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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1888
Page
2
A three-year-old from Maine, sliding downhill weeks ago, cut the corners of his mouth two inches on each side after colliding with a barbed wire fence. The report notes no railroad locomotive has officially exceeded eighty miles per hour, calling higher speeds mythical.
Willie Pullman and a cat die after a raft incident when the cat sinks a drowning boy. A Louisville man returns as a tramp and is fatally shot on the first night, possibly over a past affair. A South Carolina tornado near Ninety Six scatters unknown vermin-like creatures, killed on impact.
In Philadelphia a speaker linked virtue to open spaces as a preventative measure for unrest. He argued riotous uprisings do not originate among park-adjacent residents, noting anarchists band together in crowded alleys and courts near parks.
A Dartmouth freshman connected an instrument to Western Union wires in his room to monitor news remotely. The company traced the diversion and the incident ended with consequences for the young scientist.
A map was found with a dead man atop a Liverpool tramcar. No identification on the body, but two carrier pigeons were nearby. One pigeon carried a note reading Come to detective office at once. A man later claimed he was the deceased's son, saying his father had gone out to exercise the pigeons.
Biitor Willard Cobb of Lockport recounts Roscoe Conkling recalling a 2866 trip to Itca where he agreed to supply a verbatim copy of his address. The Herald wished full reporting but needed the exact speech text from the orator himself.
A worker on the Maxwell farm in Buffalo Village, Pennsylvania, uncovered a flat stone beneath sod while digging. He revealed a cache of shining objects valued at nearly a substantial sum, prompting his resignation from the job.
A statehood committee urges farmers, business men, clergy, and editors of Dakota to meet in Huron on July 2 10 12 to discuss division rights and actions. The ministers convention follows July 10 11. Citizens seek lawful remedies amid taxation without representation and stalled statehood efforts.
A chaotic scene erupted in Jamieson’s Chicago court when Mrs. Mackie L Rawson waited for her husband Ranker Rawson’s divorce case. Col HC Whitney, the husband’s attorney, sat nearby as a pistol shot rang out and shots fired sent spectators scattering. Several others fled amid the confusion and the court quickly cleared.
The House passed a bill promoting Lieut Gen Sheridan to general of the army and the president approved it promptly. Hawley delivered the commission to Sheridan’s wife, and the Senate confirmed the nomination in a brief session. Sheridan’s death would render both grades obsolete, as the bill merged lieutenant general into general of the army.
At Viroqua Wisconsin Andrew Granstaff twenty five, long accused of depredations, is arrested by J J Farrell Pinkerton agent for the Drake family murder. Granstaff confesses he entered for drink demanded money shot Drake. Mrs Drake killed as children slept with throats cut. A mob of about one thousand gathered at night and stormed the jail, forcing barricades and freeing the prisoner.
A steamer Evanesilie of Le Claire Navigation, captained by Van peat, exploded aboard a vessel about ten miles below Dwines Va Min. The boiler ruptured, showering the deck with scalding steam and sending crew overboard. The captain and clerk witnessed the horror from the pilot house as the vessel suffered a massive boiler failure.
Chief engineer George Galloway relinquished his post to Jack Scanlan before a boiler explosion. Jack Scanlan was severely burned from head to foot while fireman Don Scanlan, sleeping near the boilers, was hurled through the boat side by the blast and later drowned after being crushed by a drifting mattress.
St Louis prepares a vast northern nave of the exposition hall as a Mississippi valley festival space seating 10 000 with 13 500 standing capacity. An acoustic design ensures clear hearing with tight crowd control and swift exits for safety. The interior will boast lavish decoration while the exterior remains comparatively restrained.
The Engineering News of New York reports on the Panama Canal actual status after expert review. It covers a progress profile to Jan 1 of the current year, noting only 11 miles dredged at the Atlantic end and about a mile at the Pacific end as near completion.
A wave of applicants for Liberia settlement housing floods New York boarding houses, with Florida families and others awaiting Moravia departures. Separately, Charleston and Summerville report nightly earthquake tremors, while Jay Gould curtails his Kansas City trip due to illness and a tragic gopher shooting incident in Minnesota leaves a young man dead in his kitchen.
A Prohibition party ticket of Clinton B. Frisk and John A. Brush is nominated. The platform calls for constitutional prohibition, abolition of liquor licenses, tariff reforms, civil service standards, universal suffrage without race or sex limits, anti polygamy measures, and equal wages, while urging labor capital unity and land reform.
Report says Kennett told a fellow prisoner a full confession to Annie Daniels' murder during the La Crosse trial. The prisoner, named George Daniels, is questioned for truthfulness and called an inventive storyteller by onlookers.
A Fort Benton resident was killed in an unprovoked assault near Fort Conrad, Montana. The victim was attacked in a public area as friends attempted to intervene, and bystanders called for medical aid while awaiting help. Police or local authorities began investigations into the grisly incident.
An ambush near Ning vine north of Fort Gom leaves Ade shot bleeding after a party raid at a wagon. The killer Hoppa, a Pole tied to McLeod, is pursued as a feud over past raiding escalates. An unrelated railway wreck near Bordeaux kills three and injures four. Authorities press trespass suits against land grabbers tied to Coe Carter and Union Pacific. Shanghai Korea intrigue grows while Jay Gould tours Missouri Pacific. May debt reduction and large pension outlays are reported. An inquest in Chippewa Falls questions death of woodsman Willi Thompson. An 2 interesting Chicago cattle trust deal ends with Nelson Morris moving cattle to the Canning company and $2,000,000 exchange.
Fragmented OCR text outlining motions in a council house and senate with references to Britain, Iowa politics, reform, and fiscal figures. Mentions Kerr and Weaver in dashed contexts and a figure of 24,289 dollars.
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