19 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1881
Page
1
In Columbus a postponed wedding ends with the groom entering with the bride’s sister and announcing a secret ceremony by a local clergyman. The outraged bride falls ill with brain fever and may die while the couple departs on a bridal tour. Separately a surveyor’s error leads to a brick hotel built on the wrong lot in a Philadelphia suburb.
A bank depositor’s box heist in Charleston South Carolina led to the arrest of a suspect and recovery of most bonds. After evidence including a physician’s affidavit about mental state, Judge Mackey set bail at 200 dollars, noting the presumption of innocence and legal need for security.
A Miles City fur dealer says 82,000 buffalo hides were bought this season and most buffalo slaughter was for hides despite Montana law. He predicts 60,000 to 80,000 killed near Miles City, hides fetching 2.25 to 2.75 dollars. The piece also lists Texas frontier battalion totals: 1,001 scouts, 7 fights, 31 Indian trails, 5 fights with outlaws, 685 fugitives arrested, 67 courts, 67 guards, 150 escorts, 152 assistances, 1,917 stock recovered, 1 Mexican child saved, and 12 outlaws killed.
In Wirt County, two young sisters aged 18 and 20 faced a double wedding plan with two brothers. When one sister’s suitor refused to attend a meeting for religious reasons, sibling couples swapped partners after a protracted meeting. Both new unions were agreed at once, yet all four returned home to resume courting as before.
The Cheyenne Sun tells of a newlywed couple on a westbound Union Pacific bridal trip. The groom Goodwin chased his bride after the train rolled away at Sidney, aided by an engineer and fireman, eventually reuniting 37 miles west at Antelope. Also reported is Judge Jameson’s Chicago divorce ruling citing habitual drunkenness as grounds for divorce and offspring inheritance concerns.
Joh H Brower longtime diver and grappler describes his work in the East River and surrounding waters. He recalls lifting iron plates for a Civil War era ironclad, recovering coins from a keg, and recovering over fifty bodies, including a drowned dock watchman and a son of a rich man, detailing his methods and rewards.
An interview in the Buffalo Telegraph profiles Robert Neilson of Lansing on a rare sleepless condition tested by his travels to Rochester. The story includes his Glasgow birth and a dramatic New Orleans courthouse interruption where a forged certificate sparked a marriage scandal.
A mob of about thirteen men forced entry at the Shaderick home near Long Swamp in Pickens County after a knock at night. Gunfire followed as the family defended themselves. Shaderick was badly wounded and his relatives injured. The attackers retreated with casualties, suspecting him of informing on revenue officers. A second report notes Nebraskan cattle losses, a Chicago money-lender's suicide by poison after years of losses, and various personal scandals including a marriage memory recall and a Wisconsin woman suffrage move.
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