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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1897
Page
6
Reports from Nebraska City Adams county and numerous towns detail ill health of Representative Roddy and a famous English evangelist visit in Omaha June 12 to 19. The piece covers crimes accidents court notes fires thefts stabbings and transportation incidents across Brown Beatrice Butler Colfax Custer and other counties with many victim counts and casualties.
The Nebraska Senate and House move toward adjournment by the 7th as they advance bills. Key measures include Morrill fund distribution to the University of Nebraska, a corporate influence ban, anti-pass limits on railroad passes, and taxation changes for express, telegraph, and telephone firms. Committees process road, industrial school, and state institution appointments under gubernatorial authority.
Lawmakers advanced and rejected a wide range of measures. The house and senate debated deficieny judgments, campaign finance limits, and board powers while approving bills on railroads, education, mutual insurance, and state funds. Several measures passed with emergency clauses, others stalled or died.
Jarius C. Mears, a longtime Chicago settler, died at his La Grange home aged 100 years and eight days. He arrived in Chicago in 1835 and once served as Hillsboro postmaster under President Lincoln.
Washington April 1. Former congressman Charles Conne of Elkhart Indiana once head of the Washington Times was acquitted of criminal libel by Justice Bradley on an indictment sworn by District Commissioner Truesdale.
Washington April 1 Judge Kemp of Chillicothe Missouri has endorsements from Maine to California for an Indian territory judgeship and is in Washington to press his claims in person.
Charles A. Houghton principal owner of the Corning Glass works and reputed to be worth 500000 shot and killed himself in New York. Public report from Gerava dated March 3. The event ends a prominent industrial figure’s career in glassmaking.
Wasmnotoy April 1 Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota introduced a bill to prevent inventors and others from being deceived and defrauded by alleged patent attorneys.
Washington April 2 politicians discuss the upcoming banquet appearance of Mr Bryan as principal speaker. He prepares with care and expectations rise that he will deliver the party keynote for state campaigns this year.
At St Paul Minnesota April 2 the Mississippi has passed the danger line and is rising slowly. West side residents east of State street have been driven to higher ground. Water is entering houses on the west side and several hundred may be forced to move if level rises another six inches. Reports tell of suffering.
The State Department reports quiet but effective steps to secure clemency for Rivera. Officials say they have represented the case to Minister DeLome in hopes of sparing his life and avoiding execution.
The Times Herald Washington spec says Secretary Sherman protested the planned execution of Cuban leader General Rui Rivera in Pinar del Rio. He urged Spain to avoid a deadly, summery court martial and advised caution to not inflame U S public opinion.
Dr Jefferson D Goddard a druggist at 501 Independence avenue shot and killed Frank J Jackson owner of the Jackson laundries in the rear parlor of Hotel Woodland at Eighth and Woodland last night at 10 40 Mrs Jackson ill with pneumonia had prior warning to keep Goddard away Jackson jealous of him and morphine habit cited He was manager of Mrs Jacksons drug store which financed the laundry and paid living expenses for the couple.
Washington reports that since 1876 more than 4,000 bicycle patents have been granted by the U S patent office with about half issued in the last six years. Eight expert examiners now handle cycle applications and many more await examination. The growth surpasses any other country.
Republican members of the Senate committee on finance work day and night on the tariff bill aiming for an early report. The bill is expected to be remodeled with substantial reductions in many schedules.
Composer Johannes Brahms, renowned for his symphonies and chamber works, died in Vienna after a long illness. He suffered jaundice last autumn and traveled to Carlsbad before the cancer of the liver worsened. he remained lucid almost to the end. He was 67.
Michigan miners at Norris and Pabs mines will receive a 10 percent raise under the Metropolitas Iron and Land company. The move affects about one thousand workers as of April.
W A1 Con der, former Osage Indians treasurer, was granted a divorce from Addie R. Connor at Pawnee on grounds of abandonment. He awarded her $10,600 alimony.
Ex President Cleveland plans a public address at the Reform Club dinner in New York on the 24th inst. He is at work on a speech likely defending or explaining the last four years. Cabinet members are invited, signaling a semi official review of the recent administration.
The Kansas anti-trust law, approved by the last legislature, goes into effect nationwide on April 4 in Fort Scott. Traveling salesmen and grocers receive employer telegrams forbidding price agreements on trusts controlled goods, signaling expected price drops on staples and shifting losses to wholesalers.
Joseph B McMahan proprietor of McMahan's circus was shot and killed at 4 pm by J P Cunningham deputy sheriff of Taylor County Texas in the Manhattan hotel office. The shooting followed trouble over the arrest of circus performer Purdy on a Windsor hotel arson charge in Abilene Texas last month.
Eleven of the fifteen executive committee members from the Indianapolis monetary convention have arrived in the city. The group of business delegates plans to press Congress for a currency and banking study and aims to secure legislation this session to empower the president to appoint a committee before Congress reconvenes in December.
The Spanish legation in Washington received Madrid dispatches dated April 1 detailing major Philippine battles. Spanish troops stormed Novelleta Leebau and Rosario, shelled Cavite Vigo and other points near Imus. Heavy losses occurred and 163 prisoners surrendered at Cavite Vigo.
Dun's weekly trade review from New York on April 5 says markets drift with some declines and others recovering. The House vote for a new tariff bill has little impact as a similar law had been anticipated since November. If enacted, the provision applying duties from April 1 could curb foreign imports and Treasury receipts in time.
Waamington reports Clifton R. Breckinridge minister to Russia is not expected to be disturbed until his four year term ends about a year from now. Political tensions with President McKinley and others are absent as Breckinridge and McKinley remained close allies during his Arkansas Congress tenure on the ways and means committee.
April 5 report from Shamokin Pennsylvania states a mill explosion completely wrecked all buildings of the Shamokin Powder company. No lives lost as workers had already gone to their homes.
President McKinley entertained at the White House with a dinner last night for twenty seven guests. The invited included current and former members of the ways and means committee and a few other officials.
In San Francisco on April 2 a first class state room on the steamer Mariposa is reserved for murder suspect Butler of Australia who will be transported home tomorrow. The room has been stripped except for the lower bunk and a steel ring riveted near the floor to secure him if needed. Three Australian detectives will rotate guarding the prisoner in the cabin.
A heavy rain and west wind swell crevasses along the Yazoo delta flooding Mississippi and Arkansas. Westover Arkansas saw a major break forcing 1,000 workers to flee. The Laconia Circle area with 30,000 acres is submerged and 5,000 people are homeless. Mississippi towns Gunnison Rosedale flooded with cattle losses and destroyed farms.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss heard a large congressional delegation protest against the February 22 forestry reservation order. Senators Wilson and Turner, Clarke and Warren, Carter and Mantle, Cannon and Pettigrew, Mondell and Moody, joined Lead Commissioner Hermann and Director Walcott of the geological survey. They urged revocation or suspension of the proclamation until lands in the reserved tracts could be investigated.
Notice from the assignee of United Press states the news service will be discontinued after the night of April 7 or about 8 o'clock the morning of April 8. No dispatches will be received or paid for, and all employees will be dismissed. E. G. Mason, Assignee.
Des Moines reports an act changing section 4894 to require one year for patent applications instead of two. A Des Moines inventor seeks a patent for rapid transmission of text and images via electric lines. The public learns damages include profits and costs, with possible injunctions and imprisonment for willful infringement. Iowa solicitors Barry Onwra and Thomas G.ann provide guidance.
The report compiles quotations from New York Chicago St Louis and Omaha on stocks and produce traded at Clive markets. Traders monitor price shifts and demand signals across major exchanges and regional exchanges today.
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