Five Dead After Suburban Train Crash in Chicago
A Rock Island passenger train en route to Blue Island was struck by a freight at the Lake Shore and Panhandle crossing in Englewood. The impact killed five aboard the coach, with twelve to fourteen initially reported. several others were seriously injured and rushed to nearby homes and the Sisters of Mercy hospital. Engineers fled. one may have been intoxicated.
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Panhandle
Eighty-seventh Street
Englewood
Rock Island
Washington Heights
Morgan Park
Institute of the Sisters of Mercy
Seth Twomblysen
Poe
Forest Fires Rampage in California Woodlands
Reports from San Francisco indicate extensive fires ignited last night in Redwood forests of San Mateo County south of the city. The blaze is spreading with many sawmills endangered and widespread damage already done as crews battle the flames. A second fire near Santa Rosa north of the city heightens fears of a major disaster amid extreme dryness.
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San Francisco
Cal
Redwood
San Mateo County
Santa Rose
Warning landslide threat at Tuncau Park hillside
In Wis Sept a hillside at Tuncau Park threatened a catastrophe as a crowd watched a rockslide move six inches. A stone roadbed at the hill base saved the area from a larger slide into the lake, leaving the slope halved and a deep fissure atop the terrain.
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Tuncau Park
Health official probes Henderson County smallpox outbreak
Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley secretary of the State Board of Health returned from an official investigation of a smallpox outbreak in Henderson County. Sixteen cases in two families near Lexington, all in danger, with isolation and vaccination precautions in place. Origin of the outbreak began a month ago and remains unknown.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. Berrien Lindsley
State Board of Health
Ano
Henderson County
Lexington
Abram O'Dell Laid To Rest In Self Dug Grave
About twenty years ago Abram O'Dell of Aubora prepared a monument and a grave in the cemetery but did not bury himself. He died Sunday night at eighty three and was buried in the awaiting open tomb yesterday. The long wait ends as the grave finally receives its occupant.
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Abram O'Dell
Lfe
Laborer Rescued After 105 Hours Buried in Landslide
In Qernre, Sept 25, laborers clearing rain wreckage found 72 year old Joseph Kemp trapped under debris for 105 hours. They freed him after a prolonged digging, he remained able to speak.
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Joseph Kemp
Kemp
New Jersey Sheriff Killed by Erie Train Collision
Parensey September 25 Nicholas C. Demarest sheriff of Bergen County, a leading Northern New Jersey politician, was hit by an Erie train at Rutherford Park at 5 oclock yesterday evening and ground to pieces.
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Parensey
Nicholas C. Demarest
Bergen County
Rutherford Park
Tornado damages Pablo Beach hotel in Florida
A violent tornado swept Pablo Beach near Jacksonville injuring no others but killing a 13 year old boy named Prince O Neill. Murray Hall beach hotel suffered severe damage with the roof torn off and windows blown out. The bowling alley servants quarters and pavilion were demolished and debris hurled lifters and a freight car were lifted from tracks.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Here
Atlantic
Murray Hall
Prince O'Neil
All to His Wife Will of the Late Congressman Cox
The will of Congressman Samuel Sullivan Cox filed in New York on September 24 outlines his entire estate to his wife Julia Ann Cox as sole executor with power to sell. If he survives, one fifth goes to siblings, and remaining shares to his wife's sister Mrs Elizabeth Hardenburgh and her brother James Buckingham or heirs. Witnesses are I J Fricke Peter Garvey and Maggie McDermott.
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New York
Samuel Sullivan Cox
Cox
Julia Ann Cox
Elizabeth Hardenburgh
James Buckingham
I. J. Fricke
Peter Garvey
Maggie McDermott
Lightning Kills Girl In Pleasant Hill Minnesota
Lightning struck Tyler Spaulding's house in Pleasant Hill at 8:30 PM Sunday. A bolt down the stove pipe killed a six year old girl in her mother's lap, and another bolt injured a thirteen year old girl while a nine year old boy was unharmed. The mother is not expected to live and the father was knocked senseless but unharmed.
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Wryona
Minn
Tyler Spaulding
Pleasant Hill
Death of Wilkie Collins noted novelist
Wilkie Collins died at age 99 in London. He was born in 1825, son of landscape painter William Collins, trained as a tea merchant apprentice, then joined Lincoln's Inn. He authored popular novels known for dramatic construction including Antonia Basil The Dead Secret Woman in White Armadale Man and Wife and The Frozen Deep.
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Wilkie Collins
William Collins
London
Lincoln's Inn
Armadale
Measleslike Dysentery Epidemic Strikes Meadowville Area
In Patnicry West Virginia on September 21 officials report a dysentery like illness raging near Meadowville. The Sherman family sparked the outbreak about three weeks ago with four deaths among the Shermans and eight among neighbors. Roughly twenty cases are now recorded as physicians search for a cause.
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Patnicry
W. Va
Meadowville
Sherman
Murdered for His Money in Coal Valley Near Charleston
Sam Faris was murdered in Coal Valley near Charleston on Saturday night after drawing a large sum of money. Only small change remained on his person. Nine men have been arrested. details about the death are not yet clear. She was shot through the head.
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Charleston
W. Va
Sam Faris
Coal Valley
Here
St. Louis After the Fair Subcommittees Exceed Expectations
St. Louis reports the World's Fair fund effort surpasses forecasts with more than 3,000,000 pledged of a 5,000,000 guarantee and total commitments approaching 6,500,000 rather than 5,000,000.
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St. Louis
St. Lovuis
Justice Field and His Body Guard Visit St Paul
Chief Justice Field and Deputy Sheriff Nagle arrived in St Paul on the Northern Pacific last evening en route to Washington. They stayed briefly in the city and departed for the east on the Milwaukee road evening train.
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St. Pau
Nagle
St. Paul
Northern Pacific
Washington
East
Milwaukee Road
Boulanger Counted Out in Montmartre Vote
In Paris the general belief is that General Boulanger was elected in the Montmartre district Sunday and counted out.
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Losvox
Paris
General Boulanger
Montmartre
Life Savers Record Heroic Coast Rescue Efforts
Washington reports the Life Saving Service notches an extraordinary storm period with hundreds saved and many vessels aided. Massachusetts crews reached nineteen distressed ships and rescued thirty five people. Rhode Island nine men. New Jersey twenty four people. Delaware breakwater twenty two ships and one hundred sixty four people ashore. Cape Henry three ships and twenty four lives saved. Superintendent Kimball will compile full reports for Congress seeking recognition and pay for these rugged heroes.
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Kimball
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Delaware
Cape Henry
Congress
Paris Ballotage Riddles Election Returns Across Districts
Latest returns show ballotage in nearly all Paris districts with no candidate achieving a majority. Laisant Boulangers Laguerre elected while Lockroy Flouquet Yves Naquet fail. Goblet defeated by Millevoye Boulangist in Somme, Ferry defeated in Vosges. General Boulanger undecided pending ballotage.
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Flouquet
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Naquet
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Boulanger
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Goblet
Millevoye
Somme
Jules Ferry
Vosges
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Figaro
General Boulanger
Printer's ink drives New York Central ad push
Rocenestien New York Sept 25 George H Daniels of the New York Central railroad shows the value of advertising as a business motive. The railroad has increased its newspaper space and outside ads. The new passenger agent emphasizes informing the public through daily press about train departures accommodations and routes.
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Rocenestien
N. Y
George H. Daniels
New York Central Railroad
Herald
New York Central
New York
Daniels
Daily Press
Bohemian stone-cutter claims dissolving compound for shaping stone
August Boorfried, a St Paul stone-cutter, says a chemical blend can dissolve hardest stone and reform it into shapes with a bright luster. Colors range from red to azure blue, applicable to glassy surfaces, with wheels and rails among potential uses. He plans to seek eastern capital backing soon.
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St. Paul, Minn
August Boorfried
Boorfried
East
Colorado Mining Exchange Plans Mint Visit Over Silver Coinage
The Colorado Mining Exchange adopted a resolution to study the constitutionality of the silver coinage act and to hire legal counsel. A three member committee will visit the Philadelphia mint with 100 ounces of silver to demand coinage, and if refused will sue the mint director for damages, aiming for Supreme Court action.
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Col
Colorado Mining Exchange
Philadelphia
Mint
U. S. Supreme Court
Local meteorite iron forged into horse shoes near Jenny Creek
A Wayne County report recalls a large necrolite fragment near Jenny Creek that yielded iron pieces. Local blacksmiths gathered several meteorite bits and melted them into usable iron and horse shoes through welding and forging.
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PankreRspine
Jenny Creek
Wayne County
Frank
Quebecs Horror Funeral to Be Held for Disaster Victims
Quebec an official joint funeral will honor victims of Thursday's disaster. Among the buried are newlyweds Nolan and wife. Rescue work reveals mangled remains, with twenty five corpses found and eighteen wounded to date.
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Quebec
Nolan
Joe Kemp
Mrs. Lawson
Michael Bradley
Ihllis
Worse Than Slaves. Chinese Importation Increases At San Francisco
San Francisco reports rising importation of Chinese despite theexclude act. The Gaelic drought 169 carries Chinese embassy members as cabin passengers. Many steerage travelers lack certificates and authorities fear a surge in slave women sales with prices from 100 to 3500 shillings. Women are shipped under false pretenses to wives of merchants or to disreputable quarters, triggering local anger at the consulate.
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Phelps
China
Habeas Corpus
Chinatown
Mexican tax revolt sparks clashes near Van Horn
Van Horn dispatch reports a large battle in Mexico over heavy taxation. Mexican citizens allegedly routed officers and soldiers in a struggle that drew in the governor who then fled to avoid loss of life.
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St. Allen
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Odd Fellows to Hold Session in Topeka in 1890
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows decides the next session will convene in Topeka Kansas on the second Monday in September 1890. Restrictions on former Patriarchal circle members are removed and they may return. The Johnstown Relief Committee reports 36251469 contributed and disbursed to flood sufferers.
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Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Topeka
Kas
Johnstown
Fire destroys livery barn injuring horses in Sioux Orry Iowa
A fire at Kings worth and Buxton's livery barn in Sioux Orry Iowa early yesterday morning burned the second floor where sixty five horses were stabled. None were saved. Loss around ten thousand dollars, fully insured.
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Orry
Kingsworth& Buxton
Indiana Press Briefs Show Sudden Deaths and Local Happenings
Reports from near Peru to Knightstown record deaths from falling dirt and gunshot injuries, a double headed calf sighting, Zeigen of quail abundance near Hartford City, and a fortification of public services with Angola electrification and Fort Wayne natural gas. Also noted are a series of accidents, arrests, and political appointments across Indiana towns.
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