Blizzard Rages With Blockade Feared In Milwacker Region
Ashland reports a twenty four hour blizzard threatens rail service as trains may be blocked and many freeze to death after fine weather. Fort Peck agency recounts Pretty Boy Yankton Sioux's liquor fueled attack killing two police and wounding others before suicide.
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Ashland
Camp PorLaRr River
Mont
Fort Peck Indian Agency
Pretty Boy
Cowan
Unified river and rail system aims to control Northwest freight
The plan by President A. B. Stickney would purchase and unite the traffic of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers with the St. Paul and Duluth, the Duluth and Iron Range, and the Kansas City railroads. It envisions moving iron ore from Lake Superior to St Paul then down the Mississippi to Pittburgh for mills and returning coal to distribute across the Northwest.
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Ohio
Mississippi
St. Pacn
A. B. Stickney
Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City
Ohio and Mississippi
St. Paul
Duluth
Duluth and Iron Range
Kansas City
Kansas City Railroads, With the River Levees In Onu Grand System. Mr. Stickney
Lake Superior
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Pittshurje
Pennsylvania
Northwest
Stickney
Western Railroads
Great Lakes
Minnesota G A R Encampment Preparations At St Paul
Preparations for the coming Department Encampment at St Paul progress with a soldier's welcome planned for delegates. Commander in Chief Warner will attend on January 24. Committee members include Starkey McCurdy Castle White Forbes Brigham Serrim Kendrick Meseman Cummings Converse Nafie Bishop.
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Warner
Starkey
McCurdy
Castle
White
Forbes
Acker Post
Brigham
Serrim
Kendrick
Meseman
Cummings
Garfield Post
Converse
Nafie
Bishop
Old Post
Burglars Blow Safe Until Fragments Scatter in Barron
At George Parr's general store in Barron Wisconsin burglars used too much powder on Friday early morning and blew the safe to pieces. They smashed $200 worth of dishes and other goods while only $6 to $7 remained in the till. The explosion scattered windows and the thieves avoided a return after the blast. Nearby Brule County favors division in the Venocratic statehood convention set for Mitchell on the 20th.
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Chamberlain, Dak
Mitchell
Brule
Congress
Barron, Wis
George Parr
Dakota
Catch as Catch Can Match Planned in Milwaukee
Milwaukee December 18. After Connors and McMillan fought Saturday night Jack Carbeck made a $250 side match with Connors. The bout will be best three in five with two points down and will be staged in catch as catch can wrestling around January 20.
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Milwaauker
Connors
McMillan
Jack Carbeck
Naturalization Push for Italians in Chicago
Franci is cited in securing naturalization papers for several Italians in Chicago. A separate item notes Bernard Kimball elected to the Massachusetts legislature, who reportedly severed his jugular due to ill health. Other items report constable Lee West trapping six burglars at Haigler Nebraska, and rumors that Sir Spencer St John may succeed Lord Sackville in Washington. Additional notes cover pardons in 186 cases during 1887 88, a Lima Ohio strike threat, New York sailing from Hong Kong without Chinese on board, and Gen Harrison invited to a Washington centennial in New York on April 29. A bottle warning of the J R Humphrey storm is found in Sandwich Mass. The American Historical Association opens in Washington with Poole and Wilson papers. Rev John F Hooper of Morrisania suspended for divorce related cruelty.
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Chicago
Bernard Kimball
Massachusetts
Lee West
Turner, Fraser & Co
Haigler
Neb
Spencer St. John
Mexico
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Washington
Lima
Ohio
Lake Erie and Western Railroad
City of
New York
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Gen
Harrison
George Washington
Sandwich
Mass
J. R. Humphrey
Bath
American Historical Association
Poole
James Grant Wilson
Cyclopedia of American Biography
John F. Hooper
St. Paul's Reformed Church
Morrisania
N. Y
California
Hooper
Foreign Notes Summary of 19th Century Affairs
The item lists 1200 applicants for extra Trish land sub-commissionerships. It notes Jem Selby, famed England coach whip, is dead. Lord Tennyson shows health improvement and good spirits. Welsh gold discoveries yield six ounces per ton. The Prince of Wales replaces Irelands Charles I relics in Windsor private chapel. Government orders Ireland prison doctors to publish diet change recommendations with reasons.
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Trish Land
Jem Selby
England
Lord Tennyson
Wales
Prince of Wales
Windsor
Charles I
Ireland
MARKET QUOTATIONS FOR DEC 17 CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Wheat prices for December January and May are listed with fractions and decimals. Oats pork lard short ribs and live stock quotes appear for December January February and May with various price ranges and receipts, including hogs cattle and sheep with price bands and classifications.
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Chicago
German Burns Remedy Described As Elastic Skin Sealant
The Herald of Health notes a German remedy for burns using white glue water glycerine and carbolic acid to form a transparent flexible skin when applied. J L Colton announces contesting Minot for county seat after the last election, claiming illegal voting. Burlington received 138 and Minot 499 votes.
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Minor
Dak
J. L. Colton
Minot
Burlington
Colton
Elk Herd Shipped From DeGraff Farm to Long Island
The finest domesticated elk herd from DeGraff stock farm near Janesville Minnesota has been shipped to Austin Corbin on Long Island. Both does and bucks were praised as admirable specimens. In Wisconsin River town of River Falls, Frank Stiffel died after taking cedar oil for a cold. He had recently moved from St. Paul and worked at the Gladstone hotel. His burial was simple.
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Denuti
J. G. Clark
Wisconsin
St. Peter, Minn
Northwestern Depot
Dakota
Janesville, Minn
DeGraff
Austin Corbin
Long Island
America
Wis
Frank Stiffel
St. Paul
Gladstone Hotel
Advantages of Imperfect Health in Life and Success
A Pittsburg Bulletin piece argues perfect physical health does not guarantee high intellect or success. It suggests robust bodies aid risk taking and enterprise, while imperfect health fosters caution, mental calculation, and business prudence, leading to fame in thought or wealth without brilliance.
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Sullivan
Humboldt
Ianeline
Pittsburg Bulletin
Tugboat Salvage and High Paying Towage Tales
An old South Street tug veteran recalls the record salvage of 28 000 dollars for two tugs towing a derelict off Sandy Mook. He notes a 1 500 dollar towing payment from a Manila voyage captain facing a gale near Staten Island.
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South Street
Sandy Mook
Manila
Staten Island
Bermuda
New York Sun
Avoiding Unwelcome Callers And The Bull Dog’s Disposition
A Philadelphia businessman uses a detective camera to photograph visitors and build a file for future instruction. The boy staffer records those who waste time or demand unpaid bills. The second piece argues dogs, especially mongrels, are easier to train than purebred dogs, though loving and loyal when treated well.
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Philadelphia
RBG
Philadelphia Times
Chicuzo Journal
How Lighthouses Stay White With Lime and Cement
Excursionists admire coastal lighthouses in summer and wonder how they stay white in winter. The United States government formula uses ten parts lime to one part hydraulic cement mixed with salt water, applied very thinly to resist washing off.
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Mariner
United States
New York Sun
Nutritious comparison from the American Analyst
A table of nutriment compares a pint of white beans at seven cents to three and a half pounds of roast beef at eighty seven cents. It lists bread butter molasses beans and rice as the cheapest edibles and notes corn meal and flour equivalence. It argues bread made from ground corn and wheat with bran would save fifteen percent nutriment.
Riot at Wahalak Leaves Five Dead in Mississippi
Reports from Meridian Mississippi describe a violent riot near Maury’s plantation after a dispute over right of way between G F Nicholson and a negro driver. A white posse attacked a fortified cotton and smoke house. casualties included William Vaughan Seth Cobb and John Dew among others. Negroes hid in swamps as attacks continued.
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Meridian
Miss
Wahalak
G. F. Nicholson
Kemper County
Shuqalak
George Maury
Nicholson
Maury
William Vaughan
Cotton House
Seth Cobb
John Dew
Vengeance on the Blacks and Attacks in Mississippi
News from Wahalak Mississippi reports cabins burned and stock destroyed. Black residents fled to swamps, with initial tallies suggesting five killed and about ten wounded, though figures may rise. No confirmed killings of Black individuals yet. likelihood of many more deaths suspected.
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Wahalak
Magnetism theories and a Bloomington murder reported
The piece references a Globe Democrat quote on magnetism and a Bloomington farmer William Ritter sentenced to five years for killing his hired man Jeff Adkins over $10. It also notes the continuing death toll from the Great New York Blizzard, including editor Alexander McMillan of The New York Commercial Bulletin who died from disease after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge during the storm.
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William Ritter
Bloomington
Jeff Adkins
Ritter
Adkins
Fin
New York
Alexander IX. McMillan
New York Commercial Bulletin
Brooklyn Bridge
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