Blame and diplomacy mix in British critique of Blaine speech
Defiance Co. Express reports Lord Salisbury’s sharp rebuke of Mr. Blaine in the House of Lords over his Portland address. The note defends Blaine’s right to speak while urging accurate quotation, and cites Irish emigration as a sensitive point. Also noted are brief items on Mount Etna’s activity, Washington visitors, and rumored White House travel plans.
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Pendleton
United States
Berlin
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
Mr. Blaine
Portland
Salisbury
Blaine
Mountana
Nicolosi
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Medelssohn
Cleveland
Financial and Industrial: Debt Decline and Labor Strikes
May debt decreased by 8.8 million, total interest-bearing debt at 1.22 billion. Public financing items include cash in treasury and certificates. St Louis building trades eight-hour strike ended with failure amid Knights of Labor assembly in Cleveland urging unity with labor groups. A report notes farm yields, failures rise to 187 nationwide, and stove makers form a defensive association amid wage disputes.
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U.S
St Louis
General Assembly
The
Knights of Labor
Cleveland
Ohio
Frou Shfair ‘Theu—Nen
Umbr
Knigits
Lavor
Congress News from the Pacific Railroads Committee
House committee will report in favor of authorizing Union Pacific to build branch lines. Morison predicts oleomargarine bill fate in Senate and veto by President. Illinois Democratic State Convention set for August in Springfield. Reed renominated in Maine district. New Jersey House rejects local option bill. Kenna considers resigning as Democratic Congressional Committee chairman. Manning's resignation from Treasury delayed by illness and Presidential leave of absence through October.
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Union Pacific Company
Washington
Morison
Senate
Illinois
Springfield
T. B. Reed
Congress
Maine
New Jersey House
Kenna
Democratic Congressional Committee
Manning
Treasury Department
Cleveland
Various US interests address tensions over cross border catch
Citizens of Eastport seek government intervention as Dominion Collectors of Customs threaten to seize American boats buying herring from Canadian canning weirs. Senator Hale and Representative Boutelle urged Secretary Bayard to act. Nearby, a mastodon tusk fragment and tooth were found in Indiana. White Mountain Apaches reportedly left the reservation on a war path in Arizona. A Ohio railroad company was foreclosed sold for 40,000 to Lewis H. Gault. The United Presbyterian General Assembly banned members from associations risking violence or property rights. A Clyde ship syndicate builds a new warship with Navy interest causing reconsideration of prior designs. The Navy orders North Atlantic squadron to sea, with port calls to Portland and possible deescalation efforts via Halifax communications on American fishing rights. Acting Secretary Fairchild instructs Key West officials on Spanish vessels Paco and Isabella. Fishing in US waters does not trigger forfeiture of foreign vessels.
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Eastport
Washington
Dominion Collectors of Customs
United States
Hale
Boutelle
Bayard
Elkhart
Ind
Tombstone
Arizona
White Mountain
Graham
Cochise
Painesville
Youngstown
Ohio
Lewis H. Gault
New York
General Assembly of the
United Presbyterian Church
Hamilton
Clyde
Whitney
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
North Atlantic
Portland
Phelan
Halifax
Fairchild
Key West
Fla
Paco
Isabella
Notable Crimes Sweep Across Nations In Harsh True Crime Roundup
A string of criminal cases is reported, including N George the Knight of Labor organizer arrested near Bradford Pennsylvania for stealing thousands of barrels of oil. Judge T W Hooper of Monroe County Arkansas sentenced to state penitentiary for forgery. Johann Most sentenced in New York to a year in prison and fined 500 dollars, praised by Recorder Smyth as a top criminal of the era. Dr J Milton Bowers sentenced in San Francisco to be hanged for murdering his wife to collect insurance. C A Buddensick builder of mud houses in New York jailed ten years for manslaughter. Harry Dunham, 18, fatally shoots Mrs. Austin White near Oswego New York then kills himself. A thief seizes 10,000 dollars from an express money package mailed to Van Wert Ohio bank, replacing contents with waste paper. James Baxter executed at Lebanon Tennessee for murdering Mrs Lane. Wesley Honesty and Tabley Banks hanged at Winchester Virginia for killing Joseph McFaul. Frank Zahle fatally shoots his brother Charles after quarrel in Reading Pennsylvania and wounds himself. In Boonville Indiana a political quarrel ends with John Gentry killing Dr Agee. The brother of Nebraska’s Lieutenant Governor involved in the Agee case is noted.
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Johann Most
New York
Smyth
J. Milton Bowers
San Francisco
C. A. Buddensick
Sing Sing
Harry Dunham
Austin White
Oswego
N. Y
Cincinnati
van Wert
Ohio
James Baxter
Lebanon,Tenn
Lane
Wesley Honesty
Tabley Banks
Winchester
Joseph McFaul
Reading
Frank Zahle
Charles
Boonville
Ind
John Gentry
Agee
Nebraska
Fires destroy hundreds of Bute homes and related chaos
Reports detail a deadly blaze at Bute Hungary that wiped out three hundred houses, alongside varied news from New York where John Kelly and other notable figures were honored, crimes, political moves, and local incidents across the United States including Europe.
White House Romance Ends in June Wedding
Grover Cleveland and Miss Frank Folsom wed at the White House on June 2, with Rev Dr Sunderland officiating. The ceremony drew a gleaming White House scene and a weeklong honeymoon planned for Deer Park Maryland.
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Frank Folsom
Grover Cleveland
United States
White House
Washington
Sunderland
William Cleveland
District of Columbia
Buffalo
Grover, Cleveland
Supreme Court
R. R. Metos
Brran Sunderland
First Presbyterian Church
Columb “Bynnox Sunderland
Folsom Family Ancestry From England To America
The Folsom family history traces origins in England with early settler John Felton from the 1600s. Lineage notes migrations to Hinglam and Hingham colonies, name spellings, and a lineage including Gen. Nathaniel Foltonea Brigadier in the Colonial army who served in Philadelphia and Rosumass siege. He held a congressional seat in 1779 and died in 1780 at age 60.
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Oscar Foui
England
St Heath
John Felton
Foul Shark
Foulsham
Norfolk County
Ealnad
Eer Hingiem
Joan Cane
Hingham
Hinglam
Mass
Congress
National Law-Makers Report on Bills and Nominations
Senate and House consider oleomargarine tax and butter definitions, land and labor proposals, and several nominations. Bills include taxation for oleomargarine, alien land limits, eight hour rule for letter carriers, and protests over Creeks and Seminoles in Oklahoma. The House passes the oleomargarine bill with five cent tax. Senate approves Chinese indemnity and Indian Territory reports. A domestic anecdote recalls a wife’s memory and a hotel room revelation.
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Tennessee
Senate
Eliza H. Brownlow
Knoxvil
Fon" Brownlow
Mn Beck
Rouse
David I. Hawkins
Missouri
George A Jenks
Joseph E. Johnston
Virginia
Alaska
Chester Steber
Job B. Tiley
Plattsburg
N.Y
Indian School
John J. Shery
Weaver
Iowa
Boon
Coutom
Tlinois
Alabama
Dawes
Gloucester
Mass
Edmunds
United
van Wyck
House of Representatives
Kentucky
Westen
Pacific Coast
Kansa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
van Schaick
Michigan
M ‘Tarsney
Ward
Elen
Indiana
Cobb, Browne
Fora
Committee On Indian Affairs
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
United States
Rock Springs
Wyoming
Cullom
Hennepin’ Canal
Wheeler
Stanton
Boiler explosion deaths and widespread May fire losses
Casualties rise from a Palestine Texas boiler blast that claimed two lives and left nine badly hurt. Fires across Durango Colorado, Stafford's Spring Ontario and other sites caused extensive damage totaling millions, including a sawmill loss in Kentucky and a Grand Island flouring mill blaze. An Ohio locomotive explosion killed engineers Vandervoort Johnston and Hammond in Bellaire, nearby Windfall Indiana suffered near destruction with forty thousand dollars in losses.
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Adams, Posey & Bagley
Durango
Colorado
Warren Woolen Company
Stafford
Comn
Eric
William Harper
United States
Canada
Catletteburz
Smith, Mitchell & Co
J. G Schaupp
Grand Island
Neb
Johnston
John Vandervoort
Hammond
Newark
Ohio
Bellaire
Baltimore and Ohio
Windfall
Ind
Remarkable echoes of castles and seas in old lore
The piece notes echoes from Simonetta near Milan where two parallel walls reflect a pistol report sixty times. It cites the Norse maelstrom southwest of Moskenes, once thought unfathomable, now depth under twenty fathoms. Also mentions Eagle's Nest at Killarney repeating a bugle and the Naha banks between Bingen and Coblenz echoing seventeen times.
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Norway
Moskenisol
Lofoden Isles
Killarney
Ireland
Naha
Bingen
Coblentz
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