Wide sweep of state notes on revival and events
Beatrice hosts a religious revival while water in the Blue River runs high for three years. Hastings hosts August populist convention. Barbed wire ban proposed in Toptas. Lincoln tackles city treasurer loss. Nebraska news covers floods, accidents, crimes, and political moves with multiple counties and individuals named.
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Beatrice
Blue River
Boro County
Washington County
Nance County
Wakefield
Hastings
Toptas
Senate
Galls
Kansas
Lecturn
W. F. Cody
Prentiss Ingraham
Duluth
Farnar
Barada
Oxnards
Hall County
O’neill
Dunham
Berrnar Kerman
Holt County
Rev
G. W. Damon
Battle Creek
Hasney
Len Rupp
Aurora
United States
Wial
Nebraska City
Jeldin
Epith Steininger
N. F. Bererson
Minden
Milford
Norton
Wa. M. Geppers
Goldie Stoltz
Beaver City
Lincoln
Elmer Stephenson
Capital National Bank
Washington Dispatch
Strode
Thayer
White House
Evretars
Postoffice
Slowe
Missouri Pacific
Jupge Gartow
Grand Island
Gartow
Dox'r
Captain Kidd
Favorite Free Silver Platform Prompts Lincoln Convention
Delegates at a Lincoln convention debate the Free Silver policy and coinage aim within the party platform. The discussion touches on convert delegates and the Trans Mississippi Exposition as influences on the stance.
Fourth district delays Nebraska state convention opening
The Nebraska free silver democratic state convention at Lincoln began near 3 o'clock after Fourth district delegates occupied the hall to elect their Chicago delegates. Resolutions praised Hon. Ed P. Smith and endorsed Trans Mississippi Exposition, urging congressional support for national recognition and funding. The Bryan-led resolutions urged adherence to Jeffersonian and Jacksonian principles amid monometalism and bimetalism debates.
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Lincoln
W. H. Thompson
Grand Island
J. O'Connor
Omaha
James Sullivan
Columbus
Matt Gering Clartsmouth
Ed Fallon
Falls City
H. C. Rittenhouse
McCook
C J. Smyth
Ed P. Smith
Nebraska
Funke Opera House
Congress
Mr. Bryan
Committee On
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Massachusetts
United States
John G. Carlisle
Nebraska Democrats Rally Behind Bryan Nomination
The Nebraska Democratic convention endorses free silver, silver as money, and an income tax, opposing greenback retirement and party religious tests. Delegates at large are chosen with W. J. Bryan highlighted, amid a speech by Missouri Governor Stone criticizing Grover Cleveland.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
United States
Democratic Party
Church and State
Cr. Bowlby
W. J. Bryan
J. C. Dahlman
Nebraska
Bryan
Burlington
Stone
Missouri
Funke Opera House
Grover Cleveland
Knowledge Bits From Historic Times
A digest of curious facts including costs to govern American versus English cities, a $1,000,000 steamboat with 8000 horsepower for the Hudson, schooling figures for the United States, Pekin Gazette editor fatalities, child labeling in Japan, street lengths in Boston and Paris, Dutch farming acreages, Holland farm sizes, Japan's oldest wooden storehouse, and early telegram transmission times between New York and London.
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United States
Pekin Gazette
Japan
Washington Street
Boston
Paris
England
Scotland
Nebraska
Massachusetts
Holland
Yara
London
New York
Causa
Nova Scotia
Penzance
Ram's Horns and Reflections on Sin and Love
A devotional meditation on sin, redemption, and Christian love. It asserts that unrepentant sinners are lost, Bible promises apply to Bible lovers, and true winning of souls comes from loving others. The piece contrasts negative and positive sinners and notes the value of gratitude and belief in divine truth.
Cabinet Member Criticized in Chicago Money Question Address
Reply to a Chicago speech on the money question accuses a bond syndicate of improper influence. The article records sharp charges from Altgeld era politics and highlights a formal response from a cabinet member.
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Chicago
Altgeld Responds To Carlisle Silver Money Speech In Chicago Letter
Governor Altgeld issues an open letter critiquing Secretary Carlisle's 1878 demonetization views. He questions the gold standard ratio, questions officials' shifts, and alleges secret Wall Street dealings and a government bond scheme affecting the public. He urges Carlisle to discuss monetary matters publicly.
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Springfield
Ill
Altgeld
Carlisle
Chicago
Cleveland
Stoke Smith
Herbert
Saul of
Tarsus
Mr. Carlisle
Baron Rothschild
Mfr
Treasury
America
Wall Street
Globe
Bond Resolution Adopts Modifications in Senate Action
Washington April 27 The Senate adjourned without completing the sundry civil bill with a Saturday session likely. Peffer proposed changes to limit inquiries into contractor deals and party balance on the inquiry committee. Also the Kansas City building cost limit rose to 1 319 000 and Fort Riley post received 50 000 for construction.
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Washington
Senate
Peffer
Hill
Aiso
Committee of Inquiry
Kansas City
Fort Riley
Kan
Nevada youth pleads guilty in betrayal case
Nevada Missouri April 27 Tony Wallace 23 pled guilty in circuit court to betraying 18 year old Esther Nearing and was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary.
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Nevada
Tony Wallace
Esther Nearing
Tragedy as Indiana man shoots family and two officers
Peter Egbert, 22, a carpenter, murdered Mrs. Herman Slaske and two children in Rockville Indiana. He then shot Sheriff Mull and Deputy Sweem during a bank stairway incident before killing himself at the fair grounds. The sister died of typhoid at home. Sheriff Mull, a World War veteran and Grand Army man, had been renominated as a Republican.
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Rockvulle Ind
Peter Egbert
Herman Slaske
W. M. Mull
William Sweem
National Bank
Sweem
Egbert
Sheriff Mull
Grand Army
Indiana
Ife
Trade Review notes seasonable weather and cautious demand
Dun's Weekly Review reports that while weather has aided distribution, retail and wholesale stocks remain large and demand is weak. Industries face overhangs from last fall’s buying, with strikes threatened in building and window glass sectors. Prices are generally lower, with 2 percent fall since April 1 and 17 percent since October 1852. Week’s U S failures 238, Canada 4, against prior year figures.
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New York
G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
United States
Canada
Spain Faces Ask to Compensate for Delgado Outrage
Washington reports that Spain is to be pressed to atone for the March 4 assault on Dr. Jose Manuel Delgado, an American citizen, on his Mannoa Cuba plantation. The incident has prompted significant correspondence, with Spain showing openness to remedy due to well authenticated brutal facts.
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Wilil
Washington
Spain
Jose Manuel Delgado
Mannoa
Cuba
United States
Fort Scott Declares Dry Town Under Police Edict
Fort Scott Kansas April 27 Acting on orders from the police commissioners Chief Roberson has instructed every saloonkeeper to close. The order has been followed and the city is dry for the first time in months.
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Fortskeott
Fort Scott
Kan
Roberson
Morton Signs Racing Enclosure Bill in New York
Anpany April 27 Governor Morton signed the bill allowing racing associations to build enclosures on their track for betting and improving the racing law in several respects.
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Morton
Anpany
N. Y
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George Young
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Wanny Daly
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J. Faling
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Fillmore County
Sprakine
Nebraska Club
Kimball Observer
E. A. Barnes
Dawson
Vic McCarty
Sarpy County
Alliance
R. C. Noleman
Dawsons
Julian Pauncefote
Committee On Foreign Affairs
House of Representatives
State Department
North Loup
W. A. Prentice
James W. Hanp
W. J. Gipns
Fremont
Mahoney & Sullivan
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