Poker duel at Delavan House ends with bluffs and bets
In a Delavan House room Joe the porter, hoping to test his poker skill, plays against Senator Woodin with Senator McCarthy watching. Bets escalate from 250 to thousands as misreads and bluffing unfold, ending when Joe pleads to quit and Woodin backs away. Two stories near the tale note elopement plans and a long-embedded bullet finally causing death.
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Joe
Senator Woodin
Senator McCarthy
Mr. Woodin
Mr. McCarty
McCarty
Dream of Death and a Printer's Doom in a Victorian Tale
A dream sequence shows a printer visit a hellish scene run by a fiery demon who toils to punish nonpaying subscribers. The tale blends nightmare imagery with a cautionary undertone about debt and obligation. In Pranavouts, Ind., a fatal accident at Boston store leaves two young cash boys gravely wounded by an accidental pistol discharge. their half brother proprietor faces no arrest.
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Morpheus
Lower
Hades
Inpranavouts
Ind
Boston
George
Edward Rink
M. H. Spades
Alonzo Eckles
Edward
Michael Rink
School Street
Bear mauls huntsman to death on Colorado mountain
A Jed Cliff hunter pursuing deer encountered a cinnamon bear with two cubs on Mount Lincoln. The bear mauling tore off the scalp, left him unconscious, and he died shortly after friends removed him. The report also notes missing stolen watches in New York and a Ohio neighbor’s shooting spree.
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Leadville
Col
Lindsey
Jed Cliff
Sumner Hayden
Ashland
Mass
New York
Hayden
Young Partner Kills Himself Over Rejected Shootings
In Geneva county a man named Henry Hopster, about 45, hanged himself after wandering St Paul and Geneva. A slip noose and high river bank formed a gallows. A separate incident reports Bryan Lyons and stepson Daniel Timnay. Timnay shot himself after shielding his stepfather from a clash with his father. Rail wrecks and a steamboat death are noted with injuries to workers and bystanders.
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Sue.Iyvines
Geneva
St. Paul
C R
Henry Hopster
Morris
Lawrenceburg
Bryan Lyons
van Buren
Daniel Timnay
Timnay
Timmay
Dog's Devotion Shown by Grief Stricken Newfoundland
In Kokomo Indiana a Newfoundland dog mourns for two years at the graveside of his master Thomas Swift. The dog refused to leave Crown Point Cemetery, kept vigil nightly, and warmed to the sexton after care. Byron's ode to fidelity is proposed to be inscribed on Swift's headstone.
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Kokomo, Inc
Byron
Thomas Swift
Crown Point
Sexton
Will ie Heisler Found After Four Days in Pennsylvania Wilderness
Scranton report details Willie Heisler wandering near a vast woods after blackberry picking. Frantic search by father mother and neighbors failed until Monday when Fred Goetz found the exhausted boy crying for his brother Charley. Heisler, scraped and berry stained, was reunited with his mother amid joy in Dodgetown.
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Willie Heisler
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Penn
Charles
Charlie
Goetz
Charley
Dodgetown
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William Noble
Indianapolis
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Hendricks County
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