Prince Rob the brave dog saves Almeda from flood
Gustave and farmer Mr. Frost trek through storm wreckage to Gull Island as a flood tears logs and timbers apart. Rob the dog dives into the jam and drags Almeda to safety before the debris collapses, earning the title Prince Rob for his courage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustave Stein
Gull Island
Almeda
Mr. Stein
Gustate
Rob
Mr. Frost
Gustave
Dog
Girl
Git
Mr Frost
Rat
Prince Rob
Prince
D. M. Merniny
Baron von Ludwig Fights for Daughter in Gettsyburg Abduction Tale
In a moonlit scene in Chambersburg, Baron von Ludwig pursues a fleeing abductor who has spirited away his daughter, Baroness Christiana, to Gettsyburg and marries her. The scene closes with the baron lamenting his loss as townsfolk rally and drink in sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambersburg
Indian Queen
Baron von Ludwig
Christiana von Ludwig
John L. de Sullivan
Getttysburg
Eagle Hotel
Baron von Ludvig
Uwain
Ohio River Valley Fatalities and Accidents Reported
A string of Ohio incidents reports deaths from mining blasts and hangings including Morgan Aubrey at Coal Ridge Pomeroy, Charles Ostermost mangled in Fostoria yard work, and Peter Ross who hanged himself near Waterloo. Also noted are thievery losses in Cleveland, a 101 year old Mt. Union man and his wife dying in short succession, and various railway and industrial accidents across Akron Canton Youngstown and Marietta with unions, recoveries, and plant moves highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal Ridge
Pomeroy
Morgan Aubrey
Prefer Ross
Mt. Sterling
Ayres
Hillsboro
Spencerville
Basr. Somanter
Massillon
Thirty-fourth Ohio
Bucyrus
Thirty-first Ohio Regiment
Cardington
Charles Ostermost
Fostoria
Eouis N. Johnson
Mt. Union
Stark County
C. Morris
Cleveland
L. A. Pierce
Morris
Margaret Jimon
Youngstown
Lake Shore
Patrick Moore
Chicago
Tur Pythian Sisters of
Ohio
Columbus
Bacon
Canton
Hattie Robinson
Dayton
Anthony Kent
William Blaker
Blake
Fair Association
Peter Ross
Waterloo
Seventy-seventh Ohio Regiment
Marietta
A. W. McCormick
R. E. Smithson
R. C. Berry
Jas. Dunn
Conrad Bohl
J. G. Lund
Frank Bixler
Cannan
Shelby
Tur Standard Company
C. E. Russell
Allen County
Tos Palmer
Barnesville
Frank Wills
New Philadelphia
Sigmanowsky
Butler
Marshal Hogan
Coshocton
Wall Station
Pennsylvania Road
Gro. Taylor
Akron
Cuyahoga County
Watervliet
Canton Stove Works
Harvey Kidd
American Pulp and Paper Company
Tiffin
American Straw-Board Company
United States
The Charm of Long Descent in the Catskills
A dialogue notes Amos Keeter and Miss Keeto amid social pursuits in the Catskills. A scrawny Boston girl prompts temptation, while Chicago ladies are praised. An English nobleman allegedly commends the heroine’s blood amid lavish social scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Keeter
The
Catskills
Miss Keeto
Boston
Chicago
Horror in the Orient Wipes Japanese Provinces Clean
A San Francisco report describes the Kii province floods and a landslide catastrophe in western Japan. More than 10,000 people are believed dead with thousands of homes destroyed and towns erased. Losses reach about 46 million dollars with widespread starvation risk in affected districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Kit
Japan
Kinogawa
Yokohama
Conemaugh Valley
Hidakagowa
Wakanomura
Kinokuni
Wakayama
Iwahashi
Osaka
Yodogawa
Inkedapaigawa
Hongu
Higashipmurogori
Neshio Marcocori
Hidakagvori
Kii
Totsugua Go
Amanogawa
T’sujdomura
Sakamotomura
Tsujidomura
Kawatsu
Kasenhaya
Uchihara
Takigawa
Nojii
Yamasaki
Taana
Totsugawa
Tomitagawa
Nishi Murogori
Old Abolitionists Reunion in Tremont Temple Boston
Boston reports a reunion of anti slavery leaders at Tremont Temple on September 23 with Fred Douglass Parker Pillsbury Colonel Higginson Oliver Johnson and others expected. General Butler to deliver an address on Contrabands and a national fund aim to raise 200000 for a free public hall honoring Wendell Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Tremont Temple
Fred Douglass
Parker Pillsbury
Colonel Higginson
Oliver Johnson
B. Fr. Butler
Wendell Phillips
Death of Mrs Elizabeth McClellan at 90 in Drifton
Mrs Elizabeth Sb McClellan widow of Dr George McClellan and mother of General George B McClellan and Dr John H B McClellan died Wednesday at niece Miss Rebecca Coxe home in Drifton aged 90.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Phitap Leta
Elizabeth Sb. McClellan
George McClellan
George B. McClellan
John H. B. McClellan
Rebecca Coxe
Drifton
Celebrated Composer Dr. Louis Maas Dies in Jamaica Plain
Boston reports the death of Dr. Louis Maas a famed pianist and composer at his Jamaica Plain home at 10 oclock Tuesday night cause peritonitis. Maas born in Weigbaden in 182? and gained renown in both old and new worlds after studies in Paris and performances across Europe and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Louis Maas
Jamaica Plain
Maas
Paris
Weigbaden
National W C T U to hold sixteenth annual Chicago convention
The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union starts its sixteenth convention in Chicago Battery D from November 8 to 12 with over 200000 members. The report details forty departments, legal reforms, juvenile societies, mothers work, and a Chicago publishing house producing The Union Signal for 69000 subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGo
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Battery D
United States Treasury
West Point
Annapolis
Indian
Army Post Schools
Tampa Bay
Puget Sound
Union Signal
Department of the White Cross
White Shield
Forest fires threaten Portland and Oregon towns
Terrible fires west of Portland rage for days endangering the city. Washougal Lacamas and Clarke County suffer great damage to farms houses barns and orchards. Tents southeast of Portland burn, grain and hay destroyed as authorities rush to defend the town and limit spread. Forest City and mining districts report evacuation and powder moved to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Clarke County
W. T
Columbia River
Washouags
Lacamas
Nevada
Cal
Forest City
Quebec Landslide Destroys Homes Kills Dozens in Home District
In Quebec City a massive rock and earth slide from Cape Diamond collapsed onto Champlain Street near the citadel. Thirteen bodies recovered. death toll expected to rise with many injured and missing. Rescue crews, fire brigade, and police battle debris amid dark, crowded rubble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Diamont
QueBec
Can
Citadel
Champlain Street
Cape
River
Neighbvorhood
Dufferin Terrace
Water Police
Marine Department
Fire Brigade
Thomas Farrell
Farrell
Burke
Berrigan
Vignaux
Thomas Mce- Greevy
Quebec West
Loss of Yacht Leo Castly Near Lake Erie
The steam yacht Leo, which left Lorain for Cleveland, is missing with nine aboard. Bodies of D. Lawler and T. P. Ritter were found at Rocky River. Others include John B. Tunte, Benjamin Kline, B. D. Knight, D. A. Lawler, Captain Sam Root, Fred Pelow, and a Detroit engineer. Life savers searched the heavy seas with no further results. Many sailors suspect an explosion of the yachts gasoline fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Leo
Lorain
Rocky River
D. Lawler
T. P. Ritter
John B. Tunte
Benjamin Kline
D. Knight
D. A. Lawler
Sam Root
Fred Pelow
Detroit
Four Americans Picked as Cronin Trial Jurors in Chicago
In Chicago on September 19 four jurors John Culver Charles Dix James Pearson and Frank Hall Allson were sworn for the murder trial of five men in the Cronin case. They will be watched by a bailiff in Judge McConnell's private room as more jurors are sought. The court session saw rapid venire examination with the State using four peremptories and the defense three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGo
Dr. Cronin
Judge McConnell
John Culver
Charles Dix
James Pearson
Frank Hall Allson
Two Men and a Horse Killed at Chicago Crossing
At the Belmont avenue crossing of the Northwestern line in Gross Park near Chicago on a Wednesday night Frank Hanssen of Avondale and an unidentified companion were killed when a southbound passenger train struck their sulky driven horse and carriage. The horse also died instantly and the impact hurled the men and wreckage over 100 feet from the crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGo
Frank Hanssen
Avondale
Belmont Avenue
Gross Park
Colored Baptist Convention Urges Emigration West
The American National Baptist convention of colored ministers adopted resolutions urging Southern African Americans to emigrate to the West and seek land. They asked President Harrison to urge Congress to appropriate 100,000,000 dollars to aid the move, and a committee was named to present the resolutions to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colored Baptist Convention
Indianapolis
Ind
American National Baptist Convention of Colored Ministers
South
Harrison
Congress
Wyoming suffrage gains in constitutional convention
The Wyoming statehood convention adopts a suffrage chapter granting female citizens the vote. Electors must read English, be citizens, and six months’ Wyoming residence. Ballots will list all candidates. Provisions may disfranchise many coal miners used to voting together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wy. T
Wyoming
Spain Moves To Free Captured Sailors In Morocco Crisis
Spain orders a fleet to Tangier and ten thousand troops ready as it seeks the release of a Spanish captain and crew captured off the Rif coast and believed to be sold into slavery. The Sultan of Morocco faces mounting pressure from Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moroccco
Morocco
Rif
Tangier
Morocca
Doomed in Quebec landslide claims twenty eight victims
Scene reports a deadly landslide in Quebec on Friday with a rising death toll of as many as forty. Rescue teams describe brutal entombment with many survivors injured. multiple families named including Black and Fitzgerald while Ada Black and a 3 month old infant are among the rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Can
Thomas Allen
Charlies Allan
Charles Allan
Esther Allan
Henry Black
William Black
Bracken
Stephen Burke
Mfichael Duby
James Fidwards
L. Edwards
Tomas Farrell
Norm Kennedy
R. H. Leahy
Miss Lane
McCann
O. S. Neville
Thomas Nolan
Charles Pois
Ready
Alphonse Tredeau
Napoleon Treteauw
H. Wright
Mrs. Black
May Cauldwell
Thomas Berrigan
Berrigan
P. Fitzgerald
Willie Black
Ada Black
James Bradley
Martin Ready
Joe Kemp
Lauson
Fifteen Hurt in Tennessee Railway Accident on Mission Ridge
A derailed Electric railroad car going up Mission Ridge in Tennessee injured fifteen passengers during a reunion event for Wilder's Brigade. The injured, from Illinois and Indiana towns, were treated in Chattanooga as officials reported no blame on the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission Ridge
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Tenn
Electric
Wilder
Mary Adams
Casey
M. J. Garrison
Owen Wiley
William Munford
A. C. Addison
L. H. Miller
Wash Sanford
D. B. Massey
Princeton
Ind
Samuel A. Reaves
J. H. Clark
Owensville
Indy
G. W. Parker
Bunker Hill
W. P. Applegate
Hazel Dell
Mattingly & Sons Assign Liabilities Exceed Assets
Louisville whisky distillers Mattingly & Sons filed a deed of assignment reporting liabilities about 400000 and assets around 625000. The action, taken after distressed reports, follows creditors largely agreeing to extensions though a few seek priority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Mattingly & Sons
J. G
Battle Over Tax Rebellion in Mexico City
War reports from Van Horna Texas recount a fierce clash in Mexico as 400 citizens fought Mexican officers over tax collections. Citizens allegedly routed soldiers until the governor intervened but had to retreat to avoid death. In Missouri a dense fog caused a rear end train collision on the Wabash at Dalton, killing passenger D N Perguson in the caboose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Philip H. Sheridan
Alfred Pleasanton
Pleasanton
Congress
Mexico
van Horna
Tex
Rio Grande River
M Ny
Wabash Road
Dalton
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Cambridge Heraldee
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
Mahaffey & Ogier
oOe
Ww. Mathews
Ww.s. Heade
Attorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
Cambridge
C. Steele
Fred. L. Rosemond
J.M. Bushfield
Ratney Block
Court House
V. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington, Guernsey County
Febiti
J. B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
Physicians and Surgeons
WM. T. Ramsey
M. D
Providence Hospital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington,d.c
Hutchinson's Block
Main Street
Ohlo
Hotels
Joseph Morton
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Cir Hous
Garner Market and
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Mar
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Mark
Washington, Ohio
William Smith
Prop
Hotel Berwick
H. F. Hunt
G. D. Miller
G. W. Broom
Ohto
James G. Johnston
West Cambridge
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
Cambride
Police Gazette
Richard K. Fox
Franklin Square
N.Y
John Harris, JR
Wall's Drug Store
EE. McOpwrheere
Boots and Shosas
West Main St
John Moss
Steubenville Street
Jan Lag
Baron Ludwig
General Pleasanton
Champaign
Miami
Montgomery Counues
Levi Geiger
LrEoronp
Dorgleman
Sandusky
Avi Marion
Albert Bell
Rube Greenland
John Lehner
Montgomery-Preble
Germantown
Superior Manufacturing Company
New Carlisle
Springfield
Joserm Brown
Bellefontaine
Sumner Marsh
D. P. Lloyd
Wm. Franker
Findlay
OLD Abolitionists
National
Oregon
Leo Castly
Lake Erie
Cronin
Spain
Tur Herald Office
Avalanche
Distillers
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