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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1887
Page
2
Lincoln correspondence notes Theo State University entering a new term with stronger attendance and plans. Chancellor Manatt leads efforts to make the university more fully a university and to shift preparatory work to public schools. Enrollment nears 900 with 75 new students and multiple counties represented. outreach highlights state-wide recognition and interstate interest.
The national synod of the Danish Lutheran church will be held in Fremont next year with 400 delegates. Cuming county adopts township organization and will elect sixteen township supervisors as the county legislature. Hastings uses incandescent electric light. Omaha public schools have 7,000 students. A man registered at the South Omaha hotel was found dead in his bed. Capitol hotel in Lincoln saw a strike by waiting girls over a new head waiter system. they demanded the old system and the head waiter’s dismissal, which was refused. Search warrants for stolen goods were issued in Hastings. A gang of thieves and fences has been broken up. some suspects hid behind a barn. Antelope county voters will decide on Oct 18 bonds for a $12,000 Neligh courthouse. Neligh precinct votes Oct 1 for $3,000 for its courthouse. The Soldiers’ Home cornerstone at Grand Island will be laid Oct 5 in a notable ceremony with veterans. Pacific Railroad of Kansas consolidates with the Pacific Railway of Nebraska, linking Warwick Kansas to Hastings Nebraska as part of the Missouri Pacific system. The line runs from the state line to Superior in Nuckolla county, then northwest through Nuckolla Webster and Adams to Hastings. Rabbi Benson of Omaha received a Cheyenne-dated letter from J Benjamin King seeking a settlement between the Omaha Herald and King and Tiane Brown. Brown demands full Herald denial of libel charges. King is under bonds.
The Esmond Hotel at Omahe suffered severe fire damage last week while most residents slept. All occupants were safely rescued. Wayne academy opened in temporary quarters at Wayne, moved from Homer, serving about thirty students with teachers. A state fair report notes premiums for baby show winners and rail traffic gains.
ERIN Sept 17 reports a Bismarck Kalnoky interview signaling a new phase in the Bulgarian question. It suggests Europe’s neutrality toward Prince Ferdinand and freedom for Bulgarians while checking Russian intervention. German imperial retinue returns to Berlin after a Stettin visit dispelling reports of a czar interview and noting strong German success in Bohemian diet elections.
The trial of Circle Pouble in Fyvanna ends with a guilty verdict. The court imposes three years six months and twenty one days in prison. Pouble is not an American citizen and has already served three years in jail.
In New York a railroad commission met with Governor Pattison presiding. Crocker testified on track construction and finances, claiming political influence and debt issues shaped outcomes. he urged extended payment terms for government debt and defended company conduct. The session included other political notes and public concerns across states.
A Philadelphia letter from Hon J G Blaine dated Sept 2 1837 explains his inability to attend the centennial celebration of the U S Constitution on Sept 18 1887. He praises the founders and notes the growth of the nation from thirteen states to thirty eight with over 80 million people and calls for cherishing the constitution for future generations.
Items report polling detectives in Nashville to monitor railroad workers over a vote on a Tennessee Midland subsidy, government receipts surpass expenditures by 15 275.2. a Baltimore grain header suspends. Chicago’s Knights of Labor plan a culinary union. homesteaders rush into Baraga Michigan. Chicago barbed wire maker Mutual assigns with 4 000 liabilities. Kepler receiverships and court actions abound. pirates, adulteries, and elopements populate scattered local notices.
A highly sensational elopement in Carthage involves Mr O Day, brother of Missouri Democrat figure John O Day, and Miss Montgomery of Oswego Kansas. They were married at the Karr house after arriving on a Frisco east bound train. The bride is daughter of J B Montgomery, a prominent Oswego resident. A future marriage plans for the bride with J E Rice of Shelbyville Tennessee were announced but will not proceed. The pair departed for St Louis for a weeklong wedding trip.
Mark Skinner of this city, former president of the sanitary commission, who raised and distributed 500000 pounds to sick and wounded soldiers in the Civil War, dies in Manchester Vermont aged 74 after a period of frail health. His estate, valued at 1609000 dollars, goes to his wife and four daughters.
Two passenger trains collided near Eagle Point two miles north of Dubuque at 7:05 am on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line. Five men died, including engineers Charles Fales Elmer Winchester and John Penrity, and firemen William Richmond Elmer Cammag. others were injured. Cause blamed on the La Crosse dispatchers error amid fog and mis-timed meets.
Professor J. H. Harvey reports the Maine meteor of September 1 seen from Bangor and Calais to St Johns and Halifax. The event illuminated a wide belt, lasted two to three seconds, with a deep red body and purplish light, causing fear among observers. Some noted oblong shapes and two portions, with a rushing sound and star-like scintillations. The meteor likely entered near the border and landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
George W Fetlow a Baltimore grain dealer suspended operations and announced he was overextended with 240000 bushels of wheat and asked that his contracts be closed. He will likely arrange to continue business.
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