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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
2
Chicago reports say ex president Roosevelt shows signs of possible speedy recovery from bullet wound but danger remains. Doctors note unchanged condition with rib fracture and uncertain bullet path while temperature and pulse dipped later, delaying certainty of safety for several days and possible blood poisoning risks.
Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by John Schrank in Milwaukee. Doctors describe the injury as a serious chest wound not a flesh wound and say there is no need to probe or move the bullet.
The patient remains calm as a bullet wound near the breastbone is described. X rays from Milwaukee by Dr. J D Jannsen and Mercy hospital indicate the missile entered from above and five inches below the collar bone, not piercing ribs but traveling inward. The colonel fears for others rather than himself and reads telegrams from notable men he met abroad.
Lincoln and communities statewide voiced strong disapproval and concern after Theodore Roosevelt was shot. Calls flooded newspapers from Nebraskan towns while in Lincoln residents of diverse political views condemned the attack.
Leaders among Omaha Greeks press for service against Turkey and seek to keep volunteers together. Despite appeals, many enlistments leave on nearly every train westward, with George Stamos, interpreter for Consul Latenser, estimating about 150 have already departed from Omaha to the east.
James Sparks, a Black convict who escaped Hastings asylum eight years ago, was recaptured in Lincoln on Monday following information from former guard Doody.
The Missouri Valley commercial teachers association will gather in Omaha on November 29 for its annual meeting. The group includes Nebraska Iowa Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and South Dakota. This 4912 meeting marks a notable return to Omaha after a long interval.
A roundup of concise reports covers politics, economy, weather, and sports. Key figures and organizations appear with brief updates on events, statements, and outcomes across multiple locations.
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Reports indicate the St Peterburg based military commission cancelled its planned visit to Turkey. Chief Wilke of the secret service announced the discovery of a counterfeit twenty dollar national bank note. Army enlistments have risen sharply over recent months per war department data. After November 1 aliens arriving at U S ports with hookworm will be deported unmedically treated. Mexican rebels warn that American railroad workers captured on the Mexican Northwestern lines after October 15 will be shot. James L Cowles urged a flat rate for packages before the interstate commerce commission. An uprising in Honduras linked to the Nicaraguan revolt ended before the expedition exited Nicaragua. About 200 refugees under Jose Rafael Asario were halted by Nicaraguan troops near Somotillo. Omaha Commercial Club seeks slumber rate cuts and filed a complaint with the interstate commerce commission against 29 southern railroads serving Omaha.
Transfer company barns burned at Davenport Indiana and nineteen horses cremated. Pastors of Alma Nebraska will refuse to marry anyone previously divorced. Rebels held up a Mexican Northwestern passenger train near Pear son Texas. Nearly two thirds of American public school enrollment is in rural schools. Jules Lumbard, Civil War era singer, dies in Chicago at eighty eight. California Grand Lodge of Masons excludes saloon business. J F Scott of Whitmore Oklahoma struck near Aberdeen South Dakota. may die. Body of Charles Grover found in gasoline tank at Sisseton South Dakota. Sultan prays over relics at Top Kapu for Ottoman arms. Avoca Nebraska Canning factory burned. lightning suspected. Jackson Mack Manufacturing bankruptcy in NYC. Robbers loot Farmers Bank Bogard Missouri. nitroglycerin used. George Georged found dead in coal at Mason City Iowa. Nebraska Odd Fellows meet in Lincoln October 15. Iowa suffragists push mothers pension law. Turkish Montenegrin frontier fighting near Scutari. Nebraska penitentiary guard escapes by improvised ladder. Oil steamer explosion at Bayonne New Jersey causes fires. Greeks sail to Greece from Omaha. Automobile fire destroys car near Alliance Nebraska. $25 pocketbook lost. William H Pool dies in Weeping Water Nebraska from cerebral hemorrhage or heart disease. Burning ashes fall on Alaai Ecuador and Rio Bamba from Sanguay volcano.
A wide array of brief items reports robberies in Okla and Nebraska college games, a fall at a home cellar injuring Mrs Betsey Jones, a river pilot Captain Hawke’s death, Montenegro Balkan War moves, Daughters of the American Revolution plans, new corn strain from Ames, a German girl died in beet fields, factory fire panics at Chicago, Japanese picture brides detained, Greek mobilization, Cuban independence day holiday, Rawlins Wyoming prison break, Ella Harper death, Roosevelt shooting scare, Montenegrin frontier fighting, a Kansas train holdup, Chicago fire preps, and a customs official confession over opium contraband.
Officials of organized and affiliated agricultural societies named a committee of arrangements to prepare for the associated state agricultural meetings in Lincoln, January 20 to 24. W R Mellor W S Whitten E A Burnett Frank G Odell C G Marshall and C W Pugsley comprise the committee.
A post office inspector surveys Wymore to decide on installing free city mail delivery under a new congressional bill. Wymore is the first Nebraska town considered and the first to petition for delivery service as part of the experimental program.
The special train carrying the Nebraska City delegation to the Wilson reception in Lincoln on Saturday was run by a conductor and engineer who were both sons of the fireman. George Bebout of Nebraska City was the fireman, with William Bebout as engineer and Ross Bebout as conductor.
York-Fred Kramer Jr paid Mrs. Sid Cox three thousand dollars to settle damages from the death of her husband who was accidentally shot about ten days ago in the county’s southeast. The settlement releases Kramer from all future liability.
Plans nearly complete for a new Lutheran high school and business college to be built in Deshler. The main building is estimated at about $40,000 in cost. Trustees have purchased twenty five carloads of brick for the construction work to be delivered before January 1 1913.
Citizens in York organize an Economic League to discuss public questions. Prominent residents are soliciting members. enrollment is free of charge.
Exeter will host a two day political carnival November 1 and 2 featuring Democrats standpatters bull moosers prohibitionists and suffragists with top speakers. Joint debates are planned as a highlight.
St Paul Henry A Lindell was instantly killed while crossing the Burlington railroad track with a brick load. The wagon jolted as bricks shifted, Lindell was thrown to the ground and the wheels passed over his head and chest, death was instantaneous.
West Point has accepted bonds issued by the city for extending the sewerage system. Construction on the proposed project has begun.
H. Leone Miller, a former Nebraskan, was seized by federal authorities in Kansas City on charges of misusing the mails to sell stock in a Canada to Mexico railroad. He once lived in Sutton, Clay County, Nebraska.
York School teachers and seventh grade pupils plan a picnic at the state farm in Lincoln on October 19. The event aims to familiarize pupils and others with the accomplishments of the agricultural school of the state university.
Burwell William A Christenson piloted a Morrow brothers biplane with perfect control throughout the flight marking a successful local demonstration in clear weather and showcasing skilled handling of the aircraft.
As hog cholera surfaces again after the horse disease waned in Beatrice with several herds attacked in Gige county. A large quantity of serum has been secured from the state and local veterinarians are applying it.
Lyonus Andrew White cultivates a cotton field in Nebraska with buds blossoming and mature bolls visible, showing varied stages of growth across the stretch of land.
The Rev. Carl Mader, a Nebraska conference of Methodists member and former Omaha pastor, has been elected assistant pastor of Boston’s Union Congregational Church, one of the city’s largest congregations.
Howells S Rushchoff, a farmer living east of town, reported three squashes with the largest 48 inches long, 55 inches in circumference and weighing 104 pounds.
The university bought dollars worth of new apparatus equipment and supplies. A large alumni homecoming is planned for November 16 in Lincoln for the Kansas Nebraska game. The state pardon board refused clemency for Arthur Frenchy of Richardson County. The secretary of state collected 19070.35 from corporations in September under the annual occupation tax law.
F. H. Tigue is commissioned by Governor Aldrich as Nebraska's delegate to the dry farming congress in Lethbridge Alberta Canada from October 19 to 26. He will speak on Education for the Farmer.
Superintendent C B Manuel reports to Land Commissioner Cowles a drop in inmates at the Kearney industrial school for boys from 205 to 185 in September. Thirty one boys were paroled and eight were received during the month.
A committee to manage the annual mid winter meetings in Lincoln was elected by the state board of agriculture. It was agreed to join forces with the Corn Improvers association and the State Horticultural society to stage a large corn and fruit show during the meeting week.
About five hundred Greeks in Nebraska await a reply from the Greek minister in Washington. They followed a telegram from John Beshilas president of the local Greek organization asking if there is a need for them in the Greek army to start at once after more than forty Greeks approached him.
The board of public lands and buildings along with officers and nurses at the Nebraska orthopedic hospital issue invitations for the nursing training school graduation. Exercises set in the senate chamber of the capitol building on Monday evening, October 21, for Miss Louise Corse and six other graduates.
Capt Henry Jess of the Fremont Nebraska national guard asks Adjutant General Phelps for better gear. The adjutant general forwards a requisition to the war department for an equipment of the A type including two sets of wireless telegraph instruments capable of eighteen mile transmissions and two reel cars for wire for telephone or telegraph use.
A. E. Sheldon, director of the Nebraska legislative reference bureau, prepares a report on sites for historic and scenic parks to be shown to the state conservation commission. He gathered summer information and received Bellevue professor Tyler's plans for a forest and park north of Bellevue, including arboretum botanical garden museum library and zoological garden. A bill for legislative appropriation is hoped for this winter session.
Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the state historical society in January.
Principal Harry E. Bradford reports advance indications point to a larger registration than ever before at the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture. The expected rise reflects growing interest in agricultural studies and university programs.
The Lincoln celebration of German Day, in its third year, is likely to become an annual festival supplementing Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha. State interest in the festival will mark it as a German affair, with the Lincoln Commercial club and local business leaders hoping to give it distinct prominence.
The general fund of the state treasury, previously very low, has been replenished by a receipt of $20,000 from the county treasurer of Saunders County.
Visitors to the penitentiary are treated to a twenty piece band that plays each evening as inmates march into the dining room and during meals. When Warden Melick took office the band had only five performers, and he has gradually strengthened the group. This fall during the state fair visitors could tour the institution without the usual admission fee.
In Postoffice square a new fountain honoring George T. Angell will feature sixteen self-cleaning horse cups with constant water flow and overflow to remove foam and germs. The $5,000 project includes a dog water place at the base and was funded in part by city school children contributing 647.77.
Paris police developed a one pound shell that releases a powerful gas to momentarily blind attackers. Prefect Lepine ordered a commission to study new defense and offense methods against modern criminals. Experiments reportedly successful, gas shell added to police arsenal.
Eli Vickers and his twin brother in Coffee County announce they have triplets at their home—one boy and two girls—while noting their father Old Jack Vickers had eleven children with each of two wives. The Vickers line includes twenty more siblings and other twins, making a large extended family.
Buffalo New York Warren House who killed fellow worker Valentine Lukowski during a prank must now be supervised by a probation officer for an indefinite period and pay three dollars weekly to support Lukowski’s family until the children can support their mother. The sentence, totaling about 1500 dollars over roughly ten years, follows the June incident when House turned a compressed air hose on Lukowski causing instant death.
Five year old Elsie Jewul of Culver's Lake falls from a landing into a boat and bites off nearly an inch of her tongue. Dr Edward A Ayers sews the severed parts back in place and reports no lasting speech impairment.
A large Angora cat named Venice Tiger owned by Mrs Harry Lindley attacked and killed a full blooded English bulldog in Venice California. The bulldog started the fight and died within two minutes from a severed jugular vein.
A miner named Joseph Watkins allegedly escaped from jail after feeding inmates and imagining escape, according to fragmented OCR notes. The brief item hints at jail hunger relief and a possible breakout act. The readable text is incomplete, offering limited context.
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