Iowa Heroine Near Death After Train Rescue Twenty Years Later
Kate Shelly, famed as Iowas heroine for rescuing a passenger train at Moingona, lies near death in St Anthonys hospital Carroll after an appendicitis operation could not proceed. Relatives present, her lasting fame noted from the 1890s bridge rescue when she crawled across a flooded Des Moines River bridge to warn a Northwestern train of 100 passengers. The lantern she used burned out leaving her in darkness during the act.
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Boone, In
Kate Shelly Mes
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Carroll
Miss Shelly
Iona
Moingona
Northwestern
Des Moines
Supreme Court expected to rule on tobacco case today
Washington May 29 The United States Supreme Court is anticipated to hand down a decision in the tobacco trust case favorable to the government. Officials of the Department of Justice forecast the ruling mirrors the court’s Standard Oil reasoning and clarifies interpretations of unreasonable restraint of trade and the rule of reason. The decision may be issued separately from the Standard Oil ruling, with experts noting the court’s cautious, strategic timing.
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United States Supreme Court
Washington
Tobacco Trust
Department of Justice
Standard Oil
Foreign crop prospects show partial corn failure in Argentina Uruguay
Washington May 29 The agriculture department reports foreign crop prospects are generally satisfactory with notable exceptions Argentina and Uruguay. Argentina's corn crop yields are very low while Uruguay faces a failing crop. Canada sees spring wheat promising and Europe mostly fair with weaker rye and unsatisfactory Austria Hungary conditions. Russia broadly faring well in cereals.
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Argentina
Uruguay
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Europe
Canada
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Russia
Plan Year’s Test for Hens in Spokane
Spokane plans the first American egg laying congress starting in November lasting a year. The event is free and open worldwide with at least two entries per state or territory, six chickens each from Canada. Questions cover cost, breeds, and best layers. Memory of Confederate Dead observed in New York with services at Mount Hope cemetery.
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Spokane
Wash
Canada
New York
Mount Hope Cemetery
Broadway Rouss
Iowa News Briefs Reflect a Busy County Calendar
A digest of Iowa briefs notes five divorces granted at Keokuk in one day, plans for three Clinton county bridges, Windsor? Welker’s death in Le Grand, an aviation meet in Keokuk under the industrial club, and events from Davenport to Waterloo. Other items include anniversaries, graduations, public speakers, and local civic notices across cities like Des Moines, Muscatine, and Ottumwa.
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Keokuk
Clinton
William A. Welker
le Grand Kettler
Industrial Club
Colored Odd Fellows of
Davenport
Belle Plains Band
R. J. Mullins
Boone Railroad
Des Moines
Iowa
Ernest Till
Nashua
Olive Conger
Seymour
Washington, D.C
Urge Early Vote On Reciprocity
Washington May 29 Friends of reciprocity in the senate push an early test on the Canadian agreement. They seek action by the finance committee by Monday, then daily sessions until completion, while opponents urge a recess arguing no rush before Canadian votes. Plan to defeat by delay shifted to amendments. Lorimer case to be reopened. House tariff revisions on wool and cotton ahead of adjournment.
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Washington
Friends of
Senate
Finance Committee
Congress
Canada
Underwood
Ways and Means
Crane
Mass
House
Lorimer
Illinois
Accident on Potomac Dolphin Sinks Power Boat
Secretary of the Navy aboard the Dolphin on a Potomac trip with Miss Helen Taft and young women collided with the power boat Culprit Fay off Alexandria. Three men were aboard Culprit Fay. one, Alexander Yellowless, disappeared as rescuers recovered the other two after an hour search.
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Dolphin
Helen Taft
Washington
Potomac River
George von L. Meyer
Secretary of the Navy
Alexandria
Alexander Yellowless
Fire in Rolfe destroys Johnson & Elbert livery barn
Rolfe Iowa May 29 fire believed sparked by locomotive sparks destroyed the Johnson and Elbert livery barn, damaged Williams garage and wiped out a small meat market. Loss around 7000 dollars, partly insured. Washington May 29 rumors claim Charles Noble Gregory, dean of the law department at Town City University of Laws, may become dean of George Washington University law school.
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Rolfe
Johnson & Elbert
Williams
Dean Gregory
Washington
Charles Noble Gregory
Law Department
State University of Laws At
Town City
Law School of
George Washington. University
Mexican Revolt Costs 20,000,000 as De la Barra Takes Office
Mexico City May 29. Measures for disposing of the insurrecto army and paying war costs occupy the new executive. President de la Barra seeks to dissolve rebel forces, use some for rurales, assist others to find work or return home, and pay them as muster out. Diplomats peg war costs at 20 million gold, with claims procedure proposed. Juarez reports Madero warns against press suppression. new regime demands untrammeled Mexican press.
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Mexico City
de la Barra
Diaz
Mrs Harriman Silent On University Plan Rumor
New York May 29 Mrs Edward Harriman declined to confirm or deny a report she would use much of her late husband’s fortune to found a great western university. Other family members also would not comment. The widow is said to seek a method to perpetuate her husband's name through philanthropic disbursement.
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New York
Edward HW. Harriman
West
Harriman
Bolt Kills Man and Horse in Rain
A light rain shower in Marceline Missouri on May 29 when lightning struck and killed Anthony Whigman a young farmer and one of his plow horses.
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Bolt
Marceline
Anthony Whigman
Inflexible Damaged In Portsmouth Collision
British cruiser Inflexible suffered heavy damage in a collision with another warship off Portsmouth with no casualties reported. A Vatican announcement named Rev. Edmund Prendergast archbishop of Philadelphia succeeding the late Patrick Ryan. Adolphus Busch received the Commander’s Cross of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle for promoting Germanic culture in America. Adolph Pricken, linked to a New York perfumery, was arrested in St Paul after a nationwide and European pursuit. alleged theft totaled $30,000.
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Portsmouth
Presbyterian General Assembly
Edmund Prendergast
Philadelphia
Vatican
Patrick John Ryan
Adolphus Busch of
St. Louis
William
America
New York
Europe
United States
Adolph Pricken
Gothan
St. Paul
Pricken
Inside History of the Steel Trust Formation Story
John W Gates testified May 29 before the House committee on the origins of the United States Steel Corporation. He recounts Carnegie’s open competition era, Morgan Schwab and Hill meetings, and the 1907 Tennessee Coal and Iron takeover, framing the trust as a move to curb competition.
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Washington
John W. Gates
House Steel Trust
United States Steel Corporation
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Gates
Charles M. Schwab
J. P. Morgan
Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States ‘Steel Corporation
Tennessee Company
Morgan
Trust Company of America
National Tube Company
Ashtabula
Steel Combine
James J. Hill
Rockefeller
Driver Killed Three Hurt In Denver Practice Crash
Two speeding automobiles on the Sable course near Denver during preliminary practice for a 300 mile race veered off course and overturned. One driver, Robert W. Bean of Detroit, was crushed to death. the other driver and both car mechanics suffered injuries in the double wreck at the same turn.
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Denver
Sable
Robert W. Bean
Detroit
Another Big Fire at Dubuque
A major fire at Dubuque on May 29 originated in the Standard Lumber company. The blaze, already causing about $100,000 in losses, is reported as beyond control.
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Dubuque
Dubuque, le
Standard Lumber Company
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Oregon
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Updike Grain Company
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Hamptons
Louis Bergen
Knoxville
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Bn—Wool and Cotton
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Rolfe Barns
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Madero Aldea Newspaper
Mrs. Harriman
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