Fire Rips Fayette City Stores and Homes in Pa
Six or more stores and several residences burn in Fayette City Pennsylvania causing about fifty thousand dollars in losses with thirteen and a half thousand dollars insured. A Brookfield New Hampshire man Horace Deland chained to a brush near his home then burned himself to death after wounding his throat. A note to his parents cited unrequited love as motive. In Boston a gilding case led to a conviction as a test for counterfeiting law. Buffalo iron figure James B Parke returns saying business woes drove him near insanity after a Europe trip.
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Fayette City
Horace Deland
Brookfield
N. H
United States
Boston
Stephen G. Russell
Congress
James B. Parke
Buffalo
Europe
West dispatch reports vigilante lynching rumor and scattered incidents
A Denver dispatch notes rumors of a lynching by vigilantes of seventeen cattle thieves captured near Rock Creek in the Gore mountains west of Georgetown, with no details and belief the report may be exaggerated. The column lists varied violent incidents, fires, trials, and crimes across multiple states, including a fatal bombing accident, a train attack in New Mexico, a school fire in Nebraska, and other court and police actions.
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Denver
Rock Creek
Gore Mountains
Georgetown
Peoria
Til
Edward Hammond
Clark
Hammond
George E. Hutchinson
West
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Dental Society
Escondida
N. M
Central City
Neb
Connelly
Salt Lake City
Palmer
Chicago
Charles Steele
Westminster
Ben Heffner
Cincinnati
United States Grand Jury
Cleveland Fiield
Paterrick McKrown
Anthony
Hamilton County
William Brooks
Ind
George Haigh
Brooks
David S. Chadwick
Watertown
Wis
Baltimore Mills Slash Wages and Local Misconduct Spark
Widespread wage cuts of 10 to 15 percent hit cotton operatives in Baltimore mills. In Mobile Alabama the Danner Land and Lumber Company declares an assignment with 70,000 dollars in liabilities. Faulkner in Virginia defaults on a building loan and faces an empty treasury. A Baltimore girl under three dies by self inflicted gunplay. A violent clash at New Iberia Louisiana follows Kellogg Gay faction tensions, with multiple deaths and arrests as Governor guards calm the scene. A Tennessee lynching in Pillowville follows a poisoning incident, with a mob breaking Taylor free and shooting him.
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Baltimore
Danner Land and Lumber Company
Mobile
Ala
Charles J. Faulkner
Gen
Hoggrall Pie
New Iberia
Fontelieu
Louisville
Kellogg
Joseph Guilfax
Capt. Bell
Joseph Gilfaux
Oliver Boutte
Jules Mestayer
T. Vintor
Fonteliew
Adolph Bienvenn
Taylor
Pillowville
Dresden
Andy Taylor
East Tennessee
Debt and interest figures from Treasury balance sheet
A historical ledger presents total debt and interest breakdowns including interest-bearing debt of 1.206 billion, matured and non-interest debt, and current liabilities. It lists cash balances, United States notes, bonds issued to Pacific Railway, and interest payments, highlighting totals for assets and principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Pension Fund
Voecseeee Sss
Easa Teagan
Easa TV Treasury
United States
Pacific Railway
Gausa
Arene
Lawes
United Ener Eee Eee
Trade failures set contrasts weekly totals and a hanging in Winnipeg
U S reports 205 failures to Bradstreet for the week versus 234 prior. Comparisons show 195, 154, 135 in earlier See weeks of 1883, 1852, 1881. About 51 percent involved traders with capital under 35000 dollars. Canada reports 31 failures, up 32. Attorn General Miller was hanged in effigy at Winnipeg.
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United States
Bradstreet
Canada
Attorn
Miller
Winnipeg
Hangman closes careers of three men in theft case
The hangman on Friday ended the careers of Albert and Charles Goodman of St Bernard parish Louisiana and Isaac Fain of Kingston Tennessee. New York City clearing-house returns fell 43.9 percent last week from the prior week and 37.7 percent from the same week last year. Outside New York the drop compared with last year was 19.5 percent. The National White Lead Works Pittsburgh sustained 45000 dollars in fire damage and Willow Spring Distillery Omaha 50000 dollars. The White House costs exceed 116000 dollars annually. The Montreal Herald is in creditor hands with 80000 dollars of unsatisfied debts.
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Eenion
Baltimore
Sale Ward Howe
Hangman
Albert
Charles Goodman
St. Bernard Parish
Louisiana
Isaac Fain
Kingston
Tenn
New York City
Corres
New York
National White Lead Works
Pittsburgh
Willow Spring
Omaha
White House
Montreal Herald
Mixed German election result and other world notes
The article reports Germany's parliamentary results with thirteen Conservatives seven Socialists six National Liberals five Imperialists and others, noting 29 of 74 districts require a second ballot. It also notes Dublin acquittals of Cornwall and Kirwan, the Pope's inquiry to Bishop O Farrel, Egypt's tax official updates on Chinese Gordon, a Franco Chinese mediation claim, British liberal leadership concerns, and a Glasgow theater fire panic with sixteen dead and twelve injured.
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Germany
People's Party
Guelph
Cornwall
Kirwan
Dublin Castle
Dublin
Trenton
N. J
O'Farrell
Holy Father
Ireland
England
Tax Khedive
Egypt
Gordon
Dongola
Star Theater
Glasgow
Wabash President Returns from England Bondholders Meet
James F. Joy, president of the Wabash Railroad, has returned from England where he conferred with bondholders. He says reception was cordial and his mission will benefit the Wabash system.
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James F. Joy
England
India
Hyderbad
Mary C. Clifford
Hillen Street
Baltimore
George Dingman
Meak
Mount Bridges
Canada
London
Dingman
Greencastle
Indiana
Thomas Richards
Young Richards
Death and chaos in Bayou Teche clash at party meeting
A violent confrontation near Fanese Point leaves sixteen Black men dead and two whites, Joe Gilfaux and Bell, killed. Gunfire triggers a chaotic stampede into canebrakes and Bayou Teche, with hundreds wounded or drowned. Coroner to hold inquest. ambers report clashes as Democrats and Republicans blamed each other.
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Court House
Joe Gilfaux
Gilfaux
Polley
Bayou Teche
New Theria
Loreanville
Manville
Joe Gilfoux
Gilfoux
Bell
Tragic Glasgow theater stampede leaves sixteen dead
Wahla dispatch from Glascowa reports a panic at a Glasgow theater after a cry of Fire sparked a deadly rush to exits. Sixteen died on the gallery stairs and twelve were severely injured as crowds crushed and suffocated. The alarm was traced to a man who shouted Fire. Fire crews and ambulances rushed to the scene, but many victims were beyond help. Among the dead were eight women.
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Wahla
Glascowa
Glasgow
Duffy Slays Gardner in New Orleans Street Duel
Edward Gardner master mechanic for the New Orleans City and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad is killed by John Duffy in a street confrontation at Canal and Broad. Duffy, formerly employed by the railroad, challenged Gardner to a fight and stabbed him twenty one times with a butcher knife. A Sister of Charity saved Gardner from further harm as onlookers stood mute.
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New Orleans
Edward Gardner
New Orleans City
Canal
Gardner
Duffy
Charity
Public cattle sale tops fat stock show totals
At the public sale of short horn cattle by the Interstate Association during the fat stock show 35 animals sold for 11459 averaging 26 dollars The top price was 1099 for Rose Tth Other items note St Johnsbury Vt teachers told skating rink attendance may count as resignation Miss Chara Banton Red Cross president secured a permit for Wasling on building Deacon Riccard Surre editor Cincinnati papers broke his arm in a fall during steps of St Nicholas Hotel A San Jose execution used hair from the victim to hold the trap in place
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Kansas City
Interstate Association
St. Johnsbury
Chara Banton
The
American Red Cross Association
Wasling On
Deacon Riccard Surre
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
St. Nicholas Hotel
Cincinnati
Jon Wasclewsky
San Jose
Cal
Jeremian Waronr
Marion County
Allen
W. C. Draoes
Bowling Green
Meredith
Aljen
Ws. A. Granam & Co
Zanesville
Ohio
Mathias Freeman
Evrybody
Kelef
Mm. VV
Duntiam Wi da Page Co
Illinois
France
America
Pook
Catalonia
Tels Linotratest
M. Sts
European Grain Market Outlook Aims For Next Year
The article warns that European grain shortages and low prices press farmers hard. It notes average wheat at $1.03 per bushel, higher costs, and rent declines not offsetting drops in market prices. A British estimate of 74,000,000 bushels of wheat produced alongside vast stocks and rising stock consumption suggests demand will lift prices and acreage next year. It concludes that higher foreign demand and tighter supply may spur more active crop movement and a better overall outlook.
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Great Britain
Indians Abet Government Reform and Land Grants
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs reports progress toward civilization among the Indians, urges larger appropriations and new laws against arms and liquor, and details plans for removing tribes in Montana to open 3,000,000 acres of reservation land. He favors a U S court in Indian Territory, raises police pay, and stresses school funding while warning against treaty violations and illegal intrusions.
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Sato Ib Ndieele Gay
Congress
Montana
United States
Indian Territory
Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe
Kansas Southern
Payne
Sail schooner Lucy wrecked off Sabine Pass in gale
Special from Galveston reports the schooner Lucy carrying 400 tons of coal was wrecked on shoals eight miles west of Sabine Pass during a Gulf gale. Three crewmen are believed lost as the Raleigh broke free in the storm and could not save the Lucy. Tug assistance arrived from Sabine Pass, but the vessel likely broke up.
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Galveston
Texas
Gulf Coast
Lucy
Sabineop
Raleigh
Sabine Pass
New Covington Barracks Site Chosen By Army Officers
Cincinnati dispatch reports General Perry Quartermaster General of the Department of the East visited Newport to select a new barracks site after floods in the Ohio River two winters. The chosen site is high ground in the Taylor homestead plot deeded to Col. Taylor, to revert to his heirs when the post is abandoned.
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Covington
Cincinnati
Perry
Department of the East
Newport
Poner
Ohio
Taylor
Col. Taylor
Town and travel notes from a mixed clipping
Clippings report Gov Buker did not travel on Sunday. A dentist to the court of Italy is termed American. Sacramento ships sweet potatoes to Montana. Promption City is a named town in Illinois. Garry leases a house on I street in Washington for the winter. Mar Geesten, ill with rheumatism, cancels engagements. Over 100 couples from Ohio and Indiana buried at Covington Kentucky in eighteen months. Presiprst DaRLine of Hamilton College elected to the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain. In Cleveland John T. Raymond advertised a grand parade and employed 100 boys with torches, urging votes for Raymond. The crowds filled streets and the theater.
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Gov. Buker
Italy
Sacramento
Montana
Garry
I Street
Washington
Mar. Geesten
Ohio
Indiana
Covington
Presiprst Darline
Hamilton Col
Vicoria Institute and Philosophical Society of
Great Britain
Cleveland
John T. Raymond
Curious and Scientific Half-Page Notes on Cold, Air, and Disinfectants
The piece discusses funding for five new chemical stations to advise farmers on crops and diseases. It lists temperatures at which various gases liquefy, cites the record cold of 328 degrees below zero by Russian physicists, and notes experiments on drowning in cold water. It mentions soil air impurity, and a Berlin Society disinfectant using rosemary, lavender, thyme with nitric acid to purify sick rooms.
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Dover
Physiological Society of Age
Falk
G. H. Roche
Berlin Medical Society
The Surround ings of the Sun by Lan ley excerpt
A Century excerpt describes viewing the lunar shadow crossing Earth during a solar eclipse. It recalls Forbes observer on Superga Turin witnessing a black shadow over the Alps, the stupefaction of the phenomenon, and witnesses comparing the swift shadow to a rushing wind, with observers feeling motion misperceptions.
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Lanley
Turin
Forbes
Alps
Dinner Party Memory Ends On Jersey City Ferry
A man recalls a New York dinner party night that ended with him waking on a Jersey City ferry. With only 10 cents, he buys whiskey in a saloon and is quizzed about engagement. The barkeeper suggests he could fetch more whiskey for 10 cents, prompting the man to leave in scorn.
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New York
Jersey City
Boston Globe
Proudest soldiers in Europe in Germany and Mexico hotel needs
The Dresden mayor says every German man must serve one to three years, framing the army as a school that makes men. He argues private soldiers’ work is inappropriate and praises a disciplined force. Sheridan urges ending soldiers acting as servants to improve the army. Ex‑governor Rice cites Mexico’s need for modern hotels and fiber processing for carpets, matting, and paper to boost industry.
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Europe
Germany
Dresden
America
Sheridan
Chicago Tribune
Mexico
Rice
United States
Great North and South Wire Cable Linking German Cities
A historic telegraph network expansion spreads from Konigsberg to Strasbourg and Hamburg to Ratisbon, with connections to Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich. The massed cables, planned by Dr. Stephan, cost about $30 million and knit Kiel Cuxhaven Bremen Emden into the North Sea link to England and America. A separate health anecdote notes sewer gas fears from fermenting waste, illustrated by a melon rind barrel.
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Berlin
Halle
Konigsberg
Strasbourg
Hamburg
Ratisbon
Metz
Cologne
Tatisbon
Konigsburg
Dresden
Stuttgart
Munich
South Germany
Kiel
Cuxhaven
Bremen
Emden
North Sea
England
America
Stephan
A Mexican Market Scene in a Busy Dawn to Dusk
Dawn to dusk in a Mexican market the cake vender shouts Fat little cakes. The fruit peddler candy boy and 100 others sing out their wares. Mats from Pueblo mats of twenty yards are offered. The butcher cries Salt beef while a poultry seller sings for ducks and chickens.
How Women Differ from Men
Three men on a jury may dissent to show independent minds yet women unanimously praise Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the best remedy for diseases and complaints of their sex. It promises to transform the pale dispirited woman into sparkling health and restore the laughter in the home.
Poker and pills in a scattered old clipping
A patchwork of humorous and medical snippets from a 19th century page. Col Yerger of Austin is mocked for poker bravado, a San Antonio colonel is mentioned, and odd quotes mix with ads for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, Mason & Hamlin organs, and various patent remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Yerger
Austin
San Antonio
Stone
Teras
World’s Dispensary Association Notice in New Jersey
Fragmentary notice from the World’s Dispensary Association in Buran? No, Buf alo New Jersey mentions a ten day one pile ee rupture in one month and two 2c stamps.
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World's Dispensary Association
Bufa'o
N. J
A Serious Mistake in Subscribing to The Curcaco Leverr
An advertisement flawed text offers subscription to The Curcaco Leverr for one year at one dollar with sample copies. It promotes other products and hotels in grandiose marketing style, citing cures for ailments and various goods, including Brown's Bronchial Trachee, Bololine, and Frazer Axle Grease, with testimonials and notices of hotels and services in major cities.
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Curcaco
Tue Streen
Chicago
Ill
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