Bloody affray at dance near Mt Vernon reports
At a dance near Mt Vernon Virgil Doss and Hank Hines quarrelled and were attacked by a group including Geo Server and Edwards. Doss knocked Edwards down with brass knucks then stabbed him in the left side. Doss later killed Server with a blow to the temple and was arrested. Edwards is expected to die. Doss, a 40-year-old married man, led the fighting with others aged 21 or 22 described as tough.
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Mr. Vernon, Inc
Virgil Doss
Here
Doss
Hank Hines
Hines
Geo
Server
Edwards
Possesson
Farm Fire Destroys Barn of Abe Carter on Owen Farm
Abe Carter, living on Col. Alf Owen's farm along the Wabash river west of here, saw his barn and contents burn recently. Four horses, ten tons of hay, farming utensils, and corn were lost, valued at about $1,000 with no insurance. The barn was new, costing Owen roughly $45, insured for $250. Authorities suspect an incendiary act.
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Vernon
Abe Carter
Alf Owen
Wabash River
Carter
Col. Owen
Indiana Senators Vote in Separate Houses
InpranapPolis Indiana reports the legislature split for Turpie and Harrison in both chambers. Joint convention yields Turpie 75, Harrison 71, Allen 4, needing 76 to elect. rumors mention Turpie possibly withdrawing for Niblack, with fallback substitutions discussed. Robertson did not preside at the joint meeting.
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InpiaNaPolis
Ben Harrison
Vigo County
United States
Supreme Court
Turpie
InpranapPolis, Inc
Senate
Harrison
House
Allen
Tarpie
Niblack
Bynum
Republicans Press to Unseat Barnes in Clarke County
The piece accuses Republicans of trying to unseat Representative Barnes a Democrat from Clarke county whose majority was 1014. It notes other local items including Elkhart oat and corn production wages, typhoid fever epidemic in Adams county, an injury incident in Seymour involving Rev Kuehn and Mrs Kuelin, Lucy Stanley named queen of gypsies near Evansville, a fatal saloon fight in Gentryville, a Bohemian oats swindle in Miami county, a new horse thief detectives group in Madison county, a Marion boy going insane from smoking, new gas lines in Kokomo, gas strike at Marion.
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Barnes
Dem
Clarke County
Elkhart
Adams County
Kuehn
Seymour
Madison County
Marion
Kokomo
Over the River Illinois News Items One Offbeat Collection
Illinoisan items report inventions for locating buried metals, odd deaths, steam locomotive lore, a cave of boys reading piratical novels, gambling-house indictments in Decatur, English pheasants in Woodford, Wayne County sheriff arrest, red-painted hens, Farwell elected senator, a Rock Island card game fatality, Illinois coal wealth, Springfield quail feasts, mutual fire insurance plans, a Decatur insanity arrest, Ottawa coal mine origin, centralia silver finds, Grayville G A R flag absence, 62 Ashley widows.
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Wm. Combs
Parkersburg
Olney
Combs
Casey Banner
Chas. Decker
Union Center
Decker
Illinois Central
Chicago
Rock Island
Decatur
Woodford County
Wayne County
Astoria
C. B. Farwell
Logan
Morrison
Illinois
North America
Springfield
Logan County
Allen Tolliver
America
Ottawa
Centralia
Grayville G. A. R
Ashley
Niagara bank collapse rocks falls area and oil sees action
Notes and News recounts a giant rock and limestone slide on the Canada side of Niagara River near the Horseshoe Falls altering the bank’s face and revealing a new perpendicular cliff after a 223000 cubic yard collapse caused by heavy ice and cold weather. Other items note sponge curiosities in Apalachicola, oil finds in Tennessee, a hunter’s partridge massacre in South Carolina, and demographic figures from France and Alaska.
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Niagara River
Canada
Horseshoe Falls
Apalachicola
Fla
Pennsylvania
Smith County
Tenn
Dickson County
Santuck
8. C
France
Paris
United States
New York
Blissfield
Mish
California
Alaska
Mississippi
New York City
Lompoe
Cal
Schuyler
Neb
Washington Letter 1887 Commerce and patent notes
The Washington Letter reports federal finances with 336.439 million receipts and 242.483 million expenditures for the last year, plus a pension rise to 63.404 million. It covers agricultural estimates, curious names in politics, patent office quirks, and items on Congress and officials. It notes Grant era secrecy in patent files and highlights senate actions, anti polygamy bill, wealth in Washington, and Gen Hazen’s death.
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The
New Harmony Register
Washington, D. C
Senate
Edmunds
Indiana
House of Representatives
Washington
Logan
Sam Cox
New York
Gen. Hazen
Signal Service Bureau
Hunters Paradise A Missouri hunter praises Ozark country for game abundance
Chip McGuire of Springfield recounts vast hunts across southern Missouri and Arkansas saying turkeys, ducks, geese, bears, lynx and panther roam the region. He notes mild winter weather in the Ozarks, cheap deer head purchases, and invites others to visit for a winter hunt with no need for medicines.
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New York
N.Y
Chip” McGuire
Springfield
Missouri
Kansas City
Ft. Scott & Gulf
Arkansas
Ozark
Patents to Indians Gain Notice in Washington
Washington January 16. The following patents were granted to Indian citizens last week and reported for the New Harmony Register by C A Snow and Co. E M Cooper Cadiz machine for making wire fences G J Luther Auroras chair and desk support S A D Thomas Perryville wheel cultivator P Wahl North Vernon machine for honing razors C Wittenburg Indianapolis telephone attachment
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Washington, D. C
New Harmony Register
C.a.snow & Co
U.S. Patent Office
E. M. Cooper
Cadiz
G. J.J. Luther
Auroras
S. A. D. Thomas
Perryville
P. Wahl
North Vernon
C. Wittenburg
Indianapolis
Extraordinary Snowfall Strikes Beattiesago Vermont
Beattiesago Vermont reports heavy snowfall from yesterday reaching 11 inches deep with total seasonal snowfall piling up to 74 feet. The report notes a Minnesota farmer Hana Hanaen and his 12-year-old daughter who plowed 112 acres. Minneapolis mills are now waking about 17,000 barrels of flour daily.
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Beattiesago
Hana Hanaen
Minnesota
Tas
Minneapolis
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