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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1904
Page
3
A jumble of observations from politics to fashion and science across nations. Notes on elections money and aristocracy. Vesuvius activity and human folly. jokes about stenographers Esperanto and a forthcoming autoboat race. News items mix wit with curiosity from everyday life.
The passage expresses a strong belief that Commander Peary with Eskimo allies will reach the North Pole and explore the surrounding polar region in search of abundant pemmican and frozen meat resources.
A fragment of state items reports a West Branch High School destroyed by lightning, a burned West Tiranch building eleven years ago, and corn exhibits at Ottumwa winning praise. Des Moines hosts a railway doctors convention in October. Mason City plans a cort contest with Professor Holden judging. Rockwell City cannery closed after a record season. farmers paid well for corn. Davenport grand jury returned six indictments including Muscatine suspects in kidnapping threats and bribery cases. A near miss on an Iowa Central Milwaukee line wreck is described with no injuries. The state board of control refused to sell city building contents for the St Louis exposition, with furniture and parts redistributed to Knoxville and state institutions.
A spate of accidents crimes and legal moves fill the iona county and surrounding region. Henry Stumphauger's home at Cellar Falls is destroyed by a stove explosion injuring his wife who is in critical condition. Clark Haight of Shell Rock dies when a threshing engine explodes near Sedan. The state seeks to block a capitol decoration contract with Elmer Garnsey. Arnald Guthlen of New Liberty Savings Bank is jailed on embezzlement charges and released on bond as a warrant follows. Henry Hamilton alias Hugh Jamie is busted for forging checks in Davenport. A 14 year old girl dies from turpentine burns near Marathon. Mrs Maggie Miller and daughter face vagrancy charges in Waterloo. A Marshalltown brakeman loses an arm in a rail accident. Louis Willing convicted of arson in Waterloo. Downey and bride Grace Coleman face a thwarted kidnapping bid at Sioux City. Modern Woodmen fight over bond actions in Amarits and Ida county while Frank M Harvey’s employment history draws scrutiny in Ide Grove and Sioux City.
Karl Karrer, a Treynor saloon keeper, is jailed in Council Bluffs as investigators pursue the Treynor bank robbery. Bloodhounds trailed from the loot scene to Karrer’s home, with no money found on him or at the residence. Frances Flood, the bookkeeper, was locked in the vault and later released.
Mrs Frter Lewis died at her home near Leon on October 7 amid reports she mistook her husband for a chicken and shot him. The physician called it a broken heart case as the husband had gathered in the yard and the couple had suffered prolonged distress after the tragedy.
In United States court here McCrum claims Frederick Bobmidt of Los Angeles alienated his wife’s affections and seeks 15000 dollars in damages from the wealthy father in law. The Cherokee county farmer is involved in this rural legal action.
Nearly 1,000 dollars worth of rugs stolen in a citywide haul were recovered by Inspector George M. Skippy from Chicago. The rugs were found in Louis Geffen's store at 416 Pearl Street and he was taken to the police station. Fred J. Magerstadt, a furniture dealer who had lost items, identified the rugs.
Judge Thornell overruled the demurrer to a writ of habeas corpus after finding the motive for arresting Shercliffe unclear. The court ordered no extradition to Fairfield for the Lockridge depot robbery and Shercliffe will stay in Logan to testify in the Pollock-Wamond case against Tom Dennison. He has a jail room and a Logan furniture job arranged until after the Dennison trial.
Prominent judges and lawyers say members of the Iowa Grain Dealers association who met at the Grant club and set grain prices in cards sent to representatives may face state law prosecution. Secretary Geo Wells and other leaders claim safety via constant legal consultation. It is noted W Case, who sends the cards, is not a member, and efforts avoided open violation. judges say intent governs, and a court case may proceed seeking 000 in penalties.
Des Moines reports no voter listing instructions issued for Polk county under the new primary law. Publication of notice is pending. independent voters may be excluded, and no steps have been taken to enforce the law. If the biennial amendment fails, primaries will proceed next year with party choices required.
George Perry was found dead in a farmer's barn hay mow near Cherokee on October 6. Initial belief suggested accidental death or foul play, but the coroner ruled death due to natural causes after postmortem examination. The report mentions Minnesota work history and notes on water quality and piano-related phrases as unrelated filler.
Western System wins control of Rock Island and Alton railways following a long fight with Loree. Winchell reinstated as sole executive head. shops to reopen and operations return to active status. A separate incident reports Mrs. W A Moore impaled by a chair in Waterloo with a serious abdominal injury and shin wound.
Sheriff Cannings reports Saloonkeeper Karl Karrer has made a partial confession to the Treynor bank robbery. Nearly a third of the stolen money is recovered at the Karrer home after bloodhound tracking. more is expected to be recovered from the bandit. His wife is not implicated.
Mrs Florence Melarlouis Wap of Sioux City learns she has $4000 from an uncle's estate after his death at Lake Superior Wisconsin. She had previously received fifteen marriage proposals since the fortune news. While visiting Millerburg she testified in a jail case and helped convict the burglar, then was released.
Arnold Beauthien, cashier at the New Liberty Savings Bank in Davenport, was arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement of 31,750 with alleged indebtedness up to 45,000. He surrendered after learning of the charges and intends to display the documents as proof of innocence.
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