Illinois Neighbors News of Deaths Debts and Droughts
A crowded Illinois roundup reports multiple deaths by self harm near Springfield Berry Village and Chicago, a 3 year old struck by a ball in Chicago, and a wake of local crimes. It notes German contributions to a Fritz Reuter monument in Chicago and preparations for a Petersburg GA R monument.
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William McGorey
Springfield
Emma Imbasche
Berry Village
Sangamon County
Chicago
Fritz Reuter
Illinois
Sons of Veterans
Olney
Thomas A. Roberts
J. L. Crane
Petersburg
B. F. Stephenson
United States
Holders of Protection Face Wage Cuts in Iron Industry Debate
A New York Tribune excerpt argues that iron works near suspension face wage cuts or closures due to cheap regional labor and thinning demand for rails. It contrasts protectionist claims with actual market struggles, noting tariff rhetoric and pre-election promises while questioning wage trends and regional protections.
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Tribune
New York Tribune
Tribunne
the Tribune
Harrison
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Wilmington
Del
A National Nuisance In Petitions For Office
A Boston Journal excerpt condemns the practice of signing petitions for office without personal knowledge of the candidate. It details a city official declining to forge signatures and warns that using names on petitions harms public service and corrupts politics by pressuring officials through anonymized endorsements.
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Blank
Boston Journal
Farming in Parke County Under Mortgage Burden Says Rockville Editor
The Rockville Tribune editor reports about 40 percent of Parke County farmers are under mortgage. He notes falling land values, shrinking taxables, rising pauperism, and higher taxes since 1880. He warns rural New England decay echoes in the Wabash Valley.
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Isaac R. Strouse
Rockville
Indiana
Parke
Parke County
Jackson Township
New England
Wabash Valley
Brice Chosen Democratic National Committee Chairman
The Chicago Herald notes the unanimous selection of Calvin Brice of Ohio as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, likening him to his 1888 role and stressing party unity and reform within the Democrats. It contrasts Brice with tariff foes and predicts a solid convention platform aimed at lower tariffs and national reform.
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Calvin
Gorman
Cooper
Randall
McAdoo
James G. Blaine
Democratic Party
Barnum
Brice
Republican Party
United Party
Grover Cleveland
Chicago Herald
What Was His Motive in the Harrison Appointment
The Delaware pick George P. Fisher faces scrutiny after fraud exposure and a Washington district attorneyship exit. The piece questions President Harrison’s motive in naming him to the Treasury auditor role and warns of possible political gain behind the appointment.
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Treasury
United States
Harrison
George P. Fisher
Delaware
New York Times
Parsons Named U S District Attorney in Alabama White Man’s Party Support
The New York World reports President Harrison’s appointment of Lewis E. Parsons as United States District Attorney in Alabama as proof the Republican party in the South is moving toward a white man’s party. Parsons, a leader in that movement, triggers backlash from black clergy and politicians who feel used by McKinley’s “black allies.”
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Lewis E. Parsons
United States
Alabama
Harrison
Republican Party of
South
Parsons
McKinley
New York World
Death of Simon Cameron Aged Statesman of Pennsylvania
Lancaster dispatch reports Gen Simon Cameron died at 8 p m after a week of illness in Harrisburg Funeral planned there Cameron born near death place in 1799 rose from printer to influential Pennsylvania and national figure He served as U S Senator and Secretary of War under Lincoln shaping wartime policy and party leadership His long life marked by strong leadership and political influence within his state and the nation.
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Illinois State Board of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Adams, Brown, Clark, and
Edgar
William Henry Beecher
Chicago
Beecher
Edward Beecher
Brooklyn
Henry Ward
George
James C. Beecher
Charles Beecher
Wilcox
Thomas K. Beecher
Elmira
N. Y
Thomas C. Perkins
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
John Hooker
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hartford
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Simon Cameron
MacVeagh
Hardman
James Cameron
Simon B. Cameron
David Watts
Harrisburg
Washington
Monroe
John C. Calhoun
Doyleston Democrat
Lake Ponchartrain
New Orleans
Republic
Baltimore
Middletown
James Buchanan
Senate
Polk
Cameron
Lincoln
Edwin M. Stanton
Stole Her Own Child At Hayes School Kidnapping
A divorced mother abducted her daughter Hettie Thatcher from a public school room at Hayes on Leavitt and Walnut streets. The teacher and pupils resisted as a stranger helped the mother wrest the child away and flee in a cab. The note left at the grandmother’s house claimed the child is in good hands and in the country with her mother.
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CuicaGco
Hayes
Leavitt
Walnut Streets
Hettie
John
Celia Thatcher
Thatchers
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