Des Moines Notes Cover Suicide, Navy Prospect, and Rail Debates
Reports from Des Moines on October 24, 1905 cover a man, Robert Phillips, drowning himself after a church revival, with the body recovered by police. The city also notes a Navy recruitment push by Captain F. H. Delano, a rail rate debate among merchants, and two Iowa criminal convictions affirmed by the Supreme Court. It tallies a sharp rise in local factory output since 1902, with profits reflecting industry changes, and mentions Drake University President addressing gambling tensions at a college football game incident.
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Des Moines
Robert Phillips
Twenty Seventh Street
Southpark
Iowa Obituaries and Crimes Across Clarke County and State
A broad Iowa news roundup reports sudden death of Osceola’s Mrs. J M Shepherd spouse of a major bank stockholder, a Cedar Falls fire destroying Mrs George Hanna’s home, and multiple crimes and accidents including a Davenport infant abandonment, a Buxton assault, a Mason City theft stakeout, a Mason City suicide note, and a Des Moines mine accident. The piece links legal cases, political nominations, and municipal actions across towns like Osceola, Muscatine, Anamosa, and Cedar Rapids.
Burglary at J B Harlan home and other Iowa notes
Burglars entered Osceola hardware man J B Harlan's home stealing about $10 in change while leaving his watch and a shotgun on a folding bed. Other items report the death of Woodside after a shooting involving Hendrickson over a wife dispute at Blockton, and Lake Citys bumper turtle harvest shipping tens of thousands of terrapins east. Reports also note Lake City ghost sightings, L A Casper sued in a personal injury case, Whitesides bankruptcy exemption dispute, Shenandoah farmer J R Lawson suicide after cancer, and Okoboji founder W B Arnold dying suddenly at about 70.
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J. B. Harlan
Osceola
My. Harlan
Harlan
Woodside
Blockton
Jim Hendrickson
St. Joseph Hospital
Hendrickson
Malay
Bedford
Lake City
L. A
L. A. Casper
Aldermanic Board
Pottawattamis
WH. Whiteside
Atlantic
Whiteside
Iowa
J. R. Lawson
Shenandoah
W. B. Arnold
Arnold's Park
Okoboji
Big Pool Hall
Arnold
Okaboji
Virginia couple fill cushions with love letters during ceremony
A Virginia couple chose cushions stuffed with their love letters for kneeling during the marriage rite, a more original gesture than a breach of promise setup. An anti-Baby League has started in Lancashire England, urging government action to curb birth rates and support penalties for those overburdening gas supply.
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Virginia
Lancashire
England
TOWAN IN PRISON FOR REST OF LIFE
Des Moines reports Edgar Bailey, once facing a death sentence for murder in Kansas City, has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Folk. Bailey, a former Iowan, had run a LaPorte City newspaper and worked as a printer before becoming a hack driver. His father pleaded from LaPorte City as appeals failed.
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Des Moines
Edgar Bailey
Kansas City
Balley
LaPorte City
Iowa
Bailey
Supreme Court
Folk
Missouri
Banker Convict Is Indicted Again in Iowa Falls
Eldora Oct. 26 Indictment charges E O Soule of Iowa Falls now serving eighteen months at Anamosa for falsifying Home Savings bank accounts with misappropriation. Grand jury says Soule misused Sherwood estate funds he held. His sentence ends Dec 28. arrest follows upon release from prison.
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Eldora
E. O. Soule
Iowa Falls
Anamosa
Home Savings Bank
City
Hardin County Grand
Soule
Sherwood
Blydenburgh Must Serve in Bluebeard Murder Case
Des Moines dispatch reports Blydenburgh, known as the Bluebeard, must spend life in prison after the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for the May 1903 Eldora murder of his wife Jennie. He will not be required to testify about two earlier wives’ deaths in New York. Evidence linked arsenic poisoning to the dinner death and revealed plans to claim the farm and insurance.
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Des Moines
Supreme Part
B. Alexander
Albert Latham
Alexander
W Lathan
Fort Madson
Latham
Westfoot
Eldora
Supreme Court
Oct
Blydenburgh
Bluebeard
New York
Two Women Burned to Death in Iowa Homes
Grundy Center and Oskaloosa reports describe fatal burn incidents. An 80 year old woman, Mrs Garis, died after boiling paint on a stove ignited her clothing, with daughter Mrs John Gea unable to reach her in time. In Oskaloosa, Mrs David Maddox died from burns suffered weeks earlier when her clothing caught fire from a red hot stove shortly after moving to town with her husband.
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Grundy Center
Garis
John Gea
Oskaloosa
David Maddox
Shoe
Young Garfield Beuthien Held
Davenport October 21 Garfield Beuthien brother of Arnold Beuthein formerly employed at New Liberty bank was arrested yesterday afternoon charged with uttering a forged instrument A $70 check with Paul Berndt name endorsed on back was cashed at a local bank Berndt says the endorsement is forgery Beuthein is charged with obtaining the money from the check
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Garfield Beuthien
Davenport
Arnold Beuthein
New Liberty Bank
Paul Berndt
Berndt
Beuthein
Gottes
Wreck Kills Four and Injures Ten Near Fairfield Iowa
Four killed and ten injured in a Rock Island passenger wreck near Fairfield Iowa. Two trains No 11 and No 12 collided at about thirty miles an hour on the route west to Eldon and Ottumwa. Overlapping orders blamed. L H Gray suspended. Killed include engineer Milks of Elden and mail clerk Canfield. passengers and crew injured, relief sent from Eldon and detours arranged via Chicago line.
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Fairfield
Qet
Rock Island
Thos. W. Griffith
Eldon
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Ottumwa
Frank J. Milks
Elden
Iowa
Glenn Canfield
Murray
Towa
Thos. W. Grinith
Lucas
Tramp
W. H. Dunham
Jean
W. Witte
Sreman
Bruiece
H. A. Pottert
A. Hickman
G. W. Williams
George Fisher
J. Quakens
Kennelly
George Froden
Jaques
Kansas
Joseph Harris
Chicago
G. D. Rummery
Enid
Okla
B. Helmar
Davenport
G. Mathews
Neola
G. W. Wilmot
New Bedford
Mass
Hagle
Pontiac
Michigan
Indictment for Albright in Loan and Building loss
Fort Madison Oct 26 The grand jury indicted J W Albright former secretary of the Loan and Building association on embezzlement charges totaling 11600 He is jailed with bond set at 50000 and the bank cash under 100 The district court sits and may dispose of the case promptly Albright served as secretary over twenty years with alleged long running peculations
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Fort Madison
J. W. Albright
Loan & S Building Association
Albright
Thieves take $1569 in jewels in Hull burglary
At Hull on October 26, robbers failed to enter the Iowa State Bank vaults ignoring a blast and then ransacked J. C. Vickers jewelry store. They carried away watches rings and silverware valued at about $1569 while hotel guests observed the break in but did not raise the alarm.
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Hull
Safe
Johnston Gets Six Years For Prison Aiding Escape
Waterloo October 25 Charles Johnson convicted in open court of aiding and abetting an escaped prisoner and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. Alexander Smith and James Conklin found guilty of burglary and robbery respectively and each to serve five years.
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Johnston Geta
Waterloo
Charles Johnson
Alexander Smith
James Conklin
Mutiny Reported on Russian Battleship Catherine II
London Ott 27 A special dispatch says a mutiny occurred on the Russian battleship Catherine II at Sevastopol and four hundred crew members have been arrested.
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London
Odessa
Sevastopol
Man Killed Attempting to Crawl Under Cars in Sanborn Shop
Mason City reports a man identified as Robert Hamilton, master mechanic of the P shops in Minneapolis, was fatally injured while trying to crawl under a line of box cars at Sanborn. He died four days later, after being removed from the scene. Names and details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Mason City
JT Mere
D. Dea
Ea al
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United States Marine Corps
Navy Department
Washington
F. H. Delano
Delano
United States Navy
Marine Corps Service
Marine Corps
Commercial Club
E. D. Kam
Govern. T
Drake University
the News
J. M. Shepherd
Iowa State Bank
Shepherd
Clarke County
George Hanna
Phil Hanna
United States
Santo Domingo
Cedar Falls
Mies
Guy Helm
Hedrick
Independence
Insane Commissioners
Yelm
Fred Comstock
Alexander Clark
Clinton
Avoca
Pottawattamie
Clark
Haley
Fourteenth Avenue
William Montgomery
Francis Bridges
Edward Montgomery
Stella Dreyer
Postal
Iowa City
Ella McGee
Muscatine
Goodwin
G. M. Stowers
West Union
Mr. Stowers
Arthur
John Boyd
Boyd Yarm
Mingo
M. Robson
Boyd
Newton & Northwestern Railroad
Charles Williams
Grand Jury
Bupp
Perry Sutton
Sutton
Town City
Charles Hawley
Nquor
Danner
Pat Grue
Dubuque
Charles B. Armstrong
Smith McPherson
J. Louis Fernald
Gilman
United States Court of Opposts
T. A. Cheshire
Ernest Fernald
G. L. van Eaton
Little Rock
Bee
Lyons-Osceola
Lamkin
Cedar Rapids Company
Cedar Rapids
Supreme Court of the United States
Water Company
Supreme Court of Iowa
Federal Supreme Court
Sept. C. Thornburg
Polk County
J. T. Blodgett
Hbel
Johnson
Hanlontown
Hallowe’en
Hansen
Han- Ben
William Ernest
Cagey
Town
Weart & Lys
Cleghorn
Annie Fuhrman
Ernest
Miss Fuhrman
John Ward
Bennett
Whiam Finney
Finney
Frank Kern
Kern
Henry
Mathews Baldes
Orange City
Sioux City
Hawarden
Towan
LA Porte ‘City
Maddox
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