Kelly Family Murders Reported From No Man's Land
Gregg representing a St Louis house arrived in the city with details of the Kelly family murders. He recalls stopping at the Kelly house for meals and mentions a barn near the home. Bodies were found in a cellar beneath the house and near the barn including a woman and two others, with a man believed to be J T Taylor among them. The Kellys have not been heard from since the discoveries.
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Gregg
St. Louis
Randolph
Chicago
J. T. Taylor
Kelly
Old Mexico
General State Notes and Local Trials In Central Kansas
James Hallowan sues the Commonwealth and Journal of Topeka for 10000 each over alleged connections to Santa Fe and Union Pacific robberies. Chilson murder retrial ends in not guilty verdict after two weeks in Saline County district court. Colonel Blant seeks relief from Fort Leavenworth duty due to ill health. John Thompson vanishes from Tonganoxie amid insanity speculation. Henry S. Kirkpatrick arrested in Wichita for forgery, linked to checks signed by his father and in-law A Reynolds. Burglary and petty thefts rise in Wichita amid a Dowd dispatch report of an assault near Cawker City.
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Galina
Chil’ Son
Head
Kansas
Saline County
Blant
National Military Prison
Fort Leavenworth
Roberts
Leavensworth
John Thompson
Tonganoxie
Henry
Kirkpatrick
Wichita
Well Knofyn
Vast Kansas and Texas Notices From 1880s Chronicle
Reports detail a fatal cow attack injuring a woman named Hollis and a cow killed after terrifying the neighborhood. Burglars steal jewelry from Hon. John Seaton’s residence. Atchison stock transfers to Rapid Transit on January 1, 1888. Texan embezzler Tilden arrested after armed resistance. Public instruction shows school metrics: 8,164 districts, 521,091 pupils, 10,501 teachers, and bonds issued. Wichita dispatch counters Western Kansas distress claims, noting two deaths in Kansas and Nebraska and describing poverty but not starvation. An unknown man is killed near Mervine on the Memphis express. A man identified as J G Blake travels with several tickets. Leavenworth district court faces 189 cases over three months.
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Hollis
John Seaton
Fade
Atchison Street Railway Company
Denison
Tex
Mal Tilden
Tucker
Tenvenworth
Tilden
Malone
Shallcross
Kickapoo
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Avera
Charles Pemberton
Topeka
Wichita
Kansas
Nebraska
Merviem
Memphis Express
Ft. Scott & Gulf Road
Los Angeles
Chicero
Salina
Kansas City
Union Pacific’ Railroad
J. G. Blake
Hat
Leavenworth
Utah polygamy act creates refuge for women and children
Washington reports the forty-ninth congress passed an act to suppress polygamy in Utah. It allocates 40000 for an industrial home at Salt Lake to shelter women and children abandoned by abolition of polygamy or by leaving the Mormon church. The home is managed by a board including the governor US district attorney and Supreme Court judges of the territory. The first annual report of the act has been received by the president.
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Utah
Washington
Balt” Lake
United States District
Supreme ‘Court of the Territory
Sterate
den ‘Association of Utah
Railroad Discrimination Alleged by Oakland Farmers Union
Farmers' union of Oakland Burt county Nebraska petitions the Board of Transportation against Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul line for denying car supply and elevator access. They report 1000 bushels of corn redirected to rivals and seek mandatory car provision for grain shipment. Also reports bogus Nebraskan drafts causing losses in Pennsylvania.
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Lancoln
Farmera’ Union
Oakland
Burt County, & Corporation
Dart
of Transportation
Chicago
H. S. Jaynes
Said, Railway Company
Nebraska
Aid Railway Company
Farmers’ Union
Rioting Back-Pay Strike Ties Hinsdale Granite Works
The Pioneer Press reports 75 to 100 Minnesota granite workers at Hinsdale strike for back pay. Telegraph operator James Lester says rioters seized the Hinsdale telegraph office and demand the safe’s money, with less than 25 dollars inside. Deputy Sheriff Free leads twenty men to quell the riot. workers are described as Hungarians and Bohemians and reportedly paid to drink.
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St. Pavy
Minn
Pioneer Press
Duluth
Minnesota Granite Works
Hinsdale
James Lester
Tower
Bullet in his brain Boulder man found dead
R H Freeman a well known book keeper and free man was found dead with a bullet hole in the right ear the morning of the 29th. He had spent the previous day in liquor and drove his wife and children from the house after an argument. The revolver lay beside him and the wound appears self inflicted.
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Boulder
Col
R. H.’ Freeman
double murder suicide in arkansas wife killed two men
In St Frances Arkansas a wealthy planter William Hertig forbade his wife from seeing Mathewson. Mathewson invited the wife on a drive and Herzig shot and killed Mathewson. He forced the wife to drive to Mathewson’s house with the body, returned to find their home ablaze and was shot and killed by her. Herzig then fled.
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St. Frances
Ark
William Hertig
William ‘Matthewson
Mathewson
Ferrier
Herzig
Matthewson
Herrig
Blizzard Delays Trains as Iowan Travelers Parade in Milwaukee
A brisk blizzard delayed trains across Milwaukee and the region as the Travelers Protective Association parade, led by the city council and the Town State Guard, marked a two mile procession with 309 on the post and hundreds more marching. Milwaukee held a public reception and a Turner hall banquet with over 1,000 invitations accepted.
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Orea
Great
Severn
Iowan Traveling Men’s ‘ Protective’ Association
City. Council and Company A
Davenport
Opera House
Turner Hall
Milwaukee
Wis
Mercury
Htterans
Lake Superior
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Dakota
Brainard
Lackosse
Mississippi
DuBoque
Dia
Illinois Central
Waterloo
Sioux City
Milwaukee & St. Paul
McGregor
Winona
Osixosh
Springfield
Murder at Craynton Crumbles Details of Troop Ninth Cavalry Death
The body of G. W. Stance first sergeant of Troop F, Ninth Cavalry, was found between Craynton and another town. A single bullet wound through the head indicates a fatal result. saddle- blanket and revolver found near the scene. Police investigate motive as details remain unclear.
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Robinson
Furr Robinson
Ninth Cavalry
Crayntor
Marmaduke’s Missouri Governing Era and Duel Reminiscence
The text recalls Marmaduke’s term as Missouri governor beginning 1884 after his Civil War service with the Confederate Army. It notes his reputation for nerve and a 1863 duel with General Walker at thirty paces, both men killed, and mentions later disputes with a mayor leading to an amicable settlement.
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Europe
Iola Harwood
An Marmaduke
Cand Ues
E. Akuke
Marmaduke
Missouri
Jssouri
John
Tember
Eral’ Walker
Memphis
Walker
Marmaduk
Miasot
Albany resignations spark civil service reform moves
In Albany New York on December 29 officials report resignations from the Schoonmaker and others as Governor Hill appoints Daniel J Sickels James H Manning and George Well to advisory board roles. The board aims to improve civil service and rebuild, with Manning noted as son of the late Daniel Manning and General Biel and Major Treat as current commander. Deputy Marshal Frank Canning of Malmstown Kentucky is described as having been killed after a drunken resistance to arrest.
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Albany
WN. Y
Mieniher
Hul
Daniel J.sickels
James H. Manning
George Well
Cleveland
Gov' Hill
Boar
Messrs
Jay
Rich
Mannin
Daniel Mannin
the Treasury
Biel
Treatiwe
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Journal of Topeka
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Union ‘Pacific
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Has-Dee- Yo
Pennsylvania
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Haa
Beatrice
Hastings
Grand, Island
Lincoln
Neb
M. Harrison
M. M. Lewis
Marschal Frank Canning
Malmstown
Aid
Omaha
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