Compliment to Ex-Gov Furnas from London World’s Fair official
Lincoln Journal presents a note from John Gilmer Speed, commissioner-general of the 1868 London World’s Fair, praising ex-governor Robert W. Furnas for organizing Nebraska’s exhibits. Speed invites Furnas to be a commissioner for the 1885 London exhibition, noting Nebraska’s strong display and urging a favorable reply.
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Furnas
Lincoln Journal
John Gilmer Speed
London
R. W Furnas
Nebraska
Speed
New Orleans
Robt. W. Furnas
United States
Executive Council
American Exhibition Association
Poultney
England
Jno
Gilmer Speed
Shooting Shrouded in Mystery at Tekamah Gathering
The 12 year old Allen girl was shot at a Tekamah gathering at Joe Shafer's in the south part of town. The weapon was drawn by a sister in a night of debauched conduct and jealousy is named as a motive though officials will investigate. The 32 caliber revolver remains with the coroner as the DA seeks the truth.
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Allen
Joe Shafer
Tekamah
Tekams Burtonian
Omaha Reservation Sale Plans and Indian Employment Move
John A. Kehoe of Platte Center visits the new town of Pender and praises the northeastern Nebraska Omaha reservation. Last year 160 acre tracts at seven years credit were offered to actual settlers at $7 an acre, with a one year extension granted. About 20 000 acres remain for sale on May 11 as Indians focus on farming and prosperity.
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Tre
Omaha
John A. Kehoe
Platte Center
Pender
Nebraska
Kehoe
Arthur
Land Office
Washington
Wisconsin
Conch
George Clothier
Columbus
Buffalo Bill
Omaha Herald
State in Brief highlights and regional developments
The report notes Bink cheese factory using 36000 pounds of milk daily and 2500 acres leased on the Omaha reservation for ten years. U P freight audits switch to monthly station reports. Lincoln Journal cites a larger cultivated area with no increase in small grain, more corn and tame grass. L B Rossetter named railway postal clerk. Elkhorn line expansion toward Wyoming likely this season. Omaha electric firms near consolidation and progress on district fair funds. Chicago St Paul and Omaha Railroad reports 1884 income 6,436,055 with 473,593 surplus. Seward wind storm damaged windmills and a long corn crib. George Pritchett and Warren Switzler of Omaha are in Washington working for the office.
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Denny Bros
Omaha
U. P
Lincoln Journal
L. BR. Rossetter
Platte Center
Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad Company
Seward
G. W. Bartow
George Pritchett
Warren Switzler
Washington
Nebraska Notes From Beatrice and Nearby Towns
A Nebraska roundup reports deaths including Mrs Helen Grenell wife of E N Grenell of Ft Calhoun. Fire damages in Omaha and Lincoln areas. Census work begins June 1. Church life, rail and road news, and local crime with victims injured in West Point and Dunbar. Beatrice industry boom with canning and dairy expansion. Saloons rise in Crete and Beatrice faces fires. Weather, fruit planting, and public notices fill out the region news.
Barrios Family Passes Through Omaha En Route to New York
Madame Barrios widow of Guatemala’s slain president travels with eight children led by General Baiz and consul-general. The party moved from San Francisco to New York, where they maintain a residence.
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Madame Barrios
Guatemalan Republic
Antonio
Gon
Baiz
Omaha
San Francisco
New York
Barrios
Winnebago Settlers Form Rights Association in Dakota
A Pierre meeting leads to the Winnebago and Crow Creek Settlers Rights Association with John Sutherland as president and A E Dewey secretary. The group vows to stay on lands, pursue legal redress, organize auxiliary societies, and solicit $1 per member for a county treasurer, framing a public address to settlers.
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Fort Pierre
Dakota
Winnebago
Crow Creek
Cleveland
Pierre
Winnebago Settlers’ Rights Association
John Sutherland
A. E. Dewey
R. E. Gregory
Presidentrthur
United States
Arthur
Winnetago
Ft. Thompson
The
Winnebago and Crow Creek
Winnebago and Crow Creek Settlers’ Rights Association
Canning Blunt
Highmore
Mitchell
Chamberlain
Harrold
Kimball
Plankington
E. B. Palmer
Hughes County
Ireland
Down-Troden
Russia
America
Europe’s Tense Rush to War Between Russia and England
A London dispatch flags a serious European crisis as Russia may seek war with England over imperial questions. Public sentiment in England is wary. Gladstone’s cautious stance is noted as a barrier to escalation. Russia’s reply to Britain’s protest on Komaroff’s Pens deh report looms as a potential flashpoint.
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London
Russia
England
Gladstore
Gladstone
Soudan
Gordon
India
Komaroff
Pensdeh
Lexusteres
Komarofff
Peter Lumsden
Postal Rate Changes Issued by Postmaster General
The circular explains July 1 changes to domestic first class mail at 2 cents per ounce and applies to Canada. Second class mail drops to 1 cent per pound with a 1 cent newspaper stamp to begin June 1. Special delivery plans and Oscar Wilde notes are mentioned without full details.
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Congress
Canada
Chloroform Attack and Local News Tales Across Several Topics
The item notes R D Mullane was chloroformed in Chattanooga and robbed of nearly 30 dollars. Other briefs cover Saratoga hotels opening June first, Wyoming storm grass outlook, cattle losses, frog embedded in rock experiments, France debt history, Britain Russia tensions, Paul Just jailed for theft, Boston rags disinfected, Virginia clerk theft conviction, post office inspector removals, a Kansas murder captured and hanged, Indiana tramp beatings, Brooklyn yard layoffs, a train robbery with over $1200 taken, and Herman Green's suicide on a Illinois farm.
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R. D. Mullane
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Read
Chattanooga
Tenn
Saratoga
Foreign notes from Cromandt describe torpedo preparations
Night and day workmen load Whitehead torpedoes at the arsenal as hostilities loom. Stationary torpedoes will be placed outside all Russian Baltic ports at the outset. Admiral Grier and other ships ready for action. Paris praises French government. France seeks full reparation and may aim to oust Nu bar Pasha. Afghan sentiment cools but awaits British policy signal. Egyptian ministry stands firm against compromise. Overland postal service to India hindered by floods. Russians compel Penjdeh Sariks to build military roads.
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Cromandt
Baltic
Paris
Gaulois
France
England
Nubar Pasha
Cairo
London Times
Afghanistan
Penjieh
India
Penjdeh
Delphic slander trial halted by judge amid forged letter
In Delphi the Loush-Loutham case dissolves when Judge Davidson dismisses the jury after a forged Mollie Mackin letter surfaced claiming inducement to testify falsely. Across incidents a Mabry farm assault ends in Mabry’s death as Henderson and Ferguson are implicated, and a Atlanta boy is stabbed by a mulatto after a water dispute. A Louisville train incident concludes with an armed tramp assaulting baggage man Webber in the express car.
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Loush-Loutham
Delphi
Mollie Mackin
Beng
Davidson
W. H. Mabry
Farmersville
Mabry
W. C. Henderson
Walter Ferguson
James Garvey
John Garvey
Atlanta
William Perry
Perry
Louisville, New Albany
Chicago
Bloomington
George K. Davis
Peter Webber
Webber
Treasury appoints special agent and several postmasters
The secretary of the treasury names Hon. George H. Parker of Iowa as special agent. The president appoints postmasters Silas K. Montgomery Bristol Conn H C Rust Dougherty Ga U L Edwards Waterloo Ia S W Lynn Grundy Center Ia Charles E Brason Manchester Ia. James F McClellan Florida named surveyor general of Florida vice W M Micks not confirmed. Marine hospital bureau notes cholera in Calcutta.
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Secretary of the Treasury
George H. Parker
Iowa
Treasury Department
Silas K. Montgomery
Bristol
Florida
Wm. M. Micks
Senate
John Russell Young
China
California
Democratic Party
Frank McCoffin
San Francisco
Czar Demands British Acceptance or War Threatens Europe
Russia issues an ultimatum to Great Britain over a boundary between Turkestan and Afghanistan and threatens to occupy Herat if refused. Russia mobilizes its army as Gladstone’s Commons speech signals hard line, with diplomats urged aside and war near at hand.
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Czar
Great Britain
Russia
Turkestan
Afghanistan
Herat
Gladstone
House of Commons
Navor Remyea
Independence Belge
St. Petersburg
de Giers
England
Feela
London Post
Ameer
Glaestone
Europe
Asia
Inke Cambridge
Aldershot
Fitzmaurice
Meruchak
The
London Times
Is Cancer Curable Open Letter to General Grant's Physician
Dr. W. E. Brown a cancer specialist from North Adams Mass argues epitheliomal cancer is curable. He challenges prevailing opinion that cancer cannot be cured and offers to treat ten patients in New York gratis to prove his claim.
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W. E. Brown
General Grant
North Adams
Mess
New York
Grant
New York City
Chicago’s New Board of Trade Building Dedication
The Chicago board of trade building, built at two million dollars, was formally dedicated on the 29th with simple exercises and orchestral music. About five thousand gathered in the main hall as delegates from nearly every exchange, including guests from Ireland and California, attended the ceremony. Reverend Clinton Locke opened with prayer, John R Beasley turned over the keys to G N Leons Blake, who spoke briefly, followed by short remarks from visiting representatives.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Chicago Board of Trade
Galeries
Ireland
California
Wreck
Clinton Locke
John R. Beasley
G. Nleon Blake
Cattlemen in Caucus Press for Expanded Disease Rules
Illinois cattlemen meet in Springfield on the 20th to discuss stopping contagious pleuro pneumonia. Governor Oglesby explains quarantine actions against Missouri cattle and urges stronger laws and funding for inspectors and slaughter costs. Delegates call for state and federal legislation to curb spread and protect livestock interests.
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Tilinoia
Springfield
Oglesby
Missouri
Wuerras
Illinois
Sinois
United States
Congress
Redbeel
Desperate confrontation ends with conductors killing one man
In East Atchison Missouri a fight between Conductor L T Smith and Pierce and Henry Yocum ended with Yocum dead after Smith fired four shots. Henry Yocum wounded in the left arm and chest area. Sheriff Carey arrests Smith and takes him away.
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East Atchison, Mo
L. T. Smith
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Pierce
Henry Yocum
Smith
Cameron
Atchicon
Henry
Smith and Wesson
Yocum
Yocuum
Asui
East Atchison
Smith Carey
St. Joseph
Smth
Visit to the Treasury Vaults Reveals Count of Millions
Washington dispatch reports a tour of the great silver vault where the count of millions proceeds. Visitors see bags of 1,000 silver dollars, each weighing 1 pound 3 ounces, stored in barred rooms behind fortified doors and a chronometer lock system guarding the inner doors.
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Washington Dispatch
Treasury Department
The
Treasury
U&. Treasury
Washington, D. C
Hanlan Defeated by Beach in World Skiff Championship
The Para masa river race on March 2th featured William Beach versus Edward Hanlan on a new ruddered boat for the world championship. Beach led from Putney onward and finished six lengths ahead past Gladesville as crowds roared. The Australia, docked in San Francisco, carried reports of the event and Beach’s shipboard belt claim.
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Australia
San Francisco
Sidney
Auckland Evening Star
Wm. Beach
Edward Hanisn
Paramasa
Hanlan
Beach
Putney
Gladesville
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Hayes
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Beatrice Republican
Horace Ewing
Charles Rigg
Nemaha City
Plainview
Charles Dill
West Point
John Cook
Kenesaw
Chamber of Commerce
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Army of the Republic
Juniata
Cedar Rapida
Lewis Cropsey
Chemnitz
Saxony
Beatrice
Valentine
St. Louis Exposition
Beatrice Canning Factory
Beatrice Creamery
West Point Creamery
West Point Butter and Cheese Association
Creighton
Madison and Stanton
Sutton
Crete
A.C. Miller
Table Rock
Miller
Orleans
R. Bradley
A.N. Wisnell
Beatrice Express
Register Dodds
U. S. Law Office
Bazile Mills
Enekes
Humphrey
Gen. Palmer
Department of the State
Gen. Morrow
Dunbar
John Summers
Nebraska City
Judge Roberts
Atkinson
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad
Pine Ridge Agency
Bear Creek Crossing
Winnebago Reservation
H. E. Dewer
Oscar Wilde
Wyoming
Sequin
Napoleon III
Prussia
Count Kainoky
Turkey
Paul C. Just
Board of Health of
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Egypt
W. R. Smith
Richmond
Vilas
John H. Livingston
George E. Porter
St. Louis
E. E. Stevens
Augusta
Charles Pield
J.J. Hanna
Richard Parker
Great Bend
Kan
Kansas City
Anderson
Indiana
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Davin
Boomington
Davis
Herman Green
Mowcaqua, Lll
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