Kansas news briefs reveal crop, crime, and civic notes
Local items report vacant houses used as temporary granaries in Dickinson county, municipal ownership of Coffeyville’s electric plant, and a 34 000 dollar annual cost for the Atchison Soldiers' Orphans home. Other notes include Indian students at Haskell Institute, a shotgun trap incident, and plans for an electric line spanning Coffeyville to Parsons.
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Dickinson County
Atchison
Garden” City
Coffeyville
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Haskell Institute
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Haskell” Institute
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Supreme Bench
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Che
Neodésha
Parsons
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Colorado
Cripple Creek
Nelson addresses Philippine question at Alexandria rally
Senator Knute Nelson opened a Republican campaign speech in Alexandria Minnesota on September 1 arguing the United States did right to wage war on Spain and that Aguinaldo’s insurrection is a military oligarchy. He accuses Aguinaldo of treachery and urges suppression of the rebellion to establish a stable government for the Philippines and prevent imperial overreach.
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Alexandria
Minn
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Agutase
Spain
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Aguinaldo
Anderson
War Department
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Augustine
Malolos
Theodore Sandico
Luzon
Spaniar
United States
Bryan
Washington
Philippine- Islands
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Visaya
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Vuzon
Agal
Aguinal
MR. Bryan
Imperial
Cuba
Manila Bay
Gomez
Philippines
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California
The
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Supreme Court
Kansas Bank Robbed in Rushton Town
Kansas state bank commissioner reports a Sunday night robbery at the State Bank of Inahiton in Rushton. Robbers stole $5,064 in cash and $20,400 in discounts. bank insured. Cashier George F. Hause provides few details. Bushton, a small Rice County town near the Missouri Pacific line by Ellsworth County line.
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Rushton
Johwr W. Breidenthal
Kansas
Inahiton
Bushton
Rice County
Missouri
Pacific
Ellsworth
Tornado Ravages Kansas Town Injures Three
A small tornado struck Hamilton Kansas fourteen miles north of Eureka injuring three people. A schoolhouse livery barn and six residences were blown down as dust whipped through the area. Mrs Windler Brown and daughter are among the injured.
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Hamilton
Eureka
Kan
Windl
Amd
Santa Fe Pressed for Coal Cars as Demand Rises
Early fall coal deliveries have been unusually heavy, starting late last month, straining Santa Fe’s coal car supply for immediate hauls. Schools public buildings and households rush winter stores, while mills and factories report higher orders than in past years. Increased traffic and shop activity burden car equipment.
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Santa Fe
Reward Offered By Burling ton Temperance Party
Temperance advocates in Burling ton Kansas raise funds and offer a 50 dollar reward for conviction of anyone selling liquor. The spring offer helped convict a man and shut the town, and the new reward aims to catch bootleggers currently violating prohibition.
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Burlington
Kan
Vault robbery attempt at Yates Center courthouse
In Yates Center Kansas an attempted burglary of the county treasurer’s vault in the courthouse was foiled when Sheriff Patterson discovered the burglars who fled through a side window. Little money was stored in the vault.
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Yates Center
Kan
Court House
Patterson
Flood of Counterfeit Nickels Hits Wichita
Wichita Kansas reels as counterfeit nickels and other small coins flood the area. The forgeds are mainly found in slot machines and a few pass at night by merchants. The coins are poorly produced and forged from babbit metal.
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Wichita Kan
Newspaper Man Marley Dies by Self Inflicted Morphine Overdose
G N Marley a well known Ossawatomie Kansas newspaper man and foreman in the Fraphie office died by his own hand through morphine amid ill health and domestic troubles.
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G. N. Marley
Ossawatomie
Kan
Fraphie
Mrs Gladstone Had No Title at End of Life
The article notes Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the prime minister to Queen Victoria, died without a title. It suggests a coronet might have been granted if desired, as with Mrs Disraeli. It hints her eldest grandson may receive a title.
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Gladstone
Queen Victoria
New York Hotels Let With Fireproof Design and Elevators
Two new hotels are being constructed in New York at about nine and a half stories each. They will be 18.9 feet wide and fireproof, furnished with elevators, hallways, and an airshaft. Each hotel will have eighteen apartments, two bachelor units per floor. front apartments will be three rooms plus a bath, rear ones two rooms.
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New York
Noted disciplinarian Von Lessel commands German forces
The excerpt portrays Lieutenant General Von Lessel as a noted disciplinarian and loyal imperial army commander. He is described as unswerving in duty, beloved by soldiers for his contempt of hardship, and a veteran of 55 years who rose from lieutenant through Austrian and Franco-Prussian wars.
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von Lessel
China
Imperial Army
Marie Corelli Top English Novelist by Earnings
The article states Marie Corelli was the most financially successful English novelist of the era, earning about 1,500,000 pounds. It contrasts with Louis Stevenson who earned about 150,000 pounds in twelve years, nearly matching that level.
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Marie Corelli
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