Storm Warning As West India Cyclone Hits Florida Coast
Weather bureau warned of a powerful storm sweeping along the Florida coast with inland reach of about 50 miles. Reports from Key West and Titusville indicate substantial damage and fear of loss of life. Telegraph wires down, trains halted, and coastal towns like St. Augustine submerged in places as Savannah braces for comparable force.
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Loviaville
A_ Courier- Journal dispatch
Jacksonville
Titusville
St. Augustine
Pebble Beach
Mayford
Fernandi
Governor Hogg condemns vagrancy fines against travelers
From Austin to San Antonio Texas Governor Hogg orders district attorney Camp to investigate reports that unemployed travelers from California were fined as vagrants. He pledges food and data driven relief, warning against using vagrancy laws to police migration. Separate briefs note unsafe Chicago federal building, despot robber captured in East St. Louis, Huntington Hopkins firm dissolution in San Francisco, George P. Mathes named Peck’s secretary, Wabash disaster verdict, and record cattle receipts at South Omaha stockyards.
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Vernor Hogg
Texas
Austin
Tex
San Antonio
California
Southern Pacific Railway
Hogg Ie
W. R. Camp
Peck
Manisor
Wis
George P. Mathes
Chicago Herald
Milwaukee
C. L. Clarke
la Ports
Ind
Cale
Kingsbury
Indian Outbreak Feared at Pine Ridge Strong Show of War Chief
Cuicano Oct 18 There is strong fear of a fresh Indian outbreak in Pine Ridge as the Big Foot band totalling 400 with 150 warriors moved from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge claiming it as home if necessary to fight Captain Penny mobilized 60 Indian police with 40 rounds and two cavalry troops were sent to escort them back to Standing Rock, raising tension in the district.
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Big Foot
Cuicano
Pine Ridge
Forsyth
Standing Rock Agency
Penny
James F. Say
Chicago
Five Hundred Horses Burned at Chicago Railway Barns
Fire at Wallace street barns of the Chicago City Railway company destroyed the structure and killed or injured about 500 horses. Losses: building $35,000, horses about $50,000, total near $110,000. Other items include a separate railway wreck at Fort Dodge and a Davenport shooting incident. Australian cricket team defeats All Massachusetts in Boston match.
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Chicago Railway Company
Chicago
Wallace Street
Chicago City Railway Company
Wallace and
Thirty-ninth Street
Fort Dongs
Chicago and Northwestern
Dayton
William Erb
John Hooker
Erb
Edward Bates
Tragic Poisoning Report From Jerico Springs Mo
A wholesale poisoning tragedy is reported from Jerico Springs Missouri as a dramatic mix of crimes and events fills the national wire. The piece notes various incidents from politics to crime including congressmen visiting for a Republican campaign and forgeries in Illinois. It references the Western Union profits, a hotel owner sued in Omaha, and a Dalton gang linked robbery near Tulsa. It also covers Columbus Day celebrations at the World’s Fair and Edwin Booth’s club rooms being preserved with Joe Jefferson chosen president.
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Jerico Springs
Oglesby
Eighth Ilinors
Decatur
Merchants’ Compress Company
Memphis
Hull
Hepburn
Gear
Lacey
Laura Junkerman
Salem
Ills
Salt Lake
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mar. Satolli
M. C. Brennan
Colorado
Matz
Omaha
James Dolan
Tim Pierce
Horseshoe District
Timgon
Southern Interstate Immigration Association
Mr. Benett
Quincy
America
Tulsa
I. T
Dalton
Edwin Booth
Players’ Club
Western World’s Fair Rate Changes Announced
Western Passenger association sets round trip excursion rates to Chicago from St Paul Minneapolis Ashland Sioux City Omaha at 10 dollars and 11.73 from Duluth and Superior with validity Oct 15 to Oct 31 and return by Nov 15. Corresponding Missouri River routes to St Louis follow same dates. Also listed single trip rates for Kansas City and routes between Chicago St Louis, Colorado points, and broader notes on General Hampton’s plan for railway debts.
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Chcago
Western Passenger Association
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Ashland
Sioux City
Omaha
Duluth
Superior
Missouri River
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colorado Common Points
Establishment of a Permanent International Court Proposed
London October 18 central committees of the International Parliamentary Peace league meet to urge Mr Gladstone to introduce a bill in Parliament favoring a permanent court for arbitration of international disputes. A skeleton league program for next year is prepared including an appeal to the world press to avoid biases provoking international antagonism and urging France and Italy to improve relations. London October 13 Birmingham miners conference adopts resolutions vowing to continue the fight and rejecting a 15 percent wage cut.
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London
International Parliamentary Peace League
Gladstone
International League
International Court of Arbitration
League
France
Italy
Birmingham
Secured Land Frauds Exposed In Turtle Mountain Case
United States pursues E Ashley Mears in North Dakota for extensive land frauds in Turtle mountain country. Case before Judge Thomas Meare involves alleged use of half-breeds to file fraudulent government land entries and sell to Mears under fictitious names.
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United States
Omolala
North Oakots
Farco
N. D
E. Ashley Mears
Turtle Mountain Country
Thomas Meare
National Bank of North Dakota
Fargo
First National Bank of
Mears
Wilson Sentenced to Hang for 1892 Murder
Judge Edmunds in the criminal court sentenced Charles Wilson to hang on November 16. Wilson killed Moses Hodges on November 18, 1892, in a battle over a woman's affection. All parties are colored. Ingersoll Will Support Them in Kentucky. Colonel KR Ingersoll, in Lexington, advised a colored committee to push the case to the U S Supreme Court and offered support.
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Wilson
Louw
Edmunds
Criminal Court
Charles Wilson
Moses Hodges
Ingersoll
Lexiwarox
KR. G. Ingersoll
Lexington
Supreme Court of the United States
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Ill
Chris Houschman
Wabash County
Huschman
Palmer Matthew Davis
Pike County
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Huntington Hopkins & Co
South Omaha
Neb
Cooley
Thomas M. Cooley
Ann Arbor
Mich
Hodges
Stanton, Neb
Davenport
Otto Volkland
Boston
Daily Advertiser
New York
Alys
Suys
Noap
Wharf Pt
Crota
FORD
Houle
Rhington. Y Informat
New-York
Ednesday
Peter
George Lorillard
Maccaba
Stratburgh
Klimax
Loritam
Boston Turnpike
Park Row
Madeo
Merica, A
General Hampton
Omana
Union
Central Pacific
Omaha Railway
Pacific
Rock Island
West Superior
Iron River
Jiffersonville
Harry Shields
Shields
Louisville
Emporia
Kan
National Educational Association
State Normal School
Kansas
Ation
Nales
Medicine Gore
Portland
Oregon
Palmer & Findley
Atlantic, Iowa
John H Wood
OLD Post Office
Seine Pre
Frank Eteli Childs
Subland Bleck
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