Rio Grande Rangers guard border against Mexican voters
The Adjutant-General of Texas has placed Ranger detachments at multiple river points to prevent the importation of Mexican voters. The move follows a Interior Department decision opening railroad-granted lands in Michigan Peninsula to homestead preemption and amid ongoing epidemics and unrest in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adjutant-General of
Texas
Rio Grande
Secretary of the Interior
Michigan
Chicago
Chicago Seamen’s Union
Tuer
Neal
Craft
Ashland
Catlettsburg
Hart & OpierNe
New York Central Railroad
Rochester
Fort Smith
Ark
Zeerega & Co
New York
United States
Goodenough
Moosehead Lake
Pensacola
Fla
Mier
Mexico
Williamsport
Dardanelle
Townsend
District of Columbia
Henry Graff
Richardson, Boynton & Co
Willliam G. Russein
Teller
Philadelphia
Patrick Cargy
Cunard
Edward Clark
United States Capitol
Capitol
Government Printing Office
Washington Court House
Catskills
Germantown
N. Y
Galveston
Tex
Minnesota
Middle States
Frep Hartcutnson
Easton
Treasury
Baltimore
Pearson
Personal and political brief from late 19th century items
A mixed regional roundup reports Adelina Patti arriving in New York from Europe, a Kentucky murderer escaped from an asylum and claiming extradition issues, Indiana bishop nominee resignation, and the 50th anniversary of Presiding Bishop Smith in New York. Also listed are army retirement dates, a Washington fair for Garfield Monument, a Davenport Iowa case on Prohibition, and various court and obituary notes including Judge Endicott’s Massachusetts appointment and Star route jury matters.
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Adelina Patti
New York
Europe
Burorp
Elliott
Frankfort
Indiana
Eisnar Tavport
House of Bishops
Smith
Kentucky
Congress
Sherman
Sheridan
Hancock
Schofield
Pope
Howard
Terry
Augur
Crook
Miles
Mackenzie
Payne
Washington
Walpo Colburn
Superior Court of
Boston
Supreme Bench of
Massachusetts
William C. Endicott
Davenport
Hayes
Iowa
Supreme Court
William Dickson
Star Route
Criminal Court of
District of Columbia
Grand Jury
Wylie
Ist
J. W. Smonton
Associated Press
Napa
Cal
D. F. Colliins
Minneapolis
Jerome J. Collins
de Long
Jeannette
Lena
Melville
Collins
Jostan Quincy
A. C. Soretto
A. M. Soreldo
D. C
Republican
Nihilist agitation resurgence reports abroad
Cable reports from St Petersburg note a strong Nihilist revival as a revolutionary proclamation named Narddnaje Wolja warns of an imminent outbreak. In Norway the government suffered a defeat with four-fifths of the Storthing elected by Radicals or Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Storthing
Large scale fires devastate mills and typhoon hits Philippines
Reports describe two Rathbone flouring mills in Clonmel Ireland burned in an incendiary fire. A typhoon in the Philippine Islands sinks twenty ships with over a hundred sailors drowned. England endures wind and rain flooding bridges and railways. Chinese and European political and military tensions rise across multiple regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabe Sultan
Arabi
Clonmel
Ireland
Turkish Financial Commission
Signor Depatis
Chamber of Deputies
Philippine Islands
England
Russia
Grodna
Bug
Alexandria
Canthia
Mecca
Cork
Killarney
Gois
Hungary
Tue Freiheit
Herr Most
Zurich
Switzerland
Advanced Socialists
Huisahexa
Mexico
Hull
Ont
Ottawa
Bumiesrath
Arabi Pasha
Raouf Pasha
Ismail Ayoub
Eugenie
Victor Napoleon
Corea
Fireproof plots and riots echo across nations and states
George E Brimmer’s Lancaster confession links eight men to a structured band of incendiaries. Fires devastate county Clare amid crop and hog epidemics. Paris revolutionists threaten General MacMahon. Mecca cholera quarantine tightens port Said. A mass of 1880s unrest spans Iceland to Khartoum with fires floods and warlike shocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E Brimmer
Lancaster
General MacMahon
Sheffield
Conn
New York
West
County Clare
Ireland
Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
Daniel Glassett
Virginia
Nev
Mecca
Port Said
Suez
Pensacola
Brownsville
Uleaboorg
Russia
Syria
Shreveport
Charles H. Poor
Washington
New York & New England Railroad
Pomfret
London
England
Radnorshire
Wales
Alexandria
Egypt
Obeid
Prohet
Khartoum
Bloody Troubles in Kentucky Ashland Mob Attacks Prisoners
Ironton Ohio November 1 1899 report details a mob attack in Ashland and Catlettsburg Boyd County Kentucky as William Neal and Ellis Cruft face a change of venue trial guarded by 220 state troops. A ferry exchange leads to a volley injuring bystanders and several killed or mortally wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Ashland
Ironton
William Neal
Ellis Craft
Catlettsburg
Boyd County
Robert
Fannie Gibbons
Emma Carrier
Supreme Court
George Ellis
Neal
Craft
Lexington
Court House
Brown
Carter County
Cruft
L. P. Blackburn
Kouitz
Granite State
Maysville
Lexmeton
Thal
Ohio
Blackburn
John Bass
James McDonald
Colonel Rapid
George Keeler
Mr. Dunlap
Cincinnati
Mr. Phister
Major Allen
Brose Dennis
Williamson
Dennis
Phister
Allen
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Huntington
Murphy
Aklea
Southerner in Boston reassesses New England physiognomy
A Southern observer in Boston revises his preconceptions of New Englanders. He finds the Bostonite look varies by class and place, noting educated New Englanders share a refined appearance while the “snap” of character is more in voice than face. He observes a habit of direct action and self-reliance shaping the local demeanor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
New
Bostom
New England
Charleston
Youthful Burglar Sentenced in Chicago Case
Fourteen year old Mary Morris pled guilty to fourteen indictments for burglary and larceny. Judge Moran sentenced her to two years in the House of Correction. Her mother Helen Morris received three and a half years in the Penitentiary as an accessory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Morris
Chicago
Moran
House of Correction
Jad
Helen Morris
Chicago Inter- Ocean
Maine Gold Boom Fades Amid Mining Failures
Two years after a Maine gold and silver rush, wild cat mining companies spread across Sullivan Cherryfield Gouldsborough Tremont and Bluehill. Of 100 incorporated firms, eighteen months in, none paid dividends while speculators profited, according to the Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Pine Tree
Sullivan
Cherryfield
Gouldsborough
Tremont
Bluehill
Boston Transcript
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Telegraph and Mail
OSTM
Howe
Salt Lake
General Cook
San Carlos
Johnson
Providence
R. I
Justice Otterbourg
Steaim
Butte —Creamery
Feiddeigks
R.e
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