Poison in the System A Study of Invisible Toxins
A Sun reporter questions Dr. J. N. dharty on poisons that leave no chemical trace. Digitalis derivatives, picrotoxin, duboisin, atropin, strophanthin, tyrotoxicon, and arsenic-linked cases are discussed, with historical notes on aqua tofana and cyanide.
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Sun
J. N. Dharty
South America
Fred O. Pettit
State’s
Lafayette
Ind
Haines
Chicago
Crone
Pietro Longinotti
Paris
Behring sea modus vivendi signed as war clouds lift
Blaine and Pauncefote sealed the Behring sea modus vivendi on Monday. Justice Lamar regains some mobility but remains weak. Congressman Dean Ohio pledges to curb mileage payments and may propose a bill. Army of the Cumberland officers fix the next reunion for September 27 28 1892 at Chickamauga battlefield. James Rankin Young seeks a hearing denying any leak of executive pension data, backed by Henry Watterson.
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Harrison
Justice Lamar
Blaine
Pauncefote
Dean
Ohio
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Chickamauga
James Rankin Young
Senate
Henry Watterson
Bayonets and Bullets Foresee Conference Bargaining
The Journal of Finance notes a London meeting on an international monetary conference. Germany signals readiness to join. Prince Bismarck allegedly jokes the only talks with real impact will be fought with bayonets and bullets. Foster and Harrison are cited as proponents. Silver coinage could rise faster through such a conference.
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Bismarck
New York
Journal of Finance
London
Bank of England
Germany
Prince Bismarck
Foster
Harrison
United States
Municipal Shortage Controller Outlines City Loan Allocations
Woollen explains that only 7700 of the requested loan will be spent this year. Public safety seeks 2000 and public works 5700, including 2000 for a sewer expert, 500 for stationery, 1500 for clerk hire, 500 for street inspector, and 1200 for the sewer fund. Water and light spending waits until after Sept 1. Transfers of 1000 between funds are proposed, leaving sufficiency. Council cuts demand, leaving departments short, prompting additional appropriations.
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Board of Public Safety
Fire Department
Board of Public Works
Council
Cleveland Wins Ward Delegations in Democratic Primaries
The Democratic Primaries yielded 13 of 15 ward delegations for Cleveland aligned groups with Shanklin set to receive at least 75 Marion county votes. In sixth ward many counters and chair changes occurred while seventh ward favored Cleveland at Miller's saloon. Tenth ward solidly backed Cleveland. fourteenth and fifteenth also endorsed Cleveland and Shanklin. Frenzels led in third ward delivering a Cleveland delegation.
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Cleveland
Gil Shanklin
Marion County
Will English
Seventh Ward
Miller’s Saloon
Cleveland Party
Tenth Ward
Court House
Shanklin
Frenzels
Matthews
Marion
Claude Matthews
Indorse Gray
Politcians
Isaac
Why Wages Are Low Says McGuire at Carpenter Meeting
P J McGuire secretary of the National carpenters union addressed local carpenters in a court house room Monday night. He argued wages lag wealth growth and immigration lowers wages noting 100 000 of 630 000 recent immigrants were desirable and many would work for 40 to 60 cents a day.
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P. J. McGuire
Nationaliarpenters’ Union
Court House
Mr. McGuire
May Russell burlesque returns to English's opera house
The May Russell burlesque company opens a half week at English's opera house led by Pauline Batchellor whose dark eyes and voice draw crowds. The show is light in singing and acting, but the final Terry Ferguson star turn is very funny. Also at the Park Theatre Thomas K. Shea begins a run in Escaped from Sing Sing while Charley Hoyt plans A temperance town with revised lines.
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May Russell
English
Opera House
Pauline
Cleveland-Gray Stock Company
Fatal Quarrel Ends With Murder Near Stoney Brook
Ignatius Nigarto and Genardo Percardo, Italian laborers near Stoney Brook four miles south of Hazertron, quarrelled Sunday night. Percardo shot Nigarto dead, then laid beside the corpse and slept. He was later found and turned over to police.
Starving miners and bankers dine together in New York
The article recalls Jay Gould and Russell Sage dining daily at 1 o'clock in the Western Union Building, a group of Indianapolis men copying the habit. A mining prospector recounts a Christmas on Silvertop mountain where starving companions survived four days by mule tail soup after Lazarus the mule saved their lives in a blizzard.
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Jay Gould
Russell Sage
Gould
Western Union
New York City
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania St
Silvertop Mountain
Lazarus
Jim Cunming
Frightful Explosion Destroys New Jersey Powder Works
An explosion at the American powder works in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, killed seven men including superintendent J. Smith and workers Jacob Carlson William Pierce James Wagh and A Jonason and Godfrey Water plus an unknown Swede. Two more were injured, with Benjamin Cassimere likely to die. Panic caused residents to flee to the mountains.
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Newark
N.J
Lake Hopatcong
J. Smith
Jacob Carlson
Wm. Pierce
James Wagh
Godfrey Water
Benj. Cassimere
Labor unions and meeting halls listed with addresses
A directory style notice lists various trades including furniture workers, boiler makers, painters and decorators, machinists, carpenters, architectural iron workers and plumbers. It provides meeting or hall locations such as Harugari hall Marmont hall Van Sickle hall Martin dale block Propyleum Griffith block and addresses on Virginia Street Washington Street Delaware Street and Illinois Street.
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Harugari Hall
Virginia
Washington
Marmont Hall
van Sickle Hall
S. Illinois-st
Republicans Triumph in Bloomington and Silver Meeting Notes
Bloomington Illinois reported a solid Republican victory Monday. Ohio legislature adjourned to January 1893 and should be thankful. A Cooper Union meeting in New York Monday night backed free coinage of silver. Judge Maynard and the alleged Democratic steal of the legislature face New York legislators for review. New York Telegram doubted Hill or Cleveland could win New York, but Flower might prevail.
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Bloomington
Opening of Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands sparks rush at El Reno
Cannon fire signals the opening of reservations at El Reno Oklahoma as crowds race toward rich claims on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands. Rock Island train carries sightseers and would be settlers amid a near bloodless stampede with few fatalities reported amidst the chaos. The town empties as hopefuls depart for the new land and witnesses compare the scene to last week in South Dakota.
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Elreno
Oklahoma
Col. Wade
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Rock Island
Kingfisher
South Dakota
Frisco Quaked in Heaviest Earthquake Shock in Years
Frisco tremor struck at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning and rattled residents of San Francisco. No serious damage reported, but people were greatly frightened by the quake.
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Frisco
San Francisco
Thieves Loot Smoke-House in West Indianapolis
Monday night thieves entered the smoke-house of Louis Jones in West Indianapolis and carried away seven sides of meat and eight dams. The Brown Ketcham iron works in Indianapolis was incorporated with 60000 capital by Wm R and W T F I Brown J L L M and W H Ketcham as incorporators. Kit Conners was fined one dollar and given 60 days in the workhouse for stealing a scarf pin and 15 dollars from John Derrigan. John Riley, a non union machinist at the Panhandle shops, was taken to St Vincent's hospital after a beating by five union strikers near the Belt road. A ball game between Toledo and Billy Harrington's club was eyed as grounds prepared for 3 30 pm. Several marriages licenses issued. explosions in a cistern caused severe burns to Charles Schumayer and Dan Murphy. A baptism ministers meeting debated license versus prohibition and Jerry Foley was noted as ex deputy coroner.
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Louis Jones
Indianapolis
Brown-Ketcham Iron Works
Wm.r
W.tfi. Brown
J. L
L. M
W. H. Ketcham
Kit Conners
Cox
John Derrigan
John Riley
Panhandle
St. Vincent's Hospital
Kregelo & Whitsett
Belt Road
Toledo
Billy Harrington
Sullivan
Quinn
Birtus
Hugo
Augusta Muelfing
O. C
Mrs. Berry
Oscar
Grace Scott
Henry
Lida Mindeman
Stephen
Maggie Kelley
Albert Gimes
Palmer and
Meridiansts
Kregele & Whitsett
Baptist Ministers’ Association
A. B. Charpie
Woodruff-place Chapel
Prohibition
Jerry Foley
Manker
Foley
Joe
Mauker
Corporations Challenge Indiana Tax Assessment Laws in Court
Four railroad and telegraph firms file appeals in Marion circuit court contesting state tax board appraisals as unjust and unconstitutional. They cite inflated valuations from 1791 to 1820 and seek injunctions, with summons to county officials across lines. The Panhandle, Indianapolis Union, Indianapolis Vincennes, and Western Union raise the issue amid federal suit in northern Indiana.
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Marion
Panhandle Railroad Company
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
Indianapolis & Vincennes Railway Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
State Tax Board
Union Railway Company
Indianapolis & Vincennes Company
State Board
Panhandle Company
Tax Board
Victor M. Backus
Pennsylvania Company
Indiana
State Board of Equalization
Two Efforts to Halt Elopement in Indiana Farm Family
In Vincennes Indiana on April 19 James Ward an 83 year old Illinois farmer secured a license to marry Nancy Jane Sanders 30. A daughter interrupted the ceremony twice first preventing the marriage then snatching the license as Rev Wurlin prepared to wed. She claimed her father’s infatuation and disrupted the proceedings.
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Vincennes
Ind
James Ward
Illinois
Nancy Jane Sanders
Wurlin
Laplante House
Squire Jackson
Lawrence County
Runs in the Family
Washington April 19. Lawyer Eddington of Memphis Tenn has been here securing affidavits for Alice Mitchell defense in the murder case of Freda Ward He learned that Mitchells mother’s maiden name was Isabelle Scott and that insanity is hereditary in the family Vance Scott brother of Alice Mitchells mother died insane about fifty years ago while Quincy Scott of Pittsburg committed suicide a year ago while mentally deranged.
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Washington, Pa
Eddington
Memphis
Tenn
Alice Mitchell
Freda Ward
Isabelle. Scott
Vance Scott
Alica Mitchell
Quincy Scott
Pittsburg
Justice Alford on marrying in small rooms and wedding fate
Sen reporter quotes Justice Alford recounting weddings in tiny rooms with cook stoves and few furnishings. He recalls unromantic yet sometimes joyful unions and notes many marriages handled by justices are procedural, with fees often low or none. J ustices Smock Feibleman Habich claim had no runaway couples. Daniels had only one by Monday. James Pryor and Annie Gainer wed in twilight. attendees listed. Charles Emery Smith and wife depart for America from St Petersburg.
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Sen
Justice Alford
Smock
Feibleman
Habich
Justice Daniels
Justice Johnson
James Pryor
Annie Gainer
Hunter
James Monroe
Gruelle
Labor Signal
Gold
Political Turmoil as Shanklin Battles for Support in Indiana
Gil Shanklin and rival Mason Niblack vie for delegates after Monday primaries amid Evansville and Posey county support. Rumors swirl of Porter entering race and Matthews pushing Gray, with Marion and state delegates arriving by the hundreds as offices and lines of influence form at the Grand hotel.
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Gil Shanklin
Grand Hotel
Shanklin
Mason Jenks Niblack
Mortimer Nye
Ofice
Ar. Shanklin
Conn
Niblock
Wy. Shanklin
Mason Jenks
Indiana
Gil
Evansville
Kentucky
Mason Niblack
Vincennes
Illinois
Claude Matthews
Vermillion County
Laporte
Michigan
Matthews
Wm. English
Costly Blaze Destroys Mills and Lumber Yard in Kernosita
A massive fire swept Kernosita Wisconsin on Tuesday morning destroying the Northwestern wire and mattress company building, burning Head and Sutherland's lumber yard, four squares, three freight cars, and causing estimated damage up to 700000 dollars. Aid arrived from Milwaukee and Racine to combat the blaze.
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Kernosita
Wia
Northwestern Wire and Mattress Company
Head & Sutherland
Mattress Company
Milwaukee
Racine
Excise Bill Cleared Senate Then Goes To Governor
New York Albany April 19 the excise bill passed the senate without amendment by strict party vote and proceeds to the governor for signature. It drops the Sunday opening clause but keeps all night selling for cities of 30000. The civil damage act is killed and saloons are barred within 200 feet of churches or public schools. Cooper Arrives At Democratic Convention In Greencastle Indiana.
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New York
Alpbany
N. Y
Assembly
Senate
Young Blood Shoots Self After Cab Ride to Hospital
In New York on April 19 Benjamin De Forest, a young socialite, rode in a hansom to Delmonico’s then New York Hospital. He shot himself in the right side, will recover, and his family is noted as among the city’s oldest. Earlier a Keeley Institute stay followed by renewed drinking sparked his wild behavior. In Troy, Walter Whitlock, Isley Doubleday agent, shot himself in the steamboat City of Troy state-room after leaving New York. the motive is undisclosed, illness may have affected his mind.
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Steamboat State Room
New York
Benjamin de Forest
Broadway
Delmonico's
New York Hospital
de Forest
Keeley Institute
White Plains
Troy
N. Y
Walter B. Whitlock
Isley, Doubleday & Co
City of
Congress Passes Rule Change and Arizona Funding Measure
In Washington on April 19 the house adopted a resolution revoking the extended remarks rule. An investigation into Baltimore post office civil service violations was approved. The Noyes Rockwell election case debate opened with ten hour limits. Arizona funding bill passed with lawful money repayment and gold interest. J B Snell, clerk of the coinage committee, died and will be buried in Fulton Missouri.
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Congress
Washington
Henry George
House
Baltimore
Noyes
Hockwell
New York
Senator Hill
Hill
Morrill
Saunders
Judiciary Committee
Congressional Record
Arizona
Stewart
Kyle
J. B. Snell
Fulton, Mo
Rail disaster blamed on railway for Hampstead death toll
Thousands of excursionists crowd Hampstead Heath near London and rush for return trains. A door at the staircase collapsed trapping people. two women and six children died and 123 injured. Authorities will investigate and reforms to passenger handling at crowded stations are anticipated.
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Hampstead Heath
London
Bomb Explodes Destroys Homes on Harrison Ave
An unknown attacker set off a bomb Tuesday on Harrison Avenue in Baltimore, damaging 1771 and shattering seven nearby windows. Mrs. Wink owns the target house and says the incident follows a pattern of attacks on her property. Police Court proceedings included a fine for Thomas Scott for assault and battery and a continued case for Thomas McGinty on liquor sales after 11 PM.
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BaltmMore
Harrison Ave
Wink
Buskirk
Thomas Scott
John Taylor
Nancy Preston
Bunton
Dueber Watches Sold by Chapman Mullally Jewelers
Fragmentary OCR shows Chapman & Mullally jewelers selling Dueber Watches. Text references center content and pricing, with names suggesting a listed retailer and product line. Further readable details are limited, but the item points to a jewelry store sale of Dueber watches.
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Dueber Watches
Alge Chapman & Mullally, Jewelers
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