Circulars Fire and Forest Losses Run Through Wisconsin Letter
Gov. Peck receives a plea for relief from E. Rehdir of Price County Ogema detailing July 26 forest fires that burned crops, homes, and tools. Relied on by local officials, the 66 year old veteran claims no pension or insurance and faces unemployment. Phillips relief committee cites lack of clothing and bedding. Bakery aid serves 300 loaves daily.
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Milwaukee
Peck
E. Rehdir
Price County
Ogema
Rehdir
London
Board of Agriculure
England
Canada
Financial Panic Fears Sweep San Francisco Banks
San Francisco faces a financial panic as banks suspend loans and deposit withdrawals accelerate amid a China Japan trade scare. The report notes rapid outflows while authorities work to contain the crisis and protect Japanese paper markets.
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San Francisco
Banka
Washington saves 900000 in Agriculture disbursement
The disbursing officer reports 900000 saved from the Department of Agriculture appropriation for the fiscal year in the East region, a note amid a multi region dispatch of state items.
Remarkable Reunion and Notorious Burglary Tale
A woman recounts fleeing a gypsy gang led by Bartley Gorman who later was hanged for murdering his wife. She describes injuries, hospital care, and a happy reunion with siblings in Grand Rapids before settling in Cincinnati with husband D Kloe. Concurrent New York and Wilkes-Barre briefs note tariffs, market shifts, wool and corn speculation, and Maggie Politsney fending off burglars in Georgetown.
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Bartley Gorman
Quincey
New York
Cincinnati
D’kloe
Grand Rapids
Dan & Co
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wii
Antonio Ezeta refugees stir naval and frontier chatter
In a San Francisco harbor scene, Antonio Ezeta former Salvadoran president sails aboard the U S S Bennington with three refugees. Reports say authorities plan to arrest Ezeta once Washington issues a warrant as a swift tug and monitor Mose eye the operation.
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San Francisco
Antonio Ezeta
San Salvador
Hannington
Jennington
Imeta
Washington
Golden Gate
Mara
Alonterey
Puget Sound
Bennington
Tovena Special Railroad
Maxaga
Kangas
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Colorado Line
Arkansas Valley
Maxson
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Mabisos
Wis
Wisconsin
United States
St. Joshn
Kansas
Nebraska
St. Joseph
Elgin
Art
London
Davie
New York
Rebels and raids sweep frontier districts in South Africa
A dispatch reports proclaimed rebel Kaffir forces attacking Boer homesteads along the Leta ha River with killings of women and children. Mounted police relief efforts failed as the Boers retreated amid widespread disruption in Mount Punsbury and surrounding districts.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Agatha
Letaha
Mount Punsbury
London
Shanghai
Wei-Hai-Wei
Paris
Dupuy
Chamber of Deputies
Scotland Yard
Board of Pardons
Trahavaal
Caraca
Mexico
John Merritt
Merritt
Prince Emanuel
Ocleans
Gordeaux
Austria
Tromsoe
Norway
Walter Wollman
Jost
Victomia
Siam
the Times
Janey Allen
Allen Steamship Line
Gerlin
China
Explosions and riots reported in multiple states
A large dynamite explosion near Fort Serrin Arkansas leveled a cabin and caused widespread damage to businesses along Sixth Street. In Alabama a triple tragedy at Leto Hatchie Lowndes County leaves three dead and a man dying. Kentucky reports the lynching of Marshall Boston for rape, while Oklahoma sets a land title ruling favoring settlers. Jacksonville sees two black men lynched for attacking a girl, and Newburgh notes a man hanged for wife murder.
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Fort Serrin
Ark
Spear Hardware Company
Potena River
Mra. Cook
Apara House
Boston
Arcade
J. J. Litties Ayres & Co
Vaughn Hardware Store
Fagan Bourland
Western Union
Sixth Street
Garrison Avenue
Montgomery
Ala
Letohatchie
Lowndes County
Charles Sanderson
Hebert Dickson
Dickson
Sanderson
J. A. Sanderson
Charles
Godl
Frankfort
Martin Nolan
Tnegro
Gberan
Marshall Boston
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Thorne
Jacksonville
Pia
Lafayette County
Newhourg
G. Taylor
Tariff Dominates Session With Broad Public Acts Passed
Congress completed a second session amid tariff fights, enacting extensive measures. Key actions include election oversight, Treasury and Post Office accounting reforms, civil and military pay changes, and a New York New Jersey Hudson Bridge charter later amended by the President.
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Secretary of the Navy
Dockery Commission
Treasury Department
Postofice
Biles
Annapolis
Mearsarge
Roneador Reef
Army
Navy
National Soldiers’ Home
Secretary of War
Michigan
Iowa
New York and New Jerey Bridge Company
Hudson
New York City
New Jersey
Cleveland
Senate tariff bill outlines duties on sugar and metals
The Senate bill sets duties on Albaw sugar 40 percent ad valorem and refined sugar 34 percent additional, with Hawaiian sugar duty free. It imposes charges on ore, coal, tobacco, cigars, tin plate, marble, and other goods, plus 2 percent income tax on incomes above 4,000 and a 2 percent corporate tax. Whisky taxed at 110 per ration and bond period set at eight years.
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Senate Bil
Internal Revenue
Senate
Treasury Department
DILL
China
Etenance
Neas
Pererry
TAG Berane Aera
Haina
Cceerecaerecascee Tojti
Platea
Galatia
Bhonke
Foxer
Graka
Parrela
Wid
Grange
Verona
Pwerimenta
eLa
NASA
Callakians
India
Senate and House Proceedings Open With Free List Bills
Senate session sees votes on free list items coal iron ore barbed wire and sugar with referrals to Finance committee. Debates include alien anarchist exclusion a repeal of land bounty and McKinley tariff provisions. House adopts Southern Pacific amendment and passes repeal of free alcohol in tariff bill.
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Congress
Senate
Wth
House
Hitt
Dolph
Kyle
Capitol
Barris
Aldrich
Mandarson
McHinley
Iith
Sayers
Montay
Seligman the Noted New York Financier Dies in Coronado
Obituary recalls Jesse Seligman a leading New York banker and philanthropist born in Bavaria in 1836. He built Seligman Brothers into a vast bank with branches across Europe and gave generously to Jewish charities including the Hebrew Orphan Asylum founded in 1868. His later health decline followed a clash over race prejudice involving his son at the Union League Club. He died at Coronado, California.
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New York
Dreathen Hills
Jesua Solipman
United States
Mr. Seligman
Jesse
Castle Garden
Lis Brothers
Joase
Goode
Albout
Joree Saligman
San Francisco
Heroon
Olfy Astatra
Seligman Brothers
Jesse Seligman
Seligman
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Theodore
Union League Club
Selfigman
Coronado
Types of Medicines and Their Uses in 19th Century Text
The passage lists medicine categories such as cordial purgatives nerve tonics and starch. It names examples for each like jalap tartrate antimony and nitro compounds along with emetics and emollients. It reflects era pharmacy terminology and classifications with terms like diaphoretics deobstruents and carminatives.
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Nice
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Ried
Department of Agriculture
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Ind
Peter Maner
Weisburg
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Warden Moore
House of Correction
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Process
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Owosso
Mich
Jennie Finch
May
Southern Summary
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