Spotlight glimpses of Bowmen and Ruth in sports and politics
State Senator Bowman vows to run against Cummins in the primaries after praising Senator Brockhart at a Dubuque labor meeting. Babe Ruth finally hits his first homer of the year as he contends with injury and competition. Wisconsin probes exam theft, while a MIA A. workers assembly advocates local self government and Nurmi loses pace to Edvin Wide in 2000 metres.
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Armies At Canton Hold Fire as Fighting Persists
Foreign steamers face fire near Canton where the Yunnanese defend the city but no side gains ground. Refugees crowd toward Hongkong as observers warn that more forces are needed for a decisive battle.
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Painleve Inspects Moroccan Battlezone For Riff War Update
Premier Painleve travels to Ain Aicha near Fez to inspect French efforts in the Rif war after talks with Marshauyautey and generals. He aims to assess needs and press for peace without conquest while planning a Franco Spanish offensive to force Abd al Krim's capitulation.
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Sheriff and Attorney Chase Two Gunmen in Iowa
Sheriff E. R. Cooke and special prosecutor George Claussen hunted for Jim Davis an escaped Fort Madison convict and Ed Doyle alias Ed Welch sought for a Farlin bank robbery. They were identified as two suspects in the ambush that killed Clinton county patrol officers Howland and Alexander on a highway between Dewitt and Davenport.
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Sioux City
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Ed Welch
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George Howland
Ferdinand Alexander
Clinton County
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Flooding in Fredericksburg as Plum Creek Rises Ten Feet
Heavy rains caused Plum Creek to rise ten feet, flooding cellars in Fredericksburg and drowning one cow at Alta Vista. The Great Western bridge and road suffered via floodwaters, with over a mile of Alta Vista track submerged and mail trains halted by 1 or 2 pm.
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Pope May Convoke Ecumenical Council in Rome
Rome June 12. The Sereno newspaper says the pope plans to convoke an ecumenical council in Rome in the latter part of the holy year. All Catholic bishops would attend. the last ecumenical council was held in 1869 under Pius IX.
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Defunct Muscatine Railroad Incorp To Form New Line
Buyers of the defunct Muscatine railroad incorporate a new line to be called the BurlingtonMuscatine and Northwestern are the parties involved with Tobie of Monmouth UK named president F A Sollins of Chicago as vice president J M Kemble of Muscatine as secretary treasurer and Finley P Dunn and Robert J Riley of Chicago as directors in Muscatine Iowa on June 12.
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Muscatine & Northwestern
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Woman and Two Sons Die in Flat Blaze
Rose Burns, 25, and her sons Thomas, 3, and James, 2, were burned to death in a flat fire in New York after an explosion of undetermined origin. James Thrurns, 31, a trolley inspector, said he was awakened by the blast, escaped through a window, then reentered the burning apartment to try to rescue them.
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Graduates Urge Respect for Law at Des Moines Exercises
Class of 1935 graduates, 608 students, receive certificates in Des Moines, the largest group at one time. Chief Justice F F Faville of the Iowa Supreme Court urges a generation that will honor and uphold the law during the ceremony.
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America
F. F. Faville
Iowa Supreme Court
Wandering Boy Returns Home From Omaha Journey
Rennie Kissel a 16 year old from Des Moines reappeared after being missing several days with two companions. He said he rode freight trains to Omaha and his friends left him at Contest Bins to return home. A freight car bound for Kansas City, Missouri was reported as the youths’ possible transport.
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Omaha
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Witness Returns to Court in Typhoid Oysters Case
Chicago June 12 Robert White a long missing witness in the Shep herd trial unexpectedly returned to the courtroom with his wife and two children declaring his intent to fight this case to a finish. State's attorneys reported he would confer privately with them. The trial focuses on whether Billy McClintock died of typhoid fever contracted from raw oysters.
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McClintock
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Trial in Germ Poisoning Case Heads by Judge Lynch
Judge Thomas J. Lynch of the criminal court in Chicago presides over the case of William D. Shepherd charged with causing the death by germ poisoning of his millionaire ward, Winifred McClaitock.
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Roumania to follow France on war debts policy
Telegraph briefs report Roumania may align with France on negotiating war debts with the United States. In Washington Thomas Jefferson O Donn, famed attorney and politician, died on the eve of his sixty ninth birthday. Springfield notes passing of concert singer Muro Mitzlaif in a car crash. Dublin reports Yeats urging divorce in the Free State senate.
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Methodist Pastor, 76, Graduates at Penn
J W Johnson of Delta Iowa aged 76 earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Penn College OsKaloosa. A longtime editor teacher and county superintendent, he has been active in local business for 50 years and recently preached at the Harvey Methodist church.
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Caillaux Urges Economy Policy in Cabinet Meeting
Finance Minister Caillaux urged a policy of economy at a French cabinet meeting in Paris. Ministers promised to trim expenses to the utmost. He said France must live within its income and raise revenue by taxation to earn world confidence in French finance.
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Texan trades for Des Moines hotel headline reshuffles local properties
Des Moines June 2 J B Howell former hotel man of Joplin Missouri and San Antonio Texas took possession of the Kirkwood hotel in Des Moines. J B Harris traded a six year lease on the Kirkwood to transit for Harris interest in Hot Dale Coffeyville Kansas. Harris also controls Hotel Severe Muskogee Oklahoma and Hotel El Dorado El Dorado Kansas.
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Tornado Rips Iowa Towns With Floods and Losses
A tornado struck Alexander Iowa tearing depots and churches, wounding a few and injuring others as farm buildings collapsed. Severe rain and hail caused floods, downed lines, blocked roads, and crop damage across multiple counties including Greene and Charles City. Mrs Joseph Root drowned crossing a swollen Protivin bridge, with several hurt in related storms statewide.
Calf Frozen Into Hailstone Pie by Charles City Storm
A six month old heifer buried in a hail drift during a Charles City storm was found with only the hind quarters visible as the hailstones melted. Another heifer on the same farm drowned. At 11 a.m. the farmer reported a hail drift 47 inches thick in a hollow nearby.
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Welde
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Here Toay
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Hare
Fred Fisher
Ahart
Walnut Grove
Warren S Stone Dies in Cleveland Hospital
Warren S. Stone president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and a leading labor figure died in a Cleveland hospital after being treated for uremic poisoning. He had entered the hospital last Tuesday for treatment.
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Democratic Party Report Shows Unpaid Debts
Washington June 12 report shows the Democratic national committee owes $226,985.79 as of May 31, per treasurer James W. Gerard in a statement filed with the clerk of the House.
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Walker to Merv Great Polo Grounds July 2
New York June 12 July 2 was approved as the date for the Italian fund bouts at the Polo grounds by the state athletic commission today. Mickey Walker is scheduled to meet Harry Greb for the middleweight title.
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U.S. Warns Mexico to Protect Americans or Face Strain
Secretary Kellogg says U S aid to Mexico will continue only as Mexico safeguards American lives and rights and honors international obligations. He calls for restitution of property taken from Americans and indemnification, noting patience while Mexico seeks a stable government.
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