Week in Review highlights fatal mine, executions and court rulings
The week reports a guilty plea to murder in the first degree by Russell Brown and Patrick McGlew and a ten year penitentiary sentence. Miners in Illinois face a possible permanent closure of the Diamond coal mine at Braidwood as rescue efforts stall. Other items include a fatal fire in Allegheny City, poisonings in Indianapolis, a massachusetts inquiry into graveyard practices, Apache raids near Lordsburg, and a Cincinnati road accident with multiple injuries. The Illinois Supreme Court affirms a wheat corner ruling, and various executions occur in Vermont Virginia and South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roussell Brown
Patrick McGlew
St. Louis
General Dorris
Brown
Braidwood
Ill
Friends of
Allegheny City
David Faulkner
Cleveland
Herman Neuman
Pottsville
Herbert W. Eaton
Samuel Kelly
Calais
Truro
Querida
Colo
Girand
Aurial
A. C. Wurzbach
Boston
Lake Shore
Cincinnati
Amos
Reading Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Philadelphia
Deschler
Indianapolis
Supreme Court of
Ilinois
Gardner
Superior Court
Cook County
iCertain
Board of Trade
Land
Massachusetts Legislative Committee
Tewksbury
Harvard Medical School
Butler
Lordsburg
New Mexico
H. C. McComas
Magdalena
Tombstone
Arizona
New York
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Mason
Emeline Meaker
Windsor
Leesburg
Charles W. Beaver
Camden
Oliver Bristow
McDowell
Illinois Supreme Court
Pullman Palace Car Company
Hosely
New Haven & Northampton
United States
Ex Congresssman Stetson Died in Bangor Maine
The obituary notes ex congressman Charles Stetson died in Bangor Maine on the 26th at age eighty two. It also mentions other items from politics including suits, appointments, and legislative actions across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stetson
Bangor
Mr. Hicks
Washington
Guiteau
Baltimore American
Hicks
Diaz
Mexico
Arthur
Romero
Foster
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Dukes
Nutt
George B. Hite
Kentucky
Wood
Clarence Hite
James Gang
Louisville Courier-Journal
Hite
Howe
Kinosha
Wis
United States
Kenosha
Green Bay
Massachusetts House
Thomas H. Hernpon
Alabama
Mobile
Frank Byrnge
Paris
New York
Carey
Phoenix Park
Kellogg
Price
Wisconsin
N. B. Burorp
Chicago
Tennessee
Dorsey
Merrick
Cotmsea
E. O. Graves
National Banknote Redemption Division
Treasury Department
Wyman
J. N. Burril
Q. H. Irish
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Irish League condemns dynamite and assassination calls
At a Dublin meeting of the Irish National League a resolution denounces resort to dynamite and other forms of assassination. The report notes other international events including Raphael's birth anniversary in Rome and Vatican displeasure over fundraising efforts in Cashel. An earthquake near Miskolcz caused theater panic with injuries and Hoch County officials report the murder of Count Von Mar Latih, president of Hungary’s Court of Cassation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish National League
Dublin
Raphael
Rome
Vatican
Thomas N. Croke
Cashel
Ireland
Paine
Miskolcz
Bohemia
Count von Marlath
Court of Cassation
Hungary
Ofen
Large mine disaster yields twenty eight corpses found
Six corpses were removed from the Diamond mine at Braidwood on the 1st, bringing total recoveries to twenty eight. The day also reports rail safety measures in Britain, anniversary notes from Chicago’s Y M C A, medical livestock research plans near Washington, and various political and criminal items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braidwood
United Kingdom
Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago
Washington
Bureau of Agriculture
Prince Bismarck
Germany
William
Bavaria
Bismarck
St. Petersburg
Lawrence
Kansas
Chicago
Lillian Young
Cairo
St. Louis
Dist Alt
Belmont
Isaac L. Nicholson
Philladelphia
Indiana
Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention
Rushville
N. Y
Rochester
Hearts Wound at Braidwood Mine Disaster Dead Miners Recovered
Crowds gather as 22 corpses are taken from the Diamond mine at Braidwood Illinois. Relatives identify bodies amid strong odors and floodwater. Funeral trains move through town as exploration reveals vast debris and uncertain clearance by July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braidwood
Sungsee
Patrick Wall
Joseph Smith
Joseph Carroll
Frank Kloss
Mike Bannon
John Johnson
Mathew Redmond
John Cullough
A. Dembrosky
John Dembrosky
George Boukosky
August T&lenis
Frank Marry
Daniel McBride
Redmond
Diamond
Hearggs
Diamond Shaft
Daily News
Johnnie Skinner
Peterkin's Suit Ends in Tragic Irony of Love
A Victorian tale recounts Peterkin a cautious suitor who pursues Violet despite two rejections. Violet marries Captain Latham then Dr Jones, while Peterkin’s schemes end in shock as a falling stone kills both Jones and Bright. Violet remains loyal to a second betrothal, leaving Peterkin with loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Peterkin
Violet
Latham
Mr. Peterkin
Peterkin
Dr. Jones
Lawyer Bright
Broadway
Mr. Bright
Jones
Bright
Harper’s Magazine
New London Man Uses Powder Lesson For Wood Theft
A New London man secretly rigs a powder charge on a wood pile to teach a wood thief neighbor a lesson. The device explodes at breakfast, scattering stove and provisions, and his wife uncovers the plan revealing that women will discover everything.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Ema
New Haven
Newhall Hotel Fire Survivor Unveils Personal Escape System
Mrs T Wilson of New York after Milwaukee fire devises a dire escape device. An iron platform with movable railing attaches to the window sill and folds into ornamental furniture. An iron ladder folds away, tested by several New Yorkers who see potential wealth in the invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhall
Milwaukee
T. Wilson
New York
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Dixon Sun
WW. M. Kennedy
Dexon
News OF the
Telegraph and Mail
Chamber of Deputies
David Whelan
Maryborough
Queens County
House of Commons
William Harcourt
Home Secretary
O’shea
Clare
Florence Dixie
Eton
Lady Dixie
Featherstone
Hugh Northcote
Stafford Northcote
Edith
Fish
Canterbury
England
Lingan
Cape Breton
Prince of Wales
Denmark
Schleswig
Louise Michel
Hautr
Bank of England
Scotland
Aberdeen
Holyhead
Queen Victoria
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