Nebraska Happenings From Hooper To Beatrice
A snapshot of Nebraska news includes Hooper may adopt electric lighting and St Seward's library housing about 1 400 volumes. Norfolk reports strong water power, Seward sees gains, and Oceola mulls water works. Occasional crime, court actions, and public notices punctuate entries from Antelope to Beatrice with rail and canal developments and local incidents.
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Hooper
St Seward
Geatrice
Norfolk
Falls of Niagara
Fillmore County
New Court House
Valparaiso
Throop
Silas Figard
Seward
Neligh Township
Antelope
J. W. Miller
St Paul
The
Monitor
Deas
Otis Dayton
State University
Sianten
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Takhorn
Charles Buyse
Wheeler
4. O. Wright
Kearney Canal
George Foreman
Benkelman
San Francisco
House approves silver seigniorage bill with mixed party support
The measure passed the House 167 to 129 after a lengthy roll call listing many members. It authorizes seigniorage coinage of silver and issuance of silver certificates, with Treasury notes retired as coinage proceeds. Democrats backed the bill 140 to 79 Republicans and 50 Democrats opposed.
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Yous
Moepes
Abbett
Aitken
Alderson
Ballay
Kansas
Mel
Hell
Texas
Birvek
Altmols
Black
Georga
Bia
Boataer
Beea
Bowery
Califora Briach
Breckinridge
Arkansas
Annert
Kentucky
Brets
Brown
Rysa
Buna
Bynum
Iss
Camenetti
Cannons
Califora
Pearson
Pence
Pendleton
West Virginia
Pickler
Post
Price
Reilly
Richardson
Ohio
Michigan
Tennessee
Ritchie
Robbins
Hypsell
Georgia
Turner
Virgnia
Turin
Tyler
Weadock
Wheeler
al Abams
White
Whiting
Whfam's
Minds
Williams
Mississippi
Wilson
Washington
Wise
Wood
Nays Adams
Heatuck
Aps
Adams
Aldrich
Apsiay
Avery
Babcock
Baker
New Hatopelties
Barnes
Bir
Erdman
Everett
Felder
Fletcher
Funk
Gardner
Gear
Geissenhainer
Gillett
New York
Goldizer
Griffin
Grout
Hager Hainer
Haines
Harmer
Harter
Hatghen
Hayes
Hainer
Henderson
Ilinois
Hitt
Hooker
Hopkins
Iinois
Pennsylvania
Hulick
Hull
Johnson
Indiana
North Dakota
Shermeriorn
Scranton
Shaw
Sherman
Sickley
Somers
Sperry
Stephenson
Stevens
C. W. Stone
Storer
Strauss
Stronz
Talbot
Maryland
Tawner
Tracey
Upderraff
van Voorhis
Wadsworth
Walker
Wanezer
Warner
Wau Bh
Walls
Wever
Illinois
I Wilson
Woomer and
Wright
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
M Kane Enters Sing Sing as Convict in Striking Scene
The ex Gravesend boss John Y McKane is marched with other convicts from cells to the lower deck at Sing Sing for his first prison breakfast. He sits with a New York horse thief, receives a measured breakfast, then begins training in trouser cutting under an instructor.
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Sine Sing
N. Y
Sing Sing
John Y. McKane
Gravesend
New York
Four Appropriation Bills Ready for House Action
Washington March 3 The greater appropriation bills reach the house with four on the calendar an unusual number for the session Chairman Sayers of the appropriations committee will start with the fortification bill followed by the pension District of Columbia and sundry civil bills in that order These measures have right of way without special rules and will be considered daily until all four pass
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Washington
House
Sayers
Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
Miam Missouri News editor touts Amick treatment cure claim
The Miam Missouri News editor explains he offered the paper for sale due to ill health but credits Dr Amick’s bronchitis treatment for his recovery. He claims the treatment, developed by W R and M L Amick of Cincinnati, is not patent medicine and can be obtained via family doctors.
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Miam
Missouri News
Dr. Amick
Amick Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Tom
Harry
W. R
M. L. Amick
Cincinnati Colege of Medicine and Surgery
Ohio Woolen Mill Closed on Judgments After Owner Vanishes
Hillsporo Ohio March 3 The woolen mill of J S Elifritz Co closed on judgments following the disappearance of senior partner J S Elifritz who was last heard from at the Palmer House Chicago February 17.
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Ohio
Hillsporo
J. S. Elifritz & Co
J.S. Elifritz
Palmer House
Chicago
Iowa Prison Shoe Factory Shuts Down
The shoe factory at the state prison suspends operations. The contractor cites unsatisfactory convict work and market difficulties as reasons for cessation.
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Iowa State Prison
Gladstone Retires as Rosebery Steps to Premier Post
Lexpos March 5. William Ewart Gladstone retires from the premiership after 34 years of public service. Lord Rosebery is summoned to Windsor to form the new government while Giadatone declines elevation to the peerage. The article notes Gladstone’s long career, Rosebery’s ascent, and the cabinet’s varied plans for foreign affairs.
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Firty
Lord Rosenberry
Giadatone
Elevatios
Gladetone
Lexpos
William Ewart Gladstone
Great Britain
Lord Rosebery
Windsor Castle
Sir Henry Ponsonby
Queen Victoria
Gladstone
England
Henry Ponsonby
Windsor
Henry Rederick Ponsonby
Mle
Mr. Gladstone
Philip Frank Eliot
D. D
Slater
St. George's Chapel
Loru Rospbery
London
Mrs. Gladstone
Ireland
Liberal Party
Helfast
Londonderry
Cavan
Monaghan
Earl Spencer
Henry H. Asknith
Home Affairs
Berkely Square
Paddington Rairoad
William Vernon Harcourt
Earl of Kimberly
Lord Rosbery
Mr. Asquith
John Morley
Council
India
Bismarck
Newark
Duke of Newcastle
Oxford
Archibald Philip Primrose
Fifth Earl of Rosebery
Eton
Christchurch
House of Lords
Midlothian
Home Department
Alexander
Bulgaria
Rosebery
Witty Rosebery Marriage Unearths Rothschild Ties
The marriage links Rosebery to the Rothschild clan with Baron Mayer de Rothschild noted as a key figure. The bride wed in early March 1878 while attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge. The Primrose and Rothschild families gain social standing though wealth was not the sole motive. Children from the union include two elder daughters.
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Rosebery
Mies Hannah Rotheld
Mayer de Rothachild
Mar -Tothe
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cambridge
Lord Heacorsfield
Noted Confederate Soldier Jubal Early Dies in Virginia
Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate general born 1816 in Franklin County Virginia, died at 10 30 pm with family and physician present. He served as lawyer politician and officer, fought at Williamsburg Gettysburg Cedar Creek and Winchester, faced Sheridan and Custer, later practiced law in Richmond Lyndon New Orleans and wrote a memoir.
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Virginia Horace
Luxculture
Jubal A.early
Jubal Anderson Early
Franklin County
Virginia
West Point
Founds
Bu i Run
Williamsburg
Gettysburg
Shenandoah Valley
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Chambersbeff
McCaisland
Sheridan
Waynesborough
Lee
Esby
Richmond
Lyndour
New Orleans
Tend Ore Will be Taxed a Quarter of a Cent Per Pound
Washington reports the Democratic majority aims to finalize a revenue bill today. Senators debate ore duties with lead ore proposed at a quarter cent per pound, half the McKinley tariff and higher than Wilson. coal and iron ore set at forty cents per ton while prunes and currents at fourteen cents per pound.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Dun's Review of Trade Shows Slow Stock Exhaustion Lifts Manufacturing
R G Dun & Co reports gradual stock exhaustion boosting demand and expanding work in manufactures. More mills resumed or increased hours while wage cuts persist reducing workers' purchasing power. Distributors seek medium to low priced woolen and cotton goods and shoes, with fewer failures noted.
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New York
R.G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Unjust On Our Meats German Criticisms Questioned
Washington reports the Agriculture Department dismisses Berlin critics Professor Muller and Herr Werner accusing U S meat inspections of fault none found in two years since the act. No proven trichina in meats inspected and shipped abroad though one allegation arose from meat not properly inspected by an official and a consul’s certification.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Berlin
Muller
Herr Werner
Agricultural High School
United States
Erie Railroad Orders Sunday Freight Halt Nationwide
Four thousand railroad workers will gain a weekly Sunday rest as the Erie system enforces a preventive halt on all common freight trains from 11 PM Saturday to 12 AM Sunday, with only perishable freight crews active. Passenger service is reduced to allow station staff brief rest, affecting almost eight thousand employees.
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Chicago
Erie Road
New York, Lake Erie & Western
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Chicago & Erie
Threats Against Catholic Church Target Rockford Priest
Father McMahon, pastor of St Marys Church in Rockford, received an anonymous letter threatening arson or dynamite bombing by a gang led by Joseph L B Gravlin. The priest has turned the property over to the city for fire protection.
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Rockrorn
fIcMahon
St. Mary's Church
Rockford
Joseph LB. Gravalin
Wears the Stripes and Keeps Up His Nerve to End
A fragmented description notes a man in prison stripes and a defiant stance. It references Sing Sing, a transformation scene, and a dramatic prelude before a change of clothes and a formal act in a house of Seigulorage BiUL.
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Sing Sing
John Y McKane Arrives at Sing Sing for Six Year Term
A crowd watched as John Y McKane arrived at Sing Sing Prison on March 8 after a 3:12 p.m. train. Deputies and guards escorted him. reporters were barred from entry. The warden noted a full term of six years and ten months with a four year and three month commutation, and McKane, 51, born in Ireland, was shaved and placed in an idle rank.
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Sixe
N. Y
John Y. McKane
Davidson
Kings County
McKane
Butling
Stryker Williamson
Ireland
Gladstone to resign as British prime minister at Windsor
London dispatch reports Mr and Mrs Gladstone visiting Windsor to announce resignation of the premier, with a privy council meeting planned and Rosebery likely to be named successor if no dissolution of Parliament occurs. A radical deputation protested Rosebery’s selection, favoring a commoner and pledging party solidarity others noted Harcourt as acceptable.
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London
Labouchere
Edward Majoribanks
Lord Rosebery
Liberal Party
Sir William Harcourt
Pope Leo XIII Celebrates 84th Birthday and Addresses Church
The pope, in good health at 84 and on the 16th anniversary of his coronation, received congratulations from Cardinal Raffado Monacola Valette. He urged the church to renew moral faith, oppose Freemasonry, and inspire rulers and the governed toward justice, charity, and peace. He concluded with a benediction.
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Leo XIII
Rowe
Raffado Monacola Valette
Sacred College
Shell Continus
Desperate pistol duel ends in death on Memphis street
In Memphis on March 3 Mrs Bettie Wrench shot at man and he fired back injuring her and killing J W Deming, a West Virginia saw filer. The two exchanged shots until ammo ran out as onlookers feared the violence. Deming had eloped with Mrs Wrench and left her husband.
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Memphis
Tenri
Bettie Wrench
Main Street
J. W. Deming
West Virginia
Public debt statement shows February rise of 40 million
The public debt statement issued yesterday reports a net increase of 40,064,215 for February. It notes 57,427,906 dollars received to date from the new bond issue.
Baptist Minister Stephen A. Wells Murdered in Missourian Case
Hor Sprixen Miss March 3 News arrives of the murder of Rev Stephen A Wells a Baptist minister by William Curley over an old grudge in Miss Mississippi area details note suspect and motive not clarified in the report
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Hor Sprixen, Miss
Stephen A. Wells
William Curley
Attempted Hold Up by Masked Bandits on Rock Island Train
Four masked gunmen attempted a hold up on Rock Island passenger train No. 18 near Stockbridge Maryland last night. Engineer James D. McKinney accelerated the train to safety, bullets shattered the locomotive and cars but no one was injured. Police search the area as the bandits, wearing white masks, fired into the train and shouted at McKinney before fleeing.
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St. Josefh
Rock Island
Chicago
Stockbridge
James D. McKinney
J. A. Wisner
Union Depot
Eli
McKinney
Senator Peffer Opposes Free Wool and Seeks Sugar Bounty
Kansas senator Peffer publishes his stance on the Wilson bill. He demands fair treatment, opposes taxing manufactured goods while wool is free, and insists on keeping the sugar bounty and moving toward free sugar, promising to oppose the bill if discrimination against Kansas persists. He supported a sugar bounty as part of a path to eventually free sugar.
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Kansas
WasHinarox
Peffer
Judge Jenkins Defies Labor Leaders in Wisconsin Court
Minwatter Wis March 3 Judge Jenkins hears arguments on modifying his prohibition against Northern Pacific employer striking action. T. W. Harper of Terre Haute argues for petitioners while the judge questions Harper on the meaning of strike and asserts workers may quit legally. A shouted remark from a courtroom spectator underscores tensions.
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Minwatter
Wis
Jenkins
Arthur
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Sargent
Brotherhood of Firemen
Northern Pacific Road
T. W. Harper
Terre Maiute
Ind
Harper
Congress
Attorny Quarles
Themen
Texas
Carnot Demands Recall of Dufferin as Passport Threat
Paris reports that President Carnot, via autograph letter to London, demands Queen Victoria recall the British ambassador the Marquis of Dufferin or face loss of his passport. The move is linked to a scandal exposed by Figaro implicating Princess Marie d Orleans and Count d Aunay with potential behind the scenes factions.
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Paris
Cocarde
Carnot
London
Copenhagen
Count d Aunay
H Ad
Mob Law in Pennsylvania Stroudsburg Jail Lynching Attempt
A mob of about 500 men tried to force the Stroudsburg jail to lynch Richard X Prior the man who murdered Christian Eplers and his wife in Monroe county a week ago. The sheriff repelled the crowd with police arrival feared reinforcements may enable another attempt.
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Pennsylvania
Scranton
Stroudsburg
Richard X. Prior
Tegro
Christian Eplers
Monroe County
Populists and the Tariff Debate in Senate Finance
Democratic members of the senate committee on finance resumed sessions and discussed Populist senators positions on the tariff bill. Democrats hold enough votes to pass if united, but a defection from the Populists could threaten the outcome.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Finance
God
Weeks Seeks Settlement for Pawnee Indians in Washington
J. R. Weeks special attorney for the Pawnee Indians, a full blood, passed through Torexa Kan en route home from Washington. He states the secretary of the interior acknowledged an indebtedness of 419875.33 with 34543.72 interest to be paid in April.
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Flowey
Torexa
Kan
J. R. Weeks
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
First Employers Liability Suit Awards $3000 Damages
In Indianapolis judge Brown's court, the first suit under the 1893 Employers Liability Act concluded. The jury found Philip Ebaugh, who lost an arm on the Indianapolis and Vincennes road, entitled to $3000 in damages from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Brown
Philip Ebaugh
Indianapolis and
Vincennes
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Playwright Hoyt Marries Caroline Scales in New York
Charles J. Hoyt renowned for farce comedies wed Miss Caroline Scales known on stage as Caroline Miskel. The ceremony took place yesterday afternoon at the bride's mother Mrs Scales home with Supreme Court Justice Barrett officiating.
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Hoyt
New York
Charles J. Floyt
Caroline Scales
Caroline Miskel
Scales
Supreme Court
Barrett
Jury at Gravesend Interfered Election Case Hung Up
In a court scene before Judge Cullen at Gravesend the jury for Kenneth P. Sunderland ex Boss McKane faced an impasse. The panel sent word that they could not reach a verdict at 6 o clock. The judge declared a mistrial as the nine jurors stood for acquittal with the rest split.
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N. Y
Kenneth P. Sunderland
Peac
McKane
Court of Oyer
Cullen
Interferi
Gaynor
Gravesend
Pension Bill Sparks House Clash in March Debate
Washington March 5 The House debated pension and fortification appropriations with the combat over fraudulent pensions erupting as Meredith of Virginia and Funk of Illinois nearly clashed. O'Neill defended the pension measure noting reductions and projected future need while Lochren's conduct was defended amid the dispute.
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Washington
House
Meredith
Virginia
Funk
Illinois
O'Neill
Massachusetts
Lachren
Lochren
Seed distribution changes at Department of Agriculture
The annual seed distribution by the department of agriculture is discontinued for the present season. Going forward, seeds will be distributed at the direction of congressmen who still have quantities to allot. This year the department provided over 9,000,000 seed packages, two thirds earmarked for congressmen.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Two Pension Bills Passed By Unanimous Consent
The house approved two private pension bills today. One, moved by Mr Richards of Pennsylvania, pensions Fannie F Norman. The other, moved by Mr Curtis of Kansas, pensions Andrew Franklin a captain in Captain Armstrongs company in the War of 1812.
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Washington
Richards
Pennsylvania
Fannie F. Norman
Curtis
Kansas
Andrew Franklin
Armstrong
Free illustrated Houston book offered by Hutchins house
The Hutchins house in Houston Texas continues a free offer for a beautifully illustrated volume describing Houston Houston Heights and South Texas. The only real estate activity noted in the United States is along the Texas coast.
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Hutchins
Houston
Texas
Houston Heights
South Texas
United States
Corbett-Mitchell Fight Parties Freed By Court
In Jacksonville on March 5 the Corbett Mitchell fight parties are cleared by the court. The final action pursued charges of fighting by previous appointment against Charles Mitchell and against Duval Athletic Club members for aiding the planned bout following Champion Corbett's acquittal.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Corbett
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