Two-year sentence for Whipple in hardware store burglary
J. H. Whipple was sentenced by Judge Smith to two years in the Fort Madison penitentiary for aiding in the December burglary of Shoudy Brothers hardware in Atlantic. Fred Beems received eighteen months, and the accomplices head to Fort Madison immediately.
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Fred Beems
Jeff Whipple
Shoudy Brothers
Ofirearms and Cutlery
Atlantic
Smith
Fort Madison
Whipple
J. H. Whipple
Shroudy Bros
Omaha
President Doles Washington Visit Reaches Social Calls
President Dole and Mrs Dole arrived in Washington for a stay tied to the annexation treaty. The Hawaiian party met with officials including Minister Hatch and ex Minister Thornton while awaiting senate action. Dole plans to return to Honolulu via San Francisco, aiming to see the treaty passed but not awaiting it if not.
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Washington, D. C
Hawaii
Miler
Dole
Hatch
Thornton
Morgan
Alabama
Crosby S&s Noyes
Washington
Associ Press
Presi
Senate
Doring
San Francisco
Honolulu
Titus Resolution for Biennial Elections Recommended
Des Moines Jan 1 The senate Judiciary committee unanimously recommends a Titus resolution to amend the constitution to require biennial elections for all state officers and county offices. If adopted after the next legislature and approved by voters, elections would occur in a single year with no intervening year polls. Woman suffrage amendment also advances in the house with no dissenting report, though Senate support for suffrage remains uncertain. Senator Hotchkiss introduced the resolution.
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Titus
Des Moines
Senate
Judiciary Committee
House Committee On
Hotchkiss i
Jowa Shippers Win in Supreme Court Ruling
Hart & McCabe report the Town Supreme Court affirmed a district court decision in Blair v Chicago and Northwestern railway. The case concerns alleged discriminatory shipping rates to Council Bluffs, with about 39000 in principal and 1500 in attorneys fees. The ruling settles Blair and may decide related cases of McCoy Holloway and Brown against the same railroad.
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Council Blutts
Hart & McCabe
Supreme Court
District Court
Blair
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
McCoy, Holloway and Brown
Whiting
Compan
Council Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Thernell, Macy and Smith
Deemer
Ladd
Omaha Indians sue over ceded Nebraska land contract
Representatives of the Omaha Indians acknowledged a contract before District Judge Evans at Dakota City Neb for the prosecution of a claim against the government. They seek about 1.35 per acre and interest on 85000 acres in Knox Cedar Dixon and Holt counties totaling around 1 million dollars. The land was ceded under a treaty but not turned over. George Moneypenny testified for the government with seven Omaha chiefs present.
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Sioux City
Omaha
Evans
Dakota City
Neb
Knox
Cedar
Dixon
Holt Counties
Nebraska
George Moneypenny
United States
Iowa Law Makers Move To Strip State Printing Powers
Des Moines January 31 The caucus of house Republicans led by Ladd plans to whip colleagues into line and push immediate reductions in state printing and binding. A joint resolution to redistrict and add fifteen members to the house was favorably reported. The automatic counter law extended to January 1, 1900 faced little opposition. Organized labor urged enforcement of the old law, while railroads celebrated another extension as a victory.
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Des Moines
House
Ladd
Mazke
Organized Labor
Stand Up for Golditel Banquet Speech at Waldorf Astoria
The third annual banquet of the Association of Manufacturers of the United States at the Waldorf Astoria drew about a thousand guests as President McKinley arrived and spoke. He urged sound money, national honor, and strong finance, aligning with the party platform on currency and tariffs, and pressed for continued discussion and reform.
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the Association of Manufacturers
New York
Association of Manufacturers of the
McKinley
Warner Miller
R. 8
R. 8. MacAithur
President McKinley
M. E. Ingalls
Darwin James
Rev. MacArthur
Thomas W. Cridler
Randolph Guggenheimer
Etibo Root
John Addison Porter
John W. Griggs
Timothy L. Woodruff
William P. Frye
Charles Emory Smith
Theodors C. Search
Henry EB. Howland
William L. Strong
Clementa A. Griscom
St. Clair McKelway
Abner McKinley
Albert Pope
Henry W. Gijohn
Sam Thomas
Lewis Nixon
B. A Mealpin
Wiliam GC. Whitey
Collis P. Huntington
George Gunter
Mr. Miller
Thendort C. Search
Association
Manufacturers Association
Cardia
New England Strike Tensions Voicing Govt Debate
Washington reports a house vote granting American registry to the foreign built Navajo steamship and discusses the Indian appropriation bill. Rep. Stone and others challenge prosperity claims as 125,000 New England workers are on strike while Grosvenor and others defend the Dingley era and wool industry.
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Washington, DD. C
Richardson
Gem
Tenn
W. A. Stone
Rep
Cleveland
Mr. Richardson
New England
Grosvenor
Stone
Dingley
Richardson Called Out That He Had No Desire To Interfere With Mr. Stone
Mr. Stone
Million Lost by Fire Destroys East St. Louis Elevator
A major blaze in East St. Louis starting about 3 30 Tuesday night razed the union elevator and adjoining structures. Losses exceed 1 million with grain and merchandise destroyed including 2000 H0 bushels of grain and 85 carloads of corn. The Burlington freight house and nearby stables were damaged as fire crews from multiple cities fought the flames. Heaviest losses reported for Z B White Grain Will Harstick Grain and United Elevator. No full tally yet.
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St Louis
East St. Louis
Union Elevator
East St Louis
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Corm
St. Louis Transfer Company
James
Burlington Freight House
St. Linwis
Z. B. White Grain Company
Harstick Grain Commission Company
United Elevator Company
Wanted a Little Money Robbery at Union Trust Office
A young well dressed man walked into Judge Madill's private office in St. Louis and brandished a revolver demanding 6000 dollars. The attempt failed as detectives arrived, the thief was jailed at Four Courts, and a nitro glycerine bottle was found. The 22 year old suspect, described with dark features and distinctive glasses, was unidentified.
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St. Louis
Judge Madill
Union Trust Company
Four Courts
Notable deaths and events in brief
John Laire shipbuilder of Birken head England dies. Charles Reed prominent Californian 49er dies at Auburn. Grand jury to investigate Chicago civil service commission. National Bank of Panola suspended. depositors to be paid in full. Kid McPartland and Jack Handley set for twenty rounds in Toronto on February 7. Linius M. Child Boston lawyer dies at Park Square station, age 62. Emmett Hooley buys Brittania racing cutter. Chicago & South Eastern railway strike delays westbound express from Lebanon with forty passengers. Ohio legislature proposes abolishing capital punishment with life solitary confinement for first degree murder. Fire at Versailles Kentucky causes 375000 in losses. Isham Bailey 52000, Harris 8040 among victims. Interior Secretary Davis: no pension law for widows of soldiers dying of service-connected disease. Time of peace before March 4, 1861.
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John Lairé
Birkenhead
England
Charles F. Reed
Auburn
Chicago Civil Service Commission
National Bank of Panola
Res
Kid McPartland
Jack Handley
Toronto
Linius M. Child
Boston
Park Square
Emmett Terah Hooley
Millonaire
John Johnstone
Prince of Wales
Brittania
Chicago & Southeastern Railway
Lebanon
Ind
Ohio
Versailles
Isham Bailey
Rathaniel Harris
John Harris
Davis
Interior Department
Fire devastates Great Eastern block in Spokane kills several
Firemen still work embers after Tuesday morning blaze in the Great Eastern block in Spokane. Missing include Mrs. Rose Smith and Miss Rose Wilson, and it is likely the Gordon family perished, with W B Gordon a prominent mining expert, his wife and three children aged 12 and 7 among the missing, as is Mrs OC Lewis.
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Spokane
Wash
Rose Wilson
Rose Smith
W. B. Gordon
OC. Lewis
Fragments of Hanna bribery probe unfold in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati hearing on the Hanna bribery case reveals details of shadowed movements by Hollenbeck and Boyce, with Allen O Myers Jr and others recounting trips between Columbus and Cincinnati. Witnesses discuss telegrams, money, and surveillance by detectives as the committee advances toward a Columbus session.
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Legislative Committee
United States
Senate
Columbus
Gibson House
Telegraph and Telephone Companies
Union Savings and Trust Company
Allen O. Myers, Jr
Great Southern
Kurtz
Henna
Allen O Myers, Jr
Boyce
Haruna
Myers
Hollenbeck
Garfield
Boyce Hollenbeck
Otis
Burke
E. H. Archer
H. T. Hollenbeck
Jerry Bills
Harry M Daugherty
Republican Executive Committee
E. D
Archer
F. J. Mulvihill
Hanna
Mulvihill
Major Dick
Detective Miller
Major Rathbone
Miller
Boyce and Hatlenbeck
E. B. Voorhuis
Union Trust and Savings Bank
J. W. Warrington
Voorheis
Schmidlapp
Ceylor
Caylor
John Miller
Edward Schlensinger
Theodore Archambald
Charles Armstrong
Hollenback
E. P. Dohner
Max Shaeffer
Shaeffer
Charles F. Kinkaid
Enquirer
Dohter
Sheffer
Western Union
New York
Gouvenier M. Carhoun
Calhoun
Five Victims Identified in Spokane Block Fire Tragedy
In Spokane Washington on January 31 the charred remains of five victims from the Great Eastern block fire were recovered. Two bodies were identified as W. B. Gordon and Mrs. Cora Peters. The others are believed to be Mrs. Peters' children Charles Alma and Ethel Peters. Mr Peters entered the building to rescue them.
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Spokane
Wash
W. B. Gordon
Cora Peters
Owanan's Queer Malady Attracts Rapids Attention
One of Iowa's peculiar insanity cases draws notice in Rapids as RR Bye a once prominent life insurance solicitor vanishes from public view and is found bedridden claiming divine spirits guide him. Once tall and robust he now speaks for a spirit driven mission promising miraculous cures while supporters resist removal to an asylum.
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Rapids
W. Bye
Almout
Iowa
Bye
Tuey Overhauser
Rye
Jand
Mr. Bye
Tam
Grant
Reid
Towa Schlatter
Eye
Grand Old Man Sinking at Cannes
On Friday at noon Mr Gladstone and Mrs Gladstone left for carriage rides in Cannes. Mrs Gladstone was assisted by a nurse and valet as Mr Gladstone, frail and weak, leaned on a stick and saluted with the balustrade before being lifted into a carriage. He wore a thick overcoat and fur wrapped around him. Reports confirm heightened illness and deep melancholy from neuralgia, with an ominous wish that all might be over.
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Cannes
Jan
Mrs. Gladstone
Widow Mrs Ketcham Sued for Legal Fees in Death Matters
Mrs Minnis Wallace Ketcham, widow of John B. Ketcham, is sued by former attorney H C Hansen for 20000 dollars. Hansen claims he handled all legal affairs after Mr Ketcham’s death, drafted the disputed will, and prepared for the contest’s hearing on Mrs Ketcham’s behalf.
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Chicago
Minnis Wallace Ketcham
John B. Ketcham
H.C. Hansen
Hansen
Sugar consumption by Uncle Sam in 1897 reaches two million tons
The report notes that in 1897 the United States government consumed or requisitioned about 2,006,263 tons of sugar. It highlights the scale of federal purchasing and reflects on agricultural and trade policies of the era.
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Uncle Sam
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