Nebraska Notes Highlight Local Growth And Incidents
Nebraska notes record surge of building in Fremont and Hastings telephone exchange work. Alfalfa success in Holt county and a new flouring mill planned in Brainard. Wolf den found near Eagle Cass county and a saloon fine in Fremont. Bank charter extended for West Point, Krotter Livestock empire formed in Stuart with $1,000,000 capital. Grand Island police rock pile proposal and mounting city costs due to tramps.
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Nebraska
Hastings Independent Telephone Company
Fremont
G .W. Gilman
A. W. Atwood
Plattsmouth
Freid & Harris
Atlantic
Iowa
West Point National Bank
Comptroller of the Treasury
Holt County
Howells
Fremont School
C.C. Jones
Congregational’ Academy
Chadron
Temple
Geneva
Geneva State Bank
Law and Order League
J. W.W. Swan
T. W. Glenn
George M
Norfolk Asylum
State Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Ashland
Stevens & Co
Chicago
Marriott
Mount Carmel
Ill
John
T Hinkley
Ash'and
William Krotter
South Dakota
W. Krotter
M. A. Krotter
G. C. Krotter
Stuart, Neb
H. A. Hall
Long Pine
Stuart
Grand Island
Pat Crowe Surrenders At Omaha After Years Of Wandering
Pat Crowe, alleged kidnapper of Eddie Cudahy Jr., walked into the Omaha World Herald office with Thomas O'Brien. He says he lived quietly in Chicago for nearly three years and denies or confirms nothing about the Cudahy kidnapping. The 1900 ransom case involved a gold bag and a ransom note demanding 250000 dollars before the boy was released.
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Pat Crowe
Eddie Cudahy
Packer
Omaha
The
Omaha World-Herald
Thomas O'Brien
Henshaw Hotel
Crowe
Donahue
South Side
Chicago
Cudahy
Edward Cudahy, Jr
Young
James Calahan
Callahan
Nebraska officer drowned in Philippine accident
Cablegrams and war department telegrams announced that First Lieutenant Juan Ashton Boyle of Kearney was drowned while sailing on Lagula lake on Lu zon island Thursday afternoon at 5 o clock. A native of Kearney he was about 27 and the son of the late Juan Boyle. He entered the regular army before the Spanish American War and rose from private to first lieutenant after earning praise at Santiago and for capturing the first Spanish flag on San Juan hill.
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Philippine Islands
War Department
Juan Boyle
Kearney
Juan Ashton Boyle
Lagula Lake
Island of Luzon
Boyle
Leutenant
Battle of
Santiago
San Juan Hill
McKinley
Waiting for a New Burlington Depot in Lincoln
Lincoln residents await a promised Burlington depot upgrade after initial plans to spend 40 000 to 50 000 were proposed. Comparisons to Hastings and small markets sparked debate on the funds needed to modernize the station, with hints the railroad may authorize a far more costly, stylish structure for Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Burlington
Hastings
Omaha
Friends of the Road
General Office of the Road
Chicago
Mrs Lena M Lillie Crime Appeal Moves National Club Network
Friends of Lena M Lillie of David City convicted of murdering her husband plan petitions signed by prominent club women to seek clemency. The effort notes shifting local sentiment and will circulate from Nebraska to other states. Lillie recently returned insurance proceeds to her children after the death.
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Lena M. Lillie
David City
United States
Lillie
Nebraska
Elopers Foiled by Wires and Law in Creighton Affair
Telegraph lines and irate parents stopped a teen elopement from Creighton Nebraska to Fairfax via Winnetoon. Adelede Clark age seventeen and Arthur Helm twenty six had obtained a marriage license but Judge Allen refused consent for a girl so young. Sheriff Burns with an arrest order pursued them to Fairfax and returned the couple for custody awaiting officers.
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Adelede Clark
Creighton
Winnetoon
Fairfax
Arthur Helfm
Fhegis
Helm
Allen
Burns
No Y M C A Planned in Fremont After Four Week Canvass
Fremont abandons Y M C A project with four week canvass ended. Committee votes to cease pursuit and close headquarters. Lots to be sold to cover debt. list of expected donors compiled, but many did not contribute.
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Fremont
Roosevelt ends Colorado hunt with bears and bobcats
President Roosevelt concludes the fort night Colorado expedition with ten bears and four bobcats taken by the party. Bears were mainly small. several pelts to be cured and mounted as rugs by Frank Hay.
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Colorado Mountains
Roosevelt
Washington
Colorado
Newcastle
Glenwood Springs
Loeb
Hotel
Denver & Rio Grandé
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Denver
Union Pacific
North Platte
Neb
Grand Island
Fremont
Omaha
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Cedar ‘Rapids
Clinton
Sterling
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Dr. Lambert
Nebraska Board of Education Deadlock Continues
The Nebraska Board of Education adjourned to May 22 after 100 ballots for the state normal school principal in Kearney produced no decision. Absent member Rev. L. P. Ludden is hoped to break the deadlock. A. O. Thomas and Dean Fordyce each drew three votes, with scattered support for Beattie Searson Ludden Goss Hodgman and others.
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Nebraska Board of Education
State Normal School
Kearney
State Board’ of Education
Rev. L. P. Ludden
Lincoln
Perton
A. O. Thomas
Mr. Fowler
Dean Fordyce
Wesleyan University
Thomas
Fowler
Fordyce
Penu Normal
J. A. Beattie
J. W. Searson
L. P. Ludden
Paul Goss
Ord
W. J.gardner
Fremont
T. M. Hodgman
Co. M. Young
Vermillion, S. D
Superintendent Fulmer
Beatrice
Russians Expect Naval Victory As Fleets Unite
Reports from Saint Petersburg say Admiral Nebogatov joins with Vice Admiral Rozestvensky for a likely victory at sea. If Kamimura cannot break the united Russian fleets, Togo may pursue torpedo strikes and long range actions while preparing to retreat. Naval officers expect some convoy losses but predict limited opposition to the Vladivostok approach.
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Nebogatoff
Rosestvensky
Admiralty
Petersburg
Kamimura
Grouchy
Togo
Rojestvensky
Vladivostok
Port Arthur
Lincoln trade excursion to visit ninety towns
Lincoln based customers manufacturers and jobbers plan a four day trade excursion starting Monday morning May 15. The route includes Burlington line towns between Lincoln and Wymore Superior to McCook Curtis to Holdrege Crete Beatrice Hastings Blue Hill and Aurora before returning to Lincoln. A baggage car day coach and Pullmans will compose the special train and each day’s itinerary will be printed for distribution.
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Lincoln
South Platte
Burlington
Wymore
Superior
McCook
Curtis
Holdrege
Crete
Beatrice
Hastings
Blue Hill
Aurora
Pullmans
Governor Mickey Grants Pardon After Nebraska Train Wreck
Governor Mickey commutes the life sentence of George Washington Davis, the colored man convicted for wrecking a Rock Island train near Lincoln about eleven years ago. Davis is released to work as a button-maker in South Omaha after prosecutors argued he caused a fatal crash that killed eleven and burned victims.
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Mickey
George Washington Davis
Rock Island
Lincoln
Davis
Aedy
South Omaha
Nebraska
Nan Patterson Innocence Claimed by Salvation Army Leader
Miss Eva Booth met Nan Patterson at the Tombs New York and urged belief in the suspect’s innocence. Booth said she did not think the girl a murderer, noting she belongs to a finer class than the crime. Dr O Hanlon testified he believed the revolver was in Youngs hands.
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Nan Patterson
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
Young
Root Retained by Tobacco Company Counsel in Grand Jury Probe
Elihu Root former secretary of war has been engaged by American Tobacco as counsel in the federal grand jury investigation into the company. The probe, active for several months, is being conducted in New York City and across the United States.
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Elihu Root
American Tobacco Company
New York City
Federal Grand Jury
United States
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Eagle
Cass County
Neil Gardner
Charles Young
Pat Crow
Philippines
Maybrick
President Roosevelt
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