Explosion Claims Four Boys In Kentucky Thresher Accident
In Bloomingdile Clark County Kentucky an engine on Thomas Allen's thresher exploded while four boys Travis Haggard 11 Dallas Haggard 12 Alexander Berryman 13 and William Turpin 16 watched. Engineer Robin left the engine in charge of Alex Berryman while he dined and the water level in the boiler ran low. The thresher was on Rogers Haggard's farm where wheat was being thrashed. two youngest boys were Haggard's sons.
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Bloomingdile
Winchester
Clark County
Thomas Allen
Robin
Alex. Berryman
Rogers Haggard
Travis Haggard
Dallas Haggard
Alexander Berryman
William Turpin
Girl Hangs Herself at Home Near Dix
Miss Louise Wimberly, 14, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harvey Wimberly, committed death by own action at her home near Dix nine miles north of Mt Vernon Jr. She hanged herself to an apple tree in the orchard after a period of poor health and despondency. She was a cousin of Meyers who shot himself nearby recently, the fourth family member to take her own life in six years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Wimberly
Harvey Wimberly
Dix
Mt. Vernon, Jr
Meyers
Five masked men rob Beech Side Inn near Bridgeport Conn
Beech Side Inn at Green Farm near Bridgeport Connecticut was entered Tuesday at 8 am by five masked men who bound the night clerk and blew open the safe. They later robbed guests, ordering them back at gunpoint. Telephone lines to Bridgeport were cut before the raid, and police are pursuing the burglars.
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Beech Side Inn
Green Farm
Bridgeport
Conn
Noted Seattle clubman Miles dies by own action
William Massick Miles, a prominent club and society figure from a renowned South Carolina family, died by his own hand at his rooms in the Rainer Club Seattle. Despondency over ill health is believed to have prompted the suicide. J C Williams a Montana visitor stabbed himself four times in the breast at Hot Springs Arkansas and then leaped into a deep hole breaking his neck.
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William Massick Miles
Rainer Club
Seattle
Wash
Miles
South Carolina
J.C. Williams
Montana
Hot Springs
Ark
Troop E Engages Yaquis South of Town Amid Alarm
Troop E seventeenth cavalry clashed with Yaquis twenty miles south of this place. Three Indians were killed and a band of thirty captured. Three soldiers were wounded, one mortally. Captives are being brought in for delivery to civil authorities. reports say many Yaquis in Sonora plan rising, causing great alarm among about a thousand Indians in the district.
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Troopa
Indiana
Seventh Cavalry
Sonora
China Premier to visit United States in New York
Washington reports the Chinese Premier Li Hung Chang will be received by the President this month. The reception is unlikely in Washington and is expected to occur in New York with arrangements by Private Secretary Shurber.
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China
Washington
Li Hung Chang
New York
Shurber
Horrible Accident in Sandy Look Kentuckys Elliott County
Nine people were killed and forty or fifty more injured when a fire broke out during a Baptist association in an old frame church in Sandy Look, the county seat of Elliott County Kentucky. A portion of the upper floor collapsed on the strained congregation as flames spread.
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Sandy Ilook
Elliott County
Kentucky
Prisoner Kacapee Escapes from Indiana Jail
James Edwards a desperado held in St Joseph County Indiana jail for attempted murder of Officer Derwent of South Bend escaped by flinging off his cell bars and eluding jail officials during the vigil.
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Kacapee
James Edwards
St. Joseph County
Indiana
Derwent
South Bend
Gail Hamilton Dead in Wellham, Alabama
Gail Hamilton died in Wellham Alabama after a long illness. Mary Abigail Dodge known as Gail Heralton is noted in the obituary as a related figure. The notice records the death and our sources indicate a familial link and the era’s formal obituary phrasing.
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Gail Hamilton
Mary Abigail Dodge
Gail Heralton
Wellham
Aless
Cloud burst in Pine Creek Valley claims thirty lives in Pa
In Pine Creek Valley eight miles long a cloud burst killed thirty people. De Haven in Wildwood oil field was flooded and an entire Appleton family perished. Other victims include Mrs Thomas Byrnes and Mr Thompson. Separate items report a $15,000,000 mortgage foreclosure suit by Farmers Loan and Trust Co. in San Francisco against Oregon Improvement Co. A Bellefonte contractor David Thompson was killed in a mob incident over back wages, later halted by a rifle-toting foreman. New York and Brooklyn cemeteries faced grave shortages with over 660 burials in a single weekend. average age 47 with twice as many men as women interred.
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Pine Creek Valley
de Haven
Wildwood Oil Field
Appleton
Thomas Byrnes
Mra
Thompson
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of
New York
Hae
United States Circuit Court
San Francisco
Cal
Oregon Improvement Company
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
David Thompson
Bellefonte
Crossforka
Brooklyn
Wonen
Cripple Creek Gold Output for Half Year Seen High
Secre tary Parsons reports Cripple Creek gold production for the first six months at 7 256 000 dollars, with an estimated 15 000 000 dollars for 1896. Cripple Creek’s 1895 output was 9 199 317 dollars, and mining prices have surged to record highs over the year.
Multiple Injuries and Boiler Explosion Strike Local Plant
In Louisville the blast injured Samuel Snyder and left his breast crushed, with his recovery in doubt. James Grassy John Rufaneith Sheridan Seli and Se rong suffered painful injuries but are expected to recover. The boiler blasted through two kilns, fire destroying the plant, losses around 10000 with no insurance, cause unknown. Daniel Butters, veteran Chicago Board of Trade grain merchant aged sixty seven born Glasgow, diedWednesday after stomach trouble. He helped shipping grain from Montreal to Europe, joined Chicago Board of Trade over forty years ago, first to use Atlantic cable for grain and to establish private whea on the board. He leaves a daughter married to Attorney E P Douhart, and two grandchildren. He was widely known and popular on the Board.
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Louisville
Samuel Snyder
James Grassy
John Rufaneith
Sheridan
Seli
Serong
Daniel Butters
Chicago Board of Trade
Buttery
Glasgow
Scotland
Montreal
Canada
Europe
Butters
Chicago
Board of Trade
P. Douhart
Mr. Butters
News from Washington on Turkish telegrams and army enlistments
The Turkish legation in Washington reports no truth to claims that about two hundred Turkish soldiers were killed by insurgents at Ali Botoch. July U S Army enlistments show 27 of 435 at Chicago recruiting pass, 14 dollars monthly for private entry, 4380 total enlistments with 2933 rejections. West Point dismissed cadets Giles Bishop Jr and H S Commager for hazing, while President Cleveland condemns hazing and vows no relief for offenders.
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Washington
Sublime Porte
Third Corps
Ali Botoch
United States Army
Falmer
Chicago
United States Military Academy
West Point
Secretary of War
Giles Bishop Jr
H. 8. Commager
Demand action over Hahneville lynching and immigration concerns
Italian papers urge action against anti immigrant violence and warn closed ports to white immigration as a safeguard against Chinese labor. U S officials report nine Armenians claiming American status were arrested in Turkey with three still under inquiry. A German agent case highlights dangers of misrepresenting firms abroad using stolen product designs.
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Italy
Hahneville
Corriere Della Sera
Milan
New Orleans
State Department
Terrell
Turkey
Miniater Terrell
United States
Washington
St Atloned
Germany
Residont
Ouwego
Baron Fava Leaves Bar Harbor for Washington
A Bar Harbor dispatch reports Italian Minister Baron Fava heading to Washington Thursday night after a message about the Louisiana lynching affair.
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Baron Fava
Bar Harbor
Washington
Louisiana
Alaska
Glacier
Miller Creeks
Alaskan
Vancouver
B. C
Kanen
Tung Fubsiang
Hsining-Fu
Pintain-Fu
Hatien
China
Market reports from multiple cities on cattle hogs and grains
Market summaries list varied prices by city for cattle hogs and sheep, with grains and products like wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and seeds. Regions include Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more, showing wide bid ranges and standard grades.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Ste
St. Louia
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Burley
New York
Book news and new titles from London and Chicago
Andrew Lang’s Christmas book will be The Animal Story Book. The Golliwoggs Bicycle Club is a new illustrated gift book by Bertha and Florence SK. Upton. William Lord of Evanston writes child verse. his Jingle and Jangle appears soon. The Life of the Rev Benjamin Jowett by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell is complete for London issue. Stuart Erskine returns from Russia to London to work on a novel about Lord Dullborough. An inquest notes a Rudyard place Kipling Street near Bermondsey. The Centenary Burns Vol II will add eight previously printed pieces and notes. Chicago publishers Griggs retire due to health. Mrs Rundle Charles’s Our Seven Homes forthcoming. Temple Shakespeare series praised. 500,000 copies sold. Publishers plan Temple Classics beginning with Faust and other works.
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Andrew Lang
Golliwoggs Bicycle Club
Bertha
Florence SK. Upton
William
Lord
Evanston
Eugene Field
Benjamin Jowett
Evelyn Abbott
Lewis Campbell
London
W. F. Henley
T. F. Henderson
Edinburgh
Ald
Temple Classics
Goethe
Bacon
Moore
de Quincey
Railway expansion still future needs and plans in 1890
The article notes a decade of falling annual railroad construction since 1887, with 1805 a low point. It argues demand remains strong and miles should grow beyond present levels, projecting 1,750 miles more by year end 1890 across 60 lines, depending on routes rather than demand alone.
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United States
Great Britain
Maola
Massachusetts
Drawn Through Diamonds at Taunton Wire Factory
A Taunton Massachusetts factory makes ultra thin wire called the hair wire with 1500th inch thickness. Standard steel dies wear, so new methods drill plates to produce the fine wire. The piece notes a girl who composes as she learns piano and comments on sympathy for a woman versus a man.
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Taunton
Mass
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Idaho
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Jackson's Hole
Louisville Brick and Tile Works
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