World News Recaps Highlight Floods and Crises
In Diller News of the Week a digest notes France and Holland discuss Venezuela cooperation, a Kansas life convict escapes, London Olympians receive gold medals in New York, and incidents from across the world. Persian provinces near civic war. Alaska’s marshal removed for disobedience. Bank of Easton vault robbed. flood effects in Folsom and Augusta. civil unrest in Teheran. and various weather, crop, and disaster reports unfold.
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France
Holland
Venezuela
Fred Proctor
Kansas Penitentiary
Oklahoma
Frank Haskell
New York
Henry Weber
Lakin
Kan
Kansas Red Cross Society
South Carolina
Georgia
Folsom
N. M
Teheran
George G. Perry
United States
Alaska
Bank of
San Francisco
Royce
Augusta
Duncairn
Japan
Russell Sage
Kist
New Orleans
Cimmaron
Canal Zone
Fayetteville
N.C
Cape Fear
Rushville
Farmers aid Rushville bank as burglars damage doors
Farmers provided ready cash to keep the Rushville Mo bank open for a full day after burglars damaged the vault doors. Other brief items note light snow in Maryland, Kansas property value totals, and various disasters and political events.
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Rushville
Maryland
Kansas
State Tax Commission
Frisco
Hugo
Owensboro, Ky
Savings Bank
Kansas City
McPherson
Kansas City Life
Philadelphia Life Insurance Companies
Great Western Life Insurance Company
The
Great
Savannah
Harleyville
Brandsville
Massachusetts
Deaths and travels noted in early 20th century column
Gen A P Stewart Confederate lieutenant general dies at 87 in Biloxi Mississippi. Margaret Daley Vokes comedienne dies in Boston. Taft family honored at Homestead hotel Hot Springs Virginia before Ohio trip. George P Rowell longtime newspaper advertising figure dies in Polard Springs Missouri. Wy Bryan arrives in Kansas City financially ruined after losing pocketbook on train. John W Kern Democratic candidate ...
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A. P. Stewart
Biloxi
Miss
Margaret Daley Vokes
Comedienne
Boston
Mr. Taft
Homestead
Hot Springs
Ohio
Middle Bass Island
Lake Erie
Homestead Hotel
George P. . Rowell
Polard Springs
Wy. J. Bryan
Kansas City
St. Louis
John W. Kern
Better Rates For State Rail Tariffs Aimed At Missouri River Max
Railroad tariffs across the territory will soon change under central authority abolishing the old scale. The Missouri river will serve as the maximum rate for all intermediate points, reducing Lincoln rail charges on the Pacific coast freight by two to thirty cents for the first nine classes. Omaha remains level in four classes, with reductions for two and increases in four other classes, while Grand Island North Platte and central Nebraska points also see reductions.
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Central Bureau
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Lincoln
Nebraska
Omaha
Misouri
Hastings
Grand Island
Kearney
North Platte
Reed Platte
Central
Sobranka
Golden Harvest In Nebraska Promises Enormous Corn Crop
The Bar union report predicts a huge corn harvest in western Nebraska if early frosts do not cut it short. Crops in the southeast fall short of past years while central Nebraska may average around forty bushels per acre. Rain halts wheat harvest statewide with western yields near normal and eastern around thirty. Sugar crops in the west are expected to be enormous, often exceeding eastern Colorado.
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Bar@union
Nebraska
Colorado
West
HOGS BOUND FOR ARGENTINA PURCHASED IN NEW YORK
Six blooded hogs were bought for export to Argentina. Agent Santiago Champion arranged the deal, contracting Jefferson County animals and livestock. The hogs will depart September 6 from New York after inspections. It will take 1,000 pounds of corn to feed them en route.
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Blic
New York
Santiago Champion
Jefferson County
United States
Post Office Safe Cracked in Juniata Explosion
Residents misjudged Sunday night blast as thunder. The next morning authorities learned a safe had been forced open at the Juniata post office and some pens were taken.
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Juniata
Rosebud Reservation lands opened for entry by proclamation
Lands on the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota will open for entry by lottery on October 19. The Gregory county opening drew 106,000 registrants. this forthcoming sweep is expected to be larger. Registration will be by mail or agent. no in-person line is required. Veterans of Civil War, Spanish American War, or Philippine Insurrection may register via an agent without visiting the towns.
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Rosebud Indian
South Dakota
Gregory County
Dallas
Chamberlain
Gregory
Presho
O’neill
Valentine
Man Found Dead in Nebraska Field After Late Night Drink
The body of Jaroslaw Zurst, about 26, was found in a cornfield fifteen miles north of Schuyler around 5 PM Saturday. He had been dragged from his original position, left arm eaten, and reportedly left with $219 in wages and about $4,000 in Bohemia cash. Authorities note possible self harm linked to heavy drinking after a spree.
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Jaroslaw Zurst
Schuyler
Zurst
Ed Noh
Bohemia
Fremont Sheriff Captures Suspect in North Nebraska Horse Theft
Sheriff Bauman of Fremont arrested Frank Wallace on Wednesday for stealing a horse from Ernes Behmer's barn near Hoskins. The North Nebraska Live Stock association offered 500 dollars with a 50 dollar county boost. Behmer identified the horse in Fremont the following afternoon.
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Bauman
Fremont
North Nebraska Live Stock Association
Theff
Ernes Behme
Hoskins
County Board of Supervisors
Frank Wallace
Wallace
Behmer
Fifty Sheep Die as Union Pacific Train Cars Run Them Down
A string of Union Pacific cars rolled down a sidetrack at the Union stockyards east of Grand Island and struck a flock of sheep being returned from pasture. One car derailed. the crew was not aboard to set brakes. The loss is pegged at about $300.
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Union Pacific
Union
Grand Island
Sffy
Cara
Jefferson County Builds Six Mammoth Wheat Storage Tanks
Prepared to handle a large wheat crop, Jefferson county plans six cement storage tanks of 5 000 bushels capacity each. The cement construction is touted as the safest improved method for storing wheat.
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Jefferson County
Lot Sewer Contract Let for Holdrege District
The Holdrege city council let the contract for constructing a sewer in district No 1. Estimated cost ranges from 21 to 22 dollars per fifty foot lot. Lot owners are expected to pay the tax upon completion of the work.
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Holdrege
Farmers & Merchants of Lin Insurance Emphasis
The storms highlight need for protection against fire lightning and tornado. A good company for farmers to insure with is the Farmers and Merchants of Lin.
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The
Farmers & Merchants of
Lin
Four Stock Men Die in Kilgore Train Crash
A rear end collision on the Northwestern Railroad at Kilgore Nebraska fatally injures four stock men from Norwood Wyoming. George Kennedy and Foster Spreas die. S F Brower and Malcomb Hawkins are badly hurt. A heavy freight train crashed into their caboose, wrecking and burning it and killing many sheep.
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Northwestern
Kilgore
Neb
George Kennedy
Foster Spreas
S. F. Brower
Malcomb Hawkins
Norwood
Wyo
Hawkins
Brower
Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart Dies at 85 in Biloxi
Confederate lieutenant general Alexander P. Stewart died at his Biloxi home Sunday aged 85. A Tennessee native born October 2, 1821, he graduated West Point in 1842, served in the U.S. Army, led Confederate forces including the Army of Tennessee, was chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1874 to 1888, and later helped organize the Chickamauga National Park commission.
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Alexander P. Stewart
Biloxi
Mass
Tennessee
Stewart
Rogersville
Hawkins County
United States Military Academy
West Point
Third United Artillery
Leutenant Genera
Army of Tennessee
University of Mississippi
Chickamauga National Park
Hold up in Canadian town near Montreal nets $12,000
Five masked men dynamited the Provincial bank near Montreal and escaped with $12,000 and five thoroughbred horses after forcing a liveryman to take them from the mayor's stable. They entered by the main street, held residents at gunpoint, and kept bystanders moving toward the bank.
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Montreal
Police Shootings Stun Parsons After Fatal Encounter
A Parsons Kansas police officer, John Williams, fatally wounded Matt Matthews, a Black train porter, after a confrontation that began with resistance to arrest. Tensions rose as Black residents gathered in Glenwood Park, but leaders moved to quell the mob and calm the city.
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Parsons
Kas
John Williams
Matt Matthews
Glenwood Park
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Kansas City
Matthews
Seamus
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