Dakota Territorial News Highlights From Pierre to Yankton
Willits Parker of Pierre, a noted dry goods dealer, dies in Kingsbury Indiana. James J. Spencer nominated to succeed Judge Church on the Dakota bench. Mitchell and Huron report large 1886 improvements. Rhlland county denies liquor licenses. Logan memorial services held in Pierre with Rev Blackburn presiding. G A R attends. Sioux Falls editor George C. Jones set to helm consolidated Watertown Journal Democrat. Territorial pharma group drafts drug registration bill. Canton asks capital move to Yankton. Congress fate uncertain. Severe snow blocks. statehood meeting in Huron raises funds for division and admission. Wapheton resident B Roberts dies by self-inflicted gunshot amid debt. Grand Forks keeps county license at $200. Farmers Alliance seeks mortgage relief and tax deadlines extended. Jamestown hospital report shows majority foreign-born inmates. Interior disbars Rapid City lawyer Muldrow action.
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Rhhland County
Logan
Court House
Pierre
Blackburn
Consolidated Watertown Jurnal and Democrat
George C. Jones
Sioux Falls
Huron
Dakota
Messrs. Haines
Parker
Owen
de Smet
Gov
Mellette
Watertown
B. Roberts
Wapheton
Regular Army
G. A. R. Post
Grand Forks
Great Prepares
Wease
Farmers’ Alliance
Far
Jamestown Hospital For the Insane
Norway
Canada
Germany
Sweden
England
Iceland
Ireland
Scotland
Austria
Bohemia
France
Denmark
Russia
Wales
Eee
Muldrow
Washington
Joseph
Rapid City
Interior Department
Study of insanity and the dream state compared
A medical discussion explores how sane minds approach insanity during dreams and waking dream episodes. Reports describe expressive delusions and fleeting recoveries near death, plus cases of dreamlike perception and weightlessness mirroring insanity. Jefferson Davis sympathy gesture observed on a train car in Beauvoir.
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Asylum
New York
Germany
Austerlitz
Father Lambert
France
Pittsburg
Settling the Case in Courtroom Plea
Pompous young lawyer announces court appoints him to defend the prisoner who pleads guilty and throws himself on the mercy of the court in a laboring dialect moment.
Endorsement Harm, Judge Says Abolish Practice
Judge Waldo Brown criticizes the system of indorsing notes as ruinous and urges youth to study and adopt a policy governing signatures. He explains that an indorser bears full payment responsibility if the maker defaults, without control or profit, a risk he deems unfair.
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Laffirm
Waldo Brown
Boston Traveller
Ghastly Fireplace Scene Cast by Southside Doctor
A Pittsburgh physician, skilled in clay modeling, created a lifelike skull cast using natural gas. The skull, with sutures and a knocked-out tooth, sits in a grate while bluish flames flicker through its eye sockets and jaw, a macabre display heated to white-red glow.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Still The Craze Noah's Ark Quilt Takes Stage
The craze ends yet shifts to Noah's ark patchwork. Women fashion quilts from serge to satin sheeting with animals arranged two by two around the center. Embroidery, couching and cross stitch are used, demanding more ingenuity than the earlier crazy quilt.
A Dobt Gets a Back Hander in Small Evening
A Humorous anecdote from the Hindman Gaette recounts a conceited young man boasting that he wears gloves to sleep. A witty intruder questions if he wears his hat at night, prompting amused smiles from the company about his claim.
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Hlmira Gaattte
Spiritual manifestations unfold with eerie household phenomena
A family recounts a sequence of poltergeist like events after twenty seven evenings with no signs of activity. On the twenty eighth evening spirits produced music from above and returned a lost harp, nose glasses, ear ring and spoons, while notes addressed to circle members blamed, reassured and teased the observers.
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Wife
Charlie
Stepnen
Poate Wisi
The Social Vulture Pursuing Victims to Death
A lengthy critique of blackmailers in New York exposes a class of extortionists who bully victims into silence. It cites cases including a minister lured to a brothel, a railroad magnate fleeced for 1500 dollars, and a fashionable young woman who died by suicide amid scandal. The piece laments police indifference and details the social damage caused by extortion and rumor.
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Snap
Byrnes
New York
Corere
The Drummer's Drunk Beaten in Louisville Night Attack
Drummer G. W. Turney from Chicago arrived in Louisville on a Tuesday and, after hotel check in, fell into a long drinking spree. He slept on the city commons and awoke with twelve half inch deep holes in his face and neck from a suspected assault. He was hospitalized in mortal agony and nearly died from exposure during bitter cold while awaiting police help to locate the attacker.
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G. W. Turney
Chicago
Louisville
Ironclads Outsized by New Krupp Gun Threat
The Philadelphia Record notes Krupp’s giant two ton ball and a hole through thirty eight inches of iron, predicting ironclad ships near their armor limit while warning that small torpedoes could still sink the mightiest vessels.
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Krupp
Philadelphia
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Dakota Territorial News
Willits Parker
Kingsbury
Ind
James J. Spencer
Judge Church
Mitchell
The
Territorial Pharmaceutical Association
Fargo
E. C. Maxey
Troy
F. Voegleli
Lamoure
C. R. Meredith
Jamestown
H. L
Hanssamen
Grafton
Frank Frisby
Bismarck
D. M. Holmes
Grand Works
Canton
Yankton
Congress
Jeff Davis
Jefferson Davis
South
Mr. Davis
Beauvoir
Miss
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