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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1888
Page
2
Thurman Accepts Democratic Nomination for Vice President
Ex Senator Allen G Thurman of Ohio issues formal acceptance of the vice presidential nomination from the St Louis convention. He endorses President Cleveland and the party platform, condemns monopoly taxation and tariffs he calls excessive, and argues for reduced taxes and lower cost of living while boosting laborers' share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohioan
St. Louis
Thurman
Columbus
Ohio
Patrick A. Collins
United States
Senate
Europe
America
Democratic Party
Allen G
Death of Prince John Adolphus Schwarzenberg in Austria
Prince John Adolphus Schwarzenberg dies at his Frauenberg palace near Budweis aged 89. He was chief of his house Landgrave of Kleggat Duke of Krumau and heir to a fortune valued around £10,000,000. His estates in lower Austria Bohemia Styria and Salzburg span over fifty English square miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince John Adolphus Schwarzenberg
Frauenberg
Budweis
Austria
Kleggat
Krumau
Pauline Schwarzenberg
Paris
Napoleon
Marie Louise
Prince
Lower Austria
Bohemia
Styria
Salzburg
Chinese Flood Drowns Over Ten Thousand Near Pekin
Reports from near Fang-Shan-Hsien describe a devastating flood during the night of August 13 around Pekin. Seven and a half inches of rain fell in Pekin with vast torrents through Hien-Li-Ho ravines, sweeping into twenty villages and drowning more than ten thousand people and many draught animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fang-Shan-Hsien
Pekin
Hien-Li-Ho
Democrats nominate three for Congress in distinct districts
The Ninth District Missouri in St Louis nominates George A Castleman Joseph E Haynes receives the nomination in New Jersey Sixth District for Congress Col Augustus Belknap is named for Congress in the Texas Tenth District
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
St. Louis
George A. Castleman
Joseph E. Haynes
Congress
New Jersey
Col
Augustus Belknap
Texas
Yellow fever plague wanes in Jacksonville with recoveries
The yellow fever outbreak in Jacksonville Florida is slowly subsiding with many patients recovering. Reported cases total 3 554 and deaths 313 as the scourge weakens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Chicago Street Car Strike Ends Favorably for Workers
The nine day street car strike in Chicago concluded on the 14th inst with a favorable outcome for the workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Congressional Races Nominees by Districts and Parties
The notice lists congressional nominees by district and party across several states. Renominations include John H. Ketcham in New York Sixteenth and others. Governor seats and party selections feature Republicans, Democrats, and Labor candidates with several incumbents named and some declines noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
John JT. Caine
Louisiana
R. C. Jolly
Morgan City
Missouri
St. Louis
Nathan Frank
J. J. O'Neill
Massachusetts
E. A. Morse
Canton
Pennsylvania
W. P. Wampler
McKeesport
R. B. Parkinson
Pittsburg
George Monroe
Abraham Bowers
New York
John H. Ketcham
Mitchell Dowling
South Carolina
C. Smith
John H. Moffitt
Twenty-first
G. H. Lafleure
Labor Party
Michigan
Tammany Hall
Ashdel P. Fitch
Sunset
Cox
Republican Congressional Committee
Springfield
Ill
Charles E. Kerr
Major Connolly
Speculation drives uneven grain and commodity prices
R G Dun weekly trade review notes speculation inflating wheat by about 144 cents weekly, with gains in corn oats and coffee but lard and cotton slipping. Clearings rise outside New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston. Government crop hints wheat yield near 407 million bushels, with exports nearly stopped. corn crop seen at 2.11 billion bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
Atlantic
Mrs Beem Wins Fortune in Wisconsin Supreme Court
The Kimberly Beem case ends with Mrs. Beem as sole legatee after the Wisconsin Supreme Court sustains a circuit reversal. The dispute over one third income from Harvey Kimberly’s estate, amounting to about $50 000, centers on fraud by executor Daniel Kimberly and prominent counsel including William F. Vilas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberly- Beem Will
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
Beem
Lucy Kimberly
Harvey Kimberly
Neenah
Wis
Kimberly
National crop report estimates corn yield at 26 bushels per acre
The October crop report shows corn condition at 92 on average with no Northwest decline. Winter wheat averages across major producers range to 14.7 in Pennsylvania and 16.3 in Oregon while spring wheat averages top 17.5 in Colorado and 16.5 in Montana. Buckwheat condition drops to 7.1 due to frosts and potatoes average 87.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Texas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
California
Oregon
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
Dakota
Montana
Washington
Utah
New England States
Century-Old Illinois Matriarch Dies at 101
Mrs Elizabeth Hendrickson of Lake Creek Township Williamson County Illinois has died at age 101 years 11 months and 9 days. She was born in North Carolina and moved to Illinois in 1835. Survivors include eleven children sixty three grandchildren thirty two great grandchildren and nineteen great great grandchildren. She was until shortly before death the oldest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the world and was known to light her own pipe at home. She was 13 months old when Washington first took office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Hendrickson
Lake Creek Township
Williamson County
Illinois
North Carolina
Methodist Episcopal Church
Gen. Washington
United States
Hanged at Union Springs A teen colored girl dies on scaffold
Pauline McCoy a nineteen year old African American girl was hanged in Union Springs Alabama for the February murder of Annie Jordan a fourteen year old white girl The article notes the execution for the crime carried out in Union Springs Alabama
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Springs
Alabama
Pauline McCoy
Ala
Annie Jordan
Girl hanged for curious crime in Three Notch case
Annie Jordan disappeared from Montgomery. Her body was found in a plum thicket at Three Notch. Pauline was arrested after the clothing matched. Found guilty last spring, she faced execution with Governor intervention attempted but denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Jordan
Montgomery
Pauline
Massillon Train Collision Kills One Injures Several
A northbound passenger train on the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling Road collided with a freight near Massillon Ohio. Engines and cars wrecked. Brakeman Richard Whitman fatally injured, passenger Warren Richards badly cut and injured, brakeman George B Clyde legs broken and head wound. Company loss exceeds 30000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, Lorain and
Wheeling
Massillon
Ohio
Richard Whitman
Warren Richards
George B. Clyde
Indiana Murderer at Knightstown Kills Mother and Widow
N B Wade in Knightstown Indiana killed his mother and Martha Cates a widow set fire to the house and then took poison dying after firefighters removed him From the incident Wade had illegally taken pension money due to Mrs Cates and his fear of accounting is believed to have driven him insane
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Knightstown
Ind
N. B. Wade
Martha Cates
Wade
Indiana Electors Change in Thirteenth and Third Districts
The Democratic State Executive Committee of Indiana altered the electoral ticket replacing M A O Packard a bank director suspected of ineligibility with Andrew G Wood of Warsaw in the Thirteenth District and substituting G H D Gibson in the Third District for Chairman Jewett who has withdrawn from the State committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Democratic State Executive Committee
Andrew G. Wood
Warsaw
M. A. O. Packard
G. H. D. Gibson
Jewett
Farley to be hanged for murder in Canada
James F. Farley of Philadelphia has been sentenced in Peterborough Ontario to be hanged on November 8 for the murder of Simon Elijah, an Indian man and Bailey's circus attaché. Elijah was shot during a quarrel provoked by him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Farley
Philadelphia
Peterborough
Ont
Simon Elijah
Bailey's Circus
Three Masked Men Fail in Black Hills Train Robbery
In Reno Gulch three masked men tried to rob a Black Hills train carrying about $15,000 held by a mine paymaster. The assault was repelled and two of the attackers were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
Reno Gulch
Transgressor John White Sentenced in Forgery Case
John White of Minneapolis aged 55 was sentenced in Madison Wisconsin to five years in the penitentiary for forging the signature of Judge Romanzo Bunn of the United States District Court on two drafts of six dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John White
Minneapolis, Minn
Madison, Wis
Romanzo Bunn
United States District Court
Fire Nearly Wipes Out Duquesne Furniture Works
A blaze almost destroyed the Duquesne Furniture Company warehouse and factory on Pennsylvania Avenue in Pittsburg. The loss to building and stock was $26,000 with $14,000 insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duquesne Furniture Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pittsburg
Dr Samuel Kneeland Dies in Germany
Dr Samuel Kneeland of Boston a physician ethnologist and scientist of wide reputation died in Germany He authored several works on science and contributed to scientific periodicals
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Kneeland
Boston
Germany
Four-year-old dies in Brazil coal-oil fire blast
Mabel Boyson aged four was burned to death at Brazil Indiana when a coal-oil can exploded as an older sister used it to start a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Boyson
Brazil
Ind
Warsaw area hunter found dead with head blown apart
J. W. Makemson a farmer near Warsaw Indiana disappeared after leaving home for a day’s hunt. His body was found in the woods with his head blown to pieces suggesting a violent death investigation underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Makemson
Warsaw
Ind
Port Townsend Offers Pacific Northwest Prospects
Special correspondence from Port Townsend Washington Oct 10 1888 extols the harbor climate scenery and commerce. It notes port status for Alaska Asia and the Puget Sound district plus plans for fortifications mills iron works and rail links. It highlights timber fisheries mining and agriculture as major growth areas with good wages for skilled labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Townsend
Wash.Ter
Strait of Gibraltar
Orient
India
Arabia
Egypt
Holy
Columbus
Atlantic
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Strait of Fuca
Puget Sound
New York
Strait and Sound
Alaska
Australia
Japan
China
Puget Sound Collection District
Congress
United States Marine Hospital
Uncle Sam
Pacific Watch Tower
Pacific Northwest
Northwest
North Pacific
New England
Peninsula
Mount Baker
Cascades
Rainier
Olympic Range
Straits of Fuea
Blue Mountains
Vancouver Island
Victoria
British Columbia
Washington Territory
Sound
Portland
Shanten
Inbarere
Moses Folsom
Senate and House Pass Tariff Debate Highlights
The Senate began tariff discussions on the 8th, confirmed nominees including John H. Oberly and W. Crofut, and approved a Washington aqueduct inquiry. The House advanced cession and warehousing measures, declared Lincoln a port of delivery, and approved funds for yellow fever camps and other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House of Representatives
John H. Oberly
Indian Affairs
LW. Crofcot
F. Templeton
Dakota
EK. D. Linn
Satura
Texas
Washington Aqueduct
House
Fort Wallace
Kansas
Lincoln, Neb
Absalom Baird
France
Hiscock
Bate
Lincoln
Neb
Joseph Hoffman
Committee On Privileges and
Brenham
Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Waite
Minnesota
James P. Lesesne
South Carolina
Melbourne
R. F. Coates
Wichita
Kan
KE. Carroll
Adel
Iowa
J. M. Trumbower
Muncie
Ind
Joseph Maddox
Cullom
Platt
Allison
Finance Committee
Comui
General Pleasonton
Lawler
P. C. MecQueeny
Chicago
Stahlnecker
Alfred Pleasonton
American grape graft saves French vineyards confirms hopeful report
French agriculture minister M Viette reports that American grafting stock has restored French vines damaged by phylloxera. Yields on new vines exceed pre invasion levels and previously fragile varieties now resist harsher conditions. Restoration progresses in Herault and other departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
France
M. Viette
Paris
Herault
A Few Nations And Misleading Job Names
A collection of humorous misnomers from Arcola Record by C. V. Walls. It plays on how titles and professions do not always reflect actual duties or meanings, revealing wry contrasts between words and roles.
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W. M. Kennedy
Dixon Ill
Judge Thurman
Mrs. Beem
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Africa
Berlin Boersen Zeitung
Reichstag
Prince Bismarck
Prince Henry
Deere
Detroit
Toledo Warrat
St, Louis
Indianapolis
Kansas City
W.T
Gibraltar
C. V. Walls
Arcola
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