Nebraska Notes Reflect County, City, and Farm News
North Platte encampment deemed successful while Saunders county and Dodge county list multiple political tickets. Lincoln roads report first corn load at 50 cents a bushel. Fillmore county fair draws eight thousand. Cass county fair praised. Fremont Y M C A incorporated. Lincoln police salaries cut. Osceola editor David N Horton dies of typhoid. Nebraska banks number 197 with assets around 39.1 million dollars. Cowles St to host paper edited by Critten den. West Point Catholic church cornerstone set for Sept 29. Columbus man sent to reform school for incorrigibility. Pender forms market to hold monthly fairs. Edwards reunion well attended. Laume county farm labor in demand amid threshing and fodder cutting. Adams county sample shipments prepared for train. Eight days see two Reynulus children contract diphtheria. Dunbar farmer murders wife and attempts suicide. disarmed. West Kearney improvement association chartered. Horton & Vawson of Unadilla report hog losses from nasal catarrh. Osceola confirms fastest potato digger record. Bayard boy injured in bucking broncho. Furnas county Sunday school meets Oct 17–18 at Beaver City. Lincoln telephones removed after disputes with service. Newnan Grove bank files incorporation with 50 000 capital. Staunton to Schwedt wagon driver hurt in runaway. Fremont hemp field fires cause losses. Nearest towns report minor farm accidents. Hastings growth boosts hope of second city status. Nelson threshes 1060 bushels winter wheat from 20 acres. Potsdam township votes 19000 bonds for county funds. Blue Hill becomes county seat with 21000 more pledged.
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North Platte
Saunders County
Dodge County
Lincoln
Fillmore County
Fremont Y. M. C. A
Nebraska
Omaha Board of Trade
Montana
Keya Paha
Nebraska City
Cass County
Abner Pierce
Ainsworth
David N Horton
Clarns Leader
Cowles St
Oy Crittenden
Snornton
West Points
Adams County
Ch.gven
J. J. Reynulus
Mallison
Alphtheria
Dunbar
Mike Gessier
West Kearney Improvement Association
Furnas County Sunday School Association
Beaver City
Emte Bask
Newnan Grove
McKenzie
Staunton
Schiwedt
Ooki
Frank
Scow Neff
Atlanta
Thomas D. Yalle
Neovraska City
Kansas City Sun
Hastings
Robert Stevens
Nelson
Potsdam
Blue Hill
Rush to Open Lands Sparks Bedlam and Bootstraps
Thousands of home seekers flood the new lands as four Santa Fe trains arrive in sections, buying outfits and racing toward the border. Officials publish land allocations for schools and Indian lands to protect settlers from preemption, while a Carter telegram confirms entry rights from the Kickapoo reservation. Fraud safeguards slow declaratory statements as soldiers and attorneys extend lines at the land office.
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Gurung
Carter
Kickapoo Reservation
Nickapoo Reservation
Excited Superstition In Louisville Woman Visitation
Mrs Mary Stuckenberg of Louisville Kentucky reports a peculiar visitation she and family call the Stigmata wounds of Christ. She says she enters Friday trance states with spots on hands feet and side and intermittent bleeding. Locals debate the claim. Bishop Metoskey calls it foolish and no investigation will occur.
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Louisville
Mary Stuckenberg
Nin
Christ
Hold Up At Pacific Hotel In St Joseph Mo
Three masked men armed with revolvers struck the Pacific hotel in St Joseph at 2 oclock this morning. They forced the clerk to open the safe and two cash boxes holding 400 dollars each, plus valuables, and took a diamond stud and 40 dollars from a bartender. Police have not yet captured the robbers.
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Frobbery
St Joseph
St. Joser. Mo
Pacific Hotel
Ville
WIFE MURDERER HANGED IN SAVANNAH GA JAIL
Albert Morea alias Grant Kitchen, a Savannah Negro condemned for wife killings, was hanged at 10 43 am in the county jail. He confessed slayings of his first wife in 1834 and his second wife in April last, both described as diabolical and jealousy motivated.
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Savannah
Albert Morea
Grant Kitchen
Kitchen
Hris
Victory for the Women at Methodist Conference
In Detroit on September 21 the Michigan Methodist Conference voted 149 to 74 to admit women as lay delegates after full debate. Sgt. Paul and anti suffrage followers faced a decisive setback as the conference approved the change.
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Michigan Methodist Conference
Thomas Lay
Detroit
Sgt
Paul
Methodist
Governor mobilizes Wilcox cavalry to protect prisoners
Nasuginie Tenn Sept 22 A Montgomery Special reports Governor Jones was wired by Wilcox county sheriff to send twenty men from Camden Alabama to Furman to guard five negro prisoners threatened by a mob. The governor ordered the force to move immediately and they should reach in time to prevent mob law.
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Nasuginie
Tenn
Montgomery
Jones
Wilcox County
Wilcox Cavalry
Camden
Ala
Furman
Rush for new lands in Indian Territory violence erupts
News from Guthrie Oklahoma reports a race war as thousands stream toward the ceded lands east of Oklahoma. Negro settlers in Langston face deadly threats from cowboys of the Cherokee strip amid volleys of gunfire and heavy camp activity along the meridian line. Government troops and infantry companies move to quell the unrest while settlers rush to join the opening on next Tuesday.
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Oklahoma
GuTuniz
O. T
Towa Reservation
Langston
Immaroon Valley
Cherokee Strip
Eggleston
Ierald
Meridian Line
Oklahoma City
Guthrie
Washington
13Th Infantry
5Th Cavalry
Oklahoma Territory
Wreck at Fort Neuf Kills Five on Union Pacific
A disastrous train collision near Fort Neuf station six miles from Pocatello Idaho killed five men and seriously injured several others. The killed included mail clerk L Wademyer and four Indians from Fort Hall Reservation. Injured were Engineer Charles Hoyt Chris Mackenzie P P Gunderson Mail Clerk Lyons and two tramps.
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Boise Crry
Idaho
Statesman
Pocatello
Union Pacific
Fort Neuf
L. Wademyer
Fort Hall Reservation
Charles Hoyt
Chris Mackenzie
P. P. Gunderson
Lyons
W Equaw
Post Office Site Picks in Rock Island Reported
Treasury special agent recommends the southwest corner of Second Avenue and Sixteenth Street Rock Island as the site for a new post office building with a second choice at the northwest corner of Third Avenue and Nineteenth Street. Meanwhile in Gutunte Oklahoma a large fire sweeps the Cherokee Strip with many acres burning and boomers suspected to threaten burning vast grasslands nationwide.
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Rock Islamdé
Wasuincron
D. C
Treasury Department
Second Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Rock Island
Third Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Gutunte
Cherokee Strip
Editor Paul Wolf Involved In Tragic Death Case
Washington dispatch reports editor Paul Wolf of the Illinois Staats Zeitung linked to the death of Miss Marie Kraemer believed to be his partner. After a six year intimate relationship they separated. Kraemer reportedly ingested poison and died after lingering for a day. Wolf, once a noted Staats Zeitung correspondent, faced intense scrutiny as details emerged of their liaison and his alleged pursuit of a settlement.
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WashingTon
Paul Wolf
New York Staats Zeitung
Illinois Staats Zeitung
Chicago
Marie Kraemer
Wolf
New Maven
Miss Kraemer
New Yorks
Hartman
Totus
Fas Sular
Tools
Lundanum
Big failure in New York and Chicago stock shock
A surge of distress follows the White & Co failure as assignment of assets is announced for creditors. The firm faced heavy losses from corn speculation, with large liabilities and few shares outstanding. The announcement spurred market fallout, while sources note the shock will mainly affect Chicago and corn pricing trends. Mason City reports Sheffield Press to publish expert blood evidence in Darrow Larson case, with rumors of a confession by Darrow’s wife.
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White & Co
White Avo
New York
Chicago
Stock Exchange
White
Fim
Thes San
E. ¢. Stedman
S. V. White
S. V White & Co
Wo White
Produce Exchange
Stedman
Mason City
Iowa
Sheffield Press
William Darrow
Peter Larson
Harrow
Darrow
Larson
Wreck in Prussian Silesia Kills Ten on Rail Line
A Gleiwitz dispatch reports a collision on the Golaczowy Wolbrom railway near the Russian frontier. Ten people died and many were injured as both trains were wrecked and cars shattered in the incident.
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Hennin
Gleiwitz
Prussian Silesia
Golaczowy
Wolbrom
Assenger
McCarthy Defeats Warren in Twenty-First Round
In New Orleans at the Olympic club, Cal McCarthy defeated Tommy Warren after a stubborn bout lasting twenty one rounds before about 4 600 spectators. The $1 500 purse saw the loser receive a share. Referee ruled decisions when a competitor faded, with Warren knocked down in the final round and counted out.
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New Orleana
New Orleans
Olympic Club
Tommy Warren
Cal” McCarthy
McCarthy
Metarthy
Warren
Siau
Ainyt
Bruce on Race Problems at State Fairgrounds Speech
United States senator addressed a race at the State fairgrounds during a state emancipation celebration. The parade included colored societies, police, and city departments. He spoke in the afternoon praising progress since emancipation and predicting eventual resolution of the race question.
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Watrutse
WooVa
United States
Addreses
Ain Chemmerning
Bruce
Wil
Smut in Wheat Warned by Grain Inspector Jausen
Wheat in North Dakota and northern Minnesota shows heavy smut from late August frost. Inspectors warn growers and buyers to beware as much grain is graded rejected. Shipments continue at a pace of about 40,000 bushels daily, with much grain moving to Europe direct.
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St Patt
Minn
Chie
Iausen
North
Aketa
Minnesota
Jjulyth
Jausen
Itts
Europe
Creston Blue Grass Palace Faces Financial Gap
Sept 24 Creston Iowa crowd attends the blue grass Palace show but the Creston society remains about $6,000 in the hole. The First National Bank holds $2,000 on deposit yet refuses to cash society checks, claiming it now owns the full amount on deposit.
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Sine-Graas Palace
Nota Succesa Crestor
Iowa
Creston
Grass Palace T $S
Association Iis
First National Bank
Instituton
Owen
Carbolic acid mix up kills elderly man in Independence
Independence Iowa Sept 24 Richard Egerton long time county resident drank carbolic acid after his wife mistook it for liquor while by his daughter's corpse. He died within minutes. In St Paul heat prompts school closures as city schools halt classes.
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Independence, Jown
Richard Egerton
St. Paul, Minn
Cit
Nebraska urged to patronize home industries statewide
The Omaha Bee campaigns for patronage of Nebraska industries as key to keeping money at home and boosting prosperity. Editors argue local manufacturing must be encouraged, with Omaha Lincoln Hastings and other towns forming a manufacturers association to unify effort and expand employment and trade while keeping capital within the state.
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Omaha Bee
Nebraska
Lincoln
Hastings
Grand Jelanu
Henitice
Kearney
Kupareus
Omaha
Association of Manufacturers
Itas
Neobrarks Inc
Commonwealth
Aitiann
Stata
Perons
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