Disturbed Husband Kills Wife Then Commits Suicide
Tenex Havre Ind Feb 25 A well known businessman Altamott G Walker awoke his wife and fired at her The bullet lodged in the pillow He tried to flee but his wife grabbed him Then he shot twice more one wound her and then turned the pistol on himself injuring his lungs He died soon after Mrs Walker sister of B D Hudnut owner of the Hudnut Milling Co and president of the Vigo County National Bank The couple had four children and lived on Sy Oneare Way Sanity is blamed for the tragedy and he had written a letter to Senator Sherman detailing his troubles.
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Havre
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Altamott GQ
Walker
B.D. Hudnut
Hudnut Milling Company
Vigo County National Bann
May Paes
Sherman
Law Laid Down Archbishop Corrigan Targets Secret Societies
Arch bishop Corrigan orders priests in New York diocese to warn Catholics against joining Odd Fellows Sons of Temperance and Knights of Pythias or risk denial of sacraments, citing third plenary council of Baltimore. Cor related notes include Y M C A address by Bishop Watterson in Columbus and mail recovery efforts for the Ellis wreck.
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Prisats
Yoas
New York
Holy Office
Pontif
United States
Odd Fellows
Sons of Temperance
Knights of Pythias
Muscat Sealed by Bedouins and Cadets Imprisoned
A Calcutta dispatch says insurgent Bedouins captured much of Muscat with the sultan fleeing the palace before the eastern part was retaken. Fighting continues. From Anwarotit Md on Feb 25 cadets Mahoney Hart of Michigan and Wessels of Iowa are jailed aboard the Sante naval academy ship for annoyingly flagrant conduct toward an officer with a chemical jar incident.
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Muscat
Lewbox
Calcutta
Wegal
Anwarotit
Thomas Mahoney
Thomas Hart
Michigan
Arthur Wessels
Iowa
Naval Academy
Sante
Backion Arnica Salve Promises Quick Healing For Many Ailments
In an advertisement J. K. Jones offers Backion’s Arnica Salve claiming it cures cuts, bruises, ulcers, eruptions, chafing, piles, and skin complaints with a money back guarantee for satisfaction. Also promoting Griggs & Axwil’s sale of cheap cash-stoves and groceries.
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J. K. Jones
Griggs & Axwil's
Missouri Appropriations Cut in House Committee Action
Missouri house appropriations committee reduces funds for asylum and education programs across Fulton St Joseph Nevada and St Louis affecting the Deaf and Dumb, Insane, Blind, Penitentiary, Reform School, Industrial Home, State University, Normal and Lincoln Institute projects with building needs and rebuilt main structures noted. A separate item reports a railroad conductor John Enos detained after threats to kill his wife and three children. Hawaiian cable funding potential veto discussed as diplomatic bill nears closure and France halts American cattle imports due to Texas fever.
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Jereenson City
House Appropriations Committee
Fulton
St Joseph
Nevada
Asylum For the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum For the
St. Louis
Missouri School For the Blind
Reform School For Boys
Boonville
Industrial Home For
Chillicothe
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Kirksville Normal School
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Cape Girardeau Normal School
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John Enos
St Joseph & Grand Island Railroad
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Found Dead in the Ohio Harbor
The body of Max Bremen was found in Cisdyxazt Ohio on February 25 while breaking ice in the harbor a handkerchief tied tightly around the neck suggests foul play authorities investigated the death as a possible murder with the victim identified as Max Bremen from Cisdyxazt Ohio.
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Ohio
Cisdyxazt
Max Bremen
Congress Expiring Wires Brisk Political News
Briefs report the Fifty third congress ends next Monday while the Kansas legislature reaches its fifty day limit on Wednesday. Notable items include a plan to donate Fort Hayes reservation to Kansas, calls for destitute relief in Western Kansas, and multiple violent incidents across several states.
Silver Men Win After Long Fought Senate Contest
Satem Oregon February 25 The long contest to elect J N Dolph's successor in the Oregon senate ended at 11 45 pm with George W McBride elected ex secretary of state The fight stretched 33 days and centered on money questions Dolph opposed free silver McBride a native of Oregon born 1834 in Yamhill county previously served in the Oregon house as speaker He was nominated for secretary of state in 1886 and later re elected in 1890 He is seen as favoring financial reform along lines of the last national Republican convention Portand and Satem reports note the lengthy balloting and eventual union of factions behind McBride
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Free Silver
House
Senate
PBS
Oregon
Yanzhill
Oregon House of Representatives
McBride
Portnand
Ore
United States
George W. McHiride
Woodruff Found Guilty In One Year Term Jail Sentence
Ark Feb 25 jury convicts former State Treasurer Woodruff of false pretenses in securing signatures for scrip to Johnson J. Jones and fixes punishment at one year. This fourth trial cost nearly 50 000. Earlier trials in 1891 1549 and 1993 ended differently. Also notes Reform Press editors elected and a Missouri land ownership bill. Ingersoll lecture goes ahead. Switchmen's Aid Society reorganizes with new insurance plan.
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Ark
Woodruff
Perryville
State Debt Board
Johnson J. Jones
Woodrutl
Switchmen's Aid Society
Carcase
Switchmen
Switchmens Mutual Aid Association
Pew Association
Fire in Pratt City coal mine kills two miners and injures many
A blaze in the Rock slope of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad mines at Pratt City claimed the lives of John Patton and Louis Stevens and left eighteen others injured. Twenty convicts and twenty-three mine mules suffered smoke exposure as flames from the engine room spread, trapping workers near the air shaft before rescue.
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Brearscanam
Ala
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Pratt City
John Patton
Louis Stevens
Sir Shaft
Shot on the stage ends in fatal injury by famed rifleman
William Haverly died after Alfred Rieckhof, billed as world’s best rifle shot, fired twenty shots into a steel plate protecting Haverly’s chest during a human target act at Engél’s Pavilion. Rieckhof was arrested as hospital officials feared for Haverly’s life. General Joseph B. Carr dies in Troy. Captain Henry Howgate acquitted in embezzlement case. seven further indictments remain.
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William Maverly
Burt Cuiiaco
William Haverly
Engél's Pavallion
Alfred Hieckhof
O Haverly
Haverly
Alexian Brothers’ Hospital
Rieckhof
Howgate
Wassiseros
Henry Howgate
Signal Service
In Memory of Frederick Douglass Service in Boston
A memory service for Frederick Douglass was held at Bulfinch Street Church with addresses by William Lloyd Garrison son of the abolitionist Rev C E Eliot Butler Wilson and George B Blackwell. Extra War Credit Granted Diet approves 100 million yen and a 3 million yen Korean loan. Sedalia Typographical Union plans a new morning daily backed by St Louis Republican capitalists. Sheriff delegates from twenty counties organize to oppose a bill cutting prisoner feeding to forty cents per day.
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Douglass
Boston
Frederick Douglass
Bulfinch Street
William Lloyd Garrison
C .E. Eliot
Butler Wilson
Geory B. Blackwell
Tonto
Coreanu
Sodalia Span
Sedalia Typographical Union No 208
St Louis Republican Capitalists
Missouri
Sherif Organien
Sepatia
The Turner's Mask Masquerade Ball At Turner Hall
The Turner Society held a masquerade ball Saturday at Turner hall with over 200 attendees, many in costume. Highlights included John Seybold and Bowmen as the Two Johns, and John Pieger towering over six feet in curls and breeches as Little Lord Fauntleroy. The notice ends with local business ads for Beggs' German Salve and a Daily State Journal subscription.
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Turner Society
Turner Hall
John Seybold
John Pieger
Lord Fauntleroy
Hidden treasures in the capitol files and a plumber’s tale
A Chicago Record editorial urges Congress to save valuable papers found in Capitol files while discarding the junk. A plumber’s misdirected freeze up joke ends with the water bill unpaid. Bohr’s fish respiration findings suggest gas secretion refills swim bladders. King Leopold of Belgium is described as a reserved scholar king with anti death penalty stance.
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Professor Bohr
Copenhagen
Bohr
Chapped Hands Remedy From Glycerin Rosewater Bengoin
An observant woman recommends a hand remedy of glycerin rosewater and bengoin. Mix one ounce glycerin, one ounce rosewater, and 20 drops bengoin and apply after washing but before drying for antiseptic and soothing effects. Miss Artess debates word choice deem versus consider with a light exchange in Indianapolis Journal.
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Miss Artess
Ben Fargos Claim Jumped In New Boston Tale
The New Boston Clarion reports Ben Fargo’s claim was jumped by a Missouri man named Mizzury. After a chaotic confrontation, Fargo wins control, finds a child’s grave near the claim, and the press notes his calm, decisive return to Indiana with the situation unresolved but moving toward order. A widow weeps at her child’s grave as Fargo navigates local scrutiny and the evolving dispute.
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