Graceful Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher Death
Brooklyn dispatch details the final hours of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as death loomed. Medical staff report coma, paralysis, and no hope, while crowds gather at Hicks Street to read updates and mourn the famed preacher.
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Brooklyn
Death
Henry Ward Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Hicks Street
Beecher
Harry
William C
Sam Scoville
Major Pond
Hammond
William Todd Helmuth
Professor Helmuth
Dr. Searle
Dr. Hammond
Howard's Tribute to Beecher A Brooklyn Nation Remembers
New York March 6. A friend recalls Beecher from Brooklyn forty years, praising his genius and influence. The tribute notes his liberal theology, abolitionist stance, and world reach, while reflecting on Plymouth Church and Brooklyn’s loss as the pastor’s life ends. The piece mixes personal reminiscence with public awe.
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New York
Mr. Beecher
Brooklyn
Mr. Beeche
Plymouth
Beecher Expected to Die Overnight, Dr Searle States
New York on March 7 at 3 p m Dr Searle announced that Reverend Henry Ward Beecher will die during the night and cannot survive to tomorrow morning indicating the death is imminent according to the physician's assessment.
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New York
Searle
Henry Ward Beecher
Gigantic Cotton Seed Scheme Aims Oil Factories in South
A Camden New Jersey charter grants Southern Cotton Oil Company, a Philadelphia Southern capitalists group, power to build mills and refineries across major Southern cities including Norfolk Wilmington Charleston Columbia Savannah Atlanta Mobile Montgomery Meridian Jackson Shreveport New Orleans Galveston Houston Dallas San Antonio and Kansas City Chicago Camden Jersey City Hoboken with a $5 million capital and capacity claimed to rival American Cotton Seed Oil Company which dominates mills. The venture may create a new oil industry monopoly in the region.
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Purtadelputa
Camden
N. J
Southern Cotton Oil Company
Philadelphia
Southern
Norfolk, Va
Wilmington
N. C
Charleston
Columbia
Shreveport
Memphis
Tenn
Galveston
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Texas
Kansas City
Chicago
Jersey City
Hoboken
American Cotton Seed Oil Company
Henry
Butcher Washington Butcher's Sona
the Press
Passage of the senate retaliation bill dominates closing week
The Forty-ninth Congress closes with Canada retaliation as the major act. Bills on river and harbor, naval appropriations, and coast defenses move, while the House and Senate clash over funding. Secret sessions, eulogies, and conference reports mark a tense final push for key measures and armed defenses.
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House
Senate
Cleveland
Edmunds
Hale
Allison
Blair
Plumb
Congress
TurspAy
Hoar
Stockbridge
Michigan
Turpie
Indiana
Oval
Committee On Appropriations
Morgan
Committee On Indian Affairs
Chi- Caro, Kansas & Nebraska
Conference
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Joseph Francis
Morrison
Ilinois
Butterworth
Ohio
Belmont
New York
Conferrees
House Conferrees
Rice
Massachusetts
Newark
Long Island
Missouri River
Kansas City
Omaha
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Ednuspay
Breckiniige
Arkansas
Committee On
Eastport
Clements
Georgia
Raniels
Virginia
Crain
Texas
Worthington
Need
Maine
Albert H. Emory
Tillman
North Carolina
Reed
Long
Hatch
Missouri
Elmont
Barksdale
Mississippi
The
of Labor
Randall
Pennsylvania
Committee On Rules
Hartford
Conn
Middletown
Harbor Island
Newport
Male
Marber Defence
Poison Plot Threatens Man in Rochester Pie
Rochester New Hampshire reports a possible poisoning case after John Marshall fell gravely ill from arsenic found in a pie sent with food from his estranged wife. The wife, noted as a pretty light-haired woman, has a prior marriage and a child with Marshall. authorities investigate motives and connections as Marshall recovers.
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Rochester
N. H
March
John Marshall
Wallace
Marshall
Dr. Virgin
Garfeld
Interview With Amanda Greeley Heiress Of Horace’s Kin
A long Derrick interview profiles Amanda Greeley sister of Horace Greeley. At 73 she lies paralyzed at her son Louis Kossuth Greeley’s Spring Creek home in Warren County. Four of fourteen children survive: Louis Kossuth, Zarcheus E. B., Clarissa, and Estella. Karnes Greeley, Horace’s brother, has most of the farm lineage.
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Orn Crry
Penn
Derrick Today
Mra
Amanda Greeley
Horace Greeley
Louis Kossuth Greeley
Spring Creek
Warren County
Lowell Greeley
Karnes
Greeley Farm
Corry
W. L. Greeley
Louis Kossuth
Horace
Spring Creek Station
Debt of Overeating Tells Tragic Local Tale at Augusta
Henry Dodson the vagrant faces a postponed sale at the Augusta court house door tomorrow. His family, destitute and half starved, has been moved to the county infirmary. A youngest child, previously healthy, died suddenly after consuming large amounts of food, while the father showed no emotion at the loss.
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Louisvillle
Augusta
Henry Dodson
Court House
Dodson
Fall of Pillsbury Warehouse Scares Minneapolis
The vast E A Pillsbury & Co warehouse in southeast Minneapolis collapsed at 2 80 this morning. It housed 125 000 barrels of flour and collapsed after heavy recent snow weakened the roof. The five and a half story structure is a total loss with damage estimated at 86000 and no loss of life.
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Minneapolis
Minn
E. A. Pillsbury & Co
Bitterness Over Nova Scotia Retaliation Law Sparks Fishermen Debate
In Hacrrax Nova Scotia March 6 President Cleveland approved the retaliation bill causing great excitement in fishing centres. Fishermen who previously found work on American vessels are undecided about returning to the States this spring. Strong bitterness centers on broken expectations for quick agreement between two companies.
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House of Representatives
Hale
Dawes
New York
Ambrose Snow
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Trade and Transportation
Ericsson
Plumb
District of Columbia
Senate
Hoar
Potomac
Washington
Arlington
Yeas
Lincoln
Grant
Mahone
Agreo
Wilson
Iowa
Hacrrax
Cleveland
Nova Scotia
Ten boys burned by powder blast in church yard
Ten Sunday school boys at St Mark's Church yard in Pittspore were seriously burned when they played with gunpowder and an explosion occurred. Joseph Hopkins was fatally injured and will probably die.
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Pittspore
Penn
St. Mark’s Church Yard
Joseph Hopkins
HER SON TO THE RESCUE TRANSFUSION EXTENDS LIFE
Mrs Hoyt Sherman died after a transfusion operation performed by Dr C S Clark. For three years she was an invalid and in the last year her condition was critical. Two weeks prior she hoped her life would last until her daughter Mrs Wiborg could reach her bedside in Cincinnati.
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Senator Sherman Mas
Des Mores
Hoyt Sherman
Wiborg
Cincinnati
Family links tie patient to Sherman brothers
Frank Sherman, son of the patient, received about three ounces of transfused blood. The operation provided a temporary boost with firmer pulse and renewed vitality, but a relapse occurred three days ago. Consulting physicians considered a second operation but declined, deeming the heart could not circulate blood effectively. Mrs Sherman is married to Senator John Sherman’s brother and to General W T Sherman.
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Frank Sherman
Clark
Mrs. Sherman
Senator John Sherman
W. T. Sherman
Wreck of Chinese Junk with Only Six Survivors
San Francisco March 1 reports the Gaelic arriving from China and Japan notes a junk bound from Hainan to Siam wrecked with 600 aboard and only six known saved. Separately lava eruptions from Mauna Loa were reported with craters not highly active when the steamer departed Honolulu.
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San Francisco
Cali
China
Japan
Hainan
Siam
Mauna Loa
Honolulu
End of Forty-ninth Congress Many Bills Passed
A review notes the Forty-ninth Congress passed many measures, with vetoed items and several in force. It cites key acts on succession, electoral counting, finance, pensions, taxes, labor, and territorial land, plus reforms in banking, mail, and agriculture, and records high productivity.
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FitzJohn Porter
Dingley
Commission of Labor
National Library
Washington
Atlantic & Paritic
United States
Rock Springs
Manneg
Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Edmunds
China
Lano
Senator Frye
Wrigley
Freedmen’s Bureau
Nyalls
Senate
House
Io Senate
Hendricks
Margarett Mather married in quiet Buffalo wedding
At St. John's Episcopal Church in Burrato New York Margaret Mather the celebrated actress and Emil Habercorn leader of the Union Square Theatre orchestra New York were quietly married with only the minister the contracting party and a few friends present The marriage was unknown to manager J M Hill in New York until hours after the ceremony
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New York
Mr. Beecher
Broadway
James Freelont
Vreeland
Brooklyn
Frank Moulton
Frank
Henry C. Bowen
Theodore ‘Tilton
Woodhull
Ciallin
Ichard S. Storrs
Eagle
McCloskey
Kinsella
McLean
McKilway
Burrato
N. Y
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Margaret Mather
J. M. Hill
Juliet
Emil Habercorn
Union Square Theatre
Hill
New York City
Buffalo
Pees
Young Priest Honored by French General for Arcola Clergy
Rev. P. M. Donohue of Arcola Illinois, serving Catholic churches there, has been made a lieutenant in the French army by General Houlanger. He speaks French and Italian fluently and is described as a bit of a scientist. He did not disclose what prompted the appointment.
Delirium Cure From a Tree Fall Brings Man Home
Oliver Vanasse, a Baltic mill weaver of Putnam Connecticut, who was believed to have drowned himself, returned home this morning. He said he had been in the woods since his disappearance and was removed from delirium when he fell from a tree while fleeing imagined pursuers.
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Christ
Beecher
Equitable
Mr. Beecher
Columbia Heights
Peekskill
Orty
Brookl N
Major Pond
Ross W. Raymond
Putnam, Conn
Oliver Vanasse
Baltic
A Sepulchre of Snow Buries Six On Canadian Pacific Track
A March 7 news report from Doyaup British Columbia describes a massive snow slide along the Canadian Pacific line near Mount Forbes that buried six workers during debris clearing. The slide, part of several storms that flooded tracks and washed bridges, killed James Entov, Alex Hunter, Alex Crowley, Eugene Smith Davenport, Holten Kross, and Henri Hendricks, while others escaped. The event halted repair work as crews faced dangerous, ongoing slides and destroyed infrastructure.
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Doyaup
B. C
Canadian Pacific Railway
Mount Forbes
Theames
James Entov
London
Alex. Hunter
Manchter
Eng
Alex. Crowley
Concord
Eugene Smithavenport
Ia. Holten
Kross
Belgium
Henri Hendricks
Toronto
Cleveland and the Senate Nomination Rejections
President Cleveland faced few rejection of his nominations with only four rejected from hundreds. Several nominees linger unfinished as Congress expired, leaving many to await action or tenure until the next session. Notable unacted posts include postmasters and regional officials across the South and West, with two New England exceptions.
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Wsreron
Cleveland
Senate
J. C. Matthews
Albany
N. Y
District of Columbia
Charles W. Irish
Inniana
Nevada
Claries E. Dailey
Neb
Congress
James Curdun
Yessels
P. F. Coghill
Petersburg
J. M. Brooks
United States
Southern Dietelet
California
Israel Green
Sidsotwun
Dak
J. H. Wagner
Knoxville
Tenn
McBlain
Corniers
H. A
Ebringer
Ctwnfueros
Sumeras
W. T
F. M. Minne
Ater
Spaho
Neardia
Rand
Ft. E
Register Land Offer
Deadwood
Dal
New England
W. Dower
Easthampton
Mass
T. I’. Gorman
Whitinsville
Wild sleigh race halts freight train crash near Wilkes-Barre
In Hazleton Pennsylvania on March 7 Charles Herling drove a sleigh with fiery horses onto a railroad crossing as a freight train approached. Train engineers and workers signaled and braked, stopping within ten feet of the sleigh. Both horses suffered injuries but no one was hurt. Herling treated the incident as a bold race.
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Wilkensbarre
Penn
Hazelton
Allison's & Co
Llow
Charles Herling
Heri
Iron Horse
Lime
Herling
Roe
Snow Embargo Binds Rail Link Between Mankato and Tracey
Winona March 3 Phenomenal snow drifts clog the Winona and St Peter line between Mankato and Tracey. The embargo will delay railroad traffic for weeks as telegram poles rise five feet above the snow and eight days of hard work covered 200? roads and passes. The superintendent arrived in Winona after six foot drifts and extensive snow burdens.
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Minn
Winona & St. Peter’s
Mankato
Tracey
Oessilly
Pasionere
Ction
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