Watka Indian executes amid ritual courage in Iowa
The Renwick Times reports Creek Indian John Watka executed for the killing of Jonas Deer after a dance contest over a Bain girl. Watka, who later married the maiden, faced the firing squad on public grounds with a blindfold, tied arms, and a marksman’s rifle, accepting death despite chances to escape. He previously traveled to Kansas City for a baseball game with fellow Reds.
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Chelsea
I T
John Watka
Jonas Deer
Watka
Deer
Kansas City
Reds
All Greater New York Pays Homage to Henry George
Henry George lay in state at the Grand Central Palace as a steady stream of about 30,000 passed the casket. The funeral procession moved through New York to Brooklyn City Hall and Greenwood, with as many as 125,000 in attendance, honoring the philosopher. Weyler sails for Madrid without incident, praising his policy and declaring a serene conscience as he leaves Cuba.
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New York
Henry George
Grand Central Palace
Brookbridge
Brooklin’s
Brooklyn
Fort Hamilton
Horne
Greenwood
Rer
Madrid
Weyler
Cuba
Spain
Kansas City
Union Depot
May outlaw football death in Georgia prompts new law
The University of Georgia football player Von Gammon died from injuries after a game with the University of Virginia in Atlanta. legislators in Georgia consider a bill to make participation in football a misdemeanor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
von Gammon
University of Georgia
University of Virginia
Atlanta
Proclamation by McKinley Thanksgiving Day 1897
President McKinley issues his first Thanksgiving proclamation designating November 25 as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer. He praises divine providence for prosperity, peace, and fraternal bonds and urges observance through religious services nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Idlv
William McKintey
United States
Washington
Wiliam McKinler
John Shermat
Secretary
The Week in Trade Retains Features of Two Weeks Ago
Bradstreet's Review notes general trade keeps most features of the prior week with continued check on staple merchandise movement. In eastern and central western cities seasonable goods sales meet expectations, but volumes have not risen. Chicago St Louis Baltimore New York and Providence report declines in several lines due to weather and yellow fever quarantines. Mercantile collections slow with small, infrequent orders. October staple trade overall disappointing except for wool and metals.
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Bradstreet
Bridstreet’s
Chicago
St. Louis
Baltimore
New York
Providence
Army and Navy Union names officers at Kansas City session
Henry Schindler of Leavenworth Kansas was elected National Commander. Also chosen were Tripp of Peoria Jr. as vice national commander R J Fanning of Columbus as adjutant general Patrick Moore of Kansas City as paymaster general John Shoemaker of Albany New York as inspector general AP Pinkus of Vancouver British Columbia as judge advocate general.
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Henry Schindler
Leavenworth
Army and Navy Union of the United States
Kansas City
Ken
Tripp
Peoria
R. J. Fanning
Columbus
Patrick Moore
Feneral
John Shoemaker
Alpany
N Y
AP. Pinkus
Vancouver
B. C
Mail Clerk Arrested In Wyoming Theft Case
Walter Houghton a Cheyenne postal clerk was arrested on a charge of stealing a registered package valued at about $14,000 sent from Chicago to a Sacramento correspondent around September 26. Inspectors report he confessed. The investigation traced the package as it traveled from Cheyenne toward Ogden on Saturday.
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Walter Houghton
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ogden
Houghton
Chicago
Sacramento
Cal
Hez Rasco Convicted of First Degree Murder
Hez Rasco was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Maryville Missouri jury after about five hours of deliberation. The judge fixed a ten year penitentiary sentence. The murder victim was Mrs Rate Baumle near Alice, occurring about a year earlier. Rasco was sixteen at arrest, a factor noted in his favor.
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Missouri
Pirot
Hez Rasco
Maryville
Rasco
Rate Baumle
Alice
Missouri Governor Warned About Bank Bandits
Two territory gangs plan bank robberies on the southwest border with Arkansas Missouri and Indian Territory. A letter from Guthrie Oklahoma warns Governor Stephens to warn banks and says to watch for Dynamite Dicks gang and Jennings gang and their money plans.
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Missouri
Thomas
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Gov
Stephens
Jennings
Arkansas
Indiana
Nordenskjold Leads Nordic Quest for Andree Balloon
Antarctic explorer Dr. Otto Nordenskjold will supervise a joint Norway Sweden expedition to Prince Charles promontory to search for any trace of Professor Andree's balloon. The venture, funded by both nations, aims to confirm reports of the balloon's remains or sightings in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Nordenskjold
Norway
Sweden
Prof
Andree
Prince Charles Promontory
Grover gets a boy in ex president Cleveland household
An infant son arrived at the Princeton New Jersey home of former President Grover Cleveland and wife Frances. Mother and child are reported dying well. The notice also recounts separate dramatic incidents including a fatal cotton factory scuffle in Birmingham and various international and national briefs.
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Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
N.S
Wreck in Montana Collide Trains Near Hinsdale
A double header freight train with sixty empty cars collided with a stock train three miles east of Hinsdale on the Great Northern. Two men died Harry Neal of Glasgow engineer on stock train and John Garton of Beatrice Nebraska fireman on the double header. Injured include John Hayfield of Glasgow engineer John Owens of Glasgow head brakeman Alphonse Landonette fireman on Neal engine. Fire destroyed twenty cars and responsibility could not be learned.
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Hinsdale
Mont
Harry Neal
Glasgow
John Garton
Beatrice
Neb
John Hayfield
John Owens
Remarkable medical case operation without parallel
Dr Carey of Mexico City performed a unique operation to save a man with a knife wound to the upper right neck severing the carotid artery. After tying the artery, he waited for an opportune moment, removed coagulated blood from the aneurysm, and stopped the hemorrhage. The patient recovered in fifteen days and was pronounced cured and active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Carey
Mexico City
Governor Atkinson Pushes Stringent Mob Legislation
Gov. Atkinson of Georgia condemns mob law in a message to the Georgia legislature convened in Atlanta. He urges laws making counties where mob crimes occur liable for heavy damages to victims families and supports arming prisoners to defend themselves against mobs.
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Gov. Atkinson
Georgia
Atlanta
Indicted for Murder in Lattimer Shootings
A grand jury indicted Sheriff Martin and deputies on nineteen murder counts and additional charges for the Lattimer mine shootings in Pennsylvania. Indictments accuse the deaths of nineteen miners and woundings of others amid recent unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marstin
Lattimer
Martin
Failure in Ohio and obituary notes in brief
Failure in Ohio involves the Peerless Refining Company of Findlay Ohio, assigned Saturday with no assets or liabilities listed. The company is described as large but in bad shape for two months. Also reported is the death of Rev B F Taylor aged 70 who served as minister in Iowa Colorado and California and died in Napa California from typhoid fever.
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Ohio
Peerless Refining Company
Findlay
Pulple
B. EF. Taylor
Iowa
Colorado
California
Napa
Cal
Midwestern and East Market Quotations Spill Over
Chicago to New York markets list grain and livestock prices for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and hams across multiple cities including St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with varying quotes and grades reflecting regional trading activity during the period. Dealers note No 2 red and No 2 white wheat prices, alongside hog and cattle ranges, while dairy and egg values show creamery butter and Western eggs.
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Chicago
St Louis—Castle
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Ste
New York
Iowan Baptist State Convention Forms Education Commission
The Iowa Baptist state convention at Des Moines will appoint an eleven member commission, one from each congressional district, to investigate the churchs educational institutions and prepare recommendations. A special delegate convention will be called for final action, with plans to drop one of the two Baptist colleges Central University of Pelia and Des Moines College after years of contention.
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Convention of Baptists
Iowa Baptist State Convention
Des Moines
Central Uniersity
Pelia
Des Moines College
Iowa
Specia
Decision in a Bicycle Case Against the Wheelmen
The supreme court rules in Alles Cook vs Fogarty from Greene County. Cook, a farmer, sought damages after a bicycle collision. the court holds Cook owed special diligence to avoid the accident, extending greater care to cyclists and finding contributory negligence if wheelmen ride without lanterns or bells at night.
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Supreme Court
Alles Cook
E. Fogarty
Greene County
Cook
League of American Wheelmen
IOWA BOY IN KLONDIKE REPORTS FROM DAWSON CITY
Henry Lamprecht of Eldora writes from Dawson City Alaska to his father Henry Lamprecht detailing life in the Klondike, ground worth 12000, 6000 people, 4000 in tents, claims at Circle City worthless, abundance of salmon and meat, and near hunger banished. Also notes homestead row disputes settled between J M Pierce and Henry Wallace, along with several local incidents and a Klondike grape rush in Cedar Falls.
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Henry Lamprecht
Eldora
August Lamprecht
Henry
Alaska
Dawson City
Mr. Lamprecht
Fort Lie
Circle City
Dawson
J. M. Pierce
Kenry Wallace
Iowa
Des Moines
Wallace
Pierce
Cedar Falls
Death by own action at Colfax
John Lemon, manager of the steam laundry at Colfax, was found in the laundry’s lumber room in an unconscious state. An empty morphine bottle on the floor pointed to a self inflicted act. Doctors failed to save him as he died at the health. He left several letters for friends and relatives, contents undisclosed.
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Ha Taller
Pomeroy
John Christmas
Manson
Rockwell City
Christmas
Orld
Colfax
John Lemon
Twentieth annual Iowa Order of the East Star session held at OtTanAra
The Iowa Order of the Eastern Star held its twentieth annual grand chapter session at Ot Tan Ara with delegates and visitors in attendance. The grand secretary reports over 10,000 members statewide and Cedar Rapids to host the next meeting. Officers were re elected and listed for the coming year, led by Grand Worthy Matron Delis Meredith and others. A separate note reports Rev Father Alberic elected abbot at New Nelleray Monastery in Dubuque, with details on dispensation from Rome and monastery history. The Dubuque abbey, founded 1888, is a Trappist monument built for about 175000 dollars.
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Iowa
Parker Alberic
Father Alberiz
New Nelleray
Dubuque
Hennessy
P. J. McGrath
Charles City
Rome
Alberic
Rio
Dennig Dunlea
United States
Canada
Monastry
Marriage to a Miner and Rape Charge Near Ida Grove
A man named Myers is jailed on a rape charge after a girl under 15, who arrived with a man posing as her husband, says she was enticed by him and promises marriage. The girl’s guardians, the Grove ladies, support her case and provide clothing and aid. The girl was previously held in Holstein for wearing mens clothes.
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Ida Grove
Holstein
Myers
Corn -Lusking
Afyers
Kiln Grove
Grove
Temperance petitions deemed defective in Lyon County fights
Lyon County saloon petitions found defective by the temperance committee prompting a possible shutdown while awaiting legal review. A heated clash is anticipated as ex Commandant Ratekin, ex Quartermaster Longley, and Surgeon Dan Epp dispute records and motives at the Iowa Soldiers Home. Nora Springs post office robbed of 7 cash, stamps, letters and periodicals valued at 75 with registered stamps taken. Unitarian Association held in Ida Grove with 108 delegates attending speeches by prominent state figures. Colonel Horton vows to curb heavy drinking at the Soldiers Home and General Beeson rejects unnecessary whisky requisitions. Beaver Island gold find story debunked. Adolph Johnson denies death rumors.
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Nora Springs
Praxer
Unitarian Association
Iowa Unitarian Association
Ida Grove
Horton
Beeson
Quartermaster
Failure at Des Moines harms local dry goods house
Israel Bros the Des Moines retailer and clothing maker failed last Friday. Liabilities range from 250000 to 855000, assets not stated and likely under 30000. Cause cited as insufficient capital in a large business. Fire at Mapleton destroyed the First State Bank Block with no insurance on building or stock.
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Des Moines
Israel Bros
Des Moine
Crediton
Mapleton
First State Bank
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Essential Oil Company
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Iowan Baptist State Convention
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Satdon
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Father Orth
St. Joseph’s Hospital
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M. B Rathboy
Clinton
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Red Oak
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Webster City
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Pairfell
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Henry Dersham
Iowa Falls
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Lyon County
Ratekin
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Dan Epon
Beaver Island
Adolph Johnson
Withou Foundation
Johnson
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