Demands Leaked on China to Pay Indemnity and Reforms
British reports say foreign envoys pressed Beijing to erect a monument to Bar on von Ketteler, dismiss officials who fail to stop anti foreign outrages, and abolish the Tsung- k yamen. Coastal forts to be razed and arms imports banned. Empress executes telegraph officials tied to a secret message.
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Ron von Ketteler
Germany
China
Shanghai
Hankow
Count von Waldersee
Pekin
Russians Slay 200 Chinese at Yangtsun Arsenal
Advices from Tien Ysin dated November 10 report a Russian force of about 200 men capturing the arsenal near Yangtsun. Roughly 200 Chinese were killed and arms were seized. Russian casualties were small.
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London
Tien- Ysin
Yangtsun
Burglar Attacks Chicago Banker’s Wife at Home
Mrs. O W Potter, wife of steel magnate, was chloroformed and beaten by an unknown burglar at 1 a m in her Chicago residence. Daughters fled in night garments after hearing screams as the assailant fled without taking valuables. past April 9 robbers had stolen jewelry worth $18 106 from the Potter home.
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Chicago
Lake Shore Drive
and Wanker
Rioting in Pilsen Bohemia Suppressed by Troops
Vienna reports a 12 hour riot in Pilsen Bohemia with over 6 000 combatants using clubs knives revolvers and pick axes. Houses were looted tramways wrecked and large parts of the town ruined before troops restored order. Casualties are unknown.
Man Brings Flour After 16 Years Away From Home
Coventry New York November 1 1884 Fred White sent for a sack of flour by his wife returned Monday with flour on his shoulder after years in the west where he built a cattle ranch and small fortune He greeted his wife Maria with the remark I didn't forget it White had long ago been given up as dead.
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Coventry
N. Y
Fred White
Maria
Alfred Benner
Springfield Township
Laporte County
Counties lag in certification of Marion election returns
Marion County delayed certifying its election returns to the state prompting a personal visit by Deputy Secretary Gonser to County Clerk Elliott on Tuesday morning. Other counties such as Clay Harrison Pulaski and Vigo had not reported with notices sent to speed them up. Benton County reported Tuesday a 450 plurality for Durbin.
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Marion
Gonser
Elliott
Clay
Harrison
Pulaski
Vigo
Benton
Durbin
Diamonds Smuggling Bust Tangles Two Mexicans in New York
Two Mexican men Velino M. Preza and Alexsandro A. Marcocci were arrested in New York for smuggling part of the famed Carlotta diamonds worn by the widow of Emperor Maximilian. The jewels reportedly value about 76000 dollars. They are held on bail to appear November 17. Secret service agents made the capture.
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Uncle Sam
New York
Carlotta
Maximilian of Mexico
Velino M. Preza
Alexsandro A. Marcucci
Secret Service
Ancient strike to settle soon in central union meet
At a Monday night gathering of the Central Labor Union it was announced that a four year electrical workers strike may be settled. Four shops in Indianapolis including Meikels Sanborn Indianapolis district telegraph and Advance Electric have agreed to recognize the union and pay 28 cents an hour with overtime and double time on Sundays and holidays. The meeting noted that only American Window Glass Co. of the Window Glass Cutters League has acceded to the demands of its trade. The central body referred a communication to the building trades and amended its constitution to bar members from running for public office, aiming to keep politics out of the union.
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American Window Glass Company
Trust
Window Glass Cutters’ League
Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Engineers
National Brotherhood of Hoisting Engineers
American Federation of Labor
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Bank fraud shocks Nashville as firm’s assign ment disclosed
In Nashville on November 13 authorities disclosed a scheme involving Conners and Brady, a wholesale gro cery and liquor firm, and T H Brady. Warranted charges claim Brady and W W Lea defrauded a bank of about $56,000 over two years, with Lea missing since a July vacation and $12,000 partially restored. Brady posted a $10,000 bond.
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Nashville
Tenn
Conners & Brady
Gro
Cery and Liquor
T. H. Brady
Flol Watts
441St National Bank
W. W. Lea
Brady
Lea
Wisconsin butter and cheese trust proposed in Milwaukee
A proposed butter and cheese trust with creameries in Wisconsin and other northwestern states aims for a capital around 20 million dollars and is being promoted by Chicago millionaires.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Chicago
Town Talk items from Irvington and state events
Dr Henry Van Dyke of Princeton speaks on Tennyson before the Irvington Athenaeum Monday night. Floyt A McClain named new captain of the Indianapolis light infantry, succeeding Captain Kreber who resigned. Councilman Henry L Spiegel fractures his right arm Monday falling from a coal car in his coal yard. Ministers from across the state confer at Central Christian church Wednesday and Thursday on the twentieth century movement. Mrs Elizabeth Gunn and her son John, asphyxiated Thursday night, buried from William Gunn’s home Tuesday morning. Interment at Crown Hill. The twenty second annual report to Gov Mount from the Fort Wayne School for the Feeble Minded shows 761 enrolled, up from 40. Waiting list of 37 boys. Maintenance cost per capita has been 133, down from 229 in 1389. The report asks 164000 for central administration building and cottages for 200 females. Repair appropriation should rise from 2300 to 5000.
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Henry van Dyke
Princeton
Tennyson
Irvington Athenaeum
Floyt A. McClain
Indianapolis Light Infantry
Kreber
Henry L. Spiegel
Christian Church
Central Christian Church
Elizabeth
Gunn
John
Orange
William Gunn
State Ave
Crown Hill
Gov. Mount
Fort Wayne
Indiana coal strike shut downs 7 3k miners and engineers
A Indiana coal strike will idle 7 300 Hoosiers and affect over 7 000 miners as engineers refuse to accept the Illinois scale. The action follows a push by Hoisting engineers to get higher pay and hours, with operators preferring to wait until January for a broader decision.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jenkins
Taylor
Hoisting Engineers’ Brotherhood
United Mine
Indianapolis
Illinois
Ilinois
Indiana
Indiana coal strike hits most mines idle except Vandalia Clinton districts
8500 miners idle as Indiana coal mines except Vandalia and Clinton district suspend work. President Talley of the Operators' association says wages would stay at current rate until January before a Columbus meeting, and cannot predict strike duration.
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Indiana
Vandalia
Clinton District
Talley
Operators’ Association
Columbus, CO
Safe robbed of 2300 dollars in bills in Peru Indiana
The safe of Eller and Wilson agricultural implement dealers in Converse was broken into early Tuesday morning and $2300 in bills were stolen. No clue was found by authorities.
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Peru
Ind
Eller & Wilson
Converse
Multiple Local Notes on Crime Labor and Travel
News fragments report a divorce suit by Mrs. Israel F. Byars in Vincennes, gas supply issues in Alexandria, a meteor warning to rural readers, and a 101 year old voter in Silver Lake backing McKinley. Also noted are a hunter General Lew Wallace on Kankakee, a fatal runaway near Indianapolis, factory plans in Alexandria, Republican gains in Tipton county, a Knightstown trip to claim a North Carolina estate, skeletons found near Cicero, a man walking to Michigan City, a Plymouth man visiting Chicago, a barn fire at Clay county poor asylum, strikes at Hartford City glass plants, a fatal trolley incident at Elkhart drinking basin, and glass workers unions seeking unification.
Kentucky Arrives in Algiers to Press Indemnity Claim
The U S battleship Kentucky reached Algiers on November 12 to press demands for indemnity over the killing of Marcus Essaginal, a naturalized American, with the ship set to depart after coaling for the China station. The voyage from New York to Gibraltar took 12 days, considered a remarkable passage.
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Atlantic
Kentucky
China Station
Gibraltar
New York
Algiers
United States
Marcus Essaginal
Moriarity Charges Gas Trust. Inquiry to Start Friday
Councilman Moriarity accused the Consumers’ Gas Trust of supplying Chicago gas while Indianapolis lacks connections. Secretary Bement Lyman denied the claim, and the committee voted to begin a books examination next Friday night with possible expert help. Lessee and stockholder names will not be released.
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Special Council
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
Moriarity
Chicago
Indianapolis
Bement Lyman
Consumers’ Company
Chicago Gas
Billingsley
Perrott
Finger in a bottle helps burglary case in Chicago
A finger preserved in a bottle of alcohol is shown in the Thomas Barry burglary trial in Chicago. Barry claims defect from an accident on July 4 while prosecutors argue the finger was blown off by a dynamite blast during a July 2 attempted safe robbery. The severed finger was found on a window ledge near the damaged safe.
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Chicago
Thomas Barry
Barry
Rescue Crew Saves Home After Fire Near Barth Avenue
Mrs David Spearman of 1268 Barth Avenue reports firefighters arrived Monday night and conducted a thorough salvage after a blaze reached the sitting room stove area at about 1 AM Tuesday. Spearman, half asleep, watched as the salvage team worked to secure the scene and prevent further damage.
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Salvage Corps
David Spearman
Barth-ave
Spearman
Gate plans southern rice route for new firm
Chicago November 13 news reports the incorporation of the American rice growers distributing company with $15,000,000 capital, $7,500,000 paid in. John W. Gates is named as the prime mover and aims to push the southern rice export via railroads, signaling a major trade initiative.
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Chicago
American Rice Growers Distributing Company
John W. Gates
City Markets in Indianapolis Provisions and Produce
Readable excerpt lists prices for meats vegetables fruits and more in Indianapolis market columns dated Nov 13 including hams bacon lard and sausages, plus dried beans, sugar and flour, canned goods, fish and game, nuts and candies, seeds, oils, butter and dairy, poultry and coal and miscellaneous staples with price ranges and package notes. Local buyers and grocers gauge supply across categories.
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Indiana
Tierces
Sige
Bermuda
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Morrison
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Bohemia
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Maximilian
E W. Meikel’s
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Pittsburg
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Muncie
Cicero
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L Otter
Perry Township
Miami County
John Barnheiser
C. C. Parker
Tipton
Charles Boles
Sullivan
Churchill & White
South Bend
John Rogers
Frank Jordan
Grant County Infirmary
James Davis
Salem
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Watts
Richmond
J. C. Ayers
Arnold Hotel
Jones
Ayres
Indiana Inklings
Madison
National Glass Company
Alexandria Gas Company
Israel F. Byars
Vincennes
Warren A. Sebring
Silver Lake
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Lew Wallace
Kankakee River
Edward Marshall
Farmerl
Gaston
Kelly Ax
Alexandria
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the Consumers’ Company
Fairmount College
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Alchenheim Medical Dispensary
Butterfield Building
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Rice Trust
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