Twelve Men Cross Bismarck River During Great Flood
Pullman conductor Bo Thayer recounts a perilous trip across the Missouri at Bismarck amid a seiche and ice floes. The party of twelve battled squalls, drifting ice, freezing gear, and mountain lions before reaching safety. Elsewhere in Boston a gambling-room killing leaves two dead, and a San Francisco murder verdict ends a six-week case. Snow storms sweep the West.
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Bo Thayer
Thadé
Bismarck
Dakota
Missouri
Theyer
Jessica
Telegrams Pour In On Empire Birthday
The German Emperor received 1648 telegrams for his birthday anniversary. One thousand two hundred seven came from different parts of Germany, sixty from America and five from Canada.
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Germany
America
Canada
Boarding House Fire Claims Twelve In Bessemer Michigan
A two story wooden boarding house in Bessemer is destroyed by fire killing twelve men who were inside. Mrs Miller escaped with burns after her husband dragged two servants to safety. Coroner exonerates all, funeral attended by most townspeople.
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Frank Miller
Bessemer
Mich
New York Assembly Defeats High License Bill
Disarray in New York and Brooklyn as the Assembly halts the high license bill. Trials surface including ex Alderman Cleary’s vote sale case ending in jury deadlock. Fraud probes reach Philadelphia printers, a Stillville donation party accident harms several, and 108 year old Mrs Farsuam dies in Utica hospital.
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Middle States
New York Assembly
New York
Brooklyn
Cleary
Broadway
Tnu
Stewart
America
Meissonier
Triedland
Rosa Bonheur
Scotia
Naples
Long Island
Corxiniuts Vanxpernier
Rosa Bonkenr
Hore
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
A Court Room Duel Ends in Fatalities in Newberry
In Newberry South Carolina two lawyers Tambert Jones and George Johnson exchanged threats in a justice court. Jones fired wounding Johnson who responded with seven shots, fatally striking Jones. Johnson surrendered to Sheriff George Cromer as bullets grazed Cromer.
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Tambert Jones
George Johnson
Newberry
S. C
Jones
Johnson
Consree
George B. Cromer
National Baseball Stock and League Moves
The Athletics begin with six pitchers as Thelate League Club of Kansas City joins the Western League. The governor elect of New Hampshire gives $0 to 2 baseball teams as salaries tally in Detroit reaches $47,000 with Brouthers and Richardson at $4,000 each. Baseball salaries and prices rise. Sunday play limits and umpire rules tighten. A legal challenge questions league powers to discharge reserve and sell players.
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Athletics
Kansas City
New Hampshire
Detroits
Brouthers
Richardson
Brooxton
Louisville
St. Louis
Nashville
Savannah
Memphis
New Orleans
Pelicans
Charleston
Quakers
Mobile
Swamp-angels
American Association
Perils of the Sea and Rescue Tales Amid Ocean Storms
A schooner wreck tale from the Lisbon run describes the Scot's Egg spotted by Second Mate O'Brien and rescued men aboard a bark. A second report recounts Marcus A. Davis sailing from Fernandina to Philadelphia battling northwesters, a hurricane, and two enslaved seamen’s fates, with two men saved after brutal seas.
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Lisbon
New York Sun
Hatteras
Spencer
O'Brien
Ieeward
Steele
Scot's Bay
Peterson
Mats Peterson
Bagh
Mato Peterson
Mate Peterson
Chincoteague
Norfork
Benner
Williams
Matt Benner
Steward Sprague
Lookout O'Brien
New York
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Milledgeville’s Brick Block Town Rivalry and Cures
A Chicago Herald excerpt highlights Milledgeville Georgia as a unique town built around a single brick block housing shops and offices. It notes a rival town layout, a physician’s warning on morphine cough syrups, St Jacobs Oil relief claims, and various medical advertorials and household remedies prevalent in late 19th century journalism.
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Milledgeville
Chicrgo Herald
Make money from home with Hallett & Co Portland Maine
An old scam notice promises large money for easy home based work and coaching from Hallett & Co in Portland Maine. It claims no capital is required and earnings of 3 to 25 dollars daily for all sexes, urging readers to respond for free information, followed by an unrelated cough medicine plug for Piso's Cure.
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Cleveland
Bright
Logan
Tie
Minera
Sittig
Illinois
Soadawashepisrperfanicaenner Aidney
Warner
Tetosemmitons
Varios
Pierca
Maine
Kilmer
Isaac Thomson
Droge
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Philadelphia Inquirer
Parian Gulf
la Brea
Hallett &Co
Portland
Piso
Philadelphia
Pinkham
Lynn
Hood
Lizzy Barroun
Auburn
P.Q
Crane
Pyotrs
Shittey
Minte
N.B
Henry Ward Beecher
Aldry
Hartford Pub. CO
Startford
Kadoway
Patna
Biliona
Dane Ly
Many A. McCourt
Columbus
Kans
Janes L. Covey
Yucatan
Houston
Asinn
Pelieta
Teengsa A. Cass
Springfield
Afo
H. E. Mosney
Fontmarenet
Pierce
Eoward Newton
Warrowsmith
Uber
Isaac E. Downs, Esq
Spring Valle Rockland Co
N. Y
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Ainsworth
Ind
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Leonard Poole
Trameburg
Dorchester Co
Lfd
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Downs
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World’s Dispensary Medical Association
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