Indiana Progress Terns Seem To Improve Outlook
Weather improves trade and collections per B G Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade. Overall trade volume remains near last year’s level though prices are higher by about 14 to 15 percent. Iron, coal, and wool show mixed demand with construction materials and finished goods at varying levels across markets from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. Retail demand in Boston Philadelphia and Chicago is uneven, with some regions easing and others steady. National variations include declines in some metals, steady glass, and improving lumber. The report notes increases in rail orders and a slow but visible upturn in consumption amid inflation pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.G. Dun & Co
Os E
Eisher
Goa
Orden
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Qmsha
G. Paul
Denver
Kansas City
Memphis
New Orleans
Atlanta
Eales
Wit Lea
Embels
Unitet States
Ei Cepperstieget
United States
Dominion of Canada
General Butler Ejected From Court In Disruptive Incident
April 27 General Butler was forced from the U S District Court by Marshal Doherty after a dispute over a hearing date for arrest of judgment in the Claretta E Johnson case. Butler was escorted from the room by two lieutenants amid procedural clashes with Judge Unet. Mrs Johnson was sentenced to pay a fine and serve six months in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diserdax
Whee Varshal
Butler
Unet
Johnen
Three Children Drowned in Capsized Flatboat Incident
A capsizing of a flatboat on a local river leads to the drowning deaths of three children. Rescue crews recovered the bodies amid ongoing searches, with authorities investigating the boating mishap and safe operation concerns.
Verdict pronounces deputies fired fatal shot at Morewood riot
At Pleasant, Pa, April 2 1891 the coroner declares the deceased died from a bullet fired by Westmoreland County deputy sheriffs during the Morewood riot. Scottdale leaders call verdict noncommittal while labor figures blame Captain Loar and his deputies for the shootings and vow further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alt. Pleasant
Morewood
Westmoreland County
Scottdale
Moorewood
Parker
Kerfoot
Valentine Novoski
Captain Loar
Caprio Loar
Indefinite shutdowns hit several mines and mills
The Sehnglkill and Ellwood collieries at Mahanoy City have been shut down indefinitely. Beaver Falls Ax Works posts notice that 100 men will be discharged on and after April 30. Struthers, Wells & Co iron-works at Warren Pa laid off 35 workers due to dull trade. United Mine Workers in West Virginia set scales for run of mine at B and Q Flat-top 50 cents per ton, Coal Valley Sycenta 12 cents, Kanawha valley 60 cents. Lumbermen at Eau Claire demanded a 10 hour day from 11. Spinners at Clark's thread mills Newark NS declared off. many to be reinstated. Adams direct process to make steel from ore to be introduced at Johnstown by B P Harris. Colonel August V Raute named Brigadier General after Gibbon retirement. W J Edbooke sworn in as Supervising Architect. Navy to open Boston yards for constructive work. Indiana coal operators resist eight hour move for May 1 and refuse to pay for mining before screening. Talks on rates halted by threat of miners strike. Edgar Thomson Steel Works Brad dock resumed after three months idle. New Chareroi plate glass works started, using natural gas for fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sehnglkill
Ellwood
Mahanoy City
Beaver Falls
Struthers, Wells & Co
Warren
Eau Claire
Wis
Clark’s Thread Mills
Newark
N.S
B. P. Harris
Pittsburg
Johnstown
August V. Raute
John Gibbon
Treasury Department
W.J. Edbooke
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Boston Navy Yards
Indiana
Tefane
Edgar Thomyson Steel Works
Braddock
Chareroi Plate Glass
America
Harrisburg
Senate
House
Rennett
Need
Carneyee
Recorders
Pattison
Representative Flickinger
Brooks Wholesale
Pennsylvania
Katz
Berks
Philadelph
Jones
Snally
Poisoned Water At Wedding Death Toll Rising
Louisville reports ten people likely to die from arsenic poisoning after a yard spring water used to brew coffee poisoned guests at the Snooks Herr wedding. B Frank Guthrie is dead and others, including Mrs. Ormsby and Rev. T T Martin, are gravely ill while detectives investigate. About fifty guests are recovering in bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
B. Frank Guthrie
Ormsby
T. T. Martin
Gillman
Guthrie
Dynamite used in strike terror at Kyle works
In Scottdale Pennsylvania the Frick company Kyle works water tank was blown up with dynamite causing the halting of 158 ovens. Strikers gathered at Leisenring No 1 and dynamite explosions drew wide attention as unrest spread. In Hastings the strike ended with miners returning to work. Greensburg reports Edward Johnston at Whitney Works has suffered a mental breakdown due to intimidation by strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottdale
Kyle Works
Frick Company
Kyle
Thany
Leisenring
No. 1
John Nast
Hastings
Greensburg
Edward Johnston
Whitney Works
Horrible Butchery Marks Hoboken Murder and Murder Trial
Hoboken New Jersey April 21 Angelo Gaboth of Stonestreet New York murdered his mother in law and wounded his father in law and was slain by Conozuito Cuiidelia a son of the murdered woman in a melee at 195 Grand street Gaboth wife and her brother were stabbed Gaboth suspected of planning a robbery of the in laws The Madagascars massacre governor and fifty seven Hova soldiers after a promise of an audience The bodies mutilated thirteen Hova officials murdered In Tubear inhabitants fled to French colony Nowi Re Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania April 20 Beaver Meadow area residents go blind from the grip with several named victims and doctors unable to account for it
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
N. J
Angelo Gaboth
Stonestreet
New York
Conozuito Cuiidelia
Gaboth
Grand Street
Marerilles
Madagascar
Morrombo
Tubear
Nowi Re
Wilkesbarre
Beaver Meadow
Luzerne County
Reess Lewis
Anthony Johnson
Michael Clare
Late News In Brief From Across The Nation
A long list of brief items reports skeletons found near Corpus Christi thought to be Confederate deserters executed on site, a March breadstuffs export total of 12,332,130 dollars, and 215,778,229 year earlier. Incidents include a 79 year old White Plains man killing his wife while insane, a drug house fire in Evansville wiping out 90,000 dollars, a Denver strike failure, California earthquakes, Texas spotted fever spread, Cherokee brothers hanged in Tahlequah, boiler explosion in Lebanon Indiana, lightning deaths in Trenton Missouri, oat millers forming a Chicago group, an attempted hanging escape in Savannah, a Chicago election count, tariff split at Kansas City congress, a Chicago laborer shot, a Baltimore murderer captured, measles deaths near Moberly, two train collisions near Loogootee, hunger in Tickle Cove Newfoundland, a Lake Erie and Western rail suit verdict, Lexington killing in a quarrel, drownings at Brighton Beach, cave blasting deaths near Norris Town, a Lyndon Kentucky wedding poisoning, a Whisky Trust bribery charge in Chicago, inheritance tax law amended by New York, death of Congressman Ford, a Liberty Mississippi lynching, a Philadelphia suicide, and a Braddock natural gas explosion injuring several.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Tex
Bureau of Statistics
United States
Jesse Lockwood
White Plains
N.Y
Charlotte
N.C
Brandham
Evansville
Indiana
Charles Leich & Co
Winner Investment Company
Kansas City
Willard E. Wimner
Chatfield
Minn
Marsden
Burlington Awitchmen
Denver
California
St. Leir
Texas
George and
Fred Dunaway
Tahlequah
L.T
David W. Campbell
Stewart Bros
Lebanon
Ind
Trenton
William Huffman
William Ferguson
Chicago
Louis Bulling
Savannah
Mon
Hempstead Washburn
Peter Kroblass
J. J. Kern
J. R. van Cleve
Commercial Congress
Lawrence Higgins
State Street
Higgins
Muncie
Lake Erie and Western Railway Company
Frank Mayo
Indianapolis
Lee Jenkins
Washington Ramsey
Lexington
Myrtle Swim
George Hardy
Brighton Beach
Norristown
George J. Gibson
Whisky Trust
Shufeldt
Gibson
New York
M. H. Ford
Grand Rapids
Mich
Liberty
Miss
Ferdinand Meyers
Philadelphia
Wrecks on Lake Shore Rail Hit Postal Clerks and Engineers
A double Lake Shore wreck near Kipton station west of Cleveland killed six postal clerks and two engineers. Fast Mail No. 14 collided with Toledo Express No. 21 as No. 21 pulled onto a siding. both engines and multiple cars were wrecked. Names of victims include Edward Brown and Charles Lupto. several postal clerks from Toledo and Elyria were among the dead. Two injured were a mail fireman and a section foreman’s son. Passengers suffered no serious injuries. Later, near Vincennes, two lightning express trains collided killing a tramp and injuring two mail clerks as engines and mail cars were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lake Shore
St Kipton
Toledo
Edward Brown
Charles Lupto
F. J. Nugent
Harles Hamil
Evyria
F. T. Clemens
John J. Bowertine
Elyria
James McKinley
Starkey
No. 14
Danzig
Vincennes
Ohio & Mississippi
Here
Novel oil exhibit production for World’s Fair
A Salt Lake City chamber endorses a six by twelve foot mini oil field exhibit by Peter Gruber and Dr J Reynolds of Oil City Pa for the World's Fair. It portrays wells and drilling, a railroad, a tunnel, train cars, derricks, a Drake well replica, and a farm scene with a spring and gully. Other notes cover fair planning, leadership, and exhibits by Kansans, Mormons, Austrians, and Paris syndicate plans for an Eiffel tower drop ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Gruber
J. Reynolds
Oil City
Waxon
Colonel Drakewell
Chamber of Commerce and Mining Exchange
Salt Lake City
New Orleans Bankrupt Faces Huge Judgment Debt
A final judgment in the Whitney administration case against New Orleans amounts to about 561,090 dollars with 5 percent interest for ten years, totaling nearly 850,000 dollars. United States Marshal Donnelly served Mayor Shakespeare with the execution demand, and the city proclaimed bankrupt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
United States Supreme Court
William Wallace Whitney
Myra Clark Gaines
United States Circuit Court
E. Billings
United States
Donnelly
Shakespeare
Proclaimed Cuban Trade Pact Aims for Tariff Cut
A cablegram from the state department announces the reci procity treaty with Spain to open Cuban markets to US wheat flour corn and meats. Envoy John W Foster was to push at least a 50 percent cut in the Cuban tariff on flour, potentially boosting American grain producers. Also noted are retirements and deaths in the navy and army: Captain Henry Dailey retires after 30 years service, Rear Admiral Alfred Taylor dies of pneumonia and bronchitis, and Commander Reiter is reinstated to command the steamer Theis, with Stockston on two months leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Spain
John W. Foeter
Blaine
Foster
Henry Dailey
Second Infantry
Alfred Taylor
Reiter
United States
Theis
C. H. Stockston
Lands Beyond the Sea News Briefs
Cholera rages in Siam with about 40 deaths daily. Ten fishing smacks lost off Japan with 60 lives. King Humbert aids Utopia disaster orphans with 100 per child. Bremen unrest over Russian migrants turned away from emigration subsidies. McKinley bill hits Vienna mother of pearl workers hard. 1,500 remain. Glasgow woman earns 350000 dollars from Salvation Army. Yorkshire miners wage cut 5 percent. Welsh tin-plate firms to shut for a month. Austria, Switzerland and Italy treaty talks. Rumored Bismarck pamphlet urges Germany Russia Italy alliance. Portuguese Guinea natives revolt and massacre garrison. Over 6,000 rebels rout 40 native levies and 4 Portuguese officers dead. Germany Russia relations described as friendlier than in years.
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Siam
Japan
King Humbert
Utopia
Vienna
Glasgow
Salvationist Booth
Yorkshire
Austrig
Switzerland
Italy
Servia
Presidential party tour through southern states begins
The presidential party arrives after an all night from Birmingham and greets by reception committees in Memphis Little Rock and Galveston. Mrs Harrison is presented roses by local ladies. Cannon and steam whistles greet the train in Little Rock. Houston and Galveston host elaborate welcomes with ceremonies and church services. The party continues to San Antonio El Paso Tucson and Los Angeles with further receptions and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
R. C.graves
Harrison
Little Rock
Ark
Carlisle
Village
Eagle
Galveston
Lone Star
Paestine
Hogg
Houston
Dimmick
Wanamaker
Fulton
First Presbyterian Church
Mr. Scott
Russell Harrison
Galventon
Ursuline
Beach Hotel
San Antonio
Tex
Washington
el Paso
Southern Pacific
del Rio
Tucson
Ariz
Los Angeles
Minnesota and Midwest Legislature Notes in Brief
Legislative notes report the McHale anti-rights bill returned without recommendation and slated for the calendar foot, with no action this session. A Senate bill would require only women jurors in certain inquests, while Minnesota's wolf bounty fraud inquiry reveals $2000 spent last season for bounties and scalps sold by local wolf owners. The Minnesota legislature adjourned amid various bills including anti-Pinkerton defeat and divorce notice restrictions in Delaware. Charles Matterson named Rhode Island Chief Justice by the Legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
Judiciary Committee of the
House
McHale
Illinois Senate
Corner
Minnesota
Battet Dilt
Michigan Senate
Delaware House
Senate
Charles Matterson
Supreme Bench
Rhode Island
Minnesota Legislative Committee
Severe grip and disease deaths rise across cities
Health reports show Cleveland tally of 169 deaths in one week the highest in city history, with grip and lung diseases leading. Chicago records 84 deaths last week, up from 65 the prior week as damp conditions boost acute lung illness. Northwest, Reading, Pittsburg and others report elevated mortality from grip, measles, diphtheria, and pneumonia amid ongoing epidemic conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Chicago
Health Department
North
Yakima
Wash
Reading
Adam Stout
Marsh
Chester County
Pittsburg
Grip
Widespread Court and Crime News Sweep Beaver County
The sheriff seizes Warren Glas Works Uniontown to satisfy a $16,000 judgment. Iagrippe deaths alarm Beaver Falls area. Dr. Cleveland and wife, famed healers, have vanished from New Castle leaving creditors. A 16 year old boy loses both legs boarding a moving train near Cowansburg. Scarlet fever spikes at New Tripoli with multiple deaths. Gov Pattison vetoes two bills including private real estate sale validation and Borough act tax powers. A block of Hungarians’ frame buildings burns at McKeesport. General G W Stroh fined for oath offences during a lawsuit dispute. Drowning near Tionesta after raft float. Mrs Brash near Sewickley never rode a train. Miner William Fink killed by freight in Port Royal. Pennsylvania Construction Co assets sold for 6163 to restart work. Spotted fever fears Oil City area. Horse valued at 230 stolen near Peun station. Dairymen organize at Lancaster to fight oleomargarine dealers. A Bakerstown shooting ends with John Van Coy dead and Walter Woodward mortally wounded. Reliance colliery Mt Carmel restarts, employing 900. Jeannette wreck leaves thirteen cars derailed by a grade. Body found floating near Industry. Beaver to Beaver Falls electric street railway touted. Jeannette grip persists with death rate two daily.
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Warren Glas
Uniontown
Iagrippe
Beaver Falls
Cleveland
New Castle
My. Thorn
Cowansburg
New Tripoli
Gov. Pattison
Representative Fruit
Mercer
McKeesport
G. W Stroh
Sunbury
George McIntyre
Tionests
Pennsylvania
Oil City
Wr. Kiefer
I’eun Station
Lancaster
Bakerstown
Herman Nelson
John van Coy
Walter Woodward
Relianca
Mt. Carmel
Jeannette
Beaver
Sensational double tragedy aboard Eld er steamer at Hoboken harbor
In the steerage of the Eld er steamer of the North German Lloyd line, just as departure to Bremen commenced, Rudolph Monacher shot and killed his sweetheart Catherine Obneck er and then killed himself. Monacher, newly arrived in the U S, had hoped marriage would solve his finances but business reverses altered their plans. Witnesses report his fatal remark for parting, we will not endure it, before the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elder
Lloyd Line
Hoboken
Bremen
Rudolph Monacher
Cathmgine Obnecker
Monacher
Germany
Miss Uhnecker
Narrow escape tragedy claims ninety lives at sea
The steamship Manowai arriving from Sydney and Honolulu reports a British vessel, the St. Catharis, wrecked off the Caroline Islands. Ninety persons are feared drowned in the incident, with rescue efforts underway and authorities investigating the loss of the ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Catharis
Caroline Islands
San Francisco
Manowai
Sydney
Honolulu
Prisoner killed after leap from railroad car near Jeanette
In Pittsburg on April 20 Sandy Wilson a manacled prisoner escaped custody aboard a Pennsylvania railroad train near Jeanette. He struck Constable Reese McDonald then leaped from the fast line. He was crushed by a passing locomotive and killed instantly. McDonald suffered only bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Sandy Wilson
Reese McDonald
Pennsylvania
Jeannette
Greensburg
Jeannettle
Wilson
Donald
Russian Jews Ordered to Leave St Petersburg by May 1
A Vienna report notes a St Petersburg lawyer’s letter stating all Jews in the capital must depart by May 1. It warns of financial and industrial ruin for many Jews, who would be allowed to settle in eastern and southern Russia provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Tave
Russia
Poisoning tragedy during move to Texas near Boone County
A family of movers named Building on land transport from Tipton County Tennessee to Texas were poisoned in camp in Boone County Arkansas on April 22. The mother and two small children died, the father and two other children were saved with difficulty. The cause was believed to be coffee in which a large centipede was boiling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Building
Tipton County
Tenn
Texas
Boone County
Influenza Raging in London and Crises Reported
Influenza sweeps London with one third of National Liberal Club members ill and many hotel inmates affected. Weather favors spread. Leeds and Sheffield telegrams show similar conditions. In Findlay, two men died today by self-inflicted causes Fred Jackson died from hatchet wounds and Adolph Shuffleberger died by razor and suicide in the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
National Liberal Club
Leeds
Sheffield
Findlay
Fred Jackson
Adolph Shuffleberger
Rioters Arrested as Women Block Train in Scottdale Riot
Deputy Crawford served injunctions on 32 strikers at Leiseuring No 2 while Constable Chick pursued rioters. Twenty six were taken to a train, followed by dozens of striker wives who refused fare and to disembark. Train crews unloaded them after a tide-track cut, engine proceeded to Uniontown, with three prisoners aboard. No word on the remaining trainload near Compeny, N.G.P. guards at Leith works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottdale
Crawford
Leiseuring
No. 2
Chick
Vances Mills Junction
Uniontown
N.G.P
Leith Works
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Indiana Progress
OM Alfs
Cincinnati
National League of Republican Clube
Foraker Blaine
Lincoln
Foraker
Berricon
Ime Hieeddrees
Thurston
Republican Party
League
Tce
Imperiali
Aaty
Paris
Baron Fava
Rome
Soleil
Fava
Atlantic
la Gescoigne
Havre
Marquis Simperiat di Francavilla
Mealy
Heron
Mrre
Causs
Cumberland
Oldtown
Threse
Marrietta
Alta Fostter
Barmond Foster
Walter Smith
Qhii
Mrev
Labor Leadecw
Capital and Labor Notes
United Mine Workers of
West Virginia
Coal Valley
Kanawha Valley
Kentucky
Blaney
Baltimore
Moberly
Ohio
Mississippi
Loogootee
Tickle Cove
N. F
Edgar Thompson Steel Works
Braddock, Ps
William T. Baker
Wm. T. Baker & Co
Lyman J. Cage
Kirtland
M. Aristide Berges
W.E. Curtis
Bureau of American Republics
Santo Domingo
Jackson Park
Isabella
Washington Notes
Berlin
Lloyds
Brazil
Bismarck
Dresden
Austria
Portuguese Guinea
Africa
Bissau
Pearstlyvania Rotes
Walter Brush
Sewickley
Western Express
Columbus
State Board of Charities
Asylum For the Blind
Ofnstlvania
Legtsta
Steel
Amendmenta
Courts of Common Pleas
Silk Culture Association
Caendar
Green
Bucks
Jennie Wade
Gettysburg
Arthur H. Davis
William BR. Leeds
Cincinnati Club
Burke
Lackawana
Hayes
Venango
Conference Committee
William H. Kemble
Graham
Allegheny
eoHte Ce
Memorial
Prockville
Ladies of Viland Army Republic
Hawkins Station
Keny County
Guarda the Leith Works
Hepa
Duncan Ag
Beelin Township
Bess Stable _ SA
Sui Everra
Baber Bankets
Catalecue Paylezter
Nte Eck
Torkeyn
Timothy Wan
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