Epitome of the Week from Washington News
The summary lists U S trade totals for April with exports at 70 081 540 and imports at 91 269 686 plus 85 001 immigrants, including Germany Italy Ireland and more. It notes Mormon church membership figures, a report on silver dollars, opium smuggling, grain reserves, a Kansas prohibition ruling, and various court and crime items.
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United States
Germany
Italy
Ireland
England and Wales
Austria-Hungary
Sweden
Norway
Russia
Utah
Idaho
Supreme Court of the
United S States
Congress
Kansas
China
Halcyon
States Supreme Court
State Department
Ryan
Turke murders wife then kills himself in Englewood
A shoemaker, Frank Turke, killed his wife in Englewood New Jersey and then took his own life after only two weeks of marriage. The grisly incident is reported alongside other scattered items from New York and Pennsylvania news.
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Englewood
N. J
Frank Turke
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charlotte Smith
Reform Presbyterian Church
Allegheny City
Cank Loar
Dept
Fies
Morewood
A. Spigts
New Castle
Del
Buffalo
Nw Y
Potter
Bailey
Boston
Latrobe
Molly McNally
Richard Fox
Hertha McCreary
John J. Ifollenbect
Burlington, Vt
Ile
Lynn
Mass
James Burns
Harry Tracy
Connellsville
Chronicle of fires and fatalities across cities and states
The report details fatal dwelling fire deaths of Mrs. Felix Lawler and her two children in Minneapolis. Idaho cloudburst damage near $50,000. Baseball league percentages for the week shown. Three Hamilton, Ohio youths crushed in a freight car. Salt Lake Herald bought by Mormon church interests. Jacksonville fire wipes records of U S court. Baltimore railway firm fails for $100,000. Staunton bark extract works loss of $100,900. Drowning at Stillwater, Minn. San Francisco barber suicide after fatal stab. Tennessee congressman L C Houk dies at 55 from arsenic ingestion. Kansas storm damages roads and rails. Nebraska founder David Butler dies at 63.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Felix Lawler
Koise City
Idaho
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
American Association
Baltimore
St Louis
Athletic
Louisville
Columbus
Washington
AY W Vateeks, II
Hofmeier
Bisdorf T
Ldridge
Mamilton, O
Tuk Gentiles Hive
Salt Lake Herald
Jacksonville
Fla
United States Court For
Florida
E. L. Tunis & Co
Staunton
James Hogan
Sherrard
Stillwater
Severa Sisneros
San Francisco
Yvar Knoxville
Tenn
L. C Houk
Congress
Kansas
Pridge
Morton
Logan
Phillips
Nebraska
David Butler
Pawnee City
News items from around the world and notable incidents
A collage of brief reports: colliery accident near Cardiff kills ten. Lord Romilly and two servants suffocated by flames in London. a German ship sinks 72 crew drowned. Liberia amends constitution to allow whites to own land. veteran Kleinbayer dies in East Persia at 108 after Napoleonic service. Montreal warehouse fire causes 109000 loss. onyx gemstone found in Jefferson County Missouri. turtles flood Adam Walker’s Coal Creek farm. five men drown in Kettle River. Jefferson City penitentiary fire causes 170 loss. Calera farm fight leaves several fatally wounded. duels in progress in various locales. Knoxville rescue attempt ends with drowning. long bicycle ride Ottawa to Missigton covered in 15 hours 25 minutes. Kowloon City beheadings. Austro-Hungarian gold standard rumor. Nanking missions attacked. Grange and Lloyd Beatty released after 35 years for another man’s crime. Jews ordered to observe Sabbath in Rusnia orthodoxy.
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Cardiff
Wailes
London
Lord Romilly
Germany
Liberia
Kleinbayer
East
Persia
Ile
Montreal
Jefferson County
Adam Walker
Coal Creek Township
Ind
Nan—Sendstone
Inn
Kettle River
Jefferson City
Calera
Ala
Fred Ingram
Henry Alexander
Joe Allen
Bob Allens
Lars Strinkie
William ‘Fehnson
Fatersburg
Knoxville
Tenn
Alexander Boo
Payne
Dave Nasmith
Toronto
Ont
Mkssigston
Kowloon City
China
Austria
Hungary
Berlin
Nanking
Grange
Lloyd Beatty
Tein Brothers
Birminghan
May
Rusnia
New immigration policy targets polygamists at entry
Secretary Fosten announces policy barring polygamists from entering the United States. Mrs. Jusia Warp Howl celebrates her 72nd birthday in Houston. Thomas A. Batson unveils the kinetograph to reproduce distant lectures or operas with sound and motion. A People's Party convention is set for August 6 in Springfield, Ohio. The Charleston in-callao report notes no sighting of a state vessel. pursuit to resume.
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Fosten
United States
Jusia Warp Howl
Hoston
Thomas A. Batson
People's Party
Springfield
Charleston
Callao
Stata
MM. Mbyor
Bordeaux
France
Tilitth
Lenny Crowfoot
Mishawaka
Ind
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Cincinnati
Cann
John Peters
Leavenworth
Kaney
Dunkirk
Cuanes Seine
Grand Rapids
Mich
Flo
Max Kleker
Philadelphia
Mahanoy City
Nuuiber
Minnit Branpon
Carterville
Jil
Florida Senate Elects Wille Call for U S Senate Term
An 1891 Florida Senate session achieved a quorum and elected Wille Call to serve as U S Senator for six years beginning March 4, 1891. Call, born June 9, 183?, in Rushville Kentucky, was previously elected to the U S Senate after the Civil War but not seated, and later reelected in 1885.
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Witkin- Mays
Florida
United States
Call
Rushville
Logan County
IBA BC
Senate
N.the.placg
Simon & Conover
Brutal Denver murder ends in suspected killer’s drowning
A man shot a neighbor who tried to defend a boy from abuse, sparking a lynch mob. The killer fled toward a viaduct but leaped into the swollen Platte River and drowned before arrest. Local pursuit followed the incident in Denver, Colorado.
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Mturderer
Penver
Col
Maye
Tmurderer
Pepino Felorigo
Felorigo
Ile
Twenty-third Street
Thistttre
Platte
Bodies Found in Wood After Disappearance
In Gatina Kansas on May 27 Mrs Blanche McKey of Colorado with her five children visited family. She and her youngest child were found hanged in the woods with the suspect William Alvord later arrested. He attempted suicide in his cell but was saved.
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Gatina
Kan
Blanche McKey
San Jonco
Col
William Alvord
Colorado
Mckey
Indians to cede 1 500 000 acres on Colville Reservation
Spokane Falls dispatch reports commissioners after a month of talks reached a treaty with tribes on the Great Colville reservation north of Spokane. The agreement sells 1.5 million acres to the government for 1 an acre, open to settlement, with each Indian family allowed 80 acres. The ceded land is described as rich farming and grazing country with minerals. Also notes a robbery case in Carroll Iowa where an express agent confessed and implicated two men, who posted bail. money recovered with authorities.
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Pratt
Alabama
John Ryan
Columbia
Wilkins
Call
United States
Florida
Orren Wells
John B. Ely
Tenn
Colville
Washington
Jacob Mills
Dallea
Charleston
Buancie Mackry
Galena
Krn
William Alvord
Turek
Burns
Perry
Dobson
Centralia
Wash
Matthews
American Express
Carroll, Ia
Great Colville Reservation
SroxAne Fanus
Congress
Spokane
Falls
Death and investigation follow arsenic poisoning in drug store
Judge Houk allegedly swallowed arsenic from a water glass at a drug store after a clerk warned of the poison. He collapsed, received emetics and medical care, but died from heart failure attributed to shock and exhaustion. The coroner's jury cleared the clerk of blame.
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Smvallo
Atuba
Elmer
Mr. Hooks
Walt
Wouk
Third Tennessee Infantry
Houk
Seventeenth Circuit Court of
Tennessee
Congress
Republicar
Nebraska
Omana
Neb
David Butler
Pawhee City
Bloomington
Lincoln
Butler
Guze
Kansan
Omaha
New People's Party
Ofice
Bad News From Brazil and Yellow Fever Scourge
The steamship Ilvaston captained by Steele arrived from Santos reporting a yellow fever outbreak in Brazil at departure. Hundreds are said to have died around Santos and port towns, with crew members succumbing after sailing. The Elvaston lay at anchor ten days for aid and two officers died. the remaining crew recovered and will not return to Brazil.
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Baltimore
Ilvaston
Steele
Maryland Line
Brazil
Santos
Saantos
Elvaston
Howe
Wardell
Robbery at American Express Office in Carroll Iowa
A burglary at the American Express Company office in Carroll Iowa occurred Saturday night near midnight. The night agent was bound and gagged then forced at gunpoint to surrender the safe key. the safe was rifled and about 3000 dollars in cash plus papers were taken. The agent, bound for nearly two hours, saw no description of the burglars. The office is 20 feet from an all night lunch house.
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Carroll
American Express Company
Tragic Family Found Dead In Danish House Cellar
A Danish woman Mrs Christian Pederson and her four children aged 8 to 10 were found hanging in the cellar of their home north of town. Authorities report a horrible tragedy tied to possible murder and self harm. Investigations proceed as neighbors recall a troubled household.
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Kinnoniky
Haniay
Christian Pederson
Miles ' Northyrest
Shipwreck tale from Natal to Cape Town survivor report
A Cape Town consulate letter dated March 21 recounts the Neptune disaster off Natal. Five survivors endured brutal torture by Zulus before Boer hunters drove off assailants. among those saved were W. A. Kennan and Jeff Allen. Adams recalls the pleas for mercy as the crew suffered. Kennan remains ill from wounds.
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Caps
Zulis
Weft
Decatur
Kennin
St Joseph
United States
Cape Town
Neptune
Saunders Master
London
Natal
Free-States
Adamed Greek
A. B. Seaman
W. A. Kennan
Jeff
Lonaman
Kennan
Adams
Kennen
Topeka fire deaths include woman and three children
In Topeka a four room frame house on Buchanan avenue burned and the charred bodies of Mrs. W. A. Uptegroff and her three daughters, aged 15 months to 5 years, were found. The father, a teamster, was incoherent but safe. Authorities consider murder or suffocation a possibility as investigators probe the cause. In Dunkerque France ten people perished in a large fire at a petroleum refinery and surrounding works, with firefighters from Calais Dieppe and Boulogne aiding to control the blaze and eight reservoirs saved.
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Topeka
Fratoe
Btar
Buchanan Avenue
Gordon Street
W. A. Uptegroff
Svorkman
Calais
Dieppe
Boulogne
Farish Will Bequests Aid Hospitals and Missions
The will of millionaire John T Farish filed for probate allocates 280000 in charitable bequests. St Luke s hospital and the Home for Incurables at Fordham receive 50000 each, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society and church mission to deaf mutes 20000 each, and Seaside Sanitarium and New York Cancer Hospital 25000 each. A separate Nashville robbery report notes H Bollermeier robbed of 8000 in cash by five armed assailants at 3 am.
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John T Farish
New York
John T. Farish
St. Luke’s Hospital
Fordham
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church and
Church Mission
Seaside Sanitarium
New York Cancer Hospital
Nash
Witke
Nashville
H. Bollermeier
Kansas Supreme Court Reverses, Rules Reenactment Needed for Prohibition Law
The Kansas Supreme Court held that liquor arriving before a federal act requires Kansas to reenact its prohibitory law to block original package sales. The decision reverses the circuit court and remands for further proceedings. Prohibitionists hail the ruling as favorable to state laws.
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Puller
Gray
Harlan
Brawar
John
Wilkerson
Shawnee County
Kaw
Charles’ A
Falter
Iti Ia
United States
Kansas
Rahrer
Potter White Bailey failure shocks Boston trade world
The Boston firm Potter White Bailey, an extensive shipper and manufacturer, failed with liabilities around 1 million dollars and assets near 1 million. The collapse follows Memphis shoe company failures and unsettles financial circles amid high past credit. The firm had annual business about 2 million and manufactured through Bent Cochituate and Nute Sons Farmington with others.
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Boston
Masé
Potter, White & Bailey
Ticiufatturers
Davis Shoe Company
Hill Shoe Company
Memphis
Dang Een
Cochituate
A. Nute & Sons
Farmington
N. H
M. N. Arnold
North Abington
Supreme Court Orders Charity Dispensing of Utah Church Assets
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a final decree directing how the late Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of Utah assets are to be distributed. Receivers will apply proceeds to charities and lawful purposes that best match the church's original intent, after Congress chose no method of disposition.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Church of Jesu Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Utah
Congress
Stanford at the Head of Third Party Move in 1892
Washington May 24. Third party leaders claim direct assurances that Senator Stanford of California is ready to lead the movement and be the standard bearer of the people’s party in 1892. Alliance leaders say they are authorized to publicize Stanford’s belief that his fortune serves the people as steward.
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Washington
Stanford
California
People’s Party
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