Chicago colonel shoots policeman in Omaha arrest row
Col William TL Visscher of Chicago shot a policeman in Omaha after two disorderly conduct arrests and was beaten unconscious. A string of other dramatic incidents follow including a Count Szechenyi relation denying a marriage settlement in New York and a Western League pitcher Pat Seay hospitalized with his throat cut in St Joseph Missouri. A series of crimes, executions, and political shifts fill the dispatches from across the country.
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William TL. Visscher
Chicago
Omaha
Count Szechenyi
New York
Vanderbilts
Pat Seay
St. Joseph (Mo
John Lynch
Phillipsburg
Kan
Belleville
Kfin
Cortelyou
Washington
New York World
Julius I. Cone
New Orleans
South Dakota Supreme Court
Ferdinand A. Hallett
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Peter N. Aggergaard
Yankton County
du Pont Company
Edgemont
East St. Louis
Vlate
St. Louis
Alton
Claude Barnes
Cooley
Des Moines
Edwin Collier
Edwin
Laverne
Ohio
Cod
Bedwin
Tani
Loneseine
Lile
Union Station
Union Avenue
Kansas City
Union Railway
Wanusas City
Adams. Wells-Pargo All Pacific Express Companies
Post Offce
Brad Tlarvey Mating-Trouse Company
Pullman Pahic
New York Man Wills Bones to Buttons and Skin to Pouches
Readable fragments describe a diverse set of news items across New York and Pennsylvania. Highlights include a fatal theater fire in Boyertown and a major skyscraper blaze in New York with losses and firefighter deaths, plus Thaw trial developments and Harvard enrollment data.
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New York
Unclear 20th Century Crimes and Local Incidents
A scattered report lists multiple incidents including Sheriff killings in Crawforme county, a California appeal reversing a mayoral conviction and ordering release, a pastor jailed on counterfeiting charges, a Lincoln minstrel missing and ill, a Wisconsin freshman killed in a ice yacht accident, Nebraska officials receiving Missouri Pacific passes, a Cleveland suicide from fear of insanity, and a Kansas City murder of Navarre flats owner Sidney Perndon with a crushed skull and missing money.
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AL TD
Sticknes
Chicago Great Western Road
Fairfax
Soda
John Dettmann
Crawforme County
Townshear
George Taylor
Gregory County
Aepellate Court of California
Eugene el Sehmitz
San Francisco
Trey
Jatexs
First Congregational
Das
Leavenworth
Billy” Williams
Lincoln Neb
Frank Purdy
Chicago
College of Agriculture
Wisconsin University
Lake Mendota
Nebraska Railway Commission
Nebraska
Charles Krail
Cleveland
Krail
Ile
Sidney Perndon
Navarre Flats
Kansas City
Baron Takubira Named Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Announcement confirms Baron Takubira as the new Japanese ambassador to the United States succeeding Viscount Oki. Tangier dispatch reports two native passenger boats foundered off al Arish Morocco with forty drowned and several injuries. Several unrelated items follow including a Berlin suffrage riot and a factory closure in Collingwood Ontario affecting 450 workers.
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Baron Takubira
Ambasador
Japan
United States
Viscount Oki
Tangier
hl-Araish
Morocco
John Boyd
Poronte
Ont
Dle
Wandle
Boyd
Dboston
Lanedtag
Berlin
Collingwood Shipbuilding Company
Collingwood
Out
Congo Commission
Jeopold
Second Trial of Thaw Under Way in New York Court
The second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw for the murder of Stan ford White proceeds in New York. Evelyn Thaw will replay her story while the defense relies on insanity and the prosecution aims to show the crime was committed. Judge Dowling moves the case along as Thaw maintains good health amid daily public interest.
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Dominion
Canadian Pacific
White Star
Ruward
Liverpool
Fred Tfarthy
Chant
Marshall Holleapethie
Boston
Paul Milwaukey
Constation
Democrats
Russia
New York
Denjeroin Ackley
Minneapolis
Exiey
Windes
Chicago
George Willian
Troquois Theater
Troquois
Hlenius
Leavin
Thwaeh Daly
al Thoyeh
Caulyder
Dade Shore
Michigan
Lebkhart
Dnd
Il- Hotee
Bay Five
William Shambureer
Shamburger
Perry
Fred Daniels
Minnie Stephenson
Jaima
Ohio
Kenton
Marion
Daniels
Aquiniature
Page Morris
United States District Court
St. Paval
Woods Brothers
Harvey Pagel
Les
Baker
Harry Kendall Thaw
Pittsburg
Stanford White
Thaw
Delmas
Martin W. Littleton
Littleton
Evelyn Thaw
Jerome
Evelyn
Victor J. Dowling
Scaly Eruption Cured After Ten Years With Cuticura
Patient describes long battle with widespread itchy sores and hair loss for about a decade. After trying many doctors and remedies without relief, use of Cuticura Ointment and Soap led to complete cure and hair restoration following three boxes. Dated August 18 1906 Vermilion South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Mattingly
Novel Treatment for Insanity at St Louis Asylum
Sr Henry Atkins at the St Louis Asylum tests a Christmas shopping expedition as a treatment for mild insanity in women patients. Twenty patients accompanied by nurses were dressed as ordinary shoppers and taken to department stores to occupy their minds without excitement. They ate lunch at a restaurant and returned to the asylum, behaving in a conventional manner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Atkins
St. Louis Asylum
Tasane
Expedition to South America Led by George Boynton
A Boston party of about thirty five scientists led by George Melville Boynton plans a five year expedition into South America. They will travel aboard a Gloucester fishing vessel named the Discovery and focus on unexplored regions south of the Amazon before following the river to its source, crossing the Andes and exiting at Punta Arenas, Peru. The team includes botanists mineralogists ethnologists taxidermists and photographers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
George Melville Boynton
Nouth America
Gloucester
Amazon River
Amazon
Andes
Punta I’arine
Peru
Inventor Demonstrates Wireless Telephotography In Paris
Pascal Berjonneau showed a new telephotography device before the Testmaster General in Paris that can work with wireless or telegraph systems. He transmitted a postmaster’s image across the hall without wires, claiming distance does not affect performance. He asserts photographs could be sent between New York and Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pascal Berjonneau
Paris
Ile
New York
Ring Remembrance and Vanity in a Dark Portrait
A delicate man recalls a lost friend whose fine physique could not stave off a minor illness. He cherishes a rare intaglio ring as a priceless reminder that envy is wasteful in this old world. Po will send a letter and seal it with the ring.
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New York Press
Nervous troubles eased by kidney pills says Mrs Roseboom
Mrs Frank Roseboom of Moscow Idaho describes inherited kidney trouble that worsened to insomnia dizziness and back pain. After using Deans Kidney Pills the alarming symptoms disappeared. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Roseboom
South
Washington Street
Moscow
Idaho
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Missouri Man Sues Ranch Company Over Death of Hound on Track
A Missouri man sues a railroad firm for damages after his hound was killed on the track. The company argues the dog trespassed chasing a rabbit on the right of way and that the dog was not valuable enough to avoid the train. the defendant seeks discharge of the claim.
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Walter Jones
Jellico
Penn
Ile
Conger
Mexican Central Railroad
Jiminez
Mexico
United States
Rawlins
Wyo
Dave Darker
Lemons
Carbon County
TSGS
Jim Jons
Charles Smith
Everett Reed
Mort Moore
Jons
Denton County
Texas
Missouri
Sloan's Liniment Promises Fast Neuralgia Relief
A testimonial from J. P. Wubbard of Marietta South Carolina praises Sloan's Liniment for neuralgia and sciatica. He credits immediate relief and complete cure after using a 25 cent bottle, noting its soothing effect on nerves and usefulness for insect bites and sore throat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan
J. P. Wubbard
Marietta
Odd Man on Functions Spends His Tin in Big Blowout
A Baltimore American report notes a man who spends his money freely on functions, with commentary that the more he has the more he uses, portraying a recurring pattern of lavish spending and social display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Peruna Almanac 1908 popular in eight million homes
The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac is distributed free by druggists and already published for 1908. Supplies will run out soon. readers are urged to obtain a copy now. A note recalls John Hetherington's 1797 silk hat debut in London and his subsequent arrest.
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London
John Hetherinton
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University of Nebraska
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Minn
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Collier
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