Tin Belt mines and rail plans in Black Hills region
News from the Black Hills notes tin bearing ledges in the area between Deadwood and Spearfish, with cassiterite crystals from micro to 100 pounds. Protests accompany appointments for mineral statistics, rail and mail service plans, and heavy mining interests push development in Scobey, Jackson counties, while local incidents include horse theft, a fatal lye accident, a lightning death, and drought myths in the Standing Rock region.
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Arena
Black Hills
Harney Peak
Daily Mail
Deadwood
Spearfish
Brotherhood of Purpose
Clark County
D. P. Wharton
Wolsey
Rapid City
Scobey
Jackson
Meade County
W. J. Manshaul
Windsor
Reg
Standing Rock
Dakotas
Pilare
Caledonia
Ten Sioux Zialls and
Huron &Port Line Railway
Sioux Falls
Wesley
Beadle County
Huron
Pierre
Wahhzneton
Iedy Eadh
Dr. Evans
Aberdeen
Chiilant
Loanie Willians
Iit
J. C.o'brien
Garrelson
Nelson
O'Brien
Sully County
Washington
Pierre Land District
Brale County
Nankton
L. A
Minot
Malta
Mont
Great Northern
Jones
Tamanny Rottenness and Croker on the Stand in New York
A special session of the Fassett senate committee in New York heard Richard Croker, Tammany Hall leader, testify on bribery rumors involving money and cement for Grant's public works appointment. Croker denied all charges, admitted signatures on a contested document, and reiterated opposition to Hubert O Thompson's reappointment. The hearing touched on broader Tamany Hall influence and related political pressure.
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Fassett Senate Committee
New York
Richard Croker
Tammanay Hall
Patrick McCann
McCann
Croker
Grant
Edison
McCann's
Hubert O. Thompson
Commissioner of Public Works
Tom” Adams
Pierson
Adams
Tammany Hall
Thompson
Department of Public Works
Flossie
Ivins
Crocker
Henry W. Ganet
Thomas J. Creamer
Michael Norton
G. W. Merrane
G. H. Pierson
Tyvis
Florence Scannell
John Scannell
Choate
Ivens
Tweed
Florence
James Harner
Tammany
Sullivan's spring overcoat terrorizes Washington crowd
John L. Sullivan led a bizarre rampage on Pennsylvania Avenue wielding a saffron overcoat as a makeshift weapon. He moved where crowds thinned, striking pedestrians and chilling near the Capitol, leaving a stunned assister chief clerk injured before retreating to a sporting headquarters with companions.
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Sullivan
Washington
John L. Sullivan
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Agricultural Bureau
Chicago police order arrests of street lurfers and insulters
The Chicago chief of police orders arrest of street lurfers and women insulters. He has detailed officers in citizen s alibes to snatch these odious creatures and vows to place the first offender under arrest. He cites disgust at the mistreatment of women and plans swift steps to protect passersby.
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Waunien
Chicago
Scio
Riches Found in Stray Item Reveal Clarked Death Case
Mrs Jennie Douglas of Vancouver travels to Cloverdale California after a newspaper item reveals her wealthy Scotch husband Dorgler died there. The will left funds for an undertaker, with £3000 checks found on his person, prompting a suit to halt sending the checks to Beotland where the deceased had a wit.
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Victoria
Douglas
Scotland
Jennie Douglas
Vancouver
B. C
Cloverdale
Dorgler
Beotland
Cnd
Douglag Lake
Tvization
Jury acquits Corcoran and McCabe in Chicago fraud trial
The jury acquitted Corcoran and Alderman-Elect McCabe of wholesale election frauds alleged during the last Chicago election.
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Priud
Corcoran
McCabe
Chicago
Postal Telegraph Bill Delayed to Next Session
The house committee on post offices and postroads postponed further consideration of the postal telegraph bill until the next session.
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House Committee On Post Offices and Postroads
Sparks From The Wires Chronicle Disorder And Strikes
Louis Grown was found dead in Boston and authorities suspect murder by the Ye Order of Railway Telegraphers during a New York session opposing strikes. The next annual conclave is slated for Atlanta on the third Monday in June. Corpes of famished wolves plague Tuunine Anstra in Galicia devouring sheep and other animals. The Ways and Means Committee of the Louisiana legislature favors moving the state capitol from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Hern Most disrupted a cloakmakers meeting in New York as police ejected him. A secret meeting of German and Austrian socialists in Eulou Bohemia was dispersed by Austrian police with several leaders briefly detained.
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Louis Grown
Boston
New York
Atlanta
TS. Corpes
Anstra
Galicia
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Hern Most
Simon
Cloakmakers' Union
Most
Eulou
Bohemia
Terrible cyclone devastates towns near Earlville and Paw Paw
A powerful cyclone struck six miles north of Earlville at the Deacon Hunt school house, killing the teacher Maggie McBride and seven children, with many residents injured or dead across Lee county towns including Paw Paw, Sublette, Amboy and Brookline. Dozens of homes wrecked, crops ruined, and the path traced from Harmon to Paw Paw with extensive loss.
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Earlville
Deacon Hunt School House
Peter Reames
Paw Paw
Maggie McBride
Edna Hunt
Jennie Lore Arey White, Jr
Anna Rudolph
Little Carey White
Paw Pawin
Lee County
Paw Paw Grove
Thatillage
Maggies McBride
West Brookline
Sublette
Amboy
Bitner
Chicago Evening Journal
Dixon
James Slee
Hant
Maygie McBride
Cigt
White
Harmon
Compton
Faw Paw
Aschel Frentis
Isaacs Norg
Wm. Hunt
Irwin Radler
Carrie White
Seaman Overkirk
George Rudolph
Searcy
Geo. Baloch
Brookline Township
South Compton
George Balache
Cornell
Plymire
W. D. Connor
Mr. Connor
Morrison
C. C. Leonard
Sly
Public Park Proposal for Yorktown Battlefield Monument
A movement to acquire the Yorktown battlefield site for a public park advances after a congressional delegation toured the area aboard the steamer Charlotte. The plan calls for government purchase of the battlefield and Moore House, plus a visitors hotel, with a committee of congressmen pushing the resolutions. A notable inscription oddity omits Lafayette's name.
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York River
Yorktown
United States
James E. Peyton
New Jersey
Peyton
Philadelphia
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Charlotte
West Point
Dispatch
Baker
Richard $. Muckle
Philadelphia Ledger
Buchanan
Battle Ground
Moore House
Wornwallis
Lafayette
Bishop Kean In It Fatal Baltimore & Ohio Wreck
A New York express on the Baltimore & Ohio wrecked at Childs Station. Bishop Kean of the Catholic University in Washington and Harry E. Kelly, son of Arkansas Congressman Kelly, among those seriously injured. Two sleepers tumbled down a bank. the fireman killed. Charles Ackering died of injuries. Ralph Ingalls minor injuries. Another report cites Charles Ackenheim and John McNamara as the killed. Also a separate event: Andrew Little and wife burned to death in a cottage struck by lightning.
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Baltimore & Ohio
New York Express
Childs' Station
Baltimore and Ohio
Bishop Kean
Catholic University At Washington
Harry E. Kelly
Congressman Kelly
Arkansas
Charles Ackering
Staten Island Rapid Transit Road
Philadelphia
Ralph Ingalls
Senator Ingalls
Charles Ackenheim
New York
John McNamara
Europe
Minnesota Farmers Alliance Pronunciamento Denounces Court
A sensational 41 pronunciamento from the Minnesota Farmers Alliance denounces the U S Supreme Court. It claims cases like convicting murderers and regulating railroads show the court oversteps state sovereignty. It denounces Taney era rulings and warns against federal overreach in state matters. The piece attacks judges as pursuing slavery and undermining local governance. It also reports a cholera scare in British Honduras causing Belize anxiety and quarantines.
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Minnesota Farmers’ Alliance
State Farmers’ Alliance
Supreme See
United Stat
Geo
Supreme Court
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Minnesota
Taney
Sioux City Live Stock Market Report Summary
Sioux City and South Omaha carloads show steady to firm markets with mixed cattle and hog receipts. Cattle including beeves and feeders traded around 2.50 to 3.15 per cwt, with calves and cows varying in price. hogs mixed to firm, heavy and light weights noted. Chicago and Texas markets also cited with similar ranges. Wheat and corn futures listed as steady, along with barley, flax and whiskey prices.
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Sioux City
Earlings
South Omaha
St _ Hoge
Chicago
Texas
Ite
Timothy
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Mitchell, South Dakota
Dakota News and Notes
Thomas H. White
Tammany Rottenness
Fassett Investigating Committee
Newfoundland
Bay St. George
St. Johns
Great Britain
France
St. George
Pelican
Riddle
Sir Baldwin Walker
Emerald
Halifax
Lascie
New Foundland
Salisbury
Utrech
Illinois
Historic Ground
Kean
Andrew Little
Bris
Honduras
British Honduras
Belize
England
Ysabel
Livingstone
Ingus
Ibe Agus
Nicaragua
Mexico
Kansas Chautauqua
Ottawa
Kay
League
Kansas
Missouri
Nion
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