Hearty Good-bye For Harrison On Hoosier Route
Indiana crowds line streets as President-elect Harrison and family leave Indianapolis for Washington aboard the private car Tolinthe. Private Secretary Halford and reporters travel with the party. crowds cheer as the train departs Union Station at 3:15 p.m.
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Indianapolis
Eleet
Washington
Halford
Pullman Company
Tolinthe
Harrison
Everofore
Messrs. Miller
Huston
Union Station
Indiana
Denison Hotel
George H. Thomas Post
Pennsylvania Street
Chicago Traveling Men’s Association
Car of the next president to Washington described
A detailed description of the presidential railcar used by the next president outlines a sixty three foot long vehicle with four compartments a luxury parlor and dining room, and electric bells, steam heating and superb ventilation as Indianapolis reports the forthcoming departure to Washington while the legislature pauses to watch. Morton family to move to the Arlington hotel in New York before relocating to a new Washington home in the fall.
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Washington
White House
Cleveland
Congress
Capitol
Harrison
Morton
New York
Bayard
Highland Terrace
Delaware
Fairchild
Edicott
Endicott
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Navy
Whitney
Dickinson
T Street
Indianapolis
Wilton
Levi P. Morton
Arlington
Blaine Resigns Post and Maine Names New Commissioner
A letter from James G. Blaine dated February 2 1889 resigns his role as Maine delegate to the centennial inauguration committee. Governor Burleigh in Augusta appoints ex-Governor Connor as chairman of the Maine commissioners, with Blaine’s resignation prompting the change and ensuring a prompt replacement for duties in New York.
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Augusta
Burleigh
James G. Blaine
Washington
E. C. Burleigh
Maine
Smr
George Washington
United States
New York
Connor
Blaine
Cabinet filled with Southern representation declared
Russell B. Harrison stated in Omaha on February 23 that the cabinet is decided and the South will be represented. He avoided commenting on his father’s cabinet but noted the southern policy aligns with letters to southern leaders.
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Russell B. Harrison Saith
Omaha
Neb
Russell B. Harrison
Thurston
Kuhni
Maapison
Wis
Hans Kuhni
Wisconsin
England
Terrible Plymouth factory explosion claims nine girls
A squib factory blast in Plymouth Pa at noon leaves nine girls dead and seventeen others seriously injured. In Culian a tragedy at 220 Irving avenue kills Mrs Lizzie McCarthy and her two children from coal gas through a severed rubber tube and a gas jet fixture. Mrs McCarthy had previously shot her husband on December 4, 1887.
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Plymouth
Wilkesbarre
Culian
Irving Avenue
Lizzie McCarthy
McCarthys
Two Families in Distress from Fires and Freezing
A chain of 26 February fire and accident reports from across the country details a Winfield Iowa blaze that killed Thomas Innis's mother in law and his daughter, while Innis and six others escaped naked and frostbitten. Helena Montana saw two Calahan children burned and a third gravely injured. Scranton Pennsylvania recorded two deaths in a boarding-house fire. Chicago area Cuicano saw two Swedes die of gas asphyxiation. Cincinnati tunnel blaze with 2800 gallons of oil. a damaged Northern Central train near Ralston left fifteen injured. and political notes in Washington on railroad right of way and a contested California election.
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BoRurneTon
Iowa
Winfield
Henry County
Thomas Innis
Torbitt
Innis
Helena
Mont
Calahan
Belmont
Williamsport
Northern Central Railroad
Ralston
William Dale
WashingTon
F. Booker
James H. Barnes
Missouri
Indian Territory
California
River transport plan to aid Castalia farmers profits
A proposed river route between Sioux City and Chamberlain would provide a cheap reliable way to move produce and goods. Castalia sits far from rail routes, making long train hauls costly. A government supply contract along Sioux City Yankton Fort Randall and Lower Brule could render boats profitable with about $5,000 subscription backing the enterprise.
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Sioux City
Chamberlain
Castalia
Yankton Agency
Fort Randall
Lower Brule
The Winner Paid One Election Bet
Alfred A Liscomb planned a Washington tramp after backing Cleveland but halted the trip when George Griffith offered $500 to call off the walk. Liscomb recounts a noon Hoffman House conference where Griffith proposed the payout. Griffith previously lost on Gov Hill's election and forfeited 3000 rather than walk to Albany.
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New York
Alfred A. Liscomb
Washington
Cleveland
George T. Griffith
Liscomb
Hoffman House
Griffith
Hill
Albany
Railroad riot and multiple crimes plague nations news
Norfolk compiled dispatches cover a violent midnight clash on Erie street between P and W and Cleveland and Canton railroads leaving five men beaten, one fatally, with gunshots and knife injuries among about thirty to forty rioters. Other items report Oscar Neebe’s pledge to confess, a Chicago boxing dispute ending with a man injured, a Pennsylvania killer sentenced, stagecoach robbers nabbed in Mendocino, moonshiner king Merrett arrested, White Cap laws advancing, an Atlantic elopement, and Interior Dept consolidating land offices with district acreage figures.
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Kent
Ohio
Erie Street
P. and W
Cleveland and
Canton
Ben van Schack
Senate action and notable fires across cities
In Washington, several lighthouse bills passed as a pension adjustment for Gen. Sheridan widow was withdrawn and amended. Senate also moved on Sioux and Ute land and Indian affairs bills. Fires raged in New Orleans, Leavenworth, and a fishy case in Madison, with significant losses and investigations ongoing.
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Washington
Sheridan
House
Senate
Dakota
Cullom
Oklahoma
Barnes
Missouri
Crockrell
Senator Ingalls
The Proper Thing. A Steamship Company's Instructions to Its European Agents
A Hamburg American Packet Company circular to European agents urges strict adherence to U S immigration laws. It instructs caution in selling tickets and to refuse passage to destitute, ill, or incapacitated individuals, labor contract entrants, those funded by public assistance, recent penitentiary inmates, and members of anarchistic groups.
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New York
Hamburg- American Packet Company
North German
Lloyd
Europe
America
Governor to appoint John J. ONeill labor commissioner
Jefferson City Mo Feb 26 It is reported that Governor Francis plans to appoint John J ONeill to succeed Maj Oscar Kochtitzley as labor commissioner of the state Kochtitzley term expired over a week ago and a new appointee is expected to be announced soon.
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O'Neil
Jefferson City
Francis
John J. O'Neill
Maj
Oscar Kochtitzley
Dakota Grangers Plan Produce to Market Scheme
A movement begins in Castalia Castalia Castalia Castalia Castalia Castalia to organize two steam powered lines to haul farm produce to market. Sioux City Iowa Feb 25. Farmers and business men in Castalia Charles Mix county Dakota Territory unite to improve marketing and transport of dairy and grain."
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Iowa
Castalia
Charles Mix County
Dak
Brainerd Dam Sale Sees Lorillards as Purchasers
WeuGicu Washington area reports the sale of the Brainerd dam and water power for about a quarter of a million dollars. The transfer includes all real estate held by Kindred's firm. Purchasers are said to be the Lorillards, New York tobacconists, who plan pulp works and other manufacturing plants in the area.
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CM Ulipiitues
Brainerd
Kindred
Lorillards
New York Tobacconists
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