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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1910
Page
6
Consul Olivares at Managua transmitted a telegram from the Matagalpa American consular agent reporting about 100 Americans including men women and children in the city who fear for their safety and property.
A surge of short items covers Albert Nier swindling pastors after moving to San Francisco and a Kentucky delegation urging Albert S White for Haiti ministry. Obituaries note Frank V Dunn in Dorchester. Tillman’s recovery progress. Taft speeches in New York. bids for rivers and harbors funds. Bond set for William Lowe in a mail robbery case near Eureka. high cost of living probe. ongoing Nicaragua conflict. Philippine army maneuvers. Mare Island reports poor condition of West Virginia and Maryland. Ballinger suspends lands for investigation. Alaska syndicate details before a senate committee. Bills to tighten employer-employee contact. Davis attacks Owen and Standard Oil. Taft policy bills under review. Trojan powder works explosion in California. Perkins returns to Senate after six weeks. Kaye sentenced for counterfeiting. Mailbox rule to start July 1 1911. Mrs Husse Bage travels the South. Insurgents cheer Taft overruling Hitch as Postmaster True appointment discussed.
The nation hears of a planned Masonic memorial near Alexandria Virginia. Across the country Supreme Court rulings shape rail regulation, and President Taft withdraws customs court nominees. Emigration and rail demand rise as political shifts unfold.
Brown and Burkett introduce resolutions from the Knights of Columbus of Greeley and Lincoln demanding proper facilities for their fraternal paper. They fear current postal rules may bar advertising. Omaha groups seek delay in tax law features pending supreme court rulings.
The report states Senator Tillman will recover with no complications. It also recalls an avalanche near Buifsdal on Isa Fiord killing twenty three people and the cornerstone lay of Omaha’s million dollar courthouse on Washington's Birthday.
The town plans extensive construction including two new churches with costs near 70 000. The Catholic church to cost about 40 000 and the rebuilt M B church around 30 000. A 20 000 gymnasium and library is to open in spring funded by local donations. Bonds worth 20 000 await sale for a municipal lights and water system. Water system upgrades support the new sewer, completed earlier this winter.
Grand Island Nebraska will host a new mica factory after Lincoln firm officials visited town seeking a location and labor pool. The local commercial club secured enough applicants in a week and the site lease is ordered with work expected to begin around March 15. The plant will process mica shipped from mines into finished electrical lamp components.
A large party of surveyors are operating north and west of Nebraska City, coming from Ashland. They marked lines through the western part and southward, signaling a possible new railroad line. The Cass and Otoe county project from near Omaha has been discussed for years, and this time many stakes are being set for lines and grade.
Grant Nebraska plans a $12000 school house a $7000 opera house a new lumber yard now being stocked and residences costing $1000 to $3000 plus additional business houses Real estate men report rapid settlement by farmers from Illinois Iowa and eastern Nebraska to fuel growth this year.
Lewis Quigler, about sixty five, a single man living alone on a homestead near Anselmo, was found dead in bed early Saturday. Neighbors, alarmed by his absence, investigated and found the deceased had apparently been dead for several hours.
Nebraska City farmers report wheat in excellent condition with fields still ice bound protecting crops. The county shows greater acreage than in recent years and farmers anticipate a large yield despite freezing and thawing.
Robert Bailey was sentenced by Judge Hollenbeck to one year in the penitentiary for larceny. He had stolen $65 from his roommate Julian Kemoch at Leavitt where they worked, admitting the act while Kemoch slept.
Carl McDowell resigns from the Lyons rural route after four years and eight months of service. During his tenure he logged 42 784 miles, nearly twice around the world, and relied on seven different horses to complete the route.
George Harrett an eighteen year old barber formerly of Grand Island was found dead in his Alda shop Friday night. He had been in high spirits the evening before and with village boys practiced high kicking, which is believed to have caused a hemorrhage. He apparently traveled to Grand Island but had no ticket, and his body was found after a search showed death occurred sometime the night before.
A Friday morning blaze at Edison twelve miles north of Beaver City destroyed five central buildings. The Bank of Edison, Brand hardware store, M J Munday general merchandise, Edison News, and the barber shop Sample and Dixon were burned. Insured values range up to five thousand dollars. origins remain unknown.
Arthur Anderson, described as a young negro, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the district court without bail on a charge of first degree murder for the killing of Arthur Newell at Hastings. In Omaha an explosion at the American Smelting and Refining plant killed two men and fatally injured another. G H Ruhank, once a Hallam bank cashier, died in Stockton Kansas. The Little Nemaha drainage work begins as dredges from Marion Ohio head to Talmage Nebraska. Nebraska Experiment Station issues Bulletin No 113 on oats.
The Commons rejected Austen Chamberlain's fiscal amendment by 285 to 254. Nationalists and Irish MPs abstained, Labour voted with the government, and three Liberals abstained. Asquith plans government business through March 24 while Lords reforms loom, with Rosebery signaling a March 14 move to a strong second chamber plan.
Lyda Conley, last of the Wyandotte line, returns from Washington hopeful the U S Supreme Court will allow the ashes of her ancestors to rest in the Minnesota Avenue cemetery. The city seeks to condemn the site for a park, but Conley has defended the cemetery and argues for peaceful rest for the old Huron warriors.
Guthrie Oklahoma railroads led by Chicago Rock Island Pacific and St Louis San Francisco challenge the two cent passenger rate and the reduced freight rate law in U S circuit courts. They seek to overturn state rate controls after Judge Hook at St Louis blocked enforcement and Missouri Kansas Texas restored three cent passenger rates. Governor Haskell urged patronage of nonparticpating lines.
Washington reports a request for Peary to present proofs of reaching the North Pole to a retired board of three senior officers. A house sub committee discussed rewarding Peary but took no action. Admiral Holliday denied Peary’s responsibility for unpaid Roosevelt ship bills, stating the Peary Arctic Club covered the contract while the builder charged extra.
Kansas City hosts a gathering of missionaries from Japan India Africa China and the Philippine Islands as they address delegates of the national laymen's movement. Speakers include W. E. Nicol J. Aterly from India J. L. Dearing from Japan H. P. Silver from the Philippines A. F. Hensey from Africa M. D. Eubank and Isaac T. Headland from China.
EB O McCormick assistant traffic director of the Union Pacific South Pacific lines argues clerks on railway post offices ride free. He contends railroads would gain if clerks were charged two cents a mile, estimating annual revenue of about 12.6 million dollars based on all trips equivalent to 629 million miles.
Worcester Massachusetts. Andrew P Johnson once a university trained physician and noted musician in Sweden lives as a hermit since his jilting by Mary Olson of Molne baka Buck. Once an organist with a state church post he wandered to America thirty years ago now in Worcester city hospital for treatment after years of squalor and isolation.
A massive blasting project in southern California opened a 125 foot tunnel into granite. Inside a chamber were placed 38,950 pounds of powder and dynamite. Electric fuses triggered the blast, dislodging 120000 cubic yards of rock.
Blowhard finishes a strange tale as a one person audience questions its truth. The other squarely asserts belief and insists he knows it is true.
A terse exchange reveals confusion over a report about Mr. Jaggers. One speaker asks for details, another admits knowledge is lacking, highlighting uncertainty surrounding the matter.
James W. Coffroth, famed fight promoter, won a 2000 bet with a London club member by reaching San Francisco in nine days five hours five minutes. He arrived at Oakland pier to a cheering crowd, completing the fastest London to San Francisco crossing via the Overland Route.
An odd dramatic note describes First Angel asking about a seventh heaven rumpus and Second Angel reporting a moral uplifter breaking through the roof while seeking an eighth heaven. The piece hints at comic supernatural surveillance.
A playful exchange reveals Camille admits she jumped when Edna kissed under the mistletoe. Camille explains the height difference with Edna standing six feet two inches to her four feet six inches.
An old time drug advertisement touts Perry Davis’ Painkiller for sideaches backaches and other pains. It claims a large bottle is affordable at 25 cents and available at all druggists.
A succinct maxim attributed to Ruskin about diligence and the availability of tasks and instruments for capable individuals, implying perseverance and resourcefulness in pursuing labor.
Pazo Ointment guarantees relief from itching bleeding or pain within six days. If symptoms persist the makers offer a money refund. The advertisement asserts quick results for piles and promotes a simple treatment.
A brief aphorism from Washington urges individuals to nurture their inner conscience. The quote frames conscience as a celestial spark sustaining moral action and civic responsibility.
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