Nebraska News Highlights From State Events
Nebraska reports include Norfolk beet sugar factory starting operations and Wymore schools opening with increased attendance. Beatrice institute superintendent resignation, Beatrice to see new leader Dr. Charles Ge. Hart, Harrison fair accident, and several local political and legal items across towns like Lincoln Omaha Kearney and Beatrice.
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Norfolk
Wymore
Presbyterian College
Tastings
Twenty-second Infantry
Schuyler
A. G Seidler
Hebron
PT. Snowden
Omaha
FL. A. Golony
Kenesaw
Nebraska
Lincoln
Odd Fellows
Wao. Darragh
Keran ‘Bros. Hardware
Ord
Kent
Kearney
Lizzie Mitchell
Woolsey
Burt County
M.A. Yorty
R. Yorty
Tékamah
Hart County
Wm.Frances
Harrison
Great Falls
Mont
Minneapolis
Sion
C P. Fall
Institute For
Beatrice
Holcomb
Charles Ge
Fall
Grand Island
Ihighi
California
Canada
Wm. .J. White
Ottawa
Ani
Interior Department of Canada
Dominion
Nebraska City
Morton Brothers
Poliska
Society of the Home
Secretary of State
Union Pacific
C. G. Newton
Trenton
Ile
Nebraska Veterans Soldier Sentiments and Honors Report
Senator Allen voices sentiments on veterans and sacrifice. Congressman Strode and Hon. Wm. Bryan speak briefly on those who saved the country. The piece highlights intercession and effort in support of veterans from Nebraska.
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Allen
State Reunion Honors Nebraska War Veterans in Lincoln
At Exposition hall in Lincoln the Nebraska Day reunion of soldiers featured speeches by Congressman Greene and Stark via telegram and a letter from Senator Allen. Highlights praised union loyalty, wartime sacrifice, and equal pensions for widows, with Bryan and Strode among speakers.
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Nebraska
Neéihyraska
Lincoln
Exposition Hall
Erherdt
Greene
Stark
Senator Allen
Union
Army
Navy
Bureau of Pensions
United States-senate
United States
Congressman Strode
Marquette
Thayer
Commonwealth
Ben Wade
W. J. Bryan
Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism Defined Across the War Effort
Mr. Bryan cites Mr. Strode's view that patriotism includes more than soldiers. The patriot fights for liberty whether by bullets or by arguments. He says winning and preserving freedoms matters and living for one’s country can be glorious.
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Bryan
Strode
Nebraska Exposition Hearkening to Model Kitchen for Corn
Mrs. Harriet S. MacMurphy of Omaha proposes Nebraska Exposition implement a model kitchen to showcase Indian maize in scientific forms. The plan, supported by some members, aims to demonstrate corn’s value for human and animal food with daily at exhibition tastings and sighted preparations for visitors.
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Nebraska
Harriet S. MacMurphy
Omaha
Nebraskans Prepare Texas Exposition Voyage
A party of sixty five Nebraskans will leave Omaha October 2 via the Wabash railroad for an eight day trip to the Trans Mississippian and International Exposition in Texas. Twenty five travelers come from Omaha with forty from other leading Nebraska towns. The Omaha Real Estate exchange organises the excursion and will request exposition literature and two top orators to accompany the group.
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Texas
Omaha
Omaha Real Estate Exchange
Mis Defalcations Settlement Proposal From Ex County Official
E C Hockenberger once a Grand Island county treasurer and school district secretary offers to pay 1069 dollars to the board of education if it asks the county attorney to drop criminal proceedings. He was previously found guilty of embezzling district funds after confessing to falsifying records. The case is before the supreme court, remanded for a new trial. defense argues no cash was taken, a technicality that may prevent conviction.
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E. C. Hockenberger
Grand_ Island
Board of Education
Hockenberger
Supreme Court
State Liquor Dealers Plan Omaha Meeting
State saloon keepers convene in Omaha on October 14 to form the Protective Liquor Dealers association and coordinate with the national group in Indianapolis this year. The effort seeks attendance from all Nebraska retail dealers and to address Omaha’s wholesale trade concerns.
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Omaha
Protective Liquor Dealers’ Association
National Association
Indianapolis
Arrest under Postal Laws in Guide Rock Nebraska
John Al Estabrook of Guide Rock Nebraska was brought before U S Commissioner Bode at Grand Island by Deputy U S Marshal Cooley of Lincoln charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The complaint alleges Estabrook wrote a letter under the fictitious name A F E Newton to Dordua of Guide Rock to defraud him of 300 dollars.
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John AL. Estabrook
Guide Rock
Neb
U. S
Bode
Grand Island
U.S
Marshal Cooley
Lincoln
United States
Estabrook
A. F E. Newton
Beet Crop Yields Record Sugar Quality at Grand Island
A Grand Island dispatch reports the first week of the beet sugar campaign shows an exceptional crop. Beets tested up to 18 percent sugar with a 90 purity coefficient, producing an output not equalled before and promising excellent sugar quality for the factory.
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Grand Island
California
Hastings Woman Takes Poison in Desperate Act
Mrs E E Jacobs wife of the Lepin hotel porter attempted suicide at Hastings by ingesting creosote toothache drops. A timely physician arrival saved her. She had come from St Louis with her husband who had left her and said she had nothing to live for after learning he no longer loved her.
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E. E. Jacobs
Lepin Hotel
Hastings
Jacobs
St. Louis
Chase County Harvest Gains Across Wheat and Corn
Farmers in Chase county report threshing near finish with wheat yields exceeding early hopes and corn crops reaching forty to sixty bushels per acre on many fields of 290 to 300 acres. The crops are nearly mature, marking a record season for the county.
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Chase County
Possible Deficit Fears From New Tariff Revenue Shortfall
Washington reports anxiety over a potential deficit as customs receipts under the new tariff lag estimates for the year. Pension expenditures exceed appropriations, with Evans noting large payments and pending old claims that could add millions. Applicants surged after June 1897, driven by expectations under a Republican administration.
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Waswinaton
Ti. Clay Evans
Evans
Bureau
General Fitzhugh Lee Consults With President on Cuba Policy
Consul General to Cuba General Fitzhugh Lee met with the President at the White House, reporting on Cuba and answering questions from Secretary Alger. The President urged him to stay in office for now and to return to Havana mid October. Lee criticized Weyler's methods in private talks.
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Wasninecrox
Fitzhugh Lee
Cuba
White House
Alger
Lee
Havana
Aldrich
General Lee
Covington
General Weyler
Strike Situation in HWatzierton Area
In HWatzierton Pennsylvania on September 20 the strike remains unresolved with over 10,000 workers out and no settlement in sight. Sporadic violence has broken out near outlying collieries as troops withdraw. Guard lines at several camps are strengthened and talk of bringing in more cavalry continues. If soldiers stay longer, the Sheridan troop of Tyrone may be ordered out.
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Hwatzierton
Sheridan
Tyrone
Five Children Cremated in Arkansas House Fire
Mariyah Billingsley of Richmond in Little River county left for prayer meeting with her five children alone in the house. She returned about 10 o clock to find the residence in flames and all five children, the oldest 11, cremated.
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Little Rocks
Ark
Mariah Billingsley
Richmond
Little River County
Circassia Fort in tow after heavy seas near Kinsale
The Circassia, overdue since August 28 bound for Glasgow, was sighted off Kinsale head in tow of the Memmoy after meeting the Island near Sept 5. Heavy seas caused the hawser to part and the Circassia to be towed again as it remained in a disabled state. In Missouri a fuel right of way worker uncovered a rusty tea kettle with about 1204 dollars in coins including Spanish dollars and California gold pieces buried by John Emory fifteen years earlier.
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Siparia
Mike Kegney
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Beaman
California
Iso
John Emory
Two Section Men Die In Rail Handcar Collision Near Leadville
Leadville Colorado reports two section men killed and two others fatally hurt in a collision at 0 o clock yesterday between a Midland passenger engine and a handcar near Busalt, fifty miles west of Leadville. Kinley Frosty in the Northwest Chicago weather map notes killing frosts last night across the Dakotas and frost in Minnesota Nebraska and Northwest Iowa with extreme lows of Moorehead 25 Williston 39 Huron 32.
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Leadville
Col
Midland
Busalt
Kinley
Chicago
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwest
Moorehead
Williston
Huron
Missouri Bankers Hold Group 3 Meeting in Pacific Hotels Parlor
Bankers from Group No 3 of the Missouri Bankers Association gather at the Pacific hotels parlors in St Joseph Mo for a September 18 meeting.
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Bankers
St. Joseph
St. Josepn
The
Missouri Bankers’ Association
Pacific Hotels
Inventors Eye Historic Patent Decisions and Illustrations
An old convention notes three machine movements now public property. The disk and friction brush, the slotted cam driven vertical bar, and a wheel ratio of five to one are described. The U.S. Court held that breaking a composite patent requires more than viewing each element separately. Patent information is available from Sues & Co. at the Bee Building in Omaha Nebraska.
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United States
Sues & Co
Bee Building
Omaha
Nebraska
Is Andree in Siberia finding scarce hope?
Report from Kusela New York Sept 20 says Arctic explorers report a balloon seen over Antzifirowskoje Yenisei Siberia. Harkness doubts cross polar aim. Wellman disputes Siberian tale. Croker starts Daily Telegraph bid. Bad harvest hits seventeen Russian provinces. Michigan bank fails with 990000 due depositors.
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Kusela
New York
Herald
Washington
Andree
AntZifirowskoje
Yenisei
Siberia
William Harkness
Naval Observatory
Danes’ Island
Spitzbergen
Antzifeiowsky
Polar
North America
Harkness
Pole
Tromsoe
Walter Wellman
Haa
Shadooning
Croker
Mead of Sm
Richard Croker
Daily Telegraph
Tammany Organ
Mr. Croker
Lee Sr
Peace treaty signed between Turkey and Greece
Constantinople reports the peace treaty ending long hostilities between Turkey and Greece was signed this afternoon. The accord marks a formal settlement and outlines agreed terms to restore relations and boundaries after years of conflict.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Greece
Man Found Dead Near Niswot Suicide Note Reveals Missouri Roots
A man about 20 years old was found dead near Niswot, Colorado, after using rat poison to kill himself. A pocket note identified him as Elmer M. Kaugh of Missouri and expressed sadness and a wish to be dead. His father’s address is listed as Newland, Pettis County.
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Kademia
Polsor
Denver
Colo
Niswot
Elmer M. Kaugh
Missouri
Newland
Pettis County
President appoints four consuls and two officials
Washington reports several diplomatic and public appointments today. Charles M. Dickinson of New York is named consul at Constantinople and James W. Ragsdale consul at Tientsin. C. G. Manning of South Carolina becomes consul at St. Michaels Azores, Benjamin F. Clark of New Hampshire consul at Pernambuco Brazil, Leander Bryan named marshal for the middle district of Alabama, Silas C. Croft appointed surveyor of customs for the port of New York.
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Washington
Sept
Charles M. Dickinson
New York
Constantinople
James W. Ragsdale
Tientsin
C. G. Manning
South Carolina
St. Michaels
Azores
Benjamin F. Clark
New Hampshire
Pernambuco
Brazil
Leander Bryan
Middle District
Alabama
Silas C. Croft
Port of
Appointments Stir Oklahoma Republican Ranks
The appointment of anti administration Republicans to land office posts provokes consternation in the territorial administration. Outsiders sent to receivers at Perry and Guthrie violate the home rule plank and arouse strong Republican protests.
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Oklahoma
Gutunix
Okla
Territorial Administration
Perry
Guthrie
Royal scandal rumor strains Italian princely ties
London reports tension between the Duke and Duchess of Aosta and Princess Helena of Orleans with separation believed imminent. Separately, Wyoming forest fires spread along Bald mountain Piney and Little Goose Creek country, unchecked. In Gurnee, Oklahoma, Dr Peoples pursues a cross petition for divorce claiming his wife was never divorced from David Rosson, an aide at the London legation.
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London
Aosta
Italy
Helena of Orleans
Count
Paris
Wyoming
Surmipax
Wyo
Bald Mountain
Creek Country
Lan’t Mia
Gurnmix
Okla
Dr! Peoples
Nansen Expeditioner's Wife Delivers Sea Born Child
Mrs Nansen, wife of explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen, who returned from Arctic regions in August, has become mother to a sea born child.
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Nansen
Woondon
Fridshof , Nansen
Whic
Arctic
Sca
Chinese Bends Below Pan Saxony Hopes Hooley Jameson Syndicate
The report states the Hooley Jameson syndicate concluded negotiations to issue six hundred sixty million of five percent bonds and the Chinese government will take up the funds. Details are partially garbled but indicate a large bond issue tied to state finance.
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Hooley
Iowa Patent Office Report for August 31 1807 Patents
The Iowa Patent Office issued thirty patents to H Richards of Wartford Conn for weighing machines. A Laské View Iowa company asks if assignment must be recorded elsewhere. Law states recording in the patent office within three months protects title. otherwise a later purchaser may defeat the conveyance. Des Moines Sept 15 1807.
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H. Richards
Wartford
Conn
Laské View
Iowa
United States
Patent Office
J. Ratru Orwin
Solicitors of Patents
Des Moines
Live Stock and Produce Quotations From Major Markets
Prices and market conditions from New York Chicago Louis Omaha and Eisewherm detailed for breeders dealers and traders. Quotations cover cattle hogs sheep and produce with regional variations and current price ranges reported by market reporters.
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New York
Chicago
Louis
Omaha
Eisewherm
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Patent Office Report
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