Stampede of 110 Texas steers roars through Chicago streets
A herd of 110 wild Texan steers driven along Halsted Street on the 20th stampeded at Fortieth Street. Cowboy George Sweeney routed 26 with shots, 17 more were dispatched by citizens. A woman and a child were killed, several injured before the herd was controlled.
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Wesley Warren
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Robert Williams
Greenville
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Ned McBra
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John Grubb
Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention Set for August First
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held in Harrisburg on August 1. The report lists other political and social events: John Devoy sentenced in New York for libeling August Belmont. Frank James arraigned in Missouri for bank robbery. Wong Caine Foo sued for libel in New York. British subscriptions to a Longfellow bust in New England. the International Military Rifle Team leaving New York for England. WCTU petitions to Congress to prohibit liquor in the District of Columbia. marriages and deaths including General Sherman and Archbishop Woon. Dakota counties arrange a constitutional convention at Sioux Falls. Ohio Democrats nominate a governor and lieutenant governor. notes on Dr. Knickerbocker and other officials.
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Congress
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Sherman
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Charles Backus
Knickerbocker
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Indianapolis
American Homeopathic Institute
Cleveland
J.C. Sanders
Micuaki Nouan
Albany
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Arthur
Cap
Fires in Lyons wood stores burn two acres and rail cars
A fire in Lyons France consumed wood stores covering two acres and destroyed forty railway cars. Reports from Campbellford Ontario mention a bride killed in a buggy accident. An array of other foreign incidents includes fraud arrest in Nova Scotia and floods in Germany.
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George Hepburn
Pictou Bank
Bank of Nova Scotia
Death of Zulu giantess Fanny Donnery reported
S. L. Phelps of Washington and Richard Gibbs of New York appeared in a diplomatic role in Peru and Bolivia disputes. Fanny Donnery, a circus exhibitor from Mansfield Ohio known as the Zulu giantess, was found dead in bed in Salamanca New York. She weighed 6597 pounds.
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Washington
Peru
Richard Gibbs
New York
Bolivia
Fanny Donnery
Mansfield
Ohio
Salamanca
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Madison Dike Breaches Flood Southern Illinois Farm Land
The Madison dike between Alton and East St Louis broke in two places on the 23rd flooding sixty square miles of rich southern Illinois farmland. Wheat crops were deemed a total loss and overall damages and property losses reached about 1 million dollars.
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Lee
Teemer
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Kan
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Neb
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Arthur
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Venice
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Ilinois
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Missouri River
Here
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Creve Cour Ice Company
Desolation as Mississippi Flood Devastates Illinois Farming Belt
Flooding after the Madison levee breach between Venice and Mitchell Illinois devastates farms and crops in a 17 000 acre floodplain. Families flee to high ground as 22 miles of levee hold back waters and towns along the Chicago and Alton rail lines brace for impact.
Stampede of Texas Steers Strikes City Farmyard
A herd of 110 wild Texan steers arrived for Libby McNeil Libby broke from the corral and rampaged through the stock yards causing chaos. George Sweeney led a volunteer posse killing many animals while residents battled to secure carcasses and livestock through streets and alleys. Forty three steers were killed or lost and Libby McNeil Libby suffered about one thousand dollars in losses.
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Libby
McNeil & Libby
Halsted
40Th
Wentworth Avenue
George Sweeney
Sweeney
South Park Avenue
Bridgeport
Twelfth Street
Ashland Avenue
Rebecca Street
Wood
Nineteenth Streets
Morgan and
Harrison
Blue Island Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Stewart Avenue
Mary Mulholland
Maggie Carney
Maxwell Street
Maxwell Streets
Halsted Ami Meagher
Fox
Fifteenth Street
Winnr Wing
Blue Island
Center Avenues
Brown Street
Mason Slip
South Fork
Libby, McNeil & Libby
A Boil ers Singular Performance At Mill
A boiler at Behymer Holbrook and Stiles saw mill seven miles from Shawneetown Illinois on the Ohio and Mississippi line leaped up and rolled away, injuring none of eight bystanders but destroying lumber, tearing the switch and damaging the main track. The cause is believed to be a misaligned pass. Loss estimated at 1500 with no insurance.
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Behymer
Holbrook & Stiles
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