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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1903
Page
2
A compilation of Nebraska farm news and local items. Crops like alfalfa and corn show mixed reports while towns such as Lexington North Loup and Albion note fairs bridges schools and robberies. New banks, telephones, charters, and political conventions announce upcoming events and developments.
The United States Packing company formed in Colorado in 1902 to rival the beef trust plans a Kansas City packing plant with a proposed investment of 1.75 million. President James H. Peabody and secretary Charles F. Martin note strong small investor support including a labor union and western cattlemen, while John Dickey says the organization is now on a firm basis.
The bureau of forestry reports planting 100 acres in the Disma River sand hills and 800 acres with 100000 pine seedlings, plus sowing on 20 acres. Plans include enlarging nurseries to supply 2,000,000 seedlings yearly and expanding reforestation to Niobrara and Dismal River reserves.
Madrid dispatch reports one hundred bodies extracted from the Bilbao wreck after the disaster on Saturday with seventy more feared in the collapsed bridge area. Civil and military authorities clash over rescue efforts as more victims are identified by wealth indicated by money and jewelry found by gendarmes.
Damp warm weather last month boosted crops across European Russia but hurt some northern districts. Regions in the southwest and central areas show good prospects while Volga areas are mostly satisfactory. Winter and summer wheat oats and barley look better overall than rye.
Joseph Rouse died at his home in DeWitt Nebraska at age 83 from congestion of the lungs and old age. He was an early pioneer and veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, receiving honorable discharges from both. Survived by his wife and eleven children. Funeral held at Congregational church with G A R honor and Rev Millard delivering the sermon.
Foreign diplomats including Italy’s Signor Des Planches and Germany’s Baron von Sternberg begin Western tours after President Roosevelt’s visit. Along with French ambassador Juesserand Spanish minister Ojeda and Chinese minister Chen, they will travel to San Francisco Seattle Chicago St Paul Omaha Denver Salt Lake City Helena and other western cities to learn about American business and land resources.
The Kansas City Employers' Association with about eight thousand members plans to repeal city laws that favor union labor. They target printing contracts limited to union shops and oppose the eight hour rule and engineer licensing exams conducted by a union-only board.
Governor Francis and officials met with Secretary Shaw to discuss releasing the $5,000,000 congressionally appropriated for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The company has spent nearly the $10,000,000 required by law and will not demand the appropriation until that sum is fully expended.
The new La Salle Street Station at Van Buren and La Salle streets in Chicago will be opened July 12. All trains on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Nickel Plate lines arriving after midnight July 11 will use the new building.
A July grand jury in Jefferson City Missouri will investigate boodle charges. Judge Hazel is absent for several days but preliminaries are ready. The effort is expected to supplement St Louis investigations and may yield more indictments than those there.
Louis Larson was caught carrying away crockery eggs and a keg of herring from L. P. Hansen's grocery. Clerk Mark Mortison knocked him down and had him arrested but Larson agreed to leave the city and was not prosecuted.
A seven year old Eddie Brown son of Mr and Mrs Edward Brown of Fremont Nebraska was killed when a Union Pacific freight train backed into a detached section as he and two companions played near the cars. The boy ran between cars and was crushed diagonally across the body. a brakeman removed him and he died saying Mamma.
Sir Thomas Lipton and J. P. Morgan were among Oceanic passengers when General Corbin and General Chaffee with Major Bird met the liner at quarantine. Lipton invited to dine with President Roosevelt, and he expressed hope to lift the cup, praising his boat and skipper as the best Britain can offer.
The Kansas House killed a bill by Representative B P Waggener to appropriate 1 million dollars from the state treasury to repair and reconstruct Kaw river bridges damaged by recent floods. Waggener argued funds at state level would allow counties and cities to aid homeless families, boosting state credit and moral standing rather than begging from abroad.
At the annual meeting of the AME church home and foreign mission department in New York Bishop A. J. Hardy refused to entertain resolutions denouncing the burning lynching in Delaware. He said resolutions do no good let the law take its course and justice prevail.
A cloudburst over Topeka Kansas forced residents in South Topeka to flee to higher ground. Several small houses washed from foundations as Soldier Creek and the Kaw River rose near Kansas Avenue bridge.
A morning message from Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay will formally open the Pacific cable to the Philippine islands. The telegram will greet and congratulate Governor Taft, who will send a return message.
An 18 month old child of County Treasurer J. G. Begher in Columbus Nebraska drank horse medicine from a bottle and died about twenty minutes later. Begher was in Omaha at his mother's bedside at the time.
Andrew Carnegie donated 100000 dollars to Hamilton College Utica New York. The American Water Works Association convened in Detroit and planned to hold its 1904 convention in St Louis. Naval ships Alabama Illinois Massachusetts and Brooklyn with Mayflower sailed from New York to the Azores for summer maneuvers.
A Indianapolis business college graduate praises Peruna after six weeks use for stomach indigestion and catarrh, claiming full recovery and continued health. A U S congressman Willis Brewer also commends Peruna as a tonic after one bottle and invites others to seek gratis expert advice from Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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