Desperate Ireland Faces Famine Fears Amid Distinct Sides
Dublin dispatch reports thousands of pounds spent in England for Marlborough heir while Irish mothers mourn impending famine. Earl Cadogan denies desolation claims as bitter weather hampers crops. William O'Brien warns of west looming famine amid cold, sleet, and ongoing harvest disruptions.
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Dublin
The
Post
House of Marlborough
Blenheim Castle
County Connaught
Blenheim
William O’brien
Made to Measure Suits at Poplar Boston Prices
Boston tailor advertises finest made to measure suits and overcoats at low prices with no skimping. Offers $14 suits rivaling $25 or $30, plus higher grades at $20 and $25. Sample calls encouraged.
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Boston
Metropolitan Clothing and Irish Tax Burden Report
A Dublin discussion covers eviction relief for tenants, local collection delays, and political replies. It notes Irish farmers face higher taxes for royal treasury support, with estimates of 12.5 million dollars yearly beyond Ireland’s share of expenses. The Duke of York’s Dublin visit drew a chilly reception and blunt remarks.
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Royal Commission
Duke of York
Dublin
United Ireland Rakes
Ireland Faces Widespread Famine As Potatoes Fail
The piece laments Ireland’s famine threat across towns and counties as blight ruins the potato crop. It notes hope rests on American aid while rains, cold, and mildew devastate harvests, with hay and grains also failing to provide sustenance.
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Connaught
Emerald Isle
Blenheim Castle
Ireland
America
Ireland famine fears meet government reply from Dublin Castle
A Dublin Castle message from Earl Cadogan replies to Irish fears of famine calling reports unjustifiable. The London official notes famine claims are not new, but the public and clergy offer a stark contrast with harsh memories of mass starvation and emigration since 1847.
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Earl Cadogan
Ireland
Dublin Castle
David Harrell
Harvest Woes Hit Cashel Archdiocese Crop Yields
Archbishop Croke of Cashel warns harvests across the archdiocese are disquieting as rotting potatoes plague fields. A leading farmer adds hay been cut for weeks with no steady weather and grain crops ruined by rain, fearing bread prices rise and a grim winter ahead.
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Croke
Cashel
Archdiocese of
Harvest Prospects in Galway Diocese Grim Says Bishop
Bishop McCormack of Galway warns of disheartening harvest prospects due to late spring planting caused by persistent rains and excessive August rainfall. He notes cereals lack sun ripening and potatoes, the staple for small farmers, show a widespread poor yield with very small, sodden tubers. He declares the outlook very gloomy and expresses deep concern.
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McCormack
Galway
Potatoes vanish from Connaught as famine fears grow
Reports describe widespread potato blight across Connaught with scarce, small tubers often eaten green. Families dig immature crops to survive as rents and debt threaten starvation, while landlords push for payment and banks feel the strain. Linen flax also fails, worsening economic distress. Authorities urged urgent government relief and resistance to rack rents.
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Connaught
Land League
Ireland
Treland
Tyrone
Priests report nationwide famine image of ruined crops
Reports from 110 parish priests across Clare Cork Kerry Limerick Tipperary Antrim Armagh Cavan Derry Donegal Down Fermanagh Monaghan and Tyrone describe widespread blight devastating potatoes and oats. famine and destitution loom as rains batter crops.
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Clare
Cork
Kerry
Limerick
Tipperary
Antrim
Armagh
Cavan
Derry
Donegal
Down
Fermanagh
Monaghan
Tyrone
Evicted tenants seek relief as funds fall short
The mansions house evicted tenants committee, led by Hon. Mr. Harrington with Cardinal Logue among supporters, has begun relief work. They aimed to use funds to reinstate tenants where possible, but six months of appeals have yielded only about £2000, insufficient for settlements or widespread grants, drawing reader condemnation.
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Mansion House
Harrington
Cardinal Logue
Nationalist Party
Niagara Grounded in Santiago Harbor After 60 Hours Afloat
The Ward line steamer Niagara, under Captain Crocker, grounded on Colorado Shoals in Santiago Harbor on Sept. 9 while bound for Cuban ports. After discharging cargo to lighter and removing coal and water, a towboat and the steamship Mameluje hauled her free on Sept. 12. The ship returned to the harbor, reloaded, and continued its voyage. Captain Crocker blamed the Cuban pilot. no damage or injuries were reported.
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New York
Ward Line
Niagara
Crocker
Santiago
Nassau
Bahamas
Colorado Shoals
Vggiel
Hathaway
Cap Sturcke Divorce Case in San Jose Suit
Captain J A Sturcke files for divorce from Catherine Sturcke now in New York City. She says he left New York in 1886 and has shown no desire to return, while she contends she is the deserted spouse willing to live with him. Married June 12 1873 in New York City they have one child. Deserts on which the prayer is based.
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San Jose
Cal
J. A. Sturcke
Catherine
New York
Sturcke
Sturckes
New York City
Diaz Opposed Lynching in Mexico City
Senor Arroyo, who had been jailed multiple times including for shooting a man, was lynched. Neighbors say he was volatile and prone to violence. He impaired his father, forged his name, and was 32, son of a tailor who studied and trained as a cadet before turning to law. President Diaz condemned the lynching and urged inquiry into police vigilance, placing blame on those responsible.
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City OF
Mexico
Senor Arroyo
Diaz
Arroyo
British troops push toward Mahmoukis strongholds at Damodota
Bombay dispatch reports advance against Mahmoukis from Panjkor and Shabkadr with limited opposition due to terrain. General Jeffreys brigade moved with sixteen infantry companies and four guns to retake Damodota, facing fierce resistance but driving tribes into hills. Sikhs under Captain Ryder nearly saved by an Afridi sergeant, while Lieutenant Watson led Buffs in repelling assaults. Enemy losses include 180 killed and two Sikhs burned after capture. Queen expresses grief and requests full account of wounded.
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Bombay
Bindon Blood
Anayat
Ryder
Guides Corps
Watson
Jeffreys
Saragai
Camp Anayat
Mysteries of Bell Mansion to Be Cleared Up in Court
In San Francisco the Bell mansion on Octavie street becomes the focal point of a guardianship dispute as Thomas F. Bell seeks control over the estate and to remove Mammy Pleasant from her long hold on the household. The saga threads through past murders, disappearances, and family strife surrounding the Bell family and notables like Sarah A. Hill Terry.
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Bell Mansion
San Francisco
Octavie Street
Pacific Coast
Thomas F. Bell
Bell
Thomas Bell
Mammy Pleasant
Fred Bell
Big House
Sarah Althea Hill Terry
Fresno
Princess of Shoplifters Nabbed in London Theft Return
Louisa Bigelow alias Little Lou, 62, known as the Princess of Shoplifters, was arrested on a Chicago train by Detective Hartford as she returned from a two year Europe tour. Scotland Yard seeks her for a large diamond theft in London. She has been arrested over 100 times in Chicago and Europe. Her home is Buffalo, where she once ran a restaurant. She commented she would have preferred a few days’ liberty to see more Chicago shopkeepers.
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Chicago
Louisa Bigelow
Little Lou
Union Depot
Hartford
Central Station
London
Paris
America
Scotland Yard
Mincing Lane
Canada
Emma Thompson
Carrie Scott
Edith Townsend
Buffalo
Bigelow
Fight for King's Millions in Newport Case
The appeal of Mrs. EB A Webster Ross from the Newport Probate Court is on the docket of the state Supreme Court meeting here on Monday. The case concerns the millions left by William H. King and has had depositions taken in New York and Boston.
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Newport
EB. A. Webster Ross
Supreme Court of
New York
Boston
Chinese demand for American goods boosts U S trade with Amoy
The U S consul at Amoy reports Chinese buyers prefer American fabrics spinnings flour oils and canned meats and even pay higher prices for them. He urges American merchants and the government to note the rapid trade growth and its significance.
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Washington
United States
Amoy
China
State Department
Flora McDonald Shearer Declared Insane in San Francisco
Flora McDonald Shearer a recognized poetess has been declared insane and sent from San Francisco to a private asylum at Livermore. All her relatives live in Scotland or on the Isle of Skye.
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San Francisco
Flora McDonald Shearer
Eday
Livermore
Scotland
Isle of Skye
Sharon Drama and the Palace on Octavia Street Mystery
The tale centers on Senator William Sharon who employed Mammy Pleasant as housekeeper at a grand boarding house. Sarah Althea Hill, later claimed as Sharon’s wife, sparked a series of court battles culminating in a clash between Judge Stephen Field and Judge David Terry, a shooting, and a fatal confrontation watched by David Nagle.
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William Sharon
Mammy Pleasant
Sharon
Sarah Althea Hill
California
Octavia Street
Supreme
David
Terry
Sarah Althea
United States
Supreme Justice
United States Court
Stephen J. Field
Field
Lathrop
Cal
Supreme Justice of the United States
David Nagle
Mysteries Linger at Bell House and Mammy Pleasant
Two weeks pass before reporter learns Mammy Pleasant cared for a deranged woman at the Bell house. She aided the mentally ill woman, denied knowledge at first, then confessed. Saville in San Quentin claims a family secret and a possible marriage to Mrs. Bell may influence a pardon. Fred Bell seeks removal of Mrs. Bell as guardian amid rumors without foundation.
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Bell House
Mammy Pleasant
Mrs. Terry
Mammy
San Quentin
Saville
Thomas F. Bell
Denunciation Meeting Over Hazleton Mine Shootings
At West End Union Hall Ward 8 a Young Men's Democratic Club session denounced deputies who fired on Hazleton coal miners. Speakers led by Samuel Goldman called sheriffs assassins, urged mining reforms, and adopted resolutions demanding investigation.
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Hazleton
Penn
West End Union Hall
Young Men’s Democratic Club
Ward 8
Samuel Goldman
Harry Lloyd
Henry A. Koch
William H. Baker
A. H. Piller
T. F. Nickerson
Is America Interesting Is Rev Mayo’s Union Hall talk
The Rev A D Mayo delivered his eighth address on Gods American University at Union Hall A M C Union last night. His subject Is America Interesting. Choice music featured boy soloists Masters Henry Donlan Gerald Lambert soprano Earl Eaton William Conan Albert Power contraltos with accompaniment by Herbert W Taylor.
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A. D. Mayo
A. M
God's American University
Union Hall
A. M. C. Union
America
Henry Donlan
Gerald Lambert
Earl Eaton
William Conan
Albert Power
Herbert W. Taylor
Cabinet Crisis Over Majorca Bishop Excommunication
In Madrid on September 19, fears rise of a cabinet crisis due to the bishop of Majorca in the Balearic Islands defying archbishop orders by excommunicating Signor J. Reverter, Spain's finance minister, for taking church treasury. decree read in diocese churches. prelates back the bishop while cabinet appeals to the Pope via the papal nuncio, with the bishop’s Carlist sympathies worsening the clash between church and state.
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Madrid
Majorca
Balerai Islands
Signor J. Reverter
Wilmore Fire Destroys Most of Kentucky Town
Wilmore Kentucky six miles south of Cincinnati on the Southern railroad suffered a major blaze at 1 am. Only one store escaped as twelve buildings were burned. Loss is estimated over 50000 dollars with about half covered by insurance. Sparks from a passing freight train are believed to have started the fire.
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Nicholsville
Wilmore
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Romance of a Watch Ends in Shootout at Church
Brooklyn tale of Patrick Watts fireman and Katie McLean ends in violence as Watts, furious at wedding chances, fires twice at his fiancée near the Church of the Assumption while bystanders and police intervene. Watts is restrained. the couple’s plans collapse amid a dramatic pursuit on Jay Street.
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Church of the Assumption
J. J. McCusker
Mrs. McLean
Watts
Katie
Robert Cromley
Dougherty
Fulton Street
Richard Peck
Katie McLean
Father McCusker
Miss McLean
Brooklyn
Epidemic of Diphtheria Hits Woonsocket
In Woonsocket Rhode Island five deaths and ten to fifteen new diphtheria cases reported last week with fourteen deaths since July 1. City officials and the mayor will meet with city physicians to stamp out the epidemic while officials consider a special council meeting. Schools warn teachers to screen students for symptoms before attendance.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Novel Thefts Alarm South End Residents Near Tremont
South End residents around Union Park and Waltham streets report petty larcenies with a new method. A well dressed man in a light Fedora and gloves asks to see someone, leaves the landlady briefly, then vanishes with valuables. Station 5 police detained two youths but lacked evidence to charge them.
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South End
Union Park
Waltham Streets
Tremont Street
Shawmut Avenue
Boston
Station 5
Fire causes $40,000 damage at Waldron store
A fire in the general store of G. F. Waldron at Imlaystown near Trenton New Jersey caused about 40,000 in damages. Officials believe an explosion of gunpowder in the Waldron store started the blaze.
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Trenton
N. J
G. F. Waldron
Imlaystown
Waldron
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