Canadian Reciprocity and Macdonald Likely Dissolution Move
Ottawa reports the government leans toward dissolving Parliament and seeking a mandate on unrestricted reciprocity. Sir John Macdonald appears a strong protectionist despite nominal support for closer US trade links. Rejoicing in government circles followed the Sherman resolution setback in the US Senate. The McKinley bill’s prospects loom as Conservatives weigh a retaliatory stance.
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Ottawa
Ont
John Macdonald
United States Senate
Congress
Death of General Barrundia on an American steamer
A detailed eye witness account describes General Barrundia ex-Minister of War of Guatemala being killed aboard the steamer Acapulco near San Jose after Guatemalan officers demanded his surrender. Captain Pitts and other Americans resisted. Barrundia fired first, guards were killed, and his body was removed for burial in Guatemala. The incident sparked accusations against the U.S. warships and Minister Mizner, with calls in Congress for investigation.
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New York
Pacific Mail
Colon
Acapulco
General Barrundia
San Jose
San Francisco
Ave
Mex
Guatemala
Starbuck
San Salvador
Champerico
Pitts
Acapulco Jay
United States
Champerlco
Mizner
Captain Pitts
Kar- Seo
Barrundia
Capaint Pitts
Washington
Sprerau
McCreary
Kentucky
House
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen raise funds for strike support
In San Francisco on September 12 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen set out plans for a Grand Lodge officers building costing at least 150000 funded by general assessments. Grand Master Sargent also urges laws against Pinkerton agents during strikes. The group reports 19000 members and 63000 in insurance. 459000 raised to support the February 1888 to January 1889 Q strike. Also notes the steamship Olivette sailing from Lewis Wharf September 18 at 10 am for New York with daylight cruising through Massachusetts Bay Cape Cod and Long Island Sounds, arriving daybreak Friday.
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Melbourne
Champion
Sydney
Labor Council
San Francisco
Cal
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Sargent
Grand Lodge
Pinkerton
Olivette
Lewis Wharf
New York
Massachusetts Bay
Cape Cod
Vineyard
Long Island Sounds
the Plant Steamship Company
Steamers Arrived At Major Ports In Transatlantic News
Shipping notices list arrivals and origins: Columbian from Liverpool and Kong Frode from Jamaica in Boston. Kepler from Rio de Janeiro and Saale from Bremen in New York. Augusta Victoria from Hamburg, Exeter City from Bristol and Swansea in New York. Lalin from New York at Krmen. St Caland from Rotterdam for New York off the Isle of Wight. Lake Nepigon from Liverpool at Quebec. City of Chester from Newark in Liverpool. Waesland from New York for Antwerp off Scilly. Normannia from Hamburg at Southampton. Circassian Prince from Philadelphia at Amsterdam. Baltimore from Baltimore in Liverpool. Korderer from Boston in London. City of Lincoln from Montreal at Kinnidee. Fremona from Montreal at Dundee. Assyrian from Montreal for London off Scilly. Lake Superior from Montreal at Liverpool. Weser from New York at Deptford.
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Boston
Columbian
New
Liverpool
Kong Frode
Jamaica
New York
Kepler
Rio Janeiro
Saale
Bremen
Augusta Victoria
Hamary
Exeter City
Bristol
Swansea
Kremen
Lalin
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Air London
Korderer
Kinnidee
City of Lincoln
Montreal
Dundee
Fremona
Scilly Islands
Assyrian
London
Lake Superior
Deptford
Weser
Effect of the New Tariff Rears in Treasury Actions
Washington measures to ease money strain as Oct 1 tariff deadline nears. Treasury officials advance 4 percent bonds, prepaid interest, and silver purchases while considering extending the bonded period. Senate and House leaders debate timing and conference procedures, with McKinley pressing for importers' restraint and funds flow.
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Washington
Sorcian
Treasury Department
Batchellor
Nettleton
Windom
Aldrich
Hisenck
Department
Treasury
House
McKinley
New York
West
Chicago
Committee of Ways and Means
Mint
Congress
Associated Press
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Ohio
Conferrees
the Treasury
Addi
Secretary of the Treasury
New England
Cresson
Penn
Minster
Boston Merchants Debate Tariff Date Action Impact
A Boston Merchants Association meeting considers fixing January 1 as the withdrawal date for imported woods in bonded warehouses, with duties old law. Merchants warn of a tariff driven panic harming business. foresee actions by other groups and possible escalation before Congress.
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United States
Gowntown
Post
Boston Merchants’ Association
Secretary of the Treasury
New York Custom House
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New Orleans
San Francisco
House
Senate
Conference
Republican Party
Fairchild
Congress
Boston
Deaths of state official and several prominent citizens
The secretary of state of New Hampshire, A B Thompson, died in Concord after a brief illness at age 57. A native of Holderness and Dartmouth graduate, he served in the Civil War and later as deputy and then secretary of state since 1877. Philadelphia merchant William Brockie died of apoplexy yesterday, and Worcester businessman John David Chollar died at Killingly, Conn., aged 61. Salem resident Benjamin Pitman also died at about 50 from Brights disease.
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A.b.thompson
New Hampshire
Concord
Holderness
Dartmouth College
Eighteenth
United States Infantry
Murfreesboro
Flea
William Brockie
Allan Steamship Line
Philadelphia
Maritime Exchange
John David Chollar
Worcester
Furniture Corporation
Chollar, Putnam & Sprague
Killingly
Conn
Benjamin, Pitman
Salem
Essex Street
Bright
Salvadoran Congress Opens Amid Ezeta Amnesty Motive
The Salvadoran provisional government convoked Congress in extraordinary session on September 10. Ezeta outlined a policy to form a truly national government, satisfy legitimate aspirations, and maintain autonomy from foreign intervention. Congress read and accepted a decree recognizing the revolutionary movement and naming Ezeta provisional president.
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LA Limertap
Galveston
Salvador
Guatemala
LA Libertad
San Salvador
Lnst
Ezeta
Congress
Revolutionary Movement
Baltimore Returns with Ericson’s Remains to Stockholms Harbor
The US warship Baltimore arrived at Stockholms harbor at 7:16 pm bearing the body of Ericson. The voyage from New York to Gothenburg took seventeen days, a record time for a man-of-war. A guard stood watch over the casket on a sheltered bench beneath the poop deck during the voyage.
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Ericsson
Stockhot
Stockholm
United States
Baltimore
New York
Gothenburg
Floods Advance In Europe Amid Rising Water Levels
Vienna reports floods increasing at Buda Pesth with the Island of Margarethen and many houses inundated. Practx notes the facade of the exhibition building collapsed due to undermining flood waters. In Glasgow a State Line steamer State of Georgia faced a crew strike over a non onion baker aboard before departure to New York.
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Georgia
Glasgow
Vienna
Buda-Pesth
Margarethen
Practx
State Line
State of Georgia
Moodie
New York
Explosion entombs twenty at Stassfurth coal pit
In Berlin on September 12 an explosion at the Stassfurth coal pit in Loederburg left twenty workers entombed. Paris reports a new general customs tariff bill will tax a few raw materials but mostly admit them free. Rome notes the chamber may be dissolved with general elections set for November.
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Berlin
Stassfurth
Loederburg
General Foreign News
Paris
Rome
American Librarians Endowment Drive At Session
The American Library Association held sessions at Farpyan House New Hampshire on September 12. Reports praised Sunday opening trials and growing holiday library access. The association planned a Chicago World’s Fair exhibit and formed an endowment committee, raising over $5000 in an hour. Trustees include Pliny Sexton Norman Williams and E Hovey. Debates over state subscriptions were lively with about sixty delegates from Massachusetts and New York. Dewey was elected president. Minnesota’s Taylor vice president. Pickett secretary. New Hampshire formed a state association meeting January 14, 1891. The evening featured a living library event with fifty librarians in costume, drawing an audience larger than any previous meeting.
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Farpyan
N. H
American Library Association
Pliny I. Sexton
New York State Library
Norman Williams
Crerar Library of
Chicago
E. ©. Hovey
Brookline
Mass
Association Endowment Fund
Massachusetts
New York
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
F. M. Caunden
St. Louis
W. F. Poole
C. A. Cutter
Boston
Melville Dewey
Albany
W. L. Fietcher
Amherst College
Chicago Law Institute
New Hampshire
Concord
G. C. Gilmore
Manchester
State Library
D. F. Secomb
Rh. A. Kimball
Ainner and the Living
Eld
Wax Starch Revolution At Laundry Named Greatest Boon
A historic note extols Wax Starch as the greatest boon to laundries. Inventor J. C. Hubinger claims itoutperforms Elastic Starch, requires cooking, and can be used with the other starch. The piece urges readers to ask their grocer about the product.
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J. C. Hubinger
Modern Art Desk Seeks New Owner With Venetian Flair
A descriptive ad highlights a roll top desk praised as modern art with the appearance of a Venetian cabinet. It features oxidized copper chains for the lid, automatic lock, quartered oak interior, 12 pigeon holes, 4 book racks, 2 filing cases, 4 drawers, an inside Yale-locked closet, a center ink area, a concealed spring drawer, two large locked closets, and a basket shelf. When open the lid adds 54 inches depth.
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Yale
Overflowing Their Banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania Floods
Despatches report floods across northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania as the Tuscarawas River rose over twenty feet in one hour. Cities like Bucyrus North Bucyrus Akron Can ton Newcastle and Oil City faced washed streets, railroad washouts, and closed mills. The Rio Grande and Eagle Pass in Texas also see rising waters with barges lost and lower city sections submerged.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Bucyrus
Sandusky
North Bucyrus
Akron
North Howard Street
New Philadelphia
Cleveland & Marietta
Cleveland
Loraine & Wheeling
Tuscaras
Monongahela
Alleghany
Oil City
Penn
New York & Pennsylvania
Alleg
Newcastle
Neshannock
New Caste
Government Dam
Brownstown
St. Louis
Texas
Rio Grande River
Eagle's Pass
Customs and Quarantine Guards
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Beloinzonsa
Southampton
Sprow
Michael Davitt
Burns
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Kingston St
Wolkins, Browne & OB
New York City
England
Piedmont Safe Deposit & Trust Company
Equitable Building
Leonard & CO
Bramlin Street
Turkey
Chauncy Hall School
Boylston Street
Queen Viga
Sheppard Howan
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York
C. H. Buckley
Den
Davons Hills Street
Yvet
Nat's Life Ins. CO
J. T. Phelps
State Act
Alpoany
Buffalo
Isismarck
Oak
Cheyenne
Detroit
Duluth
el Paso
Tex
Eastport
Meelena
Mont
Jacksonville
Fla
Kansas City
Margquette
Ditch
Portland
Lake City
Ashington
Winuucton, C
Eobp Tid Oo Sb
BUDA
Cardiff
Coal &Iron Co.'s
Roane Co., Tenn
W.P. Rice & CO
State Street
Cordley &Co
Pevonshire Street
B. B. Smalley
Liberty Sq
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Oregon
Alaska
New York Central
Lawrence
N.S. W
Germany
Canada
Lacrosse
Silas S. Drew
Old Kates
Boston Merchants
American Librarians
Modern Art
Paine
Canal ST
Haite Vere
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