130 Years Ago -- 3/11/2008
1878: The Sioux and Cheyenne were reported to be preparing a raid across western Nebraska and Kansas. ...moreTuesday, May 13, 2008 12:11 pm
130 Years Ago -- 5/4/2008
1878: Pipes were laid to carry artesian water from Government Square to the Commercial Hotel in Lincoln. ...moreTuesday, May 6, 2008 01:47 pm
130 Years Ago -- 4/20/2008
1878: Between 10 and 20 prairie schooners a day were passing through Crete; most of the immigrants were said to be moving toward the Republican Valley, where rail lines were operating. ...moreTuesday, April 22, 2008 01:37 pm
130 Years Ago -- 4/13/2008
1878: Convicts began to build the first artificial stone cell at the State Penitentiary. ...moreTuesday, April 15, 2008 03:14 pm
130 Years Ago -- 4/6/2008
1878: The consolidation between the A&N and B&M railroads was about to expire, and Lincoln looked for large reductions in freight rates. ...moreTuesday, April 8, 2008 01:54 pm
130 Years Ago -- 3/30/2008
1878: Gen. Silas A. Strickland, stricken with "a cold which developed into typhoid, which soon changed into brain fever, breathed his last" in Omaha, a news account from Omaha said. The general fought in the Civil War at Shiloh and the Wilderness, was appointed U.S. district attorney in Nebraska and served in the Territorial Legislature before helping to raise a company of the 1st Nebraska Volunteers. ...moreTuesday, April 1, 2008 02:48 pm
130 Years Ago -- 3/23/2008
1878: Nebraska Sens. Algernon S. Paddock and Alvin Saunders secured an amendment to the federal timber claim law that reduced the required acreage of tree planting from 40 to 10 to qualify for a land grant. ...moreTuesday, March 25, 2008 11:41 am
130 Years Ago -- 3/16/2008
1878: Well-known lecturer Dr. Harold Thomas spoke in Lincoln, saying the city’s school system “showed most conclusively that the manner of beating information into the heads of the rising generations for 16 years was a humbug … answering 1,400 conundrums in history, and 1,200 in geography was too much … for the head and body.” ...moreTuesday, March 18, 2008 10:02 am
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