Notable odds and ends from distant lands and railways
Blaine man 86 recalls first ride of 29 trains. Augusta carpenter names four sons Jay Gould Vanderbilt Rockefeller Armour. Mme Tel Sono first Japanese woman lawyer. Prof Leiden reportedly earned 50000 dollars for attending Russia's emperor. Wyoming ranch spans 75 by 100 miles with 10000 horses 15000 cattle and 180000 sheep owner ex Senator Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan FuLoup
Augusta, Ga
Jay Gould
Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
Phil Armour
Wyoming
Rhode Island
Warren
Queen Victoria’s winter apples and western mince pie noted
The item cites Kawneas supplying Victoria with winter apples and flour from Minneapolis with meat from Chicago. It also notes dwindling whaling, a Spanish military exemption for $300, and a boast of Bret Hart’s fame. Anecdotes include U S pensioners aged 104 and 108, and Pennsylvania forest plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kawneas
Queen Victoria
Minneapolis
Chicago
Women Missionaries and a Long Married Life Highlight 19th Century Notes
The article notes women advancing in missions from 1820 onward, with counts rising to 1 000 more female missionaries than men, and native female teachers increasing from 875 in 1878 to 892 in 1898. It also tells Ira Warp and Hannah Graves Crumpton Ward's 1817 marriage near Hudson Vermont, ten children, and long devotion. Gen. Greely discusses telegraph lines changing military methods and battlefield communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Missionary Society
Ira Warp
Hudson
Mr. Ward
Connecticut
Hannah Graves Crumpton
Ferrisburg
Greely
Signal Service
Epitome of the Week Proceedings of the Second Session
The week covered Senate opposition to Peffer greenback bills and Nicaragua canal debate. House passage of interstate rail pooling bill. December reports note pensions granted and various incidents including lynching acquittals, murders, riots, a Ku Klux probe, and other political and criminal items across several states.
Civil Service Extension to IRS Ordered by President
An executive order extends civil service law and rules to the Internal Revenue Service. The navy vessel Dale is ordered out of commission, marking a historic action. Clearing house exchanges show total settled trades for the week ending the 14th at 1,019,089,669 dollars, down from 1,163,8 08,848 the prior week, with a 12.6 percent rise year over year. US business failures reach 349 in the seven days ending the 14th, compared with 385 prior week and 339 in 1893.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Service
Dale
United States
Multiple 1890s tragedies and records across the Northeast
A series of incidents includes a Buffalo fire destroying Birge's wallpaper factory with losses around 250000 dollars. Other events report deaths in Wayne PA Horace Greeley’s brother Nathan Barnes Greeley, a fatal shooting in Lynn MA, a Philadelphia suicide grief case Amelie Westergaard, cycling record changes in Buffalo, a New Bedford murder for which Daniel Robertson was hanged in 1893, and a Jamestown NY double murder during a funeral procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birge
Buffalo
N. Y
Nathan Barnes Greeley
Horace Greeley
Philadelphia
Eddy Leonert
Johnson
New Bedford
Mass
Daniel M. Robertson
Jamestown
Winslow Shearman
Clinton Davis
Notable Crimes and Disasters Across Cities and States
A roundup of incidents includes a Gallup fire destroying two thirds of the business district, painter Lewis Ives dies in Detroit at 61, rival firms unite to challenge Standard Oil in Toledo, a Kansas City bartender kills his wife then commits suicide, a Murray county grand jury indicts 36 men, Kearney bank closes with 125000 in liabilities, a stage robbery near Fort Thomas, Meadowcroft brothers jailed in Chicago, Evergreen Alabama fire wipes out 12 stores and more, graves robbed in Michigan, a Georgia lynching, a Chippewa chief shot in Wisconsin, Denver Times burns, Truskey hanged in Ontario, Debs jailed in Chicago, Rev Dillon resigns after fair in opera house, casimir nerner killed by wife then suicide in Manistee, counterfeiters nabbed in Oklahoma, rich ore found at Iowa Gulch near Lillian Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallop
N. M
Lewis T. Ives
Detroit
Mich
Toledo
Standard Oil Trust
Philip Crow
Kansas City
Murray County
Kearney
Neb
Michigan
Newt Hampton
Alec Williams
Elberton
Rice Lake
Wis
Joe White
Denver Times
Avr
Sandwich
R. M. Dillon
Greencastle
Ind
Casimir Ierner
Manistee
Oklahoma
Iowa Gulch
Lillian
Col
World News Briefs From 19th Century Dispatches
Foreign intelligence reports say Japanese troops entering Port Arthur on November 21 massacred nearly the entire population in cold blood. An earthquake in Messina, Italy killed 200. A volcano obliterated Anbrym island in the New Hebrides with inhabitants swept to sea. The Newfoundland ministry resigned amid a financial crisis. Sir John Thompson, Canada’s premier, died at Windsor Castle after being sworn into the privy council. Twenty Yaqui Indians massacred four cowboys near Hermosillo. Several New Hebrides islands were devastated by a volcano destroying a village of seventy five. Japanese officials demand China’s humiliation before talks on hostilities end. Damages to Mexico City’s cathedral from the quake total about 800000 dollars. Robert Louis Stevenson died in Samoa at 44.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apviers
Port Arthur
Nea Messina
Italy
Anbrym
New Hebrides
Newfoundland
Sir John Thompson
Canada
Windsor Castle
England
Privy Council
Ruiz Borcena
Hermosillo
Mexico
Japan
China
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
Senate Moves on Army Reorganization and Grants
In Washington the Senate discussed a reorganization and increase of the army on the seventeenth, with petitions for a land grant forfeiture bill and debate on the Nicaragua canal. The House passed the army appropriation bill, forest protection measures, and fifteen pension bills as well as reporting the Carlisle banking bill. A Grant statue appropriation of 800000 was introduced for the Capitol east front beside Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
Hawley
Carlisle
Gen. Grant
Capitol
Washington
Boston
James Murphy
Millin Jefferson
New York
Job Barry
Philadelphia
Samuta C. Sterry
Smiley” Jordan
Mount Hope
Exq
Joan
Jene Kennedy
Jasper
Tenn
James Lowrie
Shellmound
William Strausbaugh
Tiffin
Gardiner
Gresham
Pacific Coast
Our Citizens’ Stock Bank of Slater, Co
Slater Savings Bank
Currency Reform Debated by House Banking Panel
Washington hearing on currency law reorganization resumes before Ways and Means. Horace White submits plan reducing bond deposits and expanding notes backed by a new guaranty fund. Carlisle later outlines his draft with a 30 percent deposit and a safety fund aim. Ferris Cornwell and Dodsworth critique and propose alternatives for elastic, stable currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Banking and Currency
Ways and Means Committee
Carlisle
White
New York Evening Post
Johnson
Whites
Baltimore
Homer
Committee of National Bankers
Banking and Currency Committee
Horace White
Banking Association
United States
National Bank Association
Guaranty Fund
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Thompson Dies in Windsor
Sir John Thompson, Canada's prime minister, died at Windsor England after a privy council meeting. The death occurred at 1 45 p m following a 15 minute attack that began around 1 30 p m and after he had adjourned to luncheon with ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir John Thompson
Windsor
England
Wison
Privy Council
Sir John
Tragedy Follows Bank Shortage in Iowa City
John Huntington remittance clerk at Citizens' State Bank shot EF Hayden and A Cromwell then killed himself in the bank office after a $500 shortage dated back to July. Four $500 checks entered the bank on July 19 with three accounted for. An investigation found strong circumstantial evidence of misappropriation by Huntington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornci. Buuris
John Huntington
Citizens’ State Bank
EF. N. Hayden
Chicago
A. Cromwell
Minneapolis
Fidelity and Casualty Company
New York City
First Avenue
Main Street
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson Dies in Samoa
Auckland reports Stevenson died suddenly of apoplexy while living in Samoa after moving there for health. He was 1,800 feet atop Pala mountain at burial, having half finished a new novel. He had long shown concern for Samoan natives and opposed treaty powers over the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auckland
Apia
Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pala Mountain
Stevenson
South Pacific
The Christmas Lottery of Love and Examinations
A collage of verses and jokes from early publications. A Christmas lovers nondenominational lottery tale contrasts with anxious students facing examinations and humorous quips about catarrh cures and stairway vertigo at the Washington monument. The piece blends light verse with period humor and ad-like lines.
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Express
Benjamin Coxmins
Blaine, Mac
Mme. Tel Sono
Tokyo
Leyden
Russia
Spain
Bret Hart
London
San Francisco
GorLyn Phelps
Fort Niagara
Lake Ontario
Mr. Phelps
Davin McCoy
Redlands
Cal
Hosea Brown
Grant’s Pass
Ore
Pennsylvania
Monroe, Pike
Wayne Counties
Delaware River
Susquehanna
Parer
Ben Cable
Hullo
Ben
Tursday
Morrill
Peffer
Kan
House
Army
Mary Palmer Banks
Katherine Todd Crittenden
A. McClernand
Blanchard
Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana
University of the United States
Memphis
Fuames
Lewiston
Terre Haute
Isaac Bridges
Joseph Montgomery
Cabaniss
Little Will's Valley
Atlanta
George Stovall
New Orleans
Kid Lavigne
Saginaw
Andy Bowen
Bowen
South Fork
James Vivian
Miss L
Newcastle
Durig
Great Lakes
George Lavigne
Smyth Taylor
Greenville
van Leuven
Dubuque
Foreign Intelligence
Ferris
Cornwell
Dodsworth
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Myr. Ferris
Bank of New York
William C. Cornwell
City Bank of Buffalo
New York State Bankers’ Association
W. Dodsworth
Journal of Commerce
Sir Joan Thompson
Iowa
Kid” Lavigne
Auditorium Club Arena
Oliver Hereford
Harper's Magazine
Janette
Tom Wilkins
James Darby
Paul Watts
Jim Robinson
George Carter
Jack Hicks
Harper's Bazar
Cape Cod
Peking
John Smith
Hall
F. J. Curnzy & Co
Props
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Washington Monument
Hood
John Bennett
Joan Brnnett
Sunman
Bigney & Co
N.B
Hood's
Swan
Dr. Krumer & Co
Biveuamron, N
Imean Mperiay
John Carle & Sons
Chicago & Alton Railroad
California
Arkansas
Texas
Pullman
Indepot
James Chariton
Chicago & Alton Stailroad
Ill
Furnishi di
Fire Alarm CO
Iowa City
Scott
Ori Wanes
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
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