Van Wyck Dies After Prolonged Illness in Portland Flats
Ex United States senator Charles H. Van Wyck of Nebraska died at 4 50 p m in his Portland flats apartment after a stroke of apoplexy He was born in 1824 at Poughkeepsie New York and served as district attorney in Sullivan County He represented New York twice in Congress and later served in the Senate before moving to Nebraska He was noted as an ardent foe of corporations and a patron of the arts His widow and a daughter survive and the remains will be moved to Milford Pennsylvania for burial Saturday at Gettlin burial grounds
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Wanurseros
Cberles H. van Wyck
Nebraska
Portland Flats
Charles Henry van Wyck
Pouirbkepsie
Rutgers
Sid
Penteanion
Sullivan County
N.Y
Tenth Legion
New York
McClelin
Peninsus
Congress
van Wyck
van Wyele
Gromshhead
Pennsylvania
Augustus Mroadhead
India
van Wye
Remins
Telen
Milford
Gettily
Russian Fleet Moves Toward Corean Strategic Points
Washington diplomats report a Russian squadron heading toward Fusen and Won San in Corea. The ships, seen as a potentially grave development, are near the sheltering harbor that could become a terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway. The movement is watched closely for its implications of broader regional power.
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Vasuryores
Corea
Far East
Fusen
Japan
Won San
Hroughton
Fort Lasorets
Russia
Supreme Court rules for Maxwell Land Grant Co in Taos heirs suit
The New Mexico Supreme Court has finality in favor of the Maxwell Land Grant Company over a twelfth interest in Maxwell lands valued at 8509,000. The case, rooted in Governor Charles ent’s family and the Taos 1847 revolution, has dragged through courts for over thirty years. The decision quiets the title in the Maxwell Company and ends the dispute.
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New Mexico
Maxell Lant Grant Company
Bent Heirs
Maxwell
Railway Casualties After Wreck on the Martington Flyer
A Burlington Denver St Louis express struck a defective switch near Waldron Missouri at 7 46 last evening causing the mail baggage one chair car and the smoker to derail. The engine and two cars stayed on the rails. Several passengers sustained injuries including Hearn in Kansas City Moore of Ninth Street theater and Fregeang of Leavenworth. The train ran twenty one minutes behind schedule with Engineer Magia striving at sixty to sixty five miles per hour.
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Rhassas Crry
Burlington
Kansas City
James Hearn
Kansas
Sieg Mo
St. Joseph
Warr Farel
An. Mo
Charles M. Moore
Ninth Street Theater
J. S. Caldnee
Henry Fregeang
Leavenworth
Raw
Jon H. Hartzell
Chicago
G. H. Christ
C. Rupave
Magia
Poor Old Soldier Escapes At Leavenworth Station
John M Estvy an insane old soldier at Leavenworth home escaped shortly after arrival. Telegrams said he was at Atchison then rumors spread of a jump from a train near Cummings. Police and lodge members reported guarding him as he fled toward a train.
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John M. Estvy
Keith
Leavenworth
Atebison
Cummings
Atelison
Fuley
Atehison
Poley
Joole Port Ge B. Und
Topeka
Fox
Bora
Kansan Veterans Dispute State Census Figures
Bernard Kelly and other old soldiers challenge the Kansas State Board of Agriculture census listing 5,001 union veterans. Kelly contends Kansas hosts 60,000 to 70,000 veterans, noting Shawnee and Lincoln counties exceed published counts and citing Post members and 17,000 in G A B. He faults the state tally as inaccurate. Captain T. A. Stover echoes disbelief, recalling 106,000 veterans earlier and questioning secretary of state figures.
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Berard Kelly
Kizhe
Kansas
Banner Soldiers
Cow- Tey County
T. & Stover
Atste
Io Grand Army
Kaneas
Secretary of State Board of Agriculture
Has He Promised a Veto On Cuban Aid Story
Washington notes a Madrid dispatch via Vienna alleging the president pledged to veto any congressional action favorable to Cuba. The claim is stated as unlikely and not probable, seen as an attempt to bolster Cuban revolutionary sentiment. Separately, a rear end railroad collision in Hype Pang Massachusetts killed one and seriously injured a congressman Elijah A Morse among twelve hurt. In Des Moines Ruthven express crash with a switch engine at Valley Junction Iowa killed Mrs Mary Hills and injured Lee Gibson and Frank English.
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Cuba
Wasarsetos
Washington
Madrid
Vienna
Congress
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Siloo m
Elijah A. ‘Morse
Des Mores
Iowa
Valley Junction
Rock Island
Mary Hillshouse
Burlington
Lee Gibson Frank English
Arrested for Causing Wreck in Martinsburg
Mexico Missouri October 25 L B Julian conductor of the fast freight train responsible for the Martinsburg wreck was arrested on criminal negligence charges filed by Wabash officials. He is held on 8500 bond for appearance next Wednesday.
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Mexico
L. B. Julian
Martinsburg
Wabash
Julian
Prohibition domes in Kansas and Iowa politics
Ex Governor John P. St John of Kansas critiques state laws and national cues on prohibition. He urges stronger statewide prohibition in Iowa and praises Kansas as resisting saloon influence, citing church presence and few drinkers. He comments on Harrison, Allison, and McKinley’s presidential prospects amid tariff debates.
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Kansas
Drs Morxxa
John P. St John
Bia
Iowa
Davenport
Dubuque
Olathe
Laws
Fort Scott
Tadner
Republican Party
Geral Harrison
Allison
Qusy
United States
Harrison
McKinley
Oslo
German agrarian party seen menacing US producers
United States Consul Dekay in Berlin reports the rise of Germanys agrarian party and its threat to US farmers and manufacturers. He cautions against retaliation, believing punitive measures would harm the United States more than the party.
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WaswineTax
State Department
United States
Dekay
Berlin
Germany
Ubi
Nicholson liquor law deemed constitutional by police court
Judge Cox ruled the Nicholson liquor law constitutional in a test case. Frederick Brandt, who runs a restaurant with an attached bar, faced the prohibition on entry to saloons at prohibited hours by nonkeepers and their families. An appeal may follow as the court notes a related prior month ruling had declared the section unconstitutional.
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Ixprawatoris
Cox
Frederick Brandt
Stubba
Sixty Armenians Killed in Erzingan Bloodshed
Fragmentary despatch reports heavy fighting near Erzingan with Armenian deaths and dislocation. Other lines note population counts and a Berlin gender imbalance, mentioning Erzingan and Berlin dates and figures in a terse, chaotic OCR style.
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Wis
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Sareea Cent
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Pruraia
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