Violent Virden Riot Ends With Bloodshed At Mine Stockade
A Chicago & Alton special train carrying 200 negro miners arrived at Virden Illinois, sparking a battle with local miners and deputies. Seven dead and 18 wounded reported including Ed Welsh and several Mount Olive and Springfield residents. Gunfire and chaos surged through the stockade and Main Street as Eyster fought to aid a wounded crowd and was repeatedly shot. A militia man was killed by friendly fire later in the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virden
Ed Welsh
Springfield
Frank Bilyeu
Albert Smith
Mount Olive
Joe Kitterly
Ernest Keutner
A. H. Breneman
Girard
D. H. Kiley
Anks Ankel
Mr. Olive
Gustave Weiser
Mt. Olive
Ed Upton
Thomas Jennings
Joe Haines
Joe Runk
George Runk
Wm. Herman
Joe Baston
Joe Shorim
Bart Tigar
Chicago & Alton
J. FE. Eyster
Climax Trading Co
Stockade
Alabama
Chicago & Alton Limited
Chicago
D. B. Riley
Khiley
Burt Tigar
Minera
J. F. Eyster
Chicago-Virden Coal Co
Eyster
Fred Lukins
Bank of Virden
Rae & Gish
Steed
Miners’ Hall
Sium
Buckles
Ill
Tom Preston
Preston
Galesburg
Craig
Pana
Want Peace and Grub. Cass Lake Wires Report Grub Requests
Minneapolis dispatch notes fewer Indians traveling south to Leech Lake as villages fill. Central councils request food, with Chippewa thriftys using the occasion to press needs. Stage lines resume interior communication and work begins on the Great Northern extension to Park Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Cass Lake
Leech
Lake
Park Rapida
New York Central Announces Mileage Book Details
New York Central official George H. Daniels announces mileage books good for 500 and 1000 miles at $10 and $20. Books may be used by family or firm members across main line and branches including Harlem Putnam Rome Watertown Ogdensburg Carthage Adirondack routes. Tickets are honored by conductors to end of each run with mileage exchanges for longer rides and baggage checks. From Pittsburgh Post, Aug 21, 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
George H. Daniels
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Harlem
Putnam
Rome
Watertown
Qgdengbureg
Carthage
Adirondack
Geneva & Lyons
Utica
Montreal
Pittsburgh Post
Teething Powders and Cough Remedies Advertisements
Storecard style roundup of old medicine ads from Chicago Daily News and Atchison Globe. Includes Lane's Family Medicine promoters for bowel and liver health, Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike's Toothache Drops, Dr Moffett's Teething Powders, Kemp's Balsam, St Jacobs Oil, and light satirical quotes about manners and marriage. Multiple brands, prices, and health claims appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Pike
Free Government and Railroad Lands in Northwest Florida
About 1,000,000 acres of Government land in Northwest Florida are available for homestead entry, plus about the same amount of railroads lands for sale at low rates. Lands lie along the Louisville and Nashville line. General Land Commissioner R J Wemyss Pensacola can supply details. For viewing trips, L&N offers excursion fares from two dollars round trip on the first and third Tuesdays. Write General Passenger Agent C P Atmore Louisville Kentucky for particulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
R. J. Wemyss
Pensacola
Foreign travel and cures in a late 19th century paper
A collage of notices and quips referencing travel by rail to Pacific possessions, medical cures with St Jacobs Oil and Laxative Bromo Quinine, ciggarettes of ads, jokes about dreams and weather, and testimonials from 1894. Mentions Geo. H. Heafford, Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, and various humor items from Ram’s Horn and Puck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Philippines
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Trans-Pacific
United States
H. Heafford
Gen’l Pass
Chicago
Ill
Happy Mothers and Healthy Children by Lydia Pinkham's Remedy
Letters from women across the United States praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from debility nervousness miscarriages and postnatal weakness. Testimonies tell of improved health successful pregnancies and thanked the author for advice and medicine. A million women claim benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia B. Pinkham
J. W. Prurrr
Medford
Oregon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan W. Lona
Wyoming
Iowa
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Dr. Ayer
Dr. J
Ayer Lowell
Mass
Walter Baker&Co
Dorchester
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
P. Harold Hayes
Hayes
Buffalo
N. Y
Ead Sederale
Vircen
A. W. Morgan
H. Grugesell
C. J. Snyder
Jas. Sickles
Frank Wilder
McEntee
J. W. Moonan
St. Louis
P. J. Hanan
J. H. Smith
Philadelphia
Lane
Chicago Daily News
Atchison Globe
Dr. Moffett
St. Jacobs
Hood
America
Hood’s
N. Journal
Puck
Brooklyn
Piso
E. Cady
Huntington, Ind
Washington (Ia
Desnoyers Shoe
St. Louis, Mo
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