Tragedy and Arrests After Robbery Attempt in Council Bluffs
A bold robbery attempt on Broadway in Council Bluffs ends with two men killed. Jones is wounded, and police capture several suspects including Maher, Coldan, and Crogan as they unravel a plotted ambush. The narrative traces the gunfight and suspected decoy ploys in the nighttime assault.
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Council Bluffs
Council Luis
Broadway
Goden
Jack Wade
W. M. Jones
Lake Maniana
Mike Kildare
Jones
Ogden Hlouse
James Maher
Tom Coldan
Ogden House
Stella Long
Wade
Malier
Maher
Crogan
Man Attempts self harm amid mob fury at jail door
In a crisis of remorse Deagin, a white man, wounded himself after fearing lynching by a crowd of colored men. He first cut his throat with a coal shovel then stabbed his chest with a nail, failing to reach his heart and likely to die.
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Deagin
Deine
Birmingham
Ala
Cullerton
Alabaroa
Monroe Ivens
John Tvens
Cincinnati
Oho Nations Guard
Woodsdale Island
British Injustice In Senatorial Move On Webster Claim
Washington reports the senate in executive session acted on a case involving William Webster seeking 500000 acres in New Zealand. Britain acquired the land from native chiefs and later seized it, with the senate acknowledging justice and urging arbitration.
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England
United States
Washington, DC
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
William Webster
New Zealand
Aim
Citim
Wergeland Arrives in Chicago After Norse Voyage
The Norweg ian steamer Wergeland sailed through the Welland Canal and St Lawrence to Chicago carrying fish and oil for return provisioning. A large Scandinavian celebration greeted the ship with excursion boats forming a grand procession. The same report notes a 31 year old grandmother from Mount Vernon Ohio and tanneries shutting down to reduce 2,500,000 hides over sixty days beginning June 1. A Santa Fe wreck near Lemont killed engineer Isballe and injured fourteen passengers.
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Welland Canal
Chicago
Wergeland
Norway
St. Lawrence River
Johnstown
United States
Santa Fe
Lemont
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
St. Louis
Isballe
fugitive Biscot surrenders to Indiana prison after years on run
Arthur Biscot, once convict and Bedford murder suspect, returns to Jeffersonville Indiana prison after twelve years in hiding. He had escaped after a life sentence for the 1875 Bedford marshal murder and later fled to Mexico. Biscot surrendered willingly to Warden J B Patten and hopes for a pardon.
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Arthur Biksecor
Jeffersonville
Ind
Arthur Biscot
J. B. Patten
South
George McDaniel
Bedford
Biscot
George Leehtell
George Carney
Lawrence County
Bechtel
Ohio
City of
Mexico
Mercine
Williams
Strange Lynchings Case Involving Murder and Mob Action
A PM- era report describes a murder on an island plantation where an unseen assailant shot Brigham, then aided by the murderer to stage a lynching. Col. Phillips was summoned, rope placed around the killer, and the negro swung from a tree in a death struggle. Authorities note no clear motive and speculate possible insanity.
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S. Chambriss Briglint
Col. Geo. C. Phillips
Dhe Shard
Brigham
Miss Jennie D Trumbo Dies After Cocaine Mixup
Silt Lake reports Miss Jennie D Trumbo foster sister of Colonel Tiane Trumbo and Republican delegate attire to the Minneapolis convention died suddenly from a cocaine overdose taken by mistake for other medicine. She had recent illness and a prescription change, then picked up the cocaine bottle near her medicine and swallowed it before realizing the error.
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Silt Lake
Jennie D. Trumbo
Tiane Trumbo
Minneapolis
California
Miss Trumbo
Rabbit Skins Not Dutiable in Boston Special
United States v Wooten Bros case rules rabbit skins used in hats not dutiable at 10 percent ad valorem as dressed skins. Board of Appraisers reversed, government appeals, circuit court affirms decision. Anna Dickinson suit against National Republican Committee for five dollars and nine cents for lectures tests committee authority. judge adjourns awaiting settlement.
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Philadelphia
American Baptist Missionary Union
Wayland
Thomas Dixon
New York
Pacific
Dennis Kearney
Dixon
Jefferson
Dennis
Boston
Judize Colt
United States
Wooten Bros
Board of Appraisers
Circuit Court
Card of Appraisers
Anna Dickinson
National Republican Committee
Judge Traux
Supreme Court
Miss Dickinson
Clarkson
Dudley
Red Flags Declared Menace in Chicago May Day Case
In Justice Prindiville's Court the police were affirmed to seize red flags from the May day procession as symbols of disorder. City Chief McClaughery testified the flags threatened law and order, a test case brought by the Chicago Debating Society. Paris theater tragedy follows hissed singer incident with a tenor wife dying in the lobby.
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Chicago
Paris
Theater d
Peralde
Million Dollar Judgment Links Two Mining Firms
San Francisco stockholder M. W. Fox sued Hale and Norcross Silver Mining Co. and Nevada Mill and Mining Co. for 2 million dollars alleging fraud and breach of trust. Superior Judge Hubbard awarded Fox 21,001,200 dumates and appointed a receiver for the properties until the judgment is recovered.
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San Francisco
M. W. Fox
Hale & Norcross Silver Mining Company
Nevada Mill and Mining Company
Hubbard
Fox
Weather prophets and maps at the Washington Signal Office
The article details how the U S Signal Office in Washington staffs and uses three professional weath er prophets to forecast conditions. Dispatches from 150 stations are translated onto maps with symbols and leads to a bra ss plate and lithographic chart, producing twelve hour forecasts and weather charts for farmers and the public.
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Sam
Washington
Congo
Bostov
Bony
Sp. m
United States
Chicago
Sacramento
Minneapolis
New England
Maj. Dunwoody
Othrs
H. A. Hazen
Lieut
Glassford
Signal Service
Train Robbery Ends in Murder on Florida Rail Route
Four men boarded the West India fast mail near Monroe Junction four miles from Sanford. They killed Messenger W. N. Saunders and wounded Special Agent I. M. Cox after shooting the engine crew. The robbers escaped into dense woods with between 335000 and 40000 in the express car safe.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Tampa
Key West Road
Monroe Junction
Sanford
Pla
United States Mails
Lusineer Dumas
W. N. Saunder
I. M. Cox
Saunders
Mr. Cox
Cox
Indians Embrace Third Class Rail Travel The Fourth Class Joke
The piece notes cheap Indian rail fares with first class at three cents per mile and third class at half a cent. It describes travelers shouting for porters and pilgrims crowding cars while officials swing bamboo rods to manage crowds. Europeans then adopt third class as travel becomes respectable. Bishop William Taylor’s evangelistic tour popularized the shift by joking he rode third class because there are no fourth class cars.
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India
William Taylor
Running Wild on Monhegan Sheep Flocks Grow
About thirty years ago farmers abandoned care for two small flocks on Monhegan Island. The wild sheep increased to 250 head, running free with no attention. Once yearly, men herd them to a pen for shearing and marking. Ownership now rests with half a dozen people, some not seeing the stock for two decades.
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Monhegan
Penobscot Bay
National Solon Deliberations Span Senate and House Actions
Congress debates silver and treaty rights enforcement. Senate considers anti alien treaty violation penalties and a proposed equal coinage of gold and silver while House handles navy land sale, mint tax edits, and post office funding. Leaders push amendments on coinage, revenue, and printing limits amid adjournments.
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Congress
Senate
Fort Sidne
Sidney Cemetery
Ntor Morgan
New Orleans
Gray
Morgan
Mitter
Pettigrew
Dingley
Alaska Boundary
Dockery
House
Morrill
Senor Hill
Morrin
Finines
Senat Stewart
Ane International Confe Ence
Seniator
Sherman
Sherinn
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Eh. Springer
Thinvis
Haivana
Philadelphia
Watch
Hateh
Witch
Newberry
Scott
Detur
Hayes
Kendall
Fithian
Watson
M Rulee
Curious Items and Strange Beliefs From an Old Ledger
The article notes a New York undertaker wagon with oats growing in it, gypsies' belief in eggshell plates for banquets, lunar blood myths about men born under the moon, Bermuda’s massive floating dock details, mysteries of beetle colors, and Brazil’s beetles famed for metallic hues of gold silver and blue enamel.
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Nis
Bermuda
Tose
Brazil
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