Women suffrage and politics mix in colorful critique
The Express notes Monticello Illinois claims the best women's prison yet fears women voting will demand hats. It mocks opponents to suffrage and observes skaters testing risks as politicians flirt with danger. It compares state and city votes, stating Chicago posted 372,734 vs Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah totaling 347,234.
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Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Utah
Chicago
Legislature Bans Bloomers Fight Spurs Temperance Panel
Alabama lawmakers referred a bill to prohibit bloomers to the committee on temperance. They argue bloomers tempt people to drink. Idaho backed universal woman suffrage in a recent election joining Colorado Utah and Wyoming as states with political equality for women.
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Alabama
Committee On Temperance
Idaho
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Army of the Tennessee funds Sherman statue for Washington
The Army of the Tennessee has awarded the contract for a fine equestrian statue of General Sherman to be erected in Washington. The capital city is already rich in statuary and will gain a prominent figure from American history.
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Army of the Tennessee
Gen. Sherman
Washington
Maryland Institutes For Farmers Education Begin This Winter
Maryland will start farm education institutes this winter funded by a $3,000 legislative appropriation. The money is considered enough to hold one or more institutes in each county across the state.
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Maryland
Isometric Chlorides Topic and Weather Bureau Forecasts
National Academy talks feature Prof. Ira Remsen on an obscure compound. weather forecast accuracy draws sharp critique as 83 percent success is claimed amid critics. A Rockdell experiment shows telephony through the human body. Idaho and several states show woman suffrage opposition. Boston teachers form a mutual benefit association for retirees. Queen Victoria plans a new will amid vast wealth. Lifesavers along the coast report 437 incidents with 4 608 people saved and almost all vessels spared losses under two million dollars.
Richest Man in Cleveland Cabinet and Alaska Trip
The article notes Francis as the new secretary of the interior, with Lamont following, and cites multiple officials with ample funds. It mentions President Grover Cleveland as a millionaire and L L Dyche returning from five months in Alaska after hunting for mammals for NASA. Dyche says a north pole passage via the Alaska route seems feasible with occasional full sail to 83 degrees.
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Cleveland
Interior
Francis
Lamont
New York
Harmon
Olney
Alerton
Carlisle
Wilson
Jierbert
L. L. Dyche
Alaska
Nasas University
North Pole
Alaskan
Prof. Dyche
Sone
Epitome of the Week from Washington
Treasury shows total money in circulation on December 1 at 1 646 444 746. Congress party split counts 204 Republicans 124 Democrats 13 Fusionists 12 Populists 4 Silverites with one vacancy. President reimposes tonnage and lighthouse duties on German ships as retaliation. Clearing houses report 1 285 485 904 in exchanges for week ending the 4th. Federal reports note coinage 71 188 528 and rising counterfeiting risk. Navy shortfall cited with 42 vessels, 8 165 enlisted, 1 378 apprentices. Fire, wrecks, and crimes across states fill the week’s screen.
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From
Washington
Treasury Department
United States
House of Representatives
Congress
Missouri
Germany
Preston
Mint
Interior
Francis
Texas
Navy
Herbert
State Department
Boston headlines mix of fires ships and politics in brief
Arena Publishing sinks into receivership in Boston. A New York Hayti submarine cable opened for public messaging. New Jersey divorce law ruled unconstitutional. Lennig and Doherty perish in Atlantic City church fire. Sarah Mink dies at 59 in Watertown. National Council of Women convenes in Boston. Fire hits Vineland’s state school. Imperial Grand Opera stranded for funds. Massachusetts counts show McKinley leads Bryan Palmer. Bangor Seminary ex-president dies in Maine. Cunard Servia sets record Boston to Daunt’s Rock. Vermont fire hits East Corinth. Two oil men drown in St Marys Ohio. Vicksburg and Newport gunboats launched at Bath. Gas suffocation kills Mrs. Lawrence and daughter in Boston. Skaters drown at Hawley.
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Boston
Arena Magazine Publishing Company
New York City
Hayti
West Indies
Court of Appeals
New Jersey
Thomas Lennig
William Doherty
Atlantic City
N.J
Sarah E. Mink
Woman's Auxiliary of the
Grand Army of the Republic
Watertown
N. Y
National Council of Women of the United States
Mary Low Dickinson
New Jersey State Institution
Vineland
Imperial Grand Opera Company
Mapleson
Massachusetts
McKinley
Bryan
Palmer
McWhinley
Benjamin Tappan
D. D
Bangor Theological Seminary
South Norridgewock
Europe
Cunard
Servia
Daunt’s Rock
East Corinth
Vermont
J. L. Godfrey
Clenton
Arthur Palmer
Montezuma
St. Mary’s
O. William Bourke
Josie Bourke
Daniel Ryan
Martin Burns
Hartford
Multiple Tragic Incidents Reported Across States
A series of brief news items recounts murder of William Counts in Reelsville Indiana, Sharkey defeats Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, a Russian family dies in Williamsport North Carolina blizzard, a Columbus Ohio church fire causes 50000 dollar loss, a jeweler’s safe theft in Omaha, heavy snowfall halting railways in Virginia and North Carolina, a Chicago house fire kills three children, a man in Bickville Illinois commits suicide, three earthquakes shake Pittsfield Illinois, a farmer dies frozen near Bucyrus Ohio, Weston Missouri church fire destroys the heat portion of the village.
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Nobbers
William E. Counts
Reelsville
Ind
San Francisco
Tom Sharkey
Bob Fitzsimmons
Williamsport
N. C
Tire
Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Columbus
H. Hitchburg
Omaha
Virginia
North Carolina
Paul Bartcovitch
Chicago
Bickville
H. M. Scott
Pittsfield
Bucyrus
George Nungesser
Weston
Kurdish raid and famine warnings reported
Kurds raided Mamouret U l Aziz province burning villages and massacring inhabitants. Australia seeks 100000 tons of wheat and flour from America with half already ordered. Canadian sealing fleets yield 55678 skins versus 70739 last year. Cuba urges farming to avoid famine. Liberia president Joseph James Cheesman dies, Vice President Coleman takes over. Britain wheat crop ahead of 1895 by 20000000 bushels. Montreal man Homer Howell shoots former sweetheart Annie Sims and kills himself.
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Mamouret-Ul-Aziz
Australia
America
Cuba
Joseph James Cheesman
Liberia
Coleman
Great Britain
Homer Howell
Annie Sims
Montreal
Que
Congress opens final session without business amid Cuba and national news
The fifty fourth Congress convened for its final session on the seventh with no business transacted. President Cleveland addressed Congress while Vice President Stevenson and Speaker Reed presided. Dispatches from Havana report Captain General Weyler wounded though not described as serious. Other items include a lynching in Arkansas, a fatal railway collision in Ohio, a 102 year old Derby death, government receipts and outlays, suicides and murders, a New York district attorney death, November fire losses, fiscal year estimates, and Cuba policy remarks by Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Stevenson
Senate
Reed
Havana
Weyler
Jim Davis
Joe Williams
Pine Bluff
Ark
Baltimore & Ohio
Storrs Station
Fannie Redding
Harry Burke
Derby
Conn
Samuel Rosenbaum
Rochester
N. Y
George Deacon
Argos
Ind
Deacon
John R. Fellows
New York
United States
Canada
Carlisle
House
Wiliam Drury
New Boston
Ill
Cuba
Spain
Secretary Olney Describes Cuba Rebellion in Detail
The 33 page State Department report outlines the Cuban insurrection as formidable and increasingly destructive to commerce and resources. It notes guerrilla tactics across the island, lack of a stable local government, and Spain’s harsh administration. it also covers Venezuela, arbitration talks with Britain, and broader foreign relations developments.
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Washington
United States
Olney
Lee
Cuba
Yara
Ises
Santa Clara
Cienfugos
Havana
Pinar del Rio
Cape San Antonio
Cape Maisi
Congress
Spain
Western Hemisphere
Fatal collision on B and O Southwestern near Sedamsville
A Monday morning wreck between the Aurora accommodation eastbound and the officers’ special inspection train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern at Sedamsville killed three and injured many. Engineers John Price and Omer Dixon died. several workers including George F. Randolph and J. Chesbrough were badly hurt as fog and low track visibility hindered sighting. The accident occurred when the special train failed to stop at Storrs station, traveling about 15 miles per hour in mist and a low track bed.
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Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Sedamsville
Aurora
John Price
Omer Dixon
L. Zipperling
North Bend
George F. Randolph
J. M. Chesbrough
Fred Moore
Delhi
W. H. Sexton
Tom Jones
John Kennedy
Clark Harvey
Chales E. Whiting
Lawrenceburg
Alexander Patterson
Ind
B. R. Brooks
J. H. Gay
Storrs
Robbers Worsed at Fairfax Milwaukee Depot
In Fairfax Iowa on Monday night an armed robbery attempt at the Milwaukee road depot ended with gunfire. The agent defended himself and two robbers were hit with one killed on the tracks south of the depot. The agent was unharmed and the dead assailant remained unidentified.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Road
Fairfax
Stantly
Bold Theft: Columbus Society Woman Robbed of Jewelry
Miss H. G. Kelley a Columbus society figure visiting Mrs. H. A. Stevens at 1902 Euclid Avenue was robbed of 2510 dollars worth of jewelry and cash while dining Monday evening. Entry gained through a transom. some pieces had been gifts from the Queen of Italy. Police hold an itemized list. no suspects identified.
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Columbus
Cleveland
H. G. Kelley
Troops Landed in Cuba Reinforcements Arrive in Havana
The steamship Bazón arrived Monday from Spain with 1,860 troops. Three died en route and six suffered from smallpox upon arrival as a citizen committee and military authorities welcomed the reinforcements in Havana.
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Cuba
Havana
Bazon
Spain
Congress Opens for Closing Session of Fifty Fourth
Washington observers filled the senate chamber and galleries as Congress began the closing session. Diplomats and officials attended, florals adorned desks for members, and tributes mingled with sadness over ex Speaker Crisp's death as portraits and flowers marked the Democratic side.
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Congress
Senate
Julian Pauncefote
Diplomatic Corps
Olney
Stevenson
Walthail
Mississippi
Cullom
Allison
Proctor
Mantle
Thurston
West
Smith
Blackburn
Pasco
Morgan
Voorhees
House
Reed
Messrs
Turner
Georgia
Howard
Alabama
Fletcher
Minnesota
Bramwell
Ohio
Gibson
Tennessee
Bailey
Texas
Lorimer
Illinois
Lacey
Towa
Loud
California
Livingston
John R Fellows Dead Noted Campaign Orator Dies
John R Fellows died at 1 p m in New York after a illness from a cold led to a stomach cancer. The longtime district attorney and former senator had spoken for Palmer and Buckner in campaigns and was a prominent Democratic figure in many states. He served in the Confederate army, later in New York politics, and attended national conventions as a delegate.
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New York
John R. Fellows
Col. Fellows
Palmer
Buckner
John Rr, Jr
Troy
N. Y
Camden
Ark
Port Hudson
State Senate
Congress
Tie
Tragedy in Indiana: Couple Dead in Rural Argos Murder Suicide
Argos Indiana December report: Jon Deacon 74 killed his wife four miles northeast of town with a knife then choked her. He then drowned himself in a barn stock water tank. Neighbors found the scene Monday. The Deacons had been married 50 years with grown children. authorities suggest probable insanity. Deacon had three prior suicide attempts.
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Argos
Ind
Jon Deacon
Deacon
Heavy Land Owner Dead in New Boston Ill
William Drury 86, described as the largest land owner in the United States, died at his New Boston home after holdings spanning Nebraska Colorado Texas. He resided in Mercer county Illinois and owned about 100 sections of Texas land.
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Muscatine
William Drury
Mercer County
Ill
United States
New Boston
Nebraska
Colorado
Texas
Drury
Raleigh
N. C
William W. Vass
Raleigh & Gaston Railway
Seaboard
Fight for Free Text Books Moves to Madison
Milwaukee dec 8 advocates of free text books plan to take the fight to the state capital as legislators from outside the city and local supporters push for the change. Also prominent Southerner Dearh John W La Bourisse ex president of the Cotton exchange dies of heart failure in New Orleans.
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Milwaukee
Madison
New Orleans
John W. la Bourisse
The
Cotton Exchange
South
Labor Notes Across Nations And Industries
Shiploads of wheat depart California for Sydney. Toronto merchants unite against department stores. The Boot and Shoe Workers' label is used by 19 factories. A St Louis woman opens a cooperative dining room for women. Duluth dealers agree to stock only union label cigars. Monongahela miners threaten strike to win higher wages. Japan adds over 600000 cotton spindles in under a year. Southern textile workers are being organized by AFL. Nailmaking machines match earlier output of 1000 workers. Six thousand African Kaffirs strike in Transvaal mines. In Queensland eight thousand of fourteen thousand sugar workers are Japanese Kanaka or Chinese. St Louis House of Refuge plan for a weekly paper faces labor opposition.
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California
Sydney
Toronto
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
St. Louis
Associated Retail Liquor Dealers
Duluth
Monogahela Valley
Japan
South
American Federation of Labor
Transvaal
Queensland
Notable Personalities Share Courtly Tales And Tragedies
Conan Doyle writes a short story while guests stroll the garden. Princess Henry of Battenburg mourns her husband. Augusta Evans Wilson, Beulah author, is in frail health and has left Mobile for Balmoral. Li Hung Chang and Joseph Chamberlain exchange suspicions over a monocle eye glass. Julia I. Williams guards Santa Barbara lighthouse nightly for 81 years. Queen Elizabeth Roumania, Carmen Sylva, reputedly writes verse in four languages and creates a French libretto for a Massenet opera.
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Conan Doyle
Princess Henry of
Li Hung Chang
Joseph Chamberlain
Julia I’. Williams
Santa Barbara
Cal
Queen Elizabeth of
Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Massenet
Hat and Gown Trimmings Fashion Trends and Notes
Fashion coverage describes hat decorations with rhinestone buckles, satin ribbons, velvet flowers, ostrich plumes, and magpie trims favored this season. The Duchess of Marlborough inspires choices, including velvet lining and Alsatian bow trims. Also promo copy touts St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for aches and pains.
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Duchess of Marlborough
St. Jacobs Oil
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