Explosions Ravage Spindle Top Oil Field Near Gladys City
Beaumont Texas reports raging fires spread from a trestle near Spindle Top as oil tanks explode and wells burn. Flames threaten the Keith Ward tract and Gladys City telegraph operator foresees possible cutoff of communications tonight as dozens of oil cars idle.
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Beaumont
Tex
Sabine
Texas Railway
Palestestine_Beaumont-Oil company
Gladys City
Gladys
Oil
Keith-Ward
Murder at Pierce Public Tragedy Sparks Bloodhound Search
Detective Malone of Lincoln received word at midnight Thursday of a deadly shooting in Pierce. A man, recently divorced, shot his former wife and her father. the wife died, the father survived. The killer’s name was unknown. Detective Franklin, with bloodhounds, was sent to the scene.
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Malone
Lincoln
Pierce
Franklin
Beemer
Roosevelt in Nebraska itinerary details visit
President Roosevelt will stop in Hastings Kearney Lincoln Grand Island and Fremont during a Nebraska tour arriving Omaha at 5 PM no receptions by handshakes planned carriage drives chosen. Posts show a tight schedule with 30 minute stops at Hastings Kearney Lincoln Grand Island and 20 minutes at Fremont and Kearney departures by Union Pacific and other lines.
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Nebraska
Grand Island
Fremont
Roosevelt
Omaha
Ain
Kearney
Union :Pacific Railroad
Grand ‘Island
Joseph
Ratlrodd
Hastings
Burlington Railway
Lincoln
Bre
Mont
Elkhorn
Missouri
Mars hosts possible intelligent life per Northwestern expert
Professor G W Hough head of Northwestern University astronomy reports from Dearborn Observatory observations suggesting Mars may harbor intelligent life though not positively proven. He cites Earthlike climates and evolution theory as possibilities while noting Venus and Mercury might be inhabited if thick atmospheres cooled heat, and dismisses other planets as unlikely habitats.
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Marais
rPof
G. W. Hough
Department of Astronomy
Northwestern University
Dearborn
Mars
Earth
Venus
Mercury
Baptists Object Going Into School Fund
The First Nebraska Baptist church association at Valparaiso Neb closed with a sermon by Rev L M Henton of Lincoln. Sessions featured animated discussions and helpful suggestions. Resolutions protested state law diverting liquor license proceeds and police court fines into the school fund and urged legislation to place the money where it mitigates liquor traffic effects.
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Nebraska ‘Baptist Church Association
Valparaiso
Neb
L. M. Henton
Lincoln
Silent Coal Mines Hold Christmas Hope In Tamaqua
Tamaqua dispatch reports no morning notice offering concessions to miners. Major collieries stay quiet while miners doubt any action before Christmas. Gallieries 12 and 14 operate and 1500 tons of coal were shipped to New York. Non-union workers face no harassment as a citizens committee travels to Harrisburg to seek an extra legislative session.
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Tamaqua
Gallieries No
New York
People’s Alliance
Harrisburg
Stone
Miles Departs for Philippines on Inspection Journey
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles leaves Washington with Mrs Miles Col Maus and aides for a tour of major military posts in the Philippines. The party travels via Chicago Portland and San Francisco inspecting coast defense works and sails September 30 aboard the Thomas for Manila returning mid January.
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Miles
Philippines
Nelson A. Miles
Washington
Col
Maus
Chicago
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Thomas
Manila
Protest Meeting Denounces Corbett McGovern Fight in Louisville
A mass meeting at Music Hall Louisville Kentucky protested the Corbett McGovern bout planned there. No action to stop the fight was set, though injunction possibly to be sought.
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Music Hall
Louisville
Tragic Accidents And a Prisoner Escape Across Kansas
A hunting accident near Hays kills a four year old and mortally wounds a five year old niece. A Lincoln Center farmer loses a foot to a mower in a severe injury. An eight year old boy near Burlington is killed when his head is split by a mill gear. A negro prisoner, Sami Short, escapes from a sorghum mill in Prehntons after dismounting from a horse. Short had prior charges of burglary and larceny.
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Peter Peters
Hays
Kan
W. J. Berryman
Lincoln Center
Navy Department
Towa
Cape’ Nossa
Brazil
Perry
James Leslie Ingram
James Ingram
Burlington
Sami Short
Prehintons Kan
Short
Wyandotte County
Mysterious Steinaur Case: Woman Found Dead In Yard
Ruth Fornell, age about twenty one, was found dead outside her mother's Steinauer Nebraska home. Her clothing had burned off and a struggle appeared to have occurred inside the house. Investigators suspect assault by strangers and arson in the barnyard. Coroner's jury supports the theory she died from burns in a violent incident. She had been living with her mother after separating from her husband John F. Fornell of Hebron.
Wreck injures fireman near Crete Nebraska
A rear collision near Crete Nebraska between freight trains No 72 and No 76 wrecked seven cars and damaged Engine 349 The fireman John Roche of Lincoln sustained non serious injuries and was not believed to have broken bones Conductor Pittsenbarger led train 72 and Conductor Briggs led train 76 with repairs to the main line expected after the incident near the Blue River valley.
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John Roche
Lincoln
Neb
Martin
Burlington
Crete
Roche
Dorchester
Blue River Bridge
Pittsenbarger
Briggs
French Expedition Warns Islanders of Mount Pelee Eruption
A French scientific expedition studying Mont Pelee reports August eruption proves ongoing danger. Evacuation of the southern Mont Pelee region is advised until activity ceases. The commission warns of possible tidal floods threatening Fort de France.
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Martinique
Mont Pelee
Mont ‘Pelee
Fort de France
Strikebreaker Murdered in Omaha Strike Chaos
Earl Caldwell a Chicago strike breaker was killed about midnight Saturday during the Union Pacific strike unrest. John Spellman a laborer confessed to striking the blow that killed Caldwell. Caldwell 24 left a wife. Spellman, 1835 Nichols street, caused fatal skull fracture and brain ruptures.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
Earl Caldwell
Chicago
John Spellman
Aera
Caldwell
Spellman
Nicholas Street
United States Exports and Breadstuffs Slump in Eight Months
Washington dispatch reports the eight months ending August 31 show total U S exports at 821,685,198 dollars and imports at 614,165,387 dollars, with an export excess of 207,519,811 dollars. Breadstuffs exports fell to 108,604,576 dollars from 192,860,604. provisions 109,841,086 down from 124,977,173, cattle and hogs 915,024 down from 24,718,408, and cotton exports for the year to August 31 at 6,715,793 bales valued 284,279,190 versus 6,639,931 bales valued 317,816,429 last year. Mineral oils export value 43,958,417 vs 45,998,177 prior period. Overall, corn and other breadstuffs declined due to a short crop.
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Orlin
United States
Washington, D. Re
Rear Admiral Schley and wife reach Boston after Adirondacks outing
Rear Admiral Schley and his wife arrived in Boston from a summer trip in the Adirondacks. He said he feels better than ever and, since retirement, enjoys citizen life and the country’s beauties. They plan to visit Connecticut today and then travel west, with a possible two month stay in Texas.
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Boston
Dispatch
Schley
Adirondacks
Cities Assume Control of Street Railways in UK
London reports rapid progress as municipal ownership expands. Of 213 undertakings with 1,307 miles, about 100 undertakings totaling 689 miles belong to local authorities. Birmingham Edinburgh Oldham and 24 others lease tramways while moving toward municipal operation. Manchester nears transition to 160 miles of electric lines under public control. About fifty new municipal schemes are in progress.
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United Kingdom
London
Birmingham
Edinburgh
Oldham
Manchester
Swift Retribution Rumor From Newaygo Michigan
A Newaygo Republican publisher cites rumors of a threshing crew incident at a Otia farm where a feeder allegedly killed a boy threshing machine hand, then the crowd hanged him. No names or verification available and no details at midnight.
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Newaygo
Mich
He. O. Shaw
Otia
Youthful Assyrian Wanderer Travels Through Nebraska
A twelve year old Assyrian boy wandered from Omaha toward Holdrege in Nebraska speaking only his native language. Misunderstood directions sent him south to Lowell Kansas before helpers funded his travel. Superior citizens bought a ticket to Holdrege to reunite him with relatives.
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Superior
Neb
Omaha
Holdrege
Lowell
Kas
Tenement theft arrest in Nebraska City raid
The Overland Investment Company of Nebraska City was linked to missing lumber used for building tenement houses. Lou Rowe was caught in the act of stealing lumber and jailed. A search of his residence uncovered about a thousand feet of lumber his prior thefts had yielded. He received twenty days in the county jail.
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Overland Investment Company
Nebraska
Lou Rowe
Jall
Coyotes Bother Rogers Nebraska Area
In the vicinity of Rogers Nebraska coyotes have increased in numbers over the past year. They have caused damage by killing calves in pastures and stealing poultry from roosts. Wolves are seen in wheat patches and tall grass. wolf hunts are expected to be a leading winter sport.
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Rogers
Neb
Gusher Quits Burning as Fire Diminishes
Beaumont Texas gusher stops flowing on Sunday morning and the fire is easily extinguished. Smoldering flames remain only at the large storage tank in a minor postevent incident.
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Beaumont
Tex
Murderer Seeks Kill All Family After Double Slaying
Gottlieb Neigenfind, a divorced husband of Albert Breyer’s daughter, killed Breyer and his father-in-law then shot Breyer’s wife and severely wounded another daughter before fleeing into cornfields. Breyer died next morning. Neigenfind, now at large, had vowed to kill the whole family after returning from Kansas.
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Pierce
Gottlieb
Neigenfind
Albert Breyer
Slough
Norfolk
Gottlieb Neigenfind
Per
Breyer
Kansas
Meets a Terrible Death by Horges Miss Brockhinzen
Miss Brockhinzen daughter of Mr and Mrs N Brockhinzen long known in the northeast of Gage county died near the Nemaha bridge on a steep descent when a wagon tongue broke and the team ran away. She held the lines and was thrown under the horses trampled and killed before aid arrived.
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Horges
Brockhinzen
N. Brockhinzen
Gage County
Adams
Nemaha Bridge
Kansas Supreme Court Asked to Rule on School Transport
John Atzenweller of Atchison County sues District No 3 for $90 claiming districts must pay for transporting his three children three and a half miles to school though an older pupil may drive. Lower court awarded $28.50. district appeals, arguing the law is unconstitutional.
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Supreme. Court of Kansas
Nelson
John Atzenweller
Atchison County
Supreme Court
Local Notes and Court Verdicts From Plattsmouth Tecumseh and Burlington
Arrest report shows Charles Spicer detained in Plattsmouth on a complaint by a county attorney charging unfastening a team owned by Lawrence Stull and letting it run at large. A Tecumseh church plans a $2000 remodel. Minneapolis Kansas name confusion sparks a movement for a distinctive town name. A jury found Mrs. Jennie Edwards not guilty of beating her foster daughter to death. no direct evidence identified the killer.
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Charles” Spicer
Plattsmouth
Gonnty
Root
Lawrence Stull
St. Andrew's Catholic Church of Tecumséh
Minneapolis
Kan
Minn
A.P. Riddle
Jennie Edwards
Viola
Gladys. Edwards
Burlington
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