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Allegany Citizen, May 23, 1896:

The Financial Committee of the Senate reported favorable the House Filled Cheese bill, with some amendments.   The amendments made to reduce the annual revenue tax on the manufactures of filled cheese from $400 to $240, and on wholesale dealers in the article from $250 to $200.  The report was adopted by a bare majority of 1, the vote standing 5 to 4.

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Allegany Citizen, May 23, 1896:

The Aldermen from the Chute marched up town Wednesday evening en masse, each wearing a large buttonhole boquet.  Such an occurrence portends something.

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Allegany Citizen, May 23, 1896:

A Justice of the Peace at Olean fined two boys $100 each and sent them to jail for ninety days for dynamiting fish.

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Allegany Citizen, May 9, 1896:

After much controversy a wall has been erected and the barber declared King of No Man’s Land.

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Allegany Citizen, May 9, 1896:

In Congress the General Deficiency bill, the last of the great appropriation bills, has been passed, showing a very unusual record of promptness.

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Allegany Citizen, May 2, 1896:

Officer Phillip Karst, armed with a search warrant and also a warrant for the arrest of Paul Schubert, struck out for Knapp’s Creek Wednesday, and scoured the woods in search of the stolen horse, but neither the horse nor the man could be found.  It was ascertained however by Mr. Karst that the horse was sold in Pennsylvania.

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Allegany Citizen, May 2, 1896:

Gotlieb Schubert, of Chipmunk, has brought an action before Justice Smith against Paul Schubert, his nephew, to recover a horse purported to have been stolen from his barn by the latter.  A lively skirmish is expected over the possession of the property.

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Allegany Citizen, May 2, 1896:

Strayed-Mr. G. Wheaton, of five Mile, reports a land turtle, coming into his yard, bearing the initials W. S. nicely carved upon top of its shell.

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Allegany Citizen, April 25, 1896:

Starling Savage was taken from his bed at Irving College, Tenn, by a mob of masked moonshiners, and hanged to a tree.  The doomed man was suspected of being a spotter for the United States internal Revenue.

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Allegany Citizen, April 25, 1896:

In the United States Senate Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, accused Mr. Gear, of Iowa, of uttering falsehoods.

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Allegany Citizen, April 25, 1896:

Secretary Morton has arranged to have garden seeds for members of Congress put up in packets of five instead of fifteen, giving a total for Congress of 2,025,000 packages.

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Allegany Citizen, April 25, 1896:

When laws are made so ambiguous as to be susceptible of several and different interpretations, then have the people lost their grip on the bird of Freedom.

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Allegany Citizen, April 25, 1896:

Repair your sidewalks ere some pedestrian fall from grace and bump his nose at one and the same time.

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Allegany Citizen, April 18, 1896:

Monday evening a tramp took possession of Will Fingerlo’s barn and prepared a nice little nest for a comfortable night’s lodging in the hay loft.  Mrs. Fingerlo, being alone, ordered the intruder to decamp, but Mr. Tramp blankly refused, whereupon Officer Phillip Karst was notified and Mr. Tramp was run in and given six months.

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Allegany Citizen, April 18, 1896:

A Mr. King living on Johnson Street, who became insane through the use of morphine, was taken to Buffalo yesterday, by officer Schnell.

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Allegany Citizen, April 18, 1896:

A Pittsburgh man is suing for an injunction to restrain the street car companies from using their cars for advertising purposes.

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Allegany Citizen, April 18, 1896:

Competition equalizes business, and agitation brings social progress.