Indiana Progress and World News Collage
A compact, period voice summary notes Canada’s failed Atlantic service push, Hillman’s Woodbury confession implicating McGill in Turnerville, oil well supply boom and price rise, Prince of Wales illness, and active temperance union event. It also reports arrests in Mexico for unsigned bonds theft, a Houston rail murder, a Chicago street car assault, a Kansas wreck, the Portuguese king’s death, a Fayette county poisoning, a Greenville Alabama race tragedy, yellow fever in Key West, and a papal arbitration mention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Europe
Jos Hillman
Hernan Seideman
Woodbury
N. J
Hidgway
Perry
David McGill
Turnerville
Prince of Wales
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Flagrant Violations Alleged in Missouri Coal Mines
State Labor Commissioner Meriwether reports inspections in northern Missouri coal counties uncovering tyranny and wage abuses. He cites past-due pay, in unredeemable checks for years, and widespread discharge of workers for not meeting company quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meriwether Han
Jefferson City
Norhern
Missouri
Meriwether
Forest Fires Ravage Three States, Widespread Damage Reported
A cross border forest fire outbreak in Portland, Beulah, and Westphalia Township, Ionia County, Michigan has destroyed farmhouses, barns, and timber. Flames spread along highways west of Westphalia while forest crews battle embers and strong winds. Nearby Sebewa township reports burning pastures with wells failing as rain remains scarce and stock suffer, with reports from Elleworth dispatches confirming extensive agricultural losses across multiple counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Bebewa
Westphalia Township
Ionia
Miah
Gencer Lst Bor
Sebews
Westphalia
Elleworth
Wisanys
Pierre County
Decatur
Lod
Unclear fragment on officer custody and missing party
A partial report mentions a man named Tenegro bound over to the Grand Jury for biting Willie and others. Authorities fear for the safety of the party as agro and men who took him from the officer remain unfound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agro
Tenegro
Graed
Willie @biem
Les
Rainey Bhive
Arte
Foul Plot Trial Ends With Confession From Mrs Dillard
In Haston Pennsylvania Wa H Bartholomew faces murder charges in Dillard case. Mrs Dillard enters court with Sheriff Miller and vows to reveal all, pleading guilty to murder in the second degree while shielding Bartholomew. Trial adjourns for counsel to confer as testimony unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wa. H. Bartholomew
Haston
Washington Dillard
Dilland
Miller
Eason
Dillard
Bartholomew
Mercer County
Solomew
Plang
Ater
Floods Cause Massive Losses Across Japan and Elsewhere
Reports from Yokohama and Hong Kong indicate 685 drownings and 121 injuries from September floods in Aichi, with over 1,001 houses swept away and thousands of acres of crops destroyed. The Japan Mail summarizes 12 prefectures devastated, 2,419 killed, 115 wounded, and 90,090 left without means of subsistence in 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Aichi
The
Japan Mail
Kiangsu
Cholera Epidemic Threatens Europe Across Mesopotamia
Three months into the Mesopotamian outbreak the cholera has spread to Persia with August death tolls ranging from 20 to 490 daily and the disease advancing toward the Euphrates and Tigris valleys. Reshi, a transit point for epidemics, risks contamination if the spread continues toward Besha and Hamedan, with Russian frontier measures cited as the safeguard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesopotamia
Persia
Badal
Evuphrats
Tisris
Persian Gulf
Sciraz Iz
Reski
Hin
Stan
Afshanistan
Europe
Resha
Besha
Kirmansgah Sod Hamedam
Kappa
Lynching of Robert Bernier at Lexington N C rocks town
A mob seized Robert Bernier a young white man after he killed his mother-in-law in Lexington North Carolina. They stormed the jail dragged him out bound him to a trestle at the town’s edge and hanged him from a rope his body left as shots rang out and the mob dispersed leaving the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
New York
Gould
Jaige
Matthew P. Deady
Oregon
Hill-Sharon
Gase
Sarah Alihe
Roben Berner
Lexington
N. C
Robert Bernier
Berner
Berrien
Pennsylvania Notes and Tragic Toll From Chain of Disasters
The Pittsburgh Exposition ended after forty days with a net profit of 12500. A New Confidence and Oakland railroad wreck killed James Fitzpatrick and James Williams, with injuries to three others and George Hindbaugh gravely hurt. Diphtheria deaths rise near Ven Alexandris. cholera fatalities rise in Mesopotamia per health board report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Confidence
Oakland Railroad
James Fitzpatrick
James Williams
Tabores
George Hindbaugh
Alexandris
Tee Caoena
Carter
Health Board of Baltimore
Mesopotamia
Pensions Report Highlights 1888 Year Totals and Reforms
The annual report of the commissioner of pensions for fiscal year 1888-8 shows a year end pensioner total of 489,729 with 53,675 added and 16,507 dropped, a net increase of 37,168. Average pension value was $131.18 and total pensions paid $83,275,113.28, with agent disbursements $39,131,968.44 and attorney fees $1,163,573.47. The commission urges more agencies, broader legal scope, and justice for widows and minor children, plus pensions for disabled soldiers and army nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Tanner
Congress
United States
Slave Trade Exposed in Zanzibar Markets
Letters to the Anti-Slavery Society reveal in Zanzibar a public slave market system with weekly sales and price placards. Arab traders, backed by a rich English-founded firm, control the traffic, bribing officials to silence complaints. Local European government representatives are accused of inaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanzivar
The
Anti-Slavery Society
London
Zanzibar
Baila
England
Walla
South Dakota Legislature Chooses Pettigrew Moody
The South Dakota Legislature elected Pettigrew and Moody to the U S Senate in a joint session. Pettigrew led in the House with 41 to Trip 4 and Day 4, while Moody held similar margins in the Senate. The bodies approved a memorial urging Congress to fund surveys and boring experiments for artesian irrigation statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
United States
R. F. Pettigrew
Bartlett Tripp
Gideon C. Moody
M. G. H. Day
We Pettigrew
Trip
Moody
Day
Jo'nt
Autcorn
Congress
Tanners Successor Everal Green H Baum Appointed Pension Commissioner
Everal Green H Baum of Illinois ex member of Congress and former Commissioner of Internal Revenue has been named Commissioner of Pensions to replace Corporal Tanner. An Illinois native now based in Washington for two decades he served as Major then Brigadier General and held Congress seat 1867 to 1863 and Internal Revenue post 678 to 1983. The appointment surprised many as Baum was not discussed for the vacancy and he assumed office swiftly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green B. Baum
Ilinois
Congress
Internal Revenue
Corporal Tanner
Illinois
Washington City
Fifty-sixth
Hinois
Baum
Elopement scandal rocks Trenton builder and hotel keeper’s wife
Rue the builder of Union Street Trenton and Mrs. Cleary left town with over 6000 dollars in cash plus 4400 from a local bank after a whispered meeting at the Hotel Cleary. Rue a prominent clubman, had shown odd behavior prior to departure. The missing pair left no children behind and their families are well connected locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewer Rue
Union Street
Trenton
N. J
William Cleary
Rue
Cleary
Mra. Cleary
Elopers
Governor Shoup Reports Prospects On Idaho Polygamy Policy
Idaho Territory Governor George L. Shoup describes in his annual Interior report the proposed constitutional provisions to be voted on November 5. He notes over 5 000 Mormons in Idaho from a 113 777 population and that polygamy is practiced secretly. sentiment divisions within the church are emerging. Land allotment to Indians progresses with little Indian opposition, cattle profits dip but remain profitable. Arizona Governor Lewis Wolfrey reports Mormon disenfranchisement law and urges Congress to restore it, saying Mormons now export colonies to nearby lands to balance party power. The Idaho Mormon population is about 8 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George L. Shoup
Idaho Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Idaho
Lewis Wolfrey
Arizona
Congress
Labor Movements Worldwide Proliferate Union Actions
The report notes unions forming in Treland and Boston, wage gains in London trades after a dock strike, and eight hour movement debates in Paris and the United States. It cites carpenters and bricklayers wage ranges in Buenos Aires and New York, with co operatives growing in England and new sewing and tile worker organizing across cities.
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Trex
Pittsburg
Penn
K. of L
Treland
Srxteen
Chester
United States
Tae Pantaloon Makers
Boston
Mae
Connellsville
Tae
Chicago
Hong Kong
Viewria
London
John Burns
Journeymen Barbers’ International Union of America
Detroit
Mich
Pennsy
Maurice Woad
Scotland
England
Mexico
South
America
Company
Havana
Cuba
Spain
Paris
American Federation of Labor
New York City
New York
Buenos Ayres
Argentina Republic
Newark
Lia
New York Hod-housing Engineers’ Union
Salesmen’s Early Clothing Association
N. J
United Typothet
St. Louis
Confederated Assembly of Trades Unions
Typschete
Changed Mind Ends Parkersburg Wedding Plans
In Parkersburg West Virginia a high society wedding collapsed when G A Barger of Wheeling canceled on Miss Mattie Russ at the Catholic Cathedral. A dispatch announced he had married another woman in the city leaving the bride critically ill after fainting. Indignation runs high as the groom faces potential confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
G. A. Barger
Wheeling
Mattie Russ
Trousseau
Reichstag Opens As Emperor Seeks Peace and Readies Army
The Reichstag opened on Tuesday with a throne speech by Imperial Minister Von Boettcher. It states aim to secure peace at home and abroad while strengthening army and navy readiness. a bill to adjust military organization will be introduced. The Kaiser’s November hope for peace is strengthened and markets reacted enthusiastically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr von Boettcher
Kaizer
Reichstag
Bigamist Crenshaw Arrest After Detroit Wedding
Albert B Crenshaw and Alice Grace Wilson fled Ta way City Michigan in September and wed in Detroit. They stayed at the Hollenden in Cleveland at ten dollars daily. Crenshaw had earlier married Miss Jennie Evans in Chattanooga and sought her property. Evans sued for divorce after desertion, then Crenshaw wed Wilson three weeks later. Mrs Crenshaw hired counsel, secured a warrant, and Crenshaw is jailed awaiting prosecution for bigamy and related offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert B. Crenshasy
Alice Grace Wilson
Tawas City
Mich
Detroit
Cleveland
Hollenden
Prominent People and Notable Appointments
A garbled 19th century column lists prominent figures and positions. Mentions Jay GouLn offered 50000 for memoirs, Sen Suenstay of Ohio reads no book until a year old, Express Freemance of Germany spends winter in Italy, Sen Chandler of New Hampshire regaining health at Carlsbad, Hatvorn to form a Washington Bible class, ex Mayor Low elected Columbia College president, Govrernon Brees profits on peach crop, King Leopold may visit the Congo, GiapsTone chopping trees at Hawarden, Groner Francis Tears claims NYC cannot secure the world fair sans aid, Vine an old minister, Exerron Wiis studies geography and talks war, Vice President Moxos cofounder of coal company in West Virginia, Mrs. Busyerr earned teacher salary when writing stories, Aunanpa Douanas writes two novels yearly, Wilsam Astor a literary/artistic enthusiast, Sppreckles moves to Philadelphia, Russell Sacz chess enthusiast, last Congress included one-legged Berry and Buler and one-armed Hooker and Ostes, Grant praised beard growth, prohibition debate referenced, Anvern Caranzam ironmaster forms committees for a new railway project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay GouLn
Suenstay
Ohio
Express Freemance
Germany
Italy
Chandler
New Hampshire
Carlsbad
Hatvorn
Washington
Sern Low
Brooklyn
Columbia College
Govrernon Brees
Delaware
Exerron Wiis
Moxos
Dow
West Virginia
Frances Honeson Busyerr
Tennesse
Auanpa M. Douanas
Wilsam Waporr Astor
Casaus Sppreckels
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Penn
Russell Sacz
Wall Street
Berry, Buler
Hang
Henderson
Brown Boothman
General Hooker
Mississippi
Ostes
Grant
New York City
Anvern Caranzam
America
Cronin case jury completed then adjournment sought
A full jury for the Cronin case was completed on Tuesday. The State's Attorney asked for a two day adjournment to plan the case presentation while the defense objected. Judge McConnell allowed a Thursday morning start. The panel began August 3 after seven weeks of proceedings including drainage commission time and requested adjournments. One thousand ninety one jurors were summoned with 927 excused for cause plus 24 on the regular panel. There were 175 peremptory challenges: 97 used by the defense and 22 by the state. Beggs had three left and the State twenty-two at swearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cronin
McConnell
Drainage Commission
Beggs
Caught at Odessa Americans Charged With Counterfeit Bills
In Odessa two men described as Americans were arrested amid charges of circulating extensive Russian counterfeits. Customs inspectors found nearly a million roubles in fake notes among boxes sent from New York. The counterfeit is said to be of American manufacture and widely used in St Petersburgh and Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Bank of Russia
New York
St. Petersburgh
Moscow
Bank of Rusa
Wisconsin Forests Ablaze Near Black River Falls
High winds and dry conditions feed widespread forest fires west of Black River Falls Wisconsin. Acres of young timber burn while hay grain stacks and buildings remain at risk. Smoke blankets the area delaying trains as fires spread near Chippewa Falls and railroad lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Filla
Wisconsin
Knistling
Chippewa Falls
Settleman's
Cracksmans Arrest in Massillon Leads to Richmond
Detective Charles Page of Richmond Indiana arrested Ike Morgan in Massillon Ohio under requisition papers. Morgan is linked to nine burglaries and six state jobs across Indiana last summer, with jewelry, cutlery, dry goods, and burglary tools found at his residence. He will be taken to Richmond for detention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Page
Richmond Ind
Massillon
Ike’ Morgan
Ohio
Indiana
Morgan
Richmond
Fatal Collision Kills Conductor Edward Hicks at Bradley
Edward Hicks, conductor on the 590 road, was killed when his train, stopped on the main track at Bradley, was struck by a second train. Hicks leapt from the caboose but the wreckage toppled onto him. several passengers were aboard with no serious injuries. Both trains sustained heavy damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Hicks
590 Road
Bradley
Hicks
Fifty Families Burned Out In Ottawa Fire
A large fire destroyed all dwellings and stores in a block at Le Bretons flats in Ottawa bounded by Broad Sherwood Ottawa and Queens streets. Fifty families were left homeless as the inferno leveled structures of inferior construction and total losses may reach 815000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Breton
Broad, Sherwood
Ottawa
Queens Streets
Ont
Destructive Boiler Blast Kills Four Near St. Marys Ohio
A threshing boiler exploded at W. Hanson’s farm near St. Marys Ohio killing Perry Sigler and fatally injuring Joseph Silvers. Jake Heinlein and another man were badly scalded as debris wrecked the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Hanson
St. Marys
Ohio
Perry Sigler
Joseph Silvers
Jake Heinlein
Hacienda and mine sold to London syndicate in Mexico
Mondoza Carling sold the Zeccajuztia hacienda in Morelos now Catala and a silver mine to a Lomdion syndicate for 2 million dollars. The sugar plantation is among Mexico’s largest. the mine has yielded between 2.008 and 3 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mondoza Carling
Zeccajuztia
Morelos
Catala
Lomdion
Republic of Mexico
Prince of Wales to visit amid storm relief efforts
The Prines of Wales will visit in recmthy Kirxa Hammer of Italy provided aid to storm sufferers in Sa Lonpon. A near epidemic of strikes hits the city with over a dozen trades affected as Diamond heist totals rise. Queen Victoria’s New York real estate earns strong income amid global finance mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prines
Wales
Maine
Menes
Italy
Sa Lonpon
Kimberley
South Africa
Queen Vicronta
New York
Ware
Eaperamens
Sses
Trade Review Notes Mixed Demand and Rising Rates
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review reports higher money market rates amid cautious sentiment. Interior demand remains steady with ample supply for commercial needs. various sectors show activity: iron, steel, shipyards, and wool while coal and cotton face mixed conditions. Wheat futures lack vigor, corn slips, pork steadies, and sugar declines as refinery ownership nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
New York
Philadelphia
O- Chicago
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Connellsville
Lehigh Valley
Scotland
Tidewater
Reading Company
Amd
Spreckles
Unclear OCR item about cattle trade and pricing
Fragmentary notice mentions batchers seeking better grade cattle, price details, and buyer demand. No clear names, places, dates, or actions other than general market activity and pricing terms.
Untitled Verse Fragment of a 16th Century Style Poem
Fragmentary verse depicts a speaker wooing in a hall as ivy and roses bloom. Exotic proper nouns and arcane imagery hint at a medieval or fantasy setting with references to a dainty maiden and distant guardians. The text shows irregular spelling and archaic diction throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bemis
Jumbled Observations From a Wandering Page
A patchy column of quips and odd notes spans topics from watchmaking economics to household foibles. It mentions Cedar Keys Florida as a turtle trade hub, turtle boats, and Bahamian traders, with scattered jokes and anecdotes about manners, misprints, and everyday life.
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Indiana Progress
Yee
Ventreway
City of
Brown
Houston and Taxes Railroad
Ben Cunningham
Atchison, Topeke and
Sete Ke
Thornberg
Portugal
Basganea
Charles
W. Carey
Durbin
Fayette County
Ind
Carey
Derro
Rober
Burke
Greenville
Ala
Roberts
Key West
Fie
United State
Great Britain
White House
Mibsotel Coal OF
Brators
FIBA
Cade Noch de the Weer
Stektion ix
Cnostra
Pennsylvania Notes
Annual Report OF Pensions
How Fetigrew
Mogody
Everal Green H. Baum
Illinoi
TOR Comnibionze
Pensions
the Labor World
Hride Waming
WEREA
Americak
Cracksman
Los Or
Rais i Caniversia
California
Signal Service
Prospecta
Erin
Amerrica
Poland
Russia
Canassian
Wakefield
Woney
Dakota
Dee
Parsons
Commercial
TNE Central
VARIO
Rage Liberts
Wenthar
Seles
Iirua
BO MO Baltinols
Bawle
Besta
Thareto
Thas Bemis
Saase
South America
Mather
Sohn
Cedar Keys
Fla
Freeida
Ecinas
Bahams Islands
A. Conks
Fiorda Mei
Fieri
el Westin
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