Bridgeport to Erect $50,000 Monument for P. J. Harnum
A $50,000 monument will be erected in Bridgeport to honor the late P. J. Harnum. American engineers have left New York to survey a route for a proposed North and South American railway. Columbia University holds the largest endowment among American colleges, Harvard second with about 7 million. DC commissioners are asked to recall permits for Italian organ grinders amid alleged trouble. Cotton crop estimates range from eight and a quarter to eight and a half million bales, about a million more than prior crops.
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P. J. Harnum
Bridgeport
Amerian
New York
District of Columbia
Corkiton Electrifies Town With Outdoor Lighting Plan
Corkiton Iowa runs an in town electric lighting system keeping 1300 sixteen candlepower lamps lit all night and every night at four dollars and fifteen cents per lamp per year. Mayor FF Q Stuart reports the plant cost twenty thousand one hundred thirty three dollars.
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Corkiton
FF. Q. Stuart
Senator Washburne Calls for Quick Action on European Criminals
Minnesota senator Washburne warns that Europe must curb criminals and refuse to ship “human scum” to the United States, insisting decisive measures are needed soon to protect Americans from a growing influx.
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Senator Washburne
Minnesota
Europe
United States
Night ends when sun sinks six degrees below horizon
A Paris court clarifies a 19th century statute on shooting at night. The decision defines night as starting at twilight or when the sun drops six degrees below the horizon. A sportsman recently arrested for unlawful killing of game is cited in the context of this definition.
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Uxorn
Paris
Freemason Doctor I C Bachelor Named Leader in South
The Freemasons choose Dr I C Bachelor of New Orleans as the next highest dignitary in the United States succeeding Gen Pike. Bachelor is lieutenant grand commander of the grand consistory of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite in the southern jurisdiction. Born in Canada, he settled in Alabama before the war.
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Tne Freemason
Gen. Pike
I. C Bachelor
New Orleans
Alabama
Inventions Described As Child Swing Washing Machine
A fragment describes a device like a child’s swing connected to a washing process. The swing motion powers a tub mechanism with soap shavings, turning the apparatus equivalent to a washing machine.
White woman adopted into Senees Nation as Yo M Wab Noh
Mrs Hanamer Maxweeu Coxversa has been adopted as a member of the Senees Nation in New York and given the name Yo M Wab Noh meaning ambassador or watcher. It is said to be the first case in Indian annals where a white woman is an actual member.
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Hanamer Maxweeu Coxversa
Senees Nation
New York
Yo-M-Wab-Noh
Cornpiunter
Educational society urged to curb parental neglect
The Baltimore American calls for an educational society to teach parents that children left alone may play with fire and risk severe burns. It notes daily reports of horrible accidents from solitary confinement near boiling water and criticizes ongoing parental carelessness.
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Baltimore American
Women Sign Pledge Against Bird Slaughter in Washington
Mrs Orn Bans and other women gathered signatures between sessions of the late national council of women in Washington. They pledged not to wear bird bodies or feathers due to cruelty and the wholesale slaughter of song birds. Over one hundred and fifty women signed.
French Naval Shipyards Progress in Armored Fleet
Tax funded French shipyards advance construction of six armored battleships for the navy, four coastal defense ships, two gunboats, five armored cruisers, and various cruisers torpedo ships and torpedo boats. Total cost projected at 70 million dollars.
Gas shutoff using metal loop expansion device
A German silver and steel loop, heated by a flame, opens a valve to let gas escape. When the flame is blown out and the loop cools or contracts, the loop moves to close the valve and stop gas flow automatically. One end is fixed, the other free and connected to the valve near the flame.
Blood oranges and dye claim shakes New York fruit trade
The New York Journal renews accusations that Maltese orange dealers charge ordinary oranges with red aniline dye using hypodermic syringes. A leading fruit dealer replies that blood oranges are simply dyed by Italian dealers, warning readers to beware the blood idea in the orange trade.
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New York Journal
New York
President Harrison Tours California in Floral Welcomes
President Harrison travels by special train through El Paso Tucson and California cities in late April and May 1890. Officials from Mexico and the United States greet him with military honors and civic parades. Communities from El Paso to Los Angeles host receptions, speeches, and flower-filled processions, culminating in Santa Barbara and Riverside gatherings.
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California
Marrison
Bla
Trayotera
En Paso
Tex
Mexico
United States
el Paso
San Antonio
Carillon
Chihuahua
Cgen
Rangel
McCook
United States Army
Fifth Infantry
Tucson
A.L
Vi Paso
Deming
N. M
Bowie
Wilcox
Hanson
A. T
Trot
Cal
Markhima
Crocker
Pacific Coast
Markham
Los Anentas
Los Angeles
Ontario
Pomona
Hazard
Bush
Wanamatter
Pavillion
Union League Club
San Diego
Uuvenema
Harrison
Arlington
Riverside
Glenwood
Hotel de Coronado
Murray
Gunn
Gov
Torres
Lower California
Hanya Bannanta
Vasadena
Gov. Markham
Gow. Markham
Lukens
Cty
Santa Barbara
Processium
Grand Army
Promenade Des Anglais
Nice
Santa Harbara Mission
Sam Francis
Horribly Butchered Murder Raises Jack the Ripper Links
New York City residents report a brutal disembowelment in a Lower Manhattan hotel. An unknown tall man, calling himself C Nivoli, disappeared after entering with an older woman dubbed Shakespeare. Police arrest a bartender, Mary Heeler, and chambermaid Mary Mineter, while clues and a broken blade knife are examined. Authorities pursue possible connections to the Jack the Ripper cases in London.
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Lerrible
New York
Jack the Hipper
Yonx
Jack the Ripper
Chapel
London
Fourth Ward
Catherine Slip
Shakespeare
C. Nivoli
Mary Heeler
Mary Mineter
Inspector Williams
Inspector Byrnes
Central Police
Tlurrington
Carrie Brown
Soldiers Attack Walla Walla Jail in deadly clash
Port Lane Oregon April 2 Word from Walla Walla tells of 150 soldiers clashing with Sheriff’s deputies at the jail as they pursued the prisoner A J Hunt who killed Private Miller in a brawl The soldiers fired killing several, while some of the deputies also shot The incident marks possibly the first mob violence by uniformed troops against civil authorities The fate of Hunt remained uncertain and reports say the jail door was battered down and Hunt riddled with bullets Also noted are plans by Russian painter Venzestewagin to tour tribes for a mural on native life under government control I J Busty of Lyon County Kansas rented a farm for 349 last year yielding 8000 bushels of corn now valued at 4000 with only his son for help and Providence thought to have spared him his name
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Walla Walla
Wash
PortLane
Ore
A. J. Hunt
Miller
Hunt
Imi
All Howards
Hont
Venzestewagin
United States
I. J. Busty
Lyon County
Kun
Prder
Providente
Von Moltke Dies A Great German Soldier Remembered
Benin reports General Helmuth Karl von Moltke dead at his Berlin home after a heart attack. He was 71 and had recently attended Reichstag proceedings and chatted with Chancellor Caprivi. President William II and other monarchs sent condolences as Berlin mourns a towering figure in 19th century warfare. Moltke, born 1800 at Parchim, rose through Prussia’s ranks and shaped campaigns from Schleswig to the Franco Prussian War, earning the title Father Moltke and leading the German army’s grand staff.
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Germany
Benin
von Moltke
Reichstag
von Caprivi
William
Berlin
Frederick
Europe
Francis Joseph
Umberto
Italy
Helmuth Karl von Moltke
Mecklenberg
Parchim
Hobstein
Copenhagen
Miitary Academy
Turkey
Syria
Mohemed Ail
Heyat
Prussia
Prince Henry
Rome
Rhine
Magdeburg
Anch
Moltke
Denmark
German Empire
Order of St. George
Soverein
Order of the Tron Cross
Spain U S reciprocity pact reshapes Caribbean trade
The 1890 reciprocity talks between Spain and the United States led by Premier Canovas del Cantillo and Gen. J W Foster aim to lower duties on American cereals and Minute Spanish imports, with Cuba set to receive near free entry for American flour and other products. The accord shifts trade toward a zollverein style link with the Spanish Antilles, threatening Spanish flour and other exports in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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United States
Antilles
America
Canovas
Barcelona
Santander
Castile
Spanish West Indies
Cuba
Canoves
Spain
Puerto Rico
Europe
Floods in Peru cause widespread property loss and ruin
Reports from Paxawa describe disastrous rainstorms and floods between March 1 and 22 in Lamabayayque. The river rose dramatically flooding Javanca Olmes Morupe Pacora Tucuino Movhuini and Morenpe. Many houses and churches collapsed. the Chimote Suchiman railroad rails and embankments were swept away, leaving severe damage across several towns.
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Paxawa
Peru
Lamabayayque
Javanca
Olmes
Morupe
Pacora
Tucuino
Movhuini
Morenpe
Juvanca
Morinpe
Chimbote & Suchiman
Georgia Editor Officiates Wedding In Quick Style
A Georgia editor who serves as real estate agent, building society director, attorney at law, town clerk and village church pastor was asked to marry a couple. He hurriedly proclaimed them man and wife after a brief interruption to his heavy editorial, demanding payment with a dollar and a load of wood as compensation.
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Georgia
Building and Loan Association
Tir
Congressmen Ford Dead After Apoplexy at Home
Melbourne H. Ford congressman from Michigan was found unconscious at his Grand Rapids home and died of apoplexy. Born in Michigan forty two years ago, he served as a midshipman and was elected to the state legislature in 1884, later to the Fiftieth Congress, defeated for the Fifty first and reelected last November by over 3500. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Grand Raplis
Mich
Grand Barros
Melbourne H. Ford
Ford
Michigan
Italian Minister Turon Fava Returns to Rome
Paris April 21 Turon Fava the Italian minister at Washington who recently left the United States on leave of absence has arrived in Paris en route to Rome The Soleil says that aboard the Atlantic he told fellow passengers Marquis Imperiali di Vrancavilla the Italian charge d affaires would be recalled Italy would not have a diplomatic representative at Washington until the New Orleans affair is settled
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Tatu
Paris
Turon Fava
Washington
United States
Rome
The
Soleil
Atlantic
Marquis Imperiali di Vrancavilla
Italy
New Orleans
Tennessee Mountaineers Shoot Six Black People in Cumberland Rampage
Report from Rockwood, Tennessee says a party of native mountaineers rode into a tan bark camp near the Cumberland mountains last Sunday and fatally wounded six Black residents and injured ten others. The attackers, said to have been discharged for incompetency, carried out the act without warning.
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Tennessee Mountaines
Tay
Chattanooga
Tenn
Rockwood
Cincinnati Southern
Cumberland Mountains
Rioting in Pennsylvania and Michigan as mobs clash with sheriffs
April 24 reports detail a Fayette county eviction in Nessenring No 3 where Sheriff McCormick and deputies faced a violent mob of Slavs led by Thomas Tarr. A woman shot the sheriff, who returned fire wounding her and a man named Blashke. Capt. Frasher and Company C quelled the riot. In Michigan, Deroy streetcar workers and 15,000 in Jefferson Avenue confronted authorities. a mob toppled car attempts, fought police, and arrests followed.
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Goké
Detroit
Umiontown
Monarch
Fayette County
Morewood
McCormick
Nessenring No. 3
Adelaide
Thomas Tarr
Tarr
Andy Mlashko
Andy Blashke
Vlashke
Seroupka
Capt. Frasher
Company C
Deroy
Mich
River Front
Broad Avenue
Jefferson Avenue
Toan
Higher Rates Probable for Grain Shipping This Summer
A Washington April 23 report cites a letter from a major English steamship line forecasting higher grain rates and increased U S exports. The note explains France faces a 10 000 11 000 000 quarter grain shortfall while Belgium also expects reduced supplies, prompting heavier American shipments before the next harvest.
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Europe
Washington
England
United States
America
France
Belgium
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