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Newspaper
The Fairbury Enterprise
Location
Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1901
Page
6
Elgin builds a new opera house and York library planning. border thefts disturb Lincoln cyclists. Concord forms a creamery. Newcastle set to establish a third bank. Hart dies in Allen. ponca church dedication. balloon ascent in Tekamah draws crowds. Plattsmouth damages. rainfall blessings. Nebraskans celebrate Fourth. Eight more items include bail, robberies, injuries, resignations, marriages, and moves to electric plant ventures.
Advices from Havana report delay in official Pratt amendment instructions from Washington. General Wood and the Cuban convention show frustration as talks focus on interpreting the Platt amendment and a secret session contemplates the form of the resolution added to the Cuban constitution. Delegates blame the insular court division and presume Washington aims for tighter control over Cuba through the amendment.
Mrs. P. D. Armour and son J Ogden Armour add 250000 to their 1 million donation to the Armour Institute. Two new buildings will rise, the Armour memorial school of engineering and a model workshop facility to serve as the nation’s leading workshop.
Miss Edith Woodruff sixteen at Blue Springs Nebraska was badly burned on chest and limbs when her dress brushed hot ashes from a grate. Her parents Mr and Mrs Woodruff were also severely burned while trying to extinguish the flames.
Waverly T. Allen of Ashland Nebraska was brought before the board of insanity and declared insane. He is married with eleven children and has been mentally deranged for years, recently worsening and often threatening to kill a neighbor or a family member. He is ordered sent to the asylum.
N P Neilson, a ranchman near Callaway Nebraska, displays a freak calf with two heads and three eyes. The creature has a double mouth and nose and is about one week old, with uncertain prospects of survival.
Robert G. Bidwell of Jacksonville Pennsylvania jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and was seen taking the fatal leap. His body was recovered shortly after the fall.
Cabinet reports seal a stance that no congressional session will be called this summer. The president will keep Dingley tariff levels on Philippine goods while Taft commission may advise tariff changes for goods sent to the Philippines. Civil government in the islands to proceed when military authorities deem timely.
A switch engine in the Southern railway yards near Atlanta, Georgia, backed into a passing passenger train, killing three riders and injuring several others. The dead include Mrs. E. A. Lemmon and Irma Lemmon, daughter of Mrs. Lemmon and H. H. Vickers. C. B. Dunton, a Southern Railway employee, was detained on suspicion of operating the switch engine. officials say he was seen on the engine but he denies involvement.
The Cleveland steamer City of Erie and Detroit’s Tashmoo raced 100 miles from Cleveland to Erie. The Erie finished in four hours nineteen minutes nine seconds, forty five seconds ahead of Kashmoo, winning the Great Lakes speed title and about 100000 in bets.
Rioters struck Pas siac New Jersey factory grounds during a shift change. Police, reduced to two men, faced showers of stones and window pelting before reinforcements arrived.
Louis Dubey found a man floating in Saginaw Bay wearing a life jacket and a heavy gold ring with initials C. KB. The body, with black hair and a sandy mustache, is believed to be Edward Owen, wheelman of the ill fated Baltimore.
J F Langer, senior at the state university, has been appointed as a cadet to the Annapolis academy. The appointment came through Congressman Robinson of the Third district. Langer is noted as the best drilled man at the university and has won the Pershing rifles gold medal in every competition.
General Merriam reports from Fort Washakie that conditions on the Arapaho reservation are quiet. He notes a murder of an Arapaho but states the incident has no follow up or immediate cause for concern.
Word reaches Weeping Water from a Montana sheriff that a Nebraska man is declared insane. Details on location and circumstances remain sparse as officials confirm the report.
In a northern corner of this state cattle roam unbranded with no bills of sale. A Denver writer notes a borderland where settlers and Indians once clashed, and cowhands recount legends of 2000 fat cattle defenseless to theft. Pursuits by Joe Burgett and others failed, leaving rumors of Mormon route chapters through Fort.
A reminiscence recalls a 50 000 head unowned cattle herd driven west from Routt County after a night storm left 1 000 dead upon a cliff. The piece links stray cattle to Indian agencies and Uncle Sam branding. It also quotes a Philadelphia Press view on nature’s healing power and a local Illinois note praising Dodd’s Kidney Pills for dropsy after doctors gave up.
A Confederate veteran recalls the morning after the second Battle of Manassas and a dying young Union Zouave he helped. He finds a jeweled fez on the boy, who asks for water and, failing help, asks the veteran to wear the fez in memory of him before dying.
Snowslides carve bare streaks on Rocky Mountain slopes showing where timber and debris have been cleared by avalanches. Also notes a thirty inch Icelandic pony exhibited in Paris as a marvel and reports Korean ponies as small and troublesome, with a bucking, biting temper described by Clive Bigham.
A Duluth reader reports Western Canada wheat yields of twenty five to thirty bushels per acre. Shocks thick in fields make driving nearly impossible. Winters milder due to Japan current and chinook winds. Government agents advertise new Saskatchewan districts and open land for settlement this year.
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