Through car service expands Toledo to Pittsburgh corridor
The road now open from Toledo to Bowerston linking with the Pennsylvania System for through service. Through car service operates between Toledo Cambridge Marietta and Bowerston and between Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh Chicago Akron. General managers Woodford, Hall announce service under Gory Pass Agom.
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Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
M. D. Woodford
James
Hall
Gory Pass
Indiana Republicans nominate Harrison at state convention
The Indiana Republican State convention in Indianapolis chose Benjamin Harrison as their candidate for President and elected James N. Huston Clem Studebaker and others as delegates. Thomas Thompson withdrew but was elected by acclamation, with Porter named secretary. Louisville and Providence reports follow with unaffiliated delegate results and unrelated conventions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Chicago
Tomlinson Hall
Truston
Richard W. Thomson
Terre Haute
Charles FE. Wilson
Tippecanoe
Albert G. Porter
R. W. Thompson
W. P. Calkins
Clem Studebatter
J.N. Huston
J. M. Shaexelford
Lew Wallace
Calkins
Thompson
James N. Huston
Connorswire
Clem Studebaker
South Bend
Louisville
Kentucky
Blaine
Sherman
Gresham
Provinrence
Providence Opera House
Fred I. Marcy
Providence
W. R. Walker
Pawtucket
Richard Thomley
East Greenwich
Philadelphia
James Black
Lancaster
Vail
Black
E.D. Nicholl
W. V. Bacon
Charles S. Wolfe
A. A. Jamies Black
A. A. Stevens
Otes
Consid Parker
Anti-Saloon Republicans declare war on the saloon in New York
At a New York convention the anti-saloon Republicans adopt a platform denouncing the saloon as a foe to civilization. They urge the National Republican convention to declare hostility to the saloon and call for allied temperance action. A telegram to Albany pledges opposition to legislators who oppose the local option bill.
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New York
J. Elen Foster
Chicago
I. H. Kimball
Albany
Princi
GSS
United States
Civi
Wwe
Republican Party
National Republican Convention
All Friends of Temperance
Bank Closes in Xenia After Crisis at Hoover & Allison Mills
The Second National Bank of Xenia, the city’s oldest and largest, shut its doors and is now in Government hands. M. Allison, tied to the Hoover and Allison mill, lies near death from anxiety. Bank officials say the move was to stop a run and that they are solvent, while reports claim loans exceeded permissible limits by 40 to 90 thousand dollars.
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Allison
Itere
Wnesville
Extradition ruling limits wire authority in Morse case
Toronto May 4 Chief Justice Galt grants habeas corpus in Morse wanted in Rochester New York for attempted murder. He holds a telegram from an American officer is not valid authority to arrest a criminal under the extradition act.
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Toronto
Galt
United States
River Flood Threat Near Quincy And Surrounding Areas
Flood conditions along the Mississippi rise with low water marks near Quincy and inundation at Ay. River men report sixteen feet above typical level and fear levee breaches. Lone Tree prairie four miles upstream floods eight miles wide, while the St. Louis Keokuk & North Western railroad risk from waves washing ties.
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Quincy, T
Mississippi
Missouri
Lone Tree Prairie
St. Louis, Keokuk
Alaska Fur Trade Foiled by Monopoly Critique
Secretary Vilas reported to Congress on 118 inquiries into the Alaska Commercial Company. Governor Swineford charges the firm monopolizes fur trade, exploits natives, and exerts influence in Washington to block welfare measures. He urges nonrenewal of the lease and even extinction of fur seals rather than permit the monopoly. Secretary Fairchild says the 1870 lease to Alaska Commercial Company appears compliant with terms.
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Wastaron
Vilas
Congress
Alaska
Alaska Commercial Company
Swineford
Seal Islands
National Capital
Fairchild
California
Terrible explosion devastates Shamokin area killing seven
A freight train loaded with dynamite exploded near Locust Gap, Shamokin, causing seven deaths and twenty wounded. The blast leveled homes across four blocks, burned dozens more, and scattered wreckage for miles. Rescue efforts followed as residents aided injured passengers and a relief fund opened.
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Smamokin
Philadelphia & Reading
Bassin
Locust Gap
John Quinn
Kate Quinn
Willie Kavanaugh
Mary Kavanaugh
Alice Kerwick
Simeon Kerwick
Daniel Kerwick
Philadelphia
Mt. Carmel
Shamokin
Miners’ Hospital
Reading
Kerwick
Singer
Miles Dougherty
Mathews
Dougherty
Patrick Nead
Andrew McClure
Chris McGill
Jacob Hoeflich
Hank McManus
James Rafferty
Alice
Year Two Musings on Fashion, Crime, and Daily Life
In a playful speculative essay, James Buckham muses on life in Year Two, blending humorous conjecture about dress, banking, policing, and social mores with reflections on record keeping. The piece contrasts ancient practices with imagined Year Eighty-Eight sensibilities, noting successes and reverses alike.
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James Buckham
Knights of Labor Recognized as Edgar Thomson Mill End Reaches
Braddock Pa May 5 Mass meeting of steel works strikers adjourned after declaring the strike off Knights who returned to work before yesterday face expulsion from the order The General Executive Board will be notified and charters of several local assemblies may be revoked Superintendent Jones argues the men erred in not accepting Carnegie Companys first proposition District Master Workman Doyle confirms the strike ends on recognition hours reduced for workers in the new rail mill with four furnaces operating and departments returning to full staff
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Knights of Labor
Edgar Thomson Company
Brappock
Steel Works
Dinek Sheep
Jones
Braddock Sim
Carnegie
Doyle
Edgar Thomson
Knight of Labor
Derailed Burlington freight fire kills conductor and two others
A Burlington freight train derailed entering yards at Forty-ninth street. Wreckers poured oil and set cars on fire, fatally beating conductor James A. Edwards who died later. A Chicago & Atlantic switchman was arrested. In Florida a Jacksonville & Southwestern collision at Sorrento killed Jacobs and Myers and injured many.
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Circaco
Burlington
Louisville, New Albany
Chicago
Forty-ninth Street
James A. Edwards
Chicago & Atlantic
Litenrio
Jacksonville & Southwestern
Sorrento
Jacobs
Myers
Bngrance
German Confesses Murder Then Hangs Self in Luzerne County
A Morose German immigrant, Aunst Ziezele, confessed to a 3 year old murder in New York, saying he killed a payday robber for fifty dollars and dumped the body in the river. He returned to Lynnport Pennsylvania and hanged himself after neighbors learned of the confession. The murdered man’s name was not released.
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Reavine
Lynnport
Aunst Ziezele
New York
Blue Mountain
Zierele
Daniel Schroer
Bold robbery in Molling Illinois robs Mrs G Mohr
In Molling Illinois two masked men robbed Mrs G Mohr an elderly German widow at her home after she had drawn a bank loan. They seized her pistol pointed at her head and demanded the full sum she had drawn, taking $500 and the balance. They bound her and fled with the money.
Tragic Barn Fire Murders Family in Arlington Neb
In Arlington Nebraska on May 4 a barn on the Treese farm burned, killing Mrs Treese Fred G Vateluscher her son in law his wife three children and a younger brother Louis Neighbors found a boot in the ruins and seven bodies were recovered burned beyond recognition A hired man employed by Mrs Treese is missing and suspected of killing the family and moving the bodies before the fire was started
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Arlington
Neb
Treese
Fred G. Vateluscher
Louis
Former Tennessee man arrested on pension theft charges
Robert M Thompson, once of Purdy Tennessee, was arrested near Goldsboro North Carolina by Pension Bureau Special Examiner Roome. Convicted in 1886 in Memphis for withholding 1846 from miners' pension funds, he fled before sentencing and later ran mining stock sales in Idaho and worked in New York and Washington before capture.
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Robert M.thompson
Purdy, Tenn
Goldsboro
N. C
Roome
Pension Bureau
Thompson
Memphis
Tenn
Thomas McCall
New York
Idaho
United States
Thursda
Washington
Turners Convene in New York District Meet
The Turners of the district of New York held their convention in Turners hall. Hugo Dolee of Dolgeville Dr Meissberger and Paul Werner of Buffalo were elected delegates to the American Turnerbund in Chicago May 25. Delegates were instructed to push for strict election laws and for direct public election of the President and the United States Senate.
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P Rocuesten
N. Y
District of
New York
Hugo Dolee
Dolgeville
Meissberger
Paul Werner
Buffalo
Chicago
United States Senate
Carpenter Hackett Shoots Unknown Man in Saloon Quarrel
In Louis, a carpenter named Hackett shot and instantly killed an unknown man in a saloon at Seventh and Locust streets during an early morning quarrel over a trivial matter. The incident occurred yesterday.
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Louis
Hackett
Seventh
Lo“ust
Wedding gifts turn costly feast in Aroostook Maine
At a wedding in Aroostook Me the groom said to be worth 10000 presented guests with peanuts and candy as a joke. After supper at a nearby hotel guests found they must pay for the victuals eaten.
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Aroostook
Dining on Champagne and Crackers Critique
A witty critic records a bantering exchange as a young man dining with a country host requests champagne extra wet after choking on crackers. The playful dialogue highlights social dining customs and humor of the moment.
Descent Into Orinoco Aboard the Nauturalist
An 1860 expedition aboard the steam launch Nauturalist journeys into the Orinoco under Redfel English naturalist. The narrative details man eating crocodiles jaguars boas and a dramatic jaguar attack on a crew member with a fatal outcome. The voyage features encounters with dense wildlife and perilous river dangers.
An Editor’s Last Note On Newspapers And Readers
An aged editor, sick and exhausted, lay in bed and wrote a final quip about newspapers. He warned that a single item can turn a reader into a borrower, yet still keeps them reading and paying.
Old Man Says Farewell to Bare Guest House
Dialog hints at a departing guest and a host promising future growth of trees, as the old man contemplates returning to a sparse, growing place. The exchange reveals a quiet, reflective moment in a simple setting.
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Old Man
Holmes Uses Type-Waiter for Autograph Letters
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes shifts away from autograph hounds by employing a type-waiter to handle his correspondence, smoothing interactions and protecting his time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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