Twelve Pages Too Much Energy at State Democratic Convention
The State Democratic Convention in Allegheny County erupted in fierce factional clashes that rivaled the party’s peak tensions. Slugging and accusations of stealing delegates marred the proceedings, though the main issues at stake appeared minimal. The article notes Harrity’s persistence, warning that ongoing factional strife could doom Pennsylvania’s Democratic chances.
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Allegheny County
M Harrity
Harrity
Pennsylvania
County debt nearing elimination and a lasting Court House
The end of next year will see the last of Allegheny county debt including the power house annex. If no unexpected expenses arise, the Court House will be paid for and stand as a durable monument to the county commissioners’ economic efficiency. Tax levels will normalize and taxpayers will benefit from higher state revenue returns, signaling bright county finances and value for taxed money.
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Allegheny County
Court House
Outbreak of Science in Spelling Reform Letters
The piece reviews pamphlets on Charles A Story's spelling reform and the United States Fonetic Company. It notes a proposed $5,000,000 appropriation to expand to 66 letters plus spaces, creating a 70-character alphabet. It highlights parallel science and chaos sections and includes twenty five stanzas of poetry.
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Charles A. Story
Congress
Representatives
Illinois
United States Fonetic Company
Treasury
Scientific spelling debate foreshadows pension plan
The illustration's jab hints that if spelling drives poetry, a $5,000,000 appropriation could pension the scientific spellers on condition they stop rhyming. Once the House Committee favors the bill, broader discussion may begin. The piece blends humor with patriotism and emotion.
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House
Washington opinion rebukes Supreme Court over interstate sale ruling
An article discusses the U S Supreme Court reversing its earlier interstate commerce dictum on selling items across state lines. It argues the court created confusion affecting police powers and regulation of explosives poisons and livestock. The piece humorously invokes Davy Crockett to urge caution before ruling.
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Washington
John O'Neill
Vermont
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Iowa
Supreme Court
Congress
Davy’ Crockett
Expedition against Arab slave traders on the Upper Kongo met success
The Kongo Free State, forced to use military force for the first time, asserts a decisive check on Arab slave traders. A Belgian Anti-Slavery Society expedition patrols the river, with aims to drive the traders from its banks and protect commerce and natives.
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Kongo
Kongo Free State
Kongo River
Stanley Falls
Lake Tanganyika
Lualaba
Clergymen Clash With New York Press Over Vice Fight
The piece contrasts Dr Parkhurst and Rev E Walpole Warren as clergymen opposed by the New York press for their methods in fighting vice. Parkhurst pursues evidence with harsh rhetoric, while Warren avoids political entanglement, both finding little press approval. The discussion questions whether clergy should engage directly or abstain, noting the press’ harsh scrutiny of both approaches.
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New York
Parkhurst
E. Walpole Warren
Jury Struggle Over Murder Verdict Sparks Mental Strain
Discussion notes the energy of a jury during murder trials in Washington and questions a juror's brain trouble after Schneier's verdict. It mentions Juperse and a Mississippi flood as context, hoping River and Harbor Improvements Committee takes up the flood issue.
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Washington, D. C
Schneider
Mississippi
River and Harbor Improvements Committee
Murderer Hanged in New Jersey as Nations Reflect
Claus Spreckels voiced defiance toward the Sugar Trust before his death, but his heirs receive the price. Officials note his fate coincides with a recent hanging of a murderer in New Jersey, urging Allegheny County to heed similar events elsewhere.
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Claus Spreckels
New Jersey
Allegheny County
Reforms and Reactions in 19th Century Politics and Society
A collection of short observations on marriage and divorce law reform, the Cordage Trust disputes, Democratic delegates in Allegheny County, views on free speech at political conventions, local civic issues, and a note on a baseball game. Mentions Rev E Dunbar, Hill Farm, Harrisburg convention, and Cincinnati pitching.
Notable Figures Gathered in Arcady Gossips and Plans
CongressmAn Springer sails Baltimore Bay aboard a Virginia pilot boat. Wilson Barrett, son of a farmer, entered drama at seventeen. Sir Grovcse Bassex-Power lauds Secretary Blaine as the era’s greatest American statesman. Jubal Early purportedly still wears a Confederate scarf pin. Florence Grant runs Boston’s Woman's Voice printing office edited and printed by women. President Harrison contemplates buying the Berkeley estate on the James River, now owned by New Yorkers. Lord Lytton's estate Xen Essex is leased by Henry Phipps Jr. Prince George of Wales will visit Canada in 1893 then Chicago for the World's Fair. H Remsens White House plans to wed in Boston after serving as Charge d'Affaires in Rome.
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Congressman Springer
Baltimore Bay
Capes
Virginia
Wilson Barrett
Grovcse Baasex
Secretary Blaine
General Jubal
Boston
Florence Grant
Woman's Voice
Harrison
Berkeley
Point
James River
Lord Lytton
Henry Phipps, Jr
Pittsburg
England
Henry VII
Prince George of Wales
Prince of Wales
Canada
Quebec
Montreal
Dominion
Chicago
H. Remsexs
White House
Rome
Porter
M. R. Burney
Henry Williams
Tex Country
South Bend
Lowia Republic
J. Paul Globe
Peoria Herald
France
Missouri
Illinois
T. Louis Repub Tc
United States
Denver Times
Mr. Louis Post-Dispatch
Omaha World-Herald
Silk Hidden in Coat Revealed by Wind at New York Pier
Mr. Taylor of Chicago arrived on the Servia and exhibited a rent lining that exposed thirty seven yards of silk concealed under his overcoat. Special officers Brown and Donahue seized the silk and demanded duty. Taylor cried, offering to pay duty to avoid disgrace, saying he intended the silk as a gift for his wife. The silk, valued at $90 abroad, carried a $3 duty.
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New York
Mr. Taylor
Chicago
Servia
Brown
Donahue
Feminine Visitors to the Fair to Be Lodged Nearby
Mrea Potter Palmer and nine other women from the World’s Fair Lady Managers form the Chicago Woman's Dormitory Association to build a facility for visiting women near the fair site. The plan is a 5000-woman dormitory at 90 to 60 cents a day, donated by George Pullman, to be located at Jackson Park within two blocks. A Detroit prep note remarks on Washington’s dwindling bodyguards as well.
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Cutcaco
Mrea
Potter Palmer
Chicago Woman's Dormitory
Limite Wanes
Jackson Park
George Pullman
Pennsylvania Democratic Platform Endorses Grover Cleveland
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention adopts a platform calling for tariff reform aligned with the 1838 national platform, support for Grover Cleveland’s renomination, praise for Governor Pattison, opposition to Republican tactics, and arrangements to fill vacancies in party offices and the National Committee. The document emphasizes honest administration, free raw materials for manufacture, and unity of Democratic efforts statewide.
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Preme
Haxnesens
Democratic State Convention
Pennsylvania
Party of the People
Democratic Party
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Samuel J. Tilden
Grover Cleveland
Robert E. Pattison
Commonwealth
Senate
National Democratic Committee
Democratic Sta
Democratic Society of Pennsylvania
National Association of Democratic Clubs
Democratic State Central
William F. Harrity
Democratic Nation Committee
William L. Scott
Mr. Harrity
Democratic National Committee
Democratic State Central Committee of
Supreme Court
Democratic National
Dogs Communicate To Rescue Stricken Horse On Farm
In Lawnerree Kansas on William Seymore's farm two dogs, friends with the horses, showed a remarkable exchange of signals. One dog rushed half a mile to alert the other, leading Seymore to the scene where a horse lay trapped in a narrow, steep watercourse. The second dog stayed by the horse, licking its face, while the first dog directed rescuers to the location. The incident is cited as powerful evidence that animals can communicate.
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Lawnerree
Kan
William Seymore
Seymore
Mr. Seymore
Ireland
Johann
Ming
Elihu Thomson
Morocco
Trajan's Wall
Russova
Danube
Black Sea
There are no days like the good old days
A nostalgic verse laments lost virtue and purity in society praising youth, honest speech, and traditional women who baked, brewed, taught school, and guided courtship, contrasting with modern materialism and fashion.
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Chicago
Newe
Union Seminary Stands By Briggs Amid Presbytery Row
The Union Theological Seminary vows steadfast support for Professor Briggs amid New York Presbytery’s anti-Briggs delegation to the General Assembly at Portland. Faculty fear church division and expect potential independence if denominational ties are severed, while critics lament Brown’s defeat and warn of further action by the Assembly.
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Union Seminary
New York
Briggs
Presbyterian Church
Clarly
Brown
Bastinws
Hastings
Friends of Union Seminary
Bellamyism Triumphs In Kansas Cooperative Kitchen
Boston Globe reports Bellamyist ideas tested in Junction City Kansas where fifty women form the Bellamy Cooking and Eating Club. The group, led by a judge’s wife, runs a shared dining room for three daily meals with a weekly rent and weekly wages for five domestics. Execution is orderly with an executive committee and Saturday bill payments. Junction City may become a beacon for homemaker cooperation nationwide.
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Boston Globe
Bellamy
Kansas
Bellamy Cooking and Eating Club
Prairie Country
Junction City
Kan
America
Honolulu and Peoria Clash Over Sandwich News
The Chicago Tribune notes the Hawaiian situation is critical while Peoria Transcript highlights the highline issue drawing more attention. The quirky exchange centers on a sandwich named in Honolulu.
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Chicago Tribune
Peoria
Peoria Transcript
Honolulu
One of a Kind Easter Fancies and Fair Plans
Easter fashions for women soldiers and wives feature new silks and pattern dresses, including changeable ground patterns and an old wallpaper motif. A charity fair at Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Pa, next week will run all week with meals, speeches by General Taylor and others, music, and floral church decorations. Holy Thursday services and a dairymaids’ event at Homewood Avenue Church precede a Good Friday cross story. An Easter novelties display runs at the Women's Exchange, 628 Penn Avenue, 9 am to 5 pm.
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Rosen
India
Pennsylvania Memorial Home
Brookville
Old City Hall
Southside Hospital
G. R
Eterans
Reiter Corps
Kers
John P. Taylor
Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Stewart
Austin Curtin
J. P
Goblin
St. Paul's
Camene
Homewood Avenue M. E
Young People's Association
Women’s Exchange
Penn Avenue
Diamonds from above debated by German scholars
The article reports Julius Stinde’s claim that diamonds originate not underground but fall from above. It discusses volcanic processes, Africa’s diamond cones, meteorite finds, and the moon as possible sources, noting scientists offer no firm conclusion and warn of sensational speculation.
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Chicago
Julius Stinde
Captain Kidd
Stinds
South Africa
Africa
Deaths of Col John W Glenn and others noted
Colonel John W. Glenn former Chief Engineer of the Central division and builder of Forts Morgan Gaines Powell is reported dead in New York City at 66. Born Urbana Ohio he moved to Texas at 18 and later directed railroad and expo projects in New Orleans. Also listed are Rev James L Deens longtime Pittsburgh Conference member and Sarah Liggett Hitchcock widow of L P Hitchcock.
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John W. Glenn
New York City
Urbana
Texas
Morgan, Gaines and
Powell
Mobile Bay
Oe Sameeaeresys
Macon
Neers
Texas State Board of Engineers
Conner Eatin
United States Treasury Department
Hennis
Yucatan
Curious Condensations Spans Across Global Snippets
A collage of stray facts notes London housing counts, French elections on Sundays for workers, earth’s age estimates, Quito’s equatorial daylight, Paris shade trees, and ships carrying nitrate of soda. It mentions the Shah’s tiny pony, biographies of Gladstone, and a new Irish Great Seal by Allan Wyon.
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Smithfield
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New Dispatch
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Portage Free
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Guffey
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Hill Farm
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Cincinnati
Custom House
Detroit
the Democratic Platform
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Biatesia
Pattison
Josephine Patterson
H . Will Rd
Jenxis Tresy
Sharpsburg
Shakespeare Club
W. W. Very
Allegheny Observatory
Academy of Science and Art
Hodges
Calvary Church
James L. Deens
Bellowsville
Beaver County
Sarah Liggett Hitchcock
L. P. Hitchcock
Thomas and
A. Liggett
Loioeil Fayatte Street
Allegheny
Max. Gardoni
Tamburini
William EpGar
Grand Trunk Railroad
Vatperickee Aang Tri General
Western Uiograph Company
New
Eeee Frane B. Wilkie
The
Times
Norwood Park
Mlle
Hache
Engarere
Porte-St.Martin
Charles Wiseusa
Nema
Parla Agar
Goomery Sxydacker
Davy Rier
New Axprew
van Valeenborg
Erie
Moraux Mariy Xavier
London
Hen
St. Petersburg
Behm
Quito
Adiver
Dunkirque
Iquique
Geneva
Persia
Britain
Gladstone
Eussis
Odin
Will
Bor
Herr Klinge
Cochin
China
Mekong
Germany
Allan Wyon
Cholly
Chapple
Gildersleeve
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Olivis
Lily
Fred Hardappolog
Spawnbroker's
Liv
Smith, Gray & Co
Washington Star
Clara
Jack
F. Berard
Mysel
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