Gold In Chunks From Ninety-Mile Point Coolgardie Tale
A dramatic dispatch from western Australia reports nuggets weighing 50 to 150 ounces found near Ninety-Mile Point, touching off feverish prospecting. A syndicate trekking inland on December 1 allegedly faced attack after gold was discovered, resulting in the massacre of a Black encampment. eight men were arrested. Meanwhile British warships hunted a missing vessel near Tangiers with a Moorish steamer rescuing eleven sailors from a wrecked Spanish bark Luz.
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Vascovyren
B. G
Mirowera
Western Australia
Coolgardie
Dan Robertson
Mapa
Gibraltar
Tangiers
Luz
Jardon
Iswick
Palma
Majorica
Presidential Candidate Sibley Seen as Free Silver Hope
Philadelphia March 16 An eastern free silver advocate, Rep Sibley of Pennsylvania, touted as a potential presidential candidate. born 1850 in Allegheny County New York, made his fortune in early Pennsylvania oil. Known as Honest Joe, he lives with his wife in Washington and keeps horses, while serving as representative and former Franklin mayor.
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Stirti
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sibley
Allegheny County
N. Y
Joseph
Franklin
Washington
Shoreham
Joe
Smoothers? Pension Fraud and Trade Figures Reported
In Wasnitox y March 15, imposters posing as pension office special examiners have swindled elderly veterans in southern Pennsylvania. Arrests of Joe Greener and Barney Kemper Dolan are noted, with fraud schemes centered on demanding $1.50 to log pension case notes. Felony charges carry up to three years or a $1,000 fine. Also from Washington: February imports and exports show a small trade surplus, with gold and silver movements, and immigrant arrivals at about 196,000 for eight months ending February 1895.
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Crrr
Walter Strange
Strange
Wasninetoxy
Pension Bureau
Pennsylvania
Martin
Harrisburg
Joe Greener
Buckaskin Jon
Donnelly
Barney Kemper
Joseph Dolan
William Dolan
McSherrystown
Adams County
Dolan
Pension Office
Board of Examining Surgeons
Wasnixetos
Bureau of Statistics
Mob killings in Walsenburg threaten Italian bodies
Reporting from Walsenburg Colorado and Louisville Kentucky on March 15 details a mob killing of two Italians with no witnesses naming culprits. Searches for the bodies continue as townsfolk remain tight lipped amid a strike era history of unrest and miner influence.
Murder for money shocks small town expects escape
A Hungarian pair is suspected after a brutal murder in Mammoth Falls where a Hungarian woman Zolinski and her daughter were found dead in the woods with $500 saved. They planned to return to Hungary and were robbed and killed during a walk to Mount Pleasant. In another report, Alois Foidl of Austria killed himself with dynamite on Logan Avenue in Dexuru. In Pittsburgh, a wall collapse at the old merchants bank building killed Patrick Killeen and injured three others, with one more man unnamed.
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GreensevRe
Mammoth
Zolinski
Mount Pleasant
Hungary
Dexuru
Col
Lingg
Chicago
Alois Foidl
Foidl
Logan Avenue
Prrrsnunen
Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank
Patrick Killeen
Michael Scanlon
Patrick Malloy
Reaper Men in Trouble Confess Judgment Against Wood Co
The Walter A. Wood Harvester Co confessed judgment in Superior Court for 26253 in favor of National Bank of the Republic. An execution issued and a deputy sheriff levied on harvesting machines stored in the Chicago warehouse at 74 Taylor Street. The firm ranks as a leading harvesters maker in the United States.
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Alter A. Wood Harvester Co
Omaha Church War Ends With 35 Arrests In Riot Echoes
Omaha police report thirty five arrests tied to a church riot near St Pauls church in Sheeley area. Ed Tuttle injured by a blow from an unknown man as arrests continued over complaints against attacking party members. Bail set at one thousand dollars each.
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Omaha
Neb
St. Paul's Church
Sheeley
Ed Tuttle
State House Notes From Topeka Administrative Shuffle
Governor Morrill names seven justices of the peace. Officials discuss roles in the treasury, railroad boards, and appellate court, with staffing and room assignments pending. Hawley of Connecticut joins the Kan sas Historical Society as an honorary member. Topeka hosts judges A. Johnson and E. G Cole as the southern district appellate court opens at Fort Scott next week.
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Morrill
F. B. Dawes
Union Pacifico
North Tea
Hill
Yenterr
Executive Council
Appellate Court
State House
Insurance Commissioner's Office
Bank Commissioner's Office
Dick Chase
Hazen
Se. J. & Crum
M. ©. Kelly
Cy Leland
United States
J. R. Hawley
Connecticut
Adams
State Historical Society
Kan
John Brown
A. & Johnson
Garnett
E.G Cole
Great Bend
Topeka
Fort Scott
CARS COLLIDE KILLING ONE AND INJURING TWO
A terrible accident near Boxxe Terke Missouri killed one man and badly hurt two others when two stone trucks rolling down a grade collided with a caboose on the main track. Haney was instantly killed and three railroad workers were injured. A telegraph report from Emporia Kansas notes a drop in local telephone rates and a new home company plans further reductions. Texas bays freezing killed about 35000 tons of fish, damaging the coast fishing industry. Mrs Blanchard, an elderly settler of the county, died at her home near Topeka avenues and Twenty second Street. funeral set for Sunday at Kansas Avenue M E Church.
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Boxxe TeRke
Elvin’s Station
Here
Cowan's Quarry
Haney
Emporia
Kan
Commercial Club
Texas
Fort Worth
Tex
Brazos River
Peathjot
Blanchart
Mary A Blanchard
Topeka Avenues
Blanchard
Topeka
Kansas Avenue M. E
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Freud
Wasumetos
I. Office Department
Mutual Sayings and Loan Association of
Austin
Toraxa
Iwo
Walsenborg- Pyeeio
Walsenburg
G. A. R. Meeting
Loulaville
Ladies’ Committee
Louisville
Thomas H. Shirley
G. A. R Citizens’ Committee
Henry 8. Riter
Louisville Society
Wasuixerox
Newkirk
J. . Lore
J. D. Carr
W. W. Smith
Alva
Ruckien
Arnicamaton
J. K. Jones
B.A. Becxstrom
Reaper
Li Hong Chang
Paris
Shanghai
Formosa
Nankin
Jamestown
Fasker-trust
Fort Wayse
Ind
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
American Basket Makers’ Association
de Soto
Sam Dickerson
St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co
Baker Mitchell
Bonne Terre
Dickerson
Conver
Corder Bank
Brown &C
Kansas Avenue
State House Notes
Green & Kale
Kansas Ave
Kansas
New Orleans
the Star Grocery
Proctor & Gambie
Lenox
Kara Kirk
Seehan K
California
Ines
Sia Grapes
Ila Penes
Weberrioa
Buffalo
Shawnee
Ralston
Chase & Sanborn
J. S. Sprout
the. Star Grocer
East Sixth Street
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