Paris tragedy as lion tamers star in melodrama scene
A young woman in Paris dies after slipping behind the scenes and thrusting her arm into a cage as three lions attack. she is torn to pieces. The story follows a quarrel with her lover, a theater lion tamer, amid a melodrama production.
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Paris
Harry Whitney
New Haven
Frederick Cook
Peary
Cook
Birmingham
Madrid
Spain
Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Riff Country
Death at Philadelphia skyscraper in public view
A 66 year old man, Robert Bredbury, fell from an upper floor of a Philadelphia office building and died before a large audience. The incident drew hundreds as investigators begin to review the circumstances.
Land Receipts, Gas Case, and Global Arts Trade News Brief
Reports from the general land office show Kansas sales 179492 and Missouri 37554 with Oklahoma at 557191. Judge Campbell issues a temporary order halting Oklahoma officials from gas piping interference. Omaha workers plan talks with Gov Shallenberger over a strike. Wealthy Americans buy tens of millions in paintings abroad for free entry under a new tariff. Philadelphia’s millionaires import 200000 worth of art. A street car crash near the Alaska-Yukon exposition injures 50, one fatally. Netherlands proposes a 30 percent rise in import duties. Georgia supreme court ruling to be taken to the US Supreme Court by roads over demurrage. Joseph Lesie, of the Albino showman lineage, dies in Kansas City hospital. Taft urges Congress to authorize 10 million in bonds for western irrigation projects. Penwyllt tragedy in Wales sees Margaret Price Evans die by suicide. Harry Whitney claims Cook and Peary both reached the pole. Bryan Bailey tariff debate set for Atlanta in October. Robert Hoe, age 70, dies in London. Wilson says railroad capitalization regulation could spur farm investment. A Massachusetts sect awaits the world’s end. Britain contemplates an early general election.
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General Land Office
Kansas
Misri
Oklahoma
Ralph E. Campbell
McAlister
Okl
Omaha
Shallenberger
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Netherlands Financial Department
State Council
Supreme Court of Georgia
State Railroad Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Joseph Lesie
P. T. Barnum
Belgium
New York City
General Hospital
Kansas City
Taft
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
West
Margaret Price Evans
New York
Penwyllt
Wales
Harry Whitney
Cook
Peary
William J. Bryan
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
Atlanta
Robert Hoe
R. Hoe &Co
London
Wilson
Massachusetts
Great Britain
Taft Diaz El Paso Juarez Meeting Planned October
Washington reports a target date in October for a Taft Diaz meeting at El Paso and Juarez with neutral territory between the cities. The two nations reached the understanding after correspondence. Weather bureau forecasts matched the West Indian hurricane's effects on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. A Fort Des Moines board will compete for Philippine scouts second lieutenants on November 1. Progressive Republicans may form an independent group in the lower house. Nebraska bank condition shows reserves at 16.40 percent and loans down to 45.66 million. Raisin wine tax takes effect October 1, with internal revenue agents notified. Pensioners increase slightly in western states. Nebraska pensions rising from 15,405 to 15,578 with payments from 2,322,826 to 2,650,451.
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Washington
Taft
Diaz
Mexico
el Paso
Juarez
Mex
United States Weather Bureau
South Atlantic
Gulf
Fort Des Moines
Phillippine Scouts
National Banks of
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Cabell
Internal Revenue
Taft to Attend $10,000 Banquet in San Francisco
President Taft will be honored with a $10,000 banquet at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco on October 5, plans announced. Postmaster General Hitchcock orders economy across the post office department. Rumor says Governor Bernando Reyes of that state may depart Mexico.
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Taft
Fairmont
San Francisco
Post Office Department
Hitchcock
Bernando Reyes
Mexico
Nebraska Teacher Ends Life at Uncle’s Home
Hebron Nebraska Miss Nellie McCarty a district No 55 teacher five miles west of town shot herself at her uncle’s home south of Byron Tuesday morning. She had asked for a vacation after a nervous period and despondency. no premeditation shown. Funeral held at her parents home and body taken to Republic Kansas for burial.
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Hebron
Neb
Nellie McCarty
Here
Byron
Republic
Kansas
National coursing meet set for Sutton in October
The Nebraska Happenings notes the annual national coursing meet at Sutton from October 4 to 9 with four thousand dollars in prizes for winning dogs. It also lists local news including school openings, electric lighting talks in Sterling, a new Dixon military school math post, a jail incident in Lebanon, a hospital fire scare at Kearney, and widespread county expenses from a recent strike.
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Sutton
York
Sterling
Arland ‘Briggs
Judge Briggs
West Pont
Cuming County
Dixon Military School
Dixon, AJ
Grand Jury Targets Race Track Gambling Network in Brooklyn
Kings County grand jury indicts three police officials five private detectives and twenty five book makers in a surge against betting under the Hart Agnew law. Indictments name the Coney Island and Brooklyn Jockey clubs for conspiracy and cite prominent figures and officers tied to the tracks and betting rings.
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New York
Kings County
Brooklyn
Brighton Beach Racing Association
Hughes
Brooklyn Jockey Club
Coney Island Jockey Club
Coney Island
Jockey Clubs
United States
W. E. Vanderbilt
Coney Island’ Jockey Club
Schuyler L. Parsons
George Peabody Wetmore
Mrs. Vanderbilt
F. R. Hitchcock
W. E. Schaumberg
Thomas H.smith
J. Harry Alexander
F. G. Gray Griswold
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr
E. D. Morgan
Herbert Co.” Peel
F. K. Sturgis
J. W. Wadsworth
Gravesend
Phillip J. Dwyer
F. Reichberger
Sheepshead Bay
John J. O’brien
Hugh Reynolds
Hugh Meyers
O'Brien
Midwest Life Insurance Promises Fairness and Coverage
The Midwest Life emphasizes that life insurance costs mirror other goods and that funds collected from many policyholders cover large claims for the dead. It notes timing differences and calls itself an old line Nebraska company with a Lincoln home office at 1007 O street, inviting inquiries.
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Midwest Life
The
Nebraska
O” Street
Lincoln
Big Apple Crop at Howe Neb Shows Strong Growth
Howe Nebraska reports a bumper apple season with foreign buyers shipping four to five cars daily. George Sutton leads a large picking force in the Howe orchard, aiming to double it next week. Most fruit goes to export and cold storage. Local orchards may repay land values in apples this year with about 20 000 bushels from fifty acres at 60 cents per bushel. Farmers plan larger orchards, positioning the county to rival the coast in apple production.
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Howe, Neb
George Sutton
Howe
Wedded Fifty-Two Years Celebration in York
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Eze Kial Evans mark their fifty second wedding anniversary in York Nebraska. Married in 1857 at Liberty Illinois they moved to Adams county and later homesteaded near Waco. Evans a pioneering preacher aged over eighty and Mrs Evans seventy five reside in the city.
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York
Neb
Ezekial Evans
Liberty
Adams County
Illinois
Waco
Evans
Seward
Polk
Howard
Delaware
Farm land sales near Cedar Bluffs details
Patrick Malloy sold eighty acres eight miles southwest of Cedar Bluffs for 150 dollars per acre to Frank Wesley. No buildings on the farm. Claus Bosholm sold a 160 acre homestead five miles south of Cedar Bluffs to William Breckman for 130 dollars per acre.
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Cedar Bluffs
Neb
Patrick Malloy
Here
Frank Wesley
Claus Bosholm
William Breckman
May Close the Schools in Fremont Neb
City physicians led by City Physician Smith meet to discuss spinal disease in Fremont where about fifteen cases exist and two deaths have occurred. They may advise the school board to suspend public school sessions for a period.
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Fremont, Neb
Smith
Fremont
Danes Pleased and Displeased Over Cook Records Request
Copenhagen reacts to Dr. Cook's offer to let the University of Copenhagen waive its claim to the first examination of his polar journey records. The rector says no request has been made yet and warns the university will decide on a reasonable basis. Public opinion favors giving the university the first view as fair in light of honors shown to Cook.
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Copenhagen
Cook
University of Copenhagen
North Pole
Virginia State Fair Opens in Richmond with Record Premiums
The Virginia State Fair opened in Richmond as the largest and most comprehensive ever held. Prizes total $40,000 with special features including a $2,000 King Corn contest for Virginia grown corn. The cattle show boasts the largest premiums in state history totaling $6,500.
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Richmond
Virginia
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Anna Lind
Des Toines
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Great Western Railway
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Reidolph
William Staples
Quadnor
Staples
Kearney
James W. Finnegan
Chadron
Black Hills
Chicago & Northwestern
St. Loui
Finnegan
Manhattan
Kan
A. H. Hammond
Hammond
Pawnee City
American Beet Sugar Company
Henry Storey
Dodge County
North Bend
Matehal
Storey
Bauman
Douglas County
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