Centennial Inauguration Pageant Plans Debut In New York
Official visitors from all states join a grand pageant of processions balls and orations. Chauncey M Depew prepares a 9000 word oration for a two minute digest while grand parades and a Metropolitan Opera House banquet mark the two day celebration concluding with a May day industrial parade and a giant world globe float.
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St. Paul's Church
St. Paul’s Church
Henry C. Potter
D. D
New York
John Greenleaf Whitter
Chauncey Mitchell Depew
President Harrison
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Wall Street
Metropolitan Opera House
Tompkins Park
Canal Street
Washington Stare
Union Squire
Fifty-ninth Street
Eighth Avenue
Mount Morris Park
East River Park
Washington Heights
Fifth Avenue
Queer Sunday in New York Parade Joins Centennial Festivities
Crowds fill streets and water front as New York prepares for centennial events. Hotels overflow with prominent visitors including ex Senators and governors. Troops arrive. public work stalls halted on Sabbath as centennial services at St Paul’s Church honor Washington.
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New York
Broadway
Ountry
Gilsey House
John C, Ew
Saunders
Nebraska
Merriam
Minnesota
L. West
Minneapolis
Russell BK
Harrion
Society of the Cincinnati
St. Paul's Church
Washington
William Stevens Perry
Iowa
Inauguration Festival Itinerary in New York
An itinerary for three days of exhibitions and side shows in New York honoring Washington’s inauguration. Times are listed for events such as the 9 am arrival of President Harrison at Elizabethport and a naval parade and review from 11 am to 1 pm.
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New York
Washington
Harrison
Elizabethport
U. S
Look Out for It Feature on Lug Weekly Centennial
An extended report with illustrations of the centennial celebration’s principal events will be a feature in next week’s Lug Weekly Gone issue.
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Lug Weekly
Gone
Woman set fire while family slept then leaped from window
Betsey McAuley, a servant at 569 James Street, intoxicated, started a waste paper fire in the hall as the Garnier family slept in New York. Mr Garnier extinguished it, alerted police, and McAuley jumped from a fourth story window, sustaining fatal internal injuries.
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New York
Betsey McAuley
Edward Garnier
James Street
Captain Murrell and Missouri Officers Aid Danmark Survivors
Captain Murrell and the Missouri officers handed over their entire testimial fund to the rescued Danmark passengers. The Missouri sailed from Philadelphia for Baltimore after a public reception aboard. Nearly 4000 well-wishers bid farewell as Mrs Bellange-Cox delivered gifts from Lincoln Institute Indian girls.
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Missouri
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Hamilton Murrell
Washinton Avenue
Murrell
Danmark
Colored Farmers' National Alliance forms in the South
J D Norris launches a statewide canvass to organize a new Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union. The aim is to elevate African Americans through education and better citizenship while withdrawing from political partisanship. The movement claims rapid spread and broad influence.
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Charveston
D.C
J. D. Norris
Colored Farmers’ Association
Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Co-operative Union
Norris
America
Alliance
De Foe Narrative Foresaw Crusoe Tale Origin
Book buyer notes De Foe drew on Captain Woodes Rogers journal of 1719 detailing Alexander Selkirk’s island ordeal on Juan Fernandez. The Duke and Dutchess under Rogers, Bristol privateers turned pirates, pursued Pacific prizes and even raided Guayquil, fueling the Robinson Crusoe genesis.
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Robinson Crusoe
de Foe
Dutchess
Woodes Rogers
Alexander Selkirk
Juan Fernandez
Duke
Rogers
Pacific
Selkirk
Ismen
Guayaquil
Ventura Bank Robbery Attempt Ends With Surrender
On April 22 in Ventura California a man named McCarthy discharged from hospital entered the bank and claimed poverty and despair. He posed with a dynamite package and a six gun demanding 30000 dollars. clerk Morri son fled as the thief seized about 4000 dollars from a bank tray. A sheriff nearby grabbed a shotgun from a hardware store and the robber surrendered. about 20 dollars was missing from the recovered cash.
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Ventura
Cal
McCarthy
Morrison
Land of Promise in Oklahoma City Settlement Turbulence
A Kansas City correspondent reports harsh conditions in Oklahoma and Guthrie with scarce water and food. Officials allegedly allocated town sites before proclamation, provoking organized squatters, armed clashes possible, while building rushes continue amid hot days and cold nights and hopeful freight access.
Guthrie Tries for Mayoral Majority Amid Dust and Epidemic
Deserts storms drive red dust over Guthrie as five camps form under tents. Nominees Volney Hoggett Dr Hill and Judge Kelly vie for mayor but chaos delays an any majority vote. A smallpox outbreak threatens the territory and prices spike for bread and crackers while freight blockades and water shortages strain residents.
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Simeon
Guthrie
Alverien
Land Officr
Volney Hoggett
Huron
Oak
Dr. Hill
Oregon
Judge Kelly
Kansas
Keley
Territory
Oklahoma
Joseph Ellsworth
Oklahoma City
Moore
Arkansas City
Ellsworth
Stewart
Santa Fe
J. G. Varnum
Martin Colbert
Noland
Martin
Noble
Varnum
L. L. Stone
Chicago
Kingfisher an Apparent Success- Trying to Hold the Cherokee Strip
A Kansas City Times special describes Kingfisher as a growing town amid disputes over titles. Homesteads are occupied, settlers rush to claim lots, and many carry six shooters. News from the Cherokee outlet storm shows widespread, contentious land rushes with Arkansas fugitives staking claims and Cherokee leaders protesting any cession.
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Kingfisher
Cherokee Strip
Kansas City
Limes
Fort Reno
Chicago Avenue
Woodson
Kinefisher
W.K. Guthie
Custer County
Neb
W. C. Yocum
Harper, Kan
W.h.jonley
Harper
Jerry Netter
Leon
Captain Woodson
George B. Morris
W. R. Brownley
Larne
Hover
Chicago Daily News
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Guthrie
Arkansas City
Daily News
Patten
Their
Land Commission
Washington
Oklahoma land contest plans could affect nearly all claims
Commissioner Stockslager said contests over land claims in Oklahoma may involve almost every quarter section. The department may create a separate class to dispose of them quickly, avoiding 18 months to two years in the ordinary process. Investigations into preproclamation land grabs are underway with a report due this week.
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Stockslager
General Land Office
Oklahoma
Washington
Nobe
Department
Noble
Tragic Newport Express Trains Kills Four
A northbound express train struck John Wade 62 his wife Matilda 59 and James Linderman 13 as they crossed the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore tracks at Newport. The horse and wagon were hurled 200 feet. Wade and Matilda resided in Appleton Cecil county. Linderman lived in Wilmington. The trio were returning from the market when killed.
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Wilmington
Del
Newport
John Wade
Matilda
James M. Linderman
Wade
Appleton
Cecil County
Linderman
A Queer Story of a Denver Dealer Robbery
F A Vanhusen of Denver tobacco wholesaler reported to police he was knocked down and robbed of 15000 after drawing 10000 and then 5000 from the German National Bank. He claimed he and A M Glost planned an Albuquerque deal with one to depart for New Mexico Wednesday night while the other stayed. two men knocked him down on the way home with the money in two packages. He said the bank was closed when they returned. Evidence showed Vanhusen was deeply in debt with attachments for 5000 and over five times that due to Eastern tobacco houses.
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F. A. Vanhusen
Denver
Col
Vanhusen
A. M. Glost
Albuquerque
N. M
Express
New Mexico
Religious Unity Conference Concludes in Toronto
The Anglican Presbyterian and Methodist ministers' conference in Toronto wrapped after two days of talks on organic unity. Leaders urged harmony and recommended delegates be appointed for a follow up conference next year. Key figures included Bishop of Huron Provost Boddy and Dr Carey with Dean Carmichael leading discussion.
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Conference of Ministers
Toronto
Ont
Huron
Boddy
Trinity College
Carey
Port Perry
Dean Carmichael
Montreal
Samoan delegates honored by Prince Bismarck in Berlin
The Samoan conference delegates were warmly received by Prince Bismarck. Bates explained press articles predated his delegation, requested publication to avert ill feeling, and noted respect for Germany. Other brief notes mention Boulangism, the Pope's temporal power, and Middle East and Africa developments.
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Messrs. Kasson & Phelps
Foreign Office
Bates
Herbert Bis- Marck
Gerpenny
America
Lord Salisbury Attacks Home Rule and Praises Primrose League
Lord Salisbury spoke in Bristol of the Primrose League’s marvellous value in blending classes to meet political questions. He denounced Irish home rule as a folly and warned that Cornwall rivals Ireland in seeking a separate parliament. He urged Unionists to back the plan most likely to win and objected to extending defence costs by granting Ireland independence.
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Bristol
Fng
Primrose League
Terver
Ireland
Cornwall
London
Schleswig
France
England
Global news round up from Europe to China
Reports from Berlin and Nazareth note American delegates and Catholic pilgrims arriving for major events. Widespread disasters include a Silesian crop destruction by storm and a Peruvian bridge collapse with a $500000 cost. Political tensions surface in Britain France and Russia amid trials, arrests, and postal restrictions. The papacy and Empress Elizabeth receive cautious coverage as Le Temps outlines Eiffel Tower view limits.
Pension Decisions Expand Disability Pension Criteria Increases
Corpal Tanner and Assistant Secretary Bussey issued multiple pension rulings. Webb’s varicose vein case gains an increase from 24 to 10 dollars monthly, redefining total disability to include inability to perform culinary manual labor. Stillwell’s back injury remains pensionable, while Evans Jones Mank and Jones receive improved or restored pensions for war injuries. Dembitz gains from 30 to 72 dollars monthly for a broader interpretation of Perigoff’s amputation.
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Corporal Tanner
John Webb
Indiana Cavalry
Webb
Congress
Interior
Bussey
Jesse M. Stillwell
Seventieth
Ohio Volunteers
Hussey
William Evans
Company H
Onio
Commissioner of Pensions
Evans
Willans Jones
Ninetyninth Ohio Volunteers
Jones
Camp Chase
Ohio
Scrota Hernis
Alexander Mank
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Mank
Jonn W. Jones
West Virginia Volunteers
Tanner
Henry Dembitz
Perigoff
Boy Burglar Catcher Fights Thief In Chicago
Thirteen year old Charlie Howard of J C Howard family on State street near Twelfth Chicago fired four shots when two burglars pried into his home. He wounded one man in the thigh as the other escaped with a bag of valuables. The wounded burglar, named Joseph Riley from Pittsburg, was taken to the county hospital as Charlie was held at the station house for hours while police confirmed the non fatal injury.
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Charlie Howard
J. C. Howard
State Street
Chicago
Joseph Riley
Pittsburg
Howard
Charlie
Agen
Explosive Tank Car Blast Near Chicago Kilns
A fierce explosion and fire rocked near Ohio and Rockwell streets in Chicago, injuring Nicholas Nelson who lost both hands and was fatally burned. A tank car of oil on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line belonging to Keyes Thatcher & Co. burned. horses died in flames, and debris struck Officer Davis, rendering him unable to work. The cause remains unknown.
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Ohio
Rockwell
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Keyes, Thatcher & Co
Nicholas Nelson
Davis
Desplaines Street
Queer Freaks of Lightning Hit Connecticut Blacksmith Shop
A Connecticut electric storm struck Henry Johnson's Putney blacksmith shop, tearing off a wing but not injuring the main building. The bolt melted and altered iron and steel items including a welded hammer, bent horseshoe tips, and torn wheel tires. A landmark red house near Huntington road remained standing despite the spectacle.
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Connecticut
Putney
Henry Johnson
Huntington
King
Lightning Strikes Farm and Milford Store Yard
A bolt struck a Fairfield barn killing a horse and an ox placed at opposite ends of the structure while the lone occupant, an elderly Black man, remained unharmed. At Milford a large hole appeared behind the village drug store with no earth displaced on the premises.
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Nots
Fairfield
Milford
Chelsea Park bridge collapse injures and kills
A bridge over a small lake at Chelsea Park in Kansas City collapsed yesterday, tipping into the water and trapping about 50 people. Twelve were seriously injured and two were killed.
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Kansas City
Chelsea Park
Canada Passes Weldon anti boodlers bill in Commons
The Canadian House of Commons approved the Weldon anti boodlers bill while the retroactive clause failed in committee, allowing embezzlers and other fugitives to remain if already resident. The bill grants the justice minister power to extradite on crimes including murder, robbery, larceny, embezzlement, fraud, and related offenses under Canadian or international law.
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Weldon
North America
High Seas
Great Lakes
Ps. Orgery
Wicked Bird of Freedom Snatches and Captured Eagle
In Port Lawn Connecticut on April 23 Daniel Button narrowly escaped a large gray eagle that swooped at his arm. He wrestled the bird to the ground with help from a neighbor, captured the bird, and took it home. The eagle measured nearly seven feet from wingtip to toe, stood twenty inches high and weighed about twenty pounds.
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Port Lawn
Conn
Daniel Button
Pacousset Pond
Button
New Method Promises Revolution in Butter Making
A West Nyack woman accidentally discovers a ground storage technique that turns cream into butter without churning. After placing cream in a cloth bag in earth overnight, she retrieves a lump of salted butter with milk solids missing, claiming higher yields than traditional churning in repeated trials. The method has variably fared with weather, notably rain moistening the ground once.
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Albany Argus
West Nyack
Jersey
Crurdine
Photography Reveals Faint Stars Through Long Exposures
Macmillan's Magazine explains how telescope photography uses cumulative light exposure to overcome faintness. Long durations, from minutes to hours, allow images of stars too feeble for the naked eye to be recorded on gelatin plates.
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Macmillan’s Magazine
Mrs Kirkham Arrested for Shoplifting in St Louis
Mrs Jennie Kirkham wife of Rev F M Kirkham editor of the Christian Oracle and pastor of the Christian Church in St Louis Missouri was arrested Thursday for shoplifting. About $15 to $20 worth of goods were found concealed on her person and she admitted guilt to the arresting officer. The case was heard at the Armory Police Court and postponed. Her attorney claimed the goods were placed in her pocket by a domestic worker she employed.
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Jennie Kirkham
F. M. Kirkham
The
Christian Oracle
Christian Church
Indiana Avenue
St. Louis
Armory
Why He Was Thankful
A fragment from a serialized tale shows Bromley reporting his story returned after three years. The editor kept the stamps and sent it back, noting it had not been read due to pasted pages. The excerpt hints at a quirky miscommunication in a magazine office.
Mass train wreck near Hawkrow claims many lives
A Grand Trunk express wreck near Hawkrow Ontario as engine leapt the switch, plunging into a water tank and catching fire. Over 150 passengers faced a deadly blaze with 18 bodies recovered by 5 pm, many unidentifiable. engineers and firemen escaped unharmed while crews fought the flames for hours.
Railway Disaster at Hamilton Kills 25 In Latest Toll
Unidentified bodies from a Sunday rail crash in Hamilton Ontario raise the death toll to 25 after five more corpses were found. Among the identified are T S Gurney of New York and Rudolph J Ederer of Chicago. Wounded numbering 12 were taken to City Hospital and are recovering. Andrew J Carpenter of Yankton and James A Palmer of Yonkers left the hospital today to return home. F M Gurney, brother of the New York man, is coming to take charge of remains. An inquest was opened with the jury adjourned. Hundreds visited the morgue as officials work to identify all victims. It is believed most victims were strangers to Hamilton residents.
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Hamreton
Ont
T.S. Gurney
New York
Chicago
Rudolph J. Ederer
City Hospital
Andrew J. Carpenter
Yankton, Dak
James A. Palmer
Ion
N. Y
F. M. Gurney
Hamilton
William Phillips
The Traps Locality and the Mountain Dan Fence Tale
A Kingston Freeman item recounts The Traps on Shawagunk mountain midway between New Paltz and Tuttle town. A resident recalls Mountain Dan Hasbrouck building a fence when a sudden toilsome wind, then return to find his rails vanished and a nest of black snakes attacking his work, with details of the lengths and quantity of the serpents.
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Kingston Freeman
Shawagunk Mountains
New Paltz
Tuttletown
Daniel Hasbrouck
Dan Hasb Conan
Dan
Sale of Shakespeare folio and other items at Kemney library auction
At the New York Kemney library auction, a 1623 first Shakespeare folio sold for 1400 dollars while Tone rdette-Loutts paid 6000 dollars for another item. The sale occurred April 24 in New York.
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New York
Robert Lenox Kemneay
rdette-Loutts
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