Iowa State News Highlights From Oskaloosa to Cedar Rapids
Reporting from Oskaloosa and Cedar Rapids on Election Day 191? snapshots. A man was shot and fatally hurt at the depot in the Oskaloosa welcome jam for Company F. In Cedar Rapids voting was light with about two thirds turnout in Marion. Hub Bard, Republican candidate for senator, expected election. others disputed the rest of the ticket.
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Evening Journal
Sioux City
Hubbard
Oskaloosa
Co. F
Iowa
Hubert Buckley
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Governor backs canal opening and state aid to finish project
Governor Tanner told Sanitary Trustees Carter and Eckhart at the Great Northern hotel he is not opposed to opening the canal and will aid completion. He cited suit over Summit level and possible feeding of the old canal from the new at Lockport if the court supports the state, noting the canal’s impact on Illinois shipping rates. Carter said the governor's stance gives hope the canal will open and be in use next month.
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Chicago
Tanner
Carter and Eckhart
Great Northern
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Lockport
Illinois
Carter
Tableware Trust Organized in Midwest Conference
D C Jenkins of Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Co Greentown returned from the east where the conference formed the National Tableware Company. The trust includes nineteen plants with 560 pots and 4 million in capitalization. Member factories span Indiana Ohio Maryland Pennsylvania and West Virginia with Jenkins named a director.
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Kokomo
Ind
D. C
Marion
Summitville
Norwood
Albany
Bridgeport
Findlay
Zanesville
Marietta
Martins Ferry
Lancaster
Cumberland
Fairmount
Ohio
W. Va
Greensburg
Rochester
Jeannette
Jenkins
Strikes and Lockouts Lecture At Illinois University
The University of Illinois secures U S labor commissioner Carroll D Wright as special lecturer in economics for November 13 14 and 15 topics include Strikes and Lockouts The Philosophy of Industrial Combinations and Is There Any Solution of the Labor Question The article also notes student political clubs and planned speakers from national parties including Carl Schurz and Roosevelt.
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Champaign
Ills
University of Illinois
Carroll D. Wright
United States Labor Commissioner
Carl Schurz
Roosevelt
Fifty-First Iowa welcomed home at Council Bluffs
The Fifty-first Iowa volunteers, fresh from the Philippines, returned to Iowa to a 5000-strong welcome in Council Bluffs. A parade from Rock Island station led to Bayliss Park where Governor Shaw and Mayor Jennings spoke. Forty bands supplied music before a banquet.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Philippines
Sam
Rock Island
Bayliss Park
Shaw
Jennings
Ton
Fred White
Lafe Young
McPherson
Beloit Ruling Limits Pole Erection Without Owner Consent
Judge Dunwiddie of Rock County circuit court upholds a temporary injunction against Wisconsin Telephone restraining poles and wires in Park Avenue without owner consent. The decision, disputed by the telephone and telegraph companies, sustains the injunction and sends the case to the supreme court for review.
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Beloit
Wis
Dunwiddie
Circuit Court
Rock County
Telephone and Telegraph Companies
William B. Strong
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Park Avenue
Sabbath Observance Society Set To Form In Oshkosh
A three day State Sabbath Observance convention opens Monday in Oshkosh with about 100 attendees. The aim is to form a local Sabbath Observance Society and launch a Sunday closing campaign to enforce the Sunday observance law and shut saloons and amusements on Sundays. A prior attempt four years ago led to dismissals after juries declined to convict.
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Oshkosh
Wis
State
Milwaukee eyed as national lighthouse and engineering HQ
Milwaukee leaders seek to host the U S lighthouse and life saving service and the northwest government engineering office this winter. Senator Quarles backs a site move and the council would vote if the transfer proceeds. Also in Indiana oil belt workers form a union to shield wages amid price shifts.
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Milwaukee
United States Lighthouse and Life-Saving Service
Government Engineering Department For
Northwest
Chicago
Quarles
Common Council
Lighthouse Service
Life-Savings Service
Revenue Cutters
Great Lakes
United States Engineering Department
van Buren
Ind
Indiana Gas Belt
Indiana
Me teoric shower to be observed at university
The Meeteoric shower expected to occur the night of November 13 will be the subject of special observation at the university observatory in Ann Arbor Michigan.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
University Observatory
Market brief from East Buffalo and Midwest grain markets
East Buffalo live stock report shows cattle at 5.80 to 6.00 for best steers, hogs mixed 4.30 to 4.40, lambs 4.00 to 4.10, sheep 2.25 to 4.10, with receipts varying. St Louis grain markets cite wheat around 69 to 70% cents, corn 31 to 31% cents, oats 23 to 24 cents. Milwaukee and Detroit also report mixed grain results with no dramatic shifts.
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East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Northern
Detroit
Major races sway across twelve states in election day turmoil
In Ohio Nebraska Kentucky and other states voters elect governors and legislatures while United States senators and constitutional amendments are on ballots. The campaigns are heated with multiple party tickets and key figures including Bryan Goebel Nash Jones McLean and Goebel shaping the outcomes.
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Chicago
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Ohio
Virginia
United States
New York
Congress
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Bryan
Party tickets and key offices in several states vying for votes
Republicans predict a 40 000 to 45 000 plurality in Iowa as voters choose a governor lieutenant governor supreme court judge railway commissioner and legislature with potential U S senator. Maryland voters will choose governor comptroller attorney general and legislature while New York and Maryland see contested races amid intra party tensions.
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Buckeye
Ohio
Atttorney
Board of Public Works
Lorenzo Danford
Samuel M. Jones
Jones
Prohibitionists
Union Reform
Social Labor
Judge Nash
Seward
McLean
Iowa
Supreme Court
United States
John H. Gear
Socialist Labor
United Christian
Weaver
Republican Committee
Huffman
Maryland
George L. Wellington
Democrats
Social Democrats
Union Reform Party
Lloyd Lowndes
McKinley
Wellington
New York
Assembly
Warren B. Hooker
Light vote expected in South Dakota race amid fusion nominees
Three supreme court judges to be chosen in South Dakota with Republican candidates facing fusion Democrats Populists and silver Republicans. Forecasts vary as no polling has occurred and turnout is expected light. Republican leaders predict a 10000 vote majority while other states hold elections for senatorial seats and legislatures. Municipal contests in New Orleans and statewide race notes in Virginia Topeka and Detroit report varied campaign activity and local issues.
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Nebraska
Bryan
Supreme Court
State University
Greene
Goebel
Kentucky
Socialist Labor Party
William Goebel
Assembly
New York City
Republican Citizens’ Union
Independent Labor Parties
Supreme Justice
Granite Cutters’ Union
Superior Court
Pennsylvania
People's Party
Union Reform Party
Massachusetts
Prohibitionists
Social Democracy
South Dakota
Herried
Republican State Central Committee
Mississipi
United States
EE. C. Walthall
Will van Ambert Sullivan
Virginia
Thomass
Martin Dem
New Orleans
Detroit
Pingree
A. W H. Stewart
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Ladysmith Battles Reported with Boer Losses
Telegrams from Natal describe heavy fighting around Ladysmith on Thursday. Boers suffer large casualties and thirty mounted men captured near Tatham’s farm as British forces push back toward their camp. A larger Boer force holds positions along a line of farms and railways, with railway damage reported but Colenso untouched. Admiral Dewey escorts fiancée on Fifth Avenue shopping trip, chats with a nurse and child bearing an admiral’s flag.
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London
Estcourt
Natal
Tatham
Ladysmith
Orange Free State
Bester
Nosdwathshana Hill
Pepworth
John Wessels
Beacon
Woodhouse
Pieciones
Langvaracht
Bester’s
Pieter’s Station
Colenso
New York
Admiral Dewey
Mildred Huazen
Fifth Avenue
Michigan man found guilty of first degree murder in Hawkins case
In St. Joseph George Boucher was convicted of first degree murder in the death of William Hawkins whose body surfaced in the river last August. Two witnesses testified that Boucher confessed to them. In addition, Amos T. Allen was elected representative from Maine's First District to replace Thomas Reed by a margin of 4,450 with several towns awaiting returns.
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St. Joseph, Mich
George Boucher
William Hawkins
Boucher
Portland
Amos T. Allen
Maine
Thomas B. Reed
Fatal shooting during arrest in Equality
Eldorado Illinois November 7 Thomas Barnett son of Mrs Thornton Barnett of this city was fatally shot while resisting arrest at Equality seven miles south by the city marshal of that place.
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Eldorado, Ills
Thomas Barnett
Thornton Barnett
Equality
Rural Free Delivery Proves Success Across Forty States
The annual report by First Assistant Postmaster General Terry Heath cites 383 routes in forty states and one territory. Rural free delivery saved farmers time and money, boosted land values by 2 to 3 dollars per acre, improved roads, raised farm product prices, and provided access to literature and current events.
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Washington
Terry
Heath
Perry & Heath
Lfe
Navy
SSS
Idaho
Wyoming
Mississippi
Montana
Rural Mail Boxes Proposed for Registration and Delivery
Government study urges uniform two compartment rural free delivery boxes with master and user keys. Post office would install and rent them, raising revenue while protecting mail. West Chester operation showed profit after 9 months, delivering over 155 thousand pieces. Star route opponents dismissed as unfounded. Additional rural routes and oath-bound messenger pilots proposed. In Racine a 6 year old girl, Lottie Tischeak, near death after being run over by a street car. In Fond du Lac Dr Storrs Hall, long-time physician, to retire and move to Ripon with his wife.
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Post Office Department
United States
West Chester
Carroll County
Maryland
Racine
Wis
Lottie Tis
Cheak
Fond du Lac, Wis
Storrs Hall
Rosendale
Fond du Lac County
Wisconsin
Ripon
Hall
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Carroll D. “Wright
Studenta
Ishpeming, Mich
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Clinois
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Mlinois
Morgan
Hardin
Fifty
Corncil Bluffs
St. Louis Grain
Milwaukee Grain
Othees
Admiral
Reed
Perry Heath
Dr. Hall
THE
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Presipent
CHAS
H. Keok
Casnner
Prank Stewart
M. Keok
Casey Bros
Feed and Sale Stable
Vtrat
Hotel Allen
E. M. McConaughy
T. Klein
J. R. Burroughs
Orriorn
Southeast Corner Square
Columbia Corner
Waghttawron, TA
Oneneral
P.W. McElwain
Wasuinaron Lowa
Marsh W. Bailey
J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Qorrier
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. E. Anderson, M. D
Klein's Clothing
B. Corner of
Square
H. Sanford
Techs
T. J. Dempsey
National Bank
Capital
Aurplub
Does & General Banking
Ida Bailey
West Male Street
Dr. McClean
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
Firet National Bank
Sere
Hetuembver
Kemble
Kemble Flower Co
Lowa
Frank Rogers
Mpdicat
Ciintoo Lis
Chicag B.C. Carrig & Co
Washinton, Lowa
Diamond
Carmen
DeLong
Y. V. Keeley
Washington Street
R. F. Riley
Smouse
HW. Young
W. RK. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
Onah
J.T. Anderon
Washington County
Don General
Tom Keok
A. Warre
Cassiler
H. Keowk
M. Keow
First National Bank
Wm. Blair
A. H. Wallace
C. H. Keck
L.D. Robinson
Frank Stewart
J. ¥. Henderson
W. H. Butterfield
Crall
Rocky Mountain
Weary & Hahn
Freeport, I.ll
Washington, Ia
Howard H. Hahn
Lowneys
Ling
Sweethart
Harvey
Warfel
East Gide
Somers
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