Various World News Items From The Late 19th Century
A fragmented report notes a Forepaughs circus mishap injuring tents at Marshalltown and Oskaloosa. It mentions a Globe notice offering 1000 dollars for Boston Baseball pennant victory, library funding for Johnstown, and a New Jersey stabbing case with a two year sentence. Other items cite a Spanish vessel attack, a Halifax dock opening, and a plan to fund a New York World’s Fair support. Additional notes include Lancashire mills shutdowns, Colorado cliff region study, a Shamokin explosion, Yale’s Loomis Fund, and German naval tactics discussion.
Irregular News Bales From Across The Nation
A sprawling, fragmentary roundup highlights incidents from Pa to NY and beyond. Burglars, a fatal railway accident near Wilkes-Barre, embezzlement charges against a Montana secretary, and reports of shipwrecks on Lake Erie mingle with political notes and labor meetings across several states.
Fraudulent bands target Eastern cities in Southwestern Kansas
A jumble of late items reports swindler plots across Kansas and Texas. Prisoners escaped Harland Court House, some charged with murder. Corus the novelist dies. August Boorfried discovers a chemical method for shaping stone. Starkville Agricultural College barn destroyed with $5,000 loss. soldiers' voting residence questioned. Mrs. Naevros Hupsos killed in Tennessee. Indiana Supreme Court limits bicyclist liability for runaway horses. a Virginia shooting. diplomatic settlement between US and France noted. Yazoo City real estate deal at £53,000 for Lytenta plantation. Tex Iron Exchange Bank in Wisconsin robbed of $10,000.
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Tuene
Kansas
Texas
Harland Court House
Tal
Corus
August Boorfried
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Starkville
Mis
Hes
Naevros Hupsos
Shop Springs
Teen
Indiana Supreme Court
Ee On
Javagvione
Tean
United States
France
Derr
Miss van Nostrand
New York
Re Alien
Rally at Chickamauga Memorial Draws thousands of veterans
The Chickamauga Memorial Association held a large gathering at Crawfish Springs near Chickamauga as Gov. Gordon and Gen. Rosecrans addressed the crowd. A permanent organization was formed with Gen. J. T. Wilder as president and officers from both Union and Confederate sides elected for four years. The event featured a grand barbecue and a pledge to create a national park at the battlefield.
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Coattaxouga
Tenn
Army of the Cumberland
Crawfish Spetire
Pally
John B. Gorlon
Georgia
Gordon Sais
Republic
Terom
Rosecrans
Bertain
Americas
Republc
Handel
Union of States
W. S Rosecrane
Gorlen
Chickamargs Memorial Association
Henry M. Cist
Cincinnati
Edward F. Manning
J. T. Wilder
Tennessee
Joseph Wheeler
Alabama
Marcus J. Wright
Washington
John S&s Fullerton
St. Louis
G. C. Kolffen
G. W. Bishop
C. H. Grosvenor
Fred Vandeverm
Roger Q. Mills
George D. Wise
Alfred H. Colquitt
James Longstreet
Joseph HL. Lewis Ramsall Gibson
Charles E. Hooker
FP. M. Cockrell
Gordon
Association of Infederate Veterans
Chattoxooga
Notable Tragedies and Tensions Spark Black Rights Debate
The fragment reports multiple deaths by suicide including a schoolteacher from Person County and a Birmingham printer. It notes a freight train collision near Atlanta killing three rail workers and a Nashville lawsuit over an alleged slur. It mentions negro women’s sensitivities to slavery terms and a National Colored Association meeting in Atlanta on November 12. Also reports fatalities from coal mine slate falls in Eureka, Alabama.
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Captain Pledger
Naonal Colored Association
Atlanta
Tin
South
Memphis Protest Over Cotton Wrapping Rule Heard
Daily protests gather at Memphis exchanges against adopting New Orleans coting court rule to tare cotton in late twenty four pounds and bagging sixteen. Reports say the measure may not pass at Memphis Radiance.
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Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
Murder of Ed Ware Near Birmingham Shocks City
The dead body of Ed Ware, a laborer, was found in a railroad cut about two miles from Birmingham. His head was beaten in with a stone. Eugene Byers, a United States deputy marshal, was arrested for the murder and held without bail after the coroner began an inquest, Byers refusing to testify.
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Tomatee Congo Pd
Skeeanata
Free State
Jed
W. T. Tomas
Harrisburg Pa
Kalata
Alien
United States
Kingston
Jamaica
Roussia
Kowr
Boston
Archbishop Satolli
Pops Lao XM
Catholic Church In
America
Baltimore
Ndianapolis
Ind
Captain Pleres
Norwalk
Coun
Lwowska
Boclancer
Chamber of Deputies
Magdie Tooth
Ellen
Philadelphia
Lulu
Strait of
Belle Isle
Halifax N.S
Eme- Fak Ma
New York City
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad
Ed Ware
Birmingham
Eugene Byers
Byers
Cherokee Nation envoy pursues emigration from Georgia to Ratios
Mr A E Ivy of the Cherokee Nation travels to Atlanta Iowa to recruit half breed families in Georgia to join the nation. He notes it has been over fifty years since removal and many who allied with whites remain. Seventy five half breed families planned to depart for Ratios with more to follow.
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A. E Ivy
Atlanta
Georgia
Ivy
Mississippi River Tragedy on City of Monroe.
Andy Mack, called captain of the watch on the steamer City of Monroe, was shot and killed aboard near Friars Point Mississippi. He had reportedly brutalized a deck hand the day before. the deck hand, armed, seized the first opportunity and killed him, then escaped.
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Andy Mack
City of
Monroe
Friars Point
Miss
Mack
Doe Hooker Colt Dies After Fair Race at Lexington
Doe Hooker a colt of unknown breed ing valued at $4,000 fell dead in the 2: race at the fair in Lexington Kentucky. The animal had recently completed a trial mile in 2:3 and was regarded as of more than ordinary promise.
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Doe Hooker
Lexington
Kyle
Farm Notes and Recipes From Home and Farm
A collection of tips on poultry care and feed, weed utilization for sheep, and staged recipes including Crab Apple Shortcake. Practical guidance covers avoiding soaps on farm tools, feeding brood birds, and managing pastures. It includes instructions for hens, chaffing bran feeds, and a method to prepare crab apples with cream for a layered cake.
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N. Y. Tribune
Country and City Lift Farmers to Modern Standards
The American Cultivator argues that city scorn for country life harms national prosperity. It notes farmers now need educated, skilled muscle and broad knowledge, not just raw strength, as fields diversify and demand more current information.
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Pates
Europe
Pith and Point Quotations From Various Authors
A collage of aphorisms and quotes on knowledge practice vanity and discretion from sources including Pleasane Atchison Globe Somertitie Journal Haltimere American Christian at Work Goldsmith and Addison. The excerpts discuss mind focus patience learning aging wit reformers worry and virtue with ironic observations on human behavior and society.
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Atchison Globe
Somertitie Journal
Christian
Hrenius
Tarent
Joel Chandler Harris
Addison
Poor Jimmie's Mine Skeleton Letters in Old Journal Tale
A San Juan miner recounts a tale of a prospector named Jimmie who died in a shaft and left letters to a Jennie. The miner fabricates a story of Jennie’s later marriage, then confesses his mix of truth and fiction while recalling the cautionary yarn.
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Leo
San Juan
J Ruesas
Bob
Jimmie
Ami
Jennie
Gues
Rob
Jimmica
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Tes Restos Globe
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Johnstown
Coe Sud
Eso Sothe
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Tex Catives
Colombis
Teesington
Ter
Halifax
Fox
John M. Stags
Preston
Blackburn
England
Lancashire
Sreur
Colorado
Aoresp Crow
John Tocas
Trally
John Murphy
William Cobin
Neilson
Shamokin
Tocas
Elias Loomis
Lew Haven
Conn
Yale University
Loomis
Tale
Germany
Ith
Virginia
Alexanda
William Sport
Hox. Jessz K. Hives
Maryland
Kent County
Isgl
American Association of Obstetricians
Naples
Crispi
Bay of Naples
Tez
Aubarn
Seith Bourke Cochray
Ats
Exposition
Whington
Samoa
Eta
Mai
Berlin
Imaoy
East Africa
Mies
Borlig
Eggatana
Beral Pewshers
Cape Diamond Cliff
Quebec
Can
Howes
Thomas Iron
Wilkesbarre
Delaware & Hudson
Ie Agricultural Department
Department
Tae London News Company
Jack the Rippers
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Albuquerque
N. ML
We. B. Ween
Montana
Iss
Lee
Lake Erie
Lorain
Bombay
Hyderabad
Travancor
Maes. Evizanera
George McClellan
George B. McClellan
John E. B. McClellan
Rebecca Coxe
Prasers Conemat
Eastern Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Iun
J. W. Parson
Hye Park
Penman
Payson
Dunton & Scribners
Wakayama
Minami- Muro
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German Waxawikes
Wales
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Tex Police
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Royal Opera House
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Chickamauga
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Tirar
Rewerana
Bessie
Willie
Burlington Free Press
Mano
Mise Gallie Moore
Person County
Ascnie Evans
Heaband
Green EL Evans
Walt
Nashville
Patrolman
Conway
Sun Damages
National Colored Leoctation
Eureka
Oxmoor
J. C Dillinger
Gimariel
Ala
Fort Smith, Ark
Joe Balleck
Teun
Lowry
Mississippi
John Egan
Mr. Frambreegh
Katlelge
Randelpt
Calhoun
Pontotee
Ike Corr
Log Conneily
Connelly
Foutote
Evergreen
Jack Easley
Youseg Barton
Greegrili
Jackson
Carl Eberle
Charles Haucks
Haucks
Detroit
Jenole
Rat
Jim
Jimmie Ming
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