Fort Scott Murder and Grant Retirement Debate
An alarming Fort Scott report recounts a brute who refused to hang and a child who exposed him while at work. The assailant was shot during an outcry and arrested. The text shifts to Congress with weather notes for January, then Senate and House actions on Grant retirement, Indian land reform, and post office funding, alongside militia and canal discussions. Strong entities include Gen Grant, Illinois Senator Davis, Senator Lamar, and the districts involved.
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Senate
Wasnixoros
Davis
Ilinois
Chicago
Edmunds
Logan
Grant
Lamar
Gen. Grant
Lagar
Illinois
McPherson
Cruce
Pendleton
Harris
West
Morgan
Coke
HOUSE
District of Columbia
King
Inter-Oceanic Canal
New South Wales
Australia
Mrvis
Scorr
Kas
Rich Hill
Texas
Sweet
Fort Scott
Larra
Geo. Pond
Arcadia
Kansan Scenes of Legislation and Accidents Are Brought Forward
From Topeka and Kansas City comes a dense report of legislative actions and local incidents. Debates over a federal amendment, adjournment motions, and new bills touch county lines, prison sites, library construction, and reform school funding. Separate dispatches describe a fatal railroad accident in Kansas City, a brutal assault on a young woman, and urgent railroad bond debates in Douglas County.
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Hausex
Kaseas City
Eugene Mahan
Fort Scuti
Ander
Kansas City
Galveston
Louisiana
Mexico
Forest Avenue
Independence Avenue
Elk Creek
Rock Creek
Lawrence
Topeka
Carbondale
Linn Creek
Richland
Twin Mound
Osage County
Centropolis
Ottawa
Huntoon
Danham
Gould
Douglas County
Clinton Township
Marion
Clinton
Nighttime stone fence blocks pleasure seekers road stunt
Frictional mood as a Friday night crowd builds a stone obstruction to deter revelers returning from Mr Halderman’s. The dark road hides the barrier and the drunken crew arrives to discover they can pass around it, leaving the builders to ponder their thwarted prank and the lost fun. Names and local post office figures fill later lines with scattered items and routines of small town life.
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Hamburg
Ezoo
De'Lyons
Pelmans
Eloee
Alent
Alexandre
Eof
Warhali
S Teatt
Proceedings
Wasarveros
Upper
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
ONAL
United States
Bicknell
Robeson
Torega
Sheridan County
Captain Creek
Johnson and
Douglas
Topeka Library Association
Capital Square
Osywatomie Insane Asylum
Ninth Judicial District
Labette County
Peffer
Road
Montgomery County
Tenth
Greene
Oklahoma
State Board of Charities
N. Green
House of Representatives
Auditor of State
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Kansas
Crawford
Loxpow
St. Petersburg
Skobeloff
Persessunro
Thornton
Stoke
Constantinopte
Greece
Europa
Dowty
Ross
Cameron County
The
Land League
Parnell
Wasnixotox
Senate Committees On Finance
Sherman
Treasury
Treasury Notes
J Lad
Tren
Aman
Darr Brandon
Burley
Thomas ‘Higgs
Thomas Winth
Ned
Rea
Ida Leeg
Miss Mattiere
Hattleausted
Rachael Brother
Molla Patton
Moor
Jennie E. Jace
Ida Welehold J
Arthur
Brown
Frank Baym
Miller
W. Smith
Josiaharth
Linus A.hese
Adala
Worden
Leas
Pid Ud
Uudries
U'Sing Uonery Law Department
Mhoelng
Hepa Og
Amisec
Cits
City J Forney
Tavemet Fond
Deleit
Erperaca
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Board of
Bal Tisot
St Brig
An Fire Department
Shei Hose Company
Ted Og
Sandry
Paoper
ROYAL
Cams
Greers
New York
Donnelly Bros
Livery and Exchange
Winthrop and
New Hampshire
Lawrance
Kansze4
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Sadie Herves
Ssachusetts Street
sAranut
Siatty
Wight Morry
Cay Ignees Thes Et Leis
Kambas
Hannas Cini
Duzee
Yeas
Kansab City
Tareas Cory
R.wurlitzer & Bro
Main Street
Cincinnati, Ohio
Amporters
America
Sol Ae City
Excelsior Cornet
Jean White
Phi Serum
Jawnentz
Rad'rsnec
Beneby
State of
F. Meset
A& In
National Bank of
Listin M. MW. Sewlin
Western National Fair Association
Be Highs
Greenbrier
White Sulphor
Kanawa County
Virginia
Amilton
George Ord
Rachel A. Ford
Sxreeutrix
Ron Grovenor
Todas
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