Nebraska notes show varied local happenings across counties
Douglas county totals 18 762 votes. Tecumseh women earned 75 dollars serving dinner on election day. Plattsmouth bridge work progresses. Kearney verdicts and burglaries dot the region as do weather’s corn husking trends and stray strokes of fate including a boy's fatal injury from shears and a farmer losing a hand to a horse power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Tecumseh
Nebraska
Missouri River
Plattsmouth
Thomas County
Ponca
August Lindberg
Monroe
Edgar
Epworth League
Kearney
Jed Carlson
Frank Davis
Sheridan County
Loup County
al K. Zeigler
Bloomington
Raymond
Jehhatha Cox
Company M
Nebraska National Guards
Grand Island
John Gibbons
Oscar Jones
Midway Hotel
Gordon
William Hilgencamp
Charley Hagenbuck
Washington County
Peron
Augusta Meyer
Hay Springs
Cortland Sun
Omaha
American Sectional Cannon Company
Secretary of State
George Meeker
Beatrice
Thaddeus
Valley Falls
Kan
United Tn
Dakota City
Kelly W. Frazer
J. Sterling Morton
Capitol Lodge No. 2
Order of Odd Fellows
Frank Wilson
Chicago
Shelton
State Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Buckstaff Bros
News In Brief Condensed Foreign and Domestic Notes
A compact digest of diverse notes covering international developments and local items. Highlights include brief foreign updates, domestic notices, and short summaries of varied topics reflecting the era's busy public discourse.
Plan to divide New York state and other 19th century notes
On Monday November 16 a plan to divide New York state circulated. The Methodists opened a mission in Alaska. Henry A. Hurlburt, a leading New York financier, is dead. A US assay office opened at Deadwood South Dakota. Hard coal may rise as anthracite production is reduced. The Reveruero hotel in Kankakee Illinois burned with guests escaping. Senator Platt of New York met President McKinley and named men for rewards. Senator Gorman of Maryland aims for Congress and the speakership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Alaska
Henry A. Hurlburt
New York
United States
Deadwood
S. D
Reveruero
Kankakee
Senator Platt
McKinley
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Congress
Chicago Fire Speeds Loss. World Publisher in Critical Condition
A big Chicago fire caused $100,000 in damage Sunday night. Pulitzer of the New York World is reported in critical condition. Kansas Republicans elect four women to county offices. Bulgaria Turkey relations strained with 100000 soldiers on the frontier. The St Louis council aims to suppress football.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Pulitzer
New York World
Republicans
Kansas
Bulgaria
Turkey
William R. Cremer
New York
London
Chicago
American Express Company
M. Blanc
Perfect of Police
Paris
First Scientist Church of
Albert Kinland
St. Joseph
Lro
Luetgert
Berlin
Kaiserhof
Philadelphia
Samuel Masher
Port Huron
Mich
Warren
Montana
Arkansas Governor Resists Football Influence
Secretary Wilson spoke before the Grange session. In Pitts burg John Purcell the champion hammer thrower died in Springfield Mass. A centenarian black man greeted the president at the White House. Porter may not seek Senate, but could back Connecticut governorship. No arbitration recommendation expected. Langston and Evans death notices. various others noted including kidnapping or bigamy cases and dental flight link. Arctic reindeer plan incurs interior instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Wilson
Grange
Pittsburg
John Purcell
Springfield
Mass
White House
Porter
Connecticut
John M. Langston
Virginia
Washington
Bob Fitzsimmons
Marion, Ind
Lodge of Elks
Denmark
Albert Kneeland
Joseph, Mo
Eugenie
Paris
O. S Ludwick
Denver
Battle Lake District
Leo George A. Brandreth
Brandreth
Porus Plaster Company
Benjamin Brandreth
Sing Sing
N.Y
Gage
Secretary of the Interior
Arctic
College bans football this Thursday at Girard
Girard college authorities prohibit football play this Thursday. Society shows little movement toward New York horse show this year. Count Frans Thun has been elected president of the Austrian delegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girard College
New ‘York
Frans Thun
Several Disparate Global Events Reported In Briefs
A roundup notes new yellow fever cases in New Orleans, Queen Victoria’s hernia-related illness, and the Duchess of Teck's death. Omaha’s Associated Charities brace for winter, while Wisconsin declines a Chicago game for a $5,000 guarantee. The Carson boy Julian Guinen is exonerated. a remote Peru oil ramp tragedy kills Mrs. Terrill and Edward Mason. Secretary Alger retires Lt. Col. W. E. Waters after 30 years. Insurgents derail a train near Nuevitas Puerto Principe. William Carr to hang for drowning his daughter. James F. Early lands the Trans Mississippi expo plaster casts contract. Canada may exhibit at the expo. Argentina’s wheat crop seen at 1.5 million tons with 1 million exportable after domestic use. flax 400k tons and maize depending on December rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Queen Victoria
Duchess of Teck
Associated Charities of Omaha
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Julian Guinen
Carson
Nevada
Nuevitas
Puerto Principe
William Carr
Liberty
Carr
Missouri
James F. Early
Washington City
Argentina
Representative Mercer Arrives in Washington Friday
Friday November 19 reports Representative Mercer of Nebraska arriving in Washington. The item notes wage cuts in Lowell shoe factories, paper price hikes in Appleton, and a 10 percent wage increase at Fall River mills to begin December 1. It also mentions a toll-gate raid near Nicholasville and a postmaster appointment at the Omaha agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
Nebraska
Washington
New York
Neva
Russia
Appleton
Wis
Lowell Mass
Japan
Hawaii
Wilson
Grange
Harrisburg
Jesse Eddy
Fall River
Mass
Henry Sherry
Wisconsin
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Hooley-Jameson Syndicate
Hong Kong
Shanghai
United States Court of Appeals
St. Louis
United States
Diverse 1890s World News Snippets From Omaha Page
A condensed roundup reports on Germany’s Paris exposition plans, New York gas combine talk, U S work on a South Omaha public building, cloakmakers returning to work, Colorado’s Trans Misssissippi display, Omaha business opposition to department stores, a light frost in New Orleans, and unsettled monetary commission timing. Also noted are a Des Moines dynamite fatality, Morrow Bros securing Italian tobacco contract, 1898 National Grange convention to be in Concord New Hampshire, Rev George H Hickock’s death, London gold purchase rumors for Chili, Secretary Porter’s Lincoln hog slaughter arrest, Illinois Odd Fellows old folks home decision at Mattson, a German spy arrest near Paigny sur Moselle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
New York
Sam
South Omaha
Colorado
Omaha
New Orleans
Monetary Commissions
Des Moines
Morrow
Bros
Clarksville
Tenn
National Grange
Concord
N. H
George H. Hickcock
Michigan State
London Financial
W. F. Porter
Lincoln
Neb
Grand Lodge‘of Illinois Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows
Mattoon
Paogny-sur-Moselle
Mets
Paris & Strasburg
Britain Not Jealous of US Trusts To Protect Interests
Britain states it is not envious of American trust power and explains loyalty to Canada as a safeguard of British interests. Many subjects are affected, but the government claims no direct concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
United States
Britain Likely To Support Commission To Settle US Canada Rows
Washington reports Britain sympathetic to forming a commission to clear up long standing questions between the United States and Canada including border issues and fisheries. London hopes to secure reciprocal trade advantages and to avoid disturbing the British Canadian tariff system while addressing imperial topics through a preliminary commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Canada
Bering Sea
Great Britain
England
London
Great’ Britain
Alaska district aims for code board in next Congress
A bill drafts a board of code commissioners for Alaska to draft a criminal and civil code and revise the district's civil government act. It follows ideas from the territory’s five main commercial firms. News from Tromsoe reports Prof. Andree remains missing after the Victoria’s expedition found no trace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Congress
District of Alaska
Tromsoe
Tromsoe ‘Island
Norway
Victoria
Tromsoo
Oscar
Prof. Andree
Spitzbergen
Prof
Andree
Lownlands Islands
Broeing
Thousands Starving in Cuba Amid Relief Effort
A Havana dispatch reports dire hunger in Cuban towns with 1,400 Americans on relief lists. About 64S deaths in Sugua in August and 27,000 in Matanza s district since July. Consul lists aid funded by a $50,000 congressional relief and criticizes policy hindering relief.
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New York
Havana
Cuba
Congress
Lee
United States
Baker
Sagua
Sugua
Brice
Matanzas
Blanco
Weyler
Madrid
Dupuy de Lome
No Immediate Breakthrough in U S France Reciprocity Talks
Washington reports no near term agreement in the U S France reciprocity negotiations as both sides present statistics. French ambassador Pa tenotre has sent the matter back to Paris awaiting instructions and delays push back plans for new ambassadors Cambon and accompanying envoys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
France
M. Patenotre
Madrid
Mme
Patenotre
M. Cambon
Paris
Mme. Cambon
Cambon
Juewareiek
Government Exhibit at Omaha Approvals and Allocations
The government exhibit board met in Washington with full attendance. W V Cov elected secretary and S L Lupton disbursing clerk. Space allocated to Agriculture Treasury State Post Office Fish Commission Navy National Museum Interior War for the Omaha exhibit. Appropriations listed include State 4500 and Smithsonian institute 20500 among others. The Treasury holds a center circular space for a large revolving lens. An executive committee of De Ravenel Michael Kemper and Clark Kemper was chosen with treasury representation and by laws discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Washington
Government Board
Brigham
W. V. Cov
S. L. Lupton
Agriculture
Treasury
State
Post Office
Fish Commission
Navy
National Museum and Smithsonian Institutes
Interior
War
Justice
Smithsonian Institute
Commission
Treasury Department
de Ravenel
Michael, Kemper
Clark Kemper
Tammany Raises 840 000 for Cuba and City Poor
The Tammany Hall excl dive committee met in New York on November 22 to plan next month’s organization. Richard Croker urged a $20 000 Cuba relief gift and another $20 000 for New York’s poor, which the committee approved, with the Cuba check given to Senor Tomas Estrada Palma and the Cuban junta representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tammany Hall
Richard Croker
Cuba
Senor Tomas Estrada Palma
Tammany
Empress of China Carrying Carew to England for Life Term
The steamer Empress of China conveys Mrs. Carew who was sentenced to death for her husband’s murder in Yokohama and had the sentence commuted to life imprisonment. She will be confined in Woking prison in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empress of China
Carew
Yokohama
England
Sumatra
Woking
McKinley
Congress
Havana
Marshal Blanco
United States
Cuba
Jose Congosto
Philadelphia
Senor
Francisco de Los Santos Guzman
Senor Cuetro
Madrid
Inventions and patent notices from Sues and Co Omaha
A list of new patent ideas includes a sectional pneumatic bicycle tire an automatic fire alarm a bill of rights style ballot box metallic fabric for fences a snow locomotive and a windmill motion converter Four copyright cuts show mechanisms for clocks and watches a balancing counterpoise a rotary feed for laws and a converting motion Inventors seeking free patent information may contact Sues Co patent lawyers at the Bee Building Omaha Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sues & Co
Bee Building
Omaha
Ibraska
Patent Office Report from Iowa 1897 Legal Notices
Iowa Patent Office lists allowed patents not yet issued by the Washington commissioner. Individuals named include A EB Stevens J Brown and L Petit Dallas Center for a trademark Famous Stock Food with a cross in a circle. D Fortney Otho for a support device for leg injuries. S Dewhirst Des Moines for a coal burning furnace suitable for brick kilns. F L Johnson Albia for a well mouth cover and pipe hoist. Information on obtaining valuing and selling patents available free. Thomas G. & J Ralph Orwig, solicitors. Moines November 16 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
EB. Stevens
J. Brown
L. Petit
Dallas Center
Standard Stock Food Company
Famous Stock Food
D. Fortney
Otho
S. Dewhirst
Des Moines
F. L. Johnson
Albia
Thomas G. & J. Ralph Orwig
Solicitors of Patents
Teg Moines
Quotations From New York Chicago St Louis Omaha and Elsewhere
A collection of quotations gathered from key American cities includes remarks from New York Chicago St Louis and Omaha. The snippets showcase varying viewpoints on current events artistic trends and public sentiment.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bidney
Nebraska News
Cedar Rapids
Republican
Seattle
Wash
Charles Wood
Vinton
Edward Murray
Frank Novak
Iowa
Wood
Murray
Benton County
Novak
Alanska
Louis, Omaha
Wolk
Seenee
Weastern Rangers
amDs
York
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