Beecher's Death Looms as Yellow Fever Fears Spread
News items note Henry Ward Beecher near death, fears of yellow fever reduce Southern senatorial excursions, and a crippled signal service from budget shortfalls. Reports cover political slights, labor strikes, and local incidents from Milwaukee to New York.
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Henry Ward Beecher
New York
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Knights of Labor
Treasury Department
National Base Ball League
Indianapolis
Bay Chester
Milwaukee
Alexander Canafield
Winona
Miss
Lowell Daily News
Bernard D. O'Connell
Lewis Pike
Newburyport
General Miles
Nagles
Avi
Alderman Cleary
Annie
Marshall
Rochester
N. H
Kirk Street
Lowell
United States Supreme Court
Lynn Cutters
Cambridge
Septennate Bill Debate in Reichstag Amid Claims of Complicity
General Bronsart von Schellendorf introduces the septennate bill in the Reichstag with vows of unity and peace. Party leaders including Bennigssen Windthorst and Richter address the measure, signaling strong votes and potential passage as the bill moves to a second reading. Prince Bismarck attends as debate continues.
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Bennigssen
Reichstag
Windthorst
Centre Party
Herr von Helldorf
Herr Richter
Herr von Kardoff
Richter
House
Herr Singer
Reichensberger
Berwin
Prince Bismarck
Herr Windthorst
Explosion at Bay Chester dynamite works kills man
In Bay Chester on the Sound the dynamite works of Mrs. Mary A. Ditmar exploded at 12 50 PM, killing a German laborer Henry Altinger and blasting the mixing house and adjacent structures. Fireman Max Kruger was stunned but unharmed elsewhere. A prior Sept 30 blast killed four Italians. Ditmar had been tried for nuisance and acquitted.
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New York
Sredau
Mary A. Ditmar
Bay Chester
Ditmar
Henry Altinger
Max Kruger
Young Altinger
Beecher Death Watch as Pastor Lays Nearing End
Longtime Brooklyn pastor Henry Ward Beecher remains critically ill at his Hicks Street home. Family, friends, and clergy crowded the block as doctors warned death could come at any moment.
Night Settles Over Anxious Family At Home
A family remains indoors facing ongoing worry as they settle for another night. The scene centers on parts of the house and the quiet tension of anxious watchers.
Fragmentary quote on victims of devotion to Russia
A fragmentary line suggests a statement about men who suffered due to their devotion to Russia. The readable portion hints at a critical or reflective stance without clear context or attribution.
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Cludes
Torgev
Russia
Boston Street Railway Plans a Tunnel Under the Common
The West End Street Railway proposes to tunnel beneath Boston Common from Tremont to Charles streets with two passages, one to Beacon Hill and Bowdoin Square, another under the Common. The project awaits legislative and city approval with probable terminal facilities and property negotiations.
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Bowdoin Square
West End Street Railway
Metropolitan Road
South Boston
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Post
America
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Beacon Hill
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Cambridge
Pinckney
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Hyde Park
London
Boston
Mayor dismisses sewer chief in Boston overhaul
The Boston mayor removes Thomas J. Young from his post as superintendent of sewers for alleged mismanagement. City Engineer William Jackson to receive records and assume interim control. Costello, chief clerk, is also discharged as Jackson begins duties.
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Thomas Young
Mr. Young
City OF
Boston
Thomas J. Young
William Jackson
Iuan O'Brien
Young
O’brien
Jackson
James J. Costello
Fighting in a Cellar After Snowball Attack in Cambridge
Daniel Malone, 23, Belfast native living at 35 McCabe Street, assaulted Officer Robinson during a pursuit near Cambridge and McCabe streets. The officer sustained head wounds needing stitches. Malone was captured and jailed to face Judge Orcutt after the injured officer is able to appear. Three officers aided by Dr. Finnigan attended the case.
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Daniel Malone
McCabe Street
East Cambridge
Robinson
Kirk
Malone
McCabe
Jefferson Street
Ile
McCarthy
Coughlin
Belfast
Ireland
Finnigan
Tie
Emery Street
Judge Orcutt
International tensions rise over Dulgarian prisoners
Reports indicate international complications may follow from how the Dulgarian regency handles prisoners. German papers warn Russia against provoking Germany further while European affairs shift with royal succession in Holland and debates in various parliaments.
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Russia
Germany
Holland
House of Commons
London Times
Jacobini
Reichstag
Weather Turns Fair Then Colder in City
City notes a fair but colder day with several items on the agenda. The mayor removes Lewers Young as superintendent. The West End Railway plans a tunnel under the Common and Beacon Hill. Ancients entertain Lt Hayward of London. M Ventura begins readings from the Coquelin repertoire. Boylston Market Association rejects a property offer. Rev Joseph Cook weighs Christianity vs. fidelity. YWCA holds its annual meeting. Local stock market shows high activity, led by land shares West End Wollaston Land and Bonanza Mining. Boston bank statement shows a heavy reserve surplus loss.
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Common
Beacon Hill
Lieutenant Hayward
London
M. Ventura
Boylston Market Association
Joseph Cook
Young Women’s Christian Association
Wollaston Land
Boston
Supreme Court rules drummers taxed unconstitutional in Tennessee case
The United States Supreme Court, in a ruling by Justice Bradley, invalidates Tennessee and Maryland taxes on traveling salesmen without local licenses, stating interstate commerce is governed by federal regulations. The decision holds that taxing sales before the sale itself burdens interstate commerce and that Congress may set uniform rules if local measures harm trade.
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United States Supreme Court
Tennessee
Maryland
Robbins
State Supreme Court
District Court
United States
Congress
Justice Bradley
Fire destroys mill and warehouses. large losses reported
I H ups on Wis March 7 extensive Burkhardt touring mill plant burned this morning. Loss about 100000 with 40000 mill value and 15000 insured. Elevator and warehouse 40000 with 22500 insured and 85000 bushels of wheat inside. Rockuanp Me March 7 Swan's Island hotel burned. Joyce proprietor. Insurance 3000 on buildings and 00 on contents. Built 1883 at cost 5000. North Avamia March 7 Morrisey clothing store gutted in Collins block Adams. Bay State Clothing damaged. Noble Co dry goods damp. Loss Morrisey stock about 2000 fully insured. Collins block damaged 1000.
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I H Upson
Wis
O. Burkhardt
Rockuanp
Swan’s Island
H. W. Joyce
North Avamia
T. F
Morrisey
Collins Block
Firemen Quell Mild Blaze at Isaac Josephs Residence
Members of Cambridge steamer company No 2 extinguished a slight fire at 7 30 last evening in Isaac Josephs residence on Hawley street Cambridgeport. The blaze started from an onan crate.
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Steamer Company No. 2 of
Cambridge
Isaac Joseph
Hawley Street
Cambridgeport
Conservatives Issue a Whip on Irish Debate
A Conservative whip summons House of Commons members to ready support for the government at the close of the cloture debate. Parnellites and Radicals plan reliefs for a continuous sitting. Balfour hints at an Irish crimes bill. Bright opposes Unionist-Radical talks and any Irish legislature. Liberals form a committee to track Admiralty and War Office expenditures. Dalrymple may replace Galfour as Scotland secretary.
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Loxpon
House of Commons
Parnellites
Balfour
Ireland
Michael Hicks-Geach
John Bright
Gladstonians
Admiralty
Charles Dalrymple
Ipswich
Galfour
Scotland
Parnellites Told Times Accused Leaders of Ireland Murders
London March 7 Parnellites plan to urge the House to cite articles in the Times charging Mr Parnell Mr Sexton Arthur O Connor and others with knowledge and complicity in Irish murders The Times opens its series Parnellism and Crime denouncing league leaders as corruptly linked to murderers claiming the National League rests on assassination and bloodshed to aid crime legislation
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TIMES
London
National League
League
Rebels Executed and Whipped in Bulgarian Turmoil
Paris reports claim that Bulgarian rebels were punished by knouts after arrest in Sofia. M. Karaveloff allegedly dying from the whippings, five officers dead, and regents aim to deter revolt while Russia may not intervene. Despatches from Bucharest note further executions and exile of refugees.
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Paris
Temps
Sofia
M. Karaveloff
The
Russia
Bulgaria
Bucharest
Mareh
Rustchuk
M. Hurove
Russo German Complications Warn Germany in Berlin Dispatch
Berlin reports Komische Zeitung cautions Russia that German patience has limits if France Russia talks force Germany to face a Franco Russian pact. Kreuz Zeitung notes Petersburg letters show broad anti German sentiment and pro France as an epidemic influence. German consul seeks custody of Filoff Panoff and Kessimoff as Russian subjects. Panoff has been shot. Filoff and Kessimoff wounded and not yet tried. Captain Bollman dispatched to Giurgevo.
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Berlin
Komische Zeitung
Russia
Germany
Kreuz Zeitung
St. Petersburg
France
Rusrenik
Filoff
Major Panoff
Lisctanunt Kessimoff
Panoff
Kessimoff
Bollman
Giurgevo
Cardinal Jacobini's Successor Named
Rome reports on March 7 that Pope Leo XIII chose Mer Rampolla the Madrid nuncio to succeed the late Cardinal Jacobini as pontifical secretary of state.
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Cardinal Jacobini
Rome
Mer. Rampolla
Madrid
Pontifical
Jury Selection Delays Hold Up Cleary Trial
In New York eleven jurors remained today with seat seven vacant as peremptory challenges reach twenty five left. Court adjourned with four days spent vetting twelve jurors, and no final jury until after next week.
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New Yor
Cleary
Ambushed Outrage Prompted Mexican Officers Arrests Near Nogales
General Miles reported by telegram that troops were encamped near Nogales with no trouble anticipated. Mexican authorities regret the outrage by Lieutenant Guitierrez and four Mexican soldiers, have arrested all but one, and turned them over to American civil authorities.
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Los Avnaries
Cal
Miles
Lawton
Nogales
Guitierez
Printers' Strike Breaks as Men Return to Work
In Minwaukee Wisconsin on March 7 press men who joined last Friday's strike returned to offices today. The Typographical Union's back is broken and veteran workers seek their former roles. Proprieties of newspapers and job offices sign a command not to recognize the union in any manner in the future.
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Minwauker
Wis
Beecher Patriarch Near Death as Vigil Continues
New York on March 7 reports a dreary vigil at the Beecher home for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Family and physicians note his weakening condition as crowds gather for latest bulletins and telegrams arrive from relatives including Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Beecher Condition Bulletin Update From New York
New York reports two health bulletins on Mr. Beecher. At 62 m a.m. he failed gradually during the night but death is not anticipated. At 10:30 a.m. no change since the last bulletin.
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Plymouth
New York
Condition of Mr Beecher at present hour
The report notes no major change since last evening with vital signs worsening slightly. Pulse 108, respiration 36 to 38, temperature 101, indicating gradual vitality loss. hemhorrage could alter the course but no fatal outcome is expected today.
Beecher's Pulse Shows No Perceptible Change
In the report Mr. Beecher's pulse remains slightly rapid yet there is no noticeable alteration in condition.
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Mr. Beecher
Beechers Illness Worsens With Fluctuating Vital Signs
The nurse reports Mr. Beecher’s condition deteriorating with pulse around 110 to 114, respiration at 40, and temperature fluctuating between 99 and 101. The pulse has become dicrotic indicating heart-power failure while mucus accumulations impede breathing. Death is not imminent tonight, according to the physician, as the patient lies unconscious and in pain free but troubled state.
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Nawaser
Beecher
Beecher Nears End as Night Fails
At 10 p m Mr. Beecher is slowly failing. doctors say recovery seems unlikely, though death is not certain tonight.
Hoosiers in the lead for eighth baseball club
National Base Ball League meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with Indianapolis favored to secure the eighth franchise. Delegates discussed offers for St Louis and Kansas City, committees convened in secret, and optimism grew that Indianapolis would win the slot, despite rival bids.
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Fifth Avenue
A. L. Spalding
Chicago
F. K. Stearns
John Edson
Detroit
Ben Fine
Dave Rowe
Kansas City
D. S. Stromberg
St. Louis
John B
Day
Young and Spalding
Indianapolis
League
Denny
Glasscock
Hoosiers
Spalding
Beach Day
Aus
Soden
Hewitt
Stearns
Conant
Kirk Street Church Plans New Building in Lowery
Parishioners of the Kirk Street Congregational Church in New England move to secure a new church edifice. The present 1845 structure is unsuitable in location and age and several sites are under consideration with work expected to begin in months. Reverend Charles A. Dickinson leads a growing congregation.
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Lowery
Kirk Street
New England
Charles A. Dickinson
Negro murderer lynched near Winona Mississippi
A large mob in Winona Mississippi rescued Alex Crawford from jail and hanged him from a railroad trestle. Crawford, who killed Vic Loggins a merchant of Winona on February 28, died without making a statement.
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Memphis
Tenn
Winona
Miss
Alex Crawford
Vic Loggins
Couple Charged in Strychnine Pie Murder Attempt
Annie Marshall of Rochester New Hampshire was arrested on a warrant for attempting to murder her husband by lacing his pie with strychnine. Louis Johnson was arrested as an accomplice. A preliminary hearing is set for tomorrow.
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Rochester
N. H
Annie
Marshall
Louis Johnson
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