Ex-Senator Tacrman’s Health Failing Amid Continental Conflicts
The Weekly Banner reports Ex-Senator Tacrman’s health weakening as Louisiana battles over lottery policies intensify. discussion grows about Mexican free zone reforms and deportation schemes for southern paptoes. A Bombay disaster floods streets with fifteen inches of rain. Newburyport stockholders learn of Continental Land and Security assignment for creditors.
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Tur
Newburyport, Mass
Continental Land and Security Company
Farmers urge unity in Arkansas against third party push
The Farmers Alliance in Arkansas presses farmers to stay within the Democratic ranks and resist third party moves. reports on political factions, editorials, and speeches mix with notes on tariffs and Cleveland’s rising prominence.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Arkansas
Attack on Americans in Durango Sparks Protest and Demands
The writing condemns a Durango assault by Mexican Catholics on Americans during a corner stone ceremony for a Methodist church. It calls for an official apology and warns the United States to protect citizens abroad, urging strong government response if such actions recur.
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Durango
Mex
Kilgore
Vatican
Sam
United States
Chinese Cruelties to American Missionaries Reported
Boston reports detail attacks on missions in China with rioting in Yangtse valley cities and at Nanking. Clergy note Baptists and Congregationalists spared, while Weslayan and other mission staff faced violence. a Mayhem sparked by a secret society seeks foreign war to overthrow China’s government.
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Boston
China
Congregational House
Alden
Murdock
Baptist
Baptists
Methodist
Yang Chow
Wusuch
King Kain
Yang Tsi
Nanking
Philander Smiths Hospital
Women's Foreign Missionary Socre
D. W. Nichols
Weslyan
Wusach
Argenta
Green
Customs Service
Eugene
Kansas editors defend party stand against third party challenge
The Kansas editorial convention committee completes an address to the people affirming loyalty to the party. They reject third party reformers as impractical and pledge to stay active while criticizing the new movement. The address endorses tariff support, free coinage, and dismantling the national banking system.
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Kansas
Nove
Democratic Party
Foster's Forecasts of Bringing Storm Waves Across Nation
The letter predicts a storm wave crossing the continent from July 2 to August 2 with another leaving the Pacific August 4. It will move from the Rocky Allegheny valley to the Atlantic coast by September and bring increased clouds and fog with moderate rainfall. A Southerly low-pressure path and cool rains in the North are expected as a second wave forms.
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Continent
Pacific Coast
Rocky-Allegheny Valley
Atlantic Coast
Wm. Caldwell
Houston
Gallows
Waco
Prescott
Aransas Harbor
Denison
Grayson County
B. H. Davis
Corsicana
John Craig
Kereens
Jack Sanders
Minnie Morgan
Birmingham
Fort Wort
L. DeLeon
Marfa
Grand County
Grand
Routt
August Weather Outlook and Storms Across Regions
The forecast notes leave the Pacific coast around August 7 and move across the Rocky Allegheny valley from the 8th to 10th reaching the Atlantic coast on the 11th. A third storm wave is expected around the 10th crossing to the Atlantic by the 14th. Weather remains unsettled but not extremely strong with generally favorable crop conditions and August anticipated as the hot month this year, though not excessively hot.
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Pacific Coast
Rocky-Allegheny Valley
Atlantic Coast
Persecuted Jews report Russian outrages in Russia
Russian Jews who arrived in Boston recount brutal oppression in Russia. A lad escaped Siberia after a sentence and described mass expulsion orders in Slobotky, house burnings, and self immolation to avoid confiscation. Immigrants allege brutal laws, payoffs to gain property, and widespread anti Jewish violence by soldiers and officials.
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Boston
Siberia
Slobotky
Russia
President Harrison trip expenses denied by Pullman
The National Democrat reports George Pullman denies paying the president's travel costs. It notes the claim’s plausibility, cites speculation about railroad sponsorship, and mentions a separate Chicago Daily News dispatch quoting an unnamed cabinet officer asserting the president would cover his own expenses.
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The
National Democrat
George Pullman
Chicago
Pullman
Chicago Daily News
Harrison
Moral Sentiment Drives Texas Reform Wave
The piece notes a statewide rise in moral sentiment and reform, driven by law and order leagues and officials backed by public virtue. Across large cities and towns, Sunday alcohol bans, gambling crackdowns, and closures of houses of ill fame signal a broad push. Success hinges on these efforts.
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Texas
Law and Order
Tin Tariff Tax Bags All With Foreign Labor Promise
The McKinley tariff aimed to protect American workers by raising duties on European goods like tin but failed to prevent foreign labor. The New Delta notes the policy funds protection for pauper labor while taxing everyone, cites a treasury ruling allowing foreign contracted tin plate workers, and accuses Republicans of sacrificing sugar and Southern black voter interests for a few factory backers.
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America
Secretary of the Treasury
New Orleans New Delta
Europe
Republican Party
Mills Delivers Jeffersonian Democracy Speech at Prohibition Park
Hon. Q Mills spoke before about 2000 patrons in Prohibition Park, linking Democratic creed to Bible lessons and Jeffersonian ideals. He argued government has no right to regulate buying choices, drew laughs at Southern life anecdotes, and drew cheers from both Democrats and prohibitionists including praise for Jefferson and Tilden.
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Hon
Q. Mills
Prohibition Park
New York
Jersey
Texas
Mills
Big Tabernacle
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Tilden
Wayne County West Virginia Brutal Family Mass Fire Unfolds
A brutal mass killing in Wayne County West Virginia leaves six Brunfeld family members dead. Authorities suspect a gang of about fifty Italians orchestrated the arson and murders, burning the bodies in the family home.
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Brunfeld
Wayne County
West Virginia
Multiple Texas counties report action from storms to jails
Statewide items mention Cooke County car exhibit completion Galveston yacht race plans Burleson County jail project and Wise County law actions Oak Cliff storm damage Whitewright flour mill bonus and grain market in Tarrant County Fort Worth slaying and San Antonio sunstroke cases. Other notes include naval bridge washouts Vernon and Vernon trains, Waxahachie stock show, Seguin rabbits bounty, and Texan trials and fire incidents.
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Cooke County
Galveston
Burleson County
Oak Cliff
Whitewright
Tarrant County
Sherman
Ellis County
Waxahachie
Marble Falls
J. W. Davis
B. C. Evans
Fort Worth
San Antonio
John Gilbert
Vernon
John Hummill
Winkler
O. C. Davis
Anson
Jones County
A. M. Craig
W. E. Jones
City of
Texas Stockman and Farmer
Texas
Dr. Frick
Sas Harbor
H. & T. O. Railway
Chappell Hill
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