Sparks policy sours as Dakota holdovers face eviction
A wire service report depicts Dakota Republicans and Democrats clashing over appointing power. Everitt of Mitchell and Rea of Bismarck back Sparks policy, drawing opposition from party insiders who warn converts won’t secure protection. New York’s Governor Hill shifts tone on Cleveland renomination, risking Tammany backing and Hill coverage in the race for delegates.
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Washington
Everitt
Mitchell, Dak
Sparks
Great Territory
Interior Department
Mitchell
Rea
Bistmarck
Dakota
Mr. Sparks
New York
Guy
Hill
Cleveland
Guv. Hill
Tammany
Arson Conspiracy Brought to Light in Plainfield
In Plainfield New Jersey authorities arrest seven men in a year and a half long arson plot to burn half the handsome houses to boost demand for night watchmen. A detective halted a kerosene delivery, a confession named six accomplices including a volunteer firefighter, and a list of doomed houses was found.
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New York
Plainfield
N. J
Carey’s
Nelson
Europe
Northwestern plans extension to connect with Dakota Central at Harrold
Watternsuny Aug 30 It is learned from a reliable source that the Northwestern railroad intends to extend its Chicago St Paul and Omaha line from Mitchell to a connection with the Dakota Central near Harrold. The route would follow Crow Lake and onward to Harrold offering a short, easily graded line through rich country, strengthening Dakota regional rail.
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Watternsuny
Northwestern Railroad
Chicago
Manitoba
South Dakota
Redfield Druggist Harman Opens After Settlement
In Redfield on August 30 the attachment case against druggist H. L. Harman, pursued by Chicago parties, was amicably settled and Harman has reopened. The town’s newest gossip concerns the severe illness of Carrie Reed, a leading belle, whose private marriage plan is disclosed in her illness and social circle.
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Redfield
H. L. Harman
Chicago
Harman
Carrie Reed
Marriage Timed at Ashton Receives Family Notice
A couple announced a late May marriage at Ashton with the bride from Elk Point. The bridegroom has been summoned to her bedside, indicating a serious or urgent family situation following the ceremony.
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Riage
Ashton
Elk Point
Fire destroys Hartford tobacco warehouse and farms
In Hartford Connecticut Louis J. Filley’s tobacco warehouse and farm buildings burned to ashes last night. Loss estimated at 30000 dollars with partial insurance. In De Smet Iowa William Cary aged about sixty died from a self inflicted gunshot near Lake Preston Saturday, cause undetermined.
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Hartford
Conn
Louis J. Filley
DE Smet
William Cary
Fire destroys seven stores and two halls in Richmond
In Richmond Kentucky last night a blaze wiped out seven stores and two opera houses at a livery stable area. Seven horses perished. Total loss about 60000 dollars with 20000 dollars insured. The day also reports plans for an Evening Standard newspaper in New York and mine suspensions in Lehigh district amid large coal accumulations.
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Richmond
Tug Operator Sinks After Collision with Schooner H. N. Havens
New York Aug 30 The tug operator collided with the schooner H. N. Havens this morning and was cut in two sinking instantly One crew member drowned Captain Nelson slipped and fell hitting the wheel which swung toward the schooner before he could regain control
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New York
H. N. Havens
Nelson
Iroquois line linking Doland and Manitoba project loom
At Iroquois, 18 miles east, reports say the Chicago and Northwestern will build a connecting line between Doland and Iroquois to ease Manitoba traffic. Manitoba graders are in the county. Engineer Brown from Grand Forks has begun laying out grounds for a military encampment.
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Huron
Iroquois
Chicago & Northwestern
Doland
Manitoba
Engineer Brown
Grand Forks
Cabinet to proclaim only certain districts of Ireland
London reports a hastily summoned Cabinet due to unionist dissatisfaction over proclaiming the national league. The government will proclaim only selected Ireland districts amid the uproar surrounding the decision. Miss Cass, wrongly arrested as a cyprian by police, married her sweetheart who testified to her character at the magistrate hearing.
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London
Cass
Salisbury
Diverse 19th Century Current Events Highlight Unrest and Quirks
The register will be issued October 1. Bald Knobbers group members convicted but lightly fined. Taylor county Kentucky bonds compromised to 30c on the dollar. Lizzie Kauffman of Philadelphia drowned after lover’s death. 20,000 names fraudulently registered in St Louis 1886 spring election. Severe storm damages northern Spain. Railways to France interrupted. Russian decree limits Jewish secondary school enrollment by region. Pullman M M is planning to improve Pullman Island with a mansion. Danbury death ruled malpractice. two Drs Richards discharged. Spanish exile officer reports plots on frontier customs houses, appeals to French refuge.
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Naval Register
Taylor County
Kentucky
Lizzie Kauffman
Philadelphia
Schuykill River
St. Louis
Spain
France
Frontier Line
St. Petersburg
Moscow
George M. Pullman
Pullman Island
St. Lawrence River
Alexandria Bay
Agnes Ryan
Danbury
Conn
Drs. Richards
World At Large and Not Suspected Confession
Boston news reports Jesse Pomeroy, once condemned as a boy murderer, now admits to a previously undisclosed crime. He confided to dismembering a boy named Horace Miller on the South Boston marshes, revealing a long-running mania for cutting people. Community petitions for pardon are discouraged by the new confession.
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Boston
Jesse Pomeroy
Horace Miller
Pomeroy
Haddock murder case moved for trial assignments
Sioux City Iowa August 29 public interest in the Haddock murder case revived as the court calls the case for trial assignments. The state's attorney seeks to try Fred Mundrath and Sylvester Grande while C Treadway defends. Mundrath trial set for next Monday with Judge Wakefield presiding. possible recusal or attendance by Judge Lewis remains unclear.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Haddock
Fred Munehrath
Sylvester Grande
C. Treadway
Mundrath
Wakefield
Lewis
Arensdorf
Dressed beef profits disputed by Ar mour in Cucaco
Philip LD Ar mour rejects claims that dressed beef interests prop up profits for railroads or push cattle raisers and consumers aside. He says the dressed beef trade is tightly run, likening it to weighing gold dust and suggesting railroads may benefit more than others.
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Cucaco
Philip LD. Armour
Brooklyn man arrested for a series of Illinois frauds
Brooklyn bookkeeper John Harris was arrested on Aug 30 charged with victimizing several Illinois firms for 1500 to 2000 dollars each. Hess & Co stove makers of Chicago and two Peoria firms were among victims. Arrest followed a Chicago police telegram. Byron M. Howard of Chicago also held for securing 2600 dollars from the German and American Trust Co of Philadelphia by false pretenses.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
John Harris
Illinois
Hess & Co
Chicago
Peoria
Byron M. Howard
German and American Trust Co
Philadelphia
Idaho Boundary Conference Debates Statehood Expansion
At Shoshone Idaho on August 30 United States Senator Searst Gov Stephenson and Delegate Dubois met to discuss enlarging Idaho boundaries to pursue statehood. Senator Stewart's plan to annex Nevada to Idaho collapsed at the conference. Discussions proposed extending the Idaho line north through Montana to include Beaverhead and Missoula counties.
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Shosuoone
Idaho
United States
Searst
Stephenson
Dubois
Stewart
Nevan
Montana
Beaverhead
Missoula
Collision in a Tunnel near Gallitzin
Collision in a Pennsylvania railroad tunnel near Gallitzin at 3 AM involving two freight trains. Eighteen cars and two engines wrecked. several passenger trains blocked at tunnel ends awaiting debris removal. Loss to the company is $22,000. No injuries. Blame placed on John Pringle, night operator, for tying up the signal and sleeping.
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Gallitzin
Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
John Pringle
East End
Mob Lacked a Leader in Lynch Threat at Flemingburg
About one hundred colored men gathered in Flemingsburg Kentucky to threaten lynching the negro Coleman who assaulted a white girl. Lacking a leader they moved toward the jail but did not attempt to free or attack it. Two other negroes jailed for assaulting thirteen year old Fannie Hernice were frightened by the mob.
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Flemin
Lurg. Ky
Coleman
Fannie Hernice
Frightful accident to a woman in TirFin Ohio story
Miss Anna Alexander, a dressmaker, stepped from a moving Indiana Bloomington and Western train near Clay street at twenty miles per hour. She was struck on the head, her skull crushed, left eye gouged out, left arm broken, and other injuries sustained. She has been unconscious since the accident and is not expected to recover.
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TirFin
Ohio
Anna Alexander
Indiana, Bloomington & Western
Clay Street
Hostler in Luck in Wales Inheritance Won by Thomas
Oshkosh Wis Aug 31 R W Thomas a hostler with a wife and eight children has been left 100000 the fourth part of an estate of a deceased uncle in Wales. The estate has been in litigation for years but has finally been settled. Mr Thomas leaves for Wales in two weeks.
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Oshkosh, Wis
R. W. Thomas
Wales
Thomas
Corpses and opium in a Paris World letter
A World newspaper piece quotes a Broadway railway clerk denying half rate tickets for corpses and outlining rules for corpse transport. It also reports a Paris Hospital case of a noncommissioned officer treated for opium smoking, detailing his experience in Tonkin and subsequent symptoms and prognosis.
Paris Show Brings Desert Arabs and Arab Life to France
Paris stages a vivid desert life exhibit featuring the Sheik Abdallah-ben-Ahmed ben Sliman and a troupe of Arabs in native dress with tents, horsemanship, dances, and troops from Franco Algerian forces. Ex Senator Mahone recalls postwar potato planting and choosing a house over hoe work after the war, illustrating Southern upheaval.
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London
Buffalo Bill
Paris
Algeria
Sheik
Abdallah-ben-Ahmed Ben Sliman
Home Journal
Mahone
Virginia
Gen. Mahone
New York Tribune
The German Blacksmith's Horseshoe
The Chicago Times reports on a German blacksmith method for horseshoes that includes punching holes, tapping threads, and using a screw in a sharp stud to grip rough roads. After the horse returns, the groom replaces the stud with a button to prevent injury and keep the shoe intact. Grasshoppers in Algeria devastate fields. an egg destruction effort failed, with 50,000 gallons burned and an estimated 7.25 billion insects destroyed.
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Germany
Chicago Times
Algeria
Done Before His Time
A humorous courtroom moment ends with the judge noting the widespread benefit of a Scriptural injunction while Lawyer Stubbs requests its permanency as he awakens from sleep. The exchange reflects a satirical clash over a religious principle in a legal setting.
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Stubbs
The Best Place to Stem Waves in Atlantic City
A playful fragment praises bathing in Atlantic City and the urge to breast the wild waves. Old Granger Miranthy, told to stay in the kitchen and stem currants for mammy, echoes a domestic reply in a humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Call.
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Atlantic City
Parkston Nine Set To Clash With Ethan Boys
Aug 27 report notes a girl at Dave Cole's and a progressing church. Parkston nine will play Ethan next Friday at Ethan. Threshing and plowing proceed, grain damp, Mitchell prices cited. Farmers anticipate chickens ripe, a by law bans nonresidents shooting prairie chickens without landowner consent, hoping for some fall meat. Big corn crop. townsfolk buoyed. Also, Israel Lucas, Anglaize County treasurer, fled with 350000 in county funds after defalcation found. he and his wife disappeared since Sunday.
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Dave Cole
Parkston
Ethan
Lima
Ohio
Israel Lucas
Anglaize
Lucas
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M. Paul Bonnetain
Pitcher
Poya ’ Oval
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N.Y
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U.S. Derr
Agricultum
D.C
Thos, Lydon
J. P. Harkins & Co
Grand
Milwaukee
Harper Bros
Peter Collier
U.S
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N. R
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Main Street
Woonsocket
M. M. Hitchcock
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Paul
Tinois
Wisconsin
Towa
Minnesota
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R. Miller
A. W. H. Carpenter
J. F. Tucker
Cicaco, Milwaukee
Sir. Pau
Railway Company
H. G
Havgan
F. Weller
J.S. Daniels
Agt
Mitchell National Bank
Bay School
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L. N. Seaman
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J. S. Terwitnicer
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