Fire destroys main stable at state insane asylum
A blaze swept the main stable at the Nebraska state insane asylum near Lincoln between 3 and 4 a.m. Wednesday, gutting the building and burning horses, calves, driving animals, carriages, and 1,500 bushels of wheat as officials estimated a $10,000 loss with no insurance.
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State Insane Asylum
Lincoln
State Penitentiary
Norfolk
Greene
Hay
Jonas Holm
Eex
E. J.shellhorn
University Place
Dr.Greene
Dr. Hay
President Roosevelt Improves After Altoona Trip
President Roosevelt shows signs of improvement after surgery in Altoona Pennsylvania. He spent a restful night on the train and this morning had normal temperature with natural sleep and good humor while doctor Lang examined the leg wound. A secure compress remains in place to prevent reopening and potential rebandaging if needed.
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Altoona
Dispatch
Roosevelt
Pittsburg
Lang
Government to Increase Public Money Deposits in Banks
Secretary Shaw plans to return to Washington with the president to raise government money on deposit to about 140 million dollars. Bonds now trade above par, allowing deposits at market value to boost government funds in banks by roughly fifteen to eighteen million. Wall Street tight money conditions prompt treasury appeals for loosening and a larger monetary reserve under existing laws.
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Sam
Shaw
Washington
Wall Street
Treasury
Department
Tension Mounts in Anthracite Amid Worker Strikes
Wilkes Barre dispatch reports rising tensions in the coal region as sheriff actions fail to stop disturbances. Nonunionists are attacked and streetcars searched in Nanticoke, while a posse and strikers exchange fire in Wanamie. In Plymouth, workers beat and leave nonunionists by the roadside. Sheriff Jacobs seeks troops from the governor as pleas pour in from ten areas. A stabbing near Plymouth leaves James Sanders fatally wounded. 400 strikers march at Sturmersville to halt Exeter colliery operations, with Fire Boss Richards shot in the leg.
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Wilkesbarre
Nanticoke
Wananve
Plymouth
Luzerne
Jacobs
Wyoming
James Sanders
Mike Gillon
Sanders
Sturmersville
Exeter
Richards
New York police link Young to two 1899 killings
Efforts to connect William Hooper Young, jailed for Mrs. Annie Pulitzer's murder, with the October 6 1899 slaying of Mrs. Kate Feeley gain ground. Police cite strong resemb lances between the perpetrator and Young, noting both are dark westeners. A Chicago telegram later claimed Feeley was alive, while Young's note to authorities after Pulitzer's murder claimed he had killed himself.
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New York
William Hooper Young
Toombs
Annie Pulitzer
Kate Feeley
Joanna Tucie
Schmittberger
Feeley
Young
Chicago
Pulitzer
Revival Meeting in Council Grove Sees 400 Conversions
The Oliver brothers led a three week revival in Council Grove Kansas drawing 1000 to 1500 nightly. A Sunday volunteer offering raised 600 for the evangelists, with incidental costs met by nightly free offerings. 400 conversions were recorded, 116 at the final service.
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Council Grove
Kan
Oliver Brothers
Sewer Diggers Strike in Chicago Over Wages
Sewer diggers and laborers in Chicago strike for higher pay. Daily wages range from $2.25 to $3 under city day labor, with overtime at time and a half. Some workers earn up to $46 for a two week period.
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Chicago
Report Recommends Releasing 115 Boer Prisoners
The royal commission on martial law in South Africa urges immediate release of 115 Boer prisoners. The recommendation is the first formal finding to come from the inquiry into wartime measures and their effects.
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Royal Commission On
South Africa
Lincoln's Evening Star to Debut Around October 2
The Evening Star in Lincoln aims to publish about October 2 with promoters including D. E. Thompson. Press and linotype work are being installed at Eleventh and M streets, and the paper plans occasional special editions as events merit.
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Evening Star
Lincoln
D. E. Thompson
M Streets
Kansas City Star
Terrifying Turkestan Earthquake Strikes Kashgar Area
A Berlin dispatch reports an August 22 earthquake in eastern Turkestan with aftershocks to September 3. Fatalities include about 100 in Kashgar and 400 in Ak Su. Astyn and Jangi also suffer losses. Allahabad notes higher totals with 1,000 killed overall. No Europeans killed.
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Berlin
Tashkent
Russian Turkestan
Ift
India
Russian Empire
Ak-Su
Turkestan
Allahabbad
Kashgar
Romantic Lincoln Wedding Joins Soldier and Texan Bride
In Lincoln Nebraska a romance culminated in a wedding between Sergeant H L Conwell of the Twenty-fifth Colored Infantry and Miss Mary Parker Johnson of Del Rio Texas. Johnson left Texas secretly and traveled to Lincoln while Conwell obtained leave. They married at Mrs Mosby’s hotel with Rev Maston officiating and plan to join Conwell at Fort Niobrara.
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Lincoln
Neb
Colored Society
H. L. Conwell
Twenty-fifth Colored Infantry
Mary Parker Johnson
del Rio
Tex
Fort Niobrara
Elevator accident at Emery Bird Thayer injures twenty five workers
An elevator at Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods in Kansas City Missouri collapsed from the third floor at noon Thursday. Twenty five young female employees were carried to the top floor for lunch when the freight elevator, loaded to the limit, plunged three stories. A dozen were injured, Emma Parish aged eighteen internal injuries and unconscious when removed home, others fainted but no serious harm expected.
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Emery-Bird- Thayer Dry Goods Company
Kansas City
Emma Parish
Nebraska City & Northwestern Railroad Incorporation
Articles of incorporation filed in Otoe county for the Nebraska City and Northwestern Railroad with initial point at Nebraska City. Incorporators include W I Wilson John W Steinhart W A Gorton Logan Bayart and John Northhouse. Capital stock $25 000 in shares of 100. route Cass and Otoe counties to Nebraska City. possible electric line or Rock Island branch via South Bend.
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Nebraska Road
Otoe County
Cass County
Otoe
W. I. Wilson
John W.steinhart
W. A. Gorton
Logan Bayart
John Northhouse
Nebraska City
Nebraska City & Northwestern
Rock Island
South Bend
Druggist Otto Pohl Injured by Sodium Explosion
Fremont druggist Otto Pohl was injured in a morning accident when metallic sodium tested by him exploded after he dropped it in water. The blast damaged his face and eyes but his eyesight was saved almost by a miracle as particles entered his eyes.
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Otto. Pohl
Fremont
Kansas State Agricultural College Enrolls 886 This Fall
Enrollment at Kansas State Agricultural College reached 886 for the fall term, up 106 from last year. Authorities report continuing student interest and expect total enrollment to reach about 1,600 this year.
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Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas State Agricultural ‘College
Powder Explosion Kills Five White Men and One Colored Miner
Covington Virginia September 25 dispatch reports nine kegs of powder exploded at Potts Valley mines killing five white men and one colored man and injuring seven others, with gas from a drill blamed. Names listed include Robert Craft Tingler Galley Tingler Ass Tran Khadler John Haynes and Robert Burton among the dead. several injured are in critical condition. Early Thursday a Burlington passenger train rear-ended a stock train near Malden Illinois, killing four stock men: George Stewsart A H CantHers A H Wagener and W L Collins. others injured include L B Wisey J Johnson.
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Covington
Potts Valley
Robert Craft
Tingler
Galley Tingler
Ass Tran Khadler
John.Haynes
Robert Burton
Burlington
Malden
George Stewsart
Winchester
A. H. CantHers
Table Grove
Ill
A. H. Wagener
Prairie City
I. W
Ruins the Hotel Frank J. McKee Dies After Explosion
Frank J. McKee aged twenty six residing at the Golden Eagle hotel in Washington detonated dynamite causing destruction of a vacant room above the chamber of Louis Brandt and his wife. He then killed himself with a pistol after the blast. Brandt and wife escaped unharmed. McKee had loved Brandt's daughter and lately spent large sums, drawing his last seventy dollars from a building association. He reportedly possessed twenty to thirty thousand dollars during his stay. He had been drinking heavily and had losses at the races.
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Frank J. McKee
Golden Eagle Hotel
Washington
D. C
Louis Brandt
McKee
Brandt
Miracously
Arrest Over Skirt Length Prompts Controversy in Cleveland
Patrolman sees 18 year old Rosie Keller on Bolivar street with skirts lifted, charged with lifting skirts on Bolivar street. She says she only tried to keep her skirt dry. officer doubts depth of water. Case continued.
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Rosie Keller
Bolivar Street
Cleveland
Coal Strike Reported On Reed Farm West Of Kansas City
A 4 inch coal vein was struck on J. D. Reed’s farm three miles west of Kansas City Kansas. The ledge lies about ten feet below ground and has caused local excitement as neighboring owners prospect near the Reed property. Shaft sinking will begin and work push forward. This marks Wyandotte county’s first sizeable coal discovery.
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Wyandotte County
J. D.reed
Kansas City
Kan
Reed
Inauguration Exercises for Dr Frank Strong at Kansas
Acceptances have been received from President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of California and President David Starr Jordan of Stanford to attend the formal inauguration exercises for Dr. Frank Strong as chancellor of the University of Kansas on October 17.
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Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Frank Strong
University of Kansas
Prominent Polish Aristocrats on Trial in Vienna
Samuelas Goswin and his mother, noted Polish aristocrats, stand on trial in Vienna for frauds involving twenty million dollars. In Keosauqua Iowa Mrs George Clatin a prominent woman hanged herself while her husband slept. Omaha packing houses inventories halted per Chicago instructions. Naval academy cadets include Frank J Fletcher from Marshalltown. Cardinal Rampolla met Arch bishop Guidi in Manila. Northwest underwriters convened in Chicago with George W Law and Ralph W Breckenridge as speakers. Stella Lister in East Joplin shot and killed Joseph Knotter after he attempted to break into her home.
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Goswin’ Samuelas
Vienna
Keosauqua
George
Clatlin
Omaha
Chicago
Naval Academy
Frank J. Fletcher
Marshalltown
Cardinal Rampolla
Guidi
Philippines
O’connor
Knotter
Lister House
Cyclone Ravages Sicily Killing and Destroying Towns
A Rome dispatch reports a severe cyclone across Sicily. Catania flooded and damaged including Villa Bellani. Modica suffers loss of life and destroyed low-lying areas. Dozens killed in Soicle and Tascaro. widespread damage at Palazzolo Aceide Fatla and Geratana.
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London
Rome
Catania
Sicily
Villa - Bellani
Modica
Soicle
Tascaro
Palazzolo
Aceide
Fatla
Geratana
Postmaster Sued Over Missing $8000 Registry Package
A federal suit in Kansas City names former postmaster S. F. Scott and his son Samuel J. Scott Jr as responsible for the loss of a registry mail package containing $8000 during May 1901. The funds were sent from the National Bank of Commerce to J O Brinkman & Co in Great Bend Kansas. Bankers Mutual Casualty Company of Des Moines filed the suit and later paid the insured amount.
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United States Circuit Court
Kansas City
S. F. Scott
Samuel J. Scott, Jr
National Bank of Commerce
Bank of J. O. Brinkman & Co
Great Bend
Kan
Bankers’ Mutual Casualty Company of
Des . Molines
Bank of Commerce
Department illegal out of court relief for railway workers
A Bucyrus dispatch reports judges Day Norris and Mooney of the circuit court rule the Pennsylvania Railway company relief department for employees is illegal. The suit, brought by the national railway trainmen's association, declares the department an insurance business the company cannot run. If the supreme court sustains the opinion it could affect 25,000 employees and 2,000,000 dollars of department funds.
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Bucyrus
Pennsylvania Railway
Thompson Named Envoy to Brazil in Diplomatic Shuffle
Washington dispatch reports Ambassador White resigns and diplomats move, creating a vacancy in Brazil. President names David E. Thompson of Nebraska as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Brazil.
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Washington
White
Germany
Brazil
David E. Thompson
Nebraska
Justice A H Ellis of Kansas Supreme Court Dead
Justice A H Ellis of the Kansas supreme court died suddenly in Topeka on the 25th after a period of ill health. A Civil War veteran, he served in a Michigan regiment and moved to Kansas in 1878. Appointed to the court by Governor Stanley two years ago, he was nominated by the Republican state convention for a four year term. He was a leading Republican political figure in the state.
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Elis
A. H. Ellis
Kansas Supreme Court
Topeka
Ellis
Michigan
Kansas
Supreme Court
Stanley
Duel on the Streets Leaves Helena Man Dead
John Davis was shot and killed by William Norvel in Hinsdale after a drinking quarrel. Both drew revolvers. Norvel fired twice, severing Davis’s jugular. Davis’s pistol was found cocked and unused. Norvel rode away, then returned.
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Helena
Mont
John ‘Davis
William Norvel
Hinsdale
Norvel
Davis
Outlaw Fight in Henrietta Ends With Casualties
United States Marshal Funk and a posse fatally shot two outlaws in Henrietta I T after a fierce gun battle. They captured two more. one is Jim Holbrook of Bert Casey's band. The captured men refuse to name those killed.
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United States
Funk
Henrietta
I. T
Jim Holbrook
Bert” Casey
Welch Coal Shipment Reaches New York City
Four thousand tons of Welch coal, mainly large anthracite, arrived in New York on Friday. none was offered for sale as all had been contracted prior to the order by the importing company. The quoted price for Welch coal could not be learned.
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New Yorks
Gale
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Lincoln Institution
W. H. Young
Lincoln’s. New Daily
Texas
Hills
Railroad Voluntary Relief Fund
D.E. Thompson
Presi
Dent Roosevelt
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