Pete and the Ghost and the Swede Haunting Shipyards
A South Street chandler hears a tale from a former second mate of an East Indian bark about a mutiny murder and the aftermath. Pete the Swede and eight men murder the skipper and mate, plot to scuttle, flee with loot, are betrayed, but escape to Singapore and Melbourne. The storyteller claims Pete still sees a ghost in tavern windows years later.
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New York Times
South Street
London
Australia
Singapore
Antone
Pete
Straits of Malacca
German Officer and Texas Sweetheart Die in Double Suicide
In Dallas on September 28 a German officer and Anne Mantor, sister of Fort Worth's W. H. Mantor, were found dead in the woods near the Husty River. A note stated they could not be apart in life or in heat. A revolver with two empty chambers lay nearby, and the pair apparently died by mutual suicide after a failed marriage attempt thwarted by the officer's family in Germany.
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Dallas
Tex
Corporation
Senor
George Faulstrick
Anne Mantor
W. H. Mantor
Fort Worth
Germany
Tunnelling For Cold Bank Robbery at Las Vegas
The First National Bank of Las Vegas New Mexico faced a planned vault heist as guards spotted vault masonry sinking and a tunnel sixty feet long. A Mexican lookout fired, killing a robber who was later identified as one of the vault builders. The would be robbers escaped, while the tunnel showed months of planning and provisioning.
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Denvep
Col
First National Bank
Las Vegas
N. M
Vhose
Frozen to Death on Long's Peak
Miss C L Weston of New York died after a mountain ascent in a fierce snow storm on Long s Peak Colorado. Guided by Lamb and his son they reached the summit and descended into darkness before her strength failed. Lamb went for aid but Weston perished overnight with her remains to be sent to New York.
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New York
Denver
Col
C. L. Welton
Long’s Peak
Colorado
Lamb
Oruing
Miss Weston
Long Mount
They Say the Mormons Must Do
In Tennessee the anti Mormon crusade resurfaces in the Drennon settlement near Lebannon after a Lewis county tragedy. Mormons faced warnings to depart Wilson County. The meet declares their conduct intolerable, though most are poor and cannot easily leave the state. Similar notices are reported in Lewis and Hickman counties.
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Nashville
Tenn
Lewis County
Drennon Settlement
Lebanon
Wilson Meet
Lewis
Hickman
Farmer's wife dies after calf bite incident
Winfield West Virginia September 25. John Young a farmer near Winfield recounts a cow and calf separation accident. Mrs Young was bitten on the hand by the calf and soon fell ill. She died within hours and the infant she had nursed also died from convulsions.
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Winfield
Wa. Va
John Young
Power Reaches Buffalo From Niagara Falls by Wire
An evening paper reports Niagara Falls power transmitted to Buffalo by wire and used by the Bell Telephone Company for ten days. The experiment's principal conductor prefers to remain unidentified for now.
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Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Bell Telephone Company
Transatlantic Record Broken Again by Cunard Oregon
The Cunard steamer Oregon arrived in quarantine in New York after six days and eighteen hours from Queenstown, eight hours faster than her prior record. A seven hour delay en route was caused by parting her steerlog gear.
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New York
Cunard
Oregon
Queenstown
Democratic Campaign Plans For Massachusetts Rally Tempo
The Democratic headquarters outlined a tight October campaign with county and town committees meeting at Washington street to coordinate a red hot effort. State leaders expect big rallies after October elections, with independents warned to mobilize while the Cleveland campaign gains traction in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and beyond.
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Massachusetts
Washington Street
Cleveland
Lewis
New Hampshire
William E. Chandler
Waller
New York
New York City
Metropolis
Empire State
Garfield
Stock Exchange
Cleveland Club
Produce Exchange
L100
Knight of the White Feather
Ee and
Tetroleum Exchange
New York State
Banks Lamb
Lawrence
W. H. Nichols
Brooklyn Young Men’s Republican Club
William G. Low
Brooklyn
William Purcell
Rochester Union
Chicago
Blaine
Hendricks
Gotham
Academy of Music
New York Herald
Ohio
Buckeye
Logan
Bayard
Voorhees
Payne
Carlisle
McDonald
Dadly
Thuman
Collins
Schurz
Indiana
Shelbyville
Carter Harrison
Dick Oglesby
Minois
General Sien
Illinois
Harrison
Oglesby
Atte
Wisconsin Democrats
Wardell A. Anderson
State Committee
Tilden
Anderson
Durin
William Young
M. Waukee
Preparing for a Fiercer Fight in the Old Bay State
The Independents plan an October push across Massachusetts with Tremont Temple meetings and added home talent. Wil liams, Everett, and other anti Blaine figures address Hyde Park Everett Hall and Malden gatherings. Managers detail broad organization and district canvassing to secure 18,000 votes. The Boston Young Men's Club aids, with local wards and districts mobilized for intensive campaigning.
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Tremont Temple
Hyde Park
Everett Hall
George Fred Williams
Everett
Ouikner
Malden
Stephen H. Tyng
Kirkwood
Lovering
Ohio
Park Street
Boston Young Men's Club
Rochester Dems Reconcile With Cleveland in Monroe County
In Albany visit led by Democrats of Rochester and Monroe County aims at party harmony with Governor Cleveland. Purcell newspaper letter says reconciliation and active cooperation, noting past delays and practical politics as the future.
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RochEston
New York
Sunday Morning Herald
Pircell
Albany
Cleveland
Monroe County
Purcell
Sunday Herald
Merchants Form Cleveland and Hendricks Campaign Club
New York merchants from both parties form the Cleveland and Hendricks Campaign Club modeled after Produce and Maritime exchanges. Fifty attendees at the Cosmopolitan Hotel elect officers led by President B. D. Martin with Thurber Seymour and Willet as vice presidents, Mahr as treasurer, and Dick inson Miller as secretaries. The executive committee includes Yount Corwin Rittenhouse Okie and Fisher. The group will seek permanent headquarters and push a vigorous Democratic ticket campaign. Over 100 signatories, many Republicans, with at least 500 more expected.
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New York
Cleveland and Hendricks Club
Cosmopolitan Hotel
John C. Mahr
H. A. Dickinson
M. B. Miller
W. [. Yount
W. F. Corwin
M. Rittenhouse
Okie
B. Fisher
Cold Shoulder Edict Targeting Clerks Who Refuse to Vote
Washington dispatch reports Republican managers in the city accuse Ohio and West Virginia clerks in government offices of refusing to go home to vote in October. They condemn noncompliant workers who refuse to pay dues to the Ohio Republican Association or support the Democratic ticket, warning that those who stay away will face a stern cold shoulder and potential repercussions at work.
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Washington
Ohio
West Virginia
Republican State Association
Ohio Republican Association
Republican
Ohlo
Republican State Convention Nominates Ticket in South Carolina
The Republican State Convention in Columbia, September 25, adjourned after selecting an executive committee to name presidential electors. The ticket named includes D S Corbin for governor, Augustus Stroker for lieutenant governor, J Strobbey as adjutant general, C C McCoy as treasurer, R L Smith as secretary of state, Joshua Wilson education chief, Samuel W Melton attorney general, and E A Sawyer comptroller general. Delegates split as about a third bolted under W N Taft of Charleston while the remainder stayed for the convention.
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South Carolina
Columbia
D. C
Corbin
Leutenant
D. Augustus
Stroker
J.strobbey
C. C. McCoy
R. L. Smitih
Joshua Wilson
Samuel W. Melton
E. A. Sawyer
W. N. Taft
Charleston
Destructive cyclone tears through Alton Pennsylvania
A cyclone swept over ALTON Penn September 29 afternoon, snapping forest trees like reeds and demolishing six dwellings and a new Methodist church. Timbers flew a half mile, a fifty foot wagon bridge was carried away and set down, injuring several residents while fires were suppressed.
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Alton
Penn
Old Captain Salter's Checkered Life
Captain Charles H. Salter died suddenly this morning from rheumatism of the heart in Portsmouth. He once commanded ships out of New York Boston and Portsmouth and led the clipper Typhoon on the fastest US to Liverpool passage. He left the sea thirty years ago. He was several
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Salter
Portsmouth
Charles H. Salter
New York
Boston
United States
Liverpool
Immigrant Sailor Turned Farmer Dies at About 70
The man, who sailed years for the Pacific Mall Steamship Company in San Francisco, later bought a Greenland farm and lived there twenty years. He served as a customs inspector at his death and was about seventy years old.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mall Steamship Company
Greenland
Lover and mother slain in cholera tragedy at Naples
In Naples a 17 year old girl with cholera was confined by her mother as her lover tried to enter. He shot the mother through the heart and then shot the girl in the forehead before wounding himself and being taken to hospital. In London details emerge on the Wasp wreck near Tory island as the captain held the course until fires failed. Three boats broke on rocks as the sea battered the boats. CATRO notes protest debt suspension as breach of liquidation law. The Times reports Power's diary on Khartoum siege with 700 killed and Gordon’s dwindling relief prospects.
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Pete
Cook
Ant
S'ete
Rod
London
Philadelphia Times
Rebecca Black
Clinton Street
Hobart C. Krayton
James Gordon
Miss Black
Morton
Commission On Lunacy
The
State Board of Public Charities
Henry Weyl
Dr. Morton
Detective Wey
Mrs. Black
Norristown Asylum
Naples
Tory Island
Catro
Germany
Austria
France
Russia
Times
Kassala
Massawah
Khartoum
Power
Gordon
Cardinal San Felice Greets Garibaldians at Resina
Cardinal San Felice arrived at Resina and warmly shook hands with Garibaldians aiding cholera patients. Onlookers cheered both the cardinal and the volunteers, commending their actions amid the outbreak. Nilsson Thrown From a Cab in LonpCON
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Rom
Cardinal San Felice
Resina
Irish landlord beaten by evicted tenants in Cappoquin
Major Chearnely, a landlord at a Cappoquin farm in County Waterford, was set upon by tenants he evicted. He escaped but was tied for miles by the crowd before the pursuit ended. Also notes Marquis of Waterford sells Irish estates and will reside in England after hunting parties at Curraghmore were disturbed.
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Major Chearnely
Cappoquin
County Waterford
DuBliny
Marquis of Waterford
England
Curraghmore
Terrible Wind Storm Bursts Across Ohio With Heavy Rain
A violent storm swept twenty five miles north of Dayton on Saturday. Five inches of rain fell in forty five minutes. The Miami river rose five feet in moments. Two canal breaks near Swift Run. Bees and Sidney feeder floods. Lightning damaged homes at St Paris. Houses unroofed north of St Paris. Debris toppled barns north of Mechanicsburg. Dayton flood plagued lower city after heavy rain.
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Darren
Dayton
Miami
Swift Run
Piqua
Sidney
St. Paris
Mechanicsburg
Lincoln and Blaine Contemplate Western Tour Plans
Hartford Times reports Blaine invited Secretary Lincoln to accompany him on a Western tour. Lincoln replied his schedule is packed and doubts Blaine’s truthfulness. Blaine allegedly promises Lincoln a cabinet post if elected, and Lincoln may consider going to Ohio if Blaine provides a written commitment.
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Hartford Times
Blaine
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Blaine Ag
Heavy rainstorm causes canal breaks and damage in Piqua
Piqua Ohio reports the hardest rainfall in 25 years with five inches in 3 1/2 hours. The hydraulic canal supplying power to many factories broke near Swift Run reservoir. Estimated damage runs to several thousand dollars as the Miami canal near the State dam also sustained breaks.
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Piqua
Swift Ran
Miami Canal
State Dam
Grant Sells Philadelphia Home to Pay Debts
General Grant plans to sell his Chestnut street residence in Philadelphia to liquidate debts. Valued around $30,000, the property had been conveyed to W H Vanderbilt as security for a Sead loan prior to the Grant & Ward collapse.
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Philadelphia
General Grant
Chestnut Street
W. H. Vanderbilt
Grant & Ward
Electric Kentuckian and the mystic arithmetic gift
New York Sun account from Falmouth Kentucky describes Everett Gilbert, a 26 year old man who claims to be charged with electricity. He experiences storms as a trigger, predicts rain, and solves arithmetic intuitively with unique pains and sensations on his left side. He studies, forgets grammar and geography post shock, yet excels in arithmetic through peculiar mental processes.
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New York
South America
New York Sun
Falmouth
Spencer County
Everett Gilbert
Taylorsville
Everett
Louisville
Lie
Young Gilbert
Gilbert
Miss Jordan Threatens Criminal Negligence Case in Pa. City
In PrrrsBuRG Pennsylvania a colored woman Melissia Jordan living at a Shelby street boarding house threw her two newborn infants into a cesspool this morning. She confessed but claimed the babies were born dead. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of criminal negligence against Miss Jordan.
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Miss Jordan
Prrrsburg
Penn
Melissia Jordan
Shelby Street
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