Pennsylvania Gop at Harrisburgh Nominates State Officers
The Republican state convention at Harrisburg on April 20 nominated candidates for state offices and delegates to the national convention. The platform praises President Harrison and Blaine, backs protection for American labor, endorses the McKinley act, and urges stricter immigration laws. A resolution praising Matthew Stanley Quay was debated and adopted amid cheers and interruptions.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburgh
Rhode Island
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Italy
Chile
Great Britain
James G. Blaine
Blaine
Platorm
Democratic Party
Government
Treasury
Phillips
Schuylkill
United States
Commonwealth
M. S. Quay
Magee
Pittsburgh
California Earthquake Devastates Vacaville and Surrounding Towns
A major quake struck near San Francisco Tuesday morning, tremors felt across a 200 mile radius. Vacaville suffered severe brick building collapse and fires, with damages in Dixon Winters and Monticello. loss estimates climb to hundreds of thousands. Other towns report broken windows, overturned chimneys, and scattered damage while overall intensity exceeds recent years.
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California
San Francisco
Academy of Science
Vacaville
Vaca Valley
Nixon
Masonic Hall
Dixon
Pleasant Valley
Winters
John Thistle, Jr
Carl Gates
O. O
Bliss
Putah
Berryessa Road
Monticello
Elmira
Fairfield
Santa Rosa
Woodland
Davisville
Benicia
Earthquakes Hit Several California Towns in Late April
Reports from Sacnavento Winrens Dixox Esparro and nearby areas describe multiple shocks on April 22 and 23. Buildings toppled chimneys collapsed walls wrecked warehouses and stores with injuries including a seriously injured engineer and a baby unharmed in debris. Extensive destruction reported across towns between here and Woodland with loss estimates around 2500 dollars.
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Sacnavento
Cal
State Capitol
Winrens
Masonic Hall
Cradwick
Bertholet
Humphrey Bros
Dixox
Esparro
W. H. Shulte
Levy & Sehwah
Barnes’ Hotel
J. R. Davisson
Levy & Schwab
Fire in crowded St Petersburg tenement kills nine
A three story tenement fire in St Petersburg on Wednesday gutting the building. The upper floors trapped residents, many jumped from windows. Nine bodies recovered, fifteen others missing, believed buried under debris as relief workers continue the search. Relatives wailed as crews work amid the ruins.
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St. Petersburg
Death of Rev Dr John Burroughs in Chicago
Notice from Cutcaco dated April 22 reports the death of Rev Dr John C Burroughs once president of the old Chicago university and a founder. Born 1819 in western New York he led Chicago education, helped establish the Christian Times, and served as Chicago schools supervisor before retirement in 1878.
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Chicago
John Burroughs
Cutcaco
John C. Burroughs
Old
Chicago University
Ellis Avenue
John (. Burroughs
New York
Yale College
Hamilton College
Colgate University
Baptist
Waterford
N. Y
West Troy
First Baptist Church
Burrows
Old Chicago University
Toverall
The
Christian Times
Standard
West
Rustler troubles near Antelope Springs Wyoming report
In Antelope Springs Wyoming on April 22 a cavalry detachment escorted invaders toward Douglas and camped near Ogallala ranch after a snow storm and telegraph lines were cut. Citizens in Buffalo appeal to the president to hear their side as fears grow of violence and rustling.
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Antelope Springs
Wyo
Maj. Frechet
Douglas
Ogallala Ranch
Port McNinney
Fort McKinney
Buffalo
Wolcott
Granger
Cheyenne
Board of
Tragedy Near Des Moines Ends Three Lives
A double murder and suicide occurred about nine o clock near the Polk county poor farm eight miles northeast of Des Moines. James Cockerham killed his former wife Mrs James Cockerham and William S Davis, then killed himself. A third woman present escaped and lay unconscious from fright. The couple had been married twenty one years but separated years ago amid quarrels. Cockerham had previously tried to kill Mrs Cockerham. The tragedy left three dead and a witness in a coma.
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Des Mores
Polk County
James Cockerham
William S. Davis
Cockerham
Avis
Remarkable Letter to the Editor on Warner's Safe Cure
A reader defends proprietary medicines, citing a decade-old statement by a physician that Warner's Safe Cure was effective for gravel and bladder issues. The letter argues physicians should not decry such remedies and praises Dr. Holland's view on marketed cures. The page also includes ad-like items and stray jokes from various papers and vendors.
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Sin
Warner
J.G. Holland
Scribner's Monthly
Holland
Bright
R A. Guys
West Forty Seventh Street
New York
S.S. S
Josh Owen
Montfelier
Ohio
The Bamboo Fife and Other May Wide Awake Arts Picks
Theron Brown’s The Bamboo Fife opens the May Wide Awake with a vivid oriental rhyme. The issue features Adaline Pordham on A Medieval Stronghold Vierrefonds by Viollet le Duc restoration, plus Philip Hale’s A Grain of Sand and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence.
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Theron Brown
Burgess
Adaline Pordham
Vierrefonds
Richelieu
Viollet-le- Duc
Philip Hale
Miriam Brastow
Elbridge S. Brooks
Emma Huntington Nason
Col. Thorndike
Gibraltar
The Excretory System and Cold Weather Cure
The piece explains the excretory organs lungs kidneys and skin and how cold on the skin shifts purification to lungs and kidneys risking pneumonia pleurisy or consumption. Reis German Cough and Kidney Cure is advertised to stimulate kidneys relieve lungs and cost 25 or 50 cents a bottle from SYLVAN REMEDY CO Peoria Ill.
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Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
Ill
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Harrison Indorsed
Senator Quay
Ingalls
Cleveland
Hill
Toledo Blade
Flossie
Papa
Mamma
National Bulletin
House
St. Louis
Gorman
Detroit Journal
Kenosha
Wis
United District
Kennosha
Northwestern Wire Mattress Company
Lake Front
Main
City of
Mexico
Liberal Party
Diaz
Federal District
Cape Evinie
Richard D. Davis
Lonponx
Felix
Settin
Gore Point
Bracaster
Staten Island Dyeing Works
West New Brighton
Russia
Arron
Anna Percy
Percy
Cleveland Paper Company
Cuyahoga Falls
Goodby
Washington
Venezuela
Porrsville
Lytle
Minersville
Grand Works
N. D
Union National Bank
Karl Nelson
Nelson
Carothers
O'Brien
Arpany
O' Brien
Bunke
Peck
Wyoming
Des Moines
Appeal OF Colored Men
Wasumoron
James A. Palmer
Central Office
Tiffany &Co
Union Saquare
Palmer
West Seventeenth Street
Steers
Hinghamton
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Binghamton
Kansas
Land Department of the
Santa Fe Road
Jol J. Byrne
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe K. R
N. Y. Press
U.S. Bunoy & Can Co
Lawrence St
Cincinnati
N. O. Picayune
Dr. Harter Medicine Co
Sheene Veany
Aife
Beows
Galveston News
Seavick
Harvard Lampoon
Lane
Hiwa
Arity
Minnesota
Western Steam
Western Creamery
Beaves
Shippee Ara
EU Povators
Omaha
Seatheless
Hostetter
Man
Boston Transcript
Rose Coghlan
Charles
McVicker’s Theater
Chas. Coghlan
Atchison Globe
Hale
Pike
Steve Myles
Scott
Séorr & Bowne
South Sth Avenue
U. S
G. W. Simmons & CO
Oak Hall
Boston
Mass
FLACS
Swift
Josymini Povnin
Due West
S.C
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, GA
Sapolio
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
OB. Harter Medicine CO
St. Louis, Me
Paris
W. Baker
W.baker &Co
Dorchester
FARGO
C.H. Pairgo 4 CO
Pees
Ree
Patrick P2er Ai
Ne Koife
Ina Tiaky
Noxum
Miena Sons
Weekington
Bobe Is
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