Detroit Tigers Triumph Over Chicago 8 to 3
Detroit defeats Chicago 8 to 3 after a key sixth inning rally. Ty Cobb shines with four hits in five appearances and steals two bases, driving in two runs as Mullin pitches steadily for Detroit. Chicago's Pfeister allows 13 hits and three walks as the Tigers capitalize in the pivotal inning.
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Chicago
Pfeister
Cobb
Tigers
Detroit
Jennings
Downs
Schaefer
Coughlin
Thomas
Schmidt
Mullie
Pfeisier
Michigan
Tyros Cobb
O'Leary
Scortme MocIntyre
Crawford
Rossman
Roseman
Mullin
Western Congress Ends San Francisco Delegates Elect New Officers
The nineteenth Tramamissiselppi congress adjourned in San Francisco after five days with a key clash over parcels post legislation. A motion backing the poolmaster general failed 140 to 60. Next meeting set for 1909 in Denver. officers elected include Chairman Ike T. Pryor S Fr Dutton Arthur F P Francis and James C. Dahiman.
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West
San Francisco
Congress
Denver
Ike T. Pryor
San Antonio
Tex
S. Fr. Dutton
Arthur FP. Francis
Cripple Creek
Calo
High Court Upholds Prayer in Murder Case
Tennessee Supreme Court affirms lower court verdict sentencing J. C. Duncan of Chattanooga to death for murder of Weaver. The court rejects claims that a juror led a prayer service after a long deliberation night, ruling the prayer did not prejudice the defendant and the jury retained its rights.
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Supreme Court of Tennessee
Bel
J. C Duncan
Chattanooga
Weaver
Counse
Bell
Convicted Families In Carthage Case Involve Baker Ties
Mrs Franey Convicted along with Mrs H Raney of Carthage Missouri for complicity in the theft of Albert Baker her son in law. Her daughter Mrs Myrtle Baker was convicted and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary, the mother receiving a five year sentence.
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Franey
H. Raney
Carthage
Albert Baker
Myrtle Baker
New Danish Cabinet Forms Under Nergaard Leadership
A Dania's new cabinet has been formed with M. Nergaard serving as premier and minister for defense. The government consolidates executive power as Nergaard outlines defense and security priorities.
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M. Nergaard
Tuberculosis Exhibition Closes After Three Weeks
Dr John Fulton, secretary of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, issues an injunction against expectoration in public. Henry Meyer, medical inspector of the navy, closes the Washington exposition with remarks and a stereoptical lecture by Dr Herbert D. Pease. The event drew six thousand delegates and broad international participation.
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John
Fulton
Washington
Henry Meyer
Navy
Committee On Exhibition
Herbert D. Pease
Albany
Heiress Kidnapped in Chicago Sparks Nationwide Search
Eight year old heiress Margaret Frances Mitchell was kidnapped while with her grandmother in Chicago. Police launched a country wide search, suspecting she was spirited out of the city likely toward Sparta North Carolina amid a custody and fortune dispute.
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Margaret Frances Mitchell
Chicago
Carline Mitchell
Polce
Sparta
Robert Mitchell
Lawrence Avenue
Margaret B Mitchell
Minnie Mitchell
Kans roads fined for stock law violations in Leavenworth
Four Kansas railroads faced indictments for violating the twenty eight hour stock law. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe was fined 700 dollars on three counts, the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific 6860 dollars on fifty nine counts, the Missouri Pacific 600 dollars on four counts, and the St Louis and San Francisco 1200 dollars on eleven counts.
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Kansas
United States District Court
Leavenworth
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Missouri Pacific
St. Louie
San Francisco
Evansville Cotton Mills Resume After Shutdown
Evansville cotton mill resumes operations after a period of closure. The plant hired several hundred workers when it reopened on Monday.
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Evanseville
Evansville
Chicago Grain and Provisions Weather and Prices
Chicago markets show weakness across wheat corn oats and provisions as a larger visible supply in the United States and Canada weighs on prices. Wheat futures ease with Dec May and July contracts lower while corn oats and pork lard ribs and livestocks prices edge down amid mixed receipts at South Omaha.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Chicago Livestock Prices and Totals for Oct 12
Cattle receipts 28 000, steady to slightly higher on some classes. Hogs receipts 28 000 with lower trade. heavy and packing weights quoted, bulk sales around 5.90 to 6.15. Sheep receipts 72 000 with lambs advancing to 5.00 per unit. Calves and feeders listed with various prices.
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South Omaha
Texas
Chicago
Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs Opens Annual Convention
The Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs held its annual convention at First Congregational church in Omaha with about 250 delegates. Mrs H L Keefe presided as Rev Dr F T Rouse gave the invocation, and Mayor James C Dahlman welcomed attendees. The event, hosted at the Rome hotel, is anticipated to be the best in federation history.
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Omaha
Nebraska Federation of Woman's Clubs
Nebraska
Rome Hotel
H. L. Keefe
Walthill
Neb
F. T. Rouse
James C. Dahlman
Dahiman
Reserves Move to Omaha Banks in York County
York Neb Oct 13 Beginning Nov 1 nearly every national bank in York county will close its New York financial agent and operate through Omaha banks. County deposits reach record highs with farmers owning most of the money as Wheat and corn crops swell. York has long led Wheat county records and land values rise with many farms selling around 125 per acre.
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York, Neb
York County
New York
Omaha
York
York Won the Ban Per Wheat County
Nebraska
Frontier festival to open with record crowds planned
Hastings Nebraska prepares for the second annual frontier festival expected to attract the largest crowds. City spending finances new attractions and big prizes from ten to three hundred dollars with several thousand dollars in total. Daily parades will feature troops Indians cowboys and trick riders as large amusement outfits set up in town.
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Hastings
Neb
Supreme court denies review on tax title losses
Omaha reports that the supreme court rejected a motion to review a case involving hundreds of tax titles bought by dealers in securities. The decision predicts a loss for purchasers who face defective titles and interest obligations to make good the losses. the city also incurs heavy losses. The ruling was handed down earlier, with no further appeal allowed.
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Omaha
Supreme Cest
Supreme Court
Synod backs county option to push temperance reform
The Presbyterian synod in session here has formally endorsed county option and vows to use all influence to promote temperance reform in the state. Members pledged to exert effort to secure county option legislation in the upcoming legislature.
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Presbyterian Synod
Ihs
Suicide pact verdict ties Brauer to gas deaths
Lincoln reports a coroner's jury found B. L. Sheppard and Mrs. Leona Brauer parties to a suicide compact. Death was by gas poisoning, disproving the theory that Brauer killed Sheppard and then took her own life. Both individuals were well connected.
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Lincoln
B. L
Sheppard
Leona Brauer
Largest land deal in Howard County closes near St Paul
St Paul Neb Oct 18 The largest land sale in Howard County ends with George K E Woodbury selling a 420 acre farm for 45700 dollars. The tract includes all crops and notes that nearby land fetched about 10 dollars an acre years ago.
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St. Paul, Neb
Howard County
George KE
Woodbury
Fire destroys old Filimore hotel building in Geneva
In Geneva Nebraska on an October day a blaze destroyed the old Filimore hotel and contents of three stores. The frame structure was a fire trap and went beyond control with firefighters unable to extinguish the fumes. The lots are valued around ten thousand dollars.
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Geneva
Neb
Pfilimore
Lincoln Couple Found Dead in Lincoln Apartment
Lincoln reports the death of Le Sheppard a Marshall Pennyweight Scales traveling salesman and Mrs Leona Brimer a Lincoln Commercial club stewardess found in their North Eleventh Street apartment. Gas exposure sparked an investigation. police consider possible suicide or accidental death. Sheppard a well known local traveler and Mrs Brimer were both married previously.
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Lincoln
le Sheppard
Marshall Pennyweight Scales Company
Leona Brimer
Lincoln Commercial Club
North Eleventh Street
Accopanisx
Sheppard
Lincolty
Bruner
Fach
Olf
New Omaha University Fight Builds in Omaha
Omaha residents rally to establish a proposed university with Andrew Carnegie offering 900 000 dollars if Omaha raises 200 000. A Presbyterian governing body backs the move and aims to relocate its Bellevue college to the northern city site. Existing property will be converted to funds to reach about 1 000 000 dollars within five years.
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Omaha
Omaha University
Andrew Carnegie
Presbyterian
Bellevue
Missions Convention Proposes 50000 For Support
Hastings Neb Oct 12 Several hundred delegates attend the twenty fifth annual Topeka branch meeting of the Women’s Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church A resolution calls for a 50000 annual appropriation for missionary maintenance and a 20000 plan for new buildings in Japan and India Nebraska School Teachers Meet Oct 12 Emerson Neb Seven hundred teachers gather for the seventh Northwest Nebraska Teachers association meeting Superintendent J M Hurst leads an active program with papers by A Abbott A Teedaft A B Little and W Tarrant It is billed as the largest conference yet
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Hastings, Neb
Topeka
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church
Japan
India
Nebraska
Amerson
Neb
Northwest Nebraska Teachers’ Association
J. M. Hurst
Emerson
Abbott
Tekamah
A. V. Teedaft Ponon
A. B. Littl
Warne
Bryan heads west on campaign tour in October
William J. Bryan spent days on the stump and devoted much time to renting up for a hard week of campaigning in Nebraska Colorado and Wyoming. The westward journey will begin early tomorrow morning with Bryan voicing confidence in rising sentiment for the Democratic party.
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Bryan
Fairview
Lincoln
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Governor Sheldon Tours Nebraska Ending in Aurora
Governor Sheldon arrived in Omaha and spoke at the tuberculosis exhibition at the First Congregational church. Tonight he addresses in South Omaha at Brown Park before a state tour lasting ten days to visit nearly every region of Nebraska, finishing October 22 at Aurora.
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Sheldon
Omaha
First Congregational Church
South Omaha
Brown Park
Nebraska
Aurora
Section Foreman Ends His Life in Despondency
Swan Anderson, a section foreman for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road, killed himself by banging due to despondency over inability to hire men at $1.40 per day. He recently faced trouble securing workers and complaints from the roadmaster.
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Perntler, Neb
Swan Anderson
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Fnd
Omahe
Anderson
Prairie schooner inspires a century model auto visit
Central City Nebraska October 10 old timers recall prairie schooners as a 1008 model touring car arrives in town. J W Young from Bangor Maine drives it to seek a western home showing the comforts needed for cross country travel.
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Central City
Neb
Plains
J. W. Young
Bangor
Lincoln Paper Mill Destroyed by Fire in Lincoln
The Lincoln paper mill between the city and the state penitentiary was totally destroyed by fire along with its stock. President George E. Haskell estimates the loss between $40,000 and $50,000, with insurance only $13,000.
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Lincoln Paper Mill
Lincoln
Lincoln Paper
State Penitentiary
George E. Haskell
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