World News Amid War Tensions and Disasters
A Constantinople telegram says Greece and Turkey drift further apart with rapid war preparations as other reports note Britain’s sheep disease policy, wage cuts threatening 80 000 Staffordshire workers, a Russian victory over Tekke Turcomans, a deadly railway bridge collapse in Italy, and widespread anxious dispatches about famine, piracy, and political upheaval across Europe and the Atlantic.
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China
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Battte
Simla
Story
Italy
Circava Cracoli
Swerta
Marburg
Elbe
Hamburg
Wecstein
Vienna
Rome
Berlin
Ist
Germany
Liberal Party
City of Glasgow Bank
Castlebar
Ireland
Roberts
Zabid Avad
A Tt
Cabul
Memphis Fever Toll and Quarantine Tightening Noted
A Greenville Miss telegram reports Memphis yellow fever activity with sixty three forty one whites and twenty two colored new cases in the week ending the 2th, and thirty one twenty six deaths, total 1 279 cases and 352 deaths to date. The city records eleven new cases and three deaths on the 2d, and nine new cases with one death on the 29th ult. Mosick Ala lifted New Orleans quarantine restrictions. The Howards report 116 nurses serving eighty white and two hundred troaty colored patients and one Chinese family.
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Concordia
Memphis
Mosick
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New Orleans
Memphis Board of Health
The
Howards
New York Market Prices Report For Commodities And Livestock
New York on October 3 reports prices for flour white wheat extra at 5.10 5.50 a bushel, No 2 spring wheat cash 1.21 1.22, oats 0.35 0.37, corn 0.52 0.52, lard around 6.50, cattle 6.50 to 9.50, sheep 23.0 40.5, hogs 83.0 4.30, East Liverpool cattle 4.90 5.00, horses Yorkers 3.75 3.90, Philadelphia cattle 4.00 4.10, Baltimore cattle 5.75 5.00, and various futures for Chicago and Milwaukee markets. Pork futures 9.00 9.92, lard 6.10 6.17, butter 20 28, eggs 4 shillings. Cattle categories beyond, stock cattle 2.25 2.90, sheep 2.50 4.25. Market shows multiple regional cash and futures readings with numerous grade notes.
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New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
East Lierry
Commemoration of Pompeii Destruction Observed in Pompeii
A cable from Pompeii reports a September commemoration of the city’s destruction eighteen centuries ago. A large crowd, largely from Italy with scientists worldwide, toured ruins while Professor Ruggieri outlined excavation advances and imagined Pompeii as it appeared 1,800 years ago amid music, relics, and a looming Vesuvius.
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Ucraid
Pompeii
Tualy
Ruggieri
Naples
Vesuvius
Indian Slaughter and Thornburgh Killed Near Milk River
Dispatches from Rawlins Wyoming report Major Thomas T. F. Thornburgh killed and his force repulsed by Utes near Milk River in Bad Canyon. Fourteen officers and soldiers dead, many wounded, including Captain Payne and Lieutenant Paddock. Camp entrenched amid losses. freight outfits burned. horses and mules heavily struck.
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Thornburgh
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Phornburgh
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Wolf
Thornbaugh
Tyne Tru
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Milk River
Omaha
Mink River
Cheyenne
Bad Canyon
Urmarch
Wigonmister
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Company F
Fifth Cavalry
Cherry
Linmead
Mother Reunites With Long Lost Son In London
In Davenport Mrs. Leonard Rice learns her eldest son, stolen from Boston thirteen years ago, has become a celebrated performer in Great Britain as Lulu the equestrienne and trapezist. Now grown, he sends photos and invites reunion with his mother who travels to London to meet him. The tale follows a life of abduction, training by circu s men, and eventual success before a hopeful family reunion. Also note: pigeons swarming in Northern Pennsylvania.
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New York Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Severn
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SMES
Davenport
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Arlington Avenue
Boston
New York Herald
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Equestrienne
Iowan
Democrat
Significance of the Grant Boom
The article contrasts General Grant a widely celebrated figure in Europe and Asia with the Emperor of Brazil’s reception in the United States. It notes Grant’s unprecedented honors from sovereigns and crowds, implying his influence and the Republican leadership's grand display, while criticizing the Brazilian emperor’s more restrained reception.
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Republican Party
California
Europe
China
Japan
Brazil
United States
Deadwood Fire Devours Star Bakery and Threatens Town
On September 2 a blaze started at the Star bakery on Sherman street and swept through Le Main Gold Wall Patton and William streets destroying about 125 business buildings and 50 to 60 homes. An estimated 2,000 residents were left homeless as flames fueled by powder liquor and petroleum exploded. waterworks failed and fire apparatus burned early as teams from miles away aided in rescue efforts. City leaders formed a seven member safety committee while vigilante groups were rejected. merchants planned brick replacements and relief efforts began with cautious optimism.
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D.T
Star Bakery
Sherman Street
le. Main
Gold
Wall
Patton
William
Bowlder
Citizens’ Committee of Safety
Industrial and trade notes from the era
The excerpt surveys global trade and resource use, noting Lyons France forming to manufacture silk like goods, iron ore imports rising prices, and vast American timber consumption for wheels, packaging, bricks, telegraph poles, and rail ties. It recounts labor patterns and a scientific inquiry into patenting substitutes, with examples from glass shoe patterns improving defect visibility and patent validity amid industrial reform.
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Lyons
France
Great Britain
Forney
Adirondack Nature Revisited Hunter's Pass Wildlife Tale
Charles Dudley Warner laments vanishing large mammals in the Adirondacks. He recalls a well-trodden hunter path between Mud Pond and Boquet Basin once used by elk moose bears and deer, now mostly gone. Warner contrasts past abundance with modern peril from human cruelty, preferring a cougar’s ferocity to human threat.
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