Cherokee Strip sale move gains momentum among Cherokees
Cherokee Commissioners offer 1.25 per acre to buy the Strip and seek to drop the 1866 treaty term. They propose delaying validity until payment and aim to secure approval through a vote with sale conditions. Cherokees consider concessions while delaying negotiations and seek written talks with Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanlequan
I. T
Cherokee Commission
Cherokee Council
Congress
Fairchild
United States
Washington
Harrison
Secretary of the Interior
Bushyhead
Duncan
Cherokee Committee
Shelton
Telephone
Mayes
Supreme Court
Sacramento River flood reports from California
Reports from north of Sacramento describe river water rising over twenty six feet above town water mark at Colusa. The levee broke below Colusa flooding thousands of acres while hundreds patrol levees for danger. Washouts and small bridges washed away near Marysville. Orrville Red Bluff and Oregon trains detained at Marysville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
Sacramento River
Colusa
Marysville
Orrville
Red Bluff
Oregon
Miss Sickles Eloped to Marry in Plains
In Plains New York on December 12 Thomas Dinham and Miss Alta Sickles wed secretly with Rev F B Van Rreeck at Grace Episcopal Church The bride daughter of General Daniel Sickles and granddaughter of George Sickles aged eighteen recently graduated in Montreal Dinham about twenty five works as a bartender in New Rochelle The event is an elopement
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Sickles
Plains
N. Y
Thomas Dinham
Alta Sickles
F. B. van Rreeck
Grace Episcopal Church
Daniel Sickles
George E. Sickles
New Rochelle
Montreal
Dinham
Hog Cholera Spreads in Kansas Counties
A Kansas City observer reports hog cholera has appeared alarmingly in Wyandotte Shawnee Linn Anderson Douglas and Franklin Counties. He warns vast hog losses unless authorities check the plague at once. Farmers in Shawnee and Wyandotte are organizing concerted action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Union Depot
Kansas
Wyandotte
Shawnee
Linn
Anderson
Douglas
Franklin
Stanley to visit Kaiser in Berlin after London trip
London reports Henry M. Stanley will visit Kaiser Wilhelm II in Berlin by the Emperor's invitation, immediately following his London journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
the Kaiser
London
The
Standard
Henry M. Stanley
Kaiser
Berlin
Emin Pasha Improves but Needs Constant Nursing Care
Emin Pasha is pronounced to be much better and in excellent spirits by his physicians. He requires constant attention from his nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emin Pasha
Shilohs Cure Promoted For Croup and Bronchitis
An old advertisement touts Shilohs Cure as immediate relief for croup whooping cough and bronchitis, offered for sale by N. J Bwetland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
N. J Bwetland
Stockholders Rally Against Rock Island Foreclosure Fight
R W Griggs, chairman of the municipal stockholders alliance, calls a Topeka meeting to choose counsel and plan a cross bill to defend Chicago Kansas & Nebraska interests. He urges united action and warns of alleged frauds to preserve stockholder rights amid foreclosure claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toreka
Kan
R. W. Griggs
Municipal
Griggs
Kansas
Chicago, Kansas
Nebraska
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway
Washington's Centennial Inauguration Commemoration at Capitol
The U S two houses held a joint meeting in Washington to mark the centennial anniversary of the first President's inauguration. Vice President Morton opened the session and Chief Justice Fuller delivered an oration lauding Washington's military and political leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
Washington
Philadelphia
Hall of Representatives
Pan-American Congress
Morton
Melville W. Fuller
Supreme Court
Cannon Salute Accident Falls Fire Injuries in Columbia
In Colum bia South Carolina J W Fouche suffered severe burns and possible loss of sight after a cannon used for a salute exploded injuring him and B W Blanten who had a broken hand arm lacerations and other wounds Several others sustained minor injuries The cannon had been salvaged from the Congaree River years ago when Shermans army approached the city
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CoLtumpia
S. C
J. W. Fouche
B. W. Blanten
South Carolina
Sherman
Shiloh’s Catarri Remedy for Catarrh Sold Here
Cure claimed for catarrh and bad breath with Shiloh’s Catarri Remedy priced at 50 cents. Injector tree offered. Sold by N. J. Swetland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
N. J. Swetland
Pocket book found with five dollars in silver and receipt
Finder of a lost pocket book containing $5.50 in silver and a registered letter receipt is offered a liberal reward for returning it to this office.
Kettle Jack's Gang LYNCHED Eleven in Wyoming
A Cheyenne dispatch reports Johnson County settlers formed a force to tackle Kettle Jack and his outlaws. Eleven gang members were hanged after a three day pursuit, four others killed or wounded, and the rest driven from the Big Horn basin. The group had terrorized settlers, raided cattle, and forced a planned monarchy under Jack, who earned his name from an Indiana duel with a camp kettle shield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Big Horn Basin
Johnson County
Kettle Jack
Utah
Montana
Benjamin
Jack
Indiana
Irregularities in Milwaukee School Board Secretary Accounts
Milwaukee reports show Schattenberg, late school board secretary, diverted tuition from non resident pupils for four years. Comptroller records indicate about $700 in 1882 and $900 in 1886 paid to him, with an estimated current due near $1,000. A letter to his wife dated four years earlier reveals contemplation of suicide to avoid crime consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee School Board
Milwaukee
Wis
Schattenberg
Shhattenberg
Meeting at Olathe to Aid the Distressed in Morton County
A mass meeting at the Morton County courthouse in Olathe Kansas heard Thom as G Shillington Richfield Morton County speak on behalf of destitute families. He carried credentials from the county clerk and Governor Humphrey praising him as trustworthy and soliciting aid from Eastern Kansas. The meeting formed a relief committee to visit each township and solicits funds and several car loads of corn will be shipped soon unless orders interfere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olathe
Morton County
Kan
Court House
Thomas G. Shillington
Richfield
Kansas
L. A. Humphrey
Chicago & Alton Plans Rate Cut on Cattle
The Chicago and Alton Railroad announced a cattle rate reduction to 18 cents per 100 pounds from Kansas City to Chicago effective December 21. It also signaled a further cut to 12 1/2 cents at the next meeting, citing covert rate reductions by rivals including Santa Fe and the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul. New York sheep breeders favor ending internal taxation over tariff cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGco
Western Freight Association
Chicago & Alton
Kansas City
Chicago
lZse
Chicago& Alton
Santa Fe
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sleepless Nights Cure Offered by Swetland
An advertisement promotes Shi loh’s Cure as a remedy for coughs and sleepless nights, available for sale by N. J. Swetland.
Dr Gilman’s ConosHoF Tax Bottle Promises Cough Cure
Go to Beasley and Williams druggists in Chillicothe Missouri to obtain a bottle of Dr Gilman’s ConosHoF Tax advertised as a remedy for coughs. The ad claims children cry for it and promotes rapid relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beasley & Williams
Chillicothe
Dr. Gilman
Conosh
Morning Constitution Price Highlight
The notice emphasizes a monthly subscription rate of 50 cents for the Morning Constitution. It urges readers to subscribe and mentions ongoing value for daily news access and periodical updates.
Johnstown Cursed Verdict on Opera House Disaster
Johnstown Pa December verdict finds death by suffocation from a panic sparked by a false fire alarm at Parke Opera House. Insufficient exits and faulty design deemed unsafe for public gatherings. Public indifference and prior flood context noted as shaping reactions.
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Johnstown
Parke
Opera House
Parke Opera House
HW. L. Chapman
Methodist Episcopal Church
South Fork
Indiana
Cambridge City
Ind
John Vicker
Cyrus Coffin
Nominations Sent In by President in December
The President sent nominations to the Senate including Cyrus J. Fry of Dakota as marshal for South Dakota. Also listed are recess nominations such as Joel B. Erhart of New York as collector of customs for the New York district, David W. McClung of Ohio as collector of internal revenue for the First district, and John D. Sloan of Minnesota as supervising inspector of steam vessels for the Fifth district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Cyrus J. Fry
Dakota
United States
District of
South Dakota
Joel B. Erhart
New York
District of New York
David W. McClung
Ohio
Internal Revenue
John D. Sloan
Minnesota
Notorious Opium Gang Captured on Pacific Coast
In Tacoma Washington on December 12 a U S marshal arrested Bill Easton alias Black Bill Jack Powers the gang chief and a Northern Pacific conductor as confederate securing opium valued at 2200. The seizure ends years of local smugglers influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacomma
Wash
Puget Sound
Bill Easton
Black Bill
Jack Powers
Northern Pacific
United States
Scientist Claims Method To Reduce Spirits To Powder
A scientist says a process can condense a barrel of spirits into six ounces of powder. If practical, a man could carry a four weeks’ drunk in his vest pocket.
Shilohs Cure Promised For Hacking Cough
That hacking cough can be quickly cured by Shilohs cure. We guarantee it. For sale by N. J. Shilohs Cure offered with a guarantee and sold by a local merchant in street advertising style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
N. J. Swetland
Store Moves East Side January 1
We plan to relocate to the northeast corner of the square around January 1. Visit our store to see the clothing and furnishing goods marked down to ensure their sale. Stephens & SIPPLE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens & Sipple
Ex Consul Sewell to be reappointed at Apia Samoa
Telegraphic items report ex consul Sewell slated for reappointment as consul at Apia Samoa. other brief notes include a candy poisoner proven insane, a 92 year old man’s death on his Greene County farm, and various global and domestic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewell
Apia
Samoa
McDonald
St. Johns
N. B
Wesley Waldon
Greene County
Bombay Dispatches
Madras Presidency
Johnstown
Rid
de Janeiro
Express of
Brazil
Kailas
Mille Lac
Missouri State Grange
Boonville
Lesueur
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Louis Wilkowskie
Starke
Fla
Albert Thrasher
Gainesville
J.R. Kendrick
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Vassar College
Union Depot
Moberly
Woburn
Mass
Catherine Green
Martin Glenn
Manhattan
Kan
Sheriff McCord
Kansas
Daniel Woolf
St. Louis
Springfield
Norwood
First National Bank
Abilene
Davis Atwood
State Journal
Madison
Wis
Congress
National Association of Trotting
New York
H. A. T. Mali
L. Stanford
California
J. W. Baker, Jr
Ohio
L. D. Packer
Money and Markets Wide U S price and grain notes
New York money on call ranges and sterling rates noted across cities. Chicago and St Louis report demand for money steady, grains and livestock values listed for Kansas City St Louis Chicago and New York markets with futures and cash prices for wheat corn oats rye pork lard butter and cattle.
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New York
E. Sterling Exchange
Chicago
New York Exchange
Boston
St. Louis—Exchange
Kansas City
St. Lovuis
Elgin
Western Gairy
Creamery
Sugar Frauds Rock Minneola Sugar Works Plant
Meade dispatches reveal major frauds at the Minneola sugar works involving imported barrel sugar and a deception of bond voters. Secretary Mohler plans an investigation after meetings with the governor and state officials.
Thayer credits Shiloh’s Consumption Cure for life
The Bourbon Indiana preacher Rev Geo H Thayer says he and his wife owe their lives to Shilohs Consumption Cure and notes the remedy is for sale by N J Swetland. In Boonville the State Grange passed resolutions praising Secretary of State Lesueur for his handling of trusts and monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo H. Thayer
Bourbon, Ind
Shiloh
N. J. Swetland
Boonville
Lesueur
Proposal to raise Supreme Court size from nine to eleven
Washington notes a proposal to expand the United States Supreme Court from nine to eleven justices. Discussion by Senate Judiciary Committee members may lead to a bill reorganizing the court to add three new members due to increased state-court business. If enacted, Miller Field and Bradley are expected to retire, allowing the president to appoint five new judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Congress
Miller
Miller, Field and Bradley
Fires, floods and fighting mark Brazil dispatches
World dispatches from Marahama Brazil report November 18 civil conflict left twenty citizens dead in a clash between Imperialists and Republicans. In California a Perry’s Mill cloud burst washed five houses away at Santa Cruz, with Joseph E. Easton drowned and several narrow escapes. Major Wissmann of East Africa is sick with asthma. California forest fires this year cost an estimated 25 million dollars in timber loss, blamed on sheep herders amid mounting agricultural damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
New York
the World
Maraham
Santa Cruz
Cal
Perry
Joseph E. Easton
California
Glove stock offered at steady prices before January 1
A shop advertises selected gloves including Castor buck Mochabuck Kid undressed and Jersey knitt Scotch wools. Prices are set to avoid moving stock to the east side around January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Stephens & Sipple
Shoes and slippers offered for Christmas gifts in a general store
The ad promotes a wide range of footwear as Christmas gifts including slippers boots and shoes with emphasis on the Philadelphia toe style priced around 3.50. It highlights women's men and children's footwear, patent leather pumps over gaiters and crocheted slippers with a focus on comfort, elegance and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thig Brother’s
Jack Frost
Livingstons Pioneer Ben Hager Remembered In Jackson Township
A Washington correspondence profile honors Benjamin Hager born 1808 in Tennessee who settled in Livingston county Missouri in 1835. The long lived resident of Jackson township is portrayed as a trusted Baptist, Jacksonian Democrat, Union supporter, and frontier chronicler of early county life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston County
Chillicothe
Benjamin Hager
Jackson Township
Ben
Jefferson County
Tennessee
Howard County
Saline County
Panther
Uncle Ben
T *Tetar
Grand River
Missouri
St- Louis
Grayham’s
Grand River Valley
Union
Epion
Judge Broaddus' son improves after diphtheria ordeal
The judge's young son suffering from a severe diphtheria case is reported to be on the mend. A local notice mentions fresh white fish salmon and trout from H. Kase on ice weekly. The Metropolis cigar is praised as the best five-cent brand by Marsh's. The Lee Frazer case in Sampsel township was continued in Squire Samuels' court yesterday afternoon.
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Broaddus
H. Kase’s
Lee Frazer
Sampsel Township
Squire Samuels
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Morning Constitution
Constitution Steam Printing CO
Stockholders’ Convention
Rock Island
Kettle Jack's
Northwestern
William Winter
L. A. Carr
T. W. Case
Herman Boetcher
Money and Markets
Minneola
Mohler
Toreko
State Board of Agriculture
Meade
Minneola Sugar Works
Minneolla
American Sugar Company
Ich
O. B. Hamilton
Clark County
Adamson
W. G. Emerson
R. M. Painter
A. T. Bodle
Messrs
Emerson
Painter
Medicine Lodge
Edred
Mr. Mobler
Board of Agriculture
Stanton
Haskell
Tt. A. McNeal
Eldred
Colonel Eldred
Supreme Court Change
Wissmann
Zanzibar
Major Wissmann
East Africa
America
Castor
Buck
Mochabuck
Kid
Ben Harghave
Marsh’s
South Side
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