Dakota Territory News Patch Alerts and Local Happenings
Hog cholera rages near Yankton while ex delegate Raymond doubts Dakota division but seeks winter admission. Huron hosts a big musical festival. Boxer Clarence Bennett, 26, fought in Woonsocket then faced arrest for assault and was tarred and feathered amid lynch threats. Nebraska talks of a barbed wire factory in Lions Falls. Wheat averages twenty bushels in Missouri Valley. Buxton Mining ships ore to Omaha at $1000 a ton. Beadle Democrats call mass convention in Huron Oct 21 to act on Sioux Falls convention constitution. Prairie fire near Vanderbilt. Barns and granaries burned. Mrs. Chilcott loses barn and grain. J. H. Teller says no charges against Gov. Pierce known. Northern Pacific Presbytery in Casselton votes to rename Fargo Presbytery. sermon by Rev Day. Infant crushed by buggy overturn at Wessington Springs. Sully County reports no saloon, pauper, or crime in 3 years. Pierre farmer R. H. Lulla found dead. Sioux Falls Queen Bee mill tax sale nets $3,771.97. lands sold at small bids. Farm yields at Charles Greve’s Hillsboro acreage show wheat, oats, barley totals. Congregational convention in Fargo advances plan for a North Dakota college with a nine-member location committee and board of trustees broad powers.
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Beadle County
South Dakota
Huron
Sioux Falls
Vanderbilt
Campbell County
Spring River
Chilcott
Mathew Baker
Unmasked Card Sharper and a Noted Scandal Tale
An excerpt recounts a young man connected to a club scandal who cheated at cards with a pro gambler and was expelled. A debate on suicide follows, then a curiously framed story of Vicomte Roland, son of General Comte Roland, whose gilded youth era drew gossip through eccentricities and duels in Paris's elite social scene.
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Oint
Vicomte
Roland
Napoleon I
Comte Roland
Marquis de Bransac
France
Bransac
Faubourg Saint Germain
Forest of T
de Bransac
Italy
Paris
Vicomete
Bois de Boulogne
Vicomte Roland
Wasan i
Jack and the Gold To Wealth and Love
Poem warns Jack of twenty with tales of wooing and gold. It contrasts lust for wealth with true love and vows that steadfast service earns a lasting heart. Frederick Langbridge article excerpt appears in Good Words.
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Jack
Frederick Langbridge
Death at the card table ends a Paris aristocrat
Vicomte Roland loses fortunes at ecarte after a dramatic rift with his father the General. A bold duel of luck turns deadly when the General wins the final hand and the son dies by suicide or murder. Authorities recover a torn will piece.
Califor nian's wife elopes with another man in San Francisco
Two years after a California groom married a New York beauty they moved to Sacramento. The husband left for work and the wife kissed him at the stairs then vanished with another man that evening, taking all household goods and his best suit.
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New York
Sacramento
Cal
San Francisco
Bonanza Kings and the San Francisco Money Machine
A San Francisco correspondent notes the vast sums moved by mining stocks on the Pacific coast led by the Bank of Nevada and Bank of California. Flood and Fair own the Nevada bank. Bank of California anchors rails, before a market collapse from overvalued mines like Comstock and Consolidated Virginia. Flood O’Brien fortunes rise from the Auction Lunch to mining booms, while Ralston’s fate and Hopkins, Crocker and Meigs loom in a tale of wealth, risk, and a legendary one million dollar check saved for posterity.
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San Francisco
California
England
Pacific Coast
Bank of Nevada
Frisco
Mackay
Flood and Fair
Bank of California
Stanford
Huntington
Hopkins
Crocker
Ralston
Bank of England
Merchant’s Exchange
Safe Deposit Company
Comstock
Consolidated Virginia
Sierra Nevada
Flood
O’brien
Washington Street
Francisco
Vale and Narcross
Catherine's Ride Across England to London Visit
The account describes Catherine Martin Wood a cousin of the Wood family daughter of John Wood third son of the patentee who travels from Wolverhampton to London by gee ho stage wagon to visit Rev John Pimley at Olverhampton and Blackheath. A highway encounter leads to a dangerous ride and mistaken identity with a famed highwayman nickname Dick Turpin.
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London
Catherine Martin
John Wood
Mdaigesc Nig
Catherine
Othea Fryer
Staffordshire
John Pimley
Olverhampton
Morden College
Blackheath
Wolverhampton
Cock and Bell
Smithfield
Catharine
Myirl
Mordon College
Christ
Wren
John Mordon
How to Live One Hundred Years from Chicago News
Dr J M Peebles promotes a century living guide noting heat and weather as factors. The pamphlet argues sleep water and a vegetarian diet aid longevity with prenatal influences and climate protection.
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Chicago News
Mercury
J.M. Peebles
Peebles
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