Train hold-up ends with robber killed by rock
A westbound Colorado Midland train near the divide was halted by a bandit who shot the engineer in the leg. Engineer Frank Stewart defended the attack with a rock, killing the robber as he tried to flee toward the express car. Two young men found nearby were arrested.
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Colorado
Springs
Colorado Midland
Divide
Frank Stewart
Sewart
Paul Bachfan
Roncer
Hremian
Inoculation for Typhoid Gains Ground in Boston
Boston physician Dr. Wesley Spooner refined a typhoid inoculation process and demonstrated its use in general practice and special cases. He reports a distinct blood reaction in all inoculations over eighteen months and that immunity appears likely, with over one hundred people inoculated.
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Boston
Wesley Spooner
Spooner
Brady Wins Idaho Nomination in Prohibition Push
Idaho vote in the primaries shows Gov Brady re nominated by about seven thousand votes amid a direct primary fight centered on statewide prohibition with strong opposition over liquor. The statewide Republican turnout was about fifty thousand, and Brady’s victory marks a historic heat of the year in Idaho politics.
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Idaho
Gov! Brady
Gov
Brady
Gov. Brady
Soret Piet Barge
J. L. Brady
Lawrence
Kaus
Dietrich
Woman Captures Burglar in Buffalo Home
Mrs Os car Haffa, wife of a local musician, awakened by a noise in the parlor nabbed a burglar. She crept downstairs and sprang the man, pinning his arms behind him. Her daughter aided her until a police officer arrived to take the intruder into custody.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Oscar Haffa
Football at Haskell Signals Fresh Indian Squad
Coach Caldwell began work at the Redskin camp with twenty three sutts issued. Practice will focus on throwing and kicking as new players join with older men returning next week. Caldwell aims for about forty on the squad and the first game is October 1 against Manhattan at Manhattan’s grounds in a likely hard opener.
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Hask
Caldwell
Nevitt and
Schrimpseher
Manhattan
Aggie
Caldwel
Heavy rains sweep Kansas as floods batter roads
A persistent rainfall pattern drenches the state with heavy downpours through August, floodwaters fill cellars, roads deteriorate, and the University reports monthly rainfall totals far surpassing many past records. Forecasters warn of continued unsettled weather with a northwest disturbance moving in.
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Kansas
Suicide of a Maryville Teen Amid Party Snub
Blanch Eckels, 16, a recent Maryville resident from Graham, shot herself after believing she was snubbed from a local party. The tragedy occurred last night, prompting concern over social exclusion among youths in the town.
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St. Joseph
Blanch Eckels
Maryville
Graham
Roosevelt Resting in Omaha After Lunch at Field Club
Colonel Roosevelt, resting in Omaha this morning, declined most interviews to conserve energy. He will depart tomorrow for Sioux Falls Iowa after a brief luncheon with 400 Omaha Field Club members and greetings from Gov Shallenberger Mayor Dahlman and other dignitaries.
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Omaha
Neb
Dolliver
West
Roosevelt
Field Club
Grand Army of the Republic
Boy preacher Jesse Bader to lead Coalfas church
Jesse Bader, born in 1869 in southern Illinois, rose from a Kansas boy preacher to pastor of Coalfas church near Des Moines after three years in Troy Kansas. He studied at the University of Kansas and Drake University, adding 210 church members and 220 Bible school members during his Troy tenure and aiding Wathena Chautaqua services this year.
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Troy
Kans
Illinois
Jesse Bader
Kansas
Coalfas
Des Moines
Bader
University of Kansas
Drake University
Bible School
Wathena Chautanwate Econouet
Eervices
New York Judge Rules Against Labor Strike In Closed Shop Case
Justice Goff of the Supreme Court last week granted an injunction in the suit of the Cloak and Suit Manufacturers' Association against the International Garment Workers Union. The decision holds that a labour union orders a strike to enforce a demand on a closed shop violate the law, marking a sweeping anti labor injunction in New York jurisprudence.
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New York
Justice Goff
Supreme Court
Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Association
International Garment Worker’s Union
Markets by Wire Grains and Provisions Report Kansas City
Markets by Wire from Kansas City on September 2 lists wheat receipts at 218 cars with Sept and Dec prices around 87c to $1.05, cash bids for No 2 grades. corn shown with Sept and May quotes and cash mixed or white grades. oats and rye priced, hay values for timothy and prairie noted. butter and eggs quoted. live stock receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs calves and bulls provided, including native steers and packer values.
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Kansas City
Kansas Twentieth Kansas Regiment to Dine with New SV Chief
Telegram from Adna G. Clarke announces his election as Senior Vice Commander in Chief of the U S W V and his plan to visit Lawrence. He invites all members of the Twentieth Kansas regiment in or near Lawrence to supper at Anderson’s restaurant Sunday evening honoring his new title. About thirty regiment members are expected to attend. Clarke will arrive in Lawrence soon for the supper with resident Twentieth Kansas members.
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Albert H. Krause
Adna G
Twentieth Kansas
Lawrence
Clarke
You're a liar strong language used in railway rate hearing
In Chicago on September 2 a railway rate hearing broke into disorder as Rock Island attorney E B Pierce called Cincinnati shipper attorney F B James a liar during cross examination. James charged that a table Nay had presented omitted total freight operating revenue and expenses. Pierce warned of meeting outside as hisses and gavels restored order.
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Chicago
E. B. Pierce
Rock Island
F. B. James
Cincinnati Shippers
Pierce
James
Nay
Mr. Pierce
Boston Aeroplane Meet Opens With Notable Attendees
Boston aims to spark a nine days aeroplane contest at Harvard field Atlantic beginning tomorrow. Noted figures Gra ham White and A V Roe of England the Wright Brothers Glenn Curtiss Clifford Harman Augustus Post and others attend. The Wright and Curtiss machines draw interest with a rumored Wright bi plane model by Brookins already tested in secret flights.
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Boston
Mass
Harvard
Atlantic
Graham White
A. V. Roe
England
Wright Brothers
Glenn Curtiss
Clifford B. Harman
Augusus Post
Wright
Curtiss
Wrights
Brookins
Refused to marry ends in tragedy at Atlanta Kansas
Lawrence Boardman shot Nora Rogers near her home east of Atlanta killing her. He was arrested and held in Winfield for safety amid a hostile reception. Rogers died at 4 AM. Boardman claims the shot was accidental after she refused his marriage proposal. Weather outlook hints unsettled with possible showers Friday night or Saturday.
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Jaid
Atlanta
Kan
Lawrence Boardman
Nora Rogers
Boardman
Rogers
Winfield
Funeral Of James E. Hurley To Be Santa Fe Ceremony
In Topeka the Santa Fe system plans a citywide shutdown from 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the funeral of James E. Hurley former general manager of the eastern lines who died in Karls bad Austria. An estimated 4,000 Topeka employees will parade and pause work as the casket is lowered, with many Santa Fe officials attending and pallbearers named.
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Topeka
James. E. Hurley
Santa Fe
Karlsbad
Austria
First Baptist Church
Hurley
Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad System
Hipley
Chicago
Mr. Hurley
Pueblo Prepares for Record 10000 Delegates at Irrigation Congress
Pueblo businessmen gear for the eighteenth National Irrigation Congress with a citywide decoration plan and free rail service for delegates. The Santa Fe runs a special train to Arkansas valley as the State Fair opens September 19, aiming to welcome up to 10,000 visitors.
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Peblo
National Irrigation Congress
Pueblo
Onion
Court House
Ash
Santa Fe
Arkansas Valley
Holly
Board of Control and Irrigation Congress
Two Women Rob Detroit Man Near Santa Fe Depot
Frank Atwell of Detroit was held up by Latishia Dimery and Laura Holt near New Jersey Street in Lawrence Kansas. About $20 was stolen after a confrontation near Cottage House. Police pursued all night and the two suspects were captured early this morning and jailed for a preliminary hearing.
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Michigan
Frank Atwell
Detroit
Kansas
Lawrence
Atwell
Great Bend
Kan
Santa Fe
New Jersey Street
Latishia Dimery
Laura Holt
Young Atwell
McDyer Declares Senate Candidacy in Missouri
Jefferson City Sept. 2 Former Lieutenant Governor Junin C McDyer a cattleman shot and killed his declaration as a candidate for U S Senator to succeed Senator Warner He is the only Republican thus far to take such action.
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Jefferson City
Junin C. McDyer
U. S
Warner
Alarm over socialist spread in Japan and anti-dynastic trend
London reports Japan fears rising socialism among citizens returning from the United States and notes arrests of socialists in Tokyo. Government control expands in industry and professions while deterring individual socialist beliefs, yet democracy and socialist ideas grow among the populace amid disenchantment with elite restrictions.
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London
California
Hawaii
Tokio
United States
Ing
Arrests in $10000 Atlantic City Jewelry Robbery
Philadelphia police report two arrests yesterday in connection with the August 23 jewelry theft from Ernie Bros. store in Atlantic City. Names were not released and police expect further arrests as the investigation continues.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Ernie Bros
Tree Planters Atspended in Paul for Forest Rehab
Chicago reports a plan to form an army of energetic farmer boys into Tree Planters of America to rehabilitate U S forests. Backed by Taft Roosevelt Pinchot and the National Business League, the program aims to organize boyhood tree planting via federal and state support, turning farming youth into steady forest stewards.
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Chicago
Taft
Rosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Austin A. Burnham
National Business League of America
Gifford Pinechot
National Conservation Commission
United States Forester
National Busines League
Burnham
League
Pinchot
Ile
Western lines head Job changes at Santa Fe system
TO SUCCEED HURLEY. Fl Paso Texas Sept 2 C W Kouns general manager of the Western lines of the Santa Fe is to select J B Hurley who died recently in Karlsbad Austria as general manager of the eastern lines of the Santa Fe with a headquarters in Topeka Kansas No official announcement has been made but locals expect Kouns to appoint Hurley successor McAlester Oklahoma Sept 2 in a Quinton street duel Joe Pat Robinson 25 Dyer 55 an unmarried Choctaw formerly of Texas was involved in the incident.
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Kouns
Santa Fe
Koun
Union Station Company
McAlester
Okla
Quinton
Joe Dyer
Pat Robinson
Dyer
Texas
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Adna G. Clarke
the University of
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