Nebraska News Roundup Highlights Local Crime and Crop Updates
G P Ransom of Bancroft celebrated his 64th birthday. Dakotas county reports the largest apple crop in history. John M Thurston opened the campaign at Madison Wisconsin. Typhoid fears rise in Tork and Fullerton. Tramps, burglaries plague Grafton. McAllister Grand Island store looted. Eastern excursionists praised Nebraska growth. A Baker spawns suspect in Bancroft and Wayne editors rally.
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G. P. Ransom
Bancroft
Emerson
Dakotas County
John M. Thurston
Madison
Wia
Tork County
Grafton
McCook
South Omaha
Fullerton
Shickiey
Thunderstorm Damage, Theft, and Trials Across Nebraska
Reports from Nebraska towns recount a lightning strike near Peru injuring a family member, heavy hail at Ashland, and crop losses. burglary at Fairmount jewelry store failed to break the safe, while Meanor’s arrests and larceny cases abound. The South Omaha stock yards record July livestock receipts, and a fatal accident at Glen Rock ends a farmer’s life.
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Robert Rader
Peru
Polk County
Farnam
Charles Davis
Fairmount
West Point
Albert Prinz
Hot Springs
South Omaha Union Stock Yards Company
South Omaha
Saunders County
Ballow
Ashland
Kreader
Dodge County
Bill Meanor
Fremont
A. C. Jensen
Thomas Wilson
Jack Bright
Bert Alguire
Meara
Robert McNair
Crawford
Chadron
Meanor
Plambeck
Mary Wortman
Silver Street
Holcomb Victory Sparks Nebraskas Populist Nominees
Nebraskas Populist State Convention renominated Gov. Silas A. Holcomb for governor and John F. Cornell for state treasurer amid calls for broader reform. The platform endorsed St Louis reforms and irrigation for arid lands, praising Holcomb administration and denouncing prior tax and fund handling, with committee selections and temporary officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas A. Holcomb
John E. Harris
W. F. Porter
Merrick
J. W. Wolf
Lancaster
Judg Neville
John Kirkpatrick
Alist
Bryan
J. H. Edmiston
State Central Committee
Isham
Hastings
Frank E. Enger
Law- Waldron
Adams
N. R. Greenfield
Dawson
Wation
J. N. Gaffin
Saunders County
Mr. Gatlin
Harrington
Holt County
John F. Cornell
Richardson County
Bostwick
P. H. Barry
Lincoln
Holcomb
Mies
Public Lands
Neb
W. J. Thorns
A. Ui. Wier
H. A. Edwards
Hall
W. H
Tor
J. B. Meserve
Red Willow
State Central
Frank Ager
People’s Party of
Nebraska
People's Party
Senate
Omaha
Democrats Displease Nebraskas Fusion Plea At Populist Meet
Delegates at the populist convention clashed with the democratic steering committee over representation. C J Smyth withdrew their request for a state ticket, signaling fusion prospects may fail in Nebraska this year. The debate touched on silver Democrats and silver Republicans and party strategy ahead of the state convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burwell
Gosper
S. H. Yoerman
Elwood
Greeley
Howard
G. Bradley
St. Paul
Jefferson
Thad Williams
Fairbury
Johnson
W. G. Levine
Tecumseh
Kearney
E. O. Mead
Keith
J. W. Sherman
Ogallala
Keya Paha
H. Maley
Knox
Gcg
Crocket
Niobrara
Lancaster
C. W. Hockin
Lincoln
T. T. Keller
North Platte
Logan
W. H. Manfield
Gandy
Loup
F. A. Watkin
Madison
Joe Martin
Merrick
W. F. Porter
Clarks
Nance
W. P. Potter
Fullerton
Nemaha
A. P. Robertson
Brock
Democratic Steering Committee
C.J. Smyth
Nebraska
Smyth
State Central Committee
Stewart
George T. Anthony Dies at Age 41 in Torxxa Kansas
Former Kansas Governor George T. Anthony died at 10 35 p m after a three week illness. Born June 9 1824 in Mayfield New York he rose from farm work to tin and copper smithing and hardware business before entering military service in the Civil War. He served as captain of the Seventeenth New York Battery and was breveted major at Appomattox. Anthony later edited papers in Leavenworth and Kansas City and held several federal and state posts before serving as Kansas governor in 1875. He remained a key Republican figure until his death.
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Nebraska
North Nebraska
Wayne
B. G. Whittemore
Auburn
Republican League
Lincoln
W.P. McCreary
Hastings
Omaha
Douglas County Poor Farm
Wright
A. Sunde
R. P. Eastcott
Dakota City
Phelpa County Fair Association
Bertrand
Neb
Nebraska City
Soover
B B. Brooks
Wyoming
South Omaha
Chicago
Magic City
Swartsley & Burns
Columbus
Columbus State Bank
H. M. Fulmer
Schuyler
Hennessy Bros
Grafton
Menzier's
Ed Raff
Valparaiso
James Whetstone
Bellevue
Bert Bressman
Pressman
Spaulding
Dry Creel
Osmond
Torxxa
Kan
George T. Anthony
Anthony
Mayfield
Fulton County
N.Y
Union Springs
N. Y
New York Independent Battery of Light Artillery
Eighteenth Army Corps
Appomattox Court House
Richmond
Kansas
Leavenworth
Daily Bulletin
Daily Conservative
Kansas Farmer
United States
Internal Revenue
State Board of Agriculture
Board of Centennial Managers
The
Santa Fe
Mexico
Ife
Watson in the Chair Leads Georgia Populists at LaGrange
Thomas E. Watson presided over Georgia Populists in LaGrange at the state convention. The nominee for vice president called the gathering to order at 11:15 as delegates erupted in enthusiastic reaction to the gavel drop.
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Georgia
Laxta
State Capitol
Thomas E. Watson
Bryan in Hid as crowds greet nominee at towns along route
Forest Ohio Aug 11 crowds welcomed Mr Bryan in South Chicago Valparaiso Dunkirk Lima and more as the Democratic nominee rode a Pennsylvania Central train. He avoided speeches, spoke briefly at Ada Bucyrus Crestline and stressed opposition to the gold standard while praising Ohio vigor and a national financial reform.
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George J. Sternsdorff
Chicago
Bryan State Room
Fort Wayne
Bryan
New York
Dunkirk
Ohio
Delphos
Baxter
van Wert
Mr. Bryan
Elda
Lima
Ada
W. W. Durbin
State Committee
H. S. Lehr
Lehr
Bucyrus
Crestline
Nebraska
Sewall on His Way. Vice Presidential Nominee Heads to New York
Batu Maine Aug 11 Arthur Sewall Democratic nominee for vice president sailed from the Kennebec to Boston and then to New York to receive official nomination notification He advocated campaign education and joint debates while urging eastern attention to free silver and a return to bimetallism as vital to economic revival.
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New York
Batu
Maine
Boston
Kennebec
Arthur Sewall
Sewall
East
Fst
Drownings Rise After Storm Hits Detroit Area
A storm swept Detroit yesterday causing at least three drownings in the Detroit river and four more drowned in Lake Michigan near Benton Harbor at Double L Gap. Names given include Martin Manning James Buttrick Frank Yerring and a stranger known as Frenchy.
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DeEraoit
Mich
Detroit River
Benton Harbor
Lake Michigan
Double L. Gap
Here
Martin Manning
James Buttrick
Frank Yerring
Frenchy
Arkansas Reports Brief Rain After Heat Wave
Little Rock records a light shower breaking a ten day heat spell with temperatures dipping from over 100 to 74. The Little Rock district faced the nation’s highest weekly average temperature and reports twelve to fifteen fatal prostrations due to the heat.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
United States
St. Paul Steamer Goes Aground at Point Pinos
The Pacific Coast Steamship steamer St. Paul went ashore at Point Pinos early yesterday morning and will probably be a total wreck. About fifty passengers were aboard but all were landed safely with no deaths.
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Monterey
Cal
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
St. Paul
Point Pinos
Storm Hits Milwaukee With Cyclone Wind
A cyclonic wind storm struck Milwaukee at midnight. Several buildings lost roofs, small structures were demolished, signs blown down, and shade trees toppled across streets.
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Milwaukee
Milwavukie
Wis
Shooting at Bryan speech shocks Santa Fe adds peril
In Santa Fe New Mexico during a Democratic ratification meeting Eliot While addressing the crowd, W S Hemingway assistant United States attorney for the territory was shot in the abdomen by an unknown audience member. He lies at the point of death as investigators weigh murder versus accidental shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliot
Bryan
Santa Fe
N. M
W. S. Hemingway
United States
Territory
Judge Alonso G. Edgerton Dies at 68 in Sioux Falls
Alonzo Q. Edgerton, judge of the U S District court for South Dakota and former U S senator from Minnesota, died in Sioux Falls yesterday from Brights disease. He was 68 and had been in poor health for about a year.
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Alonso G. Edgerton
Alonzo Q. Edgerton
United States District Court For
South Dakota
United States
Minnesota
Bright
Three Die, Fifteen Hurt in Columbis Trolley Derailment
A trolley derailment on the Columbia and Donegal line near Columbis resulted in three dead and fifteen injured, with several victims suffering likely fatal injuries.
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Coltumpia
Columbia and Donegal
Columbis
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Public Instruction
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J.I. Steele
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