Nebraska News Highlights and Local Troubles
Reports from Syracuse describe Tom Duran’s finger laceration from a firecracker during a bombardment event. Perry Black, 18, died after a wheel accident on a steep road. War Department orders embalmment for sailors dying at sea returning home. Yocum of Trenton champions grasshopper catching, while Blair buys land for a new school. Hastings shows a large school-age rise, Osceola faces saloon licensing issues, and Pawnee City refunding water bonds saves money. A big hailstorm damages property, and a Hartington man is injured by a wagon wheel. Perkins and Keith counties settle a long dispute with a cash payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Black
J. P. Black
North Bend
I. A. Baker
York
Nebraska
War Department
Yocum
Trenton
Polson
Blair School Board
Central High School
Beatrice Chautauqua
Shafter
Fletcher L. Whorter
Lincoln
Hastings
Matters of Nebrasica Gov Poynter Pardons Two Convicts
Gov Poynter uses pardon power to release two convicts on Independence Day. State capital notes and miscellaneous items from Nebraska's governance and regional authorities.
Weather Crop Bulletin Reports Broad Vegetation Growth
The past week was wet with near normal temperatures. average daily departures under 1 degree in most areas. Rainfall was normal or above in most sections but deficient in the extreme southeast and parts of the west. Vegetation flourished except in a few northwestern counties where scarce rain hurt small grains and grass. Winter wheat filled well with good quality. harvest underway in southern counties. Oats and corn showed strong gains. corn crops in the state are in exceptionally good condition.
Convicts Liberated by Fourth of July Pardons
Lincoln Journal reports governor commutes two prison terms on July Fourth restoring civil rights. Andrew Jackson of Lancaster County, a murder convict since 1889, and Ole Anderson of Brown County, serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife. Commutations reduce sentences by years with good time deducted. both convicts will be observed today.
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Lincoln Journal
Andrew Jackson
Lancaster County
Ole Anderson
Brown County
Penitentiary
Jackson
Lehdigh
Warden Lehdigh
New Nebraska Stock Brand Committee Sees Early Applications
The State Journal reports three filings for the new marks and brands committee. Lewellen’s 8. P. DeLatour and Mill dale Farm and Live Stock Improvement of Council Bluffs filed, Litt. Jewett of Broken Bow seeks left shoulder L with a square ear crop, and a $1.50 fee per mark or brand is set. The act allocates 20 percent to committee members and secretary duties, with an estimated 10,000 brands filed, yielding about $3,000 per member before double fees.
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Marks and Brands
Brands and Marks
The
State Journal
8. P. DeLatour
Lewellen
Milldale Farm and Live Stock Improvement Company
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Brands Committee
Secretary of State
Fight at Sargeant Leaves Comstock Men Critically Hurt
A brawl at Sargeant between B P Gain and A B Comstock left Comstock severely injured at his home. Gain struck Comstock on the left side of the head with a plow hammer, breaking the skull for an inch and a half and fracturing down two and a half inches. The victim remains in precarious condition.
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Sargeant
B. P. Gain
A. B. Comstock
Gaini
Inchea
State institutions contracts listed for quarter ending September 30
The state board of purchase and supplies awarded varied contracts for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice, Girls Industrial School at Geneva, Nebraska Industrial Home at Milford, Soldiers and Sailors Home at Grand Island and Milford, State Penitentiary at Lincoln, Insane Asylum at Lincoln and Norfolk, and Home for the Friendless at Lincoln. Suppliers include Cudahy Packing, Victor White, Raymond Bros., Hargreaves Bros., Globe Clothing, and several grocers, drug firms, and hardware houses for meat, groceries, coal, flour, drugs, clothing, dry goods, and miscellaneous staples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Purchase and Supplies
Beatrice
Cudahy Packing Company
J. Pearsall
Victor White
Cook & Scott
Kearney
Raymond Bros
Chauncey Abbott
Wallace Bierce
Lincoln Leather Company
A. H. Farrens
Charles H. Kipp
William Brach
Lincoln
J. W. Smith
Rudge & Morris
Gleason
EB. A. Pegler
Whitebreast Coal Company
Harley
Lincoln Ice Company
Globe Clothing Company
Insane Asylum
Norfolk
W. R. Hoffman
C D. Bridge
George B. Christoph
C. W. Braasch
Glen Rock Coal Company
Baumn Bros
Body Sent to David City for Frank Basil
The body of Frank Basil killed by a Kansas City Saint Joseph and Council Bluffs train in the St Joseph yards Sunday night was sent to David City Nebraska where he has relatives. Telegrams from the Central Nebraska National Bank directed delivery there and to hold the body until further orders. Basil had been traveling from Carlisle Arkansas to David City and was alone when killed. He was identified from papers on his person after a difficult verification.
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David City
St. Joseph
Frank Basil
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
Neb
Central Nebraska National Bank
Basti
Heaton
Carlisle
Ark
Narrow Escape Aboard No 27 Train In Bone Creek Incident
A westbound No 27 train narrowly avoided disaster when a pair of horses blocked the yards and rushed toward Bridge 429 over Bone Creek. One horse crossed safely while the other fell between the ties, toppled, and died after plunging fifteen feet into the creek. The engine was stopped just feet from the bridge, and the engineer stayed at his post to avert a potential wreck.
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Ainsworth Dispatch
No. 27
Bone Creek
Elopement inquiry shocks Nebraska town in Pinef area
Mrs H F Doebke widow of a grain dealer and her hired man William Gauf vanished to Denver where both were arrested by police. Doebke left eleven children and no domestic trouble was cited. The pair will be brought back. Also announced were changes in Grand Army of the Republic Nebraska deployment with John Evans naming William Elder as quartermaster and W A Barger as assistant adjutant general. In Cuming county crop conditions are favorable with color and growth good though some corn fields are a touch backward and a few areas weedy.
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Nebraska
Pinef
North Platte
H. F. Doebke
William Gauf
Denver
Gauf
Doebke
John Evans
William Elder
W. A. Barger
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Nebraska
Cuming County
Dawson Advices Report Steamer Robert Kerr With Gold Dust
The Dawson advices note the steamer Robert Kerr left there in June with over 3 million dollars in gold dust for 8t. Michaels. Other items report Lt. Lawson Fuller to the Philippines as chief ordnance officer, the death of abolitionist George W. Julian in Irvington Indiana, and four new yellow fever cases in Santiago with two deaths. Admiral Cervera and fleet commanders were acquitted and freed, while Dawson parties report scurvy among 75 prospectors on Wind River. Additional notes cover agricultural college officers, army officer appointments, and war material movements to South Africa.
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Dawson
Robert Kerr
Michaels
Lawson N. Fuller
Ordnance Bureau
Philippines
George W. Julian
Irvington
Indiana
Congress
New Mexico
Santiago
Bonia
Cervera
Batte
Edmonton
Provisional Army
Volunteer Army
Government pledges funds for Antarctic expedition
Friday reports show the British treasury lists cash balances of 279 608 571 dollars and gold reserves of 242 168 463 dollars while the English government pledges 45 000 pounds to the Antarctic expedition fund.
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Venezuelan Arbitration Commission
Paris
Richard Webster
Great Britain
Osborn
Thurston
Apia
Samoa
War on Oil Trust in Georgia State
Georgia has begun a war on the oil trust. The Home stead plant strike was abandoned. Daly's theater musical director Richard Stahl died suddenly of heart disease in New York after falling ill in Chicago with The Runaway Girl company. Assistant Surgeon L. E. Cofer is stationed in Mexico to enforce yellow fever quarantines and supervise railway passenger disinfection. Captain Brereton of the Twenty fourth Infantry will be appointed colonel of a volunteer regiment. The Hague peace conference reported unanimous support for a special meeting on freedom from seizure of private property at sea in war, exciting the American delegation and administration.
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Georgia
Oil Trust
Cecil Rhodes
Transvaal
Homestead
Richard Stahl
Daly's Theater
New York
Chicago
Runaway Girl’ Company
Daly
Vera Cruz
The
Marine Hospital Service
L. E. Cofer
Mexico
United States
Hague
Incendiary Fire, Robberies, and War News Across States
A Tuesday report notes a Summit New Jersey fire causing 150000 dollars in damage. General Harrison Gray Otis arrives in Washington. Chicago mentions a kidnapper named John Collins. War material and fodder shipped from Woolwich to South Africa. A national democratic committee meeting is set for July 20 in Chicago with notices mailed from St. Louis. A Manila voyage details First Nebraska regiment’s good condition. 42 officers and 812 enlisted, one private ill. Detective Norris from Ohio informs on fugitive John R. Green of Terre Haute. Green arrested for bunco in Walla Walla. In St. Louis Henry Yankee wounds Lee Kirwin and Miss Annie Mayford during a bail outing. Kirwin dies. John Dyson, famed confidence man, found dead near Terre Haute. his 1870 cotton swindle involved doctored bills of lading and losses by Missouri Pacific.
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Summit
N. J
Harrison Gray Otis
California
Washington
Chicago
John Collins
Woolwich
England
South Africa
National Democratic Committee
Sherman Hour
St. Louis
Merklsjohn
Nebraska
Manila
Norris
Ohio
Harrisburg
John R. Green
Terre Haute
Ind
Hillinois
Banco
Green
Walla Walla
Wash
Henry Yankee
Lee Kirwin
Annie Mayford
Upper Alton
Kirwin
Mayford
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Cotton Exchange
Vilas heir dies in Madison and other early 1900s notes
Monday reports Henry Vilas, son of ex Senator William F Vilas, dies in Madison Wisconsin. The first US attempt to collect mail by automobile occurs in Buffalo yesterday. Saengerfest ends in Cincinnati with the North American Saengerbund. Hawaiian commissioners decide Malletoa Tanu to Fiji and Mulinu evacuated. Madame Dreyfus meets husband. he is improving. Streetcar strike soothed in Wheeling but disturbances occur in Upper Benwood. Gov Pingree rejects article alleging abuse of McKinley and notes support for administration yet dispute over Philippine war.
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Henry Vilas
United States
William F. Vilas
Madison
Wis
Wheeling
W. Va
Upper Benwood
Pingree
Alger
McKinley
Parson Jeers at Passes and Patents Parade
An old gathering of notable men recalls a lawyer who mocked the parson Bishop Williams of Connecticut by suggesting pass access to railroad roads in exchange for heavenly entrance tickets. The bishop gently refused. The note then shifts to a patent office report: in a year 413 US patents issued, 122 involved partial or full sale of rights before issue. Prominent buyers include Avery Stamping Co Cleveland Open Arc Electric Co New York Bick Hoffman Co Marcedon N Y Stirling Co Chicago Foster Engineering Co Newark Reeves Co Columbus Bankers Electric Co Chicago Hoe Printing Press Co New York American Graphaphone Co West Virginia Electric Signal Co West Virginia Universal Loom Co New York and others. For patent information contact Sues Co Omaha Neb.
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Guy
Bishop Williams
Connecticut
Quiszing
United States Patent Office
United States
Avery Stamping Co
Cleveland
Cleveland, C. Open Arc Electric Co., New York City; Bick & Hoffman Co
Marcedon, N. Y
Table Slide Co
Watertown
Stirling Co
Chicago, Ill
Foster Engineering Co
Newark, N
Reeves & Co
Columbus
Ind
Bankers Electric Co
Chicago
Ill
Hoe Printing Press Co
New York City
American Graphaphone Co
West Virginia
Electric Signal Co
Universal Loom Co
New York
Sues & Co
Bee Building
Omaha
Neb
Old blue laws questioned as tool to curb rowdy town deeds
A humorous take suggests blue laws were likely created to stop people from painting the town red and causing unruly behavior. The remark frames historic ordinances as ethics-enforcing rules rather than practical measures.
Merchants urge cheap midsummer goods in Omaha store
Mrs J Benson promotes a large sale of summer merchandise including parasols, shirt waists, dresses, coats, and ribbons at 210 and 212 South Sixteenth Street Omaha. Largest shirt waist stock in the city advertised. Franklin County Pa reports a Fire Baptized Association forming a new religious sect advocating extreme sanctification, avoiding churches, and meeting in barns or roadside locations.
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South Sixteenth St
Omaha
Franklin County
Fire Baptized Association
Oldest remedy boast and curious ad copy line
Fragmentary ad style text touts Coes Cough HKassam as the oldest remedy claiming it breaks a cold quickly and reliably. The brief snippet also includes a moral aphorism and an ad for a $118 upright piano from Schmol ler and Mueller at 1413 Farnam St. Omaha. A remark about marriage prospects appears among the jumble of phrases.
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Schmoller & Mueller
Farnam St
Omaha
Hardy's 99 Cent Store Opens in Omaha District
Visit Hardy's The 99 Cent Store at 1519 and 1521 Douglas Street offering toys dolls and fancy goods. Includes a persuasive line about a woman with three children and a note on cut rates for railways. Mentions P H Philbin Ticket Broker at 1505 Farnam Omaha and a claim about an incubator ending a hen's brood worries.
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Omaha
Hardy's
Douglas Street
P. H. Philbin
Farnam
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Sidney Telegraph
Charles Callahan
Sidney
Nebraska News
Fort Matanzas
Syracuse
Tom Duran
Osceola
Pawnee City
First National Bank
Table Rock
R. P. Jennings
Ainsworth
Conrad Schurber
Hartington
Keith County
Perkins County
Nebrasica
Gov. Poynter
Pardoss
Chicago Record
General Wheeler
Chas.- Vicker Cherbiuts
French Academy
Olympia
Colombo
Admiral Dewey
Ceylon
Navy Department
Naval Service
Tees
Vancouver
Wallace Haywood
Captain Goose
el Paso
Tex
Rich
San Francisco Examiner
Heath
Cuba
Porto Rico
Stanhope Boal
National Association
Frank Lansman
Hazel
Illinis
Brereton
Twentyfourth Infantry
J. Benson
Coe
Hoods
STEN
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
Winchester Avenue
New Haven
Conn
Eephodo
Piso
Ey Fuse Eels
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