Rabies Outbreak and Miscellaneous Local News Summary
Multiple incidents including a rabies outbreak after a cat attack in Hetary Meyer dm Eckhart injuring three children. two deaths reported and Pasteur treatment sought by Orrin Markel. Obituary notes for Mrs Anna Cleveland Hastings of Hartford and former President Cleveland’s sister. Further reports cover a fatal boiler explosion at Dowagiac mill, land purchases by Dowie colony in Zion City, census director resignation, a liquor-related suit in Jimtown, and various accidents and deaths in Indiana and Mississippi.
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Hetary Meyer
Ploomington
Dod
Pasteur
Anna Cleveland Wastings
Hastings
Grover Cleveland
Hartford
Conna
RC. Hastings
Ceylon
Alabama
Cleveland
New Zion
Zion City
Chicago
Edmonton
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Calegary
Senate split over free lumber amid tariff debate
The Senate voted 25 to 56 against the free lumber amendment, breaking party lines as Dolliver surprised by siding with anti radicals. Root Heyburn Borah pushed for higher duties while Clapp Burkett argued Canada could meet demand and protect U S industry without restricting free lumber imports.
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United States Senate
Root
Heyburn
Vorah
Dolliver
Clapp
Burkett
McCumber
Borah
Idaho
Canada
United States
Five Children Burned During School Play Incident in Central City
Five children at Mrs. B C Boyds school in Central City Kentucky were burned during a Monday night commencement. The blaze started as the children circled in white dresses and torches flickered near the footlights before adults shielded them with coats. Dorothy Chey, the unwitting center of the accident, helped trigger the flames and the crowd shifted from applause to chaos as mothers fought to reach and rescue the youngsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Boyd
Central City
Dorothy Chey
Fight for the Pennants in Principal Base Hall Leagues
Standings for clubs in the Manoa league show Perkab and John Carter, veterans, amid a tragedy where Mrs. Lela Shaw and her three grandchildren perished in the Eldon fire caused by a toppled lamp during a storm while the grandmother worked a night shift at a restaurant and left children with their grandfather.
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Manoa
Perkab
John Carter
Tasears Aid
Lela Shaw
Shaw
Eldon
Bandits Rob Train Near Omaha Seizing Registered Mail
Four masked men stopped Union Pacific Overland Limited just outside Omaha before midnight. They forced the engineer and crew to help open a mail car, seizing seven registered pouches while firing a warning shot to deter bystanders. The robbers fled southward, leaving passengers unharmed as the train resumed toward Omaha.
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Union Pacific
Overland Limited
Omaha
Oklahoma flood causes railway damage and town flooding
Heavy rains in northeastern Oklahoma swell Grand River and tributaries, submerging Afton and damaging railroad bridges including part of a St. Louis and San Francisco Railway trestle at Catale. Streets flood in Muskogee as four day storm raises Canadian and Arkansas river levels and dumps six inches of rain in a 15 mile stretch from South Haven Kansas to Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma
Grand River
Afton
Vinita
Catale
St. Louis
San Francisco
Muskogee
South Haven
Kan
Judge Purdy Resigns Bench as Politics Roils Congress Seat
The article notes Judge Milton J. Purdy resigns from the United States District Court bench. J. Adam Bede is expected to mount a challenge to reclaim a seat in Congress from Minnesota. Charleston city council votes 22 to 7 amid census and official-family criticisms by Senator McCumber.
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Milton J. Purdy
United States District Court Bench
J. Adam Bede
Congress
Minnesota
Census Office
War F Department
Treasury Department
McCumber
North Dakota
Washinton
Sixty Cripples Saved From Hospital Fire
Doctors and nurses carried sixty spine twisted children from a ward fire at King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn New York. The blaze began in the rear three story brick building, trapping some patients in Bradford frame contrivances before safety was secured.
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Hurning Hospital
King’s County Hospital
Brooklyn
N.Y
Thames
Bradford
Ediblesvs
Mob murders Black suspect after jail riot in Pine Bluff
A Black man, Rovert Qasio, accused of attempting to harm a white one year old in Pine Bluff Ark, was seized from jail by a 200 man mob and hanged on a telegraph pole on a main street. The rope broke and the body was raised again before being taken down. Deputies were overwhelmed and the jail entered with sledge hammers despite speeches by prominent men.
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Rovert Qasio
Pine Bhaff
Ark
Dog Rescues Two Preachers From Drowning
In Philadelphia Rt Rev Asay Ferry of Bethany Presbyterian and Rev Ebenezer Perry of Morrisville Presbyterian were saved from the Petaware River by a heroic dog. The dog swam to the ministers, seized the Philadelphia pastor's collar and towed him to shallow water before returning for the second man and pulling him to shore.
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Asay Ferry
Bethany Presbyterian Church
Philadelpia
John Wanonaker
Ebenezer Perry
Morrisville. Pao. Presbyterian Church
Petaware
Thebie Shepherd
Philadelphia
194 Saved From Sea Death After Columbia Wreck
The Dora arrived at Penard Alaska with survivors from the wrecked Columbia. Passengers included Italians, Japanese, Americans and Scandinavians. Italians caused panic and attempted to seize boats until restrained by guns. Life lines and surf landings followed, and the ship burned after a May 20 storm.
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Worar
Penard
Alaska
Uninika Pass
Christ Christopherson
Ernest Andersen
Columbia
Sailor Held in Norway Claims Role in Gunness Murders
An American sailor detained near Christiania Norway admits aiding in the Belle Gunness killings, claiming he helped murder four people at her farm in Indiana. He told the ship captain he acted under coercion and is now under observation by authorities in Norway.
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Norway
Brederikstad
Christiania
Flo
Belle Gunness
Eaporte
Tre
Betma
Sadler
Crowe
Retired French merchant leaves fortune to churches for masses
The late Davy Gilbert bequeaths his entire estate to churches in several French cities for masses for the repose of souls of victims of supposed diabolical devices. Separately reports from Constantinople mention a palace inventory in Yildiz revealing bank notes totaling about 2.25 million and jewelry including a $375,000 rosary, with Abdul Hamid's deposits exceeding $5 million, amid political intrigue surrounding a potential restoration attempt led by Abdul Hamid II’s heir.
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Gilbert
Oat Uskun
Saloniki
Sultan of
Turey
Focal
Pers
Palae
Abdul Hamid
Congress Work Continues Amid Senate Borah Debate
In Washington the Senate debates key legislation as members press forward with filibuster rules and proposed reforms. Leaders outline priorities for the upcoming session and address party strategy and procedural steps.
Senate tariff debate and political maneuvering described
A fragmented report covers Senate formal consideration of tariff policy with speeches from Foster Meliners and Beveridge, debates on sugar duties, and party lines. It notes protective vs downward revision arguments, mentions Pioneer press interests and a Mississippi Jefferson Davis portrait controversy, ending with service details for a battle memorial in Mississippi.
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Senate
Burt
Co. Sona de Pvstara
Tart
Tors Foster
Meliners
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
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