Indian Schools and Indian Bureau Reforms Report
The annual report by Indian Commissioner Morgan to Secretary Noble highlights a policy shift toward breaking up reservations and integrating Indians as individuals. It notes progress in schooling, pushes for compulsory attendance, expands public school integration, and cites funding by religious bodies. It details 12 operating schools, 63 boarding schools, 106 day schools, and allotment work across several reservations along with railroad right of way issues and administration changes.
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Morgan
Noble
Indian Bureau
Scrétary of the Interior
Thaye
SV Hluola
Tennig
Borman Catholic
Bureau
United States
Congress
Yankton Reservation
South Dakota
Winnebago Reservation
Oregon
Papagoe Reservation
Arizona
Northwest
Ie Ee Pte Mailer Mille Bec & Pecsuperior
Mile Lacs
Minnesota
Duluth
Winnipeg
White Earth
Minn
Wisconsin
Washington State
Indiana
Defaulter Case at Brockton Grows in scope and losses
The C. W. Robinson forgery defalcation in Brockton Massachusetts widens as notes for 2500 dollars falsely attributed to 8 P Howard Co emerge. Reports say 5000 forged notes are held by Boston parties and a 10000 dollar loan attempt failed. Authorities fear substantial city losses.
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C. W. Robinson
Brockton
Mass
Robinson
Bandergy National Bank
8. P. Howard & Co
Henry L. Bryant
Boston
P. Howard
Pernall & Hageman
Consolidated Exchange
New York
S. P. Howard & Co
Pernall
Arlington National Bank
H. L. Bryant
8. P. Howard
E. Golthwaite
R B. Loring
The Woolfolk murders and execution at Perry Georgia
The article recounts Thomas Woolfolk's 1887-89 murder case at the Woolfolk home in Bibb County and his subsequent trials and hanging at Perry Georgia for killing nine family members with an axe. It also notes a separate unresolved disappearance of Oliver Fearbach in St Louis.
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Thomas Woolfel
Perry
Georgia
Hazard
Macon
Richard V. Woolfolk
Mattie Woolfoll
Richard F
Susan Pearl
Annie
Rose Wuol
Charlie
Mattie
Temple West
Honnstead
Vivanig
Wooltolk
Wooliolk
Inu Sun
Capt. Woolfolk
Miss Penny Woolfolk
Richard Woolfolk
Charley
Mrs. West
Rosebud
Annie Woolfolk
Aysusyin
Richard Woolfolk, Jr
Tom Woolfolk
Richard
Green Lockett
Woolfolk
Iis Firet
Tom
Nine Weathers
T Vial
Gustin
Te Bibb County Superior Court
Supreme Court
Louis
Oliver Fearbach
Henry Fearbach
Diphtheria Traced to stray Cat in Middleton Wisconsin
The family of Robert Paul in Middleton Wisconsin suffered a deadly diphtheria outbreak traced to a stray cat. A child first showed symptoms then died, followed by another son. Parents and daughter fell ill and recovered. Alien, the surviving son who cared for them, also died during the illness.
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Robert Paul
Middleton
Wis
Alien
A Cute Swindler Frank Bergstrom Arrested in Chicago
Frank Bergstrom, a Swedish native and adept forger, wanted by Chicago police for over two months, was arrested after passing about sixty forged checks totaling around $2,000. He targeted small North and West Side stores, buying $30 to $50 of goods on forged instruments sent to fictitious addresses. In some cases a salesperson, often a woman, received a check claiming debt to her husband and obtained the difference in cash.
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Minnesota
Shuler
Moorhead
Leach Lake
Duluth & Northern
St. Paul
Minneapolis & Manitoba
White Earth
Indian Bureau
Jamestown & Northern Railway
North Dakota
Devils Take
Washington
Spokane Falls & Northern
Colville
Nez Perces
Iwho
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Dakota Central Railway
Missouri
Dakota Central
Forest City & Watertown
Forest City
Deadwood
Frank Bergstrom
Sweden
Chicago
Stock Exchange
United States
Iidia
India
Europe
Lao
China
Japan
Westwaite
San Francisco
London
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Bank of France
Australia
Treasury
Treasury Department
Meigs-Liee Rush Made Headlines This Morning
Frayton and Puck banter about the ambitious Rush gaining newspaper attention today, noting the curiosity about what he was cured of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meigs—Liee
Rush
Moraine
Frayton
Puck
Editor Declares He Never Bares a Cap in public
The Ogie thorpe Ech editor Shavkelford claims he is never seen without a cap amid a long postwar chat. The Atlanta Constitution notes the busy era and public interest in his headwear habit.
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Shavkelford
The
Ogiethorpe Ech
Atlanta Constitution
Treasury chief defends silver purchases amid price decline
Government purchases silver to support the market under a threefold plan. The New York price guides bids, and the treasury accepts the lowest offers daily. Officials say stockpiling in New York, Western refiners, and foreign demand pressure recent price drops, not policy.
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EO. Leech
Milit
Treasury
Tsay
Chesw
London
New York
My le
Mint
Secretary of the Treasury
Jones
Madman shoots in Illinois hamlet near St Louis
Louis Rittenhouse, 25, recently released from the county asylum, shot at farmer Louis P. Talbott in a barn wounding him. then wounded Talbott’s brother and fatally struck his father with a hoe before being arrested. The sheriff reported the attack and the assailant’s condition as unstable.
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Prairie du Long
Ilinois
St. Louis
Louis Rittenhouse
Louis P. Talbott
Talbott
Rittenhouse
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