Dak G A R elects officers at Yankton encampment
Officers of the Dakota G A R department were elected in Yankton with Palmer of Sioux Falls named commander and Hoyt of Aberdeen as senior vice. Other posts include Houston Armour junior vice and Stewart Hot Springs medical director. The day focused on officer reports and a memorial service. The First Dakota Cavalry held its 1862 1865 reunion with about forty attendees.
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Yankton
Department of Dakota
G.A. R
Palmer
Hoyt
Aberdeen
E.A. Houston
Armour
A. S. Stewart
Hot Springs
T.M. Shanfelt
Huron
John L.jolly
B.B. Clough
Woman's Relief Corps
Relief Corps
First Dakota Cavalry
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Yellowstone River
Big Row Over Catholic Indian Teachers in Wisconsin
Ex Representative McCord of Wisconsin met Secretary Noble to discuss the Indian school staff removals at Green Bay. Catholics accused him of favoritism after he appointed Kelsey as agent. McCord cites Catholic resentment and retaliation as he and Morgan pushed for the discharge of the Catholic sisters. The secretary's response is awaited.
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Wisconsin
Washington
McCord
Noble
Green Bay Reservation
Kelsey
Morgan
Relations Strained as Rate War Fears Rise
In St Paul and Minneapolis irregularities in ticketing have surfaced against the passenger agreement. The Milwaukee Omaha Burlington railways are named, with Kansas City line now accused of cutting passenger rates to Kansas City. Arbitration before Chairman Finley is underway. a settlement is needed to avert another rate war.
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Ihwestern
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Finley
Milwaukee
Omaha
Burlington
Kansas City
Des Moines River Bridge In Danger On Des Moines and Northern
Reports from Des Moines Iowa describe the Des Moines river remaining high and damaging infrastructure. The belt line bridge is gone and the Sixth Street bridge condemned after severe shaking. An ice gorge threatens to carry out the entire bridge over the river, with the wrecked Boone bridge hitting the high bridge and endangering the Des Moines and Northern line. The Des Moines and Northern railway structure stands 100 feet above river bed and 1,200 feet long, located 26 miles north of Des Moines.
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Des Moies
Iowa
Des Moines
Sixth Street
Boone
Here
Severe snowstorm hits western Kansas and cattle region
A fierce western Kansas blizzard buries counties in deep snow with high winds. Trains halt on the Missouri Pacific as crews rush to clear tracks and feed stranded passengers. Cattle dealers report heavy stock losses as storms drive herds across the Texas Panhandle.
Hearst Funeral Train Returns to Washington from Dallas
A Dallas to California leg of Hearst funeral train relay reports that Senators Sawyer Stockbridge Vance Berry Bate and Pugh with members of Congress and reporters escorted Hearst's remains. The train carried many empty or partially empty bottles and no water on board officials plan to log expense through the sergeant at arms.
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Hearst
St. Louis
Republic
Dallas
Tex
California
Sawyer
Stockbridge
Vance
Berry
Bate
Pugh
Washington
Italy Not Satisfied Over Emigration and Lynching Issue
A Rome dispatch reports Italy fears drain on military strength and plans to bar able bodied men from emigrating before service. Rome seeks satisfaction for the killing of Italians in America and rejects New Orleans governor’s statement. Chicago exposition items note Mrs Potter Palmer selecting the design for the Woman's Building by Sophia G Hayden of Boston with $1000 prize. Lois L Howe and Laura Hayes win second and third prizes.
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Nicols
New York
Rome
America
New Orleans
Caicaco
Mrs. Potter
Palmer
Sophia G. Hayden
Boston
Lois L. Howe
Laura Hayes
Chicago
Hayden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cardinals to Gain Five or Six Incoming Dignitaries
Rome reports thinning of the sacred college after recent cardinals’ deaths with a consistory planned after Easter. The pope is expected to elevate five or six new cardinals, three likely Italians, Morgan and Miller en route to Europe. On Majestic voyage to Liverpool, J Pierpont Morgan and Roswell Miller travel with family. Morgan aims to supervise funding of the Argentine loan via Morgan & Co. in London.
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New York
Rome
The
Catholic News
Sacred College
Prison escape details from Wisconsin Penitentiary
Peter McDonald, sentenced to ten years last spring from Chippewa Falls, escaped Wisconsin State Penitentiary at noon on Wednesday. He was in the sick cell where the door bars had been cut. After the noon report, he left the cell, went to the yard, and climbed over the wall using a ladder from the shops.
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Wisconsin
Watpran
Wis
Peter McDonald
Chippewa Falle
Market Reports From St Paul Stock Prices
St Paul reports hogs steady to 10c higher with heavy and mixed grades described. Cattle steady to strong with grain fed steers and cows priced widely. Veal, stockers, and feeders listed with ranges. Receipts noted as 80 hogs, 00 cattle, 19 calves, sheep. Also notes Kansas City snowstorm halting traffic, trains delayed but gradually resuming, unions up from Denver and Rocky Mountain points.
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St. Paul
Sentra
Kansas City
Kansas
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Union Pacific
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Burlington
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Raul
Marcha
Chicago
Chicago Union
Wreck details and miner deaths spark distress calls
Tales of distress describe the wreck of the Strathairly off North Carolina and claim two Northern Michigan miners were killed by coworker carelessness. A Wallace county Kansas aid committee reports 2000 residents starving and freezing as Western Kansas endures a fourth straight crop failure. Local farmers seek relief as March reports emerge from Kansas City.
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Michigan
Kansas City
Wallace County
Kansas
Wreck of the Strathairly Details of the Rescue
Norfolk Va March 28 Details emerge on the Strathairly wreck off North Carolina. Seventeen clung to the wreck as waves washed eleven to death. six survivors were saved by fisher folk and awaiting care in Elizabeth City after reach Thursday afternoon.
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Norfo.k
North Carolina
Tor
Raith
Elizabeth City
Reckless Mining Blast Kills Two Miners at Negaunee
In Marquette, Mich on March 28, a reckless blast at the South Buffalo mine in Negaunee killed Peter Doyle and Charles Peterson. The dynamite was fired under their feet without warning as miners Doyle and Peterson worked below. Doyle died within an hour and Peterson died at noon. Separately, a Chesapeake and Ohio line passenger train hit a freight train in a tunnel near Charlestown, Va, causing a wreck and fire with several minor injuries.
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Dhch
Marquette
Mich
South Buffalo
Peter Doyle
Charles Peterson
Doyle
Peterson
Charlestown
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Here
Extradition Ordered for Garment Cutters Leader
Harrisburg, Pa March 28. Governor Fattison has decided to issue writs for the extradition of James Hughes, national master workman of the Assembly of Garment Cutters, wanted in Rochester New York on charges of extortion and conspiracy filed by L Adler Bros. Co. The papers were in proper form and the governor must proceed after the initial extortion hearing.
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Cutters’ Union
New York
Harrissoka
Fattison
James Hughes
Assembly of Garment Cutters
Rochester
N. Y
L. Adler Bros. & Co
Hill
Hughes
Boycott Begins In Rochester Clothing Trade War
Rochester March 28 The Knights of Labor publish a boycott naming John Hughes D M W and Walter R Weadlebrook D B 8 urging members to appoint committees to pressure retailers to countermand all Rochestermade clothing orders. Also a coroner's inquest will be held in Racine over Annie Knutson who died Thursday after an incident at a Free Methodist residence.
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Knights of Labor
Rochester
N. Y
Journal of the
John
Hughes
Walter R. Weadlebrook
D. B
Racine
Wis
Annie Knutson
Sheboygan
Peterson
Hubbard Street
Charles Egan
Parliaments Debates Hennessy Pension Issue
London reports reveal Sir John Pope Hennessy receives a £1000 yearly government pension as a colonial ex governor due to ill health. The McCarthyites gain no traction as the government can recall him if health improves, and Hennessy appears well.
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London
John Pope Hennessy
Hennessy
Uty
Protection shift fuels talk of imperial customs union
London March 6 Mr W Beck chairman of the Leeds chamber of commerce backs the imperial federation league plan to study a Britain colonies customs union. Beck says Britain needs protective policy changes to sustain manufacturers and commerce. News notes Herbert Gladstone may lean toward a customs union amid a stricter merchandise marks bill before Parliament.
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Gland
London
W. Beckwith
Leeds Chamber of Commerce
Imperial Federation League
Great Britain
Beckwith
Herbert Gladstone
M. P
California Brandy Trust Seeks Market Corner in San Francisco
A San Francisco Chronicle report notes a local syndicate of jobbers buying up brandy across wine districts and storing about 1,000,000 gallons since 1889, with nearly half held by the group. Independent buyers plan to counter by converting large wine stocks into brandy.
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Cocal
San Francisco
the Chronicle
Brandy Trust
Tasunke Ota to Be Given Up
Acting Secretary Grant received notice that Sioux Falls authorities request surrender of Tasunke Ota indicted for murder of Lieutenant Casey near Pine Ridge and another Indian prisoner accused of killing a herder named Miller. Military officers instructed to turn the prisoner over to the district attorney.
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Tasunke-Ota
Washington
Grant
War Department
Sioux Falls
S. D
Tasunke- Ota
Lieut
Casey
Pine Ridge
Miller
Threatened collapse of Kansas City tunnel prompts 200 workers to shore arch
In Rice township Galena Illinois 200 men toil to avert a disaster at the Chicago St Paul and Kansas City railroad tunnel. Since recent heavy rains the clay tunnel roof sheds earth onto the tracks, risking a major accident. Officials fear enormous costs to arch the tunnel for safe use.
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Chicago, St. Paul, and
Kansas City
Jinois
Galena
Ill
Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City
Rice Township
Bridge at St. Charles Wreck Destroys Large Pontoon Span
The largest pontoon bridge in the world at St. Charles across the Missouri river broke from its moorings at 5 a m and started downstream. Five men on the bridge John Coleman Fritz Weeks Louis Robinson James Sparks and John Enoch were unaccounted for by nightfall. This marks the third wreck in recent weeks caused by a large amount of lumber lodged against the bridge.
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St. Charles
Missouri River
John Coleman
Fritz Weeks
Louis Robinson
James Sparks
John Enoch
Earth Cracking Threatens Kansas City Block in Landslide
March 31 Kansas City reports a major landslide threat along Terrace Street near Eighteenth. Heavy rains have split the earth for hundreds of feet, causing an entire block of houses to lean toward railroad yards below. Tons of earth slid at night and the crevasse widens. The big slide is expected within hours.
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Kansas City
Eighteenth
Terrace Streets
Terrace Street
Down an Embankment Wreck on Birmingham Dummy Line
Birmingham March 31 a frightful wreck on the Ensley City Dummy line killed A F Brown and Bob Taylor colored and gravely injured engineer A J Risby. Mrs Dr Ramsey and Mrs John Sullivan suffered severe injuries others were badly hurt. About ten passengers injured all residents of the city.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ensley City
Bob Taylor
A. J. Risby
Dr Ramsey
John Sullivan
James Nelms
Standpipe Collapse Wrecks Defiance Water Works
Defiance Ohio reports a standpipe failure at noon wrecking Engineer John Dillons house and injuring his wife fatally. His brother and a child narrowly escaped drowning as water flooded the engine house. one engine ruined and the town left without water. Works valued at 181000 dollars. Standpipe of boiler iron seven inches thick at base, one quarter at top collapsed at the base full of water.
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Defiance
Ohio
Cleveland
John Dillon
Dillon
South American News Budget From Bureau of Americana Republics
Washington March 31 The Bureau of American Republics releases a South American news budget. Inauguration of work on a Cartagena Colombia to Calamar Magdalena railway will revive Carthagenas port, hurt by better facilities in Barranquilla. Brazilian press debates reciprocity with the United States as treaty to be effected April 1. British, French and German importers fear trade loss. Lieut. Safford reports cordial Peru reception for World’s Columbian Exposition display. Peru to appoint commissioners to showcase resources and historical items. British Guiana rejects reciprocal ties with Canada in favor of the United States in a governor general letter.
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Bureau of Americana
Washington
Bureau of American Republics
Carthagena
Colombia
Calamar
Magdalena River
Carfingens
Barranquilla
Jow
United States
William 8. Safford
United’ States Navy
Peru
Hicks
British Guiana
Canada
Timely Topics and scattered 19th century notes
A round up of brief items mentions D Walker's death by pistol wound while delirious with grip in Chicago. Downer Wisconsin starts The Kodak journal with Orpha Leavitt editor. Willmar Minnesota farmers begin work soon on a project. British steamer Beaufort ashore at Wilmington with 10,000 bales of cotton and crew saved. The Chi Hunting and Fishing club plans a benefit for Englist Godfrey under Parson Davies. In Decatur Illinois a 100 yard foot race ends 11 1/2 seconds with Ben Alexander beating Charles Brown. A claim about Miss Anna Parnell and Charles Stewart Parnell is denied by The Times. Dennis Burks, engineer of a derailed train near Racine Wisconsin, is arrested for criminal carelessness. A Berlin divine warns about rising socialism amid population influx and dreary winter. Wisconsin Arcanum general council aligns Green Bay and Fort Howard for the forty-one lodges guests. Smith Hastings, a wealthy loner in Lime Springs Iowa, found dead on his sofa. no witnesses or motive. property large.
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Whronicka
Chicago
D. Walker
Downer
Wis
the Kodak
Orpha Leavitt
Willmar
Minn
Wilmington
N. C
Beaufort
Chi Hunting and Fishing Club
Godfrey
Anna Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Times
Foundson
Dennis Burks
Acine
Junction
Berlin
Germany
General Council
Wisconsin
Arcanum
Green Bay
Fort Howard
Selegatea
Smith Hastings
Lime Springs
Iowa
Hastings
Market and commodity prices in St Paul and Minneapolis
Grain and livestock prices across St Paul and Minneapolis markets show wheat and corn varying by grade and month, with cattle and hogs described as steady or higher. Reports detail No 1 hard wheat, No 2 Northern oats, various barley and flaxseed values, and live stock bids, including hogs and cattle, with daily on and off track quotes and market activity.
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Upland
Timothy Kay
Minneapolis
Minnea Polis
Northern
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