Motes and News from Across the Nation
A long list of brief items reports Duluth seeking Port status, a bill to restore tea duties, shifting rail incidents, deaths, fires and legal notices. Notable mentions include Capt. Marsh’s steamboat plan, a Globe-Democrat verdict, a failed impeachment bid, frontier rail crashes, a Yankton citizen’s death, and a Wisconsin court ruling on Sunday liquor sales. The note concludes with a Chicago paper’s optimistic Dakota Territory appraisal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Overland
Martinon
Union Pacific
Grant Marsh
Yankton
McKee
Globe-Democrat
Amen
Omsbs
Black Hills
Tosh
Cal. A
Meckling
John W. Forney
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Boynton
Alton
St. Lewia
Spparstus
Tatrick Murphy
N. P
Winle
M. H. Dannell
Red
oHenry PD
Windsor
Maila
Detroit
Conley, Beach &Co
Ushkoal
Toudamen
Lappen
Kaneus
Sioux Cryst
Bishop
Supreme Court of Mich
Deana Eulalia Guillen
San Jose Valley
Pyde
Bitton
Newt York Bvoning Post
Austin
Peterckwell
Wweety
Edinor
Senate
Logan
Newspaper Rivalries and Agricultural Yields Mentioned
The St Cloud Journal notes press comparisons with Chicago and New York papers, praising enterprise and coverage while mentioning Col Lounsberry of the Bismarck News and politics around the Black Hills. It also reports Portland Oregon area yields: a sixty acre field averaging 67 bushels per acre in 1873, 57 bushels in a later crop, and a 150 acre field with 35 bushels per acre in the second harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feporta
Washington
Chicago
York
Morfels
New York
Times
Merald
Sing News
Portland
Walla Walla
1Sns
Oregon
Braga
Prank North cites tribes leaving Sidney for Black Hills
The letter claims large parties are moving from Sidney and Cheyenne to the Black Hills and hints Red Cloud and Spotted Tail may go to Washington to negotiate transferring Black Hills to the Government. Also notes Mex Grant and Madame Mantilla as two of Washington’s most beautiful women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prank North
Sidney
Cheyenne
Black Hills
Red Cloud
Spotted Tail
Washington
Omaha Republican
Mex
Fred Grant
Madame Mantilla
Great Bank Robbery and Deaths in Was
A jumble of reports notes a bank robbery in Northampton Massachusetts with over seven hundred thousand dollars in securities stolen and half negotiable. It also reports the death of Congressman Starkweather in Washington and the passing of a land bill in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goon
Wasarxoton
Senate
Starkweather
Wasminaton
Henry H. Starkweather
Connecticut
Ank Robmery
Srmokecy
Mass
Northampton
Forbes
Bostox
McKee Guilty in Whisky Frauds Verdict Stuns Jury
St Louis reports the jury found McKee, connected with the Globe Democrat, guilty of whisky frauds. Verdict surprised the defendant and friends, who expected a jury deadlock. sentence not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lauia
McKee
Globe-Democrat
New Yoak
Brooklyn
Andrew Puchs
Victor Kratz
Summons
Fuchs
Stamens
Hue
Simons
Verdant youth tests edits with ridiculous questions
A playful scene in the Franklin Patriot shows a verdant youth interviewing for an editor position. The candidate faces absurd arithmetic, logic, and general knowledge questions, muttering answers as he hides a cobbler’s patch under his chair. He leaves in embarrassment after a mocked test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Ebeneezer
Ebeneezer Adam
Paradise
Sahara
Balancre
Franklin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Andrew Fuchs
Luchang
Black Halls
Haime
Gad Erickann
Minneapulta
Frank Johaon
Histings
Swan Ludguist
Minneapolis
U. S
Miller
Amasha Herald
The
Herald
Deer Lodge
Chicago Commercial Advertiser
Dakota Territory
St. Cloud Journal
Col
Lounsberry
Bismarck Tarsuxe
Col. Louis
Boss
Congressman
Hathaway
Munper MigngaPouia
Mian
W W. McNair
S. Grand Jury
Havana
Dan
Gordon Granger
Lexington
Shipman
Stoux City
Robert Burns
Lowers
Dows
Haw
David Mills
Mills
Custer Gulch
Indiana
Kalakaua
Lockport Journal
Dave
Dave Wa
West Point
Morrison
Ames
Gov
Davis
Education
Hig
Loris
Jan
Bilif - Gaypatus
Burravo
Henry D. Windsor
St. Paul
Gua Erickson
Wellson
Frank Johnson
Hastings
Swan Lindquist
Erickson
Johnson
Linguist
Owana
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