A Daring Ride at the Second Manassas Battle
During the Second Manassas fight on August 30, 1862, a federal artilleryman saved his gun by galloping up the ditch with four horses, attracting heavy fire from Hood’s line. He passed the Confederate front, crossing the ditch and hill, while about 500 Confederate shooters fired at him, and he rode away waving his hat. Witnesses recall the incident among thousands who witnessed it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Owens
Philadelphia
Manassas
Hood
Henr House
Alon
Dogs Wanted Advertisement Causes Canine Chaos
In Philadelphia a morning paper advertises for ten intelligent dogs for a Southern plantation. On the Delaware riverfront, hundreds of youths bring many dogs to the Macon, creating a chaotic scene as officers form a disposal pool, buy the animals, and clear the dock amid selling prices from five cents to a quarter. The police end the disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Toc. J. Barry
Macon
Plier
Delaware Ave
Delaware Avenue
Blue Coats
Nebraska Items Highlight Local Protests and Tragedies
Page reports 190 Springfield women opposing a saloon license, a new public hall rising in Ord, and progress notes from Wilbur. It covers Bellevue Synodical college site at Elk Hill with cost estimates, and a near fatal hanging by a 13 year old in Kearney. Also notes weather, fires, drownings, and regional legal and political updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Springfield
Ord
Wilbur
Papillion Times
Presbyterian Synodical College
Bellevue
Elk Hill
Frederick G. Dittmar
Kearney
Syracuse
E. M. Raze
Riverton
Phelps Center
York Democrat
Smith
Lincoln Creek
James Underhill
L. J. Will
Jefferson County
S. R. Foss
Crete
Missouri
Beatrice Methodist Church
A Kansas Nursery and the City Baby
A poem describing a Kansas baby left to roam freely beneath prairie trees while city babies are carried by nurses. The speaker contrasts rural and urban nurseries, noting the baby’s independence and lack of hats or lace as it plays in grass, while wondering about the city’s controlled care. The piece appears in St. Nicholas for May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
St. Nicholas
Public Sale Planned for Otoe and Missouri Lands
By order of the interior secretary about 50 000 acres of the Otoe and Missouri Indian reservation lands in Kansas and Nebraska will be offered at public sale in Beatrice Nebraska on May 30. Senator Van Wyck aided the project and may have a department officer supervise the sale with Commissioner McFarland likely to attend. Applications must show good faith settlement within three months and include a supporting affidavit. Lands sold to the highest bidder at appraised value in eighty acre plots, with a 160 acre cap per buyer. Terms: one fourth cash in three months, then the rest due in one two and three years at five percent interest.
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United States Supreme Court
Mills County
Iowa
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company Et al
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad
Justice Bradley
W. H. Widaman
Norfolk, Neeb
Otoe
Kansas
Interior Department
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Green B. Baum
Treasury
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Otoe and
Missouri Indian
Nebraska
United States Land Office
Beatrice
Neb
van Wyck
Teller
McFarland
General Land Office
Grand Trunk Collision Near Olive Station
Detroit dispatch reports a Grand Trunk collision between a westbound passenger train and a following freight near Olive station. Two Pullmans were wrecked. conductor Wall died at the scene. Wounded include W N Page Chicago and R T Budd Chicago among others. All injured were taken to Battle Creek for treatment.
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Grand Trunk
Detroit
Grand Trunk Railway
Olive Station
W.N. Page
Chicago
R. T. Budd
Pullman Porter
A. H. Pierce
Flint
Mich
J. H. Ballogh
Rockwell City
A. H. Wheeler
Rochester
New York
A. Hobson
Saginaw
Margaret Carey
Ottawa
Ontario
Howard Thomas
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Manitoba
Home Stone
Vermont
Wall
Battle Creek
Obrien's circus attacked by mob after Dover show
A Dover special reports Obrien's circus was ambushed after the Saturday performance. Shots wounded one showman and eight to ten employees as the wagons moved toward the depot. the sheriff summoned a militia but no arrests were made. Widespread gunfire hit private homes and businesses before the wagons reached a Cambridge bound train.
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Dover
Del
Obrien
Charles Henderson
Wilson
Cambridge
Houston
Tex
Adams
The Park Murderers Verdict on Michael Fagan
Michael Fagan was found guilty of Burke's murder after defense closed its case. Judge O'Brien charged the jury and, upon verdict, Fagan proclaimed his innocence and proclaimed he would die a Fenian. He was sentenced to hang on May 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Fagan
Burke
O’brien
Fagan
Township Township Meeting Procedures and Officers Act
The article outlines town meeting clerks duties, voter qualification, oath requirements for town officers, term of office, and duties of the supervisor. It sets timelines for minutes, accounts, audits, and taxes, plus compensation and process rules for town officers, boards, and legal actions. It takes effect June 1 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nlvne
County Board—Pay of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Labor Strikes Sweep Across U S With Wage Demands
In New York eight hundred cigar makers and two hundred workers initiate a strike for higher pay, signaling a lengthy stoppage as both sides refuse to yield. Milwaukee shops grant a $1 raise after May 1, while Dallas bricklayers and carpenters win raises amid pressure. Panhandle Texas fires and coal miners in Carlinville Missouri area go on strike seeking a four cent per bushel raise.
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New York
Milwaukee
St. Joe
Dallas
Texas
Panhandle
Gunter and
Munson
Sanborn
Carlinville
Stanton
Mt. Olive
Gillespie
Bunker Hill
A Fearful Cyclone Strikes Mississippi Towns
A cyclone ravaged Wesson and Beauregard Mississippi Sunday causing heavy loss of life and property. At least nineteen dead or missing and about fifty injured in Beauregard and Wesson with total damages near $250 000 in Beauregard and far more in Wesson. Additional cyclones touched Hutchinson Kansas Eastman Georgia and Iowa with injuries and property damage but no deaths reported. The Mississippi death toll rose to eighty three with hundreds hurt as destruction spread.
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Wesson
Beauregard
Miss
Hutchison, Ks
Anderson
Eastman
John Register
Iowa
Maple River
Monona
Woodburry
Mississippi
Fragmented quotes and observations on reputation and fashion
A garbled collection of quotations on reputation virtue and appearance. It references Socrates Gol smith Lamartine Lamartine bishop Wilson Emily Faithfull and Emily discussing poverty tears and fashion with horse and chariot Bible lessons. The text blends misc fragments and incomplete phrases.
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Socrates
Golsmith
Lamartine
Sindon
Bishop Wilson
Emily Faithfull
Emily
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General
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Cassier
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Bank Onaba
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Esident
H. Mickey
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Omaha
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Wm. Hale
William
Clay Clark
Waco
Waterloo
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Lowry Bros
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Charles Goodrich
Delaware
Providence
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Democratic Central Committee of
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Ohio
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Friends of High License
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N. Y
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Boston
Michigan Senate
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Sabetha
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Straits of Mackinaw
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Nevada
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Nelson
Wm. Pack
Allapoli
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George Ware
Muscle Shoals
Ala
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Washington
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Liverpool
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American Dynamite Party
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Ring Theater
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Rome
James Carey
the Park
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Justice of The,peace
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