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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
2
A garbled digest notes a disappearing gun carriage for Panama defense at Sandy Hook, with mentions of James McNaughton of Calumet Mine, William Crookes, psychology clinics, a naphthaline locomotive, Stavanger housewives using electric cooking, and various global facts from 19th century science and industry.
In Des Moines reports debate over Iowa federal appointments follows the death of U S Marshal Frank Clark. Wilson men clash with Clark faction over marshal and attorney picks amid shifting alliances and district tensions. A second item covers Earl Jones’s kidnapping case appeal to the state board of control, with defense challenging the guilty plea as a possible elopement. Details note alibi testimonies and elopement implications in Shenandoah and Villisca.
A man posing as a university inspector targeted Iowa City landladies renting student rooms. He charged $1 per room, plus $1 for a supposed certificate after inspecting four rooms. The scam surfaced during a Bowing administration conference with coed housing owners.
Ida Grove Iowa November 29 about 5000 people gathered on Main Street for the inaugural lighting of 53 new electroiters. A city barbecue served 600 pounds of wieners four beef quarters 3004 lines and over 100 gallons of coffee as speeches were delivered by local officials and representatives. Two bands provided music.
W. H. Colby, formerly of Clear Lake, Ta, who was thought dead after a cabin blast in Idaho seven months ago, is now found alive. He attends a Spokane college and is held by an insanity commission for further examination. Insurance investigators pursue life policy details.
Spencer, Iowa, November 2. Ed Campbell, long a resident, was arrested in Spirit Lake after marrying Miss Schoeneman there. He had earlier wed Miss Mabel Runkle on March 7, 1911, producing a child. Campbell fled for weeks, then married again. the ceremony drew a large crowd. Runkle pressed charges. Campbell was held for the grand jury. He had worked as a fineman for the city light plant and later for Western Electric.
Des Moines Iowa November 28 local saloon keepers whose licenses were revoked by a supreme court decision last Saturday plan to ask a rehearing through their attorneys They list 19 reasons for a rehearing arguing the affidavits of petition signers were improperly disqualified and that the affidavits were incidental to the petition validity They contend the lower and supreme courts did not fully argue the point and that legislative action validates the affidavits.
A five passenger car went off the grade near Lake City injuring two: Mrs. J W Messenger with a crushed hip and Mr Messenger with back injuries. The vehicle belonged to George Losse and carried his son in law Johnichard ton and the Messengers. In a separate Are dale crash two more people were hurt while returning from A Stack funeral. A Stack widow suffered a fractured collar bone and Popinga's son a broken shoulder.
Ben G. Schuman of Ida Grove left town in his car on a real estate errand and has not returned, sending a letter that he has no intention to come back. He was known to be deeply in debt, but no criminal claims or charges were reported. His father and in laws are wealthy farmers in the county.
Onawa Iowa November 27 Baron Peterson was killed in the Onawa Northwestern Paris incident. His father hired Attorney J W Anderson to pursue damages from the railroad company for negligence. Last week the railroad paid the parents 4000 dollars and 290 dollars for funeral expenses.
A Burlington engine collided with the Rock Island steel passenger train at East Twenty seventh street. Four were badly injured and many more shaken as cars toppled from the track. Injuries included fractures and sprains among passengers and crew in the westbound Des Moines crash.
Washington November 28 Democrats in the Senate pressed the administration currency bill through a conference with little change. The Owen Glass plan faces division as Hitchcock and Lane resist, while Kenyon denounces the bank controlled system and calls for true public ownership and control. The fate of regional banks remains unresolved.
In Mount Edgecombe's Blackburn sugar estate near Durban, five East Indian strikers were killed in an uprising with police. Police fired several volleys to quell the rioters at Natal's major sugar mill area, with a nearby American mission station noted.
Chicago reports James Crosby, a night watchman at J. W. Barris Manufacturing, shut off a defective sprinkler on the second floor. Fire crews arrived to find the plant ablaze in multiple locations, causing about 100000 dollars in losses and Crosby losing his job.
New York Nov 27 Richard Barry writer won a suit to recover half of 10000 dollars Mulhall the lobbyist allegedly received from the New York World for confidential letters used in a congressional probe. Barry claimed Mulhall acted as his agent and editor though no contract existed.
A mixed Iowa page reports a Battle Creek death of Mrs. Thomas Crane, with details of her Kentucky roots and Iowa years. It also covers local auditor checks on A J Bhanhon, hog breeding in Rodney, and several town notices including Rock Rapids officers and suicide of a lunch car proprietor, plus accidents in Ida Grove and Otley, and Measles at Holy Cross school.
Shenandoah Iowa November 27 relatives seek pardon for Earl Jones sentenced to Anamosa for kidnapping Grace Runyon of Corning. Jones claims he shielded the girl in an elopement plot and expected a light sentence. Witnesses defend the claim, while details of the incident are disputed by family and friends.
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