Nebraska News Roundup Details Local Incidents and Statewide Commerce
Front of a building collapsed due to a neighboring structure fault. Immigrant freight flows rise as settlers push toward Black Hills. Judge Broudy warns Sheriff Fowler about bail for murderer Matt Hail to avoid straw bail. Blair reports W T U imposture and odd convulsions. Crete library gains 175 volumes from M B C True. Omaha men duel over umbrella costs. Lynchings at Spring Ranch prompt investigations. Sanskrit grammar linked to Hjalmar Edgren at Nebraska University. Juniata elopement ends with abduction warrant. Beatrice plans asylum site selection and purchases. Postal inspector Powers breaks another mail robbery near St Deroin. BeatrIce man found dead on prairie. Lincoln plans city sewer system with engineers. Juniata farmer injured by wagon overturn. Nance County murder victims shipped to Minnesota. Hairless calf birth noted in Pawnee County. Union Pacific prescribes doctor prescriptions for employees. Nebraska governor travels to New Orleans via Texas. Governor Dawes in Galveston with party.
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Inga
Black Hill Country
Broudy
Fowler
Nemaha County
Matt Hail
Matt
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pacific Railway
Union Pacific
Nebraska
New Orleans
Texas
Galveston Daily News
James W. Dawes
State in Brief Dossier Sparks Growth Across Nebraska
The Nebraska items note Lincoln hiring only three night policemen while Plainview eyes a central store opening. Columbus reports a $7000 property loss from a fire. Hastings plans extensive building. Beatrice hosts a bishop reception. Ashland hears a lecture by N E Griggs. Moody draws crowds in Omaha with few converts. Immigrants surge to Coleridge. Valentine land office busy. census prep underway. Lincolns thieves jailed in Omaha. a Falls City dealer offers shade trees. a large swan killed near the Platte. widespread boom in construction across Hastings and other towns.
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Lincoln
Colored Baptist Church of
Nebraska City
Plainview
Columbus
Fairbury
Storey
Pierce
Bishop Worthington
J. E. Smith
Beatrice
N. E. Griggs
Chemnitz
Germany
Ashland
Moody
Omaha
Fred Hardy
Silvercreek
Ponca
Hastings
Valentine
Lane
Dan Lauzway
Kansas
Henry C. Smith
Falls City
Frank Moore
Union Pacific
Platte
Tip
Nebraska
Wor
Governor Dawes Visits Galveston on Salt Water Voyage
Governor Dawes of Nebraska and a Nebraska delegation toured the beachfront harbor, enjoying an excursion by steam tug Es telle and a reception aboard the bark Alexander. The party, including Judge Morris and Mrs. Morris, General and Mrs. Hanby, and Nashville’s Mr. Bond, was hosted by Captains Larsen Journesy Andreasen and Harbormaster Chubbs, with Thomas H. Sweeney arranging courtesy. Dawes expressed support for deep water work and Nebraska’s future participation.
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New Orleans
Thomas H. Sweeney
Dawes
Estelle
Larsen
Alexander
Nebraska
Morris
Hipp
D. 8. Walker
Hanby
Bond
Nashville
Journesy
William
Andreasen
Bams
Thomas Chubbs
Galveston
Movements of Barrios Spark US War Preparations
Washington dispatch discusses Barrios movements and rumors of French backing for a Panama canal strategy. Rear Admiral Jouett advocates sending vessel forces to Central America, while French involvement is debated and a Paris official downplays any French influence on Barrios or a canal mutation.
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United States
Washington
Barrios
France
Panama Canal
Jouet
Panama
Nicarancua Canal
Legation
Oinion
Multiple Disasters and Notices Mark Busy Era Headlines
A gas explosion in the dell mixer at Sebu Chill injures thirteen. General Grant receives daily autograph requests, his son says requests cannot be complied with. Berlin marks the 88th Emperor William birthday with festive displays. Celma Ohio post office burglarized. many letters and £600 stolen. Locust Point Mississippi man robbed of $15000. Fifty-one smallpox cases in Mound City. Prof David Swing leaves Alliance and joins Current editorial staff. F M Robinson of Dubuque dies after brief illness aged eight. Western export association to cut high wine production in April May. Count Herbert Bismarck’s London visit notes Russia England talks not discussed. Armour Chicago receives orders for canned beef from British war dept. Mark Twain ferry boiler explosion near Mound City kills several including Will F Tiest. Cheyenne stock growers interview shows strong cattle winter and low losses. Hog cholera spreads Oswego County New York near Syracuse. many hogs die. Ashland murderer William Neal executed in Kentucky. Federal efforts to cede county lands for public buildings. Oklahoma occupancy policy details and possible removal of intruders. Treasury salted meats duty drawback ruling favors reimportation. Pension claims must follow order. no special expedition without written justification.
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Peter Dutley
Locust Point
Miss
Illinois Board of Health
Mound City
David Swing
Alliance
F. M. Robinson
Dubuque
Austin Adams
Supreme Court
Western Export Association
Chicago
Ismarck
Herbert Bismarck
London
Russia
England
William
Armour Packing Company
Mark Twain
Memphis
Arkansas
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Onondaga
Oswego County
New York
Syracuse
B. F. Dresher
Iowa
Rochester
Endicott
General Hatch
Oklahoma
Interior Department
Garland
Secretary of the Treasury
Anglo- American Pork Packing Company
Commission Black
Langham House Fire Kills Five in Chicago Disaster
Chicago reports the Langham hotel blaze on the 21st proved deadly with at least five killed and four injured. Fire crews freed and aided survivors in the Faxon building as walls collapsed, trapping several inside. Names of rescuers and victims include Capt. Edward Shepard and William Bean among others. Belknap widow among the deceased.
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Langham
Faxon
Faron
Edward Shepard
Janes Boyd
Knute Thime
Patrick Mullens
John Walsh
Frederick Jones
Fire Insurance Patrol
William Bean
John Hennessey
Mulles
Thime
Shepard
Boyd
Alsh
Jones
C. V Belknap
Col. Belknap
New Orleans
Interior Officials Take Discharge of Duties and Treasury Proposals
Capitals briefs report Mul drow Atkins and Sparks completing their official duties. Treasury plans to reduce customs force and has asked state governors for cooperation while ministers urged enforcement of the Edmunds act. President Cleveland to visit Gettysburg with veterans in May if public service permits.
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General Land Office
Price
Indian Office
Interior Department
Messrs
Eparks and
Atkins
Secretary of the Treasury
Dre
H. R. Taylor
Methodist
W. A. Bartlett
Presbyterian
W. H. Leonard
Episcopal
Washington
Cleveland
First
Gettysburg
Ex mayor Navin arraigned for forgery in Adrian circuit court
Thomas J. Navin former mayor of Adrian pleaded guilty to forging signatures on city bonds and was sentenced to ten years in the state prison at Jackson. Separate reports note a fatal urban fire at Ganson McConnell’s livery in Ur bana burning thirty seven horses and several vehicles. Additional items cover poisoning allegations in Osnaburg and a dispatch from Lincoln with a dramatic arrest by a boy who nabbed two burglars and their loot.
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Ponca
Dakota County
Jackson
Gurgin
Accross Smith
Thomas J. Navin
Adrian
Ganson & McConnell
Urbana
Ohio
McConnell
Lincoln
Neb
A. W. Ensign
Jack Davis
William Duffy
Kansas City
Carter Harrison Nominated for Chicago Mayor by Democrats
Political notes report Carter Harrison's unanimous nomination for Chicago mayor. Other items list confirmations of various officials, including Samuel Cox to Turkey and Henry Muldrow to the interior, plus appointments for postmasters in Illinois and Iowa. The piece also mentions John Kelly's Florida trip and health, plus a civil service reform controversy involving Eugene Higgins and ballot box misdeeds.
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Carter Harrison
Chicago
Samuel §. Cox
Turkey
Henry D. Muldrow
William A. J. Spark
General Land Office
John Kelly
Florida
Kelly
Committee of the Civil Servic Reform Association
Manning
Eugene Higgins
Higgins
Carroll
Superior Court
Nominations Sent to Senate for Interior and Land Office Posts
Nominations sent to the Senate include H S Muldrow of Mississippi for assistant secretary of the interior, W A J Sparks of Illinois for commissioner of the general land office, and Daniel McConville of Ohio for auditor of the treasury for the post office department. Muldrow is a former Confederate Army colonel and congressman. Sparks is a long-time Democrat who served in Congress 1875 to 1883. McConville hails from Steubenville and is Gov. Hoadley’s private secretary.
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Mississippi
Interior
Wm. A. J. Sparks
Ilnois
General Land Office
Daniel McConville
Ohio
Treasury
Post Office Department
Muldrow
Sparks
McConville
Steubenville
Hoadley
Foreign notes on queen's call to arms and Afghan talks
The queen's message calls up reserves and militia for permanent service with barracks and arms readied. British forces prepare cruisers for Baltic and Black Sea service. Afghanistan remains neutral as India and England clash over policy while riverfront combat near Sauk'm yields heavy casualties.
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Black Sea
Turkey
Third Royal Pusiliera
Fifth Rife Brigade
House of Lords
Granville
Calisbury
Russia
England
Ameer
Afghanistan
Zereba
Sauk'm
Hasheen
Marines
Berkshire Regiment
Hasheen Wereba
Graham
Engineers’ Transport Corps
Sereba
McNeil
Toronto Elopement Disturbs Elite Circles
A Toronto scandal centers on W A Murray & Co head’s daughter who elopes with Roger Lambee after a web of infidelity and family splits. Mrs Furlong flees to England then Liverpool, returns to Gemanican, and the two flee to New York. Both families lose social standing while Lambee abandons a profitable business.
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Ont
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W. A. Murray & Co
Murray
Furlong
Front Street
Roger Lambee & Tro
Lambee
Winnipeg
Roger Lambee
Laambee
England
New York
Liverpool
Lambece
Burial of a Bruiser Joe Goss in Boston Funeral
A Boston tribute reports Joe Goss the pugilist buried at Saracen's Head with over 10 100 mourners sealing the street. Rev Henry H Haynes presided at the service and samples of floral offerings memorialized the fighter's career in the ring. The procession then moved to Forest Hill cemetery.
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Boston
Joe Goss
Saracen
Lagrange Street
Henry H. Haynes
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Deceas
Goss
Gores
Sea
Forest Hill Cemetery
David H. Blanchard
John Sullivan
Florida moss crop valued over cotton in Pensacola findings
The Pensacola Commercial notes moss is worth more than cotton in Florida and can be sold cheaper. Demand exceeds supply and every county is expected to have moss acreage, with waste not a concern.
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Florida
Pensacola
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