Indiana and Illinois News Digest From June 22
A wide array of brief items from Indiana and nearby Illinois towns. Notable notes include the Indiana supreme court ruling transferring mine and oil inspector appointments to the state geologist, Senator Voorhees’s recovery, and ex-Senator McDonald’s death. Reports cover steamboat pilots, placer mining, local crimes, factory data, livestock incidents, weather and crops, tax and court notes, gas leaks, and upcoming local events across Evansville, Jeffersonville, Muncie, and Chicago area.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hovey
Supreme Court
Voorhees
J. E. McDonald
Mysterious clock strikes nightly in Maryland home
In Green sburg Maryland Mrs Haymond a widow living near St Paul about 10 miles northwest reports an old cord and weight clock that began striking every night after her husband John Haymond died weeks earlier and the clock had stood unwound for weeks locals cannot find a cause and deem it mysterious as the clock neither runs nor has been wound yet it chimes at odd hours following the funeral now nightly.
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Evansville, Inc
C. &. Collins
Bond Street
Evanaville & Paducah
Joe Fowler
Ohio River
Tardy
Wmitty
Charley
John Merriman
Brown County
G. R. Stormont
Princeton Clarion
Jeffersonville
James Montgomery
Owensville
Schuetzenbund
St. Louis
David Okes
Crawford County
Harrison
Incorporated
Evansville
Grantsburg
Ita
Amos Stephenson
Crawfordsville
Mary Gay
Maggie Toops
New Albany
Mary
South Bend
Anderson
China
J. D. Hacker
Daviess County
A.W. Swain
Boston
Indiana
Pacific Coast
Fort Wayne
Greensburg
Haymond
St. Paul
Here
John Haymond
State court upholds board of agriculture to stay in place
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled the fossilized board of agriculture cannot be abolished by the legislature. The piece notes the body has been financially supported by the State for forty years and questions how it will survive without public funds. It suggests methods to recover money already allocated to it.
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Peter Wheber
IndianaPo Is, Inc
Supreme Court
Board of Agriculture
Treasury
Remarkable Minnesota Namesake Visit Twins in Sight
Suckipan reports Miss Lulu Davenport visited her Michigan namesake in St. Louis Mich after correspondence. The two women, same age height eye color hair and features, are not related, yet resemble twins. The Michigan resident now travels to New York for further meetings.
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Suckipan, Inc
Lulu Davenport
St. Louis
Mich
Davenport
Michigan
Indiana board feud and barnacle fair politics spark outrage
The Indianapolis Sentinel rails at the old board of agriculture as a private, unaccountable remnant. It says the supreme court decision preserves the board’s power, while citizens question funds and control. The report also notes a violent quarrel over a dog fight, a man shot, and a dog wounded, plus a destroyed Union County courthouse by dynamite amid bitter anti courthouse turmoil.
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Indianapolis Sentinel
Board of Agriculture
Indiana
Morelan
Crawfordsville
Union County
National Capital View on Ohio Republican Convention
Washington reports that Harrison allies fear McKinley may win Ohio governor and threaten the 1896 presidential bid. Blaine’s departure strains the administration. Dems consider Cleveland and Hill weak, Pattison and Gray rise, Palmar potential if younger. Treasury surplus vanishes amid scandals and looming investigation. deficit around 634,733.
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Washington, D.C
Ohio
Harrison
McKinley
Blaine
Maine
United States
Cleveland
Hill
Gov. Pattison
Pennsylvania
Gray
Indiana
Palmar
Mixon
Philadelphia
Treasury
Congress
Anaconda Mines Sold to English Capitalists for 25 Million
Anaconda copper mines in Montana were sold to English capitalists for 25 million dollars. Pittsburg has shipped 15 million bushels of coal down the Ohio. Storms damaged Kansas crops by 500 thousand dollars. Mt. Vesuvius eruption is over. The U.S. treasury is empty. Kansas wheat is fine and above average. Local political notes include Ohio Republicans opposing Senator Sherman and Gov Boies renominated by Town Democrats. Locusta are reported in Seth Africa.
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The
State University
Boone County
Texas
Indianapolis
Chas. A. Chapman
Kosciusko County
Indiana
Seymour
Chesterfield
Muncie
Lawrence County
Newbury Council
Mary Newby
Plainfield
Daviess County
Michigan City
David Kimmel
Frankfort
Contz
Jeffersonville
A.B. Clara
Richmond
Madison County
Laporte
Edinburg
Marion
Sodom
Mt. Vernon
Rockport
Anaconda
Montana
Pittsburg
Ohio
Seth Africa
Boies
Kansas
England
U.S. Treasury
Administrator Sale of Personal Property From Stilwell Estate
The Administrator of the Estate of Washington G. Stilwell will sell at his late residence north‑east of New Harmony on the New Harmony and Stewartsville road at 1 p m. items including a grey horse one third interest in meadow and wheat land, a Milch Cow a set of chairs a wagon and harness a hay rake and other articles. Payments include a nine month credit on sums of five dollars and up with note and security. cash for under five dollars. Removal allowed after payment or note.
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Washington G. Stilwell
New Harmony
Stewartsville
Posey County Board of Review to Meet in Mount Vernon
The Posey County Board of Review will hold a regular session at the Auditor's Office in Mount Vernon on Monday July 6 1891 to equalize real and personal property assessments correct errors and hear complaints. Auditor Thomas J Johnson Jamaica? jel9 8t
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OTICE
Board of Review
Posey County
Indiana
Mount Vernon
Thomas J. Johnson
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