Family ties, feuds and fortunes haunt late 19th century letters
The Gazette reports on lineage links among politicians tracing to Roger Sherman, a London charity founded by Mrs Travers Hopason Kurxerr for newsboys in memory of her son, a tale of Lionel's Home. It notes gold filling teeth valued at over half a million dollars and a Missouri land enclosure. A North Carolina trial suggests climate favors ten new enterprises, and Jon W. Mackay donates half a month's salary to 200 Commercial Cable Co. staff totaling 20000 from his own funds.
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Travers Hopason Kurxerr
London
Lord Fauntleroy
Lionel
Jon W. Mackay
Commercial Cable Company
Mackay
Wall River
Mass
Brooklyn
Long Island Railroad
United States Mint
Philadelphia
United States
W. L. Scott
Erie
N. Y
Milton
William Marsh
Norman Thomas
Stamford
Conn
Nowell & Presley
New York
Stephen Bell
Fairfax, Vt
Cost of recording Congress debates exceeds sixty thousand pounds
The text notes annual costs around £60,000 to record the burning thoughts and words of statesmen in Congress. It mentions estimates of appropriations needed to pay salaries for stenographers of the House, Senate, and various committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
Senate
Treaties, memorials, and rail notes of 1891 era
A compilation notes historic Treaty Elm from William Penn alliances, a Grant statue commission for the U S Capitol funded by the Grand Army of the Republic, and Russian famine relief logistics. It also critiques English newspaper errors and reports 1891 railroad construction totals, with 171000 miles of lines and 168 miles added per line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Memorial Committee
Grand Army of the Republic
F. 8S. Simmons
Maine
Gen. Grant
United States Capitol
Grand Army
United States
Parallels Questioned by Boston Professor
A Boston professor argues that lines of latitude may not be immutably parallel and suggests that scientific claims challenge long held beliefs. He warns that if lines drift and the equator shifts, foundations of certainty crumble and old faiths wobble under unsettled discoveries.
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Boston
Veteran traveler explains why he abandoned African exploration
Paul du Chail- Tu recounts a journey where a territorial chief treated him with great honor offering a line of maids to choose a wife. He says the instant gratitude and fear of causing jealousy among the maidens led him to decline. The chief then quipped about fate and death, expressing a fatalistic humor about the outcome of choosing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul du Chail- Tu
Chailly
Washington Week in Review and World Events
The column lists U.S. grain stocks for Wheat and Corn, notes on a diplomatic demand for Chile to apologize and indemnify families of murdered sailors, and threats of war if refused. It reports pardons, reciprocal trade talks with British colonies, and U.S. crime, finance, and weather notes. It chronicles deaths, disasters, and industry developments across the East including mint coinage, rail wrecks, factory fires, and notable obituaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Chili
Baltimore
Harper
Fidelity Savings Bank
Cincinnati
Ohio
Eaine
Jamaica
Barbadoes
Leeward
Windward Islands
Trinidad
British Guiana
Srenerany Blank
Gatemalt
Salvador
John M. Finnerty
Multiple 19th century notes on crimes and deaths from various places
A scattered recap of events reports liquor sale permissions at a world fair, elderly deaths in Jacksonville Illinois, Edward J. Tracy named Florida state treasurer, a Tennessee man hanged for murder, a three year old child harmed in Arkansas, men frozen near Gary South Dakota, the oldest Congregational minister William Potter’s death, a jail escape lynching in Alabama, medical deaths in Des Moines and Ohio, clashes with moonshiners in Alabama, labor delegates forming Michigan's People's Party, a lethal quarrel in Alabama, coal gas fatalities in North Dakota, a stolen bond record from Richmond Virginia, a deadly fire in Plainfield, and Beatty and Bowden incidents in Tennessee.
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Exposition Company
Jacksonville
Epward J. Tracy
Florida
Francis J. Pond
Olive Springs
Tenn
Lem Jones
Little Rock
Ark
Charles A Ball
Gary
S. D
George Wightman
William Potter
Hampden
John Sims
Joseph Smith
Ensley City
Ala
John Brunelle
Wild Rice
N. D
Jeff Davis
United States
Richmond
Plainfield
Russian pianist declines $150000 tour offer in America
A roundup of varied 19th century dispatches reports Anson Rubinstein turning down $150,000 for an American tour, consular death in Leghorn, shipwreck drownings near Archachon, plot arrests in Russian Poland, Mexican revolt moves near Mier, and multiple other incidents across Europe and the Americas including deaths, accidents, and political notes.
Blown to Atoms in Wisconsin Quarry Disaster
A dynamite blast at the Sehoon thaker stone quarry near Wauwatosa Wisconsin killed two men William Walter 60 and Albert Walter unmarried 4 years old and seriously injured a laborer John Rogalsby while 600 pounds of dynamite thawing for a mid day blast exploded. The force tore a large hole in the ledge shattered a portable engine and sent debris across the quarry as witnesses noted the blast could be felt 25 miles away. Authorities blamed careless handling of explosives and recalled prior incidents at the intake tunnel blasting.
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Ed Harris
Beatty Brothers
Chillicothe
Elemera
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Salem
Hinkley
Norwalk
Aurora
Iowa
Indian Territory
C Baldwin” Hart
Marshal, Mo
Union Pacific Rad
la Grande
Ore
Kentucky House of Representatives
W. M. Moore
Albert Warrer
William
John Rojalsky
Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Madison
Ovid
Mich
Martin Briggs
Kanawha County
W. Va
South Bend
Ind
Edward Spohn
Louise Seig
Cincinnati
John Dietel
Texarkana
Ark
Wau Watosa
John Rogalsby
Racine
John Rogalsky
Benzenberg
Mexican General Garcia Murdered by Troops in Northern Mexico
News from San Antonio Texas on December 31 reports that Gen Garcia commander in the northern Mexican troops with headquarters at Mier was murdered by his own command. hundreds of his soldiers joined the revolutionists and crossed into Texas between Roma and Carrizo. The killing is confirmed and Garcia is described as a leading officer. the soldier class is depicted as criminal and sympathetic to the revolutionary cause. In Lampo Texas on December 31 a report says Garza captured forty five Mexican troops with arms and equipment. four officers were shot and the rest offered freedom or to join the revolutionaries. No official confirmation yet.
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Waverly
Chicago
Paul Wood
John Meredith J
Itanimoy
Salvador
Sanford
Cal
Elmer E. Spofford
F. BR. Voeker
BE. W. Poster
I. ©. Harmmond
United States
Rio Grande
Texas
Pal
Pallo Munez
Garza
Noordland
Childwell
Antwerp
ApAs Woerrrr
Whitehall
Nashville
Tenn
Stokes, Allen
Harvey Ewing
C. Goudy
Hidwaynen
Idaho Line
Montana
Trex
Port Townsend
Wash
Converse College
Institute
South Carolina
Spartanburg
Gin MontGomony - Meigs
Englineer Corps
Washington
Edwin Pamnento
Sheboygan
Wis
Arlisle Johnson
Texarkana
Ark
Perry
Fla
Robert Parker
John J. Garto
Taylor County
Thomas Walters
Westport
Ind
M. Westhafer
Garcia
San Antonio
Tex
Mexico
Mier
Roma
Carrizo
J Garcia
Revolutionary Movement
Lampo
Dee
Sued The Police In Chicago Hall Trespass Suit
Thomas Greif of Chicago seeks 25000 damages in a circuit court case against Capt John E Mahoney and Inspector Lyman H Lewis for alleged police trespass during a raid on Greif’s Lake street hall. He claims officers entered without authority, destroyed property, caused his ill daughter’s death, and notes Attorney Salomon represents him.
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Thomas Greif
Chicago
Haid
Kung
John E. Mahoney
Lyman H. Lewis
Salomon
Greif
Lake Street
McClaughry
Detectives nab Sly in express robbery gang case
Adelbert D. Sly known as Bert Sly, accused leader, captured in Los Angeles after ties to October Omaha and November Kansas City and Western Union Junction robberies. Florence Waterman arrested in Oakland. Pinkerton methods traced Sly to St. Louis, then California. watch and $2,000 recovered. woman pursued in rainstorm. others still at large.
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A. D. Sly
Cinceano
Adelbert D. Sly
Irs
Western Union Junction
Wis
Viendale
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Cal
Robert 4. Pinderton
Florence IH. Waterman
Oakland
Charles Wappenstein
Pinkerton Agency
Omaha
Neb
Fie
W. A. Pinkerton
Sly
Glendale
Frank Murray
Chicago
Harrigan
Swan Avenue
Adams Express
West
California
Pinkerton
A.S. Denton
Adelbert Denton Sly
Mulennan
Adams Express Company
Wells Largo Express Company
Marion Wedpeth
Florence Waterman
Capt
Lees
Missouri
J. A. Pinkerton
Whitaker
Tracey
Bert” Sly
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
St. Joe
Jefferson City
Kansas City
Ex Sheriff Weimer dies after Benton incident
Ex sheriff Joseph W. Weimer of Benton fatbor, St Joseph Mich, died Tuesday night after a train accident near Benton Harbor. He tried to reboard a moving train missing his footing between coaches, legs severed, he died at home. The report also notes proposed waterway projects around Niagara Falls and a coal mine disaster near Rich Hill Missouri with two killed and seventy-one drowned in a separate note.
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Weimer
St. Joseph
Mich
Joseph W. Weimer
Benton Fatbor
Chicago
Benton Harbor
Rich
Appointment of Bishop W. Perking to U.S. Senate
Gov Timphrey signs commission naming Bishop W Perking to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Plumb. Perkins leads the Third district delegation and is a central figure in the coming election, with Hackney opposing and charges of lobbying dismissed. Perkins, born Rochester Ohio, 59, has a long career in law and politics culminating in a 1882 Congress term and later service as district judge in Kansas.
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Timphrey
Kansas
W. Perking
Phinb
Toriwa
Kan
Mumphrey
United States Senate
Plumb
Perkins
Cowley County
Crom
Oswego
Friends of Theis
Jumphrey
Humphrey
Congress
W. P. Hackney
Washington
Hackney
Cme
Maj
J. K. Hudson
Joseph W. Ady
Gov
Bishop W. Perkins
Rochester
Knoxcoge
Galesburg
Colorado
Eightythird
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Eleventh Judicial Trict
Dongress
Chicago
Farmers’ Alliance
Oswego Register
Baron Fava Sails to Washington as Italy Returns to Post
Word from Jan 2 reports Baron Fava has sailed from Rome to resume Italy’s U S ministerial post. Marquis Imperiali leads the legation as Fava returns, and the United States agrees to a small monetary indemnity to families of two Italian lynching victims in New Orleans. The settlement mirrors U S demands on Chile, signaling a quick closure of the Chilean incident.
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Wasuine von
Baron Fava
Rome
Washington
Italy
United States
Marquis Imperiali
Fava
State Department
New Orleans
Whole family wiped out by sudden illness in Kansas
Aronson Kansas January reports a Delaney family near town killed by a fast spreading disease after moving into a new house. The father died shortly after a house warming, the mother fell ill and died, and both sons died Thursday after similar symptoms.
Flower Is Now Governor In New York Inauguration
Roswell P. Flower was inaugurated governor of New York before a large crowd in Albany. Outgoing governor David I. Hill transferred duties, Flower gave a cautious speech, and Secretary of State Rice administered the oath to Flower and Lieutenant Governor Sheehan.
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Albany
N. Y
Roswell P. Flower
New York
David I. Hill
Flower
Rice
Sheehan
Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription Promise of Quick Relief
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription as a universal remedy for women’s health issues and nervous weakness. It claims to correct disorders, provide tonic support, and offer a money back guarantee if not satisfactory, urging readers to compare with rival products and pay only for effective results.
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Oman
Dr. Pierce
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