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Carbondale saloon shooting shocks Athens county
Patrick Carr was shot and killed in a saloon at Carbondale by Ersak Tolliver after a prior misunderstanding. Tolliver fled and sheriff Warden is pursuing him. The report also includes corrections on local election tallies and a long obituary noting Hon. O. H. P. Scott’s death and career in Iowa, plus local camp meeting debates and assorted regional notices.
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Patrick Carr
Carbondale
Js County
Ersak Tolliver
Carr
Tolliver
Toliver
Athens
Kurtz
McIlvaine
O. H. P. Scott
Farmington
Iowa
Alexander B. Scott
Andrew Scott
Stewart
Belpre
Lake Erie
McConnelsville
Muskingum River
Hocking Canal
Ellen D. Fay
Des Moines
State Capitol
St. Joseph
Third
Iowa Cavalry
Keokuk
Keokuk Daily Constitution
W.H.S
Athens Camp Meeting Association
Marietta District Ministerial Association
Coolville
Humphrey
Bro. Humphrey
I. R
Evans
Arshall
Ross
D. B. Stewart
Tom
Allie Ladd
Beebe
P. H. Ladd
W. R. Ladd
Athens Journal
Willow Creek
T. Clay Druley
J. C. Lucas
Tablertown
Washington County
M. E. Church
Marietta
H. B. Westervelt
Gortner
B. Rickets
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
James Mitchell
G. W. Burns
Mitchell
Scott
M. W. B. Evans
Wesselius
Guysville
BE. S
Missouri
Lebanon
Laclede County
Foster
Williams
Indiana
Pickaway County