Tammany controls rivalry at national convention
Hill and Gray gains momentum as Tammany aligns with Indiana’s Bright and Coakley for door keeper and tickets. The plan concentrates seating and access to 12,000 convention tickets, limiting opponents and signaling a Hill and Gray favored outcome amid Chicago’s setup. Cardinal Rampolla backs Chicago World’s Fair exhibit with papal support. Rampolla, aged forty eight Sicilian diplomat and theologian, serves as pope’s secretary of state and is described as ascetic and deeply knowledgeable.
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Tammany
Brice
Colonel Bright
Indiana
Bright
Tom Coakley
Tammanyite
Hill
Gray
Chicago
Pope
Cardinal Erampolla
Holy See
Cardinal Rampolla
Rampolla
Papal
Profit and Loss. Electric light business insights read
At the National Electric Light association convention Erastus Tyman reads a paper noting enormous demand for electricity yet widespread misperceptions about cost and profitability. He warns that cheap claims mislead the public, stresses higher prices for safe reliable service, and urges accurate cost accounting and better depreciation awareness.
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Erastus Tyman
Burrato
National Electric Light Association
Ical
Friends of Electrical Industry
Speaker Crisp in Serious Illness Sparks Alarm
Is a very sick man. Wasnutleton February 24. Speaker Crisp is gravely ill and friends fear it may be a long time before he can resume his duties as speaker. A close associate admitted the concern yesterday.
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Wasnutleton
Crisp
Mrs Humphry Ward Publishes New Metaphysical Novel
The literary world reports Mrs. Humphry Ward's latest metaphysical novel The History of David Grieve. Known for Robert Elsmere, she remains more admired among educated readers than popular masses, with a lineage linked to Dr. Arnold of Rugby and a father who shifted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholic faith.
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Ward
Arnold
Rugby
Church of England
Barrillas Accused in Guatemala Shooting Breakdown
Special from San Salvador recounts opposition claims that Barrillas ordered the killing of Gen. Enriquez and his party in a haycinda defense, with a fierce battle leaving Enriquez, his brothers, and servants dead or wounded while troops seized the entrenched position. Rumors tie Barrillas to possible executions of presidential candidates.
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Barrilas
New York
San Salvador
Miguel Enriquez
Guatemala
Barrillas
Enriquez
Haycinda
Wabash Wreck at Poor Farm Hollow Kills Fireman Lacock
A freight wreck on the Eel River branch near Columbia City occurred at 4 AM when two sections collided while ascending Poor Farm Hollow. Fireman Lacock was killed, the engine demolished, and trains detoured via Grand Rapids and Indiana road. fog hindered signaling.
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Eel River
Columbia City
Poor Farm Hollow
Kriebel
Lacock
Butler
Grand Rapids and
Indiana Road
Wabash
Walter H Sanborn Named U S Circuit Judge Nominee
Walter H. Sanborn of Minnesota, a St. Paul resident born in 1845 in Epson New Hampshire, is nominated by President Harrison for U S circuit judge for the Eighth circuit. He attended Dartmouth, studied law in Massachusetts, moved to St. Paul in 1870, admitted to the bar in 1871, and served on the city council in 1878 1885 1888 and 1890.
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Senate
Harrison
Walter H. Sanborn
Minnesota
United States
Eighth Judicial Circuit
Sanborn
St. Paul
Epson
N. H
Dartmouth College
Massachusetts
Lumber men to press against free list bills in Washington
A convention of twenty three southern lumber manufacturers will meet in Washington on Tuesday to oppose proposed bills placing lumber on the free list. The call, signed by many across broad territory, includes both Democrats and Republicans with the motto American markets for Americans.
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Wasmertos
Washington
Henry Watterson Lectures and Political Crisis Remarks
Henry Watterson spoke in Wasnitox Texas? No, Wasnitox Pa. on Feb 24 and was interviewed about the political situation. He commented that the current shaping of events in New York could lead to a personal crisis for the democratic side.
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Wasnixetox
Henry Watterson
New York
Dem
Presidential Nomination Split Reveals City Names Mentioned
The text notes a political division over who should be nominated for the presidency with Cleveland and T Hill as options. It states Hill cannot win northern states except perhaps New York, while Cleveland cannot win New York at all. Kentucky plans to instruct its delegates to support John G. Carlisle.
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Ocracy
Cleveland
T Hill
Hill
New York
Kentucky
John G. Carlisly
Horrible deeds in Madgeburg link to Fritz Erbe and Dorothy Buntrock
Bern reports the Kaiser orders the justice minister to pursue Fritz Erbe and Dorothy Buntrock for strangling servant girls after luring them with false jobs, following similar acts by the Schnieders near Vienna. The woman confessed, two victims named Emma Kasten and Dora Klages, and execution is likely.
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Bern
Kaiser
Madgeburg
Fritz Erbe
Dorothy Buntrock
Schnieder
Vienna
Erbe
Buntrock
Schnieders
Emma Kasten
Dora Klages
Not So Bad Good News From Catholic Knights Officers
The Catholic Knights of America report a defalcation of 75823.32 by supreme treasurer M J O Brien. Fidelity and Casualty Co covers 39807.50 since 1891 with a 30000 bond. remaining 9095.82 would be borne by the order if required. Supreme officers sign off on circular.
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M. J. O'Brien
Catholic Knights of America
Knights
Patrick Ryan
Fidelity and Casualty Company
New York
J. D. Coleman
T. J. Larkin
John Barr
Charles J. Kirschner
John J. Duffy
RE. D. McGunnness
Richard Walsh
Double Murder in Kingville Allegedly Motive Robbery
Totnes Missouri reported a double murder at Kingville where John Ayler and William Ayler were found slain in their home. Both bachelors, the men were discovered with an ax nearby, bloodstained. Police suspect robbery as the motive.
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Totnes
Kingville
John
Wm. Ayler
Preacher Talmage Frames Campaign as Loaves and Fishes Politics
Rev T DeWitt Talmage in Caicaco on February 26 argued political issues boil down to who fills offices. He mocked party principles, saying tariffs serve patronage rather than policy, with Democrats for free trade and Republicans for lower duties. He praised Cleveland as a Western Democrat leader and noted loyal supporters in the West.
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Caicaco
Rev. T. de- Witt Talmage
the Grand Pacific
Cleveland
Tammany
The Seal Question Opens Parliament in Ottawa
The Ottawa parliament opens with government majority rising to forty three from elections. Lord Stanley outlines international focus including Behring Sea seal fisheries arbitration, U S-Canada discussions on trade and Alaska boundary, wreck services, and fish preservation measures. Also noted are copyright tensions between Britain Canada and the United States and a separate inquest into a child’s death with manslaughter charged.
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Ottawa
Behring Sea
Washington
Her
United States
Alaska
Canada
Colonies
Lord Knutsford
Lord Salisbury
Blaine
Great Britain
Thompson
Democratic caucus elects 19 Cleveland delegates in Provinesce
In Provinesce R 1 on February 25 a Democratic caucus chose 19 delegates who favored Cleveland for the national convention. The Hill faction elected seven delegates, and the new meeting system operated perfectly.
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Provinesce
Hill
Belfast case resumes as crowd tests police at court
The examination of Mrs. Montagu, charged with cruelly causing her child’s death, resumed in Belfast today. An extra police force from Coleraine guarded the courtroom to maintain order as the governess testified again amid strong public feeling.
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Belfast
Cuban Independence Plan Reported in World Article
The World reports a planned Cuban independence revolution with preparations in New York Tampa and Key West and 8000 Cuban patriots in the United States ready to join. Leaders aim to topple Spanish rule with joint action on both sides of the sea and multiple Cuban revolutionary clubs have formed in New York while others prepare.
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New York
the World This
Cuba
Revolutionist
United States
Tampa
Key West
Fla
Mob Lynches Child Killer Dick Cullen in Missouri
A mob of about 150 men in Marsurieto Missouri seized Dick Cullen from the jail and hanged him after a secret meeting. Cullen had murdered a four year old child by throwing it into an unused well. His mother was arrested on suspicion of complicity.
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Marsurieto
Dick Cullen
Citiien
Cullen
Brutal teacher strikes pupil with stove poker ends in death
Exroy Wisconsin February 27. Albert Coucutt died after J Nalen the schoolteacher struck him with an ironwood club used as a stove poker during recess refusal to sit. Pupils and townsfolk discuss possible lynching as Rollin Myers intervened and the student convulsed before dying at a nearby house.
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Exroy
Wis
Valley
Albert Coucutt
J. Nalen
Coucutt
Nalen
No Second Place For Ex-Governor Campbell on Democratic Ticket
Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio declares he is not a candidate for second place on the Democratic national ticket and would decline if offered. He suggests the convention may look west for a candidate if Mr Hill or Mr Cleveland cannot be nominated, but he does not indicate Ohio as the prize holder.
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Campbell
Caicaco
Ohio
Hill
Cleveland
West
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