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From: "John O'Brien" <>
Subject: [KansasCity] The Local Log - November 1879
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:35:01 -0500

ASKINS, BREWSTER, CORLE, CUMMINGS, DICKINSON,
GOULD, JAMES, KAUFMAN, KIMBALL, PALMER, PENFIELD,
SAMUELS, SHELLEY, SHEPHERD, SOUTHWORTH, SUYDAM,
WEST, YOUNGER


"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, January 4, 1880

November 1879:

2. Fight between Geo. SHEPHERD, Jesse JAMES and Jim CUMMINGS
near Joplin.

5. Interview with Mrs. SAMUELS, mother of Jesse JAMES.

6. Suicide of Charles SUYDAM.

7. CORLE's cracker factory destroyed by fire, six lives lost.

9. Arrest of Allen PALMER near Sherman, Tex., for complicity in the
Glendale robbery.

10. Resignation of T. PENFIELD as general passenger agent of the
Hannibal and St. Joe.

11. Benjamin BREWSTER shoots his mistress.

12. Interview with Cole YOUNGER.

13. The "Journal" reporter's midnight interview with the notorious
KAUFMAN boys.

14. John W. DICKINSON, better known as "Dixie," killed by the cars.

15. T. L. KIMBALL appointed general passenger agent of the Kansas
Pacific.

21. ASKINS, of Falmouth, Ky., commits suicide by shooting himself
in the head.

24. Allen PALMER lodged in jail. George H. SOUTHWORTH, a printer,
killed at the Coliseum.

25. Judge E. P. WEST on "The Buried Race of Kansas," before the
Academy of Science.

27. Thanksgiving day. Dinner to the newsboys and bootblacks, given
by Mayor SHELLEY.

29. Announcement of the sale of the Narrow Gauge railroad to GOULD.

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(I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate
knowing if you found this posting helpful.)
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neirbo

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