Fire and ruin shadow a Pittsburgh week end blaze
A historic Pittsburgh fire destroyed the Masonic Temple Hamilton Block and Campbell & Dicks Carpet warehouse plus several tenements. Schmidt & Fridays building suffered heavy damage. Loss about 500 dollars insured. John Keefe of Allegheny died after falling from a roof assisting the effort.
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Pittsburgh
Masonic Temple
Hamilton
Campbell & Dick
Schmidt & Fridays
John Keefe
Allegheny
Pierot
Servia
Belgrade
Colorado
United States
Sryator Rupps- Berger
Woodstock
Eliza J. Johnson
Beloit
Kan
Frep Dovetass
Europe
Bissor Pebry
Iowa
Nova Scotia
Adolph Zennfok
Mascot
New
Alaska
Detroit
GreenGe W. Julian
New Mexico
Maxwell
Tuo Street Railways
Fort Wayne
J. H. Bass
5. B
Chatsworth
Peoria
Burlington and Missouri
Nebraska City
Pittsburch
WaAsHixaron
New York
Lipski
Bur
England
Maude
Massachusetts Democrats
Worcester
Archbishop Walsh comments on Irish policy and evictions
In Dublin, Archbishop Walsh says the forced execution of the act would crush the National League and dampen sympathy for home rule. He expects Irish Parliament to return to Dublin soon, notes 140 evictions in three months, and comments on Gladstone’s potential return to power. A London dispatch reports France’s wheat crop strong at 110 million hectares and Russian harvest steady, with regional variances.
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Dublin
Cable
National League
England
Gladstone
Dublin Castle
Ireland
London
France
Bessarabia
Podolia
Volhynia
Muck
Moheeley
Blaine in Dublin to Inspect Ireland Conditions
A cable dispatch reports Mr. Blaine and family in Dublin. He plans a quiet tour of Ireland and is not pleased with European society as observed. The dispatch notes wheat prices in Vienna falling to a twenty-three year low and mentions the Sea of Azov and the River Don region.
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Sea of Azov
Don
Charkoff
Poltova
Vienna
Blaine
Dublin
Ireland
President under Western Southern tour plan aims to visit key cities
An Associated Press dispatch notes invitations flood to the President as White House clerks schedule them. He will tour the West and South briefly, likely not beyond Kansas City or Atlanta, selecting principal representative cities. Also reported are the death of John Clay, Henry Clay's son, and multiple midwestern disasters including a collapsed Bishop & Spear building, a fatal tornado at Renville Minnesota, and drownings at Lake Kegonsa Wisconsin.
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Associated Press
National Capital
White House
San Francisco
New Orleans
Galveston
Kansas City
Atlanta
Lexington
John Clay
Henry Clay
Clay
Col Irwin
Perryville
Young Moore
Mr. Moore
Mr. Clay
Bishop & Spear
Walla
J. Alkire & Co
Renville
Minn
Haan
Gustave Kriger
Miller
Fulton
Wis
Henderson
Normal
Andy Mooney
Peoria
Stillwell
Mooney
Art
al Ve
Bagterer
A. H. Stauffer
Bloomington
Howard A. Cutter
Carthage
Piper City
Howard
Nan
Collapse of W. O. Tyler Paper Co and related firms
The W. O. Tyler Paper Company of Chicago fails with liabilities around 350000. The collapse drags W. O. Tyler & Co of Chicago and W. T. Randall with mills in Rockton Lil and B F Lyon & Son at Kalamazoo into failure. Henry & Ives & Co of New York assigns to Sullivan Cromwell, liabilities estimated between 10000000 and 2000000, assets near that amount, sparking stock market excitement.
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W. 0. Tyler Paper Company
Chicago
W. O. Tyler & Co
Stock Exchange
Acting Attorney General appoints W J Clark assistant U S Attorney
The Interior Department memo shows 265 civil service appointments from Jan 16 1886 to July 1 1887 with 244 from Pennsylvania 22 from New York 21 from Illinois 19 from Indiana 17 from Ohio 11 from Tennessee and other states. A Republican conference at Senator Mahone’s Peters burg Virginia endorsed party condition and faulted the Democrats for debt inaction deciding against a state convention.
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W. J. Clark
Columbus
Ohio
United States
District of
Utah
Interior Department
Pennsylvania
New York
Illinois
Indiana
Tennessee
Maryland
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Iowa
Arkansas
Missouri
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Michigan
Alabama
Texas
Senator Mahone
Petersburg
Death toll from Chatsworth wreck climbs toward hundred
Fires and accident reports describe a massive railway disaster at Chatsworth Illinois with up to a hundred dead and many injured. Bodies were moved to Peoria and homes as investigators probe possible incendiary arson while morgues struggle with heat and decomposition.
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Chatsworth
Salt Lake prison execution and multiple crime notes
A Salt Lake special reports Fred Hopt alias Welcome shot dead in the penitentiary yard after a five-man firing squad. Another Franklin La., coroner case ties a stepfather Dan Pleasant to a 16 year old girl's murder and a public hangings in cane-fields. Wins and mine accidents across Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia, D.C., and Arizona include executions and deaths from mine collapses, train strikes, and a shipyard mishap.
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Salt Lake
Fred Hopt
Welcome
Hamilton
Hopt
Dyer
Franklin
Bayou
Dan Pleasant
Marinette
Wis
Ed McDuff
Hugh McDonald
Cleveland
Ishpeming
Mich
Edwin Cox
Ashland
Hurley
Holmes R. Puryear
Prince George Court House
Solomon Conyer
Hampton
D. C
Jordan Robinson
Frank Wilson
Prescott
Arizona
Samuel Clevenger
Tragic Chatsworth Excursion Disaster Kills Many
A Toledo Peoria and Western excursion train from Peoria derailed and sank into a culvert near Chatsworth Illinois. The bridge burned, rain fell, and the wreck left at least seventy five dead and over a hundred fifteen injured. Survivors recalled scream-filled chaos and looting amid the night of horror.
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Forest
Chatsworth
Toledo
Peoria
Piper City
Gilman
Bullwell
Goodall
J. M. Tennery
C. Falroth
Falworth
Neal
Mossville
H. W. White
Peoria Journal
Billy Stevens
Emma
Ida
Quarantine on cattle from New York State and crop outlook notes
Massachusetts quarantine targets oxen and cattle from New York due to pleuro-pneumonia. National Agricultural Department reports drought reducing corn by seven points, weak spring wheat and oats, poor fruit and hay, but good cotton and strong tobacco outside Wisconsin. Northern Minnesota and Dakota face early maturing crops, labor shortages, and harvest pressures with $2 to $2.50 daily pay. President Cleveland's tour covers major Midwest and Southern cities with a West Virginia fishing plan. Elaine revived at McVicker's Theatre with Palmer company, and interior trade reviews note generally good volumes though Galveston orders are pared back.
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Massachusetts
New York State
National Agricultural Department
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakota
Cleveland
St. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Madison
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Kansas City
Memphis
Nashville
Atlanta
West Virginia
Kenna
Elaine
McVicker’s
Palmer
South Ride House
K. G. Dun & Co
Weekly
Trade Review
Galveston
Parched Fields Drought Costs Midwest Crops
Chicago dispatch notes drought across Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Michigan Ohio with severe losses in hay oats and corn. Illinois expects about half a usual yield with five percent of normal. Indiana reports one-third to one-fourth yields. Wisconsin oats fair and corn dipping slightly. Iowa Kansas Nebraska see beneficial rains with Iowa corn yield forecast around 200 005 000 bushels, about 30 million more than last year.
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Chicago Telegram
Times
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Mississippi
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa Agricultural Society
Foraker and Powell Named Ohio Gubernatorial Candidates
The Ohio Republican conv ention nominated J B Foraker for a second term as Governor. A Highland County native and Civil War veteran, he studied at Cornell and served as a judge before his 1885 election. General Thomas E Powell, born in Delaware County, Ohio, 1842, and a noted lawyer, was the Democratic nominee for Governor.
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Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio Republican Convenation
Buckeye
Highland County
Ohio
Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry
Slocum
Cornell University
Cincinnati
Hoadly
Thomas E. Powell
Delaware County
Ating
Ohio Wesleyan University
Powell
Ohio State News Highlights and Local Accidents
President Scott offers a free two years in agriculture scholarship to one boy from each county, with incidental costs covered in year one. Mahoning Valley Iron Company names directors and officers in Youngstown. Hillsboro gas project ends with salt water at 1720 feet. machinery to Mt Oreb for another well. Drownings, injuries, and legal notices populate a day of Ohio reports from Ravenna to Willows and Zanesville.
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The
State University
Agricultural Society of
Mahoning Valley Iron Company
Youngstown
H. G. Cleveland
P. L. Hitchcock
Aaron Wilcox
M. Bonnell
W. N. Bowler
Frank Wilson
Cleveland
Richard Brown
H. O
W. S. Bonnell
J. L. Botsford
Co. D. Arms
Hillsboro
Mt. Oreb
Brown County
Frederick Kammerer
Ravenna
Geauga Lake
Kammerer
J. R. Gray
Isaac Harter
Fostoria
Johnson
Columbus
James Ryder
Dayton
Leroy D. Brown
Coshocton
Willows
Col
J. W. H. Safford
Zanesville
Simon Welling
Zaleski
McMasters
Mansfield Presbytery
United Presbyterian Church
J. H. Vincent
Mansfield
Zace Johnson
Newark
Marion Johnson
Sandusky
Lewis FE. Stowe
Toledo
U.S
Burnet
Cincinnati
Kayser & Hegner
Fidelity National Bank
Forestr y Congress Topics At Springfield Meeting
Proceedings of the American Forestry Congress outline policy changes for the General Government and state forest legislation, prairie state planting, and enforcement methods. It notes the shrinking forest area with less than 500 million acres of prime virgin forest in the United States and an annual timber use exceeding natural growth.
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Forestry Congress
Ong
Prairie States
United States
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Canton
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the Democracy
Ohio State News
Charles Snider
Ohio and Northwestern
Williamsburg
Board of Public Works
Lucinda Quail
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H. O. Patch
Piqua
St. Mary’s
Ludwig Schnidt
Hubbard Iron Works
John Blocke
Charles Greetham
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