The Tobin Mystery and a Stranger Letter
A Franklin News summary exposes Mary Tobin’s fraught romance with Dr. A W Bryan, citing private letters and missing timelines around her death on April 15 1889. District Attorney Fitzgerald orders renewed inquiry while Bryan and Robinson’s circles deny sensational charges amid conflicting witness accounts.
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The
Franklin News
Tobins
N. P. Tobin
Mary
Staten Island
New York
Bryan
W. B
Hackman
Wilson
West New Brighton
Dr. Bryan
Miss Tosin
Miss Close
Dearest
Mr. Robinson
Fitzgerald
Drs Bryan and
Robinson
Miss Nichols
Glassford
Mrs. M
Drs. Robinson
Third Party Platform Drafted At Cincinnati Convention
A vast gathering of farmers, Knights of Labor, and allied groups in Cincinnati adopt a resolution to form a national third party. Ignatius Donnelly leads the push. platform calls for free silver, abolition of national banks, direct election of presidents and senators, land reform, and government control of rail and telecommunication. Delegates debate committee rules and pledge unity for reform at upcoming conferences.
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Cincinnati
Alliance
K. of L
Ohio
Stervoman
Congressman Simpson
Kansas
D. L. Foster
Fatherhood of God
Brotherhood of Man
C. A. Power
Indiana
Farmers’ Alliance
Citizens’ Alliance
Knights of Labor
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Powers
National Union Conference
Rightmeier
Topeka
Charles F. Cunningham
Arkansas
Cunningham
Harmony
O. B. Jones
Missouri
W. H. Robb
Town
CG. B. Washburn
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Ignatius Donnelly
Minnesota
Donnelly
F. R Agnew
Pennsylvania
Committee On Permanent Organization
Petter
Dax
Committee On
National Reform Organization
South Carolina
Oman
Peffer
Friends of Reform
Schilling
Wisconsin
People's Party of America
St. Louis
Ocala
Omaha
Treasury
Congress
United States
Trial of Edward Shippen for Say murder at Tionesta
Edward B Shippen the senior Shippen Brothers lumber firm head near Clarington Forest county stands trial in Tionesta for the murder of Joseph W Say. The case draws wide interest among Pennsylvania families as Shippen is described as a cultured, educated man with a prominent lineage. The incident began December 24 1890 after a dispute over wages and accounts led to a deadly struggle with a revolver. Five shots were fired, Say died within a half hour, and Shippen surrendered to the Forest county sheriff.
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Edward Shippen
Joseph W. Say
Tisnesta
Pennsylvania
Edward 8
Shippen
Shippen Brothers
Clarington
Forest County
Edward
William Penn
Philadelphia
A Shippen
Crawford-Venango
Louisville
Crawford County
Sterling
Edward &. Shippen
Horace E. Frazier
Frazier
Say
Say’s
Brookville
Martin
The
Commonwealth
Frank Shippen
Rooks
Skippen
Warren County Grange Meeting to Hear Leonard Rhone
Warren County Pomona Grange No. 10 schedules its next regular meeting at Youngsville on June 9 and 10, 1891 with Leonard Rhone, worthy Master of Pennsylvania State Grange, addressing members in the afternoon and evening. Subordinate granges urged to attend, especially younger and smaller ones, as they discuss topics from farming methods to highway uniformity and tariff effects. First session begins at 9 a.m. with Secretary B. F. W. Taonas noting details.
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New Oreans
Shakespeare
Nichols
P. Corte
W. H. Chaffee
Grand Jury
New Orleans
Hennessy
Corte
Department of Police and Justice
Washington
Secretary of State
Committee of Fifty
Cortes
Joseph Swakeslear
Warren County
Pomona Grange No
Youngsville
Leonard Rhone
Pennsylvania State Grange
Uth
M. P. Chase
Freehold
Freehold Grange
Brokenstraw Grange
Highaway
Farmington Grange
Sugar Grove, Grange
Columbus
Chandlers Valley
R m
B. F. W. Taonas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tobin
Mary Tobin
Miss Tobin
Mrs. Howard
Franklin
West Point
Farmers’ Alliance and
Robi Schilling
United States Military Academy
Hoon
C. W. Stone
Warren
Noyes
Siakespeare
Warren County Grange
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