Indiana Notes From The Hoosier Currents
A weekly roundup from Indianapolis outlines local notes from Bartholomew to Columbus. Norton faces arrest over defamatory newspaper margin writing and indecent mail. stories recount Asa Martin and wife, an Indiana Territory fortune, and Kate Steely clashing with Postmaster Kiser. Woodchucks and sparrows decline in Laporte and South Bend. Richmond forms Edwards Electric Light Co to build locomotive heads. Lucy Cross, 15, bitten by a spider. pension granted to Dan W. Stout. Fred Mott dies from a blank cartridge blast. Boone county inmate Warris dies by suicide en route to prison. Indiana corn yields projected at 36 bushels per acre. Poisoning incident in Columbus leaves one dead. Statehouse costs reach 1,784,780.34.
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South Bend
Edwards Electric Light Co
Richmond
Lucy Cross
Clarke County
The President as a Farmer in Washington
President Cleveland plans a small farm expansion with twenty acres of clover an orchard of New York pippin trees and grapevine arbors. He will stabl e fine stock and may work the granger farm tasks this fall and next spring for exercise and comfort away from the public eye.
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D. C
New York
Cleveland
Blaine's 1892 Nomination Hint in Sunday Column
A Washington writer reports Blaine does not seek renomination in 1858 and would only accept if sure of election. He supposedly predicts Cleveland's 1888 renomination and re election, with Blaine backing Allison or another Blaine man in 1888 and waiting for 1892. The column says Blaine and followers will control the next Republican convention.
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Washington, D.C
Blaine
Cleveland
Allison
Prohibition in Atlanta Sparks Jug Trade Surge
In Atlanta after prohibition, jug traffic grows to an estimated two hundred dollars daily as drinkers exploit loopholes. Residents from wet towns supply stamped envelopes for liquor orders. gunny sacks and bas kets hide jugs on trains. Druggists lament demand while strict rules curb in-store sales, and doctors recount cases like champagne saved patients despite law.
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Atlanta
Express
Jalbert
Fragmented 19th Century News Snapshots Across Cities
A diverse collage notes a Bethany private play ending in a real wedding, a 15 year old buffalo herd decline with a Denver outrace killing three, a Ga woman repelling home intrusion, Danville and Lynchburg tobacco volumes, a Waterbury divorce parade, a Montezuma well’s magnetic waters, a Mo mule colt 14 hands heavy, Maine ice shipments up, Lena Fairbanks 13 sentenced for horse theft, Buenos Aires drought sheep loss, Kalamazoo coop barrel maker, Washington smallest home, Mormon missionaries in Pendleton, a buffalo horn in Leigh IA, Victoria’s Irish stay, Revere bell hung in Plymouth, Carmi Partisan growth, Bardolph Dakota post office, October debt drop, and a Kewaunee pastor.
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J.L
Buffalo Ranges
Kansas
Colorado
Denver
Lost Park
Sylvania
Danville
Lynchburg
Waterbury
Conn
Kendrick
Montezuma
James Lankford
Centralia
Maine
Lena Fairbanks
Michigan Penitentiary
Buenos Ayres
Kalamazoo
Mich
Washington
Pendleton County
W. Va
Leigh
Iowa
Queen Victoria
Ireland
Paul Revere
Plymouth
Mass
Dakota
Bartholdi
Miss Downer
Kewaunee
Hovey Wins House Seat as Republicans Gain Ground
Election returns show Hovey carried the district by about 1,100 votes with Posey county delivering a Waterloo defeat for Democrats on the state ticket. Across Indiana Republicans claim majorities in several districts as Democrats face losses, while New York and New Jersey swing Democratic in statewide tallies and Tennessees Bob Taylor is elected governor.
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Mr. Vernon, Inc
Posey County
Waterloo
Right
McCullough
French
Bozeman
Gibson County
Hovey
Sam Griffin
Boonville
Evansvile, Inc
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Spencer
Posey
Gibson
Fort Wayne
New York
N.Y
Hewitt
Congress
Pennsylvania
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New Jersey
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California
Minnesota
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Colorado
Bob Taylor
Nebraska
Michigan
U. S
Senate
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Texas
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Kansas City
Independent Labor
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Wisconsin
Virginia
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Arkansas
Maine
Oregon
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Missouri
Kentucky
Mississippi
Louisiang
Sageer
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South Carolina
Dracenes
North Carolina
Viditue Olid
Danny Bewre
West Virginia
Cnnsylvania
O.s
Maryland
Delaware
Teersee
Sess
Vermont
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Milwaukee
Wis
Morrison
Illinois
Carlisle
Senate and House makeup of the 50th Congress
Wasuinstox D C Nov 3 The political complexion of the senate and house of representatives of the 50th Congress by states will be about as follows.
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Wasuinstox
D. C
Senate
House of Representatives
Rioters Attack Democratic Paper in Bellefonte
Blaine halted at Bellefonte on the way to Williamsport as men angered by campaign placards in the Watchman windows assaulted the Democratic paper with stones. The crowd, incited by a Republican leader, breached windows but was driven back.
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Williamsport
Blaine
Bellefonte
Gen
Beaver
Knight
Watchman
Corner Stone Laying at Poseyville Catholic Church
The corner stone of the new Poseyville Catholic church was laid with ceremonies drawing several thousand attendees. Rev Father Book of Cannelton spoke, Bishop Chatard of Vincennes attended, and local bands from Cynthiana Mt. Vernon and Warren Evansville performed. The building will be 76 feet long and 46 feet wide, finished in rich style.
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Posexvinle
Father Book
Cannelton
Chatard
Vincennes
Cynthiana
Mt. Vernon
Warren
Evansville
Poseyville
Government Receipts Exceed Last Year In First Fiscal Quarter
Washington October 31. For the first four months of the fiscal year the government receipts are 14,168,891 dollars larger than the same period last year while expenditures are 11,018,451 dollars higher.
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