21 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1885
Page
1
A parade of brief items covers Grant's body bill, speculative politics, church and newspaper trends, and local incidents. Highlights include Merritt's $90,000 charge for Grant's funeral, a Georgia push for anti prohibition, a new Austin paper, and various Minnesota and Illinois notes on postmasters, wheat yields, saloon notices, a shooting, and liquor related crime.
An Indiana farmer captures three would be burglars and lashes them at a gate. In Dawson near Iowa a railroad worker and his family mourn three sons dying within hours. Tragedy at Martins Vadley Pennsylvania follows the deaths of John 44 Jason 84 and Wyman 88. A separate note from Crawnpsville details a farmer whipping three tramps, while a New Albion Express agent is captured after absconding with company funds. Maxwell denies defense leaks from St. Louis.
August at Fort Snelling marks the close of the third annual competitive shooting tournament for rifle men. Private citizens and department officers attend. General A. Terry presents badges. Winners include Zobel who led the regimental team skirmish, with Myers & Finch prize, and Lieutenant Avery who won a department medal.
News by telegraph reports multiple disturbances including coal miners in Pennsylvania rejecting wage cuts, clashes with Hungarian and Polish workers, and a Georgia town cleanup by a Kuklux Klan faction. It also notes a British vessel wreck off San Francisco with all but one crew lost, and a reunion of Union prisoners of war amid ongoing public unrest.
Reports from URIHY Grand Forks claim 6 665 inhabitants and Ishpem ing Michigan notes a rich gold fad. G W Hedderick named postmaster at Fort Buford Dakota. Yankton creamery ships about 1.0 pounds of butter daily to New York City. Missouri river friction at Yankton. 106 year old household member. Babcock fire extinguisher man now 68 in San Francisco almshouse. General Fitz Hugh Lee’s youngest son dies at Evergreen Virginia. Wabash strike seen not affecting Gould lines in Texas. Mills along East Saginaw river resuming. forty mills active. A murder in Harroll Dakota. W Todd kills in front of post office. Cooper dies two hours later. Cleveland mockery exchange on bait. Bis marck gossip on Julia Hol jombaek court bid and Dakota political intrigue. Potential US district attorney candidacy questioned. Hollembaei under fire amid Democratic rifts.
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