Reed Again Elected Speaker in Landmark Congressional History
Washington March 18 Thomas B Reed is reelected speaker of the house by acclamation as the Republicans unite behind him. The article details Reed's alignment with President McKinley on tariff policy and financial policy, notes their cordial relations despite personal frictions, and places Reed among a lineage of three term speakers. It also includes anecdotes about Webster and Uncle Bassett and evaluates Reed's role in party leadership.
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Washington
Thomas B. Reed
House of Representatives
Geome
Reed
McKinley
White House
Mr. Reed
Mr. McKinley
Themere
Tom
Leed
House
Nathaniel Macon
Henry Clay
Andrew Stevenson
James K. Polk
Linn Boyd
Kentucky
Schuyler Colfax
Indiana
James G. Blaine
Samuel
Congress
Judge Crisp
F. A. Muhlenburg
Pennsylvania
Clay
John W. Taylor
New York
Galusha A. Grow
John W. Keifer
John G. Carlisle
Daniel Webster
Webster
Isaac Bassett
Senate
Mr. Webster
Daniel
Uncle Bassett
Mr. Clay
Calhoun
Walter Wellman
Missing St Louis heiress Ella Burden Believed Kidnapped
Ella Burden an 11 year old heiress to $100000 is missing from St Louis since Monday. She left Dister school with friends, then disappeared near Minerva street after 8:50 PM. Her father and grandmother are at work with authorities and a large reward is offered.
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Ella Burden
Lidnapers
St. Louis
Burden
Minerva Street
Dister
Deaths and market news from March 17 report
The report notes the suicide of Gustave Strassinger’s daughter in Webster Grove at 504 Chicago avenue after efforts to conceal her identity. It also mentions the death by morphine of W. J. Johnson in Indianapolis following alleged dissipation. New York stocks show heavy London decline and local selling, with St. Paul and Omaha shares falling amid profit-taking and winter snow blockades in the Northwest.
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Ocmcaaco
Gustave Strassinger
Webster Grove
St. Louis
Chicago Avenue
W. J. Johnson
Indianapolis
New York
London Exchange
St. Paul
Omaha
Utah appropriation aids Transmississippi exposition efforts
The Utah legislature passed a general appropriation bill carrying 8000 for the Transmississippi exposition. Private subscriptions will boost the total, with numerous donations pledged. Utah mine owners show keen interest and pledge a notable exhibit of the state’s mineral resources.
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Utah
Salt Lake
Exposition Bills Reintroduced In Congress At 1898 Omaha Plan
Washington March 17 Senator Allen reintroduced measures to amend the act authorizing an Omaha Transmississippi and International Exposition in 1898. Congressman Mercer obtained early numbers for about 24 bills with the exposition bill ranked No 4.
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Washington
Allen
Omaha
Mercer
Webster Grove man denies daughter link to Chicago suicide
Gustav Stras singer of Webster Grove denies the Chicago suicide girl is his daughter. He states his only child is a three year old girl and among City Directory entries, he is the sole man with that surname.
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St. Louis
Gustav Strassinger
Webster Grove
Chicago
Lincoln report on Omaha election and commissioners
Governor Holcomb is expected to appoint four fire and police commissioners for Omaha this week under the new city charter. The city election is set for Tuesday, April 20 in Omaha.
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Lincoln
Holcomb
Omaha
Senate committee to report arbitration treaty tomorrow
March 17 Washington The senate foreign relations committee authorized Chairman Davis to report the Anglo American arbitration treaty tomorrow. The treaty will be amended as heretofore.
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WasHiNgton
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Davis
Wheat and grain prices rise on Greece war news
Chicago markets opened firm with wheat above yesterday’s close as Greece war news spurred buying. May wheat traded around 74.7 to 74.5 cents, then eased. corn and oats held firm with light receipts. Provisions opened high but dipped on selling. cash quotes show No 2 red wheat at 44 to 45 cents and No 2 corn at 23 to 24 cents.
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Chicago
Greece
Liverpool
Northwest
St. Louis
Chicago Live Stock Prices Rise on Receipts
Chicago March 17 hogs receipts 25 000 active and higher with light at 3 90 to 4 10 mixed 3 70 to 4 12 rough 3 70 75 cattle receipts 12 000 strong to 10 cents higher beef cattle 3 75 to 5 40 cows and heifers 2 00 to 4 30 Texas steers 3 25 to 4 30 stockers and feeders 3 40 to 4 30 sheep receipts 9 000 natives 2 85 to 4 40 westerns 3 50 to 4 25 lambs 3 90 to 5 90
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Chicago
Cuiago
Texas
Des Moines Letter on Revenue Bill Debates and Proofs
Des Moines reports a week of senate debate over the revenue bill, noting 47 pages and several amendments. Key changes include exemptions for household furniture valued at 300, professional libraries, rent obligations, and homesteads for certain veterans. Debates over loan and trust company taxation, bank stock, and building and loan associations dominate, with proposals to tax residents and outsiders and to shift assessment standards and real estate taxation.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Everall
Iowa
Healy
Ellis
Perete
Jankin
Senators Pass Tax and Insurance Reforms Amid Budget Cuts
Julien Richards reports the revenue bill advances with sections on telegraph tax, assessor duties, and boards of review passing. The house edits fire insurance policy rules toward a valued policy approach, plus penalties for insolvent insurers. Budget cuts target state printing, binding, and clerical costs, with proposed changes to journals, indexes, and a shift from census taking to periodic enumerations by assessors.
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Junkin
Yeas
Senate
House
General Assembly
Senate Committee On Printing
Iowa
Supreme Court
Senate Committee On
Julien Richards
Veteran Pressman Killed in Dusveve Iowa
Iowa brief reports John Mac Donald, a veteran pressman formerly with the Times and Chicago papers, fell down stairs and broke his neck in Dusveve. Also Shenandoah notes Professor J A Beattie, head of Nebraska State Normal School, lectured to Western Normal College students and faculty.
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Dusveve
John MacDonald
The
Times
Chicago
Beattie
Iowa
Shenandoah
J. A. Beattie
Nebraska State Normal School
Western Normal College
Mississippi on the Boom Proves Record Flood Rise
The Mississippi rose 23 inches in 24 hours due to melting snows and heavy rains. Old rivermen predict the highest water in ten years as March 11 reports the surge at Depreve Mississippi.
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Mississippi
Fire at Homestead Building in Des Moines
Fire broke out in the rear of the Homestead building in Des Moines at 1 30 a m. One man was so badly burned he lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital. No other injuries reported.
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Des Moines
Professor Jessen to Lead German at Iowa State
Karl W. Jessen, lecturer in German at the University of Chicago, has been elected instructor in German at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City, replacing the late Carl Streimer. President Harper endorsed the Chicagoan for the post.
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Jessen
Iowa
Iowa City
Karl W. Jessen
University of Chicago
State University of Iowa
Carl Streimer
Harper
Chicagoan
Women Vote On School Tax In Ottumwa Test Case
To test legality of women's votes, Ottumwa Iowa, March 11. Women voted at the school election Tuesday and approved a $50,000 school house tax. Opponents will contest the tax on the ground that women voting is illegal, creating a test case under Iowa law.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Bridge Contract Confirmed for Pacific Short Line Crossing
Stock City March 14 Judge Thayer of the U S court at St Louis has confirmed the contract between the receiver of the Pacific Short Line and the bridge owners across the Missouri river here. In a few days trains of the line to O Neill will cross the bridge for the first time.
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Stock City
Thayer
United States Court At
Robbery at Minden Postoffice and Hardware Store
Minden postoffice was robbed and ten dollar in stamps stolen after 8 o clock. The intruders also entered Stuhr Hardware and took cutlery. The total loss is not yet known.
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Minden
Break the Sawyer Will Ends in Discovery of Undue Influence
The Sawyer will case from Avpvroy Iowa reaches closure as the will leaving property to the Methodist church societies the Ladies Aid and G A R post is set aside for undue influence and unsoundness of mind with theMethodist pastor named as executor without bond.
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Sawyer
Avpvroy, Ia
Samuel Sawyer
Methodist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
G. A. R. Post
Des Morins House OKs Insurance Bill With Value-Based Payouts
Des Morins March 13. The town house passed an insurance bill adopting principal features of the valued policy law. It requires insurers that accept very high premiums for overvalued property to pay face value rather than just the insured property's worth under current law.
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Town House
Des Morins
Revenue Bill Clears Senate in Des Moines Debate
In Des Moines on March 14 the senate approved the revenue bill after a full day of discussion on the building and loan section. The house added radical insurance amendments, striking a blow to insurance combines and allowing insured individuals to recover premiums from any insurer found to be in collusion with others.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Panic as Floyd river rises four feet in Sioux City
Sioux City residents faced a scare as the Floyd bottom saw a sudden four foot rise in the river above upriver points. Police urged quick evacuation to higher ground while Merrill Hinton and James reported flooded banks. A rapid temperature drop eased fears, though past flood losses in 1892 leave locals vigilant.
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Sioux City
Floyd
Merrill
Hinton
James
Floyd Valley
Great Change in Iowa Crops Pushes Wheat Acreage Up
Atlantic Iowa March 11 report previews a shift from corn and oats to wheat due to low prices. Iowa may plant 3.5 to 4 million acres of wheat, reducing corn and oats areas. Expected wheat crop around 30 million bushels and corn about 50 million bushels below average, with local fields sowing four to five times usual wheat.
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Atlantic
Iowa
Hawkeye Speaker Discharges Clerks in Iowa House
Des Moines IA March 17 Speaker Byers dismissed 10 committee clerks and plans more cuts. Supporters protested briefly until the speaker referred the issue to the full house, which sustained him and granted power to proceed to an unanimous vote.
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Hawkeye
Des Marxes
Byers
Pioneer Iowan A A Case Dies in Atlantic
A. A. Case, pioneer resident of Southwestern Iowa and father-in-law of State Senator Julian Phelps, died last night at his daughter Mrs Julian Phelps home in Atlantic. He arrived in Iowa in 1840 and settled in Cass County in 1838.
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Atlantic
A. A. Case
Julian Phelps
Iowa
Case
Cass County
Odd Fellows to Celebrate Founding Anniversary
The Eastern Iowa Association of Odd Fellows plans a large celebration in this city on April 26 to mark the order’s founding. Local lodges prepare to host at least 2,000 members of the organization.
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Odd Fellows
Crpar Ramos
Eastern Iowa Association of Odd Fellows
Order
Sioux City Bank Resumes Operations After Suspension
Sioux City bank resumes business after suspension. First National Bank of Sioux City Iowa, once insolvent November 19, 1896, has met all conditions for resumption and now has unimpaired capital stock.
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Sioux City Bank
Washington
First National Bank of
Sioux City
Augusta Larrabee Dolliver Dead
Augusta Larrabee Dolliver wife of Victor B. Dolliver died in Minneapolis after a lingering illness. She was the eldest daughter of ex Governor Larrabee of Clermont and known across the state for social life in Des Moines during her father’s administration from 1886 to 1890. She married last August to Mr Dolliver, brother of the congressman and a Minneapolis attorney. Funeral held at the family home in Clermont.
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Augusta Larrabee Dolliver
Des Moines
Victor B. Dolliver
Minneapolis
Clermont
Atlantic Bank Receivers Pay Off 55000 Claims in Atlantic
James B. Braff as receiver of the Bank of Atlantic will today discharge claims totaling 55000, shrinking liabilities from 205000 to 150000. The reduction includes 32000 in notes held by other banks. So far the bulk of F H Whitneys personal property remains untouched, deeded to the bank at assignment. If sold at a fair price this property could clear all debts.
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Atlantic Bank
Atlantic
James B. Braff
Bank of Atlantic
F. H. Whitney
Bruff
Hog Cholera Theory Challenged by Imported Hogs
Fort Downe Iowa March 12 The hog cholera plague blamed on overbreeding thoroughbred stock is challenged as Texas razorback hogs recently imported into Iowa for breeding a stronger line all contracted the disease and most of the two carloads shipped by J Van Meter of Van Meter Indiana died, undermining the theory.
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Fort Downe
Iowa
Texas
J. van Meter
van Meter
Long Nosed Rooters
Prohibits an Insurance Pool in Iowa Rate Laws
Describes Iowa enactment prohibiting selling of any rate book and barring insurance companies from using an agreed rate. The amendment aims to end state rate combines, allows insureds to recover premiums if a company is found in a combine, and permits county mutuals to operate across adjoining counties.
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Iowa
Drs Moines
House
Iowa Alliance
Henry Bennet
Cedar Rapids
New Revenue Bill Strikes Section 22 on Loans
Des Moines reports the senate spent the day finalizing the revenue bill. Section 22, tied previously, was removed, keeping the old tax method for loan and trust companies. An amendment to tax state and savings banks like national banks failed. Gorrell’s major proposed credit tax was defeated amid debate. House approves substitute for senate military bill and passes insane hospital bill with salary cut for superintendents.
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Solons
Des Moines
Senate
Gorrell
Bowen
Drues
Lothrop
Kilburn
Yeas
House
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