Which Will Put Grover in the Presidential Chair
Immense crowds fill the Capitol for the formal count of electors as Grover Cleveland is declared president elect and Adlai Stevenson vice president for the term starting March 4, 1893. The joint session ends with the official journals to be entered and relief funds being raised for sufferers by exchanges in Memphis Vicksburg and New Orleans led by the New Orleans board of trade at $5,000.
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Wasmuyartoy
D. C
Cleveland
Morton
Senate
Tiptonny
Hale
Maine
Kentucky
Mandereon
Nebraska
Harris
Tennessee
Ludge Chip
Ingalls
Crisp
Semaegah
Grover Cleveland
New York
United States
Adria E. Stevenson
House of Representatives
House
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
New Orleans Board of Trade
Four Thousand Louisiana Families Face Starvation Amid Floods
Memrnis Tennessee February 8 Four thousand people in Concordia and Calhoun parishes in northern Louisiana are on the verge of starvation. Floods last summer ruined crops and prolonged flooding barred planting. Those remaining rely on wild game for subsistence, with deaths feared if relief is delayed.
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Memrenis
Tenn
Concordia
Calhouls
Louisiana
Wreck of Big Four Train Near Pana Leaves Dozen Injured
The Big Four passenger train No. 12 derailed one mile east of Pana Illinois after a broken rail in extreme cold. Baggageman Charles Ressler killed as the engine survived and the train burned. many passengers injured and Mrs Laughlin and four children burned.
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St. Louis
Big Four
Fitzgerald
Pana
Ill
Charles Ressler
Indianapolis
Samuel C. Doolittle
Madison
Ind
Express Messenger
C. H. Barr
A.M. Travers
Cincinnati
Samuel Cohen
Houston
Texas
Fox
Armstrong
Birmingham
Conway
St. James Hotel
Tower Hill
Laughlin
Cleveland
Criminal operation alleged by patient against doctors in New York
Maggie Mannon, dangerously ill from blood poisoning at Dr. Sara R. Chase’s residence, claims criminal operations were performed in the past two weeks. She named Florence F. Donovan as responsible, saying he paid part of her fee. Coroner Schultze ordered the arrest of Dr. Chase and Dr. Frederick Dimmiere based on her ante mortem statement. In a separate item, the steamer Trinacria struck rocks near Mave and thirty passengers drowned.
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New York
Maggie Mannon
Sara R. Chase
West Thirtyninth Street
Schultze
Florence F. Donovan
State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Flower
Sara Chase
Frederick Dimmiere
West Fortieth Street
Gresham Rumored as Secretary of State for Cleveland
Washington reports a New York rumor that Judge Walter Q. Gresham of Chicago will join President Cleveland's cabinet as secretary of state. Gresham reportedly accepted after hidden negotiation led by Don Dickinson, with bipartisan support from prominent Democrats.
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New York
Walter Q. Gresham
Chicago
Cleveland
Judge Gresham
Gresham
Washington
Mr. Cleveland
Bfr. Whitney
Whitney
Dickinson
Don Dickinson
Syndicate Forms to Buy Indiana Gas Plants
A capital rich syndicate forms to acquire many natural gas plants in Indiana including Crawfordsville Lebanon Thorntown and Darlington with options already held. An expert reports to Chicago while talks to purchase Kokomo Anderson Muncie Elwood Marion and other gas belt plants proceed. Chester Pipe and Tube Company's refusal to sell hinders the first four plants. Indianapolis not involved.
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Indianaports
Crawfordsville
Lebanon
Thorntown
Darlington
Chicago
Kokomo
Anderson
Muncie
Elwood
Marion
Murder at St Louis saloon ends in fatal shooting
Frank Drost of 1002 Allen avenue was shot dead at 9 PM by George Doetzel at Jacob Gent's saloon 1901 Lynch street. Drost and his wife separated two months earlier and she had filed for divorce. Doetzel had been living at the saloon with Mrs Doetzel amid Drost's suspicions of an affair.
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St Louis
Frank Drost
Allen Avenue
George Doetzel
Jacob Gent
Lynch Street
Drost
Doetzel
State’s Largest Gas Well Discovered Near Moxtreeter
A huge gas well was drilled yesterday one mile south of Moxtreeter Indiana. It is the largest in the state and the escaping gas noise is unbearable. Nathan Henderson living nearby has been forced to abandon his home due to the eruption and odor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moxtreeter
Ind
Nathan Henderson
Protectorate Established in Hawaii by Minister Stevens
News from San Francisco reports Secretary Foster avoiding comment on Stevens action as annexation commissioners learn of a formal protectorate in Hawaii. Details note internal dissensions, the oath of allegiance, repealing the lottery act, and recognition by multiple nations as the provisional government gains stability. Miss Stevens’s death by drowning is confirmed.
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Wasaixetox
Preas
San Francisco
State Department
Hawaiian Islands
Stevens
Foster
Steven
Thurston
Annexation Commission
United States
Carter
Thornton
Honolulu
Kinney
Salt Lake
Executive Council
Dross
Mr. Kinney
Miss Stevens
Hawaii
Australis
Paul Neuman
Prince David
Kalakua
Navy
Lilioukanlana
Kahinaus
Japan
France
Great Britain
Chile
Denmark
Germany
Austro-Hungary
Spain
Portugal
Peru
Netherlands
Tennesser Genius Aims to Eclipse Pennington in Flight Venture
The article describes Marcellus McGary of near Memphis Tennessee presenting an airship model with a buoyant balloon section and a fishlike hull. It uses wings and a tail to govern flight, foldable oar propellers for starting, electric motors with storage batteries for power, and landing legs to cushion touchdown.
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Tak Sextinex
E. J. Pennington
Mt. Carmel
Jil
Chicago
Mr. Pennington
Marcellus McGary
Memphis
Tenn
Lafayette Riot Grand Jury Indicts Ten
Lafayette Ind Feb 8 the grand jury indicts ten men for riot and assault and battery with intent to kill stemming from the opera house riot of the prior Thursday warrants issued to the sheriff and served last night all defendants bound over to court in bonds from 100 to 1400 dollars
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Lafayette
Ind
Veteran Banker Rufus Hatch Seriously Ill at Home
Rufus Hatch, veteran banker and Wall Street operator, is seriously ill at his Spuyton Dayvel home. Confined for over a week, physicians report a critical case due to a complication of diseases causing heart failure.
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New Yor
Rufus Hatch
Wall Street
Spuyton Dayvel
Hatch
Many Fine Buildings to be Erected in the Spring
Real estate and building outlook in Fort Wayne shows an active spring. Plans for the Tri State Building and Loan association building rise on Berry Court site at 100000, eight stories, brick and stone with iron supports. Saengerbund and Christian church projects also progress with multiple residences and business blocks planned by Wing Mahurin Kendrick and Riedel firms.
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Fort Wayne
Mahurin
Tri State Building and Loan Association
Berry and
Court Streets
Flota
Chas. E. Kendrick
New Christian Church
Griffith and
Jefferson Streets
Solomon Rothschild
Broadway
Wayne Streets
Theodore Frank
Aaron Rothschild
Kendrick
Gust. Fox
Fox and
Walnut Streets
J. M. E. Riedel
P. J. Meyers
Nickel Plate
South Harrison Street
P. Pickard
Taber and
Harrison Streets
Riedel
Fred Eckart
Lafayette
Messra
A. Hattersley & Sons
Berry Street
Clinton and
Barr
Lizzie Porter
Calhoun Street
Sentixel
S. C. Search
Lakeside
KR. C. McDonald
Aveline House
Strange diamond robbery at Nathan Rothschild residence
A peculiar diamond theft reported to police targets the 142 144 West Berry Street home of Julius Nathan and Benjamin Rothschild. valuables including watches chains rings and earrings vanished from unlocked drawers with losses estimated between 1300 and 1500 dollars. detectives suspect entry over a stone porch or concealment inside the house while neighbors note no snow tracks near the balcony.
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Julius Nathan
Benjamin Rothschild
Weat Berry Street
Calhoun Street
Ben Rothschild
Mrs. Nathan
Henry Lapp
Lapp
Wilkinson
Nathan-Rothschild
Senvigsel
Dover County Insane Hospital Fire Claims Forty Four Lives
A fire at the county insane asylum four miles from Dover New Hampshire last night killed forty four inmates and left four escapees among the forty eight residents. keeper William Driscol attempted rescues before the flames overwhelmed the building.
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Dover
N. H
Fort Wayne Soldiers Recall Mexican War Service
A retrospective from Allen County recounts the two early Fort Wayne led companies under Capt. Lewis and Capt. McLain enlisting for one year. They marched to New Albany for the First Indians regiment, served at Saltillo and Monterey, and returned home June 1847 amid public cheers.
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Fort Wayne
Allans County
México
Allen County
David W. Lewis
John McLain
New Albany
Orgaigai
Cincinnati
J. B. Dodge
Warsaw
J. P. Drake
New Orleans
Rio Grande River
Saltillo
Monterey
Taylor
Camargo
Brazos Springs
Lewis
Brad B
Samuel Chapman
Daniel Fox
Charles Huntington
Simon Hamilton
Andrew Holinger
Thomas Hurley
John R. Heaton
James B. Leach
Clinton Lefavour
Johan McMahon
Cornelius Martin
Watson Moore
Isaac B
Norman
Kennedy O'Brien
William Rozell
Charles Rozell
Levi Ross
Perry Spratt
Laughlin Thomas
George A. Tingley
William Thompson
John Wireman
Geo. W. Williams
Gibson Watkins
Enos
Mexico
D. W. Lewis
Thomas K. Lewis
John B. Sawtell
Ira G. Williamson
Jos. K. Weaks
Geo. A. Gorman
Albert Weat
Luther Swartwort
James Baxter
David Coleman
John P. Bales
Tarael Hosner
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Tion
Caicaco
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Gorman
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Capitaliats
Louis
Minister Stevens
Government House
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Neuman
Pennington
Grand Jury
Hetain
Tri-State
Senngerburd’s
Lombard
Messrs
Romy & Bobilya
Romy
Messrs Glutting
Bauer & Hartnett
West Berry Street
Jailaa Nathan
Alien County
J. M Kells
Sonia
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