Reds Lead Pennant Fight Amid Boston Setback
Anson shines in New York as Mark Baldwin falters and Boston fails to capitalize. Pittsburg beats Boston 9 to 6 in South End after a costly Baldwin outing, with key plays and misplays shaping the decisive seventh inning woes. Colum_BUS, Baltimore, St Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Brooklyn results shown.
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Boston
Ecceeee
New York
Philadelphia Weeee
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Tea Association
Wom
Wveeeeeveses
St. Loue
Baltimore
Eee
Athletics
Eseeereees
Columdie Ee
Sense
Seereeess
Ness
Bar Harbor Tennis Opens With Hovey Mitchell Clash
The Bar Harbor tournament began with intercollegiate champion F H Hovey defeating B E B Mitchell in the first match, while J S Clark beat G Calhoun and W Harmer beat I Brooks in preliminaries. Other first round results include R L Beekman over W D Orcutt and A Schuman over S McCormick.
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Bar Harbor
F. H. Hovey
B. B.E. Mitchell
Mitchell
Noor
J. S. Clark
G. Calhoun
W. Harmer
I. Brooks
W. K. Fowler
EK. J. White
R. L. Beekman
W. D. Orcutt
B. E. B. Mitchell
A. Schuman
McCormick
G. I. Brown, Jr
Goddard
Narragansett Pier
O. S. Campbell
T. P. Borden
Deane Miller
New York
T. Chase
E. T. Thompson
J. P. Borden
Washington
W. W. Weeden
Providence
Wakefield Man Struck by Train While Walking Track
William Horne a 64 year old resident of Wakefield was struck by a 7 20 train from Hoston while walking along the track from Reading to Wakefield. He suffered four broken ribs and two scalp wounds and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.
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MaAvpen
William Horne
Wakefield
Hoston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Reading
Drowns While Bathing at Town Creek
Frank D. Eaton, about 23, of Salisbury, drowned this afternoon in Town Creek. He could not swim, which led to his death. his body was recovered shortly after.
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Sainsbury
Frank D. Eaton
Town Creek
Salisbury
Run Down by a Freight in Branford Railroad Crash
Nine Italian laborers were seriously injured and two fatally hurt when a gravel freight struck the caboose carrying fifty Italians near Branford on the Shore Line. Several men, including Pep piand and Fieri, were taken to New Haven hospital with broken bones and internal injuries. An enraged crowd of Italians gathered, threatening violence as engineers defended the engine. calm returned after emergency crews intervened.
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New Haven
Conn
Branford
Shore Line
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New London
Rosario Peppiand
Lorenzo Fieri
Viola di Carlo
Tomasso Pecelli
Donato Dirito
Augustina Cappodaro
Matthio Sholo
Pasquale Valentina
Marco Sagelti
Peppiand
Fieri
Benjamin
Harry Hunt
Hunt
Duel Between Mexican Colonels Near City of Mexico
Advices from the City of Mexico report a sword duel at Piedad between Colonels Francisco Nevoa and Manuel Blanco. Seconds included Generals Flores and Rodrigo Valdez for Nevoa and Francis co Romero with Antonio Tovar for Blanco. Blanco was wounded thrice, Neyon slight scratches. duel halted as he weakened. Possible arrest under Diaz decree banning dueling in the army.
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St. Louis
Mexico
Piedad
Francisco Nevoa
Manual Blanco
Nevoa
Flores
Rodrigo Valdez
Blanco
Francisco Romero
Antonio Tovar
Neyon
Diaz
Levy Charged in Swindle Case In New York
Moses Levy formerly of Levy Bros. & Co. was arrested in New York Aug 10 for allegedly obtaining $16 000 in property from Frederick Butterfield on thirty days credit before a May failure. Robert W Derby of Assabet Manufacturing also accuses Levy of $1 000 fraud. Levy arraigned, bail set at ten thousand on each charge. Julius Levy abroad, Augustus in asylum, Moses jailed.
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New Yorks
Moses Levy
Levy Bros. & Co
Frederick Butterfield
Broadway
Robert W. Derby
Assabet Manufacturing Company
Levy
Tombs Court
Julius Levy
Augustus
Julius
Europe
Moses
Severe storm hits Niagara county crops and limbs
Light ning rain and wind sweep Lockport Niagara county causing extensive fruit and grain damage. Corn broken oats cut by mower. Loss to farmers runs to thousands of dollars. In Toronto a thunderstorm toppled telegraph wires uprooted trees and smashed windows along the beach with tents and boats driven down but no lives lost.
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Lockport
N. Y
Niagara County
Toronto
Ont
Canal
Burlington
Two Deaths In One Duel At Norfolk Landing
In Mimouis Tennessee Aug 10 a deadly duel at Norfolk Landing Mississippi left D B Wall dead after a dispute over work time. Wall fired at Reed twice before falling fatally struck. Reed was mortally wounded by Wall’s final shot.
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Mimouis
Tenn
Norfolk Landing
Miss
D. B. Wall
RE. H. Shaw
Reed
Wall
Malden Man Drowns Near West Everett Pond
A man identified as Daniel Chisolm of 6 Edmunds Street Malden was found drowned in a pond near West Everett. Bystanders reported clothes to police who recovered the body as officers Everton Brown investigated. Chisolm, about 30 and unmarried, had worked that morning and planned a swim. cramps are believed to have caused the drowning.
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Everett
West Everett
Jow Tide
Everton
Brown
Daniel Chisolm
Edmunds Street
Malden
Chisolm
Crime in the Woods Draws Swansea to Alert
In Fart River on August 10 Maggie Harrington aged 9 was assaulted by an unknown man after being taken with two other girls from the city in an open express wagon. The assailant fled into the woods and Maggie was found later in great pain. Police have been notified. no arrest reported.
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Maggie Harrington
Swansea
Maggie
Hart
Emperor William in Robust Health Reported
The Cologne Gazette asserts Emperor William is in robust health and can use his leg easily. It says he will dispense with his doctor after a few short sea trips.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Cologne Gazette
William
Postal Guide Contract Ad Infringement Sparks Suspicion
A year long ban on advertising in the Official Postal Guide is alleged to be violated by the Sadler Publishing Company. An ad titled Shall the Republicans Retreat appears, accusing Democratic papers of free distribution and propping a Republican countercampaign led by Roswell G Horr to educate farmers on the protective tariff. Postmasters are urged to form clubs for the Weekly Tribune.
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Wanamaker
United States
Sadler Publishing Company
Baltimore
Boston
the Tribune
New York Tribune
Roswell G. Horr
Michigan
Horr
Grange
Weekly
Tribune
Accidents Reported Across City From Dock To Elevator
A series of mishaps leaves John William Rose fatally injured after a 40 to 50 foot fall from the sloop Novelty at Jacksons wharf. Others sustain injuries alighting from a car, elevator mishaps, sun stroke, and falls at workplaces on Milk street Kingston street Federal street Essex place and Chapman street with fractures cuts and possible internal injuries.
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John William Rose
Novelty
Jackson’s Wharf
Albany Street
City Hospital
Thomas Leonard
New York & New England Railroad
Fred Hoffman
Brown & Durell
Kingston Street
Hugh McGuire
Stuart Place
New England Telegraph & Telephone Copany
Milk Street
Charles Coles
New York & New England
Federal Street
Michael Grace
Joy Street
Boston
Fifield & Richardson, Teamsters
Essex Place
John J. Lloyd
Melrose
A. B. Franklin
Patrick Pryle
S. C Currier
Henry Alexander
Chapman Street
Lato
Record of Fires Fort Douglass and Multiple Blazes
Set of fire reports from Aug 10 detailing Fort Douglass near St Paul on fire cutting telegraph service. tenement blaze at 212 Park Avenue Jersey City with kerosene saturated cellar woodwork. fires in Stobank Falls Washington and Concord New Hampshire outbuildings. Uxbridge Hopkins block fire destroying eleven families and local stock. Paris forest blaze near Toulon. and Cambridge barn fire at 12 Harding Street damaging trotting mare San Carlos.
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Fort Douglass
St. Paul
Hosoxen
N.J
Park Avenue
Hayes
Stobank Falls
Wash
Conway's
Charles Johnson
Concord
N. H
G. W. Cummings
Birch Hill
London
Hector Thalen
Slater & Parks
Uxbridge
D. Blanchard
Paris
Toulon
Gray
Division 3
Causeway
Portland Streets
W. A. Holmes & Co
Holmes & Co
George C. Evans
Bernard Ratterly
Harding Street
Cambridge
San Carlos
English captain boosts beam trawling hopes at George's Bank
Captain Alfred Bradford, an English-born skipper, imported beam trawl gear and tested it on the Mary F. Chisholm to George's Bank. He found abundant fish including English sole and plaice, praised the gear's potential but noted slow hoisting. He plans a steam powered 100 ton schooner and improved gear to cut landing time to about 30 minutes. Bradford believes beam trawling could transform fisheries and aid the bait issue, despite skeptics.
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Goloucester
Alfred Bradford
England
Mary F. Chisholm
George’s Bank
Bradford
Essex
Thomas O'Callaghan & Co Carpets Advertise Week Sale
The firm declares itself among the largest carpet retailers in New England. It cites a growing reputation for its goods and announces a coming week sale offering 25 patterns at 75 cents per yard.
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New England
Textile catalog entry for carpets and mats
Art Squares and Lowell Brussels fabric patterns offered by the dealer. Wadded carpet lining with five rows stitching at 2 I-2c per yard. Lowell Brussels present in 30 patterns at 1.00 per yard. Lowell Extra Supers with 20 patterns at 62 I-2c per yard. 20 patterns Extra Supers at 500c per yard. Straw matting listed as 1,000 pieces with 40 yards per roll priced at 6.00 per roll.
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Lowell
Heat Wave Toll and World News Across Cities
The article reports extreme heat in New York with deaths and prostrations, plus Brooklyn cases. It notes the opening of the International Geographical Congress in Berne and a report on the Nicaragua Canal. It also covers George R Gray’s record shots at the St Catharines Amateur Athletic Association meeting beating multiple world marks.
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Brooklyn
International Congress
Berne
Nicaragua Canal
International Geographical Congress
M. Droz
Gobat
Congress
Stout
St. Catharines
Fraud charges hit National Capital Savings leaders
Chicago August 10 Alfred Downing and N H Tolman presidents of the National Capital Savings Building and Loan Association of North America were arrested by a Postoffice Inspector for using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The scheme allegedly swindled thousands across all states with losses estimated from 200 000 to 600 000 leaving two fugitives at large. The victims include rich and poor from Maine to California.
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Cuhicaco
Alfred Downing
N. H. Tolman
National Capital Savings Building and Loan Association of North America
Postoffice
Stewart
Maine
California
Liberty
Lynn Harbor Basin Work Planned in Lynn
United States Government Engineer W Mason has arrived to lay out Lynn Harbor work. A 600 by 300 foot basin with ten feet depth at mean low tide will be built, about 600 feet from Holder and Breed's wharf. $15,000 appropriated, 40,000 cubic feet of earth to be excavated, completion expected in six weeks.
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Lynn
United States
W. Mason
Lynn Harbor
Holder & Breed
Frederick Douglass Resigns as Minister to Hayti
Washington Aug 10 The Hon Frederick Douglass United States Minister to Hayti has tendered his resignation to the Department of State. The resignation letter bears date July 30 He does not state reasons. About forty days ago he left Port au Prince and came to the United States on leave.
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Washington
Frederick Douglass
United States
Hayti
Department of State
Douglass
Port-au- Prince
Diaz Evangelist Converts Cuba Protestant Growth
A large audience at Clarendon Street Baptist Church heard Diaz recount his conversion from Cuban Catholic military officer to Protestant missionary. He led a movement that birthed Havana’s first Baptist church and several smaller ones, with 4000 graves added in a new cemetery over four years, aided by U.S. support and his American naturalization. He will lecture again at the Baptist Tabernacle Bowdoin Square this evening.
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Clarendon Street
Diaz
Cuba
United States
Havana
Welcome for Captain Palmer at Albany homecoming
Captain John Palmer, commander of the National G A R, returns from Detroit. Two thousand veterans escort him from the station to Harmanus Bleeker Hall as over five thousand people crowd the hall. Governor Hill speaks and Palmer replies in a warm reception by Albany’s leading citizens.
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N. Y
John Palmer
National G. A. R
Detroit
Harmanus Bleeker Hall
Governor Hill
Palmer
Robbery Attempt at Merrimac Street Drug Store
At about 10:30 p.m. a stranger entered William F. Nowell's drug store at Merrimac and Stamford, bought two seidlitz powders, smashed a show case, seized a patent medicine bottle and a syringe, and tried to flee. Clerk Rudolph F. Rudell wrestled the thief, who fought back, and was struck on the temple with a brass scale weight before escaping, leaving behind the bottle, syringe, and powders.
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William F. Nowell
Merrimac
Stamford
Rudolph F. Rudell
Bar Harbor Greetings on Dispatch Visit
Secretary Blaine and Mrs. Blaine visited Secretary Tracy aboard the Dispatch in Bar Harbor. A seventeen gun salute marked their departure as Blaine called on Cincinnati Enquirer editor John R. McLean. Guests at the dinner included Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Trask and Mrs. Fish.
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Blaine
Damrosch
Tracy
Dispatch
John R. McLean
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Petre
Northeast Harbor
Spencer Trask
Fish
George P. Bowler
F. R. Jones
Work To Be Suspended On Ship Railway In Halifax
A London cable says work on the ship railway will end this week due to market conditions. No fault by contractors or company. remaining securities cannot be floated without loss. Once financial crisis eases, work will resume.
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Halifax
London
Wynne's Georgia Alliance Funds Short by Over 20000
Atlanta Aug 10 The Journal reports J O Wynne business agent for the Georgia State Alliance Exchange is over 20000 in arrears in his accounts. He is under 5000 bond. Wynne claims the shortage stems from clerical errors and missing vouchers.
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Atlanta, Ga
the Journal
J. O. Wynne
Georgia State Alliance Exchange
Wynne
Wynnne
W L Scott Growing Weaker in Illness
Ex congressman Scott remains seriously ill as his family grows more anxious. He alternates between brief improvement and deep prostration and can take little nourishment. Dr Brand remains hopeful he will recover as in past illnesses after the current course ends.
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W.L. Scott
Eriz
Scott
New England Swelters As Heat Wave Peaks
The region, buffeted by east winds and sun, baked under a heatwave. Thermometers on Newspaper Row and Washington Street showed readings around 90 to 96 degrees at mid afternoon with cooler expectations later.
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New England
Newspaper Row
West Side
Washington Street
Shuman
Six Die in Chaumont Boiler Explosion
A boiler explosion at Chaumont today killed six persons and badly injured four others, with their lives described as despaired of. The incident occurred in Paris region, shocking local communities and authorities.
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Paris
Chaumont
Elkins Arrives Cape May With Clarkson Visit
Care May Point New Jersey August 10 It was learned tonight that Stephen B Elkins arrived here Saturday morning at the same time as Mr Clarkson He did not register at any Cape May hotels but went directly to the President s cottage where he stayed until this morning J Elkins left on the train that carried Mr Clarkson and Postmaster General Wanamaker away from Cape May this morning
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Miller
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Lowe
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Tom
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Alvin
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Shneart
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C.f
K'rbauer
O Reilly
Maui
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Beauit
Calvin
Care May Point
N.J
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Mr. Clarkson
J. Elkins
Wanamaker
Cape May
Man cut in two by train near Providence
William Dixon, about 40, a mill operative from Ashton, was intoxicated when he attempted to board the 6:21 New York Providence and Boston train at Pawtucket. He fell under the wheels and was cut in two. An inquest is ordered. He leaves a wife and daughter.
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Providence
Wiliam Dixon
Ashton
New York
Boston
Pawtucket
Jones Improves and Nourishment Restored
Polano Springs Me Aug 10 George Jones has passed a comfortable day and taken more nourishment. family holds more hope for his recovery.
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PoLano Springs
George Jones
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