Moonshiners End in Honest Paths After Traitor Revealed
In the Great Smoky mountains a moonshining gang is betrayed by Branagan and nearly hangs Cameron Swift. Ian MacAlister shoots Branagan, exposing Branagan’s bribe and Branagan’s role as informant. The gang learns Swift helped, and May Alister reforms, taking a railroad job. Lucy Swift marries Ian.
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Branagan
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Swift
Ian
MacAlister
John Hanson
Lan
United States Treasury
Missouri boodle probe profiles Kerens nomination
Chas T. Smith of St. Louis testified before the grand jury for forty five minutes in the Missouri case. He was active in the Republican caucus fight to nominate Colonel BR Kerens for United States senator to succeed George G West. Prosecutors allege money was used to secure the caucus nomination while Smith said he did not see money but knew federal position promises were offered to win votes for opponents.
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Kerens Smith
Kerens
Light Frost Sweeps Illinois Area Reported
Freeport Illinois September 19 elect frost covered the region with minimal damage.
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Freeport
Illinois
Western Union Underwriters Cut Whisky Bond Insurance Rates
Insurance rates on bonded whisky were reduced zero percent by the Western Union Fle Underwriters in a Toronto session. J. W. Walker was arrested in Chicago charged with luring young women to invest in fictitious ventures. Illinois Manufacturers’ Association invited Joseph Chamberlain to Chicago for an address. The yacht Red Dragon with nine aboard was lost in an Atlantic gale off New York. Emperor William I arrived at Vienna to visit Emperor Francis Joseph.
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Toronto
J. W. Walker
Chicago
Ollinois Manufacturers’ Association
Horn Joseph Chamberlain
Ohicago
Red Dragon
Atlantic
New York
Emperor William of Germany
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Notorious Foreign Legion Draws Merciless Review
The death penalty is described for a private who throws his cap at a captain in Oran illustrating the corps harsh discipline. Officers may shoot at sight and legions recruit from outcasts across Europe with brutal consequences for insubordination. The legion, a voluntary French unit, has served against Arabs and leads frontline combat.
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Oran
Europe
London Chronicle
Belgium
Spain
America
Italy
Foreign Legion
Grass snake superstition and a near Malvern tale
A London correspondent cites grass snake folklore, noting beliefs that the harmless reptile cannot die at sunset or if one does not tell of the deed. A laborer reports killing a grass snake near Leigh Linton, Malvern, with local reactions including a brutal reaction and urging to tell others.
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Leigh Linton
Malvern
London
Curious Toad Poison Myth and Columbus Ancestry Tale
The passage mixes a tale of a toad killed by a predatory creature with a discussion of dangers of poisonous beliefs. It then shifts to Columbus relatives in Spain relying on American fortunes, citing a statistic that $1 invested at six percent for 400 years would grow to billions, a remark possibly intended as a pun by Lyman J. Gage the treasury secretary.
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Columbus
Columbua
Spain
United States
Lyman J. Gage
Treasury
Ilis
Clerical clashes and giant insects in old notes
A boyhood church memory recalls a frequent clash between minister and choir over reverence and age. The piece also highlights the long stick insect of Borneo, thirteen inches, mimetic coloring, and a six and a half inch dragonfly specimen from the same region.
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Borneo
Horneo
Turnpike Sailors and the Notion of the Ocean Tramp
A London Spectator discussion explains the term turnpike sailor as a local label for itinerant beggars and roaming laborers known as tramps. It contrasts with ocean tramp. describes their wandering lifestyle, poverty, intermittent lodging, and the social image of these itinerants including their companions and frequent lack of rent payment.
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Mayhew
London
Mariner
London Spectator
Speaks for a Canal Wants the Treaty Ratified
Panama news reports Governor Obaldia taking office amid demonstrations as Panama backs the canal treaty. World interests demand the canal’s construction and the installation of officers aligned with General Reyes’ presidential bid. Colombia sets election timing with December first Sunday elections planned.
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United States
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Nlarentine Ceonaga
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Senate
Rafael Reyes
Marcelina Arango
Enrique Navats
Cutiermo Torres
Vincento Omana
Colobia Mach Municipal
Eruption Report Notes Vesuvius Slow Diminishing
The Atchison Globe quotes critique of empty talk while reporting that Mount Vesuvius eruption activity is gradually subsiding. The brief item juxtaposes social rhetoric with natural event as authorities monitor ongoing volcanic behavior.
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Mount Vesuvius
Rockefeller's Big Scheme for Cleveland Offices
Cleveland plans reveal John D. Rockefeller will erect at least fifteen large office blocks downtown costing over 30 million dollars. He has acquired the Weddell House hotel, now demolished to make way for a sixteen story office building costing above 1 million. Also noted are a court martial for a U S sentry in Virginia over a copper theft and an error found on the McKinley statue inscriptions in Toledo, misread as Nearer my God to Thee instead of Nearer my God, to Thee.
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Dittsburg
U. S
W. HT. Crowley
Drary
Arsenal
Adan R. Chaffee
Governors Island
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Crowley
Wheen
Toledo
McKinley
Weinert
Engagements Take Shape Among Chicago Club Set
A member of Coleman, Mate tubke & Johnson in Chicago and a Phi Gamma Delta alumnus of the University, is engaged to be married. He resides at the Union Club, the second of his five friends to announce an engagement within a week. another friend, Samuel K. Martin, Je, is engaged to Miss Laura J. Young, a schoolmate of Miss Canalty. Cassidy and Mairbanks plan January nuptials in the same circle.
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Unter. University
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Laura J
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Canalty
Mairbanks
Cassidy
Was Not a Gambling Debt in Niles Selling of Horses
A Niles syndicate must pay John Molden of Lexington 1010 for two race horses Nyx and Herodes sold in 1901. Each buyer paid 100 upfront and 000 remained. both sides had incentive to win. Judge O W Coolidge ruled the sale wasn't gambling nor a wager.
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Mich
Niles Sportsmen
John aMolden
Lexington
Nyx
Herodes
O. W. Coolidge
Circuit Court
Wacera
Murder charges filed against labor mob in Ping Ling death
Amos of panic in Tonopah Nevada as seventeen arrestees including the American Labor Union leaders face murder accusations over Ping Ling killing. Citizens fund legal action while some suspects fled camp and unrest crosses into Grand Rapids furniture union dispute and Bulgaria welcomes US envoy John B. Jackson to Ferdinand.
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Nev
Ping Ling
Jall
American Labor Union
Two More Cabinet Resignations Diminish English Lineup
London reports Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Arthur Halph Donehin Eilot resignations accepted by the king. The two add to four vacant cabinet posts and Chamberlain remains in England, despite invitation to visit Chicago.
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Arthur Halph Donehin Eilot
Tressury
Ore
Pillot
Balfour
Turkish Sultan pledges action after Monastir siege crimes
Constantinople report says the sultan, in talks with Russian ambassador M Zinovieff and German envoy Baron von Meberstein, regrets Turkish troops atrocities in Monastir and Adrianople. He promises punishment and reform measures while noting insurrection nears end. Bulgarian note clarifies it seeks powers intervention rather than ultimatum amid crisis in Macedonia. A Turkish detachment reportedly found 100 refugee families and carried out violent reprisals against villagers near Resen.
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Macedonia
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Dupont
Achia
Resen
Des Moines Officials Face Prosecution in Jury Bribery Probe
From Des Moines Iowa city officials and business leaders are urged for criminal prosecution over alleged jury tampering and irregular juror draws. The committee named County Clerk F. Coffin Fred Cope banker W L White Jesse Wells and others as targets amid a widening scandal. In St Louis an angry lion at a street carnival injures a keeper and threatens more deaths.
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BR. F. Coffin
Fred Cope
B. H. Hunter
W. L. White
Jesse O. Wells
Iveryman
St. Louis
Ricardo
Centenarian John Schrapsey Dies in St Paul at 104
In St Paul Minnesota John Schrapsey aged 104 died at home after a hearty breakfast and a nap. He had lived in St Paul more than four decades. He arose dressed and ate before falling asleep and passing away with old age.
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John Schrapsey
Mr. Chrapsey
St. Paul
Baseball Scores From September Weekend Results
Baseball scores from September 21 including league and American Association results. Key games feature Pittsburgh 12 over Brooklyn 10 in a doubleheader, Cincinnati 17 over Philadelphia, and Chicago 3 over New York with multiple Sunday and Saturday fixtures across leagues and cities such as St Louis Boston Kansas City and Milwaukee.
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Philadelphia
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St. Louis
Boston
Cinetamati
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Toledo
Indianapolis
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Kansas City
Innovation cuts telegraph line use on New York Central
Utica New York September twenty first 1900 a rail line telegraph service innovation was introduced on the New York Central between Utica and Albany. The new apparatus allows a single wire to carry telegraph and telephone messages simultaneously.
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N. Y
New York Central
Albany
Fairbanks Engaged To Mr Cassidy Surprise in Chicago
Indianapolis Sept 21 A Chicago telegram announces the engagement of Warren Fairbanks brother of Adelaide Fairbanks to Migothel Cassidy daughter of Mrs Dak Cassidy of Pittsburgh. The news came as a surprise to Chicago society and the couple plan a future marriage in due course.
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Chicago
Warren
Inventor Cyrus I Gillespie Drowns Self in Well
Edwardsville Sept 21 Cyrus I Gillespie an inventor drowned himself in a well. Illness is listed as no reason for the act. Gillespie was the son of the late Joseph Gillespie once Madison County circuit judge and a friend of Abraham Lincoln.
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Cyrus 1. Gillespie
Gillespie
Joseph Gillespie
Madison County
Abraham Lincoln
General Snyman moves family to new colony near Ortiz station
Monterey Mexico Sept 21 General Ww Snyman a war leader has relocated his entire family to a new colony near Ortiz station and reports fifty families are en route from South Africa to join him.
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