Epitome of the Week From Washington
A summary of 12 months exports and imports totals, appointments including Norman Williams as Honorary Commissioner to the Paris International Exhibition, and various U.S. fiscal figures. Notable items cover Decoration Day ceremonies, fisheries claims with Britain, National Bank note activity, and political races in New York and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Williams
Chicago
United States
Electrical Congress
Paris
Cuantes Karo
Indiana
Prussia
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Washington
Washington Monument
Philadelphia
Blaine
Sir Edward Thornton
Fortune Bay
Gloucester
Mass
Joseph N. Perche
New Orleans
Butler
National Bank
Court of Claims
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Garfield
Solliers
Politicians Nominate Jacobs Kernan for U.S. Senate Vacancy
Democrats caucused and unanimously nominated State Senator John C. Jacobs to fill the seat left by Conkling with Francis P. Kernan chosen to succeed Mr. Platt. Republicans offered no nominations. The Assembly opened with a joint convention call for the U.S. Senate election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Women’s Medical College
United States
Messrs. Conkling
Platt
New York
Mr. Platt
Senate
Thomas C. Platt
Chauncey M. Depew
Francis Kernan
Warner Miller
Sherman
Rogers
Eldridee Lapham
Joseph H. Choate
Noah Davis
William A. Wheeler
George H. Sharpe
Mr. Conkling
Roscoe Conkling
Depew
Kernan
Folger
Lapham
Cornell
Crowley
Evarts
Morton
Miller
Francis
Pomeroy
Wadsworth
Tremaine
Choate
Conkling
Jacobs
Wheeler
Edick
White
Chapman
Fenton
Ward
Dutcher
Alvord
General Assembly of the
United Presbyterian Church
Clarksville
Castle Garden
John C. Jacobs
United States Senate
Francis P. Kernan
Trenton
N. J
Augustus Ritter
Philadelphia
Lucretia Pennington
Reformed Episcopal Council
Nicholson
Baltimore
League of American Wheel Men
Boston
Fagle Rock
Nesr Oranze
Ella Dean
Miss Dean
Maxie Varran
New York City
London
Presbyterian General Assembly
Buffalo
Springfield
Supreme Court Rules Illinois Note Accruing Interest Postmaturity
The Supreme Court decides an Illinois note bearing ten percent interest continues to accrue after maturity until paid. In Nortonville Kansas masked robbers robbed a store of 1200 dollars using revolvers. Milwaukee boys aged nine and thirteen disappeared with fifty dollars to head west, rumored to be victims of yellow journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrain Josefh Arken
New Orleans
George Latimer
Francis County
Ark
William Newsom
Newsom
Latimer
Trent
Strickland
Waldron
Alexandria
San Francisco
Howard
la Chapelle
Chicago
John Griscom
New York
Nashville
Chattanooga
J. C. Finch
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Virginia
Minneapolis
St. Louis
America
England
Lake City
Inter Ocean
Ponca Springs
Col
Sherif
Illinois
Charleston
W. Va
John P
George Nunley
Unce
Baltimore
John Welch
Tennessee
James M. Davis
Welch
Second Berlin electric railway projected to new suburb
The first line’s success prompts a second electric railway to another suburb at a cost of 7 500 pounds per kilometer. The report compiles various world events including a denial of Hessy Helfmann’s hanging and international political tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Hessy Helfmann
Czar
Russia
Constantinople
Tuns
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Emile de Girardin
Anatole Forge
TaEne
London
Lynch
Kilroan
Ireland
Galway
Kettle
Irish Land Leszue Executive Committee
Brennan
Wannowsky
Minuar Pasa
Abdul Aziz
Afghanistan
Quettac
Land League
Tus
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian Northwest
Great Britain
County
Meath
Donegal
United States
Clonmel
Jon
Corinth
Gulf of Corinth
Cean Sea
Bismarck
M. Seguin
Paris Telegraph
Bijao
Tunis
American horse wins English Derby at Ascot meeting
On Lombard's Iroquois the American horse won the English Derby with about two million dollars in prize. Crowds included the Prince and Princess of Wales and other royals. Troquois becomes the first US horse to win a Derby and is tipped as a favorite for Ascot and Goodwood cups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lombard
Iroquois
Prince and Princess of Wales
Princess Louise
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
Duke of Cambridge
Troquois
America
Treasury
United States
New York
Conkling
Wheeler
Rogers
Cornell
Jacobs
Platt
Depew
Kernan
Washington Associated Press
Windom
McGrew
the Treasury
Post Office Department
Lilley
Iowa
Cuticura Remedies Claim Miraculous Cures for Humors
An advertisement touts Cuticura products including Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Soap as cures for itching, scaly and scrofulous humors. It cites cases of eczema and salt rheum in patients from Detroit and Chicago, claiming rapid, permanent relief after prior doctor consultations failed.
Ringworm Cure Report From Providence Street Barber Case
Geo W Brown of 48 Marshall Street Providence Rhode Island was cured by Cutiura Remedies of a ringworm humor that began at a barber shop. The condition spread to his ears neck and face and resisted all treatments for six years until this remedy cured it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will McDonald
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Geo. W. Brown
Marshall Street
Providence
R. I
Cure for Skin Disease Promised by Curicura Remedies
A Chicago resident testifies to relief from a fearful skin condition after using Curicura Remedies. The ad lists Curicura products by Weeks & Potter Boston and local druggists, with prices for Cure products including Cuticura Jelly 50 cents to 1 dollar and related soaps and Resolvent at 1 dollar per bottle. Free mailed treatise offered upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Steele
Feq
Chicago
Washington Street
Boston
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Greencastle
Putnam County
Greexca
Stle Woolen Mills
Birch & Brother
J. C. Stevenson & Sons
West Side Square
Greencastle, Indiana
J. P. WaTaon
Christian Church
Troy
avEe Medicine CO
DR. Harter Medicine CO
Jones’ Drug Store
Greencastle, Ind
Foreign Intelligence
Uticura
F.H. Drake
Harper and Brothers
Detroit
Mich
Calisaya
Iran
Malt Bitters Company
Collins Port
Weeks & Joston
Mnes
Renick, Curtis & Co
Ind
Rescuef
Rescue
Powell Bros
Spring
Satterite
Robt
Bonner
Rysdick
A. L. Goodbar & CO
BECK
Cheap Cash
Reynold
Burnett's
BISCK
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