Eviction in America echoes in Tulare County land dispute
A Tulare County land conflict linked to the Southern Pacific Railroad erupts as settlers in Mussel Slough resist ejectment orders. The clash leaves several dead or wounded, including M. D. Hart and Walter J. Crow, with U.S. Marshal Poole and a guard detail assaulted near Kingston. Settlers denounce the railroad’s title while citing government grants and prior promises, urging fair settlement and legal appeals pending before the Supreme Court.
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Tulare County
Onder
League
Mussel Slough
Southern Pacific Railroad
United States District Court
Railroad Company
United States
M. D. Hart
W. J. Crow
Settlers’ League
Poole
Clarke
Hart
Crow
W. Henderson
Ven Kueatson
James Harris
Archie McGregor
Walter J.row
Major McQuiddy
W. H. Clarke
Kingston
Hanford
T. F McQuiddy
T. N. Patterson
J. J. Doyle
Settlers
Grand League
Tulare
Fresno
Browning Cox
Weland and
Schurz
Devens
Drummond
United States Senate
United States Suigre Court
Supreme Court
Mussel Slough land dispute tensions and railroad suit
A lengthy portrayal of Crocker and Leland Stanford seeking a fair settlement with Mussel Slough settlers. It recounts negotiations, mailed price notifications, and later ejectment suits after Railroad Company actions. The Southern Pacific describes land patent issues and legal proceedings, while a Chronicle editorial criticizes settlers force but acknowledges equities favoring settlers.
A Doctor's Dangers While on Ambulance Duty
A New York physician recounts near fatal encounters during ambulance service. He describes a knife attack in a crowded tenement, a delirious delirious patient grabbing his neck in the wagon, and a drunken patient firing a pistol at him in a low den. He notes these were the worst experiences of his career and reflects on dangers faced by early doctors.
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New York
Crosby Street
Tecumseh
Ballotting for Bishops A Century Ago In Ohio Conference
A Cincinnati Enquirer style reminiscence recounts a quadrennial conference where seven hundred votes and two hundred thirty seven candidates framed a chaotic bishop election. Delegates shouted, ballots were counted, and a stage intrusion by Dicksmith sparked a dramatic rush to eject him. Brayfogle at first led, then lost on a miscount before renewed ballots and theatrical tension dominated.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Grandfather Lickshingle
State Central Committee
Smike
Ohio East
Brayfogle
Brother Brayfogle
Ayfogle
Dicksmith
United States
Dic
Four Men Indicted Plead Guilty in River Incident
New York on May 18 four men James McMahon Joseph Lynch James Moran and Thomas Reilly boarded the schooner Victor off lege Point. They were indicted for felonious assault and burglary in the third degree, pleaded guilty and received ten year state prison terms. An unrelated line urges readers to mail ads for summer boarders to a Boston daily.
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New York
James McMahon
Joseph Lynch
James Moran
Thomas Reilly
River Rates
Speculator Plot Aims Wires Between New York and San Francisco
A telegraph operator named Thomas Holister was arrested in San Francisco by a Chicago detective for tampering with Western Union lines. The plot contemplated sending a fake dispatch about a tidal wave and earthquake destroying San Francisco and Virginia City to trigger a stock panic in New York. Evidence found in Holister’s room included a confession and a written threat about catastrophic destruction and market manipulation.
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New York
San Francisco
New York Sun
Thomas Holister
Chicago
Molister
Sierras
Virginia City
Pacific Air Stock
Comstock Securities
Western Union Company
Battle Ountain
Battle Mountain
Holister
Western Union
Sacramento
Hockin
Comstock
Comatek
Johnny Lookups Lunacy in Funeral Circuit Priors
A New York figure known as Johnny Lookup, famed for attending wakes and directing funeral crowds, drifted into criminal court. He spread through undertakers’ crews, opened carriage doors, collected tips at graves, and even walked long distances to the dead. After a spree of funerals in one day he was deemed a harmless trickster, until a two week relapse led to a robbery arrest and reform school placement.
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New York Times
New York
Johnny
Woodlawn
Flatbush
No. 7
Desbrossen Street
Recorders Smyth
Kimira
Remarkable running horse evades wagon and train journey
A horse attached to a light wagon near East Cambridge depot ran free at about 3 pm Wednesday. It dashed onto the Boston and Lowell Railroad toward West Medford, covering five miles on the right hand track before stopping in a side street. The animal escaped uninjured aside from a small scratch. three shoes were lost. The team belonged to Mr. Whitherton.
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East Cambridge
Medford
Boston and Lowell
West Medford
White
Ton
Ristori Triumphs In Rome At Charity Theatrical
Lucy Hooper notes the grand Italian actress Ristori shone at the Politeama for Trastevere schools charity. A rain of flowers and a lit Ponte Aisto framed a packed house and thousands of francs in boxes fees. The crowd hailed her as generous gifted and adored by Romans.
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Lucy Hooper
Rome
Histori
Politeama
Ristori
Cushman
Ponte Aisto
Capitoline Hill
Maria Stuart
Maffei
Congregational Clergyman Renounces Hell Doctrine
Rev. Myron Adams of Plymouth Congregational church preaches Let love be without dissimulation and denounces hell as a devilish idea. He cites Canon Farrar and questions eternal punishment, saying he would renounce happiness if it saved a soul. Congregation largely supports him, though resignation not expected. Adams, Hamilton College and Auburn Theological Seminary graduate, is about years old. Dress to The Bowron Daly Globe, Boston. Enclose stamp.
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Rochester
Myron Adams
Plymouth Congregational Church
Canon Farrar
Hell
Simpson
Cincinnati
Adams
Hamilton Col
Auburn Theological Seminary
Delia
Eben
Dover
John
Baden-Baden
Three Kingdoms
Johns
Della
John Rogerson
Land of the Living
Hich
Delia Rogerson
Croftaborough
Mrs. Clement
Dela
Misa Gresome
Miss Rogerson
Australia
Stephen Langdon
Seymour
Melbourne
Stephen
Delia Rogerson Turns Boarders Into Fortune
In Croftsborough Maine Delia Rogerson hosts tenants to save her family home. A mysterious $100 gift leads to a late relative's will leaving substantial cash and stocks to Delia, sparking village chatter as Delia reunites with her long-lost love Stephen Langdon.
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Delian
Mrs. Clément
Ingot Ming Company
United States
John Rogerson
Delia Rogerson
Croftsborough
Maine
Steve Langdon
Delia
London to Cincinnati on Beaconsfield and liberal drift
M D Conway writes from London to the Cincinnati Commercial about Beaconsfield's political decline, the Liberal surge, and a pivot from imperial brinkmanship to a quieter, trade‑focused policy. He contrasts Gladstone’s rise with the end of aggressive foreign policy and predicts increased domestic wealth and peace.
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M. D. Conway
London
Cincinnati
Monaco
England
Lord Beaconsfield
Gladstone
Midlothian
Land's End
Plucky Wakefield Woman Foils Burglar With Bravest Tactics
Mrs Greenleaf of the Little World section awoke to a burglar, found her revolver missing, and used her husband’s boots and loud theatrics to scare the intruder away. She later discovered most valuables were taken but recovered intact. Charles J Folger's confirmation as chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals noted.
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Charles J. Folger
New York State Senate
Salford E. Church
Court of Appeals
Wholesale Drug Gears Across United States and Canada
For sale by noted firms including Geo. C. Goodwin & Co. and Potter firms across Boston and New England, Portland, Hartford, Worcester, New Haven, Providence, Burlington, Springfield, and New York wholesale and retail druggists nationwide.
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Weeks & Potter, Smith, Doolittle & Smith
Carter, Harris & Hawley
Boston
Mass
United States
Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter
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Hugh Robinson
Walter J. Crow
M. Marsh
Perry C. Phillips
E. J. Benedict
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Outhern Pacific Railroad
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Jerome Madden
Congress
Lathrop
Goshen
W. Mills
D. Hart
Elias Jacob
Sion
Leland Sanford
William H. Clark
the Chronicle
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Metropolis
Dicksmyth
Brother Hopeful
Randfather
Cincinnati Enquirers
New York River Pirates
New England
Tur
Boston Daily Globe
Knave
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St. Andrew's
Misey
Bowron Daly Globe
Gure Nenet
Eve
Ela
Squire Jones
Croupier
Beaconsfield
Dizzy
House of Lords
Cross
Northcote
Napoleon
Robert Peel
Peel
House of Commons
Zadkiel
Manchester
Cobden
John Bright
Kossuth
Louis Blanc
Mazzini
Herzen
Manchester School
Europe
Htate
Marquis of Hartington
Lord Hartington
Liverpool
India
Natal
Russia
Greece
Boston Dairy Glosee
ARF Ag
Ande
Ye He
Adicas
KE Kennedy & Co
Canada
COA
Second Ave
WOOD
Pittsburgh
Yea
C. Vana & Co
Conn
C. H. Martin & Co
Concord, N. H
Chambers, Calder & Co
Oliver Johnson & Co
Mason, Chapin
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