Destructive storms hit Fayetteville and New England towns
Kion Bion is described as the southernmost of Japan’s principal islands with volcanic activity noted. Fayetteville Arkansas faced a severe electric and rain storm the most oppressive day of the season, with lightning, torrents of rain, and widespread damage including killed horses, burned barns, and flooded areas. Damages extended to New Jersey New Hampshire and Massachusetts with dams bursting and roofs torn from buildings and trains.
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Kion-Bion
Japan
Pacific Ocean
Corea
Strait of
Niphon Island
Strait of Sikoki
Tsigigamama
Nagesaki
Fayetteville
Arkansas
Moses Mack
Moses Baum
J. W. Walker
E. E. Wade
N. M. Ragland
B. J. Brown
Kell & Hangin
Tomas Brooks
Fayetteville Reyublican
Thomas Holland
Graham
White River
Treasure Rumors Rise Over De Braak Wreck Find
The Merritt Wrecking Company’s steamer Tuckahoe near Cape Henlopen is believed to have located the De Braak treasure. Crew excitement, restricted shore access, and pilots’ bearings support claims that gold and copper cargo from the 1798 British sloop may be raised, ending a century of search.
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Merritt Wrecking Company
Tuckahee
New York
Demorest
Delaware
de Braak
Delaware Bay
Lewes
Resolute
Cape Henlopen
Central America
Spain
Merritt
Tuckahoe
Doat
de Brask ‘Masure
Two Hundred Men Try To Drive Mormon Elders From Wilson County
In Wilson County Tennessee two hundred residents of the Twenty third district vow to force Mormon elders out over conduct at Wetmore s school house. After an insult directed at Baptist preacher Rev John Barrett the crowd pledged to drive the Mormons from the county by any means. The Mormons were forbidden to travel on roads and urged to evacuate the area.
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Wilson County
Tenn
John Barrett
Wetmore
Justices of the Peace
Rarge
Barrett
Record Rainstorm Devastates Chicago and Suburbs
A historic storm drenched Chicago and surrounding areas with 4.12 inches of rain from 6:30 to 9:30 pm, causing widespread damage. Eight killed and several injured as a three story house collapsed onto a cottage on Leavitt Street. Families Ferdinands and Buck suffered multiple fatalities, while others including Cor nelius Ferdinands and Linda Ferdinands died or were hurt. Two workers, Ernest Blocher and Henry Dues, were struck by an engine during crossing efforts amid the downpour.
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Chicago
Dignal
Leavitt Street
Cornelius Ferdinands
Buck
Anna
Albert
Gustaf
Geneva
Gertrude
Linda Ferdinands
Babe
Coya
Charles Shaffer
Yorktown Street
Ernest Blocher
Henry Dues
Blocher
Dues
Great Flood Ravages Little Kanawha Region
Reports from Grantsville and surrounding areas describe a terrible flood last night. The Little Kanawha rose rapidly to about fifteen feet, devastating Calhoun county with crops fences and homes washed away and several lives lost. The city of Parkersburg urges immediate aid to flood victims.
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Little Kanawha
Grantsville
Calhoun County
Middle Island
Pleasant County
Bear Run
Ritchey County
Wirt County
Misa D' Alma
Saulisbury
Devastating Cyclone Rages Across Hungary Region
A terrible cyclone swept across Hungary Transylvania and Bukovina destroying crops and buildings. Hundreds killed and many maimed or crippled as houses and churches were leveled. The path covered several thousand square miles with widespread ruin.
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Hungary
Translivania
Bukovina
Unclaimed valuables held for identification in Johnstown
Louis Baumer chairman of the Johns town Committee on Valuables reports a large stock of items from unclaimed bodies including gold watches rings breastpins and other jewelry plus over one thousand dollars in cash. Owners or friends should call at his rooms with descriptions or send details by mail to identify recovered articles and determine if their property is among the holdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Baumer
Johnstown
Mr. Baumer
Internal Revenue figures show year end totals and taxes
Commissioner Mason reports fiscal year totals of 130,895,432 in collections with costs near 3,185,000 and a 3.2 percent cost rate unchanged from 1883. Receipts by category rise across spirits tobacco ferments oleomargarine banks and miscellaneous while cigars and cigarettes and oleomargarine tonnage are detailed. Five Chicago murder suspects remain in court as motions delay Cronin case progress.
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Internal Revenue
Mason
Internal Revenue Service
Late News In Brief from a Turbulent Era
Hazleton resident Mark King faces arrest after reportedly kicking his wife to death in a Friday night incident. Princess Louise and the Duke of Fife wed at noon with wedding gifts valued near $1,000,000. A westbound Chesapeake and Ohio train derailed near Brighton Tennessee injuring no serious casualties. New York advances plans for a 1892 World's Fair amid fundraising hurdles. Cincinnati police raid open saloons causing multiple arrests and disturbances. Massachusetts cooperative banks report 91 active institutions with 25 since last November. A Monongahela City farmer unearths a gold-hilted sword engraved with William Crawford near the Crawford site. A Belle Vernon altercation between Italian workers ends in one dead and another wounded. A row in Point Pleasant ends in a stabbing death. A seven-ton paper mill project is set for Cumberland Maryland with pulp from West Virginia spruce. An elderly man in Hammondsville abuses his children. neighbors condemn him. A Mansfield man returns after 18 years, causing his wife to be divorced and widowed again. Christ Weinman murders his wife in Columbus then shoots himself. North Dakota constitutional convention to vote on prohibition. Springfield arrests for poisoning two boys. one dies. President Harrison shifts travel plans to Washington amid rising duties. public correspondence increases. A Boulangist paper accuses falsified ballots. corrected counts show Boulanger elected. Mississippi Governor Lowry prepares to punish 600 Sullivan-Kilrain fight witnesses. Rev E F Flemon supporters fail to keep him from South Carolina authorities.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Memphis
Brighton
Tenn
New York
Cincinnati
Co-Operative Bank
Massachusetts
Mat Walton
Monongahela City
Colonel Crawford
William Crawford
Bellevernon
Monongahela Natural Gas Company
Bellevennon
Pittsburgh
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Wm Seaton
Mansfield
Christ Weinman
Columbus
Ohio
Constitutional Convention
North Dakota
J.P. Faunce
Springfield
Faunce
Harrison
Dee Park
Washington
Halford
Li Presse
General Boulanger
Lowry
Mississippi
E. F. Flemon
South Carolina
Beaver
Five New Wheats Ordered by Agriculture Department
The agriculture department ordered five winter wheat varieties from France. Three are Southern origin and suited for frost resistance, including Bichelle de Naples and Zelande white bald wheats and Rieti red bearded. Two crosses by Vilmoryn include Cattell from Prince Albert and Chiddam, and Lamed from Prince Albert and Noe Odessa. Lots go to Southern Est Middle Northern stations with full histories for study.
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Department of Agriculture
France
Vilmoryn
Paris
Prince Albert
Odessa
Collapse of the Salt Trust halts share allotment plan
North American Salt Company directors announce the salt trust project collapses after many subscriptions but no justification to allot shares. Articles called for 11 million dollars in capital stock and 4 million in debenture bonds, with unknown sales. Subscriptions are being returned and action postponed.
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North American Salt Company
False Messiahs in Georgia Spark Religious Frenzy
A Georgia panic over a self styled Messiah spreads from Liberty to Camden and Brunswick counties. Orth now Dupont Bell, and Edward James claim the spirit of Christ and predict August 16 as the end. Hundreds of black followers chant and prophesy while orthodox leaders fail to curb the surge.
Uns Claim San Francisco Blythe Heirs Contest
Heirs in Hungary and Cleveland prepare to sue current holders of William Leidesdorff’s estate, valued at 40 million, over alleged origins and deeds tied to ex Quartermaster Folsom. About 100 heirs met in Budapest and funded Ullmer of Cleveland to pursue claims. a San Francisco capitalist reportedly backs most Blythe claimants in a plan to share a million-dollar stake from a four million estate.
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Hungary
Cleveland
William Leidesdorff
California
San Francisco
U. S
Folsom
Leidesdorf
Leidesdorfer
St. Croix
West Indies
Leidesdorff
Azsood
Buda Pesth
Solomon Umlmer
Ullmer
Florence
Negro labor in the South cited by Chattanooga Tradesman
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports 9000 negro workers across 300 Southern manufacturers with 2500 skilled. Average common labor pay is 1.10 dollars per day, skilled 1.75 to 2.25, some paid as high as 4.85. No pay difference between white and black for same work. Manufacturers find negro labor efficient and are committed to its continued use, noting progress in skilled tasks and rising industrial recognition.
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Chattanooga Tradesman
South
Exoneration of County Taxes for Flooded Districts
The Board of County Commissioners unanimously exonerates county taxes for properties in the flooded Johnstown Worthef el district causing revenue shortfalls and potential loans. Rev Father Tehaney secures $20,000 from $22,000 insurance and plans a temporary wooden worship space with a brick church foundation later. The Convent of the Sacred Heart will be rebuilt with a memorial table. Soldiers' Orphan Commission cuts several schools and redistributes students after summer.
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Board of County Commissioners
Father Tehaney
St. John's Catholic Church
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Sisters of Mercy
Fears of a Food Panic Grip on Global Wheat Supply
European harvest news warns of a serious breadstuff shortage with Russia admitting a poor wheat crop. Authorities promise lower grain freight rates to avert panic. Telegrams from Vienna describe cyclone-like damage in Hungary and Northern Romania plus ruined granaries. Galicia Silesia Bohemia Moravia face bad to failed crops and Bombay reports rising shortages.
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Eempire
Vienna
Hungary
Roumania
Szegein
Mohacs
Austrian Ministry of Agriculture
Galicia
Silesia
Bohemia and
Moravia
India
Bombay
Murder at Davistown and Donegal Shoe Shop
Samuel Kramer, a widower with a small store between Davistown and Donegal Pennsylvania, was found murdered Tuesday morning. Neighbor Joe Christner reported the locked shop, then found Kramer’s body at a well with a bullet wound. A search party forms to locate the killer. Kramer, about 50, was described as quiet and likely killed for his money.
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Samuel Kramer
Davistown
Donegal
Chestnut Ridge
Joe Christner
Kramer
Christner
Sunday Closing Enforced as Saloon Rules Shrink Towns
In Wheeling Sunday closing was rigorously enforced for the first time in years, driving residents to Bellaire and nearby towns for drinks. The report also notes a ghastly Sun River murder of a Flathead family, cattle fever havoc in Indian Territory Oklahoma, and several forest fire notices across Idaho and Missouri locales with partial details of relics and anecdotes about Gen Rosecrans and Mundella urging reading reforms.
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Wheeling
Bellaire
Benwood
Trade review notes uneven gains and looming drought fears
B G. Dun & Co. reports overall improvement in business outlook with cautious optimism. Wheat prospects rise in Dakota and Minnesota to about 80 million bushels from 60 million. foreign reports hint at larger demand. Prices mix with modest gains in corn oats and oil, while hogs and sugar drift. Iron demand rises, pig iron output sets records, woollen activity uncertain, coal dull. Exports and gold flows cited. stock market steadier. 216 failures vs 206 prior week.
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G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Dakota
Minnesota
Treasury
New York
Chicago
Seaboard
Boston boot firm F. & H. A. Bachellor & Co. fails
Liabilities estimated around 1,000,000 with assets near that amount. Assignment for creditors to Thomas E. Proctor and Robert Bacheller. Meeting of creditors to follow once accountants finalize affairs. Major unknowns include holders of commercial paper. Salem firm McKean & Appleton also assigns to J. Beebee with liabilities 65,000 to 75,000 and assets around 40,000.
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F. & H. A. Bachellor & Co
Boston
Brookfield
Thomas E. Proctor
Robert Bacheller
North Brookfield
McKean & Appleton
Salem
Mass
J. Beebee
Market Report on Livestock Prices and Demand
Current stock limited but meeting demand with steady prices. Prime cattle weigh 1400 to 1590 pounds priced around 4.35 per hundredweight. 1200 to 1300 pound stock cattle about 3.85. bulls and dry cows steady. Sheep and lambs market sees ten carloads sold. better grades steady, common dull. lambs priced around 4.50 to 5.00 per hundredweight.
Fast Mails and a Port Electric Postal System
A Boston correspondent reports a bold plan to carry mails from Boston to New York in sixty minutes within a year, using an elevated track with magnetized coil arches and automatic dynamos. If successful, trains could run at about 250 mph, reducing Boston to New York mail intervals to five minutes and possibly expanding to passenger transport. The piece previews the revolutionary potential of the port electric system and closes with notes on a Chinese chess variant and local tournaments.
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Boston
New Orleans
Piccyuna
New York City
Manhattan
Here
New York
Remarkable elderly vegetarians in local accounts
Mr J Williama Thera of Blackhorse Pean aged over seventy years remains a strict vegetarian for forty five years living mainly on chest nuts oats and fruit. He avoids酒 alcohol and tobacco and still works the hardest farm labor. Henry L Fry nearing eighty three remains active in the Cincinnati School of Wood Carving with strong physique and a diet centered on fruits vegetables and his own produce. he defends abstinence from meat and drink.
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J. Williama Thera
Blackhorse
Pean
Henry L. Fry
C Neimnati
Wonderf at Mexican Pottery Discovery in a Mexican Shop
Charles Dudley Warner found two specimens of pottery in a Mexican shop that rival the lustrous iridescence of Maestro Giorgio Gubbie’s famed lustres. The discovery highlights remarkable color and craft in contemporary Mexican ceramics.
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Wonderf
Charles Dudley Warner
Maexicom Cite
Giorgio
Woman Falls in Detroit Street Car Foot Trap
A Detroit avenue car near 2 Second street stopped to let a young woman board when she tripped over an extended foot of a man seated in the rear. She recovered quickly, thanked a gentleman who gave up his seat, while her escort glowered. The offender remained unchallenged, and the woman’s party advised the incident was an odd “weader one.”
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Michigan Avenue
Second Street
Ile
Esfect
Peculiar Strike Ends With Firm Turnabout in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati Knight of Labor reports the oddest strike by shoemaker John YBries who refused to be charged and unexpectedly won. The superintendent then delivered a note from the firm criticizing his views, prompting a heated exchange about job security and firing. The shoemaker reportedly kept his position and family steady despite threats and layoffs.
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Cincinnati
John Ybries
O'Fiien
Bam
Anil Tungulag
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