Famine and unrest signal crisis from India to Europe
The dispatches report rising famine in India, cholera in Cairo, unrest in Venezuela not yet captured by revolutionists, and other global tensions. New South Wales grants woman suffrage. Franco-Russian sugar talks rejected. Boer leaders welcomed in London. Antwerp tragedy with a fire fatality. German harvest losses foreshadow Russian grain imports.
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Cairo
Egypt
Puerto Cabello
Venezuela
Northern States Report On Various Incidents and Proposals
Northwestern notes recounts gambling crackdowns in Butte, a moose hunting ban expiry in Wyoming, a fatal lightning strike in Oregon, injuries to a Seattle inspector, a Nevada stage robbery, accidental deaths in Montana, suicides in Reno and Helena, county fair entries in Everett, a miner strike averted in Colorado, wages settled for three years, a child drowning in Montana, industrial plans for Great Falls, and a series of violent hold ups and lightning accidents across the West with victims named.
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Ancie Krupa
Wleary
Stark C. Paulson
Lass Creek
Wyo
Twulson
Commodore Montgomery Ex Confederate Navy Leader Dies
Commodore Joseph E. Montgomery an ex confederate navy officer died at his son Dr James Montgomery 183 Cass street Chicago aged 81 years. He will be buried in New Albany Indiana where his wife rests. Survived by son Dr James Montgomery daughter Mrs C M White and six grandchildren. Born Carrollton Kentucky eighty five years ago his career spanned river navigation and Civil War warfare including the Belmont action and gunboat Nashville construction and Mobile operations. He was pardoned by President Johnson after the war.
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Commodore Montgomery
Chicago
Commodore Joseph EL
James Montgomery
Cass Street
New Albany
Ind
Commodore
C. M. White
Carrollton
Belmont
Grant
Montgomery
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi River
Fort Pil
Will Establish Naval School Chief Admiral Leads Naval Inquiry
Rear Admiral Taylor heads a commission to pick the shore site for a naval school and training station on the Great Lakes. As chief of the Bureau of Navigation, he oversees navy personnel and previously led the Newport naval school. He commanded the Indiana at Santiago during the Spanish fleet battle.
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Taylor
Great Lakes
Tost
Naval School
Bureau of Navigation
Navy
Naval School At
Newport
Indiana
Santiago
Would Be Tamman y Leader William Devery Campaigning Freely
Independent candidate for Tammany leadership William S. Devery begins a personal campaign with free vaudeville shows and river excursions. Once a patrolman in 1878 he accumulated wealth during Tammany times, allegedly saving between 20 000 and 500 000 dollars. He promises to spend money “for the people.”
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William S. Devery
Tammany
York
Devery
Tor Uroker
Preparing the Mouth for Medicine with Odd Taste Tricks
The Washington Star notes methods to blunt medicine’s taste. Chewing orange peel or biting cayenne pepper may ready the mouth for bitter draughts. A drop of almond oil can render castor oil palatable without altering its medicinal effect.
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The
Washington Star
Daughter of Employer Wins Strike Favor at Rutland Works
Miss Mary Sherman Mead daughter of Dr John A Mead owner of the Howe scale works Rutland Vermont secured victory for 500 striking employees by pledging not to wed until their demands were met. The works shut for weeks then, three days before her wedding, the owner granted the pay terms asked ten hours plus mine hour. Mrs Hinsman Daisy spoke of relief for idle men and needy families.
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Mary Sherman Mead
John A. Mead
Rutland
Miss Mead
Hinsman
Daisy
Carl Bingham Hinsman
Ir. Mead
Canadian Statesman on Visit by Joseph I Tarte
Joseph Israel Tarte, a leading Canadian statesman and minister of public works, visits Chicago during a tour of lake harbor observations. A member of the French party, he began as a farmer, studied at Assumption College, and entered parliament in 1877, later editing a French agricultural journal.
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Joseph Israel Tarte
Chicago
Lake Harbors
Dominion
Tarte
Canada
Lassumption College
Photographing Stars A Careful Laborious Occupation
In Pennsylvanias University observatory a student counted stars through a microscope and a photo graph of the night sky. He notes that counting stars seems futile yet valuable to astronomy and cites Greenwich photographing of the heavens with 230000 stars counted so far this year.
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University of Pennsylvania
Astronomical Observatory
Youn
Philadelphia Record
Greenwich
Archbishop Croke Dies Straight Forward Defender of Land League
Rt Rev Thomas W Croke archbishop of Cashel, a leading Irish prelate, died. Known for his role against the no rent manifesto, he later led a public relations fund for Parnell and defended some Land League policies before Pope XI.
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Thomas W. Croke
Cashel
Ireland
Land League
League
Croke
Parnell
Teo XI
Expedition leader returns from Arctic with depots
The head of the Pralwin Alegier north pole expedition returns to Henmingsvasg Norway as food supplies dwindle and sledges misroute. He reports a year of work establishing depots for the final dash for the pole amid harsh conditions and limited rations. Lewanika, Barotse chief, visits Sheffield and takes interest in a £520 knife called the Norfolk Sportsman's Knife, praised as a top artistry with seven steel blades and royal etchings.
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Arctics
Henmingsvasg
Norway
Lewanika
Sheffield
Queen Victoria
Prince Consort
London
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