President's Fayetteville visit sparks warm village reception
The President and Mrs. Cleveland spent Tuesday in Fayetteville New York, revisiting his boyhood home. A reception at Mrs Hoyts offered locals a chance to meet them with H H Edwards delivering a welcome and the President delivering a reflective reply recalling Green Lake and early life moments.
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Fayetteville
Mre
Cleveland
N. Y
Hoyt
H. H. Edwards
Green Lake
Aeneas
Washington
Etteville
National League Standings From The Pennant Race Update
The article presents standings for the National League with club records in wins and losses, listing teams such as New York, Louisville, and others. It shows played games and win percentages, reflecting a period when teams contended for the pennant.
Maize acreage rises as crop conditions hold steady
The July crop report shows maize area up about 2 percent to 75 million acres, reaching levels not seen since twenty years ago. Wheat shifts from sown to maize in Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and Dakota. Overall crop condition averages 97.7 with winter wheat at 83.5 as of July 1, while spring wheat declines due to chinch bugs and drought.
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National Commissioner of Agriculture
States
Kanog
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Non Dakota
Ancient Mexican Town Bacaviac Ruined by Earthquakes
After the Bavispe quake, Bacaviac, about twenty miles away, suffered prolonged shocks turning the town to ruins. Most residents fled in terror as successive tremors struck the area and left the population in panic.
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Bacaviac
Bavispe
el Peso
Texas
Bacariac
Destructive fires hit three towns amid heavy losses
A Jersey City blaze at Standard Oil Works on Constable Hook threatens half the town, with losses over 1 million. Owensboro KY suffers nine buildings burned as water works fail, losses around 50,000. Lancaster PA sees Abraham Hirsch millinery and Hirsch Bros. clothing stores burned, losses 69,000 with 45,000 insured.
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Standard GU
Jersey City
N. J
Standard Oil Works
Constable Hook
Owensboro
Abraham Hirsch
Hirsch & Bros
Lancaster
Death of ex Speaker and Senator Hunter at Mount Hill
Hon. Robert M. T. Hunter longtime political figure and former Confederate secretary of state and peace commission member died Tuesday at his Mount Hill Virginia home at age 73.
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Robert M. T. Hunter
Peace Commission
Lincoln
Hampton Roads
Mount Hill
Four Killed in Oil City Murder Suicide Shootout
At Oil City Pennsylvania John McNerny killed his wife with an ax and mortally wounded his son. Police arrived to arrest him and McNerny fatally shot Officer George James before being shot by Officer Worden. McNerny is expected to die from his wounds.
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Oil City
John McNerny
George James
Worden
McNerny
World News Roundup From Across The Globe
The Sultan of Turkey resists signing a treaty with England over Egypt despite urging from Germany and Italy. Sir John Pope Hennessy is reappointed Governor-General of Mauritius. Lieut. Young is jailed for eight months for abducting a 17 year old girl. The gunmaker of Thursday born in 1831 once led a vast industrial empire. Crown Prince of Germany in London shows improvement. Massowah gunpowder explosion kills ten and injures seventy, with property losses of $200,000. Justice O’Brien briefs the Ireland Grand Jury on political pressure and criticisms of Gen. Boulanger. Gladstone speaks at a Scottish club on Irish settlement and imperial stability.
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Turkey
England
Egypt
Germany
Italy
John Pope Hennessey
Mauritius
Lieut. Young
Ain
London
Massowah
Justice O'Brien
Ireland
Gen. Boulanger
President Cleveland attends Clinton centennial events in New York
President Cleveland visits Clinton New York for a centennial celebration. He tours the residence of Mrs C B Williams and delivers a brief address in the park recalling youthful Clinton memories. General Cameron sails for Europe and General Rowett dies at Chicago racecourse.
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Cleveland
Clinton
N. Y
Knights of Labor vow to break up old order in moral force push
T V Powderly in the Journal of United Labor defends the Knights of Labor as breaking up old traditions and wealth privilege. He argues the movement seeks education, fair wages, and universal rights, claiming the order fights segregation of wealth and power.
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William H. Everson & Co
Pittsburg
T. V. Powderly
Journal of United Labor
Knights of Labor
Congress of the United States
Universal Shell
Prohibition Party Nominates Slate at Des Moines Convention
The Iowa Prohibition State Convention in Des Moines nominated a state ticket led by Governor candidate N G Warnham and Lieutenant Governor William C for Harrison County with a platform backing liquor restrictions postal savings banks and woman suffrage. A Dakota Division Resolution urged admission and division on the seventh standard parallel while a Columbus dispatch notes Judge Thurman declining a gubernatorial nomination.
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N. G. Warnham
Flymouth
William C
Dakota Division and Admission Convention
Huron
Ple
Congress
Union
Dawes
Great Sioux
Secretary of the Interior
Columbus
Thurman
Pathwaite
Linn
Multiple Disasters Reported Across Regions Stir Fright
A Carbondale Ill special notes Mrs Logan was injured when a buggy went over an embankment after the horse spooked. Other reports tell of a City of Mackinaw propeller collision killing four. New York steamers battling gales. a yacht capsizing with possible deaths. railroad wrecks injuring crews. fires across Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. a Union Steel Works molten metal explosion in Chicago. a massive New York warehouse fire. a deadly St Thomas Ontario rail crash with twelve dead. an incline railway collapse injuring five. and the Arizona Lumber plant fire at Flagstaff destroying the factory and $100,000 in losses.
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Lincoln
Neb
Carbondale
Ill
John A. Logan
Henry Campbell
Mackinaw
Belle Isie
Mich
Pittsburgh
Eliza Hancox
Coney Island
N. Y
New York
Greenwood Lake
Missouri Pacific
St Louie
Pennsylvania
Coldwater, Mich, Cart Company
M. E
Fond du Lac
Wis
Center Harbor
N.E
New Jersey
Union Steel Works
Chicago
Metropolitan
St Thomas
Ontario
Argus Dean
Dyer’s Landing
Ind
Lewis Little
Rollo Baird
Chauncey Baird
Richard Moore
Arizona Lumber Company
Flagstaff
Robbery Aboard Wabash General Manager’s Special Car
A bold train robbery occurred on a Wabash Road manager’s special between Chicago and St Louis. The thief, armed with a revolver, woke and robbed General Manager Hayes, Knight, Crane, and a porter near dawn, taking a watch and chain from Crane before escaping.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Charles M Hayes
Wabash Road
Man Hayes
Knight
Soseee
Hayes
Crane
Strawn
Notable Murders and Lynching Reported Across States
Reports describe Joseph Kennedy’s murder in Washington, John Wer suspected as killer. a Black man named John Thomas lynched in Union City after outraging a 11 year old girl Elsie Turner. A mined dynamite device found near Montello Wisconsin. plot at Greensburg Pennsylvania. Coonrad hanged near Nelson Nebraska after murder charge. Sallen’s widow dies from shock. Alaska Yukon murder of Bishop Seghers by Frank Fuller. New Haven mystery: dying statement by Albert Fitzroy about Jennie Cramer disappearance.
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Joseph C. Kennedy
Washington
John
Kennedy
Iris
Montcello
Wis
John Thomas
Elsie Turner
Union City
Pinkerton
Greensburg
Nelson
Neb
Coonrad
Henry Sallen
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Bridge
Sallen
Yukon River
Alaska
Bishop Seghers
Frank Fuller
Portland
Oregon
Sitka
New Haven
Conn
Albert Fitzroy
Jennie Cramer
Sabin Rock
Malley Boys
Jennie
Cincinnati Centennial Exposition funds update and national news
Subscriptions for next year’s Cincinnati Centennial Exposition total nine hundred thousand dollars with an additional twenty five thousand pledged. A Wellborn Texas dispatch reports W E Farquhar and Dr J F Eves arguing over prohibition. Farquhar fired a Ballard rifle but the shot missed Eves. The National Educational Association in Chicago discussed manual training in public schools and ways to increase education support including federal aid for southern illiteracy and stronger Bureau of Education. Chicago’s extreme heat produced record highs with many prostrations and several fatalities in Joliet and other river towns. Judge Noonan ruled Sunday baseball exempt from the St Louis Sunday law, freeing St Louis Club President Von der Ahe. State Department notes no new Hawaii updates. Adams remains in Honolulu with Vandalia and Juniata en route and instructions to officers and minister. In Ohio a West Richland man hanged himself, his wife dying soon after, and French Newfoundland fishing tensions rose over spilled grounds.
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J. F. Eves
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National Bureau of Education
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St. Louis
von der Ahe
Washington
Hawaii
State
Navy Department
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Honolulu
Vandalia
Juniata
Pacific Mail
San Francisco
State Department
Sharp Sentenced to Sing Sing for Four Years and Fine
New York special Jacob Sharp head of the boodlers receives four years at hard labor at Sing Sing and a $5000 fine for leading a scheme to raise $500 000 to bribe a legislature. The judge notes no mercy due to wealth and leadership of the crime as Sharp faces his family in court.
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New York Special
Jacob Sharp
New York “Boodlers
Sharp
Almos
Ae Barrett
Seventh Avenue Railway
McGlynn Defends Self in Excommunication Case
Dr. McGlynn publishes his first reply to Rome in this week's Standard. He details his May summons to Rome, attacks the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda, and argues his case was prejudged. He claims he did not violate church law by receiving communion and cites jurists' advice against authorities.
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New York Telegram
McGlynn
Rome
the Propaganda
Corrigan
Mer. Preston
Truth
Dr. McGlynn
What the Pope Says about Knights of Labor and Church
A Rome dispatch reports the Pope telling an American Archbishop that Dr. McGlynn lost his best chance by not visiting Rome while Cardinal Gibbons was present. The Pope argued the church’s stance by not condemning the Knights of Labor supports the many against feudal systems including slavery, territorial rights, or modern capital.
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Rome
Excommunication Notice Sent to Rev Edward McGlynn
Formal notification from Archbishop Corrigan of New York states that Rev Edward McGlynn incurred automatic excommunication after failing to appear before the Propaganda in Rome within a forty day monitorium. The registered letter, dated May 4, was delivered and detained at the Brooklyn post office since July 5.
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Brooklyn
Edward McGlynn
Holy See
the Propaganda
Rome
Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda
Colege of the Propaganda
M. A. Corrigan
Seal
New York
Pickled Paragraphs and Humorous Snippets Galore
A mixed bag of quips and short anecdotes spans topics from slippers and eels to death, dogs, railway engines, religious business, and a bank note joke. Tales include a milliner, a undertaker, a Malta cross by tail stepping, and a railway engine bath remark by a seaside child.
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Wellington
Tot
Tommy
Pioneer of Shasta County and Early California Tales
A San Francisco Chronicle writer recounts Maj. Pearson B. Reading as Shasta County’s first white settler arriving in 1845 near the Sacramento River and Cottonwood Creek. The narrative covers his gold mining with Indians, ties to Sutter era, Bloody Island, a bear injury, and his Henry repeating rifle, plus his trout stocking and tribal interactions. It also relays Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff on Shasta’s first assembly race with A. Z. McCandless and the Watson candidacy, and a reflection on American boy immigration era hiring practices.
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Pearson B. Reading
Shasta County
San Fisco Chronicle
Sacramento River
Cottonwood Creek
Maj. Bidwell
J. A. Sutter
Horsetown
Bloody Island
Sierra Foothills
Manzanita
Shasta
Reading Grant
Benjamin Shurtleff
Napa
St. Charles
Watson
California
Assembly
A. Z. McCandless
McCandless
Instinct and loyalty in a Newfoundland dog and a brave elder statesman
A Newfoundland dog guides a lost child Nellie home after she wanders onto a neighbor’s porch. The tale parallels a collie’s pathfinding in darkness. The piece also recalls Tur Hon George W. Jones’s public service and a civic mortgage relief gift to his family.
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Mary
Mac
Boston
Tur
George W. Jones
Dubuque
Congress
Wisconsin
Iowa
Bogota
United States
Surveyor General
Jones
Southern California gains in immigration advertising
The report shows about 100000 immigrants to California in the past year, concentrated in Southern California. Central and northern areas lag in promotion, and have fallen behind. Advertising in the south has yielded strong returns, about a 1000 percent.
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California
Frexen Locomotive Averages Seventy Eight MPH
The Frexen locomotive with eight and one fourth foot driving wheels is calculated to be capable of an average speed of seventy eight miles per hour.
Immortality Debate Echoes in Colton Quotation
A Colton remark contends that actions grant immortality whether loathsome or glorious, highlighting a moral perspective on enduring legacy through deeds rather than appearance or reputation.
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Colton
Monopolies Across History From Adam to Noah
A historical note humorously traces monopoly ideas through biblical and ancient figures from Adam’s cider and apples to Noah’s wine, Job’s boils, Samson’s hair, and Solomon’s wisdom. It argues monopolists are not modern and cites a bizarre report of a woman with unusually low body temperature as a medical curiosity.
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Adam
Noah
Lot
Goliath
David
Methuselah
Samson
Delilah
Solomon
Gath
St.aul
Minneapolis
Jay Gould
Ras Siftings
Prayers in French Upset Two Mothers in San Francisco
An Eastern lady mocks a San Francisco mother for not teaching her child to say prayers in French. The Chinese whispers reveal the child privately reciting a prayer in French, blending cultures and exposing language pride amid a playful cross city encounter.
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San Francisco
California
Endorsement by General Knirrex for St Jacobs Oil
General G C Knirrex of the War Department in Washington says his wife has not suffered an attack for two years and he believes St Jacobs Oil will reach the uttermost parts of the earth and do as much good in every house as in his own.
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G. C. Knirrex
War Department
Washington, D. C
St. Jacobs Oil
French Bloodshed and Territorial Losses in Napoleonic Era
The New Princeton Review argues that between 1804 and 1815 Napoleon killed or caused the deaths of about 3.7 million people, with 1.7 million Frenchmen and 2 million others. It claims France lost 15 departments, Savoy, the left bank of the Rhine, and Belgium, and was surrounded by distrust, after being weakened and alienated from its neighbors.
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France
Savoy
Rhine
Belgium
Vauban
Europe
Newinceton Review
St Jacobs Oil Said to Cure Sprain Pain
Frank L. Cox of Gouverneur N Y reports a severe ankle sprain and intense pain after an injury. He claims one bottle of St Jacobs Oil cured the sprain and reduced the swelling.
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Frank L. Cox
Foreman Herald and
Timea
Gouverneur
N. Y
St. Jacobs
Sage and soda routes in old shop networks tangled
A Boston Herald note explains how dressing fowl with sage at apothecaries requires soda from cooking supplies, shoe stores lack shoe-horns, and customers are directed to hardware or wholesale drug stores for products. Rope substitutes nails for temporary structures as carpenters and masons rely on corded stagings.
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Boston Herald
Unknown patent remedy rumor sparks excessive sales
The text claims a new stimulant drug has become highly popular in thirteen months on the market with extraordinary sales. It describes the product as mild but persistent, used to counteract debauch effects within an hour, and notes uniform depletion of effects unlike ordinary foods. It references young men and druggists praising its lasting impact.
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Avitra
W. Va
N. S. J. Stripex
Invalides’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
Pr. Pierce
Worman
The Monkey and the Bottle of Sugar in India
The author of Under the Punkah recounts an amusing India life incident about a tame monkey given a corked bottle with sugar. The monkey obsesses over solving the puzzle, alternates between despair and effort, and finally loses the bottle, leaving the author amused at future monkeys puzzled by bottled sugar.
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India
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