Train Robber Loses Nerve Halting Northbound Express
Telegraph summary reports a failed plan to rob the International and Great Northern northbound express near McNeill Texas when a gang member nervously tipped off authorities. The signal to attack was not given and the robber confessed aiding in trapping the gang while police guarded the halted train. Riot at Bamford Bros Silk Mill in Patterson New Jersey as 5000 workers opposed strikers. Police dispersed the crowd with firemen escorting workers home after music and protests. Mayor Braun urged order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Texarkens
Great Northern
McNeill Switch
Round Rock
Texas
Austin
McNeil
McNeill
Temple Street Hill
Patterson
N. J
Bamford Bros
Grant
Bimgon
Cliff Street
Braun
Revolutions brew across Central America and Guatamilia border
A Comitan dispatch reports widespread unrest from Belize to Central America as revolutionaries receive arms from San Francisco and Barrios faces internal conspiracies. In Lisbon notes, Admiral Da Gama seeks refuge with Portuguese ships after insurgent losses. A Capleton collision in Quebec kills a railway engineer. passengers spared.
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Comitan
Chiapa
Guatamilia
San Francisco
Central America
Barrios
Quezaltenango
Robbers Seize Cash at Woodward Depot
Station Agent Rusk was dragged from his hotel room by two robbers and forced to the depot to open a safe. They took about six thousand dollars for Leavenworth Fort Supply pay, a package for Wellington, and around forty dollars in railroad money. Senator Coke Weary of Waco Texas comments on Walter S. Baker and a letter from Richard Coke notes he will not seek further office after his current term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Magerle
Carson
Bremen
Ind
Mayerle
Vlew
Woodward
Oklahoma
Rusk
Sofe
Leavenworth
Fort Supply
Wellington
Coke
Waco Texas
Walters
Baker
Democratic
Richard Coke
United States
Then State
Cyclone Hits Cherokee Strip South of Stillwater
A cyclone in the Cherokee strip south of Stillwater destroyed more than a dozen houses and caused extensive damage. Several people were injured but there were no fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherokee Strip
Stillwater
Eastern News in Brief: Deaths, Arrests, Fires and Accidents
A man leaped into the Passaic River at Paterson and was rescued only to hang himself in a jail cell. Thomas W. Allan of Carlisle Pa was arrested for allegedly offering a bribe to win a school site. A wreck on the Western New York and Pennsylvania line at Walnut Bend Pa sparked a fire killing a fireman and injuring others. W Percy Thatcher of Brookline Mass is jailed for $3200 embezzlement. Boss McKane’s followers disrupted a tax-payers meeting in Gravesend. A fire at Homestead Pa destroyed multiple businesses and forced guests to flee. A landslide near Pittsburg caused a derailment with injuries. A Lehigh Valley locomotive boiler exploded at Tannery Pa killing three railroad workers. These incidents reflect a period of social tension and industrial danger.
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Auugust Dix
Paterson
N. J
Thomas W. Alll
Carlisle
Soldiers’ Orphan Home Commission
Boiling Springs
New York and
Pennsylvania Road
Walnut Bend
Martin
W. Percy Thatcher
Brookline (Mass
Homestead
Walton
Grove & Trealer
Ed Tronin
Bagley
J. B Jones
Pittsburg
Youngstown
Ashtabula
Fort Wayne Road
Kenwood
Beaver River
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Tannery
John Dotter
Edward Fox
John Lennay
Patrick Dugan
Brotherhood
Multistate News Roundup of Tragedies and Ventures
A Cincinnati fast train killed Charles Glaser near Manchester Indiana. A Shelbyville child died after swallowing morphine from a physician’s case. A Georgia man fatally stabbed William Miles in Maryville California over a card game. Banker Beach pleads abatement in an embezzlement case. Denison Texas cotton mill sold to Christina J. Mo Ford for debt settlement. Colonel Doughine reports rich New Mexico gold ore in Cochiti. Marian Ross claims to be J Gaston Soulard’s widow and contests his will. SoS John of Kearney Ohio faces contempt trial over a cash pledge. Furnald accused of $10,000 diamond theft held for trial. relatives discharged. Thomas Lavin dies after steam trap burst at Joliet penitentiary. Diphtheria fears rise in Hanoverton Ohio with school closures across several townships. Armour plans a $50,000 gift to San Francisco public schools for a boys’ manual training school.
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Cincinnati
Sig Four
Charles Glaser
Manchester
Ind
J. W. Rucker
Shelbyville
HouGh Buchanan
Buchanan
Georgia
William Miles
Kansas City
J.T. Doughine
Chicago
Cochiti
New Mexico
America
Marian Ross
Spaulard
J. Gaston Soulard
St. Louis
Sos. Sr. John
Kearney
Nah
Supreme Court
Commercial and Savings
Hank
Walter Guy Farnald
Eaate Armycrook
Lavin
Hanoverton
Ohio
New Garden
Adair
Kensington
Philip D. Armour
San Francisco
Armour
California Pioneer Days Figure Acquitted in Cronin Murder
Daniel Coughlin, once a Chicago detective, was acquitted Thursday afternoon of the May 4 1889 murder of Dr. P H Cronin. The four month trial followed a prior conviction and a partial life sentence, amid sensational testimony and jury bribery rumors throughout the proceedings.
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California
Daniel Coughlin
Chicago
P. H. Cronin
Coughlin
Cropin
Park dedication postponed to September 1895
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park dedication is delayed until September 1895. Thomas Smith died and several workmen were injured when a log train from A J Niemer lumber camps near Waldo Arkansas wrecked. Lebanon Presbytery voted against women as ruling elders and deacons in Nashville Tennessee. An attempt to disbar Lee Cowart of Birmingham Alabama for investigating federal court officer fraud is reported. he is accused of stealing his father's coin and operating an illicit still.
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Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Military Park
Thomas Smith
A. J. Niemer
Waldo
Ark
Lebanon
Alabama
Sugar tariffs and pension declines in Washington report
From Washington comes word that tariff rates on sugar are set at 1 to 10 cents per pound while whisky duties rise to 81 10 and the bonded period extends. The income tax feature remains in the new bill though minor Senate changes are expected. Pension data show 961 000 pensioners, 654 169 cases pending, and a weekly drop in new claims. Commissioner Lamoreux advises setting aside lands mis granted to the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Co. in Michigan. A Breckinridge Pollard breach suit proceeds as the British ship Somali remains overdue and the Dutch government contemplates reform. Ex-Premier Gladstone is ill at home in London.
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Senate
Pension Bureau
Department
Lamoreux
General Land Office
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Portage Lake and
Lake Superior Ship Canal Company
Ikbs
Hese
Smith
Dingy District Court House
Cullean
W. CP. Breckinridge
Kentucky
Misa Madeline V. Pollard
Washington Dispatch
Col. Breckinridge
Hongkong
Netherlands
G. van Tiehoven
Curietopher Furness
Hartlepool
Furness, Withey & Co
London
Rio de Janeiro
Anchorage
Furness
Foreign Office
Rio Janeiro
House of Commons
Gladstone
Broad Update on Global Affairs and Disasters
General cooperation to suppress the Honduras Lottery in Canada is noted. A Canada Anglo Australian ship service promises 25 day Atlantic to England, 16 day Pacific to America, 4 across the continent and 5 across the Atlantic. Reports cover business improvement yet cautious confidence and price declines amid stock replenishment. A sealing ship Walrus incident in St Johns, Newfoundland kills two, injures one when dynamite exploded during frost clearing. In Rio de Janeiro dispatches Admiral da Gama faces insurgent odds, possible surrender, and fleet movements near Cape Frio with German demands for indemnity for seized German asset. da Gama reportedly agrees.
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Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
de Gana
Thaa
Senor de Brissas Deo Neves Ferrieira
Marine and Colonies
Admiral da Gama
Post Office Department
Australia
England
Pacific
Atlantic
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
St. Joans
N. F
Green Pond
Rio Dek Janeiro
de Meilo
Catania
Gladstone Illness Raises Alarm After Chill At St James Park
Two physicians attend ex-Premier Mr. Gladstone who downplays the illness as slight. A lawyer left Brooke's Club after dinner but walked home in chilly air, catching a chill. By morning the condition worsened and a second doctor joined the case, with one physician stating the illness is undoubtedly serious.
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Gladstone
Brooke’ Club
St. James Park
Mr. Gladstone
Oxford Improved Sewing Machine Featured As Household Treasure
A household treasure article extols the sewing machine as essential, praising the Oxford Improved Sewing Machine from the Oxford Manufacturing Company Chicago. It highlights low cost from 10.50, self threading, self setting needle, easy attachments, and a medal at the World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Oxford Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Oxford, Home
Columbia
The Only Alternative. A Club Umbrella Misunderstanding
The amusing tale says a member lost his umbrella at a well known club in Fall Mall. A notice claimed a nobleman who took an umbrella not his own should return it. The house committee questioned the author, who argued the club rules call it a club of noblemen and gentlemen, so the thief must be a nobleman.
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James Payn
Fall Mall
House Committee
Electric Memory Aid and Neuralgia Cure
A publication extols St Jacobs Oil as an electric memory booster and neuralgia remedy. It claims the oil offers an electrical effect and can jog memory during lapses in learning.
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Therm
St Jacobs
Ubiquity of Micro Organisms in Air Water and Earth
The Ohio Dental Journal asserts microbes are everywhere from air and water to soil and the upper crust. They populate the human body and persist after death until decomposition. microbes are a universal factor in nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Dental Journal
Salzer's Seed Potatoes Break Yield Records
A Wisconsin grower reports astonishing yields from Salzer’s new seedling potatoes. Salzer claims 1410 bushels per acre with Lightning Express, surpassing editor estimates of 803 bushels. The ad promotes seeds and a free potato catalogue with postage and a small dish offer.
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Abr. Hahn
Wisconsin
Salzer
New Yorker
Rom Salzer
John A. Salver Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Never rely on a friend for the same news twice
A caution on asking the same friend to cover similar news repeatedly as fatigue and disappointment grow. The note warns of diminishing help when requests recur beyond two instances and reflects the strain of expectation.
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Capleton
Shurebrooke
Quebec
Southern
Washington
Sane
Indianapolis
Detrolt
Cartes
al Wah
Witkar
Milwaukee
Wueart
Fap
Colchester
Hood
Mies Ortencia
F. Allen Balem
Mich
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