The Czar's Coronation Procession in Moscow In Full
A vivid dispatch from Moscow on May 22 describes the coronation parade for the czar, with splendid weather, lavish banners, and huge crowds along a four and a half mile route. Empress and Grand Dukes received enthusiastic ovations as troops, embassies, and Asiatic deputations accompanied the ceremony. The procession through the Petroffsky palace to the Kremlin featured a grand, multi carriage pageant, floral decorations, cannon salutes, and a 6,000 child choir singing Life for the Czar, while General Sturm suffered a fatal fall during his role as head master of ceremonies.
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Moscow
Petroffsky Palace
Kremlin
Qohéer
Xania
Tsarsknia
Cathedral of the Assumption
Alexander Adlerberg
Czarevitch
George
Michael
Alexis
Paul
Constantine
Xenia Alexandrena
Marie Pauloona
Alexandra Josephoona
Olga Fedorovna
Marie Alexandrovna
Duchess of Edinburgh
Vera Constantinovna
Wurtemberg
Catherine Michaelovna
Marie
Baden
Eugenie
Oldenburg
Helen
Merklenberg-Strelitz
Lancers
Warsaw
Tverskaia Place
Red
Sturm
California introduces giant locomotive at Chicago railway show
General Master Mechanic A J Stevens of the Central Pacific railroad will represent California at the Chicago exhibition of railway appliances. He sends a model of his improved locomotive motions and drawings of the new mammoth locomotive being built at Sacramento works to be named E OC Gobernador. The engine will be larger than the Tehachapi mountain locomotive, the current world’s largest.
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Jumbo
San Francisco
A. J. Stevens
Central Pacific Railroad
California
Sacramento
E. OC. Gobernador
Tehachapi Mountain
President closes executive departments on Decoration Day
May 22 report states the president orders all executive departments shut for Decoration Day while Murch prepares evidence for the Hill investigation. The president and party depart Washington for New York, likely to remain through the holiday, and it remains unclear when they will return. In New York, Marriott faces escape charges and Waldorf actor conviction with mercy recommended.
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Capital Jottings
Washington
Murch
Folger
Hill
New York
James H. Marriott
Paris
Larimer
Wi. Waldorf
Mercy
Marie Peseux
Marriott
Hill's hair dye and Horehound tonic ads for health
An ad-filled note promotes Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs and lung relief, Pike's Toothache Drops, Glenn's Sulphur Soap, Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, and Colden's Beef Tonic. It touts prices, testimonials, and availability from Troy NY druggists.
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Hale
H.C. Sheldon
Troy
N. Y
Glenn
Hills
CN. Crittenton
N.Y
Snow and disaster report from early 1900s towns
Snow in Logan county Ohio reached five inches. In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania Jas Colleran and George Evans entered a salt spring mine with naked lamps when an explosion occurred Evans was torn to pieces and Colleran’s body was not recovered. In Detroit a boiler explosion at the Wolverine paper mill blew walls down and injured workers including engineer William Thompson. fireman expected to die. Loss estimated at $90,000.
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Wilkesbarre
Jas Colleran
George Evans
Evans
Colleran
Detroit
New Wolverine
Wm. Thompson
The Nineteenth Wife of Brigham Young Marries
In Lodi Ohio on May 21 Mrs Ann Elizabeth Young the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young wed Moses R Denning a Manistee Michigan banker at Dr A I Elliots residence Rev BE A Stone officiated Mrs Youngs son witnessed the ceremony A large crowd of prominent locals attended and the couple left for Toledo at 3 30 pm to make their home in Manistee
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Lodi
Ohio
Ann Eliza Young
Brigham Young
Moses R. Denning
Manistee
Mich
A. I. Elliott
BE. A. Stone
Galion
Mrs. Denning
Toledo
Emigration fund spent as Parliament approves £100000
Dublin reports the £100,000 Parliament voted to promote emigration from Irish districts has been expended while London notes Ireland remains abuzz over the pope's clergy circular. Hull guards the docks as rumors spread of a dynamite attack and watchmen are doubled.
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Dublin
Ireland
London
Hull
Ambush Killings in St Helena Parish Murders Linked
In St Helena parish near Amite Louisiana yesterday evening Guion Lanier Pierce Lanier and William Curley were slain amid a feud that began with the earlier murder of Pierce Lanier Sr. James Curley is suspected, and a coroner's inquest was planned.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrats
Amite
Guion
Pierce Lanier
Wm. Curley
St. Helena Parish
Pierce
Baton Rouge
Livingstone Parish
James
Guion Lanier
Laniers
Armed mob seizes Santa Fe copper mine after labor dispute
Today a force of sixty men seized the principal mine of San Pedro and Cafion in De Agua county Santa Fe driving off thirty workers. The mine, producing 125 tons of copper monthly, is shut down with 150 miners unemployed. Litigation over possession has been pending and legal action was planned for tomorrow. The company has many eastern stockholders, including interests in Boston New York and Washington.
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Santa Fe
N. M
San Pedro
Cafion
de Agua County
Boston
New York
Washington
Union Pacific Schedule Change Expected Soon
It is believed by informed parties that a schedule change for the Union Pacific will not be delayed much longer.
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Union Pacific
Parade at Grand Opera House Involves Jere Dunn Incident
The News reports a sensational interruption during Monte Oriato at the Grand Opera House in Chicago. Jere Dunn reentered the theatre to take his seat amid whispers that he killed Elliott, while manager Nick Roberts led Dunn through the crowd to seats near the opera box drawing strong audience ire and prompting questions about Hamlin's handling of the incident.
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Chicago
Jerem Duhn
Grand Opera House
Monte Oriato
James O'Neill
Dunn
Elliott
Snick Roberts
Jere Dunn
Hamlin
Nick Roberts
Roberts
Pity the Jury in Ingersoll Case Outlook for Trial
Washington May 21 Ingersoll anticipates a two or three day defense argument this week with Merrick following for the prosecution for four or five days. The judge will charge the jury and there may be a further law argument before verdict. The case could go to the jury in early June.
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Washington
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Thomas Fountain
Pike
Colden
Telegraphic News
Logan County
Gilead
Lasher
Cowhick & Whitcomb
Pye
Notion Department
EL Iin
Boot & Shoe
Cheyenne
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Burt & Mears
Butterich
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