Tecumseh Sees Fresh Business Push as News Flows In
Nebraska items report Tecumseh launching new business ventures while seniors pass away in Nebraska City and other towns. High water removes bridge spans at Schuyler. revival meetings near Beaver Crossing grow. fire commissions named for Omaha and Lincoln. cattle feeding near Nelson. numerous legal, social, and transport updates across Brown, York, and Otoe counties.
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Tecumseh
Grant
Nebraska City
Platte River
Schuyler
Auburn Telephone Company
Frank Wilms
Lyons
J. F. Wackett
Exeter
Church
Paul Sandoz
Bayard
Express
Switzerland
Nelson
A. C. McCorkle
District Court
Brown County
Senator Allen
Senate
Ponca
Ham Hirsch
Omaha
St. Edward
York
W. N. Lee
Aaron Bissell
Pawnee City
Kansas City
George Davis
Jim Dean
Elmer de Wolf
Davie Miller
Miller
Corbett
Carson
J. Sterling Morton
Chicago
Arbor Lodge
Ames Adams
Pierce
Eugene Moore
Cochran
A.L. Hover
L. W. Billingsly
J. H. Culver
Aliee Hart
Frank P. Prince
A. H. Moses
Howard County
York County
Shelton
Ellen Oliver
Union Pacific Railroad
Columbus
Loupbridge
George Jones
Jim Caldwell
Hastings
St. Paul
P. G. Shawstrom
Mamie Hanson
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Fawcett
Senate Health and Local Bills Face Hasty Endings
Nebraska Senate debates normal school financing and county officer terms, revises bills on gambling restraint and irrigation, then adjourns amid rushed third readings and committee actions as sessions near adjournment. York Scotia normal schools clash ends with all bills killed after late votes.
Nebraska House Advances Numerous Bills in Evening Session
The Nebraska House moved several measures toward third reading including bills on attorney general powers, county bonds, public works board, notaries bonds, and nonresident costs. Senate and governor messages followed with recount and relief bills, adjournment set for Monday afternoon.
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Talbot
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Bliss
Niys. Enger
Snyder
Nemaha
Wooster and Young
Rich
Nebraska
Hich
Board of Public Works
Clites
Notaries Public
Senate
Ransom
House
Gaffin
Oase
State Banking Board
Webb
Alderman
Missouri River Commission
Cottonwood Hills Bluff
Sioux City
Hull
Committee of Privileges On Elections
Standing Committee On Agriculture
Marshall
State Board of Hortticulture
Wimberley
Morrill
Industrial College of the
University of Nebraska
Clark of Lancaster
Boyd County
Rebecca Perkins
Shull
Dobson
Fillmore
Gerdes
Bilayo
Gener
Pollard
Currency Reform Committee Seeks Speaker Aid
The Indianapolis monetary convention committee on legislation met with Speaker Reed at Watmington on March 27 to discuss currency and banking reform. Reed said Congress acts faster once public sentiment crystallizes and that pressure from the people would push for changes in the banking system.
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Watmington
Indianapolis ‘Monetary’ Convention
Reed
Congress
Tariff Debate Highlights Hides Duty and Trusts Link
In Washington March 29 members of the House discussed a duty on hides with Mr. Walker predicting that trusts and large combines would eventually control railroads. Mr. Simpson argued a hides duty benefits farmers, noting it could raise prices by about one dollar per animal for the 5,422,000 hides slaughtered last year.
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Mr. Grow
Pennsylvania
Vandiver
Missouri
Mr. Simpson
Kansas
Grow
Payne
New York
Senator Smith Seeks Wheat and Cotton Bounty Amendment
March 29. Senator Smith of New Jersey, a Democrat, says he will offer an amendment to the tariff bill to provide a bounty on wheat and cotton, arguing domestic farmers cannot be protected by duties and that a bounty is a fair alternative to protection for these exports.
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Wasntx Gron
Smith
New Jersey
The Ex Officeholders Leave Washington in Disappointment
In Washington on March 29, ex officeholders from the Harrison era are departing in dismay as President McKinley signals no reappointments without extraordinary reasons. The decision splits opinion, pleasing longtime Republican workers denied prior recognition while disheartening those seeking restored posts.
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Washington
Harrison
McKinley
Kansas Insurance Chief Seeks Fire Firm Removals
Insurance Commissioner Webb McNall said he will expel old line fire insurers from Kansas or force them to quit a secret pool tied to Harrison Clarkson's rate book. He cites evidence of rate cutting and frequent agent removals as proof of the concealed pool under the 889 Burton anti trust law. The statutes authorize license denial for noncompliance.
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TorrKa
Kan
Webb McNall
Burton
Kansas
Harrison Clarkson
Insurance Commissioner
Mississippi River Rises Wide Across Band Of Flooded Lands
The Mississippi River continues to rise, flooding all the bottoms and forcing residents to flee to higher ground. Lone Tree Prairie shows only a narrow rail embankment of the St. Louis Keokuk and Northwestern railroad as the sole land for four miles.
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Mississippi
Quixcy
Lone Tree Prairie
St. Louis, Keokuk and
Northwestern
Topeka Spring Election Registration Totals
Topeka Kansas reports total election registration 4,814 with 2,348 women registered for the spring election in Topeka.
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Topeka
Kan
Austria pushes tougher Greek coast blockade in Greco Turkish row
Reports from Vienna indicate Austria proposes extending the blockade along the entire Greek coast with strict measures at Piraeus and in the gulf of Volo Corinth and Arta. London notes England has dropped insistence on troops withdrawal from the Thessalian frontier.
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Austria
Dardanelles
Russia
London
Daily News
Vienna
Piraeus
Gulf of Volo
Corinth
Arta
England
Turkey
Greece
Western Senators Urge McKinley to Revoke Land Reserve Order
Five Western lawmakers including Senators Allison Pettigrew Mantle Clark and Shoup ex Senator Moody and Representative Hartman of Montana urged President McKinley to annul Cleveland's February 22 order creating broad public land reservations for forest protection. The president listened and promised careful consideration of rescinding the order.
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McKinley
Washington
Cleveland
Allison
Pettigrew
Mantle
Clark
Shoup
Moody
Hartman
Montana
Removal of adjutant general clerk ends decade-long service
In Toreka Kansas on March 29 Mrs Fannie Beardslee, ten year clerk in the adjutant general's office, was removed and Miss McLallin appointed in her place with a $600 salary. Beardslee, kept through the Lewelling administration, is seen as the first step in a broader purge of Republicans in office.
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Toreka
Kan
Fannie Beardslee
Adjutant General's Office
McLallin
Dr. McLallin
Adams Acquitted in McFadden Brothers Case at Frontenac
Fort Scott Kansas report says Harry Adams of Crawford county was acquitted after a four days trial on charges of killing and burning the four McFadden brothers aged 10 to 15 and one. Ben Whittington of Pittsburg was discharged. Adams faced arson charges for burning the house.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Harry Adams
Crawford County
McFadden Brothers
Frontenac
Ben Whittington
Pittsburg
Adams
Kansas Colony Heads to Minnesota Land Colony
A group of Dickinson county farmers led by Charles Sommer and George Jones will travel from NavaRAF Kansas to Minnesota on Monday. The trio will join an Eastern Kansas party in three special cars to settle a tract in northern Minnesota.
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Navaraf
Kan
Dickinson County
Minnesota
Charles Sommer
Kansas
George Jones
Nels Sherman
R. Bassler
J. W. Hornberger
No Ballot in Kentucky Legislature After Quorum Failure
In Frankfort on March 29 the fourth joint session to ballot for the United States senator failed to reach a quorum as Democrats and bolting Republicans who had not paired refused to answer. No ballot was taken.
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Mentucky
Frankfort
United States
Elopement Sparks Fatal Shootings in Kentucky County
In Maysville Kentucky on March 29 Amos Riggs shot and killed young Boyd and his father W R Boyd near Gilead. The killings followed a family quarrel after young Boyd ran off with Riggs's daughter.
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Maysville
Gilead
Amos Riggs
Young Boyd
W. R. Boyd
Riggs
Fresh Water Fisheries Trust Nears Completion
A pending alliance between U S and Canadian dealers in fresh water fish products is reported near completion. The plan would largely control supply and is largely funded by English capital.
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New York
United States
Canada
Greenville Proclaims Merchants Close Day To Defend Levee
Greenville Mississippi mayor issues order for merchants to close and all able bodied men to report to the levee as authorities brace for a major flood defense. The city battles to hold the great embankment amid a strong counter effort along the levee line.
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Greenville
Miss
Hank Cashier Faces Theft and Embezzlement Charges in Colo
Axrox Colorado March 20 The cashier of the Washington County bank TH G Neal son now in receivers hands was arrested today on charges of larceny embezzlement and receiving deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent misappropriating funds from the LN
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Hank
Axrox
Colo
TH. G. Nealson
Washington County Bank
River to Stil Failing
Mearnis Tenn March 20 The big river continues to fall slowly and the flood situation in Arkansas opposite this city is somewhat improved.
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Mearnis
Tenn
Arkansas
St. Joserh Man’s Legacy Hidden Under Carpet Stolen
Joseph Davis drew 2240 dollars from the bank and hid it under a car carpet with a trunk over it. While the family was downtown yesterday afternoon the carpet was torn up and the money stolen.
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St. Joserh
Joseph Davis
Eckstein Granted Divorce on Ground of Gross Neglect
Wichita attorney and Republican politician 6G Eckstein was granted a divorce from his wife on March 27 for gross neglect of duty.
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Q. G. Eckstein
Wichita
Kan
Eckstein
Ryan Likely Appointed First Assistant Secretary of Interior
President McKinley near agreement to name Thomas Ryan of Kansas to be first assistant secretary of the Interior. Ryan would oversee charges against officials and employees, Indian and mines inspectors, open market purchases, and park and hospital affairs including Yellowstone and Yosemite. He would also supervise endowment funds for agricultural colleges in states and territories.
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Wasinoros
McKinley
Thomas Ryan
Kansas
Interior Department
Senate
Interior
Ryan
Government Hospital For the Insane
Columbia
Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Arkansas Hot Springs
Yellowstone Mineral Park
Wyoming
Yosemite, Sequoia
General Grant Parks
California
McKenna Orders Supreme Court Appeal in Joint Traffic Case
Attorney General McKenna ordered District Attorney Mac Farland to appeal the Joint Traffic Association decision to the U S Supreme Court. A motion will ask to advance the case on the docket for a speedy ruling. The action follows the circuit court of appeals ruling and touches Trans Missoury Freight and passenger associations. Rockefeller rep defends mine wage levels after Kessemr Iron meeting.
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Washington
McKenna
MacFarland
New York
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Joint Traffic Association
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Trans-Missouri, Freight Association
Wallace and Liscombe
Kansas Banks Show Reserve Averages Across State
Reports from 125 state banks in Kansas indicate an average reserve of 46 percent, though the law requires a lower threshold. Details cite Hanks and Torzxka in the Kan. March 7 report.
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Kansas
Hanks, Torzxka
Kan
Principal Tailor System of Dress Cutting Receives Copyright
Des Moines March 19 Henry Principal of Des Moines secured a copyright for the Principal Tailor System of Dress Cutting. J Cundiff of Union Iowa received a patent for a portable wire fence stay wire weaving machine. Iowa shows four patent grants. Nebraska two Minnesota six Kansas three Missouri eighteen New York seventy. Over ten thousand applications await action at Washington with examiners in 35 divisions two months behind in most. Printed patent drawings and specs available for 25 cents from ORWIG solicitors.
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Des Moines
Henry Principal
J. Cundiff
Union
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Kansas
Missouri
New York
Washington
United States
Thomas G
Axd J
Barry Orwig
Solicitors of Patents
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