Nebraska News

1871 — Lincolnites discussed paving the streets at the University of Nebraska.

1870: State prison inspectors notified builders and architects that they were receiving plans for the new penitentiary.

1870: The Nebraska Legislature established a three-member Board of Immigration and an appointive office of commissioner of immigration to facilitate foreign immigration into the state. The commissioner was to live in New York City, where he would assist newly arrived…

1870: Two men were lynched in North Platte and two others were ordered to leave town within five minutes in a sudden and vindictive act of frontier justice. A Lincoln editor wrote that this would undoubtedly convince western desperadoes that…