Zeppelin Flight Charms Thousands Across Swiss Tour
Count Zeppelin's airship powered a 2230 mile daylight voyage from Friedrichshafen, surpassing world records for steerable balloons. The craft, crew of fourteen, stayed aloft twelve hours over northern Switzerland visiting Zurich Winterthur and Lucerne before returning toward Constance.
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Count Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Switzerland
Zurich
Winterthur
Luceren
Lake Constance
Constance
Frauenfeld
Lucerne
Count Beppelin
Duel in Paris Over Libel Suit Ends With Wounding
In Paris on Wednesday a sword duel occurred between M Jouvenel, editor’s brother, and lawyer Baudelot. Baudelot was wounded in the right arm. The quarrel stems from a libel suit by Senator Humbert against the Matin over alleged Paris swindles linked to Henri Rechette. The clash followed an earlier insult as M Daudelot struck M Jouvenel, prompting the duel.
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Paris
M. Jouvenel
The
Matin
Baudeiot
M. Baudelot
Humbert
Henri Rechette
M. Daudelot
Mae Wood Indicted in Platt Divorce Perjury Case
Mae C. Wood of Omaha was indicted by a New York grand jury on perjury and forgery charges tied to a divorce suit against Senator Thomas C. Platt. The indictment alleges she signed Platts name to a document claiming marriage to him, with testimony stating they wed in 1901 at a Manhattan hotel and a $6,000 bail posted.
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Mae C. Wood
Thomas C. Platt
Grand Jury
New York
Miss Wood
Platts
Theo
Milas Wood
Mirfth Avenue
Bartnett Sentenced to Ten Years for San Francisco Company Failure
Walter J. D Bartnett, once vice president and general counsel at Western Pacific Railroad and California Safe Deposit and Trust, which collapsed in San Francisco last November for $9,000,000, was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in the penitentiary.
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Walter J. D Bartnett
Western Pacific Toilroad Company
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
San Francisco
Rebel Army Loses After Palomas Attack Near El Paso
A rebel force of 30 to 50 attacked the Palomas Chihuahua garrison, 70 miles west of El Paso, firing bombs and engaging the 14 guards. One insurgent was killed or captured, another seriously wounded, while the Mexican officers repelled the assault and retained the telegraph office.
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Republic of Mexico
Coahuila
Palomas
Chihuahua
el Paso
Columbia
New Mexico
Mimbros
Mémbres
el Rasy
Women Suffragists Raid Planned for House of Commons
Several hundred suffragists gathered at Caxton Hall on Tuesday to press Prime Minister for women’s franchise. A deputation faced police at the House of Commons and was refused entry. Police guard the building as demonstrators regroup for another push.
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House of Commons
Caxton Hall
Premie Juit
Gallagher, Secret Service Agent Who Caught Czolgosz Dies
Albert Gallagher longtime U S secret service agent who seized Czolgosz’s wrist after the McKinley assassination died in Chicago on Tuesday. A bystander crowd had mistaken him for the killer and beat him, with the attending physician saying Gallagher’s death was indirectly caused by the assault.
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Albert Gallagher
Secret Service
United States
Czolgosz
McKinley
Chicago
Gallager
Gallagher
Great British Navy Assembles Massive Home Fleet
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford takes supreme command of 201 ships and 65,000 officers for the annual naval maneuvers. The mobilization marks the largest fleet ever gathered in the history of the world.
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Lord Charles Beresford
Prisoner Shot by Kiev Sentinel After Signaling
Mino and Sherstaeva, confined in a political prison at Kiev, were signaling with a mirror to fellow inmates when a sentinel fired. Mino was shot through a window as the first shot struck, killing her.
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Mino, Sherstaeva
Kiev
Russia
Battle between shopmen and strikebreakers at Van Buren
A pitched fight broke out Monday at Van Buren Arkansas between striking St Louis and Tronta Mountain Railway workers and Italian strikebreakers. Over 200 shots were fired with two Italian workers wounded seriously.
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St. Louis
Zeppelin airship completes record test voyage over long distance
Count Zeppelin’s airship conducted a six hour forty five minute test supervised at Friedrichshafen reaching 34.5 mph for most of the run with peaks near 38 mph. The craft maneuvered from Constance to Romanhorn and Borach before returning to Friedrichshafen, with Count Zeppelin aiming for a 400 mile journey.
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Count Zepplin
Count Zeppliln
Prederichshafen
Borarach
Friedrischshafen
Constance
Count Fepplin
Wellington Cloudburst Drowns Five In Sudden Flood
A cloudburst in Wellington Kansas caused five deaths by drowning as five inches of rain fell in an hour. Water rose to five feet flooding homes along Harvey and Lincoln Streets east of Main Street and swept away houses and buildings. Residents clung to trees and roofs while rescuers used canoes to save people through the night.
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Wellington
Kan
Harvey and
Lincolny Streets
Main Street
Thaw's Plea Denied by New York Judge Dowling
Justice Dowling refused Harry J Thaw's request to move from the Mattewan state hospital to another institution finding him dangerously insane but not punishable and thus to be restrained. The order is not operative for now.
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Justice Dowling
New York
Harry J. ‘Thaw
Matteawan State Teylum
Thaw
Dowling
Uder
Jwaytics Mille
White Plains
Great Army Of Teachers Opens Forty Ninth National Meeting
Cleveland hosts 60 000 teachers for the forty ninth annual National Education Association convention. The first session on Monday featured an address of welcome and a response, plus a report on educational progress by President Charles F Thwing of Western Reserve University.
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Cleveland
Charles F. Thwing
The
Western Reserve University
Iveland
Miners in Bloody Pight Camp Brutal Fight Ends Deadly
Mike Kartik armed with a gun went to a mining camp at Barton Ohio to force entry. After a fight with Hungarian occupants one man lay dead another dying, another with eyes gouged, and a fourth with life cut from eye to chin.
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Mike Kartik
Barton
Chicago Rooming House Murder Unsolved
The body of an unidentified woman with wounds and rope marks was found Wednesday in a Chicago rooming house. She had gone there Sunday night with a man who has since disappeared.
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Chicago
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Wednesday quotations for Sioux City live stock include beeves at 7.0007.65 and top hogs at 0.02 percent. The brief market report records price ranges and notable buyer and seller activity amid midweek trading.
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Sioux City
Troops Sent to Border Under Texas Commander
Gen Myer commanding the department of Texas telegraphed to the war department that four troops of cavalry were sent to Del Rio near the insurrectionist actions in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myer
Department of Texas
War Department
del Rio
Mexico
Condition of Cotton Report for June 235
The average condition of the cotton crop in the United States for June 235 stood at 81.2 percent of normal, compared with 79.7 percent for May 25.
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United States
Bank Vault Loot Indictment Faces Cashier Nelson
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against cash ier A. W. Nelson over an alleged looting of the Utah National Bank reserve vaults in Salt Lake City. The vault shortage exceeds $100 000.
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Federal Grand Jury
A. W. Nelson
Utah National Bank
Balt Lake
Eulenburg Suffers Collapse During Trial in Berlin
The trial of Prince Zu Eulenburg on perjury charges was halted Tuesday after he suddenly grew weak. He was carried to a Berlin hospital under guard while medical staff attended him.
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Eulenburg
Prince Zu Eulenburg
Berlin
Small Boy Assassin Charged in Minn. Murder
A ten year old, Robert Jardine, is jailed in Lasueer Minnesota charged with murdering Russell St. John, a companion. Testimony states Jardine lay in wait and deliberately shot his victim.
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Robert Jardine
Lasueer
Minn
Miners Return to Work in Kaegler Pennsylvania
After a period of idleness the Great Lakes Coal Company mines at Kaegler Pa have resumed operations employing 1,406 men.
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Great Lakes Coal Company
Kaegler
Alfonso's Second Son Christened Jaime at La Granja
The Infanta son of King Alfonso was christened Jaime on Monday in the chapel house at La Granja.
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Alfonso
Infanta
Jaime
la Granja
Work Resumes at Schoenberger Plant After Shutdown
Several departments of the Schoen berger plant of the American Steel and Wire company in Pittsburg resumed work Monday, affording employment to 1,600 men.
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Schoenberger
American Steel and Wire Company
Pittsburg
Poison in the Beans Sanctions Ohio Guard Members
Half the members of Company Seventh Regiment Ohio National Guard were treated by physicians Monday after ptomaine poisoning from eating canned beans.
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Seventh Regiment
Ohio National Guard
Nebraska flood swamps Beatrice and Plymouth area
Heavy rain caused the Blue River and surrounding creeks to flood near Beatrice and Plymouth. Residents in low-lying areas evacuated to the west side school house as water rose two feet over tracks. A farmer lost his house as 17 inches of precipitation fell, forcing thirty families to flee.
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Beatrice
Heatsice
Plymouth
Cub Creek
Coke
Union Pacific
Corby Dies After Fork Injury At Nebraska Mine
Arthur N Corby was struck by a pitchfork wielding assailant while stacking near Neligh Nebraska. He died after collapsing in his home with family by his side. He leaves a wife and two sons. Services were led by the Knights of Pythias at the Episcopal church.
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Arthur N. Corby
Nelta
Mir
Corby
Epiacopal Chuch
Knights of Pythias
Neligh
Matrimonial Mixup Leads to Febrile Arrests in Omaha
F W Mapes of Hampdenia, B F Crowell, and a woman calling herself Nellie Dwyer were arrested by Omaha police after forged checks traced across multiple states. Mapes claims to be married to the woman while Crowell argues she is his partner, revealing a tangle of potential divorces and city warrants.
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F. W. Mapes
Hampdenia
B. F. Crowell
Nellie Dwyer
Ommeer Wil Bon
Mapes
Crowell
Xapes Claines
Tifa
Nebraska Soldier Found Dead Near Camp in New York
The body of Private Waldron Russell of Company K Twenty-fourth Infantry was found in the Tack river near Great Bend New York about two miles from Pine Camp headquarters. Decomposition prevented immediate ruling on the cause of death. Russell, 22, previously served in the Twenty-Second Infantry and returned to Madison barracks. He was a native of Lincoln Nebraska.
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Ruevsell
Watertown
Waldron Russell
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Tack River
Great Bend
N.Y
Pine Camp
Pierce
Russell
Twenty-Second Infantry
Moanile
Madison Barracks
Lincoln
Boy shoots boy by accident during gun handling
Edgar Manning, a 10 year old, aimed to unload a 2 caliber firearm when a live round fired. The bullet struck Sehley in the back as he turned to swim, severing a main artery and causing his death before medical aid arrived.
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Edgar Manking
Rank Sehley
Mannington
Five Mex Killed in Northwest Collision Near Chadron
A doubleheader line caused by a cloudburst blast two miles east of Clinton and about forty miles from Chadron after midnight killed five men. The victims are Willis Graham engineer and Jim Pace engineer among others, with injuries to two more. Freight No. 119 out of Valentine reported a section man killed Friday night.
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Chadron
Clinton
Willis Graham
Meyers
Hreman
Fred Bhener
Jim Pace
Valentine
Gas Cheated in Deadly Wok Tragedy in Omaha
Jacob Mares, longtime proprietor of a barber shop and clean store at 1251 South Thirteenth Street, Omaha, was found unconscious beside his store after four gas burners on a stove were left on full. He was rushed to Omaha General Hospital where Dr Harris treated him after hours of resuscitation.
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Jacob Mares
South
Thirteenth Street
Omaha
Omaha General Hospital
Harris
Mares
Seven Tramps Die In Wreak Freight Wreck Toll Rises
The Northwestern freight wreck near Chadron raises deaths to ten with three trainmen and seven tramps killed in the disaster. Local救 officials report the toll as crews and survivors assess wreckage and causes.
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Northwestern
Chadron
Freight Train Kills Laborer Near Wood Lake
A long freight train struck and fatally injured a laborer west of Wood Lake Thursday morning. The worker died almost instantly, with investigators beginning a routine incident report.
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Grdb
Wood Lake
National Live Stock Exchange Meeting Opens in South Omaha
Buyers and sellers from major cities gather for the twentieth annual National Live Stock Exchange session in South Omaha. Delegates discuss vital topics for consumers and producers as executives and officials arrive, with receptions at local hotels and welcome addresses by city leaders.
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South Omaha
Howeas
Omaha
Rome
Mayo
Laakeanawe
E. W. Baker
Bratatartera
Pinkerton
Catton
Chicago
State Legislatures Criticized Over Live Stock Regulation
National Live Stock Exchange meeting in South Omaha heard Overstreet of the Voula Live Stock Exchange condemn rural legislatures for overreaching. He praised federal measures aiding livestock and packing, urged limiting state involvement, and argued Congress should regulate the interstate live stock and packing industries.
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Moor 6
Overstreet
Loghiathrony
Taft and Bryan to Speak in Lincoln in September
Announcement from Governor Shelton’s office says William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan will address events in Lincoln in early September. Both men agreed to attend the Nebraska State Fair and deliver speeches, with dates likely September 3 and 4, though exact plans are not yet set.
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Willian J. Bryan
William BH
Aft
Lincoln
Ov. Shelton
State Capitol
Ir. Bryan
Mr. Taft
W. R. Melr
Nebraska Board Agriculture
Rad Bowen
Postmasters Endorse Postal Savings Bank Plan
At the Nebraska postmasters convention in Lincoln actors were endorsed a resolution endorsing the plan for postal savings banks with proper regulations as recommended by the Postmaster General in his latest report. Lincoln was chosen as the meeting site for next year with Howard BR. Steer elected president and Wv. J. Cook named secretary treasurer.
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Nebraska Post
Lincoln Postal Saving Banke
Lover
Lincoln
Howard BR. Steer
Wv. J. Cook
Matt
King Ak-tar-Hen Plans Dual Festivals in Dulvern
Ruler announces two major festivals to boost crowds in the Kingdom of Dulvern. He plans Vesuvius, a Palin tigepec production, during the week of August 24. Officials in Omala city consider staging Nile production at Twentieth Street while Bampon works to establish a guaranty fund for the events.
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Ak-tar-Hen
Ofa
O Dulvern
Vesuvius
Palin
Omala
Bampoon
County Board Seeks Answers From Creighton Beneficiaries
In an effort to determine the disposition of assets from the Creighton estate the county board of equalization orders all named heirs and beneficiaries to appear and explain how they used their share of the 1 366 000 assessed reinst Creighton holdings.
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Helre
Creighton
County Board of Equallzation
Eogise
Creighton State
Long Trip to Wed in Omiaha
A couple travels from Berkeley California and Orange California to Omaha for a wedding with Rey ivnton Mano who officiated at their parents wedding thirty years ago. The journey covers half the continent as Warren Brown and Mina Josale Milliken seek their vows.
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Omiaha
Rey Ivnton Mano
Omaha
Warren Brown
Berkeley
Cal
Mina Josale Milliken
Orange
Congressman J. F. Boyd Visits Federal Building
Officials report Congressman J. F. Boyd, third district, Nebraska, toured the federal building Thursday morning to view what appears to be a routine visit amid ongoing oversight activities.
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J. F. Boyd
Nebraska
Iied
State board debates railroad rolling stock apportionment study
The State Board discusses a resolution to apportion rolling stock and franchise value of railroads by mileage under the tax law. The board refers the matter to the attorney general for legality, while continuing other state business including the upcoming 1908 fair preparations and various legal and corporate issues in Nebraska.
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State Board of
Issenegpen
Supreme Court
Flatte County
Martyn
Union Pacific
Edson Rich
Babe
Rennn
Hensley
Platte County
John J. Sullivan
Nebraska
Financial review notes moderate shrinkage before July dividends
The Dun report shows bank payments easing before July interest and dividends, with ample money supply and easier credit. Trade circles gain confidence as production and transportation recover, grain, livestock and textiles strengthen, and agricultural prospects brighten amid higher livestock prices and heavy grain movement.
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Weekly Review of
Chicago Trade
R. G. Dun & Co
Ceing
Chicago
Mabili
Trade patterns mimic midsummer slowdown in New York markets
New York trade this week shows soft activity across sectors with cautious Wall Street buying and widespread summer shutdowns expected. Leather wool and steel lines show some strength while most industries stay below normal, and Canadian failures total 31 versus 23 last week.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Market quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains across cities
A fragmented listing shows price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Farmers and traders cite No 2 wheat corn oats and butter prices with varied units and spellings across markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St.75
St. Louia
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
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