Nebraska Notes A Busy Ledger Of Local Calamities And Ventures
The Creston flouring mill burned and a York livery barn was destroyed by lightning. Falls City church dedicated. Clarkson sugar beet crop praised. Ruskin groom Hugh James badly injured by a stallion. Holt county cattle shipment of 1000 Texas head. New Bat tle Creek bank planned with $10 000 capital. Ashland quarry blast hurled Roy Dean 30 feet, no bones broken. St Edward Sun news firm Kennedy & Disher dissolves, S J Kennedy takes control. Bancroft Blade launches volume thirteen with delayed press. West Point cadet Jerome Langer receives a ceremonial sword. Governor Savage to tour the Black Hills. A five year old hurt by a horse. neck dislocated. Frank McDodle injured from a fall at Adams. Game law inquiries grow. 16 000 more copies printed. J J Riley dies in Alliance from head wound. Tramp found locked in Chadron box car. in famine. State Treasurer Stuefer reports cash from New York government depository via Bartley.
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Long Pine
Neb
Chadron
Stuefer
Government Depository
New York
National Bank
Y J
S. Bartley
Death on the Rock Island tracks near Lincoln Neb
Byron Chevront is killed by a northbound Rock Island freight in the Lincoln Nebraska yards. Investigators note possible drunkenness and dispute whether it was accidental or murder. Coroner Graham and Sgt Snell examine the scene and morgue holds Chevront’s body.
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Rock Island
Byron Chevront
Lincoln
Neb
Snell
Graham
Chevront
W. W. Cross
Balti more & Ohio Workmen Rioted in North Baltimore
A section gang tearing up a street triggered a riot in North Baltimore Ohio as about 200 merchants and prominent residents attacked the workers with stones and clubs. A guard stood by until workers returned to the job, then the water from the village fire engine was used to repel them.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore
Lutherans Ban Rag Time Music in Wisconsin Synod
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutherans of the Missouri Synod adopt resolutions at Milwaukee prohibiting member participation in public entertainment where rag-time music is played. The Missouri Synod covers most of the United States and plans to urge other districts to follow the Wisconsin district’s lead.
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Pats
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutherans
Missouri Synods
Milwaukee
United States
Wisconsin
Lincoln minister named to state board of education
Governor Savage appoints Rev. L. P. Ludden of Lincoln Nebraska to the state board of education for a five year term beginning July or August he succeeds Joseph E LeMaster of Tecumseh Ludden has long been active in educational work and in the state educational association and has served on Lincoln city board of education for years
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Savage
Rev
L. P. Ludden
Lincoln
Neb
State Board of Education
Joseph E. LeMaster
Tecumseh
Ludden
State Eduational Association
Board of Education
City of
Ranch man William Reynolds reported dying in Nebraska
Via Bassett Nebraska word comes that William Reynolds a ranch man fifteen miles northwest of Springview is dying from a four ounce dose of laudanum. No further details available. Reynolds is survived by a wife and five children.
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Bassett, Neb
Wm. Reynolds
Springview
Salesman Slashes Throat in Luddington Tragedy
John Haller a traveling salesman in Luddington Michigan attempted suicide with a razor. He nearly severed his head and died leaving a wife and one child. The deceased was a Mason. Benson a Chicago fish dealer is named in the report.
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Luddington, Mich
John Haller
Benson
Chicago
Japan and California Population Gap Highlighted
Japan has a population of 44,000,000 while its cultivable land is limited to about one twelfth of its area, compared with California.
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Japan
California
Mrs Funston Returns From Manila Voyage
The transport Logan reached San Francisco with the Forty-fourth volunteers and six companies of the Thirty-eight. Among the passengers was Mrs Funston. Two deaths occurred during the voyage among the troops.
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Logan
San Francisco
Manila
Funston
Musham Named Chicago Fire Chief After Forty Years
William H. Musham is promoted from first assistant fire marshal to chief of the Chicago fire department after Mayor Harrison submits the name and the council confirms the appointment to succeed Dennis Sweney.
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Chicago Fire Department
William H. Musham
Harrison
Dennis Sweney
Maniac Kills Mother in Michigan Farm Domestic Tragedy
Rolla Spears of Wayne Mich attacked his mother Mrs Magginson on a farm with a knife. She died later from wounds. Spears, described as afflicted by spells of insanity for three years, was found wandering in the woods and taken to the asylum.
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Rolla Spears
Wayne
Mich
Farmer Discovers Mutilated Man's Body in Whitewood Creek
A farmer near Crook City South Dakota found an unidentified man’s body in Whitewood Creek with a crushed head and gruesome injuries. The motive and identity remain unknown.
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Crook City
Whitewood Creek
Sheriff Escorts Couple After Arrest in Minneapolis
William Plummer and his wife were arrested in Minneapolis on Friday and handcuffed to each other as they were taken into custody. Sheriff C. W. Jackson and Captain J. B. Richards watched over the pair during their transfer to Sioux City Iowa.
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William Plummer
Minneapolis
Sioux City
C. W. Jackson
J. B. Richards
Police Department
Kansas City Five Rejects National Live Stock Exchange
The Kansas City stock exchange votes 71 to 91 to decline joining the National Live Stock Exchange headquartered in Chicago.
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Kansas City Five Stock Exchange
National Live Stock Exchange
Chicago
Italian Tenor De Marchi Engaged by Maurice Grau
A London dispatch reports tenor De Marchi, after his Covent Garden debut Saturday night, has been engaged by Maurice Grau for the upcoming U S opera season.
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London
Covent Garden
de Marchi
Maurice Grau
United States
Passenger Jumps Overboard from Furnessia
The Furnessia arriving at Glasgow reports Richard Walke a West Virginia lawyer jumped overboard June 20 and drowned after departure from New York on June 15.
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Furnessia
New York
Glascow
Richard Walke
West Virginia
Son of Sitting Ball Becomes Philadelphia Bootblack
Montezuma, eldest son of Sioux chief Sitting Ball, prospers as a bootblack in Philadelphia. He and his wife Winonah, both full-blood Sioux, are known as Mr and Mrs Harry Parker in the Quaker City. He is Carlisle Indian School educated and has saved money and owns a nice home.
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Sitting Ball
Montezuma
Philadelphia
Winonah
Quaker City
Harry Parker
Carlisle
Fattening Partridges by Electric Light Scheme
A dubious inventor proposes fattening partridges by housing them in a dark cellar with electric lights. When the lights are raised, the birds mistake it for morning and eat five or six times in the afternoon.
Broncho the horse to retire after years of service
The Newark board of health will retire Broncho the horse, bought for $15 six years ago. The animal has saved many lives by producing $9,000 worth of antitoxin and is now deemed past its usefulness.
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Newark Board of Health
Aged residents of Barra record long lives and recent deaths
The Island of Barra earns fame for longevity as a Barra correspondent lists aged residents who died recently. Notables include Peter Macintosh of Gangston at 113 and Mrs Murdoch Cameron of Barra at 111.
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Barra
Peter Macintosh
Gangston
Murdoch Cameron
The Irish Hunt Corps Mobilised for South Africa
The Irish Hunt Corps formed part of the Imperial Yeomanry was mobilised in Dublin on January 13 1900 and sailed March 13 for South Africa where, upon arrival, it joined the Thirteen Battalion. In its first clash with the Boers thirteen corps members were killed and the rest surrendered.
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Irish Hunt Corps
Imperial Yeomanry
Dublin
South Africa
Cape
Pie Crust Trick Keeps Boiled Fillings Smooth
Instructions describe lining a paste shell with flour before baking to protect a crust for boiled fillings like cream pie peach filling or apple meringue. After baking the flour dusts away cleanly and can become browned flour for gravies.
Recovery of Ambrose McKay after Dodds Kidney Pills
Rockbridge Missouri June 24 Ambrose McKay a Mason and well known citizen recovered from years of Diabetes and Rheumatism after trying Dodds Kidney Pills The remedy eased his pain and he praises its value The note ends with an unrelated political quip and a fish story reference.
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Rockbridge
Pack Ritae Lodge
A. F
Ambrose McKay
McKay
Dodds
Bright
Dodd
Missouri
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Ostrome
York
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Clarkson
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M. W. Flannigan
Holt County
Battle Creek
Norfolk
Ashland
Roy Dean
Bancroft Blade
Jerome F. Langer
West Point
Co. C. University
Governor Savage
Frank McDodle
N. C. Shaw
Adams
J. J. Riley
Montana
Alliance
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Mr. Ludden
Ranachman
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Musham
Maniac
Mother
Kansas City
Jonah
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