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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1894
Page
5
Bluffton city and surrounding townships report social calls visits from residents of Poneto Reiffsburg Carrollton Ohio Jefferson township and Liberty Center. local merchants promote sales and millinery fashions while community events include theater performances cyclones threshers and swine sales.
In Michigan a farmer John Ravell and five family members are killed or gravely injured after Ravell tries to dry giant powder in a stove for stump blasting. In Iowa Deputy U S Marshal E D Wray is shot and killed by moonshiners while escorting a bootlegger to a train.
Albany dispatch notes Senator Hill plans to open his campaign in Syracuse Thursday night and keep up activity thereafter. The report also covers a Fort Smith raid by the Cook-Dalton gang and includes market quotes from Indianapolis with grain cattle and pork prices and receipts.
Four paintings valued at 15 000 to 18 000 dollars stolen from the Ames residence in North Boston in 1885 were recovered by the family within a week. The burglars identity and the lawyers involved remain unknown. The family paid 1500 dollars as the reward to a Boston lawyer who passed it to the informer, with all parties sworn to secrecy.
Six gunmen robbed the K and A depot in Fort Gibson Oklahoma Territory, taking about 300 dollars after forcing the telegraph operator to open the door and the agent to open the safe. The Cook gang, rumored in the area, is suspected. No injuries reported.
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