Alligator men of Florida lured by teeth and tales
Dispatch from Tampa tracing three famed Florida alligator men. Ferguson, Beasley, and Platt are profiled for their deadly craft, teeth profits, and inland exploits from Ten Thousand Islands to Kissimmee City with anecdotes of decoying gators and riding a twelve foot beast ashore.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Tampa
Fua
Sligator
Ferguson
Alligator Platt
Alligator
Florida
Ten Thousand Islands
Tie
South Florida
Discayne Bay
Lake Apopka
Okeechobee
Fisheating Creek
Gulf-Coast
Ife
Tohopekaliga
Kissimmee City
Lis
Pine Level
Manattee County
Platt
Lath
Plitt
Viate
Illinoisan items range from insanity to a pig with eight legs
Reports from Illinois cover Henry Deitzel’s sudden insanity and violent acts, a Quincy farmer’s demise after failed wills, religious mania in Vermilion County, a new underground water source in Mattoon, 14 year old Miss Cora Bower teaching in La Salle, and multiple local notes including the Vandalia Paper Mill liabilities, a proposed crematory at St Clair poor farm, and the next State Fair in Chicago.
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Marshall Illinoison
Henry Deitzel
Marshal
Quincy
Ill
Ife
Entre Allen
Blount Township
Vermillion County
Mattoon
Vandalia Paper Mill Company
Carmi
St. Clair County
Chicago
Wayne County
Carmi Fire Department
Clinton County
Peoria H
Washington Politics and Civil Service Battles 1886
Special to the New Harmony Register from Washington. Senate pressure on the president over civil service reform, resignations sought, and reports on land frauds and political maneuvers in Congress. Notable items include Boutelle's exchange in Norfolk yard debate, Sparks resisting land thieves in Dakota, and weekly patent grants to Indiana citizens. Also covers speeches for Vice President Anderson, possible new states Dakota Montana Washington, and Cleveland at a Baltimore charity ball. Chicago market notes and a spate of Ohio and river ice issues follow.
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Wasnixeter
D. C
Senate
Ife
House
Norfolk Navy Yard
Maine
Boutelle
Paing
Wise
Virginia
Congress
Washington
L. Eaton
Civil Service Commission
Fred Douglass
U.S. Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Sparks
Dakota
Indiana
New Harmony Register
C. A. Snow & Co
U. S. Patent Office
Washington, D. C
J. Weathers
Indianapolis
W. H. Spence
Losantville
T. B. Thorne
Vincennes
R. M. McGrath
Lafayette
J.T. Obenchain
Logansport
J.B. Davis
Monroeville
L. W. Fisher
Rockville
Andricks
Voorhees
Hampton
Sherman
Lautsbury
Evarts
Ransom
Spooner
West
Harrison
Montana
Ohio Senate
Cleveland
Baltimore
Rankin
Wisconsin
Indiana State News Roundup Begins with Local Scandal and Politics
Reports detail saloonkeeper Peter Paschong ejecting his wife from a Laketon revival and facing possible mob action. Indiana politics show Democrats predicting majorities, cycling history notes, and a rebuke of Evansville’s Telegraph editor. Industry updates span mills, shipyards, and foundries amid regional growth. Other items note a postmaster dispute, Harvard botany aid, street lighting debates, and oddities from coal to cremation opposition.
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Peter Paschong
Laketon
Wabash County
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