Death of United States Minister Gray in Mexico Hospital
United States Minister Gray died at 7 05 pm after a severe pneumonia while en route from Indianapolis to the capital region. He fell unconscious aboard a Mexican railway car and was taken to the American hospital where he passed away with Mrs Gray and Consul General Crittenden present. The body will be embalmed and shipped to Indianapolis via El Paso and Kansas City. He had been visiting his son undergoing a surgical operation when illness struck.
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Mexico
United States
Gray
Indianapolis
Indiana Governor Gray's Campaign and Civil War Service
Louis died in a Pullman berth. Isaac P. Gray, born in Donnington Pennsylvania, moved with his family to Ohio and then Indiana. He served as Indiana state senator, became lieutenant governor under Hendricks, won the governorship in 1870s, and was a prominent campaigner during Cleveland Hendricks era. He led the Fourth Indiana regiment in the Civil War until health issues forced his return.
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Indianapolis
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Silver bullion derailed in eastbound freight wreck
An east bound Atchison freight train wrecked four miles east of here after a broken brake beam. Three cars carrying silver bullion derailed and scatter on the ground. No injuries reported. In a separate item near Caddo, Joe Lingo was shot and killed by Taylor Triplett about twelve miles east of Caddo yesterday evening.
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Neer
Fort Leavenworth Soldiers Try to Lynch Suspects in Kansas
In Leaves route Kansas on February 15, about forty Fort Leavenworth soldiers attempted to lynch a bartender Harry Smith and a woman Alma Vaughn, blamed for the death of Private Foran found at a coal shaft. They fled through a saloon back exit, were restrained by night police, and sent back toward the fort after Colonel Hawkins dispatched cavalry. Nearby, Mexican bandits at Scott camp were captured with some to be shot, the Scott brothers and Foreman Franklin healing from wounds, six victims buried. In Hume Missouri, cashier T Lisle Standish died of heart disease in Butler while summoned as a court witness. Eva Lewis, an eighteen-year-old from a rural town, married J W Creasey after her parents objected to visitors at her school.
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Mexico
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Tim
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Issures
Detroit Free Press
Snowstorms, murders, and political ballots cross country
Brief items from wires report Idaho’s senate ballot unchanged as several legislatures meet. San Antonio endures the heaviest snowstorm on record while New York contemplates pools and trusts. Murder cases in Florida and Kansas mix with unrest over rail strikes. Coal mine explosions injure workers. labor leaders seek back pay. Weather extremes worsen stock on Colorado ranges and territorial disputes in Nebraska. Fire destroys a Monton school building. injuries occur as inmates face fines in billiards cases. Rights and commutations surface in New York and Wyandotte.
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George F. Slosson
Charles Hammacher
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Meade
Davis Paige
John Huntington
South America
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House Rejects Third Reading on 65 Million Gold Bond Plan
The House voted 167 to 120 to拒 the third reading of a resolution authorizing 65 million in 5 per cent gold bonds to replace earlier bonds. Debates featured Hepburn, Reed, Bryan, and Western Republicans urging defeat while Eastern Republicans shifted to support. Senate kept current railway mail system and rejected fast mail subsidies amid a stalled post offices appropriation.
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Canton
Illinois
Reed
United
Hepburn
Iowa
Wilton
Bryan
Kansas
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Bland
Wilson
Senate
Post Offices
New England
Guatemala Accepts Mexican Peace Terms to Settle Long Dispute
Guatemala peacefully accepts Mexico's conditions to settle the border dispute and indemnity payments for Mexican property damage. A Guatemalan official acceptance will be published in the Diario official next week, ending the famous feud. Bomb strikes Buckeye Glass Works office in Martin's Ferry Ohio amid ongoing striker violence.
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Settier Ciry
Guatamala
Warrnixs
W. Va
Buckeye Glass Works
Martin's Ferry
Ohio
Huomprey
Labor Unions Press Bill to Prohibit Corporate Action
Labor leaders in Jergenson City Missouri seek passage of Warner of St Louis county bill to bar corporations from breaking worker rights and to impose severe penalties. The Choctaw Memorial notes Senator Teller filed two memorials in Wasursorox asking government action over political prisoners under Governor Gardner administration.
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Missouri Legislature Debates Foreclosure and Wages Bill
In Jervznsos Crry Missouri the house votes to foreclose the Union Pacific mortgage for 78000000 and to instruct lawmakers on the measure. Moran’s amendment to strike the appropriation fails. Carroll seeks payment of wages in United States money. MelIntyre proposes juries may set first degree murder punishments. Senate engrosses a board of expert medical examiners for state asylums and considers insanity procedure in criminal cases.
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Kansas City
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Carroll
St Louis City
United States
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Lyman
Blue and the Gray Meet at Banquet in Chicago
The Columbian post Grand Army hosts a "blue and the gray" banquet at Chicago's Auditorium with about 300 in attendance. Rev. Emil G. Hirsch opens in prayer and speakers include Major William Warner General John B Gordon and St Clair McKelway. Roster of toasts signals reconciliation era.
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Brooklyn
Wiliam E. Mason
John B. Gordon
Georgia
Ex- Confederate Association of Chicago
Tilineteans Blow Out the Gas at Brunswick Hotel
Cary Gregory and George Harpool of Fairfield NL were found dead in a bed at the Brunswick hotel after they blew out the gas. Atchison gambling places closed as three houses and two policy shops shut. slots removed. Shawnee county delegates protest against amendments to Sherman bill. Court continuation sought to dispose of business, implying a judge’s job. Daily Stark Journal/Joumal subscription notices.
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Sherman
Circuit Court
Young Congressman Quigg to Lead New York Press
Lemuel Ely Quigg, 22, named vice president editor and publisher of the New York Press, with a 14 year newspaper career including time at the New York Tribune. He has reported across the U S Canada and South America and wrote Republican campaign literature before winning a congressional seat in 1894.
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Wilmington
Del
Frank Hatton
Robert P. Porter
Henry L. Einstein
Edwin Einstein
Seven Sunflower Capitols In Kansas History
The Kansas Prairie Schooner of State has moved, noting Kansas a 34th state anniversary. Seven capitols served from Pawnee to later towns. Pawnee’s stone capitol building still stands though weathered. Territorial legislature met there, but Pawnee’s claims faded as seats moved elsewhere.
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Prairie Schooner
Great Commonwealth
Pawnee
A. H. Reeder
Geary County
Territorial
Evolution of Kansas Capitals Through Early Legislatures
A condensed recount of Kansas first capitals and capitol building history. It notes Reeder's veto, legislative sessions at Shawnee Mission and Constitution Hall, and moves from Lecompton to Lawrence to Topeka. It mentions the 1869 east wing completion and the ongoing cost, with about 1 million spent and another needed.
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Dentists, thugs, and galvanic shocks charm off nerves
A chaotic retail of oddities shows a pistol wielding robber in a dentist chair who is jolted by a galvanic battery and pays five dollars for the tooth pulling. Nearby, a bragging veteran laments losing forty dollars to a street hustler in a wallet theft ruse, while other vignettes offer quick moral quips and homegrown humor.
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