Daring Escape From Minnesota Murder Suspect
Michael Schieber, a German-speaking 22 year old alleged murderer, escaped from a custodian aboard a moving train near Corry New York while being transferred from Minneapolis to New York and then Germany. Police express surprise, noting Schieber’s meek appearance and cunning behavior as they seek his recapture through western New York woods.
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Corry
N. Y
Michael Schieber
Minneapolis
New York
Germany
Here
Nicollet Avenue
Heir
United States
O' Dell
Hein
Marshal Hay
Mr. Hay
Schieber
Pennsylvania
Tragedy at Richmond Court House Ends In Death
In Richmond Texas a deadly court house shooting left Kyle Terry dead and two others wounded. The violence stemmed from Fort Bend factional feuds between Jaybird and Woodpecker parties. Val Gibson fired the fatal shot. Judge Parker and David Terry were among those targeted.
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Richmond
Tex
Galvegston
Court House
Kyle Terry
David Terry
Fort Bend
Terry
Fort Bend County
Woodpecker
Jaybird
Apt
California
Parker
Weston
Gale
Judge Weston
Henry Pittle
Wharton
Dan Ragsdale
Young Mitchell
Ini Daybirds
Galveston
Val Gibson
Gibson
Windom Policy Rumor On England Silver Move
Wall Street discusses Secretary Windom''s silver plan as Bank of England rumor spreads. Reports say England may use one third of its silver reserves to issue one pound notes, with 3,000,000 pounds of silver bullion reportedly bought. Analysts warn of inflation if true and link it to bi metallic currency aims.
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New York
Wall Street
Windom
Messrs
Zimmerman & Forshay
London
Bank of England
California
Forshay
England
United States
Europe Joins France in Following Lead Across Nations
The passage notes that Ladon, France, Germany and other European countries could not fail to follow the lead. It frames a continental response as coordinated across multiple nations within Europe.
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Ladon
France
Germany
Europe
Widow in Jail in Connection With Pettit Murder
Mrs Elma C Whitehead wealthy Lafayette widow is jailed on an indictment charging complicity in the first degree murder of Rev W F F Pettit the ex minister accused of murdering his wife last July Pettit was arrested in Columbus Ohio and held on 10000 bail. Whitehead was released after contempt testifying refusals earlier.
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Pettit
Columbus
Ohio
Whitehead
Barbara Rosier
Maryland
Fayette County
West Union
Rosier
North Dakota saloonkeepers seek Supreme Court ruling
North Dakota saloonkeepers from Northwood urge a test case after Attorney General Goodwin ruled liquor sales illegal under present law. Frank Olquist pled guilty, others released. A local fund supports legal efforts as Tracy Bangs prepares to seek a writ of habeas corpus before the Fargo Supreme Court.
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Granxp Forks
N. D
Goodwin
Northwood
Justice Cutts
Frank Olquist
Tracy Bangs
Supreme Court
Fargo
Cunard Catalonia Endures Twenty Hour Atlantic Storm
The Cunard steamer Catalonia, sailing Boston to Liverpool January 11, reached Queenstown reporting a twenty hour hurricane. Four lifeboats vanished, ventilators bulwarks and deck houses damaged and fires quenched. Three men were killed and another badly burned by debris and a burst pipe amid waves. The Greece sighted no trace of Erin, believed lost after leaving New York December 28 for London.
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Atlantic
Loxpox
Cunard
Boston
Liverpool
Queenstown
National Line
Greece
Jeffrey
Thames
New York
Erin
Tyson
London
Man in Mount Freedom Accused of Hoarding Stolen Goods
In Betviverr New Jersey Mount Freedom residents uncover wagon loads of stolen items stored in the home and outbuildings of Robert Roff. He admits living by theft and savings. Police seize gold silver and cash from a trunk and on his person. Roff held on $200 bail awaiting grand jury examination.
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New Jersey
Betviverr N.J
Mount Freedom
Robert Roff
Roff
Koff
Will
English officer’s brother-in-law faces checks scam in Seattle
An Englishman who called himself Mullahy claimed to be a captain and bilked a Seattle man of nearly $2,500 with a Bank of British Columbia check. He used the name Cal T at a Dryard hotel, cashed a $50 Vancouver check, fled by steamer, was arrested, and proven to be Sir Richard Webster’s brother-in-law. He was sent from home due to his wild habits.
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England
Quad
Victoria
D.C
B. C
Mullahy
Seattle
Wash
Bank of British Columbia
Dryard Hotel
Cal—T
Vancouver
Calth
Richard Webster
Great Falls to Canada Rail Line Ordered Begun
Great Falls Montana reports that construction of the Great Falls and Canada railway has begun after English instruction. Chief contractor Donald Grant of Faribault Minnesota leads a crew. K W D Barclay arrives with assistants to supervise. The route links Great Falls with Lethbridge Alberta about 225 miles away passing rich stock country and copper and silver districts.
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Great Falls
Canada
Mont
England
K. W.D. Barclay
Donald Grant
Faribault
Minn
Lethbridge
Alberta
San River
Upper Teton
Canadian Pacific
Disease Wipes Out Band of 800 Indians Near Winnipeg
A band of 800 Indians on St. Peter's reserve near Winnipeg suffers a severe la grippe outbreak. Seventy five percent infected, with many developing lung disease due to lack of medical care. Authorities urged to send physicians to prevent further deaths. In Fort Dodge Miss Coules dies after influenza symptoms begin Friday.
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Wigsiee
St. Peter's Reserve
Winnipeg
Warenoo
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Robbery at Walker's Diamond Show Window
Three men robbed W A Walkers diamond display in Montreat stealing $20000 in gems after smashing the plate glass. Two escaped in a sleigh while a third fled after a long chase but most of the jewels vanished with the other two.
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Montreat
Special
Walker
Northwest Week in Review: Minnesota Notes and Incidents
A summary of weekly events across the Northwest notes a new manual training school in St. Paul, Winona courthouse cost 127775, Fergus Falls fire escapes mandate, rabies death in Pine City, and Stillwater woolen mill interest. Obituaries, accidents, liquor-license increases, flu cases, elopement, bridge plans, and coal mine reports appear with local official actions and notable deaths.
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St. Paul
Winona
Fergus Falls
George Dasey
Pine City
Stillwater
George Shaw
Brainerd
Winnipeg
la Grippe
August Anderson
Odd Fellows of
Kasson
Minnesota
H. E. Hennessy
Red Lake Falls
James N. Elkins
Wookkeeper
Clay County
North Dakota News Briefs Include Legislation and Local Crimes
Twenty North Dakota senators back Gov. Miller's retrenchment plan as Ingalls proposes a bill to reimburse George Auld of Dickinson for a May 5 1885 post office fire loss. Sheriff sale at Grand Forks clears fair grounds buildings. W J Anderson buys in. Funds from railroads total about 300000 to settlers in the two Dakotas this season. J C Warnock named deputy revenue collector with Fargo HQ. Geo D Lay buys half of a Emerado banana farm for 80000 and will manage. George Inkster helps capture a suspect who fled to Colorado. Nelson's jewelry store at Wareau burglarized for watches and rings worth 6060. Summers robs John Liston at Grand Forks with revolver, pocketbook $17 seized. Farmers seek free strychnine to poison gophers. cheaper than bounties. A Minnesota hunterCornett kills a steer accidently. Water in Dakota rises. Jim valley floods, springs burst. Attorney General says legislators cannot draw per diem for 19 holiday days. Constitutional amendment bill seeks debt rise to 1000000. Mrs Copley of Grand Forks noted for longevity.
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North Dakota
Gov. Miller
Ingalls
George Auld
Dickinson
Haln Knuttson
Thompson
Grand Forks
Fair Grounds
W. J. Anderson
Two Dakotas
Peters
J.C. Warnock
Jamestown
Fargo
Geo. D. Lay
Lewis Emery
Emerado
Mr. Lay
George Inkster
Minot
Colorado
Inkster
Nelson
Wareau
Charles Sommers
John Liston
Liston
Summers
Minnesota
Cornett
Dakota
Aberdeen
Jim Valley
Copley
Black Hills News Roundup Spans Accidents and Local Affairs
A Montana-like mix of incidents and notices from the Black Hills region includes a Rapid City rancher injured by a boar, many sent to Yankton asylum, a proposed civil jury reform bill, a Deadwood hunter's death at 75, and Ex-Gov Ordway’s illness in Washington. Other items report Bear Butte mines, drownings near Marion, a mallory accident in Michigan City, a Canton fire leaving a destitute family, and marriage and deputy marshal news.
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Henry Leedy
Rapid City
Yankton
Calvin G. Wilson
Black Hills
Deadwood
Ordway
Washington
Bear Butte
Marion
Turner County
Ben FP
Fast
Mallory
Michigan City
Daniel Wright
Canton
Fairview
State Fair Association
Sierre
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Huron
Aberdeen
Watertown
Lawrence County
Inmates in Wisconsin asylums and local crime notes
The list reports 2986 inmates in state insane asylums. It covers incidents from a Racine girl attempted suicide to a Waukesha slander case, baton injuries, fires, robberies, prison matters, and a dying doctor released after a supreme court decision. It notes accidents, drownings, embezzlement claims and juvenile burglaries, with dates and places from Racine to Madison.
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Mary Albies
James R. Slauser
Racine
Madison
Peter Draper
Chicago & North-Western
Holt
Merrill
Handler
Dave Sarvis
Officer Truax
Louis Brabant
Marathon County
C. J. L. Meyer
Fond du Lar
Mr. Meyer
August Kautop
Frank Schultz
Ripon
Edward McCarthy
Wisconsin Central
Burlington
Oshkosh Youth Survives Shipwreck and Return Voyage
Louten Noyes son of Dr J C Noyes of Oshkosh returned home after perilous sea travel starting with the Boston bound Moonbeam to Buenos Ayres. He later sailed on Julius which wrecked near Montevideo but he and other sailors reached shore. He then made his way back to the United States by overland route from Biloxi Mississippi.
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J.C. Noyes
Oshkosh
Boston
Moonbeam
Buenos Ayres
Argentine Republic
Julius
Montevideo
Uruguay
Lauren
States
Biloxi
Miss
Freight train wreck at Lisbon halts traffic no injuries reported
A brakeman negligence caused a side-track collision between two freight trains at Lisbon. Both locomotives were damaged but no one was hurt. Local crews investigated while officials cautioned on safety measures.
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Lisbon
Ruthven
Lost Island Lake
Fort Dodge
Jerry O'Donnell
William Cavill
Gdebolt
Dakota
Carthage
New Melleray
Dubuque
Creston Board of Trade
Surprise for a Dude at the Streetcar Stop
A Portland reader recounts a comical incident in front of a Street scene where a vain man with pince nez attempted to inspect a woman like a dummy. An umbrella struck his hat driving it down over his ears while spectators laughed and the woman remained unmoved.
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Portland Oregonian
Day of Great Bridges Across the Firth of Forth
The near completion of a vast bridge across the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh draws attention. It measures about 8 091 feet with two 1 710 foot spans, rests 150 feet above water, and sits over a 200 foot deep center, linked to Inch Garvie.
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Edinburgh
Inch Garvie
Garvie
Jerusalem
Steele
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Prominent New York Scribblers Fill The City
The New York Tribune notes the vast number of poets authors dramatists journalists and literary figures in New York. They toil from garrets to hotel saloons and depend for daily bread on theaters publishers booksellers and newspapers. The city overflows with writers editors translators and corre ctors many with varied merit. Literary hermits are rare and employment questions linger.
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New York
New York Tribune
Provisional Loyalty Drives Brazilian Political Shift
Prominent Brazilians agree on three points: the empire is gone, order hinges on loyalty to the provisional government, and a permanent authoritative regime must be established soon to prevent dismemberment.
Congressional Bills and Debates Dominate House and Senate
Lawmakers filed pension and irrigation measures from North Dakota and Montana while funding for fortifications and public buildings was proposed. Senate battles over Brazil recognition and a world’s fair plan highlighted a day of vigorous debate and procedural moves.
The Length of the Day Across Cities in Summer
The article lists daylight hours for major cities and regions. It notes London and Bremen about sixteen and a half hours, Stockholm eighteen and a half, Hamburg and Dantzie seventeen, St Petersburg nineteen, Tobolsk five, Tornea nearly twenty two on June 21, and Wardbury Norway from May 21 to July 22 with continuous sunlight. It also cites Spitzbergen three and a half months of daylight, Christmas daylight under three hours, and Philadelphia under fifteen hours with Montreal sixteen.
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England
Bremen
Prussia
Stockholm
Sweden
Hamburg
Germany
Dantzie
St Petersburg
Russia
Tobolsk
Siberia
Tornea
Finland
Wardbury
Norway
Spitzbergen
Philadelphia
Montreal
Canada
Error in Ethics in a Tracer's Tale on a Western Road
A St Louis Globe Democrat item recalls a lost car tracer who faced a profanity laden superintendent. After a failed attempt to repulse blame with cursing in Kansas City the tracer was fired, prompting a bitter exchange about where such cursing occurred and whether it solved the issue.
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St. Louis
Tracer
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Irish Indian Queen’s Legacy Returned to Heirs
Dublin relatives of an Irish woman who married a Maharajah and lived in India for decades are pursuing £100,000 believed to be the value of a legacy she left, now in Indian government hands since her childless death over thirty years ago. The estate, once £30,000 at her death, grew as reports confirmed her marriage and its value.
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Grandview
Louisa County
Albert Thompson
Charles City
E. D. Clark
Waverly Temperance Crusade
Francis Murphy
Mr. Murphy
Iowa
Kansas
Ohio
Ringwood
Clinton County
A. P. Stone
RK. L. Tilton
Ottumwa
Senate
R. L
Territory
Arthur
Sinois Central Railway
Murphy
G. W. Ferguson
Marshalltown
India
Ireland
Dublin Freeman’s Journal
extravagances of Emperor William stir Berlin grumbling
Reports in Berlin criticize Emperor William II for lavish plans including a pew yacht and an imperial palace at Frankfurt on Main costing over £300,000. A Berlin palace is proposed at half a million pounds while extensive remodelling of the Schloss continues in Berlin over the past 18 months.
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Berlin
William
Frankfort-on-Main
George IV
Schloss
Why He Didn't Ride
Two Scottish justices of the peace jest at minister Rev. Thom as they meet him on a country road in Glasgow Govan. He quips that they had made them all justices of the peace, explaining why he does not ride into the city on an ass.
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Senate
Butler
Hoar
Alabama
Mr. Morgan
Glasgow
Govan
Thom
Vey
Mr. Thom
Oswego Fifteen Share in Lottery Prize Drawn
Oswego Palladium reports Mr. E. D. Boughton paid out $1,666 to fifteen locals tied to the Louisiana State Lottery ticket No. 35 961. The group included J. McChesney, Chas. McDowell, W. J. Rasmussen, Chas. R. Lewis, Jules Wendell, J. A. Southwick, Geo. W. Harman, Albert Fitzgerald, Obediah Wiley, Alonzo Adams, H. Churchill, David Wright, Theo. Warden, Aaron Connon, Colbert Cooper. They claimed one fourth of the $100,000 fourth prize from the December drawing. Oswego commerce benefits from the payout and second similar draw boosts local lottery interest.
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E. D. Boughton
J. McChesney
Chas. McDowell
W. J. Rasmussen
Chas. R. Lewis
Jules Wendell
J. A. Southwick
Geo. W. Harman
Albert Fitzgerald
Obediah Wiley
Alonzo Adams
H. Churchill
David Wright
Theo
Aaron Connon
Colbert Cooper
Oswego
Houghton
N. Y
The Kings Touch Superstition Versus Dr Pierce Remedy
An 18th century note contrasts the Royal Touch curing scrofula with modern Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It claims the product purifies blood, cures bilious disorders, malaria symptoms, skin diseases, and lung scrofula, offering money-back guarantee and listing Wortip's Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street Buffalo New York.
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England
Dr. Pierce
Wortip’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
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