Whittling Bound Over In Post Office Robbery Scheme
Junction City Kansas on Monday Whittling bound over to the United States grand jury on a charge of complicity in a Morrill Kansas post office robbery. Federal officers say he led a gang that robbed banks in Kansas and Nebraska for years and shared proceeds through post office money orders. Several sheriffs are said to be implicated in aiding the gang as described by U S officers.
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Junction City
Kan
United States Grand Jury
Morrill
Whistling
Kansas
Nebraska
Uited
Colorado
United States
Clash Possible Between Federal and Wyoming on Indian Troubles
Dispatch from Cheyenne reports a potential clash as Indian affairs officials seek the release of detained Indians at Edmont. An Indian agent cites an unlawful killing of seven Indians in Converse County by a sheriff and posse while they traveled with families. Interior Department requests Wyoming governor protect those under arrest as Special Agent Mc Nichol is sent to investigate.
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Wyoming
Rays
Cheyenne
Wyo
Goyv.Chatterton
Edgemont
S. 1
Chatterton
Brennan
Converse County
Secretary of the Interior
Bing
McNichol
GUILTY OF HAZING DURING ANNAPOLIS COURT MARTIAL
Testimony in Annapolis Md. court martial says Fourth Classmen hazed two midshipmen. Accused Jain H Lot Jagd of Oskaloosa Iowa Joseph D. Little of Springfield Illinois and Earle W. Chaffee of Rhineland Wisconsin confined aboard the prison ship at the naval academy wharf. A decision not expected until next week.
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Annapolis
Annapolia
First Claga
Jain H. Lot Jagd
Oskaloosa
Joseph JD. Little
Springfeld, Q
Earle W. Chaffee
Rhineland
Wis
W. Lawrence
Colorado
Churchill Humphreys
Kentucky
Mairsday
Santec Ot
Naval Academy
Explosion at U S Naval Arsenal Kills Six In New York
An explosion at the U S naval arsenal on Long Island New York killed six workers and injured ten as explosive charges were drawn from old shells. Three shell houses were destroyed and debris shattered windows as far as Peekskill. Fire followed, with marines battling blasts while medical teams from West Point Peekskill and Havenstraw aided the injured.
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United States Naval Arsenal
Lona Island
N. Y
Massachusetts
Peekskill
Buildi Nes
Naval Ordnance Department
Fred Ward
Jonnge Moorehead
Tompkins
Fred O. Locke
Patrick Curran
Fred Browns
James Connolly
Lynchers Indicted Over Belleville Lynching of Teacher
St Clair County grand jury returned eleven secret indictments in the June lynching of David Wyatt, a negro school teacher. Wyatt shot County Superintendent Tertel after denial of a teaching certificate renewal. Seventy-nine witnesses testified. names withheld until service.
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St. Clair County
Grand Jury
Belleville
Til
Grand
David Wyatt
Wyatt
Tertel
Pergins
Panama City Revolt Seizes Control Amid Shelling
Panama falls to revolutionists as government forces fail to retake the city. The Bogota gunboat fired shells after independence declaration but caused no casualties or major damage. Colon remains orderly and trains cross the isthmus without interruption as Panama postures with a new flag of red white and blue.
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Panama
Bogota
Colon
Pamuna
New Republic
Santa Fe Railroad Offers 5000 Reward for Wreckers
The Santa Fe Railroad posts a five thousand dollar reward for evidence leading to the conviction of those responsible for wrecking train No 6 on October 30. The reward aims to deter train holdups, noting no fatalities occurred, in a campaign expected to yield results in the western county.
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Santa Fe
Chicago
Santa Ino
Streetcar Collision Kills One in Kansas City
A foggy incident on the Twelfth Street incline near Union Depot left one person dead and nineteen injured, four perhaps fatally. Most hurt were girl clerks en route to downtown stores, with slippery tracks blamed for the collision of two cable cars. Nearby reports mention two assassinations in Loudun and a man’s suicide after a murder in Florence Township, Michigan, plus a Breubenville accident involving an Australian.
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Kansas City
Twelfth Street
Union Depot
Panama Seeks Independence From Colombia Featured
A Panamanian independence movement sparked by an uprising on Tuesday led to arrests of Colombian generals and a large armed crowd. Reports cited a government cabinet planned by consuls, with Panama and Colon centers in flux as U.S. cables and naval orders sought to maintain order and travel on the railway line.
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Colombia
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L’anama
Colon
State Department
Washington
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Navy Department
Department
Indicted in Belleville grand jury session on lynching case
The Belleville grand jury adjourned after a busy session returning eleven secret indictments in the lynching of a Negro schoolteacher, David Wyatt. Wyatt shot County Superintendent Letter while the superintendent refused to certify a teacher. Indicted individuals’ names are withheld and capital charges served.
War and labor woes sweep early Korea and Chicago
Reports from Chemulpo show clashes between Russian and Japanese sailors with several injured as tensions flare in Korea. In Chicago, 500 canners’ strike leaves meat packers idle while oil well fires claim two lives in Baldwyn Indiana and the National Oil Supply Company suffers burns. A Hamburg America freight Batavia will carry coal to Russia as rail and industrial stoppages ripple across Europe and America.
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Themulpo
Korea
Tokio
London Daily Mail
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Bohr
Chiyoma
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
National Oil Supply Company
Baldwin
Ind
Charles Jackway
Orin Dickinson
H. C. Rhodes
Des Moines Saloon Brawl Ends in Fatal Wounds
Daniel Higgins kolfed to neath after altercation with Thomas Ward in the Vance saloon Des Moines. Ward stabbed Higgins in the breast and twisted the knife before bar staff restrained Ward. Higgins, a printer, died at Mercy hospital. Ward jailed. fight arose from drunken quarrel.
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Thomas Ward
Des Moines
Higgins
Ward
Tantel Higgins
Vance
East Whird
Cent Avenue
Mmbody
Mercy Hospital
Firth and
Raccoon Streets
Kansasity
Father Nugent
Dannie Higwing
Young Higging
Jows Printing Company
J. M. Kinbody
Murder case at Swem Gaslight Plant
John Rush, president of Swem Gaslight Manufacturing Company in Waterloo, was brutally assaulted at his plant on Monday morning and died Tuesday after regaining consciousness he identified no suspect. He stated he was attacked while investigating noises in the building and explained the assailant used a short gun pipe. Authorities have no definite clue yet.
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John Rush
Waterloo
Hib Aasanit
Swem Gaslight Manufacturing Company
Rush
Father of Child Alleged in Waterloo Case Arrested
After six weeks of work Sheriff W. M. Law tracked down and arrested Miller of Barclay Township. His adopted daughter Angelina, age 18, gave birth to a baby on Wednesday. She and the infant are under medical care and expected to recover. The girl named Miller as the father when questioned. The Miller family, once respected in the neighborhood, faced scrutiny as the confession surfaced.
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Waterloo
W. ML. Law
Rank Miller
Barclay Township
Miller
Angelina
Inect
Waterloon
Thew
Wreck Delays Trains After Fog Binds Stock Valley Yard
Valley engineer William Long of Sanborn is badly scalded when freight No. 06 collides with train No. 4 in Stock Valley yards amid dense fog. Fireman uninjured, three No.4 caboose passengers jump to safety. No.64 stood on main line. incoming train failed to stop in time.
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William Long
Milwaukee
Stock Valley
Sanborn
Cannon to Entertain at Capital Home in New Era
Washington society buzzes over Joseph G. Cannon set to host in a grand, western hospitality filled residence. Helen Cannon, his daughter, credited with shaping the social season amid a shift in political influence and Democratic tastes at the new Speaker’s house. In pension news, reforms stall for five years due to back pensions, while 200,000 Union soldiers have not yet applied. Roosevelt celebrates his 45th birthday and adapts to executive efficiency as Durand named British ambassador to Washington replacing Herbert.
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House of Reprsentatives
Capital
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Misa Cannon
H. Cannon
Duoville
Mez
DcMajos
Thomas D. Yeager
Kunoton
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
Ite
Henry Mortimer Durand
Michael Herbert
Henry Fo
Spain
Pertia
Lord Roberts
Cabul
Wos
India
H. M. Durand
Lord Dufferin
Mandalay
Thibet
Mystery in a Shooting Near Iowa Falls
Iowa Falls area reports a young man, Joe Stonebreaker, badly wounded with a chest bullet, found in his room after a theater outing with two companions. His survival chance is reported at one in a hundred. The trio, all drinking, refuses to speak, leaving whether the wound was self-inflicted or accidental unresolved.
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Iowa Fallin
Joe Stonebreaker
Iowa
Falla
Stonebreaker
Ratienal
Sheldon State Bank Closes As Receivers Appointed
State Railroad Commissioner Brown, who is president of the bank, and Harl W. Brown cashier, preside over a closure posted at the Sheldon State Bank. A temporary receiver is named, with depositors to be paid on court order. Judge Gaynor at Sibley and attorney W. L. Boies represent stockholders. Liabilities run about 175000 with assets near 225000.
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Brown
Sheldon State Bank
EC. Brown
Harl W. Brown
Gaynor
Sibley
W. 2. Boies
W. Rt. Ady
Shelton
Sioux City School Board Probes Coal Contracts
Sioux City officials grapple with alleged improper coal deals involving The Iowa Fuel Company and Olaf Nyström. Officials face scrutiny over a 0.50 per ton Scranton screened anthracite contract while town offices note 414 Court Street. John Erickson serves as city street commissioner. Nyström, board member and re-election candidate, holds secretary treasurer roles.
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Sioux City
Iowa Fuel Company
Olaf Nystrom
Mud. Trenamer
Town Fuel Company
Court Street
John Erickson
Lat Nystrom
Board of Supervisory
Still Has Murder in Heart Alleged Pardon Motive
Mrs. Lomack, recently divorced from the colored preacher, alleges in a statement to Governor Cunnah that Al McKinney, imprisoned for shooting Lomack as he walked with Mrs. McKinney before the preacher’s marriage, seeks a pardon to kill the preacher and marry her again.
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al McKinney
Mra
C.tomack
Des Moines
Cunnah
Thue
Lomack
Boy shoots visitor at Lvoe home in storm lake incident
A four year old boy visiting the Koell home in Storm Lake was shot when a boy of similar age took his father's loaded gun and fired through the cheek. The wound caused a deep gash but the injured child is reported to be recovering and in pain. Separate reports note a fire at a Denison hotel gutting upper floors with three thousand seven hundred dollars insurance and unknown cause, burglary at Rock Valley involving stolen fur goods, and a life sentence for Thomas C. Robinson after a jury verdict.
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Goce
Storm Lake
Fohn A. Koell
Denison
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