Blount Named Minister Resident to Hawaii Amid Annexation Push
Officials confirm ex-Representative Blount will be appointed Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Islands replacing Minister Stevens who plans to depart for San Francisco. Letters from naval officers indicate the Provisional Government holds firm while native sentiment toward annexation grows.
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Minister Blount
State Department
Blount
Hawaiian Islands
Stevens
Legation
San Francisco
Commissioner Blount
Flood Threat Pressures Mississippi River Mouth to Cairo
The Mississippi River nears record highs from Cairo to New Orleans with Memphis overrun by floodwater and railroad lines in Disha County Arkansas submerged. A separate Key West report notes 300 armed locals drill on the beach for what may become an expedition to aid Cuban insurrectionists. President Marti recovers and plans a farewell address and manifesto on Cuban affairs.
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Mississippi
Cairo
New Orleans
Memphis
Disha County
Arkansas
Missouri Pacific
Mississippi County
Key West
Fla
Jose Marti
Toronto man forms plan for Georgian Bay canal project
E A McDonald of Toronto reportedly organized a syndicate during a New York stay to build an aqueduct from Georgian Bay to Toronto and a ship canal to cut 400 miles from Chicago to New York and 900 miles from the West to Liverpool, with an estimated outlay exceeding 50 million dollars.
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E. A. McDonald
Toronto
Canada
New York
Georgian Bay
Crop progress and a fatal gas explosion in Indiana
The weather bulletin outlines crop conditions in Indiana Ohio and Michigan noting upland crops favorable in Indiana while lowlands flood and fruit lags. A natural gas explosion in Anderson Indiana wrecked the Murray home injuring Eli Murray his wife and two children with no cause yet determined.
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Weather Bureau
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Eli Murray
Anderson
Ind
Murray
Saloon Blown Up and Freight Wrecks Reported
The Stay wood Indiana saloon of John Smock was wrecked by dynamite. Smock woke unharmed aside from a slight injury. A Nickel Plate freight wreck near Ar aus Indiana killed brakeman Wilson and injured others. Carn. Henry Flinn of Wabash crushed in yard and likely to die. Two Chicago firemen seriously burned in gas storage room explosion.
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Indiana
John Smock
Staywood
Ind
Smock
Nickel Plate Road
Araus
Wilson
Henry Flinn
Big Four
Wabash
Weat Kensie and
Adams
Streets
Chicago
Tragic wrecks and stock market riot headline era events
Boston man L W Loveau commits suicide by jumping from the Tremont. A schooner wreck off Plum Island drowns four crew seen by life savers. Mrs Matrir Scuann of Princeton is jailed for poisoning her son to gain life insurance. Wall Street roils with five failures and a dramatic market plunge.
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L. W. Loveau
Boston
Mass
Tremont
Isle of Shoals
Plum Island
Matrir Scuann
Princeton
N. J
Wiants Thomas
Custom House
New York
William H. Harrison
United Paper Company
Tissue Trust
Gustav Rau
Frederick J. Day
New Jersey
William Lawrence
Massachusetts
A. A. Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence
Lawrence Scientific School
Harvard
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
National Cordage
Cordage
Mitchell
Wreck on Big Four Railroad Kills Ten at Lafayette
A Big Four train wreck at Lafayette Indiana killed ten, injured six, and seriously hurt others as air brakes failed on entering a sharp downgrade. The engine and multiple cars left the tracks on a long Wabash River grade, wrecking near Union Station and trapping victims under debris for hours.
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Columbus
Morrill
Kansas City
Metropolitan National Bank
Citizens' National Bank
Midland National Bank
George B. Norton
Howard
Dune Park
Ind
Lake Shore Railway
Texas
Detroit
Kansas
Big Four Fast Express
Chicago
Templeton
Lafayette
Wabash River
Union Depot
Big Four
E. D. Meyers
Cincinnati
A. R. Chadwick
Jesse H. Long
Lebanon
McMahan
Ciininnati QO
Cahill
Indiana
Otto Jesselson
Alhambra
Mike Welsh
Indianapolis
McInnis
Urbana
Ohio
Charles Myers
John Lennon
Lottas Burganhole
Milwaukee
Wis
William Place
Frankfort
Jeff Reese
Kempton
Richard Jones
Bentine
Lewis Leffler
Fowler
Logansport
Wabash
Union Station
Extra Session Talk Roils Washington Finance Tariff Plans
A Washington dispatch notes revived talk of an extra session. Vice President Stevenson suggested September convening and Mr. Cleveland told a few Congress members the session would occur between September 1 and 11. Ohio's Mr. Outhwaite now thinks Congress may sit from September to June, aside from December recess, focusing on financial and tariff legislation.
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Tur Presbyterian General Assembly
Moet
Washington
New York Avenue
State Department
Cuba
Gresham
Guy. Pennoyer
Oregon
Congress
Wall Street
Carlisle
Creed
Washington Dispatch
West
Stevenson
Cleveland
Outhwaite
Ohio
President Cleveland tightens access to interviews at the executive mansion
President Cleveland announces new rules restricting personal interviews for office seekers and visitors to the Executive Mansion. He asks Senators and Representatives to curb constituent visits to ensure uninterrupted presidential interviews, citing strain on endurance and time. The note includes a visit from Vice Admiral Sir John O Hopkins, commander of the British squadron, to the Washington gun foundry.
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Cleveland
Executive Mansion
Enatora
Washington
Tuk
John O. Hopkins
United States
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THE
Automatic and Electric Company Canada
1. Minion
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Review of Trade
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