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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
3
Brethouwer, a farmer near Havelock Nebraska, was drowned Monday evening while crossing a swollen stream on horseback. His hired man attempted the crossing, but the horse balked and Brethouwer was swept away. He leaves a wife and seven children. His brother T. A. Brethouwer works in Lincoln.
Paul Kobalter, a Burlington yards car inspector in Lincoln, was struck by lightning and killed while working atop a freight train during a May 6 storm. His body was found face down on a box car near Pacific Junction, clutching a crowbar with his lantern burning nearby.
In St Louis the transit company's 3800 employees vote to strike after the executive committee urged a walkout. At a mass meeting held Tuesday morning twenty six hundred workers participated and authorized immediate strike action with no objections.
A two story dilapidated building at 1430 North Eighth Street in St. Louis collapsed, killing Cora Everson and Melvina Nelson who were found suffocated with no visible injuries. Seven others injured were hospitalized. The men rescued remaining inmates. the house had been condemned and all were asleep at the time of the collapse.
Torontos report says evidence at the trial of three men accused of blowing up lock 24 on the Welland canal will claim the trio acted as agents of a Fenian plot. The men allegedly traveled from an Atlantic city to Niagara Falls near the crime scene after arriving in Buffalo.
Tacoma reports from Yokohama say 30,000 Japanese may depart for British Columbia this summer. The Tosu Maru is due with 1,600 aboard and the Dalnyvo stock, linked to Tacoma, expected within days with about 900 more Japanese travelers.
The small schooner Dora R was swamped after a tow line broke while in tow of the Bertha between Sitka and Litayna. Five men are feared lost, with reports of cargo and at least one body washing ashore days later near Sitka.
Farmers near University Place Nebraska lost 100 chickens each to theft. Neighbor Willard Rueffson also reported 100 birds stolen from his coop. No suspects named, and one farmer had previously lost a team in a prior theft. The rest of the dispatches cover various wartime, crime, and local notes with disparate data.
In a grim second floor room at Ninth and Farnam in Omaha two men, both in nightgowns, lie with one dead from gas asphyxiation and the other unconscious. The dead man may be Swan or Wilgus, their similar appearance confounding identification. A letter in Wilgus’s clothes and absence of personal effects hinder certainty. Doctors fear the conscious man has slim chances of recovery, so the mystery may end with death.
A Manila dispatch notes that General Funston uncovered archives implicating foreign firms in unlawful dealings with insurgents. The papers allegedly show firms supplying munitions and a detailed plan to attack American forces. It also states Major-General Otis may sail to the United States with his staff. No anti imperialist party correspondence was found.
A Friday fire nearly wiped out Landon British Columbia's mining town, destroying the big Echo hotel and the Canadian Pacific station as strong winds fed the blaze. Losses are expected to exceed 250000 dollars.
Cornell defeats Grinnell in Cedar Rapids intercollegiate debate. The sixth annual session of the school corncr of Illinois began at Carbondale. Marshall Jones, a Black man, implicated in a Georgia murder, was lynched near Douglas. A jury was seated for Col. Sutton’s Michigan fraud trial. Dr. Edward E. Vincent, veteran surgeon on Peary’s 1893 Arctic expedition, was killed by a Detroit streetcar.
A collection of testimonials and promotional copy for Peruna health tonics, Dr Hartman’s free medical advice for women, Grain-O coffee substitute, Allen's Foot-Rage, and a cough cure. It cites Mrs Goulder and others praising Peruna, promotes a free book titled Health and Beauty, touts Grain-O as a coffee substitute, and advertises Allen’s Foot-Rage with price details and contact addresses.
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