Omaha Meeting Ends in Confusion and Bitter Speech
A Saturday night call for a city convention to pick a candidate collapses as no one volunteers to lead. Judge Ferguson speaks, Gov. Cumming and Hanscom clash with Seeley factions, while Poppleton delivers a fierce tirade against Jim Mitchell and others. The crowd disperses, the “Country is safe,” and local sentiment rails at Omaha politics.
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Omaha
Seeley
Saylor
Times
Fexxta Fenovsox
Messia
Pop
Hanscom & Seely
Hanscom
Cuvre
Ferguson
Gov. Cumming
Bellevue
Cumming
Poppleton
Jim Mitchell
Fergu
Michell
Rascal
Christian
Him
Bisen
Gov
Bird B. Chapman
Nebraska Territorial Convention Nominees Platform Declared
A Bellevue convention on the 14th adopted a six member committee to prepare an address and print five thousand copies. It raised a broad Territorial platform opposing sectionalism, endorsing equal rights, land grants for railroads, homestead laws, and swift extinguishment of Indian titles, and nominated a single, united delegate candidate to Congress.
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Bellevue
Congress
Fexnen Fencuson
Waueneas
Nebraska Territory
Nebraska
Sunes
Union
Omaha City
N.T
Mark W. Izard
Territory of
Legislative Assembly
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Territorial Assembly
Dahkota
Cedar
L’barqui Court
Burt
Cuming
Washington
Douglas
Sarpy
Dodge
Platte
Casa
Lancaster
Gach
Clay
Otoo
Nemaha
Johnson
Richardson
Pawnee
Tme
Broad Territorial Platform Backed by Citizens for Honest Leader
The text urges voters to reject local pledges and unite behind a convention platform. It lauds Hon. Pawxer Pencases and Freavra Fractson as trusted, resident candidates with experience and integrity to end corruption and bring order to the Territory. Supporters pledge UNION ACTION VICTORY and push the column forward.
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Nebraska
Pawxer
Freavra Fractson
Death of John C. Stevens in Hoboken at age seventy two
John C. Stevens of Hoboken dies at his residence on Wednesday aged 71 or 72. A noted figure in mechanical and engineering progress, he and his brother Robert J. Stevens advanced steam engine and navigation devices. The obituary credits him and his family with major improvements shaping steam navigation.
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John C. Stevens
Hoboken
Mr. Stevens
Col
John Stevens
Robert J. Stevens
New York
Election Returns From St. Paven Minnesota Vote Totals
In St Paven Minnesota the recent election yielded two thousand eight hundred twenty votes. Ink-pa duta, blamed for numerous de caeliations in Minnesota this spring, is killed.
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St. Paven
Missesota
Ink-pa -Duta
Minnesota
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Bellevue Gazette
A. Btrickland & CO
M'Ewen
Bellevue, WN. T
Fenner Ferguson
Tory
Willliam Clancy
Washington Co
J.C. Mirennnt
C. T. Hortoway
J. H. Deexra
Once
J. B. Hayes
Johnston
E. C. Austis
Farruasoxs
Ruz Casixner
Freemason's
Gen. Cass
Grand Lodge of Michigan
Buchanan
Lancaster City
J. C. Breckinridge
Webb
Knight Templars
Lexington
the Treasury
Howell Cobb
Order
Georgia
Palmer & Averill
China
Brittania Ware
Jefferson and
27Th Street
Fontenelle Bank
Sary County
Lees
Bluf City
Terms Cash
Sc*É Palmer & Averill
Almer & Averill
Ine
So Gating
Prsece
Bellevue Stor No
Territory
Christopher Akins
Numbar
Edith Vale
John P. Horn & CO
A. M. Claree
J. T. Clarke
Clarke & Bro
Chicago City Insurance Company
Siena Temple
Dearbor Street
Chicago
Edmund Canfield
Isaac Cook
H. A. Wyncoop
Henry Chapman
Monnox
Pres
Bates
Lec'y
Treas
Ea Company
Illinois
Aus
Emila
Meas
I. Stone
Daniel P. Rhodes
Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas Campbell
Springfield
Ill
R. Chamberlin
St. Louis
Wadsworth
Wella & Seymour
J. H. Burch
O. G. Cook & Co
Rockford
Mensas
H. Wheeler & Son
Aurora
Judd
Smith & Pratt
Dixon, Il
Nehamiah Case
Buffalo
N.Y
Palmer & Averill’s
Vete
John J. Town
Cashier
Aaid
United States of America
Mark W.izard
T. B. Cumixe
Naa
George Stringer
Howte
K, Stringer & Howig. Ealers
Hancock
Twenty-Seventh Street
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