Dry weather delays seeding across the Midwest
A Midwest report notes slow spring wheat seeding in Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois due to dry conditions. Nebraska reports light rainfall. Michigan seeks warm rains. California shows improved wheat but faces surface moisture limits. Tennessee Kentucky and Washington Territory show varying prospects. a Michigan winter wheat is backward amid scarce rain. a fatal self-inflicted gunshot near Claremont ends with Horace Palmer's death.
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Caicaco
Minnesota
Dakota
Raska
Nebraska
Owa
Illinois
Uline
Minois
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
Caltfornia
California
Washington
Washington Territory
Tacoma
Ilinois
Idiana
Threatened the Wrong Man in Eureka County Shootout
D N Cress was shot and killed by Dr J H Walsin near Eureka in a road encounter after Cress had openly threatened to kill Walsin. Cress had killed three men previously, a pistol was found in his boot leg and cartridges in his pocket. The item notes unrelated advertisements for cough syrups and era ephemera.
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New Onceaxs
Times- Democrat
Lexington
Miss
D. N. Cress
J. H. Walsin
Eureka
Cress
Dr. Walsin
Justice Matthews Dies in Washington at 10:05 AM
News from Wasureton reports Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews died in Washington at 10:05 this morning after a recent decline. The long career spanned roles as U S Senator, Army officer, judge, and anti slavery advocate with service in Cincinnati and Ohio. Funeral services are planned for Connecticut Avenue residence and later at Christ Episcopal church in Cincinnati.
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Wasureton
Stanley Matthews
Supreme Court
Matthews
Cincinnati
Kenyon College
Maury County
Tennesse
Cincinnati Herald
Court of Common Pleas
Hamilton County
U. S
Ohio
Calourel
Twentythird
West Virginia
Richmond
Carnifels Ferry
Fifty-seventh
Ohio Regiment
Dobbs Ferry
Murfeesboro
Chicamarga
Lookout Mountain
Electoral College Commission
Oregon
United States
John Sherman
United States Supreme Court
Connecticut Avenue
Dr. Hamilton
Church of the Covenant
Baltimore & Ohio
Glendale
Christ Episcopal Church
Price
Spring Grove Cemetery
Justice Matthews
Nagacita
Senate
Mathews
Hosar
Capitol
Sherman
Washington
Supreme Bench
Gresham
Wisconsin
Illinois
Maryland
W. A. Woods
Jasving
District of Indiana
Miller
Navy Yard Employee Retention Letter Cites Duty Standards
Secretary Tracey explains in a Washington Navy Yard letter that an employee in the bureau of yards and docks was discharged for inefficiency. He notes military records are considered but not decisive, underscoring that performance must satisfy superiors for retention or appointment.
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Asto Navy Yard
Waantherox
Tracey
Navy Yard
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Waanincton Navy Yap
Washington Navy Yard
Navy Department
Flags Returned to Pennsylvania Veterans in Civil War Losses
Washington March 22. Correspondence explains itself as a transfer of battle flags of a Pennsylvania regiment to surviving members of the Sixty-fifth Pennsylvania volunteers fifth cavalry. Letters from Wann Hampton and General Wade Hampton note the flags’ return to rightful guardians, symbolizing reconciled war animosities. The flags were sent to Pennsylvania today to be restored to their former guardians.
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Washington
OD. S. Senate
M.S. Quay
Pennsylvania
Hampton
Srrerr
Washington, D.C
Gungran
Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry
Sam
Quay
Wade Hampton
U.S
Rate Discrimination Ruling From Iowa Commerce Commission
In Washmpron on March 29 the Iowa Commerce Commission under Commissioner Morrison ruled on the Northwestern Iowa Grain and Stock Commission company and Northwestern Railway case. It held that railroads must justify different rates for different branches by cost differences and cannot charge more for a shorter distance. The decision notes branch competition and through rates for corn shippers to Winds, Iowa, were unlawful preferential treatment to Nebraska shippers. Also reports boomers returning home from Oklahoma and Kansas with soldiers guiding them to the state line, while hundreds remain hidden in Oklahoma and arrive daily.
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Newstate Commerce Commission
Morrison
Northwestern Iowa Grain and Stock Commission Company
Northwestern Railway Company
Nebraska
Iowa
James Thomas Dies While Plowing in Darrow
James Thomas of Darrow died instantly today while plowing with a double team. The plow point struck a root, throwing him over the handles. he turned a somersault and struck his head and shoulders, breaking his neck. The team did not run, and his fellow plowmen failed to revive him.
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Darrow
James Thomas
Thomas
Man injures self with dynamite in Kansas town
In Osace Crrvy John Carroll attempted suicide by placing a dynamite cartridge in his mouth at noon today. The explosion mangled him but doctors expect recovery. In Fort Scott, March 23, registration closed at 3,707 with 2,437 men and 1,250 women, claiming the largest female registration in the state and a strong turnout for equal suffrage supporters.
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Osace Crrvy
Kas
John Carroll
Fort Scott
Friends of Equal Suffrage
Von Bulow Praises Met Opera Acoustics on First Visit
New York March 23 Herr Von Bulow the pianist on his first U. S. visit in thirteen years attended Rheingold at the Metropolitan opera house and called its acoustics among the best, second only to Dresden. He will appear March 27 as a leader. A Phillips county man fleeing with mortgaged mules shot the pair and hid in a schoolhouse to avoid surrender.
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New York
Herr von Bulow
Metropolitan Opera House
Dresden
Phillips County
Himsel
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