Summary of Late Events From A Dated Indiana Paper
A garbled column lists wide ranging incidents including deaths from a 3 cent piece, a sixteen year old burned in molten metal, a wife shooting her husband in Pawtucket with infant in arms, a fatal electrical storm in Bt Peu, a Mexican child murders, a jail hangings in Buffalo, a hotel sale in New Jersey, a railway tragedy in Utica, and multiple drownings. It also notes a wave at Assyria Oregon, arson, robberies, a flood of other sensational items with diverse locales and names.
Buried by Falling Walls at Park Place Building
New York August 24 A building collapse at 5 70 74 and 74 Park Place caused fire and a large loss of life. Restaurant workers lithographers and factory staff were trapped as debris filled the street. Firemen pursued in shifts. several bodies recovered including a girl Haegney and workers Slattery Gibbs and Haegney. Indications favor structural failure with possible blast report disputed. district attorney contemplates indictments as more bodies identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Taylor
Park Place
Andrew Peterson
Louis Rosenfeld &Co
Liebler and Maaze
South Publishing Company
Eme & Flander
A. W
Pu Ding
Haegney
Patrick Slattery
Annie Haegney
John Gibbs
William Berry
Immediely
Fuother
Leonard R. Tole
Sarah Haegney
Charles Haegner
Michael Slattery
Phillip Eberie
Join Barry
A.B. Peterson
George Lowe
Gustave Zickler
Jacob Heiderich
Otto Wal
Buddensick
Nicoll
Zadee Bedford
Townsend
Brady
Rainge
Waare Quinn
Lottie Hein
Mamie Williams
Mary Deinlein
Conrad Schmidt
Bea Hi
Park Place Disaster in New York Bearing No Explosion
Fifty two bodies recovered with about thirty more believed trapped in Park Place ruin. Officials say collapse came from structural weakness, not an explosion. insurance firms vow not to pay leases. Condemnation dated February 21, 1885, fire escape ordered but building deemed unsafe. Rats swarm as corpses unrecognizable. morgue scenes described as revolting and tragic. Morris R. Haring identified among victims. the mother overwhelmed with grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Place
New York
Health Board
Morris R. Haring
Osborne & Burke
Bar
Gaye Street
Fire devastates Hill's Business College and neighbors in Dallas
A Friday blaze on Elm and Murphy streets destroyed Hill's Business College on the top floor and Ardinger & Rose clothing, F. Smith & Co. boot and shoe, and Warden's gun store on lower floors. Losses include Ardinger & Rose 75000 with 60000 insured and Smith & Co 13606 with 10000 insured. A three story Main and Murphy building also burned for about 25000, fully insured. Across the nation reports note receiverships, bank suspensions, and major fires impacting mills, lumber firms, and manufacturers from Milwaukee to Chicago and New York, with extensive losses and liens pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Elm
Murphy Streets
Hill's Business College
Ardinger & Rose, Clothiers
F. Smith & Co
Warden
Ardinger & Rose
Smith & Co
Great storm devastates Berks county in cloudburst
Reading Pa August 25 a sweeping storm caused nearly 500000 in damage across Berks county. Bridges washed away and roads blocked by fallen trees. Railroad tracks between Reading and Lebanon and Reading and Lancaster flooded. Freight train wreck and rescues, several barns struck by lightning, sewer and street flooding with boats used for rescues. Rainfall reached 15 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Berks County
Reading Railroad
Lebanon Valley
Lebanon
Wernerville
August Molin
Scranton
Reading Railroad Company
Reading and
Columbus
Lancaster
Lynch Victim Andy Ford Hanged in Gainesville Florida
In Gainesville on August 23 Andy Ford partner of Harmon Murray was lynched after a preliminary trial found him aiding Murray’s crimes. A jailer woke to a prisoner transfer, a swift ambush broke in, and Ford’s body was found hanging from a tree at dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Fla
Andy Ford
Harmon Murray
Murray
Roux
Ford
Famine Hits Kirghess Provinces in Ural Region
August report from St. Petersburg notes that the Kirghess inhabited Ural provinces suffer most from a locust ruined harvest. With no railroads to the area, the Russian government cannot relocate inhabitants, though famine pressures grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Ural
Trenton Tragedy: Children Smothered in Chest
A mother in Trenton Ohio finds her three children aged eight, four, and two smothered in a large tool chest after being locked in by a stick in the lock. The incident prompts a town search and an investigation with officers finding no other disturbance. A follow up from Ironton states the case is solved. local boys aged under eight locked the children in and forgot them at supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
Ohio
George Hamilton
May
Edith
Emma
Ironton, O
Hamilton
Wilber Warnick
Kirke Eurliche
Pemberton
Hiad
Heme
Demand Wanes in Grain Markets Amid Cautious Trade
R G Dun reports week of grain excitement driven by Russian rye export fears and potential global demand if prices hold. General business steady with cautious buyers, large ad stocks, and fears of large speculative risk. Wool and dress goods strong, but Southern markets remain dull. money tight in many areas and failures rise to 199 in the United States and 17 in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Detroit
South
New Orleans
Atlanta
Bostonia
Northwestern
United States
Canada
Weekly Crop Bulletin Shows Mixed Weather Effects
The weather bureau reports last week had near normal to slightly above temperatures along the Atlantic and gulf coasts with rainfall excess in Kentucky West Virginia and Northern Tennessee and across the Northern States. Ohio and nearby areas saw rainfall below average while the recent rains and higher temperatures aided crop growth in the corn belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Atlantic
Gulf
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
Corn
Train Rabbers Rounded Up in Georgia Robbery
Nashville report says Southern Express superintendent H C Fisher received word that two robbers were captured in Macon Georgia in pursuit of the Georgia train robbery. One robber surrendered 950 dollars and a later telegram announced the third robber was captured with all but 150 dollars recovered. All prisoners confessed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
H. C. Fisher
Southern Express Company
J. G. Mays
Macon
Philadelphia's Trade Growing
Official reports show foreign trade in Philadelphia expanding with July imports totaling 6,587,113 dollars, up 1,416,564 from prior month. Cumulative imports since January reach 9,934,997, up 4,787,655 year over year, while total receipts since January 1 stand at 7,613,060.60, down 947,869.37.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Explosion at Abereand Pit Leaves Miners Trapped and Dead Likely
In Merthyr Tydfil Wales August 25 a massive explosion at the Abereand pit struck workers inside as crowds gathered. Sixty rescued so far, two bodies recovered, many believed trapped or missing as rescuers battle through dense fog and debris to reach the mine shaft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merthyr
Tydvit
Wales
Aber Eanid
Maine
Gan
Rumors and Disasters Stir Widespread News
A collage of old world events reports false grain export bans, a French Chasseurs officer crushed in a fall, Japanese aristocracyAwaiting the Mikado, Martinique hurricane followed by quake, 300 fatalities, Russian grain confiscation hints, a mutiny aboard a Netherland steamer quelled by a fatal shot, fatal London tenement fire, Spanish coasts gale warnings, postmaster general Raikes die, Austrian boiler explosion, Welsh mine suffocation, Lille murder head experiments claim vitality after guillotine executions, with no proof of consciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourse Gazette
Netherald
Barker
S& Tenement House
Shadwell
London
Raikes
England
Peterwarden
Austria
Merthryr Tydvil
Wales
Lille
France
Debiere and
Wertheimer
CAPITAL AND LABOR DOINGS OF INTEREST TO THE TOILERS
Reported actions show wage cuts at American Cereal affecting 75 female workers with reductions between forty and fifty percent. Some workers exit. friction with strikers prompts returns of sheet iron and tin plate rollers from St. Louis. Boiler makers plan for an eight hour day starting May first, eighteen ninety two. Denver paper mill machinery launched in Denver Cal. Pennacoke strike receipts total thirteen thousand thirty four dollars ninety seven cents over fifteen weeks, about one dollar per worker. Massachusetts capital invested by 1800 tallies three hundred one million two hundred thousand and more, led by cotton goods and boots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Cereal Company
Agron Mills
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Denver
Cal
Bureau of Anitiation of Labor
Massachusetts
Gorda
Cholera outbreak on steamer Namchow near Singapore
Advices report cholera on the Namchorn sailing from Singapore to Penang with 390 Chinese coolies. The disease spread, causing many deaths and the disposal of corpses overboard. On returning to Singapore, 30 new cases were noted, and an engineer died after contracting cholera. The ship’s officers face arrest for failing to report the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Singapore
Penang
Prominent People Show Riches and Ties Across Nations
A garbled scan lists names and fortunes from royals to politicians, noting wealth, positions, and tastes. It mentions King of Sweden as a strong swimmer, ex Empress Eugenie, Governor Fannect of Missouri, European princes, and U.S. figures like Orricse Bortisas and Le, with scattered references to Japan’s emperor and a Grant monument effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Szsator Proms
Kansas
Bismarck
Eugenie
Napoleon Til
Missouri
Jndicious
Lucky Investments
Feuy
Austria
Corla
Brianne
Proctor
Secreetary
Foster
Nasziu
Saventy
Hale
Activa
Europe
Orricse Bortisas
Philadelovia
United States
Fataan Tox Saviway
Chicago
Imarsasion
Carrace Patuza
Tina Gale Lays
Alrserss
Morcill
Antis Otter
Sean
Gun
Hani
Heldaporta
Gorway
Isa Bella Brao Bisaop
Ovoks
House of Common
Leo H. Prasipy
National Educational Association
Ass Bean Nominate
Couivnt Ai Catia
Taa Dy
Libarat Arta
Tia Works
Vica
Adanz
Resi Raid
Livixasronz
Georgi
Farmar
Covington
Atlanta
Hvisa Farms
Insurgent Landing and Government Defense Near Valparaiso
A cable translation describes 10,000 insurgents landing near Guinteros north of Valparaiso, advancing on the city under cover of warships and transports. Government troops of 5,000 delayed the crossing of the Aconcagua river, halted the rebels for forty hours, and began reorganizing positions as reinforcements arrive, leaving insurgents unable to gain protection from their fleet.
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Washington
D.C
Valparaiso
Bay of
Guinteros
Aconcigua
Alosa
Revels
Aconcague River
Ft. Andes
Pennsylvania Pickings Vivid Local News Across towns
Owen Davis a watchman for Cambrian iron company in Johnstown was killed by a train. Diphtheria outbreaks appear in coke regions with several cases and two deaths reported on Friday. A group of three Italians in Morris near Wellsboro killed a man. they were arrested. A landslide at Stoko blocks the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad. Multiple deaths from lightning, accidents, and disease occur across Crawford, Armstrong, Indiana, and nearby counties. Public notices promise a $2,000 reward for arsonists in Altoona as authorities intensify property protection efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Davis
Cambrian Ron Company
Johnstown
AcTrotter
Morris
Wellsboro
Stoko
Beaver County
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Charles Williams
Greenwood Township
Crawford County
Martin Golden
Ewinbreaker
Pittston
Matthews
State Board of Health
Richmond
Indiana County
Oltie Tak
Henry Kelly
Webster
John Gibbs
Edgeworth
M. Bleazer
Greensburg
William Danley
Willians
Benny_ Neptun
Larimer
Georga Hess
Allegheny
Frank Murray
New Tors
S. Wood
Altoona
Calvi
Berthrogt
Felix Wasinski
Strie’s
Armel
Schultze
Stockton
Hagerton
Juan McManaman
Hos
H. Burgoon
New Castle
Disorganized Baseball Signings and Records Across Clubs
Disjointed report notes tax New York and Pennsylvenia base ball disbandment and multiple signings. Virami Shriver joins Tai Chi Clab with high batting marks, Arthur Clarkson signs with New York Clab to pitch, and relations to Chicago figures are cited. WICOLL of Chicago shows an error free nine in 202 seconds at second base. Dent DaRLeve joins St Louis, McALEEx and Davis excel in outfield. A veteran left-handed hurler linked to the league, and Honey Wright’s pitcher handling ideas are mentioned amid scattered references to standings and positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvenia Baseball Langue
Tai Chi Clab
Virami Shriver
Wicoll
Chicago Nine
Burth
New Yorks
Dent Darleve
St. Louis
Cominkey
Anson
McAleex
Davis
Vergrax Groner Warcer
Theton Association
Asseets
Honey” Wright
Ers
Nati
Cincinnati
New Paon
Philadelphia
Sige. Te
Rusie
Washington Notes on federal payments to state colleges
The secretary of the interior directs the third payment of 317,000 to each state agricultural college that meets the act of August 30, 1890 terms. State Department advised that on July 1 Trieste, Austria ceased to be a free port and now shares customs with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The treasury rules that lead from imported ore, refined elsewhere, withdrawn from smelting warehouses for export may qualify for drawback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Department of State
Trieste
Austria
Treasury Department
Markets in Tittiburgh and Apples Prices Noted
Scrappy OCR list of market items from Tittiburgh with prices for apples butter eggs flour wheat corn oats rye and berries. Mentions New Ohio cream cheese and various regional goods, with scattered figures and items such as maple syrup watermelons and cranberries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Ohio
New York
Ohio
Deesen
Ehoose Barsies T & Hockisbutiosi
Western
Cime and
Penn
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Indiana
WeebsEspar
Bandon
Lynn Fuller
Beeven's Point
Wis
Tom Pace
Birmingham
A's
James Lyons
Pawtucket
B. L
Bt Peu
Trujillo
Mexico
Geuzhter
Medina
Buffalo
N.Y
Anne Gorocowak
Catharine Schmidt
Eiberon
N. J
Gar Geld
HG. Mulligan
N. Y
John Lantan
Herzimer
J. F. Wicky
Troy
Utica
Niagars Express
Baltimore
Baron Hirsch Beneficial Society
Tim McCarthy
Atlantic City
Wella Walla
Wash
Gleason
Joan Morris
Con Victa
Goaan Spray
Mass
Anteuser- Buach
EA White
Kansas City
Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad
Murrays
Y Mate
Mary Walton
Dorchester
South Boston
Jos
Eagle Grove
Iowa
D&mew
Gee World
Pearl Schelly
Ida Smith
Lansing
Mick
Stanton
Hoenss
E. Brigham
Portland
Assyria
Ore
Coors
St. Loum
Eis
Mies Jodie Bent
Bardstown Ey
William Hamilton
Chasies Hawkins
Desperado
Oty Marcha
Dan Bruce
Shalesville
Ind
Gatarday
Hawkins
Columbia
Mary Sue
Betetel
Colquell Pérarseer
Ruen Gell
Plains
Gol
Vermont
Vhcen
George F. Edmanda
Késrerd Saker
St. Louis County
Cosmatown
Ark
Sige
Mary Euchardeer
Richmond, Nicholasville
Ervime
Beattyville
Éenreld
Kingston
Daniel Haggerty
Bia Fictien
Getaliy
Batmoon Egbersten
Qdeun
Amens & Locomotivels
Peeneyivenia Rled Company
Alioees
Memphis
Tenn
Nezrest
Beary Joel
Milwaukee
Wilkin Manufacturing Company
John Barth
American Wheel Company
Michigan
Blodgett
Federal District Court
Noble C. Butler
Illinois
Appleton
Young & Kuhn
Livestock Commissioners
Fort Worth
Texas
M.B. McGrath
Good Will Fire Company
Kate Collins
McGrath
Barclay & Sons
Ocean Spray
John McNivin
Caheyville
Harned Bros
H. M. Daniels
Borheo
Dewee
H.E. Mead & Co
Dayton
Anderson Bros
Anderson's Landing
W. Va
McElrose Woolen
Kelleysburg
Clawson Pa.j
William P. Dane
Beekman Street
Samuel F. Prentiss
Montgomery
Ala
Farley National Bank
Newark
J. A. Ring
Harrison Township
Licking County
Judse Lynch
Florida
Marmon Murray
Citizone
Foreign Frageents
Russia
Rujon
Chasseurs
Chambeyron
Tokio
Martinique
Nearoes
Toil
Othara
Fouses-Serra
Anes
Outis
Absold
Watlieg
Setecra
Dataila
Pennsylvania
Thare
Barry E. Miller
Stewart
Hulton
Valley Railroad
Wild Wood
Harvey Leach
Kittanning
7Bion Station
Pittsburg
Philip LeGoullon
Philipsburg
Westmoreland County
Richard Hur
Snonsburg
Patrick Nineman
Ninevale
York
Napoleon
Ragan
Michael Cramer
Cramer
Carnal
Louisville
Washington Notes
Tittiburgh
East Liberty
Ttebers Stock Yards Cattle
Sareesersesen
Guatemala
Ita
U States
Assa
Princs
William
Germany
Perwa
Sons of the Revoluties
Discovery
Helses
Nelson
Christopher Gelambos
Steen
Famou Mors
Chesias F. Gonther
Tippoo Tip
H. Brie
Bia
Fearn
Prankione
Sessey Wae
Saya
Jon
Eugene
Paul Champion
Neuillygar Seing
W. E. Seton
U.S Iar
Valli
Ie Taos Ee
Hareto Boch Agit 'Ameen
Nature Agear Penn
St PE
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