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Telegrams From 19th Century News Briefs Across Regions
Telegrams report varied events including emplacing bombs against the Czar and Czarina, a Plymouth sheriff executing Samuel F. Bessie for a 1885 murder, shootings near Stan ton over a woman, a man found frozen in Indiana, and odd dairy byproducts from an Ohio oil well. Also noted are Manning's near resignation, Beecher memorials, Indiana politics, 1887 baseball league lineup, James B. Eads death, Indian revival, crop yield figures, and Beecher funeral decor vs mourning symbols in Plymouth.
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Rusaiz
Plymouth
Mans
Samuel F. Bessie
Richard M. Lawton
Stanton
Isaac Heffelinger
Huntertown
Ind
Ohio
Manning
Detroit
British Columbia
Ontario
Cleveland
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Indianapolis
James B. Eads
St. Louis
Mississippi
Nassau
N. P
Indiaea
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