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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
3
Yesterday featured visits from KR T Evans John T Reid and J Hy Borland with many locals socializing and saloons taking nickels at slots. Railroad crews inspectors and merchants arrived or prepared travel while town improvements and windmill plans spurred value.
A Northeast of Carson dwelling and barn owned by John P. Sweeney burned with his body found in the cellar amid a charred trunk and skull. Suspect involves possible self destruction after heavy drinking and financial losses, with wife away in San Francisco. Sweeney known as a racing man, Mindful of earlier mint watchman farewell remark. Community debates accident versus suicide as cause.
A condensed digest notes Bismarck's 81st birthday, a 95-year-old Mason death in Wisconsin, a Stockton bootblack murder with wife under arrest, Cape troops to Bulawayo, Arizona governor removal, Coffeyville raid outlaw killed, fiscal month deficit, Cannonball train robbery near Lebanon, and assorted ads including catarrh cure and waists en route from New York. Includes names Frederick A Humphreys Andrew Vaccaressa Carl Thorne Reynolds Hughes Bruce Dalton Wells Fargo Cheney Company and others.
Mrs. Mary Bell died yesterday in Winnemuces after illness from stomach ulceration. A native of Ireland, she was 57 and had lived in the state over 40 years and in this town about 20 years. She leaves two daughters and two grandchildren. interment was today at 2 pm.
Robert Welsh brought sheep from Table Mountain to be sheared. John Harrison sent a carload of alfalfa to Truckee. J A McIntosh beautifies his property with trees from W C Pitt. No school next week due to institute. Brown Stiff and Hardesty shipped rich ore to Reno for assay. Various ads for Syrup of Figs, Easter items, and F C Ronis & Co promotions.
Lists of committees for a Hermion Temple event include the Committee of Arrangements with Mrs. Mellie Roberts and others, Reception Committee of Ladies of Hermion Temple, Decoration Committee led by Miss Vinnie Hill and Melinda Wilcox, and several others named for Supper and related duties.
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