Embezzlement Arrest Hits Jet Messemer Cashier Derby
William B. Derby, cashier of Jet Messemer, faces a police charge for embezzling from Western Union through District Messenger. Investigators say Derby diverted funds over about three years, with losses possibly reaching 18 000 dollars. Western Union denies knowledge of the crime.
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Rostox
William B. Derby
Jet Messemer Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Union
Derby
Mutual District Messenger Company
Mutual District
Fatal election riots in Arkansas town stun county
In former City Arkansas on May 1 a school election dispute led to deadly violence as A M Neely and G W Ingram incited a crowd. Neely fought a white man, fled to Capt John Warham, and deputy T W Parham fired a pistol, wounding Marshal Folbre. Folbre shot back, Tom Varhian mortally wounded, and Sheriff D M Wilson killed by a stray ball. Militias and armed streets followed. Neely was later killed by a mob while hiding in The Advocate building in Forest City. Governor Eagle traveled to the scene to assess needs.
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Arkansas
Ark
A. M. Neely
G. W. Ingram
Neely
John Warham
F. M. Folbre
T.W. Parham
John Parham
Folbre
Tom Varhian
D. M. Wilson
Tam
Wilson
Forest City
Saturda
Advocate
Izard
A.M. Neely
Gov. Eagle
Torrest City
Pittsburg
Murdered for His Furniture in Oma Nebraska
In Oma Nebraska on May 21 Mrs Scott and her daughter Carrie Ixmaker both 14 are arrested charged with poisoning Lewis Marvin by arsenic in his coffee at supper He lies dying and claims the women planned the crime to steal his furniture A separate note from New Orleans reports a negro burglar captured by a mob and lynched after confessing to robberies around Columbia Louisiana.
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Oma, Neb
Scott
Carrie Ixmaker
Lewis Marvin
Marvin
New On
Eans
Times- Democrats
Monroe
Columbia
Ile
Vienna
Gismarck
Bern
Prince Ismarck
Reichstag
Shah
St. Petersburg
Rostov
Catholics Lay Corner Stone of De La Salle Institute
Curcaco May 21. The largest Catholic celebration in years marked the laying of the corner stone of the De La Salle institute at the corner of Mcéeabush avenue and Thirty-fifth street. Archbishop Teelian presided as about thirty thousand Catholics from the city and suburbs attended.
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de la Salle Institute
Mcéeabush Avenue
Thirty-fifth Street
Teelian
Local reports show farm turmoil over meat bill and tariffs
Delegates report food work ongoing across jurisdictions while Wright county farmers denounce the meat inspection bill as a sellout to St Paul and Minneapolis capital. In Wisconsin, Blatz brewery sale is offered for 1 million and a stabbing incident ends with Torrant under arrest.
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Lake
Wright County
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Tower
Chandler
Ply
Wisconsin
Milwanukee
Blatz
Cumberland
Thomas Torrant
George Prissell
Frissell
Torrant
Eau Claire
Ashland Milling Plans Rolling Mills Project in Wis
Ashland prospects a rolling mill plant with a $1,000,000 plant value. The city would provide a site, bonds around $100,000, and a 20 year debt. The National furnace at Depere ceased blast after a long run, producing 461 tons per week the week ending last, and 478 tons the prior week.
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Depere Purance
Blast
Ashland
Wis
Association of
Depere
Meefe Greene & Co Win Butte Northern Pacific Contract
Private dispatches from New York state Keefe of Montana connections built the 6000 foot tunnel and Keefe’s firm Meefe Greene & Co of Helena received the contract for the Butte branch of the Northern Pacific. The price is between 700000 and 1000000 dollars with Northern Pacific supplying materials. The full project cost, including construction and materials, is estimated at two to three million dollars. The line will run about seventy miles from Gallatin through Home Stake Pass to Butte.
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Mont
Privete Dispatches
New York
Meefe, Greene & Co
Helena
Butte
Northern Pacific Railroad
Keefe
Montana Central
Northern Pacific
Gallatin
Home Stake Pass
Adams
Union Pacific
Portland
Seattle
Boston
Jones Breweries
Secretary of the Treasury
John Butts
Missouri
France
Warren Rowland
Five Mile River
South Norwalk
Conn
Maine General Hospital
Niagara
Park Commissioners
Stockslager
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Bolivia
Washington
Conference of American States
Columbus
Ohio
Willie Parkman
Portsmouth
Champion
Thatchers Island
Minnesotans to join Gettysburg celebration next month
A group of Grand Army men from Minneapolis will attend the Gettysburg commemoration in June. Pennsylvania soldiers nationwide will receive free transport to the battlefield. An estimated 100 monuments are planned, with Judge Torrance and Judge Rea expected to attend, along with Congressman Snider, a former Pennsylvania unit commander.
Bounty on Gophers Warns Iowa Farmers
The striped and pocket gophers threaten crops across parts of Iowa prompting a statewide push to exterminate them. A five cent bounty has been placed in several counties to reward gopher control efforts.
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Fort Doper
Iowa
British Y M C A visitors study American methods in Chicago
In Chicago May 21 three Y M C A leaders Messrs Robert Burn Carl Fries and Robert McCann arrived as guests of the local association to study American Y M C A work. In Winona the body of an unknown man about 27 was found hanged in a tree on George W Clark's farm murk unclear if suicide or murder.
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Chicago
Messrs
Robert Burn
London
Carl Fries
Stockholm
Robert McCann
Ireland
American Association
Winona
George W. Clark
Manitoba road project bids set record lows
Contracts for fifty miles of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba branch from Morris to Brandon have been let. Bidding was lively and prices are the lowest ever known in railroading here.
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Manitoba
Winsipeg
Morris
Brandon
Irish National League shows Varnell trial sentiment in New York
Senator Laughlin presented engrossed resolutions from February expressing NY state sentiment on the London Times Varnell trial outcome. The six page volume is titled Parnell with solid silver front cover, two copies made for Parnell and Gladstone, costing $100.
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Burrago
N. Y
Irish National League
Laughlin
Senate
New York State
Varnell
London Times
Parnell
Gladstone
Waterloo Mining sues over Oriental Mine patent clash
In Los Angeles on May 21 a Waterloo Mining Company representative from Milwaukee filed a big mining suit against John S. Doe to invalidate the Oriental Mine No. 2 patent in San Bernardino county. Superintendent Sanger argues no lode discovery preceded the claim and reveals a Waterloo owned silver ring lode as the only lode. The litigation concerns properties valued at 40 million dollars.
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Waterloo Company
Freedmen Work Highlighted By Presbyterian Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly in New York discussed freedmen education and mission work. Dr. Allen urged educating the Negro as essential, noting remarkable self funded efforts and a growing colored clergy under a context of emancipation and rising population.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Roberts
Crosby
Union Theological Seminary
Smith
Committee On Churches United
McGill
Town
Board of Freedmen
Allen
Africa
South
Joe Williams
Hamlin
Washington
Dickey
Philadelphia
Board of Officers and Trustees Elected in York Pa
Tellers reported the boards chosen for York Pa churches with names and districts for Education Missionary society and bishops Trustees list led by Bishop J Weaver. Also American Baptists held the first business session of their sixty fifth annual meeting with year receipts and publications. London apps report Damages from Chee Foo riots settled. flags raised in Shanghai and troops salute. Berlin reports Bismarck’s Reichstag speech criticizing socialists and coal region policy amid strikes. Rochefort and Pilotel street melee described with varying statements and pistol display.
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J. A. Weller
the Missionary Society
G. A. Funkhouser
John Dodds
Ohio
D. N. Flickinger
J. L. Luttrell
Board of Bishops
H. R. Miller
B. FP. Will
J. A. Schanek
W. MekKee
W. G. Shuey
B. EF. Booth
N. C G. Castle
J. Dickson
BE. P. Kephart
J. Doods
J. Weaver
Bishop J. Weaver
American Baptists
Boston
American Baptist Publication Society
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Missionary
Bible Department
Bismarck
M. Rochefort
M. Pilotel
London
Westphalia
Bochum
Berlin
Prince Bismarck
Nie
West
Russia
Harmilessias
Mlm
Rochefort
Pilotel
Repent Street
Goth
Rochefort arraigned for assault and threats in London
At Vine Street police court M Rochefort faced charges of assaulting artist Pilottel on Regent Street. He was bound over in 150 pounds to keep the peace for six months after proving he pointed a revolver at Pilottel and threatened to shoot.
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Henri
London
M. Henri Rochefort
Vine Street
M. Pilottel
Regent Street
Rochefort
Pilottel
Three Engines Demolished
Reports from Deguers Illinois and Hawanrp City Michigan describe fires, floods, and wrecks. An outgoing engine reversed and crashed into a switch engine in fog near Deguers, Illinois. A blaze in Hawanrp City caused 40000 to 50000 dollars in damage including church opera house bank and several dwellings. Kansas City water mains washed away by heavy rains with 20000 dollar damage. A Holyoke boat capsized killing Albert Arnold and leaving a widow with three children.
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Ill
Hawanrp City
Mich
Mather’s Bank
Kansas City
National Water Works Company
Missouri River
Quindaro
Kan
Kaw
Holyoke
Mass
Albert Arnold
William Doyle
andArnold
Doyle
City of Holyokene
Bug Breeding Hogs Could Multiply Massively in Ten Years
The San Francisco Argonaut reports startling hog breeding figures. Hogs reach breeding age at nine to twelve months and live fifteen to twenty years. One sow reportedly produced 855 pigs in twenty litters, while a twenty month old boar fathered 1406 hogs at an agricultural society exhibit.
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aeGin
Agricultural Society
Iere
San Francisco
Rumors of Cabinet Changes and Naval Appointments
Washington rumors claim Miller to join the Supreme Court, Tracy to move to the Justice Department, and Platt to become Navy secretary. A naval inspection board heads to New York and League Island yards to appraise vessels, while a new Military Academy Board of Visitors lists numerous appointees. Additional presidential appointments include receivers, land office registers, and Indian agents. Civil service pressure grows as nonclassified workers seek protection and influence in a crowded political environment.
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Washington
Miller
Stanley Matthews
Tracy
Navy
Department of Justice
Tom C. Platt
Naval Inspection Board
Jouett
New York
League Island Navy Yards
United States
Navy Department
Thomas D. Bumgarner
Arkansas
Dardanelle
Ark
Henry C. Pickels
Delaware
Volsom
New Mexico
Frank Lesner
Roswell
William P. Alexander
Colorado
del Norte
Colo
John II. Mills
White House
Unveiling Planned for Confederate Memorial in Alexandria
The Alexandria Confederate memorial pedestal bears the inscription Erected To the Memory of the Confederate Dead Of Alexandria May 24 1880. Arrangements for the unveiling are nearly complete. Governor Lee permits militia to enter the state and about 10,000 men are expected to participate.
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Alexandria
Virginia
Lee
MING BELLS FOR MRS FOLSOM BRIDAL IN JACKSON
Mrs. Oscar Folsom, mother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, to wed Henry I. Perrine tonight in Jackson Michigan. Mrs. Cleveland en route from Buffalo to Jackson for the quiet ceremony and will live in Buffalo after the wedding. Perrine is a Buffalo cemetery official and local leader.
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Cleveland
Buffalo
N. Y
Oscar Folsom
Grover Cleveland
Jackson
Mich
Henry I. Perrine
Buffalo City Cemetery Association
Washingtons Society Circus Planned at Country Club
The Sunday Herald reports a prospective amateur circus organized by Washington society figures to be held next month at the Country club. Ladies from fox hunts will ride as cross country exhibitors while society men serve as clowns and ring master with a public press rehearsal announced.
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Washington's
Washington
The
Sunday Herald
Country Club
New York
Postoffice Plums In Fourth Class Appointments
First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson says he will not favor any faction in state postmasterships. He plans to distribute fourth class postmasterships to Republicans without regard to local factional lines. He notes no fixed policy for Southern patronage and dismisses faction claims of control as unauthorized.
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Postoffice
Washington
Clarkson
Elias
Mrs Harrison Asked to Intercede for Seeks
Washington May 21 Mrs Morri son reports daily appeals from office seekers to press Mrs Harrison to influence President Harrison. Writers request reminders that their applications remain unanswered and fear neglect. Some letters are from women begging Mrs Harrison to locate petitions for General Harrison to see.
Army transfers and Confederate monument unveiled in Alexandria
West Point rumors place Col John M Wilson in charge at West Point as Col J G Park prepares retirement on July 1. In Alexandria Virginia the Confederate dead monument at Prince and Washington streets is completed and will be unveiled by Governor Lee with formal ceremonies next Friday.
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Washington
John M. Wilson
Engineer Corps
J. G. Park
Military Academy
Alexandria
Prince and
Washington Streets
Lee
Richmond
Flour mill fire at Clay City shocks Indiana town
The excelsior flour mill at Clay City Indiana burned causing about 10000 dollars in losses with no insurance. Other items note railroad expansion and notable financial moves in New England and abroad. The day also reports a fatal pedestrian accident in South Norwalk and various civic developments.
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Excelsior
Clay City
Ind
Cat bounty fiasco and African travel tales in one issue
A tale from the Pittsburg Dispatch recounts a cat bounty gone wrong as 3 000 to 4 000 cats flood a town causing chaos and casualties. The second item notes Camille Douis’ route from Cape Garnet to Morocco after a staged shipwreck, highlighting Oulad Delim education and Moslem women.
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Paris Societe de Geographic Records
M. Camille Douis
Africa
Cape Garnet
Morocco
Great Desert
Oulad Delim
M. Douls
The
St. James Gazette
A Lover's Dream Ends in Tragedy at Wackney
A 19 year old girl at Wackney and her two brothers and younger sister were left in charge of the house while parents attended a funeral. The sweetheart stayed overnight and dreamt of her beckoning. He awoke to find the deceased in her room with blood at the mouth, death aligning with his dream. Doctor notes suggest she died about the time he dreamed she beckoned.
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Wackney
Hier
Pall Mall Gazette
Australian Bushrangers Recounted as Extinct Legends
A Fortnightly Review writer recalls Australian bushrangers once active in Victoria. They crafted armor from scavenged metal, gained reputations for courage and invention, and at times terrorized towns by demanding money from shops and banks. One tale describes a robber praying for a traveler to surrender valuables.
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Australia
Fortnightly
Victoria
Goliath
Washington and Marshall Meeting at Mount Vernon 1798
A Tam-told 1798 Mount Vernon encounter between George Washington and John Marshall is recounted by Washington's great grandson. Washington tried to press Marshall toward Congress, they argued long in defiant tones, then parted with a tense good night. The next morning Marshall, moved, planned to ride away but Washington sought forgiveness and asked his purpose anew.
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Washington
Marshall
Mount
Congress
Washinton
Hvat Sy Soing
Pine
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