Notable miscellany from The Gazette of Lanark
A miscellany of antiquities and anecdotes: a new peeress and American bride Edith Russell. Napoleon’s Moscow retreat carriage at Wellington estate. a ventilated umbrella on the market. Joserh Dion the billiard champion at Ward's Island home for the pauper insane. a $10,000 greenback note and seven $5,000 bills in existence. James Mayowenn of Cincinnati with twenty one children and three pairs of twins. $20,000,000 in gold on a transcontinental train with no theft. gender ratios in global returns, Japan’s higher male proportion. Haiti’s fertile soil yielding three crops a year, yet natives not exploiting full potential.
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Joserh Dion
America
Ward's Island
James Mayowenn
Cincinnati
Turbine wheels nudge a lifeless kitten and other floaters
Sir Joux Wiirraker Exits plans US visit while Turpin claims aerial steering solved during imprisonment. Turke warships to launch next month including cruiser 6 at San Francisco and the Cincinnati from the New York yard. Electric railways Chicago to St Louis and Chicago to Milwaukee eyed at 100 mph. A Portland kitten travels 15 miles in 890 minutes after a flywheel trap. Wealthy New York capitalists live frugal, Jay Gould and Russell Sage among those with little cash. Nancy Hanks trotting record hints two minutes may be reached. Congo report notes Arab influence and slavery in Africa. Pensions show 25,626 patents granted and 16,361 applied. rail deaths in Britain 1891 total 1,148 with 103 passengers, 27,719,022 more passenger trips than 1800, risk framed as 1 in 8,208,885 for deaths.
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British Isles
British Board of Trade
Washington Stable Fire Kills Fifty Horses
Epitome of the Week reports Thomas W. Binny's Washington stables burned with fifty horses perishing in the fumes. S. A. Whitfield resigns as first assistant postmaster general. Ontario WH. Ross dies in Washington, a Union Army veteran and cousin of Gov. Grant, last survivor of that staff. Tin exchanges reach 1.182 billion in seven days, up 10.5 percent vs year ago, with 215 business failures. Trade nationwide improving.
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Thomas W. Binny
Washington
S. A. Whitfield
Ontario WH. Ross
Army of the Union
Tie
Gov. Grant
United States
East events and tribulations across the nation and beyond
Grand jury actions in Pittsburgh accuse Homestead advisory committee members and Carnegie officials of treason. At Homestead the Fox home is set ablaze. Major naval parade in New York draws large crowds with French Italian Spanish fleets. Niagara Gorge stunt by Canadian Cavallero Culverley thrills observers. Anarchist Sergmann wounded during escape attempt. Fires destroy mills in Lockport and property losses near $150,000. Naturalization tests deny six applicants for illiteracy. New York’s Columbus monument ceremony caps Columbian celebrations. Miners die from beer keg poison at Port Royal. nine dead or injured in other accidents. Political missteps include Charles Andrews’s court of appeals nomination and various Congressional picks by Republicans and uptown figures.
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Pittsburgh
Homestead Advisory Committee
Vick
Carnegie
Pinkertons
Tax
Republican State Committee of
New York
Charles I. Andrews
Syracuse
Court of Appeals
France
Italy
Spain
Waltham
Mass
A. BB. Brown
Brown
Sixth Avenue Elevated
Calrrero Culverley
Niagara
Sergmann
Western Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick
Grover Duestrer
Lockport
N. Y
John Little
Nean Shamokin
A. D. Maxwell
Taylor
Kate Houghavent
Maxwell
Tug Republicans
Tenth New York
Charles E. Coon
Congress
Coon
Charles Lownder Cottenet
Meadowbrook
L. I
Homestead
Sterling Run
Shamokin
New London & Northern
New London
Ilamestead
Disjointed 19th Century News Snippets From Various Cities
A discharged reporter Grorck Perens fatally shot Victor C. Seward editor of the Stillwater Messenger in Minnesota. William Yerkes of Chicago donates 500000 to build an astronomical observatory for the University of Chicago. Mrs Mary Smith dies in Detroit aged 102 leaving two children. Captain Porter of the secret service uncovers a counterfeit 1880 treasury note in Chicago. Jerome township Ohio closes all schools as diphtheria cases reach 300 within four miles. A Gainsboro Tennessee negro demonstration ends with three killed. A Kansas City train collision kills three and a woman. A Colorado storm brings nine feet of snow at Palmer Lake. Several total accidents reported at El Mov.
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Jerome Township
Gainsboro
Tenn
Kansas City
Colorado
Palmer Lake
Divide
el Mov
Fires, hangings, and crimes crowd a turbulent year
A scattered digest of frontier disasters and crimes reports gangs from Salix Iowa to Booneville Missouri. A village wiped by fire in Salix and Bluford fabled near miss urban fires. A San Francisco whaling revival proposed after 25 years. A mob frees and hanged men in Alabama. A Missouri track defeat and Indianapolis indictment reveal a period of unrest. A lynching in Virginia, drought cattle losses in Texas, mass fire losses in California, and a hydrophobia death in Alabama mark a year of calamities across the nation.
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Salix
Indianapolis
Union Veteran Legion
W. H. Tucker
Kim
Bluford
San Francisco
Hill City
S. C
Drof. J. £. Barnard
Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
Roreens
Missouri Pacific
Tyre
Kan
Pacific Express Company
South Seas
Antarctic
Monroeville
Ala
Burrell Jones
Moses
Richard L. Johnson
Sedalia
Jack Prince
Omaha
Mary Howard
Marion
Ind
Supreme Justice
Somerby
Iron Hall Society
Phil Young
Walter Glass
Palmyra
Texas
Kingsbury
Cal
Jeffersonville
Maxwell Anderson
Navy
J. W. Tlorner
Erie
Col
Eillsboro
N. M
Charles Bobsein & Co
Detroit
Mich
Chicavo
Portland
Ore
John Butts
Colorado
Michigan
Record of 1900s World Events From Cyclone to Courts
Cyclone devastates Cape Verde plantations and city areas while Quebec's grand jury returns three true bills against ex Premier Mercier over railway subsidies. In Turkey a clash between soldiers and townspeople leaves nine dead and many wounded. Mexico imports 300000 dollars of corn for relief. Lord Tennyson's remains lie in Westminster Abbey. Seventeen native Indian soldiers are massacred in the Chin Hills. Manitoba and Alberta suffer prairie fires with widespread loss of hay cattle and buildings.
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Cape Verde Islands
Quebec
Grand Jury
Mercier
Sphalia
Turkey
Board of Charity
Mexico
Lord Tennyson
Poets’ Corner
Westminister Abbey
London
Chin Hills
India
Manitoba
Alberta
Various late 19th century events collide with national note
A roundup lists ailing First Lady Mrs Haturon, bookmaker E D Lonexzo found dead in Chicago, a 400000 acre Nures county flood, Randolph Wisconsin near-destruction by fire, Bethel Connecticut factory losses at 1250000, a Brooklyn stonecutter fatally shoots his wife and commits suicide, U S minister Robert T Lincol ns arrives in New York, three miners killed in Missouri, Honduran schooner Stranger capsizes with sixteen drownings, Burgess steel works explosion kills two and injures seven, judge Epwakp W Seymour dies in Connecticut, suffragist Victoria Martin accepts nomination, Jersey City frame fire causes 125000 damage, Edward Heron wounds John Winston then is shot, wall collapse at Seneca Falls kills five, and Cleveland wins the baseball title with Boston as challenger in season results.
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Suveran
Bethel
Bevier
Stranger
Gulf of Mexico
Burgess Steel Works
Portsmouth
Richard Fleming
George Bressler
Epwakp W. Seymour
Supreme Court
Congress
Litchfield
Conn
Victoria Woopuunn
Martin
Jersey City
N. J
Edward Heron
John Winston
Dixon, Ky
Heron
Seneca Falls
N. Y
Boston
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Louisville
Baltimore
St. Lois
Washington
Explosion at Sterling CollieryKills One. Eight Entombed
Gas explosion at Sterling colliery Pennsylvania by a fallen lamp killed one miner, left eight buried with little hope of rescue. Rescue squads, hampered by black damp, worked two hours to free two men, while Irvin Edwards, rescued later, reported others still entombed in an old gangway blocked by rock.
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Pennsylvania
Murty SunAmonia
L A
Sterling
Thomas O'Cara
Benjamin Thomas
Samuel Collins
Patrick McDevitt
Issac Gonney
Joseph Kelchiom
Michael Wetchock
Charles Bellvonwier
Joseph Milnsteck
Morace Price
Samuel Nogers
William Mack
Daniel Leed
Irvin Edwards
Banquet Closes Columbian Week in New York
The Columbian celebration ends with a grand Lenox Lyceum banquet in New York. Vice President Morton and Mayor Grant preside as dignitaries including Foster Flower Hayes Porter and Sulzer toast official figures and the president's ill wife is wished speedy recovery. A stormy Denver report follows with severe wind and debris. Washington relief for Brule River land bids ends with favorable action for settlers.
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Tionor
Columbus
Lenox Lyceum
New York
United States
Morton
Grant
Foster
Guv. Flower
Empire State
Arnold
Board of Aldermen
Horace Porter
C. F. Wahle, Jr
Committee of 100
America
Amos J. Cummings
William Sulzer
Severe blizzard cripples Union Pacific routes with heavy losses
Snowbound towns from Curvennn Wyoming to Denver Colorado report telegraph cuts and widespread rail disruption. Rotary plows clear 5 foot level drifts as six westbound trains stall. cattle and horse losses run into thousands. A man frozen near Greely and another at Falcon die from exposure. crew injuries and sheep losses reported along the lines.
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Curvennn
Wyo
Union Pacific
Ogden
Utah
Granite
Laramie
Granite Canyon
Roberts
Colorado
Wyoming
Greely
Ile
CoLonapo Sprimes
Rock Island
Colorado Springs
Kansas Line
Falcon
Mattison
Leeman
Linon
Denver
Col
Palmer Lake
Divide
el Moro
King
Rio Grande
F. H. Vaner
Boteze
Central City
Fatal Rail Wreck Near New London Kills Five
Five men die in a head on collision between the Boston express freight and the Brattleboro freight near Harrison's Landing on the New London and Northern line. Four of the five killed were in charge of race horses bound for Croton. one mortally injured died after arrival. The Norwich train dispatcher is arrested as being at fault.
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New Londox
Conn
Boston Express
Norwich
Devastation in Alberta fire roars across ranch lands
Winnipre reports Alberta's western half burned by prairie fires driven by high winds. Thousands of tons of hay and many buildings destroyed, cattle losses feared. Ranchers fled on horseback as flames swept the plains, threatening winter stock.
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Winnipre
Alberta
Northwest
Multistate parade disaster and rail accidents cause deaths
A Pittsburgh Republican parade mishap left Henry Akel 15 and Ward Ruffner 18 dead as a streetcar dragged into marchers on Wylie avenue. Seven injured, eight others affected in the crowded incident amid a series of rail wrecks and a fatal skyrocket blast in St. Louis. In Indiana, a head end collision near Baltimore Ohio rail line injured two crewmen, with both set to die, as fog hid trains. Fire at Gleason mills in Seneca Falls buries workers, leaving three dead and one survivor.
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Pittsburgh
Patal
Indiana
Prrrsnunen
Henry Akel
Ward Ruffner
Eleventh Ward Marching Club
Abel
Bulfner
Avunum
Ind
Baltamore & Ohio
Charles Henthorn
Obiseo
John Lanning
Carrett
Jack Morrison
Inverness
Henthorn
Lanning
St. Louis
Michael Batchford
Ritz Marquart
Senaca Fallss
N. Y
Gleason Mills
George Seigfried
Michael Mansell
Michael Conroy
Patrick Martin
Cleveland W Champions End Second Series in NL Season
The National League season ended with the Cleveland W as champions of the second series. They will meet the Boston team, winners of the first division, to decide the championship. The league had no provision for final positions, so results from both seasons were combined by percentage to determine rankings.
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Cleveland W
Boston
Clevelands
Bostons
Honey and fish markets and the Saint Cloud ruins sale
In German cities fish is sold alive in most markets. Narbene honey from Languedoc, prized for rosemary nectar, is France's top honey. The Saint Cloud palace ruins were auctioned for 5,525 francs to contractor Kassel. little remains of the famous site beyond ornament fragments.
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France
Languedoc
Saint Cloud
Kassel
Deserters, War Surviving Soldier in Indiana
The Galveston News notes England loses six hundred thousand dollars yearly to desertion. Indiana reportedly has a single surviving War of 1812 veteran, with 252 widows. It states Noraine exposes man’s greed more than pockets, and remarks one can plant more than one can cultivate.
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England
Indiana
Noraine
Galveston
Comic Fragments From Transcripts Spark Curious Talk
Snippets from the Boston Transcript and Indianapolis Journal show quirky lines about a choleric figure with a collar button and a seeker named Meper. The fragments hint at urgent search imagery and cutting remarks, evoking a brisk, period voice.
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Amas
Boston Transcript
Syrup of Figs Promises Quick Gentle Relief
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant early acting remedy for kidneys bowels and digestion. It claims quick, mild action to cleanse the system dispel fevers and headaches and treat habitual constipation. The California Fig Syrup Co offers Bevis of Figs in 5 and 1 bottles, urging reliable druggists to procure if not on hand.
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California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louis Ale
New York
Sonstitation Free
du. Krmer & Co
Biinghamton
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Sin Lyon Plaagram
Edith Russell
Napoleon I
Moscow
Wellington
Mercy
Japan
Hayti
Joux Wiirraker
M. Turpin
New York Navy Yard
Bath Iron Works
Tue
Milwaukee
Jay Gould
Russell Sage
John D. Rockefeller
C. P. Tlantington
Mr. Sage
Naser Hanks
Nancy Hanks
Maud
Goldsmith Maid
Central Africa
Congo Free State
Africa
Livingstone
Stanley
Commissioner of Pensions
ING
Intere
Foreign Intelligence
Washinatox
Stone
Brule River Railroad Company
Upper Peninsular
Marquette
General Land Office
Porrsville
Philadelphia and Reading Company
T. U. Convention
Cleveland, O
National Women’s Christian ‘Temperance Union
Reeves
Gilmore
Porrtland
D. W. Reeves
American Cadet Band of
Providence
R. I
Davis
Noah C. Davis
the Order of the Iron Hall
Stoux City
Pacific Short Line Bridge Company
Missouri River
Hera
Baseball
Los
Brooklyyn
Phindelph
Chicago Y
Ian Jost
Pittsturch
Philadelphi
Cincinny
St. Loui
Meper
Leupo
Indianapolis Journal
August Flower
Jesse Barker
Humboldt, Kas
KB Ge
Scott
Scottt & Bownr
South Sth Avenue
J. J. McGorpnier
Beans
Mus. L. M
HERN
Cochran
Gasi
Express
Ail
Atlanta
Salvation
Ollasuiwees
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