Chronicles of late 19th century affairs across nations
Archbishop Keane arrives in Washington denying church factions while Missouri seekers heed cautions. Klondike telegraph cooperation proposed. Senator Hansbrough marries in New York. Savage predicts regional war. tall Indian skeleton found in Iowa. Alaska expedition heads underway. train wrecks jailings and wheat transport woes in the plains. notable deaths and industry notes on armor, patent inventors, and tariffs. various political fusions forming in Kansas. Missouri figures pursue insurance war plans. a congressman found dead. Dervish commander Osman Digna is summoned. a French tax recommendation and a large critical picnic conclude the digest of regional and world events.
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New York
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Henry Savage
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Mexico
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Iowa
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Kansas
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Chicago
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Audrain County
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Insurance Combine
Ashley B. Wright
North Adams
Mass
Osman Digna
Reew & Downer
Sois
Urop
Adinaid Davis
Indiasa
Horace R. Allen, Jr
Steen
Hughesville
Congresschergy
Clark
Gooney
Elliott
Kansas City
Sim
Harvest Home picnic and town notes from The Gazette
The Gazette reports W H Sears returning from Washington and a Harvest Home picnic at Sigel. It notes the newspaper’s sixteenth volume and fifteenth birthday, a former deputy county clerk Whit Churchill teaching in Lawrence schools, a new restaurant in the Doleeball market building, and multiple marriage licenses and deaths in Douglas County. Also covered are pension increases for Galene Hicks, J K Elwell’s appointment as consul to Santiago, travels of Prof E M Hopkins, and local office elections.
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Lawrence
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Bandits Hold Up Train and Withdraw After Foiled Safe Strike Rumors at Rich Hill
A southbound Sante Fe express was held up by unidentified horsemen who failed to blow open two safes and offered no harm to passengers. The robbers, believed mounted, departed after a failed attempt, telling the engineer to proceed. News spread to headquarters as officers moved toward the scene amid mixed strike rumors in Rich Hill and other regional notes including Lamartine mine layoffs due to low silver prices and Brown University faculty dismissals.
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Spelling Alaska names under official review and map update
The Sound of Geographic Names moves to standardize Alaskan spellings as a new state map is developed, slated for completion in about four months. Various other items include Texas troops guarding against a lynching, appointment changes in Indian affairs, Klondike claim rules, steamboat boiler explosion casualties, exiles, and scattered political and legal notices.
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Sound of Geographic Names
General Land Office
Alaska
Texas
Nasogdoches
Ed Goldberg
Wichita
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Wanted Mas and Team for Poll Tax Work in Lawrence
Advertises the Gazette solicitation for workers in Lawrence to collect poll tax payments. Mentions samples and prices of a machine, a reward for a missing horse in Lawrence, and various local notices. Includes ads for plows, a photography offer, and local letters from Aug 17 and Aug 7 news items.
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