Nebraska Notes Abridged Rural Delivery and Local Incidents
The column compiles Nebraska updates including Cass County valuation at 1901 level, Arborville rural delivery, Humboldt fifth route, Greeley quarantine for smallpox, and a Bean Lake drowning. Reports detail Albion runa way injuries, York post office progress, Fremont school population 3217, Tecumseh threshing engine injury, and O Connor lightning fire. Additional items note Stan ton river drowning, Dellahunty wheat fire, and August rural free delivery expansion with 54 miles served to 1 025 people.
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Arborville
Humboldt
Weather and events mix of crops and crimes
Weather report notes hot week with heavy showers in eastern counties and above normal temperatures. Wheat harvests progress while chinch bugs hurt spring crops. corn generally grows well but is small for the season. Social and crime items include a prison sentence for Jesse Morrison, a fatal bomb blast in Denver, a Great Northern robbery, Hazen Pingree’s funeral, a St. Louis murder confession, and diplomat postings.
Miss Gillman Insane Half Sister of Millionaire
A New York dispatch reports Sheriff jury in the supreme court declared Miss Anna King Gillman insane. She is the half sister of George F. Gillman, tea merchant, with proceedings to protect her interest in his estate. Now sixty three, she is confined in a private English sanitarium after disappearing from Brooklyn in 1887 and being found ten years later in England. It is believed lawsuits contributed to her condition.
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New York
Supreme Court
Anna King Gillman
George F. Gillman
Gillman
England
Brooklyn
Burglary attempt ends in fatal nitro explosion
A would be bank burglar in Benton Wisconsin was blown to pieces when nitroglycerin in his hip pocket exploded after a trap door in a creamery fell during a break in. The blast tore his body apart.
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Benton Wis
Great Northern train robbers cornered in canyon fortress
In a deep canyon about sixty miles from Malta Montana and fifteen miles east of Rocky Point Sheriff Griffith has cornered the Great Northern train robbers. The canyon is a fortress with many caves providing protection for a standoff.
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Great Falls
Mont
Malta
Rocky Point
Missouri River
Griffith
Great Northern
Widow Receives Full Estate Under Generous Will
Mrs. Philip Armour of Chicago, acting through her attorney, declined one half of her late husband’s estate that was to be split with his wife and sister. By the sister’s generosity, the entire estate now goes to the widow.
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Philip Armour
Chicago
Armour
Two-thirds of Ledyard, Iowa Burned In Destructive Fire
A major fire destroyed about two thirds of Ledyard Indiana town causing roughly 50000 dollars in property loss. No lives were reported hurt. Authorities suspect boys playing with matches started the blaze.
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Iowa
Ledyard
News in Brief from Versailles Dispatch Distorted
Fragmentary item notes Versailles town events with garbled lines about Gentroyed by A Houghton dispatch. Mentions a date on the 6th but details are unclear and unreadable.
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Versailles
Simost
Houghton, Mich
Anow
Firemen Buried as Floor Collapse Hits Chicago Fire
Twelve firefighters were buried when a floor collapsed during a blaze at 192-98 Washington street, the Meins Heaney saloon and store fixtures. They were rescued by comrades. injuries were not serious. Property loss estimated around $50,000.
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Chicago
Washington Street
Meiis & Heaney
Boy Injured In Pony Accident At Plattsmouth
James Windham sixteen son of Hon. R B Windham suffered a fracture of the right arm when thrown from a pony at Plattsmouth Nebraska. His foot became caught in the stirrup and he was dragged a distance before the pony was stopped. The pony was frightened by a dog.
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James
R. B. Windham
Plattsmouth
Neb
Tragedy in Champaign Rail Yard Kills Two Men
Edward Harding of Urbana and Charles Harigan of Decatur were killed in the Illinois Central yards at Champaign. They were flipping cars and jumped in front of a moving locomotive.
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Edward Harding
Urbana
Charles Harigan
Decatur
Ilinois
Champaign
Hollander Minister Plans Resignation to Reach Manila?
J. P. Hollander treasurer of Porto Rico sailed from San Juan to New York aboard the steamer San Juan. Reports say he will resign as treasurer and may travel to Manila to pursue a tax law similar to laws enacted for Porto Rico.
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J. P. Hollander
Porto Rico
San Juan
New York
Porto Rican Education and Voting Literacy Gap
Major J. P. Sanger surveys Porto Rico to measure literacy as a voting test. He finds only 25 percent of native-born males of voting age and 24 percent of all voting-age males would qualify as literate voters. Among 201,071 voting-age males, 59 percent are Porto Rican whites, 36 percent colored, and the rest foreign-born. White literate counts and the foreign-born share concentrate in San Juan and Ponce, altering suffrage balance.
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J. P. Sanger
Inspector General's Department
United States Army
Porto Rico
Spain
San Juan
Ponce
Sir Noel Paton Celebrates Seventy Eighth Birthday
Sir Noel Paton, knighted in 1867, marks his seventy eighth year. A painter and poet, he studied at the Royal Academy in 1843 and became an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1850. His Edinburgh home at George Square hosts a renowned arms and armor collection.
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Noel Paton
Scotland
Noel
Royal Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
Sir Noel Paton
George Square
Edinburgh
Walt Scott
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