Minnesota election canvass tallies state officers and congressmen
Returns from St Paul show Harrison leading state officers by 38 107 Merrian 24 106 Rice 35 898 and totals by county. Several counties voided votes due to ballot printing and record errors but none would alter results.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Lowse
Sherburne
Stearns
Steete
Stevens
Weetington
Waterwan
Witkin
Winoma
Weirht
Ballo
Hugh Harrison
McLeod County
Thompson Hans Mattson
Hugh Mattson
Nobles County
Pine County
David Buck
Mankato
John Brederhoff
Five Republ fap and Congressmen Vote Totals Revealed
Election returns show Dunnell with a large plurality in the district as Wilson trails. Dunnell carried seven counties with margins from 908 in Fillmore to 68 in Guasted while Wilson won Winona County by 1,194, his home. Overall totals indicate a 3.77 point gain and a stronger Republican performance than two years ago.
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Tom Milton
Mr. Dunoel
Vine
Fillmore
Wilson
Winona
Second District results show Lind plurality up despite vote split
In John Lindas district the total 45,118 votes mark a 6,836 increase from two years earlier with Lind as a 9,219 plurality, while Prohibition gains 810 votes and 15 scattering votes are recorded.
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John Linda
Lind
Fourth and Fifth Districts Show Wide Party Shifts in Vote Totals
In the Third district Hall leads with a sizable plurality as Republican gains track population growth while Democratic votes lag. Kandiyohi County backs Hall 2088 to 427 for MacDonald. The Fourth district mirrors earlier patterns with Democratic votes up only slightly and Prohibition gains driving the swing to Snider’s tally, extending the party spread. Comstock dominates the Fifth with a large plurality amid a Prohibition surge from 1039 to 4254. statewide totals show shifting margins across multiple counties and increased Prohibition votes.
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Hall
Tus
Republian
Kandiyohi
MacDonald
Pink
Snider
Rice
Bam
Anoka
Lago
Mr. Comstock
Comstock
Canning. Scott
Aitkin
Teecker
Berntenn
Bie Lion
Ee Row Wisc
Grant
Hubbard
Tareas
Lowie
Stearns
Wadena
Wilkin
Pluraiity
The Man and the Thread on the Chicago Cable Car
An elderly grey haired man with gold rimmed glasses discovers a tiny thread on his pants. A sewing machine operator nearby giggles as he pulls at it, only to fear the fabric will give way. He exits the car toward a tailor as the passenger laughs.
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Chicago Journal
South Side
Thirty-ninth Street
Sopy-chopy River Passage Described In Gloomy Visions
A narrator recalls paddling the Sopy-chopy stream above a canal where banks meet overhead greenery. Sails useless, they proceed by pole in profound stillness and near total darkness. The voyage evokes an eerie, Dantean swamp with hydra roots and serpentine vines.
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Ponce de Leon
Slotted sewing needle aids easy threading for all ages
A 70 year old woman patent introduces a needle with a bevelled slot in the eye that lets thread slip in without aiming for the eye. The inventor spent $30,000 on trials to create a slot that admits thread yet prevents it from slipping out during sewing. A New Jersey manufacturer alone produces millions of needles monthly.
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New Jersey
Congress
Mississippi River
Minnesota
Mr Ce
Ex Senator Conger Leads Quiet Retirement Life
A Washington Letter notes ex Senator Conger enjoying a simple retirement with his second wife. They travel by old gray horse and rockaway, living modestly and contentedly. Mrs. Conger, widowed before marriage, joined him with some property but not a fortune.
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Washington
Conger
Rockaway
Dynamite Strike Damages Illinois Foundry Cupola
Litchfield Car and Machine in Litchfield Illinois reports a dynamite attack that wrecked the cupola and seriously injured two workers. In a separate incident near La Crosse two youths Brabander and Cummings face questions after accidental rifle deaths and recovered guns amid an investigation.
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Litchfield Car and Machine Company
Litchfield
Illinois
Saint Paul Ice Palace Shape and Dakota Statehood Meeting
The article details the Saint Paul Ice Palace plans for the January 23 to February 1 carnival with extensive ice architecture including a 112 foot tower, a 75,000 square foot palace, and elaborate electric lighting and attractions. It also covers the Democratic statehood convention at Mitchell with speakers, memorials urging division of Dakota and admission of South Dakota to the Union, and delegates chosen for Washington.
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Barnett Tripp
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Plankinton
A. Ramsey
Woonsocket
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Gettysburg
Geo Beckett
Panama Canal Collapse Shifts Anger to Parliament
In Paris and the provinces investors blame parliament for the canal failure while showing sympathy for M. de Lesseps. Shares rise on the Paris bourse as the cabinet plans to separate a Panama article from the bankruptcy bill to try to save the canal company.
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M. de Lessepe
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Floquet
M. Goblet
Postmaster Disappearances and Land Case Verdicts in Iowa
Disappearance of Rudd Iowa postmaster Nierstadt and deputy Hamp ton postmaster Tomes prompts bondmen to seek missing men. Des Moines river landers win $800 for improvements and $239 rent in Meehan versus Snell case after five days of trial in Fort Dodge. Van Zandt, just released from Wisconsin penitentiary for bigamy, faces multiple indictments and is described as dangerous by postal authorities. Susie King of New York Committed suicide using Rough on Rate after rejection by a 19 year old boy. the youth claims no relation.
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Rudd
Iowa
William Tomes
Hampton
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
James Meehan
Thomas Snell
Clinton
IUL
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Supreme Court
Wesley van Zandt
Wisconsin
United States Court
Hammond
Indiana
van Zandt
Michigan
Texas
Minnesota
New York
Suse King
Bedford Flats
Susie
Egyptians Attack Rebel Position at Sunkim in Africa
British forces report four killed and two wounded in a cavalry charge at Sunkim. Egyptian and black regiments retook trenches with two Egyptian officers wounded and an enemy loss of about 400. Osman Digna’s nephew and twelve dervishes captured. sabres and revolvers cited as issues.
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Murder near Oakland Iowa leaves mystery unsolved
Joseph Hair, 26, employed by John Kelly near Oakland, Iowa, was found unconscious after a barn incident and died the next day without identifying his assailants. Others include Edward Meredith’s assault case in New York, a Fort Dodge coal miners strike, and a Yellow Stone horses disease spreading among ranches threatening mortality if cold weather arrives.
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John Kelly
Oakland
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Edward Meredith
Phil Daly
New York
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Yellowstone
Senate and House Adjourn for Christmas Holidays 1880s
The Senate debates tariff and war policy with motions to table. The House suspends rules to advance South Dakota statehood and North Dakota territory measures while preparing a Sioux reservation division proposal and pension bills. Christmas recess set for Dec 21 to Jan 2.
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Springer
Committee On Territories
Senate
South Dakota
Territory of
North Dakota
Cox
Peel
Arkansas
Great Sioux
Dakota
Lawler
Ilinois
Congress
Army
Navy
Thomas Burke
Washington Territory
Love and Beauty in Wealthy Marriages
The piece notes rising trend of wealthy men marrying women of beauty from modest means. It cites a New Brunswick factory widow inheriting a large fortune after her husband’s death and a major Philadelphia manufacturer married to a former factory worker, illustrating social mobility through marriage.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Philadelphia
The Gay Bachelor Senator Saulsbury of Delaware
A narrator portrays Senator Saulsbury as a tall, thin, charitable seventy year old bachelor who sent cast off clothing to a relief committee for Western floods. A crude mail anecdote accuses his pants of being too small, suggesting misfit garments used as gun cases and a joke about a pair to hang by a fireplace.
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Delaware
Saulsbury
Washington
He Saved the Frame Story Tells of a Printer’s Mess
A showman who once ran a Pennsylvania town newspaper recalls a humorous office mishap. He hired a large colored man to do chores and send a moveable form, which the worker placed on his head and toppled, spilling type but saving the frame as he reported.
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Pensylvania
Darkey
Canada to adopt key features of banking system
The 1890 plan will radically reform Canada’s federal banking structure. It enacts government control over legal tender and limits bank note issues. The approach mirrors the American banking model.
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Dominion of Canada
Canada
Sinking of two Philadelphia schooners during storm reported
The schooners August Flower and William Wiler, which sailed from Philadelphia on November 19, are believed sunk with all hands after a recent storm. Each carried a mate four seamen and a steward. the vessels valued at $14,000. A separate item notes Joseph Golding known as Sear Face Tex faces forgery charges in Montana and Junction with forged checks. he waives examination and awaits spring term with $5,000 bonds. Additional brief notices include medicinal ads and a London council update on Emin relief expedition and Stanley.
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William Wiler
Philadelphia
Joseph Golding
Sear Face Tex
Junction
Billings
Montana
Texas
S. BR. Miller & Son
TP. F. Linton & Co
Paul McCormick & Co
London
Council
English East Africa Company
Stanley
Wadelai
Emin
Lado
Oman
Almanac Production Scale Revealed in 1889 Preface
The preface describes thirteen to fourteen million copies printed yearly using a machine that prints and folds one hundred thousand almanacs daily, at one hundred eighty books a minute, and consumes about twenty five miles of paper daily. The volume includes specimens in twenty one languages and promotes Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla and other remedies.
Death by Lethal Overdose Reported In McCaullesville Area
Charles Hutchins of McCaullesville Minnesota died by his own hand using laudanum. He was an early prospector and blacksmith at Fort Abercrombie, later moving across the river to McCaullesville. His daughter Sarah Hutchins recently died by suicide near Aberdeen.
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Senate
Riddlebe
Republican Party
Riddleberger
Harris
Tennessee
Charles Hutchins
McCaullesville
Minn
Hutchins
Fort Abercrombie
Sarah Hutchins
Aberdeen
George W
Marietta
Indiana
Lillie
Tha L. Gregory
Gregory
Mr. Davis
Wisconsin Central
Stevens Point
Wis
Martin Gabler
Urgent business missive offering quick entry
A terse advertisement urges the reader to write to B. F. Johnson & Co. 1009 Main St. Richmond, Va. to learn how to enter a profitable work. It hints at earnings if one is not too busy and implies opportunity for immediate cash.
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Main St
Richemond
Moxie Promises Relief for Aging and Drinking Habits
An advertisement touts Moxie as tonic for elderly men to bolster the nervous system and sustain bodily functions after long business careers. It also targets young men using goods to negate liquor effects and dissipation. A tumbler is claimed to erase recent intoxication in an hour without harmful stimulation.
Augusta Father Slain Daughter in Rifle Accident
John Braddon accidentally killed his twelve year old daughter Maggie at Augusta Georgia while handling an old army rifle he believed unloaded. The ball struck her abdomen and she died instantly.
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Maggie
Augusta
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