Nebraska items cover fires deaths and farm data
Nebraska news item spares no detail from fires destroying two Fairbury stables and a fatal gas stove explosion in Omaha to farm statistics in Adams and Wayne counties. It notes hail damage at Ragan, school census gains in Hastings and Fremont, a river of local political notes, and military movement through Missouri en route to San Antonio.
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Utica
Croe County
Adams County
Fairbury
Nebraska
Wayne County
Wakefield
Kelly
Nulo
Dixon Creamery
Tom Boyle
Omaha
Malmo
Saunders County
Earnest Robinson
Chappell
Lyons Mirror
Winnebago
Lyons
R. C. McCandish
Valley Precinct
Polk County
James C. Dahlman
Board of Transportation
Wilber Barret
Weeping Water
Oliver Carmichael
Smyth
Kearney
J. Sterling Morton
Carl Morton
Ragan
Tom Wheadon
C.l.morse
Moon
Charles Evans
Schickens
Hastings
Fremont
Orphan’s ‘Home
I. McKee
Hope
Trayes County
Adjutant-General
Missouri
Thurston Rifles
San Antonio
Tex
Japan Not Pleased Over Hawaiian Annexation Fears
Tokyo signals displeasure and warns that unpleasant developments may arise at any moment as the situation regarding Hawaiian annexation appears unsettled and potentially explosive.
Danger of U S Japan friction over Hawaii
A Washington report notes serious risk of diplomatic friction between the United States and Japan over Hawaii. Japan's reply to Secretary Sherman is reportedly less amiable, with warships observed and fears of a coup de force in Honolulu. The Navy has quietly prepared mobilization if diplomacy fails.
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Chaoo
Times-Herald
Washington
United States
Japan
Hawaii
Sherman
State Department
Honolulu
Nonolulu
Lnolulu
Navy Department
Pacific
Tonolulu
Review of Trade
Bradstreet's reports a moderate national trade volume with a cooled West and Northwest demand due to heat and storms. Cereal crop prospects stay favorable while industrial lines are unsettled by a strike of about 120,000 bituminous coal miners. West Virginia workers mostly stay out, and tariff settlement hopes boost anticipated autumn consumption revival.
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New York
Bradstreet’s
West Virginia
National Democrats Call Meeting in New York July 21
William D. Bynum, chair of the national Democratic executive committee, summoned a New York gathering for July 21. He praised Gold Standard Democrats in Iowa, Kentucky, and Ohio planning state tickets or endorsements. The report notes Dawes commissioner prospects and questions about Robert E. Lewis.
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New York
William D. Bynum
National Democratic Executive Committee
Gold Standard Democrats
Iowa
Kentucky
Ohio
Gold Standard
Seth Lowis Tammeny
Chicago
Lewis
Dawes
Washington
Kerens
Pierce
Robert E. Lewis
Missouri
Mr. Lewis
Dawes Commission
Danish Gunman Hanged After Soldier Killing
Philip Tashley, a Dane, was executed by hanging in the United States court for killing John Sanders, a U.S. soldier, at Ituachita a year earlier. He joked and danced a jig before the drop, saying Let her go Gallagher, as his neck broke and he died instantly.
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Tucson
A.T
Philip Tashley
United States Court
John Sanders
United States
Ituachita
Gallagher
Two Manians Struck by Lightning in Kan
During a rain storm at Wasnixotos Asher Root northwest of town was struck by lightning while under a tree and is expected to die. A boy with him was stunned. Nearby farmer Roberts fourteen miles north of Wasnixotos was killed by lightning.
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Wasnixotos
Kan
Asher Root
Here
Roberts
Bequest of 1700 Dollars to a Dog Sets Sailor’s Will
In Circaco on July 12 lawyer E F Ellison drafted Spooner’s will leaving 1700 dollars to Rover the Newfoundland dog. Spooner, an eccentric sailor, insisted Rover should not endure hardship as his master did. In Birnao Spain on July 12 socialists press miners strike as troops and police reinforce the area.
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Circaco
Ellison
Sfotn Spooner
Rover
Spooner
Birnao
Spain
Protests Against Younger Pardon Highlight Northfield Raid
A. E. Lunker of the Western Newspaper Union adds the lone major protest against pardoning Cole and Jim Younger. He recalls injuries from the 1876 bank raid, disputes Cole Younger’s claims, and supports Governor Pillsbury’s earlier stance against clemency citing the killings and assaults in Northfield.
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St. Paul, Minn
A. E. Lunker
Western Newspaper Union
Northfield Bank
Bunker
Heywood
Charley Pitts
Northfield
Cole Younger
Younger
Frank
Jesse James
J. S. Allen
Ile
Clel Miller
Wheeler
Miller
Styles
Pitts
Dr. Wheeler
Anderson
Faribault
Cole
Bridge Square
Manning
Pillsbury
Youngers
Neywood
Consul General Reports Cuba Relief Expenditures
United States Consul General Lee filed a report to the government detailing his use of the 50000 dollar relief fund for destitute Americans in Cuba. He noted that he had spent about 6000 dollars yet provided substantial aid to all needy recipients and even sent some home to the United States.
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Washiington
United States
Lee
Congress
Cuba
Ilis
McKe Trips to Christons San Francisco
Slumming parties through Chinatown are organized for Christian Endeavorers. Yesterday showed high religious fervor and a larger wave is predicted by Sunday. Prayers and earnest work are under way, with practical results expected to be surprising when recorded.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Miner Walkout Shocks Hanna Firm In Wheeling Division
Dan R Hanna, manager of M. A. Hanna & Co., reports every miner at the firm’s mines has quit. The message signals a complete shutdown of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, despite prior confidence in retaining workers.
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Chevenana
Dan R Hanna
M. A. Hanna ’& Co
Hanna
Wheeling
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Two Wz Cripple Creek Sales
Cripple Creek Colorado on July 12 reports the Bell mines on Bull Hill sold for 450000 dollars to large stockholders in the Calumet and Hecla copper company. The Vindicator mine on Bull Hill sold to Dr Moffat for 300000 dollars.
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Cripple Creek
Crirry Crex
Colo
Bell
Bull Hill
Calumet
Hecla
Vindicator
D Ir. Moffat
Salt Lake Wins 1398 Convention Site At Gold Mining Meet
On the last day of the international gold mining convention in Denver, Salt Lake was chosen to host the 1398 gathering. A proposal for free silver was tabled during the session.
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Denver
Colo
Salt Lake
Moorish Officials Relax Rights After San Francisco Visit
The appearance of the cruiser San Francisco in Tangier harbor has prompted Moorish authorities to more firmly enforce American rights, signaling a salutary effect on observance of U S interests.
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Moroccy
Smington
San Francisco
Tangier
Beets Sugar Exposition Seeks Foreign Exhibitors
Crof. Taylor pursues foreign exhibitors for the exposition and discusses correspondence with overseas growers. He envisions a model sugar beet plant to be operated, aiming to showcase modern production techniques.
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Crof. Taylor
Sugar beet seed exhibits planned for Trans Mississippi Exposition
Prof. W W Taylor, head of the Trans Mississippi exposition bureau, is coordinating with sugar beet seed growers to exhibit propagation methods. He notes growing interest and aims to showcase European seed techniques and a model beet sugar plant on the exposition grounds for the season.
Anti lass Law Enacts End to Free City Rides
Secretary Goodrich of the Omaha street railway company says a new city law will require all officials who hold street car passes to surrender them on Sunday July 11 and begin paying fare. The measure, applying to police and fire departments as well as waterworks, gas and electric firms, will also end free rides and void any metal passes. The law targets any franchise holder from the city and may force companies to reclaim free rides.
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Goodrich
Omaha Street Railway Company
Experimental Farming Shows Strong Nebraska Crop Prospects
Nebraska crop conditions are uniformly good with Campbell system trials along the Elkorn and Burlington lines yielding better prospects for barley oats potatoes and other crops than traditional farming. Assistant General Passenger Agent Munn will tour the experimental farms next week with J C Campbell to inspect results and provide an exact unbiased report to Elkhorn officials.
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Nebraska
Campbell
Elkorn
Burlington
Munn
Elkhorn
Railroad Company
J. C. Campbell
Cattle Stealing Statute Appealed in Sheridan Case
An appeal from Sheridan County tests the 1895 law making cattle stealing a crime on par with horse stealing. Nerman F. Granger was convicted in district court for stealing one cow valued at twenty dollars and sentenced to three years. The defense contends the act is unconstitutional, arguing the offense is petty larceny.
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Sheridan County
Nerman F. Granger
One Cove
Granger
R. C.“Noleman
Switching Charges Agreed By Exposition Rail Lines
The Trans Mississppi exposition's Department of Transportation arranges with Missouri Pacific for a four dollar per car switching charge for set ting in on the exposition rounds. Average switching to business districts runs around two dollars. Exhibitors will not pay extra as railroads absorb the exposition ground switching cost.
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Department of Transportation of
Missouri * Pacific Railway
Nebraska weekly crop bulletin highlights for week ending July 5
The Nebraska section of the climate and crop service reports week ending July 5 with weather conditions and crop status. It notes rainfall, temperature, soil moisture and crop prospects across counties, along with recommendations for farm operations and pest advisories based on current conditions.
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Nebraska
Climate and Crop Service
The
Weather Bureau
Week of hot weather and heavy rains boost central crops
The week brought mean temperatures several degrees above normal, with highs often above 95 and some 100 degrees. Central counties saw heavy rainfall exceeding three inches, while southeastern counties had less than half an inch. Rye and winter wheat ripened quickly. corn grew rapidly in hot, moist conditions. oats and spring wheat improved, but early potatoes injured by drought.
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Missouri Valley
Greeley
Butler
Polk
Seward
Washington
Central
Boone
Dawson
Adams
Webster
Cheyenne—iay
Troyan
Beatrice Chautauqua Board Censures Burlington Rail Way
The Beatrice chautauquan board met and issued orders to settle all indebtedness from the assembly just closed. Resolutions censured the Burlington rail way management for refusing to operate special trains and thanked other rail lines for assisting in transportation efforts.
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Beatrice Chautauquan Board
Burlington rail‘Way
Patents for Western Inventors and a Missouri River tragedy
Western inventors are noted with issued patents including Frank J. Benscoter Alliance Guthridge G Cross Cedar Rapids Cassius E Hillyard Omaha A B Norlin Minden Susie BE Reeder Omaha and Nils A Rendstrom Omaha for devices such as an automatic copy holder a cultivator a hygiene apparatus a curtain stretcher and a stalk cutter. A Man and Wife named Charles Seymour and his wife drowned near Blue Springs after leaving home for a bath their buggy horse and clothes found in the woods and Mr Seymour an engineer on the RR and ML died in the incident.
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Washington Dispatch
Nebraska
Frank J
Benscoter
Alliance
Guthridge’ G. Cross
Cedar Rapids
Cassius E. Hillyard
Omaha
A.B. Norlin
Minden
Susie BE. Reeder
Nils A. Rendstrom
Charles Schuefer
Bedford
Charles Seymour
Wymore
Blue River
Blue Springs
Seymour
RR. & ML
Beet Heed and Machinery at Exposition
Prof F W Taylor superintendent of forestry and agriculture at the Mississippi exposition discusses correspondence with foreign sugar beet growers about exhibiting their seed propagation methods. He reports encouraging replies and expects several exhibitors. South Omaha census shows a population of 16 009.
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F. W. Taylor
Bureau of Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry
South Omaha
Railroads Put Under Receivers In First Half 1897
The Railway Age reports more railroads placed under receivers in the first six months of 1897 than in the same period of 1896. Nineteen roads with total mileage 1,314 and capital stock 85,622,600 have been placed in receivers hands.
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Cuicago
Railway Age
Petition for Younger pardon gains Missouri backing
W G Bronaugh and W A Jones filed with Governor Clough seeking clemency for the Younger brothers in the Northfield raid. Missouri supporters include S B Elkins and R C Kerens. The board comprises Governor Clough, Judge Starr and Attorney General Childs. The petitioners plan to go to Northfield to sway local opinion.
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St. Paun
Minn
W. G Bronaugh
W. A. Jones
Missouri
Clough
Younger Brothers
Northfield
Bronaugh
Youngers
United States
S. B. Elkins
West Virginia
Cole Younge
R. C. Kerens
Elkins
Board of Pardons
Starr
Childs
Messrs
Jones
China to Promote Minister Wasumerox Wu Ting Fang
China's minister Wasumerox Wu Ting Fang, who arrived two months ago to establish diplomatic relations, is to be recalled in August. The retirement is described as a surprise as he was recently promoted and sent to Tokyo.
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Wasumerox
Wu Ting Fang
China
Weis
Tokio
Destructive hailstorm devastates Southern Württemberg
Berlin dispatch reports a Stuttgart message describing a long hail storm in Southern Württemberg that killed thirteen people and damaged crops valued at over four million dollars.
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Germany
New Yoak
Berlin
Stuttgart
Wurtemburg
Fire at Buckingham Palace During State Ball incident
A fire broke out on the second floor of Buckingham Palace at 10 o clock last night as guests gathered for a state ball. Fire engines arrived promptly and extinguished the blaze caused by an accidental curtain ignition. The reception resumed after the incident.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Iowa men seek US patents for carbide and acetylene gas
A Des Moines report notes two patent applications for calcium carbide manufacture and acetylene gas generation. Inventors from Holstein Iowa include C L Wilson Cc Muma J W Unger H Schneck roth A P Brosius and W Kuehel. If allowed the patents aim to establish a carbide plant and domestic gas generators for improved lighting at lower costs.
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Des Moines
United States
Holstein
Iowa
Messrs, C. L. Wilson
Cc. Muma
J. W. Unger
H. Schneckroth
A. P
Tos. G. and
J. Raton Onwie
Solicitors of
Patenta
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DeWitt Bank
Theodore IH. Miller
E. E. Butler
Northcott
Illinois
Logrolling Association
Wayne
Merchants’ Bank of Lincoln
Holmes
Eichoff
Tilden
Antelope County
Insurance
Equitable Aid Union Insurance Company of
Columbus
Henry Beers
Lancaster County
Review OF Trade
Cradstreet
National Democrats
Mcke
W W. Taylor
Taylor
Europe
Conditiona
Cloekn
Bronaugh and Jones
Minnesota
OWA Patent Office Report
St. Louis
Senco
Lambashorn
Omicgago
Pontalgere
Multans
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