From Day to Day General News And Notes
Wide area digest of international and domestic items. Aviator Graham White halts mid journey to Manchester due to cold. Madame Tetrazzini ill but appears in La Traviata at Covent Garden. Roosevelt party zoologist Valuation notes sable antelope as new species near Mombasa. Belgrade telegram reports Colonel Maschin’s forces massacre King Alexander and Queen Draga in 1963. Balloon Delitzsch crashes near Reichensachen, four crew killed in thunderstorm. Pickett conservation bill advances. Senator Hale retirement noted. Over 6,000 Civil War pensioners live abroad. No Delaware Lackawanna & Western strike. rail amicable. Mark Twain dies at Stormfield at 76. last words to daughter. Russian minister De Volent retired, A Stavisky to succeed. Baltimore announces mortgage to secure $50 million bonds for B&O Chicago terminal. Kansas apple crop damaged by cold. Col William H. Bixby to be chief of engineers. Four of six Leavenworth escapees recaptured. Congress to adjourn mid June. Taft administration pushes measures. Judge William E. Upson dies. Railroad maturity rise noted. Darlington fire loss at Lincoln yards. Bryan expected to aid Missouri prohibition campaign. Three more mine bodies found at Muiga, Alabama. total thirty-nine recovered, with more believed.
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Graham White
Wormwood Scrubs
London
Manchester
Madam Tetrazzini
Covent Garden Theater
Edmund Helier
Riverside
Cal
Birk Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Mombasa
Roosevelt
Belgrade
Maschin
Salexander
Draga
Bitterfield
Prussia
Saxonia
Delitzsch
Hich
Reichensachen
Eisenach
Eisenck
House
Hale
Lafeal
Senate
United States
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Samuel Langhorne Clemena
Mark Twain
M. de Volent
Mexico
A. de Stavisky
Berne
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago
Kansas
William H. Bixby
United States Engineer Corps
William L. Marshall
Leavenworth
Congress
Taft
William E. Upson
Ohio
Interstate Commerce
Darlington
Lincoln
Nebr
Byran
Muiga
Alabama
McCumber
North Dakota
New York
Julius Brower
Burkett
Nebraska City
National School of Forestry
Congressman Pollard
Nebraska
James Barton
American Board of Commerce For Foreign Missions
Hankow
Wille
G. W Pratt
Methodist Episcopal Church
North Riverside
Cabrera
Aldrich
Missouri
International Harvester Company
Cannon
First National Bank of
Spring City
Tenn
Philadelphia
W. J. Bryan
Foreign era in disturbed province spurs flight and fear
A medley of brief items notes a migrant exodus amid a disturbed Chinese province, a witness denying rivalry among large packers at a St. Louis hearing, and ongoing federal probes into meat companies. Other items mention political candidate announcements, Arbor Day remarks, and census data collection efforts.
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China
St. Louis
Major
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
General Assembly
Albert J. Beveridge
United States Senate
Interior Secretary Withdraws Coal Lands in Montana
Secretary Ballinger withdraws roughly 13.5 million acres of coal lands in southeastern Montana pending final valuation. He also orders 400,000 acres in Montana and 28,000 acres in New Mexico into enlarged homesteads, citing irrigation unsuitability. A rivers and harbors amendment directs the War Secretary to test sand bags and brush barriers on the Missouri River between Omaha and the Platte mouth. President Taft puts off a Lincoln club visit between October 6 and 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ballinger
Department of the Interior
Montana
New Mexico
Brown
Nebraska
Senate Committee
Commerce
Secretary of War
Omaha
Platte River
Missouri River
United States
Taft
Brown and
Burkett
Commercial Club
Lincoln
Suffragists Demand Voting Rights from Congress
A compendium of historical notes shows women’s suffrage petitions presented to Congress, Taft addressing D A R dialogue, and remarks on various political figures. Reports mention foreign unrest in Changsha, nursing testimonies in Kansas City, and military staff college observation of Civil War tactics.
Hughes Named Associate Justice for Supreme Court
President Taft accepts New York Governor Charles B Hughes for the Supreme Court seat to replace the late David J Brewer. Hughes will remain New York governor until October and take oath when the fall term opens. Confirmation is expected swiftly amid campaign considerations.
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Washington
Taft
Charles B. Hughes
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Hughes
Senate
David J. Brewer
State of New York
Supreme Court
Tme
oMce
Crop Damage Uncertain After Cold Spell
Reports from Omiba-Br indicate the recent cold spell did not cause material damage to crops. Some vegetation was at risk, but exact losses cannot be determined until a warmer period arrives in the state.
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Omiba
Decision Affirmed in Hert Scott vs Ferguson Land Case
The secretary of the interior affirms the land office commissioner decision on appeal. The case concerns cancellation of a homestead entry by William Ferguson in Alliance Nebraska land district. The ruling upholds the prior cancellation action and closes the appeal.
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Qmsba
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of the Land Office
Hert Scott
William Ferguson
Bomstead
Alliance
Nedland
Heinze Bank Indictment: Seven Counts Dismissed
Judge Hough in the United States circuit court dismissed seven of the fourteen counts in the Heinze indictment involving Mercantile National Bank funds while he served as president. The judge sustained the remaining counts as the consolidation trial proceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
F. Augustus Heinze
Mercantile National Bank
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Heinze
Grain and family tales from Canadian settlement era
A Midlands column describes Gust Anderson of Maidstone Sask and his move from Minnesota, farming 25 acres, raising hay, timber, and houses for settlers. It notes high wheat yields per acre despite frost, praise for Canadian grain quality, and strong weather, with broad reflections on progress and rural life.
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Gust, Anderson
Maidstone
Sask
Minnesota
Canada
Alten
Malad Atone
Anderson
Dominion
Schurman Praises Rockefeller Scheme for National Charter
President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell commends the Rockefeller foundation plan as a vast philanthropic field covering morals arts science social welfare and national well being. He favors a close corporation with future trustees possibly named by the president and Senate for democratic oversight. A second item tells of W J Ford praising the United Doctors at Omaha Institute after suffering sciatic rheumatism and kidney trouble. He details rapid relief and urges others to seek their treatment.
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Ithaca
N. J
Cornell Congress
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell
Rockefeller Foundation
Congress
Schurman
Rockefeller
Desiree
Tam
United States
Senate
W. J. Ford
National Roofing Co
United Doctors
Omaha Institute
Neville Block
Sixteenth and
Siarney Streets
Omaha
Neb
Neville Black
Harney Streets
Airship Runs Away to Doom in German Fleet
The Zeppelin JL, one of three reliable airships in Germany's aerial fleet, broke moorings during a storm and drifted without a crew. It descended at Limburg an der Lahn, then smashed to pieces after a second landing at Wellurg.
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Limburg-an-der Lahn
Zeppepelin JL
Homburg
Cologne
Wellurg
Train brakes avert disaster after switch collision
Spokane reports a Burlington passenger train on the Northern Pacific, near North Yakima, miraculously stopped after the engineer activated brakes when a defective switch caused a collision. Fireman Meyers of Pasco and engineer Gordon of Ellensburg were killed in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
North Yakima
Burlington
Northern Pacific Railroad
Hurgineer
Gordon
Ellensburg
Meyers
Pasco
Girl Held as Dynamiter Near Prairie City
A suspect in a dynamite blast damaged the $12,000 residence of Jessa A. Quick, a wealthy farmer, three miles east. Miss Mary Guthrie of Carthage was arrested. In the house fled occupants, including Dr. Alexander Hall of Colfax and his bride Myrtle Quick. Guthrie and Hall were formerly engaged.
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Prairie City
Atois
Jessa A. Quick
Mary Guthrie
Carthage
Alexander Hall
Colfax
Guthrie
Myrtle Quick
Hell
Eight year old boy dies in Jersey City river pond accident
Louis Rose, a ten year old boy from Jersey City, ran valiantly to catch a foul trip in a baseball game when he fell head first into a shallow pond. He became stuck in the mud bottom and died before being pulled out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browns
New York
Louis Rose
Poy
Jersey City
Autos To Cross Cascades Across Snoqualmie Pass
Seattle authorities report the state highway commission will order immediate construction of a Snoqualmie pass road linking east and west Washington as part of a transcontinental automobile route. A gap of 15 miles remains to complete the connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Washington
Snoqualmie Pass
Seattle
Wash
State Highway Commission
Cascade Mountains
Children and wage slavery warn by Gompers at civic meeting
Samuel Gompers at the Civic Federation convention in Washington urged protection for children from wage slavery noting their troubles. A street scene on East Side shows two distressed children with a tiny boy crying as four windows open and four girls shriek. One child explains he is allowed a worm, and no one has hit him.
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Postum
Wellville
Samuel Gompers
Washington
The
Civic Federation
Tommy
Miltee the Lobster Nickname Sparks Heat at Table
In a charged exchange, Pat proclaims Miltee is a lobster while others argue about the name. The scene centers on a heated dispute over Miltee’s color and demeanor as he appears green then turns red when heated.
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Miltee
Pat
Exposure to Cold and Its Dangers Warned by Experts
A fragmented medical blurb warns that cold exposure can lead to pneumonia and throat infections while noting remedies and cautions. It mentions cautions about delays and urges avoidance of misleading cures and stepping on others in pursuit of health.
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Evernte
Paris
Chang Shae
B. C. Hyde
Stella Swope
Rochester
Victor BE. Berger
Milwaukee
Gov. Hughes
Charles Ef, Hughes
Western Canada
Puck
Peking
Sing Loo
Sing Lee
Harvard Lampoon
Pleases Schurman
Zeppelin
Girl
Dynamiter
de Pierce
Manny
O. John Deere Plow CO
Eny
Beatschy Motor CO
Council Blutfas Deere Ko
Taft’s Dental Rooms
Douglas St
Web
Shedarate Priess
Ren Tapniter
Weship ‘Kang
Farnam
Omake
Fort Free
Myers,dillon Drug CO
Nab
Townsend Gun Company
Farnam Street
Maha-Post Promaron
SDOE
Svensk Oct
Engelsk Elsk Tryckhing
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