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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
7
In Breeker Lane a girl known as Freddie and her terrier Freddie perish in a violent blaze. She saves the dog from a burning three story frame house then dies with him in her arms as flames engulf the building.
The plan sets aside a children s corner in Westminster Abbey for young peers and peeresses on Edward VII s coronation day. Monitors would supervise ages up to 19 while noble heirs bring vast estates and titles, including Viscount Combermere, Baron Carbery, and Lord Camoys, among others, to the royal ceremony.
A traveler recounts staying in a mountaineer cabin in North Carolina with a sprained ankle. Meals consist of pones, fried squirrel, and corn coffee. On day five the traveler jokes about changing the fodder, but the plan fails as a woodchuck escapes.
A fashionable summer resort church faced a prank when a distinguished Episcopal clergyman improvised a cassock with his wife's black petticoat due to a missing robe. The ruse fooled onlookers until a sharp Irish maid exposed the disguise, revealing the marital misstep.
Paris police report a fringe of whip crackers who earn wages by cracking whips all day. They are hired to frighten game away from sportsmen and, in a cruel use, to drive sick cattle into traffic or destruction, turning a crude profession into a public nuisance.
A man comments that a beautiful girl like her has had many marriage offers. She blushes and replies with a sly test, forcing him to reveal his real intent. She pins him down and brings the conversation to the point with a direct question about his proposal.
The piece compares Napoleon Bonaparte's wealth and will to Cecil Rhodes, calling him the richest exile and noting a fortune bequeathed from St Helena of about 40 million dollars. It says his exactions amounted to nearly 75 million and that he died forty times a millionaire.
Residents of two counties south of Lacrosse near Prairie du Chien enlisted local geology to hunt rock for roads and buildings unaware a gold bearing vein under Mrs. N. B. Dousman’s farm proved rich. Tracing the vein revealed extended mineral areas and nearby quarries that had long taken rock from the ground.
In a Youth's Companion tale a boy, Waele, and Aunt Melcher visit a dealer who shows a clock that sings cuckoo at each hour. Uncle Melcher wants one, but Aunt Melcher worries the clock would waste the morning keeping the bird fed and quiet.
The Philadelphia Record notes few duplicate copies exist and requests for replicas are common. The original document remains in the State Department in Washington but is nearly illegible, making photo reproductions worthless. Earlier fac similes were common but now scarce, with a 10 dollar price cited for a railroad advertisement copy.
Sir F C Lascelles, a veteran diplomat and head of the British embassy to Berlin, is named as a probable British ambassador to the United States. At 61, he has served over forty years in diplomacy and has held roles including minister to Romania and Persia and ambassador to Russia and Germany. He has led the Berlin embassy since 1895 and is a favorite of the kaler.
Miss Ada Gray, once a leading American actress famed for East Lynne, is now destitute and ill in a City Island cottage. Disabled by disease for years since retiring, she lives in Fordham Hospital care funded by the Actors' Fund, after a career with actor and writer Charles Tingay.
A letter from a southern Indiana town asks Chauncey Depew to supply about fifty original jokes for a church charity show. The note requests fresh “splitter” material and promises payment by crediting Depew as the author of all original jokes.
A Paris court ruled that a doctor may charge only the ordinary fee for a first visit and a reduced amount for subsequent visits. The case involved a man and his wife challenging a bill that listed 4 dollars for the first visit and 2 dollars for later ones. The court upheld that 2 dollars is the customary fee for people of medium means.
Mrs Emma Shaw Colclough, noted clubwoman and writer, sails to begin a solo exploratory tour into Central Africa. Known for her health and stamina, she seeks regions where few women have ventured, drawing on prior reporting from Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
Ervin Ptuhl of West Pilta ton Pennsylvania asks a court to rename him Folmer citing problematic pronunciation and punning by his current name. He asserts the name causes annoyance and seeks a formal legal change.
George W. Ross premier of Ontario will lead his old cabinet into the new term as all ministers were re elected. The Liberal victory is seen as vindication after thirty years in power, amid Conservative claims of corruption and a call for change led by James P. Whitney.
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska keeps a silk hat and frock coat tied to a streak of bad weather luck. He wore the outfit at his gubernatorial inauguration, McKinley’s second inauguration, Rochambeau statue unveiling, a Sunday service, and again in a thunderstorm, believing the clothing brings misfortune and has now put them away.
Chancellor von Buelow feared his wife's objection to cleaning the palace. The emperor joked that he would help clean. A few days later a large parcel arrived at von Buelow's home containing 100 pounds of soap, interpreted as the emperor's lighthearted offer.
A Havana report on statistics in 1901 shows native whites with a large population gain and native Africans with a continued deficit. January figures favor whites with 457 births to 269 deaths while Africans show 68 deaths over births. If trends persist, the article warns, Cuba could be left without Negroes due to natural decrease amid continued foreign immigration.
Rear Admiral Charles ONeil, invited personally by Emperor William, will visit all German shipbuilding yards and arsenals with a special escort. A prominent navy officer, since 1897 he has led the naval ordnance bureau. he joined the service in 1861 and fought at Forts Hatteras and Clark and at the Merrimac engagement, where he rescued Lieut. Morris.
A Monterey dispatch reports D Campbell Davies, an English mining supplies trader known in many Mexican cities, was killed by coyotes near Palla Station on the International Railroad between Torreon and Monterey. Ranch workers later found his skeletal remains and clothing fragments nearby confirming the tragedy.
The article notes S. G. Smith of Hinemfontein creating a yacht bicycle with a lateen sail that, aided by wind, may run hours without pedals. It traces similar motorized ideas back to France and cites Don Jose Rosenosa's 1892 flying coach as an early three wheeled motorized cycle with masts and sails.
A woman from Chaux-de-Fonda moved to Morneau on the French frontier and died there. Her coffin, covered with artificial wreaths, faced a Swiss custom official who charged duty on the wreaths after a dispute ending in a payment of two francs.
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