A Bohemian Painter and a Fashionable Romance
In London along the Strand, Jack Overton, a young Bohemian artist, spots Fedora in a carriage heading toward Rotten Row and recalls their past in Bohemia. He plots to win her despite her English grandfather and the looming lure of wealth and fame. Fedora’s dropped card hints at his fragile hold on her.
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Jack
Bohemia
Big Ben
Overton
Paris
Strand
London
Her Majesty
Fedora
Fool’ S Paradise
Qverton
Mammon
Mazette
Chancery Lane
John Overton
Meeting on the Strand Ends In Love and Temptation
In crowded London streets Jack Overton pressures Fedora’s faith and Mazette consoles him. Mazette counsels calm, warns of gold’s lure, and reveals inner conflict about fidelity and money testing love amid a perilous choice.
Rival officer meets John Overton at Chancery Lane
In a crowded street Overton encounters Captain Maurice Livermore of the Horse Guards whom he met at Fedora's. Livermore proposes dinner to discuss commissions for the artist, and Overton, wary but noncommittal, agrees to attend. The two proceed to a notable restaurant for the meeting.
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India
Jack
Overton
Captain Livermore
Secret Passion Severs Paths In Turbulent Farewell
In a heated farewell, Mazette pleads with Jack to visit her aunt for tea while denying romantic ruin. He vows to avoid love to spare her, yetMazette hides a wounded secret as she frets Fedora has won his heart. A storm of jealousy and duty marks their parting dialog.
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Jack
Mazette
Mazutte
Fedora
Plattsmouth Boys Confess to Barn Fire
Walter Speck and Ernest Mateer confessed in Justice Archer's court to starting a fire that burned Kuntsman and Ramge's two story barn, destroying stock and property valued over 1000 dollars. They lit a lantern, fled when footsteps approached, and the hay fed the flames. They were remanded to jail for a hearing. Officers Slater McBride Denson and Detective Carey led the arrests for Burlington.
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Plattsmouth
Neb
Walter Speck
Ernest Mateer
Slater
McBride
Denson
Carey
Burlington
Indian Uprising Sparks Troop Dispatch to Lame Deer
Forsyth telegram asks Fort Keogh for immediate troops as Cheyenne outbreak feared at Lame Deer agency. Lt Chapman confirms orders sent to HQ and troops ready to depart. At Lame Deer, a disturbance led by Indian White ends with White killing an Indian police officer before killing his wife and daughter and shooting himself.
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Fort Keogh
Forsyth
Lame Deer Indian Agency
Chapman
Post
Department
J. Beatty
Ashland
Lame Deer Agency
White
Tragic Farm Owner Dies After Shooting Granddaughter
William Tompkin of Macedonia Iowa aged seventy three owner of a large eastern Iowa breeding farm fired four shots at his granddaughter Nora Miller eighteen in the Miller restaurant and then killed himself by a final shot two shots struck Nora and two missed no motive is known the family is prominent in society
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William Tompkin
Macedonia
Iowa
Nora _ Miller
Miss Miller
Miller
Collision On Cleveland and Pittsburg Road Injures Four
The Wellsville and Bellaire expresses on the Cleveland and Pittsburg line collided with a Fort Wayne train near Allegheny. Four trainmen were seriously hurt. The fifty passenger express suffered only a severe shaking and fright. The work train, usually on the freight track, crossed to the westbound passenger track but was hit in the middle, derailing both trains and tearing up sixty yards of track.
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Wellsville
Bellaire
Cleveland & Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Allegeny
Shaw and Payne Confirmed for Cabinet Posts
Shaw of Iowa was confirmed as secretary of the treasury while Henry C. Payne was confirmed as postmaster general. The Shaw confirmation went through without comment, but Payne’s nomination stirred debate over the committee on post offices reporting without a formal meeting.
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Dercribe
L. ‘M. Shaw
Iowa
The
Treasury
Henry.c. Payne
Shaw
Committee On ‘Post Offices
Payne
Negro Fireman Killed In Express Crash Near New Orleans
Vicksburg express on the Mississippi Valley collided with a freight train twelve miles from New Orleans. Henry Foster, a Negro fireman on the freight, was killed. Engineer Campbell suffered multiple injuries while Baldwin and other crew members were hurt. George Wasson, a fireman on the passenger train, and three Black brakemen were injured. no passengers were hurt.
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Mississippi Valley
Nexy Orleans
Henry Foster
Campbell
Baldwin
George Wasson
Four Robbers Captured After Camden Point Bank Attempt
Four men who attempted to rob a Camden Point bank in Missouri were captured at Pleasant Ridge Kansas. The group included four suspects named C F Ellis James McDonald James Thorton and Harry Edmonds. They surrendered without resistence after local residents assisted police with a trap using a boxcar hideout.
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Camden Point
Pleasant
Ridge
Kas
Leavenworth
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Loyemont
Hurley
McDonald
Evans
Larkin
Lowe‘mont
Leavenworth, Kansas & Western
Lowemont
Conrad Walker
Jesse Johhnson
Orhey
C.*f. Ellis
James McDonald
James Thorton
Harry Edmonds
Deserter Captured After Army Desertion at Fort Riley
Silas Tennel, a hospital steward with over two years left in service, deserted after falling for a woman he met at Fort Riley. He was arrested in Wichita for vagrancy, identified by his photograph, and returned to Fort Riley. Tennel expects a prison sentence, though the act is not as severe as in wartime.
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Silas Tennel
Fort Riley
Tennel
Wichita
Harry Sutton
Mc Pherson sharpers victimized by forged checks
A con artist targeted Mc Pherson Kansas shopkeepers Entrim ten, Miller, and Aurell by buying small meats and lard with forged checks. He paid with bogus instruments of eight dollars and sixty five to nine dollars in varying amounts and left with cash for the difference. Each check bore a forged H Parker signature and was dated January 2 1902 drawn on Citizens Bank.
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McPherson, Kans
Miller’s
Aurell’s
Joe Lewis
H. Parker
Citizens’’ Bank
Girls Become Nuns at Mt St Scholastica Convent
Five young women from Kansas and Nebraska take the white veil or first vows at Mt. St. Scholastica convent in Atchison Kansas. Anna Kratchmer of Atchison becomes Sister Scholastica Lizzie Rennebaum of Seneca takes Sister Chelidonia Elizabeth Ketter of Benedict Kansas becomes Sister Angelberta Martha Schneider of Tipton Kansas becomes Sister Aurea Mary Gress of Nebraska City takes Sister Edeltrude Sister Olivia takes simple vows as Rev Annocent Wolf presides.
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Mt. St. Scholastica Convent
Atchison, Kas
Anna “Kratchmer
Atchison
Sister Scholastica
Lizzie Rennebaum
Seneca
Kas
Chelidonia
Elizabeth: Ketter
St. “Benedict
Kas., Who Will Take the Name of Sister “Angelberta;. Martha. Schneider
Tipton, Kas
Aurea
Mary Gress
Nebraska City
Edeltrude
Olivia
Wolf
Atchison Woman Commits Suicide After Family Row
Mrs Jessie Marshall wife of a boilermaker at the Missouri Pacific shops Atchison Kansas killed herself by taking an ounce of carbolic acid in coffee after a morning quarrel with her husband. She left a letter saying she was tired of living.
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Atchison
Jessie’ Marshall
Missouri Pacific
Atchison, Kas
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George Rathborne
Srazar & Smith
New York
Moloch
Chiapter
Mr. Jack
Maurice Stanton Livermore
the Horseguards
Prune Hart
Shaw and Payne
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