Santiago Falls to Mob in Chilean Revolution
Dispatches report the Chanaral regiment seized Santiago ending seven months of revolution. A bloodthirsty mob looted property including Balmaceda’s house. Balmaceda escaped on a steamer. Police and army were demoralized as arrests of officials occurred. Insurgents pledge fair hearings and a provisional government upon junta members’ arrival.
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Chili
Chanaral
Congressional
Santiago
Balmsaceda
Balmsceda
Tquique
Daring Robbery at Nodara Bank Branch
Two men rode to a Nodara Missouri bank on the Alton road in Lafayette county and, forcing the cashier to stay quiet at gunpoint, took about $700 from the teller before fleeing on horseback. The branch had a cashier and a bookkeeper as staff.
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Nodara
Alton Road
Lafayette County
Higginsville Bank
Mexico's Exhibit Aims for Latin Exhibit at Chicago
At the cabinet meeting in Mexico President Disz and officials urged a grand Mexican exhibit for the World's Columbian fair in Chicago. The display should rival the Paris showcase, with the ladies' commission likely led by Mrs Diaz and high expectations for a ceremonial role.
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Mexico
Disz
Chicago
Paris
Ladies’ Commission
Diaz
Tramps Kill Michigan Couple. Mob Shoots Two Suspects
John Wilkinson and his wife on a Monroe County farm were tortured and murdered by unknown tramps seeking money. A alarmed son alerted neighbors who rushed to the farm, finding the couple dead. In pursuit, residents shot two tramps near Maybee station as anger surged.
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John Wilkinson
Monroe
Mich
Maybee Station
Farneau Expedition Attacked in Central Africa
Dispatch reports Parnesu expedition to Shanghai Cayen Central Soudan and French Congo ambushed by natives. Sixteen killed and thirty one wounded including Farneau. All merchandise and many rifles lost.
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Farneau
Parnesu
Shanghai
Cayen
Central
Soudan
French Congo
No Exception to the Order in Cherokee Strip
Secretary Noble telegrammed Governor Steele of Oklahoma stating the president requires no exceptions for Cherokees locating or placing herds on the strip. Troops are ordered to assist the agent in expelling trespassers from the Sand and Pox (Sav and Pox) reservation.
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Noble
Gov. Steele
Oklahoma
Sav and
Pox
Two Hundred Drowned In Typhoon At Kobe
The Empress from Japan reports a July typhoon at Kobe with mass drownings and heavy property loss. A German vessel and several native craft wrecked. In the Arctic, crews of two small whalers near Mackenzie mouth are said to have been massacred by local natives.
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Empress
Japan
Kobe
Troy Department
Arctic
Mackenzie
Point Barrow
Church Struck by Lightning During Storm in Trieste District
A severe thunderstorm swept the Trieste district hitting a crowded church in Tualis on the Italian frontier. Three women were killed by the lightning as panic spread among worshippers. A four ful pantie followed.
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Trieste
Austria
Tualis
Trainmen May Return to Work After Brice Offer
The Lake Erie and Western conference committee warned the striking trainmen that if they returned to work President Brice would ensure a satisfactory settlement of their differences. It is expected the men will resume duties. The report also notes three Georgia train robbers captured in Nashville with most of the stolen money recovered.
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Lake Erie & Western
Brice
R. ©. Fisher
Southern Express Company
Nashville
Georgia
Rainfall Reported After Midland Explosions
Professor Dyrenforth reports that dynamite experiments near Midland Texas produced heavy rainfall in the surrounding country. Secretary Willitts questions a direct link, noting rains are common after the blasts yet the signal service records no rain within 100 miles of Midland.
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Jupiter Pluvius
Midland
Tex
Dyrenforth
Willitts
Texas
New York Press
Cloudburst Ravages New York Towns and Dams Fail
Eastern Renselaer County was deluged by a cloud burst washing out three dams at Sand Lake. Mills and houses suffered about 100000 dollars in damage. Stuart's paper mill in Troy lost a mill section and a bridge with ten thousand dollars in damage. Bridges along the stream were ripped free. total damage may reach 500000. Drowned man McChesney near Pestenkill and Judy Smith found dead in mud near Berlin. Lebanon Springs railroad washed out in several spots.
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Simrt
Renselaer County
New York
Sand Lake
Stuart's Paper
Troy
Hudson
Hoosick
Hoosick Falls
McChesney
Pestenkill
Berlin
James Smith
Lebanon Springs
Petersburg
Little Hoosick River
Wealth per Capita Near $1000 in United States
Census bulletin estimates the 1890 true property value at about 62.6 billion dollars if the 1890 relation between assessed and true values holds. Per capita wealth would approach 1000 dollars, up from 514 in 1860 and 870 in 1880, with property values rising to 24.25 billion.
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United States
World grain harvest outlook shows European deficits and mixed surpluses
Hungarian estimates based on consular reports place wheat yield at 725 to 746 million hectolitres and rye at 1150 to 360 million. Europe faces a wheat shortfall of 44 to 50 million hectolitres and rye shortfall near 99 to 100 million. Austria, Germany, and France show varied import needs while Russia reports a wheat surplus of 18.5 million and rye deficit of 40 to 45 million.
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Europe
Austrian
Germany
France
Hungary
Russia
Disaster at Boston bridge wreck claims numerous lives
A catastrophic Western North Carolina rail crash near Statesville on the Western North Carolina road sent a westbound fast mail train plunging sixty five feet from a stone bridge into Third Creek. Twenty passengers were killed, nine seriously injured, and twenty badly bruised as heroic responders battled waterlogged wreckage to rescue survivors. The incident resulted from rail spreading and damaged track.
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North Carolina
Boston Bridge
Statesville
Italy Faces Heavy Debts Driven by Waste and War Costs
A Rome dispatch reports Italy's provincial debts at 2.95 billion dollars or 108 dollars per person while the national debt nears 4 billion. Total obligations reach about 7 billion. Emigration rises as levies burden residents. The debt results from official sinecures and, mainly, the cost of maintaining a large army and navy.
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Italy
Rome
Alaska Population Shift and Russian Starvation Report
Alaska census figures show 1890 totals by group with a native decline amid rising white and Chinese numbers. A officer notes liquor use among natives linked to whalers as a cause. In Kazan Russia a cleric reports peasants starving due to crop failure, some eating grass as famine stirs unrest.
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Alaska
Alenis
Esquimaux
Russia
Kazan
Pall Mall Gazette
Ninety Miles an Hour Rail Run Sets Speed Record
A Bound Brook run between Nesheny Falls and Longhorn achieved a record pace of about ninety mph. Engine No. 206 pulled two coaches and President McLeod's private car, completing ten miles in an average of 43 seconds per mile. A separate crash near Rush Creek Missouri on the St. Louis and San Francisco line killed four men as two freights collided at high speed.
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Bound Brook
Nesheny Falls
Longhorn
McLeod
Dutul
Rush Creek
St. Louis
San Francisco
Prairie fires scorch vast South Dakota pastures and frost hurts crops
I W Murch reports prairie fires burning thousands of acres from Cheyenne to Bad River forcing ranchers like Scotty Phillips to move herds. The Dakota crops note frost damage is easing with harvest delayed, while wheat and oats yields exceed early estimates. Railroads fight but fail to reduce state assessments, with the weather bureau shift giving South Dakota forecasts to W Glenn of Huron.
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I. W. Murch
Bad River
South Dakota
Buzzard Creek
Cheyenne
Scotty Phillips
Dakota
Weather Bureau
Huron
North
Board of Equalization
Express and Telegraph Companies
Huron Weather Bureau
St. Paul
W. Glenn
Wheat reports vary by frost damage across 58 points
Reports from fifty eight districts in the Dakotas and Minnesota show minor wheat damage from recent frosts in some areas and none in others. Yields are favored with estimates from 15 to 35 bushels per acre, averaging about 25. Central Committee Session in Huron sets September 8 for the Republican convention date and venue.
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Dakotas
Minnesota
Central Committee
Tion. W. ©. Allen
Republican State Central Committee
Huron
Congress
Fire devours vast Faulk county stretch in Northwest Dakota
A massive fire scorched the northwestern Faulk county region, twenty miles wide and extending fifty miles from Paulikton, leaving a foot of grass for stock across twenty miles and ruining farmers. Meanwhile South Dakota begins the state’s first Grain Palace in Plankinton, open Sept 29 to Oct 3, showcasing jubilation over big crops.
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Faulk County
Paulikton
South Dakota
Plankinton
Nebraska News Fractured by Disappearances and Plant Yields
Three years after William Flinn vanished in Hendricks precinct Nebraska City received a letter alleging his murder by three men. Investigators dug near Central avenue and Third street but uncovered no remains. Nebraska’s corn crop for 1891 is forecast at not less than 160 million bushels with profits likely, while Farm Life near Fullerton ends in tragedy as arsenic poisoning leads to arrests.
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Commonwealth
William Flinn
Hendricks
Otoe County
Neb
Flinn
Nebraska City
Central Avenue
Third Street
Nebraska
Agricultural Department
Washington
New England
Toy
Ming
Yamshire
Mehri C. Almy
Makeq
Christie Warden
Shire
Europe
Warden
Vistel Christie
Shy
Almy
Jesse Pomeroy
Fatal Wreck Near Seneca Nebraska Kills Two
A passenger train at full speed struck a carriage two miles east of Seneca Nebraska killing A H Burnett and Miss Frances Fuller. Mrs P P Fuller Mrs Geo Restenberger and her two children aged 2 and 4 were seriously injured. Plenty of music at the Grand Army reunion with 27 brass bands invited.
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Nebraska
Seneca
A. H. Burnett
Frances Fuller
P. P. Fuller
Geo. Restenberger
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Island
Bowen
Rubber Syndicate Collapse and Market Collapse Report
The great rubber syndicate of Para New York and London led by Baron de Gomderiz collapsed after failing to cover margins as 100 tons were dumped. Rubber fell from 4 to 64 cents per pound and 400 tons were unloaded. US manufacturers and British and Brazilian bankers suffer while New England and others debate criminal cases and justice reforms.
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Para
New York
London
John C. Gonaley Vianna
Huron de Gomderiz
Joss
Ciiery
Rio
Mr. Vianna
Organica
Compania da Gran Lara
Paris
Brazil
Singlehurst & Co
Baring Pros
United States
Vara
Liverpool
Baron de Gomderiz
Baringros and
Varon
Two Men of Same Name Die in Detroit Coincidence
In Detroit at the Russell House, A H Whitney of Toronto died in his bed shortly after arrival. The next day a second A H Whitney from QuincyIll., also named A H Whitney, arrived and died within ten minutes of entering his room. The two men were not related and did not know each other. Whitney of Toronto was a noted Toronto accountant. The Quincy Whitney was a manager and principal stockholder of the A H Whitney Organ Company.
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Detroit
Russell House
Mich
A. H. Whitney
Toronto
City
Canadian Pacific Railway
C. K. Thomas
Whitney
Hey
Quincy
K. Thomas
Quiny
Ill
A. H Whitney Organ Company
Detro Ton
World's Fair Seals Sketch Contest and Skating Rail Plan
The World’s Fair invites women to submit sketches for an official seal. Chicago plans a railroad on skates for the fair, while many Western rail firms have been “on skates” for years. A massive electric piano exhibit would serve as an artillery target. The Egyptian display promises a Cairo street scene with booth attendants described as Orient beauties.
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Tur
Omahea World-Herald
Chicago
West
Kuwaiti City Journal
Linghamton
Detroit Free Press
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