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