Monroe’s school room inadequate. more to be provided
Nemaha county records Henry W. B. Peerey, county clerk, died last week. Madison plans additional room for schoolchildren. Sidney appoints Matt Daughtery as land office receiver. Three carloads of horses shipped from Sidney to Wisconsin and Illinois at about $35 each. Beverly Land Company of Providence Rhode Island forms Nebraska domestic corporation with $1,000,000 capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Henry WB. Peerey
Nemaha
Madison
Matt Daugherty
Sidney
R. I
Nebraska Jawa
B. & M. Railroad
Conral Avenue
Pacific Ocean Political Geography to Be Maintained
Navy plans aim to keep the Pacific’s political geography as is and block European territorial gains. The Yosemite will depart Norfolk in January to Guam as station ship to defend against incursions, while the Abarenda sails to Samoa to establish a coal station at Pago Pago with a base cost of 100000 dollars. By January end, with Iowa Oregon and other ships at Honolulu, Hawaii will serve as a naval base alongside Manila and San Francisco to command the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific Ocean
Navy Department
United States
Norfolk
Ladrone Islands
Suez Canal
Guam
Caroline Archipelago
Abarenda
Samoa
Straits of Magellan
Pago-Pago
Abaronda
Iowa
Oregon
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Manila
San Francisco
Mexico pays for a murder in Oaxaca trust
The State Department has received a $5,000 draft from the Mexican government through United States Minister Clayton for the heirs of Henry Hoppe of New Orleans. Hoppe was murdered by a rurale in Oaxaca while traveling, and England paid $5,000 to the British heirs of McSweeney for a similar death. The rurale was punished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoppe
State Department
United States
Clayton
Henry Hoppe
New Orleans
Moppe
Mexico
Oaxaca
McSweeney
Sunny Slope Hereford Farm Sold to Stannard for 40000
Sunny Slope Hereford breeding farm in Emporia sold to C A Stannard of Hope for 40000 with 5000 cash and 18 month payments. Proceeds to be placed in Emporia National in joint fund and litigation for disposition to follow. Stannard owns Sunny Slope at Hope with 200 cattle. 20 Herefords remain at Sunny Slope and farms to consolidate in Emporia as Sunny Slope.
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Emporia
Kan
Sunny Slope
C. A. Stannard
Hope
Cross Estate
First National
Emporia National
Stannard
Sunny Slope Farm
Annual Report Shows Mission Receipts Reach 671 217
The American Board of Foreign Missions reports total receipts for the year at 671217. Gifts total 252488 with legacies 187729 and various designated gifts including school funds 7312 Micronesian navy 2975 young missionary fund 3017 debt of September 1 1897 25902 and women’s mission work 186000 plus income of funds 6293.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mearly
Boston
American Board of Foreign Missions
Young Missionary Fund
Admiral Sampson Returns for Daughter's Glen Ridge Wedding
The United States cruiser New York arrives from Havana with Admiral Sampson and Mrs Sampson on board. He says he has come home to attend his daughter's wedding on January 4 at Glen Ridge New Jersey.
Oregon and Iowa Sail from Valparaiso with U.S. Escort
A Valparaiso dispatch reports Oregon and Iowa left port on Wednesday. The exultant crowd greeted the American ships warmly as the United States minister paid a visit aboard the battleships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Valparaiso
Oregon
Iowa
United States
Roosevelt Reports Detail Hardship of Rough Riders at Santiago
Col Roosevelt’s dispatches to Col Wood and to Brigadier General Wood recount the Rough Riders' struggles before and after the July truce near Santiago. They describe improvised food relief, scarce medical care, and efforts to feed and shelter sick and wounded, with improvised supply from local sources and Red Cross aid amid hunger and worn clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Roosevelt
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Rough Riders
Santiago
Wood
Red Cross
Missouri University to charge tuition in law and medicine
CoLompra Mo December 24 Tuition will be free in all departments of the University of Missouri except law and medicine. The first year in the medical department is free but second and third years and both years in law will be charged. The policy, adopted by the board of curators at their semi annual meeting, takes effect September 1 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Thompson
Cincinnati
Omahx Exposition Company
Manufacturers
Niagara Falls
Grell
Sercy
Tucker and Sands
York
Shore
Cherry
Hastinga
W. A. Chapman
Satsuma Heights
Florida
Malcom
Tahia
A. F. Mead
Albion
Campbell
Mead
Henry Miller
Avery
Nebraska Dairymen’s Association
John J. King
West Point
George E. Merrill
Minden
Tressurer
F. H. Vaughn
Fremont
George A. Haskell
Lincoln
I. W. Chappell
Kearney
F. W. Edmunds
Greeley
F. M. Howe
Crete
J. E. Culley
Wahoo
CoLompra
University of Missouri
Law
Medicine
Board of Curators
Lord Iveagh Gives Large Grant for Jenner Institute
London December 24 Lord Iveagh Edward Cecil Guinness donated 1 250 000 for scientific research in bacteriology and biology at the Jenner institute which includes Britain’s leading medical scientists. He also proposes 1 250 000 to improve the unsanitary Bull alley area in Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Iveagh
Edward Cecil Guinness
Jenner Institute
Great Britain
Bull Alley
Dublin
Illinois Colonel Plans Cuba Deployment as Congress Seat Sits
Col. R. Campbell of the Ninth Illinois, who also serves as a representative in the Twentieth Illinois district, announced he will go to Cuba with his regiment regardless of Congress action on his bid to hold both his House seat and army commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannan, Ga
9. R. Campbell
Ninth
Illinois
Congress
Cuba
Farmer Jumps Into Well Near Hawmrtrox
J R Hill a 40 year old farmer living two miles northwest of Hawmrtrox Mo committed suicide by jumping into a well at his home. He left a wife and three children. No reason was given for the act. He was well respected in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gage County
Odell
Fred Spitznagle
Isaac Spitznagle
Otoe Indian Reservation
Thiel Detective Chief's Wife Granted Divorce
The wife of Gustavus H. Thiel, president of the Thiel detective agency, was awarded a divorce and $1,000 yearly alimony by Judge Wood in St. Louis. The decree cited desertion and failure to support as the grounds for the divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis, Mo
Gustavus H. Thiel
Thiel Detective Agency
Wood
Chile cabinet reorganization eliminates paper currency party
Dispatch from Santiago de Chile reports the reorganization of Chile’s cabinet under Senor Carlos Walker Martinez eliminates the party that advocates paper currency. The change comes as the Times coverage notes in late December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorpon
the Times
Santiago de Chili
Senor
Carlos Walker Martinez
Wife Murderer Surrenders to Police in New York Case
Isidos Lorber a dry goods clerk surrendered to San Francisco police claiming New York authorities seek him for the murder of his young wife on October 22 in New York. He said he would be returned to face charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Isidos Lorber
Dry Gooda
New York
England Orders More Warships
The British admiralty has reportedly placed orders for four warships with Clyde shipbuilders, as of December 24 in Loxpom.
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England
British Admiralty
Clyde
Dying on transports and Dead Together Leave Havana
Dispatch describes Spanish troops boarding ships from Havana in dire conditions. On the Cheribou more than 2,000 men, 600 sick, crowded deck to keelson, eight deaths at sea, bodies awaiting burial. Three doctors and hospital corps accompany ship but medicines and supplies are absent. One doctor estimates 30 percent may die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
New Yor
Vlavana
Keelson
Cotn
Named for Boyle Boyle bill to be introduced by Populists
The Populist joint caucus committee agreed to name the railroad bill the Boyle bill in honor of Attorney General Boyle who is drafting it with Judge Allen. The plan calls for first reading Monday afternoon, second reading Tuesday, third reading Wednesday, and final passage thereafter. The rules report due Saturday will include a clause making passage optional by a majority in the committee of the whole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topraxa
Kan
Boyle
Allen
Committee On Rules
Sweeping injunction issued in plumbers union dispute
Judge Woodson grants a broad injunction restraining Journeymen Plumbers' union members from interfering with P. L. Bristol or his employees. The order bars union pressure to quit, and forbids congregating, picketing, or loitering near Bristol's premises or job sites.
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St. Josefa
Journeymen
Woodson
P. L. Bristol
Circuit Court
Sports off for Havana as Western stars arrive
Havana, Dec. 24. Jim Corbett plans to open a saloon while Bat Masterson Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday and others head to Havana to operate various enterprises. Gambling houses are bidding for locations and Havana is seen as a rising Western frontier like Monte Carlo during Reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cebasa
Havana
Jim Corbett
Bat Masterson
Wyatt Earp
Tombstone
Ariz
Doc” Holliday
Ed Lasey
the Kid
Skaguay
Alaska
Doc” Brown
Spokane
America
Havans
Mille the Musicians Dead in New York Concert Legend
A Wiesbaden cable reports the death of Sebastian Back Mills a pianist and composer aged 60 in New York. Son of a musician he showed prodigy talent as an infant and played before Queen Victoria at age one. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and moved to the United States in 1859, earning wide notice for his concerts and works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wiesbaden
Germany
Sebastian Back Mills
Queen Victoria
Leipsic Conservatory
Fort Supply land sale planned near Woopwarp Oklahoma
Major M. F. Jenks of the Interior department surveys the abandoned Fort Supply reservation fifteen miles north of Woopwarp. The land, over 40,000 acres, will be sold at 128 dollars per acre or settled under homestead laws. The fort improvements, valued at 250,000 dollars, will be included in a townsite sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woopwarp
Okla
Des
Majo N. F. Jenks
Interior Department
Fort Supply
Fort Reserve
Kerens May Be Named Ambassador to Russia
Washington reports Richard C. Kerens of St Louis is under consideration to replace Hitchcock as ambassador to Russia. Kerens reportedly desires a few years abroad and would prefer the ambassadorial post, given his influence with President McKinley. The president already has two first class appointments in Great Britain and Russia and one second class in Spain.
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Washtaton
Great Britain
Russia
Spain
Bliss
Joseph
Choate
England
Hitchcock
Richard C. Kerens
St. Louis
Kerens
McKinley
Havana Dungeons Prisoners Fate Unknown Await U S Control
A Havana dispatch reports Cabanan and Morro prisons prepared for delivery to the Americans. All movable items destroyed or packed for Spain, leaving thousands of prisoners’ fates unknown. Families wait to learn if loved ones are alive or dead in laurel ditch.
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New York
New York World
Havana
Cabanan
Morro
Spain
Laurel Ditch
Canal Neutrality Talks Prompted by London Change
Washington expects instructions for negotiations to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and to draft a new accord guaranteeing the neutrality of the Nicaraguan canal Ambassador Pauncefote to receive London guidance soon, after Henry White's representations to Lord Salisbury altered British stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WashineTon
Pauncefote
London
Hay
Lord Salisbury
Henry White
Bechel Acquitted in Embezzlement Case at Omaha
In Dana Nebraska a jury found W. F. Bechel former auditor of the Pacific Express company not guilty on embezzlement charges. He served as auditor for eighteen years. Successor Astus Young alleged a shortage of 150000 with clerks linking missing funds to lobbying in the Nebraska legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dana
W. F. Bechel
Pacific Express Company
Bechel
Astus Young
Nebraska
Trouble Seen as Filipino Forces Gather Near Panducan Bridge
Mania report notes that native troops in suburbs threaten calm as insurgent detachments at Panducan bridge prompt immediate concentration of California Idaho and Washington regiments in light marching order but no clash occurred.
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Panducan Bridge
California
Idaho
Washington
Miss Lawton Found Dead in Chicago Room
The body of Miss Deamonia Lawton, who arrived with her brother and sister from Kansas City, was found in her Chicago room. She had taken chloroform and appeared to have been dead for two days while visiting friends in Evanston. She had been in ill health recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deamonia Lawton
Chicago
Kansas City
Miss Lawton
Evanston
First American Flag Raised at Malate Schoolhouse
In Manila on December 34 the first American flag was raised over the Malate schoolhouse. The pennant came from the University of Pennsylvania and Father McKinnon of California led the ceremony for reopening the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malate
Manila
University of Pennsylvania
Father McKinnon
California
Cuban mortgage bonds receive issued payment coupons
Spain reports from Manilla on December 24 that Senor Giron the minister of the colonies announces the payment coupons of the Cuban mortgage bonds have been issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Maniia
Senor Giron
Flag Ordered Lowered Over Fort Ataures After Reprimand
Major Russell Harrison raised the American flag at Fort Ataures in Havana despite orders not to and amid evacuation promises. Major General Lee ordered the flag lowered and directed rationing and relief efforts. Secretary Alger urged immediate feeding and hospital care for starving and ailing Havana residents amid neglect and concentration hardships.
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Harrison
Havana
Russell Harrison
Fort Ataures
United States
Lee
Alger
Wood
Negro Soldier Tur ner Shot Dead by Street Car Conductor
In Macon Georgia Private Turner of the Sixth Virginia regiment was shot and killed by O A Thrower a street car conductor. Turner drunkenly insulted passengers then threatened Thrower with a knife before Thrower fired hitting Turner in the mouth. Turner died fifteen minutes later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Turner
Virginia
O. A. Thrower
Thrower
Officer Shot By a Boy In Edgewater Case
Cuicano December 24 Thomas Crosby twelve son of Margaret Crosby a wealthy widow in Edgewater Chicago shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Frank Nye during an attempt to serve a writ of restitution on a foreclosed $20000 mortgage Crosby warned entry and said he was told to shoot intruders his mother and grandmother were upstairs as the boy carried out the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuicano
Thomas Crosby
Margaret Crosby
Edgewater
Chicago
Frank Nye
Nye
Crosby
Escapee Bates Arrested in Illinois to Rejoin Iowa Sentence
John N. Bates, who escaped from Anamosa Iowa penitentiary nineteen years ago, was arrested in Catcaco and will be sent back to Iowa to finish a three year burglary sentence. He previously served terms in Chester and Joliet and faced murder suspicion in Chicago, while reportedly heir to $32,000 from his father in 1892 but feared arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muney
Catcaco
John N. Bates
Anamosa
Iowa
Bates
Chester
Ill
Joliet
Chicago
Navy stops ship exit during low tides at New York harbor
Naval authorities report that a battleship like Oregon cannot exit New York harbor at low tides after Diamond Reef incident. Conditions are not normal and may occur with favorable winds. the issue will be raised in Congress to seek removal of the reef’s upper part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineton
Oregon
Massachusetts
New York Harbor
Diamond Reef
Congress
New Rubber Firms Unite in New Enabber Combination
A new combination of leading rubber firms in the United States forms in New York with an expected capital structure of 30 million dollars. About 15 million dollars will be preferred stock and 15 million dollars common stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pension stoppage shocks Civil War veteran
Job W. Kelley of HK Ohio received notice from the pension bureau that his $13 per month general disability pension has been stopped due to service in the War with Spain. Kelley had offered to serve as a soldier but was rejected for disability and later worked as a mule driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Des
W. Kelley
Pension Bureau
Spain
Kelley
Sword Presented to Rear Admiral Schley by Midwestern Cities
A costly Damascus steel sword with diamond inlay and engraved blade was presented to Rear Admiral Schley last night. The gift, including scabbard and belt, was funded by contributions from the city and other communities in Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware, totaling 4200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parapeepara
Schley
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
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Sidney TE
Charles Giles
Ilegraph
LMA
Webrasea
Nebraska News
Directory Board
Nebraska Manufacturers’ and Consumerrs’ Association
Nebraska Dairymen's Association
Marvin Powers
Hampton
KH. Schulte
A. EB. Olmstead
Oakland
I. .A. Calhoon
Fontanelle
J. A. Holmes
Friend
BE. R. Treastle
Beatrice
Prague Creamery
F. BE. Pratt
Temple
Cheeney
David Brown
Maple Creek
Wahoo Creamery Company
South Platte Creamery Company
Tobias
Minine
Europe
Sunny Slope Farm Solo
Col. Roosevelt
Rough Rider’s Report
Will
Thiel
Kansas Railroad
St. Joseph
St. Petersburg
St. Louie
Mitchcock
Omaha
Sista
Sword For
Behley
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