Cambridge Senate blocks women degree rights in Cambridge
A New York Journal dispatch from London reports Cambridge University voters rejected conferring the degree of T on women after a heated ballot. Thousands of undergraduates gathered on King's Parade amid fireworks and festive chaos as the result showed 1,713 placets for the majority against the proposal and 662 against.
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New York Journal
London
Equal Rights Cause
Cambridge
T. A
Equal Rights Association
University of Cambridge
King’s Parade
Kenate House
Davis College
Senate
Negro preacher sacrifices son over Abraham story
Oscar Williams a colored Baptist preacher from near Elba Alabama believed he was commanded by God to repeat Abraham's sacrifice. He led his two year old son Isaac into the woods and killed him with a knife then wandered away. Neighbors found the boy's body and the preacher stood over him. The motive was religious obedience in his visions.
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Gres Justine
Abraham
Isaac
Oscar Williams
Elba
Ala
Bon
Hugs Worth and Fined for Embrace in Store Scene
In Atlanta Georgia Recorder Calhoun fines Hestin for disorderly conduct after embracing Miss Jessie Vining while she shopped for shoes. The verdict rests on testimony from Mrs Glenn present in the shop. Desertion penalties across armies are discussed with comparisons to peacetime punishments in various nations.
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Calhoun
Atlanta
Bernard
Hestin
Glenn
St Louis man seeks to convert Ingersoll to Christianity
Joseph Bloomfield Jackson of St. Louis claims a divine call to convert the agnostic Robert G Ingersoll. He awoke April 22 with a plan to have Ingersoll utter a divine invocation and bring God's power upon him as Saul of Tarsus. Jackson, 32, educated, married, a Mercantile Club member, says he will abandon his business to undertake this mission before October. He believes God already works on Ingersoll and that he is the instrument for a great regeneration.
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St. Louis
Neila
Joseph Bloomfield Jackson
Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Jackson
Saul
Tarsus
Mr. Jackson
God
Mr. Ingersoll
Mercantile Club
Terminal Hotel
Pittsburgh
J. M. Guthrie
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church of
Alligator Attacks Hearse During Florida Funeral Procession
In Twin Lakes near Jacksonville, a 15-foot alligator surfaced in Hampton Creek as a hearselike procession crossed the water. The creature attacked horses and a buggy, injuring none severely after a neighbor killed the reptile with a rifle after six tries. The event halted the procession briefly as responders secured the body and completed the crossing.
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Florida
Twin Lakes
Jacksonville
Fla
Hampton Creek
Lenny Thomas
Saul Jackson
Woman Beats Man Hidden Under Bed in New York
Mrs Rosa Meyer of 128 First Avenue New York discovers a man under her bed returns from a visit and traps him with a stick and punches. She then chases him two blocks and hands him to a police officer after securing the door.
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Sita
Rosa Meyer
First Avenue
New York
Anc
Romance in his life. Son of Englishman returns home rich and wed
T W Beakbane a prosperous Lower Lake Cal fruit grower has been identified as the missing son of a wealthy English family believed dead for 23 years. He is traveling with his wife and four children toward Europe to attend a diamond jubilee and visit Jersey in the English Channel their homeland and kin.
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T. W. Bewktbane
Lower Lake
Cal
Walter H. Cline
Canadian Pacific
Beakbane
United States
Lake County
Europe
Jersey
English Channel
Paris Sanitary Register Aims To Complete Citywide Record
Since March 1894 Paris has described 35000 houses in a sanitary register. It records drains, cesspools, wells, plumbing, and any deaths from contagious diseases. It also logs water duct or air analyses and any observed sanitary conditions. The project targets completion by 1900.
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Paris
Skyline Rules Limit Vienna Structures to Five Stories
Vienna enforces height restrictions on buildings with a maximum 82 foot total height and a top floor limit of 65.6 feet above street level. When terrain slopes, measurements start from the highest point. No house may exceed five stories including cellars and attics.
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Vienna
Victims of Russian Grief Detailed by Slavic Emigrants
A party of 21 Slavs with wives and children passed Aberdeen on route to the Bad Lands. Reports claim some were jailed for nihilism and harsh sentences followed, including Ivan Molosky who endured six years in Moscow dungeons under water filled wells without light.
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Landa
Aberdeen
Michiel Lodovitch
Ivan Lodovitch
Siberia
Tesah Stolstock
Ezar
Stalstock
Belgium
America
Ivan Molosky
Moscow
Molestey
Michael Connor
Molenky
Russia
Snake Story Season Opens in Union County New Jersey
A New Jersey tale recounts two snake incidents in Rahway and Militon. Moccasins slithered into Lafarge Spoke and Wheel works as workers fought them with hammers and tongs, causing 13 deaths in the clash. At Militon's Young Men's Social club a by law debate on liquor ended when four large moccasins were released, sparking chaos before the meeting resumed and the amendment failed.
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New Jersey
Cuba
Union County
Rahway
Lafarge
Rahway River
Milton
Frank Pierson
Romantic War Ties Mark Keyes Ward Wedding at St Leo’s
Professor Henry Elmo Keyes of Columbian College will marry Miss Mary Louise Ward, daughter of a Civil War officer who was once friends with Keyes’s father. The couple’s romance traces to wartime ties and a Europe upbringing. The groom studied in Paris and Treiblberg before joining Columbia’s science department. The wedding occurred recently at St. Leo’s Church in New York City.
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Keyes
Columbian College
Miles Mary L. Ward
Henry Elmo Keyes
Columbia College
Mary Louise Ward
St. Leo’s Church
New York City
E. D. Keyes
West Point
G. S. Luttre
Ward
Europe
Henry
Paris
Treidelberg
Miss Ward
Prof. Keyes
New Brighton
Staten Island
Facing a Crisis Beet Sugar Industry in Europe Again in Sore Straits
Reports from U S consuls in Europe describe a continuing sugar industry crisis. May 1896 law is deemed ineffective, prices fall despite rising demand, and beet acreages rise beyond safe expansion. Belgian sugar makers plead gloom as the situation worsens. An insect eating flower in Borneo smells like carrion.
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Europe
United States
Moon
Frankfort
Muth
Madyburg
Morris
Ghent
State Department
Mann
Borneo
Wants Part of Omaha in Old Union Litigation
George Francis Train reopens his claim to the city of Omaha seeking a stake of 2,000,000 in a long legal battle tied to the old Union Public litigation. Backers report confidence in the case, with Train potentially amassing 20,000,000 if successful, and a syndicate of eastern and western lawyers hired to press the matter.
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George Francis
Omaha
New York Journal
Merrifield
Continental Hotel
Citizen ‘Train
Bella
Citizen
George Francis Train
Citizen Train
Mr. Merrifield
Bemis
Croesus
Mails for Alaska Move to Improve Interior Service
The post office department expands Alaska mail service with steamboat and overland contracts. P. B. Ware wins a $3,000 five round trip steamboat bid. Alaska Commercial and North American Transportation compete, routing San Francisco to Circle via Yukon mouth with river transfers. Departures set from San Francisco around June 5 and August 5, and Seattle around June 10 and August 10.
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Post Office Department
Interior
Alaska
Juneau
Girele City
Yukon River
United States
P. B. Ware
Chicago
San Francisco
Seattle
Indianapala Mirror Dispute Spurs Hotel Plan in Indianapolis
Indianap oli s millionaire ex congressman Will English and Drs Von Slummel run a family institution in the old English homestead. They clash with the Von Hummels over a prized heirloom mirror as English seeks to erect a $500000 hotel. A struggle and threats prompt warrants for deadly weapons and assault. News items follow about onions and steel objects reducing tear effects, a female factory inspector appointment in New York, speculation on future gender roles, and a Bristol man counting cows.
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Indianapala
Will English
Drs. von Slummel
Indianapolis
Ind
von Hummels
English
Yon Hummels
Wooed but not won. Young Lochinvar shatters romance
Gerald Massingham, like Lochinvar, arrives from the west as Priscilla Boylston, rich from a shingle family, battles compound astigmatism and a shock of new love. A lover’s grand line provokes a sudden disguise of fear. She flees in terror ending their tender romance.
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Lochinvar
Gerald Massingham
West
Cleveland
Priscilla Boylston
Priscilla
Gerald
Strange Sea Reunion Unfolds Aboard Essex
Capt Coombs aboard the American bark Sussex recounts a long separated uncle and nephew meeting at sea. The Aeronaut, a British ship from Santa Fe, was driven aground after a storm and resupplied by the Annie Burrill in mid voyage. Henry Fancy, nephew, came aboard and was recognized by Coombs after years apart.
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Coombs
Sussex
Philadelphia Press
Essex
Aeronaut
Santa Fe
Rio de la Plata
Annie Burrill
Buenos Ayres
New Orleans
Henry Taney
The
Henry Fancy
Capt
Fancy
Camel’s rough voyage ends with a crutchless revival
A camel from the Dresden voyage to Hoboken sat in a crate for days due to cramped space. Foot and leg paralysis followed until a clever rescue used a sling to lift the animal, allowing it to regain motion. After the strange revival the camel now stands and does not sit again.
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Desert
Hoboken
Bremen
Dresden
New York Press
Englishman Refuses Forever Renunciation in Jersey City
In Jersey City a crowd of naturalization applicants included an Englishman who refused to sign the oath renouncing allegiance to the queen of Great Britain and Ireland. He asked to strike out forever but was told the form is fixed. He declined, noting it would mislead friends if he claimed foreswearing after returning home.
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Victoria
Jersey City
New York Times
Great Britain and Ireland
America
Short Charge by Judge Bean Noted for Brevity in Trial
Judge Roy Bean of Lantry Texas once tried a Mexican for horse theft. His jury charge, cited from Leslie's Weekly, was famously concise: Gentlemen of the jury, that's 8 greaser in the box ang s hows missing you know your duty. The jurors understood and acted.
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Roy Bean
Lantry
Tex
Leslie's Weekly
Methods Here and Abroad Warn of Steering Outs
A Cussier's Magazine comparison notes how ships in Britain France and Germany steer differently. The Thames small paddle steamers rely on loud calls from the wheelhouse, the Seine uses a funnel mouthpiece for voice, and Rhine steamers use a large midship wheel with coordinated handles.
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Onglands Vrance
Germany
Cussier
Thames
Seine
France
Rhine
Fatherland
Plucky Carrier Pigeon Reunites With Nansen Wife
A pigeon returning after 30 months bridged vast polar and ocean distances to bring a note from explorer Nansen to Mrs. Nansen in Christiania. The bird, sent by Nansen for his expedition, navigated blizzards and vast wilderness to reach its home, symbolizing extraordinary endurance and loyalty.
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Nansen
New York Mail and Express
Easter Bread and Cheese Traditions at Widdenden Village
In Widdenden Kent near Ashford England an Easter custom endures since Norman times. The vicar and church wardens distribute gingerbread cakes while residents receive bread and cheese. Origin tied to Eliza and Mary Churkhurst two 12th century sisters who joined and left land to fund this feast. The doles bear their likenesses and dates. Visitors still travel to Biddenden to obtain a cake and preserve it as a curiosity.
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Widdenden
Kent
Ashford
England
Biddenden
Eliza
Mary Churkhurst
Fox and dog duel on Maplestreet ends with fox captive
A. Q. Dodge of Dexter Maine recalls an afternoon pursuit on Maplestreet. A dog chased a fox from Park street across lots, the fox keeping ahead until both paused on a porch. The dog slipped inside, neighbors helped, and the fox was driven into a shed where it became captive.
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A. Q. Dodge
Dexter
Maplestreet
Park Street
Strong Men Weighing Light Frames Highlight Public Exhibition
A public event showcases four notable lightweight athletes. Verrill, the strong man of ale, weighs 149 pounds, Lovering of Harvard weighs 150 pounds. Another youth, William F. Kentr of St. Louis, is listed at 13 percent gad, noted alongside the group as a fourth entrant in the small-man category.
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Verrill
Harvard
Lovering
William F. Kentr
Nor
St. Louis
Gad
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