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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1912
Page
9
Frank Kenyon killed his wife and fatally wounded his 18 month old daughter at the Lafayette hotel near Union Station after their registration from Turtle Creek. He then killed himself, leaving no known motive. The baby remains hospitalized with a wound above the heart as authorities examine the case.
Mrs J D Van Etten has received an offer to trade her Logan avenue property for Oregon land. If the deal closes a business block is likely to rise at Logan avenue and Argyle street. Weather Crop Bulletin notes a week of fair to rainy weather with humidity, large small grain yields, corn prospects strong, and fall plowing begun.
The Iowa National Guard annual encampment opened in Iowa Falls with all four regiments present. Units arrived by special trains as Camp Lincoln fills with soldiers. Brigadier General Lincoln plans days of drills and features including a consolidated band concert by the brigade bands, and cavalry detachments from Fort Des Moines arrived after a four day overland march.
A severe electrical storm near Iowa Falls struck the Wilkinson farm barn between Iowa Falls and Alden, totally destroying the structure and its contents. Conductor Will O Neil on the Iowa Falls division fell from a moving train at Abbott Crossing, breaking his leg after slipping from the rear platform. The Iowa State Baptist Sunday School assembly closed its convention and elected Rev. L. T. Bobbitt of Pella as president, Miss Searcy of Lake City as secretary, and A. Clark of Iowa Falls as treasurer.
Washington Aug 13 Senator Cummins expects to speak before session end in support of his presidential primary bill and to address the contested delegate cases before the Chicago convention. He has studied the issues thoroughly and initially planned to...
Pearl B. Smith files for divorce from James L. Smith in Black Hawk County Iowa seeking cruel and inhuman treatment adultery desertion and nonsupport custody of minor children and monetary relief with a court date set for September 16 1912 unless James L. Smith appears by September 2 1912. Attorney J H Hildebrand represents the plaintiff.
Senator Cummins plans to address presidential primaries in a forthcoming speech and has not yet commented on the Chicago third party convention or declared his preferred candidate. He may offer guidance after returning to Des Moines.
William James Mattingly and Nellie Jane Mattingly sue to establish title to block thirteen, lot eight in Hayes Addition, Waterloo. Petition filed by September 6 1912 seeks quiet title against named defendants asserting over thirty years open adverse possession and asserting heirs claims of Margaret M Hayes and Francis B Hayes.
A court notice warns the defendant that failing to appear on or before noon of the second day of September 1912 term starting September 16 1912 at the Black Hawk county Iowa courthouse will result in default and a judgment against the defendant as prayed In the petition Carleton Stas attorney for plaintiffs.
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