Mutilated Farm Owner Die, Son Arrested Near Kearney
The headless body of C M Nelson, Swedish farmer eight miles northwest of Kearney, was found in a ravine near his barn. Theodore Nelson, his twenty year old son, confessed to killing him with a pitchfork and rope, claiming to have disposed of the body. Grant, an uncle, is also suspected and Mrs Nelson is under surveillance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Nelson
Kearney
Sweden
Funk
Nelson
Theodore
Grant
Water From Chicago River Reaches Mississippi Valley
The first water from the Chicago drainage channel moved through Lockport Illinois into the Mississippi valley last Saturday morning. Inside the controlling works the water rose two feet and stood within two feet of the gate sill. Chief Engineer Randolph journeyed to Lockport to observe aeration plans above Joliet upper pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lockport
Secretary Hay Reports Prompt British Response
Secretary Hay received a cablegram from Ambassador Choate in London describing an interview with Lord Salisbury about the seizure of American goods by British warships. Salisbury listened carefully, promised to give the representations immediate attention, and to return a speedy decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hay
Ambassador Choate
London
Lord Salisbury
Choate
State Department
Transvaal War Attache Reichman Aims South Africa Post
Captain Carl Reichman of the Seventeenth Infantry, newly named United States military attache to the Boer army, comes from a distinguished German family and is a Heidelberg graduate. He arrived in America in 1881, rose from private to captain in the regulars, served as assistant adjutant general during the SpanishAmerican War, fought at Santiago, then joined the Philippines front and now joins General Otis on a staff bound for South Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Reichman
Seventeenth Infantry
United States
Leavenworth
Kan
Heidelburg University
America
Reichman
Spain
Santiago
Philippines
Otis
South Africa
Executors’ Fees Set Record High in Pullman Estate
Robert T. Lincoln and Norman B. Ream, executors of George M. Pullman's estate, were approved for 425000 in fees, the largest such award in probate history. The final accounting is due this week as the estate value grows from about 8 million to nearly 14 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert T. Lincoln
Norman B. Ream
George M. Pullman
Pullman
May Move Sparks Talk of German Anti British Alliance
The seizure of the Bundesrat remains the dominant topic in the German press. Influential papers hint at forming an anti British coalition with Russia and France as anti-British sentiment grows. Demonstrations across cities are organized by the pan Germanic league.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlinger
Tageblatt
Cologne Volks Zeitung
Berliner’ Neueste, Nachrichten
Hamburger Correspondenz
Berliner Post
Germany
Russia
France
pan-Germanic League
Fix New Price For Brooms At National Association Session
At the closing session in Chicago the broom manufacturers association adopted resolutions endorsing Union Broom Corn Supply Co in raising raw material costs. All broom grades will advance 25 cents a dozen to align with material prices, setting jobber prices at $3 per dozen and retailer prices at $3.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broom Manufacturers’ Association of
United States
Canada
Chicago
Union Broom Corn Supply Company
Fatal Fire in a New York Tenement
A large tenement at 305 Tast Ninety second Street in New York caught fire early. Two unknown women died and may be others still inside. Several people injured including a likely fatally wounded five year old boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tast Ninety-second ‘Street
New York
Fatal Blast Furnace Accident at Chicago Plant
Three men Joseph Middle Ignatz Giazepak and Frank Schuck were killed at the Illinois Steel plant at Thirty first Street and Ashland Avenue Chicago when a blast furnace fell in the blasting room crushing them. The fatalities occurred during routine work at the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Steel Company
Thirty -First Street
Ashland Avenue
Chicago
Joseph Middle
Ignatz Giazepak
Frank Schuck
Holcomb Appoints Milton Schwind Clerk and Stenographer
Judge Silas A. Holcomb of the supreme court appoints Milton Schwind as clerk and stenographer. The oath and written appointment filed with the secretary of state indicate a temporary post with a salary fixed by law at 1000 dollars per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas A. Holcomb
Supreme Court
Milton Schwind
Secretary of State
Man Confesses in Ill. Farm Murder Trial
Henry Brunot confessed to murdering Jane Brunot and exonerated his mother at a Pana Illinois trial. Jane’s body was found in an abandoned well on the Brunot farm on April 10. Brunot received a life sentence while his mother was acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Brunot
Pana
Ill
Jane Brunot
Brunot
Death of Fair department founder Ernest J Lehman
Ernest J Lehman founder of the Fair department store and a pioneer of the department store concept died at White Plains New York after a lengthy illness. He had been a patient at a private sanitarium in White Plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest J. Lehman
The
Fair Department Store
Chicago
White Plains
N.Y
Lehman
Lawton Fund Near Halfway Mark As February Arrival Looms
The total subscription to the Lawton fund reaches 48433 dollars and 32 cents. General Corbin says active efforts have paused but voluntary contributions continue until Mrs Lawton arrives in San Francisco around February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Corbin
San Francisco
With All Vigor New Soldiers Rout Rebels Across Provinces
Manila dispatch reports General Otis saying forces under Schwan and Wheaton engage insurrectionists in Cavite and Batangas. Schwan’s column seizes Noriel’s artillery at Indang and drives rebels west from Silang. Batangas troops kill and wound many near Imus and Bacoor. Northern action at Arayat disperses bands. prisoners recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Otis
Manila
Bates
Schwan
Laguna de Bay
Noriel
Binen
Silang
Indang
Wheaton
Imus
Birkheimer
Bacoor
Cheney
Cavite
Las Marinas
Boyd
Las Banos
Risal
Batangas
Leonhauser
Arayat Mountain
Private Kreider of light battery K wounded twenty six times
Cleveland dispatch reports Private Kreider of light Battery K Third United States Artillery was shot twenty six times in battle with Filipinos. After hospital treatment in Manila and San Francisco he recovered and returned home to Wharton Ohio. He later married a nurse he met at the Presidio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Kreider
Third
United States Artillery
D. W. Benhan
Seventh Infantry
Manila
San Francisco
Wharton
Luzon
Presidio
Fatal Fight in Kentucky Ignores Court Trial
London Kentucky reports a deadly clash at Otter Creek Clay County where Sige Lewis and General May were killed. The brawl erupted after a trial began, breaking out inside a school house and in the yard. Four men were jailed in Manchester while a Jackson on trial faced the magistrate. Lige Lewis, brother of former Sheriff Joe Lewis, is named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Otter Creek
Clay County
Sige Lewis
General May
Jacksons
Jackson
Manchester
Ligeé Lewis
Joe Lewis
No Revenue Law Revision At This Congress Says Hopkins
Washington special reports Congressman Hopkins of the house ways and means committee announces there will be no revision of the war internal revenue tax law this session. He says the Philippines war is not over and army needs remain uncertain, so the existing schedule stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Hopkins
House
Ways and Means Committee
Philippines
Kentucky judge grants then stays injunction in election case
Frankfort dispatch reports Judge Contrill granted an injunction sought by Election Commissioners Pointz and Fulton against Mackay and Cochran,Taylor appointees, from qualifying. The court then set aside the injunction and allowed an appeal, saying the case is important enough to be reviewed by the court of last resort, enabling Democratic commissioners to influence the hearing judge in the court of appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Contrill
Pointz
Fulton
Mackay
Cochran
Taylor
Court of
Court of Appeals
U S To Have Largest Exhibit At Paris Expo After France
Reports from Europe indicate the United States will have the most extensive exhibit at the Paris Exposition next to France. The American display will be larger than Great Britain and nearly as large as the combined spaces of Russia and Germany. Commissioner General Peck plans to sail to Paris in late February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
France
General Peck
Chicago
Europe
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Peck
Parie
Killing ofLouis Weisner Jr in Stevens Point Wisconsin
Louis Weisner Jr partner in Curran and Weisner a prominent horse dealer in central Wisconsin was shot five times and killed on Main Street Stevens Point. Gabriel Green an elderly man about seventy was the shooter. Weeks earlier Green’s barn and fourteen valuable horses were burned the night after Greens won a major lawsuit against Weisner with accusations of Weisner’s complicity in the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens Point
Wis
Louis Weisner, Jr
Curran & Weisner
Wisconsin
Main Street
Gabriel Green
Green
Greens
Weisner
Superintendent Besley shoots Galloway in Cumberland office
John M. Besley a 60 year old clerk shot Charles W. Galloway superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad middle division in his Cumberland Maryland office. After the shooting Besley walked to the courthouse and surrendered. The incident followed an inventory dispute over cars with heated words and blows. Besley claims Galloway fired first, which friends dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Besley
Charles W. Galloway
Middle Division
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Court House
Resley
Galloway
Mystery Killings Tied to Theatrical Pair in Chicago
A man believed to be John Futrell shot and killed a young woman and then attempted suicide in a rooming house on East Madison Street Chicago. The woman appeared dead about five hours before the door was opened and the man died later. Police think the assailants were theatrical people. The motive and identities remain uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Futrell
East Madison Street
Chicago
Algoa Arrives in San Francisco From Asia Quarantined
The Pacific Mail steamer Algoa, the largest to enter San Francisco, arrived Sunday from China and Japan via Honolulu and was sent to quarantine. She carried freight double any previous entry, had no passengers, and reports the plague at Honolulu stamped out after striking a reef but sustaining no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Mail Company
San Francisco
China
Japan
Honolulu
Golden Gate
Famine Grim in India with shortage of water and rain
The report warns of deepening famine in India as three million people seek government relief work. Starving parents sell their children and families disintegrate while abandoned children are found. Cattle die in thousands and no rain is expected until June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Creole Beauties Attack Manager in Cincinnati Show
Moses P. Taylor a colored theatrical manager could not meet payroll for his creole show. After a performance Saturday night the group chased him. one creole slashed his face and throat with a razor, sending him to the hospital in critical condition. The assailants fled and the specific attacker remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses P. Taylor
Cincinnati
Five Million Dollar Mortgage Filed Across Kentucky Trust
A five million dollar mortgage on a Kentucky distilleries and warehouse company was filed in Bourbon County on Monday after already being recorded in Louisville Lexington Covington and other locations. The trust requires filing in twenty Kentucky counties to cover all its property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company
Louisville
Lexington
Covington
Kentucky
Bourbon County
Howe Wins $5000 Verdict In Society Coach Suit
Miss Mary E Howe gained a five thousand dollar verdict in New York Supreme Court before Justice Truax. The suit had sought fifty four thousand seven hundred fifty dollars for services rendered by Howe to Frances Augusta Skinner as society coach, companion and entertainer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Howe
New York Supreme Court
Sugar Prices Rise Across All Refined Grades
All grades of refined sugar have been advanced by one sixteenth of a cent per pound. The move affects retailers and wholesalers nationwide as market adjustments take effect this week.
Free High School Law Battle Appeals Supreme Court
The case testing the free attendance high school law has been appealed by Havelock high school. Lancaster county district court declared it unconstitutional while another county’s district court upheld it. The Nebraska state teachers association voted $100 from its treasury to aid the appeal and the supreme court may advance the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havelock High School
Lancaster County
Supreme Court
Nebraska State Teachers’ Association
Treasury
Fire at St Edwards destroys stores and furniture
A fire at the St Edwards corner of Second and Beaver streets destroyed all stock in Abood Bros general store and the adjoining Peterson general store. August Anderson owned both buildings and most home furnishings above Peterson’s shop. Insured values range from 1600 to 1700 dollars for the buildings and 1500 dollars for Peterson’s stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Edwards
Second and
Beaver Streets
Abood Bros
Abood
F. C. Peterson
August Anderson
Peterson
Fire Destroys McGreachen Saloon and Nearby Stores
A Sunday evening blaze began at 6 in a frame building owned by James McGreachen and housing Mike Delaney's saloon, sparked by a gasoline store explosion. The fire consumed the saloon and the McGreachin general store and Delaney’s drug store, destroying buildings and stock. McGreachen insured for 4000 dollars. Ferguson stock insured for 3500 dollars. Ferguson’s frame building belonged to Mabel Olson and carried insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans
James McGreachen
Mike Delaney
McGreachin
Ferguson
James McGreachin
P. T. Ferguson
Mabel Olson
Original Ulster County Gazette Issue Found in York Tablet
Joseph Boyer of York displays an 1800 Kingston Ulster County Gazette containing George Washington death notice and funeral description. The issue offers period ads such as ashes in trade and peas for wheat and notes a negro wench and half a saw mill for sale. The paper, handed down from a great grandfather, reflects early revolutionary era news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Boyer
York
Ulster County Gazette
Kingston
Ulster County
Pennsylvania
George Washington
Boyer
Changes In Auditor Office Appoints Bond Clerk And More
Auditor Cornell appoints Phil H. Kohn of Wayne county as bond clerk at 1000 dollars yearly. The Democrat state committee backed the move saying Wayne county had no prior representative in the office. James Whittaker is promoted to insurance clerk at 1200 dollars annually. Leon Crandall, newly appointed, becomes recorder at 1000 dollars a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Phil H. Kohn
Wayne County
Kohl
Democratic State Central Committee
State House
James Whittaker
Leon Crandall
Cobbey Sees Beatrice Charter Affected by Foxworthy Case
J E Cobbey author of Cobbey's consolidated statutes believes Beatrice charter is affected by the Foxworthy decision. Ex City Attorney Pemberton disagrees. City Clerk Burke notes under the old system councilmen were elected at large but must reside in other wards they represent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobbey
J. E. Cobbey
Beatrice
Foxworthy
Pemberton
Burke
Competition Too Strong for British Fire Insurance Firms
The London Daily Chronicle notes that British fire insurance companies with U S operations faced a poor 1899. Intense competition in the United States raised doubts whether it is profitable to continue chasing U S business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
London Daily Chronicle
Railroad Boom Spurs Arborville Bets and Bonds
Businessmen and farmers in Arbor Ville welcome a railroad from the south. Two surveys have been completed. Beyond bond votes, individuals are subscribing as high as $1,000 each, signaling strong local enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
South Rosa
Arborville
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Robert Lincoln and
Norman Ream
Pullman Estate
Holcomb’s
Lawton Fund
Phillipines
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Brooks
Texas
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Dixie Taylor
Dixie
Dallas
Nebraska
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