Wreck at St Louis Kills Eight in Collision Near Windsor Station
A collision between two St Louis and San Francisco trains near Windsor station, 18 miles from St Louis, killed eight all from St Louis and injured over 20. The crash followed disobedience of orders by the excursion train crew as the second section failed to stop for orders and collided with the accommodation train.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
Windsor Station
Adolph Horl
Charles McBine
Conrad Kuntz
CO. Blevins
H. T. Hall
Barney McKeenna
Mies Maup McKenna
John Cartwright
Ferdinand Lange
David Garretty
J. E. Boblet
Charles L. Milentz
Frank Hasler
Springfield
J. B. McDaniel
George Mulff
Kirkwood
Robert Mulholland
Spring Park
George Atwood
Joseph A. |Yen
Frederick Miller
Valley Park
St. Jashes
Missouri Home For Aged Veterans
G. A. BR. and
Womans’ Relief Corps
Oelosk
J. D. Dishman
Hohl
St. Louis Union Station
Barney McKenna
Maud
Accomodation
President Cleveland at Princeton Sees Centennial Celebration
President Cleveland headlines Princeton's three day observance of the university's centennial. He speaks in Alexander Hall to a diverse gathering of scholars and dignitaries, addressing the duties and responsibilities of educated men to the cause of good.
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Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
United States
Congress of Nations
France
Germany
Oxford
Alexander Hal
Mark
Farmers' National Congress Announces Indianapolis Meeting
President B F P Olaytohn of Indiana and Secretary John M Stahl of Chicago issued the call for the next annual Farmers National congress to meet in Indianapolis from November 10 to 13. Delegates include one per congressional district per state and two at large, with state governors appointing 5 000 associated delegates who have congress privileges but no vote. The event is billed as the largest gathering of representative agriculturists in the United States. The congress is nonpartisan and not a secret order.
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Farmers’ National Congress
B. F P. Olaytohn Ofindtinola
John M. Stahl
Chicago
Indianapolis
Indiana
Cliavis
Michigan
Congress
United States
Farmers’ Congress
Four Men Rob Express Train Near Independence
A Chicago & Alton line passenger and express train was held up by four masked men in Blue Cut between Independence and Glendale, Missouri. They forced the conductor and crew to the express car and opened the safe, taking several jewelry packets. police report indicate no other booty yet determined.
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Kansas City
Chicago & Alton
Chicago
St. Louis
Independence
Glendale
Crisp dies at Halcyon sanitarium in Atlanta
Hon Charles Frederick Crisp former speaker of the Fifty first and Fifty second congresses died at Halcyon sanitarium at 1 45 pm from a heart paroxysm likely due to rupture. He is buried in Americus and the state assembly plans honors next week for the late leader in Georgia politics and the silver movement.
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Crisp
AtTllanta
Charles Frederick Crisp
Halcyon Sanitarium
Americus
General Assembly
Georgia
United States Senate
Massacre Reported Among Austrians in Solomons
News from the Monowai arriving from Australia details an Austrian party led by scientist Henry Baron Foulon von Norbeck that was attacked by bushmen on a Solomon Island expedition. Four were killed and many wounded during the armed clash.
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San Francisco
Solomon Islands
South Seas
Oceanic Steamship Company
Monowai
Australia
Sandwich Islands
Austraius
Austrain
Henry Baron Foulon von Norbeck
Paris Statesman M Challemel Lacour Dies at 74
Paris reports the death of M Challemel Lacour, recently president of the French senate and former ambassador to London and minister of foreign affairs.
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M. Challemel-Lacour
Paris
France
London
Kayser Appointed President of Leipsic Senate of Justice
Berlin dispatch reports Dr. Kayser named president of the Leipsic senate of justice. The appointment was announced in a Berlin outlet with no further details provided.
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Kayser
Lospen
Berlin
Dr. Kayser
Leipsic
Senate of Justice
Wheat drops two cents on disappointing cables and liquidations
Wheat closed two cents lower with intraday dips to 41 cents under the prior figure as selling by prominent brokers and weak cables weighed on futures. Corn oats and provisions also eased with various Dec and May contracts affected along with cash No. 2 red and No. 2 corn values.
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Catcaco
S.tilg
South Omaha Market Results For Cattle Hogs And Sheep
Cattle receipts about 8500 with steady to easier prices. Native beef steers 3.04 to 3.63, western 3.40 to 3.75, Texas 2.24 to 2.40. Cows and heifers 2.25 to 3.00, canners 1.23 to 2.00, stockers 2.73 to 3.40, calves 3.00 to 5.23, bulls 1.75 to 3.00. Hogs receipts about 8000, 10 cents lower, heavy 3.15 to 3.25, mixed 3.40 to 3.30, light around 1.20 to 3.3. Sheep receipts about 60, steady, natives 2.40 to 2.90, western 2.22 to 2.81, common 2.00 to 2.50, lambs 3.00 to 9.40.
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South Omaha
Texas
Chicago Live Stock Market Report October 27
Hog receipts 26 000 to 5 lower with light animals 3.23 to 3.55 mixed 3.15 to 3.55 heavy 3.00 to 4.50 rough 3.15. Cattle receipts 4 500 slow but steady beef cattle 3.90 to 4.90 cows and heifers 1.50 to 8.85 Texas steers 2.60 to 8.10 westerns 2.88 to 7.1 stockers and feeders 2.60 to 9.70. Sheep receipts 15 000 steady lambs weaker.
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Chicago
Chicado
Texas
Happenings From Home and Abroad News Bits
A wide sweep of brief notices from Oct. 24 lists events across the U S and Britain. Whale sightings near Fea Isle City New Jersey a Chicago election day shutdown a Madison Halsted collision in jury injuries a fatal shooting at Sterling Kansas and a Kansas City moonshine clash. Also reported are ship sinkings in Lake Erie a Columbus Delano family accident a Chicago labor leader found dead and a Mansfield Ohio trial acquittal a gas company court appearance a Sacramento shooting and suicide a flooded Oakland reservoir a Vanderbilt wedding a New York building collapse censure in Wilmington a St Jospeh church burglary and more including a Texas murder scene and arson attempts.
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Fea Isle City
N. J
Chicago
Madison
Halsted Streets
Thomas ‘Furner
James Stanley
Sterling
Kan
Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of
Kansas
Colorado
Hutchinson
Locust Point
Sandusky
Columbus Delano
Columbus
Robert T. Swallow
Celia Rose
Mansfield
J. Edward Addicks
Bay State Gas Company
Wilmington
James Lowe
Addie Schilling
Sacramento
Oakland Water Company
Raith Shepard
Eliot F. Shepard
W. H. Vanderbilt
Scarborough
Ernesta Fubbri
F. H. Hawkins
New York
D’andrea
Pike County
Kentucky
John Young
Jackson
American Institute of Architects
Tce
Nashville
Tenn
Worldwide Snippets Reflect Turbulent Times
The clippings note Oct 23 events including a Kentucky court of appeals hearing for Alonzo Walling, a spiritualists convention in Washington, a fire in Springfield Kentucky, and the death of musician Herman Eckhardt in Columbus. Immigrant ship California reports 180 arrivals, and marriages and crimes span Danville Kentucky, Jenkintown Pennsylvania, and Tonkawa Oklahoma.
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Alonzo Walling
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Spiritualists
Washington
Harry Furniss
London Punch
New York
Springfield
Herman Eckhardt
Columbus
Berlin
Mendelssohn
Lizst
California
Havre
Richard Lasker Lowndes, Jr
Lowndes
Maryland
Danville
Mary McDowell
Mia
Martha McDowell
San Francisco
India
Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mary Louise Curtis
Cyrus Curtis
Jenkintown
Katie Bascom
Clinton, Mo
Kansas City
R. T. Brooke
Tonkawa
O. T
John B. Ellis
Brooke
The
Institute of Architects
Kuroll
Russian
Poland
Grouth
South Australia
Martin D Sibert Highlighted in Alabama Democratic Action
Monday October 26 marks a note in Alabama Democratic circles centering on Martin D. Sibert. The brief item places Sibert in political activity within the state's Democratic scene.
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Martin D. Sibert
Alabama
Democratic
Multiple Brief Obituaries and News Items Across U. S. and Europe
Ex congressman D A Eldridge of Wisconsin is dead and Archbishop Treland met President Cleveland at the White House. William Stevens a long time Kansas City lawyer has died at 71. Cleveland shot squirrels near Sandy Springs Maryland. Antone s Nunes Portuguese was killed by his stepson about age 12 in Battle Creek California. Isaac H Linberger named US interior department assistant attorney general. New York World wins libel suit brought by Dr Aston B Talbott. G D Berry discharged after arrest for railroad pass fraud. Rose Sowers 14 hanged herself in Perry D J. Sam Jackson cattle thief shot resisting arrest. Howard Hughson found guilty of murder in Albany will be electrocuted. William Schnell dies on a train near El Paso. Ruth Soden killed by wagon accident. Dr Nansen paid 50000 for Arctic book. Colorado military expenses in Leadville strike approach 50000. Premier Cano Vas del Castillo denies Cuba war funding issues. Paris council re elects officers including M Landain. French government seeks 1968800 francs for czar reception and 1600000 francs for Chantons review.
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D. A. Eldridge
Wisconsin
Archbishop Treland
President Cleveland
White House
William Stevens
Kansas City
Canton
Cleveland
Sandy Springs
Montgomery County
Maryland
Antones, Nunes
Joseph Soza
Battle Creek
Cal
G. D. Berry
Grand Island Road
Walker
Rose Sowers
Perry
D. J
Sam_ Jackson
Richland
Howard Hughson
Albany
N. Y
William Schnell
Chicago
el Paso
Tex
Marshall
Ruth Soden
M. Landain
Chamber
France
Notable Crimes and Miscellany From Chicago to Honduras
A chaotic mix of crime notes and notable items spans from Jamps assaulting Mrs Schiller in Summerfield to a jail break in Louisville. Other entries report a Chicago wedding attempt by McDowell and Milan, a gun accident in St Louis, a handball challenge in Chicago, railway ticket schemes in Denver, and grain market dips in San Francisco. Also listed are a Lake Erie shipwreck, a quarantine station sale, jailbreak recapture, a large Brooklyn factory fire, insolvency of Tufts president Capron, the death of the ninth Baron Farnham, Cadiz stones hurled at Cuban prisoners, U S minister McKenzie’s travels, and a French commission visiting Honduras.
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Jamps
St. Louis
Engelbart
Will Carney
Chicago
New York
Phil Casey
Fitzgerald
Western Passenger Association
Denver
Union Pacific
San Francisco
Treasury
Sandhill
Wiarton
Tonawanda
Cook
Lake Erie
Fire Island
New York City
Tom Kelly
Tom McKenzie
Louisville
Ronald
Bodrum Place
Brooklyn
KE. H. Capron
Tufts College
Cambridge
Mass
James Pierce Maxwell
Supreme Court grants indefinite delay for Romulus Cottell
The supreme court on October 26 granted Romulus Cottell, convicted of murdering the Stone family, an indefinite postponement of his execution pending a new Irish procedure.
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Coolubbl
Supreme Court
Romulus Cottell
Stone
Bryan Speech Read in Courthouses Nationwide Plan
A proposal to circulate William Jennings Bryan’s Chicago address read aloud in every courthouse before the election is endorsed by Harry Turner of Mexico Missouri. James K Jones backs the idea, urging state chairmen to organize county leaders to stage Bryan love feasts and public readings.
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United States
Mexico
Bryan
Chicago
Harry Turner
Jones
National Committee
CuicaGo
Ills
James K. Jones
Turner
Central Committee
Mass Meeting Protests Irish Prisoner Treatment in England
The Irish American National Amnesty association held a mass meeting in New York on October 26 to denounce the handling of Irish political prisoners in English jails. Judge Morgan J. OBrien presided with Rev. F D McGlynn delivering the principal speech. Honorary vice presidents included Governor Morton exGovernor Flower John Sheehan Thomas Platt Senator David B Hill John R Fellows Amos J Cunningham Joseph Pulitzer Patrick Egan and General Butterfield. A committee said Gallagher and Whitehead, recently freed prisoners, remain mentally unstable since asylum transfer. Resolutions were adopted and will be sent to President Cleveland.
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New York
Irish American National Amnesty Association
Morgan J. O'Brien
F. D. McGlynn
Morton
Flower
John ©. Sheehan
Thomas ©. Platt
David B. Hill
John R. Fellows
Amos J. Cummings
Joseph Pulitzer
Patrick Egan
Butterfield
Gallagher and
Whitehead
England
Cleveland
Preacher Averts Panic as Chicago Church Fire erupts
In Chicago on October 26 Rev Dr James Vila Blake retained calm at the Third Unitarian church as smoke filled the lobby and he guided the congregation to quiet exits. The main building was almost entirely destroyed with losses estimated at $25,000.
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A Paulo
Chicago
James Vila Blake
Third Unitarian Church
Government forestry commission completes field work
Washington reports the government forestry commission has finished its field work and its members have returned east. Designated by the national academy of sciences at the Interior Secretary's request, commissioners studied western lands, gathered valuable data with local scientists, and will compile a voluminous forestry report.
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Forestry’s Commission
Washington
Government Forestry Commission
National Academy of Sciences
Secretary of the Interior
Fire at Center Lumber Company Destroys Large Lumber Pile
Fire broke out early in the lumber pit and grill plant of the Center Lumber company at Milwaukee six miles down the river. The conflagration destroyed about 100000000 feet of lumber. The saw mill and salt works were in imminent danger but saved. Small buildings burned. Saginaw and Bay City fire departments assisted. Loss estimated around 150000 dollars, insured.
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Saginaw, Mich
Center Lumber Company
Milwaukee
Saginaw
Bay City
Disastrous Cotton Fire Destroys Galveston Warehouse
A massive cotton fire in Galveston early today destroyed 4,400 bales and the storage warehouse owned by W. F. Ladd. Losses totaled $170,000 with $145,000 on cotton and $25,000 on the warehouse, fully insured. origin of the blaze remains unknown.
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Galveston
Tex
W. F. Ladd
General Morton Hunter Dies National Hero of Bloomington
Broomingtoy Indiana October 26 General Morton Hunter died of paralysis. He was the most honored citizen of Bloomington and distinguished in civil and military life. He was the hero of Snodgrass Hill and saved the day at Chickamauga. The funeral will be Tuesday.
Toll gate raiders anger Franklin County road owners
In Franklin County owners vow action to bring toll gate raiders to justice after widespread destruction of toll gates on pikes amid heightened fury and concern over property damage.
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Frank ¥Ort
Franklin County
National Episcopal Missionary Council in Cincinnati
The Episcopal Church national missionary council meets this week at Christ Church Cincinnati. Most representatives are in the city and occupied local Episcopalian pulpits Sunday.
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National Missionary Council of the Episcopal Church
Christ's Church
Family boat tragedy leaves six dead at Smith's lake
Denver October reports Andrew J. Spute and his wife plus five children drowned when their boat overturned on Smith's lake. Spute, a grocer at 125 Santa Feavenos, survived.
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Denver
Andrew J. Spute
Smith’s Lake
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