Court asked to interpret Nebraska anti trust laws
Lincoln report says the Nebraska supreme court is urged to rule clearly on the legality of the state anti trust statutes. Attorneys General Brown John J. Sullivan and Jeffreris Howell say the court’s previous grain case opinion was unclear and inconsistent between syllabus and body. The brief argues penalties for criminal violations and questions of repeals and constitutionality require explicit guidance.
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Lincoln
Supreme Court
Brown
John J. Sullivan
Jeffreris & Howell
Lincoln cites murder verdicts and mercy appeals
Governor Mickey declares verdicts should not be tampered with in murder cases. He suggests discouraging mercy appeals for Jay O Hearn, arguing law must be upheld and executed despite religious sympathy or public pressure.
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Mickey
Lincoln
Jay O'Hearn
Doctor Killed by Freighter in Icy Yard Accident
Dr. S. F. Hunt of Stuart, a witness in the Irwin murder trial, was fatally crushed in railroad yards while attempting to board freight train No. 63. He slipped on ice at the depot, grabbed the caboose, and was run over as the rear trucks passed over him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’neill
S. F. Hunt
Stuart
Irwin
Nebraska Telephone Company
Beatrice
Wymore
McClintock & Carter
Columbus
Oxford
Boyd County
Great Northern
Hoag
Omaha
Sarah Coon
Beatree
Marysville
Kan
George Paris
Johnson
Burlington
Young Men’s Christian Association
Fremont
G. W. Mayfield
Louisville
W. C. Dorsey
CG. M. Shaw
Tecumseh
John L. Sherman
Board of Education
A. C. Records
Table Rock
A. H. Merchant
Omaha Grain Exchange
Merchant
MM. B. Thompson
Albion National Bank
Kid Brantner
Plattsmouth
Judge Wheeler
Burington Company
Pacific Junction
J. K. Kealy
Hastings
Round House
Central City
Reeder
Thomas Riley
August Miller
Stanton
Pender
Miller
Fred Harnecke
Harnecke
Moses H. Sydenham
Kearney
Nebraska
York County
Hinshaw
Mathew M H. M. Mathew of Loup City Dies
H M Mathew a leading Sherman County lawyer in Loup City died last night after a brief illness described as grippe. He was among the county's oldest residents, moving to the area in 1879.
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Loup City
H. M. Mathew
Mr. Mathew
Sherman County
Wilson Commends Plan For Agriculture Teaching
James Wilson secretary of agriculture writes to State Superintendent McBrien praising his effort to secure agriculture education in normal schools so graduates can teach the subject in country schools.
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Wilson
James Wilson
McBrien
Lincoln Republican Committee to Convene April Meeting
Lincoln officials report Chairman Warner of the Republican state committee will convene the party body at the Lindell hotel on April 6 at 8 p m. The gathering will set the date for the state convention and discuss the primary election proposition.
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Republican Committee
Lincoln
Warner
Republican State Committee
Lindell Hotel
Gold In The Gravel Found On Ed Dole Property
Gravel containing gold found on Ed Dole's property in Beatrice. Analysis by K C Koons a local jeweler revealed traces of gold mixed with iron pyrites in the gravel.
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Beatrice
Ed. Dole
K. C. Koons
New University Museum Wing Planned on Lincoln Campus
Lincoln reports a new museum building to be placed on the University of Nebraska campus between Grant Memorial Hall and Nebraska Hall facing south. Chancellor Andrews and assistants staked the site. The wing will be part of an edifice expected to cost about 150000 dollars with the wing costing an estimated 50000 dollars.
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska
Grant Memorial Hall
Nebraska Hall
Andrews
Nebraska briefs reflect rising prices and local developments
Furnas county lands show price increases with Beatrice fruit farm selling at 155 dollars per acre. Burlington surveyors active near Seward. Beatrice hosts railway mail exams. Hastings mayor seeks third term. Omaha YWCA raises 125000 for building. Fires, law actions, and civic plans populate a wide Nebraska update with multiple towns and figures.
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Furnas County
John Meyer
Beatrice
Burlington
Seward
Strike Outlook: Miners and Operators Fail to Reach Wage Deal
In Indianapolis the joint scale committee of coal operators from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania failed to resolve a wage dispute with miners after a three hour session. Mitchell led miners opposing the operators while both sides offered proposals. no vote was recorded as the current scale expires Saturday, risking a 250000 miner shutdown unless an agreement is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Mitchell
J. H. Winder
Danville
J. C. Kessemana
Phil Penna
H. L. Taylor
G. L. Chapman
John Mitchell
T. L. Lewis
W. B. Wilson
National Organization
Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Cigarette Law For Sale
The Nebraska Supreme Court sustained the state anti cigarette law in general. It held that sale and manufacture of cigarettes remain illegal while individuals may roll cigarettes for personal use not constituting manufacturing. A few fines were paid and sentences served under that portion of the law now declared unconstitutional.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Supreme Court
Nebraska
Mob Attempt Sees Ex Pastor Taken to Jail
Rev W Gouley Connell former Lamar Presbyterian pastor was brought to Lamar jail after a mob threatened to hang him. He admitted guilt and was moved from Lamar to avoid lynching following his Waxahachie arrest. Police and guards protected him during the transfer.
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LA Junta
Colo
W. Gouley Connell
Presbyterian Church
Lamar
Connel
Waxachie
Tex
Von Buelow to Resign in Berlin Dispatches
Vienna reports Berlin dispatches claim Chancellor Von Buelow will resign and be replaced by Prince Hohenlohe Langenburg, signaling a major political shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Say von Buelow
Vienna
Berlin
von Buelow
Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Morris Buck to be hanged for murder in Los Angeles
Morris Buck, who shot and killed Mrs Canfield, wife of the oil millionaire, was sentenced to be hanged June 1 in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Morris Buck
Canfield
Wireless Record Marbles Navy Dispatches Across Caribbean Network
Under Rear Admiral Cowles guidance the bureau of equipment conducted ten day tests sending government wireless messages among Guantanamo Cuba Key West Pensacola and Colon Panama About 75 percent of the messages succeeded with higher daytime performance versus night tests and shows progress in naval communications
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Washington
Cowles
Bureau of Equipment
Navy Department
Guantanamo
Cuba
Key West
Pensacola
Fla
Colon
Panama
Roosevelt pledges eight hour law enforcement to labor
President Roosevelt writes to Frank Morrison of the AFL promising full enforcement of the eight hour law. He directs departments to notify the Labor Department on start of applicable work and to have the Labor Bureau investigate and report complaints. Roosevelt expresses support and confidence in Mr. O Neill's supervision.
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Washington
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Mr. Morrison
Neill
Labor Bureau
Department of Commerce and Labor
O’neill
Theodore Roosevelt
The
Fort Niobrara to be Abolished in War Department Plan
Washington officials plan to close smaller army posts and consolidate them with larger stations. Fort Niobrara Nebraska would be abolished and may join Fort Robinson or Fort Crook. Senator Burkett is opposing the plan and pressed Taft in a three hour session over the Fort Niobrara decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Fort Niobrara
Fort Robinson
Fort Crook
Burkett
Nebraska
Taft
Killed In His Pulpit Lightning Strikes Latter Day Saints Pastor
Rev. John B. Lentz was delivering a Sunday sermon at the Latter Day Saints church when lightning struck the pulpit and instantly killed him. The bolt traveled from an overhead incandescent light, leaving a bullet sized hole at the base of the bulb while the church suffered no other damage. Congregants rushed forward in shock as the preacher fell unable to continue his message.
Anthony to Lead Oregon Sufrage Campaign Visit
Rochester, New York Mary Anthony with Dr. Anna Shaw will travel to Portland Oregon to further the woman suffrage cause following Susan B Anthony’s last wishes. They will stop a week in Chicago and then proceed to Oklahoma.
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Rochester
N. Y
Mary S. Anthony
Anna Shaw
Portland
Ore
Susan B. Anthony
Chicago
Oregon
Miss Anthony
Oklahoma
Famine Statistics From Three Prefectures in Japan
New famine figures from Kukuishima and Miyagi show complete crop failures. Kukuishima with 483,588 sufferers from 1,170,598 people. Miyagi reports 190,422 sufferers from 749,927.
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Tokio
Kukuishima
Miyagi
Senate votes $140 million for pension payments
Washington report says the Senate, in under twenty minutes, approved a pension appropriation bill allocating $140,000,000 of public funds with minimal debate on the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Naughty Woman from Nebraska Divorces Spouse Over Notes
Mrs. Vernon J. Barlow of Lincoln Nebraska filed for divorce in Chicago alleging her husband on a travel car wrote notes to Miss M A Putnam of Lincoln. The notes, written on a book fly leaf, urged not to wear a kimono and to meet in the next car. Mrs. Barlow followed and found them together after her husband left.
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Nebraska
Chicago
Vernon J. Barlow
M. A. Putnam
Lincoln
Neb
Miners demand 1903 wage scale in scale committee talks
In Indianapolis the United Mine Workers led by John Mitchell T L Lewis and Herman C Perry presented an ultimatum to coal operators demanding restoration of the 1903 wage scale with a 6.55 percent increase. Operators adjourned the session awaiting a reply likely to reject the demand and widen the dispute.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
T. L. Lewis
National Organization
Herman C. Perry
Illinois Miners
Central Competitive District
United Mine Workers
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Secretary Root Plans South American Cruise in July
Secretary Root will sail for South America aboard the protected cruiser Charleston from New York or Hampton Roads about mid July if plans permit. The voyage includes a west coast cruise to Panama and a visit to Rio Janeiro for the Pan American Congress.
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Washington
Root
South America
Charleston
New York
Hampton Roads
Panama
Rio Janeiro
Pleas of Not Guilty Filed in Jail Attack Case
Cal Waln and Harri son Clark pleaded not guilty to murder while attempting robbery and to premeditated murder in the Douglas county jail attack linked to the slaying of Conductor Flury at Albright two weeks earlier. The two of the mob-lynching suspects faced the charges in Omaha Nebraska as the case moved forward.
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Omaha, Neb
Cal Waln
Harrison Clark
Douglas County
Conductor Flury
Albright
Four Firemen Die As Factory Blows Up
Four firemen perished and about twenty others including citizens were injured when a fire at a six story factory building near Bedford and Downing streets in Greenwich Village was followed by explosions. The damage was placed between 300000 and 400000 dollars as Chief Crocker blamed the blasts for the high destruction and collapse.
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New Yo.t
Bedford and
Downing Streets
Greenwich Village
Land for Indian Children Allotment Measure Favored
Washington House Committee on Indian Affairs reports favorably a Stephens joint resolution. It would allot 160 acres of land to each child of Kiowa Comanche or Apache members eligible under the act opening reservations.
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Washington
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Battleships Ohio Wisconsin Move Toward Shanghai
Word reached the Navy department that the battleship Ohio flagship of Read Admiral Charles Train left Manila for Shanghai. It is unclear if the admiral is aboard. The Wisconsin, also stationed at Manila, followed to Shanghai a day later. officials say these movements were not ordered by the department.
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Washington
Navy Department
Ohio
Charles Train
Manila
Shanghai
Wisconsin
Bureau of Navigation
Department
Mayor of Omaha Dies In Office After Long Service
Omaha mourns Colonel Frank E. B. Moores, long serving mayor, who died at 65 after a battle with tuberculosis. Crowds lined city hall as thousands paid respects in a daylong, cross‑sectional tribute to the first Omaha chief magistrate to die in office.
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Omaha
Frank I. Moores
Ohio
Hot Springs
S. D
Arizona
Frank EB. Moores
C M and St Paul to Build Coast Railway Line
Chicago news reports the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad orders 125000 tons of steel rails from Illinois Steel Company for 3500000 dollars. Much of the shipment funds the Pacific coast extension with forty thousand tons to be laid before year’s end.
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Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Illinois Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
St. Paul’s
Pacific Coast Extension
Senator Clark Seeks Immediate Restoration of Withdrawn Lands
Senator Clark of Montana introduces a bill amending the reclamation act to restore to the public domain lands withdrawn for irrigation that are not irrigable. If any withdrawal area proves more valuable for minerals, mineral entry may proceed and the land is excluded from withdrawal and opened to entry under mineral laws.
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Clark
Washington
Montana
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Indians Quarrel Over Swallowed Watch in Kansas
Dear Head and Swift Horse, two Pottawatomie Indians, fought on the reservation over a small silver watch. Dear Head swallowed the watch to keep it, Swift Horse had him arrested, and Dear Head remains in possession of the watch as the case proceeds.
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Pottawatomie
Holton
Kas
Dear Head
Swift Horse
Pottawatomie Reservation
Laying of Corner Stone Set for April 7
President Roosevelt will attend the corner stone ceremony for the new House of Representatives office building on Saturday April 7. The event mirrors Washingtons Capitol stone laying of 113 years ago with the federal Masonic lodge directing the stone swing and Walter A Brown supervising. Addresses will be delivered by the president and Speaker Cannon.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
United States Capitol
Federal Masonic Lodge
House
Walter A. Brown
Ma‘sonic Lodge
District of Columbia
Cannon
Mall Sent to Peary by Arctic Club Mail
The Peary Arctic club sent its annual letters to Commander Robert E Peary in the Arctic. A bulky parcel from Mrs Peary and expedition families was express shipped to Dundee then by whaler to Cape York to reach Eskimos later.
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Mall
Peary
New York
Peary Arctic Club
Robert E. Peary
Arctic
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Miles
Coal Scale Committee
Mitchell and Wilson
Lentz
Carson, Ja
Waln
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