Washington Letter on Senate Obstruction and Carlisle Interview
The Washington Letter reports that Senate obstructionists hinder government and seek party gain, while Edmunds draws praise and Democrats gain credibility. An interview with Speaker Carlisle portrays the president’s cautious independence, shaping a stronger Democratic standing and anticipated Congressional gains. Patents list Indiana inventors and items including a freight car coupling cabinet desk burglar alarm wheel cultivator and more.
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Wasmiserox
D. C
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Edmunds
Lis
Carlisle
New York
Cleveland
Democras
House of Representatives
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Missouri
Kentucky
California
Pennsylvania
C. A. Snow & Co
U. S. Patent Office
Washngton
J.J. Gathright
Jeffersonville
KR. UI
Wilson
South Bend
A.J. Sabin
Washington
J. M. Stewart
Spencer
M. Bushnell
Monticello
D. A. Spitler
Flora
Harrow
J. W. White
Elkhart
Gate
Rapp Estate Dispute Confronts Harmony Society Heirs
Litigation in Pitrssure Pennsylvania centers on 105 heirs of Geo Rapp founder of the Harmony Society seeking letters of administration over an estate valued at about 17 million dollars. The group argues administration already occurred. The case threatens to unravel the commune that once owned Economy village and 2 500 acres with silk mills and whisky, now diminished after centuries of religious retreat and property ventures amid growing gas prospects nearby.
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New York World
Pitrssure
Register Bricker
Geo. Rapp
The
Harmony of Economire Society
Chas. Meyer
Philadelphia
Rapp
Harmony Society
Feonomy
Narmeny Society
United States
Germany
America
Pennsylvania
Drunken marshal fined and river fish record in Ohio valley
At Marshall the marshal and deputy were drunk. the marshal struck the drunken prisoner with a billy, tied him, and dragged him to the calaboose. He was fined $12. A Cairo fisherman caught an 80 pound river pike, the largest of its kind in the area. An alligator found frozen in Salem, Marion county, likely came from the Mississippi. Wolves threaten flocks in City county. Timber shipments from Wabash county, 45 foot by 21 inch, cost 35 and valued 100 on the cars at Chicago. Church revivals yield many conversions in Jewett and Mt Carmel, Carmi Presbyterians. Logan county corn in crib 1,530,000 bushels. Since 166 murders in Carbondale. Miss Abigail Bates, 89, dies at Scituate. war of 1812 heroine.
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Marshall
Billy
Calaboose
Ohio River
James Phillips
Cairo
Salem
Marion County
Mississippi
City
Wabash County
Chicago
Jewett
Cumberland County
Richland County
Logan County
Carbondale
Mt. Carmel
Carmi
Chaplain's prayer against gambling stirs Congress
In Washington last Monday morning the chaplain invoked divine aid to rid the land of gambling, cards, dice, chips, bucket shops, and boards of trade. The prayer created a sensation and was ordered printed in the Congressional Record.
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House of Representatives
Washington
Boards of Trade
Congressional Record
A Valuable Mine Near Rock Creek WIth Rubidium Discovery
A broad assertion declares no solution to the labor question without tracing all laws and tariffs favoring railroad kings and monopolists. A valuable mine near Rock Creek in the Washington Territory has been found, an extensive rubidium and rare metal ore valued at $5,000 per pound.
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Rock Creek
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Indiana State News Drift Chronicle From Southern Prison to Prorated Debts
Indiana readers receive a weekly digest listing prison stats at Jeffersonville with a two year no whip policy, 596 convicts, and yearly expenses of 85,600.90. The report covers a Ter re Tante divorce case, a Knox county treasury deficit of 77,278, and reforms in church revivals and state finances. Additional items include a farm request from Ohio, a governor term pledge, Evansville injuries, barber strikes, and a mix of national and local notes on politics, crime, weather, and commerce.
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Jeffersonville
Indianapolis
Death and pursuit reopen a 1870 homicide memory
A man named Eugene Vandevier, sought for murder for 16 years, arrives in Evansville Indiana seeking help after a train stop. He dies at the house of Hester Olinger, revealing a 1870 Posey county saloon shooting that left Warren Pitts dead and George Deitz acquitted after friends testified. A reward of $1,000 had been offered for Vandevier's arrest years ago amid a long career on the run.
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The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Evansville
Louisville & Nashville
St. Louis
Upper Second St
Hester Olinger
West
Vanevier
Posey County
New Harmony
Ind
Deitz & Kilbinger
George Deitz
Warren Pitte
Eugene Vanevier
Deitz
Pitts
Vancovier
Vaneviers
Levers
Hwueh Gary
Gary
St. Francis
Kas
England Invents Cheap Antiseptic Cotton Sponge
An English inventor creates a cotton sponge material that becomes absorbent when rendered with antiseptics. A walnut sized piece soaks up water to a coconut size, and its cost is so low it need only be used once.
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England
Conkling Seen No Further From Presidency
A Times of Oshkosh item notes Mr. Conkling is not far from the presidency in public view though he may favor retirement. It adds he has not been forced out by the people amid a roundup of political notes on coal, votes, and mining.
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Conkiing
Blaine
Oshkosh, Wis
Times
Conkling
Maine
Organg
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