Frenzied Dakota Scandals and Grand Forks Outrage Exposed
A long mixed despatch covers Dakota political intrigue, grand jury manipulation, and press feuds. It highlights two main schemers seeking influence via fraudulent indictments, a misleading census, partisan editors, and calls to bar corrupt figures from public office. The piece also notes shifts in church and civil marriage customs in Chile and regional editorial reactions.
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Lew
Congress
Edwards
Sheme
Character No
Character No.1
No. 1
McConnell
Argus
Devils Lake Land
Tribunal of Justice
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Prodigious Scandal: Southern Belle Charged With Poisoning Husband
New Orteans reports arrest of Minnie Wallace Walkup for poisoning her husband, a wealthy Virginian widower. Details describe her beauty, recent July 22 Covington Ky wedding, and rumors about arsenic for complexion. Funeral of J R Walkup in Emporia precedes coroner’s inquiry with inconclusive analysis. Case stirs New Orleans and Kansas City observers as mystery deepens.
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New Orteans
Emporis
Minnie Wallace
Libbie
Minnie Wallace Walkup
James E. Wallace
United States
Walkup
Minnie
Covington
Cleansing in Party Divisions Sparks Letters to Capitol
A Republican critic laments the party's state in the territory and urges cleansing leadership. The letter denounces current leadership with strong language and questions principle and loyalty amid local politicking in Traill county.
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Jamertown
Capitol
Republican Party
Deeds of Blood in Texas Town and Duluth Hanged
A sensational Chicago era dispatch details mob violence in Texas Johnson City lynching of Al Lockie for a spree of murders including his own family. It reports the Duluth hanging of John Waiseman for another murder, and notes a separate double murder of Geneva officers Grant and McNutt. The bulletin also lists weather, agriculture, and local notices with brief crime summaries and civic updates.
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Texas
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Lockie
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Green
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Llano County
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Johnson Gir
Thomas Brunswick
Lynch
Hampstead
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John Farley
Waiseman
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