Nebraska News Bumper Page Weaves Fire Taxes and Jumps in Real Estate
Nebraska items report Hastings bucket shops taxed occupation. John Terhune home fire near Litchfield with $500 loss. Otoe county June mortgage reductions total $22 238 98 and half year 1899 122 425 13. Nellie Huff killed by lightning near Bartlett. bounty claims on wild animals reach 32 000 against 45 000. Bank of Kimball holds largest claim at 1 406. Incorporations filed in Omaha. reorganizing and resignations in Grand Island and Ord. Wymore widow M E King dies of apoplexy. Nellie Walbaum still missing from Wymore. Floyd Boyd jailed at Fremont for assault on Leavitt of Standard Sugar Ames. ONeill land officeannual report shows 64 549 66 receipts and 754 000 acres government land across many counties. National guards officer Stewart questioned on captaincy in Schuyler. Grand Army reunion set in Lincoln September 11 to 16 with 3500 veterans and 16 000 old soldiers. Dunbar stores to close at 7 pm in summer. sheriff probes liquor sales in Central City find some violations.
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Grand Island
Hastings
John Terhune
Litchfield
Otoe County
Nellie Huff
Wheeler County
Bartlett
Bank of Kimball
Commercial Laws Company
Omaha Gas Lamp Company
Omaha
Perry
Barry
Charles Locke
Company B
Ord
Locke
Iowa
Miss. M. E. King
Wymore
Nellie Walbaum
Reform School
F. Boyd
Anderson
Fremont
O'Neill Land Office
Brown, Boyd
Boone, Rock
Holt
Knox
Antelope
Garfield
Loup, Wheeler
Keya Paha
Adjutant General's Office
C. G. Stewart
Schuyler
Adjutant General
C. G. Stewar
Stewart
Nebraska
Dunbar
Central City
Sutton
Crop prospects and weather across Nebraska reported
The Nebraska agricultural bulletin notes cool, wet southern counties and dry northern areas, with corn tasseling in southern districts and overall exceptionally good corn conditions. Winter wheat ripened, oats face lodging and rust but yield outlook remains strong. spring wheat and hay crops show solid progress.
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University of Nebraska
Hamilton
Boyd
Colfax
Cuming
Boone
Custer
Dawson
Garfield
Hall
Howard
Adams
Franklin
Frontier
Western
Box Butte
Cheyenne
Keith
Norfolk millinery stock burned. Barnett loses goods
Mrs Esther Barnett of Norfolk suffered a fire that destroyed her millinery stock and fixtures valued about 700 with 450 insured. Her furniture, insured for 50, was damaged while she was away in the night. Hall county approves 1400 for a new east west road section to spark a county wide road system in years ahead.
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Esther Barnett
Norfolk
County Board of
Hall County
Pardon Granted in Murder Case of Ole Anderson
County Clerk Smith reports the governor commuted Ole Anderson’s sentence from life imprisonment to fifteen years one month and eight days. Released on the fourth of the month, Anderson’s case followed a 1889 conviction for killing his wife by braining her with a bucket and hiding the body in a well. Public discontent grows as townsfolk fear justice may be undermined and speculate on courtroom consequences.
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Ainsworth
Smith
Ole Anderson
Brown County
Rock County
Anderson
Poynter
Lynch
Novel Propositions in Law In Kern Case
In a district court trial the case hinges on legal questions raised by Anna Kern seeking adminstratrix of Geo Kern's estate after seven years of alleged absence. Kern disappeared in November 1891 and was not heard from since. Creditors contested death presumption arguing Kern fled to avoid prosecution for selling mortgaged property. Jury found for Mrs. Kern.
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Fremont Dispatch
District Court
Geo. Kern
Iris
Anna Kern
Wheat Turning Out Well In Nebraska Harvest
A Wayne dispatch reports rains in the past week boosting crops across Nebraska. Corn stands tall and may yield eighty bushels per acre for conservative estimates. Wheat harvests improve after feared total loss, with oats and other grains in prime condition. Farmers hold onto last year’s corn, avoiding forced sales.
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Wayne
Nebraska
Central Granaries refits Wymore elevator to handle trains
Nebraska brief reports the Central Granaries company plans to refit its Wymore elevator to expand capacity, aiming to serve southern Nebraska as a cleaning station and process multiple train loads daily. Also notes the Northeast Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic reunion at Plainview drew about 4 000 attendees despite rain, with next year at Pierce.
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Nebraska
Central Granaries Company
Wymore
Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic
Plainview
Pierce
Clinto Sudduth
Bennett
Mabel Hartley
Hartley
Johana Curtin
Sterling
Otoe County
Father Cusson
J. H. Sutton
Central City
Genoa
Burleigh Hacker
Fremont
Anna Rasmugsen
Hacker
Harry Anderson
St. James
Cedar County
Sioux
Treasury figures and world notes fill quiet news brief
Available cash balance stands at 280 253 400 with gold 246 623 234. Col A B Jones of Anniston died at Tuxpan Mexico after illness. Enlistments rise to 1124 since start of recruiting. Spaulding parole extended in Joliet. Dewey celebration to host arrival by October 1 in New York. Bicycle trust collapses as eastern bankers withdraw. Brig. Gen Russell Farnham Lord dies in New York at 61. McKinley China policy hints no forceful coercion with Britain. Brig Gen Asa B Carey retires. Bates to replace. Le Soir notes Jamont to be replaced July 15 by Bruere. Dewey medal sent. edge engraved with his name. Ambassador von Hollenden departs for home. Mumm to assume interim charge in New York. Transport Thomas contract set at 239 500 to Cramps. Major Carson to oversee refit and voyage. Indian Agent Mayhugh charges filed over agency school dispute.
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A. B. Jones
Anniston
Ala
United States
Tuxpan
Mexico
Illinois State Board of Pardons
Charles W. Spaulding
Chicago
Joliet
Dewey
Charles Dewey
New York
Anderson
Ind
Bicycle Trust
Russell Farnham Lord
Benjamin Harrison
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Herald
Washingto
McKinley
China
Great Britain
Pekin
Asa B. Carey
Army
Alfred E. Bates
London
le Soir
Jamont
Supreme Council of War
Brugere
Paris
Zurlinden
Herr Mumm
War Department
Thomas
Cramps Company
Philadelphia
J. M. Carson, Jr
Quartermaster’s Department
Suez Canal
Manila
John Mayhugh
White Rock
Nevada
Washington
Republican state committee plans Boston convention on Oct six
The Republican state committee met in Boston and decided to hold the state convention there on October 6. Samuel Kenney Jr the father of Senator Kenney died suddenly in Wilmington Delaware at age 65 from paralysis. Attorney General Oren of Michigan advised Auditor General Dix that the 1897 beet sugar bounty law is unconstitutional. Captain William P. Duvall has been chosen lieutenant colonel of the new Thirty first infantry. Germany exported 21 million dollars to the United States in the June quarter, down from 24.5 million a year ago. Arthur P. Gorman improving at Magnolia Massachusetts after illness. The navy secretary may grant a request to borrow 100 pounds of metal from the Maine bell to cast a chapel bell in Mexico. The Grand Army pension committee met with the president at the White House and later examined about thirty pension cases at the pension bureau. General Otis asked for 2,500 horses for a Philippines cavalry brigade at the end of the rainy season. Adjutant General Corbin said no authorization exists to enlist any of the three Rough Rider regiments without the president’s direction, and their organization seems unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican State Committee
Boston
Samuel Kenney, Jr
United States
Kenney
Wilmington
Del
Oren
Michigan
Dix
William P. Duvall
First Artillery
Thirty-first Volunteer Infantry
Germany
Arthur P. Gorman
Magnolia
Mass
Secretary of the Navy
Mexico
Maine
Pension Committee of the Grand Army of the Republic
White House
Pension Bureau
Otis
Philippines
Manila
Corbin
Dewey invited to visit Constantinople by U S minister
Oscar B Straus, the U S minister at Constantinople, urgently invites Admiral Dewey to visit. If he accepts, the British steamer Imogene will escort him to the Mediterranean port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Constantinople
Oscar B. Straus
Admiral Dewey
Imogene
Mediterranean
Bureau of Immigration
The
Treasury Department
Cape Town
Daily Mail
Transvaal
Dewey
Harrison
Chicago
Europe
Suez Canal
Gibraltar
Delagoa Bay Award Set For October and Other Updates
Several items include the Delagoa bay award to be made in October, the Logan refitted for Manila service, Raleigh repairs valued at 245000 dollars, Archbishop Ireland sailing from Liverpool to New York on July 12, and M J O'Brien elected president of Southern Express. The Venezuelan commission’s chronology reaches 1841, Porter hosts a banquet in Paris, and Frank C Bolles joins Gen Wheeler’s staff in San Francisco. Fressenden Nachbour bankrupt with debts of 64044 dollars.
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Delagoa Bay
Charles Mair
New York
Logan
Manila
Raleigh
Archbishop Ireland
Liverpool
M. J. O’brien
Southern Express Company
Ambassador Porter
Paris
Frank C. Bolles
Sixth Infantry
General Wheeler
San Francisco
Fressenden & Nachbour
Washington
Thomas
Soldiers in Philippines Ordered Home After 1898 Enlistment Window
The report notes all soldiers who enlisted in the Philippines between April 21 and October 26, 1898 are to be sent home as transportation can be arranged. Other items include international diplomacy and a railroad flood rebuilding estimate for the Houston & Texas Central.
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Philippines
Jackson
State Department
Bear Island
Spitzenbergen
Lisbon
House of Peers
Portugal
United States
Washington
Peoria
Ill
White House
Rome
Reichstag
Naples
Transvaal
Willard E. Baker
Boston
San Francisco
Dennison
Tex
Houston & Texas Central
Calvert and
Herne
Rev Henry N Couden Receives Doctor of Divinity Honor
The Rev Henry N Couden, chaplain of the U S House of Representatives, was awarded the doctor of divinity degree by St Lawrence University Canton N Y where he had graduated from the divinity school in 1878 He lost his sight when shot in Mississippi in 1863 while serving in the Civil War He preaches this summer at the Universalist Church in Hyannis Cape Cod.
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Henry N. Couden
House of Representatives
Washington
St. Lawrence University
Canton
Mississippi
Dr. Couden
Universalist
Hyannis
Cape Cod
Notable Directors Shaped Baltimore & Ohio Reorganization
The directory highlights key figures linked to major financiers and rail interests. Elliam Salomon of New York and Jacob Schiff of Kuh Loeb & Co. play pivotal roles in reorganization, with James J. Hill of Great Northern and Edward R. Bacon of the Baltimore & Ohio South Western Railway among others guiding policy. The roster also includes Louis Fitzgerald of Mercantile Trust, Norman B. Ream of Chicago connected to Marshall Field and Armour, and James Stillman of City National Bank. Maryland appointees H. Crawford Black and John V. L. Findlay represent state interests.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Elliam Salomon
New York
Speyer & Co
Jacob H. Schiff
Kuh Loeb & Co
Bankers On Financiers
Union Pacific Railroad
National City Bank of New York
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Edward R. Bacon
Baltimore & Ohio South Western Railway
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Farmers Loan and Trust Co
Louis Fitzgerald
Mercantile Trust Company
Norman B. Ream
Chicago
Marshall Field
P. D. Armour
Illinois Central
J. Kennedy Tod
J. Kennedy Tod & Co
Charlies Steele
Seward, Guthrie and Steele
Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown & Co
Baltimore
Brown Bros. & Co
London
H. Clay Pierce
St. Louis
H. Crawford Black
John V. L. Findlay
Perfect System Cleaners and Cascarets Candy Ad
An old advertisement touts Perfect System Cleaners to keep interiors clean and near holiness. It promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic to cleanse and purify the body, noting druggists offer 50 cent and 0 cent prices.
Lord Cairns Denied Entry to Lunatic Asylum Gate
A historical anecdote recalls Lord Cairns, then lord chancellor, trying to gain admission to a lunatic asylum on a Wednesday. The janitor cites visiting rules and quips that four inmates are already inside as the gates close. Also noted is Admiral Cervera likely to oversee repatriation of Spanish sailors and possibly visit Cuba. A quip on martyrdom closes the item.
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Lord Cairns
England
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Japan
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Joint High Commission
Grove
American Trust Company of Chicago
Plummer
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Wash
Kobbe
Van
Fred'k
Piso
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