Indiana News Nuggets Amid Fires Fights and Farmlands
Muncie reports three gas wells while a Seymour residence valued at $1,500 is destroyed by fire. Shelbyville sees wind damage to two brick buildings with losses around $2,000. New Albany hosts a large temperance revival yielding 1500 signatures. Perry & Co plans new stores to expand in the South.
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Muncie
Alexander Jackson
Seymour
Shelbyville
Celene N. Hulpe
New Albany
Perry & Co
Albany
David Maple
Shelby County
Lawrenceburg
Thomas Ashby
Pittsboro
Wheeling
Carroll County
Loop
Indiana
John H. Stotsenburg
Angus Dean
Clark County
Lemcke
Treasury
Ballance
Charles D. Hay
Jeffersonville
Dick Slilliard
Jack Straws
Lock Golden
Scott McDaniel
Watson
Mr. McDaniel
L. Barnes
Columbia City
FE. M. Burker
Michigan City
D. Conover
Mount Vernon
J. Ro Etter
Crawfordsville
Joe M. Gough
Joo
New Castle
G.3. Krause
Indianapolis
T. W. Miller
Tt FE
Mannhmer
Eli Rovers
Poulton County
C.F. Sweeney
Pierceton
H. R. Stumpft
Lemeke
Evansville
John Gilbert
C. R. Bement
Wim. Heilman
F. M. Cook
J. H. Roelker
Adolph Goeke
A. Rosenburg
L. Uhr
C. Schmidt
A. Gilchrist
Perry Dunham
Tippecanoe Township
Kosciusko County
Dunham
Flood Devastation Strikes Lyons Michigan Area
A Lyons dispatch reports a severe flood with four feet of water in homes and stores, panic among residents, and widespread destruction. Three buildings washed away, others damaged, with Alexander McFarlane’s family cut off and aid limited as nearby Muir faces similar peril.
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Michigan
Lyons
Alexander McFarlane
Muir
Eight Million Dollar Suit Against Ohio Rail Lieutenants
In Columbus an injunction was issued against Stevens Burke M M Greene Hickox Hickox J W McKinnie Chauncey Andrews John W Ellis and Ohio Central railco. President John W Shaw accuses directors of conspiracy to divert 8 million dollars of the companys property stocks and bonds without spending a cent. Shaw seeks restoration of assets to the company.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Shaw
Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway
Stevenson Burke
M. M. Greene
Charlies Hickox
Charles H. Hickox
William J. McKinnie
Chauncey Andrews
John W. Ellis
Ohio Central Railroad Company
Bingham
Shaw
Indiana and Indianapolis Legislation Report
Senate passes bonds to cancel debt and town Tipton incorporation. House approves bi monthly wages for laborers, road stock rules amended, cemetery visits exempt for stockholders. Bills on county auditors bond, state institutions reorganization, telephones tax, and 4 percent interest debated. Senate considers state loan of 1,000,000 to cover deficits with detailed fiscal justifications. Concurrent resolutions invite Ohio centennial events.
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Tipton
House
Ensley
I.t
Jewett
Kellison
General Assembly of
Ohio
Indiana
Marietta
Columbus
Northwest Territory
Ways and Means Committee
Caven
Gener
Treasury
State House
Konightstown
Rio
Indiana legislature advances and postpones several bills
Committees recommended indefinite postponement on bills authorizing married women to contract and incur debts, for an asylum for orphans and indigent females, and for state school book printing. They favored passage of a liquor fate bill, liens for mechanics, and numerous finance and infrastructure measures among many others.
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State Board of Education
Supreme Court
Insane Asylum
Selem
Indiana Swine Breeders Association
Indiana House Debates Food Contracts and Taxes in 1887
The Indiana House discusses a resolution to form a committee on food purchases for benevolent institutions, along with bills on Marion county salaries, liquor licensing, and various tax and municipal measures. A joint committee for relief from an apportment bill is approved amid extended debate and routine actions.
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Smith
Huston
Marion County
HOUSE
Jewitt
Indianapolis Journal
Temperance Committee
Ibach
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Pleasants
Major
Tyes
Buckle
Hivestock Sanitary Commission
Mr. Pleasant
Harrell
Davies
Morse
Barrett
Fort Wayne
Fleece
Beecher Attacks Knights in Amherst Banquet Talk
Rev Henry Ward Beecher denounces the Knights of Labor in a toast reply at the Amherst Alumni Association of New York banquet. He condemns what he calls a paternal government by a few New Jersey men, saying it harms the nation and stalls business while claiming sympathy for workers.
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Mr. Beecher
Knights
Amherst Alumni Association of
New York
Henry Ward Beecher
Knights of Labor
New Jersey
Jersey
Army recruiting office in New York accepts English speaking recruits
The New York army recruiting office is crowded with applicants most of them shiftless or broken down. Most recruits are foreigners with Germans forming the largest group, yet only those who can speak English are accepted. Some enlist to escape habits of dissipation.
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Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Atlantic
Pacific
Rock Island
Joliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peoria
Genesea
Moline
Ilinois
Devonport
Muscatine
Washington
Faircheld
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Winterset
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Harlan
Guthria Centre
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Iowa
Galatin
Trenton
Cameron
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Missouri
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Kansas
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Dakota
Tnion
Chicasro
Miscouri
A m
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Union
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Newport News
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Lafayette
United States
Canadas
Ad R. R. Cable
Insomnia
Alvin Joslin
Board of Supervisors
Castoria
Army
New York
Millionaire Tucre and Maid in a Matrimonial Plot
A maid declares she will marry for Ivere but faces social disapproval. When a chance arises she informs the gooddame yet remains unreduced.
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Ivere
Shuere
Engineers Defy Strike as District Assembly 49 Sees Setback
The New York Strike District Assembly 49 Friday cited engineers on steamship and railroad piers for a general strike not observing orders. Strikers concede the effort failed to spread nationwide and fear the refusal may force new tactics.
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New York
Unemployed Worker Leaves Cloutmans Shop in Farmington
A Cloutmans shoe factory employee in Farmington New Hampshire left Thursday after a man was discharged for whom there was no work. A separate notice notes Brightened at Their Shadows. The report that French soldiers in Algiers were ordered to return to France caused great excitement in Berlin.
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Cloutman’s Shoe Factory
Farmington
N. H
Algiers
France
Berlin
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