Navy construction plans show progress on new cruisers and guns
Commodore T N Wilson reports for Secretary Tracy on progress of US Navy vessels under construction as of March 4. Contracts total millions for Newark Yorktown Petrel and more with Cramp Union Iron Works and others, with trials and dockyard work ongoing at New York San Francisco and Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. N. Wilson
Bureau of Construction and Repair
United States Navy
Tracy
Newark
Yorktown
Petrel
Columbian Iron World
Baltimore
Ollovre
Imore
W.-Craap
Vesuvius
York
Torpedo Boat
Herreshof Company
Bristol
Navy Yards
Maine
Armored
New York
Texas
Armored Battleship
Amphitrite
Monitor
Norfolk
Mare Island
Cal
Terror
Boston
Phila- Beebean
Cran A
San Francisco
Union Iron Works
Concord
Bennington
F. Palmer, Jr., & Co
Howaver
Naval School
Commodore
Thomas
Amman
Naval Boards
Atlanta
Chicago
Dolphin
Boulanger Convicted of Conspiracy and Treason
The State Council of France annuls elections in twelve cantons as General Boulanger is ruled not eligible. He is found guilty of conspiracy and treason related to the Lyons depot incident, with Dillon and Rochefort also named in complicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Council of
France
General Boulanger
Boulaiger
War Office
Mme
Pour- Beane
Genocral
Paris
Buoges
Gemma Boulanger
Dillon
Rocheforter
Boulanger
Lyons Depot
Labor unrest and unions headline sweeping statements across nations
The text catalogs global labor clashes from Australia to England and the United States, noting 6000 iron workers in Tror, wage cuts across industries, eight hour work demands, profit sharing, and union growth. It mentions workers in China, tobacco and garment sectors in Brooklyn, and the eight hour push among New York and Brooklyn unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tror
N. Y
K.oy L
Australia
New York
China
Tainoin
Thomas A. Epson
Ture
Tte
Cuavs Spreckels
California
Tanz
New York City
Brooklyn
Carr
Panama
Valparaiso
TAE
Manchester
England
National Textile Workers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
New York Journal
International Cigarmakers’ Union of America
Ere
Department of Labor
United States
Enoch Micrcan
Public Warnings And Notable Incidents From Across The Nation
A wide spread set of notes reports firm Brown Steese Clark bankruptcy in Boston. Henry Boyer of Philadelphia nominated for state office. Henry Elias Browning New York sale to an English syndicate for 850000. Allen of New York arrested for stock forgeries. Harrison’s Boston visit and Bar Harbor stopovers. misses and accidents in Indiana Ohio and Montana. railroad strikes and post office inspector appointments. various deaths and disasters across cities and states. Crete crisis and international diplomacy notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern
Middle States
Brown, Steese & Clark
Boston
Mass
Tim State Convention
Pennsylvania
Rpublicans
Henry Boyer
Miladelphia
Aod
Harrison
Henry Elias Browing Concern
New York City
Eoza S. Allen
Grand Street Railroad Company
Hanrison
Bar Harbor
Blaine
Bensaulx Hanrison
Scott Lord
Nantucket
Graznan
Henry du Post
Great Powder Manufacturing
Frm
Wilmington
Del
Many Cusawan
Minerva Cushman
Aire
T. C
Columbus
Ind
Vanderbilt
Beach Creek Railroad
Johnstown
Penn
Alex. Hamilton, Jr
Suerirr Fuack
Tammany Society
Tammany
Hecla Works
Greensburg
William Thaw
Mammoth Works
Bishop Doane
August crop report shows varied gains and declines
The August crop report from Washington lists condition indices for corn 94.8 spring wheat 81.2 spring rye 95.4 oats 92.5 barley 90.6 buckwheat 05.2 potatoes 94.3 hay 04.5 tobacco B14 and notes corn up 4.18 points from the prior month though still below last year. Conditions improved across much of the country but Atlantic coast floods reduced some states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Atlantic
Minnesota
Dakota
Nebraska
Baseball Scandals and Stars Spark 19th Century League Notes
The era’s baseball chatter centers on player sales and roster moves across teams like Conuxnts and Carcaco. Denny leads in home runs while Boston strengthens with Pop Smith. Injuries and managerial changes loom as the league tracks hits, outs, and who tops batting lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corman
Withrapanur
Carcaco
Tou Walkesbarra
Carcace
Conywar
Kansas City
New Yorks
Iatrur Derry
Chicago
Goveryon Braven
Pennsylvania
Tar
Washingtons
Kodo
Haddock
Ferson
London Club
Tom Esterbrook
Emil Golss
Wrotrax Saxpay
Fittsburg
Brooklyn
McGenne
Toronto
Congress
Ben Butterworth
Ohio
Matt
Pittsburgs
Glasscock
Indianapolitans
Clements
Philadelphias
McKe
James Hamillton
Weir City
Jonx
Barney
St. Paul
Ireland
England
William Campbell
Somerset
Boston
Pop” Smith
Ray
Quinn
Bostons
Smith
Morrill
John W. Glasscock
Indianapolis
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Washington
American Association
Inientage St
Honolulu Revolt Fails as Rioters Surrender
Dispatches say seven natives were killed as two half white Hawaiians led about 250 rebels to Kalakaua’s palace in Honolulu attempting to seize the throne. After heavy fire from sharpshooters and a dynamite blast by Honolulu Rifles, insurgents surrendered and were imprisoned. letters found on Boyd linked several prominent locals to the plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaiian Islands
Wicox
Boyd
Kalakaua
Honolulu
Parker
Wilcox
Honolulu Rifles
Hawaii
Tar annual athletic exhibition of the Clan da Gael in Philadelphia
The Tar annual athletic exhibition in Philadelphia drew about 25 000 attendees. Profits, rumored to reach 5000, will fund the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Dr P E Cronin of Chicago and other noted medical figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clan Na Gael
Philadelphia
P.E. Cronin
Chicago
Alezxanoen Brown Morr
Valentine Mott
Yonkers
N. Y
Pnenumonia
North Dakota Plans For Public Institutions Across State
North Dakota’s constitutional report outlines site allocations for public institutions. Bismarck hosts the capital while Grand Forks holds the State University and School of Mines, Fargo the Agricultural College, Valley City a State normal school, Jamestown a hospital and feeble minded institute, and Lisbon a soldiers' home with 40 000 acres. Pembina County hosts a blindness institution with 30 000 acres, Ellendale an industrial school with 40 000 acres, Wahpeton a scientific or other institution with 40 000 acres, and other locations in McHenry Ward Bottineau or Rolette counties for a forestry or related school with 40 000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Bismarck
State University
School of Mines
Grand Forks
Agricultural College
Fargo
Valley City
Devil's Lake
Mandan
Mayville
Jamestown
Legislative Assembly
Lisbon
Pembina
Ellendale
McHenry
Ward, Bottineau
Rollotto
Wahkpeton
Two Emperors at Berlin Visit Boosts European Peace
The Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph arrives in Berlin to meet Emperor William with Prince Henry and Chancellor Bismarck. Generals Moltke and Bentinuthal attend as crowds cheer along Unter den Linden and at the castle. Troops guard the route while flags decorate the city and express greeting signals mark the cordial encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Berlin
Germany
Emperor William
Prince Henry
Prince Bismarck
Comit
Herbert Bismarck
von Moltke
General von Bintineuthal
Francis Joseph
Thiergarten
Unter den Linden
Augusta
Frederick
Heichsanzeriger
William
Europe
Judge Lynch's Vengeance Murder Rampage Report
Report of mob killings in McDowell County West Virginia where Mrs Gallis and her two daughters were assaulted and murdered. The Hollis brothers were said to be captured by vigilante committees and executed by hanging and shooting. A Niagara Falls convention urged repeal of the electric chair and commuted sentences under the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Dominion
Ella May
Norfolk
J. Frank Collou
John
Blaisdell
Minneapolis
Minn
Bozeman
Nontana
Helena
North Dakota
Bismarck
San Diego
Cal
H. Stedman
Vinton
Towa
W. Hanna
Towner County
Dakotas
Minnesota
Dakota
Montana
Wisconxsiny Central
Chippawa Falls
Wis
Abbotsville
J.D. Kise
Janesville
Curx Goxo
Portland
Oregon
Lea Gich
George Duncan
Boulder
Annie Lindstrom
Mas
N. Paewan
Aiper City
George H Hammond
Hammond
Ind
Dannel K. Stewart
Virginia
Henrico County
Bishmang
Stewart
Otter Creek
Mich
Charles T Wright
Otter Creek Lumber Company
Racine
Neal’ Marshall
Frank E. Thurber
aAeman
Gillis
McDowell County
W. Va
Gallis
Ving da McDowell County
Hollin Brothers
Catlettsturg
Sandy
Pikeville
Hollis‘ Brothers
Niagara Falla
Hill
Sioux Land Settlement Agreement Moves Forward
Interior Department bulletin details the Sioux land surrender under a government act. It outlines reservations Standing Rock Cheyenne River Brule Crow Creek Pine Ridge and Rosebud and sets payments for lands opened to settlers. A $3 million permanent fund funds Indian welfare with five percent interest and a ten percent annual discretionary expenditure for agriculture and tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Four Gates
John W. Noble
Washington
Chicago
Charles Foster
Foster
Crook
William Warner
United States
Congress
Standing Rock
Cheyenna River
Er Brule
Crow Creek
Pins Ridge
Rosebud
Secretary of the Interior
Indiana
Secro of the Interior
A. T. Lea
Interior Department
Dakota
Las
Explosion on Cedar Ridge Yacht Kills Family in Fire
At 1 PM the yacht Cedar Ridge owned by L L Crocker of East Buffalo exploded and burned while preparing for a river trip. Ethel Lamoy and Howard Crocker died, Crocker’s son and other crew injured. carpenter John Rubenstein perished. The blast stemmed from naptha used to heat the boilers. Crocker was superintendent at the New York Central stock yards in East Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Ridge
Br. L. L. Crocker
Cast
Mr. Crocker
Charles Schweigel
John Rugenstein
Tio
Prominent People Include Royals Writers and Dignitaries
A miscellany notes health reports and status of notable figures. Parisian exhibitions visitations top the list with names like Lonn Tennyson, Louis Kossorm, and Queen Victoria cited. German honors and British naval titles appear alongside speeches, travels, and retirements.
Great Irrigation Scheme For North Dakota Canal
A group of Absynticated Dakota capitalists including many Bismarck Grand Forks and Jamestown millionaires organize a grand canal project to reclaim about 6 000 800 acres of arid North Dakota land. The plan envisions a Missouri River to Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake canal with lateral ditches, charging 24 000 000 in cost and boosting regional production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Grand Forks
Jamestown
North Dakota
Missouri River
Lake Traverse
Big Stone Lake
North
South Dakota
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Gulf of Mexico
A Fatal Open Switch Triggers Express Crash in New York
The Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg express crashed through an open switch near Forest Lawn nine miles east of Rochester at 8 AM. Three were killed and seven injured fatally, with many more seriously hurt. Victims include Perrin family members and Rochester man John Jay, while fault cited as signals neglect and station agent duties distracted by telegraph work.
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Rome
Watertown
Ognensburg
Forest Lawn
Rocheatar
N. Y
Ovelady
Perrin
John Jay
Rochester
Lane
Oswego
H. WM. Perrin
H. M. Perrin
Fra
Periin
Indy
Andrew Tit
Great floods in Japan drown hundreds and flood lands
The Japan Gazette reports about one hundred people drowned and twelve thousand houses washed away by overflow from the Chikudgo River in four of seven counties in Fukuoka prefecture. About 2500 acres of cultivated land were seriously damaged. Relief funds have been started across the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan Gazette
Japan
Chikago
Fukuokaken
Various Global and U S Economic and Social Notes
New gleanings report Prasia debt free and Canapa at 124680 Indiana with falling interest. Illinois sees Broopy flux while Tux Indiana Ice Trust collapses. California forest fires rage. Boulanger bubble collapses. lower Egypt unrest. hemp farming in New York. trust formation. elevated road in Laws. Idaho fires. hair industry trust formed. Dervish invasion in Egypt. European unrest. Minnesota meat bills unconstitutional. Georgia crops magnificent. Newfoundland crops poor. Prince Edward Island crops best ever expected. Napa price per capiyar high. Texas crops better. railways carry 1 in 13 million. oil discovery at Ponruanxo Michigan. autumn elections four new states in October. severe hail damages cranberry crop in Massachusetts. gas and water works in southern towns. German trust speculation fears. drownings at summer resorts. Atlanta draymen cartel. Swiss Americans flood hotels. fatal horse disease at Montgomery. Cuban iron mine syndicate. Japan resists treaty revisions. Southern Russia heat extreme. Montana constitution forbids passes. British Army considers electricity firing for rifles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prasia
Iusnanatioy
Canapa
Indiana
Bantinono
Illinois
Tux
Indiana Ice Trust
California
Lower
Egypt
New York
Idaho
Europe
Minnesota
Tor Buffalo
Georgia
Mexico
United States
Prince Edward Island
Ponruanxo
Mich
Massachusetts
Germany
Atlantic
Atlanta
Cuba
Japan
Ching
Russia
Montana
Boards of Equalization
Farm Market Prices and Commodities Note
Local market listings show cattle hogs sheep and dairy prices across cities like Boston and Watertown Massachusetts. Grains flour wheat corn oats and various state grade designations appear with mixed quality notes and date references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Han Creamery
Ut- West
Creamery Ag
Boston
Ryu
Watertown
Mass
Penn Family
AON
MARS
Riches in an Old Sloop of War Antietam at League Island
The purchaser of the retired sloop Antietam at League Island Navy Yard found a rich haul beyond the $37,000 paid at public sale. For years the hulk contained anchors, ingots of brass, tin, and chains worth over fifty thousand dollars, with wagon after wagon carrying away metal already sold in Philadelphia. Plans include towing her to deep water and burning her at Cow Bay, Long Island, to save the copper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
League Island
Navy Department
Antietam
Navy Yard
Cow Bay
Long Island
Philadelphia Record
Nebraska Senator Paddock Praises State Agriculture
Senator Algernon Paddock of Nebraska, chair of the Senate Agricultural Committee, notes Nebraska’s land and soils sustain big crops. He cites sandy third soil that acts as a moisture sponge, absorbing rain and releasing it, preventing crop ruin others fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algernon
Paddock
Nebraska
Senate Agricultural Committee
New_York Mail
Zpresy
Kansas
Original Deed for Manhattan Island Found in Hague Archives
General James Grant Wilson found a letter dated Amsterdam November 17 1626 in The Hague archives announcing the purchase of Manhattan Island by the Dutch West India Company for 24. Two days later he located the original deed, hidden for 263 years among a Dutch family's papers. Wilson hopes to purchase the deed during archival research into Mrs. Wilson Bayard ancestors who arrived in 1647 with Peter Stuyvesant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Island
The
Hague
James Grant Wilson
States General
United Netherlands
P. Schagen
Amsterdam
Manhattan
Dutch West Indian Company
Shad Jain
The House Washington Built Stands as Capital Landmark
The house built by George Washington in Washington, D C, remains standing. Originally three stories, grading the street added two more stones turning it into five stories and it is now used as a hotel. Some rooms and furniture reportedly retain 1792 condition with pieces still hidden nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Nation
Washington City
Washington
Chicago
Ontario Salt Deposit Deep and Vast in Goderich Region
The province of Ontario holds the continent's largest rock salt deposit. Discovered at Goderich twenty years ago at a depth of one thousand and ten feet during an oil bore, the salt extends over about twelve hundred square miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Canada
Goderich
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Whitney
Post Office Department of
Washingcton
Pullen
Alabama
Kentucky
Charles Francis Miserve
Springfield
Brass
Presideant Harrison
Haskell Todian Institute
Trawrence
Meserve
Colby University
Nope
War Department
JEN
Weneral Wanland Als
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
S. F. Phillips
North Carolina
Charles Pope
Missouri
Richard G. Lay
District of Columbia
Ottawa
Crete
Heraclion
Seavener Union
Kelley
St. Martin's
New Brunswick
Citazum Paswa
St. Petersburg
Samrons
Nerdfu
Varan
Legitime
Harti
Ozama
Keargarge
Carrie
San Juana
Maybrick
London
Williaw
Aldershot
Hiwry M.stanley
Afrtey
Zanzibar
Emin Pacha
BounancEt
High Court of the Senate
Simon Beneperté Camots
Portland Harbor
Twe
Toansas
J. B. Wontuan
Winchester
Tunre
David
Joe
Albert Sill
Eduor Standford
Shelbyville
MarfThews
Tus
J. 8. Billings
Hen Gannett
William C. Bunt
Sachsenberg
Mayanick
Lincoln
Tar Riverside
Oswego Villa
Rhode Island
City
Liverpool
Japor Boonsraven
Court of Common Pleas
Mary A. Flock
A Adae
Cl Wright
Monell
Mocks
Searcher
Thomas Anderson &Co
Dowson, Ky
Tames Jackson
Laton Menser
Dennis Purdy
Janes L. Danis
University of Virginia
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Nelson County
Jia Brook
Orange
Trackee
Bridge Street
Rairoad
Winpow
Canny's
Tar Duke of Fife
Princess Louise of Walva
Saxon Sarptva
Thomas Borson
Paris FE
Opera
Iting Aumbert
Italy
Noble
Sioux Commisstare
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Lonn Tennyson
Joung
Writtien
Louis Kossorm
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Weet Hanson
Shad
Mayor Fitter
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Grant
Sheridan
Farragut
Li Heng Coax
Persia
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Duans Banton
Red Cross Association
Cne
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Prussia
Queen Victoria
Alexander
Berrie
Robert Garrett
Trig
India
Candida
Cannon
Vada
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Hadji Hussein
Ghooly Khan
Ammu Abdallah
Jrothe Strong
Janot Tuomas M. Cooley
Michigan
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Randolynl Luckla
Fernnally
Washington and Lee University
Lexington
Tucker
Bia Ufo
Phundwokia
Riailroad
Chikudgo River
Loweathan
Agriculture
Pierce
Ingham University
la Roy
R. M. Webster
Guthnate
Oklahoma
Dobbins
Hood
W. A. TonNen
West Hanover
N. B
C. J. Mood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowwell
Oss
Aoforr Craton
Jo Ligon
Mark Sweaney
of. Tern
Limerick
Yeni
Adress
W. J. Covan
Webster City
Iowa
Innac Thomp
Bettle
Johnson
Comond
Amicia
Vanita
Wanula
Sidney Herbert
Swift
Ipsey Hunzerr
Korgler
E & Co
Hetkicken
Echters
W. L. Dod
Mtn
Douglas
Pame
Kam
W. Li
Roney
L. Dougas
Rockton
W.L. Douglas
Bates
Button
Lacon W. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Busgett
Broadway
Ase
Minsmarr
Buffalo
Dutcher
St Albans
Holland Medical and Cancer Institute
Buitala
Holland Mevicinecg
Sosnes
the Globe
A.W. Gray
Middletown Springs
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Specimen Co
Denver
Cole
Halry Mich
Frede
Best
H. H. Gare & Sons
Northernorthern Pacific
Lands &Free Govvernment
LANDS
Oragan
B. Lamborn
E'Seeriner
Jones Syetheer
Ebay
Binghamton
Inghramton
N. Yx
Phila
Ente
Hester
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