Fragmented OCR Life of Numbers Card
A compact OCR fragment lists times and figures such as 345 3 55 410 4 25 and 5 02 5 35 5 50 6 2% 635 7 02 7 43 8 25 15 5 30 6 26 In. 6 2 25 p.m. 2 35 2 48 3 5 3 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowerstonne
Leesville
Sherrodsyville
New Cumberland
Valley Junction
Massillon
Wellington
Monroeville
Bellevue
CAV
Sé Feng Iss Premiong
O.oo
Oak Harbor
P.m
Norwaui
National Capitol Terrace Contract and Other Public Updates
The Vermont Marble Company won a $123 700 contract to finish the marble terrace on the west front of the National Capitol this coming summer. Savings of about $60 000 are reported from shifting to electric light and better fuel practices in public buildings. Pension Office estimates Mexican pension claims at up to 30 000, with 18 000 widows claims already received and 2 200 certificates issued. General Sheridan sets September 19 for the annual rifle competition at the Bellevue range near Omaha. A May report shows a $4 471 300 decline in circulation and a $10 930 789 rise in cash in the treasury. May coinage was $4 502 575. Canada granted duty-free entry for declared immigrants’ goods, and Free Delivery expands to 76 post offices on July 1. The General Land Office recommends suit to cancel 5 000 acres on Bois Blanc Island. Wool import duties apply only to scoured wool. washed wool enters freely without proof of cleaning. Post Office Guide printing awarded to Donnelly & Son at 14 cents yearly and 1 cent monthly. Yellow fever outbreak in Key West regarded serious by Marine Hospital service.
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National Capitol
Vermont Marble Company
Proctor
Sheridan
Bellevue
Omaha
Neb
Department
Treasury
Treasury Department
United States
Canada
Bates
Post Office Department
New York
Corning
Hornellsville
Little Falls
Ogdensburg
Owego
Cortlandt
Amsterdam
Ohio
Lima
Newark
Xenia
Hamilton
Steubenville
Wooster
Portsmouth
Pennsylvania
Meadville
Norristown
Carlisle
Westchester
Johnstown
Warren
Chester
Beaver Falls
General Land Office
Vilas
Post Ofice
Donnelly & Son, Publishers
Chicago
Key West
Marine Hospital Service
Train Collision Injures Agents Near Shamokin Pa
A collision between mail and freight trains near Shamokin Pa injures traveling passenger agent J J Timmons and mail agent F D Strausser. Both engines are wrecked and debris blocks the line as crews assess damage and care for the injured.
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Shamokin
J. J. Timmons
F. D. Strausser
Jamestown
N. Y
Daniel O. Hitner
Morristown
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Senate
George Smith
William Herbst
First National Bank
Glen Rock
Jacob 8
Herbst
United States District Court
Herbsts
Knights of Labor
National Carpet Works’ District Assembly
New York
Yonkers
Amsterdam
Booth & Edgar
New York City
Rhode Island
Samuel R. Hong
Newport
FE. D. McGuinness
Providence
John W. Davis
Reading
John Matz
Ann Cring
Pearson Kline
Kline
Connecticut
Grant D. Currier
Alvin Burleigh
House
Charles H. Sawyer
New Hampshire
Sawyer
Cogswell
Jon Deary
Palmer
Brooklyn
Johnson Brothers
Collinsville
Conn
Laubenstein
Barbour
Smith
Malone
Wheeler
Pittsburgh & Western
Pittsburgh
al Shook
Jack Hussey
Castle Garden
Guibber
Lonor
Congress
Tug Whale boiler explosion claims engineer and fireman
On the Little Kanawha river the tug Whale suffered a boiler explosion killing engineer Peter Walters and fatally injuring fireman Johnson Smith and the engineer’s ten year old son whose right arm was blown off. Also notes scientific interest in Ohio Bush Creek mounds and land purchase by Peabody museum to preserve relics.
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Kanawha
Peter Walters
Johnson Smith
Ohio Bush Creek
Adams County
Peabody Museum of Archivology
Commodore Davidson
St. Paul
Minn
Edward
Sallie
Spitzer & Co
Toledo
Lomax Rifles
Washington
Chicago
Cincinnati
Henry Meyer
John Reider
Logan
Springfield
Ill
Peoria
Oglesby
Johnl. Lindsay
St. John’s Church
Georgetown
D. C
Easton
Charleston
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Missouri
Colorado
Indian Territory
Various Names and Events Across Nation in Brief
Reports mention Knights of Labor redistricting eight hour system for miners. A Vincennes lightning strike injures a family. A San Francisco manager defaulter. Michigan local option vote barely fails. Will case favors Widow Ford. W.P. Steele hanged in Mississippi. Illinois politicians and alien land bill pass House. Gas incident in Clinton Missouri. Child fire deaths in South Carolina. Gambling knife incident in La Crosse. Paducah vagrancy sale. Deaths of General Newton and Rev. Supply Chase. Northern California earthquake. Lomax Rifles vow no action harming regular army credibility.
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Knights of Labor
Q. W. Johnson
Vincennes
Ind
Dewitt County
LL. C
Hall Safe and Lock Company
San Francisco
Michigan House
Ford
Madison
Wis
W.P. Steele
Jackson
Miss
Nelson Potter
Steele
Grinnell
Illinois
Judicial Party
Chicago
John
United States
Illinois House
Adolphus Ward
Clinton
Wiley Moore
Colonel
Elmore
Greenwood
S. C
LaCrosse
Tim Brady
Arkansas
Little Rock
Supply Chase
Detroit
Mich
Vermont
Michigan
Freedmen’s Bureau
California
Nevada
Lomax Rifles
Mobile
Ala
Lomax
Regular Army
Washington
Daring Texas Pacific Train Robbery Near Fort Worth
Four masked men stopped an eastbound Texas & Pacific express near Benbrook then seized money from the safe and registered mail. The crew and passengers were threatened but not harmed as the robbers escaped on horses, with authorities in pursuit from Fort Worth. The loot range cited is from $5,000 to over $10,000, with several hundred dollars in registered packages.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas & Pacific Express
Benbrook
John Baker
Brushy Creek
Tom Marsh
Marsh
Skiles
el Paso
Shipp
Henry George declines to denounce Irish landlords
In a letter dated June 3 1887 Henry George explains to New York’s O’Brien Reception Committee that he cannot join in denouncing Irish landlords. He advocates landlord rights and property, while endorsing broader land reform principles for Ireland and Britain.
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O'Brien
New York
Henry George
O’brien
George
McVey
Organized Labor
Jersey City
William O’brien
Central Labor Union
James Finlan Lawler
Bishop Nulty
Patrick Ford
Workingmen of
Edward McGlynn
United Labor Party
Ireland
Great Britain
Hienry George
Mt Ezra eruption signals fresh paroxysm near Rome
A Rome dispatch reports Mt Ezra central crater erupting with heavy smoke, stones and cinders. In Ontario Canada Archbishop Lynch orders priests to tell that no dispensations for mixed marriages will be granted when the wife is non Catholic, cases to Rome for dispensation. Mexican government debt totals 151,060,000 dollars and Congress adjourned. In Hungary floods subside but vast areas remain underwater and crop destruction is extensive. Ottawa Senate votes 30 to 13 that a Canadian divorce is invalid if granted in the United States.
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Rome
Mt. Ezra
Lynch
Ontario
Can
Hungary
Ottawa
Senate
Canada
United States
Terrible blast at Cambria Iron quarries injures one
A brutal accident at Bir mingham Pa quarries on the fourth killed all but one of nine workers after a two stage explosion following a large powder blast. A single survivor, badly hurt, escaped instant death.
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Cambria Iron Company
Birmingham
Austin
Craft 8
Ussery and Mall
McNeil
General C
Thompson
California Safe Deposit Company
San Francisco
Samonen, McAfee
Minneapolis
Minn
James S. Soren
Lincoln
Carpman Ginnons
New York
Umbria
Europe
Wheeler
Malone
N. Y
Hannibal Hamlin
Maine
United States
International Typographical Union
Buffalo
Henry Muer
Wabash River
James Smith
John Muer
Empire Coal Mine
Wilkesbarre
Owen Williams
Owen Reynolds
Neschen
Germany
Heath
General Carnahan Indicted for Illegal Election Practices
General Carnahan, recently indicted by a Federal grand jury, returned from Washington and was arrested Saturday by federal authorities. The five count indictment names two election judges Abel Sk. Davis and HW. G. Werbe and accuses the General of aiding and advising them to tamper with poll lists and tally papers. He posted bail and was released.
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Inptanapolis
Ind
Carnahan
Washington
Abel Sk. Davis
Fourth Ward
HW. G. Werbe
Thirteenth Ward
Republican Committee
Philadelphia firm honors centenarians with lavender lace caps
A Philadelphia company distributes lace caps trimmed with lavender ribbons and embroidered with One Hundred Years to women in the state who reach their hundredth birthday.
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Philadelphia
Pacific Coast Find Paves Way for Big Limestone Deal
A Los Angeles company has contracted for 300000 dollars of bi tuminous paving rock found near San Luis Obispo California. The sensational discovery promises a valuable deposit and significant regional impact.
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Pacific Coast
San Luis Obispo
Cal
Los Angeles
Centrifugal pump history noted in 1851 notice
The piece recalls the century old principle of the centrifugal pump and notes experiments dating fifty years back, highlighting 1851 as the year pumps gained prominence. An agricultural exchange asks how to make hogs pay, suggesting strict prepaid sales to hogs.
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Boston
Ex Vice President Wheeler dead after long illness in Malone
Malone N Y June 4 Ex Vice President Wheeler died Saturday at ten he had suffered softening of the brain paralysis and a carbuncle above the hip his health declined after a chill in March He was born June 20 1819 in Malone and held numerous political roles including New York senator congressman and vice president nominee He was noted for his dignified presence and engaging conversation wheeler compromise in Louisiana and long service in public life
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MaLont
N. Y
Wheeler
Ous
Gay
William A. Wheeler
Malone
Franklin County
N.Y
University of Vermont
Asa Hascall
New York House of Assembly
Senate of New York
United States
Cincinnati
Bank of Malone
Louisiana
House of Representatives
Terrible explosion ends seven lives at Birmingham quarries
Canbria Iron Company's Birmingham quarries suffer a fatal premature dynamite blast on Saturday. Seven men are killed and six injured, two of them Italians. One survivor, Russell, is badly hurt. The accident mobilizes distress from Huntingdon to Tyrone with families awaiting word as gruesome details emerge.
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Altoona
Canbria Iron Company
Birmingham
C. H. Stewart
John Roof
Ellis Myers
Emanuel Hodges
Harry Neil
Jacob Schanfelt
George Weisser
Russell
Bezgars
Huntingdon
Tyrone
Fisheries Seizures at Halifax Admiralty Court
In Halifax N S Wallace Graham argued the David J Adams seized for violating a treaty by fishing in Dominion waters. N H Meagher for the defense contends bait purchase alone is not fishing and seeks acquittal. The case hinges on whether concealment of the vessel name was proven and where fish were caught.
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Hallifax
N. S
Wallace Graham
David J. Adams
Admiralty Court
Dominion
N. H. Meagher
Faithful Woman Dies Amid Religious Frenzy in Park Ridge
Mrs. John Storms died after following fanatical teachings by Switzer and M Nason who urged leaving an unchristian husband. Nason returned to Park Ridge on Friday and faces local anger as residents brace for consequences of the tragedy and his ongoing sermons.
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Park Riple
N. J
John Storms
Switzer
M. Nason
Nason
Yellow Fever Strikes Key West with New Cases
In Key West Florida on Friday two new yellow fever cases emerged and two deaths are imminent. William Jameson publisher of the Democrat is ill with the fever. The board of health urges healthy unacclimated people to leave as exodus to New York and New Orleans continues, despite quarantine. The bulletin reports 13 cases to date with four dead and one discharged, with others in the hospital.
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Key West
Fla
William Jameson
the Democrat
Board of Health
New York
New Orleans
Florida
Board of Health Bulletin
Ju Tae Hospital
Murderers Acquitted in Double Filicide Case
Beulah Moore and her father J W Moore were found not guilty of murder in the February 24 killing of W H Allen in Memphis Tennessee. The trial established the girl’s alleged seduction by Allen and prior lewdness, but the jury acquitted after deliberation lasting about an hour.
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Memphis
Tenn
Beulah Moore
J. W. Moore
W. H. Allen
Beulah
Allen
Moore
State Labor Convention Call Issued for July 4 in Columbus
Cincinnati June 4 The Ohio Union Labor party issues a call for a state delegate convention at Columbus on July 4 for two oclock to nominate a state ticket and handle related business. Representation grants two delegates per county plus additional for votes. Knights of Labor and allied bodies invited as well.
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Ohio
Union Labor Party
Columbus
Cincinnati
Jenkins
Union Labor Party of Ohio
Union
Knights of Labor
Trades Unions
Granges
Soldiers
Charles Jenkins
H. T. Peterson
Three Farmers In Fatal Spelling Bee Fight
In Harvey township near Conway Arkansas a feud over a local belle led to a churchyard ambush during a spelling bee. Dan Mabey was fatally stabbed, Albert Mabey wounded, and Tom Middleton also struck by a shot while Dan died days later. Albert disappeared as Middleton hovered between life and death.
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Conway
Ark
Harvey Township
Dan
Albert Mabey
Tom Middleton
Dan Mabey
Mabyes
Middleton
Man Tests Sanity by Witnessing Hanging in Georgia
In SavaA Manor Georgia June 3 lawyer Clifton arrives in Reedsville before the hanging of Jacob Leggett to test Leggett's mental condition. A reprieve based on insanity delayed the execution. Clifton arranged with the sheriff to avoid danger and observed Leggett under the noose but did not disclose his conclusions.
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Savaa Man
Clifton
Reedsville
Jacob Leggett
Leggett
Tragedy Over Lovers Ends in Firing Near Parkersburg
Wahuee LinG West Virginia June 4. A quarrel between two lovers at Thomas Berg residence near Parkersburg leads to a deadly incident. Sherman Law a wealthy farmer aimed to shoot Lizzie Berg but his shot wounded her sister Mary Berg in the breast. Law is under arrest.
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Wahuee Ling
W. Va
Thomas Berg
Parkersburg
Sherman Law
Lizzie
Law
Aygast
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
W. Mathews
W.S. Heads
Iattorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
Cambridge
J.C. Steele
Fred. L. Rosemond
Steele & Rosemond
Old National Bank
J. M. Bushfield
Rainey
Court House
W. A. Carpenter
Bambridge
Davis Block
Sam’l Co
Ludcock
Congrave
Main Street
W. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Guernsey County
Febutt
J. B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
Taylor Block
Physicians and Surgeons
WM. T. Ramsey
M. D
Providence Hosital
Ational Medical Dispensary
Washington, D, OR
Hutchinson Block
Epi
Re, Ohto
Hawthorne
City Drug Store
Adams Building
Owders
Joe Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
eShop
Public Square
Davis Bick
GEO
Frickelton
Hotels
Joseph Morton
Eagle Hotel
B. S. Herring
Brown House
Caimbridge, Ohio
Co. C. Kyle
Marisso Ts
Central Hotel
Arcade Hotel
Camabridge
W. A. Gill
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Brirs Househ
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohio
Parmers' Hotel
Mill Street
Wm. Rainey & Ben's Dry Goods
Garett
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Cor
Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
Jimes Smith, Prop
Orrville
Rmon eBoe
Fremont Clyde Bellevue
Norwalk
Wellington Creston
Wheeling
Lake Erie
R. R
Sherrodsville
Bowerston
Canal Dover
New Comerstown
Macksaburg
Bmarietta
Marietta
Macksburg
Canal
Dover
A.m. P.m
KK & UR
Jp. m
M.ip.m
W.&l. EB
Akron
Youngstown
Youbroad
James M. Hall
Sen
Carnes
Pine Street
Main
BD. Ik
Rowees Marble and Granite Works
Camberedlee, Oo
Martt
Suza
Pod A
Dosis and Shoes
West Main St
Aplw
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
C. Stanley
Bfanseer
Cambridge, Ohio
Osier
Aplus
Agusta, Maine
N. YW
Piteh
Cumberland
Blue Belt
Point Pleasant
C. & M. Junction
Hartford
Senecaville
Morya
Jambridge
Zane BY
Chans
J. J. Goodman
Butterick Publishing Company
Miners’ and Mine Laborers’ Amalgamated Association
Coke Syndicate
Thomas Nevins
Barrett
Massachusetts
Morris Marks
Anne Kahowski
Pinkerton
Townsend
August Johnson
Williamsburg
Campbell
Scotland
Shields
Edward Brady
Somers
Westchester County
State Board of Health
Brady
James B. Andrews
Mexico
Tehauntepeec
Eads
Chiari Ciguarale
Tombs
Consolidated Transit Company
Stoclk
Knights of Labor Executive Board
Connellsville
Coke
General Board
Texas Pacific
Mesteo
Don Carlos
Liberal Party
Monitor Republicano
Requemada
Church Party
el Cerro de Las Campanas
Maximilian
Miramon
Mexia
Halifax
State Labor Convention
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