Nebraska News Highlights From Across the State
Republican City reunion for veterans scheduled August 16. The state banking board seeks a report from Globe Savings Bank of Omaha. Col L W Osborn of Blair sails for Samoa after Washington instructions. Perkins County plans a large sheep ranch near Sutherland. Long Pine Chautauqua reports strong attendance. Mortgage debt reporting continues with 17 counties remaining. threshing engine explosion injures C W Piper and others near Bennett. Beatrice canning plant to operate by September 1 under Globe Canning Co management.
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Republican City
State Banking Board
Globe Savings Bank of
Omaha
L. W. Osborn
Blair
Washington
Samoa
Farback
Perkins County
Sand Hills
Sutherland
E.S. Jenkins
Spring Ranch
Will Lipps
Hastings
Cedar County
Teachers’ Institute
George A. Grunawalt
van Wert
Ohio
Burt
F.D. Reynolds
Trenton
Hayes County
Hayes Center
C. W. Piper
Squire Crosby
Bennett
Beatrice Wcanning
J. S. Edwards
Globe-canning Company
Leavenworth, Kun
Tfichcomb
National Road Parliament
Nashville
Tenn
E. D. Johnson
Agricultural Department of the State
Omahas
Ti. J. Moward
York
Lee Gallery
Willie Hall
CG. M. Wall
Plainview
Young Hall
Wheat markets surge as prices top dollar in Chicago
In a notable market report, wheat in Chicago and other western markets rose sharply with prices exceeding one dollar and gains of over five cents. The piece highlights strong demand and a high profile game linked to the market movement.
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Chicago
Wheat Advances Push Wheat To A Dollar In Western Markets
Kansas City reports show Chicago September wheat reaching $1.00 a bushel with soft wheat at the dollar price. No. 2 Kansas hard wheat sells around 95 cents amid large receipts and broad buying interest. Corn and oats rise alongside, while export demand and futures speculation shape a volatile market.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Kansas
United States
Market optimism and crop outlook amid strike and exports
J G Dun and Co Weekly Review reports broad improvement across cities with traders noting strong confidence and rising agricultural prices. Corn and wheat rise amid export demand while cotton slips on forecast record yields as mills resume after brief suspensions. In Chicago, astronaut Walter Allerd dies after a 200 foot fall from a balloon at Electric Park.
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New York
J. G. Dun & Co
Walter Allerd
Electric Park
August Frost Grips Michigan Across State
Frosts over the past twenty four hours broke cold records in Michigan with Niles reporting 40 degrees. Oden in Washington county and Jackson county farms fear damage to buckwheat and beans. In Mettumorra early risers found ice in cabbage fields. Similar frost reports spread through many lower peninsula counties.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Niles
Oden
Washington County
Jackson County
Mettumorra
Lower Peninsula
Courts Attack Courts and Labor Move Toward General Strike
National United Mine Workers board rejected local wage arbitration and urged interstate arbitration. Leaders call August 30 1897 mass convention in St Louis to organize a cross union sympathy strike and defend free government against court injunctions and corporate power. Samuel Gompers and J R Sovereign endorse the plan.
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CoumBus
Ohio
United Mine Workers
St. Louis
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
J. R Sovereign
Knights of Labor
Temple of Justice
Mass meeting called as miners weigh strike in Kansas
Kansas City miners plan a mass meeting Sunday after large coal operators refuse to sign the Pittsburg agreement. The session will decide whether to strike if signatories fail to join the deal reached at a joint meeting.
Married Secretly for Montha
Logan Woodson son of Clay county prosecuting attorney and Nellie Camron daughter of a farmer wed in Kansas City Kansas January 20 by Judge Herr of the probate court. Parents objected, kept the union quiet. families have forgiven them and they remain at the bride’s home. Camron had forbidden Woodson to visit two years earlier but the couple still met in town.
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Montha
Lierty
Rail link planned between Juneau and Dawson
A special Bulletin correspondent from Juneau reports 5000 workers will build a Juneau to Dawson railroad starting next spring. The project aims for completion before next fall, expanding regional communication and transport.
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Klondike
San Francisco
The
Bulletin
Juneau
Alaska
Dawson
Iron Workers Learn 10 Percent Wage Increase at Mill
Iron workers at National Rolling Mill in McKeeston McKeeston Pa receive noon notice of a 10 percent wage raise effective September 1 for 3 000 employees.
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McKeestonn
National Rolling Mill Company
Pacificoy Dying by Hundreds in Cuba Letter
A Daily Chronicle correspondent reports in a Cuba letter that pacificos are dying by the hundreds as their bodies wash up near a Spanish fort, describing widespread cruelty and distress on the island.
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Loxpon
The
Daily Chronicle
Cuba
Shaw Is Nominated on Fourth Ballot Amid Enthusiasm
Aneerlt secured the nomination on the fourth ballot as the convention reached unanimity. The platform and ticket were completed amid widespread muckraking chatter and strong support from delegates and activists.
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Aneerlt
Iowa Republica n State Convention Nomination Report
The Iowa Republican state convention at Cedar Rapids nominated L. M. Shaw of Crawford county for governor on the fourth ballot with 752 votes. The ticket includes J. W. Millman for lieutenant governor, Judge Waterman for supreme judge, O. L. Davidson for comptroller, and A. H H. Barrett for superintendent of instruction. Leslie M. Shaw, born in Vermont and educated at Cornell and the Iowa College of Law, established a strong Dennison practice and banking interests after moving there in 1869.
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Yowa Republican State Convertion
Crawford County
J. W. Millman
Harrison County
John Barclay
Cedar Rapids
Cuba
Charles M. Tafl
Council Bluffs
Committee On
Samuel Mahon
Wapello County
W. S. Kenworthy
Mahaska County
Mahon
L. M. Shaw
Leslie M. Shaw
Dennison
Vermont
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Iowa College of Law
Iowa Republicans Confront Duty to Preserve 1900 Platform
Chairman Hart declares the Iowa Republican voice must strengthen the administration and uphold honest money and national policy. He warns weakening the party would invite renewed assaults on party goals and affect the nation’s progress. The convention affirms unity, and the platform is adopted without dissent as the 1900 campaign begins.
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Hart
Iowa
Republican Party of
Friends of
Slike
Republican Party
Committee On Resolutions
Iowa Republicans Endorse McKinley Era Platform
The Iowa Republican platform pledges adherence to the 180g Republican principles, supports McKinley, commends tariff actions, and calls for economy in government. It praises Iowa senators and representatives, endorses Governor Drake's administration, and backs indemnity rights for railway workers.
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Ing
Republican Party of
Iowa
Republican Nations Convention
William McKinley
Congress
Drake
James Wilson
Uncle Bob Winn Dies at Home After Civil War Tale
The county obituary recalls Robert Winn known as Uncle Bob who died at his Hargis Creek home. He buried two wives and on his deathbed asked to be laid to rest with his old dog. His Civil War anecdote includes him secretly joining the Confederacy after his wife tried to prevent it, returning home with wood and quipping Here’s your wood.
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Robert Winn
Hargis Creek
Bob
Uncle Bob
Mississippi
Louisville Post
It Saved Nepeliion on the Boston & Maine
A green brakeman on his first Norfolk run aboard the Boston and Maine triggers a theatrical scene at Somerville East Everett and Lynn. The front- and rear-platform crews shout out places from Lynn to Marblehead, creating a comic tableau in Harper’s Drawer.
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Nepeliion
Boston & Maine
Somerville
Old Sprette
Chelsea
East Everett
Pettijohn
Lynn
East Lynn
Swampscott
Phillips
Beach
Beach Bluff
Clifton
Devereaux
Marblehead
Harper
Knife as Weapon in French Regicides Through History
The piece notes historic use of knives in France from Henry III and Henry IV killings to Damiens in 1767 and Louvel in 1820. It argues the anarchist attack on Carnot followed a tradition of regicides, linking past murders to contemporary violence.
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France
Henry III
Henry IV
Louis XV
Damiens
Duke of
Berry
Louvel
Carnot
Old Court Records Link to Jamestown Plans Found
Northampton county Virginia preserves an uninterrupted court record from 1632 to today. The attic of the old courthouse holds papers dating before Jamestown’s settlement, including plans of the London Company connected to that era.
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Northampton County
United States
Old Court House
Jamestown
London Company
Applied Christianity and its global aim
Rev. G. P. Sewell argues that applied Christianity is the essential need of the era. He says it drives solutions to wealth limitation and distribution, suffrage, and education, shaping how society progresses.
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G. P. Sewell
The Meanest Place on Earth for Raising Children
A quotation from av. V. D. Talmage derides boarding houses as meanest places outside jail for child rearing. It notes typical boards gossip and pry into others' affairs.
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Av. V. D. Talmage
Sullivan for Mayor Faces Quincy Bid in Independent Run
Reston August 21 John L. Sullivan declares as an independent candidate for mayor in the fall aiming to defeat incumbent Mayor Josiah Quincy who will seek reelection as the regular Democratic candidate. Sullivan enters the race after Quincy refused to shake hands at Ten Eyck's reception in Fanueil Hall.
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Tea
Quincy
Reston
John L. Sullivan
Josiah Quincy
Sullivan
Ten Eyck
Fanuel Hall
Hungary's Wheat Crop Light in Hungary Report
Official foods report from Budapest dated August 21 notes widespread and serious crop damage in Hungary. Wheat yields are estimated at 24,470,000 metric hundredweights with a large portion of grain of inferior quality, reflecting one of the poorest harvests in a decade.
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Hungary
Buda Pest
Eight Year Old Girl Dies From Cork Swallowing
Lenora Pearce of Ottawa Kansas died after choking on a cork during play. The eight year old, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Pearce, drew the cork into her windpipe and suffocated. The incident occurred around 11 o clock yesterday.
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Ottawa
Kan
Lenora Pearce
George Pearce
Klondike Steamer City of Kingston Heads for Dyea and Skagway
Victoria August 21. The steamer City of Kingston left yesterday afternoon for Dyea and Skaguay with a large Klondike cargo and a crowded deck of miners, delivering another sizable contingent of prospectors and freight.
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Victoria
Kingston
Dyca
Skaguay
American files $200000 claim against Ecuador
Wasumarox Aug 21 Lewis Je rome Edward Blanc an American citizen has filed with the state department a claim against the government of Ecuador for two hundred thousand dollars for false imprisonment and ill treatment over twenty years ago.
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Wasumarox
Lewis Jerome Edward Blanc
State Department
Ecuador
Curious Gravity Escapements in Expired Patents
Two unusual gravity escapement designs from expired patents are described. One uses arbors and a central gear wheel to lift levers that engage the escapement wheel, the other nests weighted levers that alternately drop into the wheel. A pendulum actuates each system. Inquiries go to Sues & Co. Patent Experts in Omaha for free information.
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Sues & Co
Bee Building
Omaha
Nebraska
Town Patent Office Report Promotes Attorney Help
The patent office urges inventors to hire competent attorneys for patent work. It states applicants or assignees may represent themselves but should use counsel if unfamiliar with the process. It lists who may act as attorney and offers free information and printed copies for a fee, noting services extend beyond Iowa to other states.
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Town Patent Office
Commissioner of Patents
Patent Office
United States
Iowa
Thos. G. and
J. Ral Orwio
Des Moines
Livestock and Produce Quotation Roundup
Quotations from New York Chicago St Louis Omaha and other markets compiled for traders and farmers. Prices for cattle hogs and grain show mixed movement with demand varying across regions.
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New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Omaha
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