Two Masked Bank Robbers Murder and Escape by Bicycle
Famount Minn Oct 8 Two masked burglars enter the Bank of Sherburne kill cashier Thorburn and a bystander, seize $1000, and flee on bicycles. A traveling agent J A Orrstery is also fatally shot. One suspect, Qerstein, dies. Thorburn survives, wounded multiple times. A separate 16-year-old, Ezra Rasco, is captured for the Arkoe murder.
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Train Breaks In Two At Donahue Station Crashes 14 Cars
Train on the Pennsylvania line parted at Donahue's station twenty miles east of Pittsburg and rejoined, smashing fourteen cars. Two tramp riders were killed, another fatally hurt, and brakeman Michael Helliday was seriously injured. Property loss about ten thousand dollars.
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Boy buried in well near Baried Ina Well, Neb
Baried Ina Well, Rosevillez Neb Oct 7 Charles W Kirchner 8 boy 20 buried seven miles SW of the city after repairing curbing the well caved in his shell fractured in three places by falling timber. Peruvian Town Scorched Lima Oct 7 Via Galveston It is reported a terrible fire at Guayquil Ecuador destroying 4 squares of town with key edifices Telegraphic link with Guayquil suspended. The combined brain weight of world is 1 922 712 tons mostly outside hats of people who believe 53 cents is a dollar.
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Du Maurier Dies After Heart Trouble At 2:20 A.M.
London Oct 9 George Du Maurier artist novelist of Trilby died at 2 20 this morning after a long battle with heart disease. Friends recall his pride in Trilby and note his sudden fame helped end his life. He spoke of Trilby’s success and its exhausting effect as death came with heart failure and tang issues.
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Fatal shooting over race horses in Richmond
Monroe Boles, 27, of Richmond, was shot to death by cousin B. F. Cades during a carnival crowd quarrel over a joint race horse string. Boles was unarmed. Cades fired six times and was seized by a policeman. The incident occurred before about 2,000 bystanders.
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Freight Rates Advance Across Western Rail Network
Freight traffic officials from western roads met in Chicago on October 4 to set higher rates to the Missouri River. Beer and apples rose to 25 and 27 cents respectively, canned goods to 7 dollars, sugar to 27 cents per unit, grapes and coal up as well, with soft coal at 2.26 and coke to 2 dollars. No start date given, but not later than November 1. provisions and livestock rates likely decided today, presidents to meet after.
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Mission to Italy dispatch for Stumpf immigration talks
Colonel Herman Stumpf, United States commissioner of immigration, sails for Rome aboard the Paris to confer with Italian officials on Italian immigrant migration to the United States. He will address the Italian parliament in November and report back before Congress convenes. The mission aims to explain US immigration laws to avert deportations and reduce fruitless journeys amid lingering tensions from earlier incidents.
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Reed in Demand Impossibility for Speaker Reed to Meet All Requests
Washington reports the Republican committee faces enormous demands for Speaker Reed as the campaign intensifies. Reed replies to Chairman Babcock that with a vast country and only one person, he cannot comply with more than a fraction of the requests, and he would hate to refuse but must do so.
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Spanish Supreme Court Orders New Trial In Filibuster Case
The Spanish supreme court in Madrid, after review, found the naval court martial that convicted prisoners from the schooner competitor of filibustering erroneous and ordered a new trial before a proper court under the Cushing protocol. Official details beyond this are not released.
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Protest Sustained Over McKinley Name in Denver Ballot
Secretary of State McGaffery sustains the protest of Silver Republicans against the McKinley party using the Republican name. If upheld by the supreme court, the McKinley ticket faces no ballot in the state for missing petition deadlines. Mary Wicks aged 18 confesses to forgery in Wrenkra Kansas. She altered a pencil check from Casey Mercantile to 62.50 after impersonating the merchant’s daughter. An Orlean Nebraska barbecue Friday October 16 will draw a large crowd with speakers including Major William Warner Rosewater and others.
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Nebraska City Man Declared Insane In County Proceeding
William Cornutt was adjudged insane by county commissioners after a period of mental decline. He will be taken to the Lincoln asylum in a few days.
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Newspaper Changes Hands In Linco Handover
The Evening News of Linco changes owners as Trigos Tyndale, agent for Hector Tyndale of New York, assumes control after filing a battle mortgage for 6000 dollars against the paper.
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Connecticut returns show GOP gains in state voting
From Reant l Connecticut, 46 towns report 188 GOP wins, 12 more than last year, while Democratic HQ cites potential 10 000 to 12 000 lead but predicts under 4 000 due to vague national issues. Other items note South American trade limits, Yukon gold finds, and a staged robbery in Sonora California.
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Democrats Hold Narrow Lead In Washington State Election
Atlanta Washington Oct reports show the Democratic majority at 36129 based on Atkinson gubernatorial votes, with the legislature likely solidly Democratic and ex-Speaker Crisp poised to replace Senator Gordon. Two constitutional amendments passed: expanding the supreme court to six justices elected by voters and making the state school commissioner elective.
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Secretary Clney Opens First Diplomatic Reception Day
Washington Oct 9 Secretary Clney held his first diplomatic reception day in three months. Only three of the corps called. Senor Andrade of Venezuela spent about thirty minutes in conference with the secretary, likely on boundary dispute negotiations and Britain’s railway project through the contested area threatening the current status quo.
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Sweeping decision on Choctaw coal mine ownership
Chief Justice Springer of the Indian Territory court of appeals issues a ruling affecting Choctaw Nation property and a coal mine operated by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway. The decision holds that any person who discovers coal in the nation is entitled to all coal beneath the surface within a mile radius from his works, implicating property values worth millions.
Why Bryan Should Explain His Silver Policy
Elkhart Review questions Will Bryan’s stance on free silver and currency policy. The piece critiques his 1873 bondholders claim, silver coinage, price levels, and proposed reforms, asking how his program would affect farmers, workers, merchants, and debt. It questions currency debasement, international comparisons, and his plans to reorganize courts and define the people.
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England
Elkhart Review
Death of Bishop Bachmann in Grace Hill Indiana
A telegram to the Provincial Elders conference of the Moravian church announces the death of Bishop Henry T. Bachmann at the Grace Hill parsonage Indiana. He was 66 years old and spent a large part of his life in foreign missions for the Moravian church.
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