Perilous voyage and disasters reported abroad
Sept 8 dispatches detail the Petrel sinking near San Francisco with six on board lost including Captain Hoy and family. Separate reports describe a St Petersburg flood, a Hot Springs Tacoma wreck, a New Orleans building collapse killing several, plus various other accidents and conventions.
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San Francisco
Acht Petrel
Wami H.hoy
Hoy
Allacé
New Orleans
Schwartz
News Briefs from the Northwest and Abroad
Wee B Marrett of Rosemount Minnesota died suddenly in St Paul. A Mankato elevator fire destroyed the elevator and 50,000 bushels of wheat, with an estimated 60,000 loss and 50,000 insured. Duluth Red Wing and Southern railroad progress cited with Northwest expansion plans. First Wyoming state election set for Sept 11. Numerous disaster and crime notes, including Johnstown flood relics, Vienna architect’s daughter death, and maritime tragedy. Kansas finances show 1,108 foreclosures in six months across 48 district courts.
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Northwest
B. Marrett
Rock Farm
Rosemount
Minn
St. Paul
R. D. Hubbard & Co
Mankato
Duluth
Red ‘Wing
Southern Railroad
Mitchell & McClure
Caps
Wisconsin
Sioux City
Iowa
Northwestern
Iowan
Owatonna
Red Wing
Dulu
Southern
Wyoming
Johnstown
Pittsburg
Abbot Schom
Harsburg
Bamberg
Itig
Stanley
Cassel
England
Pariant Governmentalaasie Cancleen Verninen
Freinch
Turkey
Armenia
Kansas
TorrkKa
Kan
Market Report Bassin by City Stock Yards and Lanes
Latest market reports show mixed hog prices at St Paul Union Stock Yards with light and heavy hogs trading around 4.10. Cattle and sheep values vary across categories including native cattle and calves, stockers, and feeders. Chicago and Kansas City live stock markets display varied prices for cattle hogs and sheep. Minneapolis grain quotes list wheat and corn futures with on track values. Duluth and St Paul produce prices for butter and eggs round out the report.
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St. Paul Union
Chicago
Kansas City
Second Great Chicago Carpenters Strike Expands
Chicago reports a widespread carpenters strike with 8000 workers in the city in line and only about 2000 at work. Demands include the eight hour day and 37 cents an hour plus arbitration. Carpenters council to supply men to contractors who concede terms.
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Chicago
Carpentera
Strikes on New York Central Heard by State Board
The state board of mediation and arbitration opened hearings in a court house room on the New York Central strike. Vice President Webb and Knights of Labor leader Powderly testified as witnesses as the company defended its dismissals of 78 Knights. Reports indicate the blockade threatens substantial losses to the Hudson freight service from Albany to Buffalo.
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Knights and Central
State Board
New York
State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
New York Central Railroad
Court of Common Pleas
Court House
Webb
Loomis
Powderly
Roger A
U. of L
Knights of Labor
J. J. Holland
Pines Crogs
Secret Service Bureau of the Road
Secret Service
Pinkerton
William A. Valentine
Assembly
Dennis McCarthy
Toucey
E. J. Lee
D. A. 246
District 246
New Haven
Devlin
Wright
Hudson
Albany
Buffalo
Hauling Down the German Flag in Allegheny Parade
In Allegheny, during a labor parade, Junior Order of United American Mechanics men trampled and tore the German flag. A bakery unit carried the banner. an aide urged removal, was jeered, and a confrontation followed as the flag remained raised.
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Prerssura
Allegheny
O.U. A.M
Baker’s
Richstreet
North Avenue
Order of United American Mechanics
Flag clashes erode banner as police clash with crowd
A flag removal at a public scene led to punches and a mace beating of an aide by a policeman Diebold and others. Bakers and officers split the fray as the flag was torn and trampled. No arrests were made though threats of vengeance were voiced.
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Cif
Diebold
America
Stara
Knights of Labor sympathy moves Toronto district
At a special District Assembly meeting No. 125 Knights of Labor resolutions express sympathy for discharged New York Central workers and pledge moral and financial aid. A committee will appeal labor bodies in the province for strike funding as contributions mount amid support. Broom corn cutters strike in Douglas county Illinois over 26 percent wage advance. thousands quit work with Arcola and Tuscola unions joining. harvest time pressures growers to grant the raise.
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Canadian Knights
Toronto
Knights of Labor
New York Central
Tuscona
Ills
Douglas County
Arcola
Comte de Paris
Stowe
America
The
Land Commission
Skye
England
Henry F. Nicholson
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Figaro
Duchess Uzes
Vancouver Island
United States Revenue Cutters
Earl of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Hamilton
Quick Cure Tragedy in New York Woman Poisoned by Medicine
Mrs. Fitz Arbes died after taking a quarter ounce of medicine prepared by Druggist Albert Kirchman. Dr Lesser prescribed a minimal dose containing aconite for an infant, with a German labeled bottle. Mrs Zadick also tasted the drug. Dr Grueber failed to save Arbes but saved Zadick with antidotes. Coroner Levy found no grounds to charge Dr Lesser.
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New York
Fitz Arbes
Catherine Zadick
East Fiftieth Street
Albert Kirchman
Lesser
East Fifteenth Street
Zadick
Arbes
Grueber
Andi
Successful Train Robbery Stuns Alabama Near Montgomery
At 11 p.m. robbers halted a passenger train on the Escambia river bridge north of Montgomery and plundered the express car. Reports say express messenger Archis Arkel killed a robber, but this is unconfirmed. The incident follows other distant crime notices and a separate escape from Fort Douglas jail.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Escamby River
Here
Archis Arkel
Two Boys Quarrel Ends in Fatal Stabbing in CosurG
In CosurG Ont Sunday afternoon David silat and Peter Hanson fought after a quarrel. Smith, age 10, stabbed Hanson in the breast with a pocket knife and Hanson died. Smith was arrested but Hale failed to show up, with a bench warrant issued. In Montreal, Sept 3, Hale’s court case for shooting Cowles from Cleveland opened and Hale did not appear.
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Hot Springs
Wash
Tacoma
Cosurg
David
Silat
Peter Hanson
Smith
Hanson
Hale
Montreal
Queen’s.bench
C. C. Hale
Cowles
Cleveland
S Bench
Typhoid Epidemic Strikes West Virginia Prison
Typhoid fever sweeps the state penitentiary at Moundville near Wheeling with thirty prisoner cases and several deaths. The 800 inmates are panic stricken as the outbreak disrupts life at the facility. Meanwhile Saratoga hosts the American Social Science meeting beginning today with multiple sessions through Friday.
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Wheeling
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Moundlyville
Social Science
Saratoga
N. Y
American Social Relenge Association
Blaine Offers Platt Spain Post Declined by Platt
The Sun prints James G Blaine offering ex-Senator Thomas C Platt the minister to Spain after Palmer's resignation. Platt declines citing business ties and desire to stay in the Republican ranks, saying he seeks no office. The exchange includes Platt’s remark about understanding the matter.
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Blaine
Spain
New Yorke
the Sun
Thomas.c. Platt
Department of State
Washington
Mr. Platt
T. W. Palmer
Michigan
James G. Blaine
New York
Palmer
T. C. Puatt
Sun
Platt
United States Senate
Sugar schedule dominates Senate debate amid reciprocity talk
In Washington on September 3 the Senate took up the tariff bill and sugar schedule while discussing reciprocity amendments. Mr. Hale urged prospects of broader trade with Mexico and warned against consuming sugar duties without clear consumer gains. Separate items report New Hampshire’s Democratic convention backing Cleveland and Arkansas elections showing anticipated Democratic majorities. Juneau’s Barwig renominated in Wisconsin.
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Senate
Washington
Sawyer
Post Office Committee
Carlisle
Hate
Hale
Harrison
Blaine
United States
Mexico
Fire and accidents report from Wisconsin to Minnesota
At Tikhart Wisconsin a Lakeview House summer hotel burned with guests escaping. Loss set at 10000 with fair insurance. A separate tragedy: Mrs Mary Rucker, 75, suicide by throat cutting at Allen Smith’s residence six miles southeast of Aurora Minnesota. Also notes on Native agencies, census data, a mission school gift, railroad work halt, a Castlewood death by morphine overdose, and various regional incidents and notices.
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Tikhart
Wis
Lakeview House
Fair
Mary Rucker
Allen Smith
Aurora
M. C
Winnebago Agency
Minnesota
White Earth
Minn
St. Benedict Mission
Louise Drexel
Brenner
Turtle Cuntain Reservation
Washington
Schuler
White Earth Agency
Duluth
Winnipeg
Winnebagoshish Reservation
Interior Department
Fred Mueller
F. E. Briggs
Castlewood
Briggs
Mueller
Fort Gaines
Duquoin
Ills
Hernando, Miss
C. R. Boyce
R. CO Foster
Chicago
Columbus
America
John C. New
London
Berlin
Indianapolis
Grand Rapids
Mich
M. I. Sweet
Ha Tucker
Parkersburg
W. Va
William Edgell
Brownstown
United States
Gaffner
East
Galena
Menominée ‘Township
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Prine
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Canhe
St. Petersburg
P. Petersburg
Rept
Neva
Axaona
Dooper Institute
Cooper Institute
States
District of Columbia
William Wisedale
Martin Williams
St. Louis
Henry F. Post
A. L. Sessions
Thomas I
Minneapolis
Northern
Board of Arbitration
Fort. Dongs
William Allison
Allison
DutuvTs
general/land ‘office
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Concorp
N. H
J. W. Bartlett
Manchester
Charles Amsden
Penacock
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Thirt
Eagle
Barwig
Juneau
Democratic Congressional Conception
Coneran Barwig
Joliet
Ill
Midway
Mapleton
Cady
Minnesota Lake
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