Coffin sentenced in bank wreck case. supersedeas granted
Judge Baker sentences Francis A. Coffin, former Indianapolis Cabinet Co. president, to eight years on seven counts for wrecking the Indianapolis National Bank. Writ of supersedeas allows remaining out on bail while Supreme Court review proceeds. Coffin to stay free pending higher court ruling. Also notes gifts for the battleship Indiana, Sheerin Matthews chat on presidential bid, Zelda Seguin Wallace suit vs Vandalia Railway, and 1896 Christian Endeavor convention site chosen as Muncie.
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Supreme Court
Indiana
Sheerin
Gov. Matthews
Shelbyville
Inianapolis
Baker
Federal Court
Francis A. Coffin
Indianapolis Cabinet Company
Indianapolis National Bank
F. A. Coffin
Woods
United States Court of Appeals
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court of the United States
Coffin
Indiana Battleship Committee
Matthews
John H. Holliday
S. P. Sheerin
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
Matthews’ Stanch
Wallace
Zelda Seguin-Wallace
Vandalia Railway Company
Coatesville
Remonstrances Nullified In Nicholson Law Decision
Judge Rabb of the Warren circuit court ruled remonstrances against liquor licenses null and void as they were too specific. Saloonkeepers Mathis and Karst of Williamsport had sought licenses after remonstrances from township voters were withdrawn to create a minority. The licenses were approved and the men continue operating at their previous stands.
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Attica
Rabb
Warren Circuit Court
Mathis
Karst
Williamsport
Circuit Court
Fire Damages Wapasa Properties and Injures Driver
Press Brown was run over and badly hurt as a fire at Leesburg caused $8,000 in damage to multiple structures. C Knight's wagon shop Mrs Tee ple's home and several stables including Hd Carpenter's Chris Normans Ho Scales were burned in the blaze.
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Wapasa
Press Brown
Leesburg
C. Knight
Attorney Arrested for Embezzlement in BEDFORD
Bedford October 28. Harry Kelly an attorney was arrested on a warrant for embezzlement. He had procured a divorce for a woman named Clark and received $100 alimony. The woman says the payment order was forged and Kelly has not accounted for the funds. He is jailed awaiting the next circuit court term.
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Bedford
Harry Kelly
Clark
Kelly
Highwaymen hold up resident near Union City
In Union City on October 28 at about 4 am John Mangus, who lives five miles north, was returning from town with a doctor when two highwaymen halted him near the Roman Catholic cemetery two miles north. They forced him from his buggy and rifled his pockets before ordering him to drive on.
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Union City
John Mangus
Painter Rollin Stibbins Dies After Factory Fall
In Kokomo on October 28 Rollin Stibbins a 26 year old painter who was unmarried fell from a factory and was crushed by the fall. He died from his injuries.
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Kokomo
Rollin Stibbins
Divorce on incompatibility ends Mrs. Truxton Beale union
Mrs. Truxton Beale nee Blaine has separated from her husband and the two will be divorced. Incompatibility of temper cited as the reason.
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Truxton Beale
Blaine
Prince Bismarck
Schwenninger
Illinois
Missouri
St. Louis
Atlanta Exposition
New York City
Alex Nicol
Chicago
J. H. Deatherage
Pacific Coast Lumber and Milling Company
Fair Haven
Wash
W. A. Armstrong
J. W. Whittemore
M. W. Newkirk
Dubois
Pennsylvania
Gillstown
Mapes
Clearfield
Mitchell
Toledo
Wisconsin
John Skanidore
Piano
Tex
Dallas
Josie Richter
Lacon
Iowa
Washington
Gotham
Fire Devastates Virginia University Buildings
A blaze at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville caused the hall and rotunda to burn so severely that dynamite was used on the portico to aid the effort. Old Chapel and reading room were blown up to contain the fire. Total loss estimated at not less than $300,000 with $25,000 insured. origin unknown.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Great Combine in Tanglefoot
New York reports a giant distilleries merger with a fifth company joining, consolidating control of 5 percent of production, under a pact signed by American Spirits Manufacturing American Distributing American Distilling Atlas Globe and Mutual firms. The agreement takes effect immediately and covers major distillers and affiliated small distilleries nationwide.
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New York
United States
American Spirits Manufacturing
The
Whisky Trust
American Distributing
American Distilling
Atlas, Globe and Mutual Companies
Grandson accused in deathbed attack in Glasgow Delaware
Harriet Lewis a 55 year old colored woman of Glasgow Newcastle county stated on her deathbed that her grandson David Grinnage about 17 assaulted her last Thursday night. She claimed he struck her with a club and beat her into insensibility before she died.
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Delaware
Wilmington
Del
Harriet Lewis
Glasgow
Newcastle County
David Grinnage
Rail accident near Crum's Point injures ten on Grand Trunk
A Grand Trunk line wreck west of Crum's Point leaves ten injured, the worst being Henry Muir with a probable skull fracture. John Hoban of Port Hope suffers a broken leg. No fatalities. The crash followed a culvert burning out.
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Grand Trunk
Crum's Point
Henry Muir
John Hoban
Port Huron
Ex-Recorder Admits Returns Were Forged in Fraud Case
In Lexington Missouri on October 28 C S Owsley former recorder of voters under indictment denied collusion with Bradbury Moran and others to swell poll books. He stated he did not know who forged the returns after they reached his office.
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Lexington
Kansas City
Recorder of Voters
C. S. Owsley
Bradbury
Moran
Owsley
Postoffice Robber Identified in Illinois
James Schlo ran alias James Connors alias Conway captured in a Springfield saloon after a gun fight with police identified as a member of the gang that robbed post offices at Grafton Jersey county and Riggston Madison county. Weather indications for twenty four hours from yesterday p m show fair weather for Indiana Illinois with cooler temperatures and northwest winds. Lower Michigan will have fair weather with local snows at lake stations and colder winds. Upper Michigan sees light snows and colder northerly winds. Wisconsin will be mostly clear with local snows.us
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Springfield
Ills
James Schloran
James Connors
Conway
Grafton
Jersey County
Riggston
Madison County
Washington
Indiana
Illinois
Lower
Michigan
Upper
Wisconsin
Beaver Farming A Profitable North Dakota Industry
Beaver farming in McLean county North Dakota is described as a profitable venture. Farmers flood small ponds with dammed streams, fence in beaver colonies, and harvest by flushing beavers to capture and skin them for market. Initial year yields are low but second year expansions promise income.
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McLean County
North Dakota
Elopement Plot Ends With Irate Father Shock
A Norristown head clerk falls in love but faces parental opposition. His employer counsels eloping with the girl at a ball, aided by a coachman. The plan backfires when the daughter is found to be the employer’s own kin, prompting a remorseful father’s plea for return and forgiveness.
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Norristown
N. Y
Joseph
Creole Beauty and Heat in Barbadoes and French Colonies
A correspondent notes that in Barbadoes and French colonies the term Creole covers descendants of French and Spanish settlers. Creole women are described as very beautiful with tropical heat enhancing dark features. The piece contrasts Latin beauty with Anglo-Saxon skin changes under sun, and mentions quadroon girls often surpassing Creoles in dress and appearance.
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Barbadoes
Past of Walters Lost After Train Fall
Rudolph Walters of Toledo Ohio was discharged from Samaritan Hospital after a skull fracture and severe contusions from a train fall. He recovered but woke with complete memory loss from the past twenty one years, forgetting even his mother’s face. Doctors attribute the amnesia to a brain hemorrhage and say he must begin schooling anew.
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Rudolph Walters
Toedo, O
Samaritan Hospital
Walters
Allen
English Currant Cake Recipe
One pint dark Porto Rico molasses, one pint New Orleans molasses, or one quart of one of the two, one and one half pints of water, three-fourths pound of lard, two handfuls of brown sugar, one and one-half ounces salaratus, two tablespoonfuls vinegar, two spoonuls of ginger, one spoonful of cinnamon and one and one-half pounds currants, all mixed. Add sufficient very soft, cheap pastry flour to make soft dough. Fill in paper-lined, greased winecake tins. Bake medium warm, and when done frost with chocolate. Chocolate is a very fine combination flavor with almost all cinnamon or ginger flavored bakestuffs.
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Porto Rico
New Orleans
Baker
Railway for Rats Demonstrated by Paris Expert
A Russian named Dourof in Paris trains rats and studies their habits. A visitor observed the expert exhibit a rat railway in a circle and noted the unusual performance of the uncaged rodents.
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Paris
Dourof
Rats Run Train Carriages Aboard Clockwork Engine
A staged railway with five or six rats per carriage moves a clockwork engine along a track beside a small wooden station. Dourof trains a cage of rats to occupy first, second, and third class coaches while porters push luggage vans. a station-master rat oversees operations.
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Dourof
Engle
M. Duurof
Five enslaved former slaves in Cumberland County Tennessee
Clarence J. Bunn describes five Black individuals living as unpaid laborers on a Cumberland County plantation. He portrays the group as content, with quarters, neglected repairs, and a prewar plantation system echoed in modern times, despite their freedom.
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Cumberland County
Tenn
Clarence J. Bunn
St. Fan
Minn
Lincoln
Gicbe-Democrat
Love Betrayed Shapes France's President Casimir-Perier
The future president Casimir-Perier was spurned in a noble betrothal, prompting a break with the conservatives of Faubourg St. Germain. His heartache led him to join the Republicans, cementing a turn from royalist circles to a radical stance.
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Frince
M. Casimir-Perier
M. Casimir- Perier
France
Faubourgs
M. Cassimir-Perier
England Buys Toads from Trimble Boys for London Market
In Trimble Tennessee boys catch toads for Frank Eaton an English gentleman who ships them to London and across Great Britain to market gardeners who use them to control pests. Eaton pays two cents per dozen to the boys and earns two dollars per dozen on resale. Toads are packed in multi level boxes with air holes though Eaton says air is unnecessary for humane reasons. No food is placed in the containers.
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Trimble
Tenn
Frank Eaton
London
Great Britain
Mr. Eaton
The Ocean Floor Could Hold a Cable Route
A U S surveying vessel findings report a flat Pacific seabed between Hawaii and California where a railroad grade could be set for 600 miles as soundings are taken for a submarine cable project.
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Pacific
Hawaii
California
United States
Paris workingman's bed folds into half a minute
A model Paris workingman's bed stead is designed to be taken down and reassembled in thirty seconds. Springs enable instant curtains to surround the bed and a washstand to slide inside. A second spring converts the bed into a canopy for invalids without movement.
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Paris
Helstead
Rockefeller as Deacon and Major Contributor in New York Church
John D. Rockefeller, a longtime millionaire, serves as a deacon at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York and regularly passes the collection box on Sundays. He is a significant contributor to church and educational work, leads a secluded life, and keeps out of politics. He works more hours than most of his employees, reflecting his industrious nature.
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John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
New York
Boy Swallowed Toad and Tadpole Cause of Death
Six year old Arthur Bentz died near Cumberland Pennsylvania from what doctors thought scarlet fever. Later it was found he died from swallowing a toad and a tadpole coerced by companions.
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Arthur Bentz
Cumberland
Peculiar Goajira Indians of Colombia Explored by Simons
A report on the Goajira people in northeastern Colombia who live in a caste system. Mr Simons led an exploration and secured an escort to study them. The tribe holds all members of an offending caste responsible for any act, and vendetta is common. Three white men were roasted after being found stealing native girls for slavery. Rum traders fear retribution since sellers are liable for damages caused by alcohol. The region offers limited but notable sights for all daring enough to follow Simons’ path.
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Columbia
Caribbean Sea
Simons
Simona
Wrk
Blotter Evidence Sinks Alibi in Murder Trial
In Norman Oklahoma a murder trial hinged on a blotter found at a hotel. The clerk recalled the suspect visiting the writing room and experts proved the blotter’s writing matched the defendant. The alibi collapsed and the defendant was convicted.
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Norman
Ocean sand gold claim formed at Tacoma Walsh
A Tacoma Walsh company seeks to mine Pacific Ocean beach sands for gold using a secret method. Gold traces appear along the Pacific coast from Juan de Fuca Straits to Southern California in small paying patches. The firm holds exclusive rights to beach stretches in Washington Oregon and Southern California with platinum and rhodium also reported at Beard's Hollow.
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Tacoma
Walsh
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Coast
Straits of Juan de Fuca
California
Washington
Oregon
Beard's Hollow
Lake in Sinaloa Vanishes After Earthquakes
A lake thirty miles long and twelve wide in Sinaloa evaporated after nearby quakes. The water sank into the ground leaving many fish on the bed. A large crevice appeared at the bottom revealing an underground outlet toward the ocean.
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Sinaloa
Mexico
Sierra Madre Mountains
Hanging Gardens of Babylon A History Mystery
The piece notes that history is vague on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and that Herodotus omits them Pliny barely mentions them and Nebuchadnezzar is silent. Popular lore claims immense earth baskets of iron and brass measuring 400 feet square hung on arches near the Babylonian palace.
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Babylon
Herodotus
Pliny
Nebuchadnezzar
A Queer Bit of Fare of Isaac Golden MP
English M. P. Isaac Golden aged 86 outlines his peculiar daily meals. Breakfast and tea include a baked apple banana orange two grapes and a banana flour biscuit with butter. Lunch is three ounces of beef or mutton crushed and sifted, served with a half cup of soup poured over it.
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Isaac Golden
Prince of Wales argues over salary amid huge royal funds
The article notes Albert Edward’s annual 200,000 wage being small against 9,000,000 spent by the Queen. It contrasts royal income with public spending and questions perceived sufficiency of the prince’s pay. It laments railway casualties: 2,600 killed and 26,000 wounded last year and advocates stricter carrier protections.
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Prince of Wales
Qear
Albert Edward
Heat Endurance Study Notes on Human Tolerance
A passage discusses human endurance to extreme heat, noting the boiling point of water at 212 degrees and the skin as a poor conductor. It mentions men withstanding 300 degrees for several minutes without injury, highlighting the role of perspiration cooling the body.
Coin's Financial School and Its Sequel in One Volume
The advertisement touts Coin's Financial School by W. H. Harvey with 150 pages and 64 illustrations, priced 50 cents for paper and 1.00 cloth. It promotes Corn's Financial School Continued with 200 pages and 50 illustrations, urging readers to study both, plus a combined cloth edition for 1.00. Times-Post Fort Wayne invites orders.
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Coin’s Financial School
W. H. Harvey
Urtro Dare
Corn’s Financiay School
Cor
Chicago
Corn
Financial School
United States
Coin
Times-Post
Fort Wayne
W. H Harvey
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Announcement
Fort Wayne timetables note a change effective September 22, 1885 for routes toward Grand Rapids and North, with services from Richmond. The terse notice confirms a schedule adjustment and routing details for passengers and operations.
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Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Fort Wayne
Grand Rapids
Aorth
Richmond
Wyter
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Canada
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L. Railroad
F Daly
HC Parker
Hamilton National Bank
Capital
Harles McCulloch
John Mohr
Richmand
J.C. Peltier
Undertaker
Embalmer
West Wayne St
Fort Wayne, Ind
WV. McKinnie
Propietar
Fort Wayne, Inc
East Berry Street
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