Record Cold Grips Midwest Across Wisconsin and Iowa
A severe cold wave grips the Midwest with Wisconsin reporting 25 to 26 below at Superior and Lacrosse at 15 below. Charles City Iowa hits 12 below, Des Moines notes 5 February readings, while Missouri centers report two below in Springfield. Moderating temps expected tonight with brisk wind and frigid mornings ahead.
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Des Moines
Charles City
Paul
Mina
Missouri
Kansas City
Springfeld
Wisconsin
Superior
Wis
Lacrosse
Magh Wanted Forger Taken
Eugene Elkin, accused of wholesale forgeries across copper country during about a year and a half and believed sought in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Marinette, Menominee, and Iron Mountain, was arrested in Racine and yesterday jailed here after a hotel clerk doubted a check he presented. Authorities from Houghton had provided the information leading to his capture.
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Houghton, Mich
Eugene Elkin
Milwaukee
Green Bay
Marinette
Menominee
Iron Mountain
Racine
Houghton
Bomb destroys private house on Russian frontier
Berlin reports a Kattoywitz dispatch stating a private house at Sline across the Russian frontier was destroyed by a bomb. Twelve bodies are recoverable in the ruins and many others are feared dead.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Kattoywitz
Sibsia
Sline
Woman Falls Dead at Baraboo Church in Wisconsin
In Baraboo Wisconsin Mare Miles died suddenly at the First Baptist Church during Sunday services. The temperance worker and member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union entered to deliver a message, handed a note to the pastor, and collapsed. The incident caused a stir among worshippers.
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Baraboo
Wis
Fen
Mare Tret
Miles
Sensation in the Senate as Patterson Proposes Voting Rights
Washington Feb 1 in the senate Patterson introduced a resolution on rights of senators in voting upon treaties. The measure complains of democratic canna dictating votes as a violation of the constitution, asserting each senator has one vote and coercion infringes state rights.
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Washington
Senate
Patterson
Cancna
United States
Explosion in Bloomington church organ during sermon
An explosion occurred in the interior of the First Methodist church pipe organ during Rev. Masden's sermon on a Sunday morning. An electric flash accompanied the blast. The organ suffered extensive damage but the pastor kept order and prevented panic.
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Bloomington
Masden
UP GOES THE PRICE OF COAL IN CHICAGO
In anticipation of the miners strike a number of wholesalers today advanced the price of soft coal 28 cents per ton. Dr. R. C. Hoste traveled to Iowa City to attend a dentists meeting. Arrangements have been made for graduates from necessary schools to give clinics, and Mr. Baxter will represent the Northwestern Dental School of Chicago.
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Enicago
Toflay
R. C. Hoste
Iowa Chy
Haxter
Northwestern Dental School of
Chicago
Stabbed Women Mystery Man Referred by Letter
Dr. Ray Marc Hughes, criminology lecturer, analyzed the case of a St. Louis stabbing spree. An unsigned letter to the doctor claims the attacker was misled by a woman he loved and vows to stop, though Hughes warns the suspect remains dangerous and should be treated in a hospital rather than jailed or institutionalized.
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St. Louis
Feb
Ray Marc Hughes
Reuten Law School
Hughes
Uberty
College Mourns Forti Dead At St Bede’s College
La Salle Illinois mourns as Father Gilbert Simon and three students Cass R Bannin Frank Christin and Charles Reuter die in a skating accident. Bodies returned to homes for burial with Father Simon’s funeral held at the college. Reuter praised for heroism in attempting rescues.
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Gilvert Simon
Sondorn
Hessen
Germany
St. Vincent's Abbey
Beatty
St. Bede's
Reuter
Baptismal Rite Draws Crowd at Forties Converts
In Anderson Indiana Rev Cissell led forty converts from First Baptist and Gospel Mission to White River for immersion. The ceremony, in freezing 2 foot water amid a snowstorm, saw Raymond Scofield briefly enter water then flee home as others stood in line. Five women and three men were baptized despite crowd noise and a long river immersion lasting over half an hour.
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Mr Cissell
Robbers Terrorize Bourbonneis Village in Bourbonneis
Three burglars in a stolen rig entered residences in Bourbonneis at 2:00 AM on Sunday terrorizing residents while burglarizing the west office and blowing up a safe in Simon Tetreault's barber shop. The village marshal delayed response due to darkness. Residents alerted each other by phone as the robbers fled after stealing forty dollars in stamps from the post office.
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Kankakee
Bourbonneis
Simon Tetreault
Rockford Man Among Identified Wreck Victims
In Victoria British Columbia February reports from the Velencia wreck shore recovery list three bodies brought to town. One is almost positively identified as Mark Smith of Rockford West Virginia. A second body is believed to be T. J. Bruer of Minneapolis Minnesota. A telegram was sent to Minneapolis to aid positive identification.
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Victoria
B. C
Velencia
Mark Smith
Rockford
T. J. Bruer
Minneapolis
Minneapolia
Buries Husband Then Weds Old Flame in Georgia
Mrs. Alice Sewell, widow of wealth, met her former sweetheart Robert McDaniel after attending her husband's funeral in Sialabaro Georgia. They were married, reuniting two families after the tragedy.
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Sialabaro
Pel
Rei Rong
Alice Sewell
Robert McDaniel
President Delivers ICC Report On Pennsylvania Rail Route
President Roosevelt transmitted to the House the ICC report on an alleged combination of the Pennsylvania Railroad and other lines, asked under antitrust law. The commission offered no opinion on law violation, noting only facts from annual company reports showing the Pennsylvania system includes several subsidiaries and controls stock in others, without B&O, Norfolk and Western, or Chesapeake and Ohio.
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Washington
Rovesvelt
Talay
Interstate Comerce Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pensylvania
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Pennsylvania Company
Philadelphia
Hartmore and Washington
Northern Central
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Oslo
Pennsylvania System
Milta Baird Dies at 77 Former Waterloo Policeman
Milton Baird an early Waterloo settler died Sunday at 12:15 PM at his corner Bluff and West Fourteenth home. Aged 77, death due to old age with complications. Survived by a feeble widow and relatives in Ohio. nephew C Hayes of Cedar Rapids was present. Born in Ohio September 8, 1848, he worked at Union Mill, later joined Waterloo police, serving as night officer for years. Arrangements withheld until Ohio relatives are heard from.
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Milton Baird
Waterloo
Corner Bluff
West Fourteenth Streets
Baird
Ohio
C. ©. Hayes
Cedar Rapids
George Baird
Waterleo
Union Mill Company
Petition Drives City Postmaster Choice Amid Park Concert Debates
Wirt Moxie circulates a petition urging Fred Call to be named station A postmaster and a new postoffice in the H. M. Read building on Sycamore street. meanwhile a city council debate over liberal park funding continues with band members pledging five concerts weekly in Lincoln and Grant parks. Walter Miller discusses drought, crops, and rising land values in western Kansas and Nebraska, noting alkali water and rapid land sales amid real estate boom.
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Wirt Moxie
Fred Call
H. M. Read
Sycamore Street
Waterloo
Lincoln
Grant Parks
Castenson
Anas Gould
Walter Miller
Kansas
Nebraska
Lena
Illinois
Jose
Defense Has Inning On Trial In Water 100 Case
New cases filed in district court include a collection action by C P Guenther against Ernest Robinson for 225 on a promissory note dated September 6, 1903, with eight percent interest, and a request for a landlord's lien on defendant property until payment. A petition for equitable division of the estate of Robert Allen and the Bowman family suit over Prentice Bowman's heirs is also filed, listing multiple properties in Linden Place Waterloo Laporte and surrounding areas. Witnesses for the defense have testified since Saturday afternoon. the matter may not reach a jury until tomorrow as cases proceed.
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Condon
the Water 100
Cedar Walls
Northern Stairway
District Court
C. P. Guenther
District Court Fo
Ernest Robinson
Jessie A. Toule
Arthur B. Allen
Grant G. Allen
George W. Allen
Ada M. Eldridge
Linden Place
Waterloo
Laporte
Watson
Fox & Marsyt
Big Creek Township
Wasson
Birdie
Grace
Myrta Bowman
Amelia Bowman
United Mine Workers Adjourns as Mitchell Silent
National executive board of the United Mine Workers of America adjourned today after President Mitchell refused to discuss the union's work. Koontz Chan Sweltzer and Guy Campbell arrived home from Chicago.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Koant
Chan, Sweltzer
Guy Campbell
Chicago
Choir Delights Faithful at Srace M Church Evening
A large Waterloo audience enjoyed a strong musical program at Srace M Church despite near freezing weather. The choir offered sacred selections including Remember Now Thy Creator and the Lost Chord, with Mrs A Haifa's soprano solo praised. Rev Cats ermole delivered a brief sermon and the male chorus joined in the encore.
Electric light plant destroyed by fire in Reinbeck
Reinbeck suffers major fire that destroys an eight year old brick electric light plant owned by H Nissen. Damage estimated near 3000 dollars with 2000 dollars insured, two insurers named, and rebuilding planned once insurance settles. Night watchman first spotted the blaze about 4 am amid strong northwest wind.
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Freeport
Gorn National
Traveling men form new American Commercial Travelers league
Ottumwa February 6 A breakaway movement by present traveling men from the Iowa State Traveling Men's association has led to enrollment of more than three hundred travelers in a new accident insurance group called the American Commercial Travelers at a Saturday meeting. T E 8B. Trotter elected president with Co C Porter as secretary treasurer and five directors to be chosen from other cities. The Ottumwa men express strong enthusiasm for the new organization’s prospects.
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Ottumwa
Feu
Qoummiwa
Iowa State
Iowa
American Commercial Travelers
Trotter
Co. C. Porter
Treasuer Ayler
Gibbons Denounces Socialism In Sermon At Cathedral
Baltimore dispatch reports Cardinal Gibbons sermons denounce socialism as dangerous demagoguery sowing discontent. He praises divine right of authority, urging obedience to civil and military leaders and acceptance of one’s station in life amid calls for law and order.
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Baltimore
Giihond
Cathedral
Dingern
Post Office Station Leased for Reed Building Site
The city will get a new post office station on Sycamore Street in the Reed building, slated for five years. Officials in Washington confirmed the lease and are awaiting occupancy timing while interior alterations proceed, with service expected by the middle of March.
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Lind- Inger
Department
Washington
H B. Reed
Sycamore Gstreee
Postmanster 5
Sindingar
A Lowler
Boxtones Department
Lis
McCutchen Property Sold at Holstein Auction
The defunct McCutchen bank assets were sold at public sale in Holstein. The bank building sold for 10,675 dollars to Richard Jones of Ida Stowe. The 310 acre Atelke farm sold for 80 dollars per acre to Lafferty and Schnell of Clinton Illinois. Ardmore stock farm 336 acres sold to the same buyers for 0? per acre. The McCammat 240 acre farm brought 58 dollars per acre to W E G Johnston of Ta Brave. The Stelk farm was encumbered by a 13,000 mortgage. Ardmore mortgage 15,000. McCaninot farm mortgage 10,501. Wide interest and many out of town buyers attended.
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Holstein
Tech
McCutchen Bank
Richard Jones
Ida Stowe
Atelke
Lafferty & Schnell
Clinton,il
Mail Trains Begin Long Race Between Routes
Mail trains compete for a government award in a south western mail service race from St. Louis toward Dallas and Fort Worth. The Frisco Missouri Kansas Texas line started at 2:80 a m and Iron Mountain followed at 3 a m. Both trains ran light with only essential cars and were hauled by fast locomotives toward the southwest gateway.
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St. Louis
Texas
Malis
Port Worth
Texas Rice Land listing sold for lumbering use profit cited
The Texas Rice Land Company has disposed of its forest land holdings at a reported thirty percent profit, recalling $80,000 from the tract. Investment plans three years prior aimed at rice protection in Texas, with concerns about timber harvestable land near Beaumont. The buyer is Sabino Tin Lumber Co., a $3.4 million corporation, to use the property for lumbering purposes.
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Texas Rice Land Company
Texas
Baileye
Beaumont
Mwe
Euretinsy
W. Grout
Wl Grout
luHurtelous
Grout
Beamon
Wuiel
Sabino Tian Linober Co
Robbery Shakes Fredericksburg Safe Sale
A Fredericksburg safe was looted Saturday night by unknown men who fled toward Sumner and Oelweth, then Waterloo police assisted in the search. A small haul included 138 pennies, some chocolates, and a handbag taken from a nearby shed. Suspects are linked to a Denver safe sale before, with authorities tracing leads to several towns.
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Fredericksburg
Ting
Sumner
Oelweth
Waterloo
Denver
Suriday
Anxiety for Marie Gadbois Cause of Death Feared
Waterloo notes a death suspected to be heart failure of Marie Gadbois formerly of Waterlog now in St Paul processing inquiries by telegraph. Details show her mother and family in Waterloo, with no replies yet to inquiries and young Leland injured on the way to school. Nearby items mention a train incident, a minor marriage license, and a labor-seeker walking from Waterloo.
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St. Paul
Waterloo
Milas
Marie Gadbols
St Paul
Waterlooan
Gadholy
Miss Gadbols
Maoher
Informa
Visa Leland
Lelow
Sinneket
Smen Alexander
Eudsun
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