Telegrams From The Saline And Surrounding Towns News
Reports from Salem Tecumseh Nemaha and nearby towns detail accidents and misfortunes. A mule team crash injures a man and nearly harms his brother. A Tecumseh pump vandalism leads to a $29.20 fine. A boy dies from a horse kick near Buffalo schoolhouse. A cigar factory opens in Wahoo and court actions arise in Grand Island.
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Salem
J. W. Nedroe
Springfield
Wahoo
J.J. Gewitz
U. P. Company
District Court
Hall County
Grand Island
Omaha
O'Neill
Tecumseh Journal
Chubbuck
Tecumseh
Gd Fairfield
Riverdale Disaster Explodes and Sinks on Hudson River
A midriver explosion tore through the Hudson steamer Riverdale near Harrison Street, causing it to capsize within minutes. About 100 passengers aboard were on board, with many hurled or forced to jump into the river as tugs responded and rescue efforts began amid debris and whirlpools.
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Fourteenth Street
Perhood
Foot
North River
New York
Riverdale
Sixteenth Street
Hoboken
Harrison’ Street
Haverstraw
Private Raleigh hanging and other 19th century crimes
Henry Jones was hanged in Raleigh North Carolina on Monday for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Blake in a private execution. Other items include A A Atherton a Michigan treasurer a $18000 defaulter. Louis Phillips and Jacob Rosenbrook killed in a near Vandalia Illinois duel. Capt John J Hall a suspected defaulting contractor linked to Pennsylvania railroads. Lockwood the New Haven embezzlement figure convicted. James Collins beaten by his two sons in Milwaukee. Stephen Raymond alias Steve Marshall arreste d for forgery linked to Union Pacific coupons. Northampton burglary tied to altered bonds and questioned issuance.
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Begam Toyeat
Hinckley
Northampton
Henry Jones
Raleigh
N. C
Blake
A. A. Atherton
Roscommon County
Mich
Louis Phillips
Jacob Rosenbrook
Vandalia
Golilla
John J. Hall
Pennsylvania Raiado
Denver
New Mexico
Hall
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lockwood
New Haven
James Collins
Milwaukee
Morris
Timothy
Stephen Raymond
Steve Times
Marshall
New York
Union Pacific Railway Company
Nationalz Bank
Eet
Boston
Averé Beligi
Amit, Iany
Dilfodd
Cou- Boston
Emi
U S Post Office Plans New Four Cent Stamp and Rail Route
The post office selects a dark green color for the new four cent stamp bearing Andrew Jackson. Distribution of the two cent stamp begins September 1 with October 1 as the letter postage change date. Rail post service expands as Northern Pacific from St Paul to Portland gains continuous operation between Missoula and Helena starting September 2.
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Post Office Department
Andrew Jackson
Northern Pacific
Missoula
Helena
Montana
St. Paul
Portland
United States
Camb
G. P
Pension Office
Craig
Morgan
Secretary of the Interior
Kansas
Marine Hospital Service
Naval Reservation
Pensacola
Secretary of the Treasury
Florida
Riots in Egerszgh Hungary Shock Jewish Community
Reports describe violent riots in Egerszgh Hungary last Friday and Saturday with around two thousand peasants attacking Jewish homes and shops. Troops failed to quell the mob until reinforcements arrived. prisoners were released as infantry and cavalry were ordered from Budapest.
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Egerszgh
Hungary
Hgerszgh
Buda-Pesth
Daring highway robbery near Oakland shocks town
A man stopped a wagon train just north of Oakland, demanded money, and escaped with about ten dollars from Charles Oakson and his son after a gun was shown. Meanwhile reports from Java describe massive volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and widespread casualties across Batavia, Kanadga, and surrounding islands.
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Omaha
Oakland
Charles Oakson
Illinois
Mr. Oakson
Boy
Main Street
Lyons
Nebraska Democracy Convention Adopts Platform At Omaha
The Nebraska Democratic State Convention met August 29 1888 at the Academy of Music in Omaha with J Sterling Morton as chairman. They adopted a platform opposing tariff protection and stressing fiscal restraint and anti corruption. James W Savage was named justice of the supreme court candidate and regents were chosen, with central committee renewed for one year.
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Academy of Music
J. Sterling Morton
State Central Committee
J. F. Kinney
Nebraska City
Hedon
Kinney
Victor Vifquain
Saline
C. Crawford
Cuming
Beach Hinman
Lincoln
F. E., White
Cass
Montgomery
Lancaster
Martini
Richardson
C. R. Reddick
Douglas
Nebraska
Bear
Madison
Wallace
McManigal
Glover
Washington
J.E. North
Platte
Supreme Court
Chapman
Colfax
Jas. W. Savage
Jas. M. Woolworth
G. W. Thompson
Fillmore
Savage
G. W. Johnson
E. R. Daniels
J. M. Woolworth
United States
Arthur
Union
Democrats
Congress
P. D. Sturdevant
Stout
Egypt cholera toll and troops in Egypt report
Official figures show 27 318 deaths from cholera in Egypt since the outbreak with 140 British troops among the fallen. In Germany a Berlin train collision near Steglitz left about forty dead or wounded as passengers surged to board the returning carriages.
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Anhamtte
Hue
Hong
Paklong
Egypt
Darste J Bas
Germany
Berlin
Steglitz
The Same Birth Time Two Men Died Fifty Years Later
In a travel puzzle the two men are born at the Cape of Good Hope and travel around the world in opposite directions. One sails westward gaining days, the other eastward losing days. After fifty years they die at the same moment and place, but the westbound man is ahead by one hundred days due to circumnavigation.
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Ind
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St. Albans
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Central Vermont Railroad
Colchester
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New York
Boston
Forest Home Cemetery
Denmark
Andjczarina
Russia
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Greece
Princess of Wales
Annam
France
Anam
Tonquin
Red River
Hue
Cochin
Wlrge
Quicksi
Board of Control
Fremont
Thurstons
Pacifics
Grand Island
Padge
James ‘di’ Reinard
William Hildebrand
Seward
Seward Company
Fremonts
Hook and Ladder Company
Syracuse
Hurstons
Merchants of
Lincoln
Moline
Bluff Citys
Council Bluffs
T. P. Quick
Quick
Turner’s
Seward Chemical Engine
Butler
J. M. Thurston Company
Omaha
Fitzgeralds
Cape of Good, Hope
Farmer praises Chamberlain remedy saving doctor bills
M M Flinckinger of a Linn County farm testi es that Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy has served his family for seven years. He says there is no medicine like it and it has saved him many doctor bills.
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M.M. Flinckinger
Linn Co
Larould
Newhaven Fishwives on Edinburgh Wharfs
In Edinburgh the Newhaven fishwives, in blue petticoats white blouses and kerchiefs, carry two stacked wicker creels on their shoulders and move with a steady stride. They dominate the Newhaven wharf at dawn as fishmongers crowd the wall and buyers seek bargains. Their strong, independent role contrasts with the men who wait and speak only after the sale. The scene evokes Christie Johnstone, echoing vitality and social dynamics of the time.
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Atlantic
Edinburgh
Newhaven
Jutland
Scotland
Christie Johnstone
Christie
Comic and Untamed Clippings From An 19th Century Paper
A patchwork of notes and anecdotes recounts rich magnates Henry Clews and Croake recovering fortunes, Admiral Baldwin's snuff box described, Eliza Bacas of Florida with eighteen children, Creole club politics in New Orleans, Asbury University endowment efforts, large human physiques in Gowanda, a long lived priest, Wilfred the five year old musical prodigy, a Boston cook’s Colorado Springs prize, and European dignitary visits including Kissingen busts and Lake Geneva gatherings.
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Admiral BaLdwin
Hamburg
Baltimore Sun
Eliza Bacas
Sumterville
Florida
New Orleans
G. W. Cable
Blasting Paper Made By J Batry Of Jenna
A described blasting paper product is made by J Batry of Jenna. The material is un sized blotting paper coated with a hot mixture of seventeen parts yellow Narense of potash seventeen of charcoal thirty five of refined saltpetre seventy of potassium chlorate ten of wheat starch and four thousand four hundred of water. After drying it is cut into strips rolled into cartridges.
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J. Batry
Jenna
Coatings and Weather Glazes from Old Hints and Bets
The text mixes old wood coating formulas and household tips. It mentions hardening wood surfaces, chalk and linseed oil mixes, sulphuric acid, and a method with Epsom salts and Yager beer to frosted glass. It also includes a mathematical rule relating square and circle areas and notes a minor tide in the Great Lakes.
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Germany
James A. “Micon
Great Lakes
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