Sad Picnic Tragedy Claims Seven Children
Cedar Rapids reports a deadly accident as seven children aged 7 to 1 drown in the Cedar River after a child strayed beyond shallow edges during a picnic. Rescue attempts by siblings failed. only Mrs Usher survived to recover two bodies. Other items note local theft, an accidental death, and various civic notices.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Hazel Sweeting
Ruch Lessly
Mrs. Usher
Sioux City
Clara Usher
Cotton factors firm Alexander and Alexander vanishes amid $145000 loss
Augusta, July 12. Revelation of the financial embarrassment of Alexander and Alexander, a leading cotton factors firm, shows discrepancies of about $145,000 after the disappearance of Thomas W. Alexander, head of the firm. The Georgia Railroad Bank incurs a $116,000 loss. Alexander left Augusta for New York, and his brother Bishop, the junior partner, received a telegram asking his office desk be opened and three letters delivered.
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Augusta
Alexander & Alexander
Thomas W. Alexander
Georgia
Georgia Railroad Bank
Alexander
New York
Bishop Alexander
Statement quoted amid scandal over Augusta figures and Mr. Alexander
A letter speaks of financial embarrassment and warns that if Mr. Alexander does not return to Augusta by Wednesday he will never be seen again. A second letter targets a local cotton mill president and a third is sent to Mr. Alexander's wife, indicating a chain of personal and business pressure.
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Triamd
Hargis Testifies in Ky Court Case Involving Maren Shooting
Beattyville Ky July 13 Forter Judge James Hill key witness in state versus Hargis and Callahan. Hargis, defense’s first witness, maps his location when Marcum was shot and says Tom White exited courthouse door before gunfire. He denies plans to kill Marcum and says he never paid anyone to testify against him. He refutes Asbury Spicer’s statements.
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Beattyville
Forter
James Hill
James B. Maren
Hargis
Callahan
Marcum
Tom White
Curtis Jett
Moses Weltner
Aoy
Asbury Spicer
Speeding arrest in Kenmore prompts village meeting
Warry Tate, a Warry Tate, a Buffalo motor company driver, was arrested for speeding near Kenmore. He was fined 35.00 and the constable explained the local meeting to curb speeding, noting Tate was the first to slow down among recent offenders.
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Warry Tate
Arester
EL KR
Thomas Motor Co
Buffalo
Kenmore
Thas
Lown
Sone
Reagan letter to Mayor Schmitz blasts corruption
San Francisco Police Commissioner Thomas Reagan refused to resign from the board and charged Mayor Schmitz with dishonesty. In a self written letter he claimed the mayor urged him to solicit whisky profits and questioned the integrity of city dealings. The mayor declined to reply to the charges, promising reasons for removal in his dismissal letter.
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San Francisco
Thomas Reagan
Schmitz
Jeter
Reagan Silys
Ime
Western National Bank
Reagan
Sister and brother murder fuels Oregon tragedy
Seattle July 14 Maud Crethvld widow of the prophet involved in the Creffield case is arrested as Esther Mitchell’s accomplice. Esther Mitchell, sister of George Mitchell, killed him in the Union station waiting room as he prepared to board the Oregon train, avenging her brother’s earlier prosecution of Frank Edmund Creffield. The family had recently reconciled with Esther after Charles Mitchell mediated with the clan.
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Seattle
Wash
Maud Crethvld
Esther
Mitchell
Sealiie
Rether ‘Mitchell
Shellinois Stirl
George Mitchell
Franz Pdinands Crefield
Creffield
Union Station
Ore¢ton
Frank Edmund Creffield
Esther Mitchell
Mitchells
George
Perry
Frei
Oregon
Charles Mitchell
Illinois
Meikeljohn Announces Nebraska Senate Candidacy
George D. Meikeljohn ex congressman from Nebraska and former assistant secretary of war under McKinley announces from Fullerton his candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator of Nebraska at the forthcoming convention.
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Meikeljohn'n
Candiiic
Lincoln
Neh
George D. Meikeljohn
Congress
Nebraska
Peraldeni
McKinsey
Fullerton
Record Crop Prospects Signal Largest U S Grain Harvest
Washington reports indicate a bumper crop season with grain output possibly the largest in U S history. Wheat leads gains amid strong moisture reserves and rising yields across states. Corn and oats advance, with expectations of high prices and robust demand from Europe. Harvests begin early in Minnesota Frazee Ellendale and nearby towns show favorable conditions as haying starts and crops progress well.
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Washington
Europe
América
United States
Department of Agriculture
Northwest
Eli Point
M. D
Frazee
Minn
Ellendae
N. D
Faribault, Mini
Jerome Returns to Lead Thaw Murder Case Probe
District Attorney Jerome arrived from Lakeville Connecticut and, with Assistant Garvan, focused on the Thaw murder investigation. They spent hours uptown meeting with key witnesses, and while unwilling to discuss details, sources anticipate significant developments soon.
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New York
Jtrome
Esterday
Lakeville
Conn
Garvan
Jerome
Criminal Courts
Mystery of $1000 bills in National hotel murder
Minneapolis July 13 The millie Ellison case ends with Nathan Riggs dead by his own hand after the National hotel murder. Police traced Riggs to Pillsbury avenue and found the murdered girl's property taken from the hotel room. The two $1000 bills remain missing, the key unsolved link in the motive and mystery.
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Elroy
Wis
la. m
Hennepin County
Howard
Passuic
Agalstane County
Bernhdge
Minneapolis
Warren Searles
Doyle
al. J. Smith
Etroy
Riggs
Searles
Smith
Minn
Millie Ellison
Nathan Riggs
National Hotel
Pdélice
Pillsbury Avenue
Nathan M. Riggs
Misa Mille Ellison
Farid Muré
Brighter Outlook Amid Russia Turmoil Amid Rebel Threats
The Associated Press reports a milder summer crisis in Russia as opposition forces seek to delay upheaval. In Sevastopol a girl sailor-turned-assassin is suspected in Admiral Chouknin’s death, with no arrest yet. In Etchmiadzin Tartars attacked Armenian sites, prompting Cossack relief and renewed clashes with police and artillery arriving to quell the violence.
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Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Russia
Sevastopol
Chouknin
Black Sea
Governor orders ouster of Norfolk asylum officials
Lincoln Nebraska July 13 Governor Mickey in person ordered Dr J M Alden superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk and Dr F S Nicholson assistant superintendent to vacate The officials refused The governor announced he would begin proceedings in the Supreme Court to oust them The officials are said to have permitted employes of the asylum to abuse patients and the governor has recommended four employees be prosecuted for cruelty.
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Lincoln, Neb
Mickey
J. M. Alden
State Hospital For the Insane
Norfolk
F. S. Nicholson
Supreme Court
Pitched Perfect Bail
Wilhelm of Birmingham hurled a no hit no run game in Montgomery on a Southern league diamond. Not a Montgomery batter reached first base as 27 Mayers faced Wilhelm in order, and the percussive outburst ended in one, two, three innings.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chinese education envoy arrives in Victoria on Tango Muir
Dr Charles Pp Tenny formerly of the Chinese Imperial University at Tientsin arrives in Victoria aboard the Tango Muir to lead forty Chinese youths sent from various provinces to study at American colleges. He plans to take the group to Cambridge Massachusetts. Tenny notes Chinese graduates are rising in reform efforts while prep for Manchuria trade faces delays and brigandage flares in unsettled areas after the war.
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Victoria
B. C
Charles Pp. Tenny
Chinese Imperial University
Tientsin
Yuan Shih Kai
Chi Li
America
England
Tango Muir
China
Cambridge
Mass
Tenny
Tong Sha
Manchuria
Question for Committee Questions for Committee
Des Moines reports reveal allegations against anti Cummins campaign managers in multiple counties. affidavits claim payments to secure delegates and influence votes. Mentioned are Ed Hunter and county contests, Dallas and Buchanan counties, and a Kretschmer scandal. Committees may examine finances and alleged fake contests at the state convention.
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Des Moines
Ed. Hunter
Carroll
Audubon
Scott
Delaware
Dallas
anti-Cummins
Cummins
Adel
Howard Tedford
George Gallarno
Gallarno
Buchanan County
Hunter Flying Squadron
Rock Island
Ill
Illinois
Davenport
Dallas County
Jasper County
East Waterloo
Montgomery County
Perkins
Kretschmer
Hunter
Anti- Cummins
Chickasaw County
Dallas Coun
We Choice
Spirit Lake
Sac
Sac City
Sac County
Jactson
Charles Hoodlow
Wall Lake
John H. Fitch
Robert Leach
M. J. Dahm
C. F. Brobeil
John McGlein
George M. Parker
Marshall
Bryan
Marshalltown
Marshall County
Real Estate Transfers In Waterloo Area Listings
Real estate transfers reported Friday include G A Doerfler to Agnes Ackies for lots in Hast Waterloo at 1500 dollars and Catherine Brown to Carleton W Bedford for a Hudson lot at 35 dollars. Additional transfers list Maynard F Whitney to Cora B Bender for East Waterloo lots at 1200 dollars, D Easton trustee to Lucinda Johnson for land in sec 22 89 13 at 1 dollar, A Doerfler to Fred Hunemuiler for East Waterloo lot at 1500 dollars, Cora B Bender to Ralph Storm for East Waterloo lot at 2100 dollars, F E Gutler trustee to L E Fowler for East Waterloo lot at 2200 dollars, Adolf Meier to Mary Dorothea Meier for land in sec 36 88 11 at 1 dollar, Edwin W Kendall to Caroline Patt for a Went Waterloo lot at 425 dollars.
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G. A. Doerfler
Agnes Ackies
East Waterloo
Cora B. Bender
Ralph Storm
F. E. Gutler Et. al
L. E. Fowler
Adolf Meier
Mary Dorothea Meier
Sec
Edwin W. Kendall
Caroline Patt
Went Waterloo
Hummel Cannot Practice in New York
Abrams H. Hummel, the lawyer accused of conspiracy to defent the enda, cannot practice in New York as the case proceeds.
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Hummel
New York
Abrams H. Hummel
Lawyer suspended amid Dodge-Morse divorce scandal
A justice connected with the Dodge-Morse case is suspended from practicing law pending appeal after a misdemeanor conviction. Hummel, not disbarred, faces further action as associates await trial. Reported plans place his fall trial on subornation, perjury, and felony charges on the other indictment.
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Dodge-Morse
Hummel
Selony
Australian church revolt rocks Zion City as Voliva confronts split
Word reached Zion City that the Australian branch of the church had seceded under elders J. C. McCullough and P. F. Hawkins while Voliva, absent, prepared to address the exodus. Dowie arrived at Shiloh house in Chicago with his retinue, traveling by special car to Chicago.
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Chicago
Zion City
Voliva
J. C. McCullough
P. F. Hawkins
Zion
Australia
Dowie
Shiloh House
Court Is Threatened by Contempt Charge in Ice Dealers Case
Toledo Ohio July 13 Thomas H Tracy Clarence Brown and Alexander C Smith attorneys for the convicted ice dealers charged with contempt of court by Judge Kinkaid announce they will withdraw from their cases if found guilty and will aid impeaching the judge if not. The case will be heard by chief court judges on Thursday.
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Toledo
Thomas H.tracy
Clarence Brown
Alexander C Smith
Kinkaid
Ite
Kinkall
Busse Gets New Postponement in Death Sentence Case
Des Moines reports Governor Cummins delays Louis Busse execution by postponing third scheduled date to December to allow case review by the supreme court. Attorneys had agreed to the May term postponement but did not act. In Sioux City, W. P. Royce, an employee of the gas and electric company, married Loretta Hendrickson, the daughter of Nellie Patton, whom Royce murdered in jealousy on November 24, 1898.
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Des Moines
Cummins
Louis Busse
Supreme Court
Busse
Sioux City
W. P. Royce
Sioux City Gas and Electric Company
Loretta Hendrickson
Hendrickson
Nellie Patton
Royce
Phenom Young Doctor in Suit Over Guarantee Claims
Webster City reports inquiries from Iowa patients seeking recovery of money paid to Phenom Young known as the Hot Springs doctor. The case centers on a contract promising guaranteed care and "fuenteh" medicine with a cure, prompting lawsuits and demand for refunds.
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Webster City
al” Young
Iowa
Hot Springs
Money Back Guarantees Fail as Refunds Elude Claimants
In a series of pleas and letters, individuals from Janesville Waterloo and beyond seek refunds tied to a doctor’s cure claim and a rural letter carrier appointment list is released plus postmaster appointments at Foster and Clear Lake. Des Moines post receipts rise year over year. In other notes a woman dies en route to a circus a student dies of tetanus from a minor wound and a man injures himself scaffolding a repair job.
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Washington, D. C
Burlington
Charles D. McCallester
Corrier
Wesley’ McCallester
Sperry
Ira W. Gregory
Cacrer
Tark
Marshall
Wallace Downey
Foster
William Gray
Clear Lake
Des Moines Post
Laclede National Bank of St. Louis
City National Bank of
Clinton
Runaway Wreck Breaks Back of Anamosa Farmer
Anamosa July 14 In a runaway near here W L Ketcham a well to do farmer was thrown from the wagon he was driving and his back was broken His left shoulder was dislocated and he was bruised and hurt He was returning home driving an empty hog wagon with a high seat The team became frightened and ditched the wagon He was paralyzed below the ruptured spline placed in a wagon and hauled almost a mile to his home where medical assistance was summoned
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Anamosa
Here
W. L. Ketcham
Iowan Leads Washington DC Times Bank Alalement
The recent bank alignment shows Iowa atop national banks in numbers of banks, money, politics, cabinet officers, corn, and prosperity. Iowa leads in finance and related sectors, with strong standings noted across multiple categories.
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Iowan
Washington, D. C
Alalement
Towa
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Haamilton County
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Harnest Smith
W. C. Smith
Groner
Cedar Falls
State Normal School
Proudfoot
Henry W. Fry
Henry E. Baker
Inwood
Hanover National Bank of New York
Firt National Bank of Blocktion
Oskaloosa Times
Oskaloosa
L. G. Ballanger
C. J. Letaley
Richland
Henry Rosecrans
Bulkainger
Chronicle
Pella
Robert Johanson
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Mason City
Dietz
Wilson
United States Department of Agriculture
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Lier
Tiflis
Etchmiadzin
Armenia
Zangisur
Tifis
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Broycote
Reinbeck Standard
J. E. Gange
Waterloo Chautauqua
S. S.S
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Inchester Repeating
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
New Maven
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Finess
American Colonization Co
Gumberland
William Mullen
Janesville
Dr. Young
Reed
Waterloo
City Hospital
Bies
Circus
E. H. van Atten
Lockjaw
Leroy W. Yakish
Coe College
van Horne
Hedrick
G. F. Young
Mr. Young
Parmer
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