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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
3
The Doctor Desprez and Casimir clash over a suspected robbery while Jean Marie balks at admitting thieves among them. Anastasie negotiates peace, fearing the boy's fate and the burden of a dangerous treasure. The Turbulence tests loyalty, wealth, and trust within the household.
In a tense scene, Casimir questions Jean-Marie about a treasure theft. Jean-Marie admits involvement, downcast and anxious as he confronts accusations of past theft and the possibility of impunity. The inquiry pivots on whether he helped conceal the treasure and if he can be trusted.
The Doctor declares the treasure episode amusing and profitable as the group celebrates with Hermitage and party favors. Jean Marie appears sheepish, while Anastasie Lean Marie revels in new attire, a kepi, and the revelry continues with a toast to a wedding breakfast.
The two story yellow house in the Doctor's corner endures as a bright, well kept relic amid ruin. Its carved stairs, runes on a pillar, and leaning gable speak of owners past from a Hebrew merchant to a long headed boar. The Doctor and family cherish its imagined history and security, though time may erode it.
The essay discusses whistling as a national habit in America, citing nerves and expressiveness as motives. It notes skilled whistlers emerge, but questions social pleasure and the impact on others. It includes a caricatured exchange about whiskey, reflecting period attitudes and language.
London fashion minds embrace sedan chairs once linked to early 17th century court life. A New York Herald note says one firm is reviving the light carriages painted in black green blue or maroon with bright trim for evening parties. The trend cites clean interiors for wrap protection and limited passenger use to preserve decorum.
The U S Supreme Court set aside a verdict in a case arising when Utah was a territory. It rejected majority verdicts in civil cases as conflicting with the seventh amendment and territorial uniformity requirements. The ruling does not affect statehood era if not under territorial form of government.
A brief exchange features a father answering his child with a crude line about lineage. The quote reflects a moment of casual, improper humor in a domestic setting.
A miscellany of curious facts and quips including lumber unloaded in Gardiner Maine, an elderly Pettis resident who never wears overshoes a watch or a paper jar, Leicester England aging crowd stats, termite grain raids in scarcity, and jokes from Truth Tit-Bits Household Words and Somerville Journal about debt and fashion.
A disputed wage scale triggers mass resignations as committees fail to reach agreement. An army of workers quits, leaving unions and employers grappling with unemployment and disruption.
In Pirapuna Pa and Cleveland Ohio, joint wage talks fail to yield a scale, shutting mills and idling about 75 000 to 85 000 workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Firms including Jones Laughlin and Briton Iron and Steel Works cut wages or threaten reductions. unions and management face uncertain settlement as repairs delay.
In Alcantra Georgia on July 2, Thomas FE Watson denounces fusionists aligning Populists with Democrats for 1900 and cites a $1,500 Bryan donation as the first installment of a purchase. He criticizes Bryan for supporting gold standard interests and questions repayment of Bryan’s money with Populist votes.
In Lamar Missouri a bartender named C C Horm married Misa Cora Wallace of Paris Massachusetts in a hurried ceremony at dawn. Horm obtained a license Tuesday night, met the bride in Nevada, and had Esquire James M Dye perform the wedding as they rode away in a carriage at a gallop with the knot tied en route.
In Washington July 2 the nearing completion of the tariff bill was noted in the opening prayer by Rev. Hugh Johnson acting chaplain. He asked for gratitude for the courage disinterestedness and generosity of senators and representatives and for party and local interests to yield to the will of the majority on the legislation.
The Liberty Prohibition state convention at Lincoln nominated Mrs. Sarah A Wilson of Lincoln for associate justice of the Nebraska Supreme court and R. C. Bentley of Shelton for regent of the State university. Regular Prohibitionists seeking endorsement were ignored.
A Fort Scott Kansas bridge over Buck Run collapsed late last night after a hack and team fell twenty feet into the stream. One occupant and the driver escaped drowning as an eight inch water main burst. The city is left without water or electric light.
Heavy rains over three days cause overflow of all streams in Milan area damaging crops in the lowlands. Local reports indicate widespread agricultural losses and concern for farmers.
Five men were injured when the engine exploded on a suburb train of the Chicago and Northern Pacific Railway as it left Morgan Park. Fireman John Latshaw is reported as likely to die, engineer John Fogg is severely bruised and scalded, with three others also injured at Blue Island. Cause of the blast is unknown.
Patrick Cook, a former stone cutter now gate man on the elevated road, went to High Bridge to fly to the Battery. He slipped as he started, hung head downward for thirty minutes, thirty feet below the rail and 120 feet from the roadway, and was rescued. He has pursued flying for sixteen years.
Three men were struck by Wabash train No 6 near Wellsville Missouri at midnight. All three lay with heads on the rail and were hit. the first head was severed while the second was mashed and the third badly injured. Doctors say the two injured have little hope of recovery. names not released.
Columbus July 2. Horace L. Chapman chosen for governor on the Democratic state ticket with Melville D. Shaw for lieutenant governor J. P. Sprigg for supreme judge W. H. Dore for attorney general James F. Wilson for state treasurer and Peter H. Degnan for board of public works
Edwin Baker dies in Moberly Mo death toll rises to eight from the Wabash railroad wreck occurred Saturday night at Missouri City. Baker resided in Curryville Missouri and was among the injured victims.
Senor Canevas de Cantillo, the Spanish premier, and the Duke of Tetzan, the minister for foreign affairs, held a long conference on U.S. news. The premier announced he will not give reporters any information hereafter, citing publication intended to sway the stock market.
From Washington July 2 prospects indicate no major legislation beyond the tariff bill. Debates over the Hawaiian annexation treaty appear unlikely to reach the Senate and a quorum issue may arise once the tariff bill is resolved.
Amos Woodlin born in New York in 1804 died in Wonster City Iowa on July 2 after serving in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin infantry during the Civil War. Grand Army headquarters recently noted his advanced age among comrades.
Des Moines July 2 The second extra session of the Iowa legislature began today with nearly all members present. The session will last one or two days and aims to postpone the new code’s take effect, due ninety days after final adjournment.
Alvin Dillaway son of C O Dillaway president of Mechanics National bank died by his own act after failing to complete West Point duties. He had earned a West Point appointment in a competitive examination but was expelled for breach of rules before finishing. The incident occurred after the appointment in Boston on July 2.
The Bank of Osage Mission in St. Paul Kansas began voluntary liquidation yesterday. It has capital of 5000 dollars and assets believed to exceed liabilities. William May serves as cashier.
The President granted a full pardon to Charles R. Fleischman who was sentenced in Illinois to two years in the Milwaukee house of correction in December for embezzling funds from the National Bank of Holinola.
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