Train Collision Near LaPlatte Kills Six
Western Newspaper Union report describes a southbound Missouri Pacific passenger train colliding with a northbound freight near LaPlatte Nebraska. Among the dead are engineer M Sherlock and fireman W R Goodman both of Kansas City and brake man J E Wilson of Falls City. Two baggage men died and six passengers were seriously hurt. The crash demolished both locomotives and most of the passenger coaches were splintered.
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Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Oreopolis
Neb
M. Sherlock
Kansas City
W. R. Goodman
J. E. Wilson
Falls City
Missouri Pacific
Burlington Cressing
Plattsmouth
laPlatte
LaPatte
Conservation of Oil Fields as Navy Plan
Secretary Daniels outlines steps to conserve California oil fields and possibly Oklahoma as part of strengthening naval defense. Navy officers justice and land office officials study California land actions that favor Navy projects. The plan envisions reserving surveyed oil lands for future emergency use stored underground until required.
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Daniels
Navy
Washington
California
Oklahoma
Department of Justice
General Land Office
Navy Department
Passengers Burned to Death in Yaqui Raid
Eighty passengers of a Southern Pacific Mexican train were trapped in a hay-filled car and set ablaze near Torres, Sonora. Radio advices from Hermosillo via Guaymas report about sixty Yaqui attackers, deserters from a Mexican factional army, with only twenty survivors counted so far.
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San Diego
Cal
Southern Pacific
Torres
Lonore
Hermosillo
Guaymas
Bombarding Serbian Frontier Rises Along Macva Border
German and Austrian artillery bombardments target Serbian positions along the Macva frontier in the northwest, extending along the northern edge of Serbia as in autumn fighting.
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London
Serbia
Hague to Decide on Frye Sinking Damages
Washington reports Germany accepts the plan to fix damages by a commission and to let The Hague determine disputed treaty rights. Germany also pledges no more American ships carrying contraband will be destroyed under any circumstances.
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Hague
Washington
Germany
William P. Frye
State Department
United States
Call for American Physicians in London Message
London reports Sir James Barr vice president of the British medical association and a lieutenant colonel in the royal army medical corps argues that if Britain cannot supply enough doctors for overseas armies the United States must be asked to fill the medical ranks. He states two thousand five hundred physicians are required and warns conscription is coming.
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London
United States
Sir James Barr
British Medical Association
Royal Army Medical Corps
James
North Dakota Homestead Lands Opened for Entry
President Wilson acts on Secretary Lane recommendation to open over 100000 acres in North Dakota formerly in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The coal rich lands will be eligible for entry starting spring 1916, signaling a shift in land policy and settlement prospects.
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Washington
Wilson
Lane
North Dakota
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Many Desperate in Belgium Appeal for Aid
Lord Mayor of London appeals for aid for Belgians as postmaster at Lincoln dies. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Berlin. The admiralty says a German submarine did not attack the Allan liner Hesperian and suggests a British mine may have sunk the ship off the Irish coast.
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Union News Service
Berlin
Admiralty
Foreign Office
Lincoln Postmaster Addison T Tibbet dies in Lincoln
Addison T. Tibbetts temporary postmaster of Lincoln died Saturday morning at his home after months of illness. He assumed charge of the post office a few days earlier after the death of Francis W. Brown more than two months ago.
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Lincoln, Neb
Addison T. Tibbets
Lincoln
Judge Tibbets
Francis W. Brown
London mayor appeals for aid to starving Belgians
The lord mayor of London appeals to Britons to aid about a million and a half Belgians left destitute by famine. He notes even Hoover's neutral committee cannot feed all for less than five pence per person daily, totaling 218,570 pounds weekly, and urges London's decisive role in the humanitarian effort.
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London
Belgium
Seed corn week proclaimed in Nebraska by governor
Governor Morehead issues a proclamation designating the week of September 27 as seed corn week to remind farmers to harvest seed corn before frost damage, following a suggestion from C. W. Pugsley of the state college of agriculture.
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Lincoln
Neb
Morehead
C. W. Pugsley
State College of Agriculture
Eastland Sale Ordered to Satisfy Recovery Claim
Federal Judge Landis has ordered the steamer Eastland to be sold at auction to satisfy a $34,500 claim for the work of raising the vessel from the Chicago river bottom after its July 24 disaster that killed 812 people.
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Chicago
Eastland
Landis
Anglo French Credit Loan Sought For Half Billion
Negotiations to establish a large Anglo French credit loan proceed with Lord Reading and J P Morgan as lead negotiators. Rep deck says maximum loan available to Britain and France is 500 million dollars, with details still needing adjustment and minor matters smoothed.
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New York
Lord Reading
Great Britain
France
J. P. Morgan
America
Senate may call special session to revise rules
President Wilson weighs a special session within a month to revise Senate debate rules. Aimed at allowing a simple majority to curtail debate, the move follows a Senate rules revision committee report. If called, pending treaties with Colombia and Nicaragua may be up for ratification.
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Union News Service
Washington
Senate
Wilson
White House
Colombia
Nicaragua
French Warships Rescue Armenians
Paris reports that 5,000 Armenians including 3,000 women and children were pursued by Turks and sheltered in Djebel Moussa. They held out until September, then, aided by French cruisers, were evacuated to Port Said and placed in a provisional camp.
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Paris
Ministry of Marine
Djebel Moussa
Port Said
Exhibition of American chemical industry progress reports
In New York the first national exposition of chemical industries highlighted growth in U S dyestuff manufacture since the European war began. A feature was a demonstration of colors produced in America by Dr T H Norton, who surveyed European dyestuff industries as a government emissary.
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New York
United States
National Exposition of Chemical Industries
America
T. H. Norton
Europe
Wood exports to United States from Great Britain revealed
Cablegram from Consul General Skinner in London, released by the commerce bureau, announces a current supply of raw wood available for export from Great Britain to the United States.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Skinner
London
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Sweden Advances Loan to Germany to Back Trade
Sweden agrees to lend Germany 40 million kroner about 10 million dollars in five Swedish bank loans. The funds will facilitate Germany paying for goods imported from Sweden in return for permission to export coal and other specified items.
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Sweden
Germany
London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Expenditures Run Over Revenue In Budget Speech
London. Reginald McKenna as chancellor of the exchequer estimates the current year revenue at 272 million pounds and expenditures at 1.59 billion pounds with debt totaling 2.2 billion pounds. He proposes raising income tax by 40 percent on all incomes of 130 pounds or more, current minimum 160 pounds.
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London
Reginald McKenna
McKenna
Explosion kills and traps workers in Madden & Co. ruin
A spark from a workman's hammer ignited a gasoline tank car, triggering a blast that razed two city blocks. Thirty one bodies recovered. about fifty feared dead under debris. Fire followed. search focused on Madden & Co. department store ruins. Property damage pegged at about $500,000.
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Union News Service
Ardmore
Okl
Madden & Co
Price Panic Grips Norway and Sweden Markets
A near panic spreads across Christiana and Stockholm as food shortages trigger unprecedented price hikes. Norway readies export prohibitions on scarce provisions to curb costs, mirroring Sweden's actions and aiming to ease burdens on the poor.
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Christiana
Norway
Sweden
Government probes Missouri Pacific wreck in La Platte
United States inspectors under the Interstate Commerce Commission arrived in Omaha to lead a thorough inquiry into the La Platte Missouri Pacific wreck that killed three men and left about a dozen wounded. J H Stricklan will photograph the scene interview witnesses obtain crew orders and a coroner inquest transcript for ICC review.
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Omaha
Neb
United States
la Platte
J. H. Stricklan
Interestate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Grand Army of the Republic 49th Reunion in Washington
Thousands of Grand Army of the Republic veterans arrive in Washington for the forty ninth annual reunion. An estimated 30 000 veterans will take part in the grand review from the capitol to the White House commemorating the Civil War victory.
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Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Capitol
White House
Nebraska Deaf and Dumb Population in Census Bulletin
Census Bureau bulletin reports 674 deaf and dumb residents in Nebraska. Of these 674, 155 are male and 125 female, with 248 native born and the rest foreign born. No colored deaf and dumb persons were recorded in Nebraska.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Nebraska
Bryan to Lead Mountain Top Prayer in Hot Springs
William Jennings Bryan will preside over a world peace prayer meeting atop Hot Springs mountain. The event is announced by the Presbyterian church efficiency conference committee planning next week’s program in Hot Springs Arkansas.
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Hot Springs
Ark
William Jennings Bryan
Hot Springs Mountain
The
Presbyterian Church
Temporary Postmaster for Lincoln Named After Death
Fred Shepherd, prominent Lincoln attorney, appointed temporary postmaster after the death of A. T. Tibbets Saturday morning. Named on the suggestion of F. W. Brown’s bondsmen, the late postmaster, Shepherd is not expected to seek the job and will serve only briefly.
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Lincoln
Neb
Fred Shepherd
A. T. Tibbets
F. W. Brown
Shepherd
Girl Victim Of Unknown Vandal In Walthill
Read ers statewide report a girl harmed by an unidentified vandal in Walthill Nebraska authorities probe incident details and possible motives while seeking witnesses and surveillance footage from the community.
October events and gatherings listed for Nebraska and surrounding states
Drake University football travels to Lincoln on October 2. Topeka Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meeting in Lincoln October 6 to 10. Exeter hosts corn festival October 7 to 9. Norfolk hosts Federation of Women’s Clubs the week of October 4. Omaha hosts German American Alliance convention October 6 and 7. Hastings hosts South Platte exposition October 11 to 16. Columbus hosts Women’s suffrage convention October 12 to 14. Sut ton hosts National Futurity Meet October 12 to 15. Nebraska observes Sunday school day November 7.
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Drake University
Lincoln
Topeka
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of M. E. Church
Exeter
Hastings Girl Victim of Hair Clipping Vandals
Elsie Thiel 12 year old daughter of Rev and Mrs P J Thiel suffered the second vandal attack linked to jealousy or greed. While watching a parade her long braid extending below her knees was cut at the neck. Neighbors and family were alerted by her cries as she hurried home in distress.
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Hastings
Death of Famous Indian Woman Dr Susan Picotte
Dr Susan Picotte a renowned U S Indian woman died at her home in Walthill after years of illness and four months of bedridden suffering. She was a daughter of Omahas chief Joseph LaFlesche and sister of Bright Eyes Mrs Thomas H Tibbies whose lectures advanced Indian rights.
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Walthill
Susan Picotte
United States
Doctor Picotte
Joseph LaFlesche
Thomas H. Tibbies
Bright Eyes
Topeka Womans Foreign Missionary Conference Held
Six hundred delegates from Kansas Colorado and Nebraska will attend the Topeka branch annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at Grace Methodist Church October 6 to 10. The conference will feature addresses by seven outgoing district missionaries and seven missionaries on furloughs.
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Lincoln
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Topeka
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Grace Methodist Church
Eugenic Marriage Rules at St. Barnabas Omaha
The Rev. L R Holsapple rector of St Barnabas Episcopal church announces only eugenic marriages will be performed. Each couple must submit a physician health certificate and a new church posted rules outline the eugenic provision. Father Holsapple requests bans be proclaimed three times.
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Omaha
L. R. Holsapple
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
New Church
Father Holsapple
Lived to Ripe Old Age Columbus obituary of Mike Doody
Mike Doody, 105, a pioneer of the county and one of its oldest men, died at his Platte Center home. Born in County Kerry Ireland, he came to America in 1854, first to Boston then Columbus Nebraska, married Catherine Carrig in 1850, and is survived by five children. his wife died seventeen years ago.
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Columbus
Mike Doody
Platte Center
Mr. Doody
County Kerry
Ireland
America
Boston
Mass
Neb
Catherine Carrig
Beatrice clubs plan consolidation committee formed
The Beatrice club has named a committee to confer with a corresponding committee from the commercial club to draft plans for consolidating the two organizations. Members of both clubs appear to support the move.
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Beatrice
Beatrice Club
Commercial Club
Nebraska City Echoes 84th Birthday of S H Parker
S H Parker, longtime Nebraska City resident since 1854, celebrated his eighty fourth birthday Sunday with twenty five grandchildren present.
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Nebraska City
S.H. Parker
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Norfolk
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