NEBRASKA NOTES: Smallpox, libraries, and local events
Minden reports twenty smallpox cases. Max in Dundy county sees a case. Lexington skater Gus Temple breaks his leg. Fremont backs a new library drive. North Platte stores 16 000 tons of ice. Randolph hosts Catholic fair January 28 29 30. Benkleman touts local gold. A bold but failed bank robbery at Ogalalla. Syracuse resident Mrs Patrick Clancey fractures a hip. Sidney resident Bert Polly dies of smallpox in prison serving a horse stealing sentence. Clarks lodge joins Royal Highlanders. Seward hosts nineteenth annual state volunteer fire association convention. Brownville nursery owner Mrs C M Kauffman dies. Chester pastor Rev John Hindman turns eighty four. John Price, sought for horse stealing, escapes near Tecumseh and is at large. Dey hospital for the insane to be taken by Greene and Shields February 1. Minden schools overcrowded. extra teacher to be hired. Dimock Manufacturing formed in Madison to make hydraulic wells at Newman Grove. Seward Reporter plant sold to J C Rahe and moved to Shelby. E E Abbott of Lexington hears of three deaths and a sister critical illness. Dempster Manufacturing annual banquet at Beatrice Paddock hotel. Jare, 19, arrested for burglary near Logan. Burlington Railway pushing ice at Hastings Aurora Palmer Ravenna. Lincoln Omaha Columbus not iced. Union Pacific surveyors work Stromsburg to Lincoln line. Mrs George Gauger seriously injured by passenger train. her husband’s wife crushed. Gauger known in Fremont society.
Edward VII King of England Passes Peacefully
Edward VII, Prince of Wales and ruler of New England, dies after a long life. He ends his reign reportedly without pain as mourners note a tranquil dissolution of life.
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Edward VII, Prince of Wales
New England
Death of Queen Victoria Shocks a World in 1890s Britain
Royal gathered mourners at Osborne House as Queen Victoria dies at Osborne. Sir James Reid signals the news as the bishop offers benediction. Princes, princesses, and relatives surround the queen in a quiet, solemn sunset of a long reign.
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Victoria
Edward VII
James Reid
England
Queen Victoria
Duke of
Ghent
Osborne House
Prince Consort
Winchester
Windsor
Germany
Death of British Monarch Sparks Quiet London Reverie
Jan 23 after news reached the lord mayor of London bells tolled across districts. Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House fell into absolute silence as a small bill signed Balfour announced the monarch's demise. Citizens pondered the new reign and its implications.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Marlborough House
Balfour
French phones used as alarm clocks for morning wakeups
French telephone subscribers frequently use the system as an alarm to wake in the morning. By informing the telephone administration the night before, they arrange a call at a chosen hour.
Suspicious Stranger on Steamer Michigan Believed to Be Pat Crowe
A well dressed man named Robert Lambert, suspected of being Pat Crowe, traveled on the steamer Michigan from Boston to Liverpool. Crew and bunkmate claimed resemblance, but Liverpool officials found no match to Crowe’s description despite Lambert’s odd behavior and quiet attempt to disembark.
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Michigan
Boston
Liverpool
Robert Lambert
Pat Crowe
Omaha
Crowe
Lambert
Missouri Supreme Court Allows Street Car Consolidation Case Quashed
The Missouri Supreme Court en banc on January 21 sustained a motion to quash the alternative writ of ouster in the St Louis Consolidated Street Railroad case. The decision upholds consolidation under the new law and ends the suit alleging illegal combination in restraint of trade.
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Missouri Supreme Court
En Banc
St. Louis Consolidated Street Railroad
Seth
Indian Sioux leader shot by police ambush in South Dakota
Handome Elk, a noted Sioux Indian, was riddled with bullets by seven Indian police sent to bring him to the agency at Oadoma South Dakota. He fired on an officer two years ago and had served a prison term.
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Handsome Elk
Oadoma
S. D
Elk
How London Was Notified of Queen’s Death
A scrap posted at Mansion House at 6 58 pm informed Londoners of the queen’s death. Newsboys flooded streets crying the death, St Pauls bell tolled, theatres closed indefinitely, and Frogmore is named for the funeral with royal attendance expected nationwide.
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London
Mansion House
Ham
St. Paul’s
Frogmore
Clash With Miners Ends in Killings at Boxtown
A union march of 150 miners from Boxtown to Carbondale in Hopkins county Kentucky escalated after firearms were used when a sheriff posse intervened. A volley wounded several and two miners died Bill Cook and John Taylor. Boxtown is deserted as officers seek march participants.
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Boxtown
Carbondale Mings
Hopkins County
Kentucky
Bill Cook
John Taylor
Domestic death in New York hotel room prompts autopsy
A man identified as Clarence M. Davis of Schenectady was found with a woman in a small hotel room at One Hundred and Twenty-second Street and Amsterdam Avenue New York. Davis is in a dazed and semi conscious state, suggesting possible drug intoxication. The coroner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause.
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New York
One Hundred and Twenty-second Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Clarence M. Davis
Schenectady
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Jefferson County Record
Nebraska
Nebraska Notes
Minden
Gus Temple
Lexington
Max
Dundy County
Fremont
North Platte
Randolph
Benkleman
Exchange Bank
Ogalalla
Patrick Clancey
Syracuse
Bert Polly
Sidney
Sons and Daughters Lodge
Clarks
Royal Highlanders
Nebraska State Volunteer Fire Association
Seward
C. M. Kauffman
Brownville, Neb
John Hindman
Chester
John Price
Harlan County
Tecumseh
Ts Greene
Shields
Cnter
Dey Hospital For
Dimock Manufacturing Company
Madison
Newman Grove
Seward Reporter
J. C. Rahe
Shelby
Shelby Sun
E. E. Abbott
Dempster Manufacturing Company
Beatrice
Paddock Hotel
Jare
Logan
Midden
James D. Watson
Burlington
Hastings
Aurora
Palmer
Ravenna
Lincoln
Columus
Union Pacific
Stromeburg
George Gauger
Britain
Carter
Carr
Endeas
Carters
Souri Court
Selzer
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