Hartington backs new national party in British politics
Foreign notes discuss Lord Hartington favoring a national party distinct from old conservatism and revolutionism. The Times libel case looms, Irish question lingers, and Parliament eyes the mines and land bills amid Liberal splits. The week promises debate and potential reconstruction of the crimes bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Hartington
House of Commons
T. P. O'Connor
Parnellites
London Times
Frank O'Donnell
Dungarvan
The
Times
O'Connor
O'Donnell
Blackburn
Lancashire
Gladstone
House of Lords
Blaine Courted by London Society During Visit
James G Blaine and wife sparked a social furor in London with nonstop invitations from top figures including Mr Gladstone. He declined a foreign office reception amid debates over Ireland and royalty parades, praising England’s progress while criticizing the Jubilee pageant as hollow next to America’s industrial progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
James G. Blaine
Mrs. Blaine
Mr. Gladstone
Mr. Blaine
Blaine
Rosebar
Foreign Office
Blain
Lord Salisbury
Lord Galisbury
Ireland
England
Bunker Iill
France Rejects Egyptian Convention Moves in Mediteranean Balance
Constantinople June 26 France refuses to accept the Egyptian convention outcome and warns of measures to protect its interests if ratified. Paris offers assurances to Sultan against consequences if he refuses, claiming the act would strengthen France Turkey ties versus England. A note to the powers is prepared amid reports of Russian forces near Kars.
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Constantinople
France
Mediterranean
England
Council of Ministers
Turkey
Karsas A
Morning Post
Cyprus Convention Question Stirs Turkish Ratification Debate
Erzeroum reports the Porte asks Britain if ratification would enable Turkey to rely on the convention’s Cyprus provisions being effectively fulfilled. The inquiry signals concern over enforcement and the political implications of the agreement amid ongoing negotiations between the two powers.
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Erzeroum
Porte
England
Turkey
Cyprus
Grand London party and European tensions spillover
Socialite Mr Gladstone hosts a garden party at Dollis Hill with guests including Mr James Russell Lowell and Earls Spencer and Granville. Dispatches report Russia creating five gendarme corps on the Austrian frontier. A five mile Alexandra Park bike race sees Lees win by five yards. Other items note King Milan abdication denial, a Toulon waterspout tragedy drowning eight, Belgium’s King Leopold visiting London churches and the People’s Palace, and multiple European incidents from Bavaria to Ireland.
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Gladstone
Dollis Hill
James Russell Lowell
Earls Spencer
Granville
Warsaw
Russia
Alexandra Park
Lees
Woodside
Vienna
Milan
Toulon
Leopold
Belgium
Westmoreland
Yorkshire
Cleveland
Henry Ward Beecher
Parker
City Temple
Mr. Beecher
Brooklyn
Otto
Veresovay
Czesgled
Spain
M. Flourens
Suez Canal
United Ireland
O'Brien
Ireland
Rugland
England
Pabors
Maynooth College
Walsh
Roberts, Dale & Co
Chemical Works
London
Pomona Palace
Journal Des Debats
Paris
Constantin
Porte
Poe
Wales
Greece
Denmark
Saxony
Germany
Lord Wolesley
Duke of Cambridge
Aldersiot
Norham Castle
British Isles
Bantry Ay
Potsdam
Prussia
Wanzee
Bulgaria
M. Stambuloff
Maivkog
William M. Murphy
Bantry Bay
Her
Shannon
Cabul
Candahar
Egypt
Aldershot
France
Canadia Pacific Railway
Liverpool
Halifax
Pacific
Australia
Westminster
Syme Abbey
Vishnigradsky
Black Sea
Denetz
Transaucasian
Poti
Tiflis
Crown Prince
Norwood
Charles Hood
McKenzie
Grant
Woman Seen in Canal Boat Near Erie Street Bridge
A Buffalo canal boat near the Erie Street bridge attracts attention as a man points out a woman unseen outside the cabin for 20 years. A head hidden in a checkered sun bonnet peeks from the cabin hatch, described as stout and reclusive.
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Erie Street
Buffalo
Stout
Extracted excerpt about a woman and exhibit request
A fragment describes a woman trapped at sea or on deck, last seen during Grant’s inauguration. Helpers included the captain, the mate, and two mule drivers, with difficulties noted. A dime museum offered pay to exhibit her but refused after learning canal boat involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Dr McGlynn Addresses Land and Labor League Meeting
Dr McGlynn spoke for hours before Land and Labor League No 1 at the Grand Pacific Hotel. He traced labor agitation and Henry George theory spread, urged labor to field candidates and elect legislators, and praised James Redpath while noting Redpath’s poor health.
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Curiaco
Land and Labor League No. 1
Dr. McGlynn
Grand Pacific Hotel
League
Henry George
McGlynn
Land and Labor Leagues
New Orleans
California
Mr. George
Labor Party
Massive Fire Destroys Chicago Packing Plant and Horf Roasted Alive
A devastating blaze at the Chicago Packing and Provision Company in Union Stock Yards began in the tank room and spread to multiple buildings. About 3,000 hogs were within the plant. 600 to 700 burned alive as fires raged for hours. The main building and parts of the facility were total losses with 14% hours of smoke and embers lingering. inventoried pork and barrels of mess pork were destroyed. Armours reported 17,060 barrels of pork valued at 460,000 with salvage and insurance figures uncertain. plant valued at 800,000 with stock at 700,000. Around half of the 2,000 employees would lose work. The fire did not greatly affect the market, according to Armour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cmcaco
Union Stock Yards
Chicago Packing and Provision Company
Fortieth Street
Centre Avenue
Forty-second Street
Armour & Co
Tve
Uring J. A. Scafer
Thomas Murphy
W. Whits
Captain Nichols
Thomas Elliot
Murphy
Armour
Chicago Packing and Provision Companies
Three Lives Unaccounted For in Florida Blaze
Disastrous fire at a Jacksonville brick block on Bay and Clay streets destroyed Clark & Loftus furniture Watson & Co drugs and Sable Brothers leather. Loss listed at 50,000 with 30,000 covered by insurance. Three men inside the building vanished when the walls collapsed. six others escaped unharmed. Names of the missing men are unknown.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Bay
Clay
Clark & Loftus
Watson & Co
Sable Brothers
Frightful Fire in London Leaves Several Dead
London fire at a tenement off Oxford Street trapped inmates and drew vast crowds. A youth leaped to the ground and perished, his mother died as she fell beneath the crowd. A woman with a child at a window tumbled into the flames, later found charred with two children.
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London
Oxford Street
Queen Kapiolani's visit tied to Hawaii loan talks
London reports turmoil in Hawaii as Queen Kapiolani visits for a cash loan negotiation. Insurrection threats loom, Kalakaua's reign may end as German merchants seek protection and possible protectorate. German imperial aims and colonial ambitions threaten to reshape the islands amid rising dangers to life and property.
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London
Kapiolani
Hawaii
Kalakaua
Europe
Onvium
Germany
Zixivermih
Pecaye
Hawaian
Revolution in District Assembly 49 ends Home Club power
In New York City a district assembly of 49 Knights of Labor ousted Master Workman James E. Quinn and abolished the board of arbitration. An executive board will supervise the master workman. George W. Dunne, deprived of the chair, was vindicated by election of new leaders including John J. McKenna and James Archibald. The Home Club faction loses influence ahead of MinneapolisOctober elections.
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New York
Knights of Labor
James E. Quinn
Quinn
George W. Dunne
Board of Arbitration and Strikes
Friends of
Dunne
Nee Fey
Justo
Certa
Victor Drury
T. B. McGuire
T. P. Quinn
Edward E. Kunzie
Harry E. Taylor
Hugh Carey
Paul Meyer
General Assembly
International Workingmen's Association
Uone
Minneapolis
Labor
Kunze
Drury
Harry G.taylor
Order
Philadelphia
T. GB. McGuire
General Executive Board
McGuire
John J. McKenna
Ocean Association of Longshoremen
James P. Archibald
Faperhangers Assembly
James P. Purcell
James Rale
OTC
Geners Assembly
Richmond
John Sherman's Little Came in Ohio News
Columbus reports untimely leaks reveal John Sherman sought Blaine faction support in eastern Ohio. He hurried to court patrons among Republicans after learning McKinley had been named temporary chairman of the state convention, with prospects of a future permanent chair.
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Columbus
John Sherman
Ohio
Blaine
Sherman
McKinley
E. Repoulkey
Shinley
Jugae
McKinley Backers Pledge Sherman Vote at Republican Meet
In Mansfield a resolution endorses John Sherman for president and urges immediate adoption without committee reference. McKinley supporters in Ohio vow to push it through, while Sherman’s foes promise a fierce fight that could extend to the November polls. Democrats see brighter skies and urge a clean ticket for victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield Statesman
Ohio Deleta
John Sherman
McKinley
Ohio
Three Valuable Swords Return to Treasury Role
Swords once owned by General Twiggs and seized by General Butler in 1862, held in a New Orleans bank, are at the Treasury. Congress authorized returning them to the rightful owner or heirs. A long dispute over ownership ended with a Treasury disposition under a Senate report praising Twiggs’s gallantry in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasugaron
Treasury Department
Benjamin PF. Butler
New Orleans
Twiggs
Butler
Secretary of the Treasury
Ator Hawley
Ator Hawley, In Reporting the Bill Fary
Senate Military Com
Court of Sind
Senate
Congress
United States
David E. Twigg
Damas
David E. ‘Twiggs
Mexico
Hilo Alto
Resnca
Dela Palma
Mon
Vert Cruz
Cerro Gordo
Chepultepec
Ae Sel Rey
City of Mexico
Augusts
New York Drummer Deboer Kills Himself in St Paul
E H Deboer a New York silver warehouse agent shot himself in a private boarding house in St Paul after losing 975 on pools. He left an unsealed letter to his father in New York expressing ruin and intent to die, saying he could not bear to be a pauper while wealthy relatives exist.
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St. Paul
E. H. Deboer
Trayone
New York
Deboer
New York City
H. Deboer
East Eighty
Etreet
General Butler on Bells Plundered by War in New Orleans
General Benjamin F Butler disputes claims about returning all property taken from the South noting church bells captured for war use. He recounts bell seizures after New Orleans fell in 1862 including St Patrick’s Cathedral bell and multiple churches in New England later repurposed or sold at auction. He cites treasury records and says the matter was widely documented by loyal press.
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New York
B. F. Butler
The
Sun
Washington
Washington Post
Bangor Commercial
Ben Butler
Baptist Church of
Wayne
Butler
New Orleans
St. Patrick's Cathedral
United States
Boston
St. Patrick’s Church
Sergyman
St. Patrick's
New England
the Treasury
Snake saves deacon in Lane's Siding tale of horned serpent
Roynourt New York June 26. A Lane's Siding farmer and deacon named Trentor says a horned snake about 4 feet 6 inches long attacked him while he cut grass near a barn. He struck with a crooked stick and killed the reptile. The incident, doubters awaited, restores Trentor's veracity in a curious local legend of a horned sea serpent type creature new to the region.
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Roynourt
N. Y
L. Treator
Lane’s Siding
Trentor
Rentor
Nore
Georgia
Atlanta merchant fined under prohibitory law for inappropriate gesture
A Burlington Free Press item notes an Atlanta merchant paid a $40 fine plus costs for placing an arm around a female customer in his store. The report cites Atlanta’s prohibitory law and its enforcement in this incident.
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Burlington Free Press
Atlanta
Fierce bear fight at the Philadelphia Zoo ends tragically
June 26 at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens a staged bear clash climaxes with the death of Bessie a young black bear. Keeper George Harrison fights for safety as Danger the grizzly leads a brutal battle lasting an hour before order is restored by Heatstwwper Byrne Shannon and Murphy. Harrison sustains severe injuries but survives declaring the encounter unmatched by his circus years.
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Philadelphia
Zoological Gardens
Zoo
Byrne
Bessie
George Harrison
Harrison
Bears
Yankee Trade With Mexico Free Port at Vera Cruz
Discussion grows over making Vera Cruz a free port of entry. European merchants would open branch houses and boost national agriculture while aiding English French and German commerce. The plan gains support from mercantile interests as American trade expands and European competition intensifies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cipy
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Robbery near Rome targets Quaker City clergy and companions
Philadelphia reports that Rev. Dr. W N McVickar rector of Holy Trinity Church along with his sister Miss McVickar and Miss May Coles were robbed near Rome by four armed men two weeks ago as they examined an ancient church. The party was relieved of valuables including a gold repeater after a struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Rome
W. N. McVickar
Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church
McVickar
Finerty's Wealth From a Silver Mine Sparks Family Battle
In St Louis three daughters of Peter Finerty, who died in Wisconsin, stand to inherit his fortune after a long legal fight. Finerty, once a struggling farmer, rose after discovering the Little Chief mine near Leadville in 1874. He used proceeds to help sisters and family, but a divorce and later wife’s lawyers complicate the estate as the case moves east to secure remaining wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Keokuk
Leadville
Little Chief
Iowa
York
New York
Noted Illness Becomes Final in Waukesha Death
He was told by physicians he could not live long and urged to settle affairs. He traveled to Waukesha where he died. His daughters had previously moved from Davenport Academy to the Sacred Heart Convent in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Davenport Academy
Sacred Heart Convent
Penalty dispute over seized goods in Montreal court
Sir William Ritchie presided in the Court of Exchequer as J C Ayer & Co of Lowell sue the minister of customs over two issues. The seized goods value is 79000 dollars with penalties around 370000 dollars. The case will be heard over a week with 76 to 80 witnesses summoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
William Ritchie
Supreme Court
Court of Exchequer
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mags
MacMaster
Queen's Counsel
Messrs. Ayer
Hog
A Noble Tramp Count Zewotski of Poland in Harrisburg
Harrisburg June 26. Count Zewotski a Polish nobleman who came to America with Kossuth in 1851 and later joined Napoleon’s army. He witnessed Moscow’s burning, fought at Waterloo, and spent three months at St Helena. He later lost a California fortune, enlisted at 70 in the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania, and now resides in Berks County almshouse, tramp by summer. He visits Baltimore Bonapartes annually and resembles Walt Whitman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrrisnurse
Penn
America
Kossuth
Count Zewotski
Count Zewerski
Napoleon
Moscow
Wierloo
St. Helena
Poland
Hungary
Count Zeworski
Burge
California
France
Harrisburg
Lincoln
Onedred
Pennsylvania
Berks County
Baltimore
Walt Whitman
Davis Denounces Colonel Howard Letter as Forgery
New Orleans editors received a June 24 1887 letter from Jefferson Davis claiming a Chicago Inter Ocean forgery by a Danville source. Davis says he never visited Danville nor knew Colonel Howard and condemns the forged content as implausible fiction about state and federal war relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel M Howard
New Orleans
Jeffer
Bravvorn
Miss
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Phoebien
Danville
Beauvoir
Howard
United States
The Child of the House Willie Howard Dies
A longtime Capitol figure known as The Child of the House Willie Howard died Thursday night from a spinal illness that troubled him since infancy. Appointed as a House appropriations page through the help of Congressman Holman and Speaker Carlisle, he had been cared for by many congressmen before his inclusion on the permanent roll faded. He rode daily to the Capitol in a wagon drawn by goats, and goats fed in the basement served the animals during work hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasninoroy
House
Capitol
Willie Howard
Holman
Carlisle
House Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Terrific Explosion of Gas Claims Five Men in Col liery Fire
A gas explosion yesterday afternoon at Holden colliery Taylorville near Scranton Pennsylvania left five men fatally burned Watkin Morgan David Reese John Bevan Philip Mulderiy and Isaac Aston. The blast occurred about 200 feet underground 2000 feet from the engine house causing workers nearby to be hurled and bruised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Holden
Taylorville
Watkin Morgan
David Reese
John Bevan
Philip Mulderiy
Isaac Aston
Splitlog the Millionaire Swindled in Wyandotte
In Kansas City on June 22 a suit seeks to force Mathias Splitlog of Wyandotte Kansas to honor a contract. Splitlog a full blooded Wyandotte Indian worth over one million dollars was duped by Moses A. Clay into signing a paper he believed would guarantee 50 000 for railroad busing. instead it granted Clay an option on 76 acres in Wyandotte County. Clay fled with the case pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Mathias Splitlog
Wyandotte
Kan
Splitlog
Spit
Moses A. Clay
McDonald County
Clay
Jyandotte County
Glay
Grand Master Masons' Convention Concludes in Cuicano
The convention of present and past grand master Masons of the United States and Canada ended today in Cuicano. A resolution affirming the supremacy of grand lodges in their respective territories was carried, the principal subject before the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuicano
United States
Canada
Ex Attorney General Speed Dead
Louisville Ky June 25 General James B Speed who was attorney general in Lincolns cabinet died at 3 oclock this morning at his home near Aviaville He was 75 years old
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
James B. Speed
Lincoln
Aviaviin
Fatal coal mine explosion at Nanticoke kills three
June 25 Wilkesbarre Penn. three miners are dead and four injured after an explosion in No 4 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke. A gas-filled chamber marked Danger Do Not Enter was entered despite the sign. The blast shattered a coal pillar 16 feet wide, threw workers against gangways, and left injured men gasping from after damp. The disaster halted all local mine work as families and officials await further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkeswamre
Penn
Susquehanna Coal Company
Nanticoke
Desperate Nevada Miners Die in Gould & Curry Escape Attempt
Vine Nev June 25 Five men trapped at 800 foot level and four at 400 foot level of Gould Curry mine join six others imprisoned by fire at Rest Belcher. Rescue attempts pump air but little hope remains for those at 400 foot level. Later rescuers reach the 400 foot level and find five dead, likely suffocated while trying to escape. Names of the deceased listed among the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Impr Sone
Best
Belcher
John ‘Trounee
Brace
W.C. Carpen
Eight Lives Lost In A Storm Off Black River Ohio
The steam barge P. H. Walters, a 197 ton vessel owned by John Homegardner of Sandusky, sank in a June storm off Black River near Ohio at about 7 pm. Eight crew members perished including captain and mate. survivors clung to lifeboats. The Pearl rescued shipwrecked crew at Cleveland around 3 am, bringing them to safety. Victims named include Mrs I G Gillespie Alphas Jennie Gillespie Engineer Peter Grines Fireman John Petersen Wheelman Gus Shaffer Deck hand Peter Rowley and Stewardess Kate Rowley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
P. H. Walters
John Homegardner
Sandusky
Black River
Ohio
Pearl
Detroit
I. G. Gillespie
Alphas
Jennie Gillespie
Peter Grines
John Petersen
Gus Shaffer
Peter Rowley
Lighthouse Station
Kate Rowley
Luck of a Fall River Cook Heir to German Fortune
Ernest Kinderfater a Sokollo's restaurant cook in Faunt River learns a distant relative in Germany left a $500 000 fortune to him as an heir. He departed for Germany to claim the inheritance and plans to return to start a business in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faunt River
Ernest Kinderfater
Sokollo
Heren von der Rache
Germany
Kinder Fater
Kinder
Judge orders judgment in Central Trust v Ohio Central案
In Torino Ohio on June 22 Judge Walker of the United States Circuit Court ordered judgment for the plaintiff in Central Trust Company of New York versus the Ohio Central Road. The amount totals 5 408 050 dollars with 2 408 050 for deficiency on 30 000 first mortgage bonds and 3 000 main line income bonds. Interest runs from June 3 1385 with most of the sum paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torino
Ohio
Walker
United States Circuit Court
Central Trust Company of New York
Ohio Central Road
Jone
Mrs Cleveland Chosen a Trustee at Wells College
The Wells Female college board of trustees voted that women should have representation. Miss Helen F Smith the lady principal and Mrs Frances F Cleveland the president's wife were unanimously chosen trustees in Aurora New York on June 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
N. Y
Wells’ Female College Today
Helen F. Smith
Frances Fleveland
Grand Trunk Train Robbed at Fort Gratiot
Five men boarded the Grand Trunk train at 1.15 am in Fort Gratiot and robbed the eastbound passengers. Several passengers lost money, an elderly man $160. Three suspects have been arrested and are jailed. further arrests are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Trunk
Port Houroy
Mich
Fort Gratiot
Revenue collections rise in first 11 months of year
The Liquors and Tobacco section reports total internal revenue collections for the first 11 months of the current fiscal year ending June 30 amount to $108,665,891, up $1,561,335 from the same period a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marshall Town Offers Tax Funds for Coffin Factory
The Philadelphia Call notes Marshall Michigan offers 85000 from its tax revenue to any entrepreneur who will establish a coffin factory in the town. The proposal aims to spur local industry and job creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Marshall
Mich
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Buffalo Bill
Prince of Wales
Jody
William O’brien
Dublin
Mgr. Persico
Westminster Abbey
Genesta
St. George's Chapel
Windsor
Cologne
Baron Solemacher
Baron Schorlemer
Toulouse
Great Packing Works
Chicago
Jacksonvill, Fla
D. AL
Atsc
Zoological
Kizzly
Italy
Peter Finerty
Ayer & Co
Waterloo
Jefferson Davis
Son Davis
Little Willie Howard
Lame Page
Grand Master Masons’ Convention
Speed
Nevada
Cook
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Uglas
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
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