The Ton Boord. News and a World of Oddities
A crowded column blends satirical notes from Newton Iowa with international affairs. It reports a sensational duel rumor in Germany involving Valentine Gadesden and Walter Yarde-Buller, announces Ann O Delia Diss de Bar on arrest in Chicago, and notes a longtime couple in Walworth Wis choosing separation after fifty years and eleven children. It covers a Japanese fellowship at Wisconsin and the need for stricter naturalization tests, plus Carlist plots in Spain, a Cuban freedom context, a bicycle craze sellout, and London's Russian explosives amid czar intrigue.
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Germany
Valentine Gadesden
Yarde-Buller
Baden-Baden
Walter Yarde-Buller
Train Crash on North Fourth Street Injures Several
An early train accident on North Fourth Street caused a steep derailment at a curve. Passenger J Benixcrox was badly hurt while Miss Coleman suffered extensive cuts and bruises. Fireman Zorn also injured after leaping from the car. Frosty rails and lack of sand contributed to the slip.
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J. Benixcrox
Get
North Fourth Street
Miss Coleman Y
Fieer Zorn
Bank Robbers Brothers Confess at Lane Minis
Lane Minis October 1. The man under arrest confesses to the Sherburne bank robbery and says he is not guilty of killings. He admits involvement with another man who was killed and claims they agreed not to shoot.
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Lane Minis
Pating
Sherburne
Cass County Hogs Die From Unusual Disease
Farmers in eastern Cass County report heavy hog losses from a disease resembling pneumonia with lungs filled with pus. Tests found no cholera or worms, and authorities note a coughing onset followed by rapid decline. Locals blame recent wet weather and high humidity.
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Cass County
Tate
Death and accidents haunt Carman area in late October news
A string of local tragedies unfolds as 618 Mahaney Reniaseren’s body drifts from the Mississippi near Carman, a bridge mishap claims a worker, a 13 year old dies from a toy gun mishap, and court actions and robberies ripple through the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahaney Reniaseren
Carman
Pen
Mississippi
Itis
Bank of Hardy Robbed and Other Far-Reaching Crimes
The Bank of Hardy was robbed at noon with $500 seized by the thief described as heavily built, six feet tall, with a black beard and wearing a black mackintosh, a $100 reward offered. Reports also include a Minneapolis man pleading guilty to mail fraud, a 15 year old hotel heir’s accident, a box car fire death, a fatal street shooting in Omaha, a bank burglary in Rhodes branch with a nitro explosion, and a northern Kossuth county posse killing a bandit after a bank heist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanpy
Bank of Hardy
Denogce
W. V. Hand
Minneapolis
United States
Shiras
Europe
Cedar Rapids
Justave Erickson
Sioux City
Omaha
Supreme Court
Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers
Marshalltown
Corning
Reynok
Indianola
N. C. ‘Tate
Semin L. Axe
Cornell Bluffs
Rhodes
Ceash
Sss
Kossuth
Sherburne
Wm. Gallion
Bancroft
All Over the World City Destroyed by Fire in Guayaquil
New York telegraphs that three fourths of Guayaquil burned in a recent fire. Reports place losses at over 0,000,000 with 35,000 homeless. Two thousand houses including all banks, the customs house, theater, and many public buildings were destroyed. Food and water supplies are exhausted. residents swarm streets and woods as fires burn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Herald
Guayaquil
Cuador
Fusion Forms as Populists and Democrats Unite
Reported fusion between Populists and Silver Republicans cements joint backing for Regan and Bryan in states where victory hinges on cross party support. As campaigns wind down, cooperation extends to all states where fusion could decide results, with Louis among those agreeing.
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Regan
Bryan
Louis
Harcourt Retires as Liberal Leader in Commons
The St James Gazette reports Sir William Harcourt has resigned the Liberal Party leadership in the House of Commons and plans to withdraw from Parliament. He says the action aims to prove no ignoble ambition motivates him and signals a new course for his political career.
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House of Commons
Lexpos
St. Jame Gazette
William Harcourt
Liberal Party
Russia mobilizes at Sebastopol Odessa and Batoum
The Daily Graphic dispatch from Sebastopol reports Russia continuing emergency preparations. Local military and naval forces at Sebastopol Odessa and Batoum have been mobilized. A company of submarine engineers is ordered to stand ready to embark on a gunboat already loaded with mines shells and torpedoes.
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Loxpox
The
Daily Graphic
Sebastopol
Russia
Odessa
Batoum
Du Maurier Dies Author of Tribes Succumbs to Illness
George Du Maurier, renowned artist and author, died peacefully after a long struggle with heart and lung troubles. The obituary notes his prominence in literature and art and records his final illness and peaceful passing.
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Loox
George du Maurier
Yellow fever epidemic reported in Havana
Dr Burgess, sanitary inspector of the marine hospital service at Havana, reports yellow fever epidemic there and fears the scourge will last months. In September Havana recorded 1 034 deaths from the disease, with smallpox rising daily in Havana and suburbs. The danger to ships at Tallapiedra wharf near an old badly infected hospital is noted.
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Margess
Burgess
Marine Hospital Service
Havana
Tallapiedra Wharf
Indiana Nationale Party Seeks Ballot With New Name
State election board acts on petition for a new ballot name. Unanimous decision to place the party as Gold Standard Ticket. Text indicates the group Ixpraxaronis et al requested a ballot column under the new designation.
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Indiana Nationale
State Board of Election Commissioners
National Democracy
Mass casualty plot reported against Christians in Mytiline
An Athens dispatch to the Times says the governor of Mytiline uncovered a plot to cause a general mass casualty against Christians, with four ringleaders arrested. Separately, a hurricane hit the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Asbury Park, leaving extensive wreckage and feared losses.
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Kenny Loxpox
Athens
the Times
Mytiline
New
Yok
Atlantic
Sandy Hooke
Coney Island
Brighton Beach
Isle City
Asbury Park
Sultan Signs Decree Promising Reform in Turkey
Beatx reports from October 13 that the Frankfurter Zeitung states the sultan has signed a decree promising reforms for all of Turkey.
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Beatx
The
Frankfurter Zeitung
Turkey
Vein Strike and Bank Robberies Hit Frontier Towns
A large posse searches the country after aBanco vault blasted by dynamite near Claytonia Depositor twenty seven miles south. Simultaneous looting of a Shelby county bank and a robbery at Sherburne left two dead and $1000 taken. Also noted were legal appeals in a major land case and plans to unveil a veterans monument in Galesburg amid readings of the bubonic plague in Bombay and political resignations in Britain.
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Va Claytonia
Shelby
County
Squaw Creek
Deadwood
Sherburne
Fairmont
Minn
Bank of
Hicago
United States Court of Appeals
United States
Chicago, Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Douglas
Galesburg
Ill
Hope Cemetery
Gold Standard Democrats
Palmer
Chauncey M. Depew
McClure
Robert T. 1Coln
Knox College
Bombay
Aden
Lord Rosebery
Thomas Edward Ellis
Merionethshire
Mr. Gladstone
Americans in Cuba and Venezuela Commission Meeting
World Bureau dispatch reports American consul general barred from visiting Cuban military prisons relying on Weyler for information. Cells 41 and 42 deemed improved but conditions remain damp and unhealthy. Also notes Venezuela commission’s first meeting in months with reports on inquiries by Coudert Baar and expected US return of Baar to conclude work.
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Marana
Gerai
Weyler
Lee
Melton
Uctan Commision
Venezuela Commission
Coudert
Europe
Ref. Baar
Baar
United States
Italy Demands Punishment for Murder in Constantinople
Italy sends a peremptory note to the Porte demanding punishment of the Turkish assailant who beat and killed an Italian in the Constantinople massacres and seeks indemnity for the murder. The note asserts the victim was struck by a uniformed man and slain after prostration.
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Emany
Rowr
Porte
Constantinople
Double Lynching Report From Al Buanxanast Ala Oct 12
A mob near Taylors near firminghal kills Sim Anderson and fatally shoots Henry Cyat after accusing them of murdering and robbing Randolph Falls, a farmer near Toadsville, in a violent regional incident reported from Alabama.
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al- Buanxanast
Ala
Sim Anderson
Taylor's Fer
Firminghal
Henry Cyat
Randolph Falls
Toadsville
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Era P. Ava
Ann O'Delia Diss de Bar
Chicago
Elgin
Walworth
Wis
Palmyra
University of Wisconsin
M. Shiozawa
Tokyo
Japan
Shiozawa
Iyenaga
Higher Commercial College
Motora
Imperial University
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Republic
Don Carlos
Spain
Carlos
Cuba
Philippine Islands
London
Wrerely
Bank Robbers Brothers
Workman
Davexronr
Th Pany
Mason Crry
E. D. Bi Price
Jenkins
Kterer
Wite Daverne
George Felberger
Scott County
District Court
Defe Silekelberger
Mt. Pleasant
Ghinshu
Marshal
Arres Little
Prietor
Des Moines
Corer Mason
Little
Act
Agence United States
Goldfield
Dldpield
General Star
Desran
Vanderbilt
Sort
Charles Irs
Tietsort
MeEv
McEvers
M. A. Carr
Carr
Hardy
Modern Woodmen
Whitney Ie
Des Franklin
Hank
Gothriend
Bank of Hard
Brevitie
Ecuado
Harcourt
DU Maurier
Ind
Smade
State Board of Health
Cincinnati
Ing
Indiana
Chili
Finance Committee
Holland
France
England
John C. Smith
Savannah
Archibald Mactaine
Gold Standard Ticket
Italy
Mataca
Seville
Corinthe
Alhucemas
Guayagallew York
Herald
Wil
Watson
Atlanta, Ga
Thomas E. Watson
Thomson
Harrison
William Cookson Carpenter
Silchester
Hampshire
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