Elopement Sensation In Kansas Court Circle
Wichita reports a judge Hon. C. Ruggles eloped with his stenographer Mattie Steijmetz. Scandal centers on a Salt Lake escape, a potential divorce, and a guarded family stance. Brother tracks sister, vows punishment for debauchery. The judge left North Topeka amid rumors of property loss and secrecy.
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Wichita
C. Ruggles
Mattie Steijmetz
Cleveland
Mattie
Salt Lake
Dauchter
Topeka
Butias
Kansas News Briefs Highlight Gas Plant Plans and Local Happenings
Reports describe Hutchinson men securing a new $1,000,000 Burdette Loomis gas plant to rival natural gas using coal gas. Westinghouse favors this gas, while Kansas City official appointments, prohibition liquor in Chanute, and western Kansas settlement views are noted. A Salina gathering of Travelers’ Protective Association is planned in May. A Peace City farmer reportedly found gold while digging a well, awaiting assayer results and local excitement grows.
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Hutchinson
Sam
Westinghouse Air Brake
Pittsburg
E. Bissell
Kansas City
Kas
Topeka Insane Asylum
George Gilmore
Chanute
Burlington ’ Republican
Kansas
Travelers’ Protective Association of Kansas
Salina
Harris
Scott
Lawrence
Athlong
Leavenworth
Albert Folsom
Joshua
Laiwrence
Folsom
LeRoy
Keon
Removal of County Records Sparks Walnut City Turmoil
In Rush county IndGrasse and about 200 residents storm Walnut City Saturday at 5 pm. They seize county records and fixtures from the building, threaten to burn the town, then load everything onto wagons and depart toward GaGrosso amid two hundred gunshots. Supreme Court order moved records from La Crosse to Walnut City nine years into a lasting county dispute. arrests expected tomorrow by the supreme court marshal.
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Topeka
IndGrasse
Rush County
Walnut
Wnder
Walnut City
Nona
Tavk
GaGrosso
Fisht
Supreme Court
la- Crosse
City and water company brace for inevitable lawsuit
A dispute in Atchison centers on water service payments. The city offered 2500 to settle a 7500 claim, accusing the water company of failing to meet contract terms. Meanwhile local incidents recount thefts, brawls, and small-town misadventures across Kansas.
Versatile figures cited in 19th century notes and notices
The piece catalogs diverse historical tidbits and opinions including Barnum mulling a Republican run, Oliver Wendell Holmes adopting a typewriter, Longstreet’s grape farm near Gainesville, A B Johnson writing a life of Senator Sunter, Parnell in Ireland, James Russell Lowell’s birthday remark, Postmaster General James as bank president, Maine delegation lunches, and Rear Admiral Heneage’s dress and etiquette prescriptions aboard the British Pacific station.
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P. T. ‘Barnum
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
General Longstreet
Gainesville
Gay
W A. B. Johnson
Sunter
Parnell
Ireland
England
James Russell Lowell
Washington
Tix
James
New York City
S-Capital
Maine
Congress
J'rye
Congressman Reed
Heneage
Pacific
Joseph Porter
Regulation of U P Freights Under Nevada? Nebraskas Stand
Washington reports on Judge Dundy's decision affecting the right of the Nebraska state board of commissioners to regulate Union Pacific freight rates. Sen Paddock and Sen Manderson weigh in, urging final settlement by court or Congress to bring the road under state regulation.
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U. P
Washington
West
Wlizzard
Paddock
State Board of Dommissioners
Union
Pacific
Nebraska
Manderson
Dundy
Union -Pacific
State Board
Congress
Commission
War offices order half mast in honor of late Emperor
London dispatch reports the war office directing principal military garrisons at home and abroad to half mast and fire ninety one minute pins to noon as a mark of respect for the late Emperor William. Naval stations including the Tower of Lyndon Edinburgh Castle Plymouth and Dover receive parallel orders.
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London
War Office
William
Lyndon
Edinburgh Castle
Plymouth
Dover
Beck Defends Silver Bill Amid Sherman Demonetization Debate
The senate debated Beck's bill to retire small denomination notes and issue coin certificates in place of gold. Sherman countered that the demonetization of silver was openly discussed and not hidden, defending the 1873 act and praising the resumption effort and coin-based interest payments for national credit.
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Senate
Beck
United States
Sherman
Congress
House
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Senate Committee On Finance
the Treasury
Alr
Eek
Pacific Coast
United States Honda
Bald Knobbers Sentenced in Missouri Court
Dispatch reports in St Louis that ten Bald Knobbers from Douglas County Missouri were found guilty in Jefferson City federal court of Kippixe and driving homesteaders from government land. Judge Kuckel sentenced them to two to six months in the penitentiary with costs. Three others who attempted to intimidate a government witness received sixty days in jail.
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Bald Knobbers
Congress Debates Omnibus War Claim Bill And Senate Edits
The House debates an omnibus war claims bill including a $20,000 amendment for the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and Virginia high school, passing the bill 105 to 100 after a prior 130 to 95 vote in committee. The Senate discusses the Union Pacific debt, river and harbor funding, and public debt liquidation, with congress considering tariffs and trusts and approving pensions and retirement measures.
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Wasuixatox
Hovusi
House
Protestant Episcopal ,Theological Seminary
High School of Virginia
Yeas
Fort Sumpter
Huntington
Colquitt
Senate
Xeno
Cleveland
Dolph
Pacific Coast
Washineton
Hovusa
Central Pacific Railway Company
Committee On Agriculture
Hayes
Beck
United States
Washneton
Houtss
Dakota
Montana
Washington
New
Chicago
United Peoria
Allison
Committee On Finance
Post Office
Houst— O’ferrall
Committee On ‘Elections
Illinois
Worthington
Post
Court of Claims
Hannah J. Joes
Emanuel Jones
Mobile
Penton
Tlinois River
Clinton and
Muscatine
Missouri River
Forest City
Oak
North Dakota
Frye
Requestitt Fishery “Commission
Death of Union Pacific official Thomas J. Potter
Washington dispatch reports Thomas J. Potter longtime Union Pacific general manager died at Welcker's hotel after a prolonged illness. He had arrived two weeks earlier seeking rest, a Florida trip planned after recovery, and was surrounded by family at death. Born August 16 1840 in Carroll County Ohio he rose from Burlington & Missouri lineman to Union Pacific leader through key postings in Iowa and Creston, achieving major rail expansions and managerial reforms. His passing follows months of declining health and fatigue from relentless work. He and his family traveled by private car to Burlington after services in Omaha.
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Washington
Thomas J. Potter
Union Pacific Railway
Welcker
Ransom
Florida
Mr. Potter
Potter
Burlington
Omaha Herald
Eons
J. Potter
Carroll County
Ohio
John
Nancy Potter
Burlington & Missouri Railroad Company
Council Bluffs
Ottumwa
Albion
Monroé County
United States
Albia
Perkins
Creston
Iowa
Chicago
Burlington& Quincy
St. Louis
Xeokik & Northwestern
Bee” Line
Union Pacific
Mai
King’s Journey to Leipzig and Berlin Arrival
A correspondent recalls the German imperial journey to Leipzig for the coronation ceremony of Frederick III and the subsequent entry to Berlin. Prince Bismarck and associates accompany the emperor amid snowbound delays and public cheers. The Kaiserin Victoria is noted with shared title rarity as mother and daughter. The emperor’s health and the heir’s potential funeral attendance are also discussed.
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Berlin
Leipsic
Frederick
Bismarck
Herbert
Charlotteburg
Victoria
Kaiserine
Prince William
Nicht
Sirs Morrell Mackenzie
Irate father doctor wounds mistress with vitriol
A Springfield Missouri pension examiner Dr George M Cox attacked Effie Ellis, Fanton Cox's mistress, with a bottle of vitriol breaking it and burning her eyes and face. The intoxicated affair followed attempts to separate Fanton Cox and Effie last summer, leading to a damaging spree and ruin. Effie lies near death as police free her from the furious physician.
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Sprinfield
George M. Cox
United States
Springfield
Effie Ellis
Fanton Cox
Fenton -Cox
met_ Effis
Wisconsin
Effie
Jandy
St. Louis
Wmt
The Titaning of Spain and Epilepsy in Habsburg Lines
A fragment notes an hereditary epilepsy in the maternal Hapsburg line linked to a figure described as The Titaning of Spain, suggesting a sensational claim about royal genetics and decline.
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Spain
Hapsburgs
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