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May 20, 1887: “Ballot Box Thief Released from Prison” Joliet, Ill., May 20.—“Dutchy” O’Keefe, the Chicago ballot-box thief, sent to the penitentiary for stealing a ballot-box from Howland’s livery stable at the spring election of last year, was released from prison Tuesday. A select delegation of “Dutchy’s” Chicago admires came down on an afternoon train and escorted him to Joliet to await the Chicago train. They put in the time sampling champagne and making merry on the release.
1888 May 1: “Railroad Accidents: A Passenger Train rolls dwon a twenty foot embankment, Injuring a number of Persons-A collision.” Olean, N. Y. April 30-A passenger train on the new York and Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked near White House, ten mile east of here, Saturday morning by the spreading of the rails….The injured are: Captain C. G. Thyng, Olean,…john Keefe, Buffalo, shoulder broken;…
April 19, 1889: “Keefe Wants $5,00 a year” New York, April 18—Keefe refuses to pitch for the New Yorks for less than $5,000 a year…:
July 30, 1889: “A Brick Building Blown Down” …in the course of construction at the northeast corner of Oakley avenue and Twenty-first street, not far from the Leavit street disaster, was blown down during the storm, on a cottage in the rear, but fortunately none of the occupants were killed. The families of W. H. KEEFE< the owner of the building, and John Haves occupied the cottage. The only persons seriously hurt was a little girl of 12 years, who received a cut two inches long across the side of her head, and a boy whose shin was injured. Neither of their wounds is necessarily fatal.
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