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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1898
Page
3
Warden Ledigh presents two year findings with 290 prisoners including 5 women. Most inmates work in contracts, cooperage, broom making and the shoe shop. The treasury holds about $40,000 of $60,000 appropriated. $30,000 requested for next two years to sustain operations.
General Passenger Agent Francis reported from Chicago after talks with C B Q officials about new mail trains. The first Burlington fast mail departures to Chicago will be January 1 from Council Bluffs and January 2 from Chicago. The eastbound and westbound routes promise faster runs, with No 19 a mail only train from Chicago to Omaha, and connections to Lake Shore and Ft Wayne routes. The present No 7 remains the fastest Chicago to Omaha service at 11 hours 40 minutes.
At the Dairymen's Association convention in Fremont Prof Lyons of the state university reported forage trials showing alfalfa yields the most milk per cow with small pastures. C Bassett urged creating a dairy commissioner with governor as chief and a $10,000 two year budget to enforce a dairy act, despite Omaha and Lincoln opposition. A committee will draft a bill modeled on Wisconsin Illinois. Edmunds praised Nebraska as a dairy state noting rising eastern butter shortages.
The article notes farmers prefer selling cattle to buying costly grain to maintain dairy cattle. It cites Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota as reaching butter production limits while Nebraska has cheaper corn and grain, suggesting incentives for farmers to keep cows for milk rather than other purposes.
Judge William Marshall, district court judge for the sixth judicial district, died of heart disease at his Second street home in Fremont. Born July 29 1832 in Harrison county Ohio he served in the Eighth Ohio Infantry rising to lieutenant colonel before 1863. He practiced law from 1865, held multiple public offices including senator and speaker pro tem, and was appointed district judge in 1887 serving three elections. He was a bachelor living with his two sisters and brother and belonged to McPherson post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Andrew Hawkins was found guilty of murdering Thomas Jansen a wealthy southeastern Nebraska resident. He received life imprisonment in the Lincoln penitentiary after a trial with witnesses including the coroner Dr. E. S. Case and Dr. Waters confirming head injuries from blows and the body found in a well with manure.
The Nebraska Jersey Stock Growers Association met in Fremont with D. C. Noble presiding. He reported about 200 Jersey breeders in the state and urged creating a state dairy and pure food commissioner to prosecute oleomargarine violators, noting Governor-elect Poynter’s support and a needed legislative salary appropriation. Noble was appointed to lead a committee to push the bill through.
Superintendent Hoxie outlines the 1879 to present history of the Kearney Industrial School for Boys, noting the 1881 building, 1881 inmate arrival, 1 202 boys received, 1 051 paroled, and 85 percent of paroled youths becoming productive citizens. Up to 1892, 180 girls were committed before transfers to Geneva. 1887 legislation renamed and reformed the institution toward industrial education.
A Washington dispatch reports Representative Stark filed with the secretary of war a requisition by Governor Holcomb for the return of Nebraska militia tents uniforms and equipment taken by the national guard volunteers. The items are valued around 47000 dollars and intended for Adjutant General Barry to aid militia reorganization.
President McKinley nominated Ethan A. Hitchcock of Missouri to be Secretary of the Interior. Hitchcock, a St. Louis businessman and longtime envoy to St. Petersburg, is described as a personal friend of the President and not a politician. He will bring extensive business experience and knowledge of Orient markets to the cabinet post. Hitchcock was born in Mobile in 1835 and spent years in China with Olyphant & Co before returning to St. Louis to lead manufacturing and railroad firms.
Washington dispatch dispels rumor of $100,000 per man for Day Reid and Moore. Peace commissioners get 150 a day, Moore 75 daily, Branan man 3500 total, Ferguson 250 monthly, with clerks and attaches on standard salaries. Total personal totals under 20 000 for commissioners by return.
Torexa Kansas Dec 22 The national banks oppose Breidenthals bill to guaranty deposits of state and private banks. The measure would secure patrons at those banks and could grant them a monopoly. If enacted national banks must surrender charters and organize under state law unless Congress passes a matching law.
Congressman Hawley of Texas introduces a House bill to amend the Maritime Canal act. It authorizes Treasury to subscribe to 925000 shares, reconstitutes the board to eleven directors, with nine appointed by the President, and to contract canal construction under engineer supervision. The measure forbids bonds and allocates funds for salaries, stock redemptions, and canal completion estimates.
In Torres Kansas on December 22 many locals predict the jury will acquit the young man charged with killing his father. Most doubt a conviction, citing relatives' support for John, his earlier good conduct, and jury doubt about motives, while a few expect a verdict of guilty as rebuttal evidence continues.
Clark Towel, Democrat from Georgia and Atlanta Constitution editor, reports after Washington talks that the peace treaty is certain to be ratified. He notes President Bryan's push for ratification, party cohesion, and that expansion policy will be debated after ratification with a Cuba-like resolution guiding the Philippines policy. The piece predicts shifted party lines and sets the stage for the next presidential contest.
The department says modern naval guns captured at Santiago Manila and elsewhere will not be valuable assets. The 4.7 inch guns from the Maria Teresa Vizcaya and the Colon differ in caliber from US Navy guns except those on the New Orleans and Albany. The 6 inch quick fire guns require special ammo, making them unlikely to enter service unless New Orleans or Albany guns are damaged.
The last session before the holiday recess lasted an hour. The Bailey resolution directing an investigation of the right of volunteers in the Spanish-American war to seats in the House was adopted and several minor bills were passed.
One of the section's most remarkable escapes occurred at Kahoka late last night when Fred Bronestine, a Lewis County wife murderer under sentence to hang, dashed past Jailer Townsend who was sweeping Bronestine's cell and escaped.
The English government shows sudden revival of war preparations with universal activity reported at naval depots in Devonport Portsmouth and Chatham and at the Woolwich arsenal.
At the corner of Fifty-fifth and State streets in Cuicano electrician Roderick Chisholm was fatally burned when he touched a live wire and was thrown into a tangle of wires twenty feet above ground. Spectators watched as the body remained among the wires for ten minutes before removal.
Four ice cream firms with eighteen factories form the Chicago Ice Cream company capitalized at 300000. The firm aims to crush competitors by price cuts and operates 100000 portions of ice cream per year capacity across the four plants.
The family of the late M. Puvis de Chevanne will donate his drawings to France. Drawings for the Hotel de Ville works go to the Municipal museum and studies for the master’s pictures will go to museums in Amens Lyons Marseilles and Poitiers for public buildings in those cities.
The Baltimore American lauds New York as the world’s largest money center. It states New York directs vast cash flows and undertakings, shaping immense human progress beyond any other time or place. Baltimore extends season’s greetings and praises the city’s imagined continued greatness.
Read analog ad claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for a constitutional disease. It asserts internal take by blood and mucous surfaces, offering one hundred dollars for failure and touts prescribed testimonials. Mentions Hall's Family Pills as the best.
A man reportedly grew facial hair long enough to hide a diamond ring during an attempted theft. Police say the unusual concealment drew attention and led to the suspect's arrest.
The readable parts show promotional lines for various products including Diamond C Soap and Piso Cure, with stray quotes and a humorous tidbit about a Birmingham servant. No cohesive news event is present beyond noisy advertising snippets.
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