Petersen Refuses to Enter Second District Race
Davenport Iowa Sept 3 Walter H Petersen Republican nominee for Congress in the second district declines to run citing business duties and youth. He pledges support to any Republican named for the seat and will aid the chosen candidate. Herman J Zeuch progressive nominee also cannot accept the nomination and will support any Progressive nominee while focusing on his campaign funds and time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Iowa
Walter H. Petersen
Congress
Petersen
Repubblicans
National Congress
Zouch
Herman J. Zauch
Des Moines
Second Town
Zeuch
Canada
Island Girl Anna Shoultz Dies at Eight on Muscatine Island
Eight year old Anna Shoultz daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Shoultz long time Muscatine Island residents died at 2 pm today after a heart condition. She had been ill for months and hoped to attend school this term. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Shoultz
Frank Shoultz
Muscatine Island
Propose Permanent Equalization Board in Iowa
Des Moines Sept 5 The special tax commission of Iowa recommends a permanent state equalization board to standardize property values and a county tax commissioner to serve as county assessor. The recommendations will be included in the commission report due with Gov Carroll on October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Sioner
Special Tax Commission of
Towa
B. ¥. Carroll
Progressives hold New York state convention plans
At Syracuse delegates outline party organization for a state ticket as 1,500 progressives prepare for a likely floor battle over the governorship. Comptroller Prendergast and Chair Hotchkiss deny active campaigns while George W. Perkins arrives with Roosevelt signals. Ohio convention nominates Arthur L. Garford for governor as Johnson addresses proceedings.
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Syracuge
Lkely
Wm. A. Prendergast
New York
Roosevelt
Murke
Hotchkisss
Prendergast
Trotchkiss
Hotchkiss
Garfield
Ohio
Columbus
aArthur L. Gattory
Hlytia
Hiram W. Johnson
California
James R. Garfield
Walter F. Brown
Johnson
Arthur L. Garford
Biyria
Summon Talisiens for Becker Trial Promises of Revelations
New York August 5 Justice Goim was expected today to grant a motion summoning 250 talesmen to select a jury for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker's trial, set to begin September 12. With Rosenthal case interest high, jury pools may be hard to secure. Demoted Inspector Hayes seeks to delay actions by grand jury amid departmental trial on false statement charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Hayes
Whitman
Walfle
Jim
Waldo
Grand Jury
Radford explorer reports 350 wild buffalo in Hudson Bay district
Word from Winnipes that Harry Radford, former Edmonton expeditionist, reached Trenton River last winter and hunted this summer in Hudson Bay country. He notes over 350 wild buffalo in Stave Lake district, well protected by Indians who guard the herd and prohibit shooting.
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Winnipes
Man
Harry Radford
Edmonton
Alberta
North Country
Trenton River
Hudson Bay Company
Barren Lands
Radford
Stave Lake
Hudson Bay Country
Only Wanted Girl Say Park Bandits
Chicago dispatch reports Roy Winkleman 17 shot as three bandits approached on a west side park road. Miss Nellie Burnett escaped injury. bandits captured by park police after a chase. The assailants claimed they only wanted the girl and did not intend robbery or killing.
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Chicago
Roy Winkleman
West Side
Winkleman
Nellie Burnett
General Assembly
John &. Brindley
Iowa Commission
Commission
National Tax Conference
Passenger Train and Engine Collision Near Alissour River Bridge
Siouyx City Iowa September 1 Passenger train No.14 on the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha line known as the Black Hills and Norfolk express collided head on with a locomotive on the approach of the high bridge over the Alissour River in the eastern part of the city. The impact hurled passengers from seats and piled them in the aisles. Many were severely injured by being trampled on cut by flying glass and bruised by falling against seats None was fatally hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siouyx City
Iowa
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Briton Trade Unions Oppose Compulsory Arbitration
Newport England September 5 Trade unions at the Trades Unions congress voted overwhelmingly against compulsory arbitration of trade disputes. Nearly two million members are represented by five hundred delegates at the congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Eng
Trades Unions’ Congress
Justice McIntosh Performs Brace of Weddings
Justice L A McIntosh, known as the marrying magistrate, united four couples in the past 24 hours. Weddings occurred at his office and at the Scott House, with grooms from Fairport Grandview Keswick and Rock Island areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. McIntosh
Scott House
Gordon Ricketts
Fairport
Mildred E. Mockmore
Wir
Anthony Ricketts
Charles M. Mockmore
Royce Gamble
Dickerson-Gamble
Dickerson
Nina
Grandview
William Dickerson
Edward Gamble
Louisa County
Doty-Wilson
Edgar Doty
Keswick
Iowa
Opal Wilson
Rock Island
Illinois
Edwin Doty
Solon Wilson
Rock Island County
Bandit Robber Grotesquely Foiled by Engine Driver
A bandit named Howard Edwards attacked the New York Limited on the Louisville & Nashville line near New Orleans. He looted mail and sleepers, carried dynamite, and was fatally struck by Engineer Baer with a heavy oil can, leaving him unconscious and providing police with leads to three other alleged accomplices. Edwards, in critical condition, claimed a Jupiter Florida family background. A separate report from Osage City describes a masked man on a Missouri Pacific train stealing $20 before fleeing into a cornfield, deemed a journalistic amateur.
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New Orleans
New York Limited
Louisville & Nashville
Charity Hospital
Howard
Edwards
Jupiter
Fla
Baer
Cincinnati
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Marshall
Passengger
Osage City
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Bumgardner Funeral Services Held At Home
The funeral of Mrs. M Bumgardner was held this afternoon at 2 30 at the residence 844 Newell avenue. Rev J B Rendall of the First Presbyterian church conducted and preached the sermon. Interment followed in Greenwood cemetery with pallbearers Lloyd and George Bumgardner Clarence Althaus Lloyd Butler Howard Fowler and Joseph Hoeftlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Bumgardner
Newell Avenue
J. B. Rendall
First Presbyterian Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Lloyd
George Bumgardner
Clarence Althaus
Lloyd “Butler
Howard Fowler
Joseph Hoeftlin
Physical director due here Monday
The local Y M C A will see renewed activity next week as R H Starkey, the new physical director from York Nebraska, arrives Monday. Arrangements for gym reopening and class resumption are to be perfected, with actual gym work unlikely before October 1 if weather is unfavorable. The matter rests with the new director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Starkey
York
Nebraska
Lawyer Gibson Faces Action Over Clients’ Deaths
New York September 5 consuls from Austria and Britain took interest as lawyer Burton W. Gibson faces removal as executor of Rosa Szabo’s will after her drowning in Greenwood Lake Orange County. Szabo left about 10000. Gibson once advised John Rice ONeill who vanished after a $10000 railroad damages win. In 1906 he defended Mrs. Alice Kinnan in a Bronx murder case unresolved. Bail set at 25000, later dropped, Gibson said he will comment later.
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New York
N. Y
Burton W. Gibson
Rosa Szabo
Greenwood Lake
Orange County
Gibson
John J. Broderick
Great Britain
Mr. Gibson
John Rice O'Neill
O'Neill
Alice Kinnan
Bronx
Clinton County Indicts Three Officials and Contractors
Twenty three indictments against three county officials serve as the core of a Clinton county courthouse scandal probe. Indicted are county figures Exper Visors Hauke and Kearney, ex-Supervisor Mordhurst, Auditor Leidham, Recorder Meenna, and others. Charges include conspiracy and fraud tied to bridge contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Clinton County Court House
Tom Hauke
Frank Kearney
William Mordhurst
Junction District Fair Draws Crowds and News
Columbus Junction Iowa Sept 5 Special crowds poured in for this afternoon's district fair program as trains and roads brought visitors. Yesterday's racing sparked excitement with three minor accidents reported including a stallion attack on Dan Peters' son and a rider thrown from a horse. Race entries list two harness events with purses of 200 dollars. A Conesville barbecue club arrives for the fair and local baseball results note Letts beating Columbus Junction 16 to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Flae
Dan Peters
Dick Peters
Johnson
Tegrasp
Sam
Peters
Charlie Keer
Thomas Todd
Morning
Rock Island
Todd
Dick Sentinel
Lee
Alex J
Manner
Minor Heir, Jr
Geene
Sampson Muscovite
Cary
Jola West
West
Senator
Sheilds
Farry Teddy Onslaw
Mack
Crawford
Conesville
Washington
Letts
Miss Sutherland
Burlington
Milt T Dicker
Taft Leaves White House for New York Despite Injury
President Taft, still nursing an injured ankle, departed the White House by automobile to meet trains for a trip to New York. He plans to board the Mayflower and may address the Atlantic Deeper Waterway association, with possible stops at New London and Beverly depending on conditions.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
New York
New London
Beverly
White House
Union Station
Atlantic Deeper Waterway Association
Cobourne and Mrs Burrows to face murder charges
In East Liverpool Ohio Richard Burrows a paving contractor was found slain in a barn. Cobourne his employer and Mrs Burrows are to be arraigned today on first degree murder charges claiming Cobourne killed Burrows to protect Mrs Burrows from harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Richard Burrows
John Cobourne
Burrows
Cobourne
Wilson Named By Arrangement of Great State Bosses
The Minnesota state fair grounds heard Theodore Roosevelt denounce Democratic bosses over Woodrow Wilson’s Baltimore nomination. He cited primaries defeats in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, credited Indiana’s Taggart and Illinois’ Sullivan with Wilson’s nomination, and warned the tariff plank risks. Roosevelt then toured Minneapolis before heading to Grand Forks. Governor Hadley denied telling L A Ellis that progressive judicial candidates would withdraw to support Taft. Ellis stood by his quote claiming Hadley’s denial failed to rebut the telephonic assurances.
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St. Paul
Minn
Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
Theodore Roosevelt
Minnesota State Fair Grounds
Roosevelt
Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Lorimer
Linois
Pris Maries
Wilson
Clark
Taggart
Indiana
Sullivan
Ilinois
Murphy
New York
Democraty
Fair Grounds
Minneapolis
Grand Forks
N. Dak
Hadley
Jefferson City
L. A. Elis
Kansas City
Taft
Ellis
Lis
PACKERS HELD RESPONSIBLE IN POISONING CASE
New York September 5 Judge Noyes overruled Armour and Company demurrer in damage suit by Sophia Ketterer who alleges poisoning by trichinae infected pork. Court held packer liable, not middleman or retailer, for damages arising from the alleged contamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demurrer
New York
Armour & Company
Sophia Ketterer
Noyes
United States District Court Today
Packer
Dunlap Resigns Bureau Post to Accept Chicago Position
Dr L Dunlap of the bureau of chemistry and associate chemist under Dr Harvey W Wiley resigned to take a commercial post in Chicago. He was a Pure Food Board member and became known for charges of irregularity against Dr Wiley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
L. Dunlap
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Chicago
Dunlap
Pure Food Board
Wiley
Yesterday's races judge flowers kitchen and dairy dept
Yesterday's races summary notes a first rate 2 16 pace for a $300 purse with entries Belle Charleston Auto Girl Harper Boy and Ora Patch among the field. The second race featured an unusual mile and a half relay with twelve horses and four riders. Vern Hanft won, Chester Clark runner up, J Jones third, all Columbus Junction men.
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Belle Charleston
Mead
Sword Ad
John Gund
Edwards
Harper Boy
B.s
Harper
Huntsberry
Weather Report for LoWa Area Continues Warm
Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Friday. Sunrise at 5 19, sunset 6 18, noon rise 11 18 p m.
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Lowa
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Becker
Tenior- Tow
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Clinton County
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