School News and Notes From Co Supt L B Fancher
County superintendent L B Fancher reports on upcoming Fargo meeting to discuss common schools curriculum and other work. Village schools list teachers. Minnewaukan holds winter schools again after last season. State examiner reports on country pupil standings with several certificates. apportionment of funds is the smallest per capita on record. Reading Circle participation reaches a new high with 22 teachers tested and certified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Halland
Fargo
Crary
H. F. Brown
Rose
Rose £>1Tham; Grand Harbor, Mr. H. G. Franzen and Miss Kate McIisaac
Bartlett
Ida F. Hennessy
Penn
Eura Madeford
Minnewaukan Ownship
Coulee
Dry Lake
Grahams Island
Hope
Irvine Noonan
Lake
Wheatland
U. S
Laura Perkins
Anna Stenseth
Minnewaukan
Maud Murray
Hilda Sjoberg
Graham’s Island
Nellie Baldwin
Freshwater
Reading Circle
General John M Palmer Dies At Eighty Three In Springfield
Springfield Illinois September 26 Gen John M Palmer died suddenly of heart failure at about eight oclock Tuesday morning He was 83 and had attended Gen McClernands funeral last Saturday He leaves several children and his funeral no plan has been made President McKinley sent sympathy praising his war and peace service Palmer had a long career from a Kentucky farm to Illinois politics and national service including governor of Illinois and senator He married Hannah L Kimball after a first wife died in 1886
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Springfield
Ill
John M. Palmer
McClernand
Gen. Palmer
Jessie Palmer Weber
Dr. Matthews
Carlinville
E. C. Crabbe
Will Jayne
City
John Mayo Palmer
Chicago
Lewis J. Palmer
Canton
McKinley
M. Cullom
United States
Tom
Palmer
John McAuley Palmer
Eagle Creek
Scott County
Madigan County
John M
Shurtles College
Fulton County
Stephen A. Douglas
State Senate
Lincoln
United States Senate
Douglas
Congress
Illinois
Fort Bumter
Crittenden Peace Congress
Illinois Volunteers
Republican Party
Horace Greeley
Senate
Gold Democra
Hannah L. Kimball
Shenandoah
Park Place
Preston No. 3
Lawrence
Cambridge
J. C. McGinnis
Cambridge Coal Company
Bast
Ashlon Potts
Locustdale
Locust Spring
Locust Gap
North Franklin
Treverton
George Harris
United Mine Workers
Harris
Schuylkill
Fort Worth Population Rises by 3,612 in Census
Census Bureau reports Fort Worth Texas population at 26 685 up from 23 076 in 1990 an increase of 3 612 or 18 65 percent Also Wheeling West Virginia reaches 38 378 from 34 522 in 1590 an increase of 4 356 or 12 62 percent
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Washington
Census Bureau
Fort Worth
Tex
Wheeling
W. Va
Strikes Widen as Deputies Stop Miners at Tomhicken
Sheriff Harvey and 30 armed deputies halted marchers at Tomhicken after a dawn lantern reading of the riot act. Strikers scattered to deter mine workers from Potta mines Derringer Gowen and Tomhicken slopes, crippling Derringer and Gowen mines while Tomhicken slope suffered little. Four marchers were arrested for breach of peace and jailed. Also covered Markle & Co firm response to worker demands, with suspension of work to consider the company’s offer. leaders express cautious approval and fear a broader strike if wage demands are met. President Mitchell notes regional sentiment souring toward armed escorting of workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomhicken
South Wilkesbarre
Wne Markle Firm
G. B. Markle & Co
Markle
Markie
United Mine Workers
Markles
Train wreck at Springfield fair grounds fatal for two engine crews
Springfield Illinois September 26. At 4 15 p m two fair grounds trains on parallel tracks collided when Chicago Peoria St Louis locomotive 63 left the rails and struck Chicago and Alton train 119. Engineer John Ettinger and fireman John Ryan were killed instantly. Jerry Hall also died under wreckage. Brakeman A J Mack was badly bruised. other crew uninjured.
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Springfield
Ill
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
Chicago & Alton Fair Grounds
Fair Grounds
Chicago & Alton
John Ettinger
Jane
John Ryan
Chicago, Peoria & St
Post Office Robbery Shocks Hancock Area
Burglars robbed Hancock post office at night securing about 500 dollars in cash and registered letters. This follows nearly twenty similar break ins in the upper district within a month in Houghton and Hancock Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houghton
Mich
Hancock
Houghton, Mich
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the American Tribune Colony Co
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Gowen
Sheriff Harvey
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Schuykill
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Lnb
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Coney
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Denver
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Rockford
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