Census Report Details Plans for 1890 Population Data
The Porter report outlines census preparations since June 1689 including division into districts, enhanced language and race data, foreign birth and naturalization, and race classifications. It notes improved vital statistics from physician registers, studies on birth and death rates in major cities, occupational links to mortality, and a multi volume veteran study.
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Robert P. Porter
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Avery
Congress
Illinois
Iowa
New York
Massachusetts
Censis
Treasury Report Describes 1888 89 Financial Changes
United States Treasurer Huston reports a remarkable year in public finances. Expenditures and revenues show notable shifts with premium revenues and bond figures, gold and silver movements, currency changes, and bank security adjustments. The record notes gold losses, silver certificate growth, and bank withdrawals from bonds while detailing totals in reserve, liabilities, and circulating notes.
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United States
Huston
Excra
Monsyain
Treasury
Treasury Connt
Bieboo
Bublis
Belore
Appen
Avwanl Report Highlights Railway Mail Service Operations
General Superintendent Y Lowris Bev submits the year ending June 30 1889 report. Clerks handled mail across 183110 miles with 17371 miles via closed pouches under railway custody. City delivery plans push for early morning arrivals at commercial centers to speed noon or afternoon deliveries.
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Y Lowris Bev
Bell
Collision and fires loom in Eastern states mess
A chaotic bulletin lists wrecks and deaths from Dover to Pittsburg including gravel train collision near Dover Maine fatal crash in Altoona Pennsylvania and several fires. It also notes murders robberies strikes and political events across Pennsylvania New York and Chicago with various officials appointed and protests reported.
One Falls Before the Knife and the Other to the Pistol
A Lexington incident in May 1888 ends in a fatal duel between Col. William Cassius Goodloe and Col. Armetead A. L. Swope over mail boxes at the post office. Swope is shot and dies after a struggle. Goodloe is wounded but survives. The quarrel stems from Republican convention remarks and long-standing personal enmity. Names of witnesses and public figures are noted, with reflections on their roles and associations, including reactions from national Republicans and the President.
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William Cassius Goodloe
Internal Revenue
Kentucky
Armetead AL. Swope
Postoffico
Lexington
Swope
Goodloe
Goodlow
Goodier
Fayette County
Jght
Arc Chesney
William K. Shelby
Barry Swift
Shelby
Colonel Swope
Goodloo
Goodles
Clarkson
Washington
Condies
Gondroe
Republican Party
Senator Beck
Major Goodloe
Marine Corps
Congress
Colonel Goodloe
A. M
Reprstucky
Paris—key
Unionary
Frose
Buell
Jung
Sherman
Green Clay
Northwestern
Harrison
Cassius M. Clay
Russia
Legation
General Grant
State Senate
Was
Republican
United States
Wylie & Wallace works blast and deaths in Philadelphia
A terrific explosion at Wylie & Wallace chemical works in Philadelphia killed two workers and injured others. The report lists several other contemporaneous world events including political murders, elections, and diplomatic notes from Louisville, Lexington, Chicago, and Washington.
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Wylie & Wallace
Philadelphia
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Trneb
Brooks
Bertrand
Ricard
St.Albans
A Catholic Centennial Congress Opens in Baltimore
About 1200 delegates attended a Pontifical Mass at the start of the Catholic Centennial Congress in Baltimore. Archbishop Corrigan preached the sermon, Archbishop Gross spoke, and Will iam J. Gnahan of Chicago called the congress to order. Cardinal Rampolita sent greetings from the Pope.
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Gross
Oregon
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Concordia Opera House
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Chicago
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Onahan
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United States
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Maryland
Goyarnor Carroll
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England
Honore Mercier
Francis A. Kernan
Congress
Mr Bayards Marriage in Washington Quiet Ceremony
Ex Secretary of State Thomas F Bayard wed Bliss Mary Willing Clymer at the bride's Washington home in a restrained ceremony attended by about 250 relatives and a few close friends including former President Cleveland and ex-Secretaries Fairchild and Dickinson. The Bayard clan appeared in force and the couple planned a tour to New York and other northern cities after breakfast.
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Selma
Ala
International Maritime Conference
Nile
Arthur Larenastnig
Hayti
International Congress
Blaine
Thames
London
Clyde
Glasgow
Conneny
Mexico
Thomas A. Edison
Prince Auber Victon
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India
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Place de la Convente
Paris
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Louisa
Ellen
Philip
Jame
Williams
Jeremiah Smith
Elizabeth H. Smith
Delaware
L. D. Warren
Boston
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr
New Haven
Conn
New York
Health of the Army report to War Department
Surgeon General Moore releases a public report detailing Army medical and hospital supplies valued at 145 018 dollars for the last fiscal year. The year ending June 30, 1891, estimates 216 000 dollars for supplies expenses and maintenance. The document notes 31 420 sick report admissions, 25 415 for diseases, 6 005 for injuries, and a daily sick rate just over four percent. Deaths reached 318, with a white rate of 7.55 and a colored rate of 13.1.
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Moore
Army
Secretary of War
Nork
Army Medical Museum
Washington
Labour News From 19th Century Union Movements
The piece chronicles sweeping union growth in the United States and Britain, noting new formations in Oklahoma and New York, grafting of railway worker groups, and a rising Patrons of Husbandry in Michigan. It reports wage debates, eight hour work movements, and a Montana Supreme Court ruling on wage priority, with scattered data on spindles in England and glass price shifts in Findlay Ohio.
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Coal Minera
Belgium
Tim New_England Tasters Protective Union
Knights of Labor
Oklahom
Tax Brotherhood of
Brotherhood
Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America
Szorral
New York City
Mmembers
United States
Eme
Proteder
Supreme Court of Montana
Hayes
Caldwell
Texas
Patrons of Husbandry
Michigan
New York
England
Iigand
Seotland
Ewgntwouk
Tron Moulders’ Union of Americas
Findley
Olag
Pittsburgh
Federation of Labor
National Association of Silk Workers
Youkery
N.Y
Treland
New Jersey
Legislatire
Seyaton Stanxryono
California
Lus Vina Viney
White Abor
Childress
Brooklyn
Earl of Meath
London
Demand to Have Census Show Mortgages on Farms and Homes
The Western Economic Association of St. Louis urges farmers and wealth producers to push for census data on farm and home ownership versus debt. It argues wealth concentration skews equity and that facts are needed to shape policy. It proposes resolutions to advocate congressional action and asks officials to collect and publish mortgage and ownership statistics.
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Western Economic Association
St .Louis
Bureaus of Statistics
Robert P. Porter
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
St. Louis
Washington
United States
John W. Noble
Washington, D. C
Thosa Facta
Thousands Drowned As China Floods Leave Towns Under Water
The Oceanica arrives in San Francisco with reports of massive flooding in China. Yangtze River reaches extraordinary heights and Hankon Bund is submerged. Thousands of families homeless around Ningbo and Wenchow lose homes and crops. Fuchien province also suffers drought.
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San Francisco
Yokohama
China
Ningp
Wenchow
Fuchien
Prominent People In Brief Social Notes
A collage of biographical sketches notes President Hierouyre of Hayti as a Baptist and President Hannigan who rarely attends theatres. It mentions Cardinal Neway, Queen Victoria at church, and M Constans as a rising figure in French politics. Admiral Kumkey leads the Pacific squadron, and Sir Frendley of London resents Pittsburg land for a park. Postmaster General Wanamaker attends Bible class. Mrs Wixxit Davis and Mrs Pulitzer sail from New York for Europe. Tennyson at the Isle of Wight. Knights of Labor chief Pawpxnry remembered by many. Kath Paukesstein, smokeless powder inventor, once a Viennese chemist. Alfred Rothschild described. Granoss as tough on capital punishment.
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Hayti
Hannigan
van Proctor
Washington
Cardinal Neway
Queen Victoria
M. Constans
Boulanger
Paoresson Huxver
Nade Rov
Grace
St. Paul
Minn
Kumkey
F. Srendley
London
Pittsburg
Penn
Surrerox
Baptist Brougher
Wanamaker
Church of the Covenant
AYC
Patncck Brswan
Jolly Free
Philn- Velplin
Derry
Ireland
America
Tennyson
Cays
Dows
Isle of Wight
Tle -Pawpxnry
Knights of Labor
Kath Paukesstein
Viena
Hanon Alfred
Honw
Rothschild
Cairninau Granoss
Ruined Russian Aristocrats Lose Estates to Debts
An official report details severe financial collapse among Russia's aristocracy after serf emancipation. Many nobles are mortgaged or sold, with 8235 nobles in four European Russian cities receiving relief. The clergy add 6000 to 7000 more paupers, while Sebastopol has no paupers and Moscow lists about 42,000 on relief.
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Europe
St. Petersburg
New York Tribune
Sebastopol
Moscow
Veteran recalls Tennessee prisoner tale of scarce meat
J C Tawley a veteran recalls meeting a Tennessee prisoner in Andertonville who boasted of finding snake meat in a branch. Hawley notes the rare find of edible game among East Tennessee mountaineers, remarking on the humor of the exchange and the scarcity of grub.
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J.C. Tawley
Andertonville
Tennessee
Hawley
Jim
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cheap zinc water could halt fires and lower insurance
A New England chemist reports a cheap method to dissolve zinc using hydrogen, producing a zinc water solution that makes wood treated with it fireproof at low cost. The breakthrough could transform fire insurance and reduce fire losses. The same source estimates global hops production in 1889 at about 1,700,000 cwt.
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New England
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