Notable Fragments From a Distant Era
In the far west a girl who works in a railroad restaurant is known as a biscuit shooter. Paris insurance refuses policies on lives of hair dye users. Norway alone does not raise annual cereal yields due to climate. A dangerous counterfeit man showed more ingenuity than judgment. A five is too large for most to change now. Bell Telephone 1893 earnings 5.9 million on 220 million capital. patents expire next year. An Oakland man struck by a bolt recovered but cannot recognize his mother in law. Col Aaron Eastox dies aged 87, had two towns named after him Easton and Alton. famed for bravery in Mexican and Black Tank wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bell Telephone Company
Bell
Oakland
Cal
Aaron R. Eastox
St. Louis
Iaston
Alton
Ill
Ile
Chicago Crime Sport Targets Dealers at Gunpoint
Reports describe a wave of armed robberies in the Chicago area where gangs select dealers in games of chance at gunpoint to win full payouts. The phrase single out indicates the method of stopping a game to extract winnings with no limits. Local authorities investigate the incidents and warn gamblers to avoid risky venues.
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Chicago
Four Train Robbers Sentenced to Thirty-Five Years
Four men who held up the International Express at Duval Texas were sentenced to thirty five years each after admitting guilt. The light sentence was secured under a plea, and the outcome is expected to deter similar robberies.
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Tur
Duval
Tex
Westron’s New York to Albany Walk Remains Noted
The text recalls Westron’s trek from Portland Missouri to Chicago about twenty years ago and says the current walk from New York to Albany shows his enduring powers as crowds greet him in Chicago.
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Westron
New York
Albany
Portland
Chicago
From memory loss to Blondin and leaf laws across Europe
GrorGcE C. Hunterer of Oakland recovers from skull fracture with amnesia, unable to recall wife or mother yet reads no more. Blondin nears seventy as he performs at London's Crystal Palace. France allows free gathering of fallen forest leaves to avert scarcity, with fines for improper collection.
Record of Top Turf Winnings and Notable Horses
Mr McCalmont led English winners with 127000 dollars while French turfman earned 170000. American turf star Meene topped all with 270000 dollars in winnings, Domino claiming 190000 of that total. The figures are exceptional as many bettors faced losses on the season's racecourse.
Farmer Gets Stuck in Chimney While Pretending Santa
A Pennsylvania farmer attempted a Santa Claus descent down his chimney to prove the myth true. He became lodged at the chimney center, causing his family to flee in fear and necessitating the chimney to be partially torn down and three men to rescue him.
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Santa Claus
Pennsylvania
Ijlis
A Philosophical Advice On Womanly Virtues
The speaker compares three traits to illustrate conduct for women. Like a snail she should bring things into the home but not burden herself indiscriminately. Like an echo she should answer when spoken to but not seek to dominate every conversation. Like a town clock she should be true and punctual yet avoid needless noise in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aphiloserner
Transfusion Report Aims To Treat Epilepsy In New York
A New York medical man reports successful transfusion therapy for epilepsy using material from sheep vital organs. It stresses absolute purity with daily fresh preparations and a subcutaneous injection above the hip joint to nourish the nervous system without overstimulation.
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New York
Canadian society accepts Chicago grass widow Mrs Foster
Curicaco divorces will go in Canada hereafter. My Foster, former finance minister, married a Chicago grass widow, previously shunned by governors general and premiers. Lord Aberdeen now welcomes Mrs Foster, breaking the old precedent and cementing her place in Canadian society.
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Curicaco
Canada
Foster
Dominion
Lord Aberdeen
Epitome of the Week From United States News Briefs
Grain supplies totals for wheat corn oats rye and barley. Mail traffic volume and letters handled in the last fiscal year. Army whistle command rules. American minister Thompson recognizes Brazilian insurgents as belligerents. Senate foreign relations probes Hawaiian issue. Death notice for George W Savage US Consul Dundee. 1893 US railway mileage and federal building expenditures. Patents rights public list proposal. Distribution of US warships abroad. Clearing house exchanges week ended 29th totals. Business failures 1898 liabilities by sector.
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United States
Post Office Department
Thompson
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
George W. Savage
Dundee
Scotland
Tun
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Commissioner of Patents
Major incidents tally across cities and seas in 1898
The report lists widespread losses and events from New York fires destroying £475000 property and costing a fireman life to Philadelphia coal dealer Samuel Hellner facing £500000 in losses. Robberies hit five stations on Pennsylvania line, a 75 foot whale was killed near South Hampton, and Providence saw a $200000 Moulton block fire. Trenton saw US Cordage company organized with $34 million capital. Carnegie offered $5,000 daily for two months to Pittsburgh needy. New York & Northern railroad sold for £24 million. customs duties in 1803 and 1802 totals given. J G Dun notes 1898 the worst for fifty years with low product prices and widespread unemployment and charity relief. Jane Sloan and Sarah Lavery die of heart disease in Philadelphia. William D Raneker found dead in Brooklyn.
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New York
August Miller
Philadelphia
Samuel Hellner
Pennsylvania
South Hampton
N. Y
Providence
R. 1
Trenton
N. J
United States Cordage Company
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburgh
Pierpont More@an
New York Central
New York & Northern Railroad
Jane Sloan
Sarah Lavery
Brooklyn
William D. Raneker
American News Company
Multiple regional incidents and trials across the United States in 1898
News briefs report alumi num dimes in Cincinnati and counterfeit alarms, bonds and receivers for Santa Fe railroad with $20 million liabilities, a mob execution in Mississippi, lynching in Georgia, drownings in Utah, and corporate losses in Cincinnati. Also noted are Milwaukee assignees totaling $499,000 liabilities, temperance push in Indiana, a million dollar Central Relief drive in Chicago, a Missouri Pacific injunction in Milwaukee, Florida law testing warrants, an assassination attempt on Louisville mayor, fire at Gaylorsville Ohio, planned electric road system in northwest Ohio, and a Booneville Indiana mother shooting incident.
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Cincinnati
Santa Fe
Sloan Allen
Nero
Wests
Miss
Ben Nubors
Amos
Calvin Thomas
Sellers
Bainbridge
Tracy I
Oscar Bingham
Lissop Bingham
John Ashlander
Riverdale
Utah
Banner Brewing Company
Tim
Almon Root
Whitewater
Minn
Milwaukee
Indiana
Chicago
Central Relief Association
Jenkins
Missouri Pacific Railway
United States
Puvilists
Corbett
Mitchell
Louisville
S. Schwartz
Henry
Tyler
Gaylorsville
Johnsons and others seek fortunes in a year of scandals and crime
The year brought varied headlines from prizes totaling 20000 for Zimmerman and 13000 for Johnston to a fatal Lafon estate valued at 500000 in New Orleans. Reports cover bank closures, fires destroying towns, lynchings in Alabama, poison trial in Indianapolis, and a Chicago murder conviction for Patrick Prendergast.
International Briefs and Local Losses Highlight Global Lasts
The report denies Rio de Janeiro’s fall and President Peixoto’s resignation. A Paris prize offers 100000 francs for contact with a celestial body within ten years. A Kiama pleasure trip wrecks with seven drowned. World wine output and value rise sharply. Trade falls in Britain. Captured sailors, killed pursuer in South Africa. Vienna deaths in a fall. Halifax mine drownings. Havana exports 1894 tallied. Amsterdam fogs drown twenty. Gladstone marks 14th birthday. One American flag removed at Quebec banquet.
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Rio Janeiro
Peixoto
Admiral Mello
Institute of France
Paris
Kiama
N.S. W
France
London
Breaziway
John Andrews
Wilson
South Africa
Passau
Ohn
Jerf Pick
Vienna
Austria
Faulkner
Lois
Sauvage
Tuttle
Halifax
N.S
Havana
United States
Amsterdam
Welland
William Inwalr Gladstone
England
Quebec
Canada
Various 1890s United States and world events summarized
Government receipts and expenditures show a 44 008 718 deficit for six months. Burke and Co publishers of Macon Ga fail for 100 000. Congress committee attacks Blounts Hawaiian policy. India faces 40 000 starving. 1895 US deaths by self harm 4436 up from 3860. Buffalo boarding house fire kills six. Omaha fire tragedy. US post offices total 56806. Manchester Ship Canal opens with 100000 spectators. Philadelphia mint coinage 78 820 235 in 1802. Ocean 6 085 lives lost, lakes 215 in 1893 vs 1902 3346. Boston Globe and other buildings burn for 500 090. US fire losses 1893 total 1 535 690. Chicago’s Bert Schoen wins six day race with 1600 miles. Saratoga death of Davin Jd Williams aged 106. Railroad disaster deaths 180% 4608 vs 4428 in 1802. Ontario votes prohibition. Ohio and Virginia legislatures convene. US murders 6615 in 1493 1892 6701. executions 126 in 1893 107 in 1892. lynchings 200.
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OW. Burke & Co. Publishers
Macon
Foreign Affairs Committee
Blount
India
United States
Buffalo
N. Y
John Cummings
Omaha
Manchester
England
Durne
Philadelphia
Globe Theater
Boston
AnBert Scuoen
Chicago
New York
Davin Jd, Williams
Saratoga
Ontario
Ohio
Virginia
Dramatic Court Scenes in Prendergast Case
At Chicago court on Thursday the Prendergast murder trial saw attorney Trude denounce the defendant with vivid rhetoric as Prendergast erupted in rage and denial. The judge and crowd watched as bailiffs restrained him. Trude pinned the defense while describing Mayor Harrison's death and jailhouse scenes. The day ended with Prendergast exhausted and silent, amid ongoing testimony and sensational remarks.
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Cmcaco
Prendergast
Trude
A. Trude
Harrison
Wade
Iyvade
Mr. Trude
Sam
Spray
Dearsborn
Jung Prendergast
Bridewell
Mgr. Trude
Anna Wagner Acquitted in Indianapolis Murder Trial
In Indianapolis on December 30 the jury found Anna Wagner not guilty in the Annie Wagner murder case after a twelve hour deliberation. The trial revealed arsenic evidence linked to multiple Koesters family deaths dating back to 1892, with the state dismissing two additional indictments.
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Anna Wagner
Indianapolis
Annie Wagner
Koltzman
Nancy Clem
Jacob Young
Cold Springs
Charles I Koesters
South Meridian Street
Clara Koesters
Charles Koesters
Meridian Street
Russell Avenue
Anna Wigner
Dr. Reyer
Clara. Koesters
Hisenbeiss
K Keesters
Mary Keesters
Charles
Frank L. Koesters
Mary M. Koesters
Clara Hoesters
Eisenbeiss
Koesters
Fraud Charged in Northern Pacific Receivership Case
Northern Pacific through Silas W. Pettit petitions U S court to remove current receivers Thomas I. Oakes Henry C. Payne and Henry C. Rouse charging lack of hearing when appointed and alleging managers tainted by fraud and mismanagement. It claims $0,000,000 in property liens were improperly acquired and profits benefited insiders.
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Millwauker
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Silas W. Pettit
Philadelphia
Jenkins
United States Court
Thomas I. Oakes
Henry C. Payne
Henry C. Rouse
Oakes
R. G. Ralston
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York
Interference Blocked in Northern Pacific Dispute
Writs were served on Chief Arthur and other Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers leaders by the U.S. Circuit Court in Wisconsin to stop interference with the Northern Pacific railroad. Arthur called the move a surprise, noting the union took no action in the railroad troubles. Also notes the death of Dean Merivale of Isly and J Pierpont Morgan buying the New York & Northern railroad for 1 million dollars at foreclosure with no other bids.
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Arthur
Northern Pacific
Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
United States Circuit Court of the
Eastern District of Wisconsin
Northern Pacific Railroad
Brotherhood
Dean Merivale
Charles Merivale
Isly
Earl of Derby
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York Central
New York & Northern Railroad
Hia
Jury Finds Prendergast Guilty and Fixes Death Penalty
The Prendergast trial ends with a guilty verdict and death sentence after a noon to 2:29 pm jury deliberation. The assassin Gene Prendergast shows strain at the verdict, while his brother and attorneys respond with mixed emotion and appeals for a new trial. Dispatches note broad newspaper approval of the verdict.
Kansas sheriffs protest governor's tramp circular in Topeka
About fifty Kansas sheriffs gathered to denounce Gov Lewelling's tramp circular calling it an open bid for tramps and thugs to pillage the state. They said the tramp issue transcends party, with officers compelled to act amid daily vagrancy demands and payments alleged to reach three to five dollars. Found dead women and other notices followed in terse dispatches from Philadelphia and Malton.
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Topexa
Kan
Kansas
Gov. Lewelling
Little Fellows Mighty Kidneys Health in Dangers
The piece claims small organs, the kidneys, do much work in health. Disruption of their function is dangerous and can be fatal. Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters is advertised to renew kidney activity and avert danger. It also claims relief from rheumatism dyspepsia biliousness malaria and nerves.
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Far West
Norway
Grorgce C. Hunterer
Blondin
Niagara Falls
Crystal Palace
Washington
ToLepo
William Beyers
Booneville
Ind
Tom
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Onduris
Kentucky
Jeffersonville
Mary I. Lease
State Board of Charities
James J. Connerr
Charles Mitchell
Jacksonville
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Tye
Cass County Bank of Atlantic
Slisboro
Duncan
Thomas Ransdall
Koosters
Mack Stearns
Brantley
Ala
Lawrenceville
Edward Williams
Broadway
Warrensburg
Charles Banks
Isaac Palmer
Jouyn KE. Carron
Mexico
Congress
Patrick Eugene Prendermast
Carter Harrison
Foreign Intelligence
Carter Warridon
Grand Jury
J. D. MacNeal
W. L B. Burnett
Powell Crosley
I. J. Mitchell
W. A. Thompson
George M. Leighton
Harrrowspure
Bryant
Manning Davis
Edward Gonzales
Jim Upkins
Davis
Gonzales
Upkins
Nova Scotia
Hapirax
Savage
Tuettle
Curcaco
Trade
Rentano
Patrick Eugene Prendergast
McGoorty
John Prendergast
Clerk Price
John
Gene
Essex
Heron
Richard A. Wade
America
Stevenson
Carter H. Harrison
Onto
City
Les
Franx J. Cuexry
F.J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hans Catarre Curz
Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Gurason
Oman
Hall
F. J. Coenry & Co
Detroit Free Press
Thema
PuitapeLruia
Avery
Sloan
Cooner
Sidebotham
Richard Spruce
Malton
Hood
Mood’s
C. G. McCrave
Park Place
Elmira
DPR
Kilmer
R. J. Cgtsinger
Marietta
Shelby Co
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Abel the Genuine
Hartshorn
PEE SC
ELY Bros
Warren
N.Y
J. A. Rice
Ottawa
Swift Specific
Atlania
Rade Pure
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