Lawyer Williams lynched after fatal shooting in Logan County
Charles Williams a Logan Court House attorney vowed to kill Bob Peck and James Aldridge after losing a suit. He armed with a shotgun confronted Aldridge who disarmed him and Williams then shot Aldridge twice, killing him. Williams was arrested but lynched by a mob outside the jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Charles Williams
Logan Court House
Bob Peck
James Aldridge
Aldridge
Williams
President's Western visit plans expand toward Atlanta
An Associated Press report from Washington notes invitations flood the President as his White House days fill with recording requests. He has toured most western and southern cities including San Francisco New Orleans and Galveston and will choose a route that brief visits the principal cities of both regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
National Capital
White House
San Francisco
New Orleans
Galveston
Kansas City
Atlanta
Fatal railroad smashup near Duff's Station in Indiana
Evansville special reports a deadly accident on the Louisville Evansville and St. Louis Air Line Railway at Duff's Station Dubois County Indiana. A construction train with twenty five men struck a cow as it crossed the track causing the engine to derail and injure nine crew members, with five not expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubois County
Indiana
Evansville
Duff's Station
Ind
Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis
Crocker Refuses Answer Before Pacific Railroad Commission
San Francisco dispatch reports Col Charles F. Crocker of the Southern Pacific Railroad pressed by the Pacific Railroad Commission over payments alleged to influence state or national legislation. Crocker, advised by counsel not to answer, declined to respond. The commission adjourned to executive session to decide potential U.S. court action to force an answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Charles F. Crocker
Southern Pacfic Railroad Company
Pacific Railroad Commission
Agsain
Central Pacific
Cohery
Pattison
Crocker
United States
Appointment of W. J. Clark to Utah US Attorney staff
Acting Attorney General appoints W. J. Clark of Columbus Ohio as assistant to the United States Attorney for the district of Utah. Interior Department records show from Jan 16 1886 to July 1 1937 there were 26 civil service appointments in the department, 24 from Pennsylvania and other states, with several transfers and one reinstatement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Clark
Columbus
Ohio
United States
District of
Utah
Interior Department
Pennsylvania
New York
Ilinois
Indiana
Tennessee
Maryland
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Iowa
Arkansas
Missouri
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Michigan
Alabama
Texas
Forest fires devastate Michigan Wisconsin towns
A Chicago telegram reports widespread forest fires tearing through Michigan and Wisconsin threatening many towns and leaving some burned. Cedar Rapids Iowa saw damage to M Simclair Co packing house valued at 9000 dollars while Montreal Warehouse Company suffered a 100000 dollar loss in Montreal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michigan
Wisconsin
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
M. Simclair & Co
Montreal
Montreal Warehouse Company
Distinguished Celestials Coming to San Francisco
The State Department in Washington has been informed that some high Chinese officers will arrive in San Francisco near the end of August on important business. No further details are available from the department at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Washington
San Francisco
Department
Wall Collapse Hits Midwest Paper Firms
The failure of Chicago paper dealer W. O. Tyler & Co. triggers the collapse of W. J. Randall with mills at Rockton LiL and of B. F. Lyon & Son, paper dealers at Kalamazoo Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Tyler & Co
Chicago
Blaine in Dublin Cables Views on Ireland
A cable dispatch reports Mr Blaine and his family are in Dublin He will take a quiet tour of Ireland and is not pleased with European society as observed so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Dublin
Ireland
Arch conservative notes on Irish and world events
A London cable reports on Archbishop Walsh in Dublin predicting future Irish parliament meetings and views on evictions and land legislation. It notes Irish Nationalists' stance on a harsh act, possible Gladstone victory, and a risk to National League unity. Separate dispatches cover France wheat, Russian harvests, Vienna wheat prices, and Honolulu loan syndicate investigations into charges of excessive fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Central Committee
Walsh
Dublin
Cable
National League
England
Gladstone
Castile
Ireland
London
France
Bessarabia
Podolia
Volhynia
Minck
Moheeley
Sea of Azov
River Don
Charkoff
Poltava
Vienna
Louisiana congressman-elect Colonel Robertson dies
Colonel Edward Robertson of Louisiana, a congressman-elect, died at Eaton General. General Sheridan plans to attend the Army of the Tennessee reunion in Detroit on September 14 and 15. Viscount Forth, heir presumptive to Perth, died in a New York public hospital. He ran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Robertson
Louisiana
Eaton
Sheridan
Army of the Tennessee
Detroit
Viscount Forth
Perth
Scotland
New York
Financial measures curb Treasury strain and bond sale urged
The Treasury plans to prepay interest on the public debt with a 2 percent rebate and invites proposals to sell 4½ percent bonds for the sinking fund. This aims to avert financial tension from rising Treasury accumulations. A coal miners exodus toward British Columbia is seen. The W O Tyler Paper Co of Chicago fails with liabilities 350000. Baird Dillon Chicago silverware dealers go under with liabilities 175000 and assets 40000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairchild
Pennsylvania
British Columbia
W. O. Tyler Paper Company
Chicago
Baird & Dillon
Large fires cause multi-city losses in late July 1887 report
Fire in Baltimore's business district racks up nearly 600000 dollars in damage. Syracuse North Carolina hardware plant burns close to 100000. Bowling Green Ohio sees 22 buildings wiped out. Clarksburg West Virginia district fires ruin部分. Cyclone devastates Solomon Valley with four fatalities and multiple injuries. Millbrook Ellensburg casualties from rock collapse total four killed. Manawa steamer capsizes near Council Bluffs. three drowned. Wolf barge launch accident at Milwaukee injures many. three killed. July 1887 fire losses across US and Canada exceed 14 million. first seven months total reach about 77 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Syracuse
N. C
Bowling Green
Ohio
Clarksburg
W. Va
Atchison (Kansas
Solomon Valley
Millbrook
Hill City
Plainville
Cascades
Northern Pacific Railroad
Ellensburg
Washington Territory
Omaha
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Lake Manawa
Council Bluffs
Joseph Newman
George Cartwright
C. H. Pherson
Wolf
Wolf & Davidson
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Dispatch
Northwestern Fuel Company
A. H. Miller
Parsons
Kan
United States
Canada
Supreme Court declines new trial for anarchists in unanimous ruling
Chicago and Peoria dispatches report the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to deny a new trial for the condemned anarchists. Justice Craig, summering in Maine, indicated an opinion was being prepared for September. Separate dispatches note Ontario refusing to surrender McGarigle and a writ of error granted in the Slrooka case. The Chicago omnibus doodle case ends with multiple two-year sentences and fines after a six day jury process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Craig
Supreme Court
Galesburg
Chicago Times
Justice Craig
Old Orchard Beach
Chicago
Ontario
McGarizie
Montreal
Baxter
St Catharine
Toronto
United States Supreme Court
Srooka
St Louis
Varnell
Cook County
Misbard S$. McClaughry
Im T
Adam Acks
Michael Leyden
Harry A. Varnell
John E. van Pelt
Daniel J. Wrenst
Michael Wasserman
James J.cCarthy
M. Oliver
Christian Casselman
Christian Geils
Convictions and a Georgia murder case reported
The article details verdicts in multiple defendants with sentences including two years in prison and fines. It also reports a separate family murder in Macon, Georgia, where Captain Richard Woolfolk and seven family members were killed and a suspect son described the events to investigators. A New Orleans dispatch notes lynchings of Black men by mobs in Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cis
Aid Bettie
Saishman
Clark
Casselman
Iimi
Leyden
van Pelt
Leynen
Bock McCarth
Ace
Varnell
Wasserman
Lee
Tim E
Lynn
Ripper
Robinson
Osak
Grinnell
Richard Woolfolk
Macon
West
Woolfolk
Charley
Green Lockett
T Woolfolk
New Orleans
Mississippi
George Evans
Robert Harris
Greenwood
Boyd Martin
Sunflower County
Bob Jones
Notable Duels and Constitutional Upheaval in 19th Century Times
Reports detail a duel in New Orleans suburbs between John Larrien and Emile Rivoire over a political article. Hawaii faces a new constitution creating a nobles house with property qualifications, while Gibson denounces it from San Francisco. Other items note natural gas near St Paul, Mormon prospects in Canada, Halifax tensions over the J H Perrin seizure, and a New York Pittsburgh syndicate acquiring 100000 acres of pine forests along South Carolina and northern Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
John Larrien
Emile Rivoire
DS Opinion
M. Rivoire
M. Larrien
Hawaii
House of Nobles
Gibson
Kalakaua
San Francisco
St. Paul
Minn
Canada
United States
Joseph Smith
Saint
Halifax
J. H. Perrin
Souris
New York
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Gorgia
Compromise verdict in Cook County Commissioners trial
The Cook County Commissioners conspiracy case ends with four defendants sent to state prison for two years and four others fined one thousand dollars each. Public reaction questions the severity but the court rejects harsher penalties, underscoring a partial triumph for the prosecution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cook County
Leyden
Ochs
van Pelt
Wasserman
Varnell
Wren
McClaughry
Casselman
Geils
McCarthy
Oliver
McGarigle
McDonald
Joliet
Wyer Sullivan
Low Wasserman
Mr. Grinnell
Buck
Duck
Clark
Boarch
Hannigan
Lynn
Michael Costello
Richard O. Driscoll
Eleven boodlers convicted in county board case verdict
The jury found eleven defendants guilty in a large County Board of Cook County case. Sentences ranged up to three years in the penitentiary with fines, while some members urged lighter terms. The foreman A L Brown led the panel to a compromise verdict after lengthy deliberations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Brown
Foreman Brown
J. D. Clark
Clark
Geils
Oliver
Casselman
McCarthy
Ared
Cahill
Jamieson
Matson
Soles Jamieson
Clerk
Sheriff
Clerk Lee
Lee
Ohio Governors Foraker Powell Nominated in State Conventions
Ohio Republicans nominate J B Foraker for a second term as Governor. Foraker, 51, served in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, earned a brevetted captaincy, and is a Highland County native. Democrats nominate General Thomas E Powell of Delaware County, born 1842, Ohio Wesleyan graduate, lawyer, once a Democratic Attorney General candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio Republican Convenation
Buckeye
Highland County
Ohio
Eighty-ninth
Ohio Infantry
Thomas E. Powell
Delaware County
Ating
Ohio Wesleyan University
Powell
Verdict on boodlers signals justice for Cook County
Chicago Tribune commentary hails the verdict as a substantial triumph of justice, convicting boodlers and signaling a break in corrupt public influence. The Inter Ocean News and Times praise the results as a stand against bribery, pledging further punishment for remaining conspirators and stressing public integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Cook County
Jamieson
Inter Ocean
Arinneil
Chicago
the Times
Drought-Stricken States Face Reduced Crops and Fires
The Times reports across Western states show severe drought with widespread fire risk and crop losses. Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan see poor yields and late rains. Iowa Kansas Nebraska benefit from recent rains with Iowa corn yield projected near 200 million bushels, well above last year's short crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Humais
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Mississippi
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa Agricultural Society
Forthcoming Meeting of the American Forestry Congress
The American Forestry Congress will meet in Springfield Illinois September 14 15 and 16 to discuss policy changes in the General Government timber domain forest legislation state effects and desirable laws. It reviews artificial planting in prairie states and calls for expanding woodlands as rapid deforestation continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Forestry Congress
Springfield
Prairie States
Forestry Congress
United States
Bridget’s Dream of Country Comforts
A speaker outlines frugal, improvised living in the country as a way to enjoy solitude without traveling. The plan includes discarding ice, buying stale vegetables, using bricks and boards on beds, ordering salt pork and beans, delaying mail, and drawing shades to let the sun glare in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget
Ohio Farmers Duel Over Girl Briny
Two young Ohio farmers fought a duel over a girl named Briny. Their intense affection for Briny drove the confrontation, illustrating a clash of rivals and romantic motive in a rural community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Briny
Rain as a Vehicle for Impurity and Disease
Professor Mayer explains rain water gathers impurities as it forms from vapors, absorbing nitrite nitrate ammonia and atmospheric gases. Droplets collect earth minerals dust and microorganisms while falling, becoming a microscopic ocean capable of carrying seeds of disease, with a noted plague outbreak in a Swiss town after distant rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mayer
We Gather in Our Sister's Love Gesture Drill Documented
The passage describes a religious congregation using dancing, palm gestures, and synchronized motions to emphasize sentiment. Elder Avery notes the unity created as members whisper "We gather in our sister's love" during a communal gesture, likening it to military drill and fellowship. It also mentions sawmills in Augsburg in 1332.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Lebanon
Avery
American Magazine
Consumption Cure and the Golden Medical Discovery
A critic argues that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery should not be called a consumption cure. The text claims it arrests early pulmonary disease and acts as a safe, sure specific for diseases arising from liver and blood derangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Golden
Ison
Favorite Prescription as a tonic for women’s ailments
The article extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe pleasant tonic and nervine for debilitated women. It claims female irritability and moodiness stem from sex-related ailments and asserts the remedy can revive cause and restore joy.
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Telegraph
West Virginia
Maine
Iszi
Glyndon
Summerfield Baldwin
Lelington
W. A. Bradley
Buckner
National Civil Service Reform League
Newport
RBL
George William Curtis
Philadelphia
Democrata -Fort Worth
Fort Worth
Lexington
Democratic State Central Committee
Ghana
Sociabase
Amnkss
Milwaukee Ee
Seibel
Pii
Baie Ce
St, Louis
Wurat
G&g
Dino
Toledo, Warratt
Cincinnati
Buffalo
Ee Ee
Pe M
Aielebane Witewss
Erik Ule Cut
Eawens
Indianapolis
Breer CaTrue Nares Mannan Eawe
Cas Cegksbmeae
Oneadues
East Liberty
Cistecknaeens
Sdeskeusas
Cccoaessass
Caatn
VaRwran
St. Catherines
Mooney
McCarigle
Powell and Foraker
J. B. Foraker
Slocum
Cornell University
Ra Court
Hoadly
Thos. E. Powell
Dem
Illinois
Forestry
Whippersnapper Club
Goldbugge
Cadson
Yaas
Augsberg
R. V. Pieres
N. Y
Lyon
Cood Health
Hood
Royal Institute of London
Henry Roscoe
Babylon
Faye
Greece
Rome
New Haven
Gem City Business College
Cees
D. L. Musse
Man
A. M
Quincy
Monon
Louisville
New Albany
Chicago Railway
Ama
Calisaya
Oe Hazard & Prey Oo
Aggisis
R. W. Tanaill & Co
Tansili
P. & A .L. Millaarp
Ellisburg
Mick
Sovsa TiNene
Luacry
Icsita
Willia
Dr. J
Willime’ Indien
Confederate Armies Co
Ienter
Radway
Cole
Nolo
Rauwatsready
Draggtists
Liention
Pension
HPF & Powell
Indianapolis, Ind
Queen
Addrete
RU Hweau
Arcade
Civeinnati
Saeant Ny
Frazer Axle
Frazer Labricator Co
V., & St. Louisa
Metropolitan
Tis
Spencer
HAY and Seraw Press
Txa
Reuters
Ety Irese
Mt. Nuyvinn Sum
Saan
Mark Twain
Richard Dector
Scieptiat
Hans W.W Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Dr. Minor
Columbia Law
Yale
University of Penn
Wellesley Colleg
Prospectus Poat
Rho
Uhse Tis
Fifte
Wizard Oil Company CH
Mary A. McClure
Columbus, Kane
I. V. Wenner
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
D. Lazarng
Eng
Decatur St
New Orleana
James L. Coney, R
Yucatan
Houston Co Minn
Theresa A. Cass
Id, Mo
H. E. Mostey
Montmoree
F. Asbury Howe
M. E. Church
N. J
Jon
Mwo Dion
M. Strowa
Ainsworth
Concidence
Stoe
Cam
Sax Poots
Leonard Poole
Williamaburg
Dorchester Co
Ire
Boole
T. A. Ayame
Bey
Yinsel i Rell
Evward Newton
Harrowsmith Ont
Ics
Parta
Consular Advanced
Cota
Tler
Msac
Golden Medical Discovery
Lin Es
Curt Mr. Downs
Ethelden
Josefh F. McPfarlane
Athena, Ir
Usi
Association, Proprietors
Matin Street
Procter & Gamble
Kidder
Stowell & Coe
Piso
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