Nebraska Resolve Endorses Cattle Law Amendments
The Nebraska senate adopted a preamble and resolution endorsing amendments proposed by the National Cattle Growers Association to broaden disease controls and empower the president to halt animal movement from affected districts. The measure aims to reduce bureau costs and enhance enforcement across states. The governorate urged senators to aid the amendment passage in Congress.
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Carrie
McSloane
State Senate
Nebraska
West
National Cattle Growera’ Association of America
Washinton
Animal Industry Bureau
Commissioner of Agriculture
United States
Congress
National Cattle Growers
State in Brief highlights thirteen Nebraska local developments
Hastings hosts charity ball as communities report new factories elevators and offices. Grand Island clocks 14 votes for state fair while Beatrice nears barb wire plant completion. Lincoln hosts talk of a morning journal and state fair bonds are pledged. Colby attends suffrage meeting. many towns report disease in swine and other civic projects including bridges, canals, and land office plans.
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Hastings
Grand Island
Beatrice
Franklin County
Gibbon
Arrapahoe
Sidney
Cedar Creek
Colby
Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association
Omaha
Fairbury
Beatrice Canning Company
Gage County
Waterloo
The
Horticultural Society
Fullerton
Kearney
Mra Colby
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Washington
Juniata Herald
Signeur
Lincoln
State Board of Agriculture
Grandleland
Old Maids
Blair
Cheyenne County
Rosewater
Omaha Bee
School Land Investigating
Columbia
Industrial Conference of Colored Men
New Orleans
Bait Pilot
Washington County
Nebraskans linked to rail and court actions noted
Local notes report Heldt found guilty of train wrecking in Schuyler and sentenced to ten years. Nebraska events include county finances, school building material purchases, a diary of crimes and assaults, legislative rail bills, and regional politics with multiple officials and dates.
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Heidt
Schuyler
Kearney
J. H. Purdum
Seward
Coal Layers Found in Bluff Near Landowner Porter's Claim
Edge and landowner William Porter report two coal seams about ten inches thick each, separated by a two foot slate interval. They expect the slate to disappear with deeper drilling and coal to replace it as the bluff is penetrated.
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Edge
William Porter
Doansville Arson-Charged Robbers Fatally Shot
Two chicken thieves in Doansville Indiana were fatally shot by officers during arrest resistance. A Canadian conspirator tied to post office theft involving Sir Alexander Campbell’s nephew was returned to Canada from Chicago. Montreal police warned of violence over Sunday tavern closures in Hochelaza. Dr John Buchanan of Philadelphia faces arrest for issuing bogus medical diplomas and forged physician names. Nellie C Bailey acquitted in Wichita district court of murdering a wealthy individual.
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Alexander Campbell
Canada
Post Office Department
Chicago
Montreal
Hochelaza
John Buchanan
Philadelphia
United States District Court
Wichita
Kansas
Nellie C. Bailey
Hng
Notable New England Case and California Hanging
Yshman claims travel companion Bothamly in Indian Territory a year ago. Colson, under arrest in Boston, faces charges of obtaining goods by false pretenses from multiple states. Wright Leroy, hanged in San Francisco, killed Nicholas Skerrett in August 1883 after a demand for a large check led to a fatal chocking.
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Yshman
Bothamly
Indian Territory
Henry W.colson
Boston
New York
Ohio
Colson
M. M. Burbank & Co
Somerville
Wright Leroy
San Francisco
Nicholas Skerrett
Skerrett
Leroy
Capital briefs from the era of political and naval affairs
A digest of moves in Congress and executive branches including civil service appointments since July 16 1883. a guilty verdict in a navy voucher case. proposed funding for harbor and river projects. efforts to cut newspaper postage. comments from Col Lamont and Senator-Elect Payne on cabinet roles. Indian land leases and frontier policy. the Victoria mill fire with losses. international tensions over Egypt and Turkish missions. reports of military mobilization and Alpine disasters. and a stray note on Darwinian survival.
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War Department
Civil Service
Foot Np &7
James D. Cummings
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy Department
Guily
Lamont
New York World
Cleveland
Payne
Ohio
John G. Thompson
Crittenden
Cherokee Council
Senate
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Milon
Raw
Nebraska Legislature Readies Major Rail and Tax Bills
In the Nebraska Senate and House discussions, leading measures include railway regulation, revenue law revisions, school land leasing and sale, a saloon license cut, and a constitutional amendment on intoxicants. Committees begin work as hundreds of bills are read or referred, with public lands and school land investigations ongoing and resolutions on pensions and census enumeration.
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SenaTe
Nichol
Nebraska
Committee On
Ebraska
New Orleans
Clark
Hazen
Renee
Wright
Lancaster
Cornelius
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Nettleton
Clay
Congress
United States
Jefferson County
House
Ways and Means
Morton
Rosewater
Hovst
Taggart, White and Sutherland
Nelich
Cuming
West Point
Everett
Seenate
Buckworth
J. Sterling Morton
Spencer
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of Commissioners
Hastings
Committee
Penitentiary House
Olmstead
School Land Investigation Committee
Lee
Furnas
Secretary of State
Durland
Committee On Highways and Bridges
Nemaha County
Hovssz
Mor—ton
Stephenson
Brunner
Wollbach
Liebhardt
Robertson
Williams
Holt
Newcomer
Political Notes Highlights For Indiana Kansas and More
D W Voorhees chosen senator from Indiana and Don Cameron selected for Pennsylvania. John A Martin inaugurated Kansas governor on the 12th with state officers and supreme court present. Z B Vance re elected US senator from North Carolina with 128 votes. Senator Call reelected from Tennessee. San Francisco chamber opposes the Spanish American treaty and backs the Nicaraguan treaty. William J Gallagher indicted for election return forgery in Chicago Eighteenth ward placed on bond on related charges. National bankrupt law convention and New York groups urge passage of the senate bankruptcy bill before Congress adjourns.
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Z. B. Vance
United States
North Carolina
Call
Tennessee
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
William J. Gallagher
Chicago
Nationa Bankrupt Law Convention
New York Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade and Bar Association
Congress
Senate
Outrageous Discrimination in Interstate Freight Rates Debate
A Washington dispatch reports Senator Van Wyck criticizing the interstate commerce bill for through rates that punish distant cities. He cites a 900 through rate to San Francisco from New York, with higher local charges 600 miles short of the city, and notes railroads colluding to keep up through rates and to fund Pacific Mail Steamship bonuses.
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Colorado
San Palo
San Francisco
Yokohama
Hong Kong
Pacific Mail
St. Louis
Sioux City
Iowa
Union Pacific
Garfied
House Committee On Appropriations
Greenfield
Boston
Pat Sheedy
Charley Mitchell
New Orleans
Kilrain
John L. Sullivan
Boston Bruiser
New York
Chicago
Treasury Department
Gulf Coast
Cuba
Philadelphia
Erie Railroad
Publc
Senate
House
Southern Advisory Board
Cleveland
Washington
van Wyck
New York City
Sanrancisco
Northern Pacific Railroad
Ita
Central Pacific
Capes
Theacific Mail Steamship Line
Northern Pacific
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Union Pacific Passes Draw Government Fire Over Free Transit
Washington report says Union Pacific remains conservative on passes. Directors cite free trip passes as a gratuity, noting weekly issues from 13 773.76 to 21 452, totaling near 1 000 000 annually. They argue reforms begun and urge further action to curb free transportation.
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Washington
Union Pacific
Plan for three vice presidents to govern if both top offices fail
A New York representative circulated a Washington dispatch describing a bill to create three vice presidents named first second and third. The proposal envisions regional succession with one from east one from west and one from the south to ensure continuity of government and guard against epidemic scenarios at the capital.
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New York
Washington
United States
Woman Suffrage Session Held in Washington
An executive session of the Woman Suffrage Association met at the Riggs house in Washington on the 20th with Susan B. Anthony presiding. Attendees included Clara G. Colby Dr. Alice B. Stockham Mary E. McPherson Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others. An open session followed with Stanton presiding and reports and addresses by Stanton Gage and Gordon in the evening.
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Woman Suffrage Association
Riggs House
Washington
Susan B. Anthony
Clara G. Colby
Nebraska
Alice B. Stockham
Illinois
Mary E. McPherson
Iowa
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eilian Devereaux Blake
Amelia B. Post
Wyoming
Mrs. Shattuck
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Laura Deforce Gordon
Meeting of Veterans in Washington for National Association
Gen. M R M Wallace, president, calls a March 2 meeting of National Veteran association officers at Lincoln ball Washington DC to plan organization actions. Each branch should send one delegate for consultation and all members attending inauguration ceremonies should report at Lincoln ha.
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A _ Lincoln
Omaha
Society of the Home of the Friendiless
Board of Charities
C. N. Humphrey
Board of State Charities
Friend- Jegs
Meera
EK. E. Brown
A.N. Humphrey
C. H. Gere
John M. Thurston
State Board of Agriculture
Jones
Lincoln
J. B. Dinsmore
Sutton
Ed. Daniels
Sarpy County
Frank Holt
Gage
R. W. Furnas
Nemaha
Christian Hartman
James Paterson
Worthington
Nebraska
Detroit
State Horticultural Society
R. N. Day
Burt
W. W. Watson
Johnson
C. Hartman
J.T. Allan
W. J. Hesser
Casa
G. F. Warren
Clay
Peter Youngers
Fillmore
M. R. M. Wallace
National Veteran Association
Lincoln Ball
Washington, D.C
Lincoln Ha
Senator Van Wyck Bill Grants Territorial Control Over Railroads
Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska introduces a bill stating that all railroad corporations created by acts of Congress for construction in any state or territory shall be subject to the control and legislation of the respective territory or state to the same extent as if organized by that state. The measure also applies to corporations with railroads in any territory that may later be admitted as a state.
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New York
Kearney
Lincoln Journal
Brunner
Douglas
Raffread and Warehouse Commissioners
Ponca Journal
Nebraska
Bigley’s
Fan Wyck
van Wyck
Senate
Acta of
Congress
Patrick F McNally the Nebraska Hercules boxer profile
Patrick F McNally a 23 year old six foot one heavyweight from Nebraska defeated Jim Perry alias English Jim in Kingsley November 10 1883 in the first round and beat Tom Allen Iowa for 50 a side in the following month. He also knocked out John Harpley Illinois in January 1884 in the fourth round. A modest heavy hitter with notable career highlights and local boxing presence.
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Patrick F. McNally
Nebraska
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New Orleans Exposition
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Nels Johnson
Morris Smith
Frank Heldt
State Firemen’s Association
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Fremont
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G. Babson
I. L. Lyman
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Germany
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Pennsylvania
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