Nebraska Items Hearings and Local Trades Across the State
Hastings Nebraskan reports Treasury receipts over nine million dollars from Nebraska over twenty years, and Nebraska’s 43rd coroner verdict declares Jessie Snell died by an unlawful pistol shot while unintentional for William Snell. Lincoln seeks the state fair site with saloon open hours, Hebron church work begins, and a Rockford dealer’s death follows a sidewalk fall. Ainsworth notes Chicago claimants and land schemes. Fremont eyes GAR reunion. Omaha’s market access expands. real estate doubles in Brown County. Niobrara cattle in good condition. Union Pacific upgrades smokestacks costing about 100000. Woods vs Reed settles in Hastings. Oakdale reports a captured thief. Hastings invests G A BR funds in street lamps. Nebraska City notes Rhodes’s attempted suicide on a public road amid family trouble.
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Jessie Snell
Omaha
Jessie Wright
William Snell
Snell
Fremont
G. A. ER
Bill Hyke
Vic. McCarty
John McCarty
Bill Petty
Papillion
Omaha Herald
California
Ainsworth News
Brown County
Ainsworth
Niobrara
Union Pacific Railroad
Woods
Reed
Hastings
Wm. Goslin
Theapitol
Lincoln
Oakdale Journal
Motter
Commercial
G. A. BR
Nebraska City Press
Rhodes
United States
Canada Southern Division
Michigan Central Railroad
S. A. Bridges
Allentown
de Henry B. Payne
Ohio
St. Clair River
Sarina
Port Huron
Port Norris
N. J
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Iowa
Allison
Morton
Indianapolis
Commons
Anderson
Ind
Nutt
Hennepin Canal
Congress
Edmunds
Miller
Pennsylvania
Hale
Wyoming
Pittsburg
Toledo
Bartholdi
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Hartford
J. M. Wilson
United States Treasury Department
Amsterdam
Trial of James Nutt for Dukes killing advances in Pittsburgh
The Nutt trial continues in Pittsburgh with the case for the killing of Dukes entering its second week. Reports from Arizona describe a rush to the Guyotoa mines, water scarcity, and volatile ore news. A blast at Lebanon Pa. killed workman Posey and a railroad fire in Illinois destroyed company records.
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James Nutt
Dukes
Peninsylvania
Pittsburg
Guyotoa
Arizona
Cornwall
Lebanon
Posey
Crime and Court Notes from the Era in Alexandria Ky and Beyond
A broad crime roundup reports Miss Weaver near Alexandria Ky as a self defense incident with a pistol at her head and a suicide. Other items include grain swindles in Chicago, train embezzlement pleas, hangings in San Francisco and Iowa, a Boston arson arrest, a Chicago domestic worker found dead near Chicago, and Townsend outrages confession. The piece also covers political and legal developments in land grants, public lands bills, and Senate and House activity on railroads and telegraph plans.
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Alexandria
Miss Weaver
Ed. Belfer
Nicholas Biehl
Beier
Mixx Weaver
Mexican indemnity paid as eighth installment noted
Washington reports Senor Romero paid the eighth installment due January 31, 1884 for indemnity from Mexico to the United States. Follett backs abolishing the pension agency. Beck introduces bills on spirits bonds and treasury bond redemption without premiums. Treasury replies on Indiana employer assessment circular. Hatch leads livestock dealers seeking pleuro pneumonia stamp out and import meat inspection funding.
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Senor Romero
Mexico
United States
Follett
House
Beck
Senate
Willis
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Indiana
Republican State Central Committee
Hatch
Foreign and domestic notes on diplomacy and trade
Prime Minister reports a ceremonial reception by the Annam king and council with requests for mitigated treaty terms. Castelar advocates free trade and aligns with English-speaking nations. A Canton letter claims China will fight France, accusing France of mishandling the affair and noting large Chinese troop movements.
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Ferry
Tricon
Annam
England
Castelar
France
United States
Atlantic
China
Canton
Vigilantes Hang Couple In Colorado Lynching Case
In Ouray County Mary Rose Matthews adopted 10 died after cruel treatment. The couple Mike and wife Cuddihie were executed by masked men after murder conviction. Brother-in-law John Carroll Cuddihie was later released for lack of evidence. First woman lynched in Colorado.
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Denver
Colo
Mary Rose Matthews
Denver Catholic Orphans’ Home
Mike Cuddihie
Ouray
Little Rose
Bedy
Cuddibie
Iimite
John Carroll Cuddichie
Colorado
State Board of Agriculture Holds Lincoln Meeting
Lincoln Neb January 15 The state board of agriculture met at 3 pm in the state house with President McIntyre presiding. Credentials committee appointed and counties without annual reports admitted to seats. Treasurer reported yearly receipts 20716 expenditures 16839 balance 3876 officers elected Dinsmore Furnas Hartman Daniels McDowell. Fair location postponed until tomorrow.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Neb
State Board of Agriculture
State House
McIntyre
Messrs. J. Jensen
W. E. McCloud
W. B. White
Tressurer
Treasury
J. B. Dinsmore
KR. W. Furnas
Chris Hartman
Rh. Daniels
J. B. McDowell
Fire Trains Heavily Damaged Passenger Carburned in Oil Blaze
A Wellsville to Bradford passenger train struck a spill of waste oil on the Hinson Road in Bradford County. The engine overturned as flames engulfed the cars. Three women died and many others were injured. Survivors describe a chaotic escape from the burning coach in the snow. A relief train arrived with surgeons and equipment.
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Hinson Road
Tte
Bradford
Bradford, Bordell & Kinzua
Wellsville
Bovine
Omersault
L. C. Fair
Kinzua Junction
W. H. Belman
Jerry Donegan
Charles Heidricohe
Express
George McCartney
A. N. Carpenter
Little Genesee
Jerry Huggverty
Ceres
N. Y
Mrs. Black
Aiken
John Kafoar
Stockmen estimate vast cattle grass profits in Texas
A Austin report notes a convention member estimates 2,000,000 head of cattle and horses rely on free gas, with half on public land and 2 percent net property. Stock owners earn about 19 million yearly from free gross, half from school and state funds, and no legislation is expected to force profit sharing with the state.
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Austin
Texas
Convention of Stockmen
Will of Ralph Sellen Probated in St Louis
The will of Ralph Sellen who died at the Lindell hotel is probated. He leaves about 100000 dollars to St Louis institutions including 19000 to Washington University’s manual training school and 10000 each to St Luke Hospital, the Mission Free School, and 3000 to several organizations including Missouri Theatrical Society, Episcopal orphans home, Memorial Homes, and German Protestant orphans home.
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St. Louis
Ralph Sellen
Lindell Hotel
St Louis
Manual Training School
The
Washington University
St. Luke Hospital
Mission Free School
Missouri Theatrical Society
Mypiscopal Orphans’ Home
Memorial Homes
Leap Year Society to Save Young Men from Matrimony
A leap year society forms to protect young men from being dragged into marriage by ardent suitors. The piece notes mothers fearing their sons will be forced into wedlock and stresses the urgency of organizing quickly.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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