Messiah of the Indians Meets Peculiar Prophet at Walker Lake
Lieutenant Robertson reports Henry Reed Arapahoe interpreter identifies a Paleute named Johnson as the Messiah, seen by Cheyenne poet Poem who describes a crucifixion scar, visions, and a warning to avoid fighting as Arapahoes revolt. Mandan residents report armed bands terrorizing towns while authorities fear delays in aid. December seen as possible Messiah arrival, but signs depend on weather, with Troops deployed to agencies to deter unrest.
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F. C. Robertson
Henry Reed
Arapahoe
Reed
Johnson
Walker Lake
Pahute
Nevada
Olice
Christ
Minnrapoliis
Mipn
the Tribune
Mandan
N. 1
Ardrom
Messiah
Fort Lincoln
Washineton
Scofield
Miles
War Department
United States
Ruger
Army and Navy Gazette Special Army and Navy Orders
Army orders announce Captain George S Pond to Fort Riley Kansas as post quartermaster. Transfers in Ninth Cavalry and Thirteenth Infantry list captains and lieutenants between troops and companies. Acting judge advocate details and three month leaves granted. Naval orders detach Ensign Edward W Eberlee for three months leave and assign Surgeon H M Martin to retiring board. Baker ordered to special duty at Navy Department.
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Washington
George S. Pond
Fort Riley
Kansas
Ninth Cavalry
M. B. Hughes
F. B. Taylor
Thirteenth Infantry
F. I. DeCourcy
William Alman
Emerson Griffith
G. R. Ceycil
Charles McClure
Eighteenth Infantry
Department of Columbia
W. E. Birkhimer
Third Artillery
C. M. Gandy
Edward W. Eberlee
Albatross
H. M. Martin
Wabash
A. ©. Baker
Palos
Navy Department
Improvements on the Bennington gunboat underway
The Navy Department authorizes boat deck extension and rigging changes to the Bennington at Roach's ship yards. Poop deck extended, mainmast removed, vessel rigged as a schooner, conning tower removed, chart house extended to add an emergency state room, and armament upgraded from six to eight five-inch guns. Alterations will take at least six months.
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Bennington
Cuester
Penn
Navy Department
Roach
Rail workers strike over pay day at Prort and Peoria rail line
About 230 freight handlers switchmen engineers and firemen on the Peoria and Pekin Union railroad walked off this morning in Prort Illinois to push for Saturday pay instead of Monday. In Springfield a Glasgow Mills plant in South Hadley Falls saw one hundred weavers strike over a wage dispute with a mill agent and a boss.
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Prort
Ill
Peoria & Pekin Union Railroad
Springfield
Glasgow
South Hadley Falls
Train Plunges From Bridge Into Kaw River Fatalities Likely
A freight train with six cars and an engine plunged into the Kaw River near its mouth in Kansas City Kansas at 6 33 this morning. Expected casualties range from twelve to thirty with several Armour packing employees among the injured and missing others. A second report from Kyle Texas notes a pay car collision injuring many aboard a passenger train. actress Mrs Mundy sustained potentially fatal injuries.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Henry Coleman
Will Crawford
Henry Williams
Kan
Armour’s Packing House
Christian Patch
Thomas Mulligan
Lawrence
S. V. Smith
Stockman
Latham
L. Latimore
Tex
Kyle
International & Great Northern Road
Mundy
Must Remain a Soldier Washington Nov 17 Supreme Court Grimley case
Justice Brewer delivers the opinion reversing a Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling on Grimley a man who enlisted at age forty claiming to be twenty eight The Supreme Court says the oath of allegiance converts him to a soldier making the enlistment valid and remanding for custody by military authorities
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Washington
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
United States
John Grimley
Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court
District of Massachusetts
Grimsey
United States Circuit Court For
Grimley
Fatalities on the Track at Dedham and Nearby
In Dedham near Dedham Junction a brakeman named William Brown from Canton died after a box car derailed beneath him as others passed over him. He was about 35. In Hyoe Park Richard Quinlan of Roxbury was killed after an altercation with a man named Firth. Quinlan was struck by a Boston-bound engine. In Waltham Ambrose S. Wilder, shipping foreman at the dye works, died after being crushed between a moving freight train and a platform. he left a wife and several children.
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William Brown
Canton
Dedham
New York & New England Railroad
Dedham Junction
Brown
Hyoe Park
fSorcrau
Richard Quinlan
American Tool Company
Firth
Boston
New York & New England
Quinlan
Roxbury
Wattr
New 32-ton cannon to guard Halifax fortifications
Halifax Nova Scotia reports a powerful new gun on its way from England for coastal defences along with three other guns. The largest weighs 32 tons with a 10 inch bore, 27 feet 6.5 inches long, and a 250 pound powder charge. It can penetrate 19.5 inches of wrought iron at 2000 yards. Two such guns and two 10 ton guns will be installed on McNab's Island in a monster slide carriage over twenty tons in weight.
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Halifax
N.S
England
McNabb’s Island
Golden wedding celebrated by Ludingtons in Fairhaven
New Haven Nov 17 Mr and Mrs Caleb L Ludington of Fairhaven marked their golden wedding after thirty six years together. The couple enjoy good health and were joined by a large company of friends and relatives. Mr Ludington performed a capital old fashioned break down and many valuable gifts were received.
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New Haven
Caleb L. Ludington
Fairhaven
Ludington
Boiler explosion at Mertztown stove factory kills three
A boiler exploded at Edward Trexler's stove factory in Mertztown Reading on November 17 wounding and killing workers. Henry Epler Sassman Hilbert and Charles Oswald died instantly while James Epler Fred Delong Albert Repparat James Bausher and Charles Albert were severely injured with burns and broken limbs.
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Reading
Penn
Edward ‘Trexler
Mertztown
Henry Epler
Sassman Hilbert
Charles Oswald
James Epler
Fred Delong
Albert Repparat
James Bausher
Charles Albert
Epler
Delong
Albert
Ohio official vote shows Ryan landslide plurality
The official abstract of the vote at the recent election lists Ryan as the winner with a 10,969 plurality. Total vote reached 742,972. Congressional districts remain unchanged with 14 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the delegation.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ryan
Dartmouth Freshmen and Sophomores Clash in Rainy Turf Fight
In Hanover on November 17 a sophomore versus freshman football game was played in heavy rain. The teams were evenly matched and the sophomores won by a close margin amid pools of water and a partially frozen, slippery field drawing a large crowd.
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Hanover
N. H
Suit for $10,000 Against a Railroad
New Haven, Nov 17 The New York, New Haven Hartford railroad was served with papers in a suit for $10,000. Plaintiff H P Weise of Hampden alleges his horse’s hoof was caught in rails on the Northampton division July 26. A train struck the animal and threw Weise from the carriage causing permanent injuries.
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New Haven
Conn
New York, New
Women at Johns Hopkins Fund for Medical Education Terms
The Johns Hopkins trustees accept a $100000 gift for women’s medical education on the condition that admitted students have equivalent previous training and that the medical school open only after a separate fund reaches $500000. The Baltimore committee pursues funding through March 1, 1891, to support the plan and accelerate admission on equal terms.
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Johns Hopkins University
University
Garrett
Henry Winter Davis
Davis
Women’s Medical Schoo
Women’s Medical School
Baltimore Committee
Union Trust Company of
New York
Fair Opens At Horticultural Hall For Aged Couples Aid
The annual fair to benefit the Home for Aged Couples opened yesterday at Horticultural Hall. Despite dreary weather, a good attendance supported by generous patrons filled the upper hall for a supper served from 6 to 8. Squires preside over tables assisted by daughters as the Salem Cadet Orchestra provided music. The lower hall holds numerous useful and fancy articles while the president Mrs Dr E A Carleton oversees the platform desk. The event runs day and evening through the week.
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Horticultural Hall
Stephen M. Allen
John Walley
T. ©. Evans
W. P. Clark
A. B. Robinson
Eri. C. Anderson
W. E. Page
A. B. Corner
P. J. McDonald
W. H. Brown
A. P. Martin
W.B. Tilton
F. J. Hutchinson
J. W. Smith
Jamess
Burbank
Salem Cadet Orchestra
E. A. Carleton
KE. C. Anderson
Biddeford Aldermen Trial Resumes in Portland
Portland, Nov 17 Judge Colt returned and the Biddeford aldermen trial resumed this afternoon. William Rose testified the aldermen planned to strike names of all naturalization papers from the Biddeford court four days before the fall election. Garnache West and Simpson testified similarly. Evidence is in and the case will be argued tomorrow.
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Portland
Colt
William Rose
Biddeford
Garnache
West
Simpson
New Websters International Dictionary reviewed in depth
A lengthy appraisal of Webster's International Dictionary revised under Noah Porter. The piece praises its compact, clearly printed text, extensive appendices, and careful etymology while criticizing archaic spellings and some Chaucer and Shakespeare renderings. It notes contributors Loomis Campbell and Walter Allen, and highlights broader language history and pronunciation guidance.
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New Haven
Noah Porter
Stormouth
Department of
Webster
Loomis J. Campbell
Walter Allen
Messrs. F. Sturges Allen
Robert Dawson
George I. Packard
Francis L. Palmer
J. Norton Johnson
Dr. Webster
Shakspere
Milton
George Lyman Kittredge
Harvard
Kittredge
Sheldon
Skeat
Miller
Lebster
L. A Mass
G. & C. Merriam & Co
Book Notes on Hiawatha and Related Works
A review of the illustrated Riverside edition of Hiawatha with pen and ink margins, and over twenty photogravures in the Vedder style. Also covered are The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun translated by R. H., Familiar Letters of James Howell edited by W. H. Bennett, A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell, The Science of Thought revised by Charles Carroll Everett, Lowell’s Poems Volumes 1 and 2, and Idle Musings by E. Conder Gray, noting editions, illustrations, and critical reception.
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Hiawatha
Riverside Press
Vedder
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Frederick Remington
Boston
Houghton, Mittin & Co
France
Marie Bashkirtseff
R. H
New York
Cassell Publishing Company
Handy Stott Library
James Howell
Charles the First
W.H. Bennett
London
David Stott
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Mr. Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Houghton, Miftin & Co
Everett
Charles Carroll Everett
D.D
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co
Lowell
Biglow
Phillips
Houghton Mifflin & Co
E. Conder Gray
GG. P. Putnam’s Sons
Boston Stock Exchange Members Apprise Free Appraisals
Members of the Boston Stock Exchange offer appraisals free to the public, with service emphasized as no charge. The notice highlights accessibility for investors seeking valuation of securities and related assets.
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The
Boston Stock Exchange
Nervous Prostration Case Credited to Murdock's Food
Weston Massachusetts November 3 1890 letter from ORDWAY describes a twelve year old boy’s recovery from a long nervous shock and inability to attend school. After two large bottles of Murdock's Food the boy gained strength and attended Boys Latin School with no absences for two months. The family attributes his improvement entirely to the product.
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Murdock
Riurdock
Ordway
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