Various 19th Century Notices From A Broad Sweep Of Interests
A mixed batch of notes lists prominent people and events. Sen Ingalls’ son praised. Sir Starrony Northcote a leading Devonshire landowner. Dr Duryea may take $4,500 annual loss as Union College president. Miss Karnanrie Bayard joins her ill mother in Wilmington. Rev Josefan Cook oversees a 500 acre farm at Ticonderoga Lake George. Ex-President Artuars’ son praised by girls but lacks manly ambition. A Japanese inventor markets seaweed paper as glass. At a Paris flower fete about 40,000 francs at gates in one day. Mrs Joan Moore touring the United States. Poultry totals for Great Britain and Ireland: 30 million head. egg bill $31,250,000. Duke of Edinburgh to command the Mediterranean squadron late Sept. Mlle Marie Van Zaner rumored betrothed to a Russian noble. French lion tamer offers cage visits at 100 francs per trip. Clara Moxais noted as a rapid reader of George Eliot. London papers claim police bound by engagement terms not to exercise parliamentary franchise, penalty $500. Sunday plate offerings: Newman Hall’s Westminster Bridge Road church $175. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle $345. Prof Henry A Frank of Hamilton College elected to Amherst chair. may accept. Currant grape seedless grown widely in Greece. annual 66,000 tons. U.S. buys 16,000 tons. French imports boots/shoes valued at $4.5 million in Q1. sixfold U.S. outbound in a year. Julius Vogell, colonial treasurer of New England, reports revenue for 1835-86 at $20,650,000. expenditure $20,500,000.
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Manitoba
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Fair Grounds
Zumbrota
Winona
Messrs
John L. Wilson
H. 8. Bolcom
E. C. Smith
Moorhead
S. Samuelson
Senator Sabin
Red Wing
W. J. van Dyke
J. J. Hill
Manitoba Road
E. L. Thorns
Ashby
Otter Tail
State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Duluth
H. S. Walrath
John Barger
Frederick Herman
Buffalo
Wright County
Margaret Uhl
Uhl
Albert Lea Standard
Freeborn County
Mankato
Norfolk
Neb
James Norton
Waseca County
The
State University
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Dakota
Oliver Gibbs, Jr
C. W. Morgan
St. Charles
Winona County
Barney
English jockey Fred Archer’s compensations and bounty
Recount of Fred Archer’s life earnings notes a $400,000 windfall from a recent combinat ion bet enabling retirement to a country gentleman. The Duke of Connaught brings mangoes from India for Queen and homeland. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, head of the Board of Trade, earns about $250,000 annually, reportedly modest for his rank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trere
Fred Archer
Conway calls Gladstone an unconscious humbug
Mr. Moncure D. Conway remarks that to speak his whole mind about the Rt. Hon. W E Gladstone he would call him an unconscious humbug a surprise to some who thought his full mind held less of Gladstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Moncure D. Conway
W. E. Gladstone
Gladstone
Railways to Rise with French Help, Says Chinese Gov
A few weeks after French forces damaged Chinese ships and works, it is now said the Chinese government will shortly seek French assistance to build railways and other works. The adage that making railways is better than destroying them holds true as trade with a Chinaman is valued over killing.
Incriminating Confidence in a French Court Prosecution
The text notes a French legal practice flaw where counsel’s personal assurance influences a jury, citing the Pel case as an illustration and describing the prosecutor’s expression of certainty as shifting responsibility to the jury. It also includes Persian demographic and religious composition data with detailed population figures and gender ratios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pel
Washington News From The Capital In Distant Notes
From Washington, Judge Lambert Tree plans departure for Belgium. Navy figure H H Stewart, chief examiner, to retire. Secretary Whitney's family to summer in Lenox. Turtle Mountain Chippewas rights to reservation move flagged. Rear Admiral Jouett spent $2,000 for entertaining visitors, $400 charged to navy. Brown of the Washington Post to take a $900 clerkship. Seven hundred Knights of Labor visited Washington. Libby prison gavel gifted. Interior clerks warned on campaign funds. civil service law enforced. A man attacked a woman and child. a Chattanooga streetcar driver killed by a Negro, culminating in a mob lynching.
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Lambert Tree
Washington
Belgium
H. H. Stewart
Board of Examiners
Philadelphia
Whitney
Lenox
Mass
Haggerty Place
Congress
Turtle Mountain Chippewas
Jouett
Aae
New Orleans
Tennessee
Navy
Brown
Washington Post
Civil Service Commission
Knights of Labor
Richmond
Gen. Rosecrans
Capitol
Richmond Knights
Washington Knights
Libby Prison
Notable Society and Public Figures Tangle in Scattered Notices
Personal mentions name Hon J G Blaine building a cottage at Bar Harbor Missouri and Thomas Knight a Baltimore boilermaker inherits a fortune. Milwaukee seeks guardianship for State Senator Cottrill. Merritt’s funeral bill and coffin costs. Rev Dr Burchard travels Saratoga amid remarks. Hazen’s army reminiscences stir officers. Maj Aaron Stafford dies aged 98 in Waterville NY. Lilly Stanley to wed Lieut David Rumbaugh. Archibald Forbes linked to Gen Meiggs daughter’s marriage. Forbes abroad. Gen W T Sherman returns home declines St Louis Grant monument bid and subscription duties. Edward A Rollins dies in Hanover NH. his federal revenue service career outlined.
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J. G. Blaine
Bar Harbor
Thomas Knight
Baltimore
Milwaukee
Cottrill
Merritt
Grant
Burchard
Saratoga
Hazen
Aaron Stafford
Waterville
Oneida County
N. Y
Lilly Stanley
D. 8. Stanley
Department of Texas
David J. Rumbaugh
Third Artillery
San Antonio
Archibald Forbes
Montgomery Meiggs
Internal Revenue
Tings
Frost and Frosts and Other Local News From Around the Region
A broad crop of notes reports Hon. James Blair of Grand Rapids dragged from his carriage and badly injured. A fire destroys W. S. Lafier’s home eight miles west of Mandan, loss 3000 with 1000 insured. Frosts damage corn and vegetables across Minnesota Iowa North Dakota and Wisconsin. Austin endures its worst frost of the season on the 4th harming corn and garden produce. Texas cattle fever spreads in Pottawattamie and Harrison counties in Iowa. Mr. H. Peterson drowns off Battle Lake Fergus Falls while with two companions. two women survive. St Paul faces possible smallpox epidemic this winter with cases in Canada Chicago and Northern Iowa. A genuine St Paul case was reported last month.
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James Blair
Grand Rapids
Lafier
Mandan
Oak
Phenix
Hartford
Minnesota
Iowa
Dakota
Wisconsin
Austin
Pottawattamie County
Harrison County
H. ©. Peterson
Hudson
Wis
Battle Lake
Fergus Falls
Minn
Missis Guesness
Hawkinson
Peterson
Dr. Jones
Health Office
St. Paul
Canada
Chicago
Aitkin
Little Falls
Brainerd
Winnibagoshish
Ada
Rochester
Crimes and Criminals from Brookings to Davenport
A stream of crime notes from across the Midwest: Henderson of Brookings is convicted of second degree manslaughter in Brookings South Dakota. A son of Admiral Cooper is arrested in Brooklyn on burglary. Maxfield and Beecher, La Crosse burglars, are captured at Elroy Wisconsin and sent for trial. Thomas W. Magill’s murder trial continues in Bismarck Dakota Territory. Miss May Irene Hoyt, famed Hoyt will case contestant, is pickpocketed in Boston of about $2,000 in valuables. Reverend Charles W Price, Cherokee Kansas, hanged himself amid unsettled minds after family deaths. Samuel Morley, Bridgeport Indiana postmaster, convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to five years in 1874. Post office inspector Pulsifer calls sureties of Col Vestal in Storm Lake Iowa to cover a $906 defalcation. A Fort Keogh youth absconds with $1300 then, after discovery, still has $200 left, fleeing Miles City. In Jackson Michigan a gambling raid yields no arrests, though players’ names and equipment are seized. Mayor Pringle, City Attorney Peck, Joseph Hanan and others were present in the room. Davenport insanity case Robert Collins, three months insane, attempted to force wife upstairs with lethal intent. she screamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Cooper
Brooklyn
Maxfield
Beecher
la Crosse
Elroy
Wis
Thomas W. Magill
Melville Bessie
Magill
Bismarck
Oak
May Irene Hoyt
New York
Boston
Charles W. Price
Cherokee
Kan
Pulsifer
Storm Lake
Iowa
Col
Vestal
Curly
Fort Keogh
Miles City
Jackson
Mich
Pringle
Peck
Joseph Hanan
Robert Collins
Davenport
Garland
Kansas
Commission House
F. B. Chamberlain & Co
St. Louis
Isaac G. Baker
Tate
Sullivan
McCaffrey
Omaha
Superior
James Donahue
George Taylor
Ella Holtz
Hoboken
N. J
Marguerite
Amende
McCoskey
Grant Monument Fund
Link
Paris
United States
Indian Territory
Cheyenne
Arapahoe Reservation
Gwyn
California
New Mexico
Henry Ward Beecher
Greenwood
Wisconsin
Liverpool
Minnesota
Lake Benton
John L. Cass
Fred Grant
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Parnell
Lieut. Schultz
United States Navy
Tomsk
Yakovtzk
Wakeman
Chicago Current
Fort Bowie
Geronimo
Vienna
Sal
Northwest Convent delegates in crowded St Paul gathering
Nearly a thousand delegates from Minnesota Montana Illinois Missouri Kansas Dakota Nebraska and Iowa attend the Northwest convention in St Paul. The opening program includes remarks by Governor Hubbard and Mayor Rice with Ignatius Donnelly delivering lengthy resolutions before committees finalize rules and organization.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Montana
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Commodore Davidson
Mark
Hubbard
Dana
Edmund Rice
Wm. Bross
Chicago
U.C. Sturtevant
Minneapolis
Committee On
Ignatius Donnelly
Committee On Credentials
Murphy
Davenport
Hennipin Canal
Committee On Permanent Organization
Maj
William Warner
Kanwin City
G. W. Jones
P. G. Ballingall
C. M. Miller
Miles
Johnson Nickens
A. Boynton
Lockhart
Mark H. Dunnell
I. W. Derant
Comatock
Wisconsin
Lucelus Fairchild
D. A. McDonald
H. Ingram
A. Millington
J. D. Barker
Eb, Gifford
J. G. Wear
H. N. Phillips
James McClane
Martin Maginnis
Mlinois
H. A. Cancel
George H. Ritchey
W. H. Crocker
Clatt B. Walker
Minneaplis
Taxing bachelors bill drawn by Georgia legislature
A long bulletin of diverse notices from midwestern and eastern states includes a Georgia bill to tax bachelors being withdrawn, a Duluth jeweler assigning assets to a partner, weather impacts in Richland County Ohio, legal cases in Winnipeg, and various political and economic items. The content spans insurance probes in Wisconsin, railroad corporate hints, Cherokee land payments, and river and harbor project debates.
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Georgia
Duluth
W. A. Susmitch
C. M. Parkhurst
Mercury
Richland County
Oak
Convention endorses river improvements and canal expansion
Missouri river commissioners and residents back an Illinois and Michigan canal extension from Hennepin to Rock Island to link the Great Lakes with the upper Mississippi. They urge Congress to fund canal enlargement, Saulte Ste Marie locks, Red River work, Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and northern harbor improvements, with annual appropriations of 25 million dollars supported by a state fair reception and speeches.
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Missouri River Commission
Uri River
Illnois & Michigan Canal
Illinois River
Hennepin
Misoudess
Rock Island
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Seaboard
Northwest
Congress
Illinois and Michigan Canal
United States
Sault Ste. Marie
Hay Lake
United States Engineers
Red River
Fox
Wisconsin
Yellowstone
Chippewa
Wisconesi
St. Croix
Minnesota
Minesota
the Ryan
Dakota Murderer Sentenced to Death in Grand Forks
George Miller, convicted of murdering Mrs. Snell and her son in Grand Forks Dakota, was sentenced by Judge MecCon nell to death. The court ordered Miller hanged in close custody, with execution set for October 30 in strict privacy, after brief remarks by his counsel and the defendant’s silence. Miller showed little emotion during the lengthy verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Forks
Dakota
George Miller
Miller
Reverend Stephen H Tyng Dies at Irvington N Y
Rev Dr Stephen H Tyng died at his Irvington New York home after a long retirement. Born in 1800 in Newburyport Massachusetts he graduated Harvard College in 1817. He served as rector in St Anne's Prince Georges County Maryland St Pauls Philadelphia St Epiphany in Philadelphia and St Georges New York before resigning in 1878. He authored many works.
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Stephen H. Tyng
Irvington
N. Y
Tyng
Sunnytride
Dr. Tyng
Newburyport
Mass
Harvard College
St. Anne's Parish
Prince George's County
St. Paul's Church
Philadelphia
Church of Epiphany
New York
St. George's Church
Civil Service Probes Political Fund Solicitation Case
The Pension Office reports 100 letters sent from Philadelphia on Sept 3 seeking political contributions to the Pennsylvania Republican state committee. The Interior Department may examine whether Civil Service Act sections 11 and 12 were violated, potentially implicating officials in solicitations within government premises.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Secretary of the Interior
J. C. Black
Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
St. Cloud Hotel
Parlor C
Thomas W. Cooper
State Committee
Pennsylvania
Congress
Thomas V.coover
J. Frank Miller
Pension Office
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C
Land Office
Jenks
Civil Service Commission
Interior Department
Pennsylvania State Committee
Civil Service Act
United States
King of the Dudes E Berry Wall Facing Financial Embarrassment
The New York club scene figure E Berry Wall, known as the King of the Dudes, was revealed to be financially strapped after a $25 check went to protest. Wall has been in seclusion at Saratoga for a month, his horses moved to the Preakness stable, following the death of his father who left him about $300,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
E. Berry Wall
Saratoga
Preakness Stable
Notable Collector’s Wardrobe Dazzles Court
A famed figure who has dissipated wealth at a rate of one hundred thousand dollars annually since acquisition is described. He is renowned for his meticulous dress, maintaining ample attire with at least one suit for every day of the year and a wardrobe of at least five hundred pairs of trousers.
Newark Machine Company Sues Gaar Scott in Clover Huller Patent Battle
The Newark Machine Company of Columbus Ohio files suit in U S Courts against Gaar Scott Co of Richmond Indiana claiming infringement of Clover Huller patents on their Victor Clover Huller. The outcome could allow damages from users and affect all clover hullers built by Gaar Scott Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark Machine Company
Columbus
Ohio
United States
Gaar, Scott & Co
Richmond
Indiana
Prussia Expels 140 From Warsaw Amid Global Tension
A wide range of international items follow. Prussia expels 140 subjects from Warsaw. Chang Yin Huan named Chinese minister to the United States. over twenty thousand Montreal residents vaccinated in three weeks. Phelps warns English workers to seek jobs here. London Times cites Irish independence unworkable. Prince Henry of Battenberg named British navy commandant.
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Chang Yin Huan
Montreal
Phelps
London Times
Parnell
Prince Henry of
Battenburg
Beatrice
Louisville
Ark
George Crenshaw
Harry Paup
Samuel Chase Barney
Washington
Commodore Barney
Bateman & Co
Sir William George Armstrong
Elawyk
Newcastle
England
Jarrett
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Lily
Booth
Stead
Germania
Warsaw
Posen Course
Prussia
Minnesota News Highlights Local Demeules Death and Rail Notes
Minnesota items note the death of Louis Demeules of St Paul born February 18 1832 in St Philippe Canada plus a roundup of other regional news. Reports include stolen property recovered in New York city, state cash on hand over six hundred thousand dollars, a gold watch presentation to James Smith Jr., and vivid notes on St Paul Minneapolis growth and infrastructure. Shipping delays and railroad developments are described along with frost impacts, harvest yields in Dakotas and Minnesota towns, and local court and crime items.
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Louis Demeules
St. Paul
Mr. Demeules
St. Philippe
Huntington
Canada
W. R. Merriam
New York
State Treasury
Pittsburg
Minneapolis
Chicago
St. Louis
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Marie van Zaner
Clara Moxais
George Eliot
London Daily
Metropolitan Police
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Westminster Bridge Road
C. St. Spurgeon
Great Tabernacle
Henry A. Frank
Hamilton College
Amherst College
Greece
Julius Vogeel
New England
Tare Duke of
Connaught
India
Duke of Richmond and
Gordon
Board of Trade
Mussulman
Interior
Egal Ment
Republican Campaign Committee
Charles Williams
Chattanooga
Polk Mitchell
Brookings, Cak
Henderson
Samuel Morley
Bridgeport
Marion County
Ind
Spain
de Courcy
Annam
Prudhomme
Pintenh
Victoria
Highlands
J. Jones
Lilandisilio-Gogo
Michael Davitt
Dublin
Stephens
London Telegraph
America
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Wellington
Sir Edward Pakenham
Amsterdam
Victor Hugo
Nord Deutsche Zeitung
Bismarvk
Madrid
the Zeitung
Germany
Caroliné
Arragon
Pelew Islands
Yap
Babelthrop
Ponapia
Caroline Group
Alfonso
Austria
F. A. Fitzpatrick
Pitt Bartlett
J. F. Wright
Ilinois
F. A. Crittenden
J. Bross
Associated Press
Warner
Gov. Bross
Committee On Resolutions
General News
Riel
Winnipeg
Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Good
Willis
Kentucky
Malboro
Joe Howard
Henry Clews
Dubnuque
Ilinois Central
W. H. Welch
Dubuque
Dawes
Dakota Farmers’ Alliance
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Carlisle
Newport
Bushnell
Huron
Chase
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Montague
Carthage
Bowden Square Baptist Church
Frederick J. Taber
Prudential Committee
Mr. Downs
Taber
Poe and Colfax
Wash
Fayettsville
River Road
Alexander Mitchell
Mitchell
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
President Mitchell
Lake City
Lake Pepin
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Eustis
Louisiana
Congressman Hatch
Gen. Carr
Galesburg
Ill
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Mississippi River
Falls of St. Anthony
Gulf of Mexico
Ohio River
Cairo
Falls of
St. Anthony
Gulf
War Department
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Missouri River
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Dudes
Joseph Dubue
Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench
Lord Jesus Christ
Rose Cleveland
White House
Vassar
Miss
Manitoba Court
Dominion Supreme Court
Privy Council
Ohio Democratic State Executive Committee
Hoadly
Prohibition Committee
A. B. Leonard
Cascade Mountains
Northern Pacific
M. B. L. Hill
Uruguay
Glenwood Springs
George W. Fuller
Lige Craven
Fuller
Rison
McLean
Pall Mall Gaette
Switzerland
Eliza Armstrong
O St. Peter
Ecumenica Council
Vatican
Emory Storrs
Mackin
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Hamilton & Dayton
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McLaughlin
Woodford
Dwyers
Customs House
Port Townsend
British Columbia
Vassar College
Samuel W. Duncan
John J. Eakin
Supreme Court of
Arkansas
John W. Porter
Portsmouth
Enterprise
J.D. Brady
Petersburg
R. McMillen & Co
Mann
Milwaukee Probate Court
Charles M. Cottrill
J. P. C. Cottrill
United States Circuit Court
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Wallace
Dorman B. Eaton
Civil Service Commissioners
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Howard
National Park
Henry and
Albert Keep
Charles 8. Hill
State Department
Col. Gregory
Davis
Sheridan
Fourteenth Infantry
Washington Territory
Connor
Clemens
Empress Augusta
Berlin
Pendleton
H. H. Winchester
Sheldon
John T. Morgan, Jr
Senator Morgan
Alabama
Della Stella
Bridget McCosh
President McCosh
Princeton College
Couch
Norwich
Col. N. Gussett
Corpus Christi
Tex
Edgar Maines
Knoxville
Tenn
R. L. Jones
Lake Providence
Chester
United States Court
Shreveport
George Curry
Redbank
Susie Westcott
Miss Wescott
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Council Bluffs
Creston
Des Moines
Fort Madison
Iowa City
Keokuk
Lyons
Marshalltown
Muscatine
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Sioux City
Appleton
Beloit
Eau Claire
Fond du Lac
Green Bay
Janesville
Kenosha
Madison
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Neenah
Oconto
Oshkosh
Portage
Racine
Sheboygan
Stevens Point
Wausau
Faribault
Stillwater
Miss Mary Anderson
Rosalind
Stratford-on-Avon
Telegraph
Miss Anderson
the Times
Covent Garden
Her Majesty’s Theater
Minnesota State News
Hastings
Elwood
Wilson
Jersey City
Toledo
Michael Welch
Edward Keeler
Hokah
St. Paul Union Depot
Union Pacific
Dak
Laverne, Minn
Gardner, Dak
Will Franklin
Dodge Center
Brainard
Chicago News
Commodore Kittson
Patrick Dannehey
H. F. Barker
Isanti County
Hahn
Town Board of Review
Board of Review
County Board
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Files
Louis Tice
Stickney
Minnesota & Northwestern
Central of Iowa
J. H. Huntington
Sixth Avenue Hotel
Grand Jury
Samuel Fosgate
Charles Fosgate
Baraboo
Mr.s. Fosgate
John Waisenen
Farley
Tower
Charles Cordt
Meuwissen
Cologne
Fair Haven
Clearwater
S. F. Anger
Kimball
Wadena
Howard Lake
Murdock
Harry Humble
Pipestone
Gertie Green
John Winkelmann
New Ulm
Winkelmann
Charles
B. G. Reynolds
Faribault County
Halu
Witoka Dairy Company
J. W. Colwel
Providence
R. L
Shattuck School
George H. Bliss
Gordon E. Cole
L. F. Cole
Cheshire
Cole
Albert Lea
Henry Ogden
Patrick Flynn
Constable Knueple
Gibbon
Knueple
Flynn
Maggie Spillane
Waseca
Gilbert Hall
St. Cloud
David T. Calhoun
C. F. McDonald
John Filbert
le Sueur
Louis de Meules
Bierman
W. F. Phelps
W. H. Laird
Charles Horton
H. Choate
C. H. Berry
Gen. Baker
Gen. Hitchcock, Jr
Syracuse
Arthur R. Weare
Weare
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