Bill Day Keeps Both Houses Busy At Task
Gilliland bill advances for street crossings protection by boards of cement. adjournment resolution for committees to visit state institutions withdrawn. Senate debates mortgage taxation filing fee, library and dwelling proximity restrictions, commerce counsel, game birds. House bills address liquor license funds, street sprinkling costs, supervisor districts repeal, railroad motor cars, bond guarantees, and delinquency of children.
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Dex Moines
Senate
Committee On
Gilliland
State University Agricultural School
Normal School
Carmagh Foundation For
Hunter
van Lew
Allen
Pocahontis
Office of Commerce Counsel
McManus
Ritter
Schilto
Allan
Bonwell
Moore
Guaranty, Fidelity and Surety Companies
Sullivan
Shortage in city auditor's books sparks inquiry
A wide range of local and international items fill the page. The city auditor of Asaan reports a $13 shortage while a jury transfers a verdict on a libel suit in Alabama. Elsewhere, naval movements, bank theft arrests, political reform in Venezuela, and a Trinidad shooting are noted alongside Iowa county notices, judicial actions, and planned university extensions.
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United States
Foreign
Asaan City
Illinois Central names Fort Dodge division head
Judge W. S. Kenyon the present divisional attorney for Illinois Central with Chicago headquarters will return to Fort Dodge to succeed the late T. D. Healy and oversee Illinois Central lines west of the Mississippi River.
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Fort Dodge
W. 5. Kenyon
Chicago
T. D. Healy
Mississippi
Two Found Dead in Milwaukee Home in Suspected Asphyxiation
Milwaukee authorities report Mathier Durawski and his wife, both 72, were found dead in their bed in a bedroom. They had lain there for three weeks. A coal stove with the door open and coal dust inside suggests asphyxiation.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Mathier Durawski
Taft Cannot Have Its Autos Says Committee
Washington January 21 The urgent deficiency appropriation bill was reported to the senate carrying 1,151,602 an increase of 25,000 over the house amount The committees struck out the house provision for an appropriation of 12,000 for the purchase of automobiles for use of the president Colorado Millionaire Dead Colorado Springs January 21 Charles H Gl a millionaire mining man of this city is dead of heart disease in New York City according to a private message received here today
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Clarke
Carl F. Kuehnle
T. Ink Healy
Atate University
House
Washington
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Charles GL
Thin City
New York City
Deadly Chicago crib disaster leaves scores unaccounted
Reports show at least forty seven dead with estimates by officials that the list could reach sixty two or more. Survivors describe a burning wooden crib at Lake Michigan with bodies burned and unrecognizable while divers search ice floes and authorities prepare a coroners inquest and funeral arrangements.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Hoffman
Murphy's Morgue
George W. Jackson
Fifrteen
D'Andrae
Sewer and Tunnel Miners Association
Sam
Calumete River
Great Western Official Learns of Money Raising
St Paul Minn Jan 31 A total of 430000000 has been raised by the stockholders of the Great Western for the complete reorganization of the road. A telegram to this effect was received by Charles J Smith receiver of the road from A B Stickney president at present in New York The amount will put the road on its feet.
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St. Paul, Minn
Great Western
Charles J. Smith
A. 8. Stickney
New York
Oil Company to Pay Fine in Silver Dollars
Austin Texas January 21 According to a Waters Pierce attorney the judgment of 1 623 000 obtained by the state will be paid in full for collars delivered to the state treasury The judgment and interest total about 2 000 000 If paid in silver dollars the money would weigh 101 425 pounds about three tons counting and counting would take an expert forty days to complete
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Austin
Texas
Waters-Pierce
Defrauded Anowan Held On Grand Jury Bond In Chicago
Benjamin Franklin Newcomer was held to the grand jury in 1500 dollars bond by Municipal Judge Newcomer on a confidence game charge. With two accomplices, he allegedly led Horace Sanders, a wealthy Iowa City horse breeder, to sign what he believed was a cattle book order but was a 420 dollar draft. Sanders, who traveled to Chicago to press the case, reports attempts by mail and others to hinder prosecution.
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Chicago
Benjamin Franklin Newcomer
Bionicipal
Newcomer
Horace Sanders
Iowa City
Iowa
Sanders
AR. BH. Cantie
Haugen Recommends Hjerlied as Examiner
Washington January 21 J F Cass of Waterloo reports Haugen sent to the comptroller of the currency a recommendation that H G Hierlied of Decorah become a bank examiner. Hierlied likely assigned to eastern and southern Iowa. Also notes Nordica and Stull seats remaining.
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Washington, D. C
Spudal
J. F. Cass
Waterloo
Iowa
Haugen
Comptroller of
H. G. Hierlied
Decorah
Hierlied
Bonaparte refuses appeal on merger inquiry
Washington reports Attorney General Bonaparte declined to explain the merger of Tennessee Coal and Iron Company with United States Steel Corporation in a letter to the Senate judiciary committee. The committee said it would not release the letter without his consent, fueling talk of a breach between the committee and the Department of Justice.
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Washington
Bonaparte
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Tennessee Coal and Iron‘company
Unitecdl States Steel Corporation
Iustice
Libel Investigation Still Buried in Secrecy
Washington dispatch reports the grand jury was not in session due to other business. District Attorney Baker and Justice Department officials prepared to examine witnesses in the Panama Canal purchase libel case. The defendants and scope remain undisclosed, with indictments still anticipated but details unrevealed.
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Washington
Baker
Department of Justice
Panama Canal
Donnelly Appointment to Be Recommended by Senate Group
Washington reports the senate printing committee will again back Samuel B. Donnelly for public printer after probing labor clique activity in the offices. The panel disregards the cliques and plans to forward Donnelly with a favorable recommendation for confirmation. George Franklin, a machinist from Rock Island, is visiting the city this week after prior local shop employment.
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Washington
Senate
Samuel B. Donnelly
Senate Committee On Printing
Wnions
Donnelly
George Franklin
Rock Island, Jr
Thomas McManus Called by Death in Hudson Iowa
Thomas J. McManus, father of Dr. T A McManus of Waterloo, died at his Hudson home after weeks of illness. A Blackhawk County resident for 85 years, he left four children including T A McManus and George McManus. Funeral arrangements pending, likely Saturday at the Baptist church with Rev Kepford officiating per the deceased’s request.
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Waterloo
O. A. McManus
Winona
Minn
George McManus
Boston Harbor
F. BP. Hicks
Tracy
Baptist
Hudson
Ney
J. C.keptord
Independence
Yan
Rav. Sepford
LE Les
Kepford
Faithless Wife Shoots Self After Confession
Chicago, Jan 21 Mrs Har rison of Evans avenue lay in Lakeside hospital in critical condition after shooting herself last night to kill herself after confessing an adulterous affair with Frank Miller a singer at Dijon Dream and the wife of a conductor on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific rail line. Detective aid followed husband Warrigan who learned of the affair and confronted his wife leading to the confession before she shot herself. The bullet struck corset steel and lodged in the body.
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Mre
R. Hacrson
Evans Avenue
Lakeside Hospital
Frank Miller
Singer
Dijon
State
Harrison
Rock Island
Paoifle
Warrigonta
Young Millier
Miller
Harrisons
Denver
Charles FE. Erbstein
First National Bank
Jin
Forty-seventh Street
Pioneer resident Nick Weldon killed by Inola Central freight
Vreeport Alabama reports Jan 20 as Depf and cable hear an approaching train. Nick Weldon a Palo pioneer resident was killed by an Inola Central freight at age seventy eight.
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Vreeport
Depf
Cable
Nick” Weldon
Palo
Ite
Two Thousand Pittsburg Residents Sick From Contaminated Water
Pittsburg reports 2009 people in Bellevue, a suburb, sick after drinking raw river water supplied by the local water company. Officials fear a typhoid epidemic as the illness spreads across Friday to Sunday.
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Subure
Pittsburg
Bellevue
City
Cloud Burst Wipes Out Homes in California Town
In Stockton California on January 21 a cloudburst washed out nine houses in Angelew Caurno killing one Clinaman and flooding parts of the town. Farmington reports rising water levels and the San Joaquin River climbs over an inch hourly as heavy rainfall continues.
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Stockton
Cal
Angelew Caurno
Farmington
San Joguam
Golf slow says Sullivan
Indignant denial from former pugilist John L Sullivan to rumors of a trip to Africa and learning golf. He questioned the claim and said the attentions of life are aligned with his next administration, calling the report baseless and not worthy of comment.
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Washington
John L. Sui
Diveu
Saw
Bia
Godspeed
Chia
Africa
John
Puglist
People flee Turkish town after quakes near Smyrna
An official report from Constantinople dated Jan 21 says more than six hundred houses were destroyed yesterday at Phocaea near Smyrna. Shocks continue and residents seek refuge in the mountains as aftershocks disrupt the area.
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Phocaea
Constantinople
Phocaoa
Smyrna
Nomination of Frederick A Walls for Insurance Superintendent
Ceremonial secretary Hughes today sent to the senate the nomination of Frederick A Walls of New York to be superintendent of Insurance. Walls has been identified with the Insurance business for 14 years.
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A'buny
Ceremnor Hughes
Frederick A. Walls
New York
Wallis
Brown Elected to Lead Rutland Railroad After NY Central
New York Jan 21 W H Newman retires as Michigan Central head and W C Brown anew president for New York Central also elected head of the Rutland railroad company Brown succeeds Newman across several lines and assumes leadership of the Rutland railroad as well
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New York
New York Central
W. H. Newman
Michigan Central Railroad Company
W. C. Brown
Mr. Brown
Rutland Railroad Company
Savings bank planned for Dike area soon
A farmer's Savings Bank is to be established in Dike with one hundred shareholders. C I Thomas of Grundy Center will be president and Jepp J Schultzenshier is named for another post. It aims to open by February 20 amid strong local interest.Federal judges’ salaries rise to 10000 from 7000. Bananas cheaper nationwide due to cold weather.]
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Dike
Jan
C. 1. Thomas
Grundy Center
Jepp J. Schultzenshier
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