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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
7
State Treasurer Mortensen releases monthly ledger noting a hand up period for Nebraska finances. He lists $265,599 in state depository banks, $1,605.81 in the permanent school fund, and a September 1 balance of $266,194.82 after $100,556.05 in receipts and $210,329.20 in expenditures. Banks and amounts are itemized.
A land opening at the United States land office drew about 150 men to the door for roughly 100 sections in Scott's Bluff and Banner counties. The date set for opening September 20 was skipped due to Sunday. Land valued at 3000 to 7000 dollars per section, initially set for Kinkaid law irrigation withdrawal, was found nonirrigable and restored for entry.
A hazing incident at Auburn High School led to Philip Horn drawing a knife and stabbing Cieno Mastin who aided in the hazing. Mastin was not seriously injured, and the confrontation occurred on school grounds after a note of the literary society.
Nora Merceil a 16 year old resident at the Good Sephard home Fortieth and Jones streets attempted suicide by jumping from a fourth story window at 3 30 in the morning. She was only slightly injured.
Fremont city council announced that electric light bonds recently sold to a company were approved. The plant construction had been delayed a month, and the resolution was welcomed by residents.
Norfolk saw nearly fifty wagon loads of lumber hauled out by farmers in one day, signaling prosperous agriculture in Madison County according to the Press.
Mrs Frank Greenleaf wife of the Central school janitor drank carbolic acid after confusing it with a bottle of sulfate of potash. In the dark she poured some into a glass of water but was saved by physicians who treated the burn and preserved her life.
A Lincoln trade tour to the Black Hills departs October 15 for five days. Beatrice residents face $10 fines for violating postal laws. Columbus passes a street spit ban with a $5 fine. West Point horse breeder Schinstock Bros. lose a stallion to bowel inflammation valued at 2800. Omaha’s Henry Oliver shot in the arm at Fort Calhoun lake and serious. Plattsmouth storehouse keeper Thomas Kempster to be transferred to Denver. Missouri Pacific agent W A Swearengen to move. Adjutant General Culver receives War department pamphlet on new soldier identity methods. A child falls from a hotel window, injuring chin and nose. State irrigation board’s Adna Dobson sees a dam plan to cross the Platte near the Wyoming line. Jay O’Hearn appeals his murder conviction in Omaha. State Superintendent McBrien orders a schoolhouse built for a small district on the Missouri river’s south bank. San Isidro’s Prof Bright seeks garden plans to teach Filipino farmers. Bailey arrives in Beatrice for Mary Young Men’s Christian Association dedicatory services. Sioux City, Homer & Southern Railway assets sold for 16700 to the Foyes. other bids noted. Chief Howell’s county court assault trial ends with not guilty verdict. Lincoln’s Calvert reports bogus installment contracts by Monlux and Moore. investigation follows. Fort Riley ammunition train fire near Papillion with repeated gunfire. fifty rounds expended. Governor Mickey names federal animal industry assistants in Nebraska to help stamp out mange. Chamberlain embezzlement cases moved from Tecumseh to Nemaha county.
President Roosevelt urges Congress to enact a national inheritance tax. He advocates a progressive levy on fortunes exceeding set limits, to prevent vast transfers to heirs. He cites Marshall Field as an example of wealth concentration and risks of oligarchy.
Paris reports uncertainty over the James Gordon Bennett cup race ended when Rolls and Capper in the Juitannia landed near Sand Einhaum at 6 30 Monday night. Lieut Lahm, United States Sixth Cavalry, won the competition with the United States balloon descent near Whitby on Monday. Signor von Willer and Count de la Vaulx ranked behind, Rolls earning the endurance medal for 26 ½ hours in the air.
A foot bridge at Oconto Falls collapsed while 25 students from Oconto Wisconsin watched the falls. The incident sent the group into the stream, 14 year old William Ballou was killed and several others were seriously injured including Viga Sentil Hazel Denizen and Frank Donlevy. Professor Newcomb the instructor was badly hurt.
William Weston, a Kansas City pioneer who held many municipal offices, died at age 75. He served in a Kansas volunteer regiment during the Civil War, representing a family of soldiers.
Watertown NY Captain William N Visger aged 49 owner of the passenger steam yacht Idler and a noted St. Lawrence River excursion leader died suddenly Thursday at Alexandria Bay of heart failure.
The Wisconsin Democratic state campaign opened in Milwaukee at Pabst Theater with Gov. candidate John A. Aylward delivering a keynote on party principles to an enthusiastic crowd.
Washington notes two cabinet retirements are planned for the coming winter. Attorney General Moody will resign around December 1 and Secretary Shaw is poised to retire in February. George W L Moyer may be nominated to Moody’s vacancy while Moody prefers the navy post. Bonaparte might have been considered for Moody’s post but seeks other posts.
Albert J Adams once led a policy gambling syndicate and shot himself Sunday night at his Ansontia Avenue apartments. Found Monday, he had been ill with diabetes for a year after his Sing Sing release. Coroner Harburger voiced doubt the death was self inflicted.
At Pocahontas Va the Bluefield mine disaster leaves an estimated 70 dead after a powerful blast. Rescue teams faced huge debris with no fire found yet while a separate blast at Blossburg near Raton NM claimed 15 miners lost, three bodies recovered.
In Des Moines two branches of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the W C T U of Iowa and the W C T U of the state of Iowa, reunite by mutual agreement, consolidating into a single body after a 16 year split over affiliation with the Prohibition party. The consolidation follows a statewide convention held in Des Moines on Wednesday.
Washington weather bureau reports a major earthquake beginning at 9 05 p m October 1 recorded by seismographs but judged unlikely to be disastrous by officials.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw addressed a large audience in Beckett's hall in Hamilton Ohio on Friday. He spoke briefly at Beckett's hall and spent two hours at the Butler county fair.
The Hague Ino lower house of the states general on Friday withdrew the bill authorizing expenditure of 15000 dollars for the reception of members to the second peace conference.
New Orleans reports three tornados sweeping Pontchatoula and nearby areas, then through New Orleans city neighborhoods and near Biloxi Mississippi. Seven deaths are confirmed with extensive property damage including five million dollars in New Orleans losses and dozens injured.
Five passengers were killed and many injured when a Boston & Maine passenger train collided head on with a military special near Lansingburgh depot north of Troy. The 18-car special struck the late train, destroying the last two Pullman cars and causing the engine to overturn after a long collision on a sharp graded curve.
In Marana rebels are surrendering arms as a matter of duty though not compulsory. The surrender rate exceeds expectations with 600 guns turned in by 500 disbanded in Pinar del Rio and reports that nearly all of Gen. Guzman’s command weapons are handed over in Santa Clara. Governor Taft sees the proportion as favorable, indicating widespread compliance.
Eight men died and about forty injured when illuminating gas exploded in Philadelphia's Market street subway at Sixth street. High buildings shook, windows shattered for blocks, the street caved in, traffic halted and business suspended. Fire followed but caused no further damage. Loss projected above $300,000.
About 1500 Italian women and others gathered at a Williamsburg public school alleging health board physicians were reducing threats to their children. They stormed the building in a tense confrontation with authorities.
In Portland, Portland, three of seven Vanier children died Friday when a lamp toppled and exploded, causing a fatal house fire. Authorities report the blaze started by the lamp accident and indicate the tragedy struck a family of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vanier.
The first landing of American troops in the Cuban occupation was completed Sunday. About 850 men from the First Infantry and Second Engineers arrived by transport and were moved to Camp Columbia under canvas near Mariano. The cruiser Brooklyn carried 400 more and will deploy to the camp. General Funston commands the force with Colonel Waller of marines reporting, awaiting General Bell's arrival to direct distribution islandwide.
The eighth annual American Royal Live Stock show starts Monday in Kansas City with more entries than any prior year. A weeklong event features over 700 breeding cattle, 100 fat steers, 60 carloads of fat and feeding cattle, 250 draft coach and hackney horses, eight horses from King Edward and Lord Rothschild, and 700 hogs sheep and goats. Exhibitors come from sixteen states from Massachusetts to New Mexico.
Deacon Arrington reports John Alexander Dowie abandoned his Mexican colony plan after a five hour vision on Friday. The follower says the new scheme aims to raise $1,000,000 in Chicago to restore Dowie's power and prestige.
In San Francisco five hundred suits will be filed in federal and state courts against the North German Fire Insurance Company of Hamburg. W. J. Herrin, president of the policyholders committee, said judgments in American courts are expected to be recognized in Germany.
A large number of United Spanish War veterans arrived Sunday to attend the national encampment beginning Monday. District veterans greeted arrivals as a band played, with headquarters set up for candidates for commander in chief including Captain Hamilton Ward of New York Major Frederick Hodg en of Washington and General George le Moulten of Illinois as aspirants.
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