Temperance Union hearing outlines women led departments
Frances E. Willard and other leaders testified before a New York Sub-Committee on Labor and Education detailing the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union structure. They described departments such as Heredity Hygienic Scientific Instruction and the influence of the press with plans for textbooks and compulsory temperance education. The session adjourned sine die as more hearings were expected.
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United States
Escrion
National
Women's Christian Temperanoce Union
Frances E. Willard
Chicago
Department of Juvenill Unions
Department of Relative Statistics
W. C. Buell
Department of
Mary H. Hunt
Michigan
Vermont
New Hampshire
Neel E. Willard
Caroline B. Buell
Easthampton
Conn
Mary L. Burt
Brooklyn
New York State Union
China
England
Digest of scattered World News and Local Disasters
Domestic notes report an assig nment in Tupello Mississippi with only portion paid in. A man in Rising Fawn Georgia killed by a gunshot to the head after a quarrel. Smuggling of Chinese from British Columbia into Washington Territory continues despite Treasury Agent reports. James McSteen hanged in Pittsburgh for wife murder. Ned Bradford burns after winning money at a parish card party in Natchitoches Louisiana. A cigar stump fire in Troy New York harms firemen and destroys uniforms. Tombstone Arizona man kills a woman with a razor then cuts his throat. Two Arizona stage robbers shot by Sheriff Paul in Tucson. Lake Erie & Western train wreck near Bradford Pennsylvania injures several. Miner Val Hatton killed at Webb City Missouri. others fatally injured. Diphtheria deaths reach twenty five in Far Rockaway Long Island. Robert Bishop’s cotton-waste factory partially destroyed in South Boston Massachusetts. Roof collapse at White Oak mines near Scranton kills two. another dies instantly. Memphis cotton yields seen thirty percent lower than last year. Yazoo County Mississippi reports very little rain on the fourth.
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Exchange Bank of
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James McSteen
Pittsburgh
Natchitoches
Ned Bradford
Troy
N. Y
John Stanpiow
Tombstone
A. T
Arizona
Paul
Tucson
Bradford
Webb City
Val Hatton
Tom Martin
Amos
Far Rockaway
S. 1
Robert Bishop
Boston
Mass
Los
White Oak Mines
Scranton
Richard Caffer
Anthony Curley
Fifty anniversary of anti-slavery movement noted in New York
Celebrations in New York marked the fiftieth anniversary of the anti-slavery movement with Elizur Wright presiding. Moopy and Sankey sailed to Europe aboard the Alaska on the 2d. Arthur held at West Island by rough seas. Other events include deaths of Joshua Sands and Terrence Kennedy, a free-trade conference in St. Louis, and a jailer shooting in Cedarville.
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Sankey
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West Island
R. I
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United States Navy
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Auburn
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Henry Farnam
New Haven
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Cedarville
Isaac Weymouth
DuaBe Young
Young Brothers
Texas
North Carolina
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LeLane StanForp
Fifth Avenue
New Orleans National Bank
Gresham
Missing Pennsylvania girl reappears after river burial
Lyp14 McConovues of Shippingsport Pa was thought dead after a river burial but on the 5th a sensational report emerged claiming she had been living as a domestic worker in Cleveland Ohio. The family confirmed the identification and her return has caused a major stir in the community.
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Shippingsport
Cleveland
Irish clergy speech warns of Catholics lost in America
In Loughrea the Bishop of Clonfert denounces state aided emigration and laments millions of Catholics leaving America. The report notes other international concerns including a Mexican family tragedy and political tensions across Europe and Canada.
Multistate fires and accidents headline brief news
A street car crash near Allegheny Pennsylvania wounded twenty five people with four fatalities after a braking failure. Memphis shop fire destroyed B Lowenstein Brothers store causing heavy losses. Dallas elevator blaze damaged cotton yard and electric works in a million dollar fire.
Riots in Canton Kill American Consul Rumor Shocks Washington
London reports Oct 8 that Charles Seymour United States Consul at Canton may have been killed by a mob amid anti foreign unrest. Chinese authorities deploy troops to protect foreigners as Canton roils over the Tide Water Logan verdict. Seymour, a La Crosse Wisconsin native, previously edited the Republican and served as postmaster before his Canton appointment.
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Canton
London
China
Marquis Tseng
Paris
Wisconsin
United States
Logan
Pekin
Washington
State Department
Seymour
la Crosse
Wis
Republican
St. Albans
New York
Garfield
Fiendish Revenge by Cattle Thieves Ends in Blast
A dynamite attack at the Beach home in Pawling exposes cattle thieves who shot back after witnesses named them. Graner, wounded by a shotgun blast and found near a blown window, fights for life as the blast wrecks the room. Mrs Beach and infant were knocked unconscious as Beach was hurled from the bed to a window ledge.
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New York
Pawling
Beach
Baby
John A. Beach
Samuel Graner
Graner
Woman Dies in Ingenious Death by Self Immolation
Reports from Gatesville describe Mrs Shaw's son in law kidnapping the child of her deceased husband’s wife. After resisting surrender she tied herself to a stone fence and ignited kerosene soaked clothes with a match, dying from severe burns.
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Galveston
Gatesville
Rare Mesoplodon Whale Washes Ashore at Barnegat
A rare Mesoplodon bottle-nose whale was found ashore in Barnegat New Jersey on October 8. Prof True and Mr Palmer from the Smithsonian Institute are making a plaster cast of the carcass and collecting bones before moving it to Washington. The specimen measures about nineteen feet four inches and may weigh two tons.
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Barnegat
N. J
Professor True
Palmer
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Work on Ward statue pedestal advances in New York
The pedestal for Ward's statue of Washington at the sub Treasury head of stairs is under rapid construction. The first step, a fourteen foot marble slab two feet thick, has been delivered and placed with the inscription completed.
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New York
Ward
Washington
sub-Treasury
Boston Flats Filled by New Process in Old Tale
A tale recounts Mayor Josiah Quincy hosting a city inspection of Mr. Evans filling Charlestown Neck flats. After the inspection a banquet, Quincy drew attention to the new process and the flats were allegedly filled very full, per a Boston Herald account.
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Josiah Quincy
Boston
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