160 Negro miners sue over union rights and scab harassment
In Boone on June 29 160 colored Ogden miners filed suit in district court seeking 1 600 000 damages against national United Mine Workers officials and Iowa district leaders They seek a temporary injunction to protect union cards and force recognition and charter for Mine No A Ogden They allege harassment and scab labeling by white miners and note prior strikes and mine leasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Ogden White
Iowa District
Ogden
Jowa Nation
Boone
Fort Dodge & Southern Railways Company
Ogden Mines
Iowa Union
Ogden, Consolidated Coal, Company
Des Moines
Albia
Oskaloosa
R.M. Wright
District Court
Sogden
Walue
United Mine
Workers of America
Fort Dodge
Airplane Delivers First Merchandise at Sea Near New York
At New York on June 29 a first at sea air delivery occurred as a package fell on the upper deck of the White Star liner Olympic while passing the Narrows outward bound on her maiden eastward voyage. Thomas Sopwith and Richard R. Sinclair rose from Garden City to timed the flight and meet the liner. Word aboard was not confirmed if the parcel landed.
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New York
White Star
Olympic
Thomas Sopwith
Richard R. Sinclair
The
Aero Club
Garden City
Engineer BR Wood Credited With Kate Shelley Start
Boone, June 29. Several Iowa papers credit Engineer BR Wood of Council Bluffs with initiating the Kate Shelley story.
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Boone
BR. G. Wood
Council Bluffs
Kate Shelley
Witnesses Support Miss Shelley Went Unwarned
Friends and relatives in Moingona state Mr. Wood did not send Miss Shelley to warn the approaching passenger. They claim she acted of her own accord in the incident at the North Western bridge.
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Moingona
Wood
Shelley
Priest Timothy Sullivan Dies in New York Visit
The Rev. Timothy Sullivan, 38, died suddenly in New York while visiting his parents. He served six months in Fort Dodge as assistant to Monsignor J. T. Saunders at Corpus Christi parish after four years in Sioux City. His body was found in an overflowing bathtub in a Waverly hotel. Death believed due to heart failure or apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Timothy Sullivan
New York
J. T. Saunders
Corpus Christy Parish
Sioux City
County Limerick
Sioux
Waverly
Place
Dog's Bark Saves Family From House Fire in Maine
Awakened by his dog's bark, Dr. C B Thompson found his house in flames. The family escaped only with nightclothes two chairs and a pair of old shoes. Loss estimated at 2500 dollars and fully insured.
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Maine
C. B. Thompson
Lightning Strikes Village Home Wrecks Property
A single bolt damaged the home of W. H. Rhodes in Seward Nebraska injuring none. Windows shattered, cistern pump top blown off, a cess pool cover lifted, and telephone wires broken as a dramatic storm lashed the area. The Rhodes bank building also suffered broken windows and cut wires. In a separate incident near Seward, three men found dead under a lumber car talk of theft is reported.
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Fertile
Ww. H. Rhodes
iFertile Bank
Rhodes
Seward
Neb
Tragedy at Illinois Central Tracks Claims James Mc Enroe
James Mc Enroe, a longtime Waterloo resident, was struck and killed by a freight train on the Illinois Central tracks yesterday. Three cars passed over his body, and he leaves a widow and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
James McEnroe
Illinois Central
TILDEN UP IN HEARING ON LOREIMER ELECTION
Edward Tilden bank director and packing company head testified before the Lorimer committee in Washington about possible fund raising for Senator Lorimer. He outlined his corporate roles and loose personal bookkeeping while denying any involvement in election funds. The committee pressed on questions of his connections to banks and corporations, but discharged him without further demands for books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Edward Tilden
Senate Lorimer
Lorimer
Senate
Senator Lorimer
Tilden
Kenyon
Sioux City
Iowa
St. Joseph
San Francisco
East St. Louis
Capt J F Merry to retire after 31 years with Illinois Central
Manchester notices Capt J F Merry will retire from active railroad life on Friday. He has served the Illinois Central Railroad Company for thirty one years continuously, and in the past six or eight years has had charge of the immigration department with headquarters at Manchester.
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Manchester
J. F. Merry
Illinois Central Raiilroad Company
Immigration Department
Cream Cone Fatal to Girl in Cedar Rapids
Five year old Violet F Eleanor Mentzer died from poison traced to an ice cream cone eaten Sunday. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W Mentzer and had been violently ill since the day she ate it.
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Cedar Rapids
Violet Fleanor Mentzer
Charles W. Mentzer
Fatal Falls and Wounded in Split Monticello Incidents
Monticello reports two deadly or near fatal accidents as Max Randall, a carpenter, fell from a barn roof and died instantly. nine year old Carl Fass was struck by a wagon wheel with likely fatal injuries. In Spencer Indiana, Mrs Oden Phillips was found fatally wounded beside her husband’s corpse after shots rang out in a cemetery.
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Monticello
Max Randall
Peter Kirk
Here
Carl Fass
Spencer
Ind
Oden Phillips
Man shoots wife then himself near Fairmount
In Fairmount a man tried to persuade his separated wife to return home. They walked away from her boarding house when the shooting occurred. A note found on Phillips warned he would kill himself if she refused to live with him. Mason City reports also note injuries from a wreck near Clear Lake as a party headed to Britt after races.
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Fairmount
Phillips
Mason City
Imogene Fire Destroys Multiple Buildings
A fire in Imogene last night started in the dairy stable of J Hayes and spread to two residences owned by Dr J J Baker the Baker hotel and the post office which was saved. Several horses a hearse and other property were destroyed with large quantities of salt used to halt the blaze. An incendiary is alleged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hayes
J. J. Baker
Baker
Robbers Held At Bay On Northern Pacific Train
In Glendale Oregon, June 30, two bandits mistook the northbound train No 16 on the Southern Pacific for the southbound mail train carrying 400000 in gold dust from Seattle to San Francisco. They rifled the mail car blew the safe opened the registered mail, failed to enter the express car, and fled as posses pursue them. Robb the messenger resisted threats to blow dynamite.
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iGlendale
Ore
Southern Pacific
Seattle
San Francisco
West Fork
Cow Creek Canyon
Robb
Maiden Found in a Log Hut
Fifteen year old Grace Rothwell is hospitalized in Council Bluffs after being abducted to a deserted log cabin by Harold Gannett, a discharged soldier. Gannett fled as authorities search for him. charges of abduction and kidnapping have been filed.
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Council Bluffs
Grace Rothwell
Harold Gannett
Gannett
Miss Rothwell
Prominent Officers Named in Wire Trust Indictments
The federal grand jury indicted nine pools operating as a wire trust in New York on charges of unlawful combination in restraint of trade. Officers include Frank J. Gould Herbert L. Satterlee William P. Palmer Charles R. Brooker Henry G. Stoddard Erskine Hewitt Frank N. Phillips and Ferdinand W. Roebling. Indicted associations cover Bare Copper Wire and Rubber Covered Wire, Wire Rope, Lead Encased Rubber Cable and more. The government seeks to curb restrictive trade practices under the Sherman act.
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New York
Wire Trust
Frank J. Gould
Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works
Virginia
Herbert L. Satterlee
Habershaw Wire Company
William P. Palmer
American Steel & Wire Company
Charles BR. Brooker
Ansonia Brass & Copper Company
Republican National Committee
Connecticut
Henry G. Stoddard
Trenton Iron Company
Erskine Hewitt
Frank N. Phillips
American Electrical Works
Ferdinand W. Roebling
John A. Roebling Sons and & Co
Bare Copper Wire Association
Wire Rope Manufacturers’ Association
Fine Magnet Wire Association
Underground Power Cable Association
Horseshoe Manufacturers’ Association
The
Telephone Cable Association
Weatherproof and
Herbert “Satterlee
Frank Gould
Clearing House
Bureau of Corporations
Steel Corporation
American Steel and Wire Company
Bank Clerk Injured in Riverside Gas Explosion
Jake Critz a clerk at Citizens Savings bank Riverside is hospitalized in Iowa City with severe burns after a gas explosion wrecked the bank building late yesterday. His brother Leo Critz also burned while entering the cellar with a lighted candle to locate the leak and suffered burns on his hands.
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Riverside
Jake Critz
Citizens Savings Bank of Riverside
Iowa City
Leo
Critz
Leo Critz
Man fined for illegal river fishing after moccasin bite
Joseph Bryant of St Anthony was bitten by a water moccasin in the Iowa river dark and arraigned in justice court. He was fined 16 dollars for unlawfully taking two fish. His cousin Charles Bryant faced no license findings as a deputy warden looked for fishing licenses.
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Marshalltown
Joseph Bryant
St. Anthony
Iowa River
Joe Bryant
Charles Bryant
Brees
Waterloo
Bryant
Illeg
Beating of a tramp by West Liberty marshal
West Liberty reports a tramp beaten by local marshal John Wiley after being identified by Jacob Neubauer’s daughters as the assailant who sprang on them near the railroad at the Neubauer home. The man was captured hiding along the tracks and escorted out of town.
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West Liberty
John Wiley
Jacob
Neubauer
Wiley
Will of late tailor leaves 50 thousand to charity groups
Joseph Maresch a Dubuque tailor died intestate leaving 50 000 to charity. A 20 000 provision funds a German Catholic church on West Locust St. Beneficiaries include Mercy hospital Finley hospital St Elizabeths St Francis homes St Vincent de Paul and several local societies. One relative receives the deceased’s household effects. Remaining residue will be pro rated among designated beneficiaries.
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Dubuque
Joseph’ Maresch
Maresch
West Locust Street
Mercy Hospital
Finley Hospital
St. Elizabeth’s Charity Organization
St. Francis Orphan’s Home
St. Francis Old People’s Home
Home of Good Shepherd
Home For the, Friendless
Dubuque Benevolent and Humane Society
Dubuque Rescue
Electric plant and shop burned at Van Horn
Fire destroyed the Van Horn electric light plant and a neighboring machine shop near Milwaukee line, causing an estimated loss of 14000 with 2200 insurance. Firefighters prevented the flames from reaching other businesses as the origin is believed to be spontaneous combustion in the coal room. The town relies on the plant for illumination.
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Vinton
van Horn
Here
Milwaukee
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Ireland
Jured
Cess
Pool
Bolt
Remem
Bers
Sioux City Bank
Captain Merry
Messenger
Express
Ern
Pacifion Railroad
Mastin
Maiden
Law
Dakota
South ‘Dakota
Jos. Maresch
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