Nebraska Supreme Court Rules Telegraph Companies Liable
The Nebraska Supreme Court holds telegraph firms liable for any loss from failure to transmit entrusted messages if caused by their own negligence. It voids Chapter LVII on involuntary descent rights of an insane wife in an intestate husband’s property. The state also faces local sector news on a bank receiver fight, wolf depredations, injuries from accidents, dog licensing, fires, and other provincial incidents across Nebraska.
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State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Lincoln Journal
Omaha
McCague Savings ‘Bank
Henry I. Wyman
American National Bank
W W. A. Saunders
Merchants’ National Bank
Hyannis
Pitts
Sand Hills
Jim
Charley Rice
Hebron
Dry Creek
Charley
G. W. Shreak
York
Asylum
Nebraska City Packing Company
Nebraska City
Fremont
Ridgeley
Dodge County
N. E. Bergin
Kansas City
Gandy
Logan County
Chas. Wessel
Simbolt
Bryant
Plainview
Jenkins
Sutherland
McIntire
Stratton
Lincoln
St. James Hotel
Ed Tolbert
Bancroft
J. H. Lovering
West Point
Ed A. Fry
George W. Chambers
Niobrara
Gothenbure
Kearney Opera House
John 8. Briggs
Ilayden
Nebraska
Omaha and
Grant Smelting Company
Briggs
Woith
Bell & McCune
Stromsburg
Bell McCune
David City
M. B. Chney
W. B. Fryke
Bloomfield
Sunday Opening a Failure at the World Fair
The Sunday attendance at the world’s fair was light raising doubts about Sunday openings. Concessionaires faced 25 percent gross receipts tax and cut staff. Wellington Catering, Higen Water reduced workforces. Michigan Central汽 workers visited, while Austria's Paul Schel Palmfrost urged open sale and immediate delivery by exhibitors to level the field with Americans.
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Catoaco
Wellington Catering Company
Higen Water Company
Michigan Central
Detroit
Paul Schel- Palmfrost
Austria
The Terrible Wavoc at Pomeroy
Tornado devastation in Pomeroy Iowa with eighty dead or injured. Rescue efforts taxed by crowds and poor drainage. Guard detachment limits crowd control as bodies and wreckage are searched amid looting concerns and rising death tolls. Two boys missing after a squall capsized their boat.
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Pomeroy
Haji Py
Fort Dodge Company
State Guard
Pomery
John Davy
Kate Davy
Ray Keefer
Joseph Demars
Mile Quinlan
Henry Gike
Emma Spies
Barry Aveenue
Ex-Senator Henderson Presses Silver Question in Letter
Ex Senator John B Henderson writes Secretary Carlisle at length on the silver issue. Census Superintendent Porter resigns to take a lucrative New York post. Extra session could shift senate seats and broaden appropriations. President Warner of the Bimerake League calls a convention at Chicago starting August 1. Senator Faulkner stands alone among the territories sub committee in willingness to proceed.
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John B. Henderson
Carlisle
Porter
New York
Senate
Congress
Warner
Bimerake League
Chicago
Territories
Faulkner
Gold Outlook Shifts as Sherman Act Hearsay Surfaces
Market notes indicate renewed belief that gold will be shipped to America once the Sherman act is revealed. Discount rates hardened amid half year demand and New York exchange weakness. Consols fell 4 cents on the week. foreign securities declined while American issues rallied briefly but mostly closed lower.
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America
Loxpon
New York Exchange
Stock Exchange
American Securities
Supposed Stranger of the Ray Girls Captured Near Wickliffe
A mob in Caro Illinois reports the capture of a suspect described as a light skinned mulatto named C Wilson in Sikeston Missouri. He is said to carry Mary Ray’s bloodied rings and a bloody razor, with plans to burn him at the stake as crowds mass in Wickliffe Kentucky.
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Caro
Ill
Kentucky
Ray
Wickliffe
Mississippi River
Missouri
Eddyville Penitentiary
Sikeston Mo
C Wilson
Mary Ray
What the Silver Men Expect
Washington reports detail General A J Warner predicting silver buys by India to back rupees with silver, potential demonetization talk at a Chicago meeting, and shifts in the silver lobby’s control over the coinage committee. Senator Harris says no filibuster planned on Sherman act repeal.
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Washington
A. J. Warner
American Bimetallic League
Warner
Legislative Council of India
Treasury of India
Bank of England
Europe
India
West
Chicago
Bland
Crisp
Harris
Senate
Silver Policy Debate in Denver Draws Prominent Speakers
At a chamber of commerce meeting in Denver on July 7, Hon. Charles S. Thomas and ex-Congressman James Belford led talks on silver. Thomas stressed party unity and warned that adopting a gold base would empower eastern bankers, risking national ruin as silver mining declines affect the economy.
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Denver
Chamber of Commerce
Charles S. Thomas
Colorado
Democratic National Committee
James B. Belford
Thomais
Republic
Local youths and four unknowns caught after freight car break in
Winamac Ind July 6 Samuel Nolan Charles Klop James Hurley Peck Miles Barney Daley and John Kelsey all young men of this city and four strangers unnamed broke into a fruit car on a through freight and were captured and lodged in jail
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Winamac
Ind
Samuel Nolan
Charles Klop
James Hurley
Peck Miles
Barney Daley
John Kelsey
St Louis Sees Record Half-Year Business Growth
St Louis reports solid six month gains with real estate transfers near a record high and bank clearings setting a new peak. Bridge plans between rival systems progress, aiming to speed passenger and freight flow into the city from the east and north. Water works expansion looms, aiding potential annexations as suburbs urbanize and demand municipal services.
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St. Louis
Alton
Chicago
St. Louis County
New City Water Works
The Cabman Witness Testimony in Vienna Case
A Vienna court hearing featured a cabman witness whose past misdemeanors were probed by a judge. Asked about prior punishments the cabman admitted a twenty four hour police detention many years ago. The judge remarked on the cabman’s short tenure and allowed the case to proceed.
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Vienna
Rail line tour to Montreal offered for Y P C E convention
The Wabash and Canadian Pacific Lines are chosen as the official route for the Nebraska delegation from Chicago to Montreal. Through day coaches, Buffett sleeping cars, and new tourist cars provide first class comfort at 75 cents per sleeping seat. Round trip Chicago to Montreal is 18 dollars, valid to September 15. Summer tours include routes by rail or steamship via the St Lawrence, with tickets on sale June 1 for travel to United States and Canada resorts through October 1. Information at Omaha offices 1502 Farnam, or Chicago addresses 201 Clark, Dearborn station, or by G N Clarroy, N W P Agt.
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Montreal
Sth
Wabash
Canadian Pacific
Chicago
Nebraska
St. Lawrence
Thousand Islands
Quebec
New England
United States
Canada
Farnam Street
Omaha
Clark Street
Dearbury Station
G. N. Clarroy
N. W. P. Agt
Pygmies of Iceland in Purchas Pilgrimage
The excerpt from Purchas His Pilgrimage describes Pigmiess of Iceland as very small people with human shape yet excessive hair and minimal intelligence. Males are said to have beards reaching the knees and to speak with a goose like hiss, lacking distinct speech.
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Iceland
Drumming Up Trade in Gas Belt Undertaking Firms
Two young men start an undertaking business in a large gas belt town. They issue typographically neat cards to announce their enterprise and invite an early call, following competition in the field.
Cigarettes Invade Persia and Spread Quickly
A historical note chronicles Persia's rapid shift to widespread cigarette use over seventeen years since 1876, replacing earlier pipe and bubble tobacco traditions. The piece contrasts social attitudes, mentions Turkish cigarette tobacco, and hints at broader societal changes triggered by smoking.
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Persia
Turkey
Terrible cyclone devastates Cherokee to Pomeroy area
Reports detail a violent storm line from Cherokee and Buena Vista through Pocahontas Calhoun and Storm Lake destroying towns including Pomeroy. Estimates say over 100 killed, 200 injured with entire town wiped out. special trains and physicians aid survivors as chaos and wreckage spread across farms and roads.
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Sioux City
Cherokee
Buena Vista
Pocahontas
Calhoun
Quierby
Cherokee County
Alta
Storm Lake
Newell
Yonda
Pomeroy
Illinois Central
Tirty
Fort Dover
Quimby
Good Templars Hall
Masterson
Man- Son
Ilinois Central
Manson
Kort Dodge
Jacob Breecher
Thomas Wall
Charles Totman
Bernard Johanessen
Edwin Weld
Jammed
R. Clemens
Ils
James Slade
John Sleigman
Illinois Central Line
Pomeroy and
Fonda
Justice Blatchford Dead in New York
Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford died quietly at 7 2 last evening after a gradual decline over the past week. Funeral plans are not yet complete, with the body likely to be transported to Washington for burial or services.
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Justice Blatchford
Newpork
Ro I
Samuel Blatchford
Earth
Butthes
Washington
Intriguing Obituary Note From Buzzano’s Bay
The message from the president to Mrs Blatchford expresses heartfelt sympathy on the death of a distinguished husband whose long public service caused a nation to mourn his loss. The text mentions a quiet summer visitor in Frenough Place and social ties with first families.
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Frenough Place
Buzzano's Bay
Grover
President Cleveland Denies Cancer Rumor
Dr Bryant and Colonel Lamont deny reports that President Cleveland has cancer or malignant growths. They state no operation has occurred beyond a tooth extraction and the president is not seriously ill.
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Cleveland
Buzzanro
Lryant
Colonel Lamont
New York
Bryant
Buzzard’s Bay
Walter Griesiam
Washington
Lamont
Treasury Officials Prepare for Extra Session Plan
From Wasureron July 10, the Evening Star notes Treasury Department officials quietly gathering statistics and histories of financial transactions to guide incoming administration views. Plans under consideration include a specie resumption act redeeming current money forms and issuing United States treasury notes redeemable in coin, with proposals for silver redemption and notes redeemable in silver.
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Treasury Department
Wasureron
Evening Star
Congress
Carlisle
United States
United States Treasury
Treasury
Bank of France
Western roads approve seven and eleven day World's Fair excursions
Western Passenger Association members backed a plan for continuous passage tickets by rail to the eastern region for seven or eleven days with no sleep cars. Sales start July 17 with additional tickets July 24 and a follow up August 1. Illinois Central June receipts rise to 1 030 455 and Atchison system reports eleven month excess earnings of 2 449 200.
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Cmcaco
Western Passenger Association
Illinois Central
Atchison
Sheep and Wool Company Falls in Jersey City
New Jersey based Sheep and Wool Company and Ganesvoort Market Sheep Company, both at Central Stock Yards Jersey City, failed yesterday. Backed by ex-Congressman James N. Pidcock and J N Pidcock Jr DC Brand of Trenton is president. Liabilities exceed half a million dollars.
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Sheep and Wool Company
New York
New Jersey Sheep and Wool Company
Ganesvoort Market Sheep Company
Brand of Trenton
Nobles County Bank Closes. Thompson Makes Assignment
Nobles county bank in Worthington Minnesota closed its doors yesterday morning and its owner Peter Thompson made an assignment. Several thousand dollars of county money is tied up.
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Minnesota Bank
Worthington
Minn
Nobles County Bank
Eter Thompson
Live Stock And Produce Markets Quotation Roundup
Market brief compiling quotations from New York, Chicago, St Louis, Omaha and other cities. Highlights include prices for cattle hogs and grain with shifts noted by exchange dealers and brokers.
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New York
Chicago, St
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