Intelligence and international notes from The News
Abroad and domestic items include Sir William White arriving in Constantinople and Britain dropping a probe against Bradlaugh. Cortes to meet Nov 18. a Triberg sawmill fire kills seven. Swiss railroads may be nationalized. Ratibor emigrant exam saves 452 paupers. Bernhardt case duels. French wheat duty raised. Galeote in prison goes mad. Berlin printers threaten general strike. Czar Reutern death linked to alleged scandal. Havana road sale set at $100,000. Des Moines hosts Norway Commissioners Dec 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William White
Turkey
Constantinople
Bradlaugh
Triberg
Germany
Switzerland
Vienna
Ratibor
United States
Sarah Bernhardt
Maurice
M. Langlois
Customs Committee
French Chamber of Deputies
Galeote
Madrid
Havana
Notable Deaths and Obituary Notes Across Years
A sweep of obituaries and notices recalls prominent figures from the era. Mrs. Cornelia Stewart widow of Alexander T. Stewart dies suddenly in her marble palace. Others include New Hampshire Attorney General Mason W. Tappan, Judge William H. Horner of St Louis, and James G Blaine visiting Washington College at Washington Pa. Gen J J Reynolds a West Point graduate is initiated at Lafayette Inn. Rumors surface about Mrs A T Stewart's will and Judge Hilton possibly receiving the Stewart residence for a dry goods store. Walter B Scates former Illinois Chief Justice dies at Evanston. Frederick Joslin of St Johnsbury gains pension arrears and monthly pay. Major William L Hunter of the 1836 Texas Patriot army noted as a Northwest figure. The Earl of Stratford George Stevens Burg dies born 186 and Earl since 1860. Mrs G A Marr of Rock Island Illinois, a Rio Wisconsin rail disaster victim, had been a schoolmate of Frances Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelia Stewart
Alexander T. Stewart
New York
Marble Palace
Mr. Stewart
Mason W. Tappan
New Hampshire
William H. Horner
Circuit Court of
Washington, Pa
Moffat
John H. Ewing
Blane
Blaine
J. J. Reynolds
West Point
G. A. KB
Lafayette, Inn
Murat Halsted
George W. Childs
Europe
James G. Blaine, Jr
A. T. Stewart
Hilton
Walter B. Scates
Ilinois
Illinois Supreme Court
Evanston
Frederick Joslin
St. Johnsbury
William L. Hunter
Patriot Army of
Texas
Hunter
Elgin
Northwest
Earl of Stratford
George Stevens Burg
G. A. Marr
Rock Island
Rio
Wis
Frances Cleveland
Innovations and Investments Highlight Late News
A Pennsylvanian proposes a fluid model for natural gas and a patent caveat to surface and store it. George Westinghouse Jr. wins a patent for a cheaper electricity distribution system promising 45 percent main-wire savings. The Rowena loads 30 tons of fresh beef in Galveston for London, with future ships planned if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Westinghouse, Jr
Westinghouse
Rowena
Galveston
Texas
London
Amsterdam
N. Y
Knights of Labor
Shiply, Dorsey & Co
Cincinnati
Corn Exchange Bank of New York
Parkhouse
J. C. Ferguson & Co
Indianapolis
Neeld
Canada
Plymouth
Mass
William M. Dustin & Co
Lincoln, IL
United States
Manning
Fairchild
Treasury Department
Multiple fires and derailments claim wide losses and injuries
A census of disasters reports fires in a Pennsylvania avenue grocery and Versailles Missouri destroying business districts with losses around 50 000 and 5 000 respectively. A Kentucky girl Mrs Sally McGrath dies after clothing burns. Other incidents include a Kansas City beheading by streetcars and fires at the Case School of Applied Science with 20 000 losses and fire damage in Murfreesboro Tennessee. A Wabash freight collision near Edwardsville Illinois kills express messenger William Daley. A Wisconsin Milwaukee St Paul derailment sparks flames with many deaths. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway disaster yields unknown fatalities and nun casualties. A freezing frost hits Louisiana and Mississippi on October 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Versailles
Morgan County
Missouri
Sally McGrath
Price McGrath
Lexington
R. T. Pierce
Butler
Kansas City
School of Applied Science
Cleveland
Leonard Case
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Pocahontas
Wabash
Edwardsville
Ill
William Daley
William Poe
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Wisconsin
Alphonse
Dionesia
Winona
Louisiana
Mississippi
Railroad notes and high court ruling sweep Chicago area
The Chicago and Alton Railways deny any lease talks or stock deals to counter Atchison rumors. The U.S. Supreme Court overturns an Illinois ruling, holding Illinois transportation charges cannot regulate interstate traffic. The Vanderbilts and Pennsylvania lines allegedly extend contracts with major Chicago shippers of butter cheese and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago and Alton Road
Atchison
United States Supreme Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railway
Congress
Vanderblt
Pennsylvania
Chicago
National W C T U Proclaims Prohibition Support at Minneapolis
The National Convention of the W C T U in Minneapolis passed resolutions backing the Prohibition party and denouncing liquor toleration and fermented wine in communion, calling for stronger temperance sermons. A minority report opposing pledging the organization to any party was rejected 151 to 33. Harris Cohen nominated for Alderman in New York. fourteen dealers with his name advertised as the genuine Republican nominee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Prohibition Party
Harris Cohen
New York
Mass emigration to Liberia leads Charlotte effort
Approximately one hundred African Americans leave Charlotte North Carolina bound for Liberia led by Rev. R A Massey. The dispatch notes growing Mexican political sensation favoring Diaz as dictator. President Cleveland suspends foreign discriminating duties for goods and vessels from Cuba Porto Rico and other nations sailing to US. Over a million witness the BartholI statue unveiling in New York Harbor amid a grand parade and reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Liberia
R. A. Massey
Diaz
Cleveland
United States
Spain
Cuba
Porto Rico
Bartholdi
Bedloe’s Island
New York Harbor
Chauncey M. Depew
Montreal
Rothschild
Toronto
Canada
Lieut. Gordon
Dominion
Alert
Hudson's Bay
Murders and Robberies Feed New Crime Wave
Reported killings include John Delanty shot on a Flemington Junction railroad track after marrying Miss Montague. Saloon keeper Edward Blake killed engineer William Vanderoath in East St. Louis. Aged to the hotel, Charles Mull arrest tied to a San Francisco road crime. Fotheringham deny, Jim Cummings linked to Jesse James gang and Blue Cat robbery. Adams Express case unresolved as crews vanish and $81,000 claimed in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mull
Mr. Fotheringham
Express
San Francisco
Jim Cummings
Jesse James
John Delanty
Montague
East St. Louis
Edward Blake
William C. Vanderoath
Indianapolis and St Louis Road
Missouri
Fotheringham
Land and Water Procession Seen by Million Spectators
Count De Lesseps presents a figure accepted by the President as a landmark land and water procession draws a crowd of about a million observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count de Lesseps
Goodyear Building Fire Kills Four Firemen in Chicago
A large Goodyear Manufacturing Company building on Madison Street Chicago suffered a severe blaze Sunday afternoon. Four firefighters died and two were badly injured by falling debris. Dozens evacuated as police cleared the street and authorities search for others believed to be inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprcrat
Chicago
Goodyear Manufacturing Company
Madison Street
Clark
Dearborn
Goodyear Rubber Company
United States
Canada
Kingston
Penn
Adams Express
San Francisco
Garland
Treasury
Richmond
Knights of Labor
Lamb
Norfolk
George D. Wise
Earl of Iddlesleigh
Edinburgh University
Lyon Playfair
TRE
Thames
Teemer and
Hamm
Vicksburg
C. P. Huntington
Leland Stanford
Yazoo Delta
Perth
Tur
A. Gryer & Co
Montreal
Savannah
Macon
Evansville
Wis
Hamilton
Baraboo
Prince Louis Napoleon
New York
Washington
Count de Lesseps
Josrer W. Brearp
Bloomington
E. W. Greenman
Congress
Statue Unveiling Fetes Franco American Liberty Alliance
Amid grand ceremonies led by President Cleveland and French dignitaries, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor. The event featured land and naval parades with thousands of participants, a 10 division march, and a Gatling salute. Officials praised Franco American friendship and liberty's global beacon, ending with prayers and a national gun salute.
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de Vigne
Jaures
Bartholdi
Deschamps
United States
Cleved
Sherman
Sheridan
Schofield
Madison Square
Cleveland
United States Naval Brigade
United States Army
National Guards
State of Newersey
Massachusetts
New York National Guards
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
The
Aztec Club
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
National Guard
Broadway
Tennessee
Sae
Fifth United States Artillery
John Hamilton
Engineer Corps
Seeret Whitney
Fifty-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Secretary Whitney
United States Naval
Engineers’ Corps
N. Y
Ith
Main
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Jersey
New York
Maryland
United State
Windsor Hotel
Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Knights of Pythias of
Indiana
Oddfellows
Bayarde
M. Bartholdi
Count de Lesseps
Admiral Jaures
Pelisiera
Col. de Puy
M. Bigot
Col
Rufus Ingalls
Gov. Hill
R. S. Storrs
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Liberty
French Republic
France
American
America
Troy
M. Lefaivre
Gilmore
Twenty-second Regiment
Chauncey M. Depew
Eac
Lafayette
Yorktown
Cornwallis
Washington
Henry Potter
Diocese of New York
Crime News Roundup From Across the Nation
A sequence of crime items from the era reports a child crushed by a bear in Cleveland leading to an arrest for manslaughter, a Kentucky fatal wrestling fight, a $50,000 express robbery on a St Louis train, Geronimo and others imprisoned at Fort Pickens, and policy notes on liquor permits in Alaska. The piece also covers Hadcock assassination inquiries in Sioux City, a decomposed body findings in Crescent, a Pinkerton train shooting, and a Louisville card game lure leading to a murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Dornbreck
Sterns Street
P. W. Curran
William Broughton
John Wistenhunt
Wistenhunt
Williamsburg
Adams Express
St Louis
San Francisco
Mincke
Re Ular
Geronimo
Fort Pickens
Florida
War Department
Alaska
Hadcock
Crescent
Iowa
Potters
Council Bluffs
Peters
Begley
Chicago
Pinkerton
Thomas L. Miller
Stephensport
Louisville
A Poets Tribute to France and American Freedom
Poem by John G Whittier praising France as a sister nation that gifted liberty to America. It celebrates France’s symbol of freedom the fleur de lis and Rochambeau, urging France to continue to light the path to justice and human rights. The poem links freedom with universal reason and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Whittier
France
America
Rochambeau
Atlanta divorce bidder under arrest for bigamy
Mrs Jenny Linp OrTon of Atlanta rushed to remarry and wait for the jury. She has been divorced from one husband, married to another, and now faces bigamy charges. Henry N Howe, Julia Ward Howe’s son, becomes a Boston magazine writer. A Paul Revere bell is hung in a Plymouth church belfry. Mont Tin nonns works in a St Louis feed store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Linp OrTon
Atlanta
Henry N. Howe
Julia Ward Howe
Paul Revere
Plymouth
Mass
Deadly Rio Wisconsin railroad wreck shocks era
A Chicago to St Paul express and a freight train collided near Rio Wisconsin, killing about twenty six people and injuring many. Eleven bodies were recovered as flames spread through the wreckage. Rescue and identification efforts continue as officials report gruesome scenes and a heroic engineer who saved the sleepers.
Ancient graves and artifacts found near Waynesville Ohio
A gravel bed near the Miami River yields twenty human skeletons including a four month old child, with pottery shells bone beads and animal skull remains found with the remains. Other items suggest limb adornment and a wolf skull among the finds.
Log cabin blaze kills eight near Flat Rock Kentucky
A Times special reports a deadly log cabin fire near Flat Rock Knox County Kentucky. Mrs Pope age 32 and five children aged up to 9 perish with Mary Carnes 16 Lizzie Adams 12 and others. The family slept in a single room as fire consumed the structure and the body of the mother with her children was found amid burnt bed clothing. The grieving father William Pope, a river logman, is devastated as authorities bury the remains in one grave. Exposition sales and other local incidents are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Dispatch
Flat Rock
Knox County
Kentucky
Herses
Childen
Williamsburg
William Pope
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Defiance, Ohio
the News
Financial and Industrial
Railroad Intelligence
OUR Lady OF Freedom
Bedles’s Island
Liberty Island
de Lesseps
Grevvy
Nelves
Breves
Milwaukie
Warrat
Toledo
WORAT
Bet
Brrr
Louis
Perrk
Wueeatt
Settee
Couxn
Buffalo
Indianapolis Beer Catirzz
Fedak
Ontas Ui Eekeakensaseaes
Egypt
Monnt Tin [Nons
St. Louis
Bishop Whipple
Milwaukee Telegram
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Limited
Cozckh
C. R. Scherer
Minn
Rosina Johns
Dibbie
L. Lowry
Milwaukee
Wallace Stuart
Columbus
Idaho
Sisters of Charity
Mother Alexia
Lucius Searle
Wade Clark
Oconomowoc
Charles F. Smith
Wabash Avenue
James Phillips
Thomas Little
Portage
Searle
St. Paul
Pass
Baggarse
Armstrong
Allen
Hankey
Charities R Smith
Charles City
Scherer
Nashota
John Beach
Plainfield
Minnesota
Dakota
Ohio State News
Miami River
Waynesville
Telegraph Mills
Penitentiary
Columbus Wheel and Ending Company
Eberly, Killaire & Co
Warren
Kansas
Heeter
Coshocton
Park Hotel
Great Lima
Bradford
Lima
Salvation Army
Newark
Fairport
Bellevue
Celina
Cardington
Tiffin
Christian Fetzer
John Kettenmeyer
Miami Powder Company
Xenia
Washington D. H
Norwalk
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