Death of Dr Fuller in a Nebraska runaway verdict
The body of Dr. I F Fuller of Lincoln was found near a Sal tila road after a buggy crash. Coroner's jury ruled death from concussion due to the accident with a telegraph pole contact and amaranth use noted. Also reported are railroad finance, infrastructure issues, and local crimes across Nebraska towns.
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Lincoln
Omaha Herald
Saltilla
IF. G. Fuller
Touley
Trne
Mr. Grant
Lomser
Grant
Bugsy
Cattle Swindle Allegedly By Swift buyer Curtiss Foiled at Blooming
An Omaha Bee report details James B. Horton of Bloomington Nebraska and others who encountered a man calling himself Charlie Curtis claiming to be a Swift Packing cattle buyer from South Omaha. He lured livestock buyers with promises of large carloads to be loaded Thursday but no cars were ordered and Curtis disappeared leaving stock men furious.
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James B. Horton
Bloomington
Neh
Omaha Bee
Charlie Curtis
Swift Packing Company
South Omaha
Curtis
Horton
Beatrice
Curtiss
Curis
State Brevities in Gevyeral
The Union Pacific and county clerk finalize an indenture with American Loan and Trust for 4 percent bonds worth 795,920.20 to buy cars and engines. News reports a serious affray in Donelas county injuring Robert Deering and Frank Papian. Captain White plans added postal car service between Omaha and North Platte. General Crook visits Kearney and a summer encampment site is explored. Hebron plans a school bond election. Wahoo post office records 2815 for year ending March 31. Death of pioneer C. W. H. Cowles of Otoe county announced.
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Union Pacific Railway
Donelas County
American Loan and Trust Company
Boxton
Grant
Robert Deering
Frank Papian
Deering
Captain White
Omaha
Union Pacific
North Platto
Neb
Omnulea
Worth Viatte
Kearney
Hebron
Rail accidents and local notices from the Burlington region
An accident on the Burlington & Missouri at Kesterson damaged freight and passenger engines. A boy was knocked unconscious after a fall from a horse near Lincoln. A Union Pacific coal depot fire at Co Timbre raged amid strong winds. Tramps burglarized a Clarke freight car with groceries and whisky before capture. Civil suits include Caroline K M Kline suing saloon proprietors for damages over a Omaha shooting. Red Cloud Rail line work advances. Nebraska bond and railroad plans loom. Pensions granted to Nebraskans. insanity comment tied to revivalists. Bestrico freight wreck. York society awards Minnie Freeman. Falconer Gifford sues County Superintendent for defamation.
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Bo& M
Arkansas
Seward County
Woop P Moore
Alas Bliss
Elisay Or Moore
Carroll County
de Hag
Tamora
James Devine
Devine
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Ihe
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County Select
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Emperor's health worsens amid fears of blood poisoning
reports from Benuix state that the patient remains critically ill with suspected abscess forming in the trachea. doctors planned a further consultation as fever rises and signs point to possible pyemia while the emperor receives visitors and shows brief window appearances.
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Benuix
Tiia Stronathene
Charlottenburg
McKenzie
Baden
Toim
Havell
Asho
Roscoe Conkling Dies After Prolonged Illness
Roscoe Conkling died this morning after a long illness. Reports describe a peaceful passing despite a strenuous struggle, with family and officials mourning his death. Journalists, doctors, and political figures reacted with solemn tributes as Utica and New York noted the ex senator’s career.
Murder Attempt Ends in Deadly Shootout in Beaver Falls
At 12 30 this morning Doyle, about thirty, with two companions, tried to force entry into a disreputable Fifth street house occupied by Mabel Confer. Two men warned them off. Shots fired from within killed Doyle in the left breast. occupants fled, woman present but escaped notice. Report says the assailants may be from Pittsburgh.
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Thea
Beaver Falla
Doyle
Mabel Confer
Fifth Street
Pittaburg
President vetoes pensions for war widows in Washington dispatch
The president unsigned acts granting pensions to Hannah R. Langdon Bettis Mansfeld and Laura A. Wright. He vetoes the measures arguing deaths did not stem from war injuries or army sickness and warns against policy that pensions all soldiers widows, urging uniform laws instead.
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Washington Dispatch
Senate
Aets
Hannah R. Langdon
Bettis Mansfeld
Laura A. Wright
Death of Senator Conkling In New York and Nationwide Tributes
Mrs Conkling and Mrs Oakman watched over Senator Conkling as he died in New York on April 18. Funeral plans place services in Trinity Chapel, Allen, Calvary Chapel, and a final service in Chea with pallbearers named. Courts adjourned in tribute while many cities fly flags at half mast and thousands sent condolences.
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Don Cameron
William Wallace
Walker Church
Ianac CC Bailey
United States Circuit Court
Wr Conkling
Cuuozry
Chea
Cty
Washington
Tins Ety
Brooklyn
City Hall
Burglary Ends in Shooting at Julius Meyers Saloon
Adolph Kleintopf was shot and killed during a late night burglary at Julius Meyers saloon on Sixth and Hickory streets. Meyers and his family live above the saloon and patrols led to Kleintopf’s death as three men escaped with plunder. Corenlia Carroll and John Finnegan were arrested for complicity.
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Tonia
Adolph Kleintopf
About & Oelack
Julius Meyers
Hickory
Meyers
Kleintopf
Cornelia Carroll
John Finnegan
Var Dary
Willreak
Folica
Union
Oranha
Pinkerton
Strikes Turn Violent in Burlington Yards Night of Terror
In San im Chey Kansas City April 17 strikers and sympathizers cause mayhem at the Burlington yards. Trains derailed engines fired and switches misplaced injuring property and workers. A Swedish worker John Andron faces charges of attempted wrecking amid chaos as employes quit and a memorial event for Lincoln is held downtown.
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Ma Sanim Chey
Kansas City
Unamihey
Burlington
John Andron
Radmond Pohreenon
Anttem
Wiiens
Connel
Connell Bints
Hounteal
St. Joe Varda
Disputed Saturday incident near Cheyenne Wells Ends in Deaths
The article reports that two young men from Town McConnell and Morrison were ordered to stop by a horseman en route to Prod enck Haaker two miles north. Shots were fired injuring them fatally within minutes. Baker was arrested while a mob demanded the prisoner over to them. A telegraph note mentions a dawn event and broader local unrest following the term end with consolidation plans for a college and seminary and efforts to suppress a local disturbance in Donslus county.
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Cheyenne Wells
Cole
McConnell
John Morrison
Prodenck Haaker
Fred
Vorrison
Baker
Eherwi
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