Explosion at Sparrows Point Kills Four Miners
A gas explosion at the Maryland Steel Co works in Sparrow's Point injures many and kills four workers Arthur Austin George Braidwood John Lynch among the dead. Fire and flying bricks hinder rescue as injuries include severe burns and broken bones. The blast likely stemmed from a leaking water pipe and a coroner’s inquest found the accident unavoidable.
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John Lynch
Sparrows’ Point
Arthur Prew
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Thomas Miller
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Braidwood
Lynch
Arthur Pugh
Galway Beauty Bridget Cunningham’s Long Sainted Life
A lengthy obituary of Bridget Cunningham of Galway who died in San Francisco aged 107. The account traces a beauty’s life from Connaught to America, noting marriages, children in the Union army, a daughter Kate Townsend in New Orleans, and the 1883 Treville Sykes killing and will dispute. Her son Tim, now 72, remains penniless.
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Pather
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George Cunningham
Mitchell
George
Charles — Lever
Tom Burke
America
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St. Louis
William
Lawrence
Bridget
Conningham
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New Orleans
Kate Townsend
Kate
Treville Sykes
Sykes
Louisiana
Ireland
Death of a Faster and Mexican Thieves Punishment
The article recounts George Henry Stratton’s death after a 37 day water fast aimed at beating a record, noting he weighed 270 pounds at start, and left a $700 share to his widow mother. It also describes a Mexican court’s punishment of a thief by conscription into the army after a public test in Mexico City.
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Cleveland
J. A. Mackenzie
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George Henry Stratton
Succi
Stratton
Steve Brodie
G. H. Stratton
Brooklyn
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City of
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Wiard
Muskegon
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France
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Chicago
Argentina Faces Major Flood Risk From Andes Snowmelt
Amid regional droughts eastern states fear water scarcity while Argentina braces for large floods as Andes snowpack melts. Officials say 1888 freshets caused widespread damage and $150,000 has been allocated for dike construction to shield towns and key agricultural districts.
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Andes
San Juan
Wood family of Poughkeepsie hailed for lifesaving record
Captain Isaac H. Wood and his four sons have saved at least 117 people from drowning. A wealthy rescuer offered a dollar. a German laborer demanded over ten dollars. The town raised funds, gifting five diamond set gold medals to the family. The captain, age seventy, says he quit drinking and kept his sons from liquor. Edward works at the post office. Rodman runs the city express business. George crews on the steamer William F. Romer. Amarr manages the family rowboat business.
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Chinaman shoots three after taunts in San Francisco street
A Chinese man named Chen Sin Cheong in San Francisco opened fire on youths who taunted him, killing milk wagon driver John L. Smith and restaurant keeper G Barberis and wounding Joseph W. Cornell. He was captured as a mob faced lynching, with $500 in gold found on him. Gillin died soon after.
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John L. Smith
Joseph W. Cornell
Go Chen Sin Cheong Ing
John Gillin
Celestial
G. Barberis
Cornell
Chen Sin Cheong
Gillin
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