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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1896
Page
7
A compact roundup lists topics from snow in Wyoming to Danube repairs opening navigation. Other items note fires, deaths, crimes, politics, floods, and industrial openings with names, places, and dates interwoven in a rapid, paneled press summary of global and domestic happenings.
George F. Phillips was elected lord mayor of London. Stewards of the New York Jockey Club decide to enforce rules against presents at the track. Riley Grannan was ruled off the turf. President DeCourcey of the Western New York and Pennsylvania railway was arraigned at Buffalo on charges of reb ating the interstate commerce law. Sparks from the engine set fire to a dynamite package on a flat car.
Ed Kendrick dies after a horse runs away in Kentucky. Charles Moore killed jumping from a train in Indiana. S P Hull shoots Geoge Bruce over a wife, in Texas. Captain J W Brown Jr arrested for arson in Arkansas. Postmaster Thomas robbed and locked in Vera Illinois. 8 percent wage cut posted at Somersworth mills New Hampshire. Frank Cooper dies after eating toilet soap in Indiana. Annie Ruffin shoots and dies in Courtland Alabama. Mrs Baker charged in New York malpractice case. Paddy Croak highwaysman to serve five years for state work. John Hoofer held up in Missouri with cayenne pepper. George Taylor hunted. Meeks family killer located then vanished in Missouri. Joseph Kirby indicted for receiving stolen postage stamps in South Dakota.
Four days after her marriage to J W Frazer a Cairo Illinois bride killed herself by a heart shot at their residence. In Milwaukee a fire at the World clothing house consumed three buildings and forced four firefighters to withdraw from smoke. The Spreckles sugar refinery in Philadelphia is also noted.
Operated by the trust, has been closed down, throwing 800 men out of meat. Rival suitors for a lady's affections, Thomas Newkirk and Henry Ashcroft, fought a duel with Worcester near Middlesboro Kentucky, both killed. A.H. and Mrs. M. A. Drake remarried for the third time at Perry Ontario after two divorces. Boston coatmakers, over 8,000, struck as wages and conditions were not renewed. David Halfla killed in dispute with B. Miller at Victoria Texas. Mrs. George Cerf shot herself at Wichita Kansas for no reason. A vicious dog in Maryville Missouri injured two schoolchildren who will die. An aged planter W. B. F. Adams gored by a bull in Newton County Mississippi. A grain of corn lodged in James Garvin’s windpipe killed him at Decatur Illinois. Theodore Deutsch 18 fatally shot by half brother Logan Miller 16 at St. Joseph Missouri. Three women in male attire with masks warned widow Watkins near Harrison Arkansas to move in ten days. Andrew Nelson smothered by a stampede of sheep in Cascade mountains. Eureka Springs circuit court robbed. indictments for liquor selling and gaming stolen. Charles Robbins arrested for burglary at Hutchinson Kansas confessed within 24 hours. Italian who surrendered at La Crosse Wisconsin to murder in Buffalo New York proved to be wrong man and rode free.
Bank robbery at First National Bank of Joseph Oregon ends with a fatal shooting and an escape. Bishop Shanley of Fargo survives an assault by Daly, and Daly is arrested. A Felis Neighbors cotton picker proves successful near Fort Smith Arkansas. An open letter criticizes Governor Culberson and Mr Bryan over the Bismarck letter. Several businesses face financial distress and fires, including a Sterling New Jersey silk factory destroyed with $200,000 loss. A Missouri professor dies suddenly aged 73. Jamaica Jacmel fire leaves thousands homeless. Various legal actions and arrests follow across states. The Minnesota Methodist conference votes against women’s admission to the general assembly.
R A Fisk and wife of St Joseph Missouri were chloroformed and robbed in their home. Haskell Bros dealers in Des Moines Iowa failed. St Charles hotel Pell City Alabama destroyed by fire loss about 200000. Richard Musser longtime Mississippi Valley lumberman died of heart disease. William Dula of Sergeant's Bluff Iowa sues for damages over false arrest. J H Cates of Oklahoma City arrested in South McAlester Indian Territory. Harry T Baldwin Morris Illinois fell from 100 foot flag pole killed. Tobacco growers of Southern Kentucky weigh not raising crop next year. Hannibal Carriage Company filed a trust deed with assets 5000 Liabilities unknown. A hospital for consumptives to be established near New York. Wisconsin Methodist conference again favors admitting women delegates 108 to 30. D A Kenyon 71 Colorado Springs walked to Pike's Peak summit.
A farmer endorses the Lightning Churn saying it yields elegant butter in under a minute, far more than standard churns. He claims strong local demand, three dozen sold, and potential earnings of a few hundred dollars per township. Address J F Casey & Co St Louis for circulars and full information.
A westbound express train No 2 exploded near Osage City Kansas two miles north of the station killing engineer Stramp fireman Hollister and seven others. A passenger from Los Angeles William Beckler committed suicide amid the crash. Damaged cars and shifting wreckage scattered along the line as rescuers worked through night.
Four bandits tried to derail passenger train No. 5 on the Chicago and North Western near Devil's Lake. Tom Patterson discovered the obstruction and shot one bandit. Patterson was wounded in the leg and head by return fire. The wreckers escaped as a sheriff and posse pursue them. A prior attempt occurred a week earlier.
Wuerens Burton D Sanborn conveyed by deed of trust on May 6 1889 recorded in Book 88 page 4 to Charles H Keeler as trustee. The property is Lot Two in Block Seventy Four in Greeley Colorado as described in the record. The notice indicates a trustee sale of the described real estate in Weld County Colorado.
The district court in Weld County Colorado hears a case brought by Margaretta K E Parkinson against Thomas D Fairfield Henry J Aldrich The Colorado Securities Company and others. The summons requires appearance within twenty days if served in county or thirty days if by publication, with potential default judgment. The suit seeks 1500 dollars plus 15 percent interest from September 1 1884 and forecloses a deed of trust to secure the note, affecting land in Weld County described as section 19 and section 30 township 4 north range 65 west, with a July 1892 release contested. The clerk NK Madden issued the summons at Greeley, dated September 23 1596, first publication October 1 in the Greeley Tribune.
In Weld county Colorado trustee A M McClenahan gives public notice of sale to satisfy a deed of trust. The property includes the south half of section ten and a one fifth interest in Highland Lake Reservoir with water rights for irrigation and domestic use. Sale set for October 26 1896 at the Weld county courthouse Creeley.
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