Doings of the Busy World Abroad and at Home
A digest of international and domestic events: bullion moved to the Bank of England. arbitration treaty ratified. Colombian plan for a national convention. dignitaries hosted in Paris and Rome. earthquakes in Catalonia. Japanese typhoon losses. Porto Rican commissions to Washington. no war declared in Central America. fires in Cisco Texas Clayton New York and Kentucky college. Taft aide letter case. US Steel to close Ensley plants. gold exports. smugglers sentenced. Fairbanks family to Pasadena. Oregon senator selection law. more.
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Bank of England
Netherlands
United States
Assembly
Cacire Matta
Prince Eitel Frederick
Vanderbilt
Newport
Henry White
Paris
Ireland
Lisbon
Manuel d’Espreguira
Nicholas
Alexander Nevsky
Diaz
Michael Hilkoff
Shinomoseki
Nen
Washington
Salvador
Nicaragua
Mayhew & Co
L. E. Childs
Cisco
Tex
Bert Strickland
Henry Benham
J. B. Patterson
Wiliam McGuire
Clayton
N. Y
St. Lawrence River
John C. Harvey
Carpenter
Taft
Harvey
United States Steel Corporation
Tennesse Coal and Iron Company
Ensley
Ala
London
New York
Utah
William Riley
Buffalo
Erie County
Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Pasadena
Calif
Ashbury College
Kentucky
Oregon
Tllinois House
Union workers strike funds disbursed. fires claim lives
Forty thousand dollars in benefit disbursements were paid to seven thousand hat shop workers who quit in Newark and Orange New Jersey. In Virginia a fire destroyed a Rockbridge County home killing Mrs Annie Miller and two children. The Garr Isather plant in Salem Massachusetts burned, causing about two hundred thousand dollars in damage. Independent pig iron producers plan to petition Congress on iron ore and scrap duty changes. A Tokyo cable notes China’s request to refer the Manan issues to The Hague, while Japanese officials resist. Erie Railroad issued a public statement on its status.
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Newark
Orange
N. J
Annie Miller
Frank Miller
Non Anda
Rock Bridge County
Virginia
Garr Isather Company
Salem
Massi
Congress
Chicago Daily News
Tokio
China
Hague
Erie Railroad Company
Multiple U S policy notes and political shifts reported
The article reports on a NY Supreme Court ruling upholding the public service commissions law, a new opium import ban after April 1 for medicinal use only, and Representative Edwards proposing a salary cut from 7500 to 5000. It also covers cotton stocks and consumption, Porto Rican commission arrival, Zelaya’s unsatisfactory reply, Bogota rioting, Hepburn law delay, a DC court murder sentence, O Brien’s embassy posting, and navy yard abolitions and a Senate ballot quorum issue.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Fitts
New York
Public Service Commissions
United States
Edwards
Congress
Census Bureau
Caracas
Espinosa
Nicaragua
State Department
Knox
Zelaya
Emery
Bogota
Columbia
State University funding eyed by legislature in 1920s note
Legislative notes report Senate finance committee backing House allowances for the State University with an extra 25 000 urged. Chancellor Avery seeks 30 000 for ground, athletic field, power and lights upgrades plus farm station improvements. Farmers institutes receive 206 000. North Platte station 15 000. Traveling men seek hotel bill enforcement funding for inspectors and related costs.
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State University
State Senate
Senate Committee On Finance, Ways and Means
Senate
State School
Avery
Green House
Farmers’ Institutes
North Platte
House
Final Session of the Sisters and House Bill Actions
The house adjourns its final session with a rule preventing new general-file bills without house orders, delaying all general-file bills. Only senate-passed, committee-recommended, or third-reading bills may advance unless a majority votes to pull from the general file. Special focus on amendments to the pure food law.
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Lancaster
Cooperrider
Senate
House
Governor Signs Bills on Conventions Licenses Districts and Codes
Governor Shalienberger signed several bills including H. R. No. 159 on state conventions to be held before primaries for platforms H. R. No. 214 on election of precinct and district assessors every two years H. R. No. 70 on licensure of nurses H. R. No. 143 on changing boundaries of school districts H. R. No. 222 prohibiting dumping trash in drainage ditches H. R. No. 216 defining duties of precinct and district assessors and taxing grain held by brokers H. R. No. 128 on military code.
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Shalienberger
Kuhl
Skeen
Carr
Griffeo
Lawrence
Beer inspection bill aims to seal pure statewide supply
In committee of the whole the house considered a beer inspection department to ensure purity and generate revenue. The governor would appoint deputies and a chief with salaries totaling $3,200 annually. Fees of one cent per gallon would fund the program, targeting 800000 barrels or 25600000 gallons and $256000 in revenue, with amendments avoiding inspection for out of state liquor.
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Link
Shoemaker
Senate Slaughter of Bills Continues in Upper House
The ongoing battle over insurance bills persists as Friday the “affidavit” bill No. 202 and the 6 per cent dividend measure remain the only ones showing life. The affidavit bill faced unanimous resistance, while the 6 per cent bill is trimmed to boost dividends to 8 per cent for non-participating policies. A separate proposal to empower auditors and officials to set maximum insurance rates was killed. The Lehigh bill raising the supreme court clerk salary to 2600 plus 1500 for head librarian passed unanimously, with reporters’ salaries set at 2500.
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Bartos
Surety and Fidelity
Lehigh
Supreme Court
Senate
Governor Signs Banking Bill and Twin Pension Measure
Governor Shalienberder signed H. R. 423 the guarantee of bank deposits in the forenoon. The senate ordered 2,000 copies printed for distribution to legislators. He also signed S. F. 315 by Howell creating a pension fund for Omaha teachers requiring contributions from teachers.
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Shalienberder
Senate
Howell
Omaha
Boy Killed While Hunting in Nebraska City
John Coffey, fifteen year old son of Elington railway ticket agent Chris Coffey, was accidentally shot and killed while duck hunting in a boat at Nebraska City. The gun discharged as he moved to exit, a trigger catching on a boat slat. The load struck him fatally.
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John
Chris Coffey
Elington Railway
Nebraska City
Grey
Murder near Oxford hits isolated farmer
An elderly farmer named Diffon south of Oxford was shot and robbed within the week. His body was found by neighbors in the farmhouse. The killer fired through a window and stole a large sum of money and his watch. A blanket covered the broken glass to conceal the scene.
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Oxford
Difion
Diffon
Dillon
Doane Debaters Win Triangular Bellevue Contest
Doane College debaters led by Rife Arnold and Paine defeated Cotner opponents Lemmon Bashbe and Wilson at Cotner University on an issue about income tax. Judges Stephens Shape and Dobbs upheld a unanimous Doane win. Doane also swept Bellevue and Conner in Crete with unanimous and two to one decisions, securing the year’s Bellevue Doane Conner championship.
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Doane
Cotmer University
Messrs
Rife
Arnold
Paine
Cotner
Lemmon
Bashbe
Wilson
Stephens
Shape
Dobbs
Crete
Bellevue
Conner
Four Year Old Ben VanLeer Drowns Near Home
Mr and Mrs J C VanLeer traveled from Sheridan Wyoming with the body of their four year old son Ben VanLeer. The child drowned after chasing his hat into a deep stream near his Wyoming home. The funeral was held in Vesta at the Hunt residence with interment in Vesta cemetery.
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J. C. VanLeer
Sheridan
Wyo
Ben VanLeer
Benedict School Board Seeks More Territory for District
The Benedict school board applied to the board of supervisors for additional territory under section 4 of state school law. Benedict, formed after county districts, has limited area, and the law requiring nine months of school and four teachers for ten grades makes hiring difficult on their resources.
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Benedict
Board of Supervisors
Burglar Strikes Farm Near Pawnee City
Burglars entered the W. J. Fish farm house four miles southeast of Pawnee City on Thursday afternoon and took about $115 in cash while the family was away except for a grandson Glenn Reynolds who rode to a neighbor. He found the house in disorder on returning.
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W. J. Fish
Pawnee’ City
Glenn Reynolds
Dr. Purdon Acquitted in Lexington Case
The state against Dr. C. Purdon at Lexington ended with an acquittal after three hours of deliberation. The jury found the defendant not guilty of the charged criminal operation.
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Dr. Purdon
C. Purdon
Lexington
Oer
Smith family relocates to take charge in Superior
W. D. Smith and family moved from Lyons to Superior Nebraska to assume leadership of the Daily Superior Journal, a newspaper he has leased for five years.
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Superior
W. D. Smith
Lyons
Neb
Superior Journ
Mr. Smith
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Ernest Bickner
Chicago
American Red Cross Society
Rome
Italy
Catalonia
Spain
W. H. O'Connell
Boston
Vatican
Criminal Court of the
District of Columbia
Robert McCubic
Gould
Ambassador O'Brien
Tekio
Commerce and Labor
Oscar Straus
Smith and Burrows
Michigan
O’brien
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Roosevelt
Pensacola
Fla
New Orleans
Taineis
Capital “City News
State House
Trav
L. W. Garoutte
H. C. Wyrick
C. D. Bdjeman
Board of Directors of
Post - Travelers’ Protective Association of Lincoln
General Appropriations Committee
Legislature
Garoutte
Braska
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