Vermont bill aims at exposing pauper bodies for dissection
A Vermont legislature bill would compel overseers of the poor to hand over the bodies of paupers who die with no known relatives to physicians for dissection. The piece sits among varied items from state politics to crime, with notes on a New Hampshire prize fight and local elections.
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Vermont
Benj
Maguire
James Holland
New Hampshire
Boston Latin School
Tax Amoakeag Manufacturing Company
Manchester
N. H
Tuers
Moulton- Beecher
Moulton
Delaware County
A. S. Hewitt
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Louisiana Returning Board
Tilden
Banatar Randolph
New Jersey
Bizler
Curtain
Samuel J. Randall
Pennsylvania
Walker
M. P Handy
Virginia
Carroll
Marlyand
Sumner
Yale College
Lyman Trumbull
Palmer
Henry Watterson
W. F. Coolbaugh
Barnum
Oswald Ottendorfer
New York
Flora Tample
Welch
Chestnut Hill
S. H. Horton
Plantsville
Conn
Buchanan
Pacific coast shoe mill replaces Chinese workers with 3800 locals
The largest shoe factory on the Pacific coast has dismissed its Chinese staff and hired 3800 white men women and boys, claiming higher profitability. The move shifts labor composition and raises questions about labor practices and market pressures.
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Pacific Coast
Submarine Torpedo Speed At Woolmch Arsenal
The newest torpedo design at Woolmch Arsenal is expected to propel at nearly twenty knots per hour with no difficulty in increasing to twenty five knots.
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Woolmch Arsénal
Governor Bacey Offers $500 to Michigan State Building Move
Gov. Bacey of Michigan offers to subscribe 500 dollars toward the purchase of the Michigan State Building at Centennial grounds and its removal to the Michigan University grounds at Ann Arbor to serve as an art gallery.
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Gov. Bacey
Michigan
Michigan State
Centennial Grounds
Michigan University
Ann Arbor
Voting rights for military spouses in Wyoming Territory
In Wyoming Territory officers wives and laundresses attached to regiments may vote as they are not sworn into U S service, while officers and soldiers cannot. Estimates place the number of voting women at about 18,000.
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Wyoming
United States Service
Five Priests and Sisters Die in Yellow Fever Epidemic
A letter to Bishop O'Reilly of Springfield from Bishop Gross of Savannah reports five Catholic priests and several Sisters of Charity died from yellow fever, praised as martyrs of zeal and fidelity tending the sick and dying.
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O'Reilly
Springfield
Gross
Savannah
Sisters of Charity
Southern Biographies and Topics By A H Sterness
A H Sterness has been walking three or four miles daily and recently stopped morphine. He is recovering with natural sleep and during convalescence he has written for a cyclopedia and produced biographies of prominent Southerners along with articles on Southern subjects.
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A H. Sterness
Falls of St Anthony preservation funding totals rise
The General Government has appropriated 45000 for preservation and Minneapolis with two water power companies have spent 355000, bringing total to 900000 as the present appropriation is used up.
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Falls of St. Anthony
Minneapolis
Edwin Adams Dies? Noted Actor Stricken in Australia
Edwin Adams, the actor, is gravely ill in Australia and believed dead. He was a celebrated artiste who starred in major theatres across the country, with his last Philadelphia engagement at Arch Street Theatre last winter. He was about forty two years old, twenty two years in theatre.
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Edwin Adams
Australia
Mr. Adams
Astar
Philadelphia
Arch Street Theatre
Boston Public Library Saves 1850 Faneuil Hall Call
The library acquired the original manuscript of the 1850 Faneuil Hall preservation call dated November 25 1850. Figures show 3856 signatures and a subject letter from Daniel Webster while he was in Washington. Rufus Choate and Judge Curtis were among the speakers at the meeting.
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Boston
Faneuil Hall
Preservation of the Union
Rufus Choate
Judge Curtis
Daniel Webster
Washington
German girls taught gymnastics in schools expand nationwide
Gyscrastic exercises for girls become routine in many German schools. Berlin higher schools have long required them and by October 1 the rule spread to all girls’ communal schools in the city. Mothers of pupils largely oppose the reform.
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Germany
Berlin
Young Woman Opens Chicago Real Estate Office
A young woman started a real estate agency in Chicago and cleared 500 dollars in the first month. On the same street Miss Ellen Culver, eight years Chicago manager for the Baltimore millionaire Mr Hull, runs the large real estate business with 300 tenants under her care and collects rent promptly without making enemies among payers.
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Chicago
Ellen Culver
Baltimore
Hull
Miss Culver
Pineapple Settlers of Key Larcu Suffer Devastation
Key Larcu Florida once occupied by twenty settlers with cottages and tropical crops now shows widespread destruction. Most dwellings are gone, fields salted, ships Gem of the Sea Mary Eliza Ann Augusta and Marion stranded on rocks amid dense woods. many losses expected.
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Key Larcu
Fla
Mary Eliza
Ann
Augusta
Marion
Winter Campaign Against Sioux in Yellowstone Valley
General Mitxs leads a winter march up the Yellowstone, striking a Cheyenne band allied with the Sioux. He disarms four hundred lodges and sends them to the agency for punishment as government aims to reduce hostile forces. Persistent hunting could reduce numbers before frost, shaping Sitting Bull’s spring strength.
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Yellowstone River
Sittingwall
Audi
Lees
August and September earnings of Union Pacific rise
Union Pacific reports August earnings of 1 365 175 55 with 1 015 458 73 a year earlier and September earnings of 1 305 955 99 versus 1 155 941 35 last year. August net gains reach 926 158 16 up 36 920 52 while September net stands at 774 959 59 up 104 217 92. Additionally Frank Jones completes a 1300 mile 1300 hour walk at Lomaville Kentucky, claiming the feat the greatest yet. Bank of St Paul suspended operations, assets reportedly exceed liabilities.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Frank Joneses
Lomaville
Marine Bank of
Force T District Court of
Hampton, Co
Ohio
Atlantic and Pacific Co
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis R. B
Court of Equity
Tremont House
Chicago
Deadwood
Black Hills
Messrs
William Chartman
L. Swesringer
Stohkholders
Homestake
Lode Gould and Silver Quartz Company
Wolf Mountain
James B. Courret
Rembikan
Colorado Sigisla
Worxaxn
Evaunville
Rochedale
Onenue Co-operative Union
Eith
J. C. Brack
Congres
Vermilion
Hosciolera
Violent Quarrel Ends in Double Gunfire in Clinton Iowa
Two young men Jesse H Wheeler and Jas H Latham quarreled over a trivial matter in Clinton Iowa. Both drew pistols and fired Latham fell severely wounded Wheeler died instantly from a brain shot. Both had been drinking.
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Jesse H. Wheeler
Jas. H. Latham
Clinton
Iowa
Latham
Wheeler
Onanies Minott
Oxeton
Ill
Town
Verrseman, Alias
Boyd
Hamilton
Ont
New York
Frepisano McKew
Gunpowder River
Baltimore
Daniel Hagerty
Altoona
McLuxxon
Urbana
Multiple Disasters Reported Across Rail and Waterways
A series of fires and accidents reported: a depot fire at Georgia Central Railroad yard destroys a warehouse and 25,000 bales of cotton. Baltimore kerosene blast fatally burns Brixcca Brown. a fire at Hale house and Sumpter Smith bank in Hot Springs causes $100,000+ loss. a Hannibal and St. Joe train wreck near Brookfield injures several. and the Arlington steamer sinks at Cumberland Island Dam with $24,000 value.
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Georgia Central Railroad
Baltimore
Hot Springs
Ark
Hale
Sumpter & Smith
8. P. Young & Co
Drs. Westbrook and
Arnaud
Morgan
United States
St. Joe
Brookfield
Quincy
Arlington
Cumberland Island Dam
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Washington News Briefs: Alabama Claims Adjourned and Finances
The Alabama claims commission adjourned to December 13 to prepare third calendar cases. remaining claims total 1 292 932 dollars, minus Peruvians losses, leaving 563 924 dollars likely dismissed. Liquor offenses in Indian country noted by Supreme Court. Alexander R. Shepherd faces bank debt, assets 1.6 million, liabilities 1 million. sale may yield half. A creditors committee was formed after a meeting to discuss the unpayable obligations.
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Alabama
Rockingham and Express
United States
Supreme Court
Alexander R. Shepherd
Washington
Glass Eyes Exhibit Shows Range of Artificial Eyes
A large display in the German section of the Exposition Main Building features artificial eyes in many sizes and colors. The collection, with categories like laughing and languid eyes, argues no greens exist among real eyes and highlights the craftsmanship and function of ocular artistry.
Petrification and cremation debate and odd find in Kentucky
A Grenoble inventor proposes petrification by a liquid to preserve the deceased and even enable building houses from ancestral remains in a thousand years. He suggests plating a preserved body as a statue. In Aberdeen Kentucky a bag picker found two mustard boxes with $500 in US bonds and six $100 bonds with coupons.
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Grenoble
France
Aberdeen
United States
Presidential election uncertainty as returns trickle in
Dispatches through midnight November 15 show Hayes 185 Tilden 181 with three states Louisiana Florida South Carolina still in doubt. Grant urges vigilance and fair counts while generals guard canvassing boards and both parties push for legitimate results. Prominent Democrats and Republicans travel south to monitor the process.
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Louisiana
Florida
South Carolina
Hayes
Tilden
Sherman
Lnst
U. S. Grant
Latest Returns Across States Echo Tilden Victory Across Nation
Scattered results show Tilden and Hendricks leading by about 20 000 nationally with full Republican gains in California and Kentucky and Democratic wins in Delaware Georgia and North Carolina. Ohio Pennsylvania New York and Wisconsin tilt to Hayes or Republicans with Maine and Vermont narrowing margins and Utah Montana and Wyoming electing delegates.
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Tilden and Hendricks
Chicago
la Moyne
Callum
Hayes
General Assembly
Senate
House
Indiana
Kentucky
Tilden and
Hendricks
Louisville
Maine
North Carolina
Gen
Bragden
United States
Ohio
Hamilton County
Tilden
Cooper
Smith
Prohibition
Oregon
Portland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Tucker
Congress
Harris
Hunton
Jorgenson
Wisconsin
Bouck
Territories
Utah
Cannon Mormon
Baskin
Montana
Maginnis
Kidden
Corlett
Wyoming
A Curious Invention and Maskeleyne’s Psyche Exposed
Louis J. Jennings reports from London in the New York World about Slade the Spiritualist and Maskeleyne’s dummy the Turk. The mechanical figure allegedly puzzles observers as none detect wires or devices while cards are played. Spirits claim Maskeleyne is a medium, which he denies while profiting from exposés and daily performances. A separate note covers a 30,000 head of Texas cattle driven to Kansas, with the outfit cost and herd value given.
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Pisrat
St. Petersburg
Goriscakof
Turkey
Berlin
Pall Mallrazelle
Russia
Germany
Austria
Vienna
the Times
Politioal
Constantinople
Etzercum
Schumda
Rischand
Dervish Pasha
Yemen
Damascus
Aleppo
Shumla
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Mediterranean
Hobart Pasha
Black Sea
Cairo
Hussien
Horvatovitch
Tchernayeff
Briorape
Sassa
Brown
Chicsgo
Alexinatz
Countess de Montijobas
Eugenie
Ste Tomas White
London
Earl of Beaconsfield
Mexico
Lordos Tredia
Oaxaca
Diza
Tus Temps
Montenegro
Porte
Times of India
Sholapore
Constant
Roadstead
Devina
Neva
Lake of
Ladoga
Louis J. Jennings
New York
Slade
Mr. Maskeleyne
Texas
Kansas
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