Adams County Weather and Local Governance Updates
Destructive hail hits Adams County, while Hall County pursues road improvements. Gov Poynter reappoints James B. Jones as Omaha grain inspector. Rev Jesse Jennings named chaplain of the Second Regiment. Junior notices include a fatal at Hastings and a fatal accident in Hebron. a Johnson Telephone company charter is filed. County finances show rising tax receipts, and a fatal accident near Sutton.
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Adams County
Hall County
A. E. Campbell
Jesse Jennings
Omaha
Poynter
James B. Jones
Broken Bow
Clint Hitchcok
Sterling
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Hitchcock
George Herrick
Hastings
Johnson
Johnson Telephone Company
J. B. Jones
Jones
Holcomb
Clay County District Court
W F
Leo M Flynn
F A. Butter
John Meakin
Charles Moore
August Bloemenkamp
George J Wilson
Lincoln
L. Coltran
Bancroft
Western Mercantile Company of
District Court
Bryant
Royal Oaks
Wetherald Bros
Hebron
Amos Shaer
Thomas Carter
Shafer
Carter
Helmrod
Douglas County
State
John Biddell
Sutton
Beets Arriving in Nebraska for Diversified Farming Tests
The Burlington reports gratifying sugar beet experiments in Nebraska with seed from the state university tested by farmers in sixty localities. Beets are large firm and sweet, signaling potential for a rich saccharine product. A goal is to produce syrup or raw sugar locally to cut freight and improve cattle feed.
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Burlington Passenger Department
Nebraska
Omaha World-Herald
State University
Burlington
New York
Omaha
Drowning of Burt County Family Reported in Minnesota Event
Wade Gillis of Tekamah told World Herald a Burt county family perished in a southern Minnesota flood while traveling in an emigrant wagon. A W Blades and his wife with eight children left Burt county for Minnesota but were swept from a creek bank by a cloudburst. only treetop remains found. The Blades had lived in Burt county for two decades near Decatur. The eldest daughter did not join the journey.
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Blades
Burt County
A B Fuller
Decatur
Condition of the First Nebraska May April reports show losses and duty figures
Official reports from Colonel Mulford of the First Nebraska cover April and May. April tallies show 921 enlisted and 45 officers present or absent, with 506 enlisted and 22 officers on duty. April deaths include 8 killed in action, 6 died of wounds, 2 of disease, and 22 discharged. Two officers killed, eight promoted, three resigned.
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Mulford
Nebraska
State House
Epee
Stotsenburg
Teaniog of Belnd Landa
Land commissioner's reports on last week's auctions in Wheeler Antelope and Pierce counties show 8 037 acres offered in Wheeler leased all vacant at 7 1 cents per acre with 4 080 acres leased at appraisal and 2 000 acres on four tracts yielding a 220 bonus. In Antelope 1 640 acres offered leased all except 160 at 1 48 per acre with a 19 bonus on two tracts totaling 400 acres. In Pierce 1 760 acres were leased vacant at 3 10 per acre.
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Teaniog
Belnd Landa
Land Commissioner's
Wolfe
Wheeler
Antelope
Pierce
Wheeler County
Pierce County
Bartley Bondsmen Judgment Rendered in Nebraska Court
The district court in Omaha ruled against Bartley’s bondsmen with Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald from Lincoln released due to temporary unsound mind. The judgment totals 460,382.45 dollars, including 565,700.66 dollars principal from Bartley’s defalcation and interest. A new trial motion is expected within days.
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Omaha
Bartley
Mary Fitzgerald
Lincoln
Fitzgerald
State Crop Conditions by County Report
The Crops Reports detail conditions across counties including harvest progress and yields. Notable notes include winter wheat in Clay Hall and Howard. corn laid by or tasseling in multiple counties. oats, barley and rye yields varying from good to drought-affected. some counties report abundant hay while others face scarce fruit and rainfall gaps.
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Butler
Fillmore
Boyd
Dawson
Greeley
Franklin
Dawes
Logan
Hottest Dubuque Day Recorded As Heat Wave Grips Midwest
The brief notes a 94 degree high at Dubuque marking the season’s hottest day. Other items include the confirmation of Father Frederick as bishop of Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie, deaths in Milwaukee and Warrensburg, and various political and wartime updates across the country.
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Dubuque
Mercury
Father Frederick
Marquette
Sault Ste. Marie
Gustave Wollager
Concordia Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Milwaukee
H. D. Kinksbury
Continental Tobacco Company
Pierre Lorillard
Regeteon Wel Bagacts
Frank Suste
Birmingham
Ala
Mauna
Hawaiian Islands
Peter Mitchell
Ottawa
United States
Vancouver
Philippines
C M Palmer
Warrensburg
Atlantic Monthly
Winfield N Sattley
Chicago
United Mine Workers of America
Springfield II
Ryan
Pana
Soldiers Monument Design Chosen for Frankfort Park
The Grand Army of Republic committee selecting a design for Frankfort park Inland’s Soldiers Monument will not seek bids. The 29 ft 3 in high granite monument features a bronze eagle on top with a 60 inch wingspan, flanked by two 4 ft high pedestals bearing a large cannon donated by the government. About 125 Platte county veterans’ names will be engraved on its sides, with Barre granite and a projected cost around 2500.
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Columbus Dispatch
Grand Army of Republic Committee
Frankfort Park
Old Platte County
Barre
Nebraskan firms shell 10000 bushels of corn at Sutton
Nebraskan Armour & Co completed shelling 10000 bushels of corn cribbed at Sutton with some shrinkage yet good quality. Armours plan to crib there again this fall, and the report notes Henry Schultz 77 was found dead by suicide in an enclosure behind a Bruning saloon run by his son.
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Nebraskan la Uries
P PD
Armour & Co
Sutton
Henry Schultz
Brunning
Ank
Charles Eads
Corduroy
D. C. Mowry
Geneva
Eads
Hectic News Roundup From Pratt To New York
In Pratt grasshoppers threaten cornfields. Ex King Milan of Serbia linked to a staged suicide plot. War Secretary directs Nineteenth Infantry battalion from Camp Meade to sail for Manila via the Ohio and Newport on the 26th. Land officials in St Cloud warned against filling Chippewa lands not ceded. War department orders 200 horses 50 wagons shipped to Manila via New Orleans. Angus Cannon pleads guilty to polygamy in Utah. Bicycle manufacturers form a New York based combine with 45 producers and 636 plants, capital $40 million. George Valentine of Perth Amboy is sentenced to six years for bank misappropriation of about $130,000.
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Tuesaday
Snator
White
California
Kansas City
Gage
Pacelot Henriot
State University
McKinley
George Warren & Sons
Foxlake
Wik
Charles Ho Drown
Treasury Department
Pliufield
Masa
John C Allen
Monmouth
Kridgeton
Bottle Blowers’ Association of America
William Simpson
Wichita
Kas
Simmons
Frankfort
Commissioner of Patents
Duell
Walbridge Abner Falld
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Congress
Massachustts
Field
Mra. A. F Pillsbury
Minneapolis
George Deeney
Court of Claims
Manila Bay
Pratt
Kaw
Milan of
War Department
Chickamauga
Angus M. Cannon
Ealt Lake State of Zion
Norwell
Third
New York
George M Valentine
Middlesex County Bank
Perth Amboy
N. J
Middlesex County
New Jersey
Trenton
Stout
Global and Local Business and Industry Notes
Monday General Joe Wheeler travels to San Francisco en route to the Philippines. Missouri Governor Renfrew raises mining property deals for American sine lead and smelting firms. A Texas cattle syndicate forms to influence the cattle market. Bryan to speak on trusts at Chicago conference September 12 to 16. Search begins for missing explorer near Grand Canyon. Peru unrest spreads with 600 infantry deployed. Baldwin locomotive works wins Finland order for thirteen consolidation engines. Chicago boiler makers threaten eight hour day and 30 cent minimum.
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Joe Wheeler
San Francisco
Philippines
Renfrew
Missouri
Sinc
Texas Cattle Syndicate
Texas
Wilam Jonnj
Ngxs
Bryan
Trusts
Chicago
Civic Federation
W. W. Bass
Ash York
Arizona
W. FF. Russell
Syracuse
Neb
Grand Canyon
Peru
Baldwin Locomotive Works
State Railways
Finland
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
Bulldora of America
Fragmented ad text hints at old drugstore items and soldier note
An OCR fragment lists potions and powders for foot ailments with prices from a drugstore near Allen Olmsted. It also mentions a soldier express messenger from a war, a request to burn a picture, and a playful note about starch and a grocer.
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Detroit
Flaiph Shelly
Montpelier
Indiana
Roy Button
Jeona Elmore
Mawson City
Toledo
Ohio
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George
Anne
Grand Army of the Republic
Hebraska
Wm. F. Cowles
Iowa
Steinauer
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Harry Smith
Sprinfield, Ill
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Register of the United States Treasury
Washington, DC
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Timnet Danuhness
Presi McKinley
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