Murder verdict in first degree for janitor Titus in Tillie Smith case
Janitor James J. Titus is found guilty of first degree murder in the Tillie Smith case at Hackettstown New Jersey. The 18 year old servant at Centenary Collegiate Institute was assaulted and strangled on Seminary grounds after a night out with Charles J. Munnich. The trial followed a lengthy, largely circumstantial investigation with emotional jury deliberations. A motion for a new trial is pending before the New Jersey Supreme Court.
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James J. ‘Pilas
Tillie Smith
Centenary Collegiate Institute
Hacketstown
N. J
Charles J. Munnich
Port Jervis
Seminaryuilding
Murie a.Munnich
En Spepiden
James J. Titus
Munnich
Titus
Meade
Belvidere
Cas
Eneda
New Jersey Supreme Court
Buffalo Storm Toll and Destruction Across City
A Buffalo dispatch reports a deadly cyclone with extensive property damage. Wind and flood destroyed church and music hall sections, washed away boat houses and tracks, and left about 400 people homeless in the lakefront area. Six deaths are confirmed, with more feared as Lake Erie waters may yield additional bodies.
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Buffalo
New Church
New Music Hall
New York Central
Island
Fala
Quinn
John Edwards
Tilt Farm
Lehigh Railroad
City Yacht Club
Lake Erie
Cairns
Annie Dietch
Jacob Dietch, Jr
Charles Mitchell
Henry Millington
Kelderhouse
Cattle Drive from Montana to British Columbia Ends in Loss
A Neidringhaus led cattle drive of about 40,090 head to British Columbia failed for the St. Louis syndicate. Drought and scarce water reduced stock to skin and bones. two herders perished seeking water. Abandonment near the Northern Pacific line left the herd decimated, with losses likely to reach substantial figures.
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Walla Walla
Washington Territory
Montana
Neidringhaus
British Columbia
St. Louis
Neidringheus
Nordringhaus
Northern Pacific
Syndicate O
Storm Wrecks Towns and Claims Dozens of Lives
The recent storm battered England's south and west coasts. A Norwegian bark foundered off Tin Tagte Wales with fifteen crew lost. The British ship Mahony wrecked in the Bristol Channel with twenty drowned. The Norwegian bark Fredrik stad from Musquash Newfoundland to Swansea wrecked off Falstow with nineteen dead. Another large bark foundered with fifteen to twenty lives lost.
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Great Britain
Tintage
Wales
Mahony
Bristol Channel
Fredrikstad
Swansea
Falstow
Pirates From Canada Raid Eastport During Large Fire
During a major blaze in Eastport Maine Canadian islanders known for smuggling seized goods from the stricken town. They raided stores, loaded boats, fought residents, and fled as the U S cutter General Woodbury arrived to seal off the harbor and keep them away. The Woodbury remained to guard the bay with a capable crew and small arms.
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Eastport
Passamaquoddy
Maite
United States
Woodbury
Pennsylvania Supreme Court bars Pennsylvania Railroad from South Pennsylvania line
Numerous items follow from a wide range of events including a court ruling barring the Pennsylvania Railroad from acquiring the South Pennsylvania Railroad, a bonds forfeiture by a former city official, political rallies, a python escape in Boston, flood relief appeals, a Chicago pork packers strike outcome, and various national notices.
Multitude of Crises Mark 19th Century News Roundup
Eastern and Middle States report a fatal domestic stabbing followed by a train decapitation. Topographical chief Bayard Putnam hanged himself near North Adams. NYC Democrats unite under Hewitt while Roosevelt diverges for mayor. Heirs seek $30 million NYC land. South Boston Iron Works shuts down. Snow storms lash Catskills and White Mountains. A Michigan soldier fatally wounds his father. nonunion meat packers fill Chicago jobs. Knights of Labor reelect Powderly. officers’ terms extended. Crumbling enpthrynaide disaster in Craneston South Carolina. prairie fires devastate Atk Territory. Sabine Pass relief reports 102 missing, 91 homeless aided to Beaumont. Plaquemine Parish valued at £500,000. Chicago pork packers demand longer workday. yellow fever quarantine in Gulf. Salisbury fire destroys business district. losses up to 1 million. Canadian authorities dispute, Marion Grimes released. Cleveland deer hunting trip. Manning back at Treasury.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
South Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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Sayles.s Who
New—Fork
Canada
Broadway
Buains
Pennsylvania
Boston
Sabine Pass
Texas
Johnson’s Bayou
Chicago Pork Packers
Merer Karu Bomnuscuilo
Peru
Ecuador
New York
Jacob Sharp
James A. Hichmond
James W. Foshay
Thomas B. Karr
Senator Epimps
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Turkey
Congress
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Constantinople
Chicago
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Fairfield
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Knights of Labor Assembly
Tichmond
Association For the Advancement of Women
Louisville
Julia Ward Howe
Oakland
Ilt
Northwest
Turtle Mountain
Dakota
Dabney H. Maury
United States
Colombia
Govvernor West
Utah
Wiggins
Middle States
Jostan E. Freeze
West Stratford
Conn
Bayard Putnam
United States Topographical Survey
Geologists
North Adams
Mass
County Democracy
Tammany Hall
Congressman Hewitt
Theodore Roosevelt
South Boston
Catskills
White Mountains
Craneston
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Beaumont
Plaquemine Parish
Apucun
Gulf of Mexico
Washington
State Department
Marion Grimes
Grimes
Department of State
James C. Duane
United States Army
Newton
Orlando B. Wilcox
Second Infantry
Duane
William T. Maginnis
Ohio
Supreme Court of the
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W. H. D. Cochran
Nashua
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Concord
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Charles_E-McIntire
Lancaster
Zauthan Eavitt
Newmarket
Charles Thomas
West Virginian
Arkansas
Cleveland
Blackwater
West Virginia
Manning
Treasury Department
Fronts watch on frontier ports as cholera spreads nationwide
Reports note Austrian and Hungarian orders for strict frontier port surveillance due to cholera. An earthquake shakes Germany while UK exports rise and a Venice cathedral stabbing shocks Italy. Coastal wrecks and a Thames tragedy are mentioned amid global health scare and medical cures.
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Germany
America
Canon
London
Thames
Corea
Seoul
Miscellaneous notes on theater, leather, and remedies
A period item notes include Michael Strogoff actor Mr G C Staley recovering from a cold with two bottles of Red Star Cough Cité, a quagrammatist discovering letter transpositions in a Gladstone quote, Perroist leather for shoes praised for durability, and Dr Wm F Hall's Balsam for the Lungs advertised as a quick, easy remedy for pneumonia and catarrh from druggists.
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G.C. Staley
Michael Strogoff
Oakland
Cal
Wwilhiaat Ewart Gladstone
Ireland
Wm.fhall
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