Nebraska News Highlights From Around The State
A mosaic of Nebraskan items covers school openings, local accidents, and civic notes. Norfolk saw a fall injuring R C Powers. Hastings hosted the A R reunion. Lincoln police crack down on illicit drinks. Delays in ergot and drought fears touch livestock and crops. a Swedish mason disappears near Norfolk. a Plymouth boy severely injured by a mowing accident. a Omaha man found dead from gas. and state and federal census efforts discuss coordination and staffing.
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Orleans
Ainsworth
Saline County
Clarks
A. R
Hastings
Mickey
Camp Pershing
York
Lincoln
James Galloway
Kearney
Kearney County
Jennie Jones
Smartville
August Berg
Norfolk
Europe
Henry Reinwald
Plymouth
D.L. Garrett
Cass County
Nebraska
Missouri River
Nemaha Valley
Charles K. Boyden
South Seventeenth Street
Omaha
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Nebraska’ Territorial Pioneers
State Fair Grounds
Washington Notes on Bogota Treaty and Isthmian Channel
The state department remains patient as it awaits ratification outcomes for the Colombia Panama canal treaty. A Bogota dispatch notes that the United States will not press Colombia and that the treaty already ratified by the Senate stands.
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Washington
State Department
Beaupre
Bogota
Hay
Heaupre
Senate
Colombia
Isthmus
Herran
United States
Panama
Congress of Panama
Obaldia
Fahuega
Buena Ventura
Committee of the
Congress
Cotton
Navy
Beirut
Constantinople
United States Squadron
Brooklyn
Pope Pius X Reunites With Sisters in Rome
The three sisters of Pope Pius X, who lived with him in Venice, arrived in Rome after a six week separation. A special railroad carriage aided their travel and the reunion with the pontiff was touching as he embraced them. The sisters spoke of his appearance with affection and plans for the future were made before they move to a convent pending an apartment at the San Angelo bridge.
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Pius X
Venice
Rome
Pius
Beppi
San Angelo Bridge
Anthony Demers
Kalamazoo
Mich
Nicholas Demeggeor
Demers
Alex
Battle Creek
Jackson
South Bend
St. Joan Benton Harbor
Detroit
Chi
Demoggeot
Cattlemen Promise to Obey Fence Orders
United States District Attorney Dean reports assurances from leading cattlemen in northwest Kansas to remove fences around public lands. He began federal proceedings to compel action. results may be dismissed.
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Kansan City
U D
United States
Dean
Kansas City
Kansas
Tattlemen
Fire Destroys Block in Pittsburg Pa Reported Losses
A fire at Pittsburg Pa consumed the block between Liberty and Spring avenues from Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets. It involved the Pittsburg switch and signal plant Comstock Brass Manufacturing and other properties. Estimated losses reach 250000 dollars.
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Pittsburg
Liberty Avenue
Spring Avenue
Sixteenth
Seventeenth Street
Comstock Brass. Manufacturing Company
Theumber Manufacturing “‘Company
James Sands
Shamock's Triple Yachts Await Trip Home
Shamrock's two racing yachts Shamrocks II and III may rest by a wharf at Erie basin while preparations for the voyage home continue. Shamrocks III still carries her racing mast though jury mast lies on the wharf. The defeated challenger crew plans to sail home around September 14.
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Shamock
Sir Thomas
Lipton’s
Shamrocks IT
Erie Basin
Shamrocks III
Wisconsin Governor’s Wife Sets Harsh Lake Camp Pace
Mrs. La Follette, wife of Wisconsin’s governor, is pictured at Lake Kengonsa where she enforces a strict routine. Her day begins before 6 am with a two mile run and a plunge in the lake, followed by a long walk. She also led a seven mile walk to Stoughton, outpacing the group.
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la ‘Follette
Wisconsin
Lake ‘Kengonsa
Stoughton
Swansea lockout ends as arbitration set for tinplate industry
In South Wales a long running wage dispute ends with all parties referring questions to arbitration. Forty one works affected will reopen this week with twenty to thirty thousand workers involved. The development comes amid a wave of regional labor tension and resumed production.
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Swansea
Wales
Circus Cowboy Weds Heiress After Heroic Rescue
Arthur L. Roberts of Holland Nebraska married Miss Ethel Gould heiress and society leader at her Cortland county home after Roberts lassoed a runaway horse during Main's Circus parade to save Miss Gould. The wedding followed the dramatic rescue and sparked a love story.
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Binghampton
N. Y
Arthur L. Roberts
Holland
Lancaster County
Nebraska
Main’s Circus
Ethel Gould
Cortland County
Main's Circus
Gould
Landeau
Wis
Roberts
Miss Gould
Burglar Steals Letter of Credit From Bank President
Salem Goodner president of the First National bank of Sarcoxie Missouri. visiting C. M. Coleman at 1827 North Tejon Street Colorado Springs Colorado. thief enters via ladder through porch window, taking a $10,000 letter of credit a $100 watch and $10 in cash from Goodner’s room while he travels home from San Francisco.
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Salem Goodner
First National Bank of
Man Seeks to Kidnap Girl in Grand Island Incident
Last evening in Grand Island a eight year old girl was dragged toward an alley by a man in front of her father Ed McAllister’s fruit stand. The child screamed and escaped. police and railroad crews searched the area but no suspect is identified. Charles Russell of Koehler hotel was briefly questioned but cleared. The investigation concludes the incident was the act of a stranger and not an employee.
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Grand Island
Ed. McAllister
Charles Russel
Koehler Hotel
Russel
Koehler
Chair of Common Sense Suggested for Theological Training
Bishop Isaac W. Joyce of Minneapolis, who led the northwestern Indiana Methodist conference at South Bend, advocates creating a chair of common sense in theological schools. He argues that early Methodists lacked formal training and that excessive book learning can dull natural traits valuable for ministry.
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Isaac W. Joyce
Minneapolis
Northwestern
Indiana
The
Methodist Church
South Bend
Ind
Tragic Bridge Crew Accident Near St Onge
Irwin Thomas of the Northwestern bridge crew fell under a moving Belle Fourche train near St Onge D during a return to Chadron. His right leg was crushed between ankle and knee, necessitating above knee amputation at Homestake hospital Lead. He slipped while boarding a moving flat car carrying supplies.
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Northwestern
Irwin Thomas
St. Onge
Homestake
Lead
Thomas
Whitewood
Chadron
Neb
Prosecution of Kansas Coal Trust Initiated
United States district attorney J S Dean in Kansas has orders from Washington to prosecute members of a coal trust in Kansas. Similar directives reportedly went to Missouri prosecutors. DA Dean assigned evidence gathering to E D McKeever who vows a thorough probe into the alleged coal operators combine in Kansas. He declined to discuss procedural methods.
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J. S. Dean
United States
Kansas
Department of Justice of
Washington
Missouri
Dean
E. D. McKeever
Mr. McKeever
Sunflower Field Accident Wounds man near Ceresco
Otto Johnson, living two miles east of Ceresco Nebraska, was badly injured while cutting sunflowers with a large pocket knife. He slashed his own abdomen by mistake, exposing intestines for several inches. A doctor stitched the wound and Johnson may recover.
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Otto Johnson
Ceresco
Neb
Johnson
Frosts in Nebraska Recorded Since 1902 Bulletin
The University of Nebraska Weather Bureau bulletin notes early fall frosts in 1902 amid promis ing corn yields and presents a table of first frost dates collected from Plattsmouth and multiple Nebraska stations. It outlines how frost dates vary across the state and references Dr. E Li Childs records for early years.
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University
Nebraska
Li Childs
Plattsmouth
Neb
Burglars Loot Wilsonville General Store Shoes
Burglars entered the T H Shoe Maker store in Wilsonville Nebraska and stole about fifty pairs of five star five brown men and women’s shoes with six ladies’ pairs also taken. Some pants and hats were removed as well. boxes left on shelves. The white house shoe bears a house picture. other shoes show five stars and price stamps on the sole.
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Surglars
Wilsonville
Neb
White House
Break in Missouri Miners Strike Near Higbee
A break in the northeast Missouri coal strike saw 250 miners at Higbee return to work after efforts by United Mine Workers Vice President Lewis, sent by President John Mitchell. Lewis will address 700 strikers at Novinger to urge return.
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Missouri
Higbee
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Novinger
Bryan Named as Executor in Idaho Coach Will
William Jennings Bryan is named as an executor of Philo S. Bennetts will after a conference with Probate Judge Cleaveland. Bennetts estate is about 300000. The will is offered next week and the judge waived the formal in court appearance.
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Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Philo S. Bennett
Idaho
New Haven
Conn
Cleaveland
Tragic Drowning at St Agnes Cemetery Pond Albany
Three girls from the St In dustrial school for orphans drowned in a pond at St Agnes cemetery Albany New York. Four girls were leaving an outing and built a raft from planks that sank in deep water. Drowned were Mary O'Brien nineteen Grace Burns eighteen and Mamie Green eighteen.
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St. Industrial School
St. Agnes’ Cemetery
Albany
N. Y
Mary O’brien
Grace Burns
Mamie Green
Wreck injures two in Union Traction collision near Oaklandon
Two seriously hurt and ten others slightly injured after Limited car No 255 collided head on with an express car on a curve near Oaklandon Indiana. Eliah Gray and Fed Simmons of Indianapolis were the most seriously injured while remaining passengers.
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Union Traction Company
Oaklandon
Ind
Eliah Gray
Soldier Bryson Killed at Fort Wright by Sentry
Sergeant L. G. Bryson of the Sec second company coast artillery at Fort H. G. Wright Fisher's Island Connecticut was instantly killed by a sentry ordered to arrest him for a disturbance. It is understood the sentry fired a loaded cartridge by accident instead of a blank and information is refused by the fort officer.
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L. G. Bryson
Coast Artillery
Fort
H G. Wright
Fisher's Island
Connecticut
Sen
Bryson
Heat Scorches Troops at Leipsic and Fires Ravage Neapolitan Village
Berlin reports two thousand troops marching near Leipsic suffered in a hot wave with many collapsing. In Rome, Sant Antimo near Naples was destroyed by fire leaving one woman dead and twelve injured while villagers are homeless.
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Berlin
Leipsic
Napoleon L
Germany
Rome
Sant Antimo
Naples
Powers Take Stand as Macedonian Crisis Intensifies
London dispatch reports the powers move toward action on Macedonia with possible Austrian and Russian occupation. Greece backs reestablishment of Greek presence in Macedonia, condemning Bulgarian revolutionists as dispossessing and threatening Christian populations while denying any political alliance.
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London
Francis Joseph
Macedonia
Austria
Russia
Associated Press
Bulgaria
Roumania
Servia
Constantinople
D. G. Metaxas
Court of St. James
Greece
Entitled to Fall Pay for Militia in Field Service
The War Department published a decision of the controller of the treasury holding that portions of organized militia engaging in field or camp service for instruction and militia units taking part in encampments maneuvers and field instruction near posts or coastal defenses are entitled to transportation allowances for the full period from departure from their home rendezvous to return home.
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War Department
the Treasury
United States
Wyoming Sheep Embargo Partially Lifts for Slaughter Shipments
The government lifts part of the Wyoming sheep embargo allowing shipments for slaughter under conditions. Sheep must be dipped twice if scabby or once if exposed, under joint state and Bureau of Animal Industry supervision, within ninety days prior to shipment. Direct shipments go to Denver Omaha Kansas City or Chicago without placards.
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Wyoming
Bureau of Animal Industry
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
Chicago
Four-masted schooner foundered near Rock Island lighthouse
A large four masted schooner foundered about five miles southeast of the Rock Island lighthouse near Rock Island Illinois at daylight. No trace of the crew was found though rescue by a passing vessel is possible. Dense fog believed to have caused a collision.
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Rock Island
Ill
Bound Over for Murder in Loup City Neb
Carl Deuster Hof is bound over to the district court in $5,000 on a charge of killing his wife around August 21. He pleaded not guilty after witnesses testified to a beating by her husband. bond is not thought improvable.
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Loup City
Neb
Carl Deusterhof
District Court
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W. A. Thomas
E. E. Lierly
Paxton
Harry C. McCarty
United States Census Bureau
Bush
Census Department
Auburn Herald
Nemaha County
J.K. Newman
Columbia
Pope
Vesuville
Othe Craer
Ministry of the Interior
Andrew Carnegie
New York
America
Paris
Oran
Algeria
Almoungar
Vauchez
Sidney
N.S. W
Earl and Countess of Lonsdale
Ventura
San Francisco
Leicester
England
Trades Union Congress
Messrs. Lawlor
Bethel, Conn
Max Hayes
Cleveland
Ohio
St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Sambak
Mok-Do
Circus
Young
Nebraskan
Stranger
Rascal
Common Sense
Joyce
Coal Trust
G.A. Loveland
Foreign News
Michigan
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