Kimblern Lynched by Mob in Pueblo After Train Arrival
A mob estimated at 3000 dragged Calvin Kimblern from a Denver railroad car in Pueblo. He was dragged along tracks and hanged from a telegraph pole after a rope repeatedly broke. A sledge hammer strike and the crowd’s brutality marked the grim scene as authorities offered little protection. The incident followed his transfer from Denver.
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Pueblo
Calvin Kimblern
Denver
Rio’ Grande
Eighth Street
Kimblern
Kimbler
Time limit on Methodist pastors abolished
Chicago May 24 dispatch reports the Methodist Episcopal general conference voted to abolish the time limit on pastorates. Amid debate over itinerancy the majority proposal was adopted, requiring bishops to appoint preachers to pastoral charges annually, ending the previous time constraint.
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Chicago
Dispatch
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Methodist General Conference
US Demands Quick Settlement of Indemnity Claims
A Constantinople dispatch reports US legation envoy Lloyd Griscom delivering a sharper note to Yewik Pasha after four weeks without reply to April 24 indemnity claims. The porte feared postponement or abandonment, and the United States expects a prompt answer this time.
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Constantinople
United States Legation
Lloyd C. Griscom
United States
Tyewik Pasha
America
Horses Killed As Train Spooks Immigrant Caravan
A line of immigrant wagons from Hayes County Nebraska bound for North Dakota spooked by a passing train caused many horses in the caravan to suffer. Dozens were lacerated by barbed wire, some killed, and several horses struck by the engine near Dakota Junction.
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Paxton
Hayes Vound By
Nebraska
North Daota
Bevera
Dakota Junction
Weather Recap Week Ending May 22 at State University
The report notes a cold cloudy week with heavy southeastern showers and little rain elsewhere. Daily mean temperatures ran 3 degrees below normal. Rainfall surpassed normal in several southeastern counties, over an inch in many, and over three inches in Richardson and Pawnee. Corn planting advanced. germination hindered by low temps. Wheat, oats grew well. alfalfa cut in southern counties.
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the State University
Richardson
Pawnee
State apportionment set at 400000 in May funds
State Treasurer Reserve filed a statement with the state superintendent showing the semi annual school apportionment for the period ending the third Monday in May at 400321.99. The superintendent will apportion this amount among counties using the school class as a basis. Sources include state school tax, interest on school lands and bonds, U S consols, warrants, and fees totaling the sum.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
United States
Nichols pleads guilty in bigamy case at Columbus
John Harry Nichols waives preliminary exam and pleads guilty before Judge Holler at Columbus Nebraska, receiving a fifteen month hard labor sentence in the penitentiary. He has been in the county jail since March 21 after being bound over to district court.
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Columbus
Neb
Hollerbeck
John Harry Nichols
Nichols
Curtis
Sadie A. Bennett
Lincoln
Lancaster County
Lottie M. Laughlin
Hollenbeck
Jap Myers Disappears From Wymore Business Scene
Wymore residents are puzzled by the sudden disappearance of Jap Myers, a leading local businessman. Former cashier of the Bank of Wymore, he now managed a lumber yard and served as resident manager for several insurance firms. Neighbors say he had been drinking and despondent for several days, fueling talk he may have taken his own life, though close friends doubt it.
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Wymore
Jap Myers
Bank of
Young Girl Murdered Near Austin in Kentucky Case
Thirteen year old Mitchell Long, daughter of Stephen Long of a farm near Austin, D., was found at a local spring with a severely cut throat and head injuries after an assault. A Black man claiming Cincinnati as his home was arrested at Austin. evidence and blood stains were found on his clothes. An attempted lynching was halted by Commissioner John Ott at Frankfort. The prisoner is jailed in Chillicothe County jail.
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Mtchel Long
Stephen Long
Austin
Cincinnati
James Devine
John Ott
Frankfort
Chillicothe
Prominent jeweler killed in Alliance assault
E G Wait, a jeweler, was killed by Henry Matthews over a small bill dispute. Wait walked after the blow and collapsed on the sidewalk, dying at 9 pm after being treated. Matthews first faced assault charges, then assault with intent to murder, with bonds rising to 5000. Wait left a wife and two children in dire circumstances. Alliance residents are shocked by the incident.
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Wait
Henry Matthews
Matthews
L. A. Berry
Justice of the Peace
Alliance
Death of Mrs Jennie Pugsley at Inland Depot
Mrs Jennie Pugsley the divorced wife of Elshorn railway agent Holmes Pugsley was found dead in Inland at the depot residence. Police may order an inquest though the death is termed self inflicted. A section man and Phillips viewed the scene and chloroform bottles were found in a satchel.
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Mastings
Neb
Jennie Pugsley
Elshorn
Inland
O'Brien
Pugsly
Mr.Pugsley
Pugsley
Phillips
Cadets vs Town Boys Scrimmage Wounds Corporal Phipps
Franklin Neb dispatch reports Corporal George A Phipps of Company L Third Nebraska wounded in the right shoulder during a cadet camp scrimmage with town boys. Bullet not located. No arrests yet. Phipps attends Franklin academy military department.
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Franklin Neb
Dispatch
George A.phipps
Nebraska
Phipps
Franklin Academy
Paper Mills to Unite In Wisconsin Buying Agency
Representatives from nearly every Wisconsin paper mill met in Milwaukee to discuss forming a buying and selling association. No action was taken yet but plans envision purchasing mills supplies, especially coal and sulphur, and possibly selling the combined output.
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Prints and
Manilla Paper Mills
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Japan protest over San Francisco plague inoculation policy
Washington dispatch reports Japanese government through Keisio Nabeshima lodging a protest against compulsory anti plague serum inoculation of Japanese and Chinese residents in San Francisco. The matter was sent to the marine hospital service surgeon general for possible easing of quarantine, with a court review of the inoculation petition by Chinese residents due May 26.
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Washington
Keisio Nabeshima
San Francisco
Marine Hospital Service
United States Circuit Court
Marquettes Monument Association Holds Initial Chicago Meeting
The Marquette Monument Association held its first meeting in Chicago with leaders from the northwest including Franklin McVeagh, Governor Peck, Mayor Maybury, Peter Watte, Archbishop Ireland, Bishops Davies and Foley, and Edward C. Brown. The group, incorporated in Michigan, aims to build a national memorial to Father Marquette on Mackinac Island with a $25,000 statue cost, and will begin fundraising immediately.
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Chicago
Marquette Monument Association
Northwest
Franklin McVeagh
Peck
Milwaukee
Maybury
Detroit
Peter Watte
Marquette
Ireland
Davies
Michigan
Foley
Edward C. Brown
Father Marquette
Mackinac
Michigan Park Commission
Burkett Fires At Himself In Blair Nebraska
Blair Nebraska residents were startled Saturday night by an apparent suicide attempt by Harry Burkett brother of Congressman Burkett A 22 caliber revolver was fired three times in his Will Denny hotel room two bullets struck his forehead and neck He left a note saying he had lost money at cards while staying two months in Blair and friends described him as bright and prosperous with parents in Glenwood Iowa The latest reports suggested he would recover
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Blair
Harry Burkett
Burkett
Will Denny Hotel
Glenwood
Convicted felons receive life terms for Welland canal plot
In Welland Ontario Karl Dullman John 77 Walsh and John Nolin were found guilty of attempting to wreck lock twenty four on the Welland canal. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Kingston penitentiary. Walsh and Nolin acted as the principal participants lowering two valises of dynamite and fuses. They were caught nearly red handed after a five minute jury deliberation. No motive evidence was presented though crown claim linked to Clan Na Gael. An Indianapolis dispatch reports union leaders plan organizing several large mills once new scale is signed. W H Evans suspended VP of Virth district not reinstated. President Shafter likely to be rejected.
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Tence
Karl Dullman
John
Walsh
John Nolin
Welland
Ont
Welland Canal
Kingston Penitentiary
Nolin
Indianapolis
Ind
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and ‘Tin Workers
Braddock
Homestead
Carnegie Company
W.H. Evans
Virth
Indiana
Shafter
Florida Town Fire Swept Destruction Follows Church Fire
Apalachicola Florida May 26 dispatch reports a blaze starting noon in Mrs Broughtons residence that rapidly spread destroying the Methodist church and three blocks of business houses along with many private residences In under three hours three stocks were entirely destroyed and the town faced extensive fire damage
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Florida
Apalachicola
Fla
Broughton
Plans of Afrikanders Enveloped In Mystery
London dispatch reports Lord Roberts' advance toward the Transvaal with General Hamilton linking with Roberts. Boers retreat south of the Vaal river while many cross to the north bank. Crossings at Viljoen's drift and Vredefort area described as British patrols loom and rail lines damaged.
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London
Lord Roberts
Wredfort
Hamilton
Viljoen
Vaal
French
War Office
Transvaal
Bennett ‘Burleigh
Daily Telegraph
Vredefort
Erste Geluk
Verdefort
Vaal River
Pretoria
Lorenzo Marquez
Smallpox Case At Grand Island Inmates Home
Curtis, a Grand Island Soldiers' Home inmate, died of smallpox after being housed a half mile from the home. Remains were interred and the little house disinfected. Mayor Platt named Dr. Kirby to oversee quarantine removal if no new cases arise in days. Curtis arrived May 3 and fell ill two weeks later, with no further developments expected within fifteen days.
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Curtis
Grand Island
Platt
Kirby
Convict Escapes From Nebraska State Penitentiary
George Dunken, a colored convict from Omaha, escaped by leaving a dummy in his cell. Details of the escape are unclear. Dunken had been sentenced to ten years for burglary. Guards searched the yards all night, and he was last seen at 4 PM while seen on the roof earlier that afternoon.
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George Dunken
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Dunkin
Omaha
Political quarrel ends in murder at Indiana primary
Edward Carver a sheriff candidate fled after shooting William Patterson during a republican primary in Florence Indiana. Two witnesses exist but neither will testify. If captured extradition between Kentucky and Indiana would be raised.
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Edward Carver
William Patterson
Florence
Ind
Carver
Renbatess
Kentucky
Indiana
Tornado Reports Hit Texas Farming Areas
A wind and electrical storm swept through Mineral Wells Texas causing severe property damage in farming sections. Hallettsville Texas reports a tornado in Lacaca county destroying the Mossy Grove academy and leaving many farms wiped clean.
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Texans
Mineral
Wells
Texas
Hallettsville
Tex
Lacaca County
Academy
Mossy Grove
Farmer Killed by Lightning Near Harvard Nebraska
W. H. Wadsworth, a farmer five miles northwest of Harvard Neb, was struck and killed by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm. Two horses died and three others were injured. He leaves a wife and three children. Wadsworth was a member of Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors.
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W. H. Wadsworth
Harvard
Neb
Mr. Wadsworth
Modern Woodmen of America
The
Royal Neighbors
Stranger Court Order Violation Leads to Jail Stay
Albert Allen a Big Four striker from Litchfeld was brought to Springfield by Deputy U S Marshal Eaton and jailed for intimidating employees, violating Judge Allen's injunction restraining railroad interference. The case centers on enforcement of a federal court order in the ongoing labor dispute with railroad workers.
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Springfield
United States
Eaton
Albert Allen
Big Four
Denver Diamond Robbery Reported At Mrs Batts Home
burglars entered the Denver apartments of Mrs F M Batts wife of a noted local businessman and stole diamonds and jewelry valued at 7000 dollars. A young man named Roy Brock living in the house was arrested on suspicion but no stolen articles were recovered.
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Denver
F.M. Batts
Roy Brock
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