Iowa News Digest Records Tragedy and Fire Across Towns
Indianola mourns the death of A C A W of Iowan grand trustee Ed R McKee while others report self inflicted deaths in Dubuque Marshall county and Ottumwa. A 90 year old inmate died by self harm at a county poor farm and a Dubuque resident killed himself. Multiple fires wreck shops and banks including Shell Rock and Griswold with heavy losses.
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Marshall County
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Dubuque
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Ostenloosa
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Fairfield
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Eadlter Kerchen
Cascade
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Rathbone Sisters of
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Tida
News of the Week Highlights From National Events
A wide snapshot covers proposed tariff revenue breakdowns and shifts in policy, a Great Falls bank defalcation, cabinet rumors, a Hanford arrest update, Utah senate election of Joseph T. Rawlins, and tariff votes. It notes Michigan court action over Detroit mayor Tingree, a Harrisburg capitol fire with 1.4 million loss, arbitration talks with Britain on the Venezuela dispute, Dawes confirmed as Comptroller, Wilson offered agriculture secretary post, Weyler’s Cuban river raid and a fatal Hoboken tenement fire.
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Tariff Plan Promises $60 Million Revenue Gain
Washington reports the framers of the new tariff expect about sixty million dollars more revenue than current law. Rough sources include sugar twenty six million, wool and woolens eighteen million, tobacco three million, agricultural products two million, spirits two million, flax and hemp four million, cotton hosiery and cottons one million, chinaware and glass two million, and miscellaneous three million. Must Not Say Prayers in School. St Paul reports Judge Sax ter temporarily restrains Avon School teacher from saying prayers at opening and closing of school. Proceeding set for February 22 in St Cloud.
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St. Paul, Minn
Saxter
Avon
Stearna County
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Hunger Devastates Louisiana Parish Relief Efforts Grow
Quick, large scale hunger crisis spreads through eastern parishes near Shreveport as relief groups count thirty thousand people in need. State funds already spent sixty four thousand dollars on corn and provisions with more money sought for sustained aid during the unfruitful season.
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Shreveport
Diplomacy Costs for U S Foreign Service Reported
A government report to the House committees on foreign affairs shows the diplomatic and consular service of the United States would cost the government 1 676 905 76 dollars.
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Washington
Committees On Foreign Affairs
Loase
United States
Nicaragua canal bill dominates Senate activity in early February
From Washington reports Feb 1 to Feb 6 outline Senate and House actions. The Nicaragua canal bill occupies most attention with debate on silver bi metallism and executive treaties. Several public bills pass including disciplinary and inspection measures, while pension and district appropriation items move forward.
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Legislature Adopts Codes Amid Iowa Senate Actions
In Des Moines the Iowa Senate advanced code revisions covering sureties, county high schools, and state officials. The week included debates on civil procedure, insurance notice rules, and reductions in military and judiciary appropriations, with resolutions honoring Samuel Murdock, Reuben Noble, and James Wilson.
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Dox Moines
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Uouar
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Patent Office Rules on Joint Inventions and Assignments
Des Morine reports that a patent cannot be granted to a single inventor when multiple persons contributed, unless a formal assignment directs joint issuance. Joint patents must be filed by all inventors. partial patents are void. The piece covers the role of invention as a product of mind and the complexity of determining joint versus single invention. It also notes advertising for information on obtaining patents. The report also cites Wells, Fargo & Co.’s 186 annual metals output in the western states, and mentions Nebraska’s exposition status and Kansas City’s bid to relocate the fair.
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Ralen Onnta
Solicitors of Patents
New York
Wells, Furga & Co
San Francisco
Missouri River
Britleh Columbia
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
Notable Hungarian Painter Munkacsy Suffers Setback
Michael Munkacsy is reported unable to work at his easel after a private incident near Hoan. Vienna sources say his condition may prevent future painting. In Paris, President aure visited the Pasteur lab at Ville neuve Etang and observed trials with fifteen horses producing anti-plague serum.
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Hoan
Bo Vradace
Vina Renu Parks
Aure
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Paris
Feud Turns Deadly in Creek County Standoff near Stroud
Feud escalating in Stroud area as George Graham and six others abduct Guthrie, Lutten, Lurten, and Charles Moore near Stroud. Deputies pursue from Chandler while reports of lynching and killings circulate, with Stroud under siege and a large posse organized in the Sac and Fox agency region.
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O. 1
BE. Lurton
Lirten
Charles Moore
Stroud
Here
George Graham
Creek
Strtens
Moore
Chandler
Sac and Fox
Lincoln County
Strowd
Gen. Thomas
GrimtseRng
Straud
Jim Furber
Henry Lutten
Everett Lurten
Griffiths
Lurtens
Furber
GriMths
Henry Lurten
Hanna Favored for Ohio Senate Despite Governor Move
Washington reports Ohio Republicans fear a fight if Gov. Bugnell appoints Lieut. Gov. Jones to the senate, with Hanna favored for a two year term if he pledges not to run for the long term. Hanna has not given such a pledge and prefers election by people and legislature.
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Washington
Bughnell
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Congress
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Hanna
Cleveland investors plan cement works in Michigan deposits
A Cleveland group led by Messia Stone and Fuller & Co has struck rich marl along Swan Creek in Branch County Michigan. They purchased the land and will build large cement works at Bronson to process the material found there for cement production.
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Novak
Murray
Ife
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Wolford
Cedar Rapids
Edward Murray
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Eldon
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Ottumwa
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Lurrahee
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Ledochowskija Deposed in Vatican Prefecture Change
London dispatch notes likely replacement of Cardinal Ledochowski by Cardinal Satolli as Prefect of the Propaganda. Papal displeasure over Ledochowski's pro German stance and hostility to French influence is cited as motive. In Adrian Missouri, Marshal Joseph Shelby of Missouri suffers serious illness at his farm, diagnosed as diphtheria and pneumonia.
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Missouri
Bank cashier flees with shorted funds in Bethlehem
Thehler Leaves a Shortage Hethlehem Pa Meb. Cashler C EB Breder of the First National Bank absconded. Experts report a nearly $15,000 shortage from small sums, indicating systematic peculations. Breder served as cashier for twenty years.
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Hethlehem
Cashler C
Breder
First National Bank
Obedience and faith amid early church persecution
A Sunday School lesson on Acts 5 21 to 5 40 explores the apostles teaching in the temple after escape from prison angels guardianship of believers and the Holy Ghost as witness It notes the high priests opposition and the creed we ought to obey God rather than men and the comfort believers find in conscience audience and divine support
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Isreal
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Baysug
Jerusalem
Peter
Sald
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Jesus
Israel
Iad
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Festus Unutt Fights Disability and Name Change Feat
Festus Orastus Butt, once defeated in a legal age disability bill, returns as Carroll county representative after a landslide win. He earned a law license at Berryville Circuit Court term with praise from the bar, and will be heard from in Little Rock in January.
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Supreme Court
Festus Orastus Unutt
Festus Orasius Butt
Arkansas
Senate
Mrr Butt
Mr. Butt
Carroll County
Berryville
Little Rock
Featus Orastus
Bult
Eureka Springs
A Work to Wirminghans
A Birmingham weekly summary lists items produced including 20,000,000 pens 300,000,000 cut nails 100,000,000 buttons 6,000 bedsteads 7,000 guns 1,000 saddles 20,000 spectacles 4,000 miles of wire 358 miles of wax yeatas six tons of papier mache ten tons of ping five tons of hair pins 600 tons of nuts fifty tons of hinges forty tons of refined metal forty tons of German silver 800 tons of brass 1,000 fenders 1,000 roasting sucks and 3,500 bellows.
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Birmingham
Moon light and wind power from sun heat
The text discusses moon light being about one six hundred thousandth of the sun, wind power from uneven solar heating, and a claim that human life on Mars would resemble life on Earth. It notes coral depth indicators and possible changes in seabed depth below forty fathoms.
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