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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1901
Page
2
The period reports a mix of finance and governance notes including Raymond Banking in Austin declaring voluntary bankruptcy to protect depositors. Spanish and Philippine affairs feature appointive moves in Isabela and military inspections in the Philippines. Russia faces a dry spring with record cereals. U.S. rail earnings rise. and naval medals awarded for rescues in the Philippines.
Dispatches report Scheeper's command moving southwest into previously undisturbed Cape Colony areas while measures curb Cape Town to newly disturbed zones. Cologne Gazette notes Cape Colony in unrest as Boer support claims surface and censorship tightens under Kitchener amid debate over war end and policy.
Representatives from Minneapolis and Chicago railroads agreed to raise grain rates from 6 to 7 1/2 cents per hundred pounds for Minneapolis to Chicago, aiming to ease discrimination against flour for export. Millers doubt full satisfaction as ICC rulings allow grain rates 2 cents below flour rates, with the new 7 1/2 cent rate applying to lake port routes to the head of the lakes.
John Hendry president of Hastings mill in Vancouver and Captain McKenzie Great Northern railway agent have started active construction on the Vancouver Northern Yukon railway. The line is expected to be completed within a year and the Great Northern plans to use the new government bridge across the Frazer.
The Oklahoma Territory convention of negro Baptist Sunday schools asks President McKinley to intervene to ensure fair trials in court before punishment for lynching crimes. The group does not excuse the offenses but seeks executive protection for the accused.
Cuba Day at the New York State Exposition in Buffalo featured the Cuban national hymn and the Star Spangled Banner. Cuban commissioners and their wives attended along with Latin dignitaries as Senor Fares praised US friendship and Cuban progress. Attendees included Daniel N. Lockwood, F. B. Machada, Dr. Tocas A. Bra it, Maguist Gonzalo Jorrin and Buffalo Mayor Diehl.
Gen Andre minister of war visits the United States training ship Hartford at La Rochelle during western army maneuvers. After inspection and luncheon the general expresses satisfaction and hopes for closer Franco American ties as the band plays Marseillaise and America. Commander Hawley thanks him and pledges to report the visit.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science closed its fiftieth annual convention in Denver with officers elected and a council report. A January 1902 Chicago business meeting and a June 25 1902 Pittsburg regular meeting were set, with a 1908 Washington midwinter convention proposed to unite U.S. science groups.
Quito reports Ecuadorian neutrality is generally observed while liberal revolutionary troops cross into Carchi near Colombia. No invasion of Colombia by Ecuadorian troops has occurred.
The Salvadoran minister Zaldivar sent a telegram to George D. Cook stating that Salvador is favored with absolute peace, both domestically and externally, dated August 31. The message confirms peace improvements and is reported from New York.
Washington August 31 report says a false roof collapsed over the United States Supreme Court chamber in the capital around midday. Several men were badly injured but officials believe there were no fatalities.
A cablegram from Commander Sargent aboard the Machlas at Colon says conditions are very quiet and that revolutionary disturbances in Colombia’s section have likely been suppressed. The State Department has been alerted to circulating reports of trouble in Ecuador.
Lincoln Neb sept 2 1901 governor Ezra P. Savage outlines the sixty day parole for Joseph Bartley. parole terms centered on Bartley settling his shortage and providing an accounting of funds. the governor notes public petitions for full pardon but justifies the limited parole to relief taxpayers and close the costly litigation.
Hastings Nebraska September 2 one of the men expected at every reunion Comrade Henry Masterman is noted as the oldest soldier in the state and the camp grounds veteran of Camp Lawton He will mark twenty two years as chaplain of Faragut post No 25 at Lincoln He was elected at the post’s organization and has served unanimously He also held one term as department chaplain He has presided at 159 comrades funerals In the Civil War he joined Company G Twenty eighth Town infantry and was the regiment’s oldest soldier His son also enlisted in the same unit and was the youngest soldier in the regiment.
A southbound Portland express on the Burlington route struck a drove of hogs near Smartville Nebraska. Several hogs were killed and their carcases ground into the locomotive machinery, causing about a thirty minute delay as trainmen cleared the wreckage and extricated the sausage.
WHI Raise a Good Corn Crop Callaway Neb Sept 2 Corn in this locality is well above the state average and much better than expected. One farmer who abandoned his crop now estimates ten to twenty five bushels per acre in the same field after recent rains. Similar reports arrive daily from other farmers.
Bloomfield Nebraska September 2 1900 Walter Clements 30 was killed when his right arm was severed by a threshing machine wheel near Bloomfield on Monday He died soon after The unmarried man worked near the machine and the tragedy was reported by local papers
Plattsmouth Nebraska September 2 William Morrow an old Civil War veteran died from gunshot wound effects of war He served with the Fifteenth Iowa for three years and was part of the bodyguard company for General Sheridan at Shiloh He was wounded in the Atlantic battle in 1867
The census bulletin lists Nebraska school age population at 386 384 with detailed splits by native white and foreign born, militia and voting age male counts, literacy rates, and citizenship status. Omaha records 80 583 school age children with foreign born, militia and voting age breakdowns and foreign born voters tally 11 490 with 1 352 colored.
James H. Spencer reports a warm week with light showers across Nebraska. Daily mean temperatures ran 6 degrees above normal, with highs 85 to 95. Early corn matures quickly and is cut for fodder in southern counties. Fall plowing advances in the southeast. soil is too dry elsewhere. Fall wheat seeding anticipated. weighing near completion in northern counties. overall crop conditions vary by region.
Charles M. Schwab gains controlling stake in Bethlehem Steel at a board meeting in Philadelphia. Max Pam, for Schwab, arranged a $4,032,000 transfer via Drexel & Co. to the Girard Trust Company, which serves as stock depository.
Old Fort Omaha chosen as the site for the Nebraska National Guard encampment. Adjutant General L W Colby announced with Governor Savage approving, scheduling the event from September 10 to 20.
York Neb August 31 C S Ed wards living near the city was trampled and gored nearly to death by a bull. He was driving cattle from the feed lot toward the pasture when the animal attacked him in the narrow lane to the pasture.
Sam Strong, Nebraska native reared in Wood River, was killed by Grant Crumley at Cripple Creek, a sensational mining region incident in Colorado.
George Ulrich 35 of Colby Kansas killed himself with a 32 caliber revolver in a closet of a northbound Missouri Pacific coach near Plattsmouth Nebraska. The act occurred shortly before the train reached the city. Domestic relations in Colby were reported as unhappy.
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