Train schedule fragments show east and west bound services
East bound trains include Detroit Limited Atlantic Express Mail and Express Local Freight services with varied daily schedules. West bound routes list Chicago Limited Pacific Express Mail and Express Local Freight with daily times and a note of not stopping at some locations.
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Detroit
Chicago
Mail
Atlantic Express
Lehigh Express
Chicago Express
Pacific Express
Mail & Express
Valparaiso
Baltimore and Ohio Time Table Display
Local freight and mail trains listed with numbers and times for a Baltimore and Ohio schedule from Haskells Indiana dated June 9 1596. Notes specify daily service with Sundays excepted for certain locals and mails.
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Baltimore & Ohio
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve advertised for skin cures
An old line ad touts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for eczema and piles with immediate soothing effects. A separate notice offers a 2 acre property with house, barn, mills, shops, water power and fruit, priced at $1,500, urged by a widow selling.
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Teeter
Eczema
DeWitt
Ilazel
Fearful Chippewa Falls Flood Threatens Town as Dam Fails
Residents endure rising gorge on the Chippewa River with water engulfing the lumber yards and threatening the courthouse. Boats and goods moved to higher ground while crews race to save property as reports of casualties circulate but remain unconfirmed.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
River Street
Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company
Court House
Little Falls
Durand
Eau Claire
Badger Mills
Merchants Move Stocks as Chippewa Flood Rages
Chippewa Falls clears streets of merchandise amid rising Chippewa river. Businesses retreat to remote blocks, post office moved, and several stores flooded. Ice gorge forms upstream at Flambeau farm with massive anchor ice and hundreds of animal losses reported. Dynamite used unsuccessfully to blast a channel. officials doubt enough explosive exists to clear the flood.
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Chippewa Falls
Spring Street
Bridge Street
Center Street
McCalm
Heller & Jacobs
Jenkins Bros
E. Posnansky
Wirenberg Bros
Goddard & Wilson
The
Good Luck Drug Company
Mitchell Restaurant
Herald
Independent
Chippewa Run
Flambeau Farm
Lindley
Cannon Opposes Dingley Tariff Bill Again
Washington December 2 Senator Cannon of Utah core member of the Republican silver bloc who helped defeat the Dingley tariff last session says new findings show interests once favored the measure now oppose it. He warns wool growers would suffer delaying a tariff revision and protection. Hale expects the bill to pass next session. Peffer says Populists will not block Chandler’s monetary plan and views money as a local issue rather than international.
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Washington
Cannon
Utah
Fri
St. Louis
Hale
Senate
Treasury
Cleveland
Peffer
Chandler
Monetary Commission
Hanna Visits Major McKinley Ahead of Washington Trip
Hon. M. A. Hanna and his wife traveled to Canton to confer with Major McKinley in the last preparatory meeting before Hanna heads to Washington for inauguration. He may seek a cabinet post and discuss with Senator Sherman potential appointment as secretary of state. Elden Dewitt of the Marquette club of Chicago visited McKinley in Canton, praising Senator Cullom and H. H. Kohlsaat but noting no cabinet ambitions.
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Cleveland
Hanna
Canton
McKinley
Washington
Sherman
Allan Tr. Brinsmade
Senate
Elden G. Dewitt
Marquette Club of
Chicago
Major McKinley
Cullom
H. H. Kohlsaat
Remarkable Shelbyville Wedding Ties to Mascot Luck
In Shelbyville Indiana on December 2 Alois Raith aged 60 and Mary Kaiser aged 24 wed after a long romance. Raith, once rejected by Mary's father in Baden Germany, had become wealthy and settled on a farm. A death bed promise nearly blocked the marriage but a widow’s letter and a photo led to the ceremony. The story notes Rushville Priscilla club members marrying, making Tyne the mascot.
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Shelbyville
Matthews
Peirce
Rushville
Anti-Trust
Indianapolis
Ind
Alois Raith
Mary Kaiser
Clerk Power
Raith
Mary Prenger
Baden
Germany
Mary
America
States
Tyne
Priscillas
Rena Poe
Fred Warner
Meta Wolfe
Will Moffett
Leora Trusler
Lincoln Guffin
Priscilla Club
Public debt shows rise in treasury cash
Washington reports November 30 public debt increasing by 8.27 million to a total cash in the treasury of 835.96 million. Debt categories include 847.36 million in interest bearing notes, 1.59 million mature debt, and 372.17 million non interest bearing, with demand liabilities totaling 610.60 million and a remaining cash balance of 225.36 million.
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Washington
Suicide by horseman ends in tragedy at Parker school
George H. Wilson, a Marcel horseman, drove to Parker school where his daughter teaches, handed her a horse and declared he would kill himself. He then walked into the road and shot himself, dying instantly. His wife divorced him last spring over his drunkenness and he had made threats against her relatives.
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Decatur
Ill
George H. Wilson
Marcel
Parker School
Wilson
National Democrats to Hold Counsel in Indianapolis
William D. Bynum, longtime chairman of the National Democratic executive committee, returns from talks with party leaders and calls a meeting in Indianapolis for December 10. The gathering will likely determine the party’s future direction and court plans.
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National” Democrats
Indianapolis
Wiliam D. Bynum
National’ Democratic Committee
Pottery Combine Dissolves In Trenton Meeting
The American Sanitary Association of fourteen potteries in the United States dissolved at a meeting in Trenton New Jersey held yesterday. The group formed in March to maintain uniform prices and discounts and to curb outside competition.
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Pissolves
Trenton
N. J
American Sanitary Association
United States
Paralyzed Lawyer Stricken in Supreme Court Argument
Topeka December 2 Thomssa Prenton a well known Leavenworth Kansas lawyer was stricken with paralysia while arguing a case in the supreme court here His entire left side was paralyzed but recovery is thought likely.
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Topeka
Dec
Everhardt Knocks Out Ernst In Twenty Round Fight
New Orleans lightweight Jack Everhardt stops Brooklyn’s Billy Ernst in the twentieth round of a twenty round bout in Albany to score a dramatic victory.
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Everhardt
Ernst
Albany
Jack Everhardt
New Orleans
Billy Ernst
Brooklyn
Governor Matthews condemns brutality of modern college football
Indianapolis December 2 Governor Matthews denounces modern college football as a brutal sport and suggests he may urge restrictive legislation in the coming general assembly message. He cited a Chicago depot encounter where players showed severe injuries and fans pressed for action to curb football brutality.
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Indianapolis
Matthews
General Assembly
Chicago
Charges Against Receiver Peirce
A petition charging R B F Peirce with willful wrongful acts including rebate payments was filed via Sylvester Kneeland in Indianapolis. Peirce called the accusations untrue and refused comment, noting the petition was not sent to local court officials for filing.
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Peirce
Indianapolis
Sylvester Kneeland
Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad
R. B. F. Peirce
Toledo
Glass workers dispute over 10 percent raise ultimatum
Anderson Indiana December 2 The Window Glass Workers association president Burns issued an ultimatum to high manufacturers who withdrew from the trust last month and signed the workers scales granting a 10 percent raise. The manufacturers committee later signed last year's scale and payrolls were set accordingly. The workers refused and Burns warned the men will be called off if the 10 percent raise is not paid for the month. No reply yet.
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Anderson
Ind
Burns
Window Glass Workers’ Association
Quail hunter pays price after stray shot kills turkeys
Terre Haute Indiana reports Fitz Meyer killed a quail along with four turkeys in Clay County. Meyer paid $4 to the farmer for the four turkeys after stray shot from the hunt struck them, the farmer showing the covey of quails that led to the shot.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Fitz Meyer
Clay County
Meyer
Carriage Wood-Work Factory Destroyed by Fire
The Q. Gillette carriage wood work plant at Brightwood Indianapolis burned last night. The factory valued at 75000 dollars was insured for about 25000 dollars and the loss will not reach the full value.
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Indianapolis
Gillette
Brightwood
Princilla Club Forms In Rushville Girls Club
Rushville Indiana reports that a year or two ago girls organized the Princilla club with a membership base forming in the community. The item notes local youth group development and aims to outline future activities and goals.
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Rushville
Ind
Princilla Club
Evansville men push for Corbett Fitzsimmons bout
In Evansville Indiana a group of leading sportsmen work to secure the Corbett Fitzsimmons fight. Dan Stuart would manage the event and local officials are in telegraphic contact. Sufficient funds are reported to ensure success and police interference is not expected after recent glove fights with officers present.
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Evansville
Ind
Dan Stuart
New York
Double wedding in Terre Heute linked by family ties
In Cory Terre Heute Indiana two siblings wed as Miss Anna Butt married Erratt Robinson and Miss Gracie Robinson wed Norton Butt. Fathers William J. Butt and Hugh Robinson are noted as wealthy Clay county farmers and neighbors.
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Terre Heute
Ind
Cory
Anna Butt
Erratt Robinson
Gracie Robinson
Norton Butt
William J. Butt
Hugh Robinson
Clay County
Salt spoons linked to Salem witch Rebecca Nourse heirship
In Jeffersonville Indiana a loan collection for the local infirmary features salt spoons once owned by Rebecca Nourse executed at Salem Massachusetts for witchcraft. The spoons are now in the possession of Frances and Elizabeth Myers descendants of Nourse.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Jeffersonville Infirmary
Rebecca Nourse
Salem
Mass
Frances
Elizabeth Myers
Coal mines at Lyford resume work after idle period
Clinton Indiana December 2 The Lyford coal mines across the river have resumed operations after an idle period ending last May. About 390 men will gain work. Two men refused to work for 55 cents a ton.
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Clinton
Ind
Lyford
Movement to Erect Monument Over Parnell Grave
New York backers push a plan to erect a monument over Parnell's grave amid a rising drive. Georgia lawmakers introduce bills targeting cigarettes and football. James Lombard dies at Brooklyns Delay. Democrats and Republicans clash over state constitutional convention control. Right Rev. William Stevens Perry, Davenport historian, is seriously ill in Philadelphia.
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New York
Parnell
Georgia
James Lombard
Brooklyn
William Stevens Perry
Davenport
Episcopal Church In
America
Philadelphia
Weather indicators for Indiana Illinois Michigan Iowa and Wisconsin
Weather indications for twenty four hours from 8 p m yesterday show generally fair conditions in Indiana and Illinois with a slight rise in temperature and southeasterly winds. Michigan reports partly cloudy skies with light local snows at lake stations and light variable winds. Iowa observes partly cloudy weather with probable light local snows and easterly winds. Wisconsin experiences generally fair weather with light variable winds.
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Washington
Indiana
Ilinoisa
Michigan
Iowa
Wisconsin
Markets Report Shows Steady Bonds and Mixed Commodities
New York money on call eases to 2 1 4 percent with mercantile paper at 4 5 percent. Bankers bills quoted 48634 487 for demand and 4835448354 for sixty days. U S government bonds firm with 11934 on bonuses and coupons. Chicago grain and produce show mixed December and May prices across wheat corn oats and pork futures, with butter eggs poultry and potatoes listed. Live stock at Chicago Union Stock Yards shows hogs and cattle receipts and ranges for day.
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New York
Rime Mercantile
Storng Exchange
United States
Pacifice
Chicago Grain and Produce
Carcano
Burbanks
Hebron
Illinois
Tracy
Chicago
Union
Steara
Eholon Do
Metinado
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OA Bay
Soutel
Norte
Michigan City
Sillam
E. N. Stephnsos
J. Dachwald
Weetville, Ind
Chicago & Grand Trunk
East Bouse
John
Haskells, Ind
West Boumntd
Tiseces
East Bount
Alida
E. J. Hoton
J. D. Burner
Westville
Westville Directory
Wheatville
Williams
Postoffice
Liddle & Park
A. Willams
Laporte
V. Marin
Plane-st
Walnut and
Main
Cornec Railroad
Jefferson-sts
Bank OF Westville
E. S. Smith
W. W. Williams
Westville, Ind
F. P. Herrold
Welcome Jerome
Railroad ST
HT. W. Koonty
Dexler
E. Nichols
Amenzo Mann
Undertaicer
LA Porte Directory
E. Osborn
Andrews’ Bank
Main St
LaPorte, Ind
C.F. Metcalf
Ville
Sinnie
F. Knight
Guggenheim & Wile Block
J. Venedorland
Scott Block
LA Porte
Joan C. Ricuter
Oberreich & Arnold’s
Hood
Lowell
C. I. Hood
New Durham
L. J. Wolfe
Otis
caTon
Clinton ‘Lownsh.p
Ff. Tseminger
Gilman Brown
Mill St
South Gardner
Irissop
Dr. King
HE. T. Scott's
J. B. Norton
RR & Nort Restaurant
Justice of the Peace
John Wederee
Aeneys
Washington, D. C
Nehelesi
National Recorder
John Wedderburn & CO
F Street
N. W
Washington, D.C
Renee Pon the Breen Orr
Stephen Zeltner
Maple City Bakery
Wien
D. C
William Fosdick
Main-st
Tegarden House
J. E. Suulyz
Franklin Street
Roteinigiui Lakaioli
Senator Cannon
Major M’kinley
Senator Sherman
Jim-Fitz
Iserself
Brookville
Clara Fisher
Hamburg
Marion
Alexander
Charles Jones
Lew Treep
New York Financial
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