Early Visitors Pass Through the City for Chicago Celebration
A special train bearing cabinet officers and other dignitaries arrived this morning amid a brisk city scene. Governor Pattison and Pennsylvania state officials rode the first section, while the second section brought Foster and Attorney General Milburn, signaling a high profile visit linked to the national event.
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Chicago
J. P Kickley
Crestline
Governor P
Pennsylvania
State Foster
Mil
Cabinet officials and courtiers travel by train sections
A detailed account describes multiple sections of a presidential train, naming Secretary Foster Secretary Wannamaker Secretary Tracy Secretary Noble and others. It notes accompanied ladies and children and lists judiciary leaders with their spouses and companions. A later section mentions foreign diplomats including the Chinese minister and a collision with a hand car at Monroeville. Senator Sherman and other notables were aboard the first section of train No 25 arriving at 12 40.
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A. T. Ewing
Illinois World’s Fair Commission
Diplomatic Corpa
United States
Monroeville
Hunt
John Sherman
Horrible Deed Shocks Old Hall Area Near Melchester
Neighbors find a body in Mellor’s cellar after a dug grave appears in the kitchen of the Old Hall house on Hollings Road. The victim is believed to be Mellor’s missing wife, with throat cut and stab wounds. A barrel of quicklime suggests burial intent. Mellor is under arrest.
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Loscow
Old Hall
Melchester
Mellor
Hollings Road
State of terror grips Scott's Ridge Kentucky
Reports from Lrenancy Kentucky describe Scott's Ridge in insurrection as Shipps face Skaggs and Underwoods in a planned clash. About twenty five armed men on each side are feared, with prior killings and shootings in the same ground fueling the deadly feud. Citizens are warned and travel halted as authorities monitor the volatile area.
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Lrenancy
Scott’s Ridge
Shipps
Skaggs and Underwoods
Spake Shimm
Luley Skaggs
Underwood
Bob Shipps
Bud Buaress
Tom
Mexican Outlaws Hit Border, Rangers Capture Four
In Starr and border counties Mexican outlaws strike in the Palito Blanco area near Alejandero Gonzales home. Texas Rangers led by Captain Loubito Ramerz surround the gang, exchange shots, and capture four men formerly part of Garza’s revolutionary force. They will be taken to San Antonio for trial.
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Tex
Starr
Palito Blanco Ranch
Alejandero Gonzales
Catarrino Garza
Texas Rangers
Loubito Ramerz
Ramerz
Rangers
Garza
Revolutionary Army
San Antonio
Missing Commissioner Sought by Numerous Creditors
Boston, Oct. 19. F. I. Magee, former commissioner of Insolvency in 1887 and attorney in the Adams building, has been missing about six weeks. He is said to owe friends and clients large sums, with reports of large borrowings and nonpayment, including alleged fake checks. A rumor claims he collected $2,000 for Mrs. Isabella Ray from the Buzzey bridge disaster and later borrowed and never returned it.
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New Yong
Whitelaw Reid
Republican Party
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
George Ticknor Curtis
Boston
F. I. Magee
Adams Building
Isabella Ray
Buzzey Bridge
Woman Arrested in Alba for Impersonating Man on Rail Line
A woman, living as a man for months and working as a railroad laborer in Alba, was arrested after a recent millinery store robbery. She wore male clothes, drank whisky, used tobacco, and played poker. She claimed marriage and a son in Indiana, refused to reveal her name, and vowed not to wear petticoats again. They were married. Katharine Knapp and Charles Milburn wed in Racine, a society wedding highlighted by Knapp’s father Frederick Knapp as Knapp Elevator works head and Milburn Wagon Co. president.
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Orrumwa
Iowa
Alba
Nonoc County
Indiana
Ractive, Vic
Katharine Knapp
Frederick Knapp
Knapp Elevator Works
Chicago
Charles F. Milburn
Milburn Wagon Company
Toledo
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Racine
Bet on Sullivan Fails as Graeter Reveals Loss
In Texptanaronis on October 19 during a suit by James C. Pritchett to recover professional fees John W. Graeter of Vincennes testified he lost 26000 dollars on the Sullivan Corbett fight. He is the man who shot and killed Isadore Meyer and A C Leech at Bald Knob Arkansas during a period of insanity.
Mitchell Again Heard From Fight Delay for Mitchell Jan
The Police Gazette London correspondent reports Charley Mitchell’s appeal on two months hard labor was postponed to January. Notables like Richard K. Fox and Lord Landsdale attended, with belief the case will be quashed. Mitchell then declared readiness to fight Jim Corbett for $10.
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New York
Police Gazette
London
Charley Mitchell
Vaughan
Richard K. Fox
Lord Landsdale
Mitchell
Sporting Life
Jim Corbett
Fight for May Decision in New Orleans Over Large Purse
The outcome hinges on whether the Olympic club posts the biggest prize, with the decision not to be made until May in New Orleans if the purse leads.
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New Orleans
Olympic Club
Populists in Indiana Hopeful Against Republicans
In Indiana the Peoples Party faces anxiety with claims that Lee Crandall of the National View and Mrs. Lease aid the Republicans. Secretary Vincent denies links with Taubeneck of St. Louis and asserts no conference occurred last Saturday. A London report notes a New York bullock with pleuro-pneumonia and discusses U S cattle disease status and policy.
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Ixplanaronis
Ind
Peoples’ Party
Indiana
Lee Crandall
National View
Washington
Gompers Slams Judge Paxton During Pittsburg Stop
President Gompers of the federation of labor criticizes Chief Justice Paxton in Pittsburg on his way to Chicago to review the Homestead strike. He calls Paxton’s grand jury charge a travesty and argues it distorts common law and sets an improper precedent.
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Gompers
The
Federation of Labor
Pittsburg
Chicago
Paxton
Grand Jury
West
Tourist killed by robbers near Moyteney cliff
An American tourist S F Tarrant of Buffalo New York was found murdered at Catorice, a mining town south of Moyteney Mexico. His body lay at the foot of a 100 foot cliff showing severe injuries. Police believe robbers attacked him on the way to a nearby mine, beat him unconscious, robbed him, and threw him over the cliff. He had been in Mexico about three months.
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Deptford
New York
United States
Washington
America
London Times
Rusk
Harrison
England
the Times
Moyteney
Mex
S. F. Tarrant
Buffalo
N. Y
Catorice
Here
Mexico
A Bad Brother Arrested For Forging Sister's Checks
Charles W Everson aged nineteen, brother of actress Estelle Clayton, was arrested in New York on charges of forging his sister's name to checks totaling 1100 dollars. He reportedly led a Bohemian life while draining her account at the Eighth Avenue bank.
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New York
Charles W. Everson
Estelle Clayton
Eighth Avenue Tank
Republican Wall Street figure backs Cleveland and Stevenson
Spencer Trask of Spencer Trask & Co and president of New York Edison says he will vote for Cleveland and Stevenson this year. He is a director of several railroads and has long been identified with the Republican party in New York.
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New York
Spencer Trask
Spencer, Trask & Co
Wallstreet Bankers
New York Edison Electric Luminating Company
Cleveland
Stevenson
Lincoln to Speak in Indiana and Illinois
Minister Robert T. Lincoln was assigned by the speakers bureau to deliver three talks in Indiana next week with dates to be set by the Hoosier committee and a possible appearance in Illinois. Henry Mennewish, a heater at the Bass blacksmith shop, is ill again after a relapse from a cold.
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New York
Robert T. Lincoln
Washington
Indiana
Henry Mennewish
Bass
Columbian Exposition Dedication Seen by Vast City Crowd
Crowds fill Chicago streets and Jackson Park as the World’s Columbian Exposition opens with a grand parade, reviews by 4000 U S troops, speeches by Vice President Morton, Cardinal Gibbons, and Chauncey Depew, and a national wave of patriotic ceremonies. The event includes a lunch in the transportation building, a dedication of the grounds, and a worldwide audience celebrat ing Columbus’s discovery and America’s progress.
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Europe
Chicago
Harrison
Windy City
Lake Front
Jackson Park
Illinois Central Railroad
Wabash Avenue
Amditorium
Michigan Avenue
Thirty Fifth Street
Grand Boulevard
Washington Park
United States
Carr
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
Exposition Grounds
Building of Manufacture and Liberal Arts
Morton
T. W. Palmer
Higginbotham
Cardinal Gibbons
Bishops Ireland
Fowler
Washburn
Henry Watterson
Chauncy M. Depew
Cabinet
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court
Charles H. Flower
California
Methodist Church
George R. Davis
Hempstead Washburne
Columbia
Potter Palmer
Lady Managers
Palmer
Kentucky
Chauncy Depew
Calvary
San Salvador
Columbus
Christ
Paris
Atlantic Ocean
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Germany
Holland
Sweden
Denmark
France
Italy
Pacific
Republic of the United States
Republic
Trish
Emerald Isle
Mr. Depew
Bethoven
A. P. McCook
First Presbyterian Church of
Philadelphia
America
Cmcaco
St. Paul, Minn
Charles (. Bonner
World’s Congress Auxiliary
Teabella
Charles Honrotin
Catcaco
Jackson’ Park
New York
Ohio
Commonwealths
National Commission
Central Music Hall
Future of progress and religion cited in Columbus address
A 19th century speech extols ongoing material and moral progress, urging leaders to guide humanity with faith, liberty, and justice. It envisions a world banishing oppression, expanding civil rights, and uniting nations while acknowledging delays and the persistence of unbelief.
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Atlantic
Mississippi
Providence
Rome
Iberia
America
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Melville W. Fuller
Illinois
John M. Harlan
Horace Gray
Massachusetts
Samuel Blatchford
David J. Brewer
Kansas
Henry B. Brown
Michigan
Oliver P. Shirar
Towa
United States District Court
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Brewer
Gray
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J. H. McKenney
J. M. Wright
Frederick D. Faust
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Pullman Company
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Peter Jackson
Corbett
Tara
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Sullivan
Bluffer
Jack
Vincent
Lincoln
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Bunting
Grover Cleveland
Montuck Club
Palza
Henry
Pacific Street
Indianapolis
Invrangarolts
Carnahan
Fred Knefler
Harris Martin
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Black Pearl
Minneapolis
Joe King
Palto Alto Athletic Club
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New Haven
Will Myers
Fort Wayne
Henry Myers
John Helmick
Henry Helmick
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