News of the Past Seven Days Condensed
A sprawling digest notes Meadow Lawn near Mattoon bought for widows and orphans by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. It covers McKinley hosting Latimer, Lincoln family marriage, Charles Dana will, agriculture yields, stock market restrictions, and assorted crimes and incidents across the United States with numerous named places and people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadow Lawn
Mattoon
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Alger
Maine
McKinley
Wilfred Latimer
Canada
Canada, In the ‘Lue Room At the White House
Robert T. Lncoln
Chicago
Jessie
Milwaukee
Warren Beckwith
Mount Pleasant
Lyman Autors
Mary
Burns
Cynthiana
Taylor
Charles A. Dana
New-York
Jen
Leldow
New York
George Reader
Boston University
Lion's Cage
Department-Of-Agriculture
Stock Exchange
Long Island City
N. Y
Martin Thorn
Wil- Wats Gulderisuppe
Edith
May Roberts
Oakwood
Lion Department
W. A. Wieboldt & Co
Edward Haukina
Chatham
John Roy Cabell
Danville
Louisville
Henderson & St. Loula Road
Lewiaport
Henry Hurlburt
Pullman Palace Car Company
Count de Vecchi
Washington
Bartley
Nebraska
Theodore Durrant
Blanche Lamont
California Supreme Court
Brownsville
Tex
Bernardo Salazar
Heine's Bank
Silver Creek
Charles Page Bryan
Illinois
United States
China
Joseph Ladue
Klondike
New Orleans
Uni
International talks and American Canadian conference notes
Secretary Sherman and Laurier meet in Washington for future U S Canada relations as a series of conferences opens. A Philadelphia Temple Cup series ends and sports news spans theft, murders, fires, and accidents with multiple fatalities and notable trials.
Notable Deaths and Names in Brief Personal News
Mrs. Mary Flannery died at Independence Indiana aged 106. Ex President Cleveland's son named Richard Folsom Cleveland after Mrs Cleveland's father. Mrs. Margaret Boughan died in Chicopee Falls Massachusetts aged 124. Dr. Susan A. Edson renowned physician died in Washington aged 75. Joseph M. Telford aged 87 proprietor of the Indianapolis Journey. British exports listed at 7,090,000 dollars. A wedding party crash near Sevastopol killed thirty. A royal decree about Guba to be issued in Madrid on the 22nd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Flannery
Independence
Cleveland
Hichard Folsom Cleveland
Margaret Boughan
Massachusetts
Chicopee Falls
Susan A. Edson
United States
Washington
Joseph M. Telford
The
Indianapolis
Slebostok
Russia
Madrid
Trade outlook brightens as retail demand rises and exports grow
New York report notes colder weather boosts wine distribution and sparks retail activity, with orders to fill stocks rising though some quarters report delays. Clearing houses keep payments near 1892 levels, rail earnings match 1892 early November, and October mileage up 2.2 percent. Wheat and corn exports rise, world yield down, and failures rise to 291 in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Haarach
Atlantic Axporta
Canada
Worse Than the Pest Fidel Weyler’s Policy in Cuba
A Havana dispatch reports nearly 75 percent of Cuba’s 400000 helpless civilians perished from hunger and violence under Weyler. Blanco’s orders to feed the starving are questioned as mortality soars, with rural depopulation and high hospital deaths cited and estimates of the rebel force shrinking from 100000 to about 40000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Blanco
Weyler
Cuba
Nathorstwill Etart
Chile
Peru
Argentina
Bolivia
Havana
Dauntless
Nuevitas
Dengers
New York
Blanco
Spain
Imports And Exports Show October Trade Totals
Washington reports the monthly bureau of statistics figures for October. Exports of merchandise reached 109.59 million dollars, a decline from 1806, while imports totaled 40.96 million with 24.33 million duty free. Ten month totals show merchandise exports up 70.29 million and imports up 64.56 million year over year. Gold exports were 310,616 dollars and imports 11,340,786. silver exports 5,225,242 and imports 1,601,661. In October 1896 silver arts were 4,794,380 with imports at 993,440.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Saat
Lazar Greengard Celebrates 106th Birthday in St Louis
Lazar Greengard of St. Louis, aged 106, marks the 105th year of his life at his son Solomon’s home on North Tenth Street, receiving relatives including six children, 36 grandchildren, 58 great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren. The article also notes other varied items from Washington and beyond, including a public reception with Gen Longstreet and a 101-year-old honoree, plus miscellaneous 1897 campaign notes and a bicycle record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Bushnell
Ernor
Chickamauga
Pennsylvania
Albert Kneeland
St. Joseph
United States Supreme Court
Johan M. Langston
Virginia
Washington
Lazar Greengard
United States
St. Louis
Wilson
Henry Paysen
Clinton
Delaware College
Wilmington
Alabama
State University
Fayetteville
House of Representatives
Congress
Knights of Labor General Assembly
Louisville
Thomas W. Evans
Paris
John Purcell
Florence
Mass
The
Sentinel
Marshall County
Britton
W. H. Morrison
Ashland
Miss.) Register
J. G. McDonald
McKiniey
John W. Foster
Canada
Universal Postal Congress
McKinley
Joseph A. Iasigi
Boston
Louis
Joseph
L. D. Spickler
Cushing
Territorial Press Association
Oklahoma Territory
Delta County Bank
Delta
Col
Samory
Kong
Upper
Guiana
Chicago
Wyoming Supreme Court
Louis Brown
White Oak
Ala
Germany
Hayti
Ohio Supreme Court
National Treasury
Kansas
George Seagraves
Cross Mountain
Tennessee
Charles Arnold
Gustave Arnold
Freeburg
Lasar Greengard
Solomon
North Tenth Street
East Room
Gen. Longstreet
Alexander Montgomery
Georgia
Magnolia community notices and local social updates
Magnolia residents report visitors and visits with Mrs W. Spencer and Georgia Rolley at British Lane, with Mrs Will Hauger nursing a finger injury. News covers weddings, church services, school terms, social events for the Band fundraiser, and local clergy reports. A farmer telephone cooperative near Clonar Creek grows from a Harvard-educated line builder.
Hall's Catarrh Cure and endorsements offer reward
A 100 dollar reward offer claims Hall's Catarrh Cure saves catarrh cases. The ad lists Toledo firms J Cuzney & Co and Tavax as wholesalers and includes endorsements of P J Cheney's honesty. Hall's Cure is said to act on blood and mucous surfaces, priced 75 cents per bottle, with testimonials free and Hall's Pills recommended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Cuzney &Co
Props
Toledo
P.J. Cheney
Pra & Tavax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
National Grange session in Harrisburg approves several resolutions
In Harrisburg this week the National Grange tabled a time of election change from December to October after discussion. It adopted a committee report commending Agriculture officials for farming conditions and urging pure food law support and a bureau of inquiry into transportation rate irregularities for agricultural products. Separately, Mrs Louisa Balon Seifen, 66, died at home after heart disease and dropsy. burial at Tomlinson Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Grange
Harrisburg
Committee On
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Inquiry
Louisa
Michael Balon'seifen
Safdy
Ewem
Husban
Henry
East Prussia
Tomlinson Cemetery
Buckien Arnica Salve and Liver Remedies Ad
An old advertisement touts Buckien Arnica Salve as a universal healer for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains scars and piles with a money back guarantee. Also promoted are Dr Powell’s liver tonic and Herbine claiming to cure liver ills fevers and ills with a few doses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckien
Powell
Baffling Venture by Baldwin Powell A E Smith Involved
Fragmentary notes describe Baldwin and Powell steering a newspaper venture with A E Smith as a smooth passerby in a bunco scheme. Details are unclear and names repeat in a fog of garbled OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Mesars Baldwin and
Powell
A. E. Smith
Buncoed
Alton Harennee Ane
Cottage Hill Notes Reflect Rural Life and District Events
Delayed tidbits from Cottage Hill describe corn husking by Tinker Neeley for John Hollenbak and neat hog house projects by Wphyne Ham. Sickness, school absences, and local social tales mix with a hunter’s Sabbath gun report and a runaway wagon incident near Anth ony Chance’s hogs. Captain Ricketts resigns. Jane McAleer to replace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottage Hill
Tinker Neeley
John Hollenbak
Elsie
Suney
Ruth -Dena
Mt Palatine Couples Wed in Catholic Church Wedding
Kate Leesch of Mt Palatine and John Apple of Leutan t married at the Catholic church on Tuesday morning. The bride wore a dove colored dress with lace and braid. sister Lena assisted. Carl Baker served as best man. The couple then went to Chicago for their wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT Palatine
John McNabb
CO. BE
Eidgert
O. E. Bart, Jr
Henry
Ethel
Hattie
McNabb
Princeton
Kate Leesch
John Apple
Leutant
Brida
Lena
Carl Baker
Happ
Chicago
Local notes and notices from a midweek column
Milo. Dora Barker had a fine steer die last week. O Hufnsagle is having a new plant house built. A Shriner was out hunting squirrels last Friday. A Miss Green is going to reach the winter term. Revival meetings at the Ms E church every evening at 7 30. Sunday school at the Ctrlatisn church every Sunday at 10. Mr and Mrs J Hafnagie of Lombard ville visiting their son Daniel Hafnagie last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Barker
O. Hufnsagle
A. Shriner
Atasys
Griswold
George Woodard
Sofiool Olosda
Miss Green
Ms E
Ctrlatisn
J. Hafnagie
Lombardville
Daniel Hafnagie
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Pe Bey
Rey Wlsica
Zorge Beez
ONDE
ForsoAay
Osee
Sherman and Laurier
Co 88
George Dobbs
Joseph New
Eureka
Kan
New
Aera
Cevinn
Kankakee
Til
Lausen
Mattie Schul- Sen
New Taberty
Ibert Voiers
W. Va
Charles Gibson
Montgomery
Gov. Barnes
Oklahoma
General Assembly of the Knights of Labor
Henry A. Hicks
James R. Sovereign
Coliseum
James Michael
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis Night Express
Shelby
America
Baltimore
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Katie Cabell Curtie
Dallas
Charles M. Murphy
Kings County
Saul Moly
Phillip Ireland
Alec Coudot
Spicer
Williamsport
N. C
Dea
Gary
Rome Bronson
Florence Willams
Black Point Mountain
Arkansas
Warren
Idaho
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Joe Martin
George Skipper
Forest City
Ark
Henry Turner
Bla
Campbell County
Joseph Williams
Omaha
Grangerr
Aaron Jones
Indiana
Wexchoren Worthy Josster
Theacera John
Gentry
Robert J
Somerville
N. J
Laws
Joseph Pp
Persia
Magnolia
3. W. Spencer
Ee Bari Roberts
Georgia Rolley
Leo Quaintence
British Lane
Will Hauger
Mary “McKirgan
Park
Galesburg
Lawrence
Gertrude’ Ramsey
Review Home Study Circle Club
Goldsmith Club
Celia Spencer
Bryant
Josie Hauger
Avery
Rev
Pawosti
Union School
Oxbow
Spencer
Magnolia and
Vicinity
Masonic Hall
Gante
Evans of
la Rose
Bliss of
Lestant
Bro Fawcett
J. W. Haney
Clonar Creek
Putnam County
Thut
Mills
Harvard University
Suvary
Evans Township
Reynolds
Rock Island Co
Tiskilwa Ohtef
Mra B
Frank Kays
Mr Chance
Doone
George
Lippert
King's Palace
Anthony Chance
Curt Chance
Gluar Oresk
1D Studgvin
Ricketts
Jane McAleer
Cappie
Miss McAleer
Lowell
Mars
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