Belfast riots wreck houses and kill nine in Belfast
An eye witness recounts Belfast rioting with over one hundred homes burned and wrecked. Buckshot killed nine and wounded many as police faced a mob described as the scum of the city amid arson and looting. The Catholic population endures terror amid widespread bigotry.
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Belfast
Hawaiian Islands
Ludwig of Bavaria
Luitpold
Cork
Dublin
Chamberlain
Birmingham
Parnell
William
Frederick Wilhelm IV
Berlin
Herr Roegel
France
Archbishops
Gibbons
Baltimore
Taschereau
Quebec
Ireland
Spain
Germany
America
President and Mrs Cleveland Return to Washington From Deer Park
Colonel Richard M Hoe of New York dies suddenly in Florence Italy. Frederick Ellison of Indiana declines US envoy post to Ascension Paraguay. President Cleveland declines to accept a wedding present from the Sultan of Turkey.
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Cleveland
Lamont
National Capital
Deer Park
Richard M. Hoe
New York
Florence
Italy
Frederick Ellison
Indiana
United States
Ascension
Paraguay
Turkey
Political notes from the era sweep party lines and offices
Reports of legislative battles over the oleo margarine bill, Maine and Oregon party wins, and conventions. Maine GOP nominates J R Bodwell for governor. labor, pensions, and tariff issues feature in resolutions. Powell and L of L figures face trials. Arkansas and Alabama party tickets announced. Ohio Dems set Toledo convention dates.
Pension reform bill advances in House committee
Washington telegraph reports the House Committee on Invalid Pensions favors reporting a substitute for Senator Blair’s pension bill. The Ellsberry of Ohio measure proposes a uniform twelve dollar monthly pension for absolutely disabled veterans, replacing rank distinctions. Bloodhounds may pursue Apaches. Dairy groups warn of oleomargarine foes in Washington. The Reformed Church synod in New Brunswick endorses temperance but rejects prohibition.
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House Committee On
Washington
Blair
Ellsberry
Ohio
United States
American Agricultural Association
Synod of the Reformed Church
New Brunswick
N. J
Financial News and Industrial Outlook Recap
A Chicago grain stock update reports wheat 243,709 bushels soy not present, corn 2,138,421, oats 388,547, rye 26,438, barley 30,822 with total 11,827,987. St Louis dispatch notes nine railways diverting import trade from New York to Galveston. Maine savers hold 36,293,504 in 54 banks. St Paul crop reports promise wheat yields half again as large as last year. frost losses minimal. Marengo Illinois butter factory owner W A Boss fails, affecting B S Parker bank. Western Union quarter profits near 1,000,000 with treasury 3,475,953. Remington & Sons shows assets 1,711,738. liabilities 1,755,703. Childs-Drexel fund planned for a Philadelphia craft hall with ten thousand ems per birthday. trustees named Donath, Pelton, Daily. Bradstreet notices 143 US failures last week vs 159 prior. total 4,938 yearly, with 17 in Canada. Industrial outlook notes improvements but strikes persist. ten-hour workers pressed by competition. Northwest crops between 46°-48° latitude refreshed by rains. Southern MN and SE Dakota unfavorable. Charles G Lundell Swedish iron dealer Boston assigns for about 150,000 liabilities, 20-30k unsecured.
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Chicago
St Louis
New York
Galveston
Maine
St. Paul
W. A. Boss
Marengo
Ill
Parker
Western Union Telegraph Company
Treasury
Remington & Sons
Utica
N. Y
International Typographical Union
Pittsburgh
Childs-Drexel Fund
J. B. Daily
Philadelphia
United States
Bradstreet
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Cincinnati
Minnesota
Dakota
Charles G. Lundell
Boston
Multiple Disasters Leave Casualties Across Cities
A survey of fatal incidents reports six killed when a Northeastern Railroad trestle crash near Charleston North Carolina collapsed. three men blown to atoms by a Troy New York boiler explosion. a St Louis reporter killed and others hurt by a racecourse stand collapse. Fires destroy blocks in Chicago and Louisville, claim losses up to 225000 dollars, while other accidents include train wrecks in Ottawa Osage City and Elkhorn Nebraska, a quarry blast in Youngstown, and factory and theater blazes in Montreal Tonawanda and Litchfield.
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Charleston
N. C
Troy
N. Y
St. Louis
South Canal Street
Chicago
Louisville
City Bank
Hopkinsville
Petawan
Ontario
Youngstown
Ohio
Rawley Springs
Baltimore House
Marshall
Union Pacific
Elkhorn
Nebraska
Tonawanda
New York
J. H. Sheehan & Co
Utica
Litchfield
Conn
Firstbrook Bros
Toronto
Lynching Follows Slayings and Arson Near Lexington
Alfred Long who killed A. J. McBride and his wife and burned their bodies was lynched near Lexington North Carolina. John Coakley deputy sheriff at St Louis received a letter offering him an unlimited amount of money to permit the escape of a prisoner.
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Alfred Long
A. J. McBride
Lexington
N. C
John Coakley
St Louis
Notable Crimes and Executions Reported Across the Nation
A series of criminal cases and capital punishments are described. Maxwell, linked to the Preller murder, seeks an interview on a street corner. Mrs. Sloan of Stanford drownings reveal jealous motives. John Ellis stole a $500000 box of deeds and $5000 gold from a Boston firm but returned most items. $4000 nearly recovered, papers badly damaged. Dennis Boyd executed in Louisiana for Haas murder. Ole Beckvelt hanged by a mob in Dakota. deputies capture a leading counterfeiter J A Brown and associate in Ohio with tools and coin.
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Maxwell
Preller
William Sloan
Stanford
Sloan
John Ellis
Boston
Dennis Boyd
Bellevue
Bossier Parish
David Haas
Ole Beckvelt
Grand Forks
Dakota
Columbus
Ohio
United States
J. A. Brown
Sweep of 19th Century News Covers Plunder, Politics and Fire
George Woopw Wake of St Louis sues Jay Gould for 500000 over San Francisco road contract. Pittsburg streetcar strikes shift to wagon lines. Buffalo reports free railroad elevators to reshape Great Lakes grain trade. Compte de Paris to reside in England. Persian shah grants railway concessions via F H Winston. ex-minister to visit St Petersburg. Edward Rick captured in Boston. Charles Baker pleads guilty to riot. St Joseph trades boycott nails to Calumet Steel. Muscatine lumber yard fire causes 250000 loss. Nelson Palmer poisons self after bond scheme losses. New York Parliamentary Fund sends 4000 to McCarthy and Biggar. Terre Haute man kills wife. West Point graduation voices justice for Porter. President Cleveland eyed lakes tour. Southern Pacific arbitration favors Atchison. sets rates and frees funds. Oregon election split with Republicans winning Congress seats and state offices. Democrats take governor and top offices. Sandy Hook deepening funds requested. monuments to Wayne and Penn planned. civil service rider stripped. House passes pension bills and adjourns.
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Pittsburg
Wylie Avenue
Oakland
Buffalo
Lakes
Compte de Paris
France
England
Shah Persia
F. H. Winston
Teheran
Afghanistan
St. Petersburg
Epward Rick
Boston
Charles Baker
Milwaukee
Knights of Labor
St. Joseph
Missouri
Calumet Steel Works
South Chicago
Muscatine
Iowa
Nelson Palmer
Baltimore
Central Station
New York Parliamentary Fund Association
Jusetin McCarthy
J. G. Biggar
Terre Haute
Ind
George Bishop
West Point
Endicott
Sheridan
Fitz John Porter
Gibbon
Washington
Cleveland
Bride
Chicago
Duluth
Board of Arbitration of the Southern Pacific Warfare
Atchison Company
Atchison Road
Atchison
Southern Pacific Company
Oregon
Herman
Congress
Riots in Belfast Burn Duffy Tavern and Rise in Home Rule Tension
A large mob of Orangemen attacked Duffy's tavern in Belfast, wounding Chief of Police Carr and burning the building. Rioters later ransacked a second tavern, fired it, and fought police throughout the night. Gladstone and Parnell were burned in effigy as the riot act was read again, with gunfire killing several and police mobilized to restore order. Two men were arrested for murder in Lurgan amid further clashes.
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Belfast
Ireland
Duffy
Carr
Duffy's
Hart
Mason
Thomas Gallagher
Lurgan
Gallagher
Mr. Mathers
Mathers
Arthur
Andrew Donnelly
Parliament to Be Dissolved Amid Party Strife
London dispatch reports Queen Victoria consenting to dissolving Parliament with Gladstone pressing home rule candidates. Hartington suggests dissolution. elections to occur possibly by 24th amid Liberal and Conservative agents in London. Rylands votes show Liberal rift as Reform and Devonshire clubs back dissidents. Schooled Liberal associations remain loyal to Gladstone.
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London
Gladstone
Lord Hartington
Rylands
Burnley
Yeas
Drowned Her Son in Jealous Wrath at Stanford Vermont
Mrs William Sloan admitted drowning her four year old son to spite her husband after months of jealousy and family trouble. The boy’s body was found in a ditch and Sloan was driven to temporary insanity by the shock.
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William Sloan
Sloan
Mr. Sloan
The Lamented Dr Dio Lewis Passes Away
February injury to Dr. Dio Lewis progressed to fatal phlegmonous erysipelas. Born Auburn New York March 3 1823 he studied at Harvard and practiced in Port Byron Buffalo and Boston where he promoted physical training and school reform. He founded a Lexington Massachusetts school for girls and authored numerous health books and journals including the Dio Lewis Monthly and The Dio Lewis Treasury.
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Dr. Lewis
Auburn
N. Y
Harvard College
Port Byron
Buffalo
Boston
Lexington
Mass
Woman's Temperance Crusade
Ohio
New York
Yonkers
Nuggets
Dio Lewis
Judge Payson’s Land Bill Moves Through House
Washington special notes Judge Payson’s land bill repealing pre emption desert land and timber culture laws and amending homestead commutation. It allows second homestead entries for those who missed pre emption, preserves bona fide claims, and extends time to pay and prove settlement. soldiers retain rights under amended homestead law.
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Washington Special
Payson
House of Representatives
Sones Payson
Turn in Arthur’s health alarms New York observers
The report notes a downturn in ex President Arthur’s condition after a month of improvement. Insomnia returns and muscular debility appear as doctors and family monitor his status with cautious optimism despite fears of relapse.
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New York
Arthur
Texas Way Reporter: Terrell Shuts Down Rivals in House Shootout
In Terrell Texas a man identified as Orange Terrell confronted Austin Thomas’s house where Sophia Wickson resided. Terrell shot Miles Henderson in the chest then wounded Wickson in the leg. He shot at the city marshal who returned fire killing Terrell with five bullets.
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Dallas
Texas
Terrell
Orange Terrell
Sophia Wickson
Miles Henderson
Austin Thomas
Virginia Street
Mr. Henderson
Henderson
Miss
Boy 6 fires revolver. infant dies from breast wound
In Akron Ohio Howard Rempis aged 6 seized a revolver from his father’s house and shot Artie Addick aged 4 after a dispute. The bullet lodged in Artie’s breast and he died a few hours later.
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fAkron
Ohio
Dispatch
Howard Rempis
Artie Addick
Rempis
Artie
Mystery Jelly From New York Unveiled
It is revealed that the famed New York state jellies are made from apple peelings and include liberal quantities of glass and coloring material, a surprising adulteration noted by observers.
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New York State
National Law Makers Debated Bills In Senate and House
The Senate approved consular and diplomatic funds while advancing measures on oleomargarine reform and Seal Rocks trust transfer to San Francisco. Executive actions confirmed A P Swineford as Alaska governor as House probes civil service and pensions.
Fishing oddities and a whale tale from far and near
A Dixon Newfoundland fisherman nets a twelve pound pickerel with a ten inch snake in its stomach. A Mississippi River catch yields a five pound pickerel with a five inch pickerel in its gut and a fry two inches long. A 140 pound tarpon near Punta Rassa Florida is hailed as a record. Over a hundred live trout fill a hollow California tree after water from a waterfall washes them in. A Clyde New York youth survives a muskrat encounter after the spawn of pickerel drives off intruders. A Missouri River trotline yields three channel cats totaling 170 pounds, with the largest at ninety pounds five feet four inches long. In Florida near New Smyrna a whale is hunted. the crew capsizes, but finally grounds the whale and kills it with an ax after securing the blowhole with a hat.
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Mr. Barr
Dixon
Rock River
Mississippi River
William H. Wood
Punta Rassa
Fla
California
Clyde
N. Y
Missouri River
F. B. Fisher
New Smyrna
Mr. Fisher
Ohio man tries to abduct in Toledo hotel incident
A Lebanon Kentucky man visiting Toledo burst into Room 43 at the Merchants Hotel and abducted a young woman from a Dime Museum engagement, shouting for marriage or he would kill her. The hotel proprietor intervened, the man was arrested, fined 50 dollars, and sent to the stoneyard for nonpayment. The tale links him to Cleveland and Cincinnati, with a past in gambling and society circles.
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Lebanon
Merchants' Hotel
Toledo
Dime Museum
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Ohio
Annie Zero
Congress Lake
Canton
Miss Zerp
Miss Zero
Ford Price
Akron
Cottage Grove
Valley Railway
P.S. Sanders
Price
Sanders
Cambridge
Miami River
Dayton
Alex
Hendrickson
Wolf Creek
Xenia
Salvation Army
McCoy's Station
Steubenville
Ludlow Soap Manufacturing Company
Springfield
Capital
Ludlow Falls Christian Church
Tiffin Mechanical Telephone Company
American Aid Association
Baltimore and Ohio
Bellaire
George Johnson
John Vandervort
Matthew Hammond
Mingo Junction
Mingo Iron Company
Columbus
Adams County
Centerbury
William Benn
Hamilton County
Reform Farm
Lancaster
Galton Knights Templar
Hamilton County Infirmary
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Defiance Co. Express
Defiance, Ohio
DR. T. Elmer
the News
Politicat
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Lewiston
J.R. Bodwell
Hallowell
Friends of Free Government
Iit
Master Workman Powderly
H. D. Davis
Union
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Garcelon
State Agricultural Association of Arkansas
Little Rock
John G. Fletcher
George Thornburg
W. P Grace
A. G. Jarman
E T. McConnell
Alabama
Democratic State Convention
Thomas Seay
Republican State Central Committee of
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Jay Gould
San Francisco Road
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Chamber of Commerce of New York
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O'Neill
Anthony Wayne
William Penn
Holman
Braves
Owen
Soseesve
Milwaukee, Wyeat
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Detroit
Indianapolis
East Liberty
Nena Settee Renee
Vermont
Stanford Vt
Yonkers, N.Y
The
Texas Way
National
Committee On Agriculture
Committee On Public Lands
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San Francisco
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Brooklyn
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Rocky Mountains
Wheeler
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Leere Stanton
McClellan
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Utah
Blount
Tadelinas
Minn
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Des Moines
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George Homas
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Albert Sydney Johnston
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Springer
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Washington Territory
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Mt. Vernon
Samuel Clayton
Ada
C. A. Gallagher
Cheboygan
Mich
Prior B. Mayo
North Springfield
Judiciary Committee
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Northern Pacific
George
Sherman
Northern Pacific Company
Cascade Range
Messrs. Morrison
Morrison
Ohio State News
Findlay
Diocese of Northern Ohio Episcopalians
Norwalk
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