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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1897
Page
4
Owens and Williams offer home ownership via space lending and liberal terms. The agency touts reliable farming investments, frequent excursions, and low rates for loans, real estate, and insurance.
A cluttered ad filled with real estate notes and odd phrases. A serialized tale follows Dick and Jed plotting around a frame house as Miss Peabody confronts the detective about bonds and innocence amid a web of deception.
A dialogue snippet shows a suspect asking why he is believed guilty. An interlocutor replies that all circumstances point toward him as the guilty party, with the text ending on a prompt to continue.
Detective Matt Moore captures Tom James in Kokomo amid reports of the James clan’s involvement in a Friday train mob near Galveston. Jesse James fled, Charles Buck injured, and fears rise of a rescue attempt as Tom heads to Logansport.
William McGetrick, a saloon keeper, found Isaac S. Rawlings dead in his chair after a semi intoxicated visit. The Soldier’s Home veteran had entered that afternoon, fallen asleep, and died soon after, leaving onlookers stunned as ambulance staff removed the body.
Lona Bains seventeen and Andy Beard eloped near Fennedy a week ago. A posse of about 25 armed men located them on the public highway near Olnley and shot Beard dead as Bains pleaded for mercy. Her brothers and father returned her home and flogged her. Hartsville Pike travel remains blocked due to the Haw Creek bridge outage. routes via East Columbus advised.
Olver Cousins of Middletown Ohio, with Mayor Taggart as chaperone, obtained a marriage license in Indianapolis and wed Jennie Doty at the Grand Hotel with Rector G A Carstensen presiding. The bride had just recovered from a recent illness. The couple departed for Middletown that evening, said to be radiantly happy.
Will Matthews of Cairo Illinois searches Evansville for his wife who eloped last Tuesday with stage carpenter Cope land. He says they, with three children and 800 dollars, fled Cairo and that he has bloodhounds tracing them to this city.
A veteran, semi intoxicated, died in a Marion saloon after a night out. Police and medical examiners opened an inquiry into the incident to determine cause and circumstances surrounding the death.
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