Railroad Wreck and Fire Reported in Iowa
Special to Evening Journal reports a Milwaukee engine near St Atkinson had a broken drive rod breaking the cab and throwing the engineer and fireman. The engineer was seriously hurt while the fireman was only slightly harmed. Earlier Rock Rapids noted a barn fire at W P McAaughey residence with eight horses lost and grain destroyed.
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Dubuque
Iowa
St. Atkinson
Evening Journal
Rock Rapids
W P. McAsaughey
Ottumwa Press Announces Reorganization Plan
Ottumwa March 8 The Ottumwa Press reports the company will reorganize and continue operations with assets of fifteen thousand and liabilities of seven thousand.
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Ottumwa
Ottumwa Press
Death Toll Rises From Red Ash Mine Blast at Hinton
At Red Ash mine near Hinton West Virginia twenty nine bodies have been recovered and the total dead is now estimated at forty two. There were that many men in the mine when the explosion occurred. Names of those in the mine at the time are listed including Long Sheff Clair Pritt Stewart Hobbie Jones Folmis Shew Sanders Sledge Hdgars Stone Harper Holmes Have rich Collins Collins Fouts Ramsey Washington Douse Douse Tucker Holmes Downey Downey Long and others.
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H.l Hobbie
Tohbert Jones
Granville Folmis
Sam Shew
Junius Sanders
Bill Sledge
Vale Hdgars
John Stone
Ed Harper
William Holmes
2D Haverich
Williat
Haverich
Alfred Collins
Tobe Collins
Charles Fouts
H. C. Ramsey
James Washington
Newvelle Douse
John Douse
Berry Tucker
Rolston Holmes
Charles Downey
Edward
Illinois affidavits threaten $50 daily fine on trusts
A Chicago hearing on constitutionality of Illinois trust affidavit law opens Monday before Judges Tuley Dutine and Waterman. About 900 suits filed seeking $8,150 damages for failing to file affidavits. many defendants settled, others to contest penalties.
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Chicago
State of
Illinois
Tuley, Dutine and Waterman
Tuley
Absent Treatment Case Ends in Diphtheria Death
Detroit infant dies after Christian Scientist refusal of regular care. Parents sought absent treatment from a distant practitioner. coroner holds inquest as doctors testify disease present and child dies from diphtheria. Father sought physician while mother insisted on spiritual intervention.
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Detroit
Mich
Mareh
Robert Zoeger
A. W. Sxnott
Swindle by Conspiracy Ties Farmers to Notes
Judge Glasell ruled against Adrian Minnesota bank in a suit against ten Jamestown area farmers who signed stock contracts for a horse company and later had their signatures on 2000 each promissory notes. The tearing out of the false contract leaf was forgery and the bank, though an innocent purchaser, bore contributory negligence. The decision will be appealed as thousands of dollars in notes may be invalid. Also noted are the Manila bound Warren and Grant voyage with General Joe Wheeler and relatives and the death of Representative A C Harmer aged 72 in Philadelphia.
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Jamestown
N. C
Glasell
Adrian, Minn
Chicago Board of Trade quotations end March 7
Wheat and corn futures move with May and September calls and a wide spread. oats and soybeans show modest shifts. Live stock markets in Chicago and East Buffalo report steady to mixed cash trades with hogs and cattle prices and lambs quoted, while St Louis and Milwaukee grain markets list directional changes in wheat and rye.
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Detroit
Porto Ricans Press for Annexation and Trade Rights
A Porto Rican delegation in Washington demands fulfillment of promises made by General Miles and seeks annexation with full immunities. Advocates include J Julio Pana who argues for unrestricted trade and access to loans while predicting legal defeats for U S duties on Puerto Rico goods. Relief plans favor aggressive public works to employ up to 25,000 workers for three months at substantial cost.
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Divisive Porto Rico tariff debate and aid notes
Wisconsin Republican Henry C Payne warns against quick tariff for Porto Rico Cuba and the Philippines noting statehood denial could reshape future labor competition and that free trade would hurt American workers. Washington reports continue food relief to Porto Rico as coffee planters struggle and tax funds are debated.
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Urge the Imposition of a Ten Cent Tax on Oloomargarine
Washington hearing before the House Agriculture Committee on Groat of Vermont bill to tax imitation butter ten cents per pound and grant states authority over imports. Wisconsin officials Hoard Adams plus dairy groups argued for the levy as prosecutions few and enforcement uneven, citing Chicago mislabeling.
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Washington
March
House Committee On Agriculture
Vermont
Hoard
Wisconsin
National Dairy Union and
Farmers’ National Congress
Hf. C. Adams
Chicago
Jersey
Life Insurance Rebates Targeted by Indiana Legislature
Indiana state auditor Hart plans a bill to revoke licenses of life insurance agents who grant rebates and to void policies containing rebates. He cites reserves being jeopardized and says rebates are widespread, with 60 percent of Indiana insurance business rebated. The measure aims to protect policyholders and curb competition-driven abuse.
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Butler
Ind
March
Hart
Indiana
Mine Workers Union Rejects 5 Percent Rise Offer
Des Moines March 5 The representatives of the Mine Workers union announce final rejection of the scale offered by operators. They demand an 18 percent advance under new screening conditions after previously insisting on 22 percent.
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Des Moines
March
Mine Workers’ Union
Corbin Appeals for Record in Court Martial Case
The War Department estimates copying the Senate request for Corbin's full court martial papers will take a week. Corbin asks Senator Davis for immediate review of his 38 year soldiering record and offers to resign if unworthiness is found. Also included are the court martial findings, Grant’s two brevets, and the regiment colonel’s praise.
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Senate
Corbin
Fourteenth Colored Infantry
War Department
Davis
Minnesota
United States
Grant
British Troops Rout Boers in Bold Cavalry Drive
Osfontein reports say Lord Roberts’s force attacked at dawn and forced a Boer retreat across the line as Brenneh’s horse artillery pounded their camps. Casualties run about fifty with two lieutenants wounded or killed in the Twelfth Juaneers and Second Life Guards. Queen Victoria to visit Ireland next month with shamrock designation for Irish regiments.
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Keawleck
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Pe Crespguy
Live Guards
Wis
DeWet
Delarey
March
Queen's London drive and Ireland visit endear the monarch
London crowds prepare for a semi state drive from Paddington to Buckingham Palace then along the embankment to St Pauls and back as news of the queen's Ireland visit spreads. Officials call the planned trip a remarkable act of devotion amid international turmoil and domestic zeal.
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March
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Piccadilly
St. James
Lord Roberts
Annals of
Ireland
Prince Consort
Weeks' Break-up-A-Cold-Tab Leta
A pharmacy ad offering Weeks Break-up-A-Cold-Tab Leta with a cheerful refund promise if it fails to cure. Stewart's Pharmacy advertises the product with price in small cents and urges customers to buy locally.
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