Explosion at Navy Captain's Home Kills Mrs Dickins
A fire and explosion at the three story brick residence of Captain Dickins US Navy on Nineteenth street near the British Embassy caused the death of Mrs Dickins. Other occupants were seriously injured but not fatally. The incident followed a low rumble then violent shocks that blew out the third story front. The explosion is reported in Washington special coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Special
Dickins
United States Navy
Nineteenth Street
Dupon Circle
Fra Diavola Yacht Sinks After Collision Off New York
The steam yacht Fra Diavola owned by Edward S. Stokes with ten passengers and seven crew sank within six minutes off Rector street New York after being struck by the wrecking steamer Hustler commanded by Mr and Mrs Howard McNutt. All aboard were rescued. The vessel measured 107 feet overall and 66 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward 5. Stokes
Howard McNutt
Rector Street
New York
Merritt-Chapman
Thustler
Fra Diagola
Turn Down for Sampson Pay Denial by Acting Comptroller
The Acting Comptroller of the Treasury rules Rear Admiral Sampson is not entitled to pay from August 10 1808 to March 4 last due to the rules on vacancies and advancement under section 1506. In Cowles Kansas a 9 year old boy Willie Porter shot his baby sister and mother with a revolver found in a hired man's room killing both instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sampson
Comptroller of the Treasury
Cowles
Kan
Willie Porter
Madison
John A. Readie
Rushville
B. Kerns
Bedford
Jesse Johnson
Aoshen
Benjamin Bowers
Gilford
Muncie
George Wykle
Dawson
Hugh Dawson
Leamont’s
Bertha Henderson
Thomas Henderson
Vincennes
Jaci Fortner
Progress Tobacco Works
New Albany
Evansville
Strawtown
Addie Conway
George Tutlow
Valparaiso
Walter Bailey
George Brown
Monrovia
Brown
Bailey
Fred Jlitz
Indianapolis
Eugene Raridan
North Vernon
Stella Thomas
Richmond
Henry Leonard
Lawrenceburg
Henry Clay
Thomas Wright
Union Steel Mills
Alexandria
Malcom Nelson
Joseph Nelson
Covington
Rio Grande River
New Mexico
Albert Terhune
Johnson County
Second Artillery
Havana
Frank Connors
Michael McDonald
McDonald
Connors
Pittsburgh Junction wrecks party in Shenley Park
A shifting engine ran down a pleasure party of colored people in Shenley Park. James Grubb of Columbus Ohio aged 26 was killed. Lucy Brown aged 22 and Mattie Meyers aged 33 were fatally injured. Building wrecked in Indianapolis explosion injured six people, two perhaps fatally. Accumulation of gas blamed for the blast.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Junction Railroad
Shenley Park
James Grubb
Columbus
Ohio
Lucy Brown
Mattie Meyers
T. M. Wess
Whitehead
Indianapolis
Peace Conference Adjourns and Cuban Yellow Fever Wake
The Hague dispatch reports the arbitration section of the peace conference adjourned for a week for fresh government instructions on the arbitration scheme. Yellow fever triggers a stampede as several hundred Americans flee Santiago de Cuba for the United States. Indiana statesman George W. Julian died Friday at age 80 after fourteen years in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Hague
Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
United States
George W., Julian
George W. Julian
Indiana
Trade Failures Shrink in Sixth Week of 1890
R G Dun reports failures for the second quarter of 1890 total 2 080, down from 3 055 last year. First half failures 4 852 versus 6 706, with liabilities 48 711 000 against 71 240 783. June liabilities dominated by a single failure. iron and steel demand steady. tin and copper prices rise. Colorado strike seen fading. boot and shoe shipments peak. wool sales strong at 30 173 000 pounds. cotton mills prosper despite drought. Weekly U S failures 181 versus 204 last year. Canada 22 versus 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Jake
Colorado
United States
Canada
Match Trust Nearing Formation Bids Control of U S Production
The anticipated match trust deal would give the Diamond company control of about 95 percent of U S match output. It plans to buy in independent firms with a $4 million stock issue. Gould receives $1 million for the Continental, with similar funds kept as working capital. Diamond capitalizes at $11 million and expects $2.5 million annual earnings uplift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Combine
New Match Trust
Diamond Company
New York
Michigan
Indiana
Continental
Gould Company
Gould
Locust warning from Minnesota professor shocks farmers
Prof Otto Lugger of the Minnesota State Agricultural College warned Northwest farmers after displaying a dead migratory white mountain locust. He urged exchanges to publish the notice highlighting potential crop damage as locust presence is reported in the area.
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Lugger
Minnesota
Otto Lugger
Minnesota State Agricultural College
White Mountain
Northwest
Buildings Blown to Pieces in Bathgate Thunderstorm
A 4 o'clock storm in Bathgate North Dakota produced the heaviest damage in fifteen years. Buildings collapsed, chimneys toppled, churches wrecked, and trees down. A molten iron blast from a rail welding plant explosion accompanied by thunder and hail injured six people.
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Bathgate
N. D
Indianapolis Street Tar Company
Kansas Gold Strike Promises Riches In Midwest Mines
Nebraska card game ends in a triple shooting as Kansas bases its gold fever on new shafts. Gen Artz, ex adjutant general, leads mining push with eleven state officials investing in mines and mills across Trego Ellig counties. Land values soar while geologists doubt vast gold, miners claim assays prove fortunes.
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Prince
Nebraska
Kansas
Ohio
Gen
Artz
Trego
Ellig
Trego County
Card Game End In Murder At Elmwood Neb
A shooting affray at Elmwood Nebraska left one man dead and two wounded. William Harrie of Nehawka drew a revolver during a card game with companions near the G A St grounds and opened fire, striking George Jones of St Joseph Missouri in the abdomen, killing him. William Malone was shot in the hip and Joseph Hart of Oklahoma was wounded near the heart. All involved were arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmwood
Neb
G. A. St
George Jones
St. Joseph
William Malone
Joseph Hart
Oxahoma
Kills His Employer's Wife Then Slays Her and Escapes
A St Louis grocer's clerk Bu ene Donnelly shot and killed Grace Miller, wife of William Miller, then kissed her and warned the husband not to pursue him. The motive appears to be jealousy. Other items include a Memphis fire with one death and $450,000 loss, cattle deaths from flies in Oklahoma, and multiple accidents and murders across the country.
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St. Louie
Grace Miller
William Miller
St. Louis
Buene Donnelly
Donnelly
Memphis
Memphis Paper Company
Tenn
Cleary
James Ryan
Train robber confesses Kennedy innocence in Macomb hold up
William Jennings alias Bill Ryan, a Macomb, Missouri train robber convict, writes a confession claiming Kennedy did not participate in the Christmas Eve hold up. He asserts one accomplice is innocent and names John F. Kennedy as the wrongly accused man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Macomb
Wiliam Jennings
Bill Ryan
Macomb, Mo
Jennings
Ryan
Nigh
John F. Kennedy
Two Men Sought After Boy's Body in Wagon Abduction
A rural chase unfolds as a dead boy's body is found in a wagon fifteen miles south of Kokomo Indiana. Rose Orem spotted the corpse in a wagon and authorities seek two men believed linked to the vanished 16 year old Pearl Evans. The teen had been summoned for grand jury testimony when he disappeared suspectedly murdered by those he could implicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Ind
Rose Orem
Ben Orem
Pearl Evans
William Evans
Deserted on her wedding day a St Louis girl attempted suicide
Miss Carrie Crusy of St. Louis received a note from her fiancé Harry E. Baker saying the wedding would not take place and he had left the city. She tried to leap from a window but friends intervened and stopped her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Carrie Crusy
Harry E. Baker
Miss Crusy
Interesting Indiana News Notes From Winona Lake Outing Details
Wallace B Campbell outlines the Republican Editorial Association of Indiana program at Winona Lake near Warsaw for July 1818. Attractions include Katherine Oliver Scotch recital Ida E B Wills Barnett lecture on Social Prejudices Frank De Witt Talmage sermons and Dickens impersonations at the hotel venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace B. Campbell
the Herald
Anderson
Republican Editorial Association of
Indiana
Winona Lake
Warsaw
Katherine Oliver
Ida EB. Wills- Barnett
South
Frank de Witt Talmage
Bonnie Scotland
Charles Montville Flowers
Dickens
Association
Winona Hotel
Will J. Cunningham
Bates
Indianapolis
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Luna
Manila
Cabanatuan
Aguinaldo
National Editorial Association
Portland
Oregon
R. W W. Henry
Jackson
Miss
Matt, Parrott
Waterloo
Iowa
Match Trust
First National Bank
Wilmington
Whitten
Spain
Germany
Caroline
Pelew
Marianne
Silvela
Madrid
Count von Radowitz
John Hilo
Norwood
Sartville
Julia Cole
Julia
Ben Smith
Fontana
Smith
Ile
Ft. Lonia
Union Iron Works
Gus Zentzoch
Falla
Henry Bush
New York City
Cincinnati
Western Paper Stock Company
Chicago
Trego and
Ellis
South Canadian River
Cleveland
Pottawatomie
Oklahoma
Melia Salem
Toledo
Mehab Salem
Odessa
Russia
J.T. Carr
University of Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie
Philadelphia
Munat
Joliet
Elizabeth Ann Ingersoll
John C. Collins
Gerald Lapiner
Paria
Merrimac River
James, Stead
Thomas Gracie
Lawrence
Pittsburg
Denver and Rio Grande
Leadville
Cal
William Ludwick
Bertha Whitesides
Des. Moines
Ludwick
Bays Kennedy
Union City
Crrr
Fredonia
Alaska
Cape Nomie
Dreyfus Landa
France
Dreyfus
Quiberon
Bruz
Landau
Rennes
Spencer O. Fisher
Bay City
Mich
Homestead
Homestead Steel Works
Missouri River
William Woodrum
Commercial Club
Jefferson City
Omaha
Rollinger
Emil Rollinger
Cattie
Detroit
Milwaukee
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