How the Knot Was Tied by Kaw River Justice
A frontier justice of the peace on the Kaw River performs a double wedding for Sid Johnsing and Mirandy Ann Smith after a comic encounter with their families. The scene unfolds at his cabin as the couple ride in from across the Kaw and are joined in matrimony by the blunt officiant.
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Hiram Jordan
Kaw River
Kansas
Hiram
Kaw
Missouri River
Kaw Valley
Justice
Sally Jane
Sid Johnsing
Ole Murray Johnsing
Ole Murray
Gal
Mirandy Ann Smith
Lute Smith
Waal
Private drag remark sparks humor in household exchange
Hirtier questions Slogo about a private drag and party plans. Slogo clarifies he means his wife’s family, not a carriage, prompting a lighthearted retort.
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Hirtier
Slogo
Ravages of Flames In Louisville And Chicago Expositions
A Louisville dispatch reports a blaze at Bamburger Bloom & Co in downtown Louisville destroying stock worth $750,000 and building $200,000 with five firefighters killed. Chicago dispatch describes a fire at the New Fra exposition center destroying $500,000 to $1,000,000 in goods and triggering a chaotic scene with thousands watching. A St. Joseph report notes the main New Fra hall of the local exposition burned, with losses over a quarter of a million and many visitors affected.
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Chicago
St. Joe Expositions
Louisville
Bamburger, Bloom & Co
William Coye & Co
Main and
Seventh
St. Charles
JL. Bretzfelder & Co
Isaac Bier
Virgil Wright
Bretzfelder & Co
Ed Early
Samuel Starblighter
John Onahan
Ed Wheeler
Pat Foley
Central
Denny McGrath
Frank Best
Edward Wheeler
Chicago Dispatch
Gossage’s Co
Exposition
Marshall Field & Co
Gossage & Co
James H. Walker & Co
Schlesinger & Meyer
Worth
St. Joseph
Gen
Lafayette
Iowa Democrats Nominate Horace Boies for Governor
The Iowa Democratic State convention in Sioux City nominated Horace Boies for governor after an informal ballot showed Boies with 502 votes against Craig 1614 and Whiting 674. The ticket included S. L. Bestow for lieutenant governor, W. H. Brannon for supreme court, Thomas Irish for superintendent, and David Morgan for railroad commissioner. The platform called for high license and local option, rail regulation, and liberal pensions for veterans, and endorsed the 1889 St. Louis principles.
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Horace Booies
L. Bestow
W. H. Brannon
Thomas Irish
David Morgan
Sioux City
Iowa
Horace Boies
Chicago
E. H. Hunter
State Central Committee
M. W. Darling
Schubert
Clelland
Irving B. Richman
Muscatine
Committee On Permanent Organization
Judge Kinne
Mr. Kinne
John E. Craig
Lee
Boies
Craig
Whiting
David ,Morgan
Powaschick
St. Louis
Republican Party
United States
S. S. Cox
Charles D. Fullen
Jefferson
Samuel Cohn
J. G. Dunn
Dubuque
M. K. Carter
Winneshierk
John Baum
Benton
J. E. Seevers
Mahaska
J. B. Elliott
Marion
W. E. Lewis
Lucas
T. H. Lee
Montgomery
G. W. Hyatt
Webster
G. B. Healey
Woodbury
Talbott Heirs Claim 5 Million in Indiana Property
Henry Talbott of Lima Ohio travels to Cincinnati to claim nearly a million from his inherited fortune. His two brothers and two sisters each receive about 1 000 000 from property once owned by their father Benjamin Talbott, a Kentucky slave. The Loganport area assets along the Wabash and Eel River railroad lines include buildings and sidetracks. Railroads settled with the heirs for 5 000 000.
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Lima
Ohio
Henry Talbott
Cincinnanati
Benjamin Talbott
Talbott
Kentucky
David Talbott
Rochester
Ind
Indiana
Logansport
Wabash
Eel River
Trees Grow From Biddeford Church Steeple Masonry
Portland Press reports two young trees sprouting from a Catholic Church steeple in Biddeford, one on the Elm street side and the other on the opposite face. The trees, likely a willow and a poplar, stand eight and six feet tall respectively and have grown rapidly within a year, rooted in the masonry beyond reach of an upper window and requiring a stage to remove.
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Biddeford
Elm Street
Portland Press
Landslide in Quebec City Claims Dozens
A rock slide from a cliff near Cape Diamond in Quebec City destroys homes on Champlain street following heavy rains. At least twenty five people are dead with many others injured or missing as fire brigades water police and soldiers rescue survivors and search the ruins.
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Quebec
Citadel
Cape Diamond
Champlain Street
Cape
Water Police
Battery D Canadian Artillery
Wilson
Civic Police
Marine Department
Fire Brigade
Thomas Farrell
Farrell
Burke
Berrigan
Thomas Graves
Stephen Burke
W. Power
Black’s Grocery
Henry Black
W. Bracken
James Bradley
Michael Dehey
Patrick Fitzgerald
Henry Lawson
Robert Lawson
Richard Leahy
Frank Carlson
James Hayden
Joseph Kemp
Luke Kirwin
Henry Mullins
Richard Maybury
John O'Dowd
John O'Neil
William Stephen
Thomas Power
John Read
John Henry
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