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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1893
Page
2
A fragmentary poem recalls the Fourth of July with looks at gunfire, smoke, and celebrations. The speaker notes youths bound with cloth and a chaotic scene that blends danger with festive memory, ending with reflections on the repeating holiday.
A first-person narrative follows Hardy and Huldy in Pineville as a deacon escorts a journey to Stones farm. The tale recounts old family feuds between Cones and Cross, a cautioned romance with Jeff Cones, and community tensions fueled by damaged pride, a torn mare, and a wedding-like reunion glimmering through village life.
In a rustic reminiscence a frontier couple reconciles amid a family celebration. Huldy and Tod Cross, with Jeff, Mariar and Dea Stone, mark independence and forgiveness as townsfolk witness a heartfelt, final reconciliation under the apple tree.
Bridget, the new girl, has been told to toast the cracker as part of an assignment. The instruction highlights a simple, obediential task within the group.
Brooklyn Eagle readers recall a noisy Independence Day with a large cannon cracker. Witnesses describe enthu siasm and an accident leaving injuries including a missing finger and a pet dog killed by a toy cannon.
A wall collapse at the Tremont house in Fort Scott Kansas brings down the east side of the four story building at 9 30 Monday morning. Essie Caldwell and Ida Morgan maids were severely bruised after falling from the third floor but no one else was killed. The west wall remains at risk and many occupants were rescued through second story ladders.
A Moorhead Minnesota special reports a man entered Merchants National Bank in Minneapolis, leveled a revolver at Assistant Cashier Van V Vlissengen, and demanded cash. After forcing the cashier outside, the robber retrieved about 40,000? The thief fled by buggy toward the river, swam the water, leaving 40 in gold, as a large posse searches nearby woods.
John Fitzthum a Buffalo murderer was electrocuted in Ruburn New York on Monday. The fatal crime occurred in Buffalo on April 7 1893 when Fitzthum stabbed the Roebri family defender to death after insulting Mrs Roebri. The Sioux City la cable road has been placed in the hands of a receiver.
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