Deadwood Stage Robbery and Shootout Ends in Jail
Described as a Black Hills episode, a confrontation in Deadwood near sunset involved three young Texas rangers and local citizens. A robber fired on May, a deputy, and a horse was brought down by bullets. May returned fire, both sides exchanged shots, the assailant fled toward town, then was captured after a hill chase. two agents were arrested without resistance. The event caused chaos, with people taking shelter and windows shattered. the wounded rider likely to recover.
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Black Hills
May
Deadwood
Texas
Paying for His Charity by Leonard Grover and Ned Holmes
The Dramatic News recounts Leonard Grover and Ned Holmes strolling Union Square New York after a late supper. Grover slips silver dimes into the vest pockets of ninety sleeping beggars and one man who wakes and shouts thieves. To quiet the disruption Grover pays five dollars.
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Leonard Grover
Ned Holmes
Union Square
New York
Grover
Brave Maidstone Servant Girl Honored For Courage
Harriet Smith, a servant girl in Maidstone England, received a valuable gold watch for a brave act. A painter slipped from a ladder on a house roof while working outside the dwelling, clinging to the cornice as the ladder fell. The incident highlighted her quick bravery and presence of mind during danger.
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Harriet Smith
Maidstone
England
Harriet
Pins From Pine to Product in American Industry
Clothes-pins, though humble, support thousands of workers across New England and other states with factories in Pennsylvania Ohio and near Saratoga. Beech birch and poplar supply wood and machines form pins rapidly. New York and Boston anchor major markets with exports to England Melbourne Sydney and other regions. Prices fell about twenty five percent in the past two years as western suppliers outcompete eastern makers.
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New England
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Saratoga
N. Y
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Boston
Australia
England
Melbourne
Sydney
New Zealand
Sandwicich Islands
Automatic Horse by J H Nolan Invents Self-Propelling Locomotion
Boston Traveler reports inventor J H Nolan unveils a self propelled horse driven by rider weight. Simple mechanism promises speeds up to a mile per minute, a ten to twelve mile per hour range for a rider, with small models costing three to five dollars and larger ones fifteen to twenty dollars. An exhibition in a city hall shows a sixty pound boy steering the device at six to seven miles an hour, proving practical value.
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J. H. Nolan
Boston
Remarkable self moving globe by Benedictine monk
A Raygern monastery monk near Braun and Vienna built a self moving terrestrial globe, a ten year effort described by the Academy. The device uses twelve wheels to move a larger globe and a smaller one showing the earth’s orbit around the sun, with dial plates for days and months at the pole. The map features Liea lines telegraph lines mountains and ocean depths in clear detail.
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Raygern
Braun
Vienna
Academy
Alway End
Desperate Cossacks at Jassy Scene of Romanian Village Chaos
A Roumanian correspondent recounts near Jassy a moment when thirsty Cossacks disrupted a village. A Cossack's saber killed a vatagel and the mayor intervened with peasants to subdue him. The other Cossack fled, hiding with a pistol, while his companion was shot by court martial the same evening.
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Roumania
Jassy
Imperia Guard
Bumper
Brigham Young’s Burial Observed by Thousands
Nearly 18,000 packed the tabernacle as Brigham Young’s body lay in state. An Indian chief wept openly in ceremonial dress, wives and children gathered around the coffin, and leaders including John M Young and Daniel H Wells viewed the remains. A rosewood coffin, no inscription, held the body per Brigham’s wishes, with cotton bedding and temple robes.
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Tabernacle
Brigham Young
John M. Young
Brigham Young, Jr
Daniel H. Wells
Apostles
George W. Cannon
Brigham
Funeral procession leads to hillside cemetery after hymn
Apostle Orson Hyde dismissed the congregation after an original hymn by C. W. Penrose and the Dead March in Saul. The eight abreast procession moved east along the sidewalk, roped off from the crowd, then turned northwest at Eaglegate through the Prophet’s grounds to the cemetery on the hill above the valley.
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C. W. Penrose
Saul
Orson Hyde
Eaglegate
Battle with a Bat Invasion at Dog Prairie House
A Missouri man T J McAtee of Dog Prairie St Charles county reports a massive bat infestation at his home. He killed about 70 bats with improvised weapons the first day and 200 more the next morning. By twilight a vast swarm returned covering the front gate and siding. He and a hired man killed hundreds more until a count yielded 4103 dead bats. Survivors vanished next morning and have since haunted the premises despite efforts to deter them.
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T. J. McAtee
Dog Prairie
St. Charles County
Missouri
Mr. McAtee
Mr. McAfee
McAtee
Me- Atee
McAfee
Nota
Student Dueling at Konigshofen Grounds Universities
A crowd from Erlangen Wurzburg Tubingen Heidelberg Basel and Strasburg arrived by train to Konigshofen on the Tauber for a German student duel froth with surgeons and fighting gear. They held closed door consultations at a hotel until the innkeeper alerted police finding twenty five youths injured and bleeding.
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Konigshofen
Tauber
Heidelberg
Warsburg
London Echo
Erlangen
Wurzburg
Tubingen
Bazel
Strasburg
Dieep
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