Airship Sightings Stir California Towns Across State
San Francisco Chronicle reports a claimed airship seen over Sacramento and Oakland with a 150 foot craft carrying 15 people. George J. Collins, attorney for the inventor from Maine, describes flight tests near Oroville and warnings of publicity as the ship travels toward San Francisco and New York. Skeptics doubt the tale amid secrecy claims.
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Sacramento
Onlland
George J. Collins
Mr. Collins
California
Maine
Oroville
Butte County
Capital
Qukland
San Francisco
Market Street
New York
Maxim
Laugtry
Collins
Local Advertisers Promote Cough Remedy in Shreveport
Aug J Bogel and J Campbell advertise Dr King’s Discovery as a cure for coughs in Shreveport Louisiana. Bogel touts it as the best seller and easy cure, while Campbell endorses the product in a merchant sign.
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J. Bogel
Shreveport
Dr. New
Lord
Ari
Dr. King’s
Foley in Kansas City Charged With Mothers Murder
Clay county sheriff transported William B Foley from Liberty to Kansas City jail for murder of his mother. Foley was booked on the second floor after arrival on the Hannibal and St Joseph freight train. His attorney H F Simrall visited. both keep silence until the preliminary hearing.
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Clay County
Hannibal and
St Joseph
Foley
Hymer
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Liberty
H. F. Simrall
Hannibal
Simrall
Two Famous Felons Mrs Maybrick and Oscar Wilde
A prison official reports Mrs Maybrick and Oscar Wilde are mental and physical wrecks from confinement. Maybrick, once at Wormwood Scrubs, now at Aylesbury, shows deteriorating health. Wilde has been transferred from the Scrubs to Reading, with a wretched health and aging appearance. The official doubts any release petition will succeed.
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Mavler
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
Oscar Wilde
Wille
Reading
Fie
Seven Seamen Die In Steamer San Benito Wreck
The steamer San Benito went ashore seven miles north of Point Arena at 1 am while en route from Tacoma to San Francisco. Forty seven crew aboard. lifeboats capsized and four men drowned in one, two drowned in another, three survived by reaching shore. A heavy sea prevented rescue efforts as daylight revealed sailors clinging to rigging and debris.
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Tacoma
San Francisco
Hasinrox
Snyder Neal
Daviess County
Carrie Neal
Iattie Neal
Willie Yd
Clarence Neal
St John Neal
Nora
Hattie
Nora Neal
Aftin
Werst
Carrie
Willie
Steve
Mesndharis
Neal
Official Kansas vote tallies show Bryan lead and奇
Official counts from Kansas secretary of state list total vote 446113 with Bryan ahead of McKinley by 12169. Democratic turnout appears unusually high and Populist share low. Governor race totals show Leedy 165209 Morrill 158150 and other minor candidates. Leedy leads by 7059.
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Bryan
McKinley
Bryans Wajoritr
United States
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Kan
Kansas
Secretary of State
Peoples Party
People’s Party
Plea for Worden Reaches Governor on Death Sentence
Governor Budd receives a personal plea from President Cleveland to commute Salter D Worden's death sentence for the 1904 Yolo county train wreck during the railroad strike. The president cites a friendship with Worden's mother. A second appeal comes from C F Huntington president of the Southern Pacific company.
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C. PF. Bantington
Hia Life
Sacrka Menro
Cal
Budd
Salter D. Worden
Yolo County
United States
New York State
Walter D. Worden
C.F. Huntington
Southern Pacific Company
Supreme Judges Protest over Barley Action in St. Louis Case
Judges Sherwood and Luretss protest Judge Barclay for sending fruit and clerks to seven Republican St. Louis school board members while they were jailed for contempt of court. They cite newspaper reports and a lack of reply to their letter as basis for the full written protest filed by Sherwood and Burgess.
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Heartesa
Juilce Barclay
Deerenson Crey
Luretss
Supreme Court
Barclay
St. Louis
Ole County
Sherwood and
Burgess
Wade Barelay
Tey
Barelay
Foley case widens as coroner's inquest resumes
Liberty Missouri November 21 jury convened by Coroner Sevier to probe the shooting of Mrs Bettie Foley and her daughter Fannie resumed hearings. Ten witnesses testified revealing details contradicting William Foley's version of his whereabouts the night of the murder.
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Liberty
Nev
Sevier
Bettie Foley
Fannie
William [Oley
Not a Victim of Foul Play
Dr. C D Adams of Purnell Missouri disappeared from St Joseph while visiting in February leaving his bride. He was located recently in St Paul Madison county Arkansas but moved on, and his current whereabouts are not definite.
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C.D. Adams
Purnell
St. Joseph
Adams
St Paul
Madison County
Ark
Intimate Friend of Cincoln Dead, Cawaie
Nevo o.Asbury Asbury, intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln and a figure linked to the 1858 Freeport debate, has died at age 66 after a long kidney illness.
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Cawaie
Nevo o.Asbury Asbury
Abraham Linealu
Stephen A. Dengelas
Freeport
Asbury
Vanderbilt Denied Campaign Gift Rumor
Chauncey M. Depew denied the claim that William K. Vanderbilt gave 150000 dollars to the Republican campaign fund. The treasurer of the national committee stated Vanderbilt is not a candidate for any McKinley position.
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Vanderbilt
Chauncey M. Depew
William K. Vanderbilt
Republican Campaign
National Committee
Indiana election results and McKinley plurality noted
Official Indiana returns show Democrats and fenote's 205,425. Republicans 324,528. Prohibition 3,058. Gold Standard 45. National 2,263. Socialist Labor 423. McKinley’s plurality 18,403 and total votes 637,048. Also reports acquittal of ex Officer Raiffeisen in Missouri and a William Jewell college literary society event with Wilton Bryan.
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Prohibition
Gold Standard
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Socialist Labor
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