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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
2
The Presbyterian assembly discussed prison reform with capital punishment raised during the session. The special committee urged treating the country as the reform instrument while using prison as a last resort. It also condemned the prison contract labor system.
London reports the home rule bill passed the house of commons by 351 to 274, a 77 vote majority. Premier Asquith offered conciliatory remarks but opposition leader Andrew Bonar Law criticized the lack of clarity on the amending measure.
H H Grose of Chicago, president of the National Soil Fertility League, told a Kansas City women's dining club that in fifty years the U S will hold 200 million people. He warned current consumption is high while production lags and urged intensified farming to boost output.
A million torches and lanterns lit Tokio as the Empress Dowager Haruko's body moved through the streets in a funeral car drawn by white oxen. The scene recalled the last grand ceremony for Emperor Mutudito a year and a half ago.
A blaze began at 2 30 a m Sunday and burned past 6 a m destroying the four story Grain Exchange block in Sioux City with an estimated loss of 200000 dollars for building and contents.
Mexico City report says after a conference with President Huerta the interior minister stated the president is highly gratified with the latest Niagara Falls news. A satisfactory arrangement with the United States seems near.
Oklahoma City reports State Labor Commissioner Daugherty says fifteen thousand more workers are needed across the state to harvest the 1914 wheat crop, with an estimated yield of 40,000,000 bushels.
In Boise Idaho two inmates were shot by guards as they attempted to escape. One prisoner probably will die, authorities said, with the incident prompting a law and order response from the state penitentiary system.
The death rate of the United States rose by 0.2 percent in 1913 versus 1912, per a census statement. Among cities with populations over 100000 the variation shows a wide range, though the general trend appears toward lower mortality.
Seattle area reports say Fain fell across western Washington Sunday, extinguishing several forest fires that threatened great damage. Fire crews credited the rain with halting multiple blazes and limiting further risks to communities and timberlands.
A local item details an appropriation to fund a nursery for the reserve in Niobrara. The measure aims to support plant cultivation and wildlife habitat efforts. Officials outline budgeted amounts and oversight for project milestones.
Charles Becker, a former police lieutenant, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the Rosenthal case. The jury ruled the gunmen acted as Beckers agents, sealing his fate with possible execution by electric chair. The decision marks a second time Becker bears responsibility for the crime.
The report says President Wilson ordered U S delegates at Niagara Falls to warn Mexican representatives that failure of peace talks could trigger a Mexican invasion by American forces, with troops remaining until pacification.
Mediators from three South American states say steady progress is being made with American and Mexican delegates toward a common approach to all phases of the Mexican problem. After a day of general talks no formal basis for a sequence of issues has been reached. The mediators emphasize they are counselors not rulers and will not propose provisional presidents or government forms.
Lincoln reports Nebraska will begin a million acre alfalfa harvest next week. The first cut is expected to yield about 1.25 tons per acre and 1,250,000 tons of feed. If three more crops succeed, total alfalfa feed could reach 3,750,000 tons this fall.
An agricultural appropriation bill passed the senate funding a Niobrara forest reserve nursery with 15 000 dollars. Norris also secured a 100 000 dollar appropriation to test artesian wells for irrigation in Nebraska and beyond.
Mandamus proceedings filed in the circuit court seek to force C. W. Hawes head clerk of the Modern Woodmen of America to issue credentials to delegates chosen by insurgent state camps in Illinois Iowa and Nebraska for the national camp to be held in Toledo Ohio.
Budapest reported duel between Prime Minister Stephan Tisza and lower-house member Stephan Rakovsky occurred Tuesday afternoon. They fought five bouts with rapiers, both wounded, arising from a May 15 altercation in the Hungarian parliament committee room.
Preparations at state military headquarters for an officers camp at the state fair grounds. June 1 to 10. About 100 commissioned Nebraska national guard officers will attend for instruction. Regular army instructors assigned. Encampment postponed last winter due to Mexico situation and instructors reassigned to field service.
Lincoln Neb March 8 Governor Morehead will designate the state college to receive Smith Lever funds under the cooperative extension act approved by President Wilson. The act provides federal money to state agricultural colleges to diffuse useful information on agriculture and home economics. Each state must match at least ten thousand dollars annually, with state sources complementing the federal allocation.
President Wilson received Judge Ben Lindsey Denver and Colorado strike district women and children. Lindsey told the president that Colorado faces a civil war and federal mediation is necessary. He planned to seek an audience with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in New York to urge arbitration of all mine disputes.
Lincoln Neb plans to prevent hog cholera in western and southwestern Nebraska gain full approval from farmers and stock raisers. Dr C M Day field man of the livestock and sanitary board visits the region to co operate in suppression and prevention of stock diseases.
Farmers in Howe Nebraska fear widespread winter wheat loss as Hessian flies hatch in growing stalks. Inspectors found young insects in hundreds of fields and predict much of the small wheat and weak stalks may not bend at all.
At Niagara Falls Mexican mediation talks boost Washington hopes to avert war and bring peace with Huerta in Mexico. Officials express buoyancy despite rumors, saying a satisfactory basis for resolving the U S dispute has been reached and revolution fires may be quelled within Mexico.
Pan American mediators in Niagara Falls aim to recognize a provisional government in Mexico City before rebels seize power. After days of talks, negotiators urge swift action as constitutionalists push toward the capital and Huerta’s regime teeters on collapse.
Confidential administration circles report optimism that the Niagara Falls mediation conference will produce a united and stable Mexican government. Officials say only an unforeseen calamity could derail what they deem an assured success, though they would not disclose their reasoning.
A dispatch from General Murgia reports federal destruction of nearly all American property in Monclova before evacuation. Federal units were moving toward Gabinas to link with General Velasco’s garrison while Joaquin Maas leads nearby actions.
The piece notes Canada rising as a major wheat producer with Saskatchewan and Alberta leading. It cites 1904 58 million bushels growing to 200 million by 1918, and forecasts Canada challenging France India Russia and the United States for top positions. It details large American settler influxes to Alberta Calgary Bassano Peers and western Saskatchewan, with hundreds of settlers, livestock, and capital. It mentions immigrant trains from McPherson Kansas and Goerts party, plus Panama exposition travel by transcontinental lines to Western Canada farming districts.
A young society woman chats with a man she has just met before replying. The brief dialogue hints at discretion and propriety within social circles of the period.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes confusion as a writer recalls a Mexican bandit's name. A foreman hoards slugs in cigar boxes within a composing room, and the editor contemplates copying names from the boxes.
Mr Growcher quotes the stage craze as the source of trouble. A discussion notes that human sorrows began in Eden when Hive staged a snake charming performance.
A neighbor asks about a boy named Tommy whose younger brother was pecked by an ostrich after going to the goo Sunday. The tale conveys a domestic scene with a curious rural mishap.
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