Victor Hugo Dies After Prolific Career In Paris
May 25 Victor Hugo died at 1 30 pm after a long illness. Clergy offered rites, he refused the priest, and he spoke his farewell to Jeanne. He led a life of exile and fame, author of Notre Dame de Paris Les Miserables and other works. Funeral planned for June 1 at the Pantheon amid protests from church authorities.
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Victor Hugo
MM. Lockroy
Jeanne
Victor Mary Tuy
Besancon
France
Hordewurx
Belgium
Guernsey
Paria
Ruy
Bias
Marlon de Lome
Horan
Paris
Pere la Chaise
Rindge
Todd AL Casimir Perier
Jourmuet
Five-Story Tenement Collapse In Jersey City Tragedy
A three-story frame tenement on Colgate Street Jersey City collapsed at 6 30 AM New Year s Day killing three children of owner James Anderson and Michael Webb aged 16 and injuring eleven residents all on the upper floor. The building condemned earlier for repairs.
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Jersey City
Colgate Street
James Anderson
Michael Webb
Barney
Nellie
Mary
Hugh Ginty
Webb
Michael
Pensioner asks to drop name from rolls
Two pensioners with C Wasumeron May 27 report a man named Snyder who served in a New York regiment during the late war requested his pension be stopped after drawing seventy five dollars monthly. He said the Government had done enough. A Kentucky case of stopping pension and refund of unreceived funds was noted by Commissioner Black. Hessian Fly in California reports confirm the pest has reached the coast. entomologist Riley and scientists verify the genuine Hessian fly. Coroner’s verdict assigns responsibility for the Sixth Street fire disaster to Sullivan & Co, noting lack of a fifth-floor ladder endangered victims. one firm member died after saving three lives, praised for bravery.
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Russia
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Riley
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Mick Dieton
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Compee
Louisville
Tom Kelly
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Loas
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Philadelphia Mint
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New York
Martin & Ruaton
Wall Street
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Milwaukee
Coal Miners of Laws
Des Moines
United Action
Lawa
Cambridge
Inl
Henry Caunty
Union
Lanphere’s Battery
Cold
Hay Warns Against Offensive Partisanship in Post Offices
First Assistant Postmaster General Hay, in Washington on May 25, said postmasters must keep offices neutral and accessible to the public. He warned that using post offices as political headquarters or attending meetings there would justify removal. He ridiculed postmasters who prioritize partisan activities over mail service.
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Washrneton
Lafera
Rich farmer Herman Colbath Takes His Own Life
Herman Colbath a sixty two year old farmer of Komse Township near Dreaded the Poor House hanged himself Wednesday morning in an apparent act to avoid becoming a pauper.
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Herman
Colbath
Komse Township
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Riel Confesses Forcing Fight and British Ties
May 27 reports from Winnepeg describe Louis Riel stating he was coerced to fight by mounted police and Hudson Bay Company officers. Pitblado’s letters portray Riel as wary, hostile to priests, and seeking fair treaties for half breeds. Poundmaker surrenders at Battleford after claims that Riel incited violence, with Middleton detaining leaders and prisoners.
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Winmere
Manitoba
Mr. Pitbiado
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Saskatoon
Mounted Police
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Tamid
Guolves
Pilblade
Church of
Rome
Batoche
Tel
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Montana
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Pitblado
Hudson Bay Company
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Archibald Cawe
Baoda
Irvine
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Lama
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United States
Dominion
Montreal
Canada
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M. P
Charles Kirkpatrck
Mere Cer
Piset
Ottawa
Edward Iit
Helena
M. T
the Independent
Louis David Biel
Usmipeg
Himgel
The Colored Race and Population Shifts
A Presbyterian Assembly report highlights the rapid rise of Black population in the South and nationwide. Figures show doubling every twenty years, with projections of majorities in some Southern states within eight years. Other items include a mob incident on a San Francisco train and a Mass. murder incident.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
RH Allen
Freedmen's Aid Society
Georgia
South Carolina
United States
South
Discovery of Hot Water Well At Hot Springs Ohio
Excitement grows in Hot Springs Ohio as visitors hurry to inspect a newly found hot water well. Depth reaches fifty two feet with thirty four feet of standing water. Water temperature is hot enough to boil an egg in five minutes, signaling potential as a future Hot Springs.
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Ohio
Caxros
Countersuit In Divorce Case Filed By Jon L. Swliyan
Bosroy May 24. Jon L. Swliyan has entered a countersuit to his wife's divorce action. He charges cruel and abusive treatment and gross habits of intoxication.
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Bosroy
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MURDEROUS APACHE RAID BRINGS GHOSTLY FEAR TO SANTA FE
A chaotic report from New Mexico cites Aprobes killing two men at Cantsvoll & Peterie ranch on the Gila and later fatally shooting Charles Stevenson and Harvey Moore on Alley & Ingersoll ranches near Grafton. A dispatch notes a large armed Navajo Ute Piute camp near Hardy with Geronimo’s band possible joiners, as troops pursue across San Mato Mountains and Diamond Creek. Additional killings near Alma are reported by a Silver City connection, with twenty four men known dead in a 24 mile radius and varied burials.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Cantsvoll & Peterie
Gila
Charles Stevenson
Alley
Ingersoll
Harvey Mooreland
Grafton
Moreland
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Georgedams
Fairview
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Winslow
Au ‘T
Saya
Hardy
Geronimo
Diamond Creek
Fort Mayard
Morrow
San Carlos
Biddle
Iilishoro
Davis
White Mountain
Fourth Cavalry
Chaffee
San Mato
Stevenson
Silver City
Alma
Benton
Sutter Brothers
Pete Anderson
Damon Montgomery
W. E. Lyon
Baxter
Smith
Fierce Cyclones Ravage Kansas Towns
Three cyclones hit Northeastern Kansas with extensive destruction. Ardfox Goffa Gardner Pickett Moyer and Nortonville suffered damaged homes and injuries including a fatal head fracture to Moyer. Frankfort and Huron also reported damage and injuries. without confirmed totals.
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Kansas
Goffa
Here
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J. T. Richardson
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Frank Moyer
Moyer
Jack Hawley
Edward Hight
James Gibbons
George Colville
Frankfort
Central Branch
Nortonville
Thomas Adair
Huron
Congo Conference praised by U S delegate
Genami IL 8 Sanford of Florida and Minister Kasson represented the United States at the Congo Conference. Sanford says the work and U S role in creating the Free State of the Congo will be seen as a great 20th century achievement. He notes the neutral territory is African Belgium and cites opportunities for American capital and enterprise.
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Genami IL 8
Sanford
Florida
Kasson
United States
Free State of the Congo
International Congo Association
Ivory
India
Grasshopper Plague Reported Near Pueblo Similar to 1873 Invasion
Denver May 38. Millions of young grasshoppers emerge from sandy soil on the south side of the Arkansas River above Pueblo. They devastate early vegetables and shrubs, resembling the 1873 swarm that swept eastward and consumed vast crops in Kansas.
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Arkansas River
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Miss Grace Lord Murder at Bowdoin Street Unitarian Building
Literary celebrity Miss Grace Lord was fatally shot at the new Unitarian building on Bowdoin Street after a reference to heiress Derrick Boston. Her father left a vast fortune. the estate collapsed after her brother misused funds. Grace and her sister had been supporting themselves. In Kentucky, tobacco crops are thirty days late and expected to be among the poorest ever.
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Cholera Death Toll Reported in Calcutta
The Marine Hospital Bureau reports 183 deaths from cholera in Calcutta over the two weeks ending April 4. The notice cites the health crisis impacting the region and its mortal impact.
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Calcutta
Washington
Marine Hospital Bureau
War Week Ended and Locusts Reported in Illinois
A collection of brief notices reports War Week ending May 38. locust swarms near Anna Illinois. Asiatic cholera appearing in Quebec. carbolic acid touted as bog cholera remedy near Eau Claire Wisconsin. various obituaries and local incidents across North America including embezzlement suicide in Elmira and a fatal accident near Bontor Russia.
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Quebec
Eau Claire
Wis
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Elmira
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Tomany
Miagaville
Strahan
Wabash Road
Henry F. Prindle
Joe Hooker
Dr. N. L
San Francisco
Henator Sherman
Jim Monday
Smyrna
Bontor
Russia
Cincinnati
Noted Prisoner Freed from the Jobs Penitentiary
Noted prisoner Charles W Angell, a ten year term defaulter, is released from the Jobs penitentiary at Jonet Alabama. He plans to stay in town after accepting a manager position with three firms. Angell was previously secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, fled Chicago in 1878, with $118,000 defalcation, $81,000 surrendered. Also Amos Wooll, head of a carriage firm, made an assignment with $20,000 liabilities and $125,000 assets. Charles Boyd, wanted for forgery, was captured after absconding and attempting crimes in Ohio and Pittsburgh.
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Henry Fallure
Memphis
Mewrnia
Tenn
Amos Woo Ull
Carriage and
Lamb Company
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