St Louis Surges Amid New Nightlife and Transit Plans
In St Louis on Aug 31 crowds flood streets as trains creak under seven illuminated bridges. A Chicago merchant misreads a watchman’s door as an express office and learns the door stays shut by bond and orders. City officials announce night lighting along Mill Creek Valley and a September street parade by wheelmen. The German theater opens with a stock company, while seven houses drive strong season attendance. Racing, politics, prison reforms, and famine aid touch a busy city scene.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Broadway
Beding
Mill Creek
Tian
New York
United States
Cholera in Prison and Epidemic Notes
New York authorities keep cholera outside the gates of quarantine as the Moravia reports twenty two deaths and two convalescents among 258 aboard since Hamburg voyage. No new cases among passengers. convalescents improving at Hoffmann Island anchorage. A separate note links Russian Jews board for America as a source of danger amid general epidemic updates.
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New York
Russian Jews Board For America
Moravia
Hamburg
Hoffman Island
Exiled Russian Jews to be Bundled Off to United States
Cholera figures report 15 cases and 3 deaths yesterday in Paris. Russian Jews expelled from Odessa, traveling to Paris via Constantinople, seek funds to reach America. Quarantine fears delayed sailing. they now head to Dieppe to board a ship to Canada, aiming to slip into the United States via the St. Lawrence.
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United States
America
Odessa
Paris
Constantinople
New York
Dieppe
Canada
St. Lawrence
Immigrants Halted At Buffalo Express Detention
In Sarnia Ontario a car with thirty immigrants aboard the Buffalo express is detained at the tunnel station due to U S authorities denying entry over illness among occupants thought to be cholera CASCs. Nashville acts to sanitize and fund $15,000 for cholera precautions as fears rise. In Russia the official cholera totals through Aug 30 show 5273 new cases and 3722 deaths with undercounting suspected.
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MBM
St. Paul
Alabama
Jones
Marty
House of Refuge
Cincinnati
Bieven
Nne
Diaz
Mexico
Berryman
Sarnia
Ont
Tunnel
United States
Russia
St. Perenspure
Cholera view from The American Druggist
New York dispatch notes that many overreact to cholera while declaring the disease largely preventable here. The publication cites impure water as Asia’s origin and dirt ignorance and warmth as main spread factors, asserting the United States is prepared for an outbreak.
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New York
Asia
Funeral of George William Curtis in West Brighton
The funeral of the late George William Curtis was held privately at 1 PM yesterday in West Brighton Long Island. Only immediate relatives and a few close friends attended. Reverend Dr. Chadwick of the Brooklyn Unitarian church, a personal friend of Mr. Curtis, officiated.
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G. W. Curtis
New Yoas
George William Curtis
West Brighton
L. I
Chadwick
Unitarian Church of
Brooklyn
Curtis
Talt Hall Hanged at Wise Court House
Nortos Virginia September 5 Taft Hall Kentucky desperado was hanged at Wise Court House at noon. A potential rescue failed. Hall spoke on the scaffold before the drop at 12 34 pm life extinct after seventeen minutes. He was condemned for fatally shooting Special Policeman Enos B Hylton at Norton while escorting a prisoner. Hall had eloped with Hylton’s sister after murdering her husband and was said to have provoked the officer.
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Nortos
Taft Hall
Kentucky
Wise Court House
Hall
Enos B. Hylton
Norton
Hylton
Riot at Cleveland over Soldiers Monument site
Crevenann Sept 5 A crowd of 1000 residents attacked a stockade and stopped work on a new soldiers monument placed near the old Commodore Perry statue. Courts failed to halt the project despite bids to block the site. The Taxpayers League plans a mass meeting to protest tomorrow.
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Crevenann
Monument Commission
Commodore Perry
Board of Trade
Taxpayers’ League
Ask for Troops to Protect the Mills Riots
A Rhinelander committee met Governor Peck in Manisox to urge calling out the State militia over a mill strike. The talks ended without definite results, and troops appear unlikely to be used as the strike may settle without intervention.
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Manisox
Wis
Rhinelander
Peck
Milwaukee
Lizzie Borden In a Cell Once More
Lizzie Borden arrived in Taunton Massachusetts after noon and was taken to the jail in calm condition. Emma J. Borden was appointed administratrix of Andrew J. Borden estate with a $50,000 bond, with sureties Frank L. Almy Joseph A. Bowen and Frank S. Stevens.
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Lizzie Borden
Taunton
Mass
Emma J. Borden
Andrew J. Borden
Frank L. Almy
Joseph A. Bowen
Fall River
Frank 8. Stevens
Swansea
Unclear historic note on Flames and Sromane Fatta
Fragmentary OCR mentions Flames and Sromane Fatta with a dateline Wash Sept 5. No clear event, names, or details readable to form a full card.
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Sromane Fatta
Wash
Salt Union Works Riots Prompt Military Protection
Severe labor disturbances near Norwich erupted as non union watermen filled in for strikers at the Salt Union works. 1500 new workers were brought from Liverpool, attacked by rioters as they left trains. Patrols failed to quell the mob, prompting authorities to deploy soldiers to safeguard workers and the plant.
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Lowpos
Norwich
Liverpool
Northwich
Building Society Collapses in Woolwich Scandal
The Kent and Surrey Building Society of Woolwich collapsed amid reveal of secretary George Bryceson embezzling at least £50,000 over years. Depositors may recover some, but shareholders face loss. Bryceson believed to be in Spain. Also: Paris reports claim Jewish control over arts press and Rothschilds thwarting the Russian loan. a Bern tragedy sees Clara Weinecke convict for inciting murder. Parnell estate sale in Custis yields £2,000 as mother plans Irish inquiry.
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Kent and Surrey Building Society of
Woolwich
George Bryceson
Woolwich Arsenal
Lryceson
Spain
Paris
Marquis de Mores
Baron de Mohrenheim
France
Arts
Rothschilds
For Mrs. Maybrick's Release Petition Progress
Loxpox Sept. 5 The Baroness Rogues has presented a petition to the Home Office praying for the release of Mrs. Maybrick and is hopeful that the prisoner will regain her freedom before the end of the year.
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Maybrick
Baroness Rogues
Home Office
Reading and Pennsy Fight Over Coal Tolls
Pennsylvania and Reading Companies ready for a fight as Reading issues a circular refusing joint coal rates. The move follows Pennsylvanias refusal to advance coal tolls to the West, signaling retaliation that could push coal prices to consumers higher.
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Pennsylvania
Reading
Philadelphia
Reading Railroad Company
Pennsyvaais
Souvenir coin engraving details up to Madrid Cobembus choice
A letter from Air General Davis to the mint director notes Madrid head of Cobembus to be used for one slide of the souvenir coin and the reverse to be set for the Feder hemisphere. Further engraving details remain to be decided before work begins.
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Rept
Davis
Mint
Madrid
Fifer at Vandalia Big Republican Demonstration
In Vandalia Fayette county holds its largest political gathering as Gov. Fifer and the Illinois Republican ticket, except Gen Pavey, arrive by rail and address a vast crowd. Lyman Ray I N Pearson and Henry L Mertz spoke before Fifer received an enthusiastic reception at the courthouse park.
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Waxpauia
Fayette County
Vandalia
Gen. Pavey
Illinois Central
Betting on the Fighters Opens in New Orleans
Bettors in New Orleans pause as pugilists arrive. Large wagers target Skelly and McAuliffe while Sullivan-Dixon-Myer and other triads show 4 to 1 and 14 to 4 odds. Wager totals reach hundreds on several favorites as early action begins.
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Skelly
Brooklyn
McAuliffe
Sullivan-Dixon-Myer
Sullivan-Dixon-McAuliffe
Sullivan-Skelly-McAuliffe
Sullivan-Skelly-Myer
Corbett Dixon-McAuliffe
Corbett-Dixon- Myer
Corbett-Skelly-McAuliffe
Corbett-Skelly-Myer
Four Boys Die As Train Strikes Classroom Pace Tragedy
In Laurel Station near Philadelphia four boys aged 12, 10, 12, and 11 were sitting on the railroad track when an express train rounded a curve. James Powers and Thomas Powers were killed, John Duffy and Garret Dollard badly injured.
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Philadelphia
Reading
Laurel Station
James Powers
Thomas Powers
John Duffy
Garret Dollard
Powers
Robbery at Montreal Broker Office Nets Thousands
A well dressed woman summoned a clerk at Nichols and Marter brokers on Notre Dame street and fled. Thieves emptied the office of cash and bonds totaling between 3000 and 4000 dollars, believed to be Americans.
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Montreal
Nichols & Marter
Notre Dame Street
Chinese detainees captured at border transit to China
Chief Deputy United States Mahal John Walters and five special deputies left San Antonio with eighteen Chinese entrants who violated the exclusion act. Ten were arrested at Eagle Pass, one at Del Rio, seven at El Paso. They will be transported back to China from San Francisco.
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San Antonio
Sept
United States
Mahal John Walters
San Francisco
Rio Grande
Mexico
Eagle Pass
del Rio
el Paso
China
COLLECTING CANAL TOLLS CONTINUED
The Acting Secretary of State reports tolls were collected on the Soo canal as seaport ships pass. No report on changes or next actions from Washington. Officials remain reticent and expect the President to wait for returns from Lake before proceeding.
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Wasnixatox
Adeo Haa
Welland Camel
Soo Canal
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Nasaville
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Cleveland
Des Moines
E. S. Nixon
Joseph McArthur
Cedar Rapids
Cottage Hospital
Nixon
Canadian Marine
Ste. Mane
Mich
Algonquin
Soa
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Kansas City
Wings
Knights of Labor
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Bern
Clara Weinecke
Hermann Weinecke
Clara
Parnell
Custis
Charles Stewart Parnell
Ireland
Fifer
South Dakota
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S. D
W.G. Quigley
People’s Party
Peter Couchman
Walworth County
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