Cheating the Gallows and a Courageous Escape
Harold Vincent is condemned for murder in a peace town. Charley Lawrence and Jack Holby devise a back window escape plan with a bribed sheriff, plunging the crowd into shock as Vincent vanishes into a hidden subterranean passage. In time, a confession clears Vincent, and he marries Mary Holby while Charley weds Nellie Vincent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
Nellie
Jack Holby
Harold
Mary
Harold Vincent
George Pollock
Charley Lawrence
Jack Hobly
Jove
Pollock
Jack
Charney
Lawrence
Pendergrast’s
MecArdie’s
Men of
Vincent
McArdie
Re Ward
Mary Holby
Nellie Vincent
Notable Names and Wit Fill a Turbulent Year
A digest of remarks and anecdotes traces Brigham Young age seventy five Postmaster-General Jewell at fifty on the 20th lnst and lively lines about Von Bulow Judson Kilpatrick and Edwin Booth. It notes Carlyle pouco raspy manners Mary Bassett M D earns three thousand a year and a Kansas hotel keeper warns guests about suicide. General Sol Meredith dies of stomach cancer after a battlefield accident at Gainesville in 1862.
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Kansas
Sol. Meredith
Indiana
West
Cambridge City
Gainesville
Virginia
Remarkable Telegraph Music and Shellac Message System
A New York Bulletin report describes Bradford Ontario experiments by Dominion Telegraph Co showing music transmitted over telegraph wires with identical sound at distant ends. It also notes shellac paper messages and pictures copied remotely, and a multi channel wire system allowing simultaneous, independent message streams without interferences.
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Dominion Telegraph Company
Bradford
Ontario
San Francisco
New York
Nitro Glycerine Car On Line Near Bry an
A freight train near Bryan uncovered a car leaking nitro glycerine after loud detonations from the wheels. The car, labeled gly cerine, was removed and left on a spur at Granger awaiting owners who must prove property and remove it. Shippers are unlocated despite efforts.
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Laramie
Wy. T
Bryan
Granger
San Francisco
New York Cheese Factory Rules for Patrons
Guidelines from a New York cheese factory urge patrons to provide cows with water, keep milking clean, avoid contaminating milk, and promptly cool and ventilate milk. The text also notes scalding vessels daily and rinsing at night as essential practices. In other items Winston the Virginia preacher is quoted on devils and Mary Magdalene. Cincinnati plans to employ tramps for quarry work to fund winter soup houses, with Athens pursuing a similar road project benefiting the cemetery and West Union street.
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New York
Cincinnati
Athens
West Union Street
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Brigham Young
Jewell
von Bulow
Gen
Judson Kilpatrick
Edwin Booth
Thomas Carlyle
Lady Thornton
Washington
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis, Jr
Mary Bassett
Cooperstown
N. Y
Dio Lewis
George D. Prentice
John J. Pratt
Prentice
Telegraph
The
New York Bulletin
Winston
Mary Magalin
H. Carpenter
M. D
Old Stand
Congress Street
L. Gorslene, M. D
Athens, Ohio
Washington Street
City Hall
Brown House
W. Sparrow
Ohio
Silvus
B. Frame, M. D
Norton’s
E W. Tinker, M. D
Nelsonvile
Hickman & Smith's Drug Store
Will G. Cooley
Pomeroy
Dentist
Athens, O
Office Corner Court
Union
H.K. Blackstone
J. E. Edmundson
Pittsburg
Reedgolden
Charles Townsend
See
Attorneys & Counselors AT Law
Andrew J. Davison
Norton’s Building
Main Street
Hotels
Elmer Golden
Athens Ohio
W. H. McMonigal
Court St
Ohi
Erchant's Hotel
Dennison
Fifth Street
Main
E. Henry Carter
Zettler House
Friend and
Fourth Streets
Columbus
United States Hotel
Steenrod
Athens County
W. B. Brooks
Cor
Rich and High Streets
J. R
E. Thompson
Phosesale and
Ladies & Childrens
Routh High
Neil House
Columbusa
LEGAL
Aes Sale
Geo. W. Bishop
William W. Rew
Alias
Order of Sale
Athens County Common Pleas
Fox
Ohio Company
W. Foreman
Eist
Amos Northrop
Rome
William W. Rewin
Quen Sale
Court of Common Pleas
Brown Township
Vinton
Clark
William W. W
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad
William W. Winsaid
Vinton County
N. Warren
W.A. Root
Desteiguer & Jewett, PLC
Wim. Hamilton
J. L. Kessinger
Fohn N. Dean’s
George W. Baker
John N. Dean
Leonidas Jewett
Pioneer Drug Store
BH. R.clashe
John Perkins
Perkin
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