Mourning in Norristown as Gen Hartranft Honored
Norristown residents paused at dawn as troops arrived for Gen Hartranft's funeral cortege. About 20,000 visitors attended, with eight thousand mourners following the coffin to Montgomery Cemetery. Ex president Hayes, Gen Alger, Gov Beaver, and numerous officials served as pallbearers amid religious and military services and a large civic procession.
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Norristown
Hartranft
Montgomery Cemetery
Hancock
Zook
Slemmer
Schall
Episcopal Church
Davidson
Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church
Court House
McCook
The
Loyal Legion
Bieber
Main Street
Knights Templar
First Brigade
Snowden
Sheridan
R. A. Alger
Grand Army
D. Moe M. Gregg
Pennsylvania
John J. Parke
Ninth Army Corps
Curtin
Pollock
Hoyt
Pattison
Paxson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
William J. Bolton
Fifty-first Regiment
P. V
R. H. S. Goddard
Society
George H. North
Charles 5. Green
N.C. P
Samuel C. Perkins
Pubes Buildings Commission
KE. C. Knight
Henry Rawle
United States
C. Don Cameron
Mathew
Quay
Lewis Merrill
Chester N. Farr
National Guard
Gov. Beaver
Forty-first
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Ninth Corps
Stewart
Meade ‘Ost
Rennyson
Supreme Court
State Legislature
Norristown Insane Asylum Trustees
Knights Templar of
Nortown
Fire Companies, Union Republican Club, of
Disaster in a Mine at Bryant Switch Arkansas
Sixteen miners were trapped by a blast at Bryant Switch in the Chocktaw nation fifty miles south of Fort Smith. A lamp ignited a keg of powder causing coal dust to flare, setting the shafted 600 foot mine on fire. Rescue completed by nightfall. four men badly burned and not expected to recover. Owner O'Brien arrived with hoses and equipment to extinguish the blaze.
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Fort Situ
Ark
Bryant Switch
Here
Chocktaw Nation
O'Brien
Five Workmen Die Burned in Chicago Gas Tunnel Incident
Five workmen sinking a shaft in a Chicago water tunnel were instantly burned when a vein of natural gas ignited by helmet lamps. The shaft was sixty feet below lake level and a column of flame rose ten feet above the caisson. Gas burned out after about twenty minutes before rescue. names of the victims were not learned.
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Chicago
Powell Corrects Taner Statement on Original Allowance
General Powell says the Corporal Taner claim was a misconception of the facts, caused by either ignorance or willful misrepresentation. He emphasizes it was not a case of relating but a correction of an error in his initial allowance.
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Powell
Taner
Tanner Accuses Noble of Poisoning Mind in Pension Row
Ex commissioner Tanner releases a long rebuttal to Secretary Noble and Secretary Nabble about pensions for pensioned employees. He denies insubordination and claims Gen Bussey influenced him. Noble dismisses Tanner as a back number and offers no reply.
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Tanner
Noble
Washington
Nabble
Secretary Noble
Department
Gen. Bussey
Mr. Bussy
NEWS BREVITIES WORLDWIDE EVENTS AND NOTES
Miss Clara Huntington will wed Prince Hatzfeldt on October 28. Gilzaum, a horse thief, and an accomplice are missing after a ranchero raid near Browns ville. Antonio Mocci, once partner of Garibaldi in Clifton soap works, dies at his Garibaldi cottage. Owners of the Neversink sue Captain Lawler in British admiralty for recovery of the boat. A dog causes an $8,000 fire in Battle Greek Michigan. London opposition grows against street electric lighting amid New York wire deaths. Austrian officials to wear uniforms and salute publicly per decree. Marco Brunner wreck looted by Arabs. Italy buys horses abroad. Russia halts export of horses for shipment to Italy.
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Antonio Mocci
Garibaldi
Clifton
S. I
Morisini
Neversink
Capt. Lawler
Battle Greek
Mich
Marco Brunner
Red Sea
Italy
Germany
England
Russia
Eleven Buildings Burned in Escanaba Disaster
Escanaba Mich Oct 21 ten business buildings and the Lewis house burned Sunday morning. No lives were lost but several hotel guests and employees escaped in their night clothes. Total loss about 28000 with 9000 insured. Principal losers include Mrs B Moan and John K Stack with multiple properties and furniture.
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Escanaba
Mich
Lewis
Lewis House
B. Moan
Curtis Destroyed by Wisconsin Fire
A Wisconsin dispatch reports the village of Curtis on the Wisconsin Central line north of Marshfield burned Friday, with losses at least 100000 dollars. Curtis houses 300 to 400 people, its main industries lumber and hay.
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Curtis
Wisconsin Central
Marshfield
Wis
Central Railroad
Here
Rockroap
Ill
John Phillips
Poplar Grove
Barbed Wire Trust Forms in Cuica County
The Herald reports a major barbed wire manufacturers’ meeting in Cuica with an organized trust looming. Eleven of forty two mills have joined to boycott the 31 excluded, Washburn pledges patent protection, and a price rise follows. Farmers face higher wire costs as production shifts to five rod mills and pool participants.
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CuicaGo
Herald
Washburn
Washburn & Moon Company
Worcester
Mass
United States
Prominent Candidates Vying for Speakership in Next House
Washington October 21 Members elect discuss organization of the fifty first Congress. Reed of Maine and McKinley of Ohio top mentions but Bouroughs of Michigan and Cannon of Illinois also contend. Maj John M Carson reportedly ready to win clerkship on first ballot. Swords likely unopposed for sergeant at arms. Other posts include doorkeeper and postmaster.
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Reed
Maine
McKinley
Ohio
Washington
Fifty-first
Congress
House of Representatives
Messrs. Bouroughs
Michigan
Cannon
Illinois
Maj
John M. Carson
Philadelphia Ledger
Carson
Col. Swords
Rival coroners block Bentile colliery burial in dismal inquest
English coroner rivalry stalls the release and burial of 37 Bentile colliery bodies after a mine explosion. Miners refuse to return to the dangerous shaft amid a stench, while two competing officials argue over jurisdiction, hindering final rites and health safety. Lisbon mourns a king as doctors invite press to view the late monarch. A Württemberg prince survives a pistol attack amid calls for a Catholic ruler. In Minnesota, a wreck plot was foiled when workers found ties placed on the Burlington Northern line just before the St Paul bound limited. Authorities traced the sabotage to an unnamed assailant, who was captured.
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Bentile
London
Langton
Burlington and Northern Limited
Red Wing
Minn
Bay City
Chicago, Burlington and Northern
St. Paul
Maiden Rock
Limited
Highway robbery relieves Dakota wheat buyer of 82500
In Casselton North Dakota on October 22 a highway robbery near Arthur took from M Collett agent of the North Western Elevator 2500 in gold and 1700 in bills. Two gunmen halted him two miles from home and escaped with the money as darkness hindered identification. Also a Northern Pacific passenger train derailed near Hunter's Oregon, injuring James Nolan fatally and possibly engineer H Jones with no other injuries.
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Dakota
Casselton
N. D
Arthur
Here
M. Collett
Northwestern Elevator Company
Hunter
Collett
Northern Pacific
Port T Lann
Ore
Hunter's
Portland
James Nolan
H. Jones
Cure Claim With Bradfield Regulator In Mississippian Letter
A customer’s daughter recovered from suppressed menstruation after using one Bradfield’s Female Regulator bottle per a Water Valley source. The letter invites others to contact Bradfield Reg. Co. for details, noting local sale through a merchant. Hood’s Sarsaparilla advertised as a tonic for appetite and digestion during seasonal changes.
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Bradfield
J. W. Hellums
Water Valley
Miss
Bradfield Reg. Co
Atlanta
Scallin
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup a Teething Aid
A historic claim marks Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a long used teething remedy from a leading nurse and physician in the United States. The text asserts it relieves teething pain cures dysentery diarrhea griping and wind colic and promises rest for the mother with a price of 2c a bottle.
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Foraker
Cincinnati
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Belleville
Ills
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Bussey
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South Dakota
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A. B. Hacer
Hacer Brothers
America
Cincinnati Corrugating CO
Crincinnati, Ouro
Mitchell National Bank
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Pres. J. & Leroiluiecer
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A. G. Chandler
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M. H. Rowley
Geo
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R. N. Kratz
J. E. Moses
F. M. Duncan
Lawier Streets
First National Bank
Mitchell
John D. Lawler
A.M. Bowdle
J. E. Gilbert
Howard Kibber
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