Kansas Notes on Odd Jobs and Oddities Across the State
A Kansas miscellany reports gsnake root diggers occupying vacant houses in Stockton, mules being gathered in Smith County for shipment to Rica, cane urged in Conway Springs, elm worms damaging Ottawa trees, and local ordinances in Neosho Falls. Other items note peach trees along a highway, Methodists aiding parsonage shingles, a harebrained hound tale near Woodbine, and a county mule weighing a ton, plus travel plans and curious local happenings across towns like Beloit, Wilson, Pratt, and Topeka.
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Sherman County
Wilson County
Hayes City
Russia
Ellis County
Robinson
Butler County
Pratt
Preston
Woodbine
Grant County
Decatur County
President McKinley in Memphis on Southern Tour
President McKinley stopped in Memphis as the first rest stop of his southern tour. A 10,000 crowd greeted him as Confederate veterans joined a guards of honor and a cabinet meeting on wheels occurred en route. He spoke on national unity and recalled Tennessee volunteers in war service before the train moved on toward New Orleans.
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Heart of Dixie
Memphis
Alabama
Tennessee River
Corinth
Miss
Grant
Forrest
Confederacy
Southland
Washington
Dixie
McMillin
Guard of Honor
Custom House
Court House Square
Tennessee
New Orleans
Natives Attack In Force Near Berlin City
Information from Uromi West Africa reports Major Heneker with 250 men seized a town northeast of Berlin City before being attacked by natives from across the region. Heneker’s force suffered thirty two casualties and Lieutenant Carstairs the only white officer wounded.
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Uromi
West Africa
Heneker
Berlin
Carstairs
Cardinal elect Martenelli receives papal cardinalate letter
A Washington dispatch reports Cardinal elect Martenelli was formally advised of his elevation to the cardinalate by Count Stanislaus Colacicchi of the papal guard. The consistorial letter arrived from Rome and the red zucchetto was conferred at a brief ceremony at the papal legation in the presence of several church dignitaries.
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Washington
Martenelli
Leo Niit
Stanislaus Colacicchi
Rome
Assistant Secretary asks Pauncefote for explanation on Ajax seizure
Spalding writes to the secretary of state asking Lord Pauncefote to obtain from the Canadian government an explanation for the April 23 seizure at Nanaimo of the barge Ajax owned by a Seattle firm. The barge had entered Canadian waters to raise the wrecked steamer Williamette, alleged to violate Canadian law.
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Spalding
Secretary of
Lord Pauncefote
Naniamo
Ajax
Seattle
Williamette
Lumber Plant Damaged Near Sault Ste Marie
Fire damaged the Hall and Munson company lumber plant at Bay Mills near Sault Ste Marie Michigan. The blaze threatened the town and two Soo Department crews rushed to the scene by special train. Estimated loss about 75000 dollars with insurance coverage.
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Hall&.‘Munson Company
Sault ‘Ste Marie
Mich
Two
Soos
Man believed to have drowned four children from bridge
A St Paul dispatch reports police think William Rosenfield threw his four children aged two and a half to seven from the Marshall Avenue Bridge into the Mississippi River and then leaped in. None of the bodies have been recovered. Rosenfield's wife has moved to Minneapolis with three children.
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St. Paul
Minn
Dispatch
William Rosenfield
Mississippi River
Marshall Avenue
Evia
Osenfiéld
Minneapolis
Rosenfield
Prior Avenue Station
Short in His Accounts Lieutenant Reed Accused
Lieutenant George A. Reed of the thirty first Iowa volunteers faced a federal suit in San Francisco over missing government stores valued at over $22 000. United States District Attorney Lewis Miles filed the action on behalf of the United States with War Department auditor F K Rittman swearing to the claim.
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George A. Reed
Thirty-First
Iowa Volunteers
United States
Lewis Miles
Reed
Presidio
San Francisco
Miles
F. K. Rittman
War Department
Washington
Gusher Strikes Near Evanston Boosts Wyoming Oil Field Hopes
An oil gusher erupts in the Aspen tunnel of the Union Pacific near Evanston Wyoming amid excitement. The strike is near the well that flowed oil six weeks earlier while boring for water. Capitalists from Pennsylvania California Chicago and Omaha have bought land and plan to bore for oil. Local parties order machinery to sink wells.
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Wyoming
Aspen
Union Pacific
Evanston
Wyo
Pioneer Hollow
Piedmont
Pennsylvania
California
Chicago
Omaha
Train Victim Recovering in Plattsmouth After Amputation
A. E. Fisher, the young man struck by a Burlington freight train at Plattsmouth Nebraska weeks ago, had his right leg amputated and is rapidly recovering. He was moved to a hospital by stretcher due to untanned condition and needs further care.
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A. E. Fisher
Burlington
Plattsmouth
Neb
Indictments End Biddle-Dorman Gang in Pittsburg
Grand jury in Pittsburg Pennsylvania returned true bills against the Biddle Dorman gang for murder in the cases of Detective Fitzgerald and Groceryman Khaney. Additional indictments cover five burglary charges against the same group including Jessie Bodine Biddle and others.
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Pittsburg
Biddle-Dorman
Biddles
Jessie Bodine-Biddle
Fitzgerald
Biddies
Dorman
Groceryman
Khaney
Veteran John Guilty of Perjury in Murder Trial
In Muscatine Zenas W John a Civil War veteran was found guilty of perjury after a murder trial in which he had been acquitted. West Liberty residents held an indignation meeting and drove him from town as sentencing was not yet pronounced.
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Muscatine
Zenas
John
Miners Vote to Return to Work in Louisville Meeting
In Louisville Colorado miners at a mass meeting voted to return to work under terms offered by the Northern Coal company. The company agreed to an increase in wages of powder ends, ending the strike or lockout that began on January 4.
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Colorado
Louisville
Col
Northern Coal Company
Washburn
United States
Convicted of Bookmaking in New York Pool Room Raid
Benjamin Levy and lias Bernard Mercy were convicted of bookmaking before Recorder Goff in New York. Levy was arrested by agents of the Society for the Prevention of Crime during a pool room raid. Levy remanded for sentence. first bookmaking conviction in years in the country.
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Benjamin Levy
Lias Bernard Mercy
Goff
New York
Levy
Society For the Prevention of
Miners' Strike Settled in Ohio Sub-District Conference
At a conference of miners and operators in the Virth Ohio sub-district, comprising Belmont Jefferson and Harrison counties, held in Wheeling West Virginia the strike was settled with both sides making concessions. The men are ordered to resume work.
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Virth
Ohio
Belmont
Jefferson
Harrison Counties
Wheeling
Poor Artist and the London Usurer Sam Lewis
A fragmented tale portrays Sam Lewis the London usurer known for rapid wealth and charitable seeming favors. A painter recalls seeking a modest loan of fifty pounds and receiving one from Lewis, challenging claims that only the dead benefit from his fortune. The story suggests a broader pattern of benevolence masking sharp dealings.
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Sam Lewis
London
Sam ‘Lewis
Doctor This Time heralds miraculous kidney cure in Portland
A Portland physician E A Rose near death, with diabetes, is saved by aunt’s insistence on Dodd's Kidney Pills. Doctors report rapid improvement, claiming the remedy cures kidney disease and related ailments, with the medicine touted as universal for human sickness. The piece closes noting most men are architects of their own fortunes.
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Portland
E. A. Rose
Yates Center
Kans
Dodd
Bright
Lincoln Photo Supply Co 1901 Camera Catalogue
Lincoln Provo Supply Co announces the Lincoln Photo Supply Co new 1901 catalogue of cameras and supplies. Early to bed and early to rise motto appears with mention of Kodak and related equipment in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Kodaks
Lincoln Photo ‘Supply Co
Lincoln Provo Supply Co
Lincoln, Neb
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