Iowa News Items Highlight Drowning Death and Bank Liquidation
The Carroll Cracker Manufacturing Company of Dubuque is liquidating after mortgaged liabilities exceed 5 000 dollars, with assets limited to fixtures and machinery around 2 000. Peter Schwellenbaugh, a Mt. Pleasant farmer, reportedly drowned June 23 in Big Creek while trying to help a calf, with search efforts continuing. The column also notes several local matters including an eye to guard organization in Montezuma, a Greeley ice cream illness scare, Fourth of July travel tickets, and various other Iowa notices and incidents across towns.
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Carroll Cracker Manufacturing Company
Dubuque
Waters & Dennis
Peter Schwellenbaugh
Mt. Pleasant
Big Creek
Schwellenbaugh
John Anderson
Emmittsburg
Burlington
Northwest Iowa Soldiers’ Association
Sioux City
Texas Train Robberies Near Schulenburg and Flatornia
Reports from Galveston and Mayuston describe two bold robberies on the Southern Pacific line in Texas on June 18 and near Schulenburg. The east bound California Express near Flatornia was robbed with no casualties and rumored to net 75,000 dollars. At Schulenburg, robbers halted the locomotive and, along with armed accomplices, looted mail, express, and passenger cars, taking about eight to ten thousand dollars plus unknown Wells Fargo car funds.
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Southern Pacific
Flatornia
Fayette County
San Antonio
Mavuston
Texas
Schulenburg
St Louis County Stage Robbery Near Barretts
The Baldwin and Manchester stage from St Louis to Barretts was robbed near Hager creek bridge by three masked men. The driver Mr Bennett and fifteen passengers were ordered to line up as revolvers emerged from the brush. The robbers took about 250 dollars from an estimated total haul of 2,500 in money and valuables.
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Baldwin
St. Louis County
Baldwin and
Dream of the Daily News Roundup of 1884 Crises Across U S
Weekly digest recounts multiple 1884 incidents including Edward Sneed hanged in Independence Missouri for a Kansas City murder, bankers killed by train, governor signs minor tobacco ban, serial crimes across Illinois New York and Missouri, a dry Sunday in St. Louis, circus accidents, a gas explosion in Pittston Junction, and local crop reports amid rising violence and legal rulings.
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Philadelphia
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Rochester
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Frank McIntry
Lagonias
Texas
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Matthew Gurne
Hamestraw
Auburn
Alabama
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
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Brooklyn
George Welder
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Welder
Alfred Blunt
St. Louis
Blunt
Elder Brown
Second Colored Baptist Church
John Engburg
New York
Oglesby
Illinois
Poola
Kansas
Floyd
Supreme Court of Missouri
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Ching
Lew Johnson
Henry Doelitch
Frank Meindel
Chicago
Elgin
Ross
Lavaca County
Southern Pacific
New Lisbon
Ohio
Equestriennes
Pittston Junction
Brewers
Trials and royal visit mark early 20th century news
The Leipsic treason trial sentences Alsatians to detention ranging from one year to eighteen months while others are acquitted. Crown Prince Frederick William reviews schoolchildren at Sydenham on June 20 and receives a welcoming address but apologizes for speaking softly. A Birmingham coroner’s inquest into an unknown man found in the canal returns a verdict of drowned, noting a pocket book with explosive receipts and £280, with a razor found nearby. Police suspect self murder by a dymaniter, driven by remorse.
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Tracer
Tom Jacobek
Garfield Township
Hancock County
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Ile
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Crops Bulletin Reports Widespread Heat and Rain Variability
The weekly crop bulletin notes an excessively hot week with heavy rainfall deficit across eastern regions south of the Rockies. Michigan Nebraska and Kansas show slight excesses while southern states and the lower Ohio valley report large deficits. Harvesting for wheat and hay progressed, aided by abundant sunshine in central valleys, with weather favorable for harvest in many areas.
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Final chapter in Rowan county feud ends in mass gun battle
June 24 in Loviusville Kentucky reports recount the Rowan county vendetta climax as Sheriff Hogg’s 200 man posse ICT closes on Morehead. Tolliver and ten followers barricaded the Cottage hotel before a two hour clash left Craig Tolliver Bud Tolliver Jay Tolliver and Hiram Cooper dead. Cate Tolliver and three others were wounded. others captured or escaped.
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Courier-Journal
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Morehead
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Cottage Hotel
Bud Tolliver
Jay Tolliver
Hiram Cooper
Cate Tolliver
Stock Car Case Hearing Before Interstate Commission
In Washington on June 22 John W. Streeter of Chicago testified in the Burton stock car case before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Henry B. Stone Burlington's general manager denied cars were superior and said lumber or steel rails could not be loaded in them and they must be hauled empty to loading points. The Commission will recess until July 12.
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Brave shoemaker crosses Niagara on wire bridge
Stephen Peere, a shoemaker from SUsPENSION Bridge New York, crossed the Niagara River this afternoon by walking along a five eighths inch wire cable stretched high above the water.
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Stephen Peere
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Swindlers Strip Elder in Bold Confidence Game
Marshalltown, June 24. Peter Van Vranken, wealthy church elder, was swindled of 2000 dollars by a fake land buyer and card game scheme. After winning 5000 and borrowing 3000, he handed all to the con men who fled with his stake, leaving him stranded three miles from town. A prior loss of 1700 to a supposed relative of Dr Glick is noted.
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Peter van Vranken
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van Vranken
Draven
Van
Glick
State University commencement draws record crowds in Iowa City
Iowa City on June 22 saw the largest turnout of alumni and visitors for a commencement. The board of regents asked Professors Fellows Leonard Parker and Booth to resign and elected Judge J. M. Love as chancellor of the law school. Love accepted.
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Board of Regents
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Booth
J. M. Love
Law School
Love
Carlisle Indian School graduates sent west for completion of course
Carlisle Pennsylvania dispatch notes seventy three pupils, mostly Sioux, completed their course of education and are sent west today. A separate brief from Normal State BeR Li reports the Emperor's health now in its normal state.
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Carlisle Indian Training School
Ber Li
Local Job Printing and Commercial Stationery Ads
The Tribune advertises job printing of every description at reasonable rates with estimates on pamphlets or proof work. Services available from any part of the state with special emphasis on commercial stationery.
Quotations and jokes from 19th century papers
A stitched-together \"funny\" column compiles quips and witticisms from various periodicals. It includes jests about public figures, puns on names, and humorous anecdotes from cities like Detroit Boston New York Chicago and Louisville, with notes on celebrities such as Sarah Bernhardt and Roscoe Conkling.
Material for Cigarettes From a Bowery Collector
A New York Graphic description recalls a tiny, aging man who scavenges tobacco scraps in Bowery areas near City Hall Park. He hauls stubs in a dirty canvas bag, sorts them with a helper boy, and sells washed remnants as fillers for cheap cigars and cigarettes.
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New York Graphic
Hard Subzero Snow Tests On Bullet Resistance
Colonel White studied bullet performance in Ottawa showing Martini bullets in dense snow failed after four feet. Snider bullets in ice mixed snow barely penetrated four feet, while dry loose snow allowed about seven feet from twenty to thirty yards. Results reveal snow density greatly affects penetration.
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White
Ottawa
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