Watterson Praises Union Bond At Soldier Campfire
At Music hall campfire 4000 veterans hear Henry Watterson of the Courier Journal deliver a rousing welcome. He urges unity, marks the new birth of freedom, and champions American bravado, urging loyalty and fraternity among ex‑soldiers across states. Commander T. G. Lawler lauds the hospitality as Grand Army of the Republic members pledge their support.
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Lawler
Henri Watterson
Music Hall
Georgia
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier Journal
Citizens Committee
Union
Washington
England
Canada
Spain
Cuba
Minnesota
Watterson
T. G. Lawler
Cavalry Officer Breaks Leg as Horse Slips in Parade Heat
The 10th United States cavalry officer Captain C. E. Nordstrom broke his left leg when his horse slipped during a long parade in extreme heat. Several others collapsed from heat prostration including William Janecke, commander of the department of Missouri, and Lieutenant Colonel Belknap received minor injuries after being kicked. The parade lasted over four hours past a single point and five hours of marching, with an overall successful event despite medical cases.
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C. E. Nordstrom
Tenth
United States Cavalry
Nordstrom
Belknap
William Janecke
Department of Missouri
William Turner
Soldiers Home
Dayton
John Thomas
Michigan
J. H. Perchell
William R. Gill
Department of the Potomac
Henry B. Owen
Philadelphia Old Guard
Gerthart
Pittsburg
A.J. Dixon
Herbert
Springfield
Mass
Democratic nominating shocks at Williamsport convention
The Pennsylvania Democratic state convention adjourned naming Benjamin F. Myers for treasurer by acclamation and selecting judges Harman Yerkes J S Moorehead H Noyes P P Smith Oliver P Bechtel and Christopher Magee. The event featured a party platform backing President Cleveland, criticising the state administration, and a speech by John J. Moloney targeting former governor candidate William M. Singerly.
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Williamsport
Benjamin F. Myers
Harrisburg
Superior Court
Harman Yerkes
Bucks County
J. S. Moorehead
Westmoreland
H. Noyes
Warren
P. P. Smith
Lackawonns
Oliver P. Bechtel
Schuylkill
Chistopher Magee
Allegheny
Cleveland
John J. Moloney
Philadelphia
William M. Singerly
Strike disrupts ore train near Salisbury mine in Ishpeming
A crowd of striking workers near the Salisbury mine released a brake on a midnight ore car train and sent it into the location at 15 miles per hour. Sleepers aboard the train, protected by troops, were hurled from bunks and scattered along the track. One ore chute was damaged as cars derailed and shutes collapsed.
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Ishpeming
Mich
Salisbury
Train Robbers Miss Object In Colorado Hold Up
Grand Junction Colorado September 12 Passenger train No 1 on the Rio Grande was held up at Crevasse siding twenty three miles west of the city. The robbers detached the express car but left the baggagemailing portion and fled on horseback into the mountains.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Rio Grande
Crevasse
Fire Rages Through Conway Springs Destroying Center
Word reached WisCita that a disastrous fire in Conway Springs Summer county destroys half the business district including the post office. The town with 1200 residents lacks fire protection and relies on a bucket brigade now said to have the blaze under control. Loss not yet known.
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Wischita
Kan
Conway Springs
Summer County
Secret Society Clause Sparks Pittsburg Synod Debate
In Youngstown on September 12 a Pittsburg synod meeting attempted to enforce a church constitution clause banning ministers from secret societies deemed un Christian or infidelic. The effort failed as a majority of ministers were secret society members themselves.
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Youngstown
Pittsburg
General Council
Foresters Change Name to Order of Foresters of America
The supreme court of Foresters decreed the organization will henceforth be titled the Order of Foresters of America dropping the word ancient as America is not ancient. The move reflects a shift to emphasize American identity in the fraternal order.
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Cleveland
Supreme Court of Foresters
Order of Foresters of America
America
Baseball scores from Curicana league games
Scores on League diamonds at baseball list results from Pittsburg Cincinnati Pittsburg 6 to 2 Baltimore Brooklyn 3 to 2 New York Boston 9 to 5 Washington Philadelphia 10 to 4 with New York and Washington winning their games.
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Curicana
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Brooklyn
New York
Bostern
Washington
Philadelphia
Bicycle Record Broken at Springfield Meet
Five thousand spectators watched the Springfield bicycle club meet open with A. W. Porter winning the 5 mile handicap race in 11 34 breaking the professional record by 16 seconds.
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Springfield
Mass
A. W. Porter
Hottest September Day Hit Chicago This Month
Chicago records the hottest September day in 25 years with the temperature reaching 93 at 3 PM, aside from one exception. The scorching heat swept the city as residents sought shade and relief from the afternoon sun.
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Chicago
Mercury
Hinshaw Conviction Trial Proceeds With Noted Witnesses
Danville reports indicate William E. Hinshaw’s trial extends as Dr Dryden and Dr Morrison challenge coroner notes. Two women witnesses Nottie Mays and Mary Eastlved recount hearing gunfire and Hinshaw’s pleas as the accused describes Thurza’s shooting and his own injuries during the night.
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Danville
William E. Hinshaw
Morrison
White
Mary East
Hinshaw
Thurzna
Nettie
Thurza
Kentuckians for Carlisle and Indiana Docketed News
Special Examiner James Noonan of Covington Ky. says Carlisle will seek the Democratic presidential nomination and Kentuckians will send a solid delegation. The Anderson grand jury summons targets the Scatterfield gang terrorizing eastern Indiana farmers. The Seventh Indiana regiment held its reunion in Greensburg with 43 veterans. Harry Lyons of Louisville won a regional gun championship at the Limited Gun club tournament. Nelson glass works and Ball Bros. resume operations in Muncie. Captain Milt Fox of rivermen fatal fall near Marengo. A Chicago telegram reports W A Wilson of Indianapolis found dead by suicide. Marion county indicts H H Holmes for murder of Howard Pitzel at Irvington. Perry township farmers report theft losses of hundreds of dollars in live poultry and other property.
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Indianapolis
James Noonan
Covington
John G. Carlisle
Carlisle
Harry Lyons
Louisville
Indiana
Ilinois
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Peoria Blackbirds
George Elliott
Rochester
Lyons
Elliott
Bloodhounds Lead 800 in Search for Criminals
Darlington mounted a hunt with two bloodhounds at the lead as a crowd of about 800 followed, in a high alert search for criminals with feared serious outcomes.
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Darlington
Police clash prompts union suit in Anderson
In Anderson on September 13 a group of union glass workers camping near town say police abused them. The Madison County Federation of Labor and an Anderson Flint Glass Workers' committee have filed suit against the police and the board of commissioners on multiple charges.
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Anderson
Madison County Federation of Labor
Anderson Flint Glass Workers’ Union
Police
Board of Commissioners
Wealthy stock dealer Conrad Amspaugh Dies on Street
Decatur Sept 12 Conrad Amspaugh a wealthy stock dealer in this county collapsed and died on the street shortly after finishing a hog sale and counting money. The exact cause was not released.
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Decatur
Conrad Amspaugh
Coroner’s verdict finds Holmes guilty of murder in Pitzel case
A Marion County coroner verdict convicts Holmes the insurance swindler of murder in the Howard Pitzel killing. The Government bond syndicate deposits 3 million dollars in gold at the sub treasury, lifting the gold reserve to above the limit. James Asbury dies in London. long-ago yachtsman linked to America’s Cup races. Fire destroys two large tobacco warehouses in Lancaster with losses about 135000. Racial riot suit seeks 2400 damages in Spring Valley Indiana for household goods losses.
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Marion County
Ind
Holmes
Howard Pitzel
James Asbury
Cambria
Livonia
England
America
London
Lancaster
Roland Brubaker
John F. Brimmer
Amos B. Hastetter
John B. Brimmer
Spring Valley
Inls
R. C. Meade
Atchison, Kan
New York
William Peplow
Wellington
Prince Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Rustchuk
Winona
Minn
Victor Baillot
Waterloo
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
General Lafayette
Scituate
BR. 1
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Joseph Sands
Rice Station
St. Cloud
Lizzie Bayard
Standish
Mich
Charles Kennedy
Cleveland
Edward Scott
Washington
Anarchists to Hold a Meeting in London October
Berlin correspondent reports rumors that anarchists from all countries will convene in London in October for a meeting.
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Loxpon
Berlin
the Standard
London
Opening Day At Atlanta Cotton States Exposition
Opening day in Atlanta for the Cotton States and International Exposition on Sept. 18 draws many visitors. Governors from about a dozen states attend along with a large military parade and speeches by notable figures led by Judge Emery Speer. Businesses close noon to four. crowds head to the park for the electric fountain and Paine’s pyrotechnic display. Blue and Gray Day on Sept. 21 is expected to bring 100000 visitors.
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Atlanta
Emery Speer
Georgia
Paine
Jacksonville Board of Trade Urges Cuban Belligerent Recognition
The Jacksonville Board of Trade adopted resolutions urging the U S government to recognize the Cuban revolutionists as belligerents and asking Florida senators and representatives to push for recognition at the earliest opportunity.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville Board of Trade
United States
Florida
Markets Review: Currency, Grains, and Live Stock
New York markets show easy money on call and steady sterling with bankers’ bills at 4949 to 5400. Chicago grain quotes record wheat and corn movements while Park and lard prices float. Chicago live stock data list hogs cattle and sheep with varied shipping and local price ranges.
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Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Chicago Grain and Produce
Chicago
Sept. l
Board of Trade
California
Union
ITV
Texas
Ghosts of Hillsdale Copake tavern haunt remembered
A 19th century tale from Hillsdale to Copake recalls an uncanny house near a former tavern where a headless black animal vanished into an old well. A schoolteacher lodger heard chains and coffinlike sounds. the well was filled, a farm house built, and many tales faded after the war.
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Copake
Hillsdale
John Shafer
Vandeusen
N. Y. Herald
Seals in Central Park Zoo Drama Ends in Truce
A New York Times tale from Central Park Zoo describes a domestic dispute among a seal family. The mother seal attacks the father while pelican bystanders also harass the seals. After twenty minutes of chaos, the wife relents and allows her mate to stay in the tank.
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Central Park
Zoo
New York Times
Papa Seal
Mamma Seal
Parrots in St Louis Value Revealed as Talkative Yet Shy
Parrots priced 50 to 150 dollars in St Louis often refuse to converse with strangers in shops. They are among the best talkers once customers depart, showing higher receptivity to women than men and proving intelligence that buyers overlook.
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St. Louis
Gambler Felix Knox Killed by Apaches Near Clifton
In spring 1882 Felix Knox, a gambler, rode with his wife and baby toward Clifton from Silver City. At Yorke's ranch on the Gila River they faced Apache riders. Knox leapt from the wagon to cover the retreat, sacrificing himself as Apaches opened fire and left no one dead.
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Wilson
Felix Knox
Knox
Tenderfoot
Clifton
Yorke
Baby
Alvay
Knox Slain in Indian Raid After Sharpshooter Duel
A Mexican driver fled to the ranch as Indians surrounded Knox. Knox fired from his Winchester, killing seven attackers before dying. The raiders left Knox unscathed in death, covering his face with a handkerchief weighted by stones, and returned with forty two attackers leaving seventy empty shells behind.
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Knox
Winchester
Nickel Plate Offers Saturday Lake Maxinkuckee Excursions
The Nickel Plate road promotes low rate excursion tickets to Lake Maxinkuckee every Saturday through September 28. The notice also mentions agent requirements and a program on the fourth page for the September 28 races.
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Nickel Plate Road
Lake Maxinkuckee
Coin's Financial School and Continuation Texts
W H Harvey outlines Coin's Financial School a practical guide for youths with 150 pages and 64 illustrations. It is promoted as reliable and entertaining with editions priced from 25 cents to 1.00 and bundled cloth volumes offered by Times-Post Fort Wayne.
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W. H Harvey
Coin’s Financial School
W. H. Harvey
Coin
Chicago
Financial School
United States
Corn’s Financia
Times-Post
Fort Wayne
Harvey-laughlin
Price Times-Posi
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George O. Steel
Oklahoma
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J. B. Henderson
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EB. A. Blodgett
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Simon Holiver Buckner
Fort Donaldson
Buckner
National Park
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Weisinger
New Albany
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General Lawler
W.R. C
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Swindler Holmes
Scatterfield
Sceatterfield
Greensburg
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Heron
G. A. R. Hall
Muncie
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Ball Bros
Marengo
Milt Fox
W. A. Wilson
McCoy's Hotel
Marion County Grand Jury
H. H. Holmes
Irvington
Perry Township
Westerson
Mellin
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New York Financial
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Old Virginia
Mrs. Seal
Gambler
HOK PS
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Cashiar
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Fort Wayne, Ind
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Peansylvania
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Wayne, Ind
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Lake Erie & Western Railroads
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Arrrive
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Dam
New York Palace
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R.G. Thompson
Rand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
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