Nebraska News Briefs Highlight Local Industry and Tragedy
Nebraska items report bond sales in Omaha, a temporary depot permit for Union Pacific, church improvements at Duncan, a triplet birth near Trenton, and injuries from a feed cutter in Nicholls county. District court postponements, a Pender eagle capture, irrigation plans in North Platte, a Fremonter Klondike attempt, a Fatal fire near Table Rock, and a University exhibit at the Trans Miss. exposition. Also notes a youth suicide in Buffalo county and a Cairo accident.
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Monroe
Klondike
Brewster
Ney
Hospital
Union: Pacific
Omaha
Union ‘Pacific
Duncan
Leonard Harrison
Trenton
Delma
L. E. Deshazo
Nicholls County
District Court
Burt County
Mediation Seen as Opportunity in Cuban Crisis Says Senator Proctor
Senator Proctor views a ripe moment for mediation in Cuba as Spain faces insurgent pressure and internal coercion. He notes limited aid reaches the interior while President Blanco struggles with autonomy concessions and unrest. Proctor plans to study conditions in Havana tobacco regions and sugar districts to inform future steps.
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New York
Cuba
Havana
The
Tribune
Blanco
United States
Spain
Gavin
Dolz
Sagasta
Gomez
Santa Clara
Proctor
Cabinet raises rewards in two murder cases
Yesterdays cabinet meeting lasted about three hours and produced no new information on General Lee or the court of inquiry. The session included a long Post Office report on the Lake City killing of Baker the colored postmaster and raised the reward to 1500 dollars in each case to aid federal prosecutors.
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Wurderera
Washington
Lee
Court of Inquiry
Post Office Department
Baker
Lake City
S.C
Opposition to Free Womenreads Amendment in Madrid
The Epoca, a conservative Madrid paper, argues against keeping General Lee in Havana. It says Washington acted over Senor de Lome and urges Gullen to decide the insurrection case, claiming relations between Spain and the United States are harmed by his stay.
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Madrid
Epoca
Washington
Senor de Lome
Senor Gullen
Lee
Havana
Spain
United States
Steamer Aorangi Brings Klondike Voyage Party
The Aorangi arrived at Kiondike with about 200 men from New Zealand and Australia bound for the Klondike. It made a record Honolulu trip of six and a half days to Capt Flattery. Detectives pursued five embezzlers, three men and two women, who left Sydney with 15000 dollars and disembarked in Honolulu.
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Kiondike
Victoria
B. G
New Zealand
Australia
Klondike
Honolulu
Flattery
Sydney
Rotherhilds-WHI to Build Rail Line to the Klondike
Juneau Alaska reports the Rotherhilds-WHI plan a railroad to the Yukon with a party of over forty men landed at Pyramid Harbor near the Salmon cannery. Engineer H Bratnaber orders townsite houses while land grants and a right of way are filed. Grades on the Dalton trail are said lower than the Canadian Pacific enabling potential ore financing. Twenty to thirty Treadwell workers charter a tug and scow to squat on town lots as a profitable Alaska investment.
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Rotherhilds - Whi
Klondike
Juneau
Alaska
Port Townsend
Wash
Rotherilds
Yukon
Walcott
Pyramid Harbor
Salmon Cannery
Onderdonk
United States
Dalton
H. Bratnaber
Rothchilds
London
Rothcchilds
Dalton Trail
Bartnober
Treadwell Company
Wheat Market Shows Irregular Week with Mixed Gains
Chicago reports a week of uneven wheat prices with May up 1 4 cents and July up 1 cent at times. Sellers dominated early, then a covering rally lifted markets as Liverpool stock declines and demand rose. May stayed firm with support from Leiter and other bulls, while weakness returned late in the week, especially Friday.
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Chicago
Liverpool
May
Leiter
Pension swindler Cralle arrested in Topeka trial set
George Cralle a notorious pension swindler was brought to Topeka for trial after arrest at Holton by a government inspector. He used aliases E S Wright J B Allen and G W Brown and posed as a pension examiner. Authorities say he operated in Iowa Missouri Nebraska and other states and fleeced pensioners for money. He served two years in Illinois for the same scam.
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Topeka
Kan
George Cralle
Holton
Cralle
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
E. S. Wright
J. B. Allen
G. W. Brown
Washington
Iilinais
Consul Favored Foreign Roads Report Sparks Senate Debate
Senator Wilson criticized a Vancouver Canada report by Consul Dudley praising Canadian routes to the Klondike as aiding foreign interests. He warned it harms American roads and West Coast sea ports. The state department instructed Dudley to avoid favoring foreign interests in future dispatches.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate Department
Dudley
Vancouver
B. C
Klondike
State Department
United States
Free Name Amendment Sparks House Clash Over Indian Bill
Chairman Sherman reports Secretary Bliss opposes the free home amendment to the Indian appropriation bill passed by the Senate. Bliss argues the measure is inexpedient and would tax the entire people for the benefit of a few. A Boston tug Underwriter was lost in a storm off Hatteras.
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Washington
Sherman
Indian Affairs Committee
The
House
Bliss
Free Home
Senate
Boston
Hatterar
Congress This Week Adds Push on Senate Measure
The House will take up the artillery bill and push the Senate measure. Opposition to the proposed increase appears to fade with favorable action in expulsion fights.
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House
Senate
House set to pass Maine relief and artillery bills this week
Washington March 7 It is probable both the relief bill for Maine disaster survivors and a senate bill creating two additional artillery regiments will pass the house this week. The relief bill faced scrutiny over past scandals but is now drawn carefully and supported by Chairman Cannon.
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Washington
Maine
Senate
Cannon
Committee of Appropriations
House
District of Columbia
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Pettigrew
Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Morgan to Seek Cuba Consular Correspondence
Senator Morgan said he would introduce a resolution to demand the consular correspondence on Cuba and the Senate and country deserve official reports. He noted he will not push it while the Maine disaster court of inquiry sits unless delayed reports occur. The measure would require the submission of the correspondence.
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Washington
Morgan
Cuba
Senate
Maine
Court of Inquiry
Senate confirms diverse diplomatic and civil service nominations
The Senate confirmed several nominations including Colonel Oberliner as consul at Teneriffe Canary Islands and W W Cobbs as consul at Colon Colombia. Other picks include B B Brown as customs collector Erie Pa E L Dorsey supervising inspector steam vessels Sixth district J R Spurgeon secretary of legislation Moravia Liberia M V Gideon Springfield Mo G Store Ironton Mo H Schmidt Boonville Mo and navy officers H B Robeson to commodore W S Schley to commodore. Also minor army navy promotions noted. Kansas City beach show set March 15 to 187.
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Senate
Washington
Oberliner
New York
Teneriffe
Canary Islands
B. B. Brown
Pennsylvania
District of Erie
E. ‘L. Dorsey
Indiana
W. W. Cobbs
Colon
Colombia
J. R. Spurgeon
Kentucky
Moravia
Liberia
Kansas
J. W. Keenan Lyndon
C. E. Hall
Russell
G. W Doty
Burlingame
W. L. Chambers
Missouri
H. Buttles
Memphis
M. Vv. Gideon
Springfield
G. Store
Ironton
Publc
H.schmidt
Boorville
Navy
H. B. Robeson
W. S&s. Schley
Army
First Payment Made on Kansas Pacific Sale
Washington March 7 The first payment of one million dollars on the government sale of its interest in the Kansas Pacific railroad was made last week The remaining five million five hundred three thousand dollars will be paid in four equal installments at thirty forty fifty and sixty days from the sale date February 19
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Kansan Pacific
Washington, D. C
Kansas Pacific Railroad
General Merritt Returns From Fortifications Tour
Gen Merritt, who had traveled south to inspect fortifications, returns with satisfaction at the improvements and defenses observed during the reconnaissance.
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Gen. Merritt
Canadian flag raised at Summit Lake reported from Skagway
Passengers on the steamer Islander confirm the flag raising at Summit Lake and a Canadian custom house planned at Crater Lake. Martial law claims at Skagway are denied by sources. U S troops enforce order from the Queen voyage.
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Victoria
Skagway
Summit Lake
Crater Lake
United States
Difficulties of Tropic Transport Highlight Pack Carriers
In Yeatman’s piece, Columbia pack carriers endure brutal loads that mule transport cannot, hauling boxed organs along steep jungle roads. A stooped, muscular man steadies himself with a cane, freeing a laden organ carrier from the bend of the path as grit and grit and more grit drive onward.
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Tropics
Thengineering Magazine
C. P. Yeatman
Columbia
Mason & Hamlin Organ Company
Allen's Foot Base powder for foot relief
Ask for Allen's Foot Base a powder to shake into your shoes it cures corns bunions child blains swollen nervous damp sweating smarting and callous feet at all druggists and shoe stores 25c sample free address Allen S Olm sted LeRoy New York
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Cambridge No-License History Published In Massachusetts
Citizens of Cambridge publish a handsome volume titled Ten No-License Years In Cambridge detailing the town history of the movement. It highlights the physical and moral benefits attributed to the enacted no-license policy.
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Cambridge
Mass
Towa Patent Office Report from Des Moines Invention Notice
The report notes a favorable opinion from the Attorney General’s department on use of the words Patent Office in advertising. It mentions the 1900s Paris World’s Fair spurring U S inventors to seek foreign patents and lists firms ordering us to secure British French German and Canada patents for the Eureka Blotter Bath Co of Chicago and for two Holstein inventors with U S patents for a calcium carbide method and an electric furnace. It offers free information on obtaining valuing and selling patents from Thomas G and J Ralph Orvis solicitors of Patents.
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Towa Patent Office
Des Moines
Iowa
Patent Office
Attorney General's’ Department
Secretary of the Interior
Paris
Canada
Holstein
U. S
Thomas G. & J. Ralph Orvis
Ambition Turns to Spotlight in Saloonkeeper Cover Scene
A line notes some men’s height of ambition is to appear on a magazine cover while conversing with a saloonkeeper. The remark hints at fame through unconventional encounters and suggests social commentary on publicity and personal aspiration.
Baltimore and Ohio Third in Freight Equipment Holdings
The Official Railway Equipment Register lists the Baltimore and Ohio as third in freight equipment. It reports 324,674 cars in total, with about 14,009 box cars and 18,000 coal cars. the rest are refrigerator, livestock, passenger, and caboose cars. Even with this fleet, car shortages are frequently felt on many days.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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