Transfers and fires across cities noted in brief
Lieutenant Guy Hanna transfers from Fort Hunt to San Francisco. Fire destroys part of Buenos Ayres navy buildings in an $800 loss. Treasury balances show available cash 221,971,889 gold 102,571,295. Memorials planned at the Maine wreck in Havana. Idaho Senate OKs mine tax. governor’s veto possible. Yale alumnus Joel Sumner Smith dies at 72. Kansas Senate backs Harris for Isthmian canal commission. Cot and Gonzales hanged in San Quentin for murder in San Benito county. Building Laborers adjourns at Fort Wayne with next meeting in St Louis. American Roadmakers and Good Roads meet in Detroit with 25 states represented. Smallpox prompts vaccination order in Pennsylvania coke region. Mystic mine plant destroyed by fire in Castle Creek. Fire losses at 7,000. Captain Brown dies in Rome at 43. Willie Stoltzman arrested for theft after acquittal. Cocheco print works shut down due to strike impact. Parnell dies at Calumet of cancer. Nebraska Telephone expands capital stock to 3 million. Corunna Spain workers vote for general strike over octroi duty. Senator Cullom proposes 5000 to Italian government over 1901 riot deaths. Stolen watches recovered near Albuquerque barn.
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Kansas Senate
United States
William A. Harris
Isthmian Canal Commission
Joseph E. Cot
Juan Gonzales
San Quentin
Cal
San Benito County
Buiz
International Convention of the
Building Laborers’ Protective Union
Fort Wayne
Ind
St. Louis
Mystic
S. D
Castle Creek Mining Company
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coke Company
W. W. Brown
United States Transportation Company of
Cleveland
Rome
Italy
Europe
Willie Stoltzman
Fort Scott
Kan
R. J. Morrison
Pawnee
Kansas City
A. Craig
Chicago
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
Dover
N. H
William E. Parnell
Tamarack
Osceola Consolidated
Isle Royale
Bigelow Group
Michigan
Calumet
National Bank of Houghton
Senator Cullom
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Erwin
Miss
S. Vann & Co., Jewellers
Albuquerque
N. M
Nebraska Senate reconvenes after adjournment bills advance
The Nebraska Senate reconvened on the 9th with committee action in progress. Bills advanced include funding for agricultural societies, river and irrigation measures, and municipal water works while amendments and readings proceeded on a broad slate of legal and procedural reforms.
Senate bills and committee actions described in session report
Senate file 55 allows cities of 5000 inhabitants to levy higher water works taxes. Committee of the whole reports low county deposit interest at 2 percent and considers SF 6y. SF 77 would organize counties not under township. SF 38 on guardians and wards to pass. SF 13 for county bridge contracts seen with substitutes and amendments, engrossed. SF 29 expands Food Commission powers with heated debate. SF 13 contract letting triggers long talk. new bills introduced. Much time on the bulk law requiring creditors notified before merchant stock sales. SF 4 calls a constitutional convention. committee recommends passage. Judiciary panel to draft ballot law changes by Feb 18 1903. First readings include clerks fees, unclaimed railroad goods sale, mutual fire insurers out of state, extending city boundaries along navigable state boundaries, and desertion of a minor child or spouse with penalties.
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Senate
Brown
Revenue Committee
Warner
Hall of Douglas
Congress
Oneill
Lancaster
Nebraska
Congress of the United States
United States
Food Commission
Hasty
Furns
O'Neill
Wall
Sheldon
Cass
Judiciary Committee
Davis
Buffalo
Jones
Richardson
Perry
Furnas
Otoe
Koetter
Douglas
Loomis
Dodge
Rock
Loase Special Revenue Committee
Board of Regents
Nebraska Federation of Woman's Clubs
Gregg
Wayne
Committee On Commerce
Anderson
Kearney
House
Delos Dernier
H. R. WI
Rouse
Nebraska State Relief Commission
Shelly
Kittel
Sherman
Burgess
Crawford
Neb
McKinley
Cropsey
Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Deles Dernier
Kittel of
Rouse of
Hall
McAlister
Mockett
Lincoln
Nebraska House Passes School and Tax Measures Amid Adjournment
Speaker Mockett convened the Nebraska House at 11:30 on the 9th after a week’s adjournment. Belden of Richardson introduced a revenue resolution calling for changes in taxation and a ten-year extension on promissory note interest laws, with other bills advancing on education, bonds, and county district reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mockett
House
Belden of Richardson
Committee On Revenue
Senate adjourns after hour to review general file
After an hour in session on the 12th the senate adjourned to allow committees to prepare a large general file. Standing committees reported: 8, F. 68 for paying fines into the school fund. S. F. 9 for a board of pardons. recommended for passage. 8. F. 98 to prevent horse mutilation. recommended for passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Nebraska House Debates Bills On Bridges and Insurance Plans
Lawmakers discuss state ownership of bridges five hundred feet plus on public roads and regulation of corporations for assessment plans. A pure food law is urged by the Nebraska Federation of Woman’s Clubs. H R 119 passes. committee considers bridge contracts and notices of foreclosure. A joint resolution seeks to place unexpended relief funds into the state treasury.
Revenue amendment targets taxation in towns and villages
A proposed amendment to the revenue bill before the legislature would extend the same taxation rule used in municipalities to incorporated towns and villages statewide. The measure, discussed by the committee of ten chaired by ex-Governor Crounse at the comm und, seeks broader application than House Bill 171. The current bill assesses railroad property at full cash value only within cities.
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Vhis
Committee of Ten
Crounse
Chaiirman
Cnmument
Nebraska in Brief finds many events across towns
The report covers Bank opening in Barneston on March 1, Hastings hosts a large Nebraska Editorial association meeting, Arlington builds a new telegraph office, and York County farms organize marketing efforts. It notes fires at Bartley, Carnegie library completion in Fremont, a fatal accidental shooting in Burwell, and multiple local legal and personal tragedies.
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Barneston
Nebraska Editorial Association
Hastings
Chicago Northwestern doubles track reaches from Missouri to Chicago
A double track, block system line of the Chicago and Northwestern extends from the Missouri River to Chicago. The expansion supports rapid livestock and grain movement eastward to feed the granary of the world and facilitates West Coast freight and passenger service, including the luxurious Overland Limited. The line history runs from 1848 Galena and Chicago Union to modern extension across nine states.
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Missouri River
Chicago
Plains
China
Far East
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Pacific Coast
Chicago & Northwestern
Northwestern Line
Denver
San Francisco
Overland Limited
Ogden
Cheyenne
Portland
Omaha
Russia
Pacific
Manila
Alaska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Pacific Northwest
Galena & Chicago Union
Des Plaines River
Council Bluffs
Platte
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Dakota
Watertown
Michigan
Lake Superior
Escanaba
Negaunece
Ishpeming
Union
Milwaukee
Madison
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superior
Black Hills
Salt Lake
Read and ally ships chart early Pacific expansion
The passage recounts Captain Thomas Read as a pioneer of expansion, sailing on the Alliance with Commodore Dale and George Harrison to reach out to China. He discovered two Caroline Islands named Morris and Alliance, claiming them for the United States, a claim later overridden as Spain and then Germany acquired the Carolines Pelew and Ladrone islands by 1899 for 16 760 000 marks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Read
Frigate Alliance
Robert Morris
China
Commodore Dale
George Harrison
Read
Morris
Alliance
Caroline Group
United States
Carolines
Philippines
Spain
America
Germany
Pelew
Ladrone Islands
Oldest School House At Camp Run Westmoreland County Pa
The ancient log school house at Camp Run in Westmoreland county Pennsylvania is claimed as the oldest in the nation. It is very primitive yet the 16 year old teacher Celia J Miller has enlisted older students to help make improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Run
Westmoreland County
Celia J. Miller
Minister seeks electrical expert to debunk village superstitions
The minister of Alsace and Lorraine asks Societe Industriel de Mulhouse to appoint a skilled electrical writer to argue scientifically against local beliefs. Villagers with new tramways fear aerial wires cause storms and hail, prompting the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace and Lorraine
Societe Industriel de
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Fort Hunt
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Buenos Ayres
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Havana
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Joel Sumner Smith
Yale
New Haven
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University
Detroit
Massachusetts
Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Boston
THE
Nebraska Legislature
Board of Soldiers’ and Sailors
Howell
Supreme Court
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Tianna
Cherry
Kittle
Telephone Company
Arlington
York County
Bartley
Y. M. C. A. Board of Fremont
Fremont
Andrew Carnegie
Library
Cyrus Kelley
Burwell
Tekamah
James Lyons
Wadsworth
Beatrice
Bessie McKinney
Nancy J. Taylor
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Lange Canning & Preserving Company
Fred Sibert
Red Cloud
H. C. Grese
Ames Beet Sugar People
Trenton
Culbertson
Otto L. Gibson
Blackfoot
Idaho
Swen E. Benson
Elkhorn
John Krema
Schuyler
Woodmen of the World
Anoka
Clarence Dutcher
F. L. Williams
Butte
Dutcher
Williams
Albert Gerling
Humphrey
Gerling
Raymond Brooks
Glen Creek
Hodges
Joseph Robinson
Nelson
Bulding
Lawrence
Robinson
Union Pacific
Lexington
Fairfield
Cornish
Grand Island
Fist Road
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