Miners' National Assembly Moves to Unite All Workers
An AF special notes the Miners' National Assembly allied with Knights of Labor invites the Executive Board of the Miners' Federation to meet. Organizing drives aim to bring unorganized miners into the fold as river operators refuse to confer. A potential strike looms, possibly impacting over 5,000 men when river prices rise and the fall run begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schellé
En AF
Miners’ National Assembly
Knights of Labor
The
Miners’ Federation
Santa i
Owell
Mung Labor
River Owl
Makrig
Yeoak
Thanksgiving Proclamation Sets Day for November Observance
The President designates November 9 as Thanksgiving and Prayer Day for the nation. Citizens are urged to assemble in gratitude and seek forgiveness while giving thanks for blessings and Providence. The proclamation calls for charity toward the needy and for unity of hearts across the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cama
Clyveland
Ievd
Gs & A
Part Cost of Chatsworth Slaughters Reveals Settlements
The attorney for the Toledo Railway claims the company has settled with forty families of those killed and sixty injured in the Chatsworth disaster. He notes the largest death claim paid reached two dollars.
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Chatsworth
Toedo
P Ria
Stem Raitroa
Telegraphic Brevities Summary of Bankruptcies Disasters and Crimes
Wil. and J. W. Fye failing with assets $25,000 liabilities $21,000. Perkins Dupes & Co bankers fail liabilities $000 assets $20,000. W Miller’s pup accidental death. Corinth employer killed. Fazeno Bigoehynynd residence burned. Balaklava wreck nine drowned. Ashmore Downey waste dealers fail about $100,000. sheriff seizes Chester mill. Fidelity Bank Cincinnati creditors receive 25 percent dividend. Garner Coal Mines Des Moines fire destroys machinery. insured $9,000. Sturgeon Bay Amber Co liabilities $18,000 assets $12,000. Threshing machine boiler explosion near Frederick Ellendale kills three, wounds two. Britannia steamship quarantine passenger illness and death. Gold found near Chippewa River. high value specimens. George W Moore’s son burned to death. grandmother fatally injured in horseback fall. John Deitz insane at Bay City shoots Dr Baker and fires at officers before killing himself.
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Wil
J. W. Fye
Woodesate Grocers
Fid
Ity Bank of Cincinnati
Garner
Des Moines
Iowa
McLaren
Milwaukee
Sturgeon Bay Amber Company
George Irwin
Fredérick
Ellendale
D. T
Britannia
New York Bay
Chippewa River
Riots Constrain London Mayor as Park Clash Erupts
London police clash with rioters who fought to reach a main park while gates were locked. Several arrests occur as rioters confront the police in tense scenes amid unemployment protests and disturbed streets.
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London
Eta
Paris
General Boulanger
M. Kathow
Katkoff
William
Conde
President's Washington Return and Legal Turmoil Report
The President arrives in Washington after a three week journey covering forty five sundry miles with millions of citizens seeing him. Separately, Supreme Court delays consider writ of error in anarchist case while Illinois jury statute and self incrimination issues loom. A mob at Delphi, Indiana, lynches Amer Green after a suspected murder linked to Miss Jul ia Mabbitt.
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Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
General Pryor
Pryor
State of
Illinois
Therisoner
Gen. Pryor
Washington
Waite
Ayers
Virginia
Delphi
Ind
Amer Green
Maur
Juelia Mabbitt
Green
Miss Mabbitt
Wabash River
Lafayette
Walnut Grove
Gt. Mary's Parish
Louisiana
Eays A
General strike threats loom in U S job printing industry
A Chicago dispatch notes unions poised to begin the hour system on Nov 1 as master printers resist nine hour concessions. In Cincinnati officials delay demands, while a Knights of Labor rift grows with a provisional committee accusing administration of corruption and oppression. Reports cover lumber firm failures and a Manistee Mill fire with heavy losses.
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United States
Chicago
In- Sipe Aeties Union
Pes Ae
Ieago
Knights of Labor Organization
Minneapolis
Charles F. Leib
Apent
Hunter
Cincinnati
Rood & Axwell
Washburn
Wis
Fenila
Jamieson
Manistee Lumber Company
Manistee Lake
Mich
Leaky fleet and wrecks fill dramatic storms report
A sweeping storm causes multiple shipwrecks and losses on the Great Lakes and sea routes. The Rebecca Nickerson is declared lost after last May trimaran voyage from Provincetown. Fires devastate Berea Ohio and San Francisco iron works. Dozens dead or missing from wrecks near Port Dalhousie and Beachy Head.
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Rebecca Nickerson
Provincetown
Mass
Cleveland Stone Company
Berea
Ohio
Callao
Peru
Upupa
Plantear
Beachy Head
Fulton Iron Works
San Francisco
California Car-Works
Iron Works
Chicago
Sand Beach
Mich
Dolphin
Morris
Cleveland
Zach Chandler
Noble Station
Port Dalhousie
Ontario
Delaware
Cheboygan
George Sherman
Marquette
James F. Do
Ashtabula
Lawrences Iron Works
Ironton
Lincoln Statue Unveiled in Chicago Park
The bronze Lincoln statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was unveiled at Lincoln Park Chicago on the 21st with a large crowd. Abraham Lincoln, son of Robert T. Lincoln, drew the veil, and Leonard Swett delivered the oration. Saint-Gaudens, a New Yorker aged 35, spent three years on the sculpture.
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Chicago
Abraham Lincolin
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Lincoln Park
Abraham Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln
Leonard Swett
Saint-Gaudens
New York
Sympathy for Families of Executed Anarchists in Chicago
Chicago correspondence notes public sympathy shifts toward the wives and children of seven condemned anarchists. It focuses on Johanna Fischer born 1860 in Baltimore who moved to Chicago with husband Adolph Fischer and their three children. Fischer is to face death, affecting the widow and young children Emma Dit Charley and Adolph. The piece profiles the Fischer family and mentions other relatives including Frau Schwab and Michael Beliwab.
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Chicago
Olz
Adolph Fischer
St. of Nee
Snemgren
Johanna Fischer
Ptantze
Baltimore
Gary
St. Louis
Fisther
Emma
Charley
Adolph
Schwab
Miss Semanas
Chicagé
Ridolph
Aymarket
Ichael Béliwab
Arbeiter Zeitung
Waebias
Tdi
Little Dolph
Rs. Felden
Alice
Lucy Parsons
Haymarket
Saad
Parsons
Milwaukee Avenue
Ae Be mm
No Definite Arrangements for Hanging Anarchists
Chicago report notes authorities eye safeguards for the November 11 execution. State's Attorney Grinnell urges minimal jail confinement and grants a light sentence to Otto Cotton for petit larceny to ensure release before the execution. Jailer Folz and others foresee possible stay by the Supreme Court. An appeal for $5,000 funds aims to cover eminent legal costs. Labor unions organize petitions and commutation efforts with messages from several cities.
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Chicago
Grinnell
Baker
Otto Cotton
Folz
United States Supreme Court
Ncessary
Defense Association
Central Labor Union and Amnesty Association
New York City
Buffalo
Jersey City
Wagonmakers’ Union
Brewers’ Union
West Lake Street
Detroit and St Louis vie for world title in 15 game series
Detroit leads the world series against St Louis, winning seven of nine games to date. The Chicago Club boss A G Spalding holds multiple top posts and reflects on season end and possible changes. Audience notes and Sitka Auk tribe potlatch mix with church-building anecdotes from Butte, Montana.
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Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Wolverines
Browns
van der Ale
A. G. Spalding
Boston
Spend Manufacturing Company
A. G. Spalding & Bros
Western Arme and Cartridge Company
Casino Rink Company
Anson
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Ed Williamson
Williamson
Vanderbilt offers free highway engineering course to county officials
Vanderbilt University will open a free four week class in highway construction from February 1 to April 1 for one primary or deputy highway official from each county, appointed by the County Judge. Lectures cover economical road location, drainage, bridges, and cost estimates, with field sketching and draughting.
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Tur Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Landreth
Vanderbilt
Dakota Bell Ends Publication Despite Growing Subscriptions
The Dakota Bell will cease with this issue due to insufficient revenue to sustain printing. Subscriptions from outside the territory have grown, and some local subscribers have not paid. Prepaid balances will be refunded to those whose subscriptions remain unpaid beyond the final issue.
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Dakota Bell
Dakota
Philadelphia bar keeper inherits $300000 after mother’s death
Joan Anderson of Philadelphia, linked to Hans Christian Anderson, inherits $300000 on his mother’s death in Copenhagen. He was serving six beers when the dispatch arrived, toppled the six glasses in a crash, leaped over the bar in a wild dance, then hurried to resign from his job.
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Joan Anderson
Philadelphia
Hans Christian Anderson
Copenhagen
Anderson
Armies of Europe and Costs Compared by Country
A table compares soldiers in service and mobilization capacity across European powers, noting Austria-Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, British India, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. It argues large conscript armies burden economies and predict disarmament, while Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy could mobilize about 4.5 million fully equipped if war rose.
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Europe
Belgium
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
German wives and husbands and a tonic remedy
Germans prefer practical women who can manage a household and endure long marriages while husbands are boorish yet loving. The article notes bridal customs, dowries, and a celebratory wedding period. It ends with a promotion for Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription claiming to cure female nervous ailments and promising refund if unsatisfied.
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Sue
Hunting Elephants with a Sword Story
Zebhr, a noted African big game hunter, recounts lion and elephant adventures. He favors hunting elephants on horseback with a sword, dismounting for a quick thrust to disable the animal before dispatch by spears. He notes need for several mounted men to misdirect and hamstring the elephant.
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Zebhr
Africa
Arab hunter recalls rare practice named by Baker
In a Philadelphia Times excerpt a traveler notes a hunting method described by Sir Samuel Baker as common among the Hamrem Arabs, but says Zebhr is the only Arab he has met who claims to have practiced it.
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Civil Service
Gerton
Washington
Issioner
Ge Edgerton
St Louis
Detroits
Philadelphia
Wolverines
Norquay
Manitoba
Mann & Holt
Red River Valley Road
Joe Simmons
R. J. Byrd
Gray’s Station
Ark
Augusta
Andrew Fieming
Hantel
Tallulah
Demp Benyon
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Galesburg
Ill
Knox County
Chatsworth
Supreme Court
Messrs
Butler
Pryor
Black
Tucker
Hunt
Fargo
Dakota
Billings
M. T
Dak
Red River
Mason City
Iowa
Gaylord
Mich
Dispatch
Waupaca
Wis
Beer School
Er Senay Nettie
Eggeloo & Wife
Litgg
Samuel Baker
Hamrem
Zebhr
Philadelphia Times
Subterranean Caverns and Their Scientific Value
A summary of underground spaces divides caverns into limestone channels hot spring hollows sea caves lava-formed cavities and fault fissures. Prof N S Shaler in Scribner's Magazine notes their global presence and value to science including insights into early humans and Darwinian theory.
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N. 8. Shaler
Scribner’s Magazine
Rain supply at Rothamstead yields chemicals for soil
At Rothamstead Sir John B Lawer’s farm studies show about thirty two inches of annual rain deliver over fourteen pounds chlorine, seventeen pounds sulfuric acid, and one to three pounds ammonia per acre yearly.
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Rothamstead
John B. Lawer
Arkansavw
Humorous Burlesque and Potent Stomach Bitters Endorsement
A Burdette quote opens with a humorous exchange about a milk made pump joke, followed by a testimonial praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy. The text extols its effectiveness for indigestion constipation biliousness and malarial disorders while claiming it protects kidney health and stamina and notes rising demand in America and abroad.
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America
The Doctor's Commission Joke
A druggist on Twenty second street recalls a man with a prescription whose doctor's name had been cut off. When asked who wrote it, the customer said he knew it and refused to reveal. The pharmacist warned he would not pay the doctor's commission, and the man paid with soda instead.
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Twenty-second Street
Chicago Mail
Dr Pierce's Golden Medicine Promised for Consumption and More
An old advertorial note touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medicine as a sure relief for consumption and related illnesses including chronic nasal catarrh liver and kidney disorders dyspepsia headaches and scrofula. It claims time tested and seaworthy effectiveness and notes availability from any druggist.
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Barnum
Dr. Pierce
Gain Flesh and Strength with Scott's Emulsion Ad
How to gain flesh and strength use after meals Scott's Emulsion with Hypophosphites. Palatable despite poor digestion and praised for rapid improvement in delicate people. A testimonial notes a child gaining pounds quickly.
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Scott
Pam, D
Alabama
Wisconsin Central Line Gains Popularity and Service Quality
The Wisconsin Central Line becomes a favored North West rail option. It offers near perfect service with attentive attendants treating duties as personal property. The line runs solid, fast trains from Chicago to Milwaukee St Paul and Minneapolis with premier Pullman dining cars and sleepers to Ashland Duluth and mining regions of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Northwest
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Ashland
Duluth
Wisconsin
Michigan
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WM. F. Kidder & & Co
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Nob Orania Psity
Dr. Ho la Oratory
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