Gun makers claim rapid fire weapon to transform warfare
The article highlights Dr Richard J Gatlings gun invention with inside cooling to speed feeding of ammunition and plans for a $1,000,000 capital company to build works at Madison Indiana. It also covers Missouri governor Morehouse, Maxwells death, Peabody family figures, and a critique of US wages and living costs, with varied tangential notes on naval and military history and public discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard J. Gatling
Rapid Fire Gan Fame
Madison
Ind
Balloon bridal tour ends in tragedy near Birmingham
A newlywed couple died during a balloon bridal tour after their craft rose rapidly from the Gate Market grounds on Thursday afternoon. The container basket carried Aeronaut Baldwin Hetchinson and the couple's party, who were touring over New Castle thirteen miles south of Birmingham along the Louisville and Nashville line when the balloon ascended and then descended rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Als
Gkate Mair Grounds
Aeronsut Baldwin
H. G. Hetchinson
de Balioen
New Castle
Loisville & Nashville
Theiailsen
Election results show Democrats sweeping key states
Massachusetts and New York voted Democratic with statewide tallies. Philadelphia reports Gregg 50,833 ahead of Wright for State, Morrison 47,407 ahead of Tilden for Treasurer. McCreary wins City Treasurer by about 21,000. Constitutional convention defeated broadly. Pittsburgh notes light turnout with Pattison appointees winning, Allegheny City debt measures fail, and local officers swing Republican. Ohio supports McKinley wing. Cincinnati mixed on Australian ballot. Nebraska contest centers on Supreme Court and University Regents amid Farm Alliance and Independent party tensions.
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Philadelphia
Gregg
Wright
Morrison
Tilden
George D. McCreary
W. Redwood Wright
Pattison
John Bardsley
Shields
Willis
Pittsburg
Republican County Committee
Porter
McClung
Kennedy
Burleigh
Lir Porter
Allegheny City
Bradly
Judge Over
the Orphan's Court
Lincoln
Neb
Supreme Court
Farmen’ Alliance
Nebraska
Kans as Goes Republican in Midwest Returns
Complete returns from Kansas counties show Republicans winning multiple district judge seats and every county official. Colorado results indicate Denver’s municipal ticket swung Republican by about 2,500, with statewide gains. Maryland statewide Democratic with Brown winning governor. Senate and House lean Democratic. Des Moines reports split tickets amid temperance focus and Boies leading in 1889 comparisons. New York projects large Flower win with a 64-64 Assembly and 17-15 Senate split. Massachusetts race centers on Russell’s lead amid five tickets. New Jersey statewide results show Republicans leading on joint ticket.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Colorado
Denver
Col
Maryland
Baltimore
Court of Appeals
Frank Brown
William J. Vanneart
Edward Higgins
Prohibition
M. de K. Smith
John McDonald
Join
Isaac
Des Moines
Supreme Court
People’s
Horace Boles
H.C. Wheeler
A.G. Westfall
Peoples’ Party
Isaac Gibson
Samuel H. Beston
George H. van Housten
L. N. Kinney
Silas M. Weaver
Hutchinson
Boies
Ill
Wheeler
Hibition
Daniel DeLeon
Socialistic Labor Party
J. W. Vrooman
Wm F. Sheehan
E. B. O'Connor
Frank Rice
Arthur C. Wade
Frank Tempel
Ira M. Hedges
Elliott Danforth
W. A. Sutherland
W. Rosendale
Flower
Assembly
Senate
Massachusetts
Boston
Repblican
Democratic
People’s Party
Socialistic
William E. Russel
C. H. Allen
Charles E. Kimball
Henry Winn
People's Party
H. Robinson
Journal
Russell
New Jersey
Fires and Failures Ravage Multiple Cities
A Sunday night fire in Waterville Maine left seventeen houses burned and thirty families homeless with losses totaling 50 000 dollars insured 16 000 dollars. Theodore Stevenson of Cortland New York assigned liabilities 160 000 dollars. The New England Card and Paper Company's Springfield Massachusetts plant destroyed with Lees losses 50 000 dollars insured 25 000 dollars. The Berkeley Arms Hotel Buchanan Virginia largest in the state burned. Coss losses 100 000 dollars insured 55 000 dollars. Nineteen buildings burned at Clinton New Jersey with losses about 100 300 dollars. Loais Illinois business district destroyed with every business house burned and no residences. Turnbuckle factory Brasil Indiana destroyed with loss 40 000 dollars insured 10 000 dollars, fifty workers unemployed. Ellwood Pennsylvania seven stores burned Sunday morning losses 40 000 dollars insured 12 000 dollars. Charles S Schneider & Co dry goods Brooklyn assigned liabilities 100 000 dollars. Maverick bank Boston largest national in New England failed unknown amount. Proctor & Troutman Louisville Kentucky liabilities about 40 000 dollars and to pay dollar for dollar, owners of Louisville Stage and Lumber. A murder and arson case in Kansas City Missouri where Amelia Taylor found dead in her burned West Tenth Street home. police investigate. Scotland hosts only sixty eight papa mills versus 1 488 in Germany.
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New England Card and Paper Company
Springfield
Mass
Lees
Berkeley Arms
Buchanan
Coss
Loais
Ill
Loa
Turnbuckle
Brasil
Ind
Ellwood
Charles 5
Schneider & Co
Brooklyn
Connellsville
Lessenring
Possum Run
Southwest
Owen Mc Vi Urray
Trotter
Art
Lancaster
Hollow
Homer Peters
Ple
John Taylor
Young Peters
Muncy Valley
Thos
Minnier
Shortridge
Westchester
Charles Frey
Cambria
Johnstown
William Nord
Oil City
Roman Daub
Erie
New Castle
Robert and
Caroline Vance
Wampum
George W. Johnson
Jobo Shimi
Marshall McDonald
Beaver
Pittsburg
Lake Ene
Jacob Lawrence
Ash
Kautz Bros
Notable Late 19th Century Misfortunes Across the Nation
A roundup from Danville to Ocean areas reports diphtheria closures in Illinois, a Georgia lynching, death of Hap Carter in New York, prisoner escapes in Michigan, a deadly stomach illness in Bridgeport, a Vermont man’s dynamite accident, a Choctaw nation child’s snake death, weather and wreck reports in Erie and Conneaut, a Winnipeg wheat cargo sunk near Port Arthur, legal fine in Boston for importing musicians, shootings in Arkansas, a steamer fire near Alabama, a train collision in Minnesota, burglaries in New Hampshire, a Los Angeles slander suit turn violent, a Chicago shop fire, and a Philadelphia professor's suicide tied to overwork.
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Erie
Conneaut
G. J. Record
Lake Shore
Alabama
Winnipeg
Buffalo
Port Arthur
Mich
U. S
Boston
Jacob Dick
Bavaria
G. J. Griffith
Los Angeles
Cal
Burke
Griffith
Albert Miller
Chicago
H. Y. Landerbach
Philadelphia
Diverse 19th Century World News Tangles
A digest reports estimates of Santos coffee harvests at 9.5 million bags and 180 cholera cases with 90 deaths in Damascus, as epidemics and disasters ripple across the globe from Al Apo to Hodeida. Reform measures, fires, riots, and accidents touch Madagascar, Switzerland, Russia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Tunis, and Moravia amid shocks to travel, trade, and health.
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Diari
Rio Janeiro
Santos
Brazil
Damascus
Aleppo
Hodeida
Cold snap grips Minnesota and Dakotas with early snow
In Northfield Minnesota on November four a sharp drop near zero accompanied by snow and rain. War ren Minnesota reports one inch of snow after rain with frost delaying threshing. Chamberlain Dakota notes ongoing snowfall, the season's first storm, blanketing acres in shock with ice and snow.
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Northfield
Minn
Warren
Mine
Chamberlain
Labor strife and strikes span steel to mining towns
Reports detail wage scale changes at Edgar Thompson Steel Works Braddock Pa. mass strikes in Pittsburg coal and Berlin printers, with thousands affected. London shoemakers face mass layoffs. British miners and English ship mechanics join stoppages. Local accidents and fires, court actions against papers, and a Pittsburgh rail yard tragedy round out a broad view of labor unrest and industrial incidents.
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Edgar Thompson
Steel Works
Braddock
London
England
Hisflite
Fittsburg
Pittsburg
Thei
Rrikers
Pittsboro
Miners’ Association
J. P. Witherow
New Castle
Midland
Waveland
Ind
Southern Pacific Railroad
Narragansett Mill
Fall River
Mass
Jeannette
Girard (O
A. M. Byers
Akron
Werner Printing and Gthograph Works
Preasfeedars
Werner
Labor unrest and worker conditions across nations
The report outlines global labor issues from Boston waiters banquet and 30,000 unemployed in Crurcnco to 4000 idle cigar makers in Key West, Vienna apprenticeships, London dock strikes, and Spain coin production. It notes wage ranges for California nurses and cooks, Chicago sweatshop hours for girls from eleven, and union federation efforts among Missouri rail lines.
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Boston
Crurcnco
Frexch
New Yorx
Key West
Fla
New York City
Vienna
Austria
Liverroon
England
Japan
Annaus
Spain
Carnegte’s
Pitteburg
Penn
London
Paris
France
California
Table Assembly
Chicago
Brotherhood of the Engineers
Order of Railroad Conductors
Brotherhood of Railroad
Sedalia
Misouri and Pacific Systems
Bad Mix in the Accounts of Two Pittsburg Mayors
The Allegheny county sub-auditing committees report grave issues in Mayor Wyman’s office. They cite penciled docket entries easily erased to falsify records and note erasers as principal tools in use during the examination.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Mayors Office
Wyman
Patterson
Secretary of the Treasury
Ms Office
Global and local curiosities mix in sweeping news briefs
A miscellaneous collection reports Siena style figures from Simei and London telephones, floods in Britain, American made shirans abroad, a 33 cent San Antonio sheep, forgery waves in Germany, Triple Alliance signs, Florida orange crop estimates, Miantonomah commissioned, Oklahoma gold finds, Italy promotions suspended, England rainfall records since 1875, wheat imports, Midwestern forest fires, Vera Cruz fibre plant, West livestock counts, a volcano near Palermo vanishes, Kentucky constitution contest, Chicago book deal, a Saco contract ending with two cats as the share.
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Simei
London
Wowen
Ren Youx
la Gurris
Silesia
England
Spain
French
Germany
Austrnta
Italy
United States
Oklahoma
Chandler
Great Britain
Wisconsin
Michigan
Shnnesota
Vera Cruz
Mexico
West Foots
Palermo
Kentucky
America
Ceat
Cablegram
University of Chicago
Simon
Berlin
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati markets mixed on dairy and grains
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati market notes show butter Creamery prices around 42 and eggs at Pa firsts 2 to 3 percent, with flour and wheat values listed. Corn No 2 mixed and no 2 yellow ear quotations appear, alongside oats white and rye No 1. Prices float on live poultry and produce including turkeys, potatoes, and cranberries.
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Pittsburgh
Elgin
Ohio
New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
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Jiana Progress
Edneeday
Morehouse
Missouri
Trunk
Maxwell
Preller
San Francisco Chronicle
Peabody Aggesta
Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody
Nathaniel Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Horace Mann
A. P. Peabody
Cambridge
Harvard
New York World
Came
Balmaceda
Eca
Theodore A. Dodge
Eagiend
Tripoli
Algiers
Paregusy
Ceres
Rence
Engined
Spsin
John Brownweld
Barubanner
Fouian
Canada
Cuba
Nicarasee
Bhay
Sandry
Europe
Pennsylvania
McKinley Wing
Columbus
Sysem
William McKinley
McKinley
Campbell
Ashenhurnt
Leith
Fean
Cromley
Curtis
Hahn
Republican State Committees
House
South Dakota Diocese
Huron
D. D
Joliey
Congress
News
Smith
J. B. Livingston
W. W. Schuyler
W. D. Porter
D. B. Creens
John Dean F
J. W. Barker
Perry
Juniata
Detroit
Ee Aen Man Ford
David NC Murtrie Gregg
John W. Morrison
J. Sloat Fassett
Roawell P. Flower
Joseph W. Bruce
Boswell PF
Waterville
Lesa
Theodore Stevenson
Cortland, N. Y
Clinton
N. J
Maverick Bank
Asa A. Pollack
Newingland
Proctor & Troutman
Louisville
Louisville Stage and Lumber Company
West Tenth Street
Amelia Taylor
Scotland
Danville
Mitchell County
Larkin Mix
Meigs
Hap Carter
Hawaii
Everett House
State Penitentiary
Jackson, Mich
Bridgeport, Ct
Jill
Orin Turril
of &. George
Holbrook
Herman Lopez
Rafael Chaves
Joseph Crawford
W. E. Bell
Armstrong
Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Fhre
Benton
Tappi
Chambers
Cable
Beziat
Madagascar
Majunga
Rebstein
Bt. Gale
Switzerland
Starodub
Melbourne
Croydon
Russia
Parnell
Tunis
Bianzone
John Dillon
Cork
Mackeysch
Ostran
Moravia
Mose
Colon
Columbis
Minnesota
Dakotas
Hamburg
Greece
Switerland
Bossi
Metropolitan Job Printing Office
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
T. M. Thompson
West Penn Road
Etna
Senator Quay
Ly Quay
Pittsburg Post
Meadville “Messenger
Beaver “Star
Titusville Amerists
M.S. Quay
Blair County
Holidaysburg
Kimberly
Greenville
Michael Shoemaker
Fred Bolivar
James Clifford
Michael Spring
James Edwards
Iron Banking Company
Sharpsville
Thomas Brown
South Fork
Louis Schermerhorn
McKeesport
Jimmy
Daisy Plummer
West Spring Creek
Warren County
Charlie Weshbourne
the Labor World
Ont
John Clarkson
Peter Lewis
Leo Johnston
Wm. Alliston
State
Anton Haidacki
Singer, Nimick & Co
Thomas Cusaldh
Gusaleh
Haiducki
Tennessee
Bristol, Tenn
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Knoxville
Falley
Milwaukee
Thomas Flynn
Leper
Tao
Washington HoTtka
Adjutant- General
United States Army
Secretary of War
Washingtonaturday
Rusk
J. 8. Stocking
Washington, Pa
Reed Department
Henry A.meyers
Washington County
Warsaw
Osowiec
Poland
Saco
Central Park
East Liberty
Simonson
Jan
Siwonssa
Detroit Free
Allegheny
W. Wittig
Frostburg
Broadway and
Chasy Streets
Tke
Ae Ik
Eamn
Wittig
Elizabeth Wittig
Sona
Balle
Treasury Watch
United States Treasury Watch
Washington
Treasury
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