Weekly Review of Notable 1890s Incidents
An 1890s styled summary reports deaths from May 4 to May 9 including Eugene Raymond in Peoria and General Norris Halsted in Newark. It notes arson in Teaneck Wisconsin and a fatal family shooting in Jeffersonville Indiana. Mob violence at Hatton Missouri followed by a murder near Nebraska City. British Army veteran Thomas Leonard found dead with Tokiu bank deposit. rewards offered. Medical Association session with a call for funding scientific research. Diplomatic tensions include Red Sea and Dardanelles issues, Ottoman and American consular clashes, and European debates on anti socialists in Germany. Italy considered exchanges with Gladstone on Egyptian policy.
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Scott E. Smith
Des Moines
Reynolds
Patterson
Truro
Madison County
Osceola
Eugene Raymond
Peoria
Ill
Norris Halsted
Newark
N. J
Princeton College
Hatton
Fulton
Ham Patterson
Julius
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Ham
Nebraska City
Thomas Leonard
Eighty-fourth Regiment
Tokio
Japan
American Medical Association
Washington
George M. Sternburg
U.S. A
Congress
National Board of Health
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Navy
Mediterranean
Tenedos
Baldwin
Wallace
Constantinople
Assam Pasha
Porte
Dardanelles
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Paris
Free Sea
Russia
Cream Sponser Cake And Graham Gems Recipe Compare
Two egg batter with cream and sugar yields a light cake. Graham gems mix Graham flour baking powder shortening sugar salt and milk to a thin batter. some instructions add an egg. Preheat greased pans bake gems in fifteen minutes on a hot oven and finish on upper rack. Moral line about history of the world.
Friction Between France and Morocco Roils Diplomatic Ties
Morocco refuses to dismiss the Wazan governor at a French demand, prompting the immediate lowering of the French legation flag and a rupture in Franco Moroccan relations. Egypt notes mass refugee movements from Korosko and Khartoum with evacuation ongoing.
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Morocco
Wazan
Egypt
Assouan
Korosko
Khartoum
Nortley
Nile
Dongola
Senate bill bars aliens from real estate in territories
Summary of a Senate proposal by Mr. Plumb to block real estate purchases by aliens and by foreign corporations above 10 percent in the Territories and District of Columbia. Also notes railroad land exceptions, government grant bonds, and new Union Pacific directors. Includes reports from forestry, tariff, medical, and war department notes and related testimony and actions.
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Plumb
Territories
District of Columbia
Colgate Hoyt
New York
Edmund L. Joy
New Jersey
H. L. Merriman
Iowa
Frank Colpetter
Nebraska
D. R. Anthony
Kansas
Union Pacific Railroad Company
American Forestry Congress
Washington
Agricultural Building
Loring
G. W. Milner
Illinois
Edmund Is
Montana
Rel Callon
Nelson
Strait and Wakefield
Minnesota
Arnot Hutchins
Miller
Spriggs
van Alstyne
Wemple
Pennsylvania
Boyle
Connolly
Curtin
Duncan
Ellett
Ermentrout
Hopkins
Mutchler
Patton
Post
Randall
Storm
Ohio
Converse
Foran
Geddes
Jordan
Lefevre
Murray
Paige
Sney
Warner
Wilkins
Farrell
Fiedler
McAdoo
California
Budd
Glascock
Summer
Tully
Maryland
Findlay
Finerty
Connecticut
Eaton
Louisiana
Hunt
Virginia
G. D. Wise
West Virginia
Snyder
American Medical Association
van Kline
Association
Haynes
Jeannette
Emma DeLong
DeLong
Bennett
Secretary of War
Fort Columbus
New York Harbor
United States
Greely
Tariff debate and absorbing land bill in Congress
In Washington May 3 to May 9, 1885, the House debated the Morrison tariff and struck the enacting clause by 159 to 155. The session also covered the navy appropriation, foreign land absorption inquiries, and coastal shipping measures. The Senate pressed the shipping bill amid tariff reform clashes, with Morrison urging protection and critics predicting tariff chaos.
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Senate
Potomac River
HOUSE
Cox
New York
Brown
Pennsylvania
Townsend
Randall
Kasson
Europe
United States
Morrison
Democratic Party
Congress
Iowa
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Michigan
California
Page
Burrows
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Hubbell
Converse
Yeas
Adams
Ill
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Arnot
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Bingham
Bisbee
Boutelle
Bowen
Boyle
Brainerd
Breitung
Brewer
N. Y
N. J
Browne
Ind
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Budd
Burleigh
Calkins
Campbell
Cannon
Chase
Connolly
Culvertson
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Cutcheon
Davis
Mass
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Eaton
Beck
Frye
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Conger
Bank Failure Rocks Grant Ward Interests and Marine Bank
New York May 6 The Marine National Bank in New York is closed with J D Fish as president. The firm Grant Ward faces suspension amid rumors of a 500000 dollar defalcation and heavy losses. Grants Ward partners include General U S Grant James D Fish and Ferdinand Ward with stock and real estate ties. The clearing house plans to drop the Marine Bank though officials claim solvency and expect a resume in days.
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Marine National Bank
J. D. Fish
Booth’s
Marine Bank
John D Fish
Grant
Alton & Terra Haute
American Cable
C.& Li
Omaha
Western Union
Rochester & Pittsburg
Chicago
St. Louis
Kiernan
Wall Street
Long Island City
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Clearing House
Marine
Association
Camp
Fish
Elwell
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United States
Fisk
General Grant
Fisn
Mystic Flats
Thirty Ninth Street
Broadway
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Produce Exchange
First National Bank
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Seventy-third Street
S. M. Hamilton
Life expectancy table for ages in London insurance data
The table shows average life expectancy for ordinary men and women. It lists remaining years at various ages from one to eighty, noting occasional deviations for premature or unusually long lives. Readers can estimate how long their lives may extend based on age.
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London Assurance Companies
Sound Doctrine on Nature’s laws and personal limits
The text argues that all people cannot break natural laws without a personal cost to body, mind, and morals. It cites Napoleon’s ambitious drive leading to early death, and notes that excess in food or drink shortens life, while strong constitutions may delay consequences. The piece stresses universal penalties beyond religious belief or life views.
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Napoleon
How Mules Came into Fashion in Early America
The article credits George Washington with introducing mules to American farming, noting their hardiness and feed efficiency compared to horses. It mentions gifts from the King of Spain and the Marquis de Lafayette, naming two jacks and jennets sent to Mount Vernon and Malta respectively, and ends with a reflective aphorism on fate and wisdom.
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George Washington
Washington
Mount Vernon
Spain
Jom
Royal Stables
Lafayette
Malta
Titania carries crew of State of Florida after fatal collision
Farther Point May 7 report: the steamship State of Florida sank after a mid ocean collision with a bark. Of 167 aboard, 44 survived in boats, including one stewardess saved by James Bennett. Titania returns to Quebec with 24 Florida crew members aboard. 135 lives lost total.
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Ashire
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James Bennett
London
Ont
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James Bain
Bennett
Allen Asone
Florida
Ponema
Chatham
N. B
Aelburn
Theresa
Christiana
Louisa
Cardiff
James Allen
Thompson
White rat mistaken for kitten delights police
Police Captain McDonnell spots a tame white creature on South Fifth avenue and catches it thinking a kitten. At the station it proves to be a perfectly white rat with pink eyes, later owned by a local storekeeper who explains how rats can be domesticated.
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Charles McDonnell
South Fifth Avenue
Prince Street
Orange Sauce for Game and a Moral Note
Recipe instructions describe making a sauce from orange rind juice bacon onion wine and brown gravy to serve with game. The passage closes with a moral line praising Christian good will as the mother grace of all the graces.
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