Sooners Seize Perry While Wharton Favored by Railroad
A Cherokee Strip gale drives thousands from land promises as Sooners take Perry’s business center while rail facilities push growth to Wharton. Three Sooners die in clashes over claimed lands as civil authorities seek surrender of a soldier who killed J A Hill at the Chillocco line. Remains head to New Jersey.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Sooners
Perry
Wharton
Oklahoma
Blackwell
Arthur Johnson
Pueblo
George Childs
Valley Falls
James Squires
Mennesy
O. T
J. A. Hill
Chillocco
Third Cavalry
New Jersey
Iowa Celebrates Western Commonwealth With Two Day Parade
Iowa plans a two day celebration at Worths Fair Grounds Chicago starting Sept 21 to honor the state with parades band concerts drills speeches and fireworks. Governor Boies accompanied by 26 officers will lead a military escort as Iowa Agricultural College cadets and Lyons drill corps perform. Missouri fish exhibit also receives award in fisheries judging.
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Worth'’s Fair Grounds
Chicago
Iowa
Great Western Commonwealth
Iowa Columbian Commission
Boies
Iowa Agricultural College
C. L. Root
Lyons
The
Agricultural College
Missouri
Department of Fisheries
Electric security plan targets train robbers in Chattanooga
Chattanooga Tennessee reports a new safety concept for express cars. Superintendent Young proposes electrifying safes to deliver a lethal shock if touched by a robber. A small dynamo in each car would energize the steel rubber lined box tied to the door and steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CuatTanooga
Tenn
Young
Chattanooga Electric Railway
Oldest Kansas Odd Fellow Dead in Kansas City
A dispatch from Kansas City reports the death of Dr. Fred Perk, the oldest Odd Fellow in Kansas, at Kansas City Kansas. Also notes a separate Hamburg cable saying Weeks the West Superior Improvement Company member may not have been captured in Costa Rica and a former classmate claims contact near a local summer garden last week.
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New York
Hamburg
Weeks
West Superior Improvement Company
Costa Rica
Kansas
Kansas City
Fred Perk
Kan
WAKES UP KANSAS REPUBLICANS
The Kansas Republican state central committee weighs the impact of a large exodus to the Cherokee Strip on votes. An estimated 30,000 Kansans may seek homes there, risking loss of voting rights if they become residents of the new country. The court has ruled on this, causing anxiety among leaders as exodus largely affects Republican counties. Beauregard's Cousin Kills Himself. Fortune Avegno, kin of Carrollton electric road president and Beauregard relative, dies by suicide after 14 months unemployed. Escaped From a Moving Train. Harry T. Williams, deserter from the regular army, escapes while en route to Fort Sheridan.
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Cherokee Strip
Topeka
Sept. i
Republican State Central Committee
Kansas
State Supreme Court
Beauregard
Counsin
New Orleans
Fortune Avegno
Carrollton Electric Road
General Beauregard
Nitts
Mich
Harry T. Williams
Detroit
Fort Sheridan
Joseph Schuster
Local notes by the Telegraph crowd in Cass county
The grand jury remains in session as locals like Gus Lenz, Rev C I Crooks, N R Kenyon and Otto Knop are noted. Various residents travel, study, marry, and work while the county court handles calendars and a grand jury indicts Sandy Reed for seduction and rape with established bail.
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Gus Lenz
Cass County
Aberdeen Sworn Governor General of Canada at Quebec
In the presence of Sir John Thompson the premier nearly all the Dominion and a large assemblage the Earl of Aberdeen was sworn in as governor general of Canada in Quebec on September 19.
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Canada
Quebec
Sir John Thompson
Dominion
Earl of Aberdeen
Various Local Notices and Crime Reports Across States
A roundup shows diverse items: Odd Fellows meet in Milwaukee. Adventists’ camp at Sedalia. John Adams kills man in Greenville Tennessee. Canton Ohio notions of leprosy. German Lutheran mission festival at Mascoutah Illinois. Mexican couple and daughter detained for counterfeiting in San Antonio Texas. a dog-eating wolf terrorizes Danville Kentucky. Costa Rica marks seventieth independence with exile amnesty. crooks plague Fargo North Dakota. two murders and 20-man hold-up in one day. Southern Pacific iron bridge collapse near New Orleans. three negroes who killed Hall near Rome Georgia, one killed others jailed. Hoke Smith settles Atlanta postmastership bonus for Renfro. Ohio hunter saved by dog from rattlesnake. Rev Talmage offers $100 reward to any infidel who read Bible through twice. ghost of Robert Rankin haunts Big Island Indiana. Ike Benier suicide near Leadville Colorado.
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Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Milwaukee
Sedalia
John Q. Adams
John Thornton
Greenville
Tls
Canton
Mascoutah
San Antonio
Tex
Danville
Costa Rica
Fargo
N. D
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Rome
Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Renfro
Dr. Talmage
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Robert Rankin
Big Island
Ike Benier
Colorado
Martin Casey
Leadville
Wedding Guests From Sioux City Attend Ritz Daughter’s Ceremony
Henry Junck and wife and C Junk and wife with relatives of Henry Tiedman visited Pymosa on Monday and Tuesday to attend the wedding of Claus Ritz’s daughter in Elliott. George Graves, a Negro, faced a preliminary rape attempt trial and was bound over to the grand jury. Benton Green returned from a reunion of the 9th Iowa infantry at Cedar Rapids, reporting a dry Linn county and much corn being cut and hauled to pastures.
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Henry Junck
C. Junk
Henry Tiedman
Pymosa
Elliott
Claus Ritz
Sioux City
George Graves
Justice Straight
Hotel de Willis
Benton Green
9Th Iowa Infantry
Cedar Rapids
Benton
Linn County
Prospective Cass County Directory Promises Complete Atlas
Publishers begin work on a Cass county directory listing Atlantic and all townships with every householder, section number and post office address. A township map will accompany each book. The venture seeks public support and promises competent canvassers across the county.
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Cass County
Atlantic
D&w
Forest Fires End After Heavy Rain Across Wisconsin
A Marshfield dispatch reports a heavy downpour put out all forest fires in the region and ends the danger. Merrill and Eau Claire report rain with wind. several houses are said to be unroofed at Augusta in the same county.
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Minwawuker
Marshfield
Wis
Merrill Wis
Eau Claire
Augusta
German Catholic Central societies convene in St Louis
About 250 delegates to the 80th annual convention attended a solemn high mass in St Louis. Afterward they marched to the school hall for the executive session. Bishop Janssen of Belleville welcomed the delegates and President Adolph Webber of St Louis delivered his annual report.
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St. Louis
Janssen
Belleville
Adolph Webber
Large Western Loan Firm Crippen Lawrence & Co Assigns
Denver September 19 Crippen Lawrence and Co filed a deed of assignment naming H. Standish as assignee. The firm, among the west’s largest lenders, has operated across Kansas and financed ditch companies ranchers and municipal loans. Assets near one million, liabilities light. motive linked to eastern financial stringency. Joseph Hardware firm W P Sanders & Son also assigns Liabilities 11 000 assets 15 000.
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West
Denver
Kansas
Denver Fire Brick Company
Protective Association of Kansas Seeks Charter Fight
In Torrka Kansas the American Protective Association plans to obtain Governor Lewelling’s charter after a prior refusal citing civil rights concerns. The group grows rapidly, drawing Republican support and drawing opposition from Farmers Alliance and Populists who warn of Republican manipulation for Morrill’s gubernatorial bid. Also reported a Wapello canning factory fire destroying the plant with $20,000 loss and $3,000 insured.
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American Protective Association of Kansas
Torrka
Kan
Lewelling
Osborne
Kansas
Farmers’ Alliance
A. R. Crawford
Morrill
American Protective Association
Cepar Rapids
Wapello
Captain Earnest's Last Battle
VALENTINE NEBR Sept 19 Captain Cyrus A Earnest Eighth United States infantry died at Fort Niobrara.
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Earnest
Valentine, Neb
Cyrus A. Earnest
Eighth
United States Infantry
Fort Niobrara
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Griswold
Sam Slater
John Peterson
Elkhorn
Rose Henderson
Iowa City
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Masters
Aan Mail
Ill
Mrs. A. Green
Nos
Everitt
Tur
John M. Fulton
John
John Crabb
Anita
Wm. Story
Columbia
Francis Roberts
Whitneyvile
Henry Gillett
H. F. Bartling
Lewis
Hiram White
Adair
John Tatlor
Washington
Tom Brown
Fair
Frank Calloway
Avoca
Father Bishop
Mr. Aldrich
South Chestnut Street
Joseph Sadberg
Steinkes
Joel Perkins
Joel
Hansen & Co
Israel
William Kreamer
N. A
Pellett
Peter A. Winterode
Sarah I. Disbrow
Frederick Barry
Daisy E. Bruce
Keane
Felgle
Y.P.8. C.E
Presbyterian Church
Robert Hinton
Mr. Hinton
Henry Bartling
California
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Sandy” Reed
Sandy
German Society
Amana
Moershell Bros
China Hall
O. W. Brown
Crockery
Chinaware
China Line
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