A Highland Loch Hero and a Fateful Rescue
On a Scottish loch a squall traps Hammond and his wife while Revelle, a once ruined suitor, dives to save them. He dies in the rescue after sacrificing himself to spare the couple, while Warwick and the narrator cope with guilt and memory as the body is never recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Warwick
Soliece
Warwick
Revelle
Ling
Treacher
Howfer
London
Greet Street
Firth of Clyde
Arsid
Hammond
Slammond
Glasgow
Hammonds
Crieg
Ievelle
Reyelle
Strand
Villian
Italy's Fight Against Mafia Leads to Bari Trial
I Nos tro Tempo reports the Italian government fights the Mala Vita and related crime networks with a new Bari trial. Prisoners total 219 and witnesses about 600, with at least 200 convictions anticipated as authorities vow relentless action against Southern Italy robbery and murder rings. Many detainees are women and children.
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I Nostro Tempo
Mala Vita
Bari
Italy
Rome
Knights Templars Conclave Illuminates Denver in 1892
Denver hosts the twenty fifth triennial Knights Templars conclave drawing over eighty thousand attendees and an estimated two hundred thousand spectators. The event features electric lights, searchlights, and a grand parade with about 45 000 Knights and 114 military bands along a three mile procession. The article traces conclave history from 1816 and notes rapid growth in membership from 25 844 in 1870 to 88 094 in the preceding census, and describes Denver’s Masonic temple origins and current grand temple at 10th and Welton Streets.
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Templars
Knights Templars
Denver
Order
Denyer
Knights
New York
Baltimore
Washington
D. C
Boston
New Haven
Columbus
Lexington
Hartford
Chicago
United States
Masonic Temple
Logs
Colorado
W. G. Russell
Ferry Street
Andrew Sagendorf
Sagendorf
Columbia County
Nebraska
Pike’s Peak
Mr. Lagendorf
W. M. Slaughter
Henry Allen
James Winchester
Robert T. Willis
J. D. Ramage
L. J. Russell
O. E B. Lehow
Oliver Russell
C. H. Blake
Samuel Bates
Russell
10Th
Welton Streets
Colonel King's Crime and the Woman Behind His Fall
Colonel Henry Clay King killed David H. Poston in Memphis on March 10, 1891. A memorable domestic scandal centers on Mary J Pillow who lured the eminent lawyer from his family and helped secure executive clemency reducing his sentence to life imprisonment.
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Henry Clay King
David H. Poston
Tennessee
Memphis
B Clay King
King
Clay King
Mary J. Pillow
Gideon J. Pillow
Fort Donelson
Gen.Buckner
Grant
Col. King
Lee Couny
Arkansas
Pillow
Poston & Poston
Poston
New York Board of Health Acts on Cholera Measures
The New York Board of Health held a conference on cholera and smallpox to avert an epidemic. If cholera appears, patients will be isolated away from North Brother Island where other diseases are treated. They will issue notices to physicians officials and citizens to report any cholera cases at once. The fifty member summer corps will be urged to vigilantly uncover illnesses in tenement districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Board of Health
New York Board of Health
North Brother Island
Rumored Heavens Move Prompts Keokuk Land Grab
Report says Messiah Schweinfurth plans a 4000 follower colony in Keokuk Iowa with options on 25000 acres. The proposed relocation would set up Weldon farm near Rockford as a branch heaven while the false Christ faces perceived mistreatment in Illinois. A separate tip offers antique cleaning advice for teakettles using kerosene and a dry cloth.
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Messiah Schweinfurth
Iowa
George Jacob Schweinfurth
Christ
Illinois
Keouuk
Keokuk
Schweinfurth
Weldon
Rockford
Thomas H. Carter Named Republican National Chairman
The article notes Thomas H. Carter of Montana is chosen as chairman of the Republican National Committee. It details his career from Ohio birth, early work, law practice in Helena, congressional service for Montana, and stance on silver, with additional historical notes and a few unrelated anecdotes.
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Republican National Committee
Thomas H. Carter
Montana
Thomas Henry Carter
Junior Branch
Scioto County
Ohio
Pana
Ill
Carter
Burlington
Iowa
Helena
Mon
Congress
Reed
Mexico
Republican Congressional Committee
James J. Belden
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Knights AT
E Sonic Temple
Schipl
Court of Appeal
New York State
Supreme Court
State of
New York Commercial Advertiser
Third Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Waco
Texas
Thos. Cruse
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