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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1888
Page
2
General Orders call Nebraska comrades to decorate graves on Memorial Day May 36. Report covers court cases, school bonds, rail incidents, pharmacy board results, water works push, police fines, and local notices from Norfolk to Lincoln. Includes ministerial meeting, lawsuits, and railroad labor actions.
General Order No. 3 from the Nebraska Department of the Grand Army of the Republic calls for May 30 memorial day observances. Corps and posts will lay flowers on graves, with simple, reverent decoration and a token of memory for fallen soldiers. Reports of general interest to be mailed by June 10, 1889 to Department Chaplain Helen A. Apperger.
The Burnett license remonstrants were overruled and a license granted by the board. Remonstrants have given notice of appeal.
Hastings shipped over one million egen last month. Lincoln passes an ordinance to charge street fakirs four to twenty dollars daily and limits licenses to ten days. Charles E. Eaton dies in Lincoln from Alma railroad disaster injuries. Omaha may host the Methodist conference. Beemer Times cites cattle disease in the region. Grand Island councilmen fined for absence at a regular meeting.
Macbeth, the dark chestnut colt from the Clu enago stable of George Harkins, won the Kentucky Derby at Louisville amid a cold, threatening day. The race featured Autocrat, Alexandria, and The Chevalier, with Macbeth surging past in a strong finish to claim the $2,400 added purse.
Knox county Democratic delegation chairman Smith drew laughter in the hotel corridors as he slept through a church sermon and suddenly shouted "Thirty-five votes for L. Taylor" upon hearing John Knox invoked. Hisses followed as Smith reportedly escaped.
An Inter Ocean special from Duquoin reports a May 5 fire that totally destroyed the St. John coal mine and salt works. Five hundred men will lose employment.
Detroit dispatch reports Governor Lucchina issued a proclamation banning the import of neat cattle into Michigan from south of the ge th parallel except cattle in transit. Animals may be unloaded and fed only at designated yards. Michigan will set agencies at the Chicago and St Louis stockyards from May 21 to November 1 during the proclamation.
Michael Davitt argued in Liverpool that Irishmen would not soften their stance toward OConnell over the papal rescript. He warned Rome's move could be treated as political. many papers and unionists had already labeled it such. Davitt suggested English intrigue influenced the rescript and urged Irish independence from Rome's dictate.
The Senate reconsidered a railroad grant vote and resumed debate on preemption protection. It approved amendments to a constitutional plan and passed bills for bridges and public buildings, while the House pursued tariff debate and noted hearings on beef transportation and beef product questions.
Lawmakers passed a bill limiting hours for lottery carriers with pay for overwork. A joint resolution by Senator Blair seeks constitutional representation for the District of Columbia in both houses. Pension provisions face amendments, and a conference committee is named on the Northwestern exposition bill. A House debate centers on tariffs, protection, and regional contrasts with Vermont and Kentucky cited in rhetoric.
The New York Republicans opened their state convention at 1 PM with General Knapp as chairman. Charles F. Pitch was chosen temporary chair, and the body adopted a platform backing protection for American labor and urging delegation unity. Debates over presidential electors and nominees followed, with Depew, Hiscock, Miller, and Platt named for delegates-at-large and Morton central to a naming telegram. The convention adjourned after resolutions supporting the state league of Republican clubs.
A Nebraska Board of Transportation memorial dated April 26 1888 asks Congress to declare federal law on state over railroad regulation. It cites Union Pacific as asserting national supremacy and urges swift action to align charters with state policy. The plea accompanies a draft act detailing state authority over interstate rail transportation within state lines.
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