Nebraska News Digest Highlights Local Projects and Incidents
Wysiore and nearby towns push creamery development while Wayne to vote on bonds for an electric light plant. Grafton painters and carpenters bustling. Albion clamps Sunday business. Lincoln latitude confirmed. Georgia building contract for Omaha Exposition. staff work remains for completion. Fires claim farm and home. a young man escapes serious injury during corn shelling. Brown University president to attend Trans-Mississippi educational congress. Exposition carpenters paid. a poor farm inmate dies by suicide. Milford scaffold accident injures a carpenter. Early settlers memorialized. Decatur creamery nears operation with 4000 dollar plant cost and first milk batch awaited. Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen plan Exposition information bureau. G.A.R. discusses Cuba independence and possible war. Confidence men target Ashland farmers. Dakota City tax protest funds to be disbursed. 1894 levy legality tested by railroad.
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Wysiore
Wayne
Grafton
Munger
Albion
Lincoln
Meteorological Department of
the State University
Georgia
S. K. Haines
Berwyn
Charles Wells
Fred Jackson
Fairmont
Grand Army
Republic of
Oakdale
Congress
Cuba
Spain
Renue
Omaha
Ashland
J. F. Leamer
Dakota City
President's War Message Delayed as Crisis Narrows
Washington April 4 leaders warn the crisis may peak within seven days and war or peace will be decided soon. Congress debates timing while the president readies a comprehensive message to Congress amid war prep and diplomatic signals. Public fear grows as Havana reports strong agitation and foreign firms brace for conflict.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Connecticut
Hill
House
Bramwell
Ohio
Cooper
Wisconsin
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Foreign Relations Committee
Adams
Hitt
Grout
Maine
Mines Placed Underwater Between Morra and Punta
Havana reports the Spanish government secretly laid two lines of twenty mines each beneath the water between Morra and Punta in the channel. The information comes from official sources and is stated as absolutely correct.
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Havana
Harto
New York World Cablegram
Morra
Punta
McKinley Edges Toward Cuba Message Amid Cabinet Deliberations
As April unfolds, President McKinley refines a formal message to Congress on Cuba independence and possible intervention. Cabinet officers say the plan remains unchanged pending final shape, with urging from senators and representatives for immediate action.
Cuban Responsibility Hearings Highlight Maine Inquiry
Spanish minister Polo disclosed an affidavit by John D. Bennett a New York inventor of explosives claiming Cuban junta figures in New York sought his weapons. The document filed with the U S district attorney is to be presented to the senate foreign affairs committee as it probes official Maine responsibility.
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Epnish
Washington
Senor Polo
Gonzalo de Quesaada
Horatio
Rubens
New York
Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Maine
Senate defers Cuba independence recognizing move and possible intervention
Washington April 4 The full senate committee on foreign relations backs the sub committee plan to recognize Cuban independence and consider intervention if needed The Maine disaster looms large as the report to accompany the resolution emphasizes Spain’s role and possible war actions while Admiral Irwin weighs torpedo threats and the Spanish flotilla The committee also reviews the president's views as Senator Frye relays the executive stance.
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Washington
Congress
McKinley
America
Cuba
House
Day
White House
Major Easton
Abner McKinley
New York
Gage
Treasury
Lacey
Iowa
Pitney
New Jersey
Law
Frye
Senate Committee On Foreign ‘Relations
Sesson
Gray
Daniels
Turpie
Foraker
Senator Davis
Davis
Irwin
Maine
Spain
Woodford Declines Interview On Cuba Peace Mission
Madrid April 4 United States minister General Woodford answers AP request saying he cannot grant interviews about ongoing diplomatic talks. He cites duty to protect Cuba peace and American interests and expresses hope for a just and honorable peace to avert war between Spain and the United States.
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Madrid
Associated Press
Woodford
United States
Spain
McKinley
Cuba
Program of the House Amid Incoming President Message
Washington April 4 The House faces a light week awaiting the president’s message. Tomorrow the army reorganization bill is to be called up and Hull predicts easy passage as war needs override opposition. The District of Columbia naval battalion bill sits on the speaker’s table and may pass. Private bill days are Tuesday and Friday. The deficiency appropriation bill is nearly ready for consideration after Wednesday if the message is delayed.
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Washington,d. C
House
Hull
Raulitary Committee
Armistice Sought by Autonomists in Cuba
The Spanish minister in Havana received a cablegram stating that the autonomists’ cabinet has appealed to the insurgents to accept a six terms peace armistice. The message urges Cubans to unite for liberty and peace and notes Spain’s willingness to widen autonomy, to be proposed to the Cortes.
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Washington, D. C
Havana
Legation
Spain
Cortes
Madrid priests call for prayers for Spanish Army victory
In Madrid on April 4 priests read a bishop's letter saying war is imminent and urging prayers for the success of the Spanish army. Those who can lean on their dignity seek stronger support.
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Madrid
Spanish and US peace hopes buoy Madrid reports
An authoritative Madrid note says Spain and the United States may have reached an agreement covering the Maine incident, reconcentrado and a path to peace in Cuba. It claims Cuba and Captain General Blanco agree, Spain will aid peace while McKinley’s stance could alter outcomes.
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Madrid
Spain
United States
Maine
Cuba
Blanco
McKinley
Associated Press
General Woodford
Woodford
Legation
el Liberal
Washington
No Order to the Flying Squadron Reported
Washington officials at the navy department stated that no orders had been issued to the flying squadron to prepare for sea. Captains Crowinshields and Baker at a cabinet meeting were not connected with the coming of the Spanish flotilla. Movements of the squadron were under consideration with no definite determination yet.
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Modern Wood
Butte
Evangelist Houser
Houser
J. D. Gage
Nebraska Department of the Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Volunteer Reserve Association
Gage
Navy Department
Crowinshields
Baker
Bill for Army Surgeons
Representative Hull introduces a bill to add fifteen navy medical staff surgeons and authorize wartime contract surgeons under army approval up to fifty dollars monthly. The fifteen new doctors would gain first lieutenant rank after board examination.
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Washington
Hull
House Committee On’ Military Affairs
Navy
Army
Secretary of War
Woodford Preparing to Leave Madrid
A Madrid dispatch reports United States Minister Woodford ready to depart Madrid immediately if diplomatic rupture occurs.
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Woodford
London
Madrid
United States
A Witty Quote on Matrimony by C Simmons
A brief quotation notes that a person’s character remains incomplete until marriage, attributed to C Simmons.
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C. Simmons
Summer Plans for Rocky Mountain Outing by Rail
E P Baker outlines a leisure guide to Colorado travel via Missouri Pacific to Pueblo and the Denver & Rio Grande route. He praises the Royal Gorge and canyon scenery, describes the climb to the San Luis Valley, and notes abundant trout, waterfowl, and big game in the surrounding mountains and valleys.
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Ures
Rocky Mountain
Missouri Pacific System
Pueblo
Colorado
Great Divide
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver
Royal Gorge
Salida
San Luis Valley
Alamosa
Blanco
West
Sangre de Cristo
Bianco
Springs
Manitou
Denver & Rio Grande Road
E. P. Baker
Velasquez Life and Work in Godeys April Issue
Mary E J Kelley treats Velasquez on the painter’s centennial birth anniversary with terse vigor. Photographs illustrate the article. George E Walsh contributes an article on Diamonds with memorable facts and statistics.
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Godey’s Magazine
Velasquez
Mary E. J. Kelley
Valesauez
George E. Walsh
Australian Democracy Compared With Our Own
EB L Godkin argues in the Atlantic that the Australian colonies offer a Cabinet system without a fixed constitution, allowing legislative majorities and executive officers to be changed at any time, unlike the American Presidential system with fixed terms and a written constitution.
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EB. L
Godkin
Atlantic
Mrs Stevens Named to Chicago World Fair Board
Mrs. Lillian M N Stevens succeeds Frances Willard in the W C G T A and represents Maine on the board of ladies managers at the Chicago World's Fair. She also led Maine’s exhibition of charities and corrections.
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Lillian M. N. Stevens
Frances
Willard
W. CG
T.A
Maine
Child recounts mule bray in country visit
A four year old Willie visits grandparents in the country and runs inside after hearing a mule bray for the first time. He cries out that one of the horses has a hoppen tough and asks his grandmother for help. The piece blends local humor with aphoristic lines about dignity and effort.
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Willie
Hoppen
Montreal Herald
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Nebraska News
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Brown University
Nebraska
MacLean
George Anderson
Douglas‘county
Ruben L Bowen
Troop A
Nebraska National Guard
Milford
A. Austin
Otoe County
Mr. Austin
Methodist Episcopal Church
Decatur
Odd Fellows Societies
South Omaha
Florence
Brother Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Fourteenth and
Dodge
the House
Rocky Mountains
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