Burton Not Senator Says Inter Department Probe Findings
Washington reports Acting Secretary of the Interior Ryan denied a published claim that the department remade public a report accusing Senator Burton of involvement with Chickasaw warrants. He said an investigation found some warrants issued to Burton and his brother for services as attorneys but no record of warrants issued after Burton’s election. Burton replied that the 1901 warrants were for pre election services as counselor to Governor Johnson and that he received no pay for Chickasaw legal work after his election.
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Washington
Aus
Ryan
Interior Department
Burton
Abilene
Kan
United States
Johnson
Immortal Ameba and Other Late August Notices
A science note explains that the amoeba shows no death in its lineage, reproduces by division, and remains living indefinitely until an accident ends its career. Also reported are local items: a double wedding in New Albany with fourteen children, five trolley train collision deaths in Cincinnati, an unsatisfactory Russian internal loan with 100000 outrage, and the pending imperial loan of 100 million dollars at 5 percent.
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Amecha
Ireland
Grand Magazine
Cincinnati
William Gillivan
Chillicothe
Baltimore and Southwestern Railway
Winton V Plice
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Senator States Reason for Warrants in October 1901
The speaker explains that after being elected senator the governor could not pay for prior services, and warrants issued in October 1901 covered work rendered before taking office. The statement frames the repayment as tied to earlier duties rather than current duties as senator.
Philosophical notes on character and perception
The piece critiques blunt principle and hero worship, noting heroes often fade and strong behavior outlives genius. It recalls photographs of mothers looking staged and a frail man walking the streets. It ends with Dr. William Crum denying a report he was refused a white wheelchair attendant in Asbury Park.
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Boston
William ID Crum
Charleston
S. C
Asbury Park
N. J
Crum
Very Low Rates to Kansas City via the North-Western Line
Ex excursion tickets will be sold August 28 to 31 inclusive with favorable return limits on account of Annual Convention National Firemen's Association. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Ry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
North-Western
Firemen’s Association
Chicago & North-Western Ry
Fever Cases Decline as New Orleans Epidemic Eases
Fever report shows 44 new cases and 7 deaths yesterday, total 1600 cases and 226 deaths, with 287 still under treatment. Federal authorities seek to ease restrictions on travel between New Orleans and infected Louisiana communities as the epidemic eases.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Warship Sails In After Collision At Newport Harbor
The battleship Kearsarge arrived in Newport with the damaged kerosene schooner N. S. Gallup of New York aboard. The schooner and its load are valued under $500. The warship sustained no injuries and the crew of two were unharmed.
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Newport
R. I, aAg
N. S. Gallup
New York
Kearsarge
Windfall Man Kidnaps Infant From Tent Meeting
Windfall Indiana on August 25 Flin White abducted his 14 month old child from a Holiness tent meeting on the city outskirts while his wife preached. White opposed her participation in the meetings.
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Ind
Flin White
Holiness
White
Cole Younger Heads Push for Electric Rail Line
Cole Younger ex bandit and train robber leads a movement to build an electric railroad from Lone Jack to Kansas City. The Kansas City Lees Summit and Eastern Electric company was incorporated in Jefferson City. Younger says right of way is secured and finance comes from New York and Chicago backers. Plans aim to extend to St Louis.
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Cole Younger
Kansas City
Lone Jack
Jefferson City
Lees, Summit and Eastern Electric Company
Younger
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Porger Gets $44,000 and Into Jail
In New Rochelle a trusted office employee forged checks from the estate of I P Morgan causing losses around $44,000 to New York banks. The clerk allegedly forged Hewitt Morgan’s name on several checks ranging from $1,000 to $3,000. The forger is jailed.
Ah Sin Wanted a Date In Street Incident
In St. Louis on August 25, Dong Wah Dong known as a Celestial masher was arrested for attempting to “make a date” with Miss Rosie Roth on a street. Friends will have him placed in an asylum after the shock of the incident.
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Ah Sin
St. Louis
Dong Wah Dong
Rosie Roth
Dong
Drunken Orgy Leads to Murder Near Stratford
Stratford Ontario August 25 John Gable aged recluse and Adam Seneca an Indian were murdered near here Two men were arrested one admits a drunken orgy in the shanty that served Gamble as a home followed by a fight The report notes the drunken revelry and ensuing homicide with arrests made.
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Stratford
Ont
John Gable
Adam Seneca
Multiple world events and incidents reported from Aug 25
Reports cover a collision between the British steamer Haralong and the Japanese transport Kingio near Nagasaki with 160 drowned. Other items note earthquakes across several midwest states, renaming of captured Russian warships by Japan, a New York meeting of the Russian Revolutionary league, injuries at St. Louis world’s fair, the death of James Marcellus Ross the upper Mississippi pilot, dredge engine explosion near Norborne Missouri, lectures by Bourke Cochran in Manila, testimony on cotton crop leakage, Evelyn Walsh injured in Newport Kentucky auto crash, Barney Olifield to limit exhibition work, and the Friends Church educational conference at Earlham College awaiting Aug 3.
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Nagasaki
Haralong
Kingio
Ilinois
Indiana
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
Japan
Russian Revolutionary League
New York
St. Louis
James Marcellus Ross
Upper Mississippi
LaCrosse
Wis
James Lynch
Isaac Kade
Norborne
Bourke Cochran
Manila
Bennett
Philippines
Wilson
Hays
Department of Agriculture
Evelyn W. Walsh
Newport
Kk. L
Barney Olifield
Cat adopts rat. near Columbus, Indiana
In Columbus Indiana Ellsworth Connor reports a cat living east of the city has adopted a rat. The cat refuses to harm the rodent and the two appear content together as mother and offspring with the cat caring for the rat.
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Columbus
Ind
Ellsworth Connor
Tragic Believed Suicide Attempt Fatal on Moving Grand Trunk Train
Arthur Walby of Bellevue was killed near Battle Creek when he tried to board a moving Grand Trunk train. He fell as the wheels passed over him, severing his head and mangling his body in a grisly death.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Arthur Walby
Bellevue
Grand Trunk
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Purton
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Chickasaws
Z. T. Burton
Tishomingee
Tle
Johson
Immortals
New Albany
John 8. Lynch
Duncan
Amzunda EK. Stover
Irvine's Jewelry Store
Main St
Michels
Atchison
Foreign Trade Office
National Conference of the Educational Institutions of the Friends Church
Earlham College
Richmond
Cat Mothersa Rat
The
Mexican Plantation Co. of
Wisconsin
Y. M. C. A. Hall
Penses
Hugo
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