Wealthy Quebec widow’s bond trust sparks guardian question
Judge Lawrence considers how to appoint a successor in trust for children’s United States bond interest after the widow’s death. The husband claims to act as tutor. Quebec lacks a similar guardian system. Treasury to recognize domicile law and proceed with affidavits. Bond exchanges begun. 2935 packages valued near eight million dollars. General Harper named Governor of the Soldiers Home in Washington. M Mourtin returns from Peace Council with chiefs pledging no further interference with customs officers and acknowledging past errors.
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Lawneencn
the Treasury
Quebec
Canada
New York
United States
Treasury Department
Lawrence
Chancery Court
England
Folger
Martin P. Harper
Army
S. P. Sturgis
Nome
Washington
Counreror M’mourtin
Little Shell
Little Ball
Red Thunder
Pembina Mountains
Cattle Fever, Fires, and Treasure Highlight Era News
Reports from Auburn New York note cattle fever outbreaks with 25 cattle dead and many sick. A mill and barn at Millersville Pennsylvania burned, with losses near thirty thousand dollars. Other items include a church figure at Philadelphia, temperance push in Ithaca, a rail shortcut plan to Europe, a Buffalo grain elevator fire, national business failures, Rhode Island property clashes, and a New Jersey treasure discovery in Rice Pennsylvania with a fifty pound copper ingot recovered from the Vermillion wreck site.
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Auburn
N.Y
Grave
Millersville
Grorce W. MusGrave
D.D
Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church
Tur Grand Lodge of Coon Templars
Ithaca
N. Y
Friends of Temperance
Tue
New York Post
Great American & European Short Line Railroad Company
Norvin Green
Europe
Newfoundland
Ireland
Erie
Buffalo
Middle
Pacific States
Providence
Rhode Island
Sprague
Chaffee
Moulton
Vermillion
Various political conventions and security concerns across states
Reports from Fort Brown Matamoras and Detroit detail new cases and deaths while Knights of Pythias elect officers. Missouri and Kansas party meetings set platforms, Kansas Governor candidates and Texas Republicans push reforms. California court orders fall elections and fire losses mount as Red Cloud pressures government action and troops brace for potential uprisings.
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Custom House
Fort Brown
Matamoras
Supreme Lodge of the World
Knights of Pythias
Detroit
John P. Linton
Pennsylvania
John van Valkenburg
L. B. Allen
Virginia
Missouri
Jefferson City
Topeka
P. H. Elder
W. J. Montgomery
Chicago
National Executive Committee
St. Louis
Charles Robinson
Kansas
J. G. Bayne
A. P. Elder
W. T. Garrison
J. H. Ludley
J. D. McBrien
J. F. Davis
Arthur
Missouri Republican State Central Committee
Supreme Court of California
Benjamin Lakt
Cincinnati
Tron
Nour Min
A. F
Suerman
Supreme Council of the American Legion of Honor
Jacob Roberts
M. D
Philadelphia
Put-in-Bay
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
New Jersey
Maryland
District of Columbia
North Carolina
Georgia
Ilinois
Tennessee
Louisiana
California
Michael Nesbit
O. C. Wheeler
O. C. Horne
Adam Wernick
J. M. Gwinner
Davins Wilson
Boston
Supreme Medical Examiner
N. F. Morse
D. B. Kimball
T. P. Gannett
Charles E. Meyer
Madison
Wis
McGillicuppy
Soux
Pike Ridge
Crook
Red Cloud
War Department
Washington
E. V. Sumner
Fifth Cavalry
Fort Robinson
Nebraska
Indian Department
Department
Fort Niobrara
News Fragments from North America and Europe
Reports describe Nihilists killing white horses in training for a czar and a Canadian inspector halting American fishing in Canadian waters near Wolfe and Simcoe Islands. The American Forestry Congress in Montreal elected officers and endorsed local assemblies across North America. One hundred Hungarian women face trials for poisoning husbands with a large share guilty. Renewed outrages in Polar interior blamed on official apathy and the Treland lord lieutenant's lax stance.
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Wolfe
Simcoe Islands
American Forestry Congress
Montreal
Canada
Forestry Congress
Mr. Loring
H. G. Jolly
J. A. Warder
W. 8. Little
Joseph 8
Gros Beeskeref
Polar
Lorn &Bencen
Ideutenant
Treland
Limerick Declines Interference in Gray Contempt Case
The case against E. Dwyer Gray for contempt proceeds as no interference is taken by Judge Lawson. The corporation of Limerick unanimously votes to grant freedom of the city to E. Dwyer Gray.
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Lawson
E. Dwyer Gray
Corporation of Limerick
Alexandria dispatches on Egyptian advance and Arab resistance
Reports from Alexandria describe English forces seizing canal banks at Kanfara and telegraph lines at El Arih while 690 Highlanders reconnoiter near Kafr el Dwar and are pushed back by Egyptians. Telegraph dispatches detail Arabi Pasha retreat, canal flooding, native exodus, and Turkish and Russian diplomatic maneuvers over Egypt's occupation and future military arrangements.
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Alexandria
Kanfara
el Arih
Kafr-el-Dwar
Arabi
Suez
Ismalia
Tel-el-Kelbier
Chibin Kuni
Mahala
Arabu
Mediterranean
Cairo
Aboukir
Kafr el-Dwar
Port Said
Remlah
Constantinople
Porte
Lord Dufferin
Egypt
Khedive’s
England
Russia
Tatourt Goen Asbassadors
Assam Pasha
Said Pasha
Ismailia
Wolsiley
War Office
Serapeum
Military actions and political moves reported from Egypt and beyond
Dispatches recount heavy guns near waterworks hill firing on the Mahmoudieh Canal left bank on the 26th, with Egyptian withdrawal rumors at Kafr-el-Dwar. A Constantinople ministers' council debated the England convention. Ismalia reports 400 enemy losses in Wolseley’s fight, British troops marching ten miles with scant supplies. Cholera deaths rise in the Philippines a province. Brownsville fever cases climb. Mallory steamship founder dies in New York. Ohio Masons meet in Cleveland October 17.
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Alexandria
Mahmoudieh Canal
Arabi Pasha
Kafr-el-Dwar
Constantinople
England
Lard Dufferin
Rosetta
Damieta
Aboukir
Port Said
Suez
Ismalia
Wolseley
Hong Kong
Ath
Phillipine
Grand Lodge of Ohio
A. M
Cleveland
Charles Maltlory
New York
Ile
Mallory
Galveston
Texas
Connecticut
Hartford
Ancient Egyptian Mudirs and Power in Upper Egypt
Describes the Minieh district in Upper Egypt, its Mudir as a key local ruler, and the corruption and coercion in Cairo’s palace politics. Recounts abuses, clan vendettas, and a specific case of a Bey spared from death, illustrating how regional rulers are pressured by Cairo and the Khedive.
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Upper
Egypt
Minieh
Nile
Cairo
Mudir
Herald
France
Soudan
Khartoum
N. Y. Herald
Telegraph Terms Reveal Shift From Telegrapher Speak
A writer notes a man asking for a blank telegraphic form to send a dispatch to family, observing that "msg" and "wire" are the modern shorthand. The piece contrasts the old term telegraphic form with the brisk language preferred by frequent users of the wire. It hints at the operator knowing more than requested.
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Cunningham
Covington
Carrington
Cummagen
Carrenton
Unningham
Saran K
Fpollinsbee
Dallas Center
Iowa
Laramie Plains
Utah
Chicago Times
Montgomery
Michigan
Dutch East Indies
Holland
Lake Winnipiscogee
Lake Company
Long Bay
Cincinnati
TV One
Boston Post
Msg
Sen Snoigh
Quaker Bees Off The Portico In Matrimonial Prank
A Iowa Quaker planned a loud wedding serenade by placing twelve hives on the portico. When serenaders arrived he leaned from his window and knocked the hives, causing the bees to swarm. He quipped that none would relent on a man under three mile.
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Iowa
Chicago Herald
Summer sun fashion scorches Fifth Avenue belle
The piece notes a summer trend of sunburn as fashionable among youths and girls. It depicts a Fifth Avenue ballroom beauty resting on a sea rock with Goethe, hat, and parasol set aside, sunburn turning red then brown to fit the season’s look.
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Fifth Avenue
Goethe
Graphic
Wit and Wisdom Bits From Verse and Prose
A mosaic of pithy quotes and anecdotes from varied sources. Patz and humor about pills, actor Henry Irving, and a New York physician on baldness appear alongside reflections on courage, longing, and a light defense of sunset gun salutes.
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Henry Irving
Henry
Texas
Norris
Town Herald
George Eliot
Detroit Free Press
San Francisco
Diggins
Mbadikat
Bheer Board
London
Scientific American
Berlin
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Cambridge
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D. K. Kyle
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Main St
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Main
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Scott Bros
J. Woodford
Cambridge, Ohio
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B.S. Hering
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Corner Market
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WM. Kirk
Weaver
Green
Eagie Hotel
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
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W. Rainey & Son
A. W. Lippincott
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Ann Arbor
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National Republican
Albert Dibbins
W. Roach
G. Hay
Foreign Intelligence
Evper Josefa K. Rogers
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Pensacola
Florida
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Ezofian Mudris
Roger K. Founinsser
Dallas
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Saran FI. Follinsber
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Roger K. Follinsber
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