Four Men Lynched in Calamity Of Siskiyou County
Ereka Cal special reports a mob of 24 men seized the county jail and lynched four murderers amid a wave of lawless violence in Siskiyou County. Victims include Lawrence Johnson who killed his wife at Etna on July 28 and William Null who shot Henry Hayter near Callahan on April 21. Garland Seemler and Louis Moreno, linked to Bailey Hill killings on August 6, were also executed.
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Ereka
Cal
Lawrence Johnson
Etna
Wm. Null
Henry Hayter
Callahan's
Louis Moreno
Garland Seemler
George Sears
Casper Mairhans
Bailey Hill
Boston crowds flood city for grand Masonic pageant
A vast throng transformed Boston as visitors and locals filled the streets during a Masonic conclave. Immense incandescents and flags lit the city while a formal reception offered punch and hospitality to visiting Sir Knights.
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Boston Special
Boston
Knights Templars
Greater
Masonic Temple
Saya
Hosteon
Hural
Mob Attacks Mission. Four Native Scholars Killed
An enraged mob in Foo Chow wrecked the chapel and a school, fatally wounding four native scholars while a foreign teacher escaped. Anti foreign feeling spreads as cries of Drive out the foreign devils ring through the streets. Washington says no intelligence of the attack reached the Chinese legation. Officials pledge protection for missionaries and demand officials safeguard lives and property under threat of punishment.
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Foo Cnow
Washington
Legation
Miss Conners
Foe Chow
China
Milwaukee Fire Destroys Steamboat Warehouses and Freight Depots
A major blaze at the Duion steamboat dock in Milwaukee wiped out warehouses for the Anchor Line and Wisconsin Central freight sheds. Fire destroyed two loaded freight trains and damaged multiple docks, with losses estimated around 300000 to 400000 dollars. An 8 year old boy, Joseph McMenus, was killed when run over by an engine amid the fire. Insurance covered many company losses including the Wisconsin Central and St Paul brokers warehouses. The disaster raises questions on cargo values and uninsured freight, with totals varying as assessments continue.
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Milwaukee
Duion
Wisconsin Central
Wisconsin Central Company
Joseph McMenus
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
Wisconsin Central Railroad Company
St. Paul Company
Union Ling
New York
Dorling
Union Steamboat Company
Pennsylvania
Dasa
Ieas
Chicago
St. Paul
Paris Anarchistic Plot Plunges Rothschild Line into Peril
A reported anarchist bomb plot against Baron de Rothschild in Paris injures a clerk and nearly kills the financier. The package, a bulky cardboard device, exploded upon opening by M. Zadkovits at the bank. Police suspect an anarchist campaign targeting leading capitalists, amid Ireland and Texas fever notes elsewhere in the dispatch.
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Paris
Caron Alphonse Dé Rothechild
Agsageine Wea
Laren Dé Rothschild
M. Zadkovits
Polea
Polies
Baron de Rothschild
Frince
Large Tannery Burned in Irvona Fire
A large blaze gutted the Irvona Tannery Company's extensive buildings in Irvona Pennsylvania destroying the tannery and 23000 tons of bark valued at about 75000 dollars. Firefighters battled the flames but the complex was a total loss.
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Irvona
Irvona Tannery Company
Cholera Outbreak Strikes Yokohama Japan
Reports from Yokohama describe a severe cholera outbreak in Japan with 25,000 cases and 16,000 deaths. Health authorities mobilize to contain the spread as fear grows among residents and travelers.
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Yokohama
Japan
Five ARS Fatally Fort. City of Toledo Collides with Schooner
A collision near Toledo Ohio between the passenger steamer City of Toledo and the schooner Magdalen Dowling trailing in tow of the tug Butler injuries many. Seven seriously hurt and at least fifty cut or bruised as debris and a large portion of upper works were torn away. The incident followed a prior week with tow injuries from bay collisions.
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Toledo
Ohio
City of Toledo
Put-In-Bay
Magdalen Dowling
Butler
Prescue Isle
Diplomats' Heads in Peril Rumors of Displacements
Washington special reports rumors of a sweeping diplomatic shake up. President Cleveland and Secretary Olney may recall Ambassador Eustis from France and Dun from Japan while Denby may resign in China and ex Senator Ransom may not be reappointed in Mexico.
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Washington Special
Cleveland
Olney
Eustis
France
Denby
China
Dun
Japan
Ransom
Mexico
Atc
Gleveland
Ernstia
Ranson
Tay nYfeare
Flin
Lewis Sker
Nicaragua
Cozi Rica
San Salvador
Manderson Pushes Sugar Bounty Question to Treasury
Ex Senator Alan deriah telegraphed Comptroller Gawler about a motion to refer sugar bounty payments to the Treasury Secretary. The move would remove the issue from internal revenue officers, though the wording mirrors the original McKinley bounty.
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Manderson
Washington
Alan
Deriah
the Treasury
Gawler
Secretary of the Treasury
Mrz. Manderson
Struck a Reef at Cascade Stupids and Sank
Montreal steamer Terrebonne from Kingston to Montreal with Knights Templar on board struck a reef at Cascade Stupids and sank entering La Chine Canal. All fire passengers were rescued. Low river water caused the Terrebonne to strike.
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Montreal
Kingston
Knights Templars
Cascade Stupids
la Chine Canal
Market Quotations From Sioux City and Nearby Bureaus
Market notes show cattle in Sioux City range $2.25 to $4.50 with hogs various grades, sheep $2.00 to $4.00, and wheat 48¢ to 60¢. Chicago quotes list cattle from $2.40 to $5.75 and hogs 24.10 to 5.00, with oats and corn also noted. Regional prices extend to Minneapolis wheat August 49, September 90, December 493, and Kansas City cattle around $2.50 to $5.45, hogs $4.00 to $5.54, sheep $3.09 to $5.50. South Omaha cattle up to $5.45, hogs $4.25 to $5.50, sheep $2.50 to $4.50, St Paul cattle $2.09 to $4.20.
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Sioux City
Chicago
Minneapolis
Oife
Kansas City
South Omaha
St. Paul
Deadly Milwaukee hotel disaster blamed on engineer negligence
A Chicago era report details a fatal hotel explosion in Milwaukee with 25 dead or missing after a boiler fire caused by a drunk engineer. The Gumry Hotel wreck left a standing ruin, while insurance and several companies face major losses.
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Gumry
Denver
Pierce
Fire Devastates Indiana Hotel and Blocks in Debris Strewn Blaze
A massive blaze caused extensive damage and deaths in Indiana as the Gumrs Hotel and nearby structures burned. Losses include the hotel valued at 25 000 dollars, furniture 4 000, Alt Mann Block 145 000 insured, and 1 500 feet of riverfront property consumed. The disaster, driven by a fast moving fire, left casualties and widespread destruction to the town’s commercial district.
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Alt. Mann
Guinry
E. A. Bishop
A. Tilliblade Furniture Company
A. Tilliblade
Milwaukee Fire Destroys Rail and Steamship Stock
A large Milwaukee blaze swept from Water Street Bridge west to Sixth Street, burning a wide swath across freight warehouses and stored property of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company and steamship firms. Firefighters battled the four hour blaze with two fire companies left to guard the ruins.
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Milwaukee
Water Street
Sixth Street
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
List of Missionaries at Foo Chow In Danger
A dispatch lists American missionaries and their wives serving near Foo Chow under Bishop Goodsell. The group includes G B Smyth M C Wheas H Laer and others with women missionaries from the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. They work near Foo Chow and could face danger or murder if unrest rises.
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Foo Chow
Importanea
Honcong
Foo Chaw
Methodist Episcopal Church
Goodsell
WN. Hreiwater
Miner
Sarah AL. Bosworth
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Aetheist Church
Fao Chow
Coures
Nasiurance
Tcrmble
Insane asylum horrors at Dunning reveal brutal ward fight
Investigation into Cook County Board of Commissioners into Dunning Insane Asylum management reveals a brutal corridor fight between two patients in ward 2. Attendant Anderson on watch as one man bit another and tore at faces, then gnawed his own nose in a frenzy.
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Cook County
Dunning Insane Asylum
Vucik
Methew
Dinnning Anslum
Anderson
Testimony Reveals Abuse at Dunning Asylum
Dr. McGrew, resident physician, testifies about abuse in the Hospital for the Insane. A commissioner grew pale while Julia Addams reacted with distress as the inquiry drew out evidence of mistreatment at the asylum.
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Dr. McGrew
Dunning Asylum
Julia Addams
Counterfeiter Brockway Captured in Hoboken Bust
New York secret service agents broke up a large counterfeit ring in Hoboken New Jersey and captured head William E. Brockway. They seized plates Canadian notes and fibre paper worth about 200000 dollars and arrested Brockway along with several associates. Brockway a veteran forger with Yale electro chemistry training had long been among the country’s most skilled criminals.
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Laat
New York
Secret Service
Hoboken
NJ. O
William E. Brockway
United States
Secret
Brockway
O. B. Bradford
Libbie
Sidney Smith
William E. Wagner
Tom Ballard
Grockway
Brockwey
New Flaven
Ele
Connecticut
Yale
Technica
Yale Weenreet Ag
Folia
Hai
Long-ago counterfeiting cases and New York tax rate report
The report recounts Crockway and associates arrested in 1859 for forging United States coupon bonds and plates. Brockway received thirty years but was suspended on promise to surrender other plates. A later arrest in 1883 led to a five year sentence, but he was discharged and released. The New York Board of Aldermen Finance Committee sets the year tax rate at 1.82 percent, raising total funds to be collected.
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Crockway
United States
Crooks
Smith and
Doyle
Brockway
Dosle
Trenedict
United States Securities
Heo Ware
Ramon
Hrockway
New York
Morrin & Jessex
Honda
Sing Sing
Smyth
New York Board of Aldermen
Sasato
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Witis
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Bowler
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Standard
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Hanbury Wharf
Black Iriars
Dallas
Texas
Ed. McAffen
Rieti
Fanan
Farcy Tia
Gurrees
Vergy Kong
Brothschilis
Ireland
Myra.Gladslone
Hawarden Castle
James
Janny Pearson
Br. A A. Quintard
Gladstone
Richard James
Liverpool
Llinois
Mount Sterling
Ill
Homer Vandeventer
Crown County
Carlible
San Francisco
Charles Rishon
Tank of California
Hawaiian Islands
Isishop
Wilson
Himacha
Cardonancas
Indiana
Mort
Gumrs
Insane Asylum Horrors
William EH. Brock Way
Miss Gordon
Atewart
Whasang
R. W. Ate Ware
Whisrang
Miss Caprixng Tan
Misa Nessie
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