Word: pike
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contesting teams were as follows: Exeter-Back, Irvine; half-backs, Holden and Warren; quarter-back, Clement; forwards, Herrick, Gill, Moulton, Gins, Pike, Peters and Harding...
Sixty-six thousand gallons of whiskey were burned at Boyle's distillery, on Pike's Run, near Pittsburg, yesterday...
...recent escapade of the president and two professors of the University of Minnesota with a wild and wilful student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore, and all but one ran back to Fourth street, pursued by President Folwell...
...terrible tornado occurred in Pike County, Missouri, Saturday, by which four lives were lost, sixteen dwellings destroyed and the crops badly damaged...
...president and two professors of the University of Minnesota have been arrested for assault upon a student named Asa Paine. In company with a party of students upon a lark Paine was pursued by the defendants, and being closely pressed drew his revolver upon them. Whereupon Prof. Pike drew another and fired upon Paine, the ball taking effect in the thigh...