Iowa News items recount fires and storms across towns
A series of Iowa reports details July 28 lightning deaths in Eddyville and Ottumwa, a Kirkman man’s drowning in a well, a large fire at Council Bluffs dry goods, and a Pottsville building blaze. Also noted are Sioux City river erosion threats, railroad damage at Ford, insurance and mortality figures, and local civic notes on schools and West Point exams.
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Mrs Parsons Sells Biographs At Picnic In Carcaco Scene
At Ogden's Grove the wife of condemned anarchist Lucy Parsons sold photographs of her husband and Spies and a Spies biography to fund relief. Union officers urged her to stop but she argued for free speech until police advised non-interference. Rain and hail later dispersed the crowd.
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Ill
International Brewers’ and Masters’ Union
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Lucy Parsons
Spies
Nina van Zandt
Union
Haymarket Square
Across the Nation A Week of Turbulent News
A Baker City dispatch reports Sheriff Smith capturing Hamilton alias Dick Harraton for a Pike County Illinois murder in 1875. The item covers lynching in Virginia, a double tragedy in Grand Rapids, and multiple accidents, fires, and political notes from across the United States and abroad.
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Oregon
Oregonian
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Hamilton
Dick Harraton
Pike County
Illinois
John Neave
Joseph B. Neave
Falmouth
Surry County
Itheuben Cole
Richard Savage
Cole
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles Weinair
Metropolitan Insurance Co
Patterson
N. J
Weinair
Riverside Iron and Steel Company
Cincinnati
Jnc
Conner
E. L. Harper & Co
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James M. Comley
Toledo Commercial
Gen. Comley
Sandwich Islands
Gen. Grant
Hayes
Moore
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Bushman
Prince Ferdinand to Take Oath in Sofia in August
Prince Ferdinand is expected at Sofia early in August to take the oath of office. The Bulgarian government has sent orders to officials in towns along his route to receive the new ruler with due honor.
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Sofia
Boodle Trial Reveals Chicago Bribe Details and Payoffs
In Judge Jamison's court Fred W. Ripper testifies to paying thousands to county officials for meat contracts from 1880 onward. He describes 10 percent kickbacks and agent roles collecting assessments for milk and bread contractors. Grocer Elisha A. Robison lists bribes, with bribe rates rising to 12 percent before warrants ran short. The state awaits over a hundred witnesses.
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Ripper
Nisser, McDonald
Elisha A. Robison
Mob Hangs Lee Shellenberger in Nebraska City Jail
Rumors of a lynching mob proved true as vigilantes dragged Lee Shellenberger from the jail at 2:30 a.m. and hanged him in the courtyard. The mob, mainly German farmers, forced entry and overpowered guards after entering through a floor opening. The condemned man proclaimed innocence and asked for burial on his old homestead until proven innocent.
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Nebraska City
Lee Shellenberger
Shellenberger
Lantern in the Dark At Death Seen By Auctioneer
A Sturgis correspondent recalls an obituary tale about an auctioneer who ignored religion until his death. His Spiritualist wife and the lantern image of his deceased daughter Maria are highlighted as the mysterious link between the living and the beyond.
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Sturgis
Mich
religio-Philosophical Journal
Maria
Terrific combat with a snake by fresco painter Karl Kramer
Karl Kramer, a Fresco painter for Joseph Bryan on Brook Road, fought a dangerous eight foot black snake after finishing work. The reptile latched onto his pants leg, coiled around his neck, and nearly suffocated him before he killed it by smashing its head on a rock.
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Richmond State
Emancipation Not a Loss to the South Says Courier
The Louisville Courier Journal argues emancipation changed ownership of enslaved people, not wealth or land. It states slavery’s end did not reduce the south’s productive capacity, noting cotton yields rose after 1861 and population increased, with no overall loss to society.
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