Breakwater for repairs and is doubtful to continue. It was entered by H. S. Peters of Dover New Jersey and was the largest of the five contestants.
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Delaware Breakwater
Del
Loantaka
Philadelphia
Havana
H. S. Peters
Dover
N. J
Big Circus Top Destroyed in Schenectady Fire
In Schenectady New York on May 23 the Barnum Bailey big top caught fire from a cigar stump and burned rapidly. About fifteen thousand spectators discharged in orderly fashion as firefighters worked to control the blaze. The incident showcased the crowd’s discipline and calm evacuation.
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Big Circus
Schenectady
N. Y
Barnum & Bailey
Skeleton Found Near the Grotto by Davenport High Class
A Davenport high school botany class discovered a decapitated male skeleton near the Grotto on a Saturday. They rolled a heavy stone to reveal bones, with the skull missing and clothing eroded. Investigators will study the remains to identify the man and determine if a tragedy occurred.
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Davenport High School
Davenport
Fourth Concern Secret in Island Move to Protect Tribunes
The passage notes a plan to shield Tribunes members from heavy drains on their funds due to death claims by the American Home Circle. The fourth involved concern remains unnamed.
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Island
Tribunes
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Logan Drug Store
Silverstein
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William W. Kentfield
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