Washington's Birthday Firelight and a Love Triangle
In Woodville the coming Washington birthday parade stirs town pride while Mizraim the former slave fears misrule and a romance between Grace Temple and Howell Marton complicates Col. Temple. A near tragedy gives way to a hopeful union as the colonel reconciles with the couple.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Valley Forge
Col. Temple
Woodville
Marser
Gracie
Mizraim
Judge Lofton
Washington at his inauguration ball described in festive terms
Detroit Free Press recounts General Washington as a figure of chivalry who, beyond military leadership, enjoyed peaceful gatherings. The account notes him dancing two cotillions and a minuet at his inauguration ball and visiting Annapolis to open a ball hosted by citizens with Mrs James Macubbin cited as a celebrated woman of the era.
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Washington
Annapolis
James Macubbin
Detroit Free Press
Torture allegations haunt Hawaii treason cases
Honolulu reports claim Captain Davies of the steamer Waimanolo was coerced through thumbscrews and other brutal methods to confess, while officials deny such widespread abuse. The San Francisco Call notes conflicting accounts and questions the reliability of the sensational charges amid the Hawaii crisis.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Government of
Hawaii
William Davies
Waimanolo
Davies i
Hawhaiian Islands
Davies
United States
Marshal Hitccock
Smith
Sumeon Cooper
Nature
Cooper
Carl Widderman
Marshal Hitchcock
Wasuieron
Sham Republic
Wife killer shot dead in jail by mob at Kinesrox
In Kinesrox Missouri on February 18 a mob of masked men forced entry to the jail and shot George Tracy a negro prisoner through the cell door after binding Ben Goldworthy and taking keys. Tracy died instantly. sheriff resisted but was overpowered. Tracy had recently served a sentence for shooting a negro and had lost both legs in an earlier railroad accident.
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Mizraim
Ziton Temple
Virginia
Old England
Martens
Col. Temple
South
Washington
Marton Wis
Kinesrox
Hamilton
Ben Goldworthy
George Tracy
Tracy
Tracey
Kansas
Twenty Five Vessels Thought Lost With Crews
Anxiety grips New York shipowners over about twenty five coastwise sailing vessels missing after a week’s blizzard. Each crew averages ten men, with total vessel value near a quarter of a million dollars, most owned by New Yorkers. Batavia Ohio reports Sophie Rhodes will probate. Her estate valued at 12000? She left to son Eugene. Husband dies in Cincinnati. estate to Washington DC Young Women’s Christian Home. Aged couple seek divorce after fifty four years. James Crabb, 82, and Margaret Crabb, 81, face divorce on grounds of infidelity and neglect. Guyara Ohio reports James Beany, aged and respected, died after slitting throat, illness thought to drive insanity.
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Mizraim
Dinah
Piney
Marser
Gracey
Yaas
Grace
Woodville
Mizrainn
Marton
New York
Batavia
Sophie Rhodes
Eugene
Young Women’s Christian Home
Washington, D.C
Cincinnati
Annana
fFor
James Crabb
Margaret
Mhe
Debs to discuss evidence from conspiracy case at Chicago talk
Eugene V. Debs plans a Chicago Auditorium speech to reveal evidence that would have been presented in the failed conspiracy trial. He argues the general managers conspired with Pushman and Wickes, with arbitration rejected, wage cuts sought, and a united rail network bearing strike costs.
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Terrence
Ind
Eugene V. Debs
Chicago
Coe
General Managers
Debs
Ile
General Managers’ Association
Pullman
Wickes
American Railway Union
Disastrous Santa Fe Wreck Near Gurung Oklahoma
Galveston express collides with a stock train five miles south of Gurung Oklahoma causing 2 deaths Engineer Charles Appleby of Topeka and fireman Coldron killed. Dozens injured including Justice N. W. Scott and Senator Scott. Loss to the railroad exceeds 850,000 and seventy cattle die. Through passengers unharmed.
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Oklahoma
Gurung
O. T
Galveston
Santa Fe
Texas
Frey
Charles Appleby
Topeka
Kan
Coldron
N. W. Scott
Supreme Court
Scott
Brown
Willing
Sutton
Seward
Appleby
Exonerated McBride Declared Honest Man by Miners Convention
The Ohio miners convention declared ex-President John McBride an honest man and expelled accuser Mark Wild for demagoguery. The report noted McBride had no corrupt practices but was indiscreet with operator funds entrusted to him. The body also exonerated national officials from corruption charges amid the strike settlement.
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Colummbus
Miners’ Convention
John McBride
Mark Wild
Wild
Lewis
McBride
A. A. Adams
Ohio
Therm
Reichstag backs call for international monetary conference
The Reichstag adopted a resolution by Count von Mirbach instructing the government to issue invitations for an international monetary conference to rehabilitate silver as circulating currency. Secretary of the Imperial Treasury Count von Posadowesky Wegner voiced government sympathy for the aim.
The Gentle Sex Organizes for National Council Session
Feb 18 Waushisetox notes the National Council of Women of the United States begins a two week triennial session in the capital with 18 affiliated organizations. Officers include May Wright Sewall as president and Lillian M. Stevens as treasurer. topics cover religion daily life education and women’s legal rights.
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Wasuisetox
New World
National Council of Women of the
United States
National Council
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Atlanta
Woman's Centenary Association
the Universalist Church
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
National Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society
Illinois Industrial School For Girls National Charter
National Association of Women Stenographers
National Council of Jewish Women
May Wright Sewall
Francis E. Bagley
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Rachel Foster Avery
Isabella Charles Davis
Actress Madge Yorke killed by jealous lover in Philadelphia
Madge Yorke, 22, of the Baggage Check company, was shot and died in Seiss hotel Philadelphia by James K. Gentry, an actor who fled after the shooting. Yorke formerly resided with her parents at 150 West Seventy-ninth Street New York.
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Philadelphia
Philadelpha
Madge Yorke
Charles E. Blaney
Baggage Check
Seiss’ Hotel
James K. Gentry
Gentry
Miss Yorke
Leiss’ Hotel
Lida Clark
Miss Clark
Yorke
West Seventy-ninth Street
New York City
Dr Dyas Killed Struck By Train In Chicago
Reports from Cincesaco and Pittsburgh outline a fatal incident involving Dr William Godfrey Dyas aged 87. He was found with a fractured skull and severed hand after being struck on or near the Lake Shore tracks. He died at his residence, leaving a noted medical reputation in the west.
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Dyas
Chicago
Cincesaco
William Godfrey Dyas
Sixty-ninth Street
Lake Shore Tracks
West
Almost Free Coinage Recited in Senate Finance Action
In Wasnixotox Feb 14 the senate finance committee kept the bill alive by striking all but the ninth section and amending it to authorize minting standard silver dollars from bullion. The treasury secretary would coin bullion into dollars with seigniorage to the United States, and issue certificates against deposits. Vote split among party lines: Voorhees Harris White Jones Ark West Democrats favored. Sherman Allison Aldrich Morrill McPherson Republicans and one Democrat opposed.
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United States
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Voorhees
Harris
White
Jones
Ark
West
Mr. Jones
Sherman
Allison
Aldrich
Morrill
McPherson
Kings County Grand Jury Indicts Rail Officials and Strikers
The Kings county grand jury reports indictments against President Benjamin Norton and Superintendent Quinn of the Atlantic avenue railroad for violating the ten hour law. They also return twenty seven indictments against strikers for rioting, brick throwing, wire cutting, and other violence. all are felonies.
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Broon.yn
Grand Jury
Kings County
Court of Sessions
Benjamin Norton
Atlantic Avenue Railroad
Quinn
Populists Push Free Coinage and Paper Money Plan
A February address to People's Party members in congress signed by Lafe Peace O M Kemn Jerry Simpson James H Kyle J B Weaver N E Taubeneck and other leaders denounces gold control conspiracy and calls for immediate free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and government issued paper money without banks of issue.
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Wasnixton
People's Party
Congress
Lafe Peace
O. M. Kemn
Jerry Simpson
James H. Kyle
J. B. Weaver
N. E. Taubeneck
Europe
America
United States
Ex Queen Liliuokalani on Treason Trial News
Honolulu advices report ex queen Liliuokalani on trial for treason with a not guilty plea entered. The diary is expected to provide the case's key evidence and a verdict seems likely. White House denies an alleged diary extract about a Cleveland gift.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Liliuokalani
Wasuie Tonr
Cleveland
White House
Living Doll Princess Pau lina Dies in New York Pneumonia
The so called living doll Princess Paulina died Friday morning in New York from pneumonia. She weighed eight and a half pounds and stood 17 inches tall. Born February 26 1876 in Ossendrecht Volland she would have turned 19. She was the seventh of twelve children. her parents and siblings are listed as robust.
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New York
Paulina
Ossendrecht
Volland
Severe winter grips Tennessee and nearby states
Winter storms blanket Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas with record cold and heavy snow. Canton Mississippi reports 5 inches of snow Birmingham Alabama 2 feet deep forcing relocation of seventy families. Ice blocks Arkansas City river while steamers lie frozen. A Mississippian farmer Gus Thomason dies from the cold as cattle perish in the region. In Illinois bondsmen cover a state treasurer loss but Seiter Ramsay failure looms. A Lebanon bank collapse ends with Seiter. In Iowa Kansas and Nebraska women stage a stand against saloons to enforce new mulet law.
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Memilis
Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Canton
Miss
Birmingham
Ala
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Ark
Winona
Gus Thomason
Mascovaran
Chicago
Seiter- Ramsay
James Baker
Southern Illinois
Seiter
Ramsay
Luler
Baker
Lebanon
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W. Va
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Congress of Women
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Second Avenue
Rankin Station
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Rocksater
Brown's Race
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Getere
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