Nebraska Interests and Local Incidents Across Counties
A collage of Nebraska notes recounts an Omaha incident where a man leaped from a third story window in Canfield House, a Lincoln dairy farm fire destroying 26 cows, and various county happenings. Reports cover crimes, prison terms, land sales, Indian schooling trips, immigration, farm stock, and public notices across Beatrice, Plum Creek, Kearney, and other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sorren
Macon County
Ill
Canfield
Omaha
Sorren
B. Siete Naere
Rees
Motebel & Sherrar
Lincoln
John Little
Keya Paha
Brown County
Orien Pike
Orlom
Little
Plum Creek
Dawson County
Ee County
Wm. H. Reid
John M. Ming
Onry Burke
Geo. W. Gray
John Waggle
Senator van Wyck
Saline County Fair
Beatrice
Frank Plachy
Crete
Beatrice Daily Express
Pola Sage
Washington
John Colier
Nebraska City
Falls City
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Keith County
Cheyenne Coy
Cheyenne County
Waterloo
Douglas County
Nebraska City News
Palmyra
Ewing
Sioux City
Pacific
Black Hills
Holt County
Serna
Robert Leavitt
Ft Ist
Broadway
Fullerton
Bert Giles
Hamburg
John Wagner
Ashland
Nebraska
Johnson
Blair
Pawnee
D. F. Tubbs
Benne
Van Wyck Resolutions On Justice Department and Education Bill
Senator Van Wyck introduces resolutions on the Department of Justice and discusses the educational bill. The debate covers capital matters of a general nature and related fiscal implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator van Wyck
Congress debates on pleuro-pneumonia and suffrage
Senate minutes show a Iowa resolution urging extirpation of pleuro pneumonia. Bills pass to fund foot and mouth disease control at 60 000 dollars. Proposals include a sixteenth amendment on female suffrage and land inquiry with foreign corporations. House actions cover coinage, education funding, and railroad routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monpar
Allison T
General Assembly of Iowa
Messrs
McMillan
Palmer
Manderson
van Wyck
Committee On Public Lands
Plumb
Committee of Agriculture
Yeas
Commissioner of Agriculture
Senate Proceedings and Contested Election in Virginia
Senate actions include a resolution to obtain Treasury vouchers for mis cellaneous Justice Department expenses tied to star route cases, passage of the military academy appropriation, and Garrison's Virginia contested election seat oath after being declared entitled. House reports cover Tacoma admission, widow pension for Gen Ord, and fraud warrants inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Femar
van Wyck
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate
Department of Justice
Logan
Nepers
Committee On Conference On the Military Academy
Hoar
United States
Morgan
Allison
Committee On Appropriations
House
Blair
Turner
Virginia
Garrison
Mayo
Armny Garrison
Military Academy
Platt
Tacoma
Gen. Ord
Call
E. H. Funston
Kansas
D. C. Haskell
Passey
Government Update on Cattle Disease and Land Claims
A telegram from J H Sanders states Illinois cattle outbreak is not foot and mouth disease while Dr Law heads to Kansas to investigate. House panels back private land claim settlements across New Mexico Wyoming Arizona Utah Nevada Colorado. Tucker bill tightens civil war back pay claims to three years from passage, and six years for existing and future claims. President cites Lincoln Chandler opposition to private reward for Greely party rescue. Salt pork export inspection bill notes two percent US pork infected with trichinella and salt curing destroys the parasite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
J. H. Sanders
Treasury Cattle Commission
Commission
Dr. Law
The
Cattle Commission
Kansas
House Committee On Private Land Claims
Senate
New Mexico
Wyoming
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Colorado
Mexico
United States
House Committee On Judiciary
Tucker
Lincoln
Chandler
Lieut. Greely
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Pension Bill and Telegraph Offices Debate
The senate sub committee advances telegraph office expansion on circuits and near post offices with salaries over $500. Professor Salmon cautions the foot and mouth scare is unfounded and focal in origin. George W. Fairchild reports fencing of public lands by cattlemen blocking homestead access. The House approves a pension bill totaling 20,684,400 with a remaining year balance proposed for June 30, 1884.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee
Commission General of the Land Office
George W. Fairchild
United States Surveyor
Nebraska
House Committee On Appropriations
Destructive Boiler Explosion on Express Train Near Salem
Disaster on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago east bound limited express as it rounded a curve near Salem Ohio. The boiler exploded sending the engine down a fifteen foot embankment and killing the engineer and fireman instantly. Carriages were derailed and passengers injured. eleven suffered cuts and bruises while others escaped or were found unconscious. Baggagemaster Beisel and two porters were badly hurt. Eleven other named passengers sustained various injuries. Passengers were later transported to Pittsburg by special train. The exact cause of the crash remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Ft. Wayne
Chicago
Salem
Ohio
Beisel
Frederick Mather
Philadelphia
Wm. Rich
Mrs. Dean
E. G. Northam
Mrs. Roch
Wm. Fuller
Sullivan to Fight Thompson under London rules
John L. Sullivan telegraphs from Tucson that he will fight Morvine Thompson under London prize ring rules if a match is made. He notes a $2,000 forfeit option and willingness to proceed from two months hence. A Cleveland report says Dun can C. Ross sent cement articles to reelect Sullivan and Thompson to fight with $2,500 guaranteeing Thompson's signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
John L. Sullivan
Tuscon
Arizona
Associated Press
Sheedy
Thompson
Smith
London
Cleveland Dispatch
Duncan C. Ross
Richard K. Fox
New York
Morvine Thompson
Indian Troubles Feared Move in Indian Boundaries
Agent Riordan of the Navajo agency Arizona rushed to Washington with a tribal delegation to seek extended reservation boundaries when a sudden call arrives due to an imminent Indian outbreak. Telegrams from Dyer on Tongue River Montana report the Black Wolf band burning Andersons ranch a cowboy shot an Indian and great excitement with no nearby mail or telegraph service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riordan
Navajo Agency
Arizona
Washington
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Dyer
Tongue River
Montana
Mites City
Mont
Black Wolfe
Aunderson
Got His Just Deserts In Marysville Kansas
Twenty five to thirty masked men abducted Frayer from the county jail and hanged him near Spring Creek for the February murder of John and Mrs. Pennington near Frankfort. Frayer confessed to the brutal killings and robbery in a barn incident days after the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Kas
Frayer
Pennington
Nebraska
Spring Creek
John Pennington
Frankfort
John Schaefer
Oakland
Cal
Kansas
Samuel Frayer
Wells Township
Col
Norman Curtis
Rockford
Ill
Kansas Legislature Opens as Gov Glick Urges Veterinary Oversight
The Kansas legislature convened on the 18th. Gov. Glick urged expert veterinary oversight, defined duties by law, quarantine of stock from diseased areas, destruction of diseased animals when needed, and compensation for such actions to prevent spread of cattle disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Glick
Railroads Set to Meet in Boston Over Disputes
The Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy have appointed committees to meet in Boston to settle ongoing differences. UP members are C. F. Adams F. S. Ames and G. G. Haver, while Burlington's are J. M. Forbes Sidney Bartlett and C. J. Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. P
Union Pacific
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Boston
C. F. Adams
F. S Ames
G. G. Haver
Burlington’s
J. M. Forbes
Sidney Bartlett
C. J. Payne
Domestic Intelligence and Major Events Summary
Domestic intelligence notes report on incidents including a serious accident along the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago line. A record highlights foot and mouth disease in Kansas along with historical references to events in the Old World.
Crowds Send Corn Train to Flood Sufferers from Sedgwick
A special freight train of thirty one corn cars left Wichita for Cincinnati on the seventeenth to aid Ohio river valley flood sufferers. The corn is donated by Sedgwick County residents and is described as a substantial present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio River Valley
Wichita
Cincinnati
Sedwick County
Sandwich
Ont
Leech
Turnkey Davis
Tiller
Lindell Hotel
St. Louis
Executions of Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick Publicly Held
In Columbia Kentucky last week Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick were hanged for the brutal murder of Miller Brewster. The public execution drew about 5 000 spectators as a grim warning amid rising flood fears threatening lands in the parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gap
Rudolph
Champ Fitzpatrick
Lumbia
Kentucky
Miller Brewster
Robbery case links Tiller and McFadden in $400000 theft
A warrant charges Prentice Tiller with robbing the Pacific Express of 400000. McFadden is held with Tiller. both rented a Morgan Street room before and after the crime. McFadden attempted suicide in jail after a glass vial incident, while investigators trace shipments to Chicago Milwaukee and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fink
Chicago
New York
Prentice Tiller
George McFadden
Express
Court of Criminal Correction
St. Louis
Missouri
Yankton
Sioux City
E. M. Morsman
Pacific Express Company
Tiller
McFadden
Morgan Street
Express Office
Milwaukee
John Payton
Kansas City
Express Company
M. T. Burton
Taylor
Dorsett
A Foul Murder on Cedar Rapids Trestle Reported
An unknown man was killed at Cedar Rapids Iowa on the 20th after a fierce struggle on the trestle to the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul bridge. The body dropped into the river. Two men rushed to help as the murderer fled westward. Police are pursuing a tall stout bald man with blood stained clothes and hands who had no hat. Capture seems likely unless aided by friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Carpenter Acquitted In Murder Trial After Deliberation
The jury found Carpenter not guilty after a nine hour deliberation. He remained jailed overnight with his two daughters as the verdict emerged after a two ballot shift from seven to ten acquittals. The courtroom welcomed the decision with applause and Carpenter shook the jurors hands before planning any future statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osman Digna
Osman
Admiral Hewitt
Carpenter
Cattlemen Endorse Measures to Fight Stock Disease
The stockmen of McPherson Kansas and nearby areas held a mass meeting and passed resolutions praising their senators for seeking government cooperation to stamp out the cattle scourge and endorsing Governor Glick for calling the legislature. They urged Kansas congressmen to back measures preventing infectious disease among stock and strengthening quarantine laws. A committee was appointed to work with the state committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPherson
Kansas
Glick
Ansas
Congress
Disease not spreading in Kansas and Illinois cattle cases
D E Salmon of the Illinois department of agriculture reports from Kinsley Kansas that foot end mouth disease in Neosho Falls is not spreading and no contagious disease is present in farther western counties. Dr Ranch of the Illinois state board of health notes from Xenia Illinois that twenty head of cattle have died on R T Forth’s farm in Wayne county and that the deaths are due to foot and mouth disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loring
Salmon
Department of Agriculture
Neosho Falls
Kan
D. E. Salmon
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Kinsley
Kansas
Dr. Ranch
Illinois State Board of Health
Xenia
Clay County
Illinois
R. T. Forth
Wayne County
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Tammany Society
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Seventh Infantry
Department of Arizona
American Tract Society
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Francis Scott Key
Sharon
San Francisco
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McDavitt
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Frank Simmons
Charles B. Wright
Northern Pacific
Henry Villard
Lil
Nashville
A. S. Colyer
American Newspaper Company
Mt. Carmel
Thatcher
Supreme Court of Colorado
Potter
Michael Toney
Buckridge Levee
Louisiana
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Graham
Haerdouk
Suakim
Sinkat
Berber
Sheike
Eveleyn Baring
Bismarck
Lasker
America
Gordon
Gen. Gordon
Khartoum
Cairo
T At Abdel Kadir Pasha
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