Blizzard Kills Sixty in Kansas Landsore Way of Life
Reports from Wichita Kansas describe the blizzard as the worst in state history. At least sixty deaths from freezing and starvation are reported across Ashland and multiple counties including Lane Scott and Wichita. Bodies are recovered from sod houses and ranches while rescuers convert towns into makeshift hospitals. A train carries provisions and aid pours in from other cities as telegraph lines slowly relay further casualties and stranded emigrants.
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Kan
J. Packney
Ashland
Clark County
John Henry
John Cotter
Texas
Kanous
Bruce C. Preddy
Greeley County
Ay Ranch
Comanche County
Fod County
Mead County
Stevens County
Lane
Scott
Riley
Wighton
Keeley
Scott County
Kansas
Loss of Life From Blizzard Believed in Soria Area
Lincoln dispatch reports a Western Nebraska blizzard may have caused multiple deaths with three freezing deaths confirmed so far and severe suffering. Distances from railroads hinder full tallies as updates arrive days later.
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Soria
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Two Convicts Not Indicted In Historic Stamp Error
Augustus Schultz of Elmira reform school burglary case and Charles Edwards of Sing Sing assault case were not indicted due to a mis-stamped dockets. The foreman and DA failed to notice the word dismissed stamped on the back of five indictments, leading to arraignment and guilty pleas before discovery. Writ of habeas corpus sought for swift release.
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Sing Sing
New York
Augustus Schultz
Elmira Reformatory
Charles Edwards
District ‘Attorney's Office
Forgetful Iowa Remembers Defenders at Soldiers Home
Marshalltown Iowa December reports show the Iowa Home for Veteran Soldiers taking in men rapidly. Colonel Milo Smith says seventy one applications accepted and thirty eight already at the home with sixty four awaiting completion. The facility sits on a 120 acre tract near Marshalltown funded by citizen subscriptions. A stone corner inscription reads Iowa forgets not the defenders of the Union.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Milo Smith
American Press Association
National Convention Closes with Adopted Constitution
The national convention of cigarmakers in Philadelphia completed its work. It adopted the constitution and by-laws without dissent and approved special legislation regarding the yellow label on K. of L. made cigars. The label will be placed on all cigars made where K. of L. members are employed. A resolution urged other trades to prefer goods from members of the new organization bearing their trade mark.
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Philadelphia
National Convention of Cigarmakers
K. of L
New York
Pythagoras Hall
Committee On Constitution and By-Laws
Opening of the Institute at St. Cloud With a Good Attendance
A farmers' institute opens in Sauk Center Minnesota with Prof C C Gregg presiding and Gov A Barto named chairman. Speakers from Minnesota and Iowa discuss wheat raising in India as William Dickinson presents a lecture after twenty years abroad. In New York women plan union and by laws are to be reported next week with 10 cent monthly dues. In Scranton Pennsylvania two mills post 10 percent wage reductions starting January 1 due to economic pressures.
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Sauk
Tammany Hall Urges 1868 Democratic Convention in New York
A Tammany Hall meeting in New York on December 23 proposed that the Democratic National Convention of 1868 be held in New York City. Resolutions praised the city’s loyalty and delegates’ accommodations and urged tariff readjustment favoring American workers while reducing treasury surplus. The gathering also supported swift congressional action on treasury needs.
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Tammany Hall
New York
Democrat Party
Congress of the
United States
Aneriche
Restoration of Large Tracts of Public Domain Order
Secretary Lamar instructs the land office commissioner to enforce the December 16, 1887 order regarding lands withdrawn and held for indemnity purposes under the grant to the public domain, signaling actions affecting holdings and policy.
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Washington
Lamar
the Land Office
Ander
Railroads restoration order alters land withdrawals
A dated order proposes restoring lands to public domain under general laws with notices. It matches previous 1887 directives on indemnity lands for Atlantic and Pacific and others, excluding Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul from the order. Also reports a gold and silver discovery on the Hiawasser river in North Carolina drawing settlers.
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Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Consolidated railroads formed and local knightly assembly
Multiple brief items: anti Pow derly Knights meet in Decatur to organize with by laws to be adopted. Railroads Indianapolis Quincy Missouri River and Indianapolis Western consolidate with Indianapolis Decatur Western road. Betts street furniture factory strike over beer at noon lunch. Licenses revenue projected from liquor licenses with 300 expected at $1,000. Lakota News burned out office and presses. loss $8,000 insured. Minneapolis paupers cost 12 cents daily. Wausau man dies of heart disease. noted as prominent juryman and politician.
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Decatur
Ill
Indianapolis, Quincy & Missouri River
Indianapolis & Western Railroads
Indianapolis, Decatur & Western Road
Various 1900s notices stretch across the nation and world
The itemized notes report events from a Pullman car company donation to St Paul carnival funds to a Detroit home for discharged convicts financed privately. Also listed are tariff changes, quarantine removals, a Rio Grande bridge project, increased emigrants through St Paul, London mass meeting plans, railroad disputes, a proposed Collyer appointment, and a commercial union discussion in Parliament with Liberal support potential.
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Cook County
Detroit
Robert Ingersoll
Thirteen Club
International Bridge
Rio Grande
Nagle Pass
Texas
Piedras Negras
Mexico
St. Paul
Minnesota
Dakota
Law and Liberty League
Trafalgar Square
London
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
Kansas City
Moline
Rock Island
Muscatine
Pittsburg
Col. Collyer
Nashville
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