World News Briefs Curated From Far Regions
A compressed roundup notes Roosevelt honoring Cleveland with flags at federal buildings, Taft eyeing monument sites and antitrust steps, Panhandle oil refinery losses, the La Roche sinking near Muros, and arrests and trials in Washington. It also covers Taft at Yale Harvard, whisky seizures in Detroit, cholera quarantines, May immigration totals, a guilty Plea in Columbus, and various other incidents including lynchings, accidents, and political shifts.
Slain in Saloon Row in Bonne Terre Fight Leaves Two Wounded
In Bonne Terre a rear saloon alley brawl ended an allay drinking bout, as Robert Smith was killed and his half brother B M Mathews was shot twice and severely wounded. Earlier, thirty Chariton county farmers gathered at a neighbor’s home to discuss practical Christianity after a neighbor was injured in a railroad accident.
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Chariton County
Robert Smith
B. M. Mathews
Bonne Terre
Randolph County Local Option Vote Results
Randolph County went for local option by a large majority while Huntsville Higbee Renick and Elliott supported the wets. A Carpenter's Fatal Fall reports James M. Carlisle a Linn Creek carpenter killed while roofing for I W Bunch. Wreck blame assigned to railroad men Richard E Waddell and W J Thelan after Sedalia collision. Chillicothe doctor George W Alexander dies suddenly in his office.
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Randolph County
Huntsville
Higbee
Renick
Elliott
James M. Carlisle
Linn Creek
I. W. Bunch
Chillicothe
George W. Alexander
The Round House in Guthrie A New Vision in Architecture
Guthrie Ohio visitors marvel at a seven story round residence known as the round house with a pin on it. Built by Charles Babcock to face all directions to please neighbors he watched summer winds favor him while others suffered heat. Babcock a Wisconsin native and former city council member once lived in St Louis and Kansas City before Guthrie. A stray note mentions Secretary Root and a sign language incident with a foreign delegation, followed by notes on an improved autocar screw driver for railroad track work and Madrid’s beggar crackdown with only the blind permitted to remain.
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David Rankin
Missouri
Charles Babcock
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Babcock
Harvard Defeats Yale in Varsity Rowing Clash
Harvard varsity defeats Yale by a narrow margin amid a tense finish at the river race. Yale trails closely as both crews power through the mile mark, with Harvard pulling ahead in the final sprint to secure victory.
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Harvard
London
Varsity
Winnin
Yale
American College
Yate
Illinois Flags at Half Mast Reflects Grover Cleveland Honor
A historical note records Illinois lowering flags to half mast for 30 days in honor of Grover Cleveland, marking a period of official respect by state institutions during his memory.
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Mlinois
Halt Nast Springfield
Deneen
Grover Cleveland
Lost on La Race Corunna in Accortine Information
The La Wednesday carries 0, and 59 passengers, a been accounted for of 38 rsons, Kan., Shops to Be Parsons, Kan. None in the Missouri, Kansas & shops here Thursday ments would reopen J have been closed since M London Papers Print Memos London. The London ers print extended meno rails of Mr. Clevelan priats also are publishe of the former presiden States. All the newspaper tributes to Mr. Cleve dence of parties, his In Honor of Cleve 'efferson City, Mo 'Thursday issued a proci ng that all flags other public buildings the is half mast because of th er President Cleve state offices the close? eral Friday. Flood Losses Cause Su Humboldt, Neb-All 8 leading farmer an from Richardson county ture, committed such carbolic acid at his 3H health and losses lands are supposed to be the act. Explosion Kills a Fe hicaga.-Five persons or to be dead and more is ured, several of the result of an explo fre in a five-story bulluins Yoors of which were ing house, at 175 Hu Not for Federal One. Lincoln, Neb-Th probably will declar legislation. Friends predict that no 42ve plank will be inserted.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Garfield
Capt. Cook
Hawaiian Islands
Pennsylvania
la Roche
Muros
Spain
Covict
F. A. Hyde
J. H. Schneider
Union
Kansas City
Kan
Taft
Yale
Harvard
New Haven
Detroit
Mich
United States
Camp Gregg
Philly Pines
Frederick Immel
The
Columbus
Board of Public Service
Allro
Arlington National Cemetery
Man‘la
Kangas
Randolph County
Arcadia
Philadelphia
Manila and Fiber Association
New York
Weather Bureau
Mount Weather
Kansas Tax Commission
Hemphill
Texas
Trenton
Amissouri
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Louis
Missouri River
Jean Belcter
Ameri England
John Hubert Ward
Equity In
Chapel Royal
St. James’ Palace
London
Charles Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Mr. Cleveland
Caldwell N. J
Cleveland
Francis Folsom
White House
James G. Blaine
Benjamin Harrison
James 8. Sherman
Lakeside Hospital
George B. Harrison
Californi
Topeka
Oyster Bay
R. H. Hunt
National Soldiers
Seaworth
Kaw
Anna’ Gould
Prince Helle de Sagan
England
Laman F. Parker
Winita Ok
Oklahoma
William Thaw
Europe
Clevelan Priats
Cleve
Efferson City
Humboldt
Richardson County
Ture
Ing House
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Mr. Bryan
Gilbert W. Barnard
Chicago
Wrights
Teonenie
Warner
Towty
George W Harton
Fom Kassan
Christ Saneary
Dogo
Calin
Bapaipa
Sherman
Gov. Guild
Massachusetts
Murphy
New Jersey
Judy Jennings
Gazette
Judy
Charles Valley
North Missouri Medical Society
Moberly
Offeers
B.C. Given
Kirksville
First View
W. le Bros Stous
Gallatin
GO. Cuppaidge
EC. Callison
Kirke
C. McEwen
Salisbury
Robert Haley
Crookfield
J.D. Brummel
C.B. Clapp
Woolson Moss
Columbia
W. R. Painter
Carrollton Democrat
Richmond
J. L. Martin
Hale Hustler-Leader
Council of
Secretary of War
Kaw River
Rush C. Lake
Republican State Committee
Walter
Dickey
Herbert
Hadley
Mr. Lake
Lake
Eclectic Doctors
State Eclectic Society
H. H. Brockman
Eldon
C. Hill
Smithville
A. C. Davidson
C. Meredith
Emmett F. Cook
St. Joseph
George E. Krapft
St Louis
A. W. Davidson
Poplar Isluff
Missouri State Photographers Association
A. L. Jenks
Monett
J. W. Waller
Hammond Jones
Ki. Williams
Herman Johnson
James Evans
George Ryan
Pierce City
Carthage
Aurora
State Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
Lafayette County
Jeff Ware
Boone County
Providence
John F. Hunt
Ella P. Gillespy
G. A. Friends of
Heiman
Puget Sound Naval Station
Swanger
Herbert Hadley
Livingston County
Gentry
N. T. Gentry
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Folk
J. W. Grier
Missouri Pacific
de Soto
A. D. Bethard
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Richard E. Waddell
W. J. Thelan
Sedalia
Ohio
State Department
Root
Secretaire
Madrid
Round House
Guthrie, Okla
Des Plaines
Mack Fo
Kansas & Western
Union Pacific System
Lev
Omaha
Board of Rail
Compan
Parsons
Missouri, Kansas
Lincoln
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