Plans for the Nebraska corn contest second event
Preparations are under way for the second Nebraska corn contest to be held five days December 11 12 13 14 15 1906. Notable attractions include Frank R Robertson Wilman Hawley Smith Adan Bede and William Jennings Bryan among others with music by the Ceman quartet and Peru state normal male quartet. The location will be decided at a York business meeting of the executive committee.
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Frank R. Robertson
Walden
N. Y
Wiliam Hawley Smith
Peoria
Adan Bede
Minnesota
Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Ceeman
York
Peru State Normal
Protest Against Division of Entries in North Platte Valley
Farmers protest a proposed division of 160 acre homestead entries into 80 acre irrigated units in the North Platte valley Nebraska. They appeal to Senator Millard after reports the Interior Department may survey land to fix a unit area of eighty acres.
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Omaha
North Platte Valley
Nebraska
Secretary of the Interior
Millard
Livestock Values Raised by Nebraska Board of Equalization
The State Board of Equalization tentatively boosted livestock values across several counties. Changes include increases for cattle, horses, and mules in Fillmore, Dundy, Douglas, Devel, Cuming, Colfax, Cheyenne, Cherry, Burt, Blaine, An teinpe, and others, with percent rises and new per head values, subject to final confirmation.
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Lincoln
State Board of Equalization
Fillmore
Dundy
Douglas
Devel
Cuming
Colfax
Cheyenne
Cherry
Burt
Blaine
Anteinpe
Call for State Veterinarian to Examine Quarantined Horses
Sheriff Hall of Holt county urges Dr. A. McKim state veterinarian to come at once to ONeill to inspect horses under quarantine believed to be afflicted with glanders. The farmer fears grain losses as he cannot pass the road to a distant field and resists euthanizing or introducing new horses without confirmation.
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A. McKim
C. E. Hall
Holt County
O'Neill
George Mackey
Tilden
Sid Mackey
Jefferson County
Lincoln
Model country school to be featured at Kearney teachers institute
KEARNEY A new departure will be a feature at the Buffalo county teachers institute at the State Normal school the week of August 6. A model country school with genuine country children will be taught by Miss Caldwell one of the Normal school teachers.
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Kearney
Nebraska
Buffalo County Teachers’ Institute
State Normal School
Constitutional Amendment Notices for Rail Way Commission
Secretary of State Galusha prepared the fall election amendment copy. Notices will go to newspapers around August 1 and run seven weeks in one paper per county. Total cost is 4110 dollars at 49 dollars per paper. The amendment provisions create a three member railway commission.
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Galusha
Prohibitionists in Gage county field ticket in state race
A slate for Gage county Prohibitionists is noted amid Nebraska headlines. York Chautauqua association incorporates with 3000 capital, and various local incidents include suicides in Beatrice and Alexandria, a drowning in Tilden, and a fatal ambush in Shoshoni.
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Gage County
York Chautauqua Association
Galusha
Anna Lang
Beatrice
Court appoints receiver for Zion City property
U S district judge Landis rules Zion estate is a trust, denies Dowie personal claim, and names John C Hately receiver. An September election will determine ecclesiastical leader. Voliva’s power of attorney transfer ruled waste paper. bankruptcy debts attributed to the trust estate.
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Landis
Voliva
Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Zion
Wilbur Glen Voliva
Dowie
K. M. Landis
United States District Court
John C. Hately
People of
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Shiloh
Zion City
Judge Landis
Granger
Tabernacle
Leaves of Healing
Overseer
Wolivan
Interparliamentary Union Seeks Hague Reform at London Conference
The London meeting of the interparliamentary union adopts aims for the second Hague conference. It calls defining contraband of war to arms and munitions, protecting private property at sea, and limiting armament spending. Berlin 1908 eyed for next gathering. King Edward to receive delegates at Buckingham Palace.
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London
Conference of the Interparliamentary Union
Interparliamentary Union
Hague Conference of Means
International Council
Berlin
Junction
House of Lords
Edward
Buckingham Palace
Former Monk Eugene Kraft Found Dead in Chicago
Eugene Kraft, once a monk and printer in Marshalltown, was found dead in Chicago. He maintained strong European family ties and spent two years in a Belgian monastery. He had N/A further public records.
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Marshalltown
Eugene Kraft
Chicago
Europe
Belgium
World cotton supply shows slight week to week drop
New Orleans Secretary Hester reports the world's visible cotton supply at 2,394,955 bales, down from 2,565,379 last week. American cotton totals 1,287,955, down from 2,399,379, with other nations providing the remainder.
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New Orleans
Hester
Battle With Pulajanes in Leyte Ends in Deaths
Gen Wood in Manila reports a sudden Pulajane outbreak on Leyte. two constabulary detachments defeated with 12 and 15 killed or wounded, including a lieutenant. Troops rush to scene under a presidential order. The Twenty fourth US Infantry clashed with 360 Pulajanes, with 150 reported enemy losses and one constabulary sergeant wounded.
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Washington
Philippine Constabulary
Leyte
War Department
Wood
Manila
Jesse M. Lee
Department of the Visayas
Forest Fires Threaten Birch and Northern Lumber Plant
Fires rage northwest of Marquette with Birch 15 miles away in grave danger. Mayor Culver of Marquette, general manager of Northern Lumber, at the scene has telephoned for help as half a million dollars of property, including the sawmill and timber, hangs in the balance.
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Michigan
Marquette
Mich
Here
Birch
Northern Lumber Company
Culver
Rob Jewelry Store Heist in Moscow on Tverskoe Street
Ten armed men stormed a jewelry store on Tverskoe Street in Moscow seizing gems worth several thousand dollars and fleeing. No arrests have been made.
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Moscow
Tverskoe Street
Supreme Court Justice Resigns in Utah
Salt Lake City Utah Geo W Bartch chief justice of Utah Supreme Court tendered his resignation to Governor Cutler to take effect October 1. Bartch intends to resume the practice of law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Utah
Geo. W. Bartch
Supreme Court of Utah
Gov. Cutler
Justice Bartch
Postpone Call for Strike In Russian Uprising
After long talks among social democrats social revolutionists peasants league workmen's councils of Moscow and St Petersburg and allied groups a general strike is not yet called. The revolutionary military committee says time is not ripe but preparations will continue and manifestos issued to army navy peasants workers and the people.
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St. Petersburg
Social Democrats
Social Revolutionists
Peasants’ League
Workmen's Councils
Moscow
Toll
Revolutionary Military Committee
Hberty
Kharkov
Republic of Kharkov
Yuzovka
Russia
Rates Filing Urged Under New Railroad Freight Law
Washington report shows Chairman Martin A. Knapp directing all U S railroad companies to file and keep open public schedules of rates fares and charges for transportation between points on their routes and on through routes with other carriers. The interstate commerce commission will cooperate with carriers and discuss questions while pushing for immediate substantial compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
United States
Sage will leaves estate to widow after bequests
New York probate shows Russell Sage's will leaving all property to his widow Margaret Oliva Sage after $25000 to each nephew and niece and $10000 to sister Mrs. Fanny Chapin, who has since died. Provisions penalize contesters. estate value not listed.
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New York
Russell Sage
Margaret Oliva Sage
Mr. Sage
Fanny Chapin
Oneida
N. Y
Bomb injures six outside Teutonia Hall in New York
A bomb thrown from an elevated train exploded near Teutonia hall on Sixteenth Street and Third Avenue, injuring six men among a crowd of about one hundred plumbers awaiting a union meeting. Police investigate the blast as a possible attack connected to the labor gathering.
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New York
Sixteenth Street
Third Avenue
Teutonia Hall
Indictments Open Sugar Rebating Probe In New York
A federal grand jury indicted three defendants Friday in New York after a probe into alleged sugar rebating by the American Sugar Refining company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Federal
United States
American Sugar Refining Company
Large Frisco Lease Ties to Wanamaker & Brown
The former St. Ignatius site in Frisco and San Francisco, a full block, was leased to Wanamaker and Brown of Philadelphia in one of the era's largest transactions.
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San Francisco
St. Ignatius’ Church and College
Wanamaker & Brown
Philadelphia
Poltava mutiny and Shusha clashes shake czarist Russia
In Poltava a Sevsk regiment mutiny followed an arrest and led to street parades, gun seizures, and a prison assault before loyal troops retaliated with machine guns, leaving several dead or wounded by 2 AM. In Shusha, tension between Armenians and Tatars escalated under a military siege as garrisons bombarded both sides, destroying much of the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poltava
Russia
Sevsk
ST. Petersburg
Shusha
Caucasus
Train wreck near Poughkeepsie kills fireman and injures many
Pacific Express No 37 of the New York Central & Hudson River line derailed after striking a landslide from a heavy rainstorm above Chelsea. Fireman Mills was killed, Engineer Edward Wells fatally injured, and fifteen passengers seriously hurt with many others injured.
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Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Pacific Express
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
Grand Central Station
New York
Chelsea
Poughkeelsie
Mills
Edward Wells
Big Plans for Irrigation on Shoshone Reservation
C. E. Freeman of Arnold & Co. of Chicago has surveyed the Shoshone reservation and plans to recommend about 25 million dollars for irrigation works power mills and related development. He has made ten inspection trips and notes a seventy mile canal that would irrigate around 250 000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoshoni
Wyo
C. E. Freeman
Arnold & Co
Chicago
Big Shoshone Reservation
Freeman
Iowa Aeronaut Involved in Fatal Cannon Balloon Descent
Salt Lake City reports Joseph McMan na a Des Moines area aeronaut fell 150 feet after a cannon parachute failed during a Sunday ascent. McMan na likely died from the injury.
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Salt Lake City
Joseph McManna
Des Moines
Selt Palace
McManna
Mutineers of Black Sea Fleet Sentenced by Naval Court Martial
A Sebastopol naval court martial sentenced mutineers from the Black Sea fleet's November 1905 revolt. Four men faced death, one received life servitude, thirty-two got penal servitude, and fifty were imprisoned. six were acquitted. A Samenkoff was charged with complicity in the bomb plot against General Effat. May 27.
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Sebastopol
Black Sea
Samenkoff
Escupy
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Thmas D. McGuire
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Hastings Asylum
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Schleckty
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Weeping Water
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Sea Girt
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Wheeler
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Flatte
State Board of Agriculture
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Union Pacific
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