Rumor of Governor Lewelling’s Brain Illness Spreads
A Topeka dispatch reports rumors that Governor Lewelling suffers from softening of the brain after last winter’s legislative clash. The piece notes widespread sympathy for tramps, vagrancy laws deemed unconstitutional, and police discouraged from arresting vagrants. Rail yards, farms, and towns report increases in vagrancy, robberies, and arson as tramps flood Kansas.
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Torres
Kan
Lewelling
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Texan
John Skinner
Summer Country
Skinner
Topeka
Remarkable cure cures rheumatism in boy near Savannah Mo
A Lboy eight miles north of Savannah Mo narrates a dramatic recovery from rheumatism and lockjaw after an ointment made from roots guided by two dead siblings. O J Hurley Savannah Democrat and local physicians vouch for the tale amid a report of a Park County Mont. ax homicide.
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St. Joseon
Savannah
Jane Thomas
Alexander Gliptu
Dra. Kerr
Martin and Jefferies
Lotte
Mons
Moxsa
O. J. Hurley
Savannah Democrat
Gilpin
Frank Miller
Park County
Mont
Lake Superior miners rush back to work amid relief efforts
Plentiful reports from the Lake Superior iron ranges show miners returning to jobs rather than relying on charity. Mills resume with hundreds of men hired, royalties reduced to spur production, and several mines planning January reopenings. The Chandler Vermilion and Gogebic areas see strong demand as workers flood back for ore.
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Deion
Lake Superior Iron Ranges
Miles
Dle
Gary and
Nore Times
Lake Superior Iron Company
Swanzey
Marquette
Menominee
Schlessinger
We Chapin
Buffalo
Superior Tron Compagny
Niising
Vermilion Range
Lake Superior
Chandler
Bly
Minnesota
Lafayette's Roman Sword Claim Stirs Local Memory
Columbia carpenter M. Stevens finds an old two edged sword during excavation. locals recall a Lafayette visit and suggest the weapon may have belonged to Lafayette, tied to Charlemagne legends and a royal lineage tale. Separate note reports a dynamite cartridge found with coffee freight from Oaxaca, later traced to Wilkow & Co. and Johnson O Donohue firms. A missing 10 year old girl from Onisiwi, Iowa, last seen at noon. police search underway.
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Coxitanis
S.C
M. Stevens
Columbia
Lafayette
Charlemagne
Durance
Wranen
Lafayatts
France
Tafevere
New York
Hargaloed
New Yoas
Daniel O'Donohue
John O'Donohue
Roberts
Brooklyn
Frazee Wrothen
Providence
O'Donehoe
Weave Brothers
rDonchie & Sone Arores
Setool Ceich Minato
Onvisiwi
Iowa
Hlilan Tarria
Lee
Hea Pot
Alice
Crusade Leader Fights Threats in Tenderloin
Dr Parkhurst, leading anti vice crusade in New York City’s Tenderloin, has received nineteen threats over two days promising violence if he continues. He plans to press on, taking precautions and avoiding mail packages, while noting some letters praise his work despite the risks. He cites fear of death as a possible outcome before Christmas.
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Parkhurst
Parkhurat
Insane Passengers Panic After Steamship Collision
The Leader steamer on the San Joaquin River near Pittsburg collided near midnight with sixty patients from the Stockton insane asylum aboard. Passengers rushed the deck as the vessel sank, transferring to the Mary Garrett before Leader vanished beneath the water.
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Frasier
Snake
Petera
San Pravelsne
Sax Faescuen
San Joaquin River
Bavingon
Stocktop
Ukiah
JD. Peters
Badiuin
Piuwburg Landing
Mary Garret
Tiburon
Bone
Deficiency in Winter Wheat Reported in Illinois
The Illinois Department of Agriculture reports a fall decline in winter wheat area from 1892 across divisions. Northern division shows 27 percent lower seed area, central down 15 percent, southern down 4 percent, totaling about 420,000 acres. Causes cited include low prices and a dry season. Also notes wage scale reductions looming in mill operations affecting thousands of workers and a governor's proclamation urging aid for upper peninsula miners.
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Illinois
Las
Iiwinaroud
Tilnois Department of Agriculture
de Uciéney Ff
Durneule
Thrasanus of Man
Gatnoyle Succ) Company
Homestead
Union City
Beaver Halle
Union
Beaver Falls
Carnegies
National Silver Ticket Emerges From Unified Silver Movement
A Dec 16 silver conference at Wanitisarox gathered Generals Wenger and Plaid Iowa Stewart Nevada Alabama Moreton Frewen Sovereign Knights of Labor about fifty leaders to plot a free silver push. They discussed forming an all silver party aligned with Populists Grange Knights of Labor and Alliance to win Congress and back silver as the top issue. Senator Jones closed with optimism that a national silver ticket could rise from the meeting and fall elections.
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Wanitisarox
Wenger
Plaid
Iowa
Stewart
Nevada
Old
Alabama
Moreton Frewen
Soveregn
Knights of Labor
Weaver
Stewart and Jones
Manter Workman Sovereign
Whitehead
The
Grange
Jones
Workman Sovereign
Allver
National Grange
Partners
Alliance
United Forces
Congress
National Party
Epidemic of suicides and despair hits Burtt Mont
An epidemic of wilddeas and self harming acts erupts in Burtt Mont as poverty hunger unrequited love and intemperance drive residents to morphine. James Kelly undresses and drinks a lethal dose while a Hoffman house lodger and Annie Bishop both seek death. Sixbop woman repeatedly attempts morphine or arsenic. George Summerbard and Michael Wesmerly linked to suicide cases and a death near Hubbard Ohio.
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Deeporucian
Title Burtt
Mont
James Kelly
Syndicate
Syndicate Mine For Seven Years and Recently At the Poorman
Coot d'Alenes
Hoffman House
Ain
Norcross
Annie Bishop
Haymarket
de Nor Crow Aluin
George Summerbard
Southern
Preachers Swindled by Pious Telegrapher in Murte
A middle aged man deceived clergy in Murte by posing as a telegram fundraiser backed by a Harrison letter. He claimed funds from Denver and collected small sums from ministers, promising repayment. he was seen spending money in a saloon while posing as a Methodist carpenter from Seattle. Police or church leaders exposed the scam the next day.
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Partiek
Murte
Borra
J. Groeneveld
Denver
Groeneveld
Harrison
Clark
Christian Church
Galen Wood
William Rollins
Mountain View
Seattle
Confessed Prisoner Claims Molitor Murder Was A Framing
William Repke, a lifelong inmate in Michigan, recants years after his truthfully stated confession tied to the 190x Rogers City Molitor murder. He says the four others sentenced with him, August Crosman, August Vor e man, Charles Koelger and Henry Jacobs, are innocent, and that his prior testimony was false.
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Oncom
Pyton Tacksox
Mich
William Repke
Robert Molitor
Rogers City
Presque Tale County
William Repikn
Dionl
August Crosman
August Voreman
Charles (Oelger
Henry Jacobs
Molitor
Iepke
Repke
Rogers Saloon
Detroit
Iephe
Ife
Banks
Scill
Souvenir coins to be melted in government plan
At Waantsnvox on December 1 acting secretary Cartis received 49 400 from the treasury to cover costs of transporting and recoining souvenir coins. The commission aims to recoin 8 700 000 in value, seeking to raise the value of coins in circulation while government funds fund the process.
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Hethingten
Waantsnvox
Mtr
Silaworth
Air Commisstion
Treasury Department
Cartis
Carlisle
Inters Tt
Mr. Kilnworth
Hungry pauper causes turmoil at Montana courthouse
A young man named John Johnson, hungry and desperate, broken into a Montana county courthouse, threatened officials, hurled a rock through a pane, and demanded to be jailed and fed. The county attorney filed charges of malicious destruction of property. Johnson pleaded guilty and was fined ten dollars with a 40 day jail term.
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Monty Dor
Joneraad
John Johnson
Johnson
Hooth
Booth
Sherif Reynold
Court House
Court Hovse
Toknson
Turner
Conte
Lawsuit Over Boxed Lot Creates House On Wrong Lot
New York report notes Mary A Williams of 485 West Twenty third Street was billed for $6800 on a Bradburat Ave lot but the lot held a four story brick house owned by Mrs Shanks who lives on Williams's lot. The misassignment arose from irregular lot numbering and a sale by Marcus Barron to Mrs Blanks. Williams may claim the house and rents, while Shanks holds the lot. In Montana, Mrs Clara Wissel, wife of John Wissel, died in Deer Lodge after wintering in Bremen, Germany. Her passing sparks grief among Montana old timers. Yellow stone Fair Association directors reelect J D O'Donnell Seaford, James Carson A Le NW Stomley Oscar Growelly Cardwell, Charles Spear and Parker.
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New York
Mary A. Williama
West Twenty-third Street
Bradburat Ave
Dewde Revre
Mont
Clara Wianel
John C. Wissel
Bremen
Germany
Wissel
Montana
German Gulch
Race Track
Deer Lodge County
Momana
Yellowstone
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Acrusader
Dr. Parkhurst
Christmas
Gastor
Ohio
Lowry Miler
Akron
GC. Aultman &Co
BR. A. Miller
William A.lynch
Failroad
Lynch
Cura
Chicago
Board of Trade
Harper Corner
Kiwas Armors Sng
de Lorenta
District Court
Texas
Mosler Brothers
Kansas City
Midland
Hartford
Brogan Ranch
Chase County
TG. Wibley
John Minnick
William Rogers
Warrington & lLantry
Missouri
Cate
Gileapge
St Louis
Omaha
Sue Abas
Rich
Allianion
Popullite
Leveson
Dee
Michael Wesmerly
Cocedale
Austria
Swindlehurst
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