Sugar Trust Troubles Delay New Refinery Plan
In New York on October 24 a fresh hitch in sugar trust negotiations arises from Standard of Boston proposing a Baltimore refinery. Trust members oppose the project while Boston backers insist they knew of the plan before the trust formed and have advanced arrangements. A meeting at Matthieson & Wercher on Wall Street is set for tomorrow afternoon to discuss it.
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Sugar Trust
Standard Company of Boston
Baltimore
Boston
Matthieson & Wercher
Wall Street
Republican Rally Delivers Lively Boston Address Politically Charged
A large audience at Music Hall heard ex Governor Long and other speakers including Lodge and Robinson praise the Republican record. Dr Burden urged voting list reforms as the path to victory while criticizing Democrats and the Mugwumps.
Local Shooting Club Reports Three Range Matches
About twenty Shooting Club members visited the Watertown range yesterday afternoon to compete in three matches. High winds kept scores modest while the event proceeded.
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Watertown
Ichard Hochdorfer
Edward Everett Hale
Royce
Sevel
Tallant and
Lee
Pennsylvania Railroad Oct 26 Tour Showcases Eastern Scenery
The trip traverses lowland and plateau, highland and mountain, valley and rain, forest and stream, offering a grand panorama from railroad car windows. The eastern Union scenery promises varied and picturesque views for travelers on the tour.
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Union
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Shipping arrivals and departures list with ports and dates
A naval/steamship log records multiple vessel movements on October dates. Ships including Polynesia Eider Wandrahm Benlarig Leuh etc travel between New York Hamburg Bremen Montreal Havana and other ports with routes noted for October 22 to 28 and various off positions near Deal Lizard Father Point Vortland Gibraltar Havre Leith Leith Rotterdam Glasgow Liverpool Philadelphia etc.
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Gellert
New York
Hamburg
London
Denmark
Southampton
Eider
Bremen
Liverpool
Philadelhia
Glasgow
State of Pennsylvania
Father Point
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Montreal
Polynesia
Benlarig
Ethiopia
Santiago
St Jago
Ailsa
Carthagena
Saratoga
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Lemuria
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Lord Gough
George Heaton
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Remembrance
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Var
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Otranto
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Newport News
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Marseille
New Orleans
Norfolk
Virginian
Boston
Gibraltar
Olympia
Mediterranean
Vortland
Sorrento
Disasters and political notes from the morning papers
Reports of lake disasters and a sugar trust hitch. Troops en route to Crow outbreak delayed by snow. Jefferson Davis welcomed in Montgomery during cold spell. Detroit defeats St. Louis. banquets follow. Garrett fears mental decline. Germanites push Washington clerks to vote. Chandler urges dignity and probe bribery in Hazen veto. Hartington faults Liberal Federation. Blunt bail. Randoph Churchill on Blunt. Kilrush meeting draws 6000. Princess Beatrice bears a daughter. Belgium neutrality tensions rise per North German Gazette.
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Fort Meade
Jefferson Davis
Macon
Montgomery
Baltimore
Washington
Chandler
New Hampshire
Hazen
Lord Hartington
Nottingham
Gladstone
Liberal Federation
Wilfrid Blunt
Woodford
Loughrea
Stockton
Lord Randolph Churchill
Kilrush
Beatrice
Prince Henry of
Weather and city notes from a Boston page
The weather is colder but fair. The Massachusetts State AFL held its convention with twenty three unions represented. Metropolitan directors voted to sell their road to West End Street Railway. Congregational Club met largely with clergy discussing Church and State and Bible in public schools. General Walker lectured on Anarchism and Socialism to the Trinity Club. Republicans held a ratification meeting at Music Hall. The stock market was dull with losses. Boston banks showed a favorable week. Intimations arose of an early lease of the Boston and Providence by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
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Francis A. Walker
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Boston & Providence
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Maker’s Furniture and Brooms Ad in Cambridgeport
An OCR fragment shows an advertisement for maker’s furniture brooms priced at 1.89 dollars at Washington Street near Cambridgeport. It includes a slogan about thinking like a philosopher and mentions a cigar brand with a Boston address.
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Washington St
Cambridgeport
Hartington Rampant The Federation Denounced
London dispatch reports Lord Hartington attacking the Liberal Federation as a one man association with no national character. He cites 1885 election pledges and criticizes Gladstone's disestablishment stance and vague policy. Police violence at Woodford sparks protests and strong nationalist sentiment across Ireland and London.
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Woodford
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National League
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Cork
France Hopes Suez Neutralization Eases Egypt Strife
Paris dispatch notes that the France England accord on Suez could lead to early neutralization of Egypt and cooler ties between Paris and London. It denies claims of accepting French sovereignty over Leeward Islands and Iraytian Archipelago. The Temps explains the older treaty tied to non intervention in Sonstevent near Tahiti.
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Republique Francaise
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England
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Egypt
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Tahiti
Afghan Affairs Report Cabal Escape and Rail Route Plans
London reports Mirafzal Khan escaped from Meshed and is heading to Ghorian to join Ayoub Khan. Hazara tribes show rebellion signs after Nazir Hassan Ali Khan’s arrival. Russians move: ten thousand with four mule batteries reach Khawal ing. five thousand to Darwaz. Ameer authorizes trunk roads between Karatgin and Khawaling and between Khawaling and Darwuz.
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Mirafzal Khan
Meshed
Ghorian
Ayoub Khan
Nazir Hassan Ali Khan
Khawaling
Darwaz
Ameer
Karatgin
Darwuz
Great Colliery Fire in Newcastle Pit
The Walker coal pit at Newcastle is on fire. Three miners were rescued terribly burned, six were recovered dead, and twenty one men in all have been rescued alive.
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Walker
Newcastle
London
Death on the Lakes Weather Bound Wrecked and Sunk
Storm on the Great Lakes leaves multiple vessels ashore and wrecked across Michigan Ontario and Ohio ports. Ships named include J. E. Potts Sherman Alva Bradley George Spencer Ironton Tremble Alberta Garden Empire India and others with crews saved feared lost or dead. Dredges vessels and barges face peril as life-saving crews respond to ongoing hazards.
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Sherman
Alva Bradley
Marquette
George Spencer
Ironton
Tremble
Lake George
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Garden Empire
United River
India
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Duluth
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Free Press
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Argonaut
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Zach Chandler
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Ont
Oriental
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Sydney
Tilmour & Co
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Here
L. H. Bullock
Oswego
Port Burwell
John Kelderhouse
Buffalo
Cuheeroygan
Delaware
Erie & Western Transportation Line
Lake Huron
Hammond’s Bay
Princess Beatrice Delivers A Daughter In Britain
Bal Moral Castle reports Princess Beatrice wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg has given birth to a daughter. Both mother and child are reported well.
National Bank in Axpany Designated as Government Depository
The National Commercial Bank of Axpany, with ex Secretary Manning as director and president, is named a government depository for Treasury funds. Under Secretary Fairchilds order the bank may receive 275000 dollars in deposits after depositing 250000 in government bonds. The bank will retire 250000 of its circulation secured by government bonds rated at 90.
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N. Y
Specran
National Commercial Bank
Manning
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Iairchild
Pans
Govern
Peruvian Congress Refuses Debt Settlement Contract
New York news reports that Peru’s Congress will not ratify the proposed settlement with English bondholders, which would have granted concessions in exchange for the national debt bonds.
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New York
Jefferson Davis Arrives In Montgomery With Family
Ex President Jefferson Davis and his wife with two daughters pass through Montgomery on the way to Macon. A 100 gun salute greets the train as thousands line the route and ladies deck the car with flowers.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jefferson Davis
Macon
Snow delays cavalry and infantry dispatch from Fort Meade
Deapwood Dakota reports heavy snow postponing the move of three cavalry and two infantry companies from Fort Meade. A record storm left fifteen inches of snow and temperatures at sixteen degrees below zero.
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Deapwood, Dak
Fort Meade
Republicans Nominate Knox and Nicoll for Masachusetts Attorney
The Republican conference at the Fifth Avenue Hotel selected John W. Knox and Delancey Nicoll as candidates for the post of Mascittorney.
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Fifth Avenue Hotel
New Yor
John W. Knox
Delancey Nicoll
Small shed and car fires reported near railroads
An early morning alarm from Box 415 reported the burning of a small shed owned by the Boston and Maine railroad in Charlestown. A later alert from Box 574 noted a slight fire in an old car at the Allston repair shops of the Boston and Albany railroad.
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Charlestown
Allston
Boston & Albany Railroad
Howe Declared Nominee After Middlesex Repub Convention
In Lowell at Jackson Hall the seventh Middlesex district Republicans met with 60 delegates present. An informal ballot gave Frank W. Howe 33 votes, Artemus Tyler 14, B. Conant 8, and 7 scattering. Howe was named the nominee. David Willman stirred controversy by accusing Senator Frye of lying about wages in England.
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Seventh Middlesex
Jackson Hall
James W. Bennett
G. A. Gerry
Avery B. Clark
Committee On Credentials
Frank W. Howe
Artemus Tyler
B. Conant
Mr. Howe
J. W. Bennett
State Committee
David Willman
Frye
England
Saratoga in Distress Off Point Judith Misidentified
The New York bulletin reports a gale off Point Judith. the training ship Saratoga, not Portsmouth, was in danger with four anchors out. Dolphin, sent by Admiral Luce, found Saratoga able to free herself as wind shifted, avoiding shore contact and continuing to New York.
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Portsmouth
Point Judith
Yates
New Hampshire
Luce
Dolphin
Saratoga
New York
Federation of Labor Holds Morning Session at New Era Hall
American Federation of Labor opened with a credentials committee, reporting delegates from 23 unions totaling about 35 000 to 40 000 members. The president outlined progress and finance, with new committees elected for executive, rules, resolutions, and finance before adjournment to 10 the next morning.
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American Federation of Labor
New Era Hall
Mssrs
Morrison
Bergin
Babson
Levy
Dixon
Cushman
Rawhone
Brown
Hughes
Rawbone
Tobin
Weather Indications for New England and Surrounding Areas
Weather bulletin from Washington forecast colder fair weather for New England and eastern New York with light to fresh northwest winds for 24 hours starting Tuesday morning. Cautionary signals to be lowered from Boston to Eastport. Blue Hill Observatory notes fair, decidedly cooler conditions for southeastern New England tonight through tomorrow.
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Eastport
Blue Hill Observatory
H. H. Clayton
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