Fire destroys First Regiment Armory in Chicago
A blaze gutted the magnificent First Regiment Illinois National Guard armory in Chicago. Two men perished, six others believed to have died, and two more rescued by burned firefighters. Loss exceeds 2000000, with 3150000 tied to the building furnishings arms and uniforms. Fire started in the kitchen on the second floor, walls hindered access, and a sallyport wicket trapped inmates. Thomas McEwan escaped after being pinned by a beam. Officers plan immediate rebuilding.
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Chicago
Miinois National Guard
Tre
Inemuin
Thomas McEwan
Canadian Quarantine Tightened at Boundary Ports
Senator Hans Hunsbrough reports rigid U S border quarantine on immigrants via Canada with Dr Wyman supervising disinfection of baggage. New inspectors appointed at Grasse Isle and St Vincent. cooperation with Canadian authorities to prevent cholera entry. Hunsbrough travels to New York and North Dakota to press measures.
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Hansbrough
Informea
Washington
Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
United States
Canada
Neche
Pembina
St. Vincent
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Winnipeg
Manitoba Capitol
North Dakota
Mualiflux
Grasse Isle
St. Lawrence
Wyn
United States Marine Hospital Service
Barnes
Europe
Hunsbrough
New York
Drought Devastates Chihuahua Cattle and Crops
The drought across Chihuahua and parts of Durango and Coahuila has persisted for eighteen months, killing thousands of cattle and jeopardizing food production. Western locals depend on scarce waguey and cacti for sustenance as conditions worsen. In other news, the governor approves a bill allowing state banks to issue 25 million in circulating notes backed by bonds, redeemable in gold or silver, with regulatory steps modeled after the national system. A Norwegian ministry resignation follows King Oscar’s veto on appointing Norwegian consuls separate from Sweden. An heir in Pittsburgh claims $10,000 from a slavery-era mistress. In Valparaiso a Hobart woman aged about eighty is found dead with £11,000 in a satchel under her bed.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Durango
Coahuili
Chattanooga
Pittsburg
William Sir Paul Gasper
Kensington
Mary Struthers
New Philadelphia
Ohio
Gasper
Valparaiso
Ind
Mary Carthage
Hobart
Irving
Convicts Attempt to Burn Charlestown Prison and Escape Plot
Charlestown prison faced an incendiary attack as inmates marched in the yard then opened a trunk shop fire. The new warden halted the blaze, drawing guards to restrain unrest after a speech, while two inmates at Sing Sing escaped with pepper assaults and guard — an event complicated by a stormy night.
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Charlestown
Boston
Sing Sing
N. Y
Roll
Pallister
Hulse
Frank Kohl
Carlyle W. Harris
Osmond
IM Harris
Rohl
Murphy
Ichi
Impeachment Trials Begin In State Supreme Court
The Supreme Court met as court of impeachment to decide the constitutionality of a statute allowing impeachment of ex state officers. Arguments centered on whether trials may proceed after resignation or end of term, with counsel for ex officers disputing the statute and proponents asserting the court’s power to try ex officers upon impeachment by the legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Supreme Court
Messrs. Broudy
Stearns, and
Ames
Hill
Benton
Broudy
United States
Col. Stearns
Belr
Megers
Pound
Doone
Green
Trade Depression Persists Amid Monetary Doubts in East
The Weekly Review of Trade notes monetary uncertainty weighing on markets from New York to other cities. Prices for wheat corn cotton cocoa and pork products fall while building, lumber, and textile sectors show activity. money tightness and slow collections burden bankers and refuges. Exports slip in April with imports rising about 20 percent. seven day business failures total 208, versus 209 last week.
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New York
R. G. Jun & Co
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
St. Louis
Omuali
St. Joseph
Kinnses City
Bessemer
Pittsburg
Birmingham
Chinamen Barred From Landing at World Fair Coast
Tacoma report details widespread Chinese exclusion actions led by Collector Wasson of the Puget Sound District. Hundreds of forged Chinese passports were uncovered and hundreds of actors and merchants face return to China as authorities refuse recognition of past certificates.
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China
Tacoma
Wash
Wasson
Puget Sound
Fale
Treasury Department
Hong Kong
Chinauman
Cain
Chicago
United States
United States District Court
Spokane
Dangerous Fire Bug Caught in Milwaukee Theater Blaze
Milwaukee police arrest Matthew Thomet, a Studt Theater employee, confessing to starting six fires including one inside the theater. The blazes over seven months consumed property worth thousands and caused near collapse of the building. A separate Hungary fire at Vesseprim destroyed 100 houses with vast losses and many lives.
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Milwaukee
Matthew Thomet
Studt Theater
Thomet
Hungary
Vesseprim
Milwaukee crib wreck claims fourteen lives in Lake Michigan storm
A violent Lake Michigan storm drove a house on a crib near Milwaukee's North Street pumping works to vanish. Fourteen men drowned. debris and wreckage litter the shore as rescuers battle towering fifteen foot waves. One survivor clung to a post, rescued after Captain Peterson's rope maneuver. The breakwater suffered extensive damage with fifty feet of structure demolished.
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Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Owiy
North Street
Erib
Welcome
Peterson
James Miller
Miller
Dispossessing 3000 Black Residents in Rinleigh N C
Governor may be forced to deploy the state guard to evict 3000 Black tenants occupying land ruled as white property by county courts. Since 1863 Federal forces expelled many Black New Bern residents to James City, a black town now 30 years squatters. Landowner James A Bryan has not received rent. Supreme Court decreed possession, but officers were blocked by mob resistance.
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Rinleigh
N. C
Newberne
James City
James A. Bryan
Bryan
Supreme
Opium Smuggler Caught in San Francisco Special
Customs Inspector Thomas H. Douglass was caught smuggling opium ashore from the steamer China. He was placed on guard duty aboard the China and attempted to land 220 tins of opium using a small boat.
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San Francisco
Thomas H. Douglass
China
Mining Town Wuenten Burns with Fatal Fire
A blaze engulfs the mining town of Wuenten near Bieiberg destroying two churches and sixty five houses. The fire continues to spread and at least fifteen people are confirmed dead with several others missing.
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Erlin
Wuenten
Bieiberg
Report of the Clerk on House expenses in recent session
Chief Clerk Johnson completes a detailed recapitulation of House expenses from the recent legislative session. Costs include investigations into the state penitentiary building, the State Hospital at Lincoln, the Board of Educational Funds, and the Beatrice Feeble Minded Institute, plus impeachment and election contest expenses and per diem and mileage for members.
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Chtef
Eric Johnson
House of Representatives
Penitentiary
State Hospital
Lincoln
Sis
Board of Educational Funds
Institute For the
Eebls
Beatrice
Doane
Pound
Greene
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Johnson
Representative Hall
Lincoln Insane Asylum
Beatrice Feeble Minded Institute Investgation
Hastings Asylum
Secretary of State
Capital National Bank
Injured in a Prize Fight at West Point
The Phillips of West Point versus Burnham of Pilger prize fight attracted about 180 spectators paying $1 each. The bout lasted about one minute before Burnham broke his arm from a blow by Phillips, causing fainting in the crowd. Also, carpenter John Wolm fell from a scaffold at Hartington Edwards residence, cutting his arm and face severely, now in precarious condition.
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Phillips
West Point
Burnham
Pilger
Wuur
Edwards
Hartington
John Wolm
Hottiad
Man Forged Pass Arrested In Lincoln To Ashland
Harry L Ferrerny faced a preliminary hearing in Ashland after being arrested in Lincoln for forging a railroad pass from Ashland to Lincoln. He pleaded guilty and was held on $300 bond, unable to furnish, and was sent to Wahoo to await next week’s court. Verdict favors Charles Schroeder against Pawnee City for 7000 dollars. jury awards 503.30 to Schroeder, with Browell & Co of Omaha intervening and receiving the recovered amount.
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Harry L. Ferrerny
Ashland
Lincoln
Wahoo
Charles Schroeder
Pawnee City
Mbrownell & Co. of
Omaha
Rioting charge dropped in Bellevue case against Maxwell
A complaint filed before Justice Maddock by E S and Kaiser charged Andrew Maxwell a college student with unlawful assembly and riot. The case was dismissed for an error in the complaint and Maxwell will likely be rearrested. Nebraska briefs note a Marsland roller mill planned, Geneva electric plant, and county records vaults in Madison County Court House.
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Justice Maddock
Bellevue
E. S&s Kaiser
Andrew Maxwell
Nebraska Briefs
Marsland
State Medical Society
Nebraska City
Geneva
Madison County
Henry Brown
L Brownville
Sheriff Ryan
Dakota County
United States
Marshal White
Nebraska Canals
Ogden
Washington County Court House
Carl Larson
Oakland
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Mitchell Printing Co
Plas
First Regiment
Christiania Special
Oscar
Sweden
Norway
Delawaure
Delta Omikron Alphas
Sigma Zeta Nus
Percy Wilson
Chittanooga
Tenn
Chi Pla
Sriguuds
Mike
Sierra Madre
Brinkley
Ark
Monroe Station
Here
Arkansas Midland
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Dan Kelly
George W. Kizer
Kelly
Wiser
Kizer
Varis Green
Bloomington
Robert Gray
Simon BR. Plue
Nia
Gray
Plae
Mae
Wis
Jia City
Estern Dairy O
Pride
Shipiyiers
Albion
North Bend
Order of the Eastern Star
Sumner
D. G. Eldringe
Fremont
Iowa
Illinois
Cuming County
W. W. Wolf
Howard
Pullerton
Aurora
Butte
Hurlburt & Leftwich Circus
Norfolk
Dakotas
Forbes
Elmwood
District Court
Neligh
Beemer
Fullerton Creamery
Grand Island Canning Company
Cash Ellington
L.A. Simmons
Princeton
Louise Peterson
Lexington
Atlantic
Ed. Platner
Fullerton
Custer County
Lodi
Alldin
Phelps Center
America
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Atchison, Kan
Doniphan Lake
Clarks, Neb
Julia
Clarks
Neb
Platte
Missour
William. Tippy
DeWitt
Texas
Saline County
Wiber
Liberty
Bowie
Lex
Irest
Wander
Hastings
W. H. StxcLark
Tur
J. O. Miller
Wymore
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