Elite Kentucky Whiskey touted as finest from Hetherston Co
The Hetherston Importing Co. promotes Elite Kentucky Whiskey as the best choice for discriminating buyers, noting sealed bottles in sizes from about a quart to a gallon and sold by first class druggists, hotels, and grocers. Listed merchants include F Church & Co at Court and Howard, W A DeMerritt at Columbus and Berkeley, Otto Van der Heyde at Meridian, Truman T. Reid at Washington, A J Hayman at Dudley and Hampden, and A D Marcy at Blue Hill Avenue, among others.
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Kentucky
Hetherston Importing Co
F. , Church & Co
Cor. Court
Howard Ats
Weather Recall of Hot June Days and July Heat
The cool spell ends as yesterday's heat nears ninety degrees and memories of June scorchers return. Streetcar tales show a hats-chasing conductor and briefless lawyers seeking Longwood shade while West End residents cope with heat on doorsteps and noisy brass bands. July rainfall totals ease drought with an inch and a quarter so far, but forecasts suggest hotter weather ahead.
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Lorida
South
Boston
Huntington Avenue
Albany
Longwood
West End
Washington
Germany
Annie Rooney
Signal Service Bureau
Aspen Disaster Claims Eighth Victim and Worsening Conditions
Aspen reports Frank Ellis is the eighth death from the Midland disaster at Aspen Junction. Others including Leonard and his wife, and Thomas and Mary O'Donnell are near death, with officials saying none of the injured may survive. A Midland party arriving from the scene details a fatal steam blast when a switch misled the light engine, trapping passengers in a sealed compartment as vapor filled the car.
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Aspen
Col
Frank Ellis
Midland
Aspen Junction
Leonard
Thomas
Mary O'Donnell
Colorado Springs
Shepard
Hoe
ANT TEM TO BEAT CAMPBELL. CLEVELAND, QI, July 13.
Delegates to the Ohio Democratic Convention gather as Governor James E. Campbell is expected to be renominated on the first ballot. Opponents Neal of Chillicothe and Kline of Cleveland mount rival bids. The anti Campbell coalition unites under "Anything to beat Campbell" as the Kline boom grows.
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Campbell
Cleveland
James E. Campbell
Lawrence I. Neal
Chillicothe
Virgil
Kline
Denver Rio Grande Board Reports No Dividend Till Funds
New York July 13 The chairman of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad board says no dividend will be paid on the preferred stock because there is no money to pay one.
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New York
The
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Steamers Arrived at Ports From Liverpool and Montreal
Ships arriving in Boston New York Philadelphia London Dublin Glasgow Montreal and Antwerp report arrivals from Liverpool Jamaica Bremen Philadelphia and Montreal. Vessels include Samaria Etheldred Aurama Tauric Lord Gough Fulda Circassian Dominion and others with July 11 to July 18 dates noted.
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Boston
Samaria
Liverpool
Etheldred
Jamaica
New York
Aurama
Tgland
London
Tauric
Philadelphia
Lord Gough
Southampton
Fulda
Bremen
Straits of Mgeilan
Newark
Euskar
Federation
Montreal
Dublin
Lord O'Neill
Maltimore
Glasgow
Colina
Circassian
Avonmouth
Dominion
Ema
Ohio
Shanghai
Guy Mannering
Father Point
Alcides
Antwerp
Friesland
Dedham Murder Shaken by Drunken Axe Attack
In Dedham East Dedham a man named George Nagle killed his wife Belle Nagle with an axe while drinking and after staging the scene he surrendered at a nearby store. He was wounded in self-inflicted blows and jailed awaiting hearing after autopsy.
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Drepham
Dedham
East Dedham
West Dedham
George Nagle
Bussey Street
Mill Creek Lane
Mrs. Burns
Mrs.Nagle
Nagle
Murray
William J. Hayes
Francis L. Babcock
Walnut Street
Belle
Martin J. Barrett
James J. Caffney
Washington Street
Donley
Belle Nagle
Seth W. Corbett
Catherine Burns
Mr. Nagle
Merchants Mill
Mr. Murray
Nage H
Will Exhume Smiler's Body For Autopsy Inquest
New York coroner plans to exhume Harris Smiler, executed at Sing Sing, for an autopsy with a medical jury and electrical experts to be subpoenaed witnesses. Albany officials dispute the authority, stating no inquest is permitted and warning witnesses may refuse to answer.
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New York
Levy
Harris Smiler
Sing Sing
Warden Brown
Smiler
Lavy
President at Cape May Reviews Pardon Applications
At Cape May Port New Jersey the President reviewed pardon petitions for offenses against postal and polygamy laws. Edstrom of New York had his sentence commuted from two years to one year four months for embezzlement of letters. Myers of DC had his forgery sentence denied. Justesen of Utah had his two year term commuted to one year with polygamy abstinence condition. Terry of Sept 20 1890 and Herlend of Jan 17 1891 saw commutations to one year on polygamy adultery charges under the same conditions. Jesperson of Oct 10 1889 had his three to five year sentence reduced to one year nine months with same terms.
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Carr May Port
N.J
Warren F. Edstrom
New York
Erie County
William Myers
District of Columbia
Albany
Rasmus Justesen
Utah
Charles A. Terry
Thomas Herlend
Hand Jesperson
Blaine declares health sound amid false illness rumors
Bar Harbor Me July 13 Associated Press says Secretary Blaine spoke calmly that he is well and not ill, rejects reports of sickness as exaggerated. He noted daily activities, appetite, and rides in an open carriage, with Emmons Blaine confirming his father’s improvement.
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Bar Harbor
Associated Press
Blaine
Emmons Blaine
Signal Man's Error Triggers Paris Train Collision
A club special train between Calais and Paris collided with the Lisle express at Gare du Nord. The club train rear-ended the Lisle train, injuring conductors and passengers. One Lisle passenger died in hospital. the signal man admits failing to signal the club train to stop due to confusion with multiple trains.
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Paris
Calais
London
Lisle
Garde du Nord
Mime
Regnier
Garae du Nord
Burgess Sketch of Boats He Designed and His Death
The shock of Edward Burgess death touched Boston and yachtsmen nationwide. He was a modest, patriotic naval architect whose career began with the Eastern Yacht Avenue in 1882 and produced famed designs from the Kitty sloop to the Puritan and Mayflower. His work sparked a wave of orders for 40 to 70 footers and light, semi composite construction influencing yacht design for years.
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Edward Burgess
Boston
William
Milton Academy
Charles
Lawley’s
C. F. Folsom
General Paine
Commodore Soley
Charles A. Prince
Dr. Bryant
Mr. Burgess
Sidney
Avenay
Kitty
Burgess
J. Malcolm Forbes
Sachem
Titania
Oenone
Merlin
Constellation
Adams Boys
New York
Babboon
James Means
Lara
Verena
J. Arthur Beebe
Owenee
Beatrix
Sayonara
Mineola
Ilarim
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ildrim
Hammel
Daniel 5. Ford
J. M. Forbes
O. B. Jennings
Sapphire
John Stetson
United States Hydrographic Survey Service
J. E. Forbes
C. O'B. Iselin
Newark
Carrie E. Philips
Carrie
Dixon
Fredonia
Adams
Varuna
United States
Department of the Quartermaster General of the
Camden
N. J
Cunningham & Thompson
Gloucester
Gloriana Victories Kept From Burgess To Preserve Mind
Yachtsmen recall the Gloriana’s victories over Burgess’s Mineola and Sayonara now kept from him. The yachts named Hawk, Saladin, Saracen and Fancy are noted as his designs. The aim was to prevent ex erting his mind on outcomes.
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Hawk
Fancy
Burgess
International Congregational Council Opens In London
Delegates from the United States and British colonies gather at Holborn for the International Congregational Council opening. Alfred Slingworth presides at breakfast. Dr. Dale welcomes delegates and notes kinship in faith. Elected presidents and vice presidents are named amid prayers for Dr. Spurgeon’s health.
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Loxpon
Holborn
United States
International Congregational Council
Alfred Slingworth
West Bradford
Wingworth
Memorial Hall
Robert Williams Dale
Dale
Bevan
Melbourne
Australia
Northrop
Minnesota
A. H. Quint
Boston
Rogera
London
Charles H. Spurgeon
Palmer
Bridgeport
Conn
Nobie
Chicago
Gosman
Jarvie
Brown
Congregational Union
Hannay
English Union
Carnot Escape Rumor Sparks Paris Uproar at Opening
Paris july 13 amid rumors president Carnot shot in Paris crowd turmoil followed by a near assault. The alleged attacker shouted about demolishing bastilles before being seized and later found to be a madman released from lunatic asylum. Carnot attended the Avenue de la Republic ceremony unharmed and composed.
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Paris
Carnot
Avenue de la Republic
M. Carnot
French Naval Manouvers in Gulf of Lyons End in Attack on Toulon
Paris reports the French naval manouvers in the Gulf of Lyons concluded with the entire fleet attacking Toulon. Ministers Ribot and Barbey, along with diplomatic attaches and numerous senators, witnessed the clash as sixty warships faced torpedo vessels and shore batteries. Balloons to tow steamers featured in the maneuvers, and the official account praised ironclads for three days of speedy, collision-free operations and urged larger, swifter cruisers.
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Paris
Gulf of Lyons
Toulon
Ribot and
Barbey
Mediterranean
Melbourne Under Water After Prolonged Rains
Heavy rainfall has caused the Yarra River to overflow flooding Melbourne. Streets are submerged and railroads blocked. Thousands are homeless as misery spreads, with inundation not seen since 1863.
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Melbourne
Yarra Yarra
France and Newfoundland arbitration stance in Parliament
London July 13 Sir James Fergusson Under Foreign Secretary said the French Government had not yet moved in the Chamber of Deputies to assent to arbitration of the Newfoundland question.
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France
Newfoundland
London
House of Commons
James Fergusson
Chamber of Deputies
Belfast MP summoned to answer criminal charges
In an acting on motion by Mr. Goschen, the House of Commons orders Mr. de Cobaine, member for Belfast, to attend the session on the 23rd to answer the accusations of criminal practices. The action follows the accusation against him.
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DE Cobaine
Lonnox
Goschen
House of Commons
Belfast
Pilgrims to Mecca Quarantined At El Tor
Cairo July 18 cholera at Mecca affects travelers returning from pilgrimage. Those coming via Mecca must endure a twenty day quarantine at El Tor before continuing through the Suez Canal.
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Mecca
Cairo
el Tor
Suez Canal
Williams D Croger Ends Life In Wilton Home
Norwalk July 13 William D Croger 26 of New York killed himself by hanging outside his Wilton bedroom door this morning. Cause described as temporary aberration.
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Norwalk
Conn
William D. Croger
New York
Wilton
Two Syracuse firms close doors provokes local shock
Hard Bros. & Co. of Oneida and KR. M. Bingham & Co. of Rome suspend business amid large bank debts. Hard Bros. owes Stark & Co. $75,000 with $20,000 secured. un secured deficit about $55,000. Bingham & Co. owe $71,500 to Oneida bank, which closed but made no assignment. Total liabilities estimated at $125,000 and $225,000 respectively. A separate filing from Island Sash and Door Co. in Milwaukee assigns assets valued at $130,000, liabilities unknown.
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Syracuse
Hard Bros. & Co
Oneida
Stark & Co. Bank
KR. M. Bingham & Co
Rome
Bingham & Go
Milwauker
Wis
Island Sash and Door Company
Hanlon Acrobat Killed in Forepaughs Circus Tragedy
Willam Hanlon one of the Hanlon brothers died after a trapeze bar broke in Forepaughs circus in Lyons Indiana. He was thrown about thirty feet to the ground and his neck was broken. He was 31 years old and leaves a wife in New York. He had previously fallen sixty feet at the Academy of Music in New York but survived.
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Corps of Cadets
New York
A. A
Baltimore
Athletics
St. Louis
Boston
N. L
Blaine
New Jersey
Aspen
Col
Hanlon
Lyons
Smiler
Senator Kenna
Cleveland
John M. Comstock
Willam Hanlon
Hanlon Brothers
Hanson
Academy of Music
MR DOUGLASS IN HAYTI
Reports in New York steamship dispatches claiming Minister Douglass quit Port au Prince due to Haytian government hostility are dismissed by the United States Department of State as untrue and unfounded.
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Douglass
Hayti
Washincron
New York
Port-au-Prince
United States
Endowment at Union Theological Seminary in Jeopardy
New York July 13 Eight hundred thousand dollars nearly the entire cash endowment of Union Theological Seminary is in jeopardy due to the directors action in the Dr Briggs controversy. The seminary founded in 1836 by conservative Presbyterians was placed under Presbyterian control to secure donations. Donations may be withdrawn as directors refuse to follow General Assembly vote disapproving Briggs election. Russell Sage awaits directors jail action to decide on a 5000 dollar donation. Endowment withdrawal hinges on fall actions.
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New York
Union Theological Seminary
Dr. Briggs
Brown
Presbyterian Church
Edwin D. Morgan
General Assembly
Briggs
Russell Sage
Foreign built yachts face new tonnage rule at Newport
Newport R I July 138 Yachtsmen protest a new enforcement requiring foreign built yachts owned by Americans to pay fifty cents per ton on arrival from another revenue district. The rule affects vessels like Conqueror Avira Catarina Minerva Miranda Stranger Amy Clara and others and could limit cruising and racing. If enforced yachts leaving or racing beyond district lines would owe tonnage, threatening the vitality of yachting and high profile races.
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Newport
R. I
W. K. Vanderbilt
F. v. Sand
Catarina
Minerva
Miranda
Stranger
Amy
Clara
Stacks of Gold Discovered After Lena Weinberg Death
Lena Weinberg, longtime Huff House keeper in Winona Minnesota, died by suicide about two years ago. About $12 000 in gold was found hidden in trunks with false bottoms and later $13 000 more was found in an old piano stool. Heirs in Sweden had received the earlier sum. Executors plan possible lawsuits amid theories of ownership linked to Colonel Cockrell.
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Winona, Minn
Lena Weinberg
Huff House
Sweden
Baltimore
E. As Goodtzen
Lena
Colonel Cockrell
Ballot box fraud trial opens in Jersey City case
The trial of John P Murray Oscar C Stringham Thomas E Smith and Martin J Flynn for ballot box stuffing in Jersey City’s Fifth precinct Second district during the 1889 election began before Judge Lippincott. Five election boards have been sentenced to eighteen months in State Prison for stuffing ballots. Flynn is linked to the Foresters, Smith to a Barrow Street stable owner, Stringham a surveyor of works, Murray an ox driver for Police Justice Robert Davis’s Jersey City Supply Co. The forenoon saw a struck jury.
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New York
John P. Murray
Oscar C. Stringham
Thomas E. Smith
Martin J. Flynn
Election Board
Jersey City
Lippincott
Hudson County Court House
Flynn
Order of Foresters
Smith
Bryan Smith
Barrow Street
Sirinham
Murray
Robert Davis
Theersey City Supply Company
City
Hudson County
Arrival of La Champagne Reaches New York Dock
The steamer La Champagne arrived off Sandy Hook too late for quarantine and docked last night. Among saloon passengers were Mrs. J. J. Astor, Miss Astor, and Miss Bayard. The ship carried 296 steerage passengers.
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LA Champagne
New York
Sandy Hook
You Can Place the Credit of Your Family in This Office
A compact ad urges readers to invest in life insurance, promising access to funds during life and a payout to heirs on death. It touts National Life Insurance Company with agent J Pulls, at 169 Dover Street, Boston, highlighting ease of access and a strong opportunity.
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Nat’l Life Ins
Pulls
State Agt
Dov
Bostou
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