Ten Firemen Die and Thirteen Hurt in Bowed Merrill Fire
A major blaze at Bowen Merrill & Co book store in a four story marble building near Washington and Meridian collapsed after 5 PM. At least ten firemen died and many were injured as hundreds helped in rescues. Bowen Merrill & Co losses included stock valued at 125000 with 70000 insured, and the firm will reopen soon. Col Sam Merrill, head of the firm, is slated to become consul general at Calcutta tomorrow.
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Special
Bowen, Merrill & Co
Book Company
Washington Street
Meridian
Geo Fa
Ulysses ' Dear Hullman
Eapy Stormer
Richard Lowrie
Charles Jenkins
Andrew Cherry
Thomas 8. Burkhardt
Thomas A. Black
Anthony Voltz
Lew Rafert
Thomas Barrett
A. C. Mercer
Samuel W. Neal
Webb Robinson
Anenar
William Parte
Henry Woodruff
Ebenezer Leech
Tom
William Long
William Hemsley
John Burkhart
Daniel Jones
Sullivan
Silas T. Bowen
H. P. Wasson
Byron & Sullivan
Col
Sam Merrill
Calcutta
Strikes of Gigantic Proportions Rock English Mines
North Wales miners join a 10000 strong strike alongside 20000 Tyne engineers halting Lancashire mills due to coal shortages. Nottingham workers resume after masters grant 5 percent wage rise. Lancashire Yorkshire and other regions split over 5 percent now and 5 percent on July 1. Riotous dock laborers in Liverpool march with police stoned. Brunswick miners end strike with small wage rise but dismiss 100 Polish ringleaders.
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North Wales
Tyneside
Lancashire
Nottingham
Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Gsogee Leistershire
Berurx
Brunswick
Rioting and Bloodshed Hailed by Paris Commune Favorers
A Cooper Union hall rally hosted by city anarchists and advanced socialists celebrated the Paris Commune. A red clad crowd cheered calls for uprising while speakers recalled 1871 riots and claimed similar forces exist in New York as the “400” and landlords were denounced as targets.
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Paris
Cooper Union
E. Shevit
Espous
United States
Commune
New York
Loaded gunpowder stick exploded in lawyer’s woodpile case
Miles Wagner and Henry Zundberg faced charges after a loaded stick containing gunpowder exploded in F. E. Latham’s law office. Wagner was jailed awaiting trial with a maximum ten year penalty. Zundberg was acquitted amid detective testimony alleging prior enmity and potential further sticks.
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Howard Lake
Miles Wagner
Henry Zundberg
F. E. Latham
Herald Office
Wagner
Zundberg
Thomas Wilson
Minneapolis
Oshkosh Lawyer Flees After Missing Lands Deal
A. Bareuther fled Oshkosh after taking more than 3000 dollars from clients to fund a land deal in northern Wisconsin and sent 3600 dollars to Pennsylvania. He gambled away over 600 dollars in hotel gaming rooms and later blamed liquor and gambling for his downfall before returning from Canada.
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Osuxosu
Wis
A. Bareuther
Canada
Bareuther
Milwaukee
John McNace
Pennsylvania
Lareuther
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Seattle
Tacoma
Denver
Bismarck Resigns Amid Imperial Dispute at Berlin
Special reports indicate Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bismarck have resigned with the emperor accepting the chancellor's resignation. Diverging views over factory inspectors sparked the action and Gen. von Caprivi is named as successor. A cabinet meeting presided by Bismarck discussed the potential vacancy and subsequent government position. The Berlin correspondent notes German officials would not forward a message about the event.
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Gen. von Caprivi
Duke of
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CoLoocye
Berlin
Bismarck
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Lowpox
the Standard
Three Women Burned In Gasoline Explosion In Sauta Beno
Mrs Henry Hamer, her mother, and a young daughter were severely burned when gasoline stove oil ignited a fire that spread to curtains and clothing. The child lost much hair. the old woman rolled on the floor to extinguish flames, suffering extensive burns.
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Sauta Beno
Ind
Henry Hamer
Hamer
Spencer the Famous Chicagoan Returns After 13 Years Exile
D. D. Spencer, blamed for the Cook County National Bank and State Savings collapse in 1877, arrives in Chicago after thirteen years in Stuttgart. Indictments for embezzlement were long since stricken from the docket. State's Attorney Longenecker doubts prosecution will occur. He reportedly made some settlement with stockholders before returning.
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D. D. Spencer
Cook County National Bank
State Savings Institution
Chicago
Spencer
Stuttgart
Germany
Longenecker
Mills
Horrible death at Lansing area house fire claims elderly couple
In Austin area, F Augustus Carll, about seventy, and his wife perished in a residence fire discovered by neighbors the morning after. Coroner found no cause. believed accidental. Three married daughters survive. Carll owned significant property.
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F. Augustus Carll
Lansing Village
A Mother's Devotion
A Parkersburg Iowa mother cared for her son born to Silas Hall and wife thirty two years ago. The son had a giant head and a fixed body, never spoke, and required spoon feeding and nightly care. After Sunday the remarkable freak died, ending the family’s lifelong vigil.
Brakeman Killed After Being Cut From Train at Glidden
Frank Aiken twenty seven year old brakeman on the Wisconsin Central was killed when the entire train passed over him at Glidden Wisconsin. His body was shipped to his mother in Argyle under the auspices of the A O.
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Frank Aiken
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Glidden
Here
Argyle
A, O
Drowning on Ice Break in Big Sioux River
George Mills aged twenty five was drowned crossing the Big Sioux River about eighteen miles from the city. He started to walk on the ice but broke through and floated beneath the ice for about four rods. He surfaced and stood on the ice for a quarter hour but, with no help coming, grew exhausted and went under.
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Sioux Cry
George Mills
Big Sioux
Week in the Northwest: incidents and developments
Reports from Minnesota and adjacent states recount a wide mix of events. A four hundred delegate Farmers Alliance meeting in St Paul. accidents near New Prague and New York Mills. a sale of an electric plant in Alexandria. a potential county seat move from Sauk Rapids to Foley. a jailbreak fugitive from St Peter asylum. and various legal, criminal, and civic actions across towns like Preston, Hinckley, Rushford, and Stillwater.
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Kettle River
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Sidney Wright
Snow & Seavey
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Albert Pikaune
Grand
Goodhue County
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Bacon
Hastings
Austin
John Ives
Theodore Schubert
First National Bank
D. W. Stern
State Reformatory
St. Cloud
Stillwater
Clement Mitchell
Bertha Walstad
Peterson
Chicago
North Dakota News Briefs Highlight Tragedy and Policy
Reports recount John Krenav's severe injuries after a fall from a Northern Pacific train at Grand Forks and the death of brakeman John Sullivan aboard a Great Northern freight. Senate panels discuss Pierce’s penitentiary plan for Grafton and a Minot land office, while destitution spreads across Rollette to Cavalier counties with aid urged.
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Sioux Falls Brewing Company
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Boradiez
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Manvel
Senate Committee On Territories
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Grafton
Senate
North Dakota
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Minot
South Dakota
Dakotas
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Gilbert Laberg
Montreal
Jamestown
Mt. Vernon
Wash
Chicago
Washington
William Mitchell
Helgeson
Rollette
Benson
Pierre
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Runaway team halted. Mrs Hart injured in Medford
A runaway team injured Mrs. Hart in Medford while she attempted to stop it. The report lists numerous other incidents across Wisconsin including theft, arrests, deaths, court actions, ice shipments, and jail escapes.
Oats Shipments and Local Incidents Reported
An Algona man shipped 1000 bushels of oats to the Pacific coast at 3.15 per unit with 0.17 per bushel for oats and 0.30 per bushel for freight. Capt Tom Burns, longtime Mississippi pilot and steam boat inspector, died in Galena Illinois. The Creston Gazette advocates amending the law to make school treasurer an elective office and separate finances from director selection. A farmer near George drank heavily, wandered, and froze on return trip. Henry Kerwin 40 of Davenport was found with a broken neck, suggesting intoxication.
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Pacific Coast
Tom Burns
Galena
Ill
Mississippi
Creston Gazette
Eisel
George
Henry Kerwin
Davenport
Murdy murder trial stirs Moulton politics and local clashes
The piece describes political divides in Moulton over the Murdy murder case with supporters of Dr Murdy and his foes clashing after his Fort Madison conviction. It also covers a string of local accidents including amputations and a Rome liquor train wreck followed by a riot, and recalls Miss Kate Shelley’s heroic 1889 crossing of a swollen stream to save a train and its mixed later recognition.
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Fort Madison
Silas Tipton
Charles Beal
Bancroft
R.J. Hoyt
Waverly
Rome
Henry County
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Spartacus
Kate Shelley
Moingona
Shelley
Polite Governor McCreary Prefers Coffee Cold as Tea
Ex Governor and Representative McCreary of Kentucky noted for courtesy. A country visit ends with a cook’s cold coffee test. He proclaims cold coffee a personal preference, then again drinks it politely at breakfast amid amused guests. Source New York Tribune.
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Kentucky
Adventures of a Country Boy Adapts a City Tale
A Louisville Times vignette follows a country youth who arrives in the city with brains and a jokey charm. He recalls two misadventures, losing a 200 pocketbook and an auction offer, and poker odds where four aces meet five kings in a humorous centennial hand.
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Louisville Times
The Formation of Coal and U S Coal Resources
The article notes that coal forms from vast vegetable matter, with current growth yielding less than a fraction of an inch in (layer) thickness yearly. It cites the United States coal fields covering over 440 000 square miles and last year’s output above 110 000 tons. It claims coal supplies could last 2 000 years for the world.
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United States
New York
Wit and whimsy mix in scattered campus of quips
A collage of pithy sayings and comic exchanges, spanning jokes about wisdom, ignorance, money, family, and medicine. It threads humorous lines from various voices, including doctors, teachers, editors, spouses, and everyday folk, hinting at society and human foibles.
Barnum’s Modest Claim Sparks A Stock of Yankee Wit
In a Pall Mall Gazette tale recounted here the famed showman Barnum appears as a witty, persuasive speaker with a rich Yankee twang. A humorous exchange unfolds when a stingy customer tries to drink liquor with an egg and two yolks in the glass, prompting laughter at meanness and trickery.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Florida's Prize Mule in Jupiter Guards the Shore
A 21 year old mule in Jupiter Florida is hailed as the town’s smartest animal. Each night at 8 the mule patrols the beach near the life saving station and signals ships by neighing if a vessel nears too close. The four legged guard obeys the watch signal and warns with a loud neigh to steer clear.
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Jupiter
Fla
Fox and Sheridan Debt of Honor Story Amid 1805 Paris Praise
A tale from Youths Companion recalls Charles James Fox as a generous, socially adept English statesman admired for liberty and humanity. A tradesman pressed Fox for a three hundred guinea note, but Fox declared the debt owed to Sheridan and tore the note, later paying the man. Fox earned Napoleon's praise for his standing in assemblies.
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England
Charles James Fox
Fox
Sheridan
Liberty
Napoleon
Paris
Tuileries
Bees in the Inventory Prank at New London Farm
Sam Stones faced a sheriff aiming to inventory his belongings. He led the officer outside to a garden hive of bees and dumped it into the kitchen, insisting it be counted. The poultice era followed as the household endured a week of remedies and bustle.
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Sam Stones
New London
Croesus
Sam
Christian
Curious Turnpike Guide At Door In Chicago
A pious turnpike pilgrim asks if the scent from a stove is fried ham. A swarthy woman confirms, comments on her teeth, and the visitor departs politely amid door porch small talk in a Chicago Tribune item.
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Chicago Tribune
Boy stops train to deliver message at Lincoln depot
A Lincoln District Telegraph Company boy in Lincoln Nebraska clung to a derailed moment of duty. He ran to the depot with a message for a man about to depart, boarded the last coach as the train pulled out and pulled the bell rope to halt the train. He found his man and disembarked as the brakeman searched for the alarm cause.
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Lincoln District Telegraph Company
Lincoln
Neb
Sault Ste. Marie Line Nears Mondovi Completion
The Sault Ste. Marie and Southwestern railroad nears Mondovi with a ten mile gap already graded ready for ties and rails. Salvation Oil touted for pain and rheumatism relief at 25 cents along with a rhymed sales verse for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup.
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Sault
Salvation Oil
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