Nebraska News Notes from Fremont to Beatrice
Nebraska items report Fremont to get a new cornice factory, Syracuse track horses trained, Omaha ladies bicycle club of fifteen, Grafton carpenters ordered for 100 water tanks, and Blair corner stone laid for Odd Fellows block. Other notes include Lincoln Methodist conference visit, G A R HQ at Fremont, Morton planting fruit trees, county judge meeting May 20, and a Beatrice election on Sunday closing liquor sale debate. Additional items cover sensational cases, suicides, accidents, and insanity proceedings across the state.
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Syracuse
Omaha
Grafton
Scotts Bluff County
Queen County
Bellevue College
Platte
Plattsmouth
Herman Knights of Pythias Lodge
Odd Fellows
Blair
Methodist General Conference
Omana
Lincoln
Fremont Chautauquay
Steliig Morton
Arbor Jodge
Nebraska City
Hezekiah Bedford
Douglas County
Roeberys
L. L. Poli
National Alliance
H. I. Rosengrantz
Madrid
Topeka
Cass County
Lillie Geist
One Fair Association
Cedar County
Cedar Rapids
W. M. Reed
Peru
John Thompson
Fairmont
Friend
Oxford
Riout 3d
Ty Lfhs
Tsears
Hagermann
S. A. Johnson
Nebraska City Hospital
Niobrara
St Louis
Water K. Clars
AR. Cianis
Indianola
Congressional proceedings record reflects river and harbor bills
Senate passes bills funding Helena military post and Bering Sea arbitration, while House debates river and harbor appropriations. Dawes advocates Choctaw and Chickasaw payments. Platt condemns the large Indian claims. Senate honors Wilson with praises and adjourns. House actions include Oklahoma City school grant and Oklahoma river works, with debates over Great Lakes shipping and embankment funding.
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House
Helena
Mont
Bering Sea
Paris
Jones
Arkansas
Cheyenne
Arapahoe Reservation
Platt
Congress
Holman
Breckenridge
Kentucky
Jackwood
Dawes
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Gorman
Senator Wilson
Maryland
Wilson
Iowa
Berry
Plat
Gray
Mitehell
Paseo
Dixon
Gibson
Caruth
Salt River
Blanchard
Miami River
Committee On Appropriations
Reen
Oklahoma City
Whiting
Michigan
Lakes
Chicago
Duluth
Buffalo
Secretary of War
Board of Engineers
O. M. Poe
Great Lakes
Louisiana
Richardson
Tennessee
Cash for New States Admitted to Union
The Senate Committee on Public Lands reports a substitute bill applying the Mississippi land act to Minnesota Oregon Kansas Nebraska Nevada Colorado South Dakota North Dakota Washington Montana Idaho and Wyoming. Each state would receive 5 percent of the net proceeds from public land sales in its territory.
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Senate Committee On Public Lands
United States
Mississippi
Minnesota
Oregon
Kansas
Nebraska
Nevada
Colorado
South Dakota
North Dakota
Washington
Montana
Ieaho
Wyoming
Confederate Veterans Pension Demand Sparks Legislative Push
In New Orleans Louisiana a Confederate veterans gathering announced they would push the legislature to pass a pension law. It would grant monthly pensions to crippled or incapacitated veterans, amounting to a substantial cost to the state likely ranging from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars.
Women, Dancing, and Clergy Clash at Methodist Conference
At the Methodist general conference, a Nebraska resolution seeks women's admission to the general missionary committee. Debate centers on dancing and youth involvement, with a motion to modify discipline to permit dancing. Bishop Foster and others back the movement, while dissent arises over church-state separation and church discipline. The session discusses music study, tobacco control, and constitutional amendments as fights between lay and ministerial orders continue. The conference adjourned with unresolved votes and anticipated debates tomorrow.
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Methodist General Conference
J. B. Maxwell
Nebraska
General Missionary Committee
General Conference
Foster
Boston
Committee On Discipline
Vincent
Buffalo
Ncy
Miaikintes
Minnesota
H. Williams
King
New York
Lawrence
Ohio
Queal
Wow Pemberton
Kentucky
Bell
Obama
The Price of Twine Rises as Cordage Firm Sets Mark
In Mason City Iowa May 31 the National Cordage company announces a price hike for sisal twine from 14 to 44 cents per pound above last season. Dealers must charge no less than 12 cents per pound, while early contracts may yield slightly lower prices. Little stock remains with dealers, forcing higher costs on farmers and potentially driving robbers out of markets. Charles Emory Smith resigns as US minister to Russia to return to journalism in Philadelphia.
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Mason City
Iowa
National Cordage Company
Crop Outlook Brings Rain and Cold Threats to Farmers
The May 11 report from Ourcana notes heavy rains and three late snowstorms delaying seeding across Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa. Persistent cold and sleet keep soil moisture high while sap dries, delaying drilling and planting and dampening prospects for harvest.
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Ourcano
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa
WHY HE SIGNED THE BILL President explains act explained
President Harrison explains why he signed the Chinese exclusion bill in a letter read at a weekly meeting of Methodist ministers in New York. He says the bill was a compromise between House and Senate versions and notes that it is as lenient as possible while addressing smuggling and aiding rights verification.
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Harrison
Gotham
New York
Baldwin
Presiden Harrison
Society
House
Senate
Packers Sell Out to English Syndicate in Major Chicago Pact
A $7,000,000 deal closes as Chicago pork-packing firms including Allert Packing, John Cudahy, Wells, Cately, Trately Bros, International Packing, and Jones & Stiles transfer to International Packing and Provision Company Limited. The move consolidates major plants under English-American stockholders, one of the era’s largest negotiations.
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Pork
Chicago
Allert Packing Company
John Cudahy
Wells
C Bately
Trately Bros
Th International Packing Company
Jones & Stiles
Funeral of O Sullivan in Wisconsin and Related News
The O Sullivan funeral was held at Willet Catholic church near Anivar Wisconsin with seventy one teams in the procession. Patrick O Sullivan’s friend and his Chicago visitors attended as his father Henry of Pocahontas County Iowa and O Brien of Monroe were absent due to travel issues. In Des Moines Mabel Swartz was shot and killed by Fred Crafton on April 12 at a resort. the grand jury indicted Crafton for first degree murder. In Louis city Missouri authorities begin demolishing the historic Planters House, founded April 1 1541, to make way for a new structure.
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Walt M
Seeley
Omaha
Minneapolis
Twe
Nebraska
Senate
Luesday
Frank J. Sackett
Douglas County
Nebraska City
L. W. Quinn
O'Neill
Plattsmouth
Worth
South Park
O'Neal
Church of
Smith
Anton Erixson
Hampton
Board of County Commissioners
Paxton
Lanalord Eastman
Kansas City
Patrick Howe
Beatrice
Howe
Senator Paddock
Seniutor Manderson
Chester
Stuart
Gretna
Congress
United States
Henry Kathan
Olive Branch
Lancaster County
Board of Insanity Commissioners
Kathan
Goudy
Hila
Anavir
Wis
Vatrick O'Sullivan
Willet Catholic Church
Niles
O'Sullivan
Chicago
Henry
Pocahostas County
Towa
O'Brien
Monroe
Grat
Ray Mabel Swartz
Des Mores
Tows
Mabel Swartz
Fred Crafton
Crafton
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