Omaha Student Officers Leave for Army Camps
Special to the Star
- Omaha, Neb., Aug. 29 --
The Union station again Tuesday was the scene of a large number
of khaki clad young men on their way to assume new duties in the services of Uncle Sam.
The score of Omaha young men who were given commissions in the United States Army
after graduation at Fort Snelling left Tuesday for Camp Dodge near Des Moines. Several of
the newly appointed officers went to Camp Dodge Monday, but the greater number left today,
as it was today they were ordered to report there.
They will assist in training the new army which is to report at Camp Dodge September 5.
A Special train carrying 120 recruits for Uncle Sam's navy from the Omaha district
comprising Nebraska, South Dakota, and western Iowa, left Omaha Monday afternoon
for Newport, R. I.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Buried In Burning Ruins
Omaha, Neb.,
Feb. 26 – A fire broke out at six a.m.
Thursday in Robert Hawkes’ general store at Nebraska
City, and burned $177,500 worth of
property, including the Masonic and Odd Fellows three story black.
At nine a.m.
a wall of the Hawkes building fell, crushing a wall of the Masonic block ,
precipitating a number of firemen into the buring ruins. Nine men have been rescued, all badly hurt,
two of who can not recover.
The Decatur
Daily Review – Decatur, Illinois,
Saturday Morning, February 26, 1887
Sheriff
Shot
Omaha, June 1 - Sheriff Grigg and E. V.
Mores attempted to arrest two desperadoes at Fairmont, Neb., and the latter shot
Mores. He will probably die.
The Bismarck Tribune, June 1,
1883
Contributed
and transcribed by: Amanda Jowers
Exposition
- Jubilee Week
Omaha, Oct. 2-—Nearly 1,800,000 have passed the gates of the exposition. Last
week the attendance was 128,854.
The official figures for yesterday are
21,255.
Railroads are increasing their rolling stock, anticipating the
extraordinary travel for Jubilee week, for which a, rate of one fare for the
round trip within 100 miles of Omaha has been made. Beyond the radius the
rate is 1 cent a mile.
The exposition management assures the traveling public
that there can be no doubt of the capacity' of Omaha to entertain all people
who may attend the peace jubilee.
Live stock entries number 2,550 animals,
nearly all of which are here, ready for the opening tomorrow. Two hundred
and fifty carloads of stock arrived yesterday, and as much more is billed to
come in today.
Indiana Journal -
October 5, 1898
Transcribed
and Contributed by: Barbara
Ziegenmeyer
He Didn't
Escape
Mrs. S.P. Wilson, an elderly lady living at 1718 Dodge street, Omaha,
was run down by a hack driven by Jack Kirby of Reed's Hack line last Saturday
afternoon while crossing the intersection of Fifteenth and Farnam. The carriage
pole struck her in the back and knocked her under the feet of the team. When she
scrambled out with assistance the driver coolly tried to drive away, but
indignant bystanders stopped him and held him until a policeman came.
A
complaint was filed against him. It is claimed that he was drunk. Mrs.
Wilson's
injuries are supposed to be quite serious internally.
The Jefferson County Journal [Fairbury, NE], November 27, 1897
Transcribed
and Contributed by: Kristin
Vaugh
Rural Carriers Elect
Omaha. Neb.—The National Rural Letter Carriers'
association Friday elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Paul L. Lindsay, Tucker. Ga.
Vice president, Elias Frey, Pendleton,
Ind.;
Secretary, P.
E. Cull. Concord. Mass.
Treasurer, J. D. Williams,
Renfrew, Pa.
Executive committee:
J. H. Johnson, New Hampshire
L. T. Langer,
Missouri
T. E. Wicker, South Carolina.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page
1
Transcribed
and Contributed by: Barbara
Ziegenmeyer
Files Suit For Divorce From Klan
Chief
Omaha,
Nebraska, November 21 --
Mrs. Helen Fuller today filed suit for divorce fro her husband, Edgar I.
Fuller, Oakland, California.
Said to be kieagie for the Ku
Klux Klan in the Sacramento
realm.
Mrs. Fuller asks $50 a month
alimony and the custody of their four year old daughter, Helen Dorothy.
She asserted that Fuller has
threatened and harassed her since her arrival in Omaha and asks that he be retained from
violence toward her.
Almost simultaneously with the
filing of the divorce petition, Fuller
asked district court for a writ of habase corpus giving him the custody of the
child.
Mrs. Fuller fled to her mother’s
home here, she said, on November 2, after her husband and mother-in-law had
kept her a prisoner in the latter’s sanitarium in Oakland.
Sacramento,
November 11 – Edgar I. Fuller former kleaglo of the local Ku Klux Klan,
whose wife toady filed suit for divorce in Omaha, was to have appeared in local
police court here this afternoon as the prosecuting witness in an embezzlement
case.
Rhodes Tooke., H. Sydenham, Clyde
Simmons and Marie Moran, alleged members of the Klan, were charged by Fuller
with having stolen paraphernalia of the organization.
The Modesto Evening News, Tuesday, November 21, 1922
Will Test State
Rights
Omaha, Neb Dec.
29
The office of United
States district attorney has received instructions to espouse the cause of the
two soldiers at Fort Crook, who shot down a fellow soldier and were acquitted by
a military court martial.
Morgan, the soldier
who was killed, was confined in the post guard house for an infringement of
military regulations, and made his escape.
Two of the guards went to La Platte, and while he passed they attempted
to halt him. When he refused to
stop they shot him dead in his tracks.
The were Corporal Fair and Private Jenkins.
Custer
County Republican - January
4, 1900 edition
Transcribed
and contributed by: Melody
Beery
Sensational Suicide
Laura Phillips, a pretty and well educated young
woman from Villisca, Iowa, committed suicide at Omaha, Neb., on the 7th in a
very sensational manner. She opened a vein in one of her arms, and with the blood
thereform wrote this note, which was found on her pillow: "I, Laura Phillips,
hereby sell my soul to the devil, in consideration for which he agrees to give
me wealth, beauty, and the power to overcome all my enemies." She had taken a
heavy dose of morphine. Her home offered her every comfort, but she left it and came here three years ago. Step by step she went to destruction.
The National Tribune. (Washington, D.C.), April 15, 1886
Transcribed and submitted by: K. Torp
Waitress Killed by Her Husband
Omaha, July 5. - Mrs. Maude Henry, a waitress at Balduff's
Cafe, was shot to death by her husband, Frank Henry, at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Inez Nickles, 802 South Fifteenth street. They have been separated for three
mouths.
The
Alliance Herald (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.), July 08, 1909, page 3
Transcribed and contributed by: Terry Dicken
Cut His Heart In Twain
Andrew Ryan
was brutally murdered at Omaha
the other day as a result of jealousy. His slayer is George, alias
“Bonesy,”
Williams, now in jail. The murder was committed early Sunday morning.
Ryan was
literally cut in pieces. Williams fled but was captured by the city
detectives.
He said he and Ryan had been rivals for the affections of a girl by the
name of
Bessie Smith. They were together with a party of friends at her place,
drinking. One of the party paid for a bottle of beer with a $5 bill and
when
the change was returned Williams and George Boyle quarreled over the
amount. Then Ryan took sides with Boyle and Williams left the house. He
hid at the side
of the door and waited for Ryan to come out. When he appeared the
murderer
pounced on him with a large clasp knife and before anyone could
interfere
inflicted eight wounds, cutting Ryan’s heart in two, cutting his throat, and laying open his breast and abdomen.
The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma;
September 5, 1893
Transcribed as written by D. Donlon
Mrs. Owen Doty
Of Omaha, was in attendance at the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Susan Graham, Tuesday. Mrs. Doty has been here assisting to care for her and will remain for a few weeks longer.
Buffalo News, 1 April 1926, page 5 In column 2:
Contributed by: A Friend of Genealogy
Dangerously Shot 
Waterloo, Neb. April
11
Hudson Feather shot Cass Christman twice, once through the
left hip, the ball passing entirely through the hip, then through the testicles
and dodging the right leg. The second
shot was a little lower down and went entirely through the right limb. The shooting was done with a 38 caliber
revolver, and while the parities were about three feet apart. Both men live on the Elkhorn river, a mile
south of town. It was the outcome of
some quarrel in regard to trespassing, etc.
[source: Custer Co. Republican, April 19, 1900 edition]
Transcribed by: Melody Beery