News of the Week Highlights and Government Actions
Mrs Beura Lockwood receives a California promise for suffrage bid while Chief Inspector Sharpe orders postmasters to arrest any delinquent and face District Attorney action. Clearing-house totals rise to 708 million with a sharp year over year drop. Indian Bureau requests 7.34 million, post offices stay open to six pm, Marines may enlist at eighteen, and a Mercantile Conference opens in Washington. Revenue falls 5.5 million in the last quarter. Public debt stands at 1.850 billion with September decrease of 12.0 million.
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Beura Lockwood
Marietta L. Stow
California
Woman’s Suffrage Party
Sharpe
Post-office Department
United States
Indian Bureau
Price
Post Office Department
Wylie
Marine Corps of the Navy
Washington
Frelinghuysen
Treasury
Turbulent Nineteenth Century Increases Turmoil In The East
A sweeping tornado wrecks Shongo New York along the Genesee River killing two and wounding fifteen. Praises and disasters follow across the region including boiler explosions near Blairstown Pennsylvania and multiple political nominations disclosed in New York Boston and New Jersey. Fires, floods, and public notices intrude as flood of incidents mix with legislative and transportation news from New England to the Deep South.
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Shongo
Genesee River
New York
Millwood
Blairstown
New England
Boston
James Gonpon Bennett
Newport
K. i
Global turmoil from floods, fires, and cholera fevers
A cloud burst near Pachuca Mexico caused widespread inundation destroying works and silver under treatment with about thirty dead. Reports also note fires at Lachine Canada displacing fifty families and a string of global unrest from a Salisbury Council Chamber blast to Italian cholera outbreaks with hundreds of cases and deaths.
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Pachuca
Mex
Joan C. Exo
New York
R. R. Dobell
Quebec
Can
England
Salisbury
Eng
Lachine
Kostroma
Austria
Volga
Daly
Naples
Genoa
Spain
France
Italy
India
General Dias
Citoy le Noble
Prohibitionist James McGraw Named for Congress
In Illinois Ninth District the Prohibitionists nominated James McGraw for Congress. The article also notes a spate of varied incidents across the United States and Canada, including murders, fires, wrecks, and stock market irregularities, with numerous local calamities and distant battles.
St John Prohibition Nomination Letter Accepting President
St John the Prohibition candidate for President formally accepts the nomination, praising the Pittsburgh convention, urging sobriety and national unity, and urging voters to support prohibition measures to end intoxicating liquors and restore moral governance. The letter cites economic distress, factory closures, and the need to protect homes, asking citizens to vote for a sober administration and oppose party strife.
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Ovatne
Kan
St. John
Samuel Dickie
Dickie
Pittsburgh
Union
Tam
United States
Ian
Democra
Tle Agi
Prohibition Party
Bteilizung
Bober
Kober
Revision of Old Testament completed by scholars
The New York dispatch reports Rev Dr Philip Schall on the completion of the Old Testament revision. Publication expected next spring with authorized editions by Cambridge and Oxford universities. A copyright absence may spur multiple U.S. editions after first sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
Cambridge
Oxford
Lange
Cyclone Hits Shongo NY Two Die and Many Hurt
Burrato NY Sept 30 A cyclone struck Shongo eight miles south of Wellsville on the Genesee River at 620 PM Sunday. In two minutes eastern half of the village was demolished. Two killed Willis Gardner and Mrs Edward Pratt fifteen seriously injured five homeless. Homes and school blown down. families ripped apart. Relief organized. subscriptions started Monday. Also a flood in Mexico near Pavhuen on the 27th killed about thirty, with property loss and cattle drowned.
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Banty
Cleveland
Farmington
W. Va
Louisville
Barbara Becht
Maryland
Thomas Loftland
Josgiu BushkeEn
Cincinnati
Youngstown
James Bruce, Jr
John McCullough
Chicago
Abner Mason
Nashville
Tenn
Cuarves LusLine
Pitth
Wisconsin
Dover
Anthony Higgins
Blaine
Dinwiddie County
Virginia
Norfolk & Western
Thomas Butterworth
Congress
Dividis
Kansas City
Trady
John P. St. John
Michican
Fusion
Lansing
Marquez Station
Tex
Snowhill
Scott Madkis
Annie Ingersoll
John Nunley
Charleston
Frenchtown
Islas
Richard Guenther
Missouri
William Warren
Ohio
J. W. Denver
Tax Locomotive Engineers
United States
Canada
San Francisco
Lynchburg
Tennessee
John W. Garrett
Baltimore
Box Sautn
Franklin
Miss
Georgia
Denver
J.¢. Hicnman
Polk Creek
Paris
Minneapolis
Minn
Iowa
Marshalltown
Nll
St. Louis
Niehans
J. S. Yeaton
Julia Ridgely
Prince George County
A. L. Smith
Dakota
S.S. Barney
Salinas
Francis Murphy
Pike’s Creek
Wis
Shongo
New York
Mexico
Burrato
N. Y
Wellsville
Genesee River
Willis Gardner
Edward Pratt
Edgar Peet
A.A. Elliott
Anna Lancaster
Austin Kemp
Duane Kemp
Edward
Vanhorn & Porter
Cirr
Pavhiuen
Killed by Mistake in Freight Collision at Farmington
Wirraine West Virginia Sept 80 A Baltimore and Ohio freight collision near Farmington killed three men and seriously injured several others. The freight engine misread orders and struck the westbound passenger train at speed destroying seven cars and two engines. Conductor Turley blamed for the disaster. freight losses estimated at $50,000.
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United States
Canada
Middle States
New England
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Fullerton
Neb
London
Iceland
Austin
Tex
Gordon
Berber
Soudan
Wasa Fierenen
Paduenal
Cleveland
Leader
Chicago
Minnie R
Firebrand
New Haven
Tur
George FP. Whittaker
Principio
Clayton
Del
Braddock
Italy
Naples
Genoa
France
Wirraine
W. Va
Baltimore& Ohiooad
Farmington
Amore
New York
Fannington
Toader
Gathoer
Thomas Turley
George Leonard
Thomas O' Gonnell
Echian
Woum Boyd
Treman Parenger
Joby
S.sappoamd i
Adium
Vunmoreg
Srs
Tureley
Willeningelon
Elopement of a Gypsy with a Dade in Westminster
News reached Barrivons Massachusetts of Siemen Griggs a Gypsy youth from a Baltimore family eloping from Westminster with a local companion. A Gypsy camp near the village hotel danced Friday night and the couple vanished leaving their boarding house. Authorities seek them as indignant townsfolk wonder at the elopement.
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Barrivons
Westminster
Train gang robs passengers near Quincy
Sept 30 a gang of train robbers has long targeted Northwestern trains. They board ahead of a sleeping car, ask the passenger where he is going, then claim the next car holds the target. They seize and rob victims on the platform. Tingerty was caught. four others escaped. Weadman set 1500 bond for the grand jury.
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Trig
Hivane
Sohn Tagerty
Tink
Det
J. W. Norton
Martin Vivian
Tingerty
Justices Weadman
Boiler Explosion Kills Millwood Engineer in Blairsville
Telegraph reports a fatal boiler explosion at the Millwood coal shaft engine room. Fireman John Thoma died on the scene. several workers were seriously injured. The blast demolished the boiler housing, with damages estimated around 5 000 dollars. Officials note limited debris due to distance from the shaft.
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Thrisamen
SOA
Chronicle
Blairsville
Vic
Millwood
John Vani
Johm Thoma
Dia
Lessonse Company
Corn Husking Festival Remembrance From Rural Life
Dr Talange recalls a vivid country corn husking scene from Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine with a festive, communal harvest atmosphere. The essay notes joyous activity, rivaling husks, feasting, and neighborly banter as frost fades, followed by a warm dinner and a sorrowful memory that the farm has passed to new owners. A line at the end adds news that drunkenness is decreasing in England.
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Aventide
Dr. Talange
Frank Leslies
Literary and personal notes on public figures
A survey of literary figures and public personalities. Fanny Fern’s books are out of print. Will Carleton seeks poetic inspiration in Europe. John King Jr. earns a 30000 salary as Erie Railroad president. Emma Wixom Nevada, Irish-born singer, roots noted. A Asheville paper debuts under the quirky name Lelevigator. Santa Quanta, 122, dies in Florida after a century in the U.S. tenor world. Barnum, 71, recounts a varied career. U.S. and European print volumes total billions annually.
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Fanny Fern
Will Carleton
Europe
John King, Jr
Erie Ailroad
Emma Nevada
Nevada City
Cal
Wixom
Lelevigator
Asheville
N.C
Mother Goose
Elizabeth Foster
Isaac Goose
United States
New England
Middle States
Louisa Alcott
Mr. Folger
America
P.ot. Barnum
Ntcher
Bank
Clock Factory
Jenny Lind
Nas
Ucratd
Humorous Hum Talks From A Dated Page
A collage of comic snippets from various newspapers includes quips about ladies hair, bank tensions, a punning lover, a deaf old lady at a fort, a vaudeville writer praised as Shakespearean, and a playful exchange about a driving date. The tone is light and miscellany-like.
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Shakespeare of
America
Shikespeare
Philadelphia
Cholly
Inevah
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