Chicago and South Dakota notes mix in a crowded political week
Chicago appoints Washington Hesing as postmaster amid disputes over Hawaii and Willis. Kansas Populists push Jerry Simpson toward a free silver party. Sioux City Tribune touts Editor Perkins while editors move to federal posts. Packing plant reopenings spark Sioux City Yankton Sioux Falls activity. Powderly faces a fresh Knights of Labor crisis as he resigns after walking out. Elder Ellis of Stanford protests debt in a grocery and pew rent reveal. A Chicago robber fails to rob James H Walker as the plan faces risky success in his home.
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Sioux City
Cudahy
Sioux Falls
Yankton
South Dakota
Elder Ellis
Stanford
Chicago
James H. Walker
Walker
Reed Warns Victory Is Just Beginning Of War
In a Boston Home Market club address on Friday night ex-Speaker Reed urged sober effort for three years more of struggle. He said the nation had won a glorious victory but must not be intoxicated by it and expressed great hope for the future.
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Home Market Club
Boston
Reed
Senator Voorhees to Speak on Pension Policy Upon Congress Return
Senator Voorhees declares he will address pension policy when Congress reassembles. He states he stands for the old soldier and notes his heart is touched by the subject though he needs no preparation. He recalls Copperhead leaders who supported soldiers in earlier conflicts.
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Senator Voorhees
Congress
Indiana
Copperheads
Sioux Falls Visit Highlights Court Benefit for Pierre Dispute
The writer notes a U.S. court’s value to Sioux Falls and a show of witnesses from Hand County and nearby Indians from the reservation, arguing Pierre had no right to complain of discrimination.
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Sioux Falls
United States
Hand County
Pierre
Denial Eludes Mrs Lease Interview Reprint Flap
The Union Labor Gazette notes that reports of an interview with Mrs Lease criticizing Populists in Kansas were fabrications by a reporter. Lease has not denied the statements, merely said she spoke hastily. The piece accuses old party papers of coloring facts for partisan ends and questions Populist outlets for sensationalism.
Schooner Wrecks Off Swamp Scott and Smiths Point Rescue Fails
Swampscott Massachusetts reports a two masted schooner foundered two and a half miles offshore in gale seas. Spectators watched the tragedy as a Humane Society lifeboat searched the scene and found only a bottom up boat with coat and hat bearing the name C Hines Bangor Maine. A four masted schooner ashore off Smiths Point opposite Belleport New York clings to rigging with nine crew members, lifesaving attempts fail due to long reach lifelines and heavy surf while rockets are planned and coast guard boats struggle to reach them.
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Mass
Kehoe
Humane Society
Smiths Point
New York
Fire Island
Belleport
L. I
Loan Hill
Merritt
Fatal Fire Tops Oil City Restaurant. Many Missing
A major early morning blaze at Shield's restaurant in Oil City destroyed a 10 to 19 building block, with estimated $100000 loss. Mrs Shields and three children are believed dead after she rushed back inside for others. Several residents narrowly escaped as flames swept through Railroad to Elm and Center to Sycamore streets.
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Oil City
Pittsburg
Shield
Railroad
Elm Streets
Center
Sycamore
Shields
Revoir Free After New Trial Dismissal Ordered
St Croix county supervisors direct district attorney to drop proceedings against Albert Revoir in the 1889 murder case of William McDonald near New Richmond Wisconsin. Revoir previously sentenced to 14 years for second degree murder. a supreme court grant of a new trial followed after two and a half years served. The board cites character, sentencing cost, and provocation.
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Wisconsin
Hodson
Wis
St. Croix
Revoir
Supreme Court
Governor Peck Denies Conspiracy Claim in Trac y Gibbs Suit
Mapisox reports Governor Peck denies conspiracy to extort 7500 from Tracy Gibbs & Co in Madison Times saga. He says printing order followed lawful guidance from the attorney general. Other defendants deny conspiracy.
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Peck
Mapisox
Tracy, Gibbs & Co
O'Conner
Clancy
C. L. Clark
Madison Times
Lowell Honored in Westminster Abbey Memorial Unveiling
The memorial to James Russell Lowell was unveiled in Westminster Abbey's old chapter house by English admirers with US Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard as chief speaker. The two stained glass windows honor Lowell and his friendship with England, detailing symbols from Mayflower to Lincoln-era imagery and figures like Sir Launfal and St Ambrose.
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Navy
James Russell Lowell
Westminster Abbey
United States
Thomas F. Bayard
Longfellow
America
Atlantic
Lowell
Wordsworth
Bayard
Angland
John Hughes
England
St. James
St. Botolph
Sir Launfal
United Kingdom
St. Ambrose
Receivers Seek 1500 Monthly Pay for Union Pacific Officers
Omaha November 29 receivers of the Union Pacific petition Judge Dundy for an order fixing salaries at 1500 dollars a month for each of five receivers. They acknowledge the 90000 annual total exceeds former pay by 40000 but argue the stakes warrant it. The judge took the matter under advisement.
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N Pacific
Omaha
Clark, Mink, Anderson, Doane and Condert
Union Pacific
Dundy
United States District Court
Infernal machine sent to Emperor William revealed
The note details a parcel delivered to the emperor’s civil cabinet containing an infernal machine and letter. Staff suspected its danger, rendered it harmless, while reports also note arrests of 118 anarchists in Spain linked to dynamite outrages including the Lyceo theatre blast.
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Berry
William
Orleans
von Caprivi
Bancelona
Spain
Lyceo Theatre
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