P. T. Barnum Dies After Long Illness in Connecticut
P. T. Barnum, famed showman and founder of a traveling circus, died at his home in Bridgeport Connecticut at 3:30 PM after a 21 week illness. Born in Bethel in 1810, he built a fortune in show business and served in Connecticut public life as a legislator and mayor. His death came peacefully in the presence of family and close associates.
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Hemgeport
Conn
Barmum
Abe
Vinseas Taylor Barnum
Bethel
Daly
Young Puinead
New York
Beengsydin
Bridgeport
Adi
Vurner
Ann Street
James
Inisel Be
Barnum
Connecticut
Legislative notes on state laws and measures across several states
The report details constitutional amendments in Massachusetts and Delaware, voter registration penalties, juror duties for nonvoters, and a harsh vagrant labor bill pending in Delaware. Minnesota and Wisconsin debates include railroad rate reform and claims, a Nebraska adjournment, and New Jersey funding for a state exhibit.
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Tike
Wisconsin
Legislative Committee On Claims
Maine
Delaware
New Jersey
April snowstorm paralyzes region from Michigan to Poughkeepsie
An April storm raged from Michigan to Poughkeepsie with six inch snowfalls in places and heavy winds. New England and Hudson valley reports describe trains delayed by hours and downed telegraph wires. Across western New England measured snowfalls reach a foot in some areas and electric car service suffers outages.
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Hudson River Valley
Weston
New England
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le Fmterior
New Exzl
Everal
Alessy
Seven Hungarians slain at Morewood Coke Works riot
At Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania on April 3 a clash between Hungarian strikers and deputy sheriffs at Morewood Coke Works left seven men dead and fifty wounded. The marchers attacked gates and stables. a volley from the guards killed seven leaders and wounded many more. Deputy McConnell fired to restore order as Captain Loar led a firing squad. Regiments were ordered to Morewood amid mounting tension. Funeral services followed, with political figures and labor leaders present.
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Tarrs
Jacob Shewakey
John Tuden
Standard
Arton Rist
Cressinge Buero
Yarrs
Albert Brozik
Albert Brozik, Married, 3Larewood; E. Seeman
Joseph Shultz
Albert Vodiic
Joseph Topper
Joseph Kobacher
Toost
Texas
Mt. Pleasant
McConnell
Loar
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James A. Loar
Richard Barn
J. A. Sundle
L. 5. Davis
Herry Wilson
Norman Brown
Harry Gilbert
James Berger
Edward Jeaman
George Carbaugh
Miles Henry
Emen Nichol
Frank
McCurdy
Gawson
Morewood
Greensburg
Pattison
Lear
Lynch
Morris Ramsay
Huus
Two More Deaths Raise Scotsdale Toll to Twelve
In Scotsdale Pennsylvania on April 4 seven pine boards mark the graves of men killed in the Morewood incident with two more, Solensky and Klaseman, dying at home. Funeral train from Mt Pleasant carries the bodies as thousands gather. Miners bands join the sendoff and the Everson band plays the dead march.
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Jefferson Assembly
K. of L
United States
Parker
Penna
Balt
Father Lambing
Szmiegle
Scottdale
Uttle Catholic
Scotsdale
Morewood
Paul Solensky
Donnelly
Joseph Klaseman
Spring Garden
Mt. Pieasent
Standard
Everson
Causes of the Tragedy in the Coke Region Strike
The eight week strike by coke workers pits miners against operators over wage hikes hours and weigh scales. Companies reduced ovens forcing mass unemployment and hunger. Rioting follows as armed men raid works and the story ends with Thursday’s tragedy.
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Coke Companies
H. ¢. Frick Coke Company
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J. Rainey
U. S. Court For
Mr. Rainey
H. C. Frick Company
Moorewood
Fire kills nine in Rochester Pennsylvania
Nine people died in a Rochester town fire. An Italian family of six lost all but a 17 year old girl. A father and his 11 year old son suffocated before waking. The mother and two children learned of the blaze on an 8 o clock train and rushed home. Victims named: E. J. Keene, Walter Keene, Baptista Tecchio, Annie Tecchio, Joan Tecchio, Rosa Tecchio, Daltina Tecchio, Victoria Tecchio, James Raema.
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Rochester
E. J. Keene
Walter Keene
Baptista Tecchio
Annie Tecchio
Joan Tecchio
Rosa Tecchio
Daltina Tecchio
Victoria Tecchio
James Raema
Extraordinary railway accident lands four dead near Zabkowitz
Reports describe a passenger train colliding with a funeral procession at Zabkowitz station in Silesia. Four people are killed and eight injured as the hearse is destroyed and the coffin opened in the crash. Other items note Shakespeare’s home protection, a major bank failure, Bavarian king’s errant firing, and trade policy debate in Leeds.
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Bank of
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Colossal Cattle Deal Nets $2 Million In West and Chicago
In Kansas City on April 6 a vast cattle purchase by western stockmen and Chicago packers was announced. W P Herring returned from Texas with 40 000 head bought for himself and partners totaling 1 000 000. Another 40 000 head were bought for Nelson Morris of Chicago, led by Colonel Suggs. Total outlay reaches 2 000 000 with transportation costs about 500 000. Senator Edmunds resigns due to ill health, effective November 1.
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Texas
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Cherokee Live Stock Association
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Chicago
Colonel Suggs
Edmunds
Weather woes grip trade and finance in early 1891
R G Dun and Co reports no improvement in business linked to weather conditions. April settlements tighten money markets while interior finance quiet. Sluggish collections and widespread failures rise, with 3,545 bankruptcies in Q1 1891, up from 3,223 last year, driven by southern states. Trade varied by city as wool centered and grain receipts rise in Chicago, while roads and strikes dampen demand.
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Colorful statewide returns show mixed election results across cities
Across states including California Kansas Iowa Wisconsin Michigan and Ohio voters delivered varied outcomes. Democrat victors dominate in many cities while Republicans gain in Milwaukee Canton and several Ohio towns. Springfield Springfield and Leavenworth show close mayoral contests with official tallies awaited.
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Supreme Court
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la Crosse
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Chillicothe
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Coshocton
Belifontaine
Lyndon
Logan
Carrollton
Sanitary wall coatings touted by Alabastine in Tribune note
A Detroit Tribune piece discusses biblical warnings on wall plagues and promotes Alabastine as a sanitary coating. It explains testing methods, urges readers to send chapter quotes to the Alabastine Company in Grand Rapids for sample orders, and notes the paper’s own decoration with the product.
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Grand Rapids
Michigan
Tribune
Detroit Tribune
Wrecked Passenger Train Leads to Bribery Suspicions
A Philadelphia and Reading line wreck near Vastines Pennsylvania injures five passengers and shakes others as spreading rails caused the crash. Chicago real estate dealers Martin C. Shannon and John J. Hopper are arrested for complicity in a jury bribery plot. Hopper confesses while Shannon denies. Other items include a fatal shooting in Kentucky, LDS conference at Kirtland, and various regional misfortunes and crimes.
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Martin C. Shannon
John J. Hopper
Chicago
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Oid
Shannon
Robert Bartlett
Priestville
Contri
Bartlettes
Assizes Hear Severe Sentences For Explosives And Boycott
Cork records Lord Chief Justice O'Brien sentencing John Foley to seven years penal servitude for possessing explosives. In Tipperary Michael Donley and Michael Landers receive 18 and 12 months hard labor for posting boycott notices while Timothy Mogihan and William Reardon get ten years each for moonlighting. John Flin and Edmund Kelleher receive seven years for the same offense as the crackdown notes an organized system of intimidation driven by cruelty terror and explosives.
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John Foley
Tipperary
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Michael Landers
Timothy Mogihan
William Reardon
John Flin
Edmund Kelleher
Pennsylvania Senate Bills Pass and Introduce Reforms
In Harrisburg on April 6 the Senate introduced bills authorizing soldiers to sue for bounty money, repealing horse racing forfeiture acts, and clarifying trotting terms. It passed measures limiting cruelty to conductors and regulating cigarette sales, while the House focused on a State Board of Undertakers and broader funding and education provisions.
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Minnesota Senate
Courrier Railroad
Farmers’ Alliance Mneasure
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Mois
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Senate
Hi Tes
Luzerne
Osborne
Philadelphia
Crawford
Venango
Gobin
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Commor
Arrisburg
United States
Boy Memory Wonder Howard Zimmers Astounds Readers
A small Aurora boy named Howard Zimmers, nearly three, displays uncanny memory for numbers, trains of car numbers, telegraph alphabet, and astronomy data. He repeats sequences forward or backward, recalls car initials, and even deduces ages from birth dates with no formal training, raising hopes he may become a mental prodigy.
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Aurora
Howard Zimmers
William Zimmers
Chicago Tribune
Howard
Walls of Immense Limestone Blocks of Ancient Cuzco
Describes the massive limestone walls at Cuzco Peru with blocks up to twenty seven feet high and ten feet thick. Notes the stones were quarried far, moved without beasts, raised on the sierra, and set with precision by a people without iron. Claims twenty thousand workers over fifty years. Mentions three towers at Sachahuaman with royal garrison and subterranean galleries now blocked by debris.
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Peru
Sierra
Sachahuaman
Washington Star
Boston Dentist Links Diet to Tooth Decay and Starvation Core
Charles W. McMichal of Boston argues that rapid tooth decay stems from poor nutrition rather than candy alone. He notes young women amid pastry diets lack bone and tooth-building material, and that soft foods and soaking foods weaken teeth and reduce need for chewing. Source cites St. Louis Star-Sayings.
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Charles W. McMichal
Boston
Mass
Star-Sayings
St. Louis
Glass-eyed Bill Kills Papoose at Big Sandy
Mojave Miner reports an Indian known as Glass-eyed Bill shot and killed his sick papoose at Big Sandy two weeks ago after the child cried all day and night. The same man allegedly killed his squaw about two years earlier in a similar manner, yet no action is expected.
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Big Sandy
Mojave
Cal
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