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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1907
Page
2
A large blaze wrecked the Norfolk high school building causing total loss of the school records and major property damage. Insurance coverage was cited while churches offered space and a temporary plan for next term. Principal Von Goetz and Miss OConnor suffered losses of books and notes.
A Saturday night White House conference on Philippine fortifications included President and top military leaders. Plans call for 1,485,000 dollars and prepared planes to carry out the project. Officials reviewed the program and aims to accelerate work after goals are matured.
A distressed woman believed to be Maria Becker leaped from a car near Yests NY and was found dead by the Mohawk river embankment. A two year old child presumed her daughter was placed in an Albany children’s institution. A Nortt German Lloyd Steamship ticket from San Francisco lists Maria Becker and another name.
Three young men Thacker Eljjah Hatley and Jol Filmore were killed in a boat fight on the Kentucky River twenty miles below Sargent. Two others were seriously wounded as a dispute sparked a quick, knife and oar clash. A neighbor later aided the survivors, with Bailey and Calebry among the injured or deceased in a chaotic confrontation.
Market notes show Saturday quotations for CHF Uva stock with prices around $4.50. Top hogs traded near £4.50 in Sioux City trade, reflecting local commodity activity and price levels.
A fire at a Tart near da ville, TP on Saturday injured a woman and child, with Alves Frank Caracs and her annigh ter Bay among the rushed victims to Reath Grou pratino. Fire crews battled the blaze as families suffer severe burns.
The article notes a wreck on the Pennsylvania line with details of train damage and passenger injuries. It mentions a high grade fare, a price near cents, and a Tug up to recover, with several passengers seriously injured in the incident.
A brief late entry records the death of Aduhaima at sight during a service era. Vets Vin ores a SeSubet Vues Washington reported the passing with no further details provided.
Deputy AG Hichards instructs State Detective Timkins to arrest John Meri a footman of Clauwcester and Towers Beach tracked to Newcastle with a black hull cat rigged sloop used to move the kidnapped Harnes Mingvin upstream to trains. The vessel traced to Salem creek and seized at Newcastle under guard of Mary Le nee. Governor Cahill and Secretary Cahill coordinate to recover the child amid police surveillance and swift action.
After two years of litigation a Clayton Missouri circuit court awarded AT Logan Guthrie of Fulton Iowa twenty five thousand dollars as the prize in a contest for guessing the World’s Fair total admissions. Guthrie guessed 12 804 614 admissions as announced. Several other claimants pursued awards while a settlement of differing claims awaited.
Joseph R. Burton, former senator from We Baneas, will be relased on March 22 from Stanton Jail where he serves six months for directing legal work for a purported rich quick company before the post office department. He receives a thirty day reduction for good behavior and plans to return with his wife to Abilene, Texas.
Miz Wholas Mose of Plunder recovers after the Farmers' Savings bank robbery in Masonville. Six robbers fled west of Manchester with 3000 dollars. Thursday evening they were captured in an old barn. Two sacks holding coins totaling 260 found on them as authorities pursue a third robber with the remaining loot.
Chief Wilkie of the United States Secret Service, who led the Chicago probe into the £179,000 sub-treasury disappearance, returned to Washington Friday night and stated no new evidence or solution has emerged. He said we have found out nothing and remain no nearer a resolution than when the loss was first found.
Ole Overby reported away at work when his wife and four children were found frozen to death at the Wardcummin homestead on a Thursday. The chilling incident details remain under investigation by local authorities.
Obituary notes the death of a war captain known for a storied career and notable wartime exploits. Details on the individual, location, and date are limited in the fragment, but the legacy centers on leadership and valor.
Ring AWouso Hi. tent Lo dis Dev is unclear. The readable text mentions names and a location fragment but lacks a coherent event or outcome for a concise summary.
Fire destroyed the last of the historic Ing houses RHIC by the Moeneans when they settled in Givingston and Catdawen counties. The building formed part of private residence.
J L Narvinian president of the Union Pacific on return from Washington urged cooperation between government and railroads. He warned against agitation by trusts and stressed mutual benefit of stable policy. Harriman declined comment on Reading Railroad control rumors as industry leaders call for better understanding and unity.
The Strother brothers were found not guilty by a Culpeper County jury after one hour deliberation. The defense cited the higher Law and emotional insanity. Sheriff Joe Harrison praised the verdict, while Mrs Bywaters testified of betrayal and forced marriage preceding the shooting of Wm Bywaters at the Culpeper home. Strather, a Virginia legislator, was among the prominent parties involved.
District Attorney Jerome sought an emergency appropriation of 15000 pounds in special revenue funds to pay experts for testifying on Harry Thaw's sanity the night he shot Stanford White. In Albert T Patrick's murder case prosecutors spent over 50000 dollars on state expert witnesses.
Twelve sailors from the Russian cruiser Emir of Bukhara were court martialed for mutiny during the Sveaborg outbreak and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor ranging from three years to life.
In the lower house battle for leadership the radicals forced the constitutional democrats to drop their presidential candidates and back the radical coalition nomination.
Ardine Ratekin a young girl and Mrs. Dr. Woodgrass widow of Shenandoah TL died from Wyrchvine poisoning. Authorities investigate who picked the toxin before the two deaths as details remain unclear.
The 2 cent maximum fire bill passed the Tumois house Thursday by a near unanimous vote. A few opposed members refused to vote.
The Leopold, seal fishing steamer, was crushed by ice floes off Cape Race Nova Scotia. A terrific midnight sale preceded the disaster as the ship wrecked. The crew of 103 men were rescued by the Fanese ferry.
Workers on a tidewater railroad project near Liemanwke when a Norfolk and Western freight train struck them. Several Greeks were killed and others injured in the incident.
Miss Cornelia Fitzgerald of New York daughter of Bishop James Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal church died March 3 in Penang Malaysia. Cabled relatives in Newark of the death.
The British steamer Cambridge with forty six passengers and crew of fifty aboard grounded Thursday morning near Nahe Phint Holland. Later the Cambridge was freed and steamed away without apparent damage.
In a Sioux City session the Northwestern Lumber Eaters Association adopted resolutions in support of railroad companies. Led by Charles O. Finkbine, the committee urged careful consideration before endorsing new measures and pledged to refrain from ill conceived legislation to ease shipment delays of lumber from Washington and Greven, citing crippled business due to transportation failures.
Councilman W. EL Koche of Burlington Fifth Ward files a $5,000 slander suit against Dr. J. N. Patterson president of the Burlington Civic Federation. Patterson allegedly libelous remarks at a February meeting claimed a shooting in a Burlington saloon involved a councilman who feigned typhoid and was hospitalized. The case shocks Civic Federation circles.
In November 1905 William A Nehr broke into several residences including George Williams home and fired no shots. He was captured at Waterton, tried, and sentenced to twenty years in the Anamssa penitentiary.
Fred Dawson, a portable sawmill employee on the Springer farm near Wheelerwoods, was crushed in the machine on Thursday evening. His clothing tore off, his breath was interrupted, and he suffered multiple injuries including a broken left arm and ankle.
Professor St W Bissell of the mechanical engineering department and vice dean resigns after sixteen years to join Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing.
Ralph Leavitt Gaylord dies near Ida Grove and Arthur leaving nine children. Each child receives an Iowa farm valued at 100 dollars an acre as part of the estate. The nine farms total a substantial family fortune.
The ISU debating team for the annual triangular contest with Drake University of Des Moines and Tarkwa College of Grinnell has been selected and is preparing for the March 16 event.
Several Sioux county residents bought land from Henry Russell, a Texas land agent, who is accused in Des Moines reports of swindling townspeople out of about 260 thousand dollars after neglecting duties and mismanaging bee assets.
A large gathering of Clay county farmers and Spencer businessmen met to organize a farmers elevator company to erect and operate an elevator in Spencer.
Sacramento dispatch reports the sudden death of B C Tidges, agent for the Chicago and Southwestern railway at Tows Falls. He departed last week for the coast on a train journey due to ill health.
A visit by May Extent? Short Eine and delegation from Mason City ar AL WL oh Dodge revives discussion on extending river or rail link to Iowa Falls and nearby towns. Officials Rastan Mass and J. Wi Funk from Iowa Falls underscored potential routes and funding prospects.
Congressman Hepburn informed Postmaster Center that the government post office building will be built on the Smith site in Shenandoah. An appropriation of 5000 dollars has already been made for the purchase.
Robert M. Kingsley longtime landlord of the Irving hotel in Waterloo died at age 72. He was father to OC. L. Kingsley the present Irving landlord and was known as a genial, whote-souled mine host in the community.
The funeral for William Krause was held at his grandson Henry Weibking’s home in Lincoln township. Born in 1812 in Pomerania Germany, Krause moved to the United States in 1887 and settled in Wisconsin before Plymouth County. He married Dorothea Rilen in 1837 and had six children and many grandchildren.
Mrs Jessie O Connell runs a boarding house in Des Moines. Wilbert and Carl Whiners fight Willan Wilbert and Volpe in a bare fist duel to decide who should win her hand. Wilbert arrives at the station with a battered face as police decline to act. O Connell says she will not marry either man and laments love bringing trouble.
Torben Totary office reports J Yobin will become revenue collector for Farthers Town district. Benton county friends offer congratulations as Yobin thanks supporters and opponents, vowing to serve the government with his best effort.
A Brakeville woman named Kate DeHaven died after being trapped in a burning home as Drakeville resident Drake Drakeville, an invalid, did not receive help. She was moved to Clay Owens residence where she died hours later. The fire’s origin is unknown and had gained headway before discovery. Owens, rescued unconscious, alerted others and the home was saved though heavy loss occurred.
Dr and Mrs William At Starr marked 50 years of marriage in Waterloo where they have lived since 1900 plus. They were united March 2 1857 by Rev Thomas Harrison elder of the Harrison family. Starr served in the Civil War and had two sons who enlisted for the Spanish American War.
Justus Younghans, the oldest Odd Fellow in Des Moines and the nation, has died. Born he recently passed the 54th anniversary of his birth. He joined a Lancaster lodge in August 1850 and had been a member for fifty seven years.
The subcommittee in charge of the reciprocal Demurrage bill reported to the full committee. The bill requires shipping to make four deposits of 35 for each car ordered, forfeited if the cars are not loaded within the specified time after furnishing. Companies are given ten days to place an order for five more cars.
Orators George Edaward Marshall of Slow City and George Mr. Mullen of oc Fledge will judge the North west Town Oratorical contest in Ida Grove Friday night. A effort to have Gov Cun mins stay as Shire Judge for the arm ory dedication is underway.
Pat Crowe, the famed Kidnapper, visits Clinton after a 25 year absence. He spent a day with old friends in Clinton, where his father settled in Clinton County sixty years ago before moving south of Dewitt.
The annual meeting of the Baptist Young People’s union of the Dayens port district draws church workers from several emun ties in that section of Town to Camanche for a large district-wide gathering.
A new fraternal order the Fraternal Order of Indians was incorporated in Des Aveines. The group plans local chapters each with a clubhouse modeled after Elks lodges, emphasizing a purely focal character in its aims.
Ruston Mince Wille reports a colored mine worker named Charles Williams about 40 years old was fatally injured at Buxton Mine No. 13 recently in a fatal accident.
Chief M. C. Tullar announces resignation to take effect March 16. He was recently cleared by a Lake City jury of manslaughter in the death of George Dugan at the Manson fair last fall. He plans to pursue farming in North Dakota.
T A Anderson of Rats committed suicide recently by drinking carbaric acid. He was a wealthy lumber dealer owning substantial property and was noted in the trade. Health assigned as the cue in the report.
The Iowa General Assembly resumes work after a five day recess with vigor. Senator Stookey introduces a joint resolution for a March 28 adjournment. debates on the Peterson bill banning corporate political contributions and the pure drugs bill continue amid lobbying by suffragists and critics of district consolidation.
The senate and house clash over a plural ity nomination bill tied to a statewide primary set for the first Tuesday in June 1908. Poll hours differ by city and registration rules require a party faith declaration on the first primary.
William Allen White observes New York as emblematic of urban America where class divisions and servility blunt genuine democracy. He notes fawning waiters, cab drivers, and overly polished people who sell themselves for money, especially in Poets and painters like Mickie, reflecting national decline in dignity and American birthright.
In Semer ville Journal readers discuss Mr Wylde and Mr Winkley with Mrs White noting politeness after a sighting near the corner. The exchange hints at gossip about romantic ties and propriety in the town.
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