Insult to Our Flag Sparks Diplomatic Tension
Washington presses for strong redress after the Valparaiso incident and Chilean insult to the United States. Secretary Eagan instructed to secure proper reputation. possible recall of minister and suspension of diplomatic relations if redress is not granted. Meanwhile naval positions and cipher dispatches are under review as the affair strains ties with Chile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesaixeron
Wrehington
Amster Eagan
Egan
Chile
Tracy
Boston
San Francisco
Celino
Valparaiso
Rathe
Schley
Baltamore
Painter Fatally Wounds Cousin Then Shoots Self
John Menke, a painter from Si Lows, shot his cousin Miss sree Dyesker in the parlor of her home after she rejected his advances. He then shot himself in the head. the self-inflicted wound is not fatal. A letter to his mother requesting forgiveness was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starserezp
John Menke
Si Lows
Hus
Sree Dyesker
Seized and Imprisoned in Europe and Berlin Report
W F Barns, just arrived from Europe, says he was seized in Berlin by order of the Chilean authorities and imprisoned for two weeks. He claims he purchased arms for Ved a with whom he was intimate, and that the matter has been presented to the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caicaso
W. F. Barns
Europe
Berlin
Veda
Artment
Political Sketches of Maryland Candidates in Frederick County
The News presents sketches of both Republican and Democratic candidates for the State and county tickets. It features portraits and brief biographies, endorsing independent review over partisanship and inviting early applications from additional candidates. The piece highlights Hon. Manasses J. Grove, his roots in Middletown, Maryland, long public service, and leadership of the M.S. Grove Lime Co, underscoring his fitness for the House of Delegates if reelected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fera
Bots Tebets
Frederick County
M. J. Grove
Manasses J. Grove
House of Delegates of
Maryland
Huiddletown
Heiss
George W. Grove
Elizabeth Biser
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Mr. Grove
Daniel S. Biser
Grove
Middletown
Broad Bay Seas
Mercersburg College
BP Freeze
Burkitsville
Union
Jefferson
John A. Eynch
Fink
House of Delegates
Susan Jarboe
Portsmouth
Josepha Durr
Lime
This County
M.S. Grove Lime Co
Frederick City
Baltimore and Ohio Relief Dividend Declared
The Relief Department Savings Feature of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad declares a one percent dividend for depositors with interest accounts at year end September 30. This adds to the four percent guaranteed interest, bringing total annual earnings to five percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Department
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Purely Personal Notes From a Busy Weekend
Purely personal items recount visits, departures, and greetings across towns. Names include Mr and Mrs Adolyses Feartake, Bertha Uelsichs, Grace Ueinicks, Nise Faune White, Dr Newton Webb, Henry Exyer, and many others visiting or traveling to Frederick Richmond Baltimore Monrovia and Charlottesville for fairs, visits, or family occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U Kroerton
Educer
Bertha Uelsichs
Emmins von Vrestag
Otio Herster
Misa Grate Ueinicks
Frederick
Nise Faune White
Euinitsars
Peorlé
Muscat
Newton Webb
Pera Reery
Ceelera
Henry Exyer
Citizens’ National Bank of
D.C Wilcoxon
Baltimore
Melville E. Doll
Dr. Cacouthere
Cambridge
R. Buracker
Jacob Sols
Northbrook
Daniel Eisler
Patrick Street
Mirs Maud Porter
Knoxville
Bir
A. D. Doty
Jefferson
Plt
Lakin
Tuzca- Tors
Arts
W. GC. Neidig
C. H. Fulton
Walkers
Sharpsburg Barroom Shootings Kill Man in Street Fight
Jerry Buckley was killed by a shot through the head near Stein's hotel in Sharpsburg after a barroom dispute. Harry Stein was wounded in the thigh as two colored men Henry Akens and George Morris fired into the crowd before fleeing. Akens and Morris were arrested after a tumultuous scene and the body of Buckley lay in the street. Henry Stein and his son were injured in the ensuing chaos as residents feared lynching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hulett
Pittsburg
Pirrseves
Jerry Buckley
Sharpsburg
Harry Stein
Henry Akens
George Morris
Vesuvius
Stein
John Stein
Henry Stein
George Morsis
Akens T
Young Bu
Wack
Gee
Jal
Tsbure
Pasteur Treatment Condemned After Engineer Dies
On August 28 in Convania S C engineer Robert D Morton of the Richmond and Danville line was bitten by a mad dog. He was inoculated at the Pasteur Institute New York for fifteen days and discharged cured. Back at work he developed hydrophobia and died in agony. He was 38 years old and left a widow and four children. Family and friends condemn the Pasteur treatment and the Brotherhood of Engineers plans to file an official notice.
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Pasteur
Convania
S. C
Robert D. Morton
Richmond and
Danville
Pasteur Institute
New York
Jon
Brotherhood of the Engineers
Jesse
Porter
Jesse L. Porter
Blaryland
Owing’s Mille
Barclay Street
Baltimore City
Robert
Francis Porter
Knoxville
Thia County
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Maryland Council No. 3
Tragic Fires Devastate Town Leaving Dozens Homeless
In Meupigen Canton Beene, a blaze started in a house fueling by high winds, destroying most buildings including the hotel Sauvage. Over 5,000 people left homeless as a mother and three children died in the flames and a second blast injured Amelia Yoder from East Sunbury. In another report, two young Newsbaum children aged 3 and 5 died after powder exploded in their Bertle home while parents were away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meupigen
Beene
Gu Wdrumbine Woods
Sexsery
Amelia Yoder
East Sunbury
Yoder
Wraereg
Man
Robert Newsbaum
Bertle
Trenton's Boy Prodigy A Child With Manlike Strength
A six year old ward of New Jersey Reform School at Jamesburg is described as precocious with a mature demeanor and a mustache. Herman Hoffer, over four feet tall, can lift heavy weights and strike with the force of a sledge. Doctors call him a phenomenon while authorities and his parents seek confinement under Judge Robert S Woodruff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trextos
New Jersey Reform School
Jamesburg
Gonde
Herman Hoffer
Ieall
Robert S Woodruff
Mercer
Horace G. Wetherill
Fire fiend McGowan caught in act in Water Street
Caught in the act fire suspect McGowan, believed insane on fires, is captured after attempting to torch a three story double frame tenement at 2 Phillips alley where twenty people slept. He confessed and faces strong evidence in Water, Front and Plymouth street arsons over months. Also brief items: Blaine escapes a bond calculation in Baltimore. Posen killer arraignment in San Francisco. boy killed under a train in Asa Lane Pennsylvania. Hamburg printers strike over wage demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brocxivy
Front
Plymouth
Isoner
McGowan
Phillips Alley
Obituary Notices and Local Deaths Across Carroll County
Obituaries and notices recount the life of a noted minister in Frederick County, detailing his work, character, and church leadership. Other items include the death of Jesse L. Porter in Baltimore after a railroad collision, Levi Eckman’s death in Nebraska, and multiple brief memorials for local residents and families. The column notes typhoid and cancer deaths, infant losses at Rocky Hill, and ongoing community ceremonies and inquiries including a missing-person narrative tied to 16th century Jacob Schultz references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Sayler
John Gaber
Dante Sayler
Frederick County
Pennsylvania
G. B. Church
Beaverdam Valley
Sach
Daniel K Sayler
Jesse R Fox
Levi Eckman
Gamber
Carroll County
Levi A. Eckman
Emerick
Madison County
Neb
Mr. Eckman
Liberty
This County
Nebraska
Mra
A. L. Wade
Wall Lake
Iowa
Wm. Hoffman
Local notes mix of court, commerce and weather
Odd snippets from a Hagerstown era page report a court case about a failed deal at 09 per pet e and the Walker site hedge, plus a furniture shipment, postal changes, a lady’s ice tank work, and a fall at Blumenauer’s store. Minor arrests, church organ move, and town meetings fill the day’s bustle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Asthe Hane
Patvallen
Harper's Ferry
John Browe
Chicago
L. Victor Baughaus
Fretertch
Hacuretown
Wietahun
Tollinsauorth
Edward P Thomas
Lemuel R. Clargh
Cartersville
Ednor
Respect
Lyels
A. H. Ely White
Linganore Hills
Kmed
Suike
Begltimore
Reformed Church
Blumensuer’s
Helen Krepps
East Fourth Street
Political meetings sweep Middletown area in campaign week
Prohibition state organizer W Frank Tucker spoke at Sparrow's Hotel porch in Middletown with J Hollin Kefauver presiding. Republican efforts included a Taneytown mass meeting with several leaders, a Manchester barbecue event drawing thousands, and a Monument Square gathering in Baltimore. Tedious remarks criticized Democrats for national focus. Republicans claim strong local organization with upcoming torchlight parade in Middletown and delegations from valley districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Frank Tucker
Prohibition Party
Middletown
Sparrow
J Hollin Kefauver
Republican Giles Club
Taneytown
Frederick County
William J. Yaanort
John McDonald
Geo. M. Sharp
Loula E. McComas
William A. McKellip
Jacob J. Weaver, Jr
Charles G. Miller
Manchester
Frank Brown
Skipwith Wilquer
Mln. Packard
Baltimore
Frank T. Shaw
James G. Berrett
Carroll County
Monument Square
Wort Yannett
George M Sharp
Louis E. McComas
George L. Wellington
Thomas Hodson
Hastings
Blackbridge
Stockbridge
Germanina
Myersville
Peter Lugenbeel
G. F. Markell
Hammond Umer
Frederick
Reno
Harp
Esq
Peter Lugenbdee
Fall and Winter Opening at Mantz's Shop
The store announces a fall and winter exhibit on Wednesday and Thursday October 28 featuring bonnet patterns and the season’s latest novelties. Items are laid out at 16 South Market, Dan Freder. The note references NW. B,SD. Mantz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phureday
Mantz
South Market
Dan Freder
Duponts Fires and Other Explosions Near Wilmington
A sweeping account details the Duponts powder works fires blamed on a conspiracy led by Edyte Clark and wife Mary Clark with son, and the arrest of Clark and associates. Wilkinsons agency in Philadelphia traced the plot to cause fires in revenge for a discharge, with verdicts expected as more arrests follow. The fires occurred 1889 to 1890, causing about $1,000,000 in losses and horse burnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wikstseros
Mary Fark
Anit Doeeph Clark
Dapamt
Clarks
Abbey Genca Biggs
Denys
Tous FE Wilkinson
Wilkinson Detective Agency
Kent
Broadway
Newark
Ais Sisters
Clayton House
Duponts
Cat Weilnetievu
Mark
Withneon
Clarky
Philadelphia
Clark
Nant
Scheutzen Park
Eirhey
Goodey
Man Arrested in Mer Train Wreck Near McKeesport
Ellaworth Luse of Rostraver township Westmoreland county was arrested at home and jailed in Greensburg for wrecking a mer train near Mion ntar tion last Monday night and for a second offense the prior night He confesses to both crimes and says he acted from a mischievous spirit He is held on 4000 bail awaiting court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellaworth Luse
Rostraver Township
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
McKeesport
West Virginia Murders Reported in Fayette County
Oct 26 dispatch reports three murders in West Virginia. In Fayette county at Liewell a woman shot by Frank Dickson of Huntingdon. Campbell Creek area shooter Hewitt Flowers and Henry Fridley tied to a chicken theft case, Fri killed. Norman Mayo fatally wounded by Colonel Goff in the western region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Crankester
Liewell
Fayette County
Mark Frank Dickson
Huntingdon
Campbell Creek
Hewitt Flowers
Henry Fridley
Fri
Normany Mayo
Goff
Want 800 Miners Potentia Headline
Oct 26 dispatches report John Costello of District No 7 United Mine Workers on strike sought help from two firms in the Hoeing Valley area to recruit 80 strikers to tone valley for regular union wages. Action planned today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potentia
John Costello
United Mine Workers
Hoeing
Tone Valley
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Chita
Alinister Egan
Redrss
Ladignant
N. J
Fred Ritter
Cty
Fimemertos
Emmett
Bufler
Yeurg Sernier
Pottereville
Great Y
Osmum
Hackettstown
Miller
Wasaixetox
P. C. Haines
Portlend
Hampton Roads
Thornton Hains
Ned Baunegan
Unis
Cyme and Co
America
St. John's
Gorman
Ireland
Dette Ee
Washington
Pers
Globe
John Wesler
Assixaboise
Monta
Fife
Tuliceman
Mothar
Switterland
Elvmnent
Espluchiec
Pesarasot
Dette
Mita
Burt
Trentons
Bismarck
Reichstag
Berchy
Germany
Blaine
Baltmore
Marshal Davis
Washin
Suaiase
van Raalte
Rotterdam
Davis
Pitre
Asa Lane
John Berg
Amoving
Here
Berigg
Hamburg
Altone
Carroll News
Luton
Basti Fithet
Johwarile
Pradrius Quonty
Liberty Road
Woodsboro
Mary S. Keeney
Philto Keeney
Grace Church
Rocky Hil
Broad Run
Raymond Edgar
Wm. H
Susan E. Pittinger
Rocky Hill
Sinbad
Broorly
Mount Olivet Presbyterian Church
Junot
Jacob Schultz
Witnassrort
Lycoming Creek
Schultz
Newberry
Wetshirg
Sto Exch
Publ Sae
Mtr
John D Hatgler
Hygeia Ice Company
East Church Street
Citizens’ National Bank
M.C. U. Bold
Worhwes
J.H. Lampe
St E-Vope
North Market Street
Hagerstown Mail
Earth
Thres Constiratols
Wilmington
Jones
Eritz T. Jones
Granite State
Aent Seociabea
New Hampshire
Healey
Lospox
Seat
Michael Heater
Oralaria
Caralysian
Fretamentine
Oak of Jere Riordan
Macton
London
Georgie Kean
Kean
Terre Hapre
Ind
Lucy Jewett
Sarah Procter
Pans, Tis
Marquis Grimaldia Piiconer
Dag Bette
Sicily
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