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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
3
A garbled snippet describes a fair or market scene with booths and an item described as tape artwork. Details are unclear but imply an exhibit or craft activity with hands on participation and observations about a display.
Nebraska State Board of Transportation found that copies of the November 25 1897 order restoring carload livestock rates were mailed to all defendant railroads. Burlington alone claimed not to receive a copy and sought extra time to notify the Interstate Commerce Commission before the rate change.
An economic league was organized in Fairbury under the university association of Chicago to discuss political economy political science and sociology. Officers elected include George I. Jenkins president H Hinshaw vice president W H Adams secretary G L Pritchett treasurer H P Showalter local organizer with Bailey Barnes and Weidner on the executive committee and Stephens Barker and Clapp on the entertainment committee. The first regular meeting will be held on the second Friday evening of next month with prominent local legal rights leaders promised to discuss major political questions.
Ernest Ames of Lincoln Nebraska testified against Horace Adams, mining man known as the Silver Crown. Adams was bound over to district court on his own recognizance after claiming justification for shooting Ames at the Copper King mines during a dispute about trespass. Ames was wounded twice and is recovering as tensions over the mine risk fresh trouble.
A. W. Haynes, a Black student at the State university, files suit in district court against A. L. Hoover and Stephen Hoover, proprietors of the Lindell hotel, seeking 2,500 dollars claiming denial of hotel privileges including elevator access. Also: Treasurer Reserve renames general fund warrants totaling 40,000 dollars and Catholic Farmers Mutual Insurance gains licenses in Boone and Antelope counties.
Fremont Nebraska January 25 work on the Fremont power canal a two million dollar project has started Engineers surveyed the mouth of Him creek on the south bank of the Platte near the city This point will receive discharge from the reservoir and a dam will be built to create a 100 foot waterfall Engineer Rosewater of Omaha will prepare dam plans and specs A second survey moves west along the canal line The time limit for beginning work under the irrigation franchise expires January 25
Lincoln Nebraska. January 25. The supreme court heard a case challenging a provision of the 1897 deficiency judgment law. The suit began in 1896 with a decree, and the dispute centers on whether the 1897 act applies to actions pending or decrees already rendered, based on a repealer clause.
In Weeping Water Nebraska on January 25 Mrs. C. E. Joyce, a prominent local woman, set her clothes ablaze and was badly burned after the residence caught fire. Her husband C. E. Joyce rushed from the barn to help, smothering the flames but not before serious injuries occurred. She had periods of mental derangement and reportedly set fire to the license during one episode.
John O. Yeiser of Omaha asks the Nebraska State Board of Transportation to force four express firms in Omaha to deliver packages promptly without extra local charges. He also seeks a gate in the fence between Union and Burlington depots in Omaha.
Frank I. Vermilyea aged sixty a long time Burlington pipe fitter in Plattsmouth Nebraska collapsed and died of heart failure while en route to work. He belonged to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Masonic lodges and is survived by a widow and one daughter Mrs W W A Didier of Lincoln.
James Hamons sues John Mirra at Lindsay Nebraska for 10000 dollars claiming slander after Mirra labeled the duck hunting death of Daniel Ducy Jr. as deliberate and tried to incite a mob to lynch Hamons and his minor son.
Beatrice Nebraska January 27 Hon T E Hibbert census supervisor for the district states no enumerators have been appointed yet and Washington will not permit appointments until near the start of work. All other preliminary district work is finished.
Mary Seymour sues the estate of late Rev. Eugene Cusson for services rendered. Judge Fawcett and a jury in Nebraska City return a verdict for 275 dollars and 34 cents. The case will be carried to the Nebraska Supreme Court.
Edwin Davis, trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church in Plattsmouth Nebraska, observed his 89th birthday with a sumptuous supper hosted by him. Attending were fellow trustees Senator W. H. Newell S. A. Davis George Hay R. B. Windham C. S. Polk G. M. Spurlock and Rev. Asa Sleeth.
Blue Springs Nebraska records the death of John Fanver an elderly farmer living one mile west of town after he finished dinner he collapsed near his barn and died from an apparent stroke of apoplexy in the afternoon authorities reported no further details leaving the community in shock
Patents for C W Cross Grinnell on an auxiliary air heater and J Morgan Atlantic on a plant planting machine are noted. Undivided halves assigned to W S More and E Whitney. Consultation free. Also mentions US possible purchase of Danish West Indies for 4 million and a stray promotional line about Magnetic Starch.
Information on California Arizona Texas or Mexico long limit low rate round trip tickets and one way first class second class or sleeping car options available from W G Neimyer general western agent Southern Pacific 238 Clark St Chicago W H Connor commercial agent Chamber Commerce Bldg Cincinnati and W J Berg trainee pass agent 220 Ellicott Sq Buffalo.
La Porte Texas prepares for a formal opening on February 14 1917 the new deep water seaport praised for dry high ground free of marsh fever. Northern and Texas visitors expected with the American Land Co Chicago managing inquiries as the port gains national attention. The Boer trenches at Colenso are bomb proof.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway released an illustrated pamphlet about land along its new Bon Homme and Charles Mix county route in South Dakota. It offers free mailing on a 2 cent postage stamp to Geo H Steafford Chicago. The Denver Postscript suggests naming the women’s hotel in New York The Hen House for a $400000 project.
The column notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claimed to cure the grippe with E W Grove's signature on each box. It also reports an English expert urging cabinet change, a stern weather bureau quip by Wu Ting-fan, and a comic exchange with Sir Augustus Lackash about tailoring bills and business.
Astronomers, noting the recent non appearance of the Leonids, forecast a genuine exhibition next November. Their many experiments prove curved photographic plates are feasible in astronomy and useful for studying the heavens, with Allegheny Observatory reporting excellent results from these plates.
Try Grain o Grain e ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. One quarter the price of coffee. Sold by all grocers. No man is strong enough to do wrong with impunity. STATE OF OHIO City OF TOLEDO Lucas County Frank J Cheney sworn to pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. Hall s Catarrh Cure taken internally acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Baker s Chocollate and Cocoa look for La Bella Chocolatiere. Magnetic Starch try it now. You will then use no other.
David Cope, a young man afflicted with smallpox, died at the home of his employer George Vanier two miles southeast of DuBois Nebraska. Quarantine regulations are strictly enforced and no new cases have developed.
A fifty eight mile wind swept Ainsworth area and a spark from a ranch chimney started a prairie fire five miles west of Wood Lake burning the ranches of P E Wantz Mat Day and J J Davis and hundreds of tons of hay elsewhere. In Johnstown Neb a disastrous prairie fire started west of town and south of the tracks and, aided by a gale, swept across stacks of hay barns and stock.
In Decatur Nebraska on January 27 a bootlegger tried to exploit intoxicated Omaha reservation Indians who had drunk bad whisky. The group pursued the bootlegger, who climbed a tree and later returned the money, not retreating his high position until the enraged drunken warriors departed.
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