Nebraska Balloon Flight Ends Near Jackson Landing
Army balloon No. 12 ascended from Fort Omaha and landed at Jackson Neb after about 120 miles in six and a half hours. A stray electric spark at impact caused the balloon to explode but Captain Chandler and Lieutenant Ware were not seriously injured.
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Chandler
Ware
Omaha
Fort Omaha
Jackson
Neb
Sioux City
Signal Corps
Missouri River
Wire
Lincoln shuts saloons as drought year ends city ban
May 11 report from Lincoln notes the municipal year end brings a yearlong saloon ban for the first time. Bargain day drew crowds as owners slashed prices to clear stock before exit. Bars closed early and stock is to be shipped back to wholesalers while saloon keepers and officials pledge enforcement.
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Lincoln
State wins first round against Sibley act on express rates
Lincoln reports that Referee J. J. Bullivan found the Sibley act reducing express rates 25 percent in Nebraska is not confiscatory and judgment should be for the state. The case involves United States Express American Express Adams Wells Fargo and Pacific Express companies. Nebraska observes Mothers Day in Omaha with white carnations and a charitable sale by 200 young women raising funds for a child saving institution.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
J. J. Bullivan
Supreme Court
Railway Commission
United States
American
Adams, Wells Fargo
Pacific Express
Omaha
Henry T. Clarke
Bram Promoted and Lincoln Succession Named
Lincoln May 11. H E B Bram general superintendent of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy for Nebraska receives transfer to Chicago headquarters as an assistant to Daniel Willard second vice president of the system. He will be succeeded in Lincoln by W B Throop now general superintendent of the Iowa division with headquarters at Burlington.
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Bram
Lincoln
H. EB. Bram
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Nebraska
Chicago
Daniel Willard
W. B. Throop
Iowa Division
Burlington
Officials Get Higher Pay Under New Deposits Act
Lincoln May 10 Under a decision of Attorney General Thompson Secretary Royse of the state banking board will net three months pay at the increased rate allowed by the legislature in the guaranty of deposits act. The bill raises the secretary’s pay from 2000 to 9000 a year and the act takes effect April 1 though the governor’s appointee provision starts July 1. Royse is entitled to pay since April 1 at 3000 annually, with $1400 a year for the other officers, though their statute increase begins July 1. The last legislature had appropriated 1800, and the attorney general says they receive the higher amount per legislature until the new statute fixes a lesser sum.
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Lincoln
Thompson
Rouse
State Banking Board
Royse
Addison Walt
Redmond
Funeral of Major Slaughter Held in Omaha
Major Bradner D. Slaughter, paymaster in the army, died Saturday of heart trouble. His funeral in Omaha was Masonic and military with Rev. Dr. Loveland delivering the address. A battalion from Fort Crook escorted the service and he was buried at Forest Lawn. Slaughter, born in New York November 12, 1849, had shaped Nebraska politics since the early 1900s and served as U.S. marshal, department commander of the G A R, and grand master of the Nebraska Masonic lodge. He joined the Army in 1899 under President McKinley and served in the Philippine War.
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Omaha
Bradner D. Slaughter
Loveland
Sixteenth Infantry
Fort Crook
Forest Lawn
Slaughter
New York
Nebraska
United States Army
United States
Department of Nebraska
G. A. KR
Johnsonse drainage drive organized in Johnson county
Preliminary steps toward a drainage district in Johnson county were taken at Tecumseh with landowners along the Nenaha bot toma and others. H. W. Harms of Sterling was named president and O. B. Bicknell of Elk Creek secretary as a four member committee was chosen to solicit landowners along the bottoms.
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Tecumach
Nek
Johnson County
Tecumsel
Nenaha Bottoma
Commercial Club
RK. E. Grinsland
Salem
Richardson
H. W. Harms
Sterling
O. BE. Bicknell
Elk Creek
Aus tin sues Hildreth for libel in federal suit
W H Aus tin, former Franklin postmaster now in Cody Wyoming, sues banker Carson Hildreth in a Nebraska federal court for 10000 dollars damages over a note alleged to have blackballed him from the Cody Masonic lodge while he sought admission. Both men are well known in Nebraska.
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Hastings
Neb
W. H. Austin
Franklin, Neb
Cody
Wyo
Carson Hildreth
Franklin
Aus UN
Hildreth
Nebraska
Governor appoints five secretaries to state health board
Governor Shallenberger using a new law appoints four new secretaries and an inspector. Dr. A. L. Muirhead of Omaha is reappointed for two years, Dr. C. P. Fall of Beatrice for four years, Dr. H. B. Cummins of Seward for three years, and Dr. E. Arthur Carr of Lincoln for one year.
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Lincoln
Shallenberger
State Board of Health
A. L. Muirhead
Omaha
C. P. Fall
Beatrice
H. B. Cummins
Seward
E. Arthur Carr
Lincoln deputy auditor reports larger legislative appropriation
Deputy State Auditor Shahan items the last legislature as approving 836497 more than the previous session. Excluding the university 1 mill levy the overage stands at 531001.
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Lincoln, Neb
Shahan
Boyer Sentenced for Manslaughter in Cheyenne County
George Boyer must serve three years for manslaughter after beating neighbor Perlick with a two by four. The district court of Cheyenne County imposed the sentence following the fatal injury and death two days later.
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Boyer
Lincoln
George Boyer
District Court of
Cheyenne County
Perlick
Prominent Omaha Leader Dies by His Own Hand
Julius Meyer a longtime Omaha business figure and president of the Metropolitan club died by self inflicted gunshot in Hanscom park. Despondency over ill health believed to be the cause of the tragedy.
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Omaha
Ende
Julius Meyer
Metropolitan Club
Hanscom Park
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