Duel at Chicago Depot: Officer Killed in Maniac Shootout
A mob scene at the Western Indiana Railroad depot on Polk Street ends with Lieut Laughlin and officers battling a revolver wielding maniac. The assailant is fatally wounded and captured after a brutal exchange that also mortally wounds Officer Barrett. Amos Lyons, a bystander, strikes the man with a rock, prompting a crowd to call for lynching before police secure them both. Barrett dies at the depot. the killer survives long enough for arrest and interrogation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curiaco
Western Indiana Railroad
Polk Street
Laughlin
Armory
Putnam
Casey
Ryan
Mar Strening
Cox
Matt
Ndt
Siw
Gmi
Barrett
O’brien
Strening
Terry
Cornelius Durrett
Aly
Jong Srid
Wight
Plaform
Fourth Avenue
Regeining
Houth
Lieut. Laughlin
Amos Lyons
Leutenant
Tiwae
Rowan
Lyons
Lient
Ogro
Nesault
W. M. KmGorr
Sterling, Til
St. Jose
Cal
Thomas Brows
Erie
Tur
Albert Herzigan
New York
Woodruff-Oliver Carriage and Hardware Company
Memphis
Charnes P. Barses
Woodlawn
Cecil County
Thomas E. Brown
J.T. Brown
Bedford
Mary Simpson
Sacramento
Laredo
Tex
Paul Holder
George Holder
Salinas
Mexico
George Axbell
Deposit
N. Y
Wm. Perry
C. Freeman
F. A. French
Grand Rapids
Mich
Cincinnati
Charles E. Stevens
Detroit
Boston
Chicago
Stevens
Maniac on a Denver to Detroit train frightens passengers
Reports detail Louis Reaume's wild ride on a Denver to Detroit train. He threatened passengers with a revolver, fired at officers, and jumped between washroom and rear car as the train moved. Reaume was wounded, captured, and hospitalized. Also noted are town notices, obituaries, and local curiosities from Wisconsin cities and rail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FE Paso
Engelwood
Valentine Spuck
Sixty-fifth Street
Spock
Twenty Second
Twelfth Streets
Reaume
Denver
Col
Louis Reaume
Chicago
Detroit
Mich
Geo. W. Thompson
R. F. Reaume
Daniel
George
Grosse Isle
Wayne County
Lizzie Rockford
Michigan
Charles DE. Rockford
Glenarm Street
Alaska Resources and Inland Passage Wonders
Observations on Alaska's climate, timber, fisheries, and minerals argue the territory's potential. The author describes the inland passage from Puget Sound to Chilkat, timber from Southeastern Alaska including yellow cedar, salmon and cod fisheries, and the Yukon as a future major source. He notes tourism and mining as growth drivers and compares Alaska to Norway for North America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
New York
United States
Mississippi
Gulf
Great Pacific
San Francisco
Maine
Portland Channel
Colorado
Grand
Oregon
Columbia River
Maska
Olympia
Puget Sound
Washington
Chilkat
Hudson
West Point
Delaware
Water Gap
Potomac
Harper's Ferry
Cascade Range
Glacier Bay
Arctic
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite Valley
Pacific Club
Arctic Circle
Aleutian
Icelands
Behring’s Sea
Pacific Coast
Boca Talet
British Columbia
Great
Columbia
Yukon
Yukon River
St. Michael's
Portland
Ore
Liverpool
Atlantic
California
Old physician offers plant remedy for lung diseases
An East India missionary handed a retired doctor a simple vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis and other throat and lung ailments Also claimed radical cures for nervous debility The doctor says he will mail the recipe free of charge in German French or English to any reader who writes with a stamp to W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester N Y
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PirrsBuRn
Perry Davis
Mercer County
Davis
United States
Merver County
Sheakleyville
Cuatraxooca
Tenn
Tom Maloney
A. Noyes
Power's
Rochester
Also Mentioned on This Page
Milwaukee
Depot
S Maniac
RD Nee Ie
Harrison Street
Wesson Street
Kaing
Wisconsin
State News
Waupun
Madison Directory
Congregationalists
Eau Claire
Julius Stuenspges
Sturgeon Bay
Portage
Madison
Poynette
Arlington
de Forest
Ep. Kiretx
Eau Galle
Twelfth Iowa Infantry
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Oakwood
Antigo
Forest County
Ayr
Crandon
Sand Lake
Wyman
Cisco
John L. Finck
West Bend
West Book and Stationery Company
West Company
J. K. Panis
Medford
Prand
Gardner Wolcott
Eldorado
Chubbuck
Milwaukee Sentinel
Central Wisconsin
Wausau
St. Paul
The
Tr 'Wenpor
San City
Pisle
Pere Davis
Pam Eren
Laxo
Sparks
Rogpert Broapus
B.C. Jobson
Leavenworth
Kas
Jobson
Miss Wood
Jacos Stadfelt
Dayton
Nelson D. Riggs
Stadfelt
Riggs
Senator Epsoms
Aurania
England
Committee On Privileges
House of Lords
Richard Markland
Mary McAdam
Ogilvie
Trinity Church
Prestos Sata
Dallas
Baum
Father Copping
Mass
Grand Army of the Republic
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Land
Porter Hackley
H. Hackley & Co
Muskegon
Read Davis
Brubiespon
Porter Ackley
Battie Williams
Russell
Writton the
Iches ‘Lm A
Swanton T
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore
Lapirs
Thaddeus Stevens
Merber
Mishler
Mishler Herb Bitters CO
Commerce St
Philadelphia
Ghden - Parker
James Pyles
Sil Grovers
James Pyle
Murray St
Ion Haat
Spee
Paciw
Signea Br
Tae
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