Nebraska News Highlights From Lincoln to Gordon
Hon W J Bryan casts a Lincoln vote and corn husking proceeds post election. York County families pack Christmas boxes for Company A Manila. William Mellen dies in Norfolk Asylum. Army orders extend leaves for two Nebraska volunteers. Coroner probes Hastings tailor Frank Kessler death. Falls City marriage of Lotta Hosford to Edward Nischols. Gordon deep well work halted awaiting orders. artesian water depth exceeds 600 feet. Omaha notes Gage seeks transport for Nebraska gifts to San Francisco. Burlington offers 190 in prizes for Nebraska immigration letters. State canvass results discussed. Wytore water plant delivers better supply.
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W. J. Bryan
Lincoln
John A. Rooney
Nebraska City
George Thomas
York County
Company A
First Nebraska
Manila
Falls City
Lotta
Hosford
Rule
Edward Nischols
Burlington
Iowa
van Fleet
Boston
Gordon
Nebraska
Lincoln Journal
San Francisco
Gage
Nebraska G. A. R
Omaha
Meiklejohn
Wytore
Blue River
Nebraska Legislature Elections Split Premier Parties in State Races
The Omaha Bee and World-Herald report Republican gains in the Nebraska legislature and U S Senate race. Republicans win a clear joint-ballot majority, with 21 senators to 12 fusionists and 53 House members to 47. Fusionists retain control of key districts as full returns fix post-election alignments and list elected senators and representatives by district.
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Nebraska
Omaha Ee
United States
William WY. Allen
Senate
House
Omaha Bee
Schneider
Republican State Committee
Poynter
Omaha World-Herald
The
World-Herald
the World-Herald
Otto Mutz
Fusion
Silver
Farmer
Springview
Custer Valley
Loup and
Blaine
Frank M. Currie
Broken Bow
Buffalo
Sherman
J. B. Miller
Majors
Hall and Howard
Rasmus Hannibal
St. Paul
Polk, Merrick and Nance
Thomas Farrell
Central City
Butler and Seward
Andrew T. Knepper
Octavia
Lancaster
A. R. Talbot
Sawyer
Lincoln
Jacob Rocke
Hickman
Gage
Frank M. Trout
Beatrice
Lallme
H. McCarger
Crete
Jefferson and
Thayer
Calvin F. Steele
Merchant
Fairbury
York and Fillmore
Charles A. Fowler
Ohiona
Clay and Hamilton
F. M. Howard
Aurora
Nuckolls
Webster and
Franklin
George J. Spohn
Superior
Adams
C. L. Alexander
Rep
Hackman
Hastings
Kearney
Phelps and Harlan
James S. Canaday
Minden
Furnas
Red Willow
Hitchcock
Dundy
Gosper
Frontier
Chase
Hayes
Loyal M
Steinhaus
Andrew Scott
Pawnee City
Nemahe
John T. Swan
Auburn
William M. Armstrong
Johnson
Palmer Blake
Nemaha
Peter Burlet
Banker
Otoe
W. J. McGinley
Douglas
D. H. Harris
Miller
Unadilla
Cass
Everett Pollard
Nehawka
L. A. Young
South Bend
R. A. Dittmar
Manager Gas Works
Nebraska City
Sarpy
Claus Grell
Chalco
Thomas
Flynn
Omaha
Thomas Fr. Sturgess
J. A. Beverly
Frank Burman
J. O. Detweiler
Levi Cox
Stock Commission
South Omaha
M. D. Houck
Hugh A. Myers
R. O. Olmstead
Washington
W. D. Haller
Blair
Burt
J. F. Nesbit
Tekamah
J. H. Chambers
Herman
Dodze
M. T. Zellers
Hooper
A. J. Hastings
Webster
Cuming
Charles L. Siecke
Wisner
Omaha Post Office October Receipts Rise to 32858
Post office at Omaha reports October gross receipts of 32858 up from 25940 the prior year an increase of 692? or 26 percent. Douglas county voters tabulate state officer races with per candidate tallies at Murphy Duras Mathews Mortensen Saylor Jackson Bulgin. Central Granaries Lincoln plant runs at full capacity cleaning mixing and transferring grain from sixty five elevators to Nebraska and Kansas lines with night and day shifts and twenty five workers loading about sixty cars daily. The Lincoln storage hold is 325000 and rival elevators share the surge as grain moves through the system.
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Omaha
Douglas County
Murphy
Gilbert
Duras
Porter
Mathews
Cornell
Mortensen
Meserve
Saylor
Jackson
Smyth
Bulgin “Naeem
Wolfe
the Central Granaries Company
Lincoln
Burlington
Nebraska
Kansas
Consolidated Sash Door and Blind Company Formed
New York November 14 The movement to consolidate all sash door and blind interests in America proceeds with an English capital backed venture led by Colonel I S Peek of Waterbury Connecticut formerly of Chicago The new company will be capitalized at 12000000 and aims to control the U S sash door and blind industry with promises of generous terms to participating manufacturers.
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New York
America
Consolidated Sash
I. S. Peek
Waterbury, Conn
Chicago
Peck
United States
Combine
Westminster Abbey Sermon Attacks Christian Scientists
Canon Aiton at Westminster Abbey denounces Christian Scientists and related sects amid inquest revelations about Harold Frederic. He cites Boston’s credulity for quackery and references fashionable congregants including Lady Dunmore and Lady Abinger to condemn mediums, wizards, and astrologers.
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Lonpoy
Harold Frederic
New York Times
Canon Aiton
Westminster Abby
Lady Dunmore
Lady Abinger
Canon Riton
Boston
United States
Victoria on American Girls The Aristocracy
Queen Victoria recently expressed views on marriages between English aristocrats and American girls. She said initial anxiety gave way to belief that American women’s education independence and adaptability suit them to new life. She rejects claims of mercenary motives in impoverished noblemen wed heiresses.
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Lennox
Victoria
Tascott Found Again, the Murderer of Banker Snell
Chicago detectives say they have arrested the long sought Willie Tascott, accused of killing Banker Snell in 1888, claiming the prisoner is John Farnsworth of Columbus. Identification is doubtful due to ten years of disguise, with Farnsworth arrested at Clark and Van Buren streets today.
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Chicago
Mooney
Larkin
Harrison Street
Willie” Tascott
Banker Snell
John Farnsworth
Columbus
Tascott
Prisoners from Ceuta Sent to Havana Aboard Isla de Panay
The Spanish steamer Isla de Panay arrived in San Juan with 292 Cuban political prisoners bound for Havana. They left Ceuta in Africa on October 28 after two to three years in prison, were given emigrant accommodations, and kept under guard. Clothing was scarce and few were sick onboard.
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San Juan
Isla de Panay
Cadiz
Havana
Ceuta
Africa
Straus Secures Exequatur for Erzincum Consul in Armenia
United States minister Oscar Straus obtained an order authorizing an exequatur for the U S consul at Erzincum Armenia. L A Bergholz, appointed in 1596, never received his exequatur. Erzeroum was a scene of Armenian massacres two years earlier.
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Constantinople
United States
Oscar Straus
Erzercum
Armenia
L. A. Bergholz
Erzeroum
Praised by Cervera for humane treatment after Santiago battle
Admiral Cervera in his report to the Spanish minister of the navy lauds the humane conduct of American authorities toward his crew after the Santiago engagement. He notes Iowa and Gloucester efforts to save lives and the hospitality shown to prisoners, while detailing the destruction of the Maria Teresa and other ships.
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Washington
Santiago
Cervera
Iowa
Gloucester
United States
Maria Veresa
Teresa
Cabrera
Stanley vows clean administration for Kansas
Governor elect W F E Stanley says he will run a clean businesslike government. He will appoint only moral, temperate leaders for charities with honest records and will not revive metropolitan police boards. He praises Albaugh's campaign work and plans no immediate appointments while favoring veteran preference in hiring.
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Wiicuira
Kan
W. FE. Stanley
Albaugh
Republican State Committee
Pendleton Teacher Shot. Chinese Student Suspect Arrested
Miss May Wallace of Pendleton Academy was shot through a window and died by 5 PM. She taught Chinese youths and had expelled a pupil named Goon, who is suspected but not proven guilty. Police arrested him but lack decisive evidence.
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Pendleton, Ore
May Wallace
Pendleton Academy
Natives Loot the Teresa Near Cat Island
The tug Potomac from Santiago arrives in Nassau to obtain permission to work on the stranded cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa off Cat Island. The cruiser lies about one mile from shore in two fathoms of water. Natives have destroyed the temporary deck and carried away movable cargo.
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Nassau
New Providence
Potomac
Santiago
Cuba
Infanta Maria Teresi
Cat Island
Missouri preacher vanishes after three day business trip
The Rev. Henry Mayfield, who moved to Cranksourna Missouri three weeks ago, left for Southwest Missouri on a business trip with an expected absence of four days. He bought a ticket from Clarksburn to Sedalia but has not been heard from since arriving there.
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Missouri
Cranksourna
Henry Mayfield
Southwest Missouri
Ife
Clarksburg
Sedalia
Three Lost by the Burning of a Barn in Michigan
Mrs. Taylor, her daughter, and George Clark an elderly man perished when a livery barn in Mich. burned last night. The trio were asleep on the floor above the barn as the roof collapsed before they could escape.
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Mich
Taylor
George Clark
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