Treasury empties as deficit tops records in June
A June fiscal report reveals the U.S. Treasury lacks a net balance, showing a deficit of 787,108. Officials warn receipts from customs will fall short and pension payments rise, predicting a fragile year end and small surplus for July as political blame shifts. A. Maurice Low.
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Washington
Treasury
Wong Ce
BNO
Beev
Treasury Notes
United States
National Bank
Cere
Pacific Railroad
Post Office Department
Republican Party
Aegan
Aeeen
Maurice Low
German Officers Dare to Rescue Italian Crew at Sea
The steamship Sophie arrives from Cardiff with a wreck at sea tale. A gale on the 10th left the Exile of St John N B nearly sunk. Italian crew refused rescue by German officers twice. Captain Igo T Pearce led two perilous lifeboat runs, saving 14 sailors though the bark’s crew were badly bruised.
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New York
Sophie
Cardiff
St. John
N. B
Leeward
Henry Meyer
Lee
Igo T. Pearce
Behring Sea Modus Vivendi Proclaimed by President
June 15 1891 a presidential proclamation releases a formal modus vivendi between the United States and Britain over Behring Sea fur seal fisheries. The agreement bans seal killing east of the demarcation line through May next, outlines enforcement, arbitration prospects, and permits British visitors to seal islands. Naval measures are planned to curb poaching.
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Washington
United States
Behring Sea
Russia
United
Her
Great Britain
Seal Islands
William Wharton
Julian Pauncefote
K. C
Benjamin Harrison
United States of America
Ed. Hay
The
British Vessels to Be Covered for Trial Amid Fisheries Threat
The report discusses covering British vessels for trial to curb law-breaking ships before irreparable damage to seal fisheries occurs. The emphasis is on emergency measures and enforcement by authorities to protect resources.
Horse Took A Leap Sanatoaca June 18
Gen James W Husted bought a spirited horse from Isaac V Baker at Comstock Landing and shipped it to Pawling for the Bald Eagle of Westchester to receive. The horse escaped the car during travel, jumped from the moving train, but suffered no injury and was recaptured and returned to its owner.
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Sanatoaca
N. Y
James W. Husted
Isaac V. Baker
Comstock
Drowning of Bear Crew and Russell Party Reported
Victoria report June 19 says the revenue cutter Bear lost five men including Lieut Robinson and Coxswain Hassler while attempting a landing at Scy bay with the Russell Mt St Elias party. Names given: Robinson Hassler Anderson Nelson Henry Smith and W Moore. The Bear sailed from Sitka June 14 toward Benning sea.
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Capt. Shepard
Revenue Marine Service
Victoria
B. C
Lieut
Robinson
Scy Bey
Russell-Mt. St. Elias
Obinson
Hassler
Anderson
Nelson
Henry Smith
Revenue Cutter
Bear
W. ©. Moore
Gloriana Wins 46-Foot Class in Atlantic Yacht Regatta
The Gloriana skippered by E D Morgan won the 46-foot class in the Atlantic Yacht Club annual regatta beating Mineola Jessica and Nautilus in a 32 mile race with good breeze and smooth water. The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club regatta followed, but weather reduced entries and excitement remained at finish.
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New York
Atlantic Yacht Club
E. D. Morgan
Gloriana
Atlantic Club
Belmont
Mineola
McDonough
Jessica
Maxwell
Three Women Found Dead From Gas Smothering
In New York at 10 East 86th street three domestics Jennie Grossman Katie Keefe and Agnes Sears were smothered by the gas burner left on all night. The bodies were found in a small attic hall room where the three shared beds. The Hungarian Jennie 22 and chambermaids Katie 17 and Agnes 18 slept last night around midnight and were dead by morning.
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New York
Otto Gebhart
East 86Th St
Jennie Grossman
Katie Keefe
Agnes Sears
Dwyer Plunges Heavily in Sheepshead Bay Race
In a two horse fifth race at Sheepshead Bay, Sir John faced Kingmaker. Michael Dwyer pressed a record wager, building to 86 thousand dollars in the ring as Kingmaker led and Sir John faltered, ending with Dwyer a net 38 thousand dollars down after the finish.
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New York
Michael Dwyer
Sheepshead Bay
Kingmaker
Young Hearst
P. J. Dwyer & Sons
Sir John
Longstreet
Dwyer
Michael Oe
McLaughlin
King
Mr. Dwyer
Train Collision Near Kenner's Station Kills Four
A fast Illinois Central express collided with a sidetracked freight near Kenner's station in New Orleans. The mail train was delayed but no passengers were severely hurt. Four men died and six were seriously injured as a result of the crash.
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New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
Kenner’s
Cloudburst Destroys Property in Leechburg Penn
A Friday night cloudburst in Leechburg Pennsylvania caused extensive damage as Andersons Run flooded the streets. Fifteen houses and outbuildings were swept away and jammed against the prairie bridge. one man was fatally injured. West Pennsylvania railroad traffic was halted temporarily as water rose up the ravine to about 30 feet, forcing residents to flee to the hills.
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Leechburg
Penn
West Pennsylvania Railroad
Millionaire H Victor Newcomb begins asylum commitment
Newcomb once a Wall Street giant and New York speculator is committed to an asylum near New York. A panel of experts concluded he is of unsound mind due to his peculiar delusions and threats of harming others.
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New York
H. Victor Newcomb
Wall St
Fueld
Fitch
Wos
Key
Gas Explosion Injures Yonkers Laborers at Police Station Front
Early today in Yonkers a gas main was ruptured during street work in front of the police station when a partly intoxicated laborer dropped a stone onto the exposed line. The ensuing fire scorched two workers, blew others back, and knocked out all gas lights. Five prisoners in the station were found unconscious from the escaped gas and revived with difficulty.
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New York
Thomas Meany
Jere Malone
Michael Quinlan
Daniel Cunningham
Yonkers
Meany
Quinlan
Malone
Cunningham
Roundsman
Cooley
Seabright Fire Destroys All Businesses and Homes
Lone Brancu New Jersey reports a large Seabright blaze that destroyed every business house in the town leaving no grocery store. About 150 families became homeless with people living in barns and shelters. Rutherford Agast fed hundreds nightly and again this morning as flames covered a wide area with extensive losses.
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Lone Brancu
N.J
Seabright
Alepf
Rutherford Arast
General Sturm settles war munitions claim in U S
Gen Herman Sturm former Mexican government official received 259361 03 dollars for munitions bought in the United States and sent to Mexico. It is alleged he paid 100000 to Mexican officials and congressmen to secure payment and there is talk of presenting charges to the U S Department of State potentially causing complications between the two governments.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Herman Sturm
Mexico
Sturm
Department of State
Washington
Can
United States
Wreck on Milwaukee and St Paul Rail Line at Coon Rapids
A passenger train crashed through the bridge over the Coon river near Coon Rapids Iowa. One passenger was killed and 21 injured as the rear sleeper stayed on track. Separate report: Wilbur and Chance commission proposes sweeping staff reductions at several federal offices, potentially saving $100,000 and effective July 1.
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Cnicasco
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Coon Rapids
Coon River
New York
Wilbur and Chance Commission
Foster
Erhardt
Lyon
Willis
Wilbur
Z Chance
Slavin Wins Prize Fight in Hoboken and Sullivan Challenge Mentioned
A prize fight at Hoboken New Jersey last Wednesday ended with Frank P Slavin of Australia defeating Jake Kilrain of Baltimore. Slavin reportedly received a challenge from John L Sullivan. Dolly Davis of the Victoria Loftus company was found drowned in the Hudson at Croton Landing after leaving a note saying she was tired of life. Jack Kehoe of Manistee Michigan killed his mother in law with a beer bottle during a family quarrel and surrendered to authorities. Prof C H Creed plans an Alliance daily Chronicle in Aberdeen South Dakota after leaving his Penn University chair years ago. The despatch noted a serious incident in progress.
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Jake Kilrain
Baltimore
Frank P. Slavin
Australia
Hoboken
N.J
John L. Sullivan
Slavin
England
Dolly Davis
Victoria Loftus Burlesque Company
Hudson
Croton Landing
Jack Kehoe
Manistee
Mich
Ann McCormick
Kehoe
C. H. Creed
South Dakota
Daily Chronicle
Creed
University of Pennsylvania
New York
Aberdeen
Jane Cook
Amherstburg
Troll Light Infantry
Light Infantry
Arta
St Paul
Pickere
Coleman’s
Forest Lake
John Uesada
John Glanton
San Antonio, Tex
Ice
Agel
Quesada
Texas
Mexico
Tracy
National Association of Life Underwriters
Detroit
Charles H. Raymond
Agneray
Mutual Life
E. H. Plummer
Berkshire Life
Philadelphia
William Ratcliffe
New England
Utual
New York City
Alert
Mohican
San Francisco
Alaska
Junalaska
John P. Adriance
Pougheepsie
N. Y
Adriance
Worcester
Poughkeepsie
Adriance, Platt & Co
Berkeley
Monroe
Kline
Joseph M. Skeeter
Bernard Glandi
New Orleans
Hennessey
Akron
Henry Golden
John Harvey
Clarence Felton
Newton Sawers
F. Mason
James Frabee
Benjamin Hoffman
T. R. Glennan
Glennan
Raleigh
N. C
Washington
Fansy
Kenneth
Paul's Valley
I. T
Guy, Byrd
United States
Bennett
Here
Fernando Legrano
Henry R. Hopkins
Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Circuit Court
Pffice
Princeton
Paducah
Secretary of State
North River
206Th St
New York Central
Tarrytown
Montreal Steamship Companies
Europe
David Clarke
Bienheim
Ont
John H. Wallace
Wallace Trotting Register Company
American Trotting Register Association
St. Louis
Order of
Railroad Telegraphers
Brotherhood of Telegraphers
Har
South Carolina
Jefferson Davis
Franklin
Penn
Marjoram
Miller & Sibley
Crisfield
Findlay
O. E. L. Jordan
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Hensel
Stuart
Exity
Beardsley
Ella Nelson
Samuel L. Post
Noble
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Chickasaw
North American Commercial Company
Spaulding
Treasury Department
National City Bank of
Marshall
Apon
Aldie
Loudon County
1St Massachusetts Cavalry
Charles Gavis
John O'Brien
Patrick Murphy
Battery Tk
Pasarday
Chambers Street
Elizabeth Brennan
Roundsman
D.4
Brennan
Eldridge St
East Aé
Morena
George Kesser
Huatfalo
Quincey
Ill
James A. Singleton
Congress
Douglas
Lincoln
Downing
Illinois
America
Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn City Hall
Ounalaska
Irwin
Mare Island
Joseph K. Emmett
Fritz
Storm King House
Cornwall
Albany
Westminister
Atlantic City
Horace Packard
Boston
Joseph Legg
Providence
Addie Ll. Perkins
Millbridge
Calais
Theodore D. Wilson
Bureau of Construction and Repairs
Portsmouth
N. H.navy Yard
Cape May
Howard Cassard
Prince Chorge of Wales
Halifax
Montreal
Brighton
Springfield
Philadelphis
St. Petersburg
Russia
J. R. Frazer
Trenton
Chicago
Montrose Lowe
Goodman King
Mermod Jaccard Jewelry Company
Young Lowe
Yaddo
Saratowa
Spencer Trask
Doane
Episcopal Diocese of
Mr. Trask
Effingham
John Brennan
John Wientenbach
John Good
Lady Macdonald
Sirohn Macdonald
Hugh John Macdonald
Saginat
Sir John
Francis McNeirny
Ilbapy
Co Leon Til
Vatican
MacNeirny
Rome
Connecticut Soldiers’ Home
Newton
Hungerford
Geiban
Lurlbutt
Stamford
James G. Gregory
Norwalk
Munson
Is Institution
Bulkeley
Fidelity Fire Insurance Company of
Huron
Henry H. Smith
Rutland County
Vermont
Patong
Rutland
Edmund B. Chapman
James F. Chapman & Co
Thomaston
Cote Des Nieges
East River
Doll Davis
Miss Davis
Comte de Montebello
Otereeure
France
Germany
Cage
Arundel County
Alta Insurance Company
Stockton
Cal
Connecticut Company
Alta
Cairo
Ili
Kentucky
Grosvenor
Immigration Commission
Leicester Knitting Mills
Charles Spencer & Co
Germantown
Austin
Tex
McAuley
McAuley Lawsville
Julia Ward Howe
Prospect Hill
Greenfield
Casselman Lumber Company
Casselman
Ottawa
Eugene Garner
Great Barrington
Mass
Stephentown
Illinois River Valley
Copperas Creek Valley
Fulton County
Gray
Robert T. Jones
Presley
Edgefield
S. C
Pansy
Jim Johnson
Charleston
W. Va
Alice Bailey
Golconda
Hockwisher
Willie Kreipke
Fastnet
Charlottetown
P. FE
Cape Breton
Charles Albertson
Newark
Telegraph
Monongah Junction
Clarksburg
James Boyle
James M. Libby
William Libby
Augusta
New Orean
Pointe de Monts
Can
Quebec
Balcony Falls
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Lane
Clements
Clifton Forge
Mare Island Navy Yard
Vallejo
Thetis
Behring Sea
Navy Yard
Beaver County
Oklahoma
Mass of 19th century disasters and trials span North America
A long list of incidents fills the page from barge shootings on the Amherstburg barge to fatal boiler explosions in Akron. Reports cover a Canadian barge flare up, a San Antonio hold up, torpedo boat contracts, seal police actions, court verdicts, drownings, fires, storms, and political shifts across U S and Canada with numerous named individuals, companies, and places.
From Magna Charta to Muffin Rings in Commencement Essays
A Springfield Graphic poem reflects on student essays and social mobility. The speaker juxtaposes scholarly topics like The Spots upon the Sun and Browning with practical cooking notes. A later essay on Browning leads to marriage to a low-income clerk, ending in domestic drudgery and nostalgia for lost schooling grandeur.
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Springfield
Lear
Browning
George Sand
Do brutes have a language is the question raised
In a Rehoboth Sunday Herald item the Millville Literary Circle debated whether brutes possess speech with the president asking the question and the secretary replying you ought to hear my husband when he loses his collar button highlighting a humorous domestic contrast.
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Rehoboth
CHECKERS EDWIN A DARGIN CHESS CLUB NOTES 1801
News page item lists Edwin A Dargin editor in Boston with chess and checker meetups at Tremont Street and Water Street locations. Includes results from Auckland Chronicle tourney problems, game numbers, players Wyllie and Hugh Montgomery, and notes on position No 1545 ending in draw.
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Eee Reves
Boston
Edwin A. Dargin
Mass
Chess Divan
Tremont St
C. Taylor's
Water St
Boston Markets Ease Prices Amid Light Receipts This Week
Commercial matters note a holiday midweek easing prices across dairy cheese and butter. Market reports show limited receipts, steady or unchanged prices, with Western dairy and Vermont New York markets quoted for extra and firsts. Fruits vegetables hay coffee and other staples list varied quotes while mackerel and wool trade details follow.
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Boston
Jane
Sortharn
Vermont
New York
Fancy
New
Correspondence on a game draw and winning line
In a London correspondence game the trunk of game 2381 is abandoned as a draw. The position shows White to play and win. Barker argues 22.26 leads to a clear win, contrary to Teschleit’s 27.24 draw. The note lists subsequent lines and a drawn outcome for other positions including 16.19 and 28.24.
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W. Richmond
Darlington
Auckland Chronicle
King
White
Port Chalmers
Mr. Wyllie
New Zealand
Messrs. Wyllie
Hugh Montgomery
Wyllie
Dunedin
John Legegat
Robert Barclay
Melbourne
Mel Legeat
Bourne
Iditor Weekly
Arelay
Grong
Spayth
Sturgis
Bertie
Reid
Jane
Clute
Adelaide
Messrs. A Barr
Wyllie Barr
South Australian Chronicle
South Australia
Messrs, Wyllie
J. Hanton Wyllie
F. Teschleit
London
Mr. Teschleit
J. M'Kenzim Barker
Benes
Hecker
James Tonar
Francis Tescheleit
William Strickland
Nole Rourtee
Singner
Souter
Tonar
Glastow
Kelso
Tescheleit
Set
Mr. Gould
Opening of Aime O A and new intervals listed
An old newspaper snippet hints at upcoming openings and intervals with a line about items priced at ten cents each, obtainable from a local exitor figure. The fragment references Sheexer Exittor as the seller and suggests more openings will be announced.
Players in Providence tourney with Adams at Sayre lead group
Messrs Foldy and Lewis head a Providence tournament current round. The Fraternal Guardian of passes runs a checker match directed by Adam of Sayre. London madham Tescheel't match planned for Bot. Australians debate departure dates while W Smith of Adelaide seeks a 10 game match. June 17 brought a holiday crowd to Mr Daan's Cambridge Street venue where casual fencing and lemonade followed a friendly bout.
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Messrs
Foldy
Lewis
Providence
Guardian of Passes
Adam
Sayre
Penn
London
Arrivals of Livestock at Brighton and Watertown
Week’s arrivals include cattle 196, hogs 28, horses 740, western cattle 2844, western sheep and lambs 11412, eastern cattle 351, eastern sheep and lambs, with prices noted for western stock at 6.00 per 200 live weight and northern stock at 4.00 to 5.50. Hides and pelts prices listed for various species and grades.
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Brighton
Watertown
Mystery of the Art Gallery Visit Sparks Hokus Tale
In a brief, fragmented note the Herald recalls a curious exchange about virtue in art galleries. Mrs Hokus and Mr Hokus reminisce about a prior visit with playful murmurs and scattered phrases, highlighting a lively but unclear anecdote from the scene.
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New York Herald
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Julian Pauncefort
Enjamin Harrison
William F.arton
State Department
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Icy Bay
Lieut. Robinson
Herreshoff
New York Flyers
Forest Park
Laig McArthur
Carrie McArthur
Hacerstown
Locust Grove
Daniel Shiffler
John McKurren
Mr. Shiffler
Louis
Catorce
San Luis Potoso
Mex
Concepcion
Guadaloupe
Lacruces
el Potrero
Los Catorce
Peere
McCrystal
McCable
Tales
Marr
St. Paul
Nicholas Belsinger
Syracuse
Willimantic
Newton Ramsey
J. F. Mason
Benjamin Hoffmann
John Guy Vassar
Venny College
Vassar Hospital
A. A. Mauchan
Dumbarton
Ayrshire
Glasgow
Tose
Bebrons
Tennessee
Norfolk
St. Andrews
Florida
Java
Taor
Sanaeme
Caracnas
Lantat
Rica
Jamaica
Louisiana
Japan
Wits
Ratsina
Muscatel
Valencia
Messina
Sf Honda A
Baracoa
Port Limon
Gi Bo
Jaumaion
Walmuie
Ie Ecane
Lie Ec
Filberta
Ea Lakers
Ohio
Doxstraight
Co Straighit
Fish
Va Scotia
Labrador
George
Nomi
Uenos Ayres
Montevideo
Cordova
Leone
I Bissac
Gambia
Liverpool
Lucerne
Jersey
Havana
Soo
Watertown Cattle Market
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