Fire devastates Shell Rock frame school house
A noon Friday fire destroyed a frame school house at Shell Rock with a loss of 30 000 and insured for 2 001. Incendiary causes are suspected. Two business partners named Jones and Ransom fought a duel in Owassa Saturday. both wounded in the first shot. Julius Peterson, near Sioux City, was killed when his team was struck by a Sioux City & Pacific train. Earl Oliver and BP Chase of Waucoma quarreled during a show. Chase was shot in the arm. A Chicago & Milwaukee shops increase to ten hours daily, six days a week after March was announced.
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Tek
Shell Rock
Jones
Ransom
Owassa
Bush
Julius Peterson
Sioux City
Vasific
Earl Oliver
BP. Chase
Waucoma
Acd
Chicago & Milwaukee
Jury finds no cause for action in Daubney libel suit
After being out twenty four poirs the jury in the 310000 libel suit of Chas W Daubney, late candidate for state senator, but defeated, against A K Bailey, editor of the Decorah Republican, found a verdict of no cause for action. The decision follows Iowa precedents that malice is not presumed for words spoken or written in criticism of a candidate for public office if the writer had good grounds for believing his statements true. The case commanded much focal interest, and the decision is very satisfactory to the general public.
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Chas. W. Daubney
A. K. Bailey
Decorah
Iowa
Coal Operators Meet To Check Iowa Rate Cuts
In Oskalossa a secret meeting of coal operators from southeastern Iowa addressed competition from northern Illinois and Boone Iowa in cutting rates. A Marshalltown meeting was planned as a next step to devise countermeasures to protect Iowa markets amid amid inroads into southern territory. Superintendent Huntington attended. In Ida Grove a scandal and shooting case involving J P Huntington Jr. drew local fury. A failed adultery claim led to a witness's absence and the case dismissal. A retaliatory confrontation with L E Bock resulted in a pistol shot missing Harrington, who was later captured. tensions and threats of further action Roach through the town.
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Oskalonsa
Iowa
Illinois
Boone
Marshalltown
C. W. Huntington
Town Central
Ida Grove
Grove
J. P. Huntington, Jr
Harrington
L. E. Bock
Bock
Senchere
Guilty of Manslaughter in Rock Attack
Frank Wiltse was found guilty of manslaughter in Floyd county for throwing a rock at Mason Citys Jerome Dew, striking his sister Mrs Jerome Daw in August. The rock caused Dew to fall from a buggy and die the following day, amid unfriendly relations and a self defense defense rejected by the jury.
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Mason City
Frank Wiltse
Floyd County
Jéromée Daw
Wiltse
Jerome Dew
Wiese
Dew
Eight Hour Day the Battle Cry in New York
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is in New York to rally unions for an eight hour day. Plans call for May 1 demand across trades, potentially triggering large strikes as 1,000,000 workers are mobilized. The AFL eyes miners and others, with a nationwide, organized push led from Washington.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Leaters
Gompers
Confession on Deathbed Links Egglestone to Old Crime
Osage Iowa reports a dispatch from Athens and Northern Missouri claims Frank Egglestone, former town president, confessed on his deathbed to the longstanding crime in Osage twelve years earlier. The man suspected, Pred Stanchard, was previously arrested, convicted, and jailed at the penitentiary for the forgery case tied to Egglestone. Fred Blanchard served a term for forging a draft. he later opened a barber shop in Sioux City.
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Osage
Athens
Missouri
Frank Eggtestone
Fone
Predi Stanchard
Fred Blanchard
Egglestone
Sioux City
Esglestone
Mondar
Danish obscene letter writer captured in Keystone Iowa
Chris Hansen, the wily Danish obscene letter writer, was captured in Keystone by Marshal Boysen after federal officers tracked him across Iowa. He had served a term in Minneapolis for the same offense and, released six months ago, sent hundreds of indecent Danish letters to prominent Danes in the state.
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Cesiar Rapids
Chris Hansen
Iowa
Keystone
Boysen
United States
Healy
Hansen
Minneapolis
Hansen’s
Postoffice
Christensen
Chicago
Union Pacific to discharge women typewriters at Omana
President Burt announces policy to remove women from union Pacific headquarters citing belief that women cannot do good work with men and vice versa. Women plan boycott as protests grow while men take their places with new stenographers employed.
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Omana
Neb
Burt
Union Pacific
Bendt Discharged in Behrens Murder Case at Davenport
Henry Bendt of Rock Island was discharged for lack of evidence after arrest last July as an accomplice of Mrs Christine Behrens in the murder of Claus Behrens. Mrs Behrens has been convicted after two trials and serves a life sentence at Anamosa. The administrator of Behrens sues North Life association for 2.01, challenging whether Behrens’ daughters may claim the policy proceeds as heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Iowa
Behrens
Osage man files claim to Kansas City land near depot
Joseph Boulanger a quarter-blood Osage Indian says he is nephew of General Boulanger of France and will stake a claim to about thirty five acres at and near the Union Depot in Kansas City Missouri. He asserts his grandfather on his mother’s side secured a patent from Andrew Jackson and that the land was never properly sold. The claimants allege forged original papers and note another Indian’s similar Argentine suburb claim pending.
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Kansas City
Joseph Boulanger
General Boulanger
France
Union Depot
Boulanger
Andrew Jackson
Indian Territory
Argentine
Assaulted by Footpads in Burlingtonich Event
Edward Van Pelt of Mount Pleasant was slugged and stabbed by footpads in Burlington. He was cast into the Mississippi through a hole in the ice and rescued after the Boating association clubhouse witness spotted him. Police arrested a suspect as he remained in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Edward van Pelt
Mount Pleasant
Mississippi
Burlington Boating Association
Receivers Release Union Pacific 1897 Earnings Report
Omaha Feb. 16 Receivers of the Union Pacific system publish the last annual statement from Boston detailing 1897 earnings and expenses. Gross revenue reached 19,420,982.98 with 12,193,908.99 in expenses, yielding a surplus of 7,207,074.99, up from 1896 figures and surpassing 1895, with the Central branch and leased lines included.
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Omaha
Union Pacific Railway System
Boston
Union Pacific
Central Branch
Conviction reported in Missouri murder case
Tra Sexton convicted of first degree murder for the October killing of Nathan Stark in Princeton Missouri. Other items include General Booth’s American tour, Dr. W Donaldson’s death in North Platte, an explosion at Newport mine in Ironwood Michigan killing three men, and various political and social notes from the era.
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Tra Sexton
Nathan Stark
Princeton
General Booth
Salvation Army
Washington
Pittsburg
W.¥. Donaldson
North Platte
Neh
Omaha
Ironwood
Mich
Peter Blaza
Smanuel Naimo
Michael Sadi
Newport
Chili
Peru
Leona
Arica
India
Panjab
John McMasters
Princeton University
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Mobile
Ala
Evans
San Antonio
Tex
New York
Belmont
Loutaville & Nashville Railroad Company
Wvermilye & Co
Sir Francis Lockwood
Lockwood
More Roads Into Des Moines Enter Soon
Reports indicate the Chicago Fort Madison and Des Moines will reach Des Moines within a year via Wabash tracks from Ottumwa, the current line terminus. The Northwestern road plans a through train to Minneapolis and St Paul and will enter the Des Moines union depot once finished, with the Q likely joining the new building as well.
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Chicago
Fort Madison
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Northwestern Road
Minneapolis
St Paul
Des Moines Union Depot
Northwestern
Victor Herbert elected conductor of Pittsburg Symphony
Victor Herbert has been chosen to succeed Frederick Archer as conductor of the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra. Rev Dr William Cate ll, former president of Lafayette College, dies in Philadelphia at 71. Secretary Alger with escorted health trip to Fortress Monroe and other towns. postal offices reassigned to third class on April 1.
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Victor Herbert
Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Archer
William Catell
Lafayette College
Philadelphia
Alger Withe
Fortress Monroe
Winthrop
Douglas County Faces Jail Space Crisis During Exposition
Omaha Feb 1 The Douglas County commissioners Ostruma Harte and Hotelat wrestle with housing an expected surge of prisoners for the exposition. With legal limits on new construction and jail crowding, they consider temporary detention housing and even fanciful palisade ideas, while the 94-prisoner capacity strains under 120 to 150 inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Ned
Douglas Country
Ostruma
Harte
Hotelat
Court House
Jrst
Grants Temporary Mandamus In South Dakota Case
In Pierre South Dakota Feb 14 the supreme court granted a show cause order in a mandamus to secure the insurance office property. Ayres the new commissioner won while Justice Fuller dissented. The case is set for merits on Wednesday Feb 23 after lengthy argument by Kipp loyalists seeking lower court delay.
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Kipp
Wheat contracts tie Leiter holdings to British syndicate
Chicago reports fleets of 1,300,000 bushels of Leiter wheat bound for the sea board with through rates from Chicago to Liverpool. Grand Trunk Nickel Plate and Lehigh Valley secure 500,000 bushels each. The Chronicle notes Leiter may exceed 10,000,000 bushels in city and afloat, fueling talk of a British syndicate purchasing all holdings. Eastern lines invited to bid on vast wheat transport to the seaboard.
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Chicago
Ill
Seaboard
Grand Trunk
Nickel Plate
Lehigh Valley
Liverpool
the Chronicle
Judge halts rail boycott against Lone Star line
In Galveston on February 13 Judge Bryant issued an order restraining Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, International & Great Northern, and Missouri, Kansas & Texas railways from acting on notices to end divisions with the Lone Star line. The ruling keeps relations with the Mallory ring intact and sets February 21 for a hearing.
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Galveston
Tex
David P.bryant
United States Court
Gulf,Colorado & Santa Fe
International
Great Northern
Missouri, Kansas & ‘Texas Railways
Lone Star
New York
Lone Star Line
M. S. McLemore
Bryant
Mallory Ring
New York and Brooklyn Trousemakers Strike for Wages
Nearly 300 trouser makers from New York Brooklyn and Brownsville have walked out demanding better pay. Reported wages range from 35 to 9 dollars a week for sixteen hour days, prompting labor action across major garment centers.
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New York
Brooklyn
Brownsville
Rehearing sought in Mills case in Nebraska
Attorney for Benjamin D Mills fled to file a motion for rehearing after the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the lower court verdicts. Mills and Whitney were convicted in a probe into embezzlement tied to county funds and bank deposits. The case drew wide attention as a first conviction under the statute relied on by prosecutors.
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Linton
Neb
Benjamin D. Mills
Supreme Court
Aliss
Benttentia Mills
Lincoln
Harlan County
Whitney
Mills
Beaker Mills
Keeps Paying Up. Meserve Calls State Warrants in Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Feb 11 State Treasurer Meserve calls $87 000 of general fund warrants for payment for February. With prior calls total general fund payments rise to about $161 000 this month. Warrants on other current funds total $15 000 including $14 000 for the university fund and $3 000 for the feeble minded fund. Interest adds to costs and a further February payment over $181 000 may occur before March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Méserve
Lincoln
Neb
Meserve
Lattimer Shootings Tied To Sheriff Martin Trial
In Wilkesbarre on February 16 the fourteenth day of Sheriff Martin and deputies trial opened with John Pastion and others testifying. Witnesses described deputies firing as strikers were halted at Lattimer and West Hazleton, with one flag bearer killed and several deputies involved in volleys. New evidence emerged naming delegate Joseph Catlick at Harwood.
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Martin
Wilkesbarre
Lattimer
John Pastion
Sherif
Andrew Stult
West Barleton
Marcy Guncavage
West Hazleton
Andrew Sivar No
Herwood
Thomas Radgzick
Harwood
Joseph Catlick
Lattimet
Pneumatic Mail Service Opening in New York
Washington announces the opening of circuit No. 2 of the pneumatic tube system for mail transmission in New York. General Shallenberger will represent the postmaster general at Grand Central station, with a 3.5 mile route from post offices to station H. Officials expect good results from the new tube system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Congress
Shallenberger
New York
Grand Central Railway
Post Office Department
Gary
Remarkable Heart Musician Edward Lewis Milkowski
Edward Lewis Milkowski, a Polish immigrant with a large heart that produces audible music, travels the country charging doctors and students to listen to the pulsations. Doctors offer varied diagnoses, while Milkowski profits from clinics, lectures, eye pulsations, and his photographed capsular pulsations, living on his unusual condition.
Halting Tale Of A Scottish Laird And A Fish
A famed angler recounts a dinner table tale of a heavy fish. The laird asks the servant Donald how heavy the fish was at each meal, and the servant finally refuses to tell more to please the fishers while aging.
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Donald
Ancient thinkers and stock speculation cited
Milfred notes that Edna asks whether the ancients gambled in stocks and replies that Plato and Aristotle engaged in speculation. The exchange frames historical views on financial risk and philosophy.
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Edna
Milfred
Plato
Aristotle
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George S. Skinner
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Mary McCarthy
Colonel McCarthy
Jefferson
Drake University
J. D. Koontz
Central Station
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Anamosa
Waverly
Janesville
Delilah Fales
Will Kern
A. Dubuque
Ablegate
Mgr. Martinelli
Hennessey
Corpus Christi
Fort Dodge
Mer. Martinelli
TMC. ‘Ao
Hays
General News
Douglas County
South Dakota Supreme Court
Banker Mills
Pneumatic Mail Service
oJzeph Milkowski
Milkowski
Mr. Milkowski
Polo
Pole
University of
Kefof
Poland
Siberia
Anivision Street
Postgraduate Medical College
Mitkowski
Corrigan
Quincke
Milkowak
Chicago Chronicle
Edward Lewis
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