July deaths and cosmic claims cited in late 19th century note
A miscellany item reports that Hansa Hamlin Thomas Jefferson John Adams and President Monroe died in July. It notes meteoric rainfall and an astronomer’s figure of 146 million projectiles yearly. June breadstuffs exports reached 13.199 million dollars, hinting at strong next months demand and European crop concerns.
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Hansa
Hamlin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
President Monroe
New York Secrecy Debate Over Electric Chair Law
Fragmentary note shows a Pragic opinion urging openness on murder cases and a bill to require electricity based executions to be conducted in public. The text hints at legislative discussion and public scrutiny.
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New York State
Congo investments ruin King of Belgium’s fortune
The king’s Congo ventures have failed to bring profits and nearly swallowed his wealth, risking even the vast property he holds in trust for his sister, the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico.
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Tuk
Belgium
Congo
Carlotta
Mexico
Burglars Needed to Remove Treasury Coin in Vault Heist
A TRE report notes 4,500 tons of coins in the U S Treasury vaults. A statistician estimates a gang would require 90,960 men of average strength to haul the coins 50 feet.
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United States Treasury
Treasury
Explorer Describes Popocatapetl Crater Scene
Ax American reports from Popocatapetl the extinct volcano shows a crater about 250 feet wide and 500 feet deep. He notes a sponge like network of tunnels inside and ice and snow outside. Entering ten steps inside the frost vanishes and the thermometer rises to 70 degrees.
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Popocatapetl
Quin Nebaugh Converted to Coal Barge After Sale
The United States ship Quin Nebaugh sold for 14000 dollars has been re rigged as a schooner and fitted as a coal barge. A past joke about the navy seems unwise in light of recent developments.
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United States
Quinnebaugh
Short monarchs compare height across Europe
The passage notes Spain's king is short at five feet, second to Queen Victoria at four feet ten inches. It also claims the Hohenzollern line has the most tall men in Europe, highlighting stature among royal houses.
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Spain
Caina
Queen Victoria
House of Hohenzollern
Austrian Explosive Ecracite Aims to Surpass Dynamite
The Austrian war office guards the secret of ecracite, a new explosive by two Austrian engineers. It reportedly surpasses dynamite by ten to seven and is usable for cartridges and cannons. A shell charged with it is claimed to demolish a line of five hundred men.
Cotton goods mill in Waterville Maine produces vast cloth
A Maine newspaper notes a Waterville mill's 16,000,000 yard yearly output could weave a tent covering 370 acres and shelter the populations of Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts with a 165 acre ring at center for the state’s $4,000 horses to operate without crowding.
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Waterville
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Queen Victoza and a family burden in brief lines
In a reflective note the passage recounts Queen Victoza and a lone family, now down to fifty living descendants. It mentions sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, a lost child by drowning, and a move to Oklahoma. It also notes another tragedy as a fourth descendant is lost to hunger and drowning.
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Victoza
Sen Getta S
Butaber
Children taught to play and the value of athletic education
An article notes that while children naturally play, some educators argue for teaching the art of playing. It discusses plans in eastern cities to employ athletic teachers and physical culture on playgrounds during the summer to formalize play and physical education.
Campbell Renominated at Ohio Democratic Convention
The Ohio Democratic state convention in Buckeye Democracy renominated Gov. Campbell on the first ballot amid a large harmonious gathering. Allen W. Thurman chaired as temporary leader, Le Blond named permanent chair, and the platform endorsed Campbell’s administration, tariff reform, a graded income tax, free coinage of silver, home rule for cities, and closer Canada relations, with Neal and Virgil as other nominees and a 2:23 ballot vote confirming Campbell.
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Chevenant
Campbell
Ohio Democracy
Norton
State Central Committee
Allen W. Thurman
Thurman
Committee On Permanent Organization
le Blond
Mercer County
Ee Bland
Committee On
James E. Campbell
Sixty Ninth General Assembly
Ohio
House of Representatives
Canada
Europa
Tis
Eee
G vi
Bix Ingressman Follette
Panic at a Circus Sparks Stampede at Forepaugh Show
A lion escaped during Forepaugh’s circus in Rock Iswaxp drawing about 6000 spectators. The crowd rushed toward the street in panic but there were no fatalities. several people were seriously injured before workers corralled the animal beneath the wagon.
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Rock Iswaxp
Forepaugh
Arial
Northwestern Cyclone Leaves Wheat Ruined Across Minnesota
Reports from Stearns Sherburne and Benton counties describe a tornado and accompanying hail in Superior Thursday afternoon. The storm damaged 2 500 acres of wheat across multiple towns and left farmers destitute after three poor seasons. West Superior saw five deaths from the hotel collapse as other buildings were struck by lightning and wind.
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Stearns
Sherburne
Benton
Minn
Superior
St. Joseph
St Cloud
St Augusta
Fair Feven
Stearns County
Haven
Sherburne County
Benton County
Wis
Third and
Tower Street
South Superior
Fisher Hotel
Unitarian Church
Union Depot
West Superior
New Lotel
Fresh Air Enterprise Wins City Franchises
Kansas City leaders in business have organized to supply cold air through conduits across the city. The common council granted franchises to build mains to carry out the venture, the first of its kind in the country. Work begins at once with crews expected to start laying pipes, supplying cool air by next summer and hot air in winter.
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Kansas City
Common Council
Militia Called Out Without Legal Authority Stirs Protest
In Cole Creek Tennessee two local units, Lookout Mountain guards and Moerlein Zouaves, stand on duty amid threat while eminent lawyers say Governor Buchanan lacked authority to mobilize troops. Indictment and impeachment questions arise as militia lack tents and provisions.
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Chattanooga
Cole Creek
Tenn
Lookout Mountain Guards
Moerlein Zouaves
State Bar Association
Buchanan
Explosion Destroys Two Hundred Pounds Nitro near Washington PA
A torpedo man S K Bigley was hauling 200 pounds of nitro glycerine to Mt Morris oil field when the wagon exploded near Washington Pennsylvania Friday morning. Higley was blown to atoms, the horses killed, and two dwellings damaged. The blast shook the town and caused great excitement though many nearby escaped with minor injuries.
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S. K. Bigley
Mt Morris
Washington
Higley
Lee Milton
Mark Hughes, Jr
Champion Diver Leuvenmark Sets World High Dive Record
Jos Leuvenmark of Stockholm, Sweden, is hailed as the world’s champion high diver after a 95 foot leap from a platform into a lake near Kansas. The dive was declared a complete success and the record cited by G A Blake at Lambeth Bath, London. The Minneapolis Evening Journal notes Minneapolis’s forthcoming city directory will reflect a population near 200 000, while the St Paul Dispatch reports 80 405 names in the new St Paul directory, signaling a population close to two hundred thousand.
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Jos. Leuvenmark
Stockholm
Sweden
Leuvenmark
Kansas
G. A. Blake
Lambeth Bath
London
Minneapolis Evening Journal
Directory of
Minneapolis
St Paul Dispatch
Triplets Born to Buffalo Couple in Putnam County
In Buffalo Putnam County Mrs Dan Herrick presented her husband with girl triplets weighing a total of sixteen and a half pounds. All are living and doing well. Herrick and his wife, married fifteen years, have twelve children. The husband receives sympathy from friends as they face poor circumstances.
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Buffalo
Putnam County
Dan Herrick
Ell
Henrick
Drowning After Net Tragedy On Tennessee River Near Murray
Five men set out to seine the Tennessee river near Murray Kentucky. Three of the eight drowned when the net entangled them as a swift current pulled them under. Ed Brown Walter Strader John L Meador and Dick Eaves among the missing and the three recovered bodies were Brame Brown and one other victim. Local citizens feared more bodies would be found as searchers worked through the night.
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Tennessee
Murray
Ed Brown
Walter Strader
John L. Meador
Dick Eaves
John T. Brame
Gramps
Brame
Bramer
Hopkinsville
Eaves
Meador
Thirty Russian Jewish Immigrants Detained in New York
Thirty Russian Jews are held at the New York Detention Bureau awaiting emigration decisions. Most are likely to be sent back due to assisted emigrant status. Mendel Rogalski describes torture in Russia, escape to Riga and Hamburg, then voyage to America with no money. Jewish societies are now involved.
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New York
Mendel Rogalski
Russia
Riga
Siberia
Hamburg
America
Kochs Star Revives Hope for Consumption Cure
Dr Ernest LaPlace of the Medico Chirurgical college Philadelphia declared kochs anti consumption lymph work will reappear soon with a major scientific revelation. He asserts Koch is on the right path toward a cure for consumption and keeps informed on European research.
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Koch
Ernest LaPlace
Medico Chirurgical College
Philadelphia
LaPlace
Dr. Koch
Threatened Miners Strike Near Wilkes Barre
Eight thousand miners in the anthracite region near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania threaten to strike as coal companies refuse to pay every two weeks under a law from the last legislature. Companies prepare for trouble as thousands of European laborers are brought into the coal regions.
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Wilkesbarre
Europe
Boy Sleeper Awake in City, Morn Disoriented
A fragmentary report notes Jesse Streitt waking at about 7 on a Sunday morning, rising from a bed at the Joneclorm and later feeling groggy after a night of shopping or errands. The text is garbled, but suggests confusion upon waking.
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Jesse Streitt
Bie
Clorm
Sey Mourind
Herige
Anhalt
Pope's Edict Against Interference in Papal Conclaves
The London Chronicle Rome correspondent reports the pope told the Austrian ambassador on Saturday that the dreibund must refrain from intervening in papal conclaves even if the college of cardinals elects the next pope outside Rome.
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London Chronicle
Rome
Dreibund
College of Cardinals
Air-Ship Ascends in Jackson Michigan Test Flight
Aeronaut Bartholomew piloted a newly improved suction wheel air ship in Jackson with a Saturday afternoon ascension. The craft appeared successful in sight but officials cautioned that full results are undetermined. By 7 o clock the balloon was sighted at Adrian.
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Jackson, Mich
Bartholomew
Adrian
Coal Creek Miners Seize Convicts as Troops Withdraw
Amid rumors of liberation troops and convicts were quietly moved by special train from Coal Creek Tennessee to Knoxville and Clinton. Thousands of miners and citizens gathered, urging surrender to avoid bloodshed, then escorted guards and convicts to safety without violence.
Berlin Prefers American Electric Execution Method
German judicial authorities studied the New York electric chair system as a substitute for beheading and prepared a report favoring its adoption. Electrical experts believe recent American executions were highly successful and that objections to gallows and the guillotine are removed by electricity.
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Berlin
Volue
New York State
Germany
America
New Orleans Mint Begins Dime Coining at 100000 Daily
The New Orleans Mint started coining dimes again on Monday for the first time since 1885 and plans to produce 100000 dimes per day. The move is tied to newly introduced dime pocket savings banks that have locked away many coins, reducing circulation and hindering business.
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New Orleans
Tragic Clay City Fire Leaves James Family Dead
At Clay City at dawn the ruins of the James homestead five miles west reveal a husband wife son daughter and grandchild dead. Authorities suspect murder by either the son or father followed by suicide and arson. The son’s whisky habit and threats are noted as context for the tragedy.
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Clay City
James
Burglar Anderson Escapes From Cincinnati Jail
Notorious thief Morgan is said to have escaped from a Cincinnati jail Monday morning. Boon was captured weeks earlier. Price Hin fought during the escape attempt.
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Anderson
Jim Anderson
Morgan
Cincinnati
Boon
Price Hin
Armies on Knoxville Streets Stir City in 65-Style Crisis
Terrified crowds witnessed convicts arriving from Coal Creek and militia units marching to the court house square. Memphis troops led by Brig. Gen. Carnes arrived with Chickasaw Guards and other units, while miners pledged peace and readiness to defend property without violence if needed. Local leaders urged Governor to Nashville to prevent further clashes.
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Aela
Coal Creek
Tenn
Briceville
Col. Sevier
Siiners
Knoxville
Clinton
Knoxville Iron Co
Chumbley
Adj
H. H. Norman
Chattanooga
Middle Tennessee
Court House Square
West Tennessee
Ténnessée
Court House
Memphis
Carnes
Chickasaw Guards
Rozier Zouaves
Bluff City Zouaves
Hibernian Rifles
Nashville
Jellico
British Seal Catch Reaches Seventeen Thousand Behring Sea
Returns to the fisheries department in Ottawa show 17 800 sealskins secured by the British Columbia sealing fleet in Behring sea waters up to June 30. Skins landed safely at Victoria as owners sent a vessel early in the month to collect catches from the schooners.
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Fisheries Department
Ottawa
British Columbia
Behring Sea
Victoria
Wright Sends Agent to Study Tariff Effect on Wages
Carroll D. Wright directs Ethelbert Stewart to Chicago to investigate how the McKinley tariff affects wages and product prices. The inquiry is asked by the Senate Finance Committee and will extend to other major manufacturing centers nationwide.
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Carroll D. Wright
Department of Labor
Ethelbert Stewart
Chicago
Senate Finance Committee
Little Charlie Is Still Loaded
Six year old Charlie Millham remains in good health after swallowing a .22 caliber pistol cartridge a week ago in Brooklyn. Doctors report no ill effects from the unusual visitor in his intestines.
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Charlie
Charlie Millham
Brooklyn
Skeletons Found Aboard Ship Believed to Be Utopia
Nine adult skeletons and several children were recovered from a wrecked steamer thought to be Utopia. The vessel was wrecked at Gibsal months ago and the remains have been safely lodged on the beach.
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Utopia
Gibsal
Tar
Courthouse Rules Express Firms Liable for Shipments in Transit
Circuit court in St Louis rules express companies that receive goods from owners remain liable for them until arrival at destination. The decision states liability persists despite multiple carriers handling the goods during transit.
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Circuit Court of St Louis
Moravia Wedding House Struck by Lightning
A Moravia residence at Reitenhall where a wedding was underway was struck by lightning on Tuesday. The blaze destroyed the house. two guests died and about eighty were injured or severely hurt.
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Diabata
Reitenhall
Moravia
Pope Arrest Shifts Tense Mexico City Case
Fragmentary clipping notes a pope arrest in Mexico, with references to Wn HY Pope and a defa status. Details are unclear, but authorities pursue charges linked to a broader case.
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Pope
Mexico
HY Pope
Defa
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