Knights of Labor Urges Ballot Reform and Immigrant Limits
The report of General Secretary Hayes shows receipts of 60614.19 and expenditures of 59745.82 with a yearend balance of 865.57, over 260000 members in good standing and the order debt free. Powderly advocates secret ballots, stronger election laws, immigrant exclusion for self supporting periods, and a future centred on ballot action, with a referendum committee, an employment bureau, and a broader tax plan including inheritance tax. A meeting with the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union is noted.
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Powderly
Low
Hayes
Knights of Labor
Iis
Philadelphia
Indiana
General Assembly
The
United States
Workman
Powid
Coeur d'Alene
Homestead
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
Committee On
Ingalls
St. Louis
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Workman Powderly
Cattle thieves killed at camp fire in Wyoming
In Caryenne Wyoming two cattle and horse thieves identified as Mike Brown and George Hanks were found shot dead at a Box Elder creek camp fire near Fremont county. The killings come amid a two week run of similar deaths. Brown noted as a leading Wyoming cattle thief. In Boston an Italian man Giuseppe Petana killed his two children aged six and eleven then cut his own throat before neighbors found him. He was hospitalized as investigators seek motive amid the family tragedy.
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Wyoming
Caryenne
Wyo
Buffalo
Mike Brown
George Hanks
Montana
Box Elder Creek
Fremont County
Brown
Bostox
Thatcher Court
Guiseppe Petana
Explosion at Arkansas jollification injures fifteen. schoolhouse wrecked
At a Mountain View November 18 celebration a large stock of powder exploded during speeches and fireworks. Two kegs in the schoolhouse burst, destroying the building and burying attendees. Fifteen injured, several fatally. Berry Sherod died after severe burns and lasting agony. A son and daughter of Silas Graham perished. Other victims unnamed.
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Arkansas
Fayetteville
Ark
Democrats
Mountain View
Silas Graham
Berry Sherod
Washington County
Senate Committee Probes Pinkerton Labor Ties in Chicago
Chicago inquiry into Pinkerton methods led by Senators Gallinger and Pfeffer, with Pinkerton witnesses present at the Grand Pacific hotel. The panel aims to shape a general law governing labor trouble management, while other novelties include ship fire near Brest, a fatal B and O brakeman accident, a Canton brewery fire, a Wisconsin senate race update, and a Washington Park hotel collapse with no serious injuries.
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Senate
Chicago
Cuicano
Grand Pacific Hotel
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Pfeffer
Kansas
Pinkerton Agency
Hansborough
North Dakota
Fenton
California
White
Louisiana
Hill
New York
Pinkerton
Weaver Confident in Populist Rise After Defeat
Des Moines reports Gen. Weaver in good health and high spirits after his campaign. He says populists surpassed expectations, hold power in many states and will balance the Senate, enabling a push on tariff reform and free coinage. He envisions a nationwide organization from sea to sea and a leaders conference to coordinate activity. Senator Peffer travels to Chicago to assist Pinkerton inquiry and notes tariff reform may align populists with Democrats on some issues while maintaining independence on others.
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Des Moines
Weaver
Union
Senate
United States
Lakes
Gulf
Wasamatox
Peffer
Kansas
Chicago
Gallinger
Congress
Salvation Army Congress Preparations In New York
Commander Ballington Booth and staff in New York prepare for a continental Salvation Army congress with delegates from 1,100 posts. Congress opens Monday at Carnegie Music Hall for a three day meeting, followed by torchlight parades and a consecration service at Association Hall. A noonday Broadway parade and the commissioning of the 1,500th officer are planned, along with dedication of Booths infant daughter to Salvation Army work.
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New York
Ballington Booth
Salvation Army
Continental Congress
Congress
Carnegie Music Hall
Army
United States
Canada
Music Hall
Association Hall
Twenty-third Street
Fourth Avenue
Broadway
United States Forces
United States Force
Booth
Moonshiner Garber Drowns After Escape Attempt
Borst Idaho November 16 Wilson Garber long suspected maker of illicit whisky died fleeing alleged officers. Put in a canoe by two drunken Indians they rifled rapids above a 40 foot fall. The canoe swamped the two Indians drowned and Garber perished. Wimarnta Illinois November 16 Weaver Treadway implement house suspended business. Election related delays hit sales of buggies wagons and farm implements. Major creditors include Peoria houses Rouse Hazard Co. and Peoria Implement Co.
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Borst
Idaho
Wilson Garber
Big Creek County
Big Creek
Garber
Wimarnta
Weaver & Treadway
Harrison
Peoria
Rouse, Hazard & Co
Peoria Implement Company
Relief work ends for Minnawuken fire victims
The Minnawuken relief drive wraps up with $68 724 75 spent and a total fund of $155 860 98. Remaining funds will be deposited and used only as loans to fire victims. In Saranac Mich brigandage shocks town as Mrs Kinney is robbed after her home burn insurance claim is settled. over $3 000 stolen. In Homestead Pa a night shift fatal shooting follows a work conflict at Carnegie steel. Max Newman is jailed pending coroner’s verdict.
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Saranac, Mich
E. A. Kinney
Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Company
Prrrspures
Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Max Newman
Maynard
Newman
New York
How ILLINOIS VOTED Official Returns from All Counties
Stockoy Cal Nov 14 Charles Bartold an employee at electric works was killed instantly by an arc light shock while attempting a repair without a non conductor underfoot He died after a few breaths No burn marks found leading electricians to doubt electricity caused death Short on Cabbages Carcago Nov 14 Cabberve scarce and overpriced in Chicago due to poor regional harvests Surplus only in Minnesota price up to 16 per ton Prices expected to rise to as high as 20 before holidays as Midwest growers face shortages across several states
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Chicago
Prohibition Party
C. L. Stevens
The
Lever
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
People's Party
Mississippi River
Towa
California
Tulinoia
Indiana
New York
New York City
New England
Mr. Stevens
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Owe
Vane
Kent
Louisiana
Maine
Marylan
Massachu
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Ste
Oregon
Wee
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Stockroy
Cal
Charles Bartold
Electric Works
Bartold
Iowa
Illinois
Deaiers
Verdia
Pope
Harrison
Cleveland Ap
Cleveland
Fifer
Altgeld
Clene Clark- Altwon
Tand
Ebik
Adams
Alexander
Uist
Carroll
Combe Rand
de Kalb
de Witt
Dougle O
Edwards
Fayette
Ford Tee
Franklin
Fulton
Gallatin
Greene
Grundy
Hamilton
Hancock
Harlin Fed Henderson
We Henry
Iroquois
Bras Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson Fees
He Vu Jersey
Jo Daviess
Johnson
Baeee i
Kane
Macon
Leoupin
Maitison
Marion Il
Marshall
Waser
Eal McDonon
Melfenry
Biz McLean
Mercer
Monroe
Montero
Morgan
Moultrie
Peoria
TAS Perry
Cess
Piatt
Pike
Richland
Rock Sland
J. Frank Aldrich
L. E. McGann
A. ¢ Durvorow
Julius Goldzier
A. J. Hopkins
RK. R. Hitt
T. J. Henderson
R. A. Childs
H. K. Wheeler
Post
R. F. Marsh
J. J. McDonnold
W. M. Springer
Mr. Funk
J. G. Cannon
G- W. Fithian
Edward Lane
W S. Forman
J. St. Williams
G. W. Smith
Senate
House
Uncle Jed s Journey and Other Verse Pieces
A collage of old verses and quips recounting Uncle Jed's journey from Palumville to Pokumville, Niagara Falls, the Rockies and Chicago with moral notes and city life vignettes, plus short poems about Iris, Laure, and Do Not ask a fugitive, plus notices and jokes from newspapers and periodicals. The humor ranges from travel reminiscence to home life, with literary quotes and ad blurbs interwoven.
Royals and clergy in distant lands and a kingly meal
The piece notes future British cardinals AncupisHop Varana and Mer Storer, Berlin physician Dr Luther from the Luther line at Wittenberg consecrations, a French agnostic's widow and Protestant upbringing of their daughter, Pasteur’s earnings analogy, royal salaries for the Prince of Wales and dukes, royal costs to taxpayers, and Emperor William praising a farm breakfast as fit for a king during a hunting trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
Duke of Connaught
Duke of
Edinburg
Duke of Cambridge
William
Wide Awake Christmas number highlights and serials
The December Wide Awake Christmas issue features a colored Ice Queen frontispiece by Henry Sandham and Mrs. Sandham's The Vagaries of Santa Claus. It includes Guiney on The Clnecont School with Pennell illustrations, Stoddard's Guest Ten Eyes, Seawell's The Midshipmen's Mess, Jenness's Pickee and her People, and a Christmas play Wishing by William Grant. Also promotes Hastetter's Stomach Bitters for indigestion, malarial ailments, and related complaints.
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Henry Sandham
Joseph Pennell
Mr. van Gelt
William O. Stoddard
R. Macdonald Alden
Layla
Merrill
W. C. Stoddard
Guest Ten Eyek
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Iris
Laure Rosamond White
Puck
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Elmira Gazette
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F. J. Cuenry & Co
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Toledo
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Washington Star
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Atchison, Kan
Boston Transcript
Hochester Democrat
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Mer. Storer
Western Creamery
Omaha
Deny’ Mo
Swift
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Lacoxie Prorosan
Gronan
Hastetter
Anort
Oder
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Druggista
Vv. F. Smith & CO
Jerry Simpson
Jerry
Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Ill
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
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GTEA
Huta
E. van Ft
Chicago Medical and Surgical Institute
Bright
West
Modern Medical Advancement
Institute
Ely’s
ELY Bros
Warren Dt
Danks &Co
Dearborn
Columbian World's Fair Club
Columbian Club
Chamber Commerce
Lebanon
Add Hall Chem.co
West Phila
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