Memorable Civil War Trial and a Death Sentence Remains
An officer recalls a court martial for spying, the death sentence commuted to lifelong imprisonment, and a dramatic midnight telegram delaying execution. The narrative details the prisoner’s fear, isolation, and emotional collapse, ending with a shift to life imprisonment during the war.
Limited trains between St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago cut
An official notice states trains between St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago will be withdrawn starting Sunday the 29th due to insufficient winter demand. They may resume April 1 for summer service, but the twelve hour train option seems unlikely to return. Fourteen trains weekly with twelve on Sunday remain, though half would suffice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minnepolis
Chicago
Twin Cities
Northwest
Death of H. M. Hoxie Gould official in New York
H. M. Hoxie general manager of the Gould Southwestern system died at 2 30 AM Tuesday the 22d in his Metropolitan opera house rooms New York City from exhaustion after an operation at Saratoga in June to remove stones from his bladder. He had kidney disease for 35 years and had recently left St. Louis for Saratoga seeking rest and recovery. He previously lived in Des Moines Iowa where he served as United States marshal in 1862 and helped suppress Knights of the Golden Circle before joining the Union Pacific rail line after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
New York
Cleveland
Vilas
Gov. Hill
William Miller
Senate
Chester A. Arthur, Jr
Nellie Arthur
McElroy
Caws
Haynesworth
Miss Arthur
Masten
Cohoes
N. Y
Martin P. McMahon
Henry H. Draper
Bayard
Whitney and
Lamar
Pall Bearers
Gresham
Lincoln
Chandler
Hatton
Brewster
Sheridan
Agnew
Cornelius N. Bliss
Robert G. Dann
George H. Sharpe
Charles L.tiffany
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Waite
Harlan and Blatchford
Edmunds
Logan
Evarts
Hawley
Morrill
West
Gorman
Fifth Avenue
Hayes
Supreme Court
Boston
Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Republican Central Committee
Parker Morgan
Morgan
Guard of Honor
Governors Island
Marine Corps
Brooklyn Navy Yard
United States
Tennessee
Forty- Fifth Street
Woodlawn
Albany
James G. Blaine
John A. Login
B. F. Butler
Henry Ward Beecher
Chauncey M. Depew
John Jacob Astor
Schofield
John Sherman
New York Court of Appeals
Denseik
Mildred Adams
London
Coleridge
Charles W. Adams
Capt. Black
Varness Station
Winchester County
William Robinson
Robinson
Ricketts
New Hampshire
Dakota
Mont Clair
Griggs County
Nova
Walsh County
Iowa
Riley
Ringgold County
Minnesota
Sibley
Sibley County
Payne
T. C. Wood
Twin Brook
A. A. Story
Moscow
Ole Anderson
Bassett
Nebraska
Anderson
Ainsworth
T. M. Stevens
Fluits
Idaho Springs
Col
Ike Arnold
Tom Dugan
Washington County
Dugan
Pennsylvania
Gov. Curtin
Black
Hopkins
Pittsburg
Misa Florence Whiting
W. W. Whiting
J. H. Bernardon
Washington
Kate Chase
Charlies O'Connor
Misa Emma Folger
Nantucket
Ald. McQuade
William A. Stone
Garland
Stone
William Haden
Chicago
Hayden
H. M. Hoxie
Gould Southwestern System
Metropolitan Opera House
New York City
Saratoga
St. Louis
Widow fights lawyers over will dispute and large fees
Charles Richardson of Alpena died leaving $900000 to his widow. His siblings contested the will and she paid $120000 to compromise. Attorneys Melly Trumbull Sleator later sought $20000, $10000, and $8000 respectively for unaccepted advice. She drew funds from Alpena bank and hid money in Detroit, later pursued by the lawyers who call her a miser.
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Detroit
Charles Richardson
Alpena
R. J. Melly
J. D. Trumbull
George Sleator
Melly
Trumbull
Sleater
South Boston Railroad Treasurer Arrested for Embezzlement
General Manager Reed, treasurer of a South Boston Horse Railroad company, was arrested in Boston on charges of embezzling 104000 dollars including 100000 in stock overissue. He confessed, turned over assets, and had faced financial ruin from stock speculation. Reed, a ten year treasurer and broker, faced domestic troubles and no stock ownership in the road. He held mining interests in Utah and speculative ventures in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed
South Boston Horse Railroad
Boston
South Boston
Utah
Mexico
Oshkosh Firm Carlton Foster & Co Fails in Midwest
In Oshkosh Wisconsin the sash and door firm Carlton Foster & Co fails after the National Bank of Oshkosh advised an assignment when a $2,000 draft could not be met. The company runs a major factory and has interests in St Louis. Principal creditors include Morgan Bros & Co and Orville Beach with substantial claims.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Carlton Foster & Co
Northwest
National Bank of Oshkosh
St. Louis
Morgan Bro’s & Co
Orville Beach
A Childish Courtship Turns To Separate Lives
A poem from Chambers' Journal traces a playful childhood romance that grows through youth. He becomes a tyrant, she a changing girl with fashion, romance, and rival suitors. As adults, both diverge: he marries someone else while she remains unwed despite lovers.
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Chambers’ Journal
Los Angeles Scene Praised for Health and Beauty
A New York Medical Journal piece extols Los Angeles for a mild climate and varied scenery. It highlights hotels schools churches opera houses and year round garden beauty with mountains to the east and the Pacific to the west alongside abundant agriculture and sunshine.
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Los Angeles
California
Salvation Army
Unitarians
Brooklyn
America
New York
Lawrence Barrett
Rhea
Janauschek
Sierre Madre
Pacific Ocean
New York Medical Journal
Diet and Regulation for Corpulence in Obesity Treatment
The article argues that corpulence treatment must consider cause and heredity, advocating gradual prevention starting in youth through regulated diet. It warns against starvation, promotes sufficient food with emphasis on albumen, limited fat and sugar, and cites Bismarck’s physician using a single daily food with no drinks for two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Bismarck
London
Yankee dominance and Southern decline in postwar view
The piece argues that the North controls wealth, capital, industry, and culture while the South lags in power and enlightenment. It contends Yankees provide most comforts and knowledge, and urges adopting some Yankee ideas while retaining Southern identity. References include Richard & Mardon insolvency, Jacobs Wil remedy praise, Davitt conspiracy claims, Bulgaria Russia protection, and a Cincinnati vinegar factory fire.
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Greenville
S. C
Florida
America
Various Patent Medicines and Weather Claims Stated
An array of old advertisements extol supports for remedies like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Hall's Hair Renewer and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral while Commodore Ichley advocates two modern steam cruiser training ships. Prof Foster warns of a mighty electric current bringing heavy snow over the Northwest beginning December 5 with two weeks of blizzards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ichley
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting
Hall
Ayer
Foster
Iowa
Northwest
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery praised for lung and blood diseases
Shakespeare cited as example while the ad promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a non cure all remedy for sore throat bronchitis asthma catarrh consumption and diseases of the lungs and blood. It claims to have alterative action on scrofula ulcers swellings and tumors and asks readers to obtain it through druggists.
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Shakespeare
Pierce
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Powerful Restorative Tonic
Dr. Pierce offers Favorite Prescription as a strong restorative tonic with valuable nervine properties. It targets debilitated ladies suffering from weak back inward fever constipation inflammation ulceration nervousness or neuralgic pains. Sold by druggists.
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Minnesota News
Dana
Susan C
Dr. M. McG. Dana
Plymouth Church
Sabin
Adjt
McCarthy
George Whitney
Kelmer
D. F. McGraw
Washborn
Converse A. Pettingill
Minneapolis
Hanna ©. Pettengill
Pettengill
August Sandford
Minnesota Transfer Dressed Meat Company
Minnesota Transfer
Manitoba Railroad Company
St. Cloud
Willmar
Register of the
Benson Land Office
Charles Barnarth
Seott Ounty Agricultural Society
H. A. Newell
Presbyterian Church of
Rochester
Salt Lake City
Salem
Wabasha
Anton Gedert
Charles Hammond
Gerbert
Henry A. Andras
Stillwater
Burkhardt
Anna M
Herman Lessing
Manasha
Stearns County
Hon. John &. Pillsbury
St. Paul Globe
Spring Valley
Aliso
Hh. F. Drake
Duluth
South Shore
Atlantic
Montreal
Drake
Duluth South Shore
Cannon Falla
Jay Henry Long
Fergus Falls
Konte Nelson
Congress
Prohibition
Davidson
Quincy Til. Daily Times
Moses Gallup
Dodge County
Wassopa
Ramsey
Chisago
Lake Superior
M. R. Tyler
James Compton
Capt. Chase
E. E. Corliss
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Fergus
Joseph Bobleiter
John V. Wright
C. F. Larrabee
Indian Commission
Mille Lacs
White Earth
Dakota County
D. F. Akin
A.H. Truax
Stringer & Seymour
Houston
Dr. Rhines
Senator Edwards
Fillmore County
Rev
E. J. Cooke
D. B. Harbaugh
W. A. Lindeke
W. H. Lightner
Bishop Gordon
Redwood Falls
Gordon
Bishop Ireland
Rome
Winona
Frank Schmieewski
Youman Bros. & Hodgins
J. W. Horner
Congregational Church
Lake City
Des Moines
Andrew Rocksted
Hastings
R. C. Burdick
Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
Great Northwestern
West Superior
J. A. James
President Arthur
Henry Sherry
Buckstaff Bros. & Chase
Sherry & Cook
Marshall Harris
W. F. Gordon
Port Republic
Cross Keys
Valley of
Virginia
W. L. Jackson
Thirty-First Virginia
West Virginia
Bill
Lieut. Cooper
Bill Cooper
South Boston Horse Railway Company
Gov. Currier
Cheney
Manchester
Austin F. Pike
Currier
Hale
George L. Febiger
U. S. Army
Missouri
Francis Palms
Antwerp
Belgium
Amelica
Dana Conway
Moncure D. Conway
Henry P. Emslie
John A. Campbell
John Kennedy
Andrew A. Egother
Buffalo
Skinner
Erastus Brooks
Brooks
New York Express
Portland
Scott
Messrs. Black, Swett and Solomon
Ottawa
U.S. A
Lizzie M. Whelan
Ohio
San Francisco
Maj. Walker
Holabird
Ohio River
Newport Barracks
Secret Service
Baltimore Harbor
Fort McHenry
Cold Harbor
Father
Mother
William F. Gordon
Hoxie
Nemesis
South
Yankees
Richard & Mardon
Arthur Shurtleff
Parker, Dakota
Jacobs Wil
Patrick Egan
Michael Davitt
Rossa
Paris Journal
Bulgaria
Germany
Roumelia
Gadban Effendi
Vo Mengreia
Tepavischeroff
Sofia
Julius Reis & Co
Cincinnati
Hostetter
McQuade
George Christainson
Dodge Center
D. Kellogg Baker
Charles O. Clark
Baker & Clark
Hood
W. Borpsar
Lebanon
C. Hood
C. I. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mas
Drunadon
Galveston
L. Abraham & Co., Clothing Manufacturers
Milwaukee
Piso
Caswell Hazard & Co
All Drugg
Lyon
Porter Dave & Cumical Co
Mass
Wolfers
KoXoome
Marsh
Quincy
Hich
J. Stephens
Lebacom
Obie
Piagsier
M. Sites & Co
Washington, B
A. P. Lacey
Patene
B. Golley
Milwaukee, Wis
Washington,d. C
Eiyar
TIRE
Lars Free
EF. Ross & Co
Toledo
Obo
T. Ss. Gardner
Sinpager
Palace Ing
Sendle
Weedbery
N. Pear St
St Corset Co
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
C. Merriam&c
DR. T. Felix Gour
Ser
Guies
Gourand
Fred. T. Hopkins
Bond St. N. Y
Canada
Europe
Pathon
Pardee
The
Pardee Medicine CO
Rochester, N. Y
Tutt’s
M A. Dauphin
Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nes
OF &Arge
Standard Silverware CO
Horne
Cr. Horne
A.c
E. Roth& Bho
New Oxford, Penn
Corinthe
Lizon
Wilson Behol
Easton
Victor Mill
Vierea
CAVAL
Dederick
Esterbrook Pens
Esterbrook Steel Pen CO
Camden
N. J
John St
New Yorke
ST. Paul, Minn
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Wheat Woodward & Company
Corn Exchange
A. J. Tower
Simmons
M Towers
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