Tornado Kills Eight in Holt County Nebraska
A violent tornado ripped through Keya Paha valley near Stuart Nebraska causing eight deaths and multiple injuries. The Greening and Anderson families suffered the heaviest losses as homes were destroyed and bridge wrecked. Dozens gathered at the scene as funeral processions formed for the deceased.
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County
Keya-Paha
Stuart
Holt County
Nebraska
Jacob Greening
Maggie Greening
John Greening
Mary Greening
Jacob Greening, Jr
Bertha Anderson
Clara Anderson
Ada Anderson
Otto Metz
Henry Metz
Wacust Anderson
Theodore Anderson
John Berg
Joseph Berg
John Hani
Keyaaha
August Anderson
Boyd
Lost
Brown University elects Dr Andrews trustee after Bixby death
A Providence dispatch reports Chancellor K Benjam in Andrews former president of Brown University and holder of D D and LL D degrees was elected Brown University trustee on Thursday. The vacancy followed the December death of Edward Clarence Bixby A M.
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Providence
R. J
K. Benjamin Andrews
University of Nebraskka
Brown
Hmsanirao Nay
Brown University
Edward Clarence Bixby
Fireworks blast at Patterson store kills fourteen
A fire following an explosion in Abraham M. Rittenberg’s Patterson New Jersey store injures and likely kills fourteen people. The ground floor of a tenement building housed the shop with property losses estimated up to 35000 dollars.
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New York
Abraham M. Rittenberg
Patterson
N. J
Farmhand Shoots Farmer Then Self in Fire Incident
A farm hand named Reece shot prominent farmer John Yolmp and set straw stock afire before shooting himself. The tragedy left Yolmp seriously wounded and the man cremated in the blaze.
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Wounds
Aber Olawe
To. Reece
John Yolmp
Wis
Body of General Bartlett Found After Staten Island Ferry Sinking
The body of General Charles G. Bartlett, one of the victims of the Northfield ferry sinking on the Staten Island line, was recovered in the East River last week.
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Charles G. Bartlett
Northfield
Staten Island Line
East River
Fire on Invaders at Maritime Mines War Breaks Out
Tense clash at Maritime mines in Watally W Va as nonunion miners attempt entry guarded by twenty armed men. Superintendent Lambert ordered fire when attackers persisted, fatally wounding Hoyd Martin and Riley Johnson and wounding Sam Artrip. Union miners disperse, vow revenge as Sheriff Hatfield arrives with fifty men.
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Jong
Maritime
Lambert
Hoyd Martin
Riley Johnson
Sam Artrip
Mingo
Sheriff Hatfield
Western irrigation meet organizes plan for arid West
State engineers and lawmakers from Colorado Utah Nebraska North and South Dakota Idaho and Wyoming met in Cheyenne to discuss irrigation government aid and reclaiming arid lands. Burkett of Lincoln Nebraska elected chairman Tobey of Lincoln Nebraska named secretary. A bill uniting engineers and congressmen was drafted and a Washington meeting planned to outline united action before the next session to secure federal appropriations for the arid West.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Colorado
Utah
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Idaho
Wyoming
Burkett
Lincoln
Neb
George E. Tobey
Congress
Washington
Cuban constitution adopts Platt amendment in issue
Secretary Root has received General Wood's letter announcing the Cuban constitutional convention's adoption of the Platt amendment. The Cuban constitution, modeled after the U S framework, makes the Platt provisions sufficient for Cuba's relations with the United States.
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Root
Wood
United States
Cuba
Boiler Explosion Kills Engineer in Kansas City Area Train Crash
Disaster on a Chicago and Alton locomotive near Blue Cut fifteen miles east of Kansas City Missouri kills engineer George Uréw and fatally injures fireman Cortney. No passengers harmed as fireman suffers severe burns and boiler vents.
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Chicago& Alton
Blue Cut
Kansas City
Ingineer
George Uréw
Grew
Cortney
Sour Lake Guffey Well Delivers Oil Gusher
At Sour Lake Texas the Guffey Petroleum Company well, recently bored, erupted in a spectacular oil gusher. The cap blew off and oil shot about forty feet into the air, drawing crowds to view from a nearby hotel as observers watched the heavy crude pour out, similar in quality to Beaumont oil.
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Sour Lake
Tex
Guffey Petroleum Company
Beaumont
Duel Fatal in Waynesboro Family Feud Ends Two Lives
Two men, A.M. Leary and J. D. Davis, were killed in a duel in Waynesboro Mississippi, stemming from a family feud. Davis owned a large licensed distillery and fired first, wounding Leary. Leary returned fire with a pistol, then shot and killed Davis after Davis collapsed.
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A.M. Leary
J. D. Davis
Waynesboro
Miss
Davis
Leary
Schnitzler Expelled From Austrian Reservists by Military Court
Vienna reports that Arthur Schnitzler, noted dramatist, was degraded by a military court of honor for publishing a novel that ridicules the practice of dueling, rendering him expelled from the Austrian army reservists.
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Vienna
Arthur Schnitzler
Infam
Usly
Military Court of Honor
Mystery of the Washoe: Susie Sacrifices for Child
In a bleak mining setting, Susie the Washoe saves her lover after a fatal fall. She drags him from the shaft, cradles a lifeless baby, and endures a night of peril and prayer. Dawn finds her kneeling before the sun, grieving yet steadfast, as others debate her fate.
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Coyote
Christ
Lef Susie
Night of vengeance and a newborn hope in the sage brush
In a desolate western camp, Mahala waits for Mingo while Johnny Shag pressures her with a moon deadline. Mingo shoots Shag in a hillside pursuit and dies, and Susie, grief turning to resolve, escapes with a newborn son in the sunlit alder grove.
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Mahala
Mingo
Johnny
Jonny
Chloride Hill
Susie
Mino
Shay
Red Wolf
Huge Lathe Shapes Granite Columns for New York Cathedral
A specialized lathe, weighing 135 tons, is built to craft the Cathedral of St. John the Divine columns. Each of the 32 granite columns will be 50 feet long and six feet in diameter, with 24-inch reductions per cut. Blanks are quarried from Vinalhaven Maine, and six weeks are needed to finish each stone.
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Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York
Vinalhaven
Park Obelisk
Cleopatra's Needle
A Good Cook Defined by Ancient and Modern Arts
A Good Cook to be a good cook means knowledge of fruits herbs balms and spices and all that is healing and sweet in fields groves and meats It requires care inventiveness watchfulness willingness and readiness of appliance It implies economy of grandmothers and science of chemists English thoroughness French art and Arabian hospitality
Forest Chronicles Report From Dyer County
A Tennessee newspaper notes a local instance in Dyer County where a citizen reported obtaining four cords of firewood three gallons of honey and five Ya- Coons. The item uses quoted phrases and reflects regional style while highlighting small community commerce.
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Tennessee
Dyer County
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New Jersey
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Iremont
Sadie Keegan
Jdst
Ang
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Lheir
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Frank
Henley
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