Dynamite scare at St. Pauls church leads to arrests
A Kuba and seven others were arrested in Cedar Rapids while placing dynamite on the steps of St. Pauls church. They admit it was a joke, Kuba a saloon keeper, license to be revoked and the saloon closed. Kuba confessed to a prior attempt to blow up Attorney Crow, held to grand jury on $5,000 bonds. One associate jailed in Michigan.
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Iowa
Kuba
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Attorney Crow
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Benton
Hls
Harry Hubbard
William Espy
Esp
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Iowa Senate Passes Taxation Bill and Appellate Court Plan
March 19 news from Des Moines reports the Iowa senate approved a tax on capital stock and surplus of express companies by mileage in Iowa. The house passed an elective state appellate court of three members. An amendment limits interest by building and loan firms to 8 percent. Savings banks may take deposits ten times capital stock. Milwaukee introduces a Milwaukee to St Joseph freight steamers line via the Indiana Illinois and Iowa Railroad. Baumgaertner expected to win the Republican city convention nomination amid a street railway issue. Frank Hull fatally injured by accidental gunfire in Star, Iowa.
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Richardson introduces anti trust resolutions in Congress
Representative Richardson of Tennessee moves two anti trust resolutions targeting the American Steel and Wire company and the Federal Steel company. The House spends the day praising the late senator elect Monroe L Hayward from Nebraska, who died before taking office, with no other major business conducted. The Senate did not meet.
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General Henry Harnden Dies at 96
General Henry Harnden longtime Wisconsin Grand Army of the Republic commander dies of pneumonia aged 96. Born 1825 in Massachusetts he served in the Civil War captured Jeff Davis and later held revenue duties before retirement. Funeral arrangements set for Wednesday at the Congregational church in Madison with G A R posts urged to attend.
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Princess Stephanie Betrothal to Count Elemer Lonyay
The Weiner Zeitung announces the betrothal of Princess Stephanie to Count Elemer Lonyay. An official communique about the wedding will be released in a few days.
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Weiner Zeitung
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Count Lonyay
Austria
Elemer Lonyay
Holland boat a destroyer Dewey says it could have saved Manila Bay
Representative Foss reports Admiral Dewey received Caldwell's memorandum on Holland submarine torpedo boat tests. The aide's study argues a determined enemy using Holland boats could have prevented the occupation of Manila Bay by Dewey's squadron. Dewey's remark came after Senate and House naval committees sought his views before action on pending bills.
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Foss
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Women Whipped for Spreading Smallpox Defiance
Lyons Greene county officials quarantined two women who believed they had chicken pox. In disguise they fled the house attacked a guard who pursued them. The guard then used a whip to force them back and maintain the quarantine.
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Indianapolis
the Sentinel
Lyons
Greene County
Bishop Patten Returns From Philippines Mission
Bishop Patten arrives home after a church mission in the Philippines. The report notes his return and details of the recent overseas assignment.
Mafeking Siege News and Irish Patrick Day Observances
Dispatches from London to Lourenzo Marques report Mafeking still under siege with quarter rations and irregular shelling from a home made gun. Reinforcements advance, raids near Fourteen Streams, and reports of Boer cruelty to natives. St Patrick’s Day celebrations spread across Cape Town and Canada with Queen Victoria’s message and Kipling verse.
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Pitsani
Kimberley
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War office updates from Bloemfontein reports grants and troop movements
Field Marshal Lord Roberts notes returns of Brigades from Norvalsh post and Springfontein. Pole-Carew and Gatacre junction at Norval's Pont. 1,800 Free Staters submit to Edenburg while deserting units arrive with weapons. Methuen directs district relief as railways reopen. Dispatches suggest Boer willingness to seek peace once Pretoria marches reach. A 2000 woman Amazon corps formed at Pretoria. Surrendered rifles rise as proclamation spreads.
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Daily Mail
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St Patrick Honored by Queen in Green Celebration
London observers report St Patrick's Day celebrated as a grand imperial festival. Victoria and subjects adorned in green while streets, shops, and parades showcased shamrocks and tricolors in a nationwide display of Irish allegiance.
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Mortgage filings fall in many Michigan counties
A state labor bureau survey of eighty four registers of deeds shows thirty four counties had an average 19 percent drop in mortgage filings in 1800 from the prior year with farms seeing the largest decrease. Fifty six counties report a 21 percent rise in mortgage discharges while ninety five percent of real estate dealers note higher activity and better prices.
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Lansing
Mich
State Labor Bureau
Drainage Canal Litigation Returns to Supreme Court
A petition for rehearing is filed in the Illinois Supreme Court in the consolidation case involving the people led by B M Chipperfield against the Chicago sanitary district and canal commissioners. The court previously reversed Fulton county circuit court judgment and nearly enjoined removal of dams on the Illinois river. it ruled the legislature did not intend dam removal unless Lake Michigan water kept the stream navigable. In Cedar Rapids seven young men were arrested on charges of placing dynamite at St Pauls Methodist church steps claiming it was a joke. In Milwaukee Colonel James A Wildman, 66, died of tuberculosis. he was auditor of Troward county and held several public posts.
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Accidents in Grand Haven and Escanaba Reported
In Grand Haven John Watson of Jamestown fell indoors and broke his leg while his wife who aided him slipped and fractured her left arm. In Escanaba John Roda a young Northwestern Menominee Range brakeman was run over and killed at Florence Wisconsin Thursday night.
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Yale University
Mixed Family Up as Man Marries Divorced Wife of Son
Dr W J Wyman seeks a divorce order in Judge Ludwig's court claiming a bizarre family tangle. He asks to void alimony and life insurance provisions after Eleonore, his wife, married her late husband’s father. The case centers on step relations and tangled lineage.
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W. J. Wyman
Ludwig
Wyman
Eleonore
Marie
Maud S Trotting Legend Maud S Dies at 26
Maud S the famed trotter died at Schulty farm Port Chester New York on Saturday morning. She was brought from New York a week ago and intended for breeding. The Bonner estate owned Maud S who was 26 years old and had a trotting record of 2 08 4 set in 1885.
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Schulty
Port Chester
N. Y
Week Ono
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Bonner
Divorce Leads to Shootings in Ottumwa
Ottumwa March 1 County Attorney W B Barger Chariton was shot in the head Friday night and seriously wounded Mrs George Pyle was arrested and confessed she did the shooting saying it occurred in her house while Barger said it happened on a public street with an unknown assailant She says both Barger and her divorced husband were at her home and that she intended to kill Pyle Some question her story and some believe she is mentally deranged.
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Attorny
W. B. Barger
Chariton
George Pyle
Barger
Pyle
Steamer Louisville Safe After Icebound Ordeal
The steamer Louisville reached St Joseph Harbor at 6 p m after 37 hours adrift six miles offshore. With coal gone, cornmeal kept the engine going while passengers and provisions rode the tug Andy. Ice packs six to eight feet thick forced a close call with a pursuing steamer.
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Graham
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