Chilian Demands Indemnity and Apology Signal Strong Policy
Washington dispatch reports President Harrison and cabinet planning a firm response to the Chilean assault on American sailors in Valparaiso. Egan instructed to demand monetary indemnity for families, arrest and punish culprits, and a formal apology. Blaine seen handling the matter with no new developments. officials note gravity of the situation.
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Harrison
Chili
Egan
Santiago
Baltimore
United States
Will the pope leave Rome
The Western Watchman editor Rev D S Phelan says rumors of the pope fleeing Rome persist. He recalls a two year old agitation when Rome planned to leave for refuge, but the pope stayed. He warns conditions could worsen with a mob possibly storming the Vatican and desecrating papal possessions.
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The
Western Watchman
St. Louis
Phelan
Rome
Vatican
Papal
Interstate Artificial Rain Company forms in Kansas
The Interstate Artificial Rain Company of Goodland Kansas filed its charter in Topeka on October 20. The firm aims to promote agriculture and supply water by artificial rainfall and reportedly has a contract with Frank Melbourne to provide rain. Capital stock is £100,000.
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Interstate Artificial Rain Company
Goodland
Kan
Topeka
Frank Melbourne
Capital Stock
Week's News Briefs From Distant Lands And Local Incidents
Typhoid fever rages in Ruthven and diphtheria closes Noblesville schools. fouling events include Sunol's 9 minute 8 second mile in Stockton and 13 hundred immigrants arriving in New York. Russian famine affects 20 million. a Baltimore suicide from the Washington Monument. Pittsburg gas explosion leaves three burned and one dead. Bardwell & Co. sash and door plant burns for 160000, while G A R head General Palmer plans to bar Confederate colors. Schofield urges thousands of troops near Indian reservations after last winter's Sioux outbreak.
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Ruthven
Sunol
Stockton
Lemberg
Galicia
New York
Noblesville
Ind
Texas
Mexico
Pittsburg
Bluinge
Washington
War Department
Schofield
Reform plank fuels clash in Farmers' Mutual assembly
Illinois Farmers Mutual Benefit Association members clash in Springfigd Dis over a reform agenda. A hot debate ends with a resolution opposing monopolies and endorsing repeal of revenue and license laws, free silver, direct votes for national leaders, homegrown fiber use, and rural free mail delivery.
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Illinois Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association
State
Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association
United States
Indiana Farmers Alliance backs third party push amidst strong opposition
Indianapolis Oct. 4 The State Farmers Alliance discussed the third party movement with favor yet stout resistance. Secrecy cloaks proceedings but a majority at the supreme council meeting next month is believed to favor a third party. Resolutions back the St Louis and Ocala platforms and urge abolition of national banks. Legislature is denounced for ignoring federated labor demands. Resolutions favor prohibition and woman suffrage, though debates were heated.
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Sypianapolis
State Farmers’ Alliance
Supreme Council
St. Louis
Ocala
Stanford for President in Alliance Nomination
A San Francisco Herald special reports Senator Leland Stanford backs the Farmers Allied movement for a National Farmers' Alliance ticket. President Polk of the Alliance arrived on the coast and addresses southern farmers. Expected ticket would be Stanford and Polk or Stanford and Morgan with Stanford guiding key managers.
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California
Alliance
Cuicano
Herald
San Francisco
Leland Stanford
Farmers’ Alliance Movement
Bill Stow
National Farmers’ Alliance
Polk
Alliance Party
Pacific Coast
Stanford
Stanford and
Morgan
Harlem rally for Boswell Flower and Sheehan in New York
A crowded Harlem meeting welcomed Boswell P. Flower and lieutenant governor candidate Sheehan. The crowd cheered loudly as Flower spoke at length on the world’s fair issue, after a band welcomed the candidates.
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New York
Harlem
Boswell P. Flower
Mr. Flower
Sheehan
Flower
Epidemic of afluenza hits Victoria and New South Wales
Melbourne reports an epidemic of afluenza similar to recent Europe and America outbreaks. It has spread across Victoria and New South Wales, prostrating people of all classes and causing numerous deaths.
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Australia
Melbourne
Europe
America
Victoria
New South Wales
Rail Express Plunges After Open Switch Tragedy
Five killed and fifty or sixty injured when the Omaha and Denver fast express derailed at Monmouth Illinois on Burlington line after hitting an open switch. Engineer Emerson and the traveling engineer died. Passengers in sleepers and chairs were jolted from berths as cars piled, lights out, chaos aboard the wrecked train.
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Cascade
Monmouth
Illa
Burlington Road
Omaha
Denver
Emerson
Disaster on the Band O Train Derails at Forty Miles
The eastbound express from Chicago jumped the track near Sir John's Run on the Baltimore and Ohio line at around 2 p m. The engine overturned after leaving the rails. Engineer Buckles and Fireman Richards were killed. Postal clerks Lippincott Craig and Leavey injured. Passengers in two coaches and two sleepers unharmed. A broken driving wheel caused the crash.
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Washington
Chicago
Sir John's
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Buckles
Richards
Lippincott
Craig
Leavey
Levee Cave-In Alarms New Orleans Wharf District
A serious cave-in in the levee near the French Market extends from the Harrison steamship wharf to below the Luggar landing. Steamships and other vessels continue loading as wharves risk collapse into the river. No permanent relief plans have been adopted. parties seek temporary measures for the present danger.
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New Orleany
New Carteans
Harrison Steamship
Luggar Landing
Harrison
Alabama farmhouse blaze kills three children
John Long and his wife returned from a visit to find their Lime Rock home burned to rubble. A hall lamp exploded or flame spread, killing three children aged 13 6 and 2 and fatally burning a 14 year old boy who slept inside. The couple had left the children asleep while visiting a sick neighbor.
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Alabama
BrrwincHas
Ala
Lime Rock
Ale
John Long
Longs
Floods overwhelm Britain and rail wrecks report flood damage
Dispatches from across Great Britain describe escalating floods with Thames overflow over about thirty miles. Reports detail freight train wrecks on Rock Island roads near an unnamed city, injuring three trespassers. A Colorado mine explosion at Coal Ridge injures two miners, while further floods ravage Spatas Maoanip province with homes wrecked and livestock lost.
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Lennon
Great Britain
Joint
Rock Island Road
Burne
Mike Foley
James O'Hearn
Lawrence Smith
Denver
Republican
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Colorado Fuel Company
Coal Ridge
Farmers push for universal free mail delivery in farms
Organized farming groups including the Farmers Alliance and Patrons of Husbandry canvass Congress for free daily mail delivery to rural homes. Letters and petitions circulate nationwide while Postmaster General Wanamaker notes that free delivery in farming districts shows revenue exceeding costs and could be self-sustaining.
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New York
Congress
Farmers’ Alliance
Patrons of
Bushardry
American Agriculturist
Wanamaaker
Post Office Department
Donnelly Defeats Pioneer Press in Malicious Libel Suit
In Minnesota the Ignatius Donnelly vs The Pioneer Press case ends with a verdict of 1 dollar damages for Donnelly after a trial sparked by a February publication of a King letter accusing Donnelly of corrupt practices. Judge Flandreau delivered the defense plea, Cyrus Willington spoke for the plaintiff, and Donnelly plans an appeal.
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Donnelly Va
Pioneer
Minnesota
Ignatius Donnelly
Pioneer Press
W.S. King
Minneapolis
Donnelly
Flandreau
Cyrus Willington
Hooker
Myr
United States Grand Jury Indicts Louisiana Lottery Officers
The U S grand jury in Sioux Falls South Dakota sees eleven indictments against Louisiana lottery officers and directors. Each indictment contains eighteen counts for transmitting lottery advertisements. Names include Paul Conrad president John P Horner secretary and General Beauregard among those charged. Five years imprisonment and a sizable fine await convictions. The U S marshal heads to New Orleans to arrest the officials.
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South Dakota
Louisiana
Falts
United States Prand
Department
Washington
United States
New Orleans
General Beauregard
Paul Conrad
John P. Horner
Congress
Wants Statehood. Governor Prince backs New Mexico admission
Governor Prince of New Mexico submits his annual report to the secretary of the interior arguing for statehood. He notes a 1890 constitutional vote defeat but maintains New Mexico has sufficient population resources and taxable property to become a state. He cites a 1990 property valuation of 45,109,847 with 1,972,165 exempt. The territory’s financial condition is described as remarkably good.
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Prince
New Mexico
WasHinatos
Secretary of the Interior
Report discredited on American citizens shot on Mexican border
A Washington dispatch says the claim two American citizens Juan Hazan and Jose Angelyira were shot by order of General Garcia on the Mexican border is discredited by the state department. It notes four Mexicans were executed for desertion, with no suggestion any Americans were involved.
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New York
Herald
Washington
Juan Hazan
Jose Angelyira
Garcia
State Department
Harrity Seen as Brice Heir for Democratic Chair
In circles of Democrats Brice may be replaced by William F. Harrity as chairman of the National Democratic committee. Harrity fills the vacancy from the death of Thomas L. Scott, a signal that he could assume Brice’s post. Daisy Lee, 17, of St. Marys West Virginia, reportedly killed herself after being reproved by her father for accepting a young man’s attentions.
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Brice
PhiLapetria
William F. Harrity
The
Commonwealth
Calvin
National Democratic Committee
Harrity
Thomas L. Scott
St. Marys
W. Va
Daisy Lee
Poten tial bank seeks in Dickens Clay county
A digest of scattered Iowa items notes Haws sye happenings in Dickens county seeking a bank. 4 000 acres of public lands in Iowa. Potatoca selling at 16 cents a bushel in Davenport. Knights of Pythias in Montezuma complete building. streetcar experiments planned for Burlington. Boone forms National Building and Savings assoc with 1 000 000 capital. Anamosa sees a larceny forgery sentence. Cedar Rapids Catholic church corner stone laid. Hamburg firms buy apples. Oskaloosa to honor Lois Benson in fire death. Des Moines mentions Henderson family in penitentiary.
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Dickens
Clay County
Iowa
Davenport
Knights of Pythias
Montezuma
Burlington
National Building and Savings Association
Boone, S
Waverly
Thomas Mitchell
Anamosa
Clinton
Eldora Herald
Boss
Wheeler
Henderson
Des Moines
Royal Arch Masons
Callarda
Cass County
National Guard Association of
Cedar Rapida
Si. Patrick's Church
Hamburg
Oskaloosa
Lois Benson
J. H. Sanders
State Alliance
Hardin County
Speow
Republcan
Diphtheria Ravages Norwegian Settlement in Salier Valley
Diphtheria sweeps a Norwegian settlement in Salier Valley Harrigan county with ten residents dead and one family losing six members. The area is quarantined amid a grave outbreak and the plight is described as terrible. Separate item notes a devastating stable fire at the Driving Park in Bruins causing heavy losses to P. Sweet Searles and Ensworth Chamberlain. The fire is suspected arson with valuable horses burned.
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Maidemicha
Mamshalltown
Saldier's Valley
Harrigan County
Council
Bruins
Driving Park
P. Sweet
Searles & Ensworth
Chamberlain
Denver
Driving Park Association
Freight Trains Wrecked in Lake City Collision
A late Friday night crash on a Chicago and Northwestern branch near Lake City left two brakemen M. R. Hayden and George Stein dead. Engineers Collins and McAlister were fatally injured. other crew members were injured. The wreck occurred on a curve, with both trains heavily damaged.
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Marshalltown
Lake City
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
M. R
Hayden
George Stein
Collins
McAlister
Monument Unveiling Honors Grady in Atlanta
In Atlanta on October 21 a grand unveiling of the Henry W. Grady monument drew wide attention. President Northen presided, Governor Hill of New York spoke, and the granite statue rises ten feet on a terrace with a bronze figure about ten feet high. The inscription honors Grady as journalist, orator, patriot, noting his Athens birth in 1850 and Atlanta death in 1889 and his line about never holding public office.
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Atlanta
South
Henry W. Grady
Northen
The
Monument Association
Grady
Governor Hill
New York
Mr. Grady
Athens
State University
Atlanta Constitution
Died Without a Flinch Adelbert Goheen Hanged
Adelbert Goheen was hanged at Fergus Falls Minnesota for the murder of Rosa Bray. He walked to the gallows erect as a soldier, uttered a last plea, and died of strangulation after the trap fell. The body remained hung for about twenty five minutes before removal.
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Adelbert Goheen
Fergus Falls
Rowe
Goheen
Jack
Valuable Lands Opened for Omaha Settlement
In Ashland Wisconsin October 24 land office officials report telegraphic orders from Commissioner Carter to open the Omaha lands for settlement and entry on November 2. About 95 000 acres deemed timber rich were previously opened April 17 but entry trouble and bloodshed fears halted moves. Department warns against force threats or intimidation and promises defeat at the land office.
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Noble
Battlement
Ashland
Wis
Land Office
Carter
Omaha
Latest Market Report from Paoli Union Stock Yards
Market summary Oct 2 1891 at Paoli and St Paul reports hogs up and cattle steady with good beef grades scarce. Hogs brought higher prices while steers cows bulls and calves show varied values. Sheep steady. Receipts hogs 857 cattle 108 calves 8 sheep 140 horses 21. Grain prices listed for wheat corn oats barley rye hay and more with track prices and Chicago grain notes.
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Pauli
Souter
St. Paul
Mattona
Upland
Wild
Timothy Hay
Popatoes
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Prosident
Hartiann
Department of Italy
Tracy
Miller
John W. Foster
Schley
Valparaiso
Blaine
White House
Echley
England
London
Howe
Anson
Admiralty
Dail
Louisville
Loney
al Beery
Newport
Newport Gas Company
Bowen, Ill
Augusta
Jarvis
Bank of England
Katzer
Milwakee
Haad
Good Templars
St. Petersburg
Russia
Washington Monument
Bardwell, Robinson & Co
Palmer
Indiana Farmers’ Alliance
Ills
Disaster
Moro
Spatas Maoanip
Reilwey
Harry Davenport
Atlantic
Council Bluffs
Dysart
Esher
Bowman
Crest
C. P. Stire
Cherokee
Muscatine
Charles Jones
Connecil Bluffs
Jones
Heavus
Lyons Har
Arthur Bray
Erastus McCloud
Ed. Frazier
Monro
Fort Madison
Albia
Bray
Mec- Cloud
Frazier
Hlekud Bray
Rama
State Teachers’ Association
Minneapolis Grain
Holge
Bard
Mcpee
Northern
Aldo
Igc
Ri Hiee Nanan
Hee. Mnie Co
Aig Ayy O. Eo Tenon
J Novasaber
Decesay Hog
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