Express and Invention Highlights in Connecticut News
The Express notes Paris to London calls exceed 200 daily with two dollars per call. Connecticut claims invention as a habit with one patent per 903 residents last year. The national fish commission predicts a fish supply rise of 50 to 75 percent this year. Crauncrey Derry claims rheumatism left him by talking it out of his system and jokes about its cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tae
Paris
London
Connecticut
National Fish Commission
Crauncrey Derry
Endymion MecJimsny Clerk Seen At Marysville Office
A Marysville recorder's clerk named Endymion MecJimsny signs with a large rubber stamp. The note mentions a mother who studied oriental history and mythology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evapurates Esculapius
Endymion MecJimsny
Recorder’s Office
Marysville
Ilo
Spain Accepts Blame for Naval Incident Acknowledges Fault
The Spanish government signals friendly ties with the United States by admitting the naval commander who fired on the Alliance erred. It promises honorable satisfaction and pledges greater caution in the future to prevent a recurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Union Ordnance Output During Civil War Era
During the 1861 to 1865 conflict, the Union ordnance department supplied the army with 7,892 cannons 4,022,000 rifles 2,360,000 foot and horse equipments 12,000 tons of powder 42,000 tons of shot and 1,022,000,000 cartridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Ordnance Department
Army
First Dollar Mark Created by Binney and Ronaldson
According to a Philadelphia firm Binney and Ronaldson type founders the dollar mark was first manufactured in 1797 and appeared in their ledger that same year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patriotic Hereditary Societies of the
United States
Binney & Ronaldson, Type Founders
Philadelphia
Josiah Allen's Wife Writes From Ancestral Home Near Lake Ontario
Marietta Hotty known as Josiah Allen's Wife lives in a Jefferson county house near Lake Ontario. Five generations of Hollys resided there and the writer produces the works that made her famous from this ancestral residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta Hotty
Turkish marriage customs allow bathing fund as divorce cause
The text notes a practice where a husband agrees to provide his wife money for bathing expenses within the marriage contract. If funds are withheld, she may present the slipper to a judge, and failure to redress becomes grounds for divorce.
Meaning of tael in indemnity payments clarified
A discussion explains that tael is a weight not a coin and its value changes with silver prices. Currently in Peking one tael equals about $1.50 in Mexican silver dollars or 75 cents in American gold, affecting indemnity calculations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Boury Reservoir Disaster Claims 130 Lives and Leaves Hundreds Homeless
A Boury Trance reservoir burst caused at least 130 deaths and over 100 families left homeless. The disaster's scale drew comparisons to the Johnstown flood and prompted warnings that masonry must be the strongest possible in dam construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boury
Trance
Johnstown
Train trip from Philadelphia to Atlantic City set speed record
A Pennsylvania line train ran Philadelphia to Atlantic City in 45 minutes 95 seconds over 58 miles 30 chains. The run averaged 76 miles per hour and the best leg beat 87 miles per hour in 41 seconds. The Minneapolis Journal notes debts seemed unlikely to catch a man who traveled that fast, suggesting passengers were mainly newspaper men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Road
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Minneapolis Journal
New York Court Backs Bronze Paint As Living Statues Covering
A New York court virtually decides bronze paint is a more decent covering for limbs of living statuary than tights. In some Asiatic regions tattooed skin is used as clothing and waterproof for life. If climate allowed this would solve the nothing to wear problem. Shepherds in Mount Massico face disaster as earth and rock collapse in a cave, killing or injuring eleven from Sora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorke
Mount
Massico
Mondragone
Sora
Burmese Divorce Ritual and French War Mortality
A Burmese couple agrees to separate by candle sacrifice with the winner taking all. A French medical study maps wartime losses, listing defeated campaigns and casualty figures from the first republic through the second empire, noting millions of French soldiers dead in the late 18th to 19th centuries.
Senate party balance and economic summaries for week
The piece notes a Senate split of Republicans 43 Democrats 39 Populists 6 after elections. It reports New York and national exchanges totaling 127 million for the week ending May 10, up 25.6 percent from 1894. It records 22 business failures that week and 1 568 new post offices established by May 1. It also cites agricultural May wheat at 82.0, and retirement of Brig. Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey with Col. W. P. Craighill succeeding him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
United States
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Thomas Lincoln Casey
Army
W. P. Craighill
First National Cat Show Opens in Madison Square Garden
A roundup of events reports the first national cat show in the United States opening at Madison Square Garden New York. Also notes the 70th annual meeting of the American Tract Society in New York and other regional incidents.
Notable Fatalities and Incidents Across the States
A roundup of varying events includes the 104th birthday of Nathaniel Strougher near English Indiana, the suicide of Dr Hocker in Stanford Kentucky, famine reports in Athens County Ohio, a homicide acquittal in Fulton Gordon case in Louisville, divorce for Abraham Rimes in La Porte Indiana, a feud outcome in Jasper Alabama, a receiver named for the Ohio Southern railroad, John Cameron’s death in Cincinnati from smoking, Ohio-Colorado Mining’s press into receivership, the death of Congress member A M Hamilton in Fort Wayne, a Mississippi bankers meeting opposing silver coinage, a California tornado damaging fruit regions, a mine explosion in Sopris Colorado killing four, a Duluth harbor lightning death, attempted Burlington train wrecks in West Burlington Iowa, total wipeout of Ceresco Nebraska by fire, Hawthorne race track arrestees, and Confederate Memorial Day observed in the South.
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English
Ind
Nathaniel Strougher
8. G. Hocker
Stanford
Kky
Athens County
Fulton Gordon
Archie Brown
Louisville
la Porte
Abraham Rimes
Rimes
Dan Henson
John Hall
Jasper
Ala
Ohio Southern Railroad
Cincinnati
John Cameron
Cleveland
Ohio-Colorado Mining and Milling Company
A. M. Hamilton
Pbone
Fort Wayne
Jackson
Miss
State Bankers’ Association
California
Sopris
Col
Duluth
Minn
Charles Emory
Bay City
Mich
George Barshaw
Burlington
West Burlington
Ceresco
Neh
Hawthorne
Chicago
South
Multiple Crises and Trades Across States Reported
Discharges at Illinois Steel spark labor clash while violence erupts in Texas and Missouri. US National Musicians elect Alexander Steamer in Cleveland. Kansas and Nebraska see October snow. Ex bank cashier Flood jailed in San Francisco. War veteran Dr Robison dies in Wooster. Gas explosion harms Chicago building. A P A advances to international status in Milwaukee. Charles Hire and infant die in St. Louis blaze. Mournful executions occur in Colorado and Missouri. Frost, storms, and fire damage hit Midwest farms and industry. Ohio river drownings at Portsmouth. Dubuque population tallied at 40 663.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Matt Baily
Wellborn
Tex
Gus Rowe
Cleveland
National League of Musicians
Alexander Steamer
New York
Kansas
Nebraska
San Francisco
John Flood
Kelly Bank
J. D. Robison
Wooster
Chicago
American Protective Association
Supreme Council
Milwaukee
J. A. Scott
Charleston
W. Va
Luapprus Brown
Bryan
Supreme Council of the A. P. A
W. d. H. Traynor
Detroit
Supreme Council of the
United States
Canada
England
Charles Hire
St. Louis
Thomas Jordan
Peter Augusta
Canyon City
James Murray
Clayton
Joseph Barries
St. Joseph
Edward Murray
Herman
Mclean County
Ill
McMorran & Co
Davidson & McMorran
Port Huron
Mich
Davis Weaver
William Elliott
Portsmouth
Richard
Henry Rainey
Kentucky
Ohio River
James Robinson
Frank Mayfield
Mount Sterling
Dubuque
Insurgent Leaders Loose Hope as War Ends in Cuba
Reports say Ty Cuba insurgent chiefs surrender in despair while the battle at Boyey ends with Gomez defeating Salcedo, killing and capturing over a thousand Spanish troops. The sealing schooner Walter A. Earle capsized at sea with all thirty crew lost. Queen Victoria’s 70th birthday on May 24 signals a royal transition to King Edward VII. France, Russia and Germany plan naval buildup in the China seas. Cuina withdraws armistice extension requests. Hawaii reports 25 million dollars in American investments. Queen Natalie returns from exile to Belgrade after four years.
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Cuba
Walter A. Earle
Louis Maghesen
Victoria
B. C
Queen Victoria
Prince of Wales
Edward VII
CuIna
Hawai's
Francer
Russia
Germany
China
Natalie
Belgrade
Boyey
Gomez
Salcedo
Grim US grain stocks and frost harm across states
The report lists U S grain reserves by crop including Wheat 59,423,000 bushels and corn 7,081,000. New York grape crops damaged by frost estimated at 2,060,000. nationwide frost and poor weather blamed for wilted vineyards crops and ruined fields across Wisconsin Michigan Iowa Indiana Minnesota Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia and Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Illinois
Bloomington
Frank Vane
Midland
Mich
Pan-Haniitz
Star City
Ind
Peter Kimner
John Long
Iowa
Des Mones
Lebanon
Albert Sackett
Frank Jones
John M. Harlow
St. Louis
William G. Rice
Civil Service Commissioners
Messrs
Roosevelt
Lyman
Pratt City
Ala
City Hall
Northern Methodist Church
C. J. Bonner
Otto ‘Tdswell
Velpin
Esmeralda
Martina
Brest
Tim Boys
State Normal School
Slippery Rock
Imperial Bicycle Club
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Minnesota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Illinois
Talks on Money and Free Coinage Sparks in Washington
Secretary Morton defends demand and supply as the driver of value and argues against unlimited coinage while Senator Stewart mocks civil service reform and gold monometallism in a sharp open letter. Cherry replies noting legislation and cause and effect in silver value amid partisan pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morton
James A. Cherry
Denver
Treasury
Stewart
Washcton
United States
William M. Stewart
Nevada
Cleveland
Gov. Stone
Mississippi
Ohio
Mgr
Sherman
Wall
Lombard Streets
Jefferson
Shermans
Reeds
Shylock
Col
Mr. Cherry
Ailver
Senate of
Harrison
Europe
Mr. Carlisle
Curcanco
Forrest
John P. Hopkins
William A. Vincent
Vincent
Mitchell
Wisconsin
Democrats Favor Free Silver Plank at Convention
Senator Mitchell stated his impression that the national democratic convention would back a free silver plank in its platform, while Republicans would likely issue a statement praising silver and its coinage at a ratio to be set by international agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Death of Ex Gov Ira J Chase in Lubec Me
Ira J Chase former Indiana governor died of erysipelas in Lubec Maine where he had gone for evangelical work. Born December 7 1831 in Rockport Monroe County Indiana he later served as lieutenant governor then governor after Hovey's death. He faced indictment in a bank scheme but was later cleared after dismissal of the case at Frankfort Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiannaronts
Ind
Ira J. Chase
Indiana
Lubec
Rockport
Monroe County
Milan
Cook County
Til
Nineteenth
Illinois Regiment
Christian Church
Grand Army of the Republic
Gov. Hovey
Lat Ter
Gov
Matthews
Zimri Dwiggins
Greentown
Chase
Frankfort
Inid
Treaty of Peace With China Ratified by Japan
Tokyo reports ratifications exchanged at Chefoo on Wednesday with no text changes. Japan agrees to renounce permanent Liao Tung possession under China talks, while Fort Arthur and indemnities are arranged. China withdraws request to prolong armistice as Tokyo notes pace toward peace. Troop retirement to begin next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tokio
China
Fort Arthur
Yokoyama
Japan
New York
Herald
Manchuria
Bradstreet on trade and Formosa annexation notices
Bradstreet reports mixed trade signals with improving volumes in some U S centers and stronger wheat exports in the west and coast while strikes and wage pressure continue. Tokyo dispatch notes Formosa annexation steps by Japanese officials. Also reports accident at Walters flour mill and death of Ex President Julius Seelye of Amherst College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorks
Bradstreet
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Louisville
Detroit
Milwaukee
Chicago
St. Louis
South
Pacific Coast
Seelye
Amenst
Mass
Julius Ii. Seelye
Amherst College
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief From Tired Feeling
An article notes many suffer daily weariness and nervousness from impure blood and urges Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier. It cites H R Squires of East Leverett Mass reporting improved appetite and energy after use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
H.R. Squires
East Leverett
Mass
Epworth League Route to Chattanooga Offers Special Rates
The notice promotes Epworth League travel to Chattanooga via the Louisville and Nashville line with low hotel and cave fees for holders of Epworth League tickets. It highlights Nashville near Vanderbilt University and the historic battle sites between Nashville and Chattanooga, urging readers to request maps and rate details from agents in Louisville and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Chattanooga
Louisville & Nashville
Mammoth Cave
America
Nashville
Vanderbilt University
Methodist Church
Cincinnati
Louisville
Evansville
St.Louis
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the Express
Surrosr
France
Lagnein
Academy of Medicine of
First Republic
Waterloo
Crimea
Italy
Cochin
Second Empire
Lugneau
Madison Square Gardon
Tan American Tract Society
Imperial Varnish Company
Jersey City
N. d
James A. Weston
New Hampshire
Manchester
Young Men's Christian Association
Springfield
Yeas
Claude
Fred Hanner
F. W. Hanner
Slickery
Delaware
Henry A. Dupont
United States Senate
West Point
George S. Greene
Brooklyn
Langdell Gingham Mills
William T. Troth & Co
Teffer
Clara Herbold
Oakfield
N.Y
Provernor
Harry Minnich
Indianapolis
Rochester
N. Y
Julius N. Seelye
Amherst
Robert Placer
Mercer
L. P. Foster
Sandy Lake
Almond, N
Foreign Intelligence
Jones
Cherry
Lubec, Me
Chefoo
Formosa
Viscount Kabayama
Midzuno
The
Daily News
Vienna
Shanghai
Viewra
Kan
John Russell
Walters
Kingman
Rivener
N. Y. Tribune
Ostetter
Tenany
Mrs. Buuss
Li Hung Chang
the Mikado
Washington Star
California Fig ‘Syrup Co
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. J
Surit
Remington
la Salle Street
Beecham
B. F. Allen Co
Canal Street
John Carle & Sons
Saint Paul
Hopewell Clarke
ST. Paul, Minn
Paris Fashions
L’art de la Mode
Morse-Broughton CO
East 9Th St
Kation
iNetHe
Morse Bros
Canton
EWIS
Penna.salt Mig CO Gen
Phila
Ely
Warren St
Cunereves
Ajax Dynamite
Wwe
Bay City Minh
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