Scattered Global Anecdotes and Statistical Quips
A compilation of misc items notes price debates for leadership roles in Canada, travel and transport contrasts in the U S, New York wedding customs, large families in the east, unusual marriages and punishments, a girl restrained by parents over bicycle ambitions, Peter the Great’s empire guidance, Russian penal reform concerns, and global death statistics from various diseases.
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Peter the Great
Russian Empire
Europe
Constantinople
Tudin
Lightning deaths rarer in cities than rural areas
European observers note fatal lightning strokes are scarce in large cities but common in rural districts. They credit the dense network of wires with safely conducting the electric fluid away, echoing Ben Franklin’s advocacy for lightning rods.
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Ben Franklin
Massachusetts Gypsy Moth Control Depletes Funds
Massachusetts spent a million dollars on gypsy moth extermination with this year’s appropriation of 100000 nearly exhausted. Commissioners have begun discharging workers while moths remain widespread and destructive.
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Massachusetts
Hair Color Traits Said to Reveal Character
An oracle claims gray hair in advance signals sympathy and honor while gray hair results from overscrupulousness rather than grief. Pale hair on women marks them as bare and fickle, and light-haired men as smart yet conceited and selfish. Red-haired people are said to be smart unless proven otherwise, in which case they are described as the stupidest.
Miss Abigail Dodge and a New York merchant prince
The article recalls Miss Abigail Dodge as a sharp witty writer and biographer of Blaine linked to Miss Stanwood. It notes A. L. Stewart and the Wilton Hughes firm building a retail empire in New York from 1825 onward, including the vast storefront near City Hall Park. It ends with Justice Beach ruling a colored nanny must surrender a child and sue for board money rather than hold the child for debt.
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Abigail Dodge
Gail Hamilton
Miss Dodge
Blaine
Miss Stanwood
Grygoods
Wilton, Hughes & Co
New York
A.lt. Stewart
Jower Croadway
Hat Park
United States
Justice Beach
New York Supreme Court
Civil service order bars campaign contributions to federal workers
Washington reports a civil service commission order instructing federal office holders to refrain from seeking or making campaign contributions. Weekly exchange volumes at leading U S clears totals 748 084 743 dollars, down from 812 957 860 previous week. U S business failures 320 in week ended 28th, up from 280 prior week and 130 year earlier.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
United States
New York Republicans Nominate Black for Governor at Saratoga
The New York Republican convention in Saratoga nominated Frank E. Black of Troy for governor. Other items note a 76 year old sportsman’s death in Corona, a Gettysburg battlefield house destroyed by fire, and Li Hung Chang’s visits to New York.
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New York
Saratoga
Frank 8. Black
Troy
Harry Till
Corona
N. Y
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg
Universal Peace Union of America
Mystic
Conn
New Peace Temple
America
Boston
Brooklyn
Carnegie Hall
Harrison
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
St. Louis
Li Hung Chang
China
Russia
F.G. & I. N. Vanvliet
O. H. Stickles
Stratford
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Washington
Louisville
Navy Whitney
Gen. Grant
Orange
Mass
William Clements
George Fowler
Coal Exchange
Scranton
Charles Stanley Teinhart
Players’ Club
Dissolution of Tin Plate Manufacturers' Association Announced
The Tin Plate Manufacturers' association dissolves. Congressional nominations listed for multiple districts across states. Other items note a fire at Sault Ste. Marie wiping out several blocks with a $200,000 loss.
Missouri Democrats nominate Trimble for governor
The Gold Democrats of Missouri met in St. Louis and nominated J. McD. Trimble for governor. Across Missouri and nearby states, multiple political and violent events are reported including deaths from accidents and crimes, fires, and natural disasters.
Turbulent Events Sweep Early 20th Century Global News
Reports detail armed attacks on Ottoman banks in Constantinople with gendarmes killed and stores looted. Italy bans emigration to Brazil after riots. Zanzibar palace bombarded by British forces. new sultan seen as peaceful successor. An eight-member mixed Christian and Muslim commission probes Constantinople riots with over 3000 fatalities. Dr Gallagher, Irish-American dynamiter, released from prison. Japan’s entire ministry resigns. Count Ituroda becomes premier. A giant tin deposit found near Guanajuato, Mexico. Russian Foreign Minister Prince Lobanoff Rostovsky dies suddenly while traveling from Vienna.
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Constantinople
Italy
Brazil
Zanzibar
Ministry of Police
Yanzibar
Gallagher
Portland
England
Japan
Ituroda
Avisis
Guanajuato
Mexico
Kieff
Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky
Vienna
Nation Tells Grain Stocks and Political Nominations
Grain stocks reported for the United States on the 31st include Wheat 45,574,000 bushels and Corn 15,964,000. Democrats nominate George L. Vance for Congress in the Twelfth district and N. Worthington in the Fourteenth. Riverside Iron Works workers strike over a 29 percent wage cut in Wheeling West Virginia. Knights of Pythias lodges consider blocking death benefits to suicides. Fatal train accident near Worcester Massachusetts and a large fire at Tigoni shire P E R I. Grand Army encampment opens in St Paul Minnesota with thousands of veterans. Domestic violence fatalities in Detroit and Dorchester. Kings County Elevated Railway in receivership. Cloudburst near Pueblo damages tracks. Red Lion hotel in Stockbridge destroyed by fire. A dynamite accident at Schooner Lodge Pennsylvania. The sole colored Freemason in Greensburg Indiana dies.
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United States
Wis
George L. Vance
Congress
Democrats
Timois
Worthington
Riverside Iron Works
Wheeling
W. Va
Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Cleveland
Fred Lamoreaux
Worcester
Aluss
Tigonish
P. FE. I
Dorchester
Mass
Tle
Kings County
N. Y
Red Lion
Stoelkbridge
Berkshire Hills
George Jones
Schooner Lodge
John Kerman
Greensburg
Ind
Old Comrades Two Encampments Draw Massive Crowds
In St Paul and Minneapolis crowds swell for Knights of Pythias events. A Minnesota visit by Commander in Chief Walker draws thousands, with 20 000 at a state reception and 40 000 expected by train arrivals. Western encampment in Minneapolis opens with drills and a 4100 prize program.
Dynamite Blast Kills Chester Workman on Delaware River
In Chester Pennsylvania on Sept 1 George Jones 40 of Sault Ste. Marie Michigan exploded on a dredging barge at Schooner Ledge. Sydney Neff 24 of Detroit and Owen Fallin of Chester were injured. Neff died from injuries. Cause of blast unknown as debris blew his body apart on the river ledge worksite.
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Chester
George Jones
Schooner Ledge
Delaware River
Sydney Neff
Owen Ballin
Neff
Detroit
Mich
Fallin
Jones
Sault Ste. Marie
St Louis Dry Goods Firm to Retire and Dissolve
The U S Simon Gregory Dry Goods Company of St. Louis announces dissolution of partnership and retirement by year end. The second oldest firm in the city, it has capital of $600,000, a $100,000 surplus, and about $1,000,000 in monthly business with merchandise valued at $750,000 to $1,000,000. Both partners Mr Simon and Mr Gregory seek to retire from active business.
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Simon-Gregory Dry Goods Company
St. Louis
U. S. Simon-Gregory Dry Goods Company
T He Concern
Simon
Gregory
Unknown Man Ends Life by Rail In Pennsylvania
An unidentified man in Pittsburgh Allegheny, Sept 1, placed his neck on the rails of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago line and waited for the locomotive. A note reading I do this to save others was found, but no clues to his identity remained.
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Pittsburgh
Jack's Run
Allegheny
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Palace Bombarded as Zanzibar Usurper Surrenders
Dispatches report Said Khalid refusing to surrender leading to bombardment of the palace by British warships. The palace and old customs house burned, the palace later captured, with Said Khalid fleeing to the German consulate. American consul Mohun notes Americans safe. US trade with Zanzibar valued around $1 million.
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London
Foreign Office
Zanzibar
Khalid
Raccoon
Thrush
Sparrow
Said Khalid
St. George
Tarry N. Rawson
Glasgow
Washington
Department of State
Dorsey Mohun
United States
Zwhalid bin Bargash
Hamond
Sultan
State Department
Mohun
Bmead bin Mohammed bin Said
Great Britain
Republican Clubs Select Woodmansee for Secretary Bid
Milwaukee Aug 27 The national convention of the League of Republican Clubs closed its session with Woodmansee of Ohio elected president by a narrow margin over Gordon of Illinois. Arizona’s Gordon vote was thrown out, Dowling elected secretary, and Owen defeated. The platform endorsed McKinley Hobart and St. Louis planks, with biennial sessions shelved and no mention of free silver. A mass meeting followed with remarks from Woodmansee Alden Smith Dawes Schoonmaker and Mrs Koster.
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Milwaukee
League of Republican Clubs
Detroit
Charles A. Gordon
Ilinois
D. D. Woodmansee
Ohio
Woodmansee
Gordon
Arizona
Wisconsin
Dr. C. Owen
M. J. Dowling
Minnesota
Mr. Dowling
Owen
St. Louis
McKinley
Hobert
Woodmunsee
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Charles G. Dawes
Illinois
F. X. Schoonmaker
New Jersey
J. Elslen Koster
Iowa
Island City Coal signs sixty cent scale in Indiana
Terre Haute August 29 Island City Coal of Winton Indiana signed an agreement to pay miners sixty cents per ton the scale asked. A. M. Ogle president and vice president of the Liluminous Operators association calls the deal a major victory for the miners as the Island company ranks as the third largest in the state.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Island City Coal Company
Winton
A. M. Ogle
Ogle
Liluminous Operators’ Association
Democratic Debate Proposal From Harrison Rival
Aug 20 telegram from B R Tillman to ex President Harrison proposes a joint debate before a northern audience, preferably in Indianapolis, after Tillman reports massive crowds in Pennsylvania while Harrison attacks him in New York.
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Nilman
Harrison
Washington
Democratic Congressional Committee
Benjiman Harrison
New York City
N. Y
Pennsylvania
New York
Indianapolis
B. R. Tillman
Colgrove Elected Supreme Chief as Knights of Pythias Convene
In Cleveland on August 27 the supreme judge of Knights of Pythias convened the gathering. Reports from 16 standing committees were reviewed as officers for the order were chosen and Colgrove was elected to a top post.
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Philip
Knights of Pythias elect leaders and prize drills results
The article notes the Knights of Pythias supreme lodge meeting in Cleveland naming Philip T. Colgrove of Michigan as supreme chancellor and other officers. It also covers Euclid Beach park uniform rank drills with Alliance Ohio winning first prize and Amsterdam New York second, plus ritual changes and endowment figures from 1896.
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Cleveland
Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias
Philip T. Colgrove
Michigan
Thomas H. Sample
Pennsylvania
Albert Steinhart
Alabama
R L. Co. White
Tennessee
Thomas D. Mears
North Carolina
James H. Moulson
New Brunswick
Knights of Pythias
Euclid Beach Park
Alliance
Amsterdam
N. Y
Seventeenth United States Infantry
Supreme Lodge
Board of Control
Quiet Wedding and Other News From Newport to Chicago
The Vanderbilt Whitney wedding at Breakers Newport was a restrained family ceremony with about 500 guests, conducted by Bishop Potter and in the Gold room. Ex President Harrison defended the Republican platform in Carnegie Hall. A Kansas City tragedy reports a mother killing her family and herself. Jacksonville reports a mayor’s burglary shootout. Cheboygan lumber fire destroys a million feet stock, insuring $210,000 loss.
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Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Newport
RK. L
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Willian. C. Whitney
New York
Vanderbilt
H. C. Potter
G. T. Magill
Trinity Church
Chauncey M. Depew
Minnie Taylor
Angelica Gerry
Edith Shepard
Emily Sloan
Leila Sloan
Miss Vanderbilt
Page Whitney
Europe
Purpsee
Messrs
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
C. C. Baldwin
Tt. L. Clennet
P. H. McMillan
Fr. J. Polk
Harrison
Carnegie Hall
Chicago
Supreme Court
United States
Jong
Kansas City
Charles W. Green
Big Your Railway
Green
Cheboygan, Mich
Mr. Charlton
L Foronto
Spry Lumber Company
Queer Things in America from Little News Items
A Brooklyn suit tally counts 846 pending cases against street-car firms from trolley injuries. A Mojave desert prospector unearthed a 614 gold nugget after paying 80 for a claim. An Indianapolis man nicknamed Oats Powell repeats theft of oats, not other goods. Knoxville courts take watches as fines. 40 unredeemed watches go to auction after two years. Missoula notes a 20 year orchard with a rare flourishing 100-tree grove. Jefferson county bachelors send a taster to Galien Michigan, yielding five weddings and more to come.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Goler
Mojave Desert
Indianapolis
Berrien County
Mich
France and the French politics and fashion trends
A Paris fashion and political gossip roundup notes a man can file for divorce if his wife stages without consent. It mentions stylish gloves with hand painted backs in Paris, crime skin bound books, and skin crafted cigarette cases. It cites M Casimir-Perier as possibly seeking election again and Prince Auguste d Arenberg as president of the Suez Canal Company.
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France
Paris
M. Casimir-Perier
London Figaro
Prince Auguste d’Arenberg
Suez Canal Company
Berlin
Carl Peters
Notable Books and Authors Highlighted in Brief
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton nears completion of a boy adventure set in pre gringo California. Katherine Rearson Woods finishes John A Tale of King Messiah the first in a Christianity era trilogy. Dr Ottolengui, author and League of American Wheelmen consul, campaigned for free bicycle transportation on New York railroads.
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Gertrude Atherton
California
Katherine Rearson Woods
John
Ottolengui
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Rtussie
Archangle
Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association
Ul J. Sorg
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Rev. R. A. Dodds
Minneapolis
Minn
People's Party
John Lind
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David I. Rudlong
Frank Steiner
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Gold Democrats
J. McD. Trimble
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George W. Hibbard
Walloon
Sioux National Bank
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C. D. Sheldon
W. W. O’keefe
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Moquah
C. W. Green
John 8. Holmes
Oshkosh
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J. C G. Hendry
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Foreign Intelligence
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Order
St. Paul, Minn
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Department of Minnesota
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Patrick Fienry
Phillip T. Colgrove
Nature
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Fla
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Rowley
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Hood's
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Ladies’ Home
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