Deadly riot in Birmingham shocks city with casualties
Birmingham on December 9 faced a brutal mob attack as a crowd tried to lynch R. R. Hawes at the county jail. Gunfire killed three instantly and wounded many, including postmaster M. B. Throckmorton, while state troops encamped the streets to restore order amid widespread fear and rising casualties.
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R. R. Hawes
Third Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Thompson
Sheriff Smith
M. B. Throckmorton
Throckmorton
Louisville
Southern Express Company
Colonel Matt E Ryan and the Globe-Democrat snake tale
Veteran circus manager Colonel Matt E Ryan recounts dangerous experiences with snakes at Prescott Varnell's Museum in St. Louis. He details boa and anaconda escapes, venomous bites, and a rattler incident that ended with a keeper's death, plus garter snakes multiplying inside a box and a countryman’s nose bite episode. Also noted is Presidents Harrison and Cleveland quail shooting in Washington.
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People’s Theater
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Ryan
Globe-Democrat
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Fourth and
Pine Streets
Varnell
Marlich
Wilson
Murlich
Georgetown
A Vast Coal Hole in France and Its Products
The Hasard colliery opened in 1542 by M. d'Andrimont covers 4170 acres and employs 961 underground and 273 surface workers. Output in 1886 reached 232,742 tons with seams two to four feet thick. A Plom and d'Andrimont excavator improves blasting, used in six seams. coal is brought to 400 feet then conveyed by a two mile endless chain road to Bay Bonnet. The St Andre du Poirier mine claims the deepest in the world with shafts over 2900 feet deep and 75 F maximum air temperature.
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M. d
Lens
France
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St. Andre du Poirier
Guibal
Farmers and Laborers Union of America forms in Meridian reports
A Meridian dispatch says the Alliance Wheel and Cooperative Union of America renamed itself The Farmers and Laborers Union of America. A meeting is planned in St Louis for December 1889, while Atlanta will host an Alliance meeting in October. Reports on consolidation vary and a platform was adopted but not released. Committees advised on cotton and bagging factories with no further action disclosed.
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Meridian
Miss
Times- Democrat
Alliance Wheel and Co-operative Union of America
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union of America
St. Louis
Alliance
Atlanta
Washington
Congress
Senate
Messrs. Harris and
McPheron
Plumb
Union Pacific
Des Moines
House
District of Columbia
Maritime Canal Company of
Nicaragua
Wec
House OF Representatives
Washington, D. C
Killed by An Officer In Alabama Arrest Attempt
A Gadsden report says Deputy Sheriffs Christian and Herseberry failed to arrest Sam Moore at a new furnace where he had killed a man. The deputies were shot by unknown parties and Moore was later found and killed resisting arrest. Lawson Adams, alleged accomplice, was arrested and jailed, with a likely lynching expected before morning.
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Chattanooga
Times
Gadsden
Ala
A. C. Christian
Ad Herseberry
New Furnace
Sam Moore
Moore
Lawson Adams
Adams
Express
Montgomery
Southern Express Company
Payne
Ben Horster
Horster
Bravado Gone Wrong in Grocery Yard Prank
A man in a grocery crowd proposed a prank to test his wife’s bravery by sending a man to demand supper. The plan backfired when the volunteer was found unconscious with a broken nose after a neighbor’s wife directed him to the rear yard. An incident followed as crowds dispersed.
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Bocby
Anarchists Fail to Rally at Haymarket in Chicago
Chicago observers report no anarchist meeting at the Haymarket area despite expectations. Police kept crowds apart near Blue Island and Milwaukee avenues while a German Free Thinkers meeting at Otto Reichert’s saloon drew about three hundred attendees, with detectives present but no disturbances. The rest of the city saw calm streets and restrained saloon activity as authorities monitored planned gatherings.
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Milwaukee Avenue
Blue Island Avenue
Twelfth Street
Desplaines Street
Banfield
Flann
West Lake Street
Grier
Otto Reichert
Rebel forces wreck Zanzibar town after fierce fighting
The British steamer returned to Bagamoyo with Indian traders and families reporting a wrecked town. Severe fighting on Thursday and Friday left heavy rebel losses, with two Germans and two native dependents wounded. Bushiri retreated inland after looting an ivory caravan and maltreating Wanyamweze parties who refused to join him.
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Zanzibar
Bagamoys
Bushiri
Sugar Refinery to Close in San Francisco
Andrew Walch president of the American Refining Company announced the refinery will close Monday due to foreign cargo backlogs from Java on the West Miath. He estimates workers will lose about $30,000 in wages. Walch denies any fraud and says sugar was admitted through normal duties.
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Andrew Walch
American Refining Company
Java
West Miath
Welch
Demonstration at tomb of Cassonbus in Paris
Four hundred people attended the demonstration at the tomb of Cassonbus in Paris. Orations were delivered and wreaths laid amid orderly proceedings despite rain. A peace conference at St Die and Epenal led to conflicts with injuries, after which police cleared the streets.
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Epenal
Democratic Legislator Dead In New Jersey
Jersey City report states Assemblyman Frank Short of the Tenth district in Hudson county died at his home at 2 AM. His death leaves the Democrats with a narrow House majority and three on joint ballot. a new election will likely be ordered by the Governor.
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Jersey City
N. J
Frank Short
Hudson County
Snort Chas
Governor orders militia to quell riots in Bevier region
Gov Moorehouse now at Bevier orders out the militia. Col Moore will lead two companies of the Third regiment at 6 o'clock tomorrow to the riot scene to restore order.
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Moorehouse
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Moore
Editor McMillan Dead in Brooklyn Residence
Alex K editor of the Commercial Bulletin died at 321 Livingston Street Brooklyn after a long career in journalism. He served as managing editor of the old Express until 1875 and later joined the Bulletin. A New York correspondent for Philadelphia’s Mercury, he was born in Scotland in 1825 and came to America at eleven.
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Bulletin
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