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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1897
Page
3
In Gretz the physician Doctor Desprez rushes to aid a dying mountebank loaned to Madame Tentaillon. He ponders fate and character as he studies the boy Jean Marie, while revealing his obsession with weather lore and Hygeia. The scene ends with the Doctor renewed by the river’s morning calm.
A doctor assesses Jean Marie the tumbler while Desprez and Madame Tentaillon watch. Shadows elongate the scene, revealing a carved likeness of a mountebank on the wall and the boy’s haunting brown eyes that captivate the physician. The boy speaks of tumbling as his trade and theft in youth.
Chapter II describes Octor Desprez rising before dawn to wander his garden. He pauses to pick grapes and eat a large pear, contrasting with the day’s early labor in the fields.
A long excerpt describes Mira Bascom, a self isolating nun, unseen by a past admirer who passes her gate. She returns upstairs to her room, dons a lilac sprig gown and her auburn hair, gazes in a candlelit mirror, and smiles at an age gone but briefly revived before she removes the dress.
Nebraska real estate men from Illinois Indiana Iowa Nebraska and others gathered at the Omaha Commercial Club for a convention. Burlington official Eustis urged vigorous letters to refute eastern exaggerations and defend Nebraska’s advantages while noting some local drawbacks. Ernest and Campbell discussed soil culture and model farms to boost settlement and farming progress amid questions from attendees.
North Loup dispatch details S S Smith harvesting eleven acres of popcorn at about 30 dollars per acre despite low prices. He also grew six acres of alfalfa with four harvests totaling fifty tons per acre across three regrowths, plus two acres of pasture. Potatoes sold as low as 15 cents a bushel still yielded 30 to 45 dollars per acre.
The 17 year old daughter of A Rundquist, a prosperous farmer near Oakland, was fatally hurt while trying to stop a runaway team. She was thrown against a wire fence, stripped of her clothing and her arm was lacerated, necessitating amputation. Her injuries were reported as fatal.
Gov. Holcomb appointed James B. Jones of Broken Bow as chief grain inspector. Jones has been deputy warden of the penitentiary for two years and will assume duties immediately. The term is two years with senate consent. No prior appointment appears since Gov Crounse named Willett C. Gordon in April 1893.
May 7 at Wasuberoy the Senate rejected the arbitration treaty after a spirited debate led by Senator Mills of Texas. The roll call showed 26 yeas and 26 nays with strong opposition from Carter and others over territorial provisions and England policy. Michael Davitt was among onlookers who welcomed the result.
The Greater New York charter creates five boroughs Manhattan Bronx Brooklyn Queens and Richmond with ten council districts each. The mayor will serve four years at 15000 monthly? The comptroller is elected by voters while other officers are appointed by the mayor during six month tenure. The city covers 359% square miles with about 3,400,000 people. first mayor elected November 2.
The attorney general will tomorrow transmit to General Alger a formal opinion stating the secretary of war lacks authority to grant a permit for a Sabine Lake channel through Sabine Lake from Port Arthur to deep water. The matter, the opinion says, is exclusively within Congress discretion.
Hawaiians in Washington express surprise and regret that the senate finance committee struck out the tariff bill clause exempting Hawaiian imports from the act. They hope the committee action is reversed in the senate and note that both McKinley and Wilson bills faced reciprocity treaty challenges that were voted down by the senate.
Reports state the war may be winding down as Greek forces retreat from Pharezal and morale improves. Fragmentary dispatches suggest Puanic pressure weakens while Greek resolve steadies, signaling a possible halt to major battles.
London reports the Greek army falling back from Pharsala and Velestino as Turkish forces close in, raising hopes Greece will accept mediation from the great powers. Turkey blocks any surprise move, drafts eleven Namidid cavalry regiments for Thessaly, and deploys units toward Domokos while a redifs battalion heads to Mitylene.
Dispatches describe General Smolenski’s brigade retreating from Velestino in good order as Turkish forces capture Pharsala and seize positions with Krupp howitzers. Larissa falls under Turkish command with praise for Ottoman discipline while Greek troops abandon uniforms and seek mercy. refugees flee Lamia toward Piraeus amid fear of a Turkish assault.
Mark Hanna the Republican national chairman and Ohio senator suffered vertigo while at the national committee. He cast his vote on the arbitration treaty in the Senate chamber then returned to his hotel to rest. He plans a rest in Cleveland for a week or more and will resume duties in time for the tariff battle in the Senate.
Washington May. The St. Louis and San Francisco directors elect Richard Olney former Secretary of State to succeed William T. Hart of Boston and Henry K. Mellarg in place of General Horace Porter ambassador to France.
Mississippi report notes Dr J H Hollander appointed secretary of the international bimetallic committee. He is a Johns Hopkins professor of economics and a scholar in French and German.
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