Nebraska News Highlights From Crete to Norfolk
News brief roundup from Nebraska towns including Crete opening a new bank by August, York debating an opera house, Syracuse converting a purchased opera house to a livery stable, and Fourth of July celebrations planned in Kearney David City and other towns. Reports of burglaries, assaults, a near-fatal poison incident, and a mill break in at Fairbury.
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Crete
Eustis
Fred Anderson
Osceola
York
Syracuse
Kearney
David City
Nebraska
Narshall
Fremont
Holdrege
Burlington
W. W. Johnson
Beatrice
H. J. Segar
Billings
H. L. Lewis
Atchison
West
Point Dispatch
Son of Columbus
Columbus
Fairbury
Houghtkin & McDowell
John Price
Palmyra
Samuel P. Davidson
Tecumseh
Hayward
Kem
Colorado
Congress
Hroken
H. M. Wiedman
Chappell
Omnaha
Douglas County
Supreme Court
McCool Junction
Stanton Picket
Texas
Stanton County
Ignatz Renner
West Point
Philip Brandstetter
Bismarck Township
Phillips
Fremont Hemp Company
Peter Iveson
Iveson
E. S. Whitney
Marian County
Whitney
Weather Bureau
North Platte
Wilcox
Clyde
A. A. Cox
Teachers’ Institute
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Iex
Norfolk
Tariff Bill Debate Highlights Lumber Schedule Clash
In Washington on June 7 the Senate resumed work on the tariff bill. Arkansas Senator Jones attacked lumber duties, citing a National Lumber convention letter urging petitions. West called the white pine rate prohibitory, while Georgia Democrat Bacon defended the overall average rate of about 20 percent and supported the bill.
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Senate
Jones
Arkansas
West
National Lumber Convention
Mr. Jones
Mr. West
Bacon
Georgia
Postmaster Removals and Term Extensions
Washington June 7 Officials announce a change in policy allowing postmasters to serve out full terms only if not removed for cause and projecting widespread appointments soon. The President and Postmaster General will consider all offices expiring between now and July 15 as expired. The aim is to fill many offices before the fiscal year ends July 1 to start new accounts.
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Wasmington
Post Office Department
Weyler Likely to Be Replaced by Martinez Campos
Maprio June 7 notes a Cuban crisis hinge on choosing a governor who can reassure Cubans Spain intends reforms. Conservatives increasingly imply Weyler may be recalled, with Marshal Martinez Campos seen as willing to take his place as Liberal victory looms or conservatives seek a new approach.
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Maprio
Cuba
Spain
Weyler
Marshal Martinez Campos
Appointments Nominate Consuls and Assistant Attorney General
The President sent nominations to the Senate appointing Harold Van Buren of New Jersey as consul at Nice France Carl Bailey Hurst of the District of Columbia as consul general at Vienna Henry H Morgan of Louisiana as consul at Horgen Switzerland William W Canada of Indiana as consul at Vera Cruz Mexico Justice Louis A Pradt of Wisconsin as Assistant Attorney General Interior Stephen J Weeks of Nebraska as register of the law office at O Neill Nebraska.
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Washington
Senate
Harold van Buren
New Jersey
Nice
France
Carl Bailey Hurst
District of Columbia
Prague
Vienna
Austria
Henry H. Morgan
Louisiana
Horgen
Switzerland
William W. Canada
Indiana
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Louis A. Pradt
Wisconsin
Stephen J. Weeks
Nebraska
O'Neill
Neb
Review of Trade Shows Inactivity and Wheat Prospects
Bradley Street notes limited overall business activity with fall demand hints and higher iron and steel prices. Southwest crops improve with rain, boosting Pacific coast wheat export hopes. Northwestern jobbing remains modest. funds trend to accumulation. Also reports fifty desertions from the Oregon’s marines and seamen as the battleship rests on Puget Sound after two months, mostly new recruits fleeing restraint and discipline.
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New York
Bradstreet
Southwest
Texas
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Seartite
Wash
Puget~ Sound
Snow Falls in Marquette for Half Hour
Marquette Michigan reports a brief snow event on June 7 with snow lasting about thirty minutes, followed by a cold rain that lingered most of the day prior.
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Michigan
Marquette
Mich
Conflict over law enforcement near Cheyenne reserve in Montana
The dispute between state and federal authorities over jurisdiction to arrest depredators near the Cheyenne reservation nears resolution as six regular companies guard Lame Deer and locals prepare for potential clashes. In Miles City refugees describe 125 Indians led by White Bull escaping the reservation, with 390 armed settlers nearby and monks from a mission convent seeking safety.
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Twelena
Mont
Junce
Lame Deer
Smith
Miles City
Upper Tongue River
White Bull
Sisters of the Convent
White Law Reid May Become Minister to Spain
Washington reports White Law Reid, the president's special representative at the queen's jubilee, may travel from London to Madrid to serve as the United States minister to Spain with ex-Secretary Tracy as a second option.
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Washington
Whitelaw Reid
London
Madrid
Spain
Tracy
Senate committee defers Tillman sugar stock probe
Washiatox June 3 The Senate committee on contingent expenses met and decided to study the charges of senators speculating in sugar stocks to a limited extent before reporting the Tillman resolution. They postponed any recommendations for the present.
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Washiatox
Senate
Tillman
Debs Co Operative Scheme Mission From Denver
Three men depart Denver in a wagon painted Co-Operative Commonwealth Van to preach radical socialism in Colorado and prepare the way for Eugene V. Debs's co operative commonwealth. The missionaries are James Hogan vice president of the American Railway union N Griest of Denver and William Kolmes of Chicago.
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Debs
Denver
Colo
Co-Operative Commonwealth
Colorado
Eugene V. Debs
James Hogan
American Railway Union
William Kolmes
Chicago
New Korean Cabinet Resigns After Russian Action
Reports say Russia forces acceptance of Russian officers as army instructors in Korea, triggering a cabinet crisis. All ministers including Kim Pyong and Cho Pyong-Chong have submitted their resignations after opposing the plan.
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AN Francisco
Russia
Kim Pyong
Cho Pyong-Chong
Verbal Report Expected on Cuba from Calhoun
It is stated that no official Cuba report will be prepared by Mr. Calhoun beyond a formal submission on the Ruiz case. Any communication on Cuba’s condition due to the war will be a verbal briefing to the President.
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Wasmincrox
Department
Cuba
Calhoun
Ruiz
Retirement opens civil engineer post in Washington
The retirement of Civil Engineer McCollum will permit an appointment in the corps of civil engineers. The vacancy has several applicants and offers a life office with salary rising from 2403 to 3500 after fifteen years. Civil engineers retire at 62 on three quarters pay.
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Washington
McCollum
Corps of Civil Engineers
Increase in Gold and Silver Output in 1896
Mr. Preston, director of the mint, reports U S gold production in 1896 totaled about 53 million dollars, up over 6.25 million from 1895. Silver output reached 7.7 million fine ounces, an increase of 1.9 million ounces over 1895.
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Preston
Mint
United States
Captain Koweyo Retired from U S Army in Atlanta
Captain Henry Romeyn of the Fifth United States Infantry at Fort McPherson, aged 64, formally retired from active service yesterday in Atlanta.
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Koweyo
Atlanta
Henry Romeyn
Fifth United States Infantry
Fort McPherson
President nominates governors and secretaries for territories
The president today sent nominations to the Senate for territorial leadership. Miguel A. Otero as governor of New Mexico George H Wallace as secretary of New Mexico and William M Jenkins as secretary of Oklahoma Territory.
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Washxaton
Senate’ Interior
Miguel A. “Otero
New Mexico
George H.,.wallace
William M. Jenkins
Oklahoma Territory
Will Accept Angell Membership to Congregational Church
The State Department satisfactorily explains His membership to the Congregational Church to the Turkish government. The issue centers on Angell and what the sultan feared, with diplomatic briefing representing the rationale and context presented to Ankara.
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Congregational Church
State Department
The
Sul
Sultan Drops Objection to Angell as Constantinople Minister
Washington reports indicate the sultan of Turkey withdrew objections to James B. Angell becoming U S minister at Constantinople. Secretary Sherman, via cables from Secretary Terrell, clarified that Angell is a secular educator not tied to a religious order and that the sultan’s concerns were based on misinformed views of Congregationalism. Angell prepared to sail for Constantinople next Saturday after the clearance.
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Washington
Turkey
James B. Angell
United States
Constantinople
Sherman
Terrell
Dr. Angeli
State Department
Mustapha Hey
McKinley
Dr. Angell
Angell
Mustapha Bey
Congregational Church
Muhammedans
Weyler orders crackdown as Cuba provinces mobilize
Captain General Weyler issued a May 27 decree from Sancti Spiritus announcing military operations in eastern Cuba. It enforces January provisions in Puerto Principe and Santa Clara, creates cultivation zones, closes unfortified stores, concentrates peasants, and destroys undefended resources. Citizens have one month to comply starting with the decree’s publication. Also reported is a government May revenue surplus of 688,135 dollars against expenditures of 24,109,259, with May 1896 showing a deficit of 3,782.
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WasnixctTon
Democratic Candidate Elected to Congress in Missouri District
A special congressional election in Missouri's first district chose Lloyd, a Democrat, to replace the late Richard Giles. Lloyd led Clark by about 5,000 votes, with total turnout around 80 percent of last November. Lloyd won Hannibal, Clark's hometown, by 241 as a Democratic gain.
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Gress
Missouri
Sr. Lous
Richard Giles
Lloyd
Clark
Rep
Hannibal
Doctor Accused of Murder in Denver Case
Dr. Lewis F. Preston a consumptive specialist was arrested on a warrant for the murder of David Prank a cigarmaker from Brooklyn New York Prank died after Preston allegedly treated him with a trachar a hollow chest needle and an electric wire into the lungs Preston sent a death certificate blaming consumption and heart weakness.
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Denver
Col
Lewis F. Preston
David Prank
Brooklyn
N. Y
Preston
Docto
Health Department
Jubilee Fever Grips London With Extravagant Proposals
Longvon June 7 acts as Britain braces for the jubilee celebrations. The press warns against imagined disasters, imagines new country re christenings, and reports schemes to sell nonexistent jubilee seats to unsuspecting travelers. Meanwhile in Paris Russia plans to honor Faure with credits for his St Petersburg visit and naval reviews.
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Longvon
England
Britain
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
Port Said
Brindsia
Queenstown
The
Figaro
Faure
St. Petersburg
the Figaro
William
Prince Henry
Prussia
M. L’basile
Poiteres
Bryan Lectures to Large Toronto Audience
William Jennings Bryan spoke to an immense crowd at Massey Music Hall in Toronto last night with a lecture that drew broad interest from locals in Toronto Canada on June 7.
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Mr. Bryan
Toronto
Can
W. J. Bryan
Massey Music Hall
Patents Allowed for Harrow Attachment and Vehicle Improvements
The notice lists patents allowed but not yet issued to I T Evans of Clive for a self adjusting triple V shaped drag harrow, Bessie Larson of Ruthven for a pole yoke attachment to prevent hangars separation, and the Rhoads and Carmean Buggy Co of Marshalltown for a four wheeled vehicle improvement to reduce lurching on rough roads.
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I. T. Evans
Clive
Bessie Larson
Ruthven
G. Baldwin
Rhoads and Carmean Buggy Co
Marshalltown
A. B. Arnold
United States
Iowa
RaLrn Onwin
Solicitors of Patents
Des Moines
Boston Store in Omaha to Host Half-Price Clothing Sale
A syndicate of eastern clothing manufacturers shipping $100,000 worth of goods to the Boston Store in Omaha for a half-rate sale on June 8 9 10 and 11. The push promises savings of one half to one third of New York prices plus discounts on dry goods and shoes at the Sixteenth and Douglas Street store.
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New York
Chicago
St- Louis
Omaha
Navy
South Omaha
Orming Ifcoders
Aeeerey
Miikers and Apringers
Sansa
Wa Dauveaeae
Boston
Sixteenth
Douglas Streets
Sixteenth and
Boston Store
Douglas Sts
Cruelty Advocates Crack Down On Animal Haulage
The Chicago Record cites Cruelty to Animals concerns over street carriage of mail wagons drawn by sick or maimed horses in Philadelphia. Agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals demand enforcement despite mail transport pressures.
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Society For“The Prevention of
Philadelphia
United States Mail
United’States Mail
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Bidney
Nebraska News
Review OF Trade
Will
Tan
Press
Agsamat
Creat Clothing
Arctic
Rubber Trust
United States Rubber Co
Providence Rubber Company
Providence
R. I
A. QO. Bourn
Europe
Rome
Bentley & Olmsted
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
Geo. Watkinson & Co
Watkinson
Hood Rubber Company
Old Colony
Trust
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