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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1898
Page
6
Brief, compact items from various regions summarize accidental incidents crimes politics and society. Readable notes capture assorted events and quick updates across countries with concise wording and neutral framing.
Reports last week stirred prices, while no martial law exists at Skagua. US aid flows to Cuban relief as New York ships supply hundreds of tons. Luetgert to serve sausage duties in Joliet, and Hawaii's Dole donates 500 for sailors' families. Global plagues, German conquests, and Senate bills color the day.
The page catalogs diverse items from fires in Graham Virginia to a White House reshuffle and border tensions. It notes a Rio Brazil attache appointment, Kurdish unrest, Irish American politics, Berlin to Seattle relief, a prize fight arrest, a New York court martial, and a six month extension request for Uncompaghre Indian reservation land openings.
In New York the Union Pacific case sees Justice Chase deny a stockholder Mr Barnard an injunction to stop the reorganizing committee from issuing more than 75 million dollars in bonds. The White Rock cotton mill at Weaverly saw workers refuse to return to work.
Kansas Republican state convention scheduled for June 8 in Hutchinson. Union Pacific Railroad donates 25000 dollars toward the Trans Misssissippi Exposition. Garibaldians at Rome honor Cavallotti with a funeral display after a duel death. Great Britain’s marine tonnage totals 6720703 units today.
Dr. Von Riecke and Abraham P. Cline die. Enlistment applications average thirty daily in artillery at Boston. Old City opera house in Pa. destroyed by fire causing $60,000 loss. Over 100 Chicago clerkships exempt from civil service. Columbus miners and operators clash over day labor scale. Cridler meets Hanoraux in Paris. Monitor and Merrimac battle anniversary observed in Philadelphia with Congressman Boutelle speaking. Union Pacific reportedly controls Oregon Short Line. Rev. David Morton dies in Louisville aged 68. Prince Poniatowski plans 10 000 horsepower from Sierra Nevada waters via a 110 mile electrical line to San Francisco. Alpine and Calaveras counties project electrical transmission south to San Francisco.
Saturday items report several notable events: Sir George Lawson dies in London. Rev Paul Van Dyke elected Princeton history professor. eight Dr. John Hall church trustees resign in New York. Tug Underwriter and Chief sail to Havana. Warren W Beckwith signed as pitcher for Dubuque. American Peace Society urges Sunday prayer for peace. Samuel Gompers denounces Lattimer decision. Prof Ashley R Hurst suffers anaplexy and skull fracture in New Orleans. Mayor McKisson vows to contest Hanna’s seat. Judge Townsend rules Dingley tariff not law until signature. Dr George N Kreider notified to ready all department appliances.
The Bunainn Navy in St. Petersburg reports an imperial ukase authorizing an extraordinary 90,000,000 rubles for warship construction with no loan to cover the funds. Official calculations note 6.40 rubles equal one British pound.
Lincoln grand jury indicts former state auditor Eugene Moore on a $250 embezzlement draft from Omaha Fire Insurance Company drawn January 8, 1896. Moore bonded out and released after arrest. Indictment contains ten counts and signals potential future charges over additional fees.
Mrs. J. H. McConnell wife of a mail carrier died at midnight from a self-inflicted gunshot wound the bullet entering her brain. Husband awakened by the shot found her body in the dining room the revolver near her hand. She had been in poor health and dementia for some time leaving behind a sorrowing husband two young children and several relatives.
A proposed new north south road line would be incorporated with a capital of 26 099 000 and incorporation fee around 2 600. It would run from Superior on the south line to the Niobrara mouth on the northern boundary, and include an airline linking towns such as WNel son Clay Center Aurora Central City Fullerton Albion Neligh Verdigris Niobrara within five miles of the direct route.
A Cumberland Maine resident reports a severe paralysis like illness following diphtheria. After trying various remedies the family used Hood's Sarsaparilla. The boy improved within weeks and regained strength enough to attend school part time. The testimonial praises Hood's as a blood purifier and tonic.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla provides wonderful cures when other medicines fail. Sold by all druggists at $1, or six for $3, prepared by C. I. Hood & Co. apothecaries of Lowell Massachusetts.
The Toronto Mail and Empire estimates about 800 colored residents in Toronto, many born in Canada. They work in Pullman service, barbering, delivery, trade and domestic roles, with limited savings, two churches, and gradual involvement in education, religion, and unions.
The text describes a home remedy where the patient sits in a wooden chair inside a flat bath, enveloped by blankets and paper to trap heat. Boiling water is poured to generate steam, kept up with added water or bricks, for about twenty minutes until sweating occurs. It also mentions a bran bath recipe using four pounds of bran in one gallon of water, strained and diluted to fill a bath. The closing line notes that a man who makes a fool of himself usually does the job well.
The Atlantic notes Shakespeare’s London as a small city of 150 000 to 200 000, where all notable figures knew one another. By 1595 to 1610 he was widely known, praised by Spenser and cited by Meres, with ties to Raleigh Bacon Selden and the Mermaid tavern, a leading wit of the era.
Reports from the Kittam Boom river allege a violent group calling themselves a Human Alligator society lures fishermen from canoes, kills them, robs belongings, and devours victims. One survivor killed a assailant but was later killed. a severed leg with identifiable marks was recovered. Authorities note rising outrages in the district.
A witty historical vignette describes a young lady who asks for circular elastic appendages to support her garments in refined terms. The unmarried clerk, overwhelmed by the phrasing, faints at the request, highlighting social embarrassment in formal speech.
A neighbor’s small boy prepares for Sunday school and is told to answer God when asked who made him. The moment arrives and the teacher asks the boy who made him, prompting a pause and the quip that he cannot recall the gentleman’s name but knows it wasn’t papa.
Report says Missouri hosts the world’s greatest concentration of deceased individuals. Officials attribute the statistic to local records and historical census data.
Edmonton District hosts a model seven acre garden run by Donald Ross who reports annual net earnings of 800 to 1000 dollars from roots vegetables and plants. He claims 750 bushels of onions per acre with beets as large as a grown man’s arm and cabbages as large as a patent pail. Government agents promote Western Canada settlement while Maine shipments reach the plains.
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