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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
1
Collateral inheritance tax collected from 80 Iowa estates in the first three weeks of April totaled $50,000, a new record. Ten estates paid more than $1,000 each, per Q A Willis deputy treasurer of state.
Serious Japses arise from Missouri river inroads. Taylor of Lincoln Neb purchased a river bottom farm. only ten acres remain as buildings risk being swallowed. Weldon’s farm, largely taken last year, is nearly gone and he must move, living in town. Losses amount to thousands.
A 17 year old Aspinwall girl in Crawford county swallowed carbolic acid after a quarrel with Ross Hume of Council Bluffs who was with her. They argued on a downtown street, she took his bottle and collapsed. Two policemen aided her and she was taken to a hospital.
Wehland farmer files indictment against deer plaguing his farm and nearby counties. A pair of deer reportedly trampled a colt into a barbed wire fence and injured themselves, forcing the animal’s death. He asks authorities for relief to protect livestock and pastures.
Dubuque workers at the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad freight house walked out after the company refused a 4 cent per hour raise from 1834 to 22 percent. Management offered a temporary 1 cent increase and hinted at a forthcoming tonnage system, while using office staff to handle freight during the stoppage.
Dorothy Smith night superintendent at St. Luke's hospital drowned in the Cedar River during a morning canoe ride with nurse May Baxter. Their canoe struck a snag and capsized. Baxter was trapped by the snag but rescued.
The two year old son of Mr and Mrs R D Waller of Tonquitis died shortly after a tonsil operation at a hospital in Dubuque. He had prior tonsil trouble but appeared well before the procedure. He died within minutes of the operation being performed.
Miss Minnie Brummer is the third member of the Brummer family to die within six weeks from trichinous disease. The father and another daughter were the other victims. Minnie Brummer endured two months of suffering before death.
Alonzo Bradish, a Decorah pioneer since 1857, died suddenly while sitting in a chair at 51. In Iowa City a blaze gutted the Dey block and damaged several nearby buildings, forcing University dormitory unions and trapped students to escape via fire stairs.
Des Moines reports a move to test the validity of the search warrant law as amended by Iowa's Thirty sixth General Assembly. The action follows Sioux City where Interstate Transportation Co seized three van loads of liquor weeks ago. County Attorney O T Naglestad cites the case as a test of law in practice. Records smashed at Drake relay carnival stage.
Twelve suits filed in federal court by U S District Attorney FP A O Connor accuse nine railroads of violating the 28 hour law for interstate shipments of live stock to Sioux City from Nebraska Minnesota and South Dakota The penalties proposed total 500 dollars for each violation with fines to be imposed on the carriers For each instance the stock allegedly remained in transit over 28 hours without food water or rest The suits stem from information provided by the U S Department of Agriculture against carriers including the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Chicago and Northwestern Great Northern Milwaukee and Sioux City Terminal Railroad Company and others
Senator Jon Allen was summoned from his gubernatorial campaign to testify before a Washington house committee investigating meat conditions and cattle marketing and their impact on the cost of living. He had been attacking packers in Iowa speeches.
Major General Hugh F. Scott and General Frederick Funston met Mexican Minister of War Alvaro Obregon at the Juarez customs house for a preliminary to the international conference on U S troops pursuing Villa. The social meeting lasted an hour. Mexican guards lined the route, and a brief salute marked the occasion.
London reports Dublin disturbances as Sinn Fein gunmen seize Stephen's Green and post office, cutting wires. Soldiers arrive from the Curragh, with several officers and volunteers killed or wounded. Cork Limerick Ennis Tralee and Tipperary areas reported calm.
Field dispatch reports Col. George A. Dodd’s cavalry surprised 260 Villa adherents at Tomachio. Two Americans killed and three wounded. six Mexicans killed and nineteen wounded. Villa leaders Baca Cercantes Dominguez and Rass among the enemy. Villa forces fled as Americans pursued toward Minaca, with horses and arms seized.
The Farm Improvement association names W A Dickenson of Minneapolis as Floyd county farm agent. Dubuque seeks an agricultural agent for Dubuque county. Keokuk residents urge police to curb vandalism. Mareus reports over 175000 in improvements in 1916, best town record. Rev Dr Ezra Butler Newcomb marks 20 years at Westminster Church Keokuk. Northwestern bankers to meet in Sac City first week of June. 125 bankers expected. The Modern Health Crusader leagues launches in Bloomfield. Vinton upgrades court house square with 26000 spent previously and 150 more planned this year on shrubs and plants. Suffrage leaders to tour eastern Iowa counties May 11 to 19. Crawford County awards 20000 for permanent roads adding 14 miles. last year 16 miles built and tax from automobile revenue to be collected. St Luke’s Davenport raises 125000 for new building in ten day campaign. Storm Lake station destroyed by fire. two cars of lumber burned. Bronze tablet for Keokuk dam project placed on Mississippi River Power Co power house wall near visitor platform.
Petrograd reports the left wing of Grand Duke Nicholas' army overcomes severe terrain to drive Turkish forces from mountain positions south of Bitlis. Russian troops push toward Diarbekr on the Tigris, as the small fort Begun falls after a day of defense.
In Bronx Supreme Court Mrs Ida Sniffen Rogers is found not guilty by insanity in the poisoning of her two children. The verdict follows jurors doubt about her mental state amid the case's sensational local profile.
London reports a sudden cabinet crisis after the military service bill was withdrawn amid Irish unrest. The bill was recalled, a secret session failed, and the press decries government weakness while many papers demand universal conscription.
Indianapolis April 24 United States Senator Thomas Taggart nominated by the Democratic state convention for the short term as United States senator. Washington April 29 Secretary of the Interior Lane announces no troops to Anchorage Alaska where laborers on the government railroad are on strike.
Paris reports heavy air activity along the western front with German planes including a Fokker brought down. A French squadron dropped 18 bombs on La Mache station in the Woëvre. A German plane damaged near Douaumont and another fell near Montfaucon. a French aviator in a Nieport monoplane defeated a Fokker behind German lines. Shells were fired intermittently around Avecourt Esney and Fromein during the night.
Swiss anger rises after a German airplane flies over Porrentruy again in the territory near Fribourg. The semiofficial Bund calls for action beyond words, demanding more than apologies from Germany.
Two British light cruisers and a destroyer were hit in a 20 minute action with a German cruiser squadron at daybreak Tuesday after a German raid on Lowestoft. The German vessels escaped, and four persons were killed.
Official announcement on April 28 reports 106 people killed and 69 injured in a Kent county munitions factory explosion. No women were among the victims. Mrs. McLean, past-president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was reported critically ill in Baltimore. Turkish forces reportedly killed about 800 British cavalry near Quatia in the April 3 battle, per an official report.
Alaska May 1. The Anchorage Labor union rejected the wage scale offered by the federal arbitration board and sought to settle disputes like other workers on the government’s railroad project in Alaska.
Four Mexican prisoners at Casas are reported killed. incident linked to reported activity near Villa de Columbus on April 29. Details scarce as officials investigate possible clash between Villa factions and Mexican prisoners.
Des Moines reports the Iowa dairy and food department warns merchants and inspectors about gas. line shortages and syrup mismeasurements leading to large losses. A Burlington firm is said to have recovered funds from a suspect Marg alltown operation. Detectives and inspectors are instructed to pursue suspected frauds and enforce short measure penalties.
Shenandoah buyer Fen Field purchased five acres known as Hickory Hill for 150 per acre to build a summer home on the old Mormon village site once at Manti. The village faded after the railroad arrived, with only a graveyard and a single house remaining, and many Manti residents moved to Shenandoah.
Large Consolidated School in Pleasantville-Pleasantville claims the district as the largest consolidation. Ten wagons transport pupils to the rural school, with eight months of perfect punctuality. A new consolidated high school building is nearing completion at a cost of 50199 dollars.
Settlement of the Coffin wills case is completed after months of negotiations. The court ordered the will set aside and Mrs Carrie B Rutledge, daughter of the late L S Coffin, named administratrix of the estate valued at about 180000 dollars. Deputy sheriff’s auto theft report follows as another local incident.
The article notes Iowa requires about two million bushels of seed corn annually to plant the state's fields. It explains this seed tally equals half of the top producing counties and nearly all seed corn produced in the state, underscoring a significant concern over seed availability for Iowa's cornfields.
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