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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
6
The Cripple Creek era brings a crowded scene of speculators gamblers cowboys and adventurers amid a boom town that teeters between rough law and vigilante oversight. A chance encounter in the Hoek’s billiard room exposes tensions as a stranger cautions against trouble and a confrontational showdown nearly erupts over a disputed shot.
A narrator in Cripple Creek endures a violent confrontation in a hotel room after recognizing a man from whom he had wrested a billiard eye. The intruder ties him, robs his pockets, and flees, later revealed as BIW Simpkins who wore his clothes. The narrator is rescued by Colonel Melt and others as tension resolves but leaves questions about vengeance and mistaken identity.
Ground will soon be broken for a Bucknell University dormitory to house upwards of 100 students. The brick four story building, sized 40 by 140 feet, includes furnishings and will cost about 60 000. Bucknell enrollment across all departments has risen to 248 under President John Iona Hawrer, formerly head of Keystone Academy.
A recount of Britain facing government insolvency in the early eighteenth century as a private bank failed and Parliament and the king met in Whitehall. The treasury used measures to prevent a total collapse, with the Bank of England reluctant to pay notes and the government directing cash flow to stabilize the system.
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