South Carolina Holds Second Democratic Primary Contests
In Columbia on September 9 the Democratic Party votes to decide U S senator governor and other state offices after the first primary left two candidates for each post in the runoff. Latimer and Evans vie for the Senate while Heyward and Talbert compete for governor. Von Kolnitz faces Tillman foe Grace for state senator amid Tillman opposition.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
United States
Asbury C. Latimar
John Gary Evans
Latimer
Evans
Duncan C. Heyward
W. Jasper Talbert
Heyward
Charleston
George F. von Kolnitz
von Kolnitz
Tillman
McKinley
John P. Grace
Sensation at St Louis as 18 delegates charged
Bench warrants issued for 18 former St Louis city delegates amid J K Murrell's confession of bribery linked to street railway franchises. Murrell fled to Mexico but may gain immunity for truth. Police monitor bridges and exits as arrests proceed. Murrell details payments to named individuals.
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City Connerl
St. Louis
House of Delegates
J. K. Murrell
Mexico
Grand
J. F. Murrell
Madrid Letter From Don Carlos Denounces Carlist Uprising
Don Carlos the Spanish pretender has sent a letter to a Carlist deputy sharply deprecating any attempt to rise in the interests of Carlism.
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Madrid
Don Carlos
Quiet Wyoming region after rioting in Wilkesbarre
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania reports the Wyoming region unusually quiet after Monday's rioting and bloodshed with no pickets and no crowds around washeries and mines in operation today.
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Wilkesbarre
Wyoming
Barge H. Houghton Sinks at Detroit Dock
The steam barge H. Houghton sank at its dock at the foot of Dubois street in Detroit. Two crew members drowned in their berths.
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Detroit
H. Houghton
Dubois Street
City Property Sale Offers Bargains Near Allen Academy
Property listings describe half and one quarter acre plots near Allen Academy with prices from 550 to 250, small cottages and tenant houses with wells, six room houses four blocks from Main Street, brick cisterns, and multiple lots near the schoolhouse at 100 each. Otto Boehme’s property may be sold in part or whole with easy terms.
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Main Street
Prico
Allen Academy
Bodies Found in Chicago State Street Funeral Parlor
Police, the coroner, and the city health department investigate after three bodies were found at 2709 and 2711 State street. An adult was found at 2711 with two infant remains in a wooden sawdust filled box at 2709. The undertaker claims a single body. others allege two. Excavations planned to uncover further graves in back yards.
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Chicago
State Street
Charles Johnson
William McKissock
Traeger
President Roosevelts opposition ends Deadwood to Omaha race
President Roosevelt disapproves of the proposed Deadwood South Dakota to Omaha horse race. Humane societies protest the plan and the event is abandoned. A secretary’s note from Oyster Bay quotes the president asking that the race not take place due to inability to supervise horse conditions.
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Deadwood
Roosevelt
Omaha
Humane Societies
Secre
Oyster Bay
Seth Bullock
President Roosevelt greeted by 10000 in Asheville
In Asheville North Carolina on September 9 President Roosevelt received a warm welcome from about ten thousand people gathered on courthouse square. He spoke from an improvised stand after a special train arrived at 930. The trip from Hot Springs to Asheville was uneventful with a short stop at Marshall home of Senator Pritchard where crowds gathered. He thanked the greeting audience.
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Cardus
Asheville
N. C
Roosevelt
Courthouse Square
Hot Springs
Marshall
Pritchard
Frisco Brakeman Killed In Freight Train Accident
Grant Shipley a Frisco brakeman was killed Sunday at Alton while attempting to couple a freight. He slipped and fell under the moving train.
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Vinita
I. T
Alton
Grant Shipley
Frisco
Various 1866 news items span US events and incidents
A wide collection notes a New Orleans letter reaching Pine Bluff after 36 years, an Indiana firm set to open in Europe, plentiful prairie chickens in Oklahoma, jail escapes in Kansas, Kansas City church battles saloons, Tim Sullivan freed by a mountain lion, Mrs. Rumley’s 99th birthday, a fatal kerosene kitchen fire in Colorado Springs, deaths from Fort Leavenworth scaffolding, a Fulton fire at Illinois Central shops, Alvin Texas rebuilding contracts, Daniel Waggoner’s death in Colorado Springs, Rector’s congress nomination, Roosevelt Jr party chickens joke, an electrical storm in Ravenna, Ardmore free delivery drive, and fires in Greenville Texas.
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New Orleans
Pine Bluff
Ark
Europe
Oklahoma
Fort Scott
Kas
Kansas City
Tim Sullivan
California
Sarah Rumley
Walter Q. Gresham
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Colo
Vernon
Alice Brockway
Frank Smith
John Ennis
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Fort Leavyenworth
Fulton
Illinois Central Railroad
Alvin
Tex
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Kansas
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Ladies’ Advisory Department
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Chattanooga
Tenn
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