Week of accidents and crimes across the country
A broad summary of incidents including Akron rail collision injuring about a dozen. a Chicago man confesses theft and arson at a church parish house. Emily Weeks charged with fraud and acid attack on her mother. Santa Fe engineer W Coggins killed by a mail crane. a Newburyport man’s fiancé engagement followed by paralysis. a Rock Island train collision near Unionville with fatalities and injuries. a Burlington freight incident near Hastings causing a long closure. a tornado near Juniata and Hastings. national league standings. various international intrigue and political moves including cabinet reorganizations, arrests in Russia, and foreign missions. a six story Philadelphia warehouse fire. labor strife at Scirkle Pfarnson & Howard Tron Company. a deputy sheriff fatally injured. a double homicide in Warren. Harlem figure and bank matters. and multiple other dated notes and sensational items.
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Ohio
Akron
John Srtasmarowski
Chicago
J. A. Badski
Albany
Emily Weeks
Plymouth
Kano
Newburyport
Mass
Arthur P. Morrison
Lydia Lisson
Morrison
Rock Island Road
Unionville
Blake
Jumiata
Hastings
Nebo
Hasting
Juniata
Burlington
Benver
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburg
Ochicago
Scirkle Pfarnson & Howard Tron
Plantain East St Leis Aml
Fred C. Koiase
Warren
Penjam Wort
John Walle Hoyt
Mars
Wallare Ated
Allan Sells Gireenspan
Willie Selig
Mensa
Fe West Bate Abt
Fe West Bate Abt Pany At Vmincanegea
Dows
Charles Maymonde
Schafer Tierousband
S. J. Healy
Ramet West Vedeen
S. D
Aml Busiess
Senator Kyle
China
Tai Yuan Fu
J. A. Creasy Smith
Yung Cheng
The
Baptist Church
Baptist Society
Mr. Pigott
John Robinson
Yang Cheng
Mr. Farthing
Pastors Hoddle
Beynon
Jesus Christ
Yu Elsien
Pastor Dpasert
Claw Byle
Tobinson
Robinson
American shipping and society notes headline mix
Shaw hat manufacturers form a New York Baltimore combine. Theodosius Secor, pioneer marine engineer, dies in Brooklyn. Pan American Exposition opens, baby murder case looms, and local marriages shock Binghamton and Pittston. Burned Brooklyn car stables damage 200 cars. no deaths, but injuries and homeless families reported.
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Shaw Hat Oiattufacturers
New York
Baltimore
Theodosius F. Secor
Brooklyn
Buffalo
Seventh Avenue
Arthur Q. Lovejoy
Stanford University
Ross
Mary Sankey
Ira D. Sankey
Newcastle
Hastings
N. Y
Francesco Spinello
Givio Buttacavallo
Louise Johnson
L. M. Bowers
Rockefeller
Great Lakes
Binghamton
George Thayer
Hoy
Hawaiian Islands
Philadelphia
Honolulu
Hilo
Nicholas Barrie
Fifth Avenue
Pittsburg
Xo Clew
Amos Sterling
Roy Wilson White
University of Pennsylvania
Henry Ivory
Charles Perry
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Flushing and Nostrand Avenues
Hopkins Street
Thomas Macale
Wisconsin Legislature raises pay of its members
Wisconsin lawmakers boost compensation from 500 to 1000 dollars while reports note indictments of seventeen Democrats in St. Louis for fraudulent voting and other statewide incidents. The list covers resignations, fires, drownings, crimes, and various local incidents across multiple states, including Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, and California. Names, places, and specific events appear across the lengthy chronicle of 19th century happenings.
Southern. Distiller Davis Henderson Killed by Yeast-Keg Blast
Davis Henderson of Henderson Ky perished in an instant when a keg of yeast exploded. A Florence Texas fire caused $60,000 damage to multiple business houses with $25,000 insured. In Wheeling W Va the operators and miners scale committee reached a settlement and the strike ends. The Middlesboro Ky Town and...
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Davis Henderson
Henderson
Florence
Texas
Wheeling
W. Va
Middlesboro Water System to Undergo Major Improvements
Age Company has bought Middlesboro Water Company and will carry out extensive system upgrades. A monument to Henry Timrod was unveiled in Charleston South Carolina featuring a bronze bust and granite panels. A Jacksonville fire destroyed 130 blocks causing about 15 million dollars in losses and six deaths with 12 000 people left homeless. The Raymond Horner towboat sank thirteen Pittsburg coal barges near Henderson Kentucky, with total losses around 45 000 dollars. A whisky car alleged spurious was seized at Eastman Georgia destined for an Atlanta firm. Masked men wrecked John Turner’s Middl esboro Kentucky residence and burned his stable and outbuildings. Tennessee faces 50 000 acres of cotton to replant and Delta plantations lack levees hindering planting due to overflow and wet weather.
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Henderson, Ky
Eastman
United States
Atlanta
Middlesboro
John Turner
Turner
Tennessee
Delta
Highlands
France fears Arab revolt in Algeria
France worries a general Arab uprising may spread in Algeria as tensions rise across colonial holdings. The report notes unrest and potential structural challenges to French control.
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France
Algeria
Japan
Amreel
India
Czar
Russia
Queen Victoria
Global leaders map shifts as health, policy move headlines
Chilean President Errazuriz plans re signing due to ill health while Dominican President Jiminez appoints a new cabinet. Canada designates May 24 as Victoria Day, a permanent public holiday. A US glass industry conference prompts factory closures and 15 percent wage bumps. A Yaqui band leader, identified as Apache, is executed in Mexico. Mrs. Eddy says her successor will be Norman. Alfred Furlow eyed as Kansas City reform figure. Yerkes rules export receipts taxed. Margaret Coleman resigns after 27 years serving in the Seward administration.
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Errazuriz
Chile
Jiminez
San Domingo
Dewey
Manila Bay
Wilfrid Laurier
United States
Cuesta Alta
Mexico
Antejuda
Gren Lorenzo Torres
Bia
Mary Baker Eddy
New York
Alfred Furlow
Kansas City
Internal Revenue
Yerkes
Hell
United States Supreme Court
Margaret T Coleman
Seward
J Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Treasury
Washington
Market Reports Chicago to New York cattle prices quoted
Market summaries cover Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with cattle hogs and sheep price ranges. No 2 red winter wheat corn and oats futures noted by region with shipping grades and dairy returns. Prices shown include various ranges for cattle hogs sheep and lambs across multiple cities.
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Chicago
Ste
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Spaulding
Posteriies Department
United States
Germany
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cleveland
St Loma
Cincinnati
New Orleans
San Francisco
Cuban delegates conclude talks in Washington with no plenary power
Cuban delegates completed consultations with the U S government in Washington. They sought reciprocal trade assurances, especially lower sugar and tobacco duties, while acknowledging no authority to modify the Platt amendment. The talks aimed to show U S friendship and defend Cuba’s independence timeline.
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Washington
Commission
United States
Cuba
Constitutional Convention
McKinley
On Trail of Wife Deserters in Minnesota
Minnesota authorities seek requisitions to return thirty husbands who deserted their wives. The last Legislature made wife desertion a felony with 1 to 3 years in prison, suspended if the husband helps support his family. Deserters are in various states, creating novel legal complications for enforcement.
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Minnesota
the &T Pant Minn County Board of Control
Ther
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Alveno M. Foss
James F. i. Foss
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Oblong
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Carrie Nation
Marion
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Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks
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Alma Hemsley
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Marquis Ito
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Venezuela
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Baiz
Loamiy
Loomis
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Kaot
Gage
Margaret Coleman
Treasury Department
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Hia
Lafayette Square
Bean
Protaier
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Amelia Tejada de Gavia
Charles Lovin
Equator Democrat
Key West
Etrikesa
Mergo
Vieterts Monument
Raredon Creek
Portemeouth
Tvovivier & Co
Meales City
John V McConachie
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United Salt Company
Pomeroy Bend
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Harvard University
Carrie Cubus
Nazareth
Harry Sleeight
Paterson
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