Five murderers in Douglas county jail await district court term
The State in Brief reports five men indicted Gazela Snell Schreiber Keys and envy wait trial as the district term opens next week. Wahoo building boom described as epidemic. Robbery loses $67 from W H Buttolph on a trip to Iowa. Mrs Martha Reynolds of Unadilla declared insane and sent to the state asylum. A series of accidents and crimes including a crosswalk shooting in Omaha and a fatal handcar crash are noted with various injuries and investigations.
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Douglas County
Gazela
Snell
Schreiber
Keys
Envy
Wahoo
Omaha
W. H. Buttolph
Iowa
Martha Reynolds
Unadilla
Miz. Ae
Jack Kinney
Pat Mehan
Firth
Click
White
Wymore
Beatrice
Brougham
Henry Whitbeck
Union Pacific
Valley
Grand Island
Wood River
John Splitthof
Someee
George Grebe
Winteration
Splitthof
Messrs. Clark, Kimball, Shelby and Morse
Chi
Transcontinental Association
J. D. Kilpatrick
Gage County
Mr. Kilpatrick
Frank Garrison
Plum Creek
Brea Prairie
Blair Bridge
O. M. Mervin
Otoe County
John Kearney
Dawson County
Samuel Pearl
Lincoln
Beatrice Express
W. H. Royle
Jacob Gitter
Spring Creek
Harlan County
Nebraska court reports mix of crimes and local incidents
The record covers liquor sales to a youth with penalties due. a career-ending railway accident in Omaha. a planned wreck near Arapahoe thwarted. assaults and indecent proposals in Palmyra. an insane asylum prospect for McGaugh. and a key liquor law ruling in Fremont. It notes Beatrice arrests for wife beating, a mill accident death near Talmage, and local royal improvements at Minden.
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Ste Pald
Thomas Wroth
Chicago
St. Paul
Peopolis
Omaha
Beaver City
Callagham
Arapahoe
Edwardee
Palmyra
McGaugh
Post
Fremont
Arbuckle
Beatrice
Bernard Taussun
Talmage
Minden
Beatrice Republican
Bookwalter
Ohio
Gage
Pawnee
Lincoln
Nebraska
Grand Army of the Republic
Valentine
Rapid City
Porcupine Creek
Osceola
Nobel
Penitentiary
Charles H. Churchill
Frank Sutton
Sutton
Blair
Neb
Mary E. Barnes
Churchill
Nebraska Eclecticians
I. van Camp
L. F. Polk
Raymond
R. S. Grimes
H. Y. Bates
Springfield
Board of Censors
J. A. Woodward
O. M. Moore
E. M. Butler
Deaf Mute Convention to Gather in Lincoln Nebraska
The Deaf and Mute Convention will meet September 6 to 9 in Lincoln Nebraska the capital. It aims to disseminate mental social and physical improvements for educated mutes and to foster intercourse and kinship within the silent community. Sabbath services are planned for the 7th with business discussion and questions to expand minds. Transportation and lodging details will be announced in August. James R Boone Secretary. By order of the committees W G Marshall E S Warning 7 B F Mars Hall Address 112 Thirteenth street Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Alma
James R. Boone
W.G. Marshall
B. F. MarsHali
Thirteenth Street
Premium Piano Award For Nebraska State Fair
The Nebraska state fair will feature a $1,000 premium piano awarded to the smartest young lady in the state. A letter from HarpMan Dowine & Peck confirms shipment and notes more pianos will be produced with August availability.
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Mueller
W. Furnas
Neb
St. Bd
Brownville
New York
J. Mueller
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nebraska
HarpMan, Dowine & Peck
Feeding mares and foals before spring pasture
Bran mashes are recommended for mares that foal early in the spring before grass appears. Oats are said to be better than corn for mare and sucking colts.
Mississippi Flood Relief Bill Heads for Passage
A joint resolution in the House amends the legislative record to appropriate 100000 dollars for flood relief in Mississippi. The Senate Election Committee reports on the Danville riot and miscellaneous notes are included as part of the session records.
Senate and House discuss Dakota, Alabama, Utah bills
Congress debated a judiciary bill adding two associate justices to the Dakota Supreme Court and extended time for the Alabama claims court. An amendment on divorce grounds in the District of Columbia and territories drew attention. Contested Wallace McKinley election case moved to seating Wallace. Senate actions covered pensions, rail right of way, Yellowstone Park issues, and internal revenue reforms.
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McMillan
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court of Dakota
Logan
Senate
Court of Alabama Claims
Brown
Utah
District of Columbia
United States
McKinley
Wallace
Belford
Perone
Fredericksburg
HOUSE
Cox
Thompson
Dibrell
Law on appeals to Supreme Court and railway bill pass
The piece notes restoring the 1869 law to allow appeals from circuit courts to the U S Supreme Court in habeas corpus cases. It mentions the McArdle case from Mississippi pending before the court. It also reports a bill authorizing a right of way through the Indian Territory for the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway passing.
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United States Supreme Court
McArdle
Ississippi
Supreme Court
Indian Territory
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Capital Topics The Tariff Question And Related Matters
Summary of tariff changes endorsed by Secretary Folger affecting Hewitt bill and potential House support. Hurd notes likely extension of the retree list to include lumber and coal. State Department and Folger approve Chinese operatives exhibits with limits. Senate report on Danville riot finds premeditation by Democrats to incite race tensions. House military committee to favorably report retirement of Gen Pleasanton as colonel.
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House
Ways and Means
Folger
Hewitt
Hurd
Department of State
New Orleans
Treasury Department
Secretary of State
Senate Elections Committee
Danville
Lapham
Democratic Party
Pleasanton
House Committee On Military Affairs
Gen. Pleasanton
A Vagabond's Crime in Kearney Tragedy
A German family in Kearney suffered a brutal double tragedy as Roebeck killed his wife with four gunshots then wounded himself, later dying of a self-inflicted wound in a premeditated assault. Mrs Koebeck survived in critical condition. Roebeck was arrested and jailed.
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Kearney
Roebeck
Explosion rocks Pall Mall club in London bombing
London dispatch reports a night explosion outside the Junior Carlton club house in Pall Mall. Four female servants injured, building damaged, dynamite found under the Nelson monument, and further blast alarms near St James theatre. Police guard the wreckage as crowds gather.
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London
Carlton Club
Pall Mall
Nelson Monument
Trafalgar Square
Majenchie
St. James Theatre
S T. James’ Square
Walter Mynn
Destructive Waterspouts Hit Visilia and Frenchman Creek
A cloud burst near Visilia California tore through a home killing Peter Stewart his wife mother and one child while injuring R Weisner. The flood swept away a cattle camp on Frenchman Creek drowning eleven cowboys from Colorado and Nebraska. Missing include Lon Witherbee J Lindsey Robert Roddy Robert Fowler Patrick Lynch John Smith L Netherton William Ferguson William J Peiton and C Hall with four bodies recovered.
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Visilia
Cal
Peter Stewart
R. Weisner
Stewart
Weisner
Frenchman Creek
Nebraska
Colorado
Flathead
Cheyenne Indian Trail
Lon Witherbee
J. Lindsey
Robert Roddy
Robert
Chamberlain's Remedy Praised by Red Oak Agent
E W Pease agt American Express Co Red Oak Iowa reports Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy has saved over a thousand dollars in his family for years his wife suffered cramps and the remedy gives immediate relief. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles by all druggists.
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E. W. Pease
American Express Co
Red Oak
Iowa
Chamberlain
Collapse of a Baltimore Cotton Warehouse Fatal
In Baltimore a large cotton warehouse collapsed causing fatalities. Also noted are new passenger rates adopted by the Transcontinental Association at their Chicago meeting.
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Chicago
Crooked money cases and trials headlined across cities
A mash of items reports Father Boniface suing the Boston Herald for damages over alleged crooked money matters. Other notes cover a West Side bank run after Hinckley’s defalcation, a murder verdict in Avondale Ohio, Adams on Union Pacific costs, and sparsely linked incidents from Indiana, Michigan, Montana, and Massachusetts weather and crime updates.
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Father Boniface
Boston
The
Boston Herald
House Committee On Ways and
Hewitt
West Side Savings Bank
New York
Hinckley
Benj. Johnson
Allen Inalle
Avondale
Ohio
Ohio Medical College
Lin
Ingalls
Johnson
Boston Advertiser
Charles Francis Adams
Union Pacific Railroad
Adams
William Marshall
United States Army
Mackinaw
Michigan
Army of the United States
United States Infantry
Peter Mominee
Vincennes
Ind
Indiana
Miles City
Montana
Jack Morris
Iron Heart
John Lawrence
Farragut
Mobile Bay
United States
Iowa Butter and Cheese Exchange
Des Moines
David Stone
Lulu Dycke
Thomas W. Evans
Cornelius F. Simpson
John B. Dickson
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
J. O. P. Burnside
Post Office Department
Levis
Amelia Schrick
Woodland Cemetery
Newark
Andrew Broski
Fred Grant
Massachusetts
Whittier
James Rowe
Cook County
Nellie Cooley
Wilkesbarre
Susquehanna
Albert Bloom
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brewster
Slinger
Department of Justice
W. H. Vanderbilt
W. K. Vanderbilt
Peru
New England
Launton
New Hampshire
Norwich
Vermont
Colored girl in Cairo Illinois sentenced for life for murder
Kate Colton, a colored girl in Cairo Illinois, convicted of murder in the second degree, sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning an entire family last September. Peter Joyce, a white man, joined the Decoration day procession at Vevay Indiana, became intoxicated, fired a loaded musket at several people, and fatally shot Squire Saunders, a colored man, instantly. Joyce was arrested.
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Kate Colton
Cairo
Iil
Seppe
Peter Joyce
Vevay Indiana
Squire Saunders
Joyce
Munich festival sparks socialist anger and flag vandalism
In Munich Bavarian veterans planned a Franco German war anniversary festival with German colors displayed. Socialists replaced flags with red revolutionary banners and chanted anti ruling slogans. The scene reflected rising tensions as other international news followed.
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Munich
Germany
France
Kitchener
Konosko
Abu Hamed
Wortley
Assioul
Admiralty
Chatham
Portsmouth
London
Colombier
Paris
Sarah Barnum
Moody and Sankey
America
Egypt
Spain
Count Bronte
Madame Schneider
Moscow
Russia
Democratic Conventions Ascertain Delegates Across Louisiana
In Louisiana three fourths of counties held Democratic conventions on the 24th to elect delegates for the state convention on June 11th to choose delegates to Chicago. Returns show about forty counties nearly united for the old ticket and Minnesota Democrats in state convention on the 28th backed a tariff for revenue only. Blaine headquarters in Chicago opened by Stephen B Elkins.
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Louisiana
Chicago
Indianapolis
Gen
Kutler
A. M. West
Mississippi
Washington
Cameron
Minnesota
Blaine
Stephen B. Elkins
Santa Fee
Charles W. Crisbee
Michigan
Arthur
Grane Pacific
Jackson Street
Chester A. Arthur
Newark
The Author of an Atrocionus Murder Executed
Wesley Johnson, 24, was hanged in Napoleon Ohio on the 29th for murdering George H. Williams and his wife on October 24. He killed them with an axe to obtain money for his mistress, securing $26 and a silver watch. Convicted on circumstantial evidence, he confessed after the verdict. He faced execution calmly, thanked the sheriff, and uttered a prayer as the cap fell.
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Wesley Johnson
Napoleon
Ohio
George H. Williams
Johnson
Indian raid and double shooting near Pollock corral
Rampant Redskins near Maple Grove Manitoba raid a settlement and kill Paul Pollock. Pollock, awakened by the attack, faced an Indian in a night clothes tussle before being shot in the shoulder and chest. Police pursue about twenty Indians, origin unknown.
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Maple Grove
Manitoba
Paul Pollock
Pollock
Ellock
Poets Reflect On Power Of Words And Duty
The text asserts poetry's power through few words and precise language. It ties daily duties to timekeeping, insisting proper word choice guides rhythm and balance in life and art.
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Emerson
Longfellow
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