Hanlan Wins Tyne Championship Race in Spectacular Affair
Edward Hanlan of Toronto defeated English champion William Elliott by six lengths in the Tyne championship single scull, finishing in 21 minutes 30 seconds over about three and a half miles. The crowd along the Newcastle course numbered about 80,000 with Americans aboard the Gateshead for judges and referees.
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Newcastle-On-Tyne
Edward Hanlan
Canada
William Elliott
Tyne
Hanlan
Mansion House
Scotswoods
High-street
Gateshead
Elliott
Renforth
McGregor
Haplan
Kisees
Harding
Cable
Boston Globe
William Elliount
Bank of North America
John Stevens
Gatestead
Hanian
William Eliott
Hay Farm
Northumberland
William Martin
Blyth
J. Hogarth
Wear
J. Finnegan
Wiles
Robert Watson Boyd
Nicholson
Lumsden
George Tarryer
Bermondsey
Thames
Putney Aqueduct
Mortiske
Robert Bagnall
Ouseburn
William Nicholson
Hanlan Sails for England in Tyne Championship Race
Hanlan and Elliott prepare for the £400 world championship on the Tyne with heavy wagers placed. Hanlan travels from New York to England with trainer James Heasley aboard the City of Montreal, aiming to defend the title after his earlier match with Courtney.
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Hanlan
England
Tyne
New York
Elliott
Newcastle
Manchester
Eng
Hawdon
James Heasley
Liverpool
Montreal
Geneey
Hanian Triumphs In Tyne Rowing Race
Between Elliott and Higgins races on February 17 and May 5 Hanian rowed Hawdon over the Tyne course securing a clear victory. The water rough, Hanian’s boat shipped water, yet he won by four lengths after pausing to bail and chat with spectators. Time recorded 19 22 6.
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Elliott
Meadows
Eliott
Paradise Quay
Benmill Ferry
Kantian
Nish
Iliott
Hercules
Diaulan
Edward Hanlan
Toronto
Toronto Bay
Ontario
Hunian
Sebuykill
Harry Coulter
Pat Luther
Fred Plaisted
Green
Alex Brayley
Courtney
Silverlake
Plaisted
Frenchy Johnson
Johnson
Driscoll
Boston
Wallace Ross
Paisted
Evan Morris
Hulton
Penn
Brockville
Ont
Piaisted
Riley
Kennedy
Ten Eyck
Luther
Cape Vincent
N. J
McKen
St. John
N. B
Barrie
Rose
Hosmer
Morris
Hawdon
Higgins
Linself
Tyne
Scotewood Bridge
Hanian
Hawdon Ball
Fugitive prisoners hunted as Sheriff closes in
Cincinnati reports from Chatanooga say Scott and two others are surrounded nine miles from town in a thicket. Reinforcements were sent as the posse closes in with fears of lynching if captured. In a separate incident Edward Jenkins stabbed his mistress and fled to the river where he disappeared, believed drowned.
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Cincinnati
Chattanoogs
Scott
Edward Jenkins
Would-be Cincinnati suicide woman survives self inflicted shot
Mrs Sigismund Von Lowe of Cincinnati attempted suicide at the St Nicholas Hotel and survives. She prepared packages for Austria, arranged burial funds, and planned to give any remaining money to the poor. She believes her husband died en route to Europe and says she could not endure being left in a strange land without money.
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Cincinnati
Sigismund von Lowe
St. Nicholas Hotel
Austria
Europe
Smith
Henry
Trench Collapse Buries Four Men in Terre Haute Sewer
In Terre Haute Indiana yesterday four men working twelve feet underground in a East Main street sewer were trapped by a cave in. After hours of digging Walter T Kendall and Harden Brown brick masons died. Joh Bass and Patrick Fritz injured were carried out.
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Terre Havre
Ind
East Main Street
Walter T. Kendall
Harden Brown
Joh Bass
Patrick Fritz
Fifteen Killed in Boiler Explosion and More World News
A Berlin corresp reports Russia tightens press and travel controls amid rising unrest. The Orpheus boiler explosion at Stettin kills fifteen onboard with many wounded. Valparaiso notes famine risks as Chilean clash and food scarcity grow. June items cover famine in Cashmere, Po flood damage, Italian elections, and Pope’s marriage letter urging church over state.
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Berlry
Orpheus
Stettin
Oder
Rumors Fly In Global Pedestrian Championship
Rewell withdraws amid rumors Ennis is to win as the world running and walking championship opens at Agricultural Hall. Four starters Brower Brown Weston Ennis and Harding. At 4 PM Brown 89 Weston 87 Ennis 70 Harding 65 with Rowell disappointed at missing start. London weather close and showery.
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Rewell
Ennis
Brower Brown
Weston
Harding
Rowell
United States
Hazael
Brown
London
Geore
Haraing
Argentine Wheat Export Booms as Famine Strikes Others
Reports from Panama via Lima indicate Argentine wheat exports to Europe are rising to feverish levels, with the steamer Magellan carrying 20,000 quintals to Bordeaux since May 14. Elsewhere in Peru famine looms in Antioquia as crops fail to grasshoppers, and Bolivia held elections on May 18 with a single presidential candidate supporting the national government.
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New York
Panama
Lima
Europe
Magellan
Bordeaux
Callao
Kosmos
Luxor
Montevideo
Valparaiso
Antioquia
Bolivia
Freshete
Magdalena
Ebanco
Destitute Farmers Flee as Authorities Vow Action
The piece notes crop failures driving the poor to seek relief in southern regions of the Magdalen basin while Bayaca’s president condemns recent executions in Antioquia ordered by General Benjifo. An American ex-bandleader from Porto Viejo, Ecuador, is imprisoned eight days without charges or trial steps.
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Magdalena
Bayaca
Antioquia
Benjifo
Porto Viejo
Ecuador
Triangular War Off Iquique Hurried Naval Clash
Graphic account from Panama relays the May 20 to June 7 engagement between Peruvian Huascar and Chilean ships off Iquique. Esmeralda sinks after ramming. Covandonga sails south. Independencia wrecks after hitting a reef. Huascar bombs Antofagasta. Peru and Bolivia plan southward action. Pisagua bombardment costs $2,000,000.
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Iquique
New York
National Press Association
Date
Panama
Esmeralda
Covandonga
la Mar
Bay of
Cailao
Independencia
Iauigue
Huascar
Point Gruesa
Pisagua
Antofagasta
Prado
Peru
Daxa
Bolivia
Arica
Oroya
Olaneta
Fall River Spinners Vote to Strike After 10 Days’ Notice
In Fall River on June 14, spinners voted 788 to strike all mills after ten days notice. The union adopted a preamble rejecting a manufacturers’ denial of wage demands and urged employees to prepare for a citywide stoppage, with solidarity pledged and talk of hardship. Supporters say management failed to restore promised wage increases despite improved market conditions.
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Fal. River
Mass
New Bedford
Manufacturers’ Board of Trade
Howard
GLOBE
Cannibal Henry Smith of the Berkshire Hills
A stranger tale from Otis Berkshire recounts Henry Smith, a self described cannibal living alone in a hill farm. He claims to have eaten human flesh during captivity among island natives and describes a bizarre religion centered on a carved idol and a stuffed squirrel. The piece notes his violent past and a string of local crimes in Otis.
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Smith
Mr. Smith
Panic on an Excursion Steamer Twilight Collides in New York
The excursion steamer Twilight, leaving Bayridge at 7 30 p m, was struck by the steamer Thomas Collyer about 400 yards from her pier on the North River. The collision damaged the Twilight's port wheel guards, causing panic among passengers as life preservers were checked. no injuries were reported and Twilight later anchored while passengers were taken ashore by Collyer.
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New York
Twilight
Bayridge
Cone
North River
Thomas Collyer
Collyer
Corroborative Evidence in Duer Trial Highlighted
In Syon Hitt Maryland the trial of Miss Duer continued with corroborative evidence expected today. Expert medical testimony for the state will be offered on Monday, and rebuttal from the defense will follow, with the case likely to go to the jury on Tuesday.
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Syon Hitt
Miss Duer
Cea
Luesy
Death of a Philadelphia Manufacturer
William Adamson, a leading Balder Adamson & Co. maker, fell ill on a train returning from Germantown and died within minutes this afternoon in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
William Adamson
Balder, Adamson & Co
Germantown
Bodies Identified From Med College Vault in Ann Arbor
Two cadavers identified and removed from the medical college vault in Ann Arbor Michigan last evening. One is Mrs John Townava the other Mrs John Smith of Adrian. A freak of nature is noted in St John New Brunswick where a bear headed child is born and barred from being bought by the mother.
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Ann Arbor
Axx Arbor
Mich
Medical College
John Townava
John Smith
Adrian
St. Jony
N. B
Queen’s County
Barpum
Voelter Woosterwood patent dispute heats up in Washington
A Boston Globe special dispatch rebuts a Boston Herald defense of ex Senator Wadleigh and the Woosterwood pulp patent extension. The piece disputes claims about remuneration, agency, and honesty, naming W A Russell and Warner Miller as key witnesses and detailing alleged arrangements benefiting Voelter and paper interests. An investigation is urged to settle disputed points.
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Washington, D.C
Washington
Boston Herald
Wadleigh
Herald
Congress
Causten Browne
Browne
W. A. Russell
Warner Miller
Russell
New Hampshire Republican State Committee
Voelter
the Herald
Springer
Lururr
The Sands Mystery Shows No Clue In Missing Emma Sands
Burlington Vermont June 16 large crowds search for Emma Sands who vanished. Clairvoyant Sleeping Lucy linked La Roch to the alleged murder of the Bell girl and predicted Emma spoke with a short man matching La Roch’s description. No trace found south to Rutland.
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Burlington
Emma Sands
la Koen
Lucy
la Page
St. Albans
Boston
Brandon
Emma
la Roch
Rutland
Worcester Man Alleged to Cause Death by Fire
In Worcester at 72 Southbridge street a quarrel between John Hewes and his wife ended when Hewes knocked over a lit kerosene lamp. Eliza Upham, Hewes sister-in-law, was severely burned and died at 11 am the next day. Hewes was arrested as the victim died from burns to limbs abdomen and breast. She was thirty and left several children.
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Worcester
John Hewes
Southbridge Street
Eliza Upham
Hewes
Wicked Doings of an Ungrateful Wretch
George Allen, a charity patient at the house of mercy in PrrisFIELD Massachusetts, stole $3 from the matron and other inmates on Saturday morning and has eluded arrest. He arrived last winter with frozen feet and has received gratuitous care and treatment.
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Prrisfield
Mass
George Allen
House of Mercy
Woman Shot on Train During Maennerchor Society Event
Cincinnati dispatch reports a gunman fired into an Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette train near Indianapolis injuring Miss Freck in the head. She is a leading singer with the Maennercher Society. The shooter escaped.
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Cincinnati
The
Enquirer
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Maenercher Society
Mias Freck
Earthquakes Reported in Central America and City News
Seismic shocks were felt in Aspinwall and Panama on the 29th while San Jose Costa Rica reported severe tremors May 20 and 30 and cathedral damage. Cincinnati Saengerfest receipts were 29000 with expenses 35000. Subscriptions to relieve Archbishop Purcell’s indebtedness rise slowly. A 200 strong detachment of the Sixty-ninth Regiment may visit Montreal, led by Colonel Cavanagh. Denver and Rio Grande Railway receiver named by Judge Bowen. James Williams confesses to beating Reverend McNair in Newark and discloses names of rum shopkeepers. Mrs Sigmund Yoo Low of Vienna shot herself at St. Nicholas Hotel Cincinnati. husband deserted her. Ellen Cummins, involved in Porter and Barrymore shooting, is in Philadelphia, unable to testify soon.
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Aspinwall
Panama
Purcell
Ni Bt Regiment
New York
Montreal
Cavanagh
H. A. Risley
Denver and Rio Grande
Bowen
James Williams
W. H. McNair
Newark
Sigmund Yoo Low
Vienna
Austria
St. Nicholas Hotel
Cincinnati
San Jose
Costa Rica
Republic
Ellen Cummins
Porter and Barrymore
Texas
Philadelphia
Pitace
Iough
Hovel
Dilla
Washington. Doubtful quick adjournment under Hayes veto plan
Washington and June 15 report a fragile outlook for early adjournment as stalwarts boast of more vetoes. Hayes may veto the new judicial bill per Attorney General Devens, risking suspension of federal courts after July 1 and undermining internal revenue prosecutions. House and Senate face extended sessions with possible July 15 adjournment and threats of an extra session.
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Washingtoun
D. C
Hayes
Devens
Congress
Atkins
Appropriations Committee
Buckner
Missouri
Stephens
Georgia
Committee On Coinage
Turkey gobbler becomes a hen after egg laying in Lebanon
Abbeville Mississippi notes a turkey gobbler transforming into a laying hen after reportedly laying three eggs the day after the change. The reader is invited to question how such sex reversal occurs and what scientists say about it, amid sensational headlines. Also reported Salt Lake City: Brigham Young estate receivers appointed as Amelia A Young seeks injunction against executors for abuse of trust. executors named George Q Cannon Albert Carrington and Brigham Young Jr.
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Abbeville
8. C
Miss Bass
Lebanon
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
Shaughnessy
Mr. McCormick
Brigham Young
Amelia A. Young
George Q. Cannon
Albert Carrington
B Ham Young, Jr
Norwich youth takes own life near woolen mill
In Norwich Connecticut on Tuesday a young man named Joseph A Lasthaus of the Norwich Woollen Company left for a meal and did not return. A body found near the woods yesterday was identified as Lasthaus. The inquest found he shot himself through the temple with a pistol beside him. In New Orleans a women’s ball team from the local clubs played the Boston nine at the fairgrounds ending 30 to 8 in favor of the Boston team.
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South Sea Islands
Smith
Leas
Theerson
Blandford
Chester Merryfield
Norwich
Conn
Joseph A. Lasthaus
Norwich Woollen Company
Young Lasthaus
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Hanlon
Mie Hanlan
Fanlan
Ted
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Swandle & Winship
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Eiliott
James Taylor
Whitley
Putney
Mortlake
Lyne
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Russian Empire
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Cashmere
Lord Derby
Lancashire Farmers’ Club
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Adda
Italy
Berlin
Kiel
Kinderring
Friedrich Karl
Kronprinz
Preussen
Friedrich der Grosze
Panama Canal
Lonnox
M. de Lesseps
Panama Inter-Oceanic Canal Company
Paris Geatery
Loxvon
Turin
Vercelli
Genoa
Chamber of Deputies
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Astley
South American News
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Henry Smith
Berkshire
Otis
Iteshrive
Jnlaud
Hen
Dimmer
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Morocco
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Voester
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Bayard
Washnorton
Senate Finance Committee
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Garland
Demeretic
Warner
Hles
Mr. Bayard
Kayard
Wasmington
Army General Staff
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W. F. Creary
Michigan
George F. Robinson
Seward Payne
Geo W. Baird
Connecticut
Fury Infantry
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