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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
6
Unionists gain seat in Southport division election
In the national brief, the unionists win another seat in Southport Lancaster. The updated MP tally lists Unionists 221 liberals 202 laborites 64 nationalists 69. President Madriz of Nicaragua issues a proclamation detailing renewed hostilities and peace talks. American shoe makers ship orders via German agents ahead of tariff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
Lancaster
Madriz
Nicaragua
Kimball
Germany
South Africa
Col. Roosevelt
Millions in royalties proposed from Alaska coal lands
A Seattle man urged a senate committee to allocate millions in royalties from Alaska coal leases. The same session questioned the wisdom of an international park on the US Canada border and discussed national trade boards and forest testing of Spanish cork oak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Seattle
Senate
National Boards of Trades
Spain
Serra Kendall
Martinsville
Ind
National Education Association
Boston
Supreme Court
Beef Trust
Harry Kendall
United States
William B. Blair
Senate Committee On Territories
Beveridge
Legislative Council
Smith
Iowa
National
Taggart
Indianapolis
W. H. Morton
Taft
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Armour
Col. Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
United States Steel Corporation
Committee On Judiciary
Michael W. Louis
Joseph L. Bristow
Kansas
Henry C. Payne
Washington
Claybaugh
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Leavenworth
West Point Military Academy
Warren
Hughes
Joseph A. Graham
Salisbury
West
Stuyvessant Fish
New York
Robert Underwood Johnson
Century Magazine
Richard Watson Gilder
Johnson
Cummins
Madriz
Managua
Granada
Masaya
Reyes
Kansay City
New York Politics Stirring Skips to Direct Primary Victory
Senate race and reform debates fill headlines as Conger and Clark face pressure. Liberals rely on Irish support. district winds favor ship subsidy passage while New York Central wrecks two trains. Comet speeds past 120 miles per second. butter prices slip. Hetty Green joins anti meat crusade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conger
New York
House of ‘Commons
New York Central
Champ Clark
Winslow Ayton
Brown University
J. Shirley Eaton
Charles’ W. Morse
F. Augustus Heinze
Washington Dispatch
Congress
Pennsylvania
Paris
Plegans
Lafean
Ezra Kendall
Martinsville
Ind
Taft
William Huntington
Boston University
Elgin Board of Trade
Great Britain
Warner M. van Norden
Immigration Commission
Hetty Green
Postal agents curb one cent coin removal. rural postmen ordered stop
Officials estimate 300 million pennies yearly are removed from letter boxes by rural carriers for postage. After February 15, postmasters will halt the practice. Senator Burkett urges quick action on the postal savings bank bill amid debate. Interstate Commission deems rail rates Cleveland to Ottumwa excessive. 1909 export data show cotton led declines in value. Representative Garner seeks repeal of cattle duty to reduce food costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
Burkett
Mississippi River Crosings
Ottumwa
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Garner
Taft Seeks Unity as Ballinger-Pinchot Probe Looms
President Taft pursues tactful unity while the Ballinger Pinchot committee readies its investigation. Senator Nelson is named head of the Ballinger inquiry as Burkett aims to push a postal banking bill this session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot Committee
Nelson
Ballinger
Burkett
Congress
Iowa
Boone
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Belgium
Liena
Peru
W. J. Bryan
Giffard Pinchot
Charles W. Eliot
National Conservation Association
Elsie Sigel
Franz Sigel
New York
John R. Walsh
Leavenworth
George Harris
Burlington Railroad
Private stamp collection destroyed in Broken Bow courthouse fire
The district court clerk George Mair lost a forty year, world wide stamp and relic collection in a courthouse fire. Valued around 1600 dollars, items included rare cancellerless stamps from British colonies and Hawaii, Indian relics, autograph letters, Lincoln era political badges, and a sheet iron tea chest from Boston harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broken Bow
Court House
George Mair
Mair
Lincoln
Boston Harbor
Made Money on Hogs at Fairbury Neb
Representative John P. Thiessen of Jansen reports a net profit of 1108.41 on 22 broad sows in one year. He bought the sows in November 1908, had 170 pigs by April with 153 surviving, and shipped 102 young hogs weighing an average 193.5 pounds at 8.40 per hundred, leaving a clear gain after expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbury
Neb
John P. Thiessen
Jansen
Thiessen
Ashland Man Badly Hurt In Railway Elevator Accident
Ashland Nebraska reports a serious accident at Railsback brothers elevator around 3 pm Monday. John C Railsback, 74, was helping push empty freight cars when an iron flange pulley broke on the icy track and struck his left leg, causing a compound fracture. Surgeons removed splinters. amputation looms if he does not survive the shock, though doctors remain hopeful for recovery. Railsback has been a prominent local business figure for over twenty-five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Neb
Railsback Brothers
John C. Railsback
New Building Boom in Gering Nebraska
The city of Gering Nebraska anticipates a busy year as Union Pacific plans bring substantial construction. Estimated value tops 100000 with plans for the Union block a 140 foot front two story modern structure. Other projects include a joint Odd Fellows and Masons building a new Gering National Bank yard and elevators by Gering Lumber and Grain and a double store by M Gering Co plus a new post office and several residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gering
Neb
Union Pacific
Union Block
Masons
Gering National Bank
Gering Lumber and Grain Company
M. Gering & Co
Alliance Priest Named Dean in Nebraska Diocese
Bishop Scannell of the Omaha diocese appoints Rev. W. L. McNamara pastor of Holy Rosary in Alliance as dean of a new state section. The territory includes Dawes Sheridan Cherry Box Butte Sioux Kimball Banner Morrill and Garden counties. A public reception is planned with parishioners and citizens in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Neb
Scannell
Omaha
W. L. McNamara
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Dawes
Sheridan
Cherry
Box Butte
Sioux
Kimball
Banner
Morrill and
Garden
Father McNamara
Fire destroys Gladstone business district in Neb
Fire swept through Gladstone nine miles west of Fairbury destroying the oil can store of Sager man brothers, the C N Ude double department store, and the post office. The three buildings burned for a total loss about 20000 dollars, with partial insurance. A south wind hampered efforts to stop the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbury
Neb
Gladstone
Sagerman ‘Brothers
C. N. Ude
Crete Nebraska Eyes City Sewerage Plan
Mayor Dredla calls mass meeting of Crete voters at city hall on January 29 to discuss sewerage system construction. Engineering firm reps will attend. Officials back the plan and it may be implemented in the spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
Neb
Dredla
Loomes Farm Sells for 320 Acres at $100 Per Acre
The Loomes farm east of Polk Nebraska sold to Alfred and Charles Johnson for 320 acres at 100 dollars per acre totaling 32 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Loomes
Alfred
Charles Johnson
Nebraska Happenings From Beatrice To Lincoln
News briefs across Nebraska report N Thompson buying the W H Patmore farm of twenty acres east of Beatrice for 4000 dollars. B Dinsmore leaves Sutton for a one month stay in Cuba. R Ross of Steinaumer Catholic church to Milwaukee for treatment after a nervous collapse. Five Bowen children of Beaver City poisoned by sardines but recover. Crab Orchard to get new electric lighting as old plant is dismantled. Lewiston Incorporation trustees named. Henry F Cad y dies in Omaha at 58. Rural insurers suspected in David City. Burt county farmers institute planned at Oakland January 30 to February 1 with good roads topic. Levi Hartman retirement in Johnson county. LeRoy Erisman loses home to fire. Pawnee City pair walk to San Francisco starting with no money. Midwest Life reports record gains in Lincoln policies in 1909. Odell Farmers Elevator elects officers and pays six percent dividend after buying 167237 bushels of grain. Polk county real estate holds steady with auction sales near Stromsburg and Polk. Amherst resident Cranes dies by suicide amid distress over farm sale. Bilias Emery pioneer dies in Omaha. born 1826 in Circleville Ohio and influential in Nebraska real estate and horticulture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Thompson
Qdell
W. H.patmore
Beatrice
B. Dinsmore
Sutton
Cuba
Joseph ‘Ross
Catholic Church
Stéinauer
Dollapse
Milwaukee
Wis
Geo. ‘Bowen
Beaver City
Jacob Komsak
St. Paul
Lewiston
Frank L. Bratton
August Liebrock
William Dillon
Clyde Richardson
Luke Lytle
Levi Hartman
Vesta Precinct
Johnson County
Tecumseh, Beatrice
Lincoln
LeRoy Erisman
Auburn
Marcus R. Humphrey
Gilmore C. Nye
Pawnee City
San Francisco
Cal
Denver
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Midwest Life
Nebraska
Odell Farmers’ Elevator Company
T. W
Stanoscek
F. Bures
A. D. Burkett
J. E. Lpnrker
Polk County
A. P. Linder
Stromsburg
Louis Beckman
Polk
T. R. Cranes
Amherst
Cranes
Asylum For
Bilias L. Emery
General Hospital
Omaha
Lincolns
Circleville
Emery
Paris Flood Threat Pushes City Toward Panic
Flood conditions worsen in Paris with collapses on Quay des Augustines and sewer breaks flooding the twelfth arrondissement. Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite face submersion as walls are built to shield Hotel Lambert and Hotel Lauzun, while Gennevilliers may be inundated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Quay Des Grande Augustine
Orlean’s
Jacob
Institute of France
Twelfth Arrondissement
Ile St. Louis
Ile de la Cite
Pont St. Louis
Prince Czartoryski
L Lauzun
Gennevilleris
Liberal fortunes grow as coalition gains in London elections
The latest results show Unionists 2 2 0 Liberals 0 6 Laborites 2 0 Nationalists 2 0 0 with a coalition majority likely near 120. Premier Asquith arrives in London to confer with key ministers before cabinet reshuffles and possible Lords reform steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Tibia
Reese
Ccs
Asquith
Herbert J. Gladstone
United South Africa
Lords
House of Lords
Henry Campbell- Bannerman
Des Moines-Bernon Barr and Lina Ammer Die in Monro County
A 16 year old Des Moines-Bernon Barr and 14 year old Lina Ammer were found dead sitting upright in Barrs buggy on the Barr farm south of Monroe Indiana. A tincup with strychnine and water lay nearby. The couple had attended a Monroe dance and left the city in the buggy. despondency over their marriage is suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Bernon Barr
Lina Ammer
Young Barr
Barr Farm
Monroe
Gompers Receives Birthday Tributes on Sixtieth
Washington reports President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor turning sixty as congratulatory letters telegrams flood in from major labor bodies in the United States Canada and Britain sending greetings and roses from federation staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gompers
Washington
President Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Federation
United States
Canada
Hargis Must Serve Life Imprisonment for Murder
Lexington Kentucky Beach Hargis must serve his life sentence for the murder of his father James Hargis the feudist. The Kentucky court of appeals at Frankfort handed down the finding Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Beach Hargis
James Hargis
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Frankfort
Prices Tending Downward In Beef Market
New York wholesale beef prices slipped a cent and a half in Brooklyn from early week highs. The master butchers association reports a boycott cutting Brooklyn business by at least 25 percent. Retail markets see 20 to 25 percent sales declines. Manhattan shows less widespread declines with overall steadier activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Master Butchers’ Association of America
Manhattan
Jury Opens in Ford Trial In Cincinnati
In Cincinnati on Thursday testimony began in the case accusing Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford of blackmailing Charles L. Warriner former Big Four treasurer. Warriner, serving six years in Columbus for embezzlement, was brought to testify as the state’s chief witness. Courtroom crowded for juror selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Cincinnati
Jeanette Stewart-Ford
Charles L. Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Warriner
Columbus
Rights of Omaha Indians Tax and Patent Conclusions
Nebraska Attorney General Thompson issued an opinion on the Omaha Indians land patents and tax status. The ten year extension blocks simple fee patents absent new federal action, and Nebraska and Thurston County lack rights to tax trust lands until alienation restrictions are removed. state resistance to taxes would be unwarranted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Howard
Saxton
Thurston County
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Supreme Court Calendar February 7 to 11
The Supreme Court schedule lists cases to be heard from February 7 through February 11. Dockets include Drainage District No 1 versus Richardson, Curtis Baum Co versus Lang on rehearing, and multiple cases from Douglas and surrounding counties with motions and state matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Drainage District No. 1
County of
Richardson
Rogers
Trumble
Lancaster
McGrew
Matthews Piano Co
Markle
Gage
The
Curtis- Baum Co
Lang
Platte
Hotchkiss
Keck
Douglas
Boston
State
Darling
McBride
Boone
Schneider
Plum
A. A. Cooper Wagon & Puggy Co
Torbert
Boyd
Clarence
Cass
Peru Plow & Imp. Co
Johnson Bros
Kearney
Haase
Buffalo
Taylor
County Seeks Interest Money From 1902 Funds
Furnas county appeals to the supreme court over a $1296.65 interest claim on county funds deposited during County Treasurer Charles M. Evans's term starting January 1902. The suit asserts county funds earned interest totaling $1836.65, Evans credits $540, and a demurrer dismissed the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furnas
Supreme Court
Charles M. Evans
Evans
Extradition of Los Angeles man to face California charges
Harry Shields of Los Angeles has been extradited by Governor Shallenberger and will be sent to California for trial on a felony count for failing to provide for his minor children. Police Chief Williams of Long Beach accompanies him after arrest in Omaha. wife cites neglected twins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Shields
Los Angeles
Omaha
Shallenberger
California
Shields
Williams
Long Beach
State soldiers' homes grants detailed in funds remittance
The general government has remit ted to Governor Shallenberger 5900 for 236 members of the state soldiers' home at Grand Island for the quarter ending December 31 and 2625 for Milford for the same period. Milford home has 105 members. The money does not go to the homes but to the state general fund to cover current government expenses. The government grants 100 a year to the state for each member of a state soldiers' home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shallenberger
Grand Island
Milford
Counties Settle With State On Time For February 20
Thirty four counties filed state ments through their county treasurers detailing amounts due the state and have paid into the state treasury. The counties listed including Blain Box Butte Buffalo Burt Butler Deuel Dodge Fillmore Furpas Garfield Gosper Greeley Hamilton Harlan Holt Howard Johnson Kimball Loup Madison Nance Otoe Pawnee Pierce Platte Polk Saline Saunders Sherman Stanton Thomas Wayne York will not be delinquent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blain
Box Butte
Buffalo
Burt
Butler
Deuel
Dodge
Fillmore
Furpas
Garfield
Gosper
Greeley
Hamilton
Harlan
Holt
Howard
Johnson
Kimball
Loup Madison
Nance
Otoe
Pawnee
Pierce
Platte
Polk
Saline
Saunders
Sherman
Stanton
Thomas
Wayne
York
Central Canada farms reap record grain value and growth
A railroad speaker argues Central Canada shows rapid settlement growth across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with rail stations forming town hubs. 1909 grain value for Central Canada reaches about 195 million dollars up from 120 million last year, aided by high profits per acre and wide homestead opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
Great Britain
Continent
States
Girl Discovers Boy Not After Heart She Believes
A reflective line notes that sometimes a girl realizes the young man she admires is not pursuing her affections, revealing a clash between perception and reality in romance.
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