Kansas News Briefs Highlight Floods Taxes and Pardon
Hutchinson and Topelsa host concurrent jubilees as rain and floods strike several towns. Rail washouts west of Salina, Strong City farm damage, and four feet of water in St Marys. May district receipts reach 47017.45. Coffeyville fuel factory burn causes 20000 loss with 10000 insurance. Governor pardons Car ne Nation after paying fines. Multiple civic and educational notes follow including deaths, school changes, and river flood impacts across Kansas.
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Coffeyville
Elias Hahn
Minnesota
Western Theological Seminary
Atchison
EB. Arnold
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Reading
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Concordia
ILC Loomis
Washington
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Renling
Marinas Des Cygnes
Kussas
Lawrence
Nanate Ears Onf
MrPhierson
Abilene
Cuffeysille
Bulh
Sumner
Cowley
Okahoma
Florence
Marion
Greenwood County
Ness City
Augusta Crichson
Oxage City
Butler, Mo
Beach News
Caldwell
Shawnee County
Parsons
Ottawa
Marias Des Cygnes
John Doyle
Santa Fe
Fort Leavenworth
Topeka
Y. M. CA
Helton
Freddie and Freddie in a Bleeker Lane fire tragedy
A young girl known as Fleddis and her terrier Freddie perish in a winter blaze on Bleeker Lane. Fire consumes a ramshackle three story house as the dog guards his mistress. The girl, barefoot and shivering, risks the flames to save Freddie, but both perish in the inferno. The scene captures a neighborly sacrifice amid a fatal fire.
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Blecker Lane
Bleeker Lane
Freddis
Proddie
Sho
Freddia
Dr. Palmer Dies at 84 in New Orleans Presbyterian Leader
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Morgan Palmer a renowned Presbyterian minister aged 84 died at his New Orleans home after paralysis following injuries from being struck by a streetcar. His doctors say age and accident compounded his condition and he might have lived longer otherwise.
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Palmer
New Orleans
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
New Or
Leana
Scarce duplicates of Declaration of Independence valued higher
The Philadelphia Record notes that while facsimiles were common years ago, duplicates are now scarce. The original remains in the State Department in Washington and is nearly illegible. James D. McBride made plates and secured a copyright in 1874, but they were destroyed by fire, leaving existing copies to rise in value.
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Recemus
Philadelphia
Nearers
Department of State
Washington
James D. McBride
Philadelphia Record
Lieut Olaf H Rask Dies in Philippines
Secretary Moody reports Rear Admiral Wildes cables that Lieut Olaf H Rask of the Marine Corps died of cholera at Bucoor on the 29th and was buried there. A Minnesota native, he joined the Marine Corps in October 1899 and had served on the Asiatic station since December.
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Marine Corps
Philippines
Moody
Ada Gray the East Lynne Actress Destitute and Ill
Miss Ada Gray once famed for East Lynne has been found destitute and ill in a City Island cottage. Disabled for years since retirement, she now stays in Fordham Hospital and will be helped by the Actors' Fund. She married actor and writer Charles Tingay.
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Ada Gray
East Lynne
City Island
New York
Miss Gray
America
Egat Lynne
Charles Tingay
Mrs Colclough Charts Central Africa Expedition
Mrs Emma Shaw Colclough a noted clubwoman and writer sails for a daring Central Africa expedition. Described as tall, energetic and fearless she is renowned for Cuba war period dispatches and hopes to reveal regions no woman has visited. A separate court filing requests citizen Irvin Pfiehl change name to Folmer to escape punning confusion.
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Emma Shaw Colclough
Central Africa
Coleleigh
Rvin Pfiehl
West Pittston
Folmer
Does Bannockburn Still Gall The Highlanders Question Time
In a House of Commons scene four notices referenced the alleged order to swap kilts for trews in Highland regiments. Col Denny pressed the War Secretary as Gaels cheered, while the minister insisted kilts stay for dress with khaki coverings on active service. William Allan warned of tartan abolition as a tactic for revenge. The debate reflected tensions over Highland identity and war office policy amid South Africa service.
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House of Commons
Denny
Kilmarnock
William Allan
War Office
Get Rid of Loaded Shell Near Stevensville Va
A farmer near Stevensville Virginia plowed up an old shell. He piled combustibles around it and sparked it before fleeing with his mules to safety. The explosion was slow to occur but was heard for five miles by a local newspaper man reporting the event.
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Stevensville
Queen Alexandra's Platinum Diamond Opera Glasses
One of the world’s costliest opera glasses belongs to Queen Alexandra, made in Vienna for her use. The barrel is platinum and adorned with diamonds sapphires and rubies. An expert estimates the lorgnette’s value around 25000 dollars.
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Queen Alexandra
Vienna
Spiritualism barred in Prague fines and imprisonment
Prague authorities condemn a man to pay a four mark fine and a week in prison for practicing spiritualism. The Governor General orders that future participants in spiritualistic seances face prison without the option of a fine.
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Prague
Austria
Hatless Woman In Public Attracts Strong Replies At Sea
Fragmentary report notes a Brittany coast fishing craft called dranguel used by fishers. A later line hints at a controversial public arraignment of a hatless woman, named Jess Dunst by some sources, amid a grim scene at a grave for Bret Harte where two wreaths are laid.
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Brittany
Jess Dunst
Long Journey Bypasses Andes for Lima Trip
Maria San of Iquitos Brazil plans to move to Lima Peru. She travels 500 miles as the crow flies but goes down the Amazon to the Atlantic coast, then steamer to New York, across to the Pacific coast of South America. The three month voyage avoids crossing the Andes during Selamon's reign.
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Iquitos
Brazil
Lima
Peru
Abe
Amazon
Atlantic
New York
Pansme
Pacific
South America
Andes
Packards threaten to curb return of strike leaders
Turbulent stockyards district sees a compromise end to the meat teamsters strike but packers reportedly refuse to rehire leaders. Discharged men claim union activity led to their dismissal. officials deny it while stockyard union sees potential broad walkout if reinstatement is refused. A.W. Leonard to decide, else 5,000 butchers may strike. Galveston reports Martinique Mont Pelee shows power with pumice, whale oil odor noted by County Clerk Kuhnel.
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Unio
Grmes
Butchers Union
A. W. Leonard
Union Stockyards Company
Galveston
Tex
Mont Pelee
Martinique
Hus
Beauty County
Kuhnel
Martinque
Volcanic Islands
International and domestic notes from June reports
Washington signs a twelve month protocol extending ratifications of the Danish West Indies treaty allowing summer adjournment. Argentina plans to recruit Boers to emigrate, offering free transport. A Nebraska cloudburst floods Courtland and nearby towns causing severe damage. Western labor groups embrace socialism and political action, with a Denver building trades strike called off amid council actions. New York antitrust injunction targets beef packing firms restraining trade in the state.
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Hay
Bards
Denver
Col
Trades Council
Iim
New York
Albany
Supreme Court
Chester
Hills City
Troy
Pilekly
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