Brutal Attendants At Riverside Insane Asylum Trial
Coroner Hertz opens a case into the death of Robert Burns, a patient at Jefferson Insane Asylum. Attendants Richardson Crogan and Pewis face charges of beating Burns to death as reporter Charles Beck testifies to brutal cruelty. Beck, once admitted to witness the acts, describes cold baths, confinement, and repeated blows that left Burns maimed and comatose before dying.
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Cash County
Cmcaco
Hertz
Robert Burns
Jefferson
Richardson
Crogan
Pewis
Burns
Charles Beck
Anyinm
Beck
St. Rising
Ardzon
Pecha
Burn
Ig Taga
Richard Tendants
Ce CCL E Enae
Ia Axelegon
Sehuvert
Star
Ratte
Kiernan
Chicago
Insane Asylum
Robert Barna
Aceree
Rere Gaylum
Elevator foul up injures three men in Rochester
Three men experimenting with a new Schwartz elevator in Providence watch as it plunges five stories. Cornell and a reporter describe a dangerous test. Jones dies from a broken back while others survive. The stunt raises safety concerns over the lifting device.
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Providence
R. 1
New
Schwartz
LS. Graves & Som
Rochester
A. G. Cornell
Cornell
Jones
Jacob Rosenfield
Telegram
Rain bor Dakota and public printer named in Dakot a
Rain and showers sweep the Dakota territory with reports of beneficial crop moisture. The president appoints Frank W. Palmer of Illinois as public printer and names Theodore Roosevelt and Hugh S. Thompson to civil service commission. Delegates named for Grand Forks convention and local weather notes across Jamestown and Minnewanka.
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Frank W. Palmer
Illinois
Wasutxeron
Feheral
William E. Purcell
United States
District of Dakot
Grand Forks
William Budge
Richard Bennett
Wasitinaros
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Hugh S. Thompson
South Carolina
Great Duluth to Des Moines Rail Line Reaches Zumbrota
May 7 report notes partial completion of the Duluth, Red Wing and Southern railroad from Pesy to Zumbrota now open for traffic. The line will run north to mining regions, east to coal fields, and terminate near Tama or Des Moines, stretching about 400 miles. Expected effects include lower grain transport costs and broader manufacturing growth in the region. Also includes a May 2 Ashland tribute and a Wisconsin railroad ticket theft scheme involving J. H. Walker and White River to Ashland tickets. Vesuvian eruption at Naples described as alarming with lava streams toward Pompeii.
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Wike
Mina
Duluth, Red
Tama
Des Moines
MooresPolls
Ashland
Wis
J. H. Walker
Wisconsin Railroad Company
White River
Ashpany
Paris Exposition Opens As Sioux Commission Receives Final Instructions
Paris Exposition opens with President Carnet and officials touring the grounds under an artillery salute. In Washington ex-Gov Foster and Gen Warner meet with Secretary Noble for final Sioux commission instructions. Oklahoma territory explanation demanded by Attorney General Miller. Fatal streetcar crash in Miah and a large fire at Mooreland, Kansas, render dozens homeless. Baseball scores from Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia thrill fans.
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Paris
Carnet
Senate
Carbot
M. Tierard
Gto
France
Washington
Foster
William Warner
Miller
Sioux Commission
Noble
Crook
Chicago
Dakota
Wasamator
Marshal Jones’ and Needles
Oklahoma Territory
Mail carrier robbed on route and militi aethered notes
Shawano Wisconsin May 6 Gottlieb Nous a mail carrier on the Pacifer to Linwood route was held up by masked men and forced to surrender mail pouches at gunpoint. Two passengers watched as the robber seized cash from registered letters. A prior attempt on the same route three weeks earlier involved exchanged shots and a killed stage horse. Militia equipment funding of 400000 for states and territories announced May 8 includes Wisconsin allotments of 10441. Detailing further unrest, White Caps threaten Rev. Schweinfurth in Hock Island Illinois and a Yankton Sioux windstorm disrupts St Paul events damaging city hall.
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New York
Paris
Inniag Line
Sandy Hook
Queenstown
Etruria
Atlantic
Liverpool
Umbria
Cunard’ Line
Civit Neces
Pumaloon Passeng
David Dudley Erica
ABC Miles
Fmeker
Cleveland
The
Valley Railroad
Indy
Odbert
Akron
Bion
Wealthy Coal Oy Ieret
Feoras Jy Komt
Erin Ayeman
Cleve
Jay
Shawano
Wis
Gottlieb Nous
Pacifer
Linwood
Wastuxetos
War Department
Congress
Tollowin
Minnesotan
Wisconsin
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Hockronp
May
White Caps
George Jacob Schweinfurth
Schweinfurth
See UT Elas
Baltimore Hospital Opens With Spectacular Campus
The John Hopkins hospital on Monument Street and Broadway formally opened this evening as one of the world’s finest institutions. It spans seventeen buildings on four acres, surrounded by parklike grounds designed for healthful exercise, with total costs amounting to about $2,000,000.
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John Hopkins Hospital
Monument Streets
Broadway
Treasury names John T. Williams to custodian post
May 4 report states the secretary of the treasury appointed John T. Williams of Minnesota as custodian of dies, engravings, and plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with a compensation of 2500.
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Secretary of the Treasury
John T. Williams
Minnesota
Ot Les
Bureau of Engineering and Printing
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Cook County
Chicago Times
Lave and
Jensouay
Aes
Albany
Moody
West End
Cuitnan
Pees
Capitol
Sarah Guardiner
Spring Street
John
Messenger
Hollemback
Cullinan
Culinan
Guardiner
Slains
Iing
Belevator
Maplewoods
Hubbard
Town of Jefferson
Elmira
Maplew
Nolan
City Law Department
Knight
Jefferson Town
Maplewood
Jamestown
A. Sage Seale
Myrenett
Dak
Minnewaukan
Milbank
Duvis Lake
Dat
Michael A. Leahy
la Pointe
Vermile Pon
Silas W. Kidder
Vermillion, Oak
Rusk
Agricultural Department
Rookwood
Maj. Rookwood
Retary
Clert
Rockwood
H. N. Higainbothaui
Caroline I Baslaw
Grosa
Texus
Ubemont
Sr Bie
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Eet
Marshal
Field Tos
Carcanso
Dr. Cronin
Conkling
Yains
Sam
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Wks
Sioux Falls
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Sioux Fall
Oak
Milwaukee
Fred Smith
Trath
Naples
Italy
Vesuvius
Yankton
Pive Ladson
Wharawazog
Miah
Academy Street
Alexander Haddock
ME. Wattles
Ger Muldiewon
Vai Sutereo Msleton
Antwerp
Jan Gibson
Jonathen Barnes
C. He
Creek
Felnad
CascaGo
Mooreland
Presbyterian Church
Forty-eighth Street
Park Avenue
Forty-eighth
Lake Streets
Arnold
Indianapolis
Weahington
Boston
Kangas Orry
Kansas City
St Louis
Cincinnati
Louisville
New To
Pittsbourg
Philadelphia
Inianapolis
St. Louis
Columbus
Lovureville
Brooklyn
Cincinnti
Athenes
Baltimore
Pichler
Pickler
Oklahoma
Seminole Town Site Company
W. W. Witten
Edmond
Stockslager Immediate
J. A. Pickler
L 'S
H. Stock+ slager
St. Paul
Pioneer Press
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