La Grippe Grip Tightens Its Hold Across Cities
Reports from Paris and other cities describe a sharp rise in La Grippe deaths with 580 fatalities in 24 hours in Paris and 318 Christmas deaths overall. Influenza spreads through Germany and the Far East while cities like Baltimore Chicago Omaha and Rochester report numerous cases, mostly mild, among workers and students.
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la Grippe
Paris
Berutsy
Koenigsburg
Germany
Lisbon
Senor Gomez
Chicago
Longenecker
Far East
Philadelphia
Boston
Albany
Buffalo
Rochester
New York
Baltimore
Aberdeen Postmaster Faces Removal Charges
Washington reports the Aberdeen South Dakota postmaster John Firey faces possible removal after an inspector found causes including carelessness. Several candidates including George Schilosser R E Miles Ira Barnes and Morrill vie for the job amid department pressure and local backing.
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Washington
Aberdeen
Post-Office Department
John Firey
South Dakota
Firey
George Schilosser
R. E. Miles
Ira Barnes
Mr. Morrill
Schilosser
Doctor reports diphtheria deaths at Heyd settlement
Dr Gamble returns from a second trip to the Heyd settlement twenty miles from Leola with thirty seven child deaths from diphtheria. Several are sick with only two recoveries. The epidemic covers a fourteen mile square area, with no cases within eighteen miles of Leola.
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Azervery
Gamble
Heyd
Leola
Editor Snyder Dead in Lead City Tribune Editor Die
Major William R. Snyder longtime managing editor of the Lead City Daily Tribune died suddenly in Derapwoop this morning from apoplexy. He was a prominent Black Hills newspaper figure in South Dakota.
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Snyder
Navy Adopts New Flag Design With Forty Two Stars
Wasumotox December 27 The secretary of the navy has adopted a new flag design to take effect July 1 1891. It applies to the navy flag and union jack and features a rectangular arrangement of forty two stars.
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Wasumotox
Secretary of the Navy
Navy
Bowdie Buys Historic Georgetown House in Wasuixoton
A. M. Bowdie of Mitchell D. C. bought the former Gen. M. Green property in Georgetown while visiting Wasuixoton. The old residence is noted for its beauty and grounds. The exact price paid was not disclosed in the report.
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Bowdie
Wasuixoton
M. Bowdie
Mitchell
Gen. M. Green
Georgetown
Youth shoots himself while pounding ice with gun
Peter Rasmusson, a farm worker near Iroquois, accidentally discharged a gun while pounding ice on a pond. The shot tore away part of his tongue teeth and jaw, lodging near the nose. He walked home for medical help as doctors treated a severe, possibly fatal, wound. His parents live about twelve miles north of Plankinton.
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Iroquois
Peter Rasmusson
Wm. M
Arthur Page
Dickey
Iroquins
Huff
Plankinton
Gas Discovery at Redfield Shatters South Dakota Records
Natural gas has been found at Redfield in Spink county. It is described as the strongest strike yet in the state with excellent quality. The well was dug while seeking water and shows high pressure lifting sand and gravel sixty feet. This marks the fourth such discovery in South Dakota within sixty days.
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Redfield
Sioux Falls
Spink County
South Dakota
Belgium coal strike grows to ten thousand four hundred
TheBelgium coal districts strike numbers have risen to 10 400 workers. H B Moore at Duluth acts as customs collector and is nearly resigning. Henry M Stanley plans to depart Zanzibar for Cairo on January 13. A Virginia capitalist syndicate intends railroad projects in South America. In Northville Michigan John Taylor, intoxicated, tried to break into Mrs Roach home and was shot by the woman. In Omaha Mrs Ship killed her three children as fire destroyed the house.
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H. B.moore
Duluth
Belgium
Henry M. Stanley
Zanzibar
Cairo
Virginia
South America
John Taylor
Wm. B. Sterling Appointed U.S. District Attorney
Wm. B. Sterling is newly appointed U. S. District Attorney and has now been named attorney for the division of the C N W BR. R. His recent honors are accepted with notable grace as recognition of his ability and worth by the Iroquois Chief.
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Wm. B. Sterling
U. S
Sterling
A Long Way from the Dakotas Pioneer Press
A Fayette county Pennsylvania report describes eight destitute individuals near death amid a famine tale. The piece contrasts scarce relief with Pennsylvania's abundance, highlighting a perceived national disgrace in hunger.
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Dakotas
Pioneer Press
Fayette County
Pennsylvania
No Law Against St Jamestown Capital Water Route
The passage argues there is no law preventing Mongolian or Chinese immigration via an artesian well, stating the artesian water source could expose an exhaustible influx while noting current restrictions. It frames the well as an unlawful entry point circumventing national law.
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St. Jamestown
No Good Reason For It
An appeal urges the legislature to reform state tax sale law by reducing interest on tax certificates from 30 percent to no more than 12 percent. The piece argues the current rate is usury and unjust, calling for lawful restraint to align with justice and provide relief to taxpayers unable to pay.
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Brookings Press
Wind storms lash the East as calamities spread across cities
A sensational Ft Sally flood report notes heavy winds in the East with 56 mph at Boston and 60 mph at Sandy Hook. Damage and injuries occur in Brooklyn Syracuse and Jersey City including two girls hurt and a fatality.
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Ft. Sally Flood
California
Wild Cat Insurance Companies
New York
Brooklyn
Syracuse
Jos. Forkheimer
Giles Wood
Jersey City
Samuel Butcher
New England
Cape Hatteras
Indians at Fort Sully threaten unrest over treaty terms
Report from Fort Sully claims Indians near the fort are dissatisfied with the treaty opening the reservation. They allege inadequate pay for their ponies and have killed several settlers nearby, though confirmation is lacking from arriving parties.
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Pierre
Fort Sully
California Flood Hits Los Angeles Trains and Bridges
Heavy rain in California continues to flood Los Angeles. Trains from the northeast and south are cut off, with rail damage totaling about 350000 dollars. County lines to the ocean are submerged, streetcar and bridge damage extensive, homes in lowlands evacuated.
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California
Los Ancrezs
Cal
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Wildcat insurers topple in South Dakota move
Live stock insurance firms faced swift action as auditors Taylor and Blanchard seized the Dakotas Mutual Relic association books and called in the Farmers' Live Stock charter. The audit aims to stop wildcat companies from deceiving farmers and to protect stock producers.
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Taylor
Blanchard
Dakota Mutual Relic Association
Farmers’ Live Stock Association
South Dakota
Christmas for the Sioux at Mrs Hoff’s Washington home
Mrs Annie Louise Hoff hosted fifteen Sioux chiefs at 1513 Rhode Island avenue with Agent McLaughlin as chaperone. The Misses Hark of Boston performed cornet pieces and Mr Krutch provided piano across a festive evening recalling the Indians’ earlier visit to the Sioux reservation. The braves joined supper and cleared the table quickly.
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Wasmeton
Annie Louise Hoff
Rhode Island Avenue
McLaughlin
Hoff
Hark
Boston
South Dakota postmasters listed for appointments
On December 18 the following South Dakota postmasters appeared in the appointment list. James D. Jones of Ipswich, B. F. Campbell of Lions Falls, Wheeler Bowen to Ransom E. Gregory, William Hi Wheeles, Deadwood.
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Wasmxarox
South Dakota
James D. Jones
Ipswich
B. F. Campbell
Lions Falls
Wheeler
Bowen
Ransom E. Gregory William Hi
Wheeles
Deadwood
South Dakota Judicial Circuits and Assigned Judges
A historical list detailing the eight judicial circuits, their counties, and the presiding judges. It names First through Seventh circuits, with each circuit's counties and judge, including reservations and river boundaries as defined in the text.
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Union, Clay
Yankton
Turner
Bon Homme
Hutchinson
Charles Mix
Douglas
Toddo Ory
Ti Tienes
Meyer
Tasca Minnehaha
McCook
Moody _ Lake
F. R. Aiken
Brookings Kingsbury
Denel
Hamlin
Codington
Clark
Grant
Roberts
Day
Wahper Ton
Sisseton Reservation
Marshall County
J. O. Andrews
Brookings
Sanborn
de Aurora
Brule
Buffalo
Jerauld
Hansop
Miner
Lyman
Presho
Pratt
Richard Haney
Plankinton
Beadle
Spink
Brown and
Marshall
A. W. Campbell
Aberdeen
Hyde
Hughes
Sally
Stanley
Potter
Faulk
Edmunds
Walworth
Campbell
McPherson
Missouri River
L. M. Fuller
Ipswich
Pennington
Custer
Fall River
Shannon
Washington
Ziebach
Sterling
Nowlin
Jackson
Washabangh
Lugenbeel
John W. Nowlin
Rapid City
Scobey Batts
Delane
Fai Dene
Lameutte
Ano
al Utewey
Boremon
Schnasse
Rinehart
Choteau
Ewing
Harding
Cheyenne River
North Fork
C. M. Thomas
Deadwood
Watertown Meeting Receives Immigration and Finance Reforms
A Watertown committee on legislation, formed at the meeting on the 19th, recommended reforms. They seek a skilled immigration bureau, public classification of warehouses and elevators, tightened interest-rate controls, miller toll regulation, earlier tax deed notices, and laws allowing companies to raise funds for emergency drought relief.
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Watertown
Gov. Mellette Reaffirms Silence to Auditing Attack
Pierre Dec. 17. In response to a Sioux Falls Argus Leader inquiry Gov. Mellette says he has nothing to communicate about ex-Auditor James Ward’s attack. He would only reiterate his prior position and has no desire to discuss other propositions.
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Sioux Falls
A. ©. Mexierre
Its Rays Will Shoot. South Dakota Hope Message
Poetic reassurance to settlers in the plains urging bravery and hope for a fruitful year. A vision of prosperity after hardship, with emphasis on renewed crops and recovery from past trials.
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Alexandria Herale
South Dakota
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Lewis Whazen
John Fowler
Huron National Bank
United States Depository
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M. Jeep Eris & CO
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Jor Bros
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Schuman
Butte County
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Sacramento
Maryeville
California State Board of
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