Admiral Gherardi Arrives As German Squadron Enters Harbor
Old Point Comfort Virginia April 19 crowds fill docks and lodgings as Admiral Gherardi visits 7 ships but fires no guns. The German Kaiserin Augusta leads arrivals with salute to US and British flags. A busy harbor scene follows with boats, baseball, rowing, and hotel prices rising amid dense crowds and lively naval display.
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Monron
Gherardi
London
Spithead
Old Point
Chicago
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Annapolis
United States
Seadler
Fearful Kansas cyclone tears Osage City
A Kansas cyclone struck Osage City on Tuesday afternoon, wrecking buildings and injuring about 20. Reports vary on deaths from three to forty, with two bodies recovered late, including Andrew Waggoner. Other notes describe a Fourche valley cyclone near Littlerock in Scott county killing seven and sweeping away structures in Boles.
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Fersons
Osage City
Kan
Kansas
Mr. Gud Mra
Andrew Waggoner
Littne Rock
Fourche Valley
Scott County
Boles
Chicago prepares to welcome Duke Veragua and party
Chicago officials and World’s Fair leaders meet to draft resolutions honoring the Duke de Veragua and to confer on arrival plans. Other items note Lincoln governor Lambertson aiding impeachment prosecutions, May 1 trial opening, and a Dundee Arctic whaling report with 6000 fur seals on one ship.
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Curcaco
F. M. Palmer
World's Fair National Commission
George H. Barbour
Dickenson
Harrison
Lawence, Kerfoot, Wacker
Henriettn
Auditorum
Duke de Veragua
Election Complication in Atchison City Mayoral Race
Atchison Kansas April 19 the city council held a stormy all night recount of mayoral votes. W T Bland Democrat held a lead per April 6 count. M J Cloyes Republican led by one after recount and was sworn in at 4 am. Bland claims the office and has police under Democratic control. Cloyes convened a 2 pm meeting. Bland adjourned it and threatened to seize the office. Bland appeals to district court after a bill of exception was refused.
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Atchison
Atchison, Kan
W. T. Bland
M. J. Cloyes
Cloyes
Universal suffrage adopted by Belgian chamber
The Belgian chamber of representatives reassembled and voted 19 to 12 with 14 absent to adopt universal suffrage with a property based plural vote. The decision sparked joyous cheers from within and outside the chamber and is seen as calming unrest. Labor leaders urged abandonment of the general strike and issued a manifesto against the Nyssen bill, while strikers in Ghent passed resolutions urging work and universal suffrage. Seven people died in suffrage riots in Mons.
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Brussels
Chamber of Representatives
Brunsela
Ghent
Mons
Crop Report Returns to Weather Bureau for the Week
Weather bureau synopsis for the week ending April 18 reports crop conditions across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. Noted are storm damage, delayed seeding, frost injury to fruit, wet and cold ground delaying germination, and varying emergence of wheat oats and corn across regions. Fragments indicate weather loops and agricultural impacts across states with scattered improvements and setbacks.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
Missouri
Indiana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
World's Fair station to handle mail at exposition grounds
Postmaster General Bissell announces a Chicago post office branch at the World's Fair on the exposition grounds. The World's Fair station will collect and deliver mail with its own carriers and handle money orders and registry business. Publicity urged for visitors to address mail to this station.
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Bissell
Chicago
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