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A hardware store owner battles a railroad company that allegedly used stealth to install tracks in front of his home and business.
“On October 24 the aforesaid railway company with a large force of men entered in and upon the streets in the night time and by stealth undertook to lay tracks.”
A week of horseplay in the timber near Newport has left the coroner unable to explain why one body after another keeps turning up in the same thicket.
“Picking up the head they strung it on a peavy and carried it into camp, where it was batted about indiscriminately and crushed by random blows.”
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