Local health notes and city funds update
J Alfred Ritter has recovered enough to drive out Rebecca Harrison remains critically ill after being found at her daughter's home on South Market Street Joseph Brown shows improvement after illness Cancer on the body is reported Cadet control. The city fire department funds receive an appropriation of 31 for the firemen’s corps.
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J. Alfred Ritter
Rebecca Harrison
Gomber
South Market Street
Joseph Brown
Myersyill
Née Corporation
Wisuscrox
Del
Kate Bisheney
Josephine Mahoney
Kate
Lam
Josephine
Brandywine
Jessup
Pope Leo XIII Illness Report Shocks Vatican
Vatican officials deny full details of the pope’s health as rumors of a serious illness surge. Doctors advise rest while listeners await official bulletins, amid fears a papal succession crisis may be shaping Europe’s political balance.
Haiti Crisis Looms as Exiles Return to Port au Prince
News from Port de Paix and Port Haiti via the Norwegian steamer Alert says exiles are back in the Haitian capital and guards are tightened around the palace. President Hippolyte orders guns on the city if attackers reach Port au Prince as families flee amid rumored imminent revolution.
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Port-au-Prince
Yoas
Alert
Port de Paix
Port Haytian
Hayti
Kingston
Jamaica
Rer
Portou-Prince
Hippolyte
Exles
Hayin
Hopkins Fights for Share in Wealth of Haw kin Estate
Sept 5 report notes Timothy Hopkins and associates reform lawyer Joseph Choate of Evaris Choate and partners to challenge the will of Mrs Hopkins Searles. Aim to secure a share of the $59 060 000 estate amassed by Mark Hawkins and left to Edward Searles by the widow.
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Hopkins
Timothy Hopkins
Ins Jarysts
Joseph Choate
Evaris, Choate & 2-Aman
Hopkins-Searles
Mark Hawkins
Edward Searles
PURELY PERSONAL Happenings From Scranton Area
Onis Kepler will spend Sunday with friends in Washing ton DC. Numerous residents traveled for visits and business, including J D Beedrighson, William Wilcoxon, E R Exckbach, Berle Potter, Walter Shelton, A J Willisr, Mrs T F Barron, Blanche Staley, R Herbert Henderson, Baldwin Sloan, Lottie Shafer, Mary Shafer, George Harbaugh, Lottie Moran, Mrs M L Street, Mrs Mary Quynn, Emily Hanshew, Lizzie Quynn, Arthur Tokns, and others. Several weddings, travels, and estate matters noted. Consol Trail and families sail to France. Getzendanner and kin depart. Bishop Peterkin visiting Garrett county. Factory news: Frederick City Packing and RicMurray Packing report busy days with large corn shipments and high can counts.
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Onis Kepler
Washingter
D.C
J.D. Beedrighson
Say
Exstero Erties
Wiliam Wilcoxon
Tuday
Columbia
Baltimore
C. D. Tyson
East Patrick Street
A.J. Willisr
Tle
Renner & Remp's
T. F. Barron
5. A. Wilson
Blanche Staley
Ads Wickham
Ste Y FE
Alastra
Scranton
Messrs
R. Herbert Henderson
Baldwin Sloan
Baltumore
Lottie
Mary Shafer
Middletown
Allentons
George Harbaugh
Sabillas Ville
Charlestown
W. Va
J.J. Dill
Willian £. Maulsby
Berkeley Springs
John F. Dill
Aliss May Kemp
East 4Th Street
Hagerstown
B. C. Unger
Loudoun County
Knoxville
Charles Duke
Union Machine Works and Foundry
West South Street
Port Deposit
Consol
C. B. Trail
C. E. Trail
Florence Trail
Frederick
New York
Etruria
Marseilles
France
Europe
George C. Garrett
Wenner & Miller
Hranswick
Ira Porter
Jefferson
Wm. G. Getzendanner
Templeton
Waxahachie
Texas
George Peterkin
Episcopal Diocese of
West Virginia
Oakland
Garrett County
Joshua Peterkin
All Saints P. B
Circuit Court notices and verdicts in multiple cases
The court heard several cases with guilty verdicts including Lewis Flehr on statutory burglary, and a second jury finding Flehr guilty on the same charge. Other rulings include John Hari Jr for carrying concealed weapons. Sisie vs William Davis for concealing a weapon. John Han Jr for bastardy. Naomi Flahr for larceny. and Gardner Piper for assault with attempt to rape. Court adjourned to Monday 10 a.m. Real estate transfers listed in northwest addition totaling $225 and other property deeds between Charles ZH Abbio Richard Wolfe, and Arthur Exzler.
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Circuit Court
Lewis Flehr
Quilty
ZicShemy
Lynch
Ocket
State
John Hari, Jr
Sisie
William Davis
John Han, Jr
Naomi Flahr
Sigie
Pina
Nets
Siste
Gardner Piper
Fransfers
Charles
Abbio Richard
Wolfe
Northwest Addition
Charles W. Gilbert
Arthur Exzler
Ghastly Hanging at St Joseph Missouri Trial of Clergymen
A sensational Missouri dispatch recounts the suicide of Louis Bulling on the scaffold after pleading for more time. Sheriff and deputies guard the jail as Rev Lavake is arrested amid questions of supplying the revolver. The gruesome scene ends with Bulling dying while blaspheming, then a separate Berlin note confirms American pork decree.
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Bolling
Bulling
Lucrete
Sherif
Merc
Mr. Lavake
Bere
Clef Bér
P. Lavake
Phelps
Berlin
United States
William Waist Phelps
Kelps
Prussia
Bavaria
Saxony
Germany
Mrs Mary Lease and the Farmers Alliance Spotlight
Mrs Mary Lease of Kansas emerges as a compelling reformer and orator in Washington Women’s contentions, praised as a Joan of Arc for farmers and workers. The Farmers Alliance gains half a million women and wins five former Congressmen, the Kansas legislature, and shifts political power, with Lease symbolizing awakening action behind the movement. Local literary notes mention May C Harbaugh joining the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association and T C Harbaugh publishing Poems of the Blue. A Baltimore and Ohio brakeman, Thomas Arnies, dies after sleeping on a Martinsburg track while awaiting an express.
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Washington
Mary BE
Lease
Kansas
Joan of Arc
Farmers and Workingmen of
Farmers’ Alliance
Lesse
Allance
Ar. Peffer
Mise May C. Harbaugh
Alameda California Free Library
Pacific Coast Women’s Press Association
San Francisco
Mise Harbaugh
Middletown
Samuel G. Harbaugh
Nellie Blessing Eyster
Frederick
T. C. Harbaugh
Casstown
Ohio
Thomas Arnies
Baltimore and Ohio
Martinsburg
Fighting arrest and riot reports from the era
For Fighting, George Parrish, colored, was arrested yesterday and taken before Bayer Bruner on the charge of Oughtug at Medfurray's factory. He was fined $295, which was paid. Russians Stop a Riot details a Hill animals outbreak with Cossacks firing on rioters, killing seventeen. President Champion notes a running trip and shooting feats. A resignation by George Roney, director of public safety, follows grave charges. Consulate in Shanghai destroyed by mob with European casualties. A Augusta murder case ends in hanging. Youngstown Bridge Works destroyed by fire. cloudburst at Elbing sinks three ships.
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George Parrish
Bayer Bruner
Medfurray
St. Petersesces
Malkop
Tioney Hesizns
Philadelphia
George Roney
Public Safety
Blayor Stuart
Stuart
Brutal Attendants at Lunatic Hospital Reported Cruelty
A firestorm of testimony from J Raitunin describes beatings and neglect at a state hospital. Attendants Shields Jones and others allegedly brutalized patients, with one man left unconscious and another starved. Supervisors and doctors faced questions as investigators pressed for accountability amid claims of systemic abuse.
Noted horseman Captain James Franklin dies at 48
Captain James Franklin, owner of the Kenesaeeiod farm, died here yesterday aged 48. A noted rate judge, he served as captain in the Revtath Confederate regiment of Tennessee. In Washington, Sept 5, Proctor reportedly sent writs of promotion, with Likins set to assume War Office duties on Oct 1.
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Tean
James Franklin
Kenesaeeiod Fam
Ranklin
Revtath
Tennessee
Proctor
Washington
Senatary
Harrison
Stephen B. Likins
War Office
The Saturday Market Prices and Seasonal Bounty
A long market column details abundant vegetables fruits and eggs with prices for butter lard poultry beef and produce. It notes large crops including corn peaches apples and pears and encourages entertaining city friends with earth grown fare despite recent rain. Also obituary notice for Capt. W. P. Anderson of Mount Airy outlines his public service and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tus Benese
West Indian hurricanes loom as September threat
The piece warns of forthcoming West Indian hurricanes as September nears, citing meteorology and the U S Weather Service. It mentions a predicted path toward Frederick County and possible mountain damage, plus local notes on post office inspections and a Juvenile Templars meeting with plans to host Miss Alice Walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Service
Prophet de Voe
Frederick
Frederick County
West Mares
Juvenile Templar News
Alice Walker
Templars
The
Ste
Patylanad
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