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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1903
Page
2
A roundup of labor actions and legal cases includes a 12 to 15 percent wage rise for railway workers, a looming textile strike in Lowell, and calls for broader pay boosts. Other items report a murder suicide in Hyndman Pa, indictments in Ohio, and Maryland Day observances as well as corporate dividends and overseas trade shifts.
The Nebraska House advanced multiple bills on the 23rd and 24th including H R 42 authorizing emergency bridge repairs under $200, H R 102 funding a Lincoln agricultural college, and N R 207 to improve city sanitation with a physician and matron. The deficieny bill H R 471 was amended to 120075.57 total, and a claims item of 4002.60 for defending suits tied to Capitol National bank funds was rejected as unwarranted. Additional actions included budgets for prairie dog extermination, state printing, and monuments, with notable debates over the Lincoln monument and the Milford home and asylum provisions.
The house read and passed Tt. R. 445 the claims bill with about 50,000 dollars in appropriations and H. R. 471 the deficiency bill with roughly 120,002 dollars. A joint adjournment date of April 7 was set after a split vote. Various other bills were read and approved including territory annexation to cities, hospital rebuilding funds, banking board reporting, famine relief aid, county board funding, debt settlement authorizations, and drainage or road easements. Amendments to bank bond surety rules, alley vacating effects, and service fees were approved, with S. F. 3064 and H. R. 271 also signed into law.
The senate approved bills including S JF 180 to elect a police magistrate in 1903, S F 74 for bonds by surety firms, S F 169 creating new school districts, HBR 271 for a five member South Omaha school board and salaries, S F 270 raising oil test to 112 degrees, S F 105 semi annual statements for fire insurers, S F 172 cemetery associations, S F 21 attachment orders, and S F 37 distributing unidentified remains to medical colleges.
The senate debated revenue bills with the committee passing the third reading on S EF 8 and related measures. Amendments were offered including Howell's tax plan placing accident insurers in the same class as fire insurers for taxation based on gross receipts.
The revenue bill passes the Senate with all Republicans voting yes except Dean who is absent and four fusionists for. Five Republicans—Hall and Howell of Douglas Sheldon of Cass Marshall of Otoe and Fries of Valley—explain their votes saying the bill is a step forward but incomplete and sometimes harmful yet must be accepted as a whole. Also approved are Omaha charter bill H R 220 S F 238 and other measures. adjournment set for April 7 with a substitute to adjourn April 3.
Nebraska senate judiciary committee reports to indefinitely postpone S. F. 102 the Brady elevator bill. A minority report with amendments favors adopting the bill, while outlining requirements for railroads to provide rights of way and sidetracks and a $1000 civil penalty for noncompliance within sixty days.
Local labor organizations in Nebraska City place a joint ticket and endorse several candidates across both the Republican and Democratic ballots, signaling cross party support from union ranks.
A reflective remark says that simply criticizing others does not improve collective happiness or municipal well being, urging constructive action and positive participation instead.
Burglars robbed Mrs. Sam Chambers in Plattsmouth stealing $65. Ex president Cleveland slated to visit Nebraska soon. Fremont to host meeting on forming a four base ball league. Ex congressman Mercer returns to Omaha as his planned residence. Tecumseh seeks more school space with bonds expected. Onion depot work to start at Fremont shortly. Missouri Pacific wreck near Berlin kills brake man Charles Bennington. ten cars damaged from a broken flange. Ezra Fellers injured with both legs broken when his horse ran away near Table Rock. Ed Simon of Lincoln jailed two years for shooting in a fight at Ceresco. Holbrook suffers worst fire since incorporation. $20,000 loss, $6,000 insured. An old whisky bottle found on a small island by Plattsmouth hunters contains a note signed J. W. C James Richardson. Wile Murray dies at 16 from injuries after attempting to board a freight near Silver Creek. Dodge county faces farmhand shortages with high wages and board costs. Railway Age lists prospective railroad projects in Nebraska including new electric lines. Senator Dietrich plans Alaska trip with daughter Gertrude after Bryn Mawr. Klondike route included. Fremont Commercial Club urges federal highway aid via Brownlow Bill. reintroduction expected. Eva Thompson in Lincoln reports Mr. Thompson and wife in Rio Janeiro around March 14 and Madrid trip noted. Lisbon voyage planned for March 32. Randolph reports death of J. E. Everett and W. S. Everett. both farmers near Randolph. Ed Vandeventer of Rule loses leg and arms in a woods accident near the Missouri river. prognosis poor. Roosevelt requests a 20 to 25 mile horseback ride at Hastings on arrival, urging Dietrich to secure mounts.
Mrs Darna L Barnes of Washington D C testifies to the benefits of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments including headaches backache irregular periods and nervous distress. She asserts the product clears long standing issues and urges acceptance of the letter as genuine proof with a $5000 forfeit if proven otherwise.
Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in quantity or quality 10 oz for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz.
A new grain named corn wheat is being grown in eastern Washington. It combines corn and wheat traits with the fattening qualities of corn and the flavor of corn, while looking like wheat. Grains are twice as large as ordinary wheat and yields range from sixty to one hundred bushels per acre. It appears to solve Pacific Northwest hog fattening where corn cannot be raised.
Yale alumni records show Yale on par with Harvard in birth and marriage statistics the President Eliet complained about in his annual report. Yale graduates average two children per family.
Among the post offices of this country there are seven Pierces fifteen Roosevelts seventeen McKinleys twenty to twenty nine Adamses and as many Jeffersons Jacksons John sons Grants and Garfields thirty Washingtons thirty Monroes thirty one Lincolns and thirty two Cleve lands.
A fragmentary quote from Claudius notes that disruption and noise inside a house prevent progress as water turns to mist and loud sounds enter through doors and windows, indicating disorder. The line evokes a sense of domestic obstruction and misfortune.
Post master Remers of Lancaster New York recounts how diabetes left him near death until he used Dodd's Kidney Pills. After eight boxes he improved and fully recovered, remaining healthy for three years with no relapse. He notes physicians failed before the remedy and urges others to trust his experience.
A report discusses electric lighting potentially disturbing the ghosts of the Pharoahs in the royal tombs within the Valley of the Kings, raising concerns about preservation and visitor access.
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