Emmons Blaine Died of Blood Poisoning After Minneapolis Shock
Emmons Blaine son of ex Secretary Blaine died at his Chicago residence from blood poisoning caused by bowel inflammation. News of the death was delayed to spare the Blaine family distress. Emmons Blaine, vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, had returned from the north and recently married Anita McCormick.
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Curcaco
Emmons Blaine
Blaine
Pblic
Young Blaine
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Minneapolis
North
Cyrus H. McCormick
Jas. G. Blaine
McCormick
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Chicago
New York
Anita McCormick
Official Test Declares Royal Baking Powder Best
The act of congress authorized official examination of baking powders at the Government Laboratory in Washington. The report ranks Royal Baking Powder superior to all others in leavening strength by over thirty percent above the average. It also notes the powder’s purity and wholesome ingredients. This marks the highest official compliment for a proprietary article and will set the standard for Government purchases.
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Congress
Washington
Baseball Scores and School Entertainment Report
Portland defeated Seattle 3 to 2 and Tacoma beat Spokane 7 to 1. Also noted is an Olympia Theater entertainment by Washington school pupils with no commencement exercises due to extended course.
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Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Olympia Theater
Washington School
Political chatter and candidate chatter across states
An eastern paper reports on Nelson Bennett of Seattle and a Minneapolis tie, suggesting him as West house bar judge. John D. Geoghegan of this city denies candidacy for governor. The Seattle Press Times and Vancouver Independent share varied views on the field and party hopes. The Yakima Republic notes Jim Weaver's prospects, and the Washington delegation is rumored to linger in Minneapolis awaiting news.
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Spéat
Washington
Bennett
Seattle
Nelson Bennett
Minneapolis
West House
Seattle Press-Times
Independent
John D. Geoghegan
Geoghegan
Blaine
Vancouver
Legisties Party
Nated John
Catlin Ig
Jim Weaver
Yakima Republic
Railroad Safety Bill Advances For Locomotive and Car Standards
Washington reports show the house committee favors a safety bill requiring power brakes on new locomotives and automatic couplers after 1895 with continuous brakes by 1898. Standards must be established by a 55 percent vote of common carriers and filed with state commissions. In Minnesota, cyclone updates downplay fatalities and damage.
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Washington
House Committee On Inter-State and Foreign Commerce
Caelppel
State Commerce Commission
Arrived From Japan on Empress of Japan at Vancouver
The Empress of Japan arrived from Hong Kong and Yokohama with 122 saloon passengers 416 steerage and 47 mail sacks. Cargo included 56 silk bales. The Ken Junedth and Yokohama completed the voyage on schedule amid light winds and overcast skies. Passengers include Professor Agassiz Major Bennett and Mrs Sloane Stanley.
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Japan
Vancouver
B. C
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Ken
Agassiz, Ajorennett
Royal Engineers
Destruction after storm leaves Actonville homeless and injured
Actonville Quebec reports vast storm damage with sixty families homeless and 150 buildings destroyed. Three children killed and eight people seriously injured as homes vanish along miles of road. Crops face heavy losses and the scene is pitiful. In Memphis a Chicago delegate murder occurs as Judge John Bright Morgan is shot on a train.
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Actonville
Quebec
Chicago
Memphis
John Bright Morgan
Hernando, Miss
Illinois Central
Henry Foster
Morgan
Coastwide business failures rise in week end
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports twenty three failures across Pacific coast states and territories for the week ending yesterday, up from ten the prior week and fifteen in the same week of 1891.
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San Francisco
Bradstreet’s
Mercantile Agency
Pacific Coast
Northern Pacific bridge damage disrupts fruit shipments
Worse and more of it. Missoula Montana June 18. Two spans in the A hen bridge at Clark's Fork were burned this morning. Tons of fruit east bound by express will be almost a total loss as a result.
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Missoula
Mont
Northern Pacific
Clark’s Fork
Express
Cyrus Field in Ill Health at Ardsley Home
Cyrus W Field, who recently returned to his country residence at Ardsley near Doss Ferry New York, is reported very ill and his family expresses deep concern over his condition.
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Doss Ferry
N. Y
Cyrus W. Field
Ardsley
Beatty Drives Growth for Beatty's Pianos and Organs
Hon Daniel F Beatty, famed organ and piano maker, reports record shipments and sales. Since 1870 he has sold nearly 100000 instruments, plans to sell 200000 more in ten years, potentially $20,000,000 in value, positioning his business as a world leader. Send to Daniel F Beatty Washington New Jersey for a catalogue. Dave Baker and Frank Donnelly fishing trip to Nesqually.
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Daniel F. Peat
Washington
New Jersey
Catalgue
Democratic talk on Cleveland first-ballot nomination
Chicago dispatch notes Cleveland leaders from across the country canvassing strength for a first-ballot nomination. W. C. Whitney asserts Cleveland will be nominated on the first ballot, while others warn that if not, his forces may disintegrate. Focus falls on Morrison as a possible compromise candidate with Illinois backing.
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Chicago
Cleveland
W.C. Whitney
New York
Campbell
Ohio
McKinley
Fairchild
Calvin
Brice
Syracuse
Hill
Boies
Gray
Carlisle
Kentucky
Watterson
Gorman
Indiana
W. R. Morrison
Illinois
House of Representatives
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. E. Anderson
Grover Cleveand
Mills
Breckinridges
Arkansas
Texas
Missouri
Morrison
Palmer
Republican Primaries Set With July Convention in Columbia
The Republican county committee met at Mayor O'Brien's office and approved a county convention on July 30 at 11 a.m. in Columbia hall. Primaries will be on July 27. Delegates total 67 with representation based on new precincts. One primary will elect delegates to two county conventions for state and local nominations.
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Republican County Committee
O’brien
Columbia Hall
Visiting Odd Fellows Tour Highlights Olympia Attractions
An excursion party of Salmon Bay Lodge No 100 with about 160 members visited Olympia arriving by steamer Sehome. They were greeted at Perceval's wharf by Olympia Lodge No 1 and guided to the Odd Fellows temple for a welcome by T N Ford and remarks by J M Swan. They toured the city landmarks, toured the capitol grove, and enjoyed a luncheon before departing at six.
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Salmon Bay
Seattle
Salmon Bay Lodge
Percival’s
Olympia Lodge No
Odd Fellows’ Temple
T.N. Ford
J.M. Swan
Capitol
Telegraphic Tales Recent Washington and world brief items
Chauncey Depew dined at the White House and was urged to accept the secretary of state post. Emmons Blaine’s death shocks Washington. Boies and the Tuscarora club stir Burlington. speeches heard. Sacramento court nullifies John B. Rodgers’s police election. Rogers to appeal. Oxford accepts challenge from Yale or Harvard winner for Putney race. Yale may oppose international racing. The Gazette notes King Otto’s vegetative state. Judge Murphy will hang John McNulty August 12. C B Q work train collision near Ladstone kills one, injures twenty-five. Sheriff A G Syler shot by Jesse Roper. Roper pursued and lynching feared.
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Chauncey Depew
White House
Emmons Blaine
Washington City
Harrison
Burlington
Iowa
Tuscarora
Democratic Club
Opera House
Boies
Sacramento
Superior J
van Fleet
John B. Rodgers
Rogers
Oxford University Boat Club
Harvard
Atlantic
Yale
Otto
Bavaria
Murphy
San Francisco
John McNulty
Collins
Robinson
C. B. & Q. R. R. Company
Ladstone
Ills
A. G. Syler
Baxter County
Arkansas
Jesse Roper
Roper
Cause of Washington Family Feud Over Blaine Scion
Washington society buzzes as resignations and a youths prankish behavior ignite a feud between the Blaine and Harrison families. The incident at a diplomatic corps ball leads to social exile of young Blaine, driving lasting enmity and the eventual cabinet resignation.
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Washington
Blaine
Diplomatic Corps
Harrisons
New York
War eyewitness recalls dying Kentuckian and whiskey request
A Civil War reminiscence recounts Lieutenant D. Q. Rousseau wounded at Chickamaugamy. He asks Col Mc Masters to deliver a demijohn to General Lovel H. Rousseau and to have his grave at Frankfort Cemetery marked with a specific inscription.
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McMasters
Wisconsin
Chickamaugamy
Kentucky
D. Q. Rousseau
Eins
Lovel H. Rosseau
Kentucky Lieutenant Rousseau Memorial Echoed in Grass
Slain in battle, Lieut. D. Q. Rousseau, born and raised in Kentucky, is commemorated in Franksfort where a monument inscribed with his dying request stands in a shaded corner of the old cemetery as quoted by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Blue Grass
Kentucky
Sir
Frankfort
Rousseau
Chickamauga
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tacoma Tops State Trade and Sports News Highlight
Seattle handles larger coal exports than Tacoma while Tacoma dominates wheat lumber flour tea and smelter trades. H T Denham of Tacoma wins the live bird shooting prize at Seattle. First galena ore shipment from Snoqualmie mine sent to Tacoma smelter by 8 D Gustin weighing 5000 pounds with carload hopes. Eight thousand dollars raised statewide for Roslyn mine sufferers distributed via a committee plan.
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Seattle
Tacoma
Washington
H. T. Denham
Snoqualmie
D. Gustin
Lake Shore
Gustin
Roslyn
Miracle Escape on Gasoline Launch Neosha
A small gasoline launch Neosha nearly exploded while a reception party prepared to depart for warships Baltimore and Charleston. Vapor from overflow ignited after a bolt nut dropped. main tank remained intact, but a door was blown out, a crew member bruised, and the boat damaged enough to need repairs.
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Neosha
Baltimore
Charleston
Littlejohn
Westside Bridge
W. F. Newell
Newell
Main
Second Streets
Mississippi Man Praises Harrison Backers in Minneapolis Fight
A Mississippi delegate, S. S. Matthews, defends Harrison at the Minneapolis convention urging support for the former speaker’s stance on the elections bill. He recounts deadly political violence in Mississippi, noting threats against his family and the murder of relatives while affirming his resolve to vote Republican.
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Harrison
Minneapolis
Pioneer Press
St. Paul
Matthews
Mississippi
Matthew
Proto
Ree
Chicago Tribune
Blaine
Visitors and locals noted in Olympia address list
A long roster of residents and visitors appears in Olympia notes including Mrs. O P Anderson of Seattle visiting her brother 8 C Woodruff and A J Littlejohn of Tacoma in the city. Various names from Seattle, Bucoda, Ellensburg, San Francisco and Portland are listed as guests, travelers, or passing through.
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Scammell
E. E. Orego
Nesqually
W. H. Clark
Shelton
Maria Bethel
Ellensburgh
State Normal School
E. W. Andrews
Seattle
T. N. Allen
John J. Downey
First National Bank
St. Mo
Vernon Waldron
Chas
Hill
Harry W. Clark
E. C. Marliwe
San Francisco
F. J. Eisensohn
Pomeroy
Roderick M. Denate
Bucoda
Eugene Semple
D. G. Perley
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Olympia
AX. Eckels
Fourth and
Adams Streets
Olympia Trading Company
T. S. Cantril
Fourth Street
Joseph Cheim
Main Street
Simonson
Elgin
Chilberg Block
Pure Food
Pacific Northwest
St. Helens
England
Beecham’s
Ieee
New York Depot
Canal St
John Miller Murphy
Carroll Johnson
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New York Herald
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Danvas
W.H. Riddle
P. F. Miller
Miller
Brewer
G. F. Ponton
A. Tighe
Charles’ Henry
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Riddle
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Atchison
Central Pacific
Denver & Rio Grande
Northwestern
New York Central
Oregon Navigation
North American
Pacific Mail
Rock Island
St.Paul & Omaha
Texas Pacific
Union Pacific
Fargo Express
Western Union
Cyrus Field
Dave Baker
Frank Donnelly
the Nesqually
ODD Fellows
Davis
Telegraphic Tales
Young Jim Blaine
Lieut
D. Q. Rosseau
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