London notes on poverty crime and empire wonders
The column surveys social ills and reforms from poverty, crime in Chicago to women's roles, burial space, and the Taiping rebels. It reports on European views of Chinese discipline, a proposed martway to Damascus, and Africa expeditions by the British South Africa Company with Mashonaland exploration and gold prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
British South Africa Company
Mashoraland
Limpopo
Zambesi
Mauch
Kerr
Selous
South Africa
Colorado News Roundup of Rail, Gold Finds, and Court Action
Aspen mines lack rail cars for ore transport. a Pueblo yard switch mishap failed to wreck trains. Gold found near Loveland at Happy Hollow drawing prospectors. Denver safe blowers McDermott and West arrested after robbing Denver Brewing. A convict testifies against a Canon prisoner but declines. case dismissed. Glenwood Springs Grand Junction rail junction and broad gauge completion enables Rio Grande through service to Salt Lake. Christopher Wilson named deputy state treasurer. ex-treasurer now Pueblo Savings cashier. Pueblo parsonage theft valued at 100. church trustees plan Home for Union Printers in Colorado Springs. Tom Harrington survives a mile-long train yard accident. Manitou priest robbery case ends in acquittal. contempt sentence for Wilson. Three loaded stones cars derail near Loveland. repair costly. Ouray senatorial bet betwixt Parkin and Wright draws 1,000 spectators. Supreme Court reverses Trinidad Coal patents ruling. coal lands disputed in Las Animas County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo Yard
Happy Hollow
Loveland
McDermott
West
Denver
Denver Brewing Company
Colorado Springs
Canon
Glenwood Springs
Grand Junction
Rio Grande
Rio Grande and Midland
Salt Lake
Christopher Wilson
Pueblo County
The
Pueblo Savings Bank
Carlile
Wilson
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Pueblo
Union Printers
Chicago
Denver and
Pueblo Tuesaday
Tom Harrington
Harrington
Cain
Brownell
Manitou
Campnell
Cochran
A. B. Bustin
G. R. Fowler
Ouray
Felix J. Parkin
George L. Wright
Twenty-first
Rowan
Parkin
George Wright
United States Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court For
District of Colorado
United States
Trinidad Coal and Coking Company
Pueblo Land District
Las Animas County
United States Ee
Circuit Court
Colorado
Mexican river guard raid at San Antonio shocks residents
A Mexican river guard crossed into the U S reservation at San Antonio to seize and torch wood destined for the post quartermaster. Jose Girago fled toward the post as shots were fired. he escaped unhurt. Major Logan led a detachment to the scene and recovered half the wood, thirty cords, as Mexicans withdrew. Local Americans decry the high handed action amid tariff-law speculation and no further trouble reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Jose Girago
Wilson
Paso del Norte
United States
Girago
Logan
New Russian Courts Move to Rebuild Noble Judicial Power
Observers note the Czar's new provincial tribunals, staffed by nobles, claim original jurisdiction and appeal from village Mir courts while reviving knout use. Critics fear enhanced autocracy and erosion of peasant village judicial rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter the Great
Russia
Mir
Noted drummer foiled hold up at city corner
W D Viquesney, a drummer with the Third Regiment Band and a member of the Girlis Opera House orchestra in Kansas City, fought off five armed assailants at the Fifteenth Street and Prospect Avenue corner after they intercepted him as he returned from a Prospect Avenue car. He subdued one robber with a shoulder blow, recovered the revolver, and ordered the attackers to flee within two minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Viquesney
Girlis Opera House
Kansas City
Third Regiment
Fifteenth Street
Prospect Avenue
Viquesney
Lima
Ohio
Solare
Koch
Captain O'Shea
Parnell
America
Asia
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Gilpin
New York
New York Sun
London
Baring Bros
Russia
Bank of England
Rothschilds
Kansas
Kellogg
Ives
Farmers’ Alliance
Albert H. Smith
Mills, Robeson & Smith
Broadway
Smith
Inspector Byrnes
W. A. Watson
Bogran
Honduras
Sanchez
Barrillas
War Department
Miles
Dakota
Eighth Cavalry
Fort Meade
Niobrara
Robinson
Schofield
Italians at New Orleans amid anti Italian tensions
A late dispatch reports rising anti Italian feeling after Chief of Police Hennessy’s assassination. The Times-Democrat cites interviews with Italians to back cruelty charges against prisoners. Interpreting prisoner Jose Macheta says cruelty claims are true. Mayor Shakespeare answers Italian consul Norte criticizing interference and urging calm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennessy
Times—Democrat
Jose Macheta
Shakespeare
Pasquale Norte
Grand Jury
Sentencing of Irish Agitators at Clonmel Court
verdicts found William OBrien John Dillon Patrick OBrien all MPs guilty of conspiring to induce tenants on Smith Barry estates to withhold rent. OBrien and Dillon get six months terms each in two concurrent sentences. Cullinane Patrick OBrien four months? Walsh Mockler Bolton four months each. Others cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clonmel
William O'Brien
John Dillon
Patrick O’brien
John Cullinane
Thomas Walsh
Patrick Mockler
Mr. Bolton
Smith-Barry
Dillon
Cullinane
Walsh
Mockler
Bolton
Father Humphreys
Thomas J. Condon
Daniel Kelly
David Sheehy
American Harvester Company Formed in Chicago
In Chicago during the past days a major new firm in farm machinery was organized. The American Harvester Company, with capital of 35000000, filed its charter in Springfield last Wednesday to manufacture harvesting machinery. Directors include Cyrus H. McCormick William Deering Walter A. Wood Lewis Miller A L Conger and General A S Bushnell. The firm aims to centralize production to reduce shipments and costs for makers and users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Springfield
American Harvester Company
Cyrus H. McCormick
William Deering
Walter A.wood
Lewis Miller
A. L. Conger
General A. S. Bushnell
Dr. Conger
Wyoming and world notes from a distant telegraph
The Wyoming legislature elected Joseph M. Carey and Governor Francis E. Warren to the U.S. Senate. Halifax strengthens defenses as banking runs threaten eastern institutions. Reports recount railway accidents, a hanging in Ontario, and rising tensions with American Indians at Pine Ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Joseph M. Carey
United States Senate
Francis E. Warren
Halifax
Birchall
Benwell
Woodstock
Ontario
Pine Ridge
Kansas River
Kansas City
Glasgow University
Balfour
Ireland
Lord Aberdeen
Pennsylvania
Baptists of
Northwest
Farmers’ Alliance
Kansas
Jameson’s Statement on Slave Trade and Congo Foray
Mrs Jameson releases her husband’s London Times letter from Stanley Falls August 3 188 recounting a slave girl purchase tale and a cannibal ceremony. He describes witnessing a gruesome scene and sketching delays while Benny Bonny narrates marches and Bartelot’s death and trial in Congo affairs.
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Tippo
Benny
Stanley
Yambuya
Unaria
Jameson
Pres Bartelot
Buartelot
Stanley Falls
Bonny
Bartelot
Major Bartelet
Songa
Cure for Consumption Promoted by Dr Koch
Dr Koch announces a claimed cure for consumption and details gradual subcutaneous dosing, sterilization, and careful application. He urges early treatment in suitable institutions and highlights widespread interest as doctors and stockmen discuss outcomes and regional cattle prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koch
Mediterranean
Berlin
State Alliance calls Colorado farmers to annual meeting
The Colorado Farmers Alliance urges every member to attend the state meeting starting Tuesday November 25. R ailroad rates will be offered for a round trip at one fifth excess for those outside Pueblo. Delegates expect a large workload and aim to secure informative papers for the gathering. The success of the Alliance hinges on active member participation and broad welfare goals for all farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Alliance
Colorado
Puebdlo
Alliance
T Ie
Colorado State
The New Spanish Minister Aims at Reciprocal Harmony
Senor Miguel Juarez Guanz, Spain’s new minister to the United States, pledges harmony and closer trade ties during his presentation to President Harrison. The president replies that he expects steady cooperation to expand amity and commerce between the two nations and mutual advantage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senor Miguel Juarez Guanz
United States
Spain
Senor Guanz
Harrison
Lost Child Found After Four Days In The Hills
A Hillsboro Tennessee report tells of a deaf and mute girl aged 5 to 9 who wandered from home while her parents were at Sunday school. After days of a wide search by neighbors and locals, the child was found alive atop a precipice miles from home, having survived four days in bear and panther country with tracks showing close calls near the edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Tennessee
Bud Futts
Cumberland Mountains
Grundy
Coffee County
Spotted Fever Returns Near Gallatin Tennessee
Spotted fever reappears near Fountain Head fifteen miles from Gallatin. James Simpson lost three sons in two days after moving closer to town. His 13 year old daughter contracts a case. Doctors are at a loss. Epidemic type meningitis has an 80 percent death rate and fourteen day duration. No fear of spread to Gallatin at present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallatin
Tennessee
Fountain Head
James Simpson
Galla UN
Train Robbers Fail to Halt Texas & Pacific Express
Four men attempted a rush robbery on an eastbound Texas & Pacific train near Kent after leaving El Paso on November 17. A conspirator named Smith confessed to the Kent station agent, guards fired as robbers attacked passengers, wounding one guard and two robbers. The gang fled into darkness aboard the halted train, while Smith, now in Togan, fears retaliatory violence from Rio Grande Valley ranchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
Texas & Pacific
Kent
Smith
Togan
Rio Grande Valley
Colorado Cities Debt Rush Alters Fiscal Landscape
Census bulletin details five Colorado cities Denver Pueblo Leadville Colorado Springs and Trinidad with bonded and floating debts totals and resources. It notes rising municipal debt and resources across regions and previews a broader nationwide report on debts and sinking funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Bureau
Denver
Pueblo
Leadville
Colorad Springs
Trinidad
Colorado Sprints
ESSO
Colorado
United States
Ca. 4 Treasury
Hare
Rees
Sedalia Justices Split over Valid Marriage Ceremonies
In Sedalia Missouri the legality of marriages performed by four elected justices since 1559 is disputed. A legislature reduction left three justices in office, with Halstead and Marvis noted as recently sworn in. People seek clarity on which officiant legally conducts rites.
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Sedalia
A. RK
Marvis A. Halstead
Offica
Via
Halstead
Satchel of cash recovered after long bank search
A messenger lost a satchel containing about 87 000 dollars in currency and checks between a post office and bank. A boy found the satchel discarded from a buggy. the driver did not hear the stop. The tailor recognized the rolls, returned the satchel to the bank, and the finder was rewarded amid celebrations.
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Acs
Prairie State National Banko
Postfice
Austin
Orship
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Stanford
Acca
Mediterranean Sea
Syria
Damascus
Lake
Tiberius
Joland
Holy Land
Lorp Worsety
Western
Europe
State News
New Orleans
Farm Machinery Trust
Telegraph
Routt
the State Alliance
Census Bureau Statistics
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