Robbery of Missouri Pacific Train Near Otterville
Report details a $75,000 cash haul and $15,000 in other valuables taken from the Missouri Pacific express robbers near Otterville. Avery, a trusted agent, returned to St. Louis on the evening train. Detectives and a posse scoured the area. bloodhounds failed to track the criminals. Only $24 in cash a gold watch and a package of government supplies were recovered.
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Express Company
Avery
St. Louis
Frank Dreyer
Versailles
Otterville
Fuller
Pacific Express Company
Belated Pension Plan for Granddaughters of Veterans
A letter to the Post urges Congress to fund an Easter bonnet for each granddaughter of a Son of a Veteran at age three and $25 monthly for life. Writer, Rush C. Hawks of Manitou Springs Col, ties the measure to G A R loyalty and votes, praising nationalEncampment action in Boston, dated July 24 1890.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Boston
Congress
Republican Party
Rusn C. Hawks
Manitou Springs
Col
Varied Forms of Lightning Described in Longmans Magazine
The article outlines types of lightning including forked, sheet, and globular forms. It notes forked lightning as highly crooked with side flashes, sheet lightning as cloud to cloud or cloud to earth illumination, and globular lightning as a rare moving luminous ball lasting several seconds before exploding. Some observers report following the ball outside, though many physicists doubt these accounts.
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Longman's Magazine
Witchood
Great Irrigation Scheme An Idaho Speculation Boom in Wood River mining belts inspires irrigation plans
Boiskerry Ida Aug 8 A detailed account traces how the Oregon Short Line feeds profit through its Wood River branch serving Bellevue Hailey and Ketchum with mining booms linked to proposed Snake River irrigation projects. A New York funded 70 mile Boise Valley ditch could reclaim 600000 acres and spawn 18750 families, stirring debates on capital and labor while praising Idaho's agricultural potential amid regional growth and political discord.
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Boiskerry
Ida
Oregon
Wood River
Shoshone
Bellevue
Hailey
Ketchum
Idaho
Nampa
Hoise
Pocatelli
Snake River
Eagle Rock
Boise Valley
New York
Mont Blanc
Chamounix
Boise
Caldwell
Montana
Italy
J. G
Death of Matsudaira Lord of Kehizen in Japan
Word comes from Japan of the death of Matsudaira feudal chief or Lord of Kehizen an accomplished daimio who played a major role in pre restoration Japan. He served as guardian to the Shogun and later labored to enact a bloodless revolution before retirement as a key survivor of the great nobles.
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Japan
Matsudaira
Kehizen
Sakurada
Uedo
Mito
Matsunaka
Tokugawa Keiki
Keiki
Mikado
Kipling in India and the Three Musketeers of Mulvaney
A critic reviews Rudyard Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills and Soldiers Three, praising his Indian settings and Urdu-inflected narrators while noting unevenness in ghost stories and garrison tales. Mulvaney, Ortheris, and Learoyd are highlighted as vivid creations, with caveats about child stories, sentimentality, and lack of detail in some sketches.
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Rudyard Kipling
Piazza
Tennis Court
Shore of the Sounding Sea
Kipling
India
White Lorse Hussars
Peliti’s
Vooree
Lundred Sorrows
Mr. Kipling
Mulvaney
Mather
Ould
McKenna
Bridget McKenna
Portarlington
Sanakin
Colaba MelKenna
Muttra McKenna
Jhansi
Garrison
Krishna Mulvaney
New York
John W. Lovell Company
Munro’s Seaside Library
Cents of the United States book review and race policy debate
A review highlights The Cents of the United States by Francis Worcester Doughty, detailing the long history of the copper cent from 1793 to 1857 and its artistic evolution. The piece also discusses radical race remedies in Congress, including Butler's deportation plan, noting the vast obstacles and social tensions.
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United States
Butler
New South
Francis Worcester Doughty
New York
Scott, Stamp and Coin Coi
Fords, Howard & Hualbert
South
Congress
South Carolina
Africa
Books Received In A Mix Of Memoirs Novels And Poems
A list of recent books including Memoirs of John Shipp by himself with intro by H sannets Chichester. Works on Shakespeare, Helena poems by Paul Elmer More, Want and Wealth by Edward J. Shriver, The Jews Under Roman Rule by Morrison, Nursery Alice by Carroll, Geoffrey Hampstead by Jarvis, Tempted by Beatrice Landon, Paul Nugent Materialist by Hetherington Burton, The House by the Medlar Tree by Verga, Sowing the Wind by Linton, Margaret Bang by Philips, A Smugler's Secret by Barrett and Collins, What Pierre Did With His Soul.
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John Shipp
H. Sannets
Chichester
New York
Macmillan
Stratford -on-Avon
Shakspere
Sy Sidney Lee
Macmillan & Co
Helena
Paul Elmer More
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Edward J. Shriver
G. P. Putnam's Sons
W. D. Morrison
G. P. Putnai’s Sons
Alice
Lewis Carroll
Macmillan& Co
Geoffrey Hampstead
Thomas 5. Jarvis
D. Appleton & Co
Beatrice Landon
Minerva Publishing Company
Paul Nugent
Robert Elsmere
Helen F. Hetherington
H. Darwin Burton
E. P. Dutton & Co
Giovanni Verga
Mary A. Craig
W. L. Howells
Harper & Bros
FE. Lynn Linton
John W. Lovell Company
Margaret B Ng
F. C. Philips
John W. Lowell Company
Frank Barrett
Mabel Collins
Sone In Lovell Company
Pierre
French Works and Translations Featured by Belford Co
A list of titles including The French of Georges Ohnet translated by E Bel ford Company and A Coquettes Love by Guy de Maupassant, published in New York by Belford Company. Also included A Prankish Pair A Fantasy From the French of Ginisty by Davenport published by Belford Company in New York.
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Georges Ohnet
New York
E Belford Company
Coquette
Guy de Maupassant
Belford Company
Ginisty
Davenport
Armengaud the Prophetess in Paris and Gard church
Paris correspondent reports the death of Mme Armengaud born 1805 in Nimes maiden name Henth. She proclaimed herself a prophetess during the Catholic reaction and claimed Christ commissioned her to reform the Protestant church in France. A Helteh ite church formed a shared community that lasted until her marriage and its dissolution followed by natural death.
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London Daily News
Mme. Armengaud
Paris
Nimes
Henth
Mile. Hentech
Department of the Gard
Jesus Christ
France
Christ
Satan
Mile
Henteh
Lhe
Keeping Warm by Electricity
An Idaho visitor in The New York Times extols electric bulbs for night warmth. He describes placing a bulb between sheets to heat the bed, noting it stays warm all night with no extra cost versus wood fires.
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N. ¥. Times
New York
Idaho
Tower Chapel Tales From London’s Historic Vaults
A London Letter describes the Tower of London Chapel near the scaffold site of Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey. It notes tombs and monuments, mentions Cromwell and More, and recalls warders guarding secrets amid press interest, with details on the Cholmondeley and Blount monuments and Lucy Apsley Hutchinson.
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London
Springfield
Tower Chapel
Anne Boleyn
Jane Grey
Thomas More
Thomas Cromwell
John Eliot
James Stuart
Duke of Monmouth
Monmouth
Kilmarnock
Balmerino
Simon Fraser
Lord Lovat
Elizabeth
Beef Eater
Cholmondeley
Earl and Countess
Blount
Tower
Henry VII
James I
Allen Apsley
Charles I
Raleigh and
Kinot
Lucy Apsley
Colonel Hutchinson
Carew Raleigh
Sir Walter
Changes in London Theatres Threaten West End Halls
The London Telegraph reports Covent Garden Theatre may soon be sold at auction. If Italian opera leaves Covent Garden, Harris could move the act to Drury Lane after remodeling its interior. The fate of major West End houses remains uncertain with rumors of upheaval.
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London Telegraph
Covent Garden Theatre
Harris
Drury Lane
Mrs Moody Merrill Improves After Long Illness At Home
Friends report Mrs Moody Merrill is improving rapidly after a serious heart condition kept her home for months. She left her room last Saturday for the first time in weeks, as Mr and Mrs Merrill’s Hiull cottage has been rented to the Hiull Yacht Club during repairs. Hood's Sarsaparilla promoted in ad copy as cleansing and strengthening the blood.
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Moody Merrill
Evelyn Butman
Lawrence Street
Boston
Murdock
Rise W
A. L. Murdock
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William Black
Orkneys
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Mozart
Lyonesse
Mihai Besant
Surper & Ros
Armengaud
London Tower
Mrs. Moody Merrill
Hood
American Insurance Co
Kilby Street
Messrs
George Croskhaw & CO
Francis Peabody
ELD
Henry
Bean Beak, Seoy
Enue New
OLE Proprietors and Manufacturer
Drvaarsts
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Pulton St
Geo
P. O
6Th Ave
U.S.A
Northampton St
A. & Starkweathes
Managore
Walkup
Framingham
Mass
Saywarp Plack
B. T. Feinal
Humphreys
Albany
U. S. Army Cavalry
D.D
K.E
Mange
J.K
Humphreys’ Med. Co
Fulton St
N. Y
Air Municipal
Broadway
England
Chesnut St
Berlin
Germany
Kangas City
Missouri
OrFrict
First National Bank of
Massachusetts
B.T. Tifft
Finance Committee
Bet
Tifet
Tallapoosa, GA
New England
Washington St
17 Mile Street
Treasury
Andrew A. Meyer
Treas
Wiley S. Edmands
Congress St
John Jefferies & Sons
Devonshire Street
City OF
Department of Parks
Park Commissioners
Milk St
Tremont
Longwood
Back Bay
Thomas EL
Livermore
Isaac Fenno
Francis A. Walker
Board of Park Commissioners of the City of
Office of Park Commisssioners
Milk Street
F.W. Ryder & SO Real Estate Auctioneers
Boylston Building
Cer, Washington and
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