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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
6
Elgin builds a new opera house and towns plan Fourth of July celebrations. Reports of bicycle thieves in Lincoln and property damage near Plattsmouth. Creamery plans in Concord and a new bank in Newcastle. Local deaths, robberies, injuries, and legal notes across Nebraska towns.
Dispatches reveal The Hague arbitration option discussed as potential aid to end the South African conflict. Germany maintains it offers only good offices if requested by both sides, while Britain signals no formal move toward arbitration. Also reported is Edgar Gierhofer alias Howard E Vernon’s arrest in California on grand larceny charges linked to the Universal Automobile Company.
A murder trial at Arkansas City features defendants Charles Bettes aged fourteen and Clyde Spore aged sixteen. They face murder charges in the shooting of farmer G L Wiltberger, killed from behind as he rode a wagon toward home after town, with robbery as the suspected motive.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Reber, son-in-law of General Miles, is assigned as military secretary to Major General Miles after the deaths and transfers that created vacancies. Lieutenant Colonel M. P. Mays becomes aide de camp, filling the staff gaps left by Lieut Colonel Francis Michler's death and Lieut H. K. Bailey's transfer to the inspector general’s department.
Mrs. Mahala Sumner, eighty four, visiting her son in University Place Nebraska, was killed when a runaway team struck her with a buggy pole. The horses fell, causing fatal injuries last Monday evening.
J Worth Carnahan president of the United States army and navy association in Washington was arrested under an indictment by the Columbus Ohio federal grand jury. He is charged with conspiring with R L Winslow and J O Davis to defraud Ohio residents by impersonating pension bureau examiners.
In Seymour near Ottumwa Iowa brothers Thomas and Leon Wade shrank 100 bottles of lemon extract and died within an hour. The incident highlights dangers in illicit alcohol during Prohibition era.
Mrs. McKinley’s condition shows steady improvement. Sir Walter Besant dies in Hamstead at 69. A fire at the Presidio general hospital in San Francisco destroys three wards and key rooms. L Hartman and wife found dead in Chicago Grand Northern hotel. Hartman allegedly killed wife then himself. Melville Chester Jr. jailed in Chicago on 25 forgery charges. In Pioneer Tennessee B Byrd kills John David at a blind tiger. Maine State Senator Manley seeks governor nomination on one term platform and whisky traffic suppression.
William J. Samford, governor of Alabama, died in Tuscaloosa after a heart disease struggle. A native of Alabama, he was fifty six and had served in the state senate and in Congress, helped in the 1875 constitutional convention, and was inaugurated governor December 10 after his August election. W. D. Jolks, president of the state senate, will succeed him.
In Oakland California between 300 and 400 unskilled and skilled meat workers quit their jobs at numerous butcher shops. The walkout involves meat choppers drivers and butchers amid a dispute with stockyard wholesalers who refuse to show union cards and threaten non delivery to union shops.
St Petersburg correspondent for the London Daily Mail reports Senator Heveridge expects the Russian government to grant a concession for a steam ship line from the United States to Vladivostock or Port Arthur with little trouble.
A man with a guncase and a plan to flee tells of his blues and cure. He seeks Broad Street station saying a week of gunning among hills and streams helps him reset. He imagines nature’s vast scale widening his view and changing him.
Mrs J B Flanigan of Sumpter Illinois suffered fifteen years with dropsy and could not wear shoes for three years. After taking six boxes at Carmi druggist J J Dale's recommendation she used five and recovered fully. Her husband praises the remedy and the druggist. Miss Josephine Bowen Holman, Indianapolis, focuses on electricity in laboratory work and plans marriage to Marconi.
London gossip claims Joseph Chamberlain is inclined toward superstition and cites a rabbit's foot sent from America as a recent example of his belief.
An OCR fragment lists medical cure claims including Ball's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with pricing notes, Dr Kiné’s Seeds, and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething. It also mentions a free trial bottle offer, a Dallas agent address, and quack warnings.
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