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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
6
Nebraska items note the unveiling on June 6 with ceremonies at Evergreen cemetery. Other notes include Pearl Wildman and William K Usher marriage announcements, teaching assignments at Eustice, and a Sa winner list of local dignitaries.
At Dublin, delegates from all Ireland gathered in the Mansion House to debate the Irish wall bill. John E. Redmond presided as talks indicated strong opposition to the measure, with resolutions offering sympathy to John Dillon and Michael Davitt. Telegrams from American Irish groups were read as delegates stressed self-government. Separately, a Beatrice runaway accident injured Clara McCalpin and George Buer, while bids open in Washington for marking the Nebraska Wyoming boundary and riprapping work near Plattsmouth were announced. Elijah Coffman seeks damages after a 1907 bridge fall in Nebraska City.
Roy Maynard of Alliance Nebraska received a life sentence. The sheriff removed items from his reach and found a corned key and a cut key fashioned from a silver spoon to his cell door. A guard will monitor him after transfer to Lincoln while Judge Hamer considers a new trial.
President Van Cleave at the national association convention in New York urged a 1.5 million dollar fund to be expended over three years to oppose boycotts and limits on apprentices and output. He announced a 35 member committee to raise the money and warned against labor union pressure on leaders, courts, and juries.
The local bank in Winnebago City Nebraska was burglarized by cracksmen who escaped with about $2000 in cash and securities. The trio headed toward Sioux City after cutting telephone wires to hinder pursuit, but cashier F M Thompson alerted authorities once he tried to summon help. Police and railroad operators were notified.
In Americus Georgia a Sumter county chain gang members mostly Black attempted to flee. They overpowered two guards and seized their weapons before the remaining guard did not oppose. Brady Reddick took the gun and returned ten convicts to camp.
A historical adlisting Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery ingredients and a book endorsing them, plus a notarized reveal for Hall’s Catarrh Cure. It cites testimonials, free mailing of the book, and a Toledo firm offering $100 for any catarrh cure failure. It ends with a promotional prompt to take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
The piece critiques self absorption and perfectionism in society, urging empathy and tolerances. It contrasts public virtue with personal vanity, then offers culinary tips such as boiling vinegar while cooking onions and rubbing raisins dry, followed by nutrition notes favoring baked potatoes over fried ones.
Nebraska state board of assessment and equalization discussed the valuation of private car property. The motion set values for tank, furniture, hot and other cars, with mileage determinations guiding annual car counts. A new policy aim would raise taxes and potentially force railroads to own their cars.
A collage of aphorisms and notes touches on curiosity, love and labor, risk, luck, and social habits. It cites statistics on Belgium and Hanse towns density, colonial coinage in Massachusetts, and retro railway passenger totals, alongside literary nods and fashion notes.
Police in St. Petersburg searched the lodging of M Ozal of Riga and uncovered material tying thirty eight social democratic Douma members to military league meetings and propaganda in the army. The government seeks to exclude those under suspicion from the Douma pending trial.
The Greek chamber of deputies authorized Joan of 10,000,000 francs to supply refugees arriving from Bulgaria and Turkey with tools and supplies to begin life in their new homes before the eastern holidays.
Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt, president of the United States Rubber Company, announced that arrangements are complete for the United States Rubber Company to control the entire crude rubber output of Continental Rubber Company. It will use some Continental product in its factories and dictate distribution for the rest.
A posse surrounded a swamp near Reidsville Georgia where Flem Padgett faced a mob after an alleged assault on Mrs Laura Moore. The melee left three dead and seven injured with two lynched. Sin Padgett’s wife confessed to killing after the attack subsided. John Hare, a posse member, was shot during the raid.
The presiding health official argues poor diet causes disease and cites personal trial of Grape-Nuts with cow’s milk. After using the food, his symptoms, including heart palpitations and insomnia, disappeared, stomach function improved, and sleep returned to youthful levels. He calls Grape-Nuts a sound, rational dietary principle.
Brownsville Mayor Frederick J. Coombe testified before the Senate Military Affairs Committee about the Brownsville shooting incident that led to the discharge of negro soldiers at Fort Brown. He refuted a claim that Browns ville citizens raised 10,000 dollars for information, saying the report originated with an Ohio man Longworth and was false.
The Publishers Association elected Edward M. Foster as president, J. W. Caldwell as first vice president, and Vi. P. Hansen as secretary-treasurer. The group traveled from Richmond to Norfolk and were hosted by Norfolk newspaper men, then visited the Jamestown exposition.
Second ballots are cast across Austria except Galicia Dalmatia as 169 states compete under the universal suffrage law. Heavy polling in Vienna and street clashes between Christian socialists and social democrats in Fuenshaus prompted police intervention and several arrests.
United Railroads officials in San Francisco announce a new wage scale for non-union workers from 26 to 33 cents an hour based on length of service. President Calhoun plans to apply this scale on his street railway system following the carmen strike.
A grand jury in Cookeville returned a true bill against W. B. Bryant and Mrs. Ladies Vestal for the murder of Chalmers Vestal at Baxter last February. Bryant is jailed without bail as the trial date hoped for next week approaches.
Bray Aprol Charters meetings by over a dozen boards of trade in Alleghany and McKeesport pledge Mayor Suthrie and support in opposing the Philadelphia company charter. The Philadelphia firm's United Railways Investment Company of San Francisco controls Pittsburgh public utilities.
About a thousand Turkish troops at Usukub deserted citing bad food and unbearable conditions. They took their arms and so far only fifty have been captured.
Passengers arriving in Managua from La Union report a strong revolutionary movement has begun in El Salvador. Leaders named are Prudencio Alfaro and General Barbona. Troops were dispatched inland as the passengers departed La Union.
General Luke Wright resigns from his post as American ambassador to Japan amid public regret in editorials like the Asahi noting the brief tenure.
A violent assault and murder occurred near a father's Elmhurst Long Island farm as a young girl aged around teens wandered for dandelions. The body was found by Joseph Engle in a lonely patch. authorities investigated with residents in panic while details remained unclear.
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