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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1886
Page
2
A Nebraska table shows aggregate assessed value by county and land per acre, exposing inconsistencies in property taxation. The piece points to counties inflating or deflating figures to appear poorer, and cites Omaha and Lancaster discrepancies in average town lot values, arguing for reform.
A bolt at 1:30 am struck the southwest stable at the fair grounds killing eight horses including Legal Tender Tucker and Al Potter and injuring groom John Simpson. Nineteen horses were in the barn. eight died, eight were saved, and one horse on the race track enclosure was killed. The stable held sixteen head of horses, oats, and hay valued at about $10,000. The fire spread rapidly despite heavy rain, destroying the building. Owners of spared horses include Ed Pyle, J H McShane, Riley & Dillon, Capt. O Mally, and W C G Sprisord.
Omaha post office stamps sales for July totaled 925.30 and envelopes 2660.08, a 37 percent increase from last year. Indiana Pine Ridge encampment plans and Be Beatrice flour mill talks appear, along with a near completion feeble minded institution enclosure and Draper Beatrice clothier attachment. A thunderstorm near Wayne on the 7th killed two horses when lightning struck Mr. Cleaver's barn, sparing the man and twelve other horses.
Farmer Reuben Church unearthed fifteen human skeletons six feet underground while digging a cellar near his home nine miles south of Nebraska City. The find suggests the site was a burial ground unknown to locals, dating back many years.
Otoe county jail crowds include murderers and a rapist while the Inail project at Beatrice nears roofing. Hastings baseball beats Union Pacifics. Osceola loses pastor Hogoes. Tecumseh hosts Masonic corner stone ceremony. Otoe deficit reported at 27,000. new hospital funds exceed 3,000.
In Dubois County Indiana a mob lynched Thomse Hobbs and his grown son after they killed two men named Waller and Faults in a feud. The pair were captured after a hot chase and executed to avoid legal trouble, with reports describing vigilante action and public excitement.
The chief speaker at the Monona Lake Assembly on the LOTW was Rev DeWitt Talmage of Brooklyn. His lecture asked whether the world is growing better or worse and drew a large audience. Applause interrupted the address as he argued for advancing civilization and morality.
At the National Grand Army encampment in San Francisco on August 6 delegates debated polygamy denunciations and a Lovering pension bill. Massachusetts backed a pension plan for all surviving soldiers and sailors, but it failed 327 to 0. St Louis won the bid for the next encampment. Tanner was elected Commander in Chief after a nomination process and votes.
Massive fires stretch nearly a hundred miles north of Stevens Point along the Wisconsin Central line. Spencer is destroyed with losses around 300000 dollars. Colby and Prentice face near extinction as winds drive flames, while rains later ease fires on the Monominee river. Millions of feet of pine burn, telegraph lines fall, and Milwaukee logs are cut off from northern points.
Wyoming farmers report superb crop prospects with record hay yields and abundant oats and wheat. Palawna planting expands as oat fields promise about fifty bushels per acre on sod land. Vegetables and grasses flourish. reports from Shoshone basin and Snake River headwaters hint at mineral discoveries.
At a Central Labor Union meeting last Sunday delegates received a pamphlet outlining the National Cooperative Labor Party. The plan calls for government control of railroads and utilities, common ownership of land and production means, free inventions with government rewards, and rent limits. Political aims include abolition of the presidency and Senate, recallable officials, universal suffrage, and repeal of all temperance laws, with ties to T. S. McQuire and Victor Drury.
Frank Smitt was killed last night eighteen miles west of Cheyenne after a quarrel with William Stevonson over fence work and horse picketing. Smith tried to strike Stevonson with a neck yoke. Stevonson fired twice, the second shot fatally. Smith surrendered to authorities this morning. another man says Smitt acted in self defense.
A cold blooded murder occurred in Sioux City on Aug 8 as Rev. Geo. O Haddock was shot returning to his horse after a trip to Greenville. Witnesses described a premeditated attack with a pulley wheel firearm and armed assailants stationed to ambush him. A public meeting denounced the crime and urged strong enforcement. Gov Lawrence offered a 650 reward for the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators.
The president submits the text of a comprehensive extradition treaty with Japan. It covers murder, forgery, theft, burglary, perjury, arson, piracy, fraud, and related offenses across nations, following past consent after a forger’s transfer from California to Japan. The pact, signed in Tokyo on April 29, builds a framework for future treaties with Europe and the Americas.
A notice invites readers to attend the Commercial College at Town City. It claims to be the oldest and best in the west and advertises Bend for Callegu Journal.
The Forty Ninth Congress ends its session with adjournment sine die after a final adjournment resolution. Senators are thanked for orderly conduct as the chamber empties. the president grants no further communication. The House outputs approval of the president and then adjourns.
Dublin leaders Michael Davitt and James Bourke arrive in New York aboard the Germanic to tour the United States. Davitt will lecture nationwide and attend the Chicago convention while pressing Ireland’s home rule question. He predicts the Tory government may propose a minor remedy, with coercion bills unlikely to pass.
August 5 in the New York Court of Common Pleas naturalization bureau a man using the name Carl Robnebeck sought first papers to become a citizen. He refused to affirm on the Bible and proclaimed atheism, prompting the clerk to refuse the declaration and the applicant to leave.
A Montreal businessman George Green and his daughter, with an engineer, left Merrinburg park for Lachine in a small launch. They hit submerged pier near the new Canadian bridge above the rapids and sank. The engineer saved one pier, Green struggled, but the daughter, a strong swimmer, reached shore after battling swift current. Both survived, though exhausted.
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