Brooklyn Jersey City Railroad Tunnel Proposal
A plan to build a railroad tunnel under East River to Jersey City and Manhattan island is discussed. The Peking Gazette reportedly decapitated 1,800 editors, a drastic jab at censorship. A Kansas woman's club voted on marriage timing by secret ballot and chose any time as best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Jersey City
East
North Rivers
Manhattan Island
China
Peking Gazette
Kansas
Americans Work in Glasgow With Asphalt Roller
A squad of American laborers operates an American roller to asphalt a Glasgow street. The scene highlights a surge of American ideas and influence as they travel abroad seeking new opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Three Ex Husbands Meet Wife and Present Spouse in Wayne
In Wayne Nebraska three former husbands of the same wife visited her and her current husband. They shared a cordial reunion and agreed to establish an annual convention to be held each fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne
Neb
Plymouth Judge Debunks Mayflower Armchair Claim
Judge Davis of Plymouth Massachusetts doubts the Mayflower carried any armchairs, noting the vessel weighed 180 tons and carried 101 passengers besides the crew. The remark frames the antiquarian’s view on historic ship furnishings.
Cuban War Casualties Report From Havana Correspondent
A Havana correspondent in Barcelona reports that Spanish forces killed or wounded in Cuba since the insurrection began less than three years ago total 65 000 to 70 000 men. The figure represents about one third of the troops sent to the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Barcelona
Spain
Cuba
Ingenious Corn Swindle Hits Indiana Farmers
A design ing rascal swindles Indiana farmers by selling colossal corn kernels built from joined cob sections. The scam has already occurred, the swindler is at large, and victims can only acknowledge the corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Brookline A Rich Suburb Upholding Town Meeting
Brookline near Boston, with a population around 17 000 and a $60 million valuation, remains governed by a New England town meeting. The town features a 45 000 volume public library a $300 000 high school a $40 000 free bathing establishment and about $100 000 yearly for parks and shaded streets. Boston would annex it yet Brookline chooses to stay as is.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Brookline
Boston
Federal law mandates automatic couplers and train brakes on rail cars
The interstate commerce commission requires all cars to be equipped by January 1 next year. Passenger cars are nearly complete with 32,334 of 33,326 and 32,965 with train brakes. Freight cars lag, with less than a third under the law, prompting roads to seek a ten year extension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Roads
Admiral Worden Remembered For Monitor and Civil War Valor
The Washington obituary recalls Admiral John Lorimer Worden who commanded the Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads, where he was wounded. He later oversaw ironclad construction in New York and remained a leading Civil War hero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lorimer Worden
Washington
Admiral Worden
Ericsson
Monitor
Merrimac
Newport News
New York
Ships Under Construction Promise Global Arms Race
The article notes 87 war vessels totaling 318 612 tons are being built in British yards with 34 destined for foreign nations. It argues that new inventions could render these battleships obsolete, much as Ericsson revolutionized sea power with the Monitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
John Ericsson
Poetic Critique Leads to Exclusion from Library Roll
Tom Moore the poet visited the United States in 1804 and after returning to England published anti American verses. Nearly a century later his bitter diatribes linger, and because of his treatment of President Jefferson his name is omitted from the inscriptions on the walls of the new congressional library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom” Moore
United States
Jefferson
England
Sparks as Fuel Cut Waste to Profit on Railways
Modern ingenuity uses locomotive sparks as fuel. collected from spark arresters on eastern engines, the half-burned cinders burn in furnaces with ced draft. The New Haven Railway Co finds two tons of sparks at 72 cents per ton equal one ton of coal at three dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven Railway Company
Epitome of the Week Dispatches and Appointments
A Washington dispatch covers Spain and Cuba with Madrid replies not published. Thanksgiving proclaimed for November 25. James Longstreet named railroad commissioner by McKinley, replacing Wade Hampton. Weather Bureau seeks $1,044,050 for next year. Agriculture urges embassy agents for farming data, notes sugar beet growth and horse farming for exports. October receipts $24,300,547. expenditures $3,713,000. deficit $9,522,650.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Woodford
Madrid
Cuba
McKinley
James Longstreet
Georgia
Wade Stampton
United States Weather Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
Department
Notable 1890s Dispatch: Deaths Fires and Financial Totals
Chronicle of events including Henry George death at 58 and nomination shifts, Eddie McDuffie two mile record in Philadelphia, and Union Trust building fire in Pittsburgh. Weekly exchange totals reached 1.193 billion with a 22.9 percent rise from 1896, amid business failures and mine disasters in Scranton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie McDuffie
Philadelphia
Princeton
N. J
Grover Cleveland
United States
Union Trust Company
Pittsburgh
Henry George
New York
Grand Central Palace
Scranton
John J. Curtis
Ludlow
Warren
Mass
Multiple Disasters Hit Cities Across the Nation
Fires wipe out Woelfel Leather tannery in Morris Illinois and Georgia cotton oil mill in Atlanta. In Colorado blizzards trap trains and freeze Mrs Laura Winter near Elbert. Judge Truesdell dies in Phoenix. Gen Dodge reelected leader in Milwaukee. A long list of accidents and crimes follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woelfel Leather Company
Morris
Grand Encampment
Woo
Denver
Col
Colorado
Laura Winter
Elbert
Johan Kuhns
Miltona
Minn
Harry C. Truesdell
Arizona
Phoenix
G. M. Dodge
Milwaukee
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Beaver Island
Clinton
Adolph Johnson
Kansas City
Sioux City
Morton Allen
Texas
Boyd
Waco
Cheyenne
Wyo
Walter Houghton
Ogden
Iowa
Eugene B. Dyke
Charles City Intelligencer
George Lavinge
Joe Waolcott
San Francisco
Chicago
Congregational Council
C. O. Brown
Bay Conference of
Dr. Brown
Georgia
Atlanta
Alonzo Barnes
Lincoln
Neb
Chelsea
I. T
John Watka
Jonas Deer
Werner Company
Tennessee
Nashville
Henry Bergenkreuger
Jacob Amos
St. Paul
Tn St. Louis
Fort Branch
Ind
Columbus
William E. Ide
John Smith
Ide
Georgia football player dies from game injuries in Atlanta
In Atlanta, Richard Von Guiniaion of the University of Georgia football team died from injuries suffered in a game. In Augusta, three men were killed when a ditch bank collapsed during excavation. In Chicago, Fritz Sigren fatally shot Mary Small and then killed himself, with jealousy noted as the motive. In Cincinnati, President McKinley was hosted for a banquet by the Commercial Club, who invited him to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Richard von Guiniaion
University of Georgia
Augusta
Chicago
Fritz Sigren
Mary Small
Cincinnati
McKinley
Commercial Club
Cuba Insurgent Leader Captured and Executed
Gen Castillo was not slain in open combat but betrayed by a guide and shot after capture by Spaniards. Other items note Spain seeking European support if U S relations rupture, Wercules Robinson death in London, Turkey resuming trade duties in Greece, Chase breaks 100 mile road record in London, Minas Prietas mine blast in Mexico kills 13, three injured, Blanco arrives to lead Cuba, and Japan reports dysentery tolls in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castillo
Cuba
Spain
United States
Wercules Robinson
Cape Colony
London
Turkey
Greece
Chase
Minas Priestas
Mexico
Marshal Blanco
Jiavana
Gen. Weyler
Japan
Various 1897 Economic Fluctuations and Local Incidents
Immigration arrivals for the first quarter fell about 11 500 from the prior year while October mintage reached 6 426 500 dollars with gold and silver outputs. A $10 counterfeit certificate with Hendricks portrait circulated in Chicago. Private bank burglary in Burlington Ontario netted 2 000 dollars. Union Pacific assets sold in Omaha for 58 965 dollars to a reorganization committee. Alaska gold fields employ nearly 9 000 people per TAS. Georgia considers banning football. William Findlay Brown dies from football injuries. German exports to U S rise by about 20 million. North Dakota allows Indians with lands in severalty to vote. Gen J C Howe dies of typhoid at 43. Turret guns planned for New York harbor defense. Internal revenue receipts for year to June 30 total 146,619,593, down since 1896 by 311,022. A strawboard trust forms in Anderson Indiana. U S visible grain supply totals Wheat 96,974,000. Corn 45,998,000. Oats 15,364,000. Rye 3,442,000. Barley 3,817,000 bushels. Chicago opens its first horse show at the Coliseum with 10 000 attendees. Public debt statement shows October debt rise 8 441 158. treasury cash stands 831 669 957. Total debt net of cash equals 1 020 563 901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Hendricks
Chicago
Burlington
Ont
Ri. G. Baxter
Union Pacific Road
Omaha
Reorganization Committee
TAS
Alaska
Georgia
William Findlay Brown
New Castle
North Dakota Supreme Court
J. C. Howe
Ohio
McKinley
Kenton
New York Harbor
Strawboard Trust
Anderson
Ind
Coliseum
Treasury
Minor News Items From Across the Nation
A compilation of brief regional notes notes include Germany’s centenarian count of 78. a monument for Charles I’. Crisp in Americus Georgia. New Orleans frost dates. Beaver Falls doctors Grim Ague and Coffin. US Egypt money order exchange. whalebone prices in New Bedford. St Louis coal plans to mine in Minnesota. Elwood Indiana beet sugar trials. WCTU round the world missions election cadence. Fort Chippeway wood bison. Cooper Medical College endorses Hirschfelder's tuberculine cure. Maj. Gen Daniel Sickles awarded a medal for Gettysburg gallantry. Philadelphia AIHA recommends individual communion cups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Charles I
Crisp
Americus
Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Beaver Falls
Ague
Coffin
Post Office Department
United States
Egypt
New Bedford
Mass
St. Louis
Mlineis
Elwood
Ind
General Officers of the World
Toronto
Canada
Fort Chippeway
Great Slave Lake
Cooper Medical College
San Francisco
Hirschfelder
Daniel KE. Sickles
U.S. A
Third Army Corps
Gettysburg
Philadelphia
American Public Health Association
Henry George Dies While Campaigning for New York Mayor
Henry George author of Progress and Poverty and candidate for mayor of New York died at 4 50 am in the Union Square hotel from cerebral apoplexy after days of campaigning. His son is named to succeed him as candidate for mayor under the Thomas Jefferson democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson Democracy
Greater
New York
Henry George
Union Square Hotel
Cooper Union
California
Printer’s Case
San Francisco Times and Post
England
Ireland
Mr. George
Duke of Argyle
Leo XIII
Herbert Spencer
George
United Labor Party
Abram S. Hewitt
Theodore Roosevelt
Iris Wather
Spain’s Cuba reply viewed as conciliatory by U.S. officials
Washington reports that the Spanish response to Mr Woodford’s Cuba note is regarded as conciliatory. The administration welcomes the prompt reply and notes the cabinet’s reforms as evidence of intent to improve Cuba. A swift revocation of Weyler’s concentration order is hoped to ease the reconcentration crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Woodford
Cuba
Trade Slowdown Amid Mild Weather Hinders Retail Activity
The Dun survey notes retail trade testing progress but slowed by prolonged warm weather and southern fever. Despite this, large orders from the quarter show better distribution, while wholesale orders lag yet remain sizable for the period. Payments through clearing houses rose 3.9 percent vs 1892, monthly up 6.1 percent. 219 U S failures that week, 2 in Canada, versus 270 and 40 a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Denver Post Inspectors Nab Suspect In $14000 Package Theft
Post Office Inspector Frederick and City Detectives Thomas and Burle arrested Walter Toughton, a Cheyenne to Ogden postal clerk, on a charge of stealing a registered package worth $14,000. A telegram said Houghton confessed to the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Frederick
Thomas and
Burle
Cheyenne
Wyo
Walter Toughton
Ogden
Houghton
Stand by the Temple pledge amid Chicago temple debt
Mrs. M. B. Carse reports the temple funding crisis stems from national finances and urges sticking to the pledge to secure 300000 dollars within six to twelve months. Delegates debate plans behind closed doors at the Church of Our Father and approve funding measures with Miss Cornelia Dow named custodian of the trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
M. B. Carse
Temple
Lyman J. Gage
Chicago
Church of Our Father
Matilda B. Carse
Sarah G. Johnson
Katherine Lente Stevenson
Massachusetts
Union
Susan 8. Fessenden
Curse
Louise S. Rounds
Illinois
Willard
Miss Willard
Cornelia Dow
Neal Dow
Marion H. Dunham
Iowa
Squatter Loses in Illinois Steel Eviction Case
Milwaukee November 2 The first eviction suit by the Illinois Steel company against squatters on Jones island was decided in favor of the company in U S district court. The ruling held title by government deed superior and dismissed the defendant John Budsisz position. The defense attorney planned to file an exception to the verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ilinois Steel Company
Jones’ Island
Illinois Steel Company
United States District Court
John Budsisz
Seaman
Fire in Central mine traps workers saved in Michigan
Fire broke out in the Central mine at Houghton on Monday afternoon. Miners surfaced quickly while a relief party entered the shaft and rescued Frank Stanton agent of the mine and his father John Stanton of New York and William A Payne of Boston who were trapped inside. The openings were sealed and officials expect the fire to be suffocated within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Houghton
Mich
Central
Frank Stanton
John Stanton
New York
William A. Payne
Boston
Jury Discharges After Long Davenport Murder Trial
The Davenport jury could not reach a verdict in the murder trial of Mrs. Christina Behrens, accused of killing her husband Claus Behrens after 52 hours deliberation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Christina Behrens
Claus Behrens
Iowa News Letter highlights on bicyclists and county cases
Des Moines reports a state supreme court ruling finding bicyclists at night without lamps or bells negligent, limiting recovery against other drivers. The column also covers Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home plans, a Colfax hotel purchase, European butter demonstrations, and a major Novak murder case in Vinton. Additional notes touch Illinois militia rumors, Gov. Drake’s health, lantern slide tech, Paris statue fundraising, and Civil War scout Thomas W. Burton’s memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Teague
Odd Fellows
Colfax
Odd Fellows’ Orphans
A. M. Head
Jefferson
Jordan
Rock Island
Novak
Iowa
Vinton
Frank A. Novak
Walford
Edward Murray
Perrin
Benton County Board of Supervisors
Milo P. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Tobin
Boies
Waterloo
Horace Boies
William Murray
J. G. Johnson
Woodmen
Fred Kanne
Fulton
Lyons
Clinton
Tanner
Illinois
Drake
Company IL
Minois
THINGS ABROAD AND GLOBAL NOTES IN BRITAIN
Russia sends missionaries to England to teach Greek Orthodox doctrine. Cro mer Express switches to oil fuel on a 130 mile Great Eastern line at 43 miles per hour. Kaiser Wilhelm’s speeches fill 323 pages in a cheap German edition. Whistler may be run by a London syndicate to exhibit his art. Luka Jantje head severed by orders of Cape Town Highlanders chief. A £245,506 tea duty payment in London tops world history. Cinnamic acid salts tried for tuberculosis on 400 Stuttgart patients. Australia reduces writs and court complaints drastically. Balmoral hosted a Glasgow singing society with songs about Prince Charlie. Compulsory education to start in European Russia with czar’s approval. Only eight percent of 130 million Russians can read or write.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
England
Cromer
Great Eastern Railway
Kaiser Wilhelm
James McNeil Whistler
London
Searle
Cape Town Highlanders
Luka Jantje
Landerer
Stuttgart
Australia
Supreme Court of Victoria
Victoria
Glasgow
Balmoral
Points of Etiquette From Ladies' Home Journal
A guide on etiquette advises against costly rings for daily office wear and suggests modest jewelry. It describes appropriate clothing such as black camel hair or vi euna cloth with wool braid and pale tan gloves. It notes politeness in returning dropped items and comments on musicians and church subscriptions being hard to pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mrs Peterson’s Story of Relief from Womb Trouble
Mrs JosEia Peterson of Warren Pennsylvania describes fifteen years of womb inflammation enlargement and displacement. After starting Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she reports complete recovery and credit to the remedies after suffering heart dizziness and breath difficulties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkham
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monticello
Foreign Intelligence
Borough of
Queens
National W. C. 1
U. Deetidlesco
Haerd
Robinson Opera House
THE
Iowa News Letter
Supreme’ Court
Hutter
Europe
Frank Norvak
Daly
Agricultural Department
Iowa State Dairy Association
Charles City
America
Wilson
Supreme Court
Board of Supervisors
Wome
Centerville
Excelsior Springs
E. W. Scripture
Yale
Paris
Daniel C. French
MacMonnies
Prussia
Herr Teindl
Magdeburg
Hall Caine
I. S. Willard
Thomas W. Burton
Wisconsin
Robert E. Lee
Burton
Lee
Gatarrn
Hood
W. E. Metitoway
Columbia
Missouri
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!