State in Brief reports Nebraska items and events
April filings show 971 land claims covering about 155,260 acres, with 50 percent engagement in settlements. Reports mention migration efforts to Orleans, school fund collections around $410,000, and a National Guard inspection. Drownings, trains, fires, crop prospects, and local incidents fill the slate across towns from Crete to Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Office
St Valentine
John C. Fremont
State
Frank Pyle
Lincoln
Orleans
Aneo
Iowa
Brownell Hall
Omaha
Sa Church
Chicago
Nebraska
Grand Army Boys
Ashland
Rock Island Arsenal
Norfolk District
North Nebraska Conference
M. E. Church
Scott’s Grove
Wakefield
Dixon County
H. J. Hughes
Crete
National Guard
National Congress
Norfolk
The
Journal
Uecker
Ysar
Pery
Hhe
Free Masons Lodge
State Land Commissioner
Bartlett
State Treasury
Union Stock Yards
Edward Aay
Michael Murphy
Henry
Butte
Montana
Women’s Christian Aid Association
Fornas
New Orleans
Crete Globe
Aees
Red Cloud
Kesterson
Endicott
Wilber Blade
Ingorfrm
Jefferson County Agricultural Society
Waterloo Gazette
Washington Territory
Evridge
Fullerton Journal
Nebraska State Fair Manager Meeting Notes 1884
The Nebraska State Fair managers met on the 20th with Chairman Barker Secretary Furnas and board members present. D H Wheeler requested a seven dollar per month appropriation for US Department of Agriculture publications from May to December 1884. A piano prize contract with J Mueller of Council Bluffs was approved. Plans include stock breeders’ show, waiving 6 percent sales commission, and selecting own auctioneers. Railways to arrange excursion trains from the east. Dr E G Northrop of Connecticut Agricultural College to deliver the annual address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
Barker
Furnas
Jensen
White
McIntyre
Dinsmore
Bowen
Hartman
D. H. Wheeler
United States Agricultural Department
J. Mueller
Council Bluffs
Druse
Messise
Daniels
Harvey
Eee
E. G. Northrop
Connecticut Agricultural College
Prospective Indian Troubles in West Territories
A Winnipeg special reports rising unrest among western Indigenous groups. Pot calls for a large sun dance and land for fishing to counter bacon driven scurvy, with fifty deaths in three months. Alleged broken pledges provoke tribes to unite, Yellow Calf’s band arms itself, and Regina sends troops as Cannon predicts potential clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
West Territories
Piapot
Congress Passes Labor Bureau Measure in Upper House
The Labor Bureau proposal advances as the higher chamber takes up and approves the measure. Washington action also includes another bid to extend influence in Oklahoma amid broader miscellaneous items.
Congressional actions extend cable work start to 1886
A condensed congressional digest notes the bill extends the cable laying start date to August 1886. It covers agricultural appropriations, artesian wells on plains, the Missouri River bridge at Douglas county Nebraska, Indiana contested election case English vs Peele, and a string of senate and house votes on public building sites, bridges, and other finance measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Deck
Hale
HOUSE
Indiana
Mr. Hart
Peele
Yeas
Springer
Hart
Converse
Senate BIll Grants Navy Officer Foreign Decoration
The report was agreed to and the senate bill granting permission to L. K. Reynolds of the United States Navy to accept the decoration of the Royal and Imperial Order of Franz Joseph from Austria for gallantry in saving eleven Austrian sailors was passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Agriculture
Senate
L. K. Reynolds
United States Navy
Frances Joseph
Government of
Austria
Pas
Forfeiture of Northern Pacific lands and related bills
The bill would restore the Cascade grant lands to the public domain between Walulla Junction and Portland, about 214 miles, and forfeit unbuilt lands after five years to aid a Cascade branch. It allows purchase of $20 acre parcels with improvements and requires railroad assent to titles. It also covers interior certification limits and a postal telegraph report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific
Wallula Junction
Portland
Cascade Grant
Cascade Branch
Ill
Lewis
House Committee On Public Lands
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Western Union Company
United States
Western Union
Belen Construction
The Coming Crops Crop reports of May 19
The China Farmers' Review notes wheat and corn prospects vary by state. Illinois shows generally good wheat prospects with early headed winter wheat, while Iowa spring wheat looks fair and corn planting is delayed. Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Kentucky Tennessee Ohio Indiana Missouri and Dakota show mixed signals with some counties predicting below average crops and others reporting promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China Farmers’ Review
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Tennessee
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Dakota
Democratic state convention names Tilden delegates at Lincoln
At the Lincoln convention on the 22nd the first ballot for delegates at large elected James E. Boyd of Douglas J. Sterling Morton of Otoe and W. H. Munger of Dodge with Tobias Castor of Saline winning the fourth seat on the second ballot all for Tilden. The platform calls for frugality reform and tariff revision to reduce monopolies and spread burdens toward luxury items and away from necessities. It pledges unity to defeat the Republican party in 1884.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
James E. Boyd
Douglas
J. Sterling Morton
Otoe
W. H. Munger
Dodge
Tobias Castor
Saline
Tilen
Thomas Jefferson
Adams
Democratic Party
Republican Party
East Albury bachelor dies. $60,000 found hidden
An elderly bachelor died in East Albury Vermont and investigators found about $60,000 in bonds notes and certificates concealed in his clothing linings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Albury
From Shore to Shore News Bulletin Highlights
A broad 1884 era recap covers finance, tax repeal efforts by New England tobacco growers, the Charles O Conor funeral with notable attendees, Hibernians officers elected in Cleveland, a Duluth ferry collision arrest, and various political legal notes. It reports on wool tariff debates, Northern Pacific land grant bills, naval relief plans, a Chicago bank draft case, and numerous regional incidents including a murder in Hillsdale Michigan and a Little Valley New York execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Produce Exchange
New England Tobacco Growers Association
Charles O’conor
Conkling
Kernan
Morgan Dix
Trinity Episco Church
Ae McQuade
Hendricks
McEnery
Wigger
William M. Evarts
Roswell P. Flower
John Kelly
Grace
John Graham
William Lummis
Benjamin H. Bristow
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Cleveland
Henry F. Sheridan
Massachusetts
Jeremiah Crowley
Cornelius Herrigan
Minnesota
M. A. Shea
F. B. Murphy
Iowa
J.S. O’conner
Ohio
Duluth
Ingalls
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eighth Judicial District
Nebraska
Tracy
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad
Burlington
Cassidy
Tilden
New York Statesman
National
Wool Growers’ Association
Columbus Delano
Dolph
van Wyck’s. Dolph
Walluls Junction
Portland
Presbyterian Assembly
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Cumberland
Monitor
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
England
Wall Street
At Bazar Bel Asia Minor Dwellings and Warehouses Count
A fragment notes the Bazar Bel area in Asia Minor reporting 950 dwellings and 644 warehouses. The text ends abruptly suggesting further data on urban structures or logistics without specifying date or ges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bazar Bel
Asia Minor
Republican and Prohibitionist Conventions News Briefs
The Missouri prohibition and home rule party met at a convention in St Louis, elected thirty two delegates to the national convention in Pittsburgh and adjourned to Sedalia on August nineteenth to finalize a state ticket. Resolutions backed the 1882 Chicago platform, pressed wage equality, and denounced liquor license laws as criminal collusion. New York business leaders endorsed Arthur's renomination, with speeches by Beecher Bristow and Scandrett. Senator Edmunds thanked the Washington and Jefferson students for their mock nomination. John A Anderson won re election for the Fifth Kansas district. Democrats triumphed in Danville and Richmond Virginia. West Virginia greenbackers joined Republicans on the state ticket. Petersburg Virginia voted Republican. Mahone was serenaded. Cedar Rapids Republican survey lists seventy replies on GOP prospects in New York, naming Blaine, Arthur, Edmunds, Lincoln, Sherman, Hawley, and White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Prohibition and Home Rejection Party
Souis
Pittsburg
Sedalia
Chicago
New York
Arthur
Henry Ward Beecher
Bristow
R. B. Scandrett
Don Cameron
Washington and Jefferson College
Edmunds
Fifth
Kansas
John A. Anderson
Danville
Richmond
Virginia
West Virginia
Greenbackers
Petersburg
Mahone
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Blaine
Lincoln
General Sherman
Haw~ley
Andrew White
Wreck of French Brig Senorine Off Grand Banks
A St Johns special reports the French brig Senorine ashore and wrecked off Grand Banks. Fifty three passengers and nine crew died as the captain misjudged in fog. Officers abandoned passengers leaving many to perish, with only about twenty saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johns
N. F
Grand Banks
Credit Mobilier case: Hazard asks removal of Oliver Ames
Rowland G. Hazard, stockholder, files in Philadelphia circuit court an answer to Union Pacific’s petition for removal of Oliver Ames from the Credit Mobilier receivership. Hazard contests a $1,299,365 NY judgment, argues Union Pacific has interest in Massachusetts suit, contends Credit Mobilier not insolvent, but supports removing Ames in favor of a Pennsylvanian appointee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowland G. Hazard
Credit Mobilier of America
United States Circuit Court
Philadelphia
Union Pacific Railway Company
Oliver Ames
Hazard
Union Pacific Railway
Credit Mobilier
New York
Union Pacific Company
Massachusetts
Union Pacific Road
Ames
Betrayed His Trust Hinckley Embezzled 96000 from Bank
Charles A. Hinckley a paying teller at a West Side New York bank has embezzled 96000 of the bank funds and fled. Bank capital stock remains 200000 intact with a 100180 surplus and a 10000 bond from Fidelity and Indemnity. Hinckley served the bank for fifteen years and was trusted as a man of rigid integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Hinckley
West Side Bank
New York
Hinckley
Fidelity and Indemnity Company
Iowa State Board Chief Praises Local Remedy at Fair
F N Chase of the Iowa State Board of Agriculture reports a Cedar Falls man suffered a sudden cholera morbus attack at the State fair grounds on the 6th. After taking Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy he recovered quickly and remained at the fair, praising it as an Iowa product needed in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. N. Chase
Iowa State Board of Agriculture
Rounds
Cedar Falls
Chamberlain
Iowa
Flowers and Feathers Dominate Ball Toilets At Evening Event
Elegant attendees flocked to an evening dinner and ball where floral motifs and feather plumes reigned in accessories and dress. Hosts highlighted coordinated decor and refined table settings as guests mingled in formal attire.
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Tribune
F. M
E. M. Kimmell
Acnon
Nance County
Manderson
Wnee City
Arene
Nebraska Sunday School Association
Wahoo
Worthington
Detroit
Clarkson
State Republican Central Committee
Kearney
Henry Hurlburt
George Allen
Filley
Ae Boughman
W. L. Sprague
Wood River
Hall County
Bloomington
Neno
the Sentinel
Humboldt
Clay County
Protestant Episcopal Church
Knox County
Charles Cline
S. K. Hole
Board of Managers
Labor Bureau
Oklahoma
Ington Matters
Congressional
Mr. Wise
Vicksburg
Chattanooga
Opelousa
Oregon
Sacramento
Dayton
Springfield
Northern Pacific Railroad
Judiciary Committee
White Cloud
Kas
Neb
Renate
Rule
Decatur
van Wyck
Utah
Thurman Sinking Fund
Oregon Central Land Grant
Congressional Library
Oregon Central
George
Cobb
Harrison
Committee On Territories
Senate Comitee
Blair
Aldrich
Henry J. Hunt
Gene Grant
Hatch
Bureau of Animal Industry
House Conference Committee
Capital Topics
Postal Telegraph
Fort Reno
Dewes
Day
Cimmaron
Carroll
Fort Sill
Revenue Reform
House of Representatives
Carlisle
Morrison
Hewitt
Rosecrans
Hurd
Slocum
Cox
N. Y
Holman
Buckner
Blackburn
Nebraska Democracy
Neous Memoranda
Ernest Shoemaker
Eureka
First National Bank of Chicago
Indian Territory
George Rigg
East St. Louis
Isaac M. Veitch
St. Louis
Supreme Lodge of the World
Missouri Grand Lodge
House Committee On Civil Service Reform
Siberia
Greely
William Dyke
Hillsdale
Charles B. Clarke
Little Valley
Jas. B. Keene
C. E. Babcock
House Committee On Public Health
National Board of Health
Hamilton
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Perison
House of Aeons
Gladstone
Comer Taegee
France
Egypt
Kier - Parliamt
House of Commons
Lord St. Leonard
le Paris
Union Pacific
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