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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1910
Page
2
A misdriven robbery near Wassé, five miles east of daybreak, yielded cash and a small haul as the train sped toward Sibery. The sheriff's posse scoured the countryside Sunday but found no trace of the gunmen or their bundle after the heist in Kan town.
Widespread protests near factories lead to police calls for arrests as strike action escalates. Incendiary fires attributed to rivals cause $35,000 in losses at Nickerson shops including Whard’s department store and M. Cook’s drugstore. Sioux City live stock quotes noted. President Taft plans St Patrick’s Day events in Chicago. Senate action discussed on crime tradition.
A motor car carrying six passengers was blown to atoms along a private mule mine line in Arizona. Motorman Lyalle attempted to outrun the charge and the explosion lifted the car and all seven occupants into the air in a single blast. The deceased were prominent figures in Arizona mining circles.
Elizabeth Wille and Herscher Wille were arrested Sunday on charges of robbing a small Issex Falls post office inside the Erie railroad station. Police say a midnight entry was forced with a light shown to a window. a man and woman resisted but were captured after a brief struggle and are jailed awaiting further charges.
A Philadelphia man fatally shot his father Willan Roderick after a quarrel over whether the father wished his daughter to marry a young man. The incident occurred in Philadelphia Sunday and police reported the suspect fled the scene.
Fragmentary 1900s style report describes Detroit officers storming a house, arresting Burke, and recovering a girl, with deaths and injuries noted. Mentions Maj Calvin Hood and a citywide strike discussion as background.
Fragmentary wartime dispatches describe a navy event aboard a metal torpedo boat where communications failed and power apparatus went out. The Louiana and two revenue cutters were sent to the scene, then the Alamo reported arrival and rescue by evening.
Coroner reports neither foul play nor suicide evident in Philadelphia scene where a man about 60 and a 29 year old woman lay dead in a bed room with empty whisky bottles and a lunch remnants nearby. Neighbors say Bohrer had been unseen since before year’s start.
Fragmented copy notes a train depot robbery at Rock Island station in Council Bluffs with an unmisked man and officer Rev. Kelly involved, plus a separate report of a family incident near Green No on a Friday leaving a home valued at $4,500 with insurance.
A chaotic parcel of events includes a fatal railway area accident near Des Moines and a priest’s death at Carroll. Reports mention political maneuvers by wives of legislators aiming to push compulsory sexual morality education, plus crime notes of stabbings and political candidacy chatter in Iowa.
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