New Yorkers split over Blaine as presidential choice
A New York dispatch notes eastern New York Republicans delay definitive choice for Blaine. Sherman Allison Hawley Depew Gresham Guilom Hiscock each have supporters but no clear delegate decision yet. Bolsters for Sheridan rise in southern New York amid European diplomacy and Irish issues.
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Maine
New York
Chicago
Long Island
Mr. Blaine
Sherman
Allison
Hawley
Depew
Gresham
Guilom
Hiscock
Biaine
New York State
Robertson A
Blaine
Mr. i
New York Central Railroad Company
New Jersey Senate Proposes Death Penalty by Electricity
A Thursday report outlines a bill in the New Jersey Legislature to apply execution by electric current. The process assigns a four to eight week window for the sentence, designates a select group for the execution, and requires urgent burial or dispatch for the body.
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New Jersey
Senate of New Jersey
Jens Sh
Derrick Collapse Kills and Injures Brooklyn Carload
A Reid avenue street car carrying passengers was crushed beneath a fallen derrick during elevated railroad construction on Broadway near Sumner avenue Brooklyn. The derrick ropes failed sending the structure onto the car. Three persons died immediately and others were fatally injured or seriously hurt.
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New York
Reid Avenue
Broadway
Sumner Avenue
Brooklyn
Seymour Wins Elevenith Michigan District Election
In the Eleventh Michigan District a special congressional race to fill the late Moffatt’s seat ended with Seymour the Republican defeating Breen the Democrat-Labor candidate by a modest plurality. The vote was hotly contested amid a bitter cold storm with light turnout and notable Democratic gains in the Upper Peninsula.
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Michigan
Mofatt
Seymour
Breen
Upper Peninsula
Senate Discusses Tax Inquiry and Relief for Arctic Expedition
The Senate debated a tax resolution probing the causes of mail service inefficiency. It passed relief for David L. Brainard and 18 members of the Greely expedition, approved fuel commutation, and debated nurse compensation during the war. Nomination leads included B Wade and Alexander McCue.
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Senate
David L. Brainard
United States Army
Greely
Arctic
Cullom
B. ¥. Wade
Ohio
Alexander McCue
New York
House Committee On Public Buildings
House
Omaha
Neb
Charleston
W. Va
Council Bluffs
Iowa
House Labor Committee
Con Endicott
Grosvenor
Crown Prince Undergoes Tracheotomy After Breathing Crisis
A San Remo cable reports the Crown Prince underwent an urgent tracheotomy after difficulty breathing. Dr. Mackenzie and colleagues urged immediate operation, performed by Dr. Brahmann in twelve minutes with Sir Morell and others present. Healing is expected, with bronchitis risk. The British Parliament reconvenes with the Queen’s speech outlining reforms and Irish land measures.
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Roumania
Berlin
Biemarck
Russia
St Petersburg
Bismarck
Austro-Hungarian League of Peace
T. D. Sullivan
London
Euston Station
Sullivan
Gladstore
Home Rule
San Remo
Morell Mackenzie
Ireland
Vienna
Neu Freie Presse
France
Austria
Rome
Italy
Mediterranean
Balkans
Germany
Austrian War Office
Krupp
William Kelly dies at Louisville inventor of Bessemer process
William Kelly, inventor of the Bessemer process for steel and pioneer in bringing Chinese labor to America, has died in Louisville, Kentucky at age 77.
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William Kelly
Bessemer
America
Louisville, Ky
Market notes from Bradstreet review various cities
Special telegrams indicate improvements in general trade with gains at St Louis and Kansas City. Domestic money markets show easier loanable funds while Boston figures remain steady at 1 686 to 1 734. Notable names include Nelson Zeigler and firms in Jacksonville McLean Togansport Montreal and Richmond.
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Bradstreet’s
Cincinnati
St. Joseph
St Louis
Kansas City
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Boston
Nelson Zeigler
Wabash
Ind
Raymond & Co
Jacksonville
Jacob Ayer
McLean, Il
Keller, Troutman & Co
Togansport
George A. Lathrop & Co
Richmond
William Ewan & Son
Montreal
Can
Democratic Caucus Names Congressional Committee Members
The House Democrats met in Washington and elected a broad Congressional Committee with members from Alabama Arkansas California Connecticut Georgia Illinois Iowa New Jersey New Hampshire New York North Carolina Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Arizona Montana New Mexico Utah Washington Territory and more. The article notes Republicans prepared for the National Convention with plans for a Blaine withdrawal and potential Sherman nomination, plus a trip by Butterworth Thompson Pugsley Massey to Columbus for the Union Republican League banquet.
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Alabama
James T. Jones
Arkansas
Thomas ©. McRae
California
T. L. Thom
Connecticut
BR. J. Vance
B. Pen
H.M. de
Georgia
T. W. Grimes
Illinois
BR. W
Benjamin F. Shively
Iowa
W. Lanee N. Barnes
N. J
Voorhees
Chicago
Fitz-Simons
Ford W. Peck
House
Dakota
Montana
Washington Territory
New Mexico
Congress
Ben F. Butterworth
Cincinnati
C. Thompson
Portsmouth
Ohio
J. J. Pugsley
Fred G. Massey
Washington
Pittsburg
Union Republican League
Columbus
Train and powder works disasters across the nation
A Kansas City cable train derailed on the incline from Union Depot after a grip failure, wrecking into a stationary passenger train. three may die. A Dupont Powder Works explosion in Wapwallopen Pa. killed four and wounded forty. most nearby buildings wrecked. Dyn amite blast near Bellevue Ohio killed two and shook distant towns. Avalanches in the Austrian Alps halt rail traffic. two thousand dig out prisoners. A Polish Catholic church dedication in Hazelton Pa. ends with a drunken brawl and deadly fire. several names and ages listed.
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Kansas City
Union Depot
Dupont Powder Works
Wapwaillopen
Nanticoke
Wanamie
Shickshenny
Bellevue
Ohio
Tiffin
Sandusky
Austrian Alps
Amberg
Marissa tragedy echoes mysterious Illinois murder
A wealthy South eastern Illinois citizen George W. Guthrie is shot in his Marissa home. The room shows a struggle objects rifled of 25 dollars gold watch and chain. A failed safe drill and burglary hints frame a violent crime. Guthrie, 44, was widely respected.
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Snell
Chicago
Marissa
St. Louis
George W. Guthrie
Illinois
Len
Dubuque Saloons Face Permanent Injunctions in Circuit Court
Judges Couch Ney and Linehan granted permanent injunctions against five main Dubuque saloons for selling whisky after admitting wine and beer sales. Three defendants filed supersedeas bonds and appeals to the Iowa Supreme Court, delaying closures. Also noted are militia counts, ore mine claims, a six day walking record, temperance commission talks, Carnegie newspaper holdings, and remarks on the Negro exodus.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Couch, Ney, and Linehan
Circuit Court
Dubuque County
Supreme Court of Iowa
United States
Supreme Court
Secretary of War
Senate
Territories
Gingrass
Ishpeming
Mich
Michigan Gold Company
Chicago
Cleveland
Albert
New York
Washington Dispatch
A. M. Powell
National Temperance Society
Senate Committee On Education
Wilson
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
England
Carnegie
Bruce
Mississippi
Indianapolis
South America
Liberia
Enco
Market Prices and Commodities Across U S Cities
The page lists live cattle grades in New York Chicago and Milwaukee with prices for steer and heifer categories. It covers wheat corn and oats futures with No 2 Red Wheat and No 2 White oats, plus pork and lard quotes in St Louis and Buffalo markets and regional grain shipments.
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New York
Cannes
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wurat
Sean
Wno
PRVE
Linens
Louis
Buffalo
Cai
Omaha
Georgia Volunteer in Dust and Memory
A simple headboard bears only the line A Georgia Volunteer as the speaker recalls the Shenandoah valley and Alleghenies. The poem honors a fallen Confederate soldier from Stonewall Jackson's command, now at rest beyond war and doubt in God’s sight.
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Georgia
Alleghenies
Stonewall Jackson
Roll
Shenandoah
Witchcraft and Civil War Flags and a Close Escape
A Cherokee frontier tale recounts a coal-field operator's shock upon a sudden belief in witchcraft after a horse gave way to a towline. The piece then shifts to Civil War flags, noting the evolution from stars and bars to a 1865 variant, plus a Palmetto Guard flag tale and a skirmish recollection from Co. E Ninety six Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Reminiscences of Civil War Mail Run and Battle Scenes
A brigadier’s memoir recounts moving from Murfreesboro to Shelbyville in 1863, running a dual mail line to Wartrace, and a humorous rescue near a telegraph operator. It recalls battle exposure at Chickamauga and Walnut Hill, with notes on cowardice, bravery, and a Civil War era gun narrative from Sumter.
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Murfreesboro
Shelbysville
Tenn
Shelbyville
Wartrace
Nashville
Chattanooga
Bearkeeper to Saloonman and a Soldier’s Death in War
An eyewitness recollects Civil War Marietta and Cedar Creek. A Union lieutenant named William D. Thurber, once first sergeant, is mortally wounded by friendly fire at Cedar Creek and dies six days after Newtown hospital transfer. He longed to see his wife and infant, but fate denied him.
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Pinckneyville
Ill
St. Johns
Pay
Nam Alonzo Holly
Belleville
Vicksburg
Eighth Missouri
Howell Trogden
Chicago
Army of the East
Esterner
Logan
Fifteenth Corps
Shelbyville
Bill
Jerusalem
William H. Farts
Co. E
Ilinois
Mary W. Barfell
Excelsior
Richland County
Wis
Kenesaw Mountain
Atlanta
Marietta
Reeves
Brown
William D. Thurber
Shakspeare
Polonius
Thurber
Shenandoah Valley
Cedar Creek
Nias
Newtown
Chicago Ledger
Nervura Nerve Tonic Promises Wide Cure Reach
Advertises Dr. Greene's Nervura Nerve Tonic as a universal remedy for nervous exhaustion and general debility. Claims benefits for sleeplessness, depression, malaria, neuralgia, rheumatism, and more with a 35th Street New York office for consultation, and urges readers to obtain it through local druggists at $1 per bottle.
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Greene
Ae 14Th St
New York
Ter
Steketee
U. S
U.S
Stek ‘E
Geo
Grand Rapids, Mich
M $ Pans
H. G. Root
M. C
Pacturers Fivre EE
Pacturers Fivre EE. Jenney & Graham Gun Co
Border City
Los Angeles County
California
H. Newman &O
Kearney Street
San Francisco
Col
Dr Pierce's remedy promises comfort and health ease
A dubious ad touts quick health through Dr Pierce's prescriptions, claiming easy appetite control, instant relief, and no bills while everyone else benefits, urging immediate use rather than medical consultation.
Health and Recovery Promise with Dr. Pierce’s Medical Discovery
The article extols the relief from consumption and scrofula through Dr. Pierce's Medical Discovery, claiming it guarantees recovery for consumptive patients who begin treatment promptly. It emphasizes great fortune in health over wealth and notes the remedy is sold by all druggists.
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Emall
Pierce
Hood
Asa Eccet
South Bend
Ind
C. L. Hood & CO
Lowell
Maas
Dr. Pierce
Ddreas
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
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Henshaw
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Del
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Gallimore. Md
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Jay Bronson
Detroit
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Toledo
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Sample Outfit
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Chicago Newspaper Union
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