Poisoning panic as lemonade sickens Woodstock crowd
Near Woodstock Ontario a picnic crowd drank lemonade tainted with tartaric acid substitute. Fifteen people die or fall ill. a druggist named Alexander fled, warrant issued. victims include Mamie Haw 20 Sadie Hartnett 22 Alice Flynn 16 Minnie Flynn 14 Mrs McNaughton 45 and more. A lynching threat rises as search continues. Program notes also cover White House occupancy with President and Mrs Harrison plan to spend summer at Deer Park and Cape May visits.
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Woodstock
Ontario
Alexander
Mamie Haw
Sadie Hartnett
Alice Flynn
Minnie Flynn
McNaughton
MacAlpin
Sarah Smith
Sarah
Minnie
Edward Nolan
James Shaw
John McKetcher
Edward Lewis
John Shorter
White House
Wasuraron
Cape May
Wodstock
Henry C. Bower
National convention of Labor Bureau opens in Hartrorp Conn
The seventh National convention of the bureau of statistics opened in Hartrorp Tuesday afternoon with speeches by United States Senator Hawley and Senator Platt praising the work and pledging support. Washington bureau will soon issue statistics on workers in 22 large cities and a 500 page book. a marriage and divorce statistics volume from 2,700 courts is in press.
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Hartrorp
Conn
Bureau of Statistics Offior
United States
Joseph R. Hawley
Platt
Vight
Washington
Mrs Hayes Succumbs After Paralytic Stroke
Mrs Gen Hayes died at 6 30 am after a night of weakening. She lived in Cincinnati during and after the Civil War era and was noted for her temperance advocacy. Five of eight children survived, including Webb Barehard Scott and a daughter Miss Mannie. The Hayes family, with Maw Mitchell of Cohen and Mira Hayes, attended the bedside in Huntington.
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Fuuaonti
Gen. Hayes
Maw Mitchell
Mira
Hayes
Tumbus
Res
Huntington
Irss
Cincinnati
Execution by electricity debated in constitutional challenge
Prominent lawyers argued the constitutionality of execution by electricity for convicted murderer Kemmiler of Buffalo. Burke Cochran contended electricity may not cause death. Attorney General Taber pressed its validity. Judge Day appointed Pracey S. Becker as referee to report findings by July 30 after ad journment.
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Aunurse
Dane
Kemmiler
Buffalo
Burke Cochran
Taber
Day
Young West Superior man weds Chippewa maiden in surprise ceremony
Thomas McLaughton of West Superior marries Emma Skye, a 20 year old Chippewa woman from Shippee, at St Francis Catholic Church with Father Eustace officiating. After a false start three weeks earlier the couple now plan to set up housekeeping in West Superior. McLaughton, 27, an industrious Terminal Company worker, returned from a break with his parents’ anger and reasserted his resolve to marry.
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West Superior
Wis
West Scrrmon
Emma Skye
Thomas McLaughton
St. Francis Catholic Church
Father Eustace
Skye
McLaughlin
Nina VanZandt Seen at Spies Tomb in Mourning Aftermove
Chicago June 26 The VanZandt family moved from Rush street to Austin adjoining Washington cemetery home chosen for proximity to the Spies tomb Nina remains in widow's weeds since November 1887 and is often seen in black veiled mourning at the tomb. Her father is a bookkeeper for Kirk Company.
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Spies
Cmcaco
VanZandt
Nina
August Spies
Rush Street
Austin
Chicago
Washington Cemetery
Kirk & Company
Paul Kauvar
Joseph Haworth
Mr. VanZandt
Tramps Killed in Westbound Freight Collision
At Monestery coke works near Latrobe station Pennsylvania railroad two westbound freights collided with an eastbound freight. Brakeman Miller fatally injured. engineer Cauldwell and fireman missing and feared dead. Four unknown tramp bodies recovered. Other trainmen escaped serious injury.
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Pierssure
Monestery Coke Works
Latrobe Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Miller
Cauldwell
Monastery Coke Works
Caldwell
Mob alarm after assault on 16 year old in Shawneetown
State's Attorney reports six men assaulted Clara Slater, 16, in a dense wood six miles below New Haven. Her cousin Will Slater escorted her from a dance when five others appeared. four men reportedly captured, names listed as Will Sliter, Will Mabley, Will Downer, Joe Downer, Joe Wilson, and James McDonald. Authorities seek the remaining suspects amid county-wide unrest.
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Shawneetown
Ill
McKernan
Clara Slater
New Haven
Will Slater
Will Sliter
Will Mabley
Will
Joe Downer
Joe Wilson
James McDonald
Prize Fight Postponed in San Francisco
The bout between Johnny Griffin and Tomy Warren is delayed to June 12 due to Warren injuries sustained during training.
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San Francisco
Johnny Griffin
Tomy Warren
Warren
Four Drown In Sehuylkil At Paumount Park
Four youths and two young women drowned yesterday in the Sehuylkil at Paumount Park when their rowboat went over a dam. The two bodies of women have been recovered but not identified. The men’s bodies remain missing. Hundreds on Callowhill street bridge witnessed the tragedy.
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Prisavenrurs
Iwo
Paumount Park
Callowhill Street
Ten Thousand Dead in Wreck Flood Fire At Johnstown
Johnstown residents report ten thousand deaths from the flood as local physicians discuss disease and drownings. Bumgardner and a foreign laborer suffer severe blast and poison injuries near the railroad bridge. A dynamite blast hurls a severed foot from the drift while a female body is recovered in a burned, decomposed state.
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Kerrsville
Fire follows flood in Johnstown upper ward blaze destroys homes
Twenty five houses in Johnstown Pa were burned as flames fed by wind swept through the upper end of the First ward after a pile of burning debris. Philadelphia engines failed to stop the spread. Militia were called to help. Property loss estimated at 80000. Coroner Evans to begin inquest Wednesday.
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Johnstown
Monkin
Philadelphia
Evans
Johns Town Resident Doctors Protest Foreign Physicians
Resident physicians of Johnstown complain to Gen Hastings about foreign doctors encroaching on their prerogatives in the Conemaugh valley flood area. They offer to treat patients free of charge and oppose Red Cross and Yellow Cross interference while awaiting aid to reestablish practice. Dynamiting at the bridge continues, with reports of bodies and clothing seen as drift is expelled into the river. Dr Foster reports forty nine laborers with typhoid and related illnesses in twenty four hours. thirty eight return to work, others sent home. No epidemic is evident according to the official statement.
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Brooks
Lurder
Des Moines Street
Hubbard
Burke
Winnipeg
Chcaco
Clan-na-Gael
Feehan
Baltimore
United Brotherhood
Father Dorney
Hastings
Johunxstown
Conemaugh Valley
Corps of the Red Cross
Yellow Cross Societies
Six Weeks More for the Charleston Extension Granted
Secretary Tracy grants a six week extension for builders to complete the cruiser Charleston. The decision extends the time allowed to finish the vessel with the new deadline set in Washington.
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Charleston
Tracy
Architectural description of a circular parlor and stairway tower
The text details a first floor with a circular piazza encircling the parlor and a small circular tower at the entrance roof. A second floor features a principal circular chamber with a circular bay rising to a tower, plus two other rooms and a bathroom. The front hall is large with a square bay and a seat. A spiral staircase in the hall is lit by three large stained glass windows.
Frightful Fires and Tragic Deaths Reported in June
Notices from Frasaruti to Nantucket recount a series of grim incidents. Mrs Mc Dowell, 66, died after a lamp exploded during a descent at her son’s residence in Frasaruti. In Monrocomery, C P Brown, 30, a Wheeler & Wilson rep, died by his own hand in the Alabama river after a two week spree. Mrs Sarah Jane Whiteling was hanged at Paraverritis for poisoning her family to obtain life insurance. Wreckage washed ashore near Nantucket includes English incandescent lamps and cattle, likely from the steamship Victoria.
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Frasruti
Moxrocomery
Ala
C. P. Brown
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company
Alabama
Nantucket
Mass
Victoria
Phelps Named Minister to Germany
Wasnixaron June 26 The president appointed William Phelps of New Jersey as minister to Germany succeeding the previous envoy.
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Phelps
Germany
Wasnixaron
William After Phelps
New Jersey
Germanny
Quotations From Cincinnati and Elee June 20 Wheat and Wool Market
Reports from Cincinnati and Ellerton show wheat and corn prices with mixed grain, wool quotations by grade, and cattle hog sheep lamb values. Ohio Michigan Kentucky Missouri Texas and Western markets list No. 1 timothy hay, cattle prices per 100 pounds, hog and sheep ranges, and New York and Chicago bids with area receipts and quotes.
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Elee
Sean
Ohio
Michigan X &c
Michigan
Kentucky
Missouri
Texas
Georgia
California
Eastern
Valley
Oregon
Kansas
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Maine
Ikali
Monteviedo
Cape
New York
Freight Smash-Up Claims Four Tramps
A freight wreck near Monastery coke bound train No 308 killed four unknown men and fatally injured brakeman Miller. Engineer Caldwell died and Captain Schoomaker was declared dead later. Separate report notes trust appointment in a Samoa storm case and Yale law school Townsend prize awards with speakers and Chauncey Depew address.
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New Haven
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