Senator Gorman Emerges as Presidential Candidate
Reports from Baumore say Senator Gorman is a presidential candidate with strong support in Illinois, while allies discuss his nomination at Chicago. The piece notes Cleveland endorsements, bets on Gorman, and Senator Gibson’s cautious remarks on his candidacy and silver policy.
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Senator Gorman
Fac
Cleveland
Gorman
Chicago
Charles J. McAleese
Gibson
Senate
Mr. Gorman
Illinois Democrats target Palmer as standard bearer in Chicago
Illinois delegates at the Democratic convention will not be instructed to back Grover Cleveland. Palmer supporters aim to control delegates, with resolutions praising Palmer and urging a unifying nominee. Chicago figures Springer Cable Stevenson Craft Green Chase and Green named among potential delegates.
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Wasnineros
Sperial
Tlrol
William BR. Morrison
Chicaso
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
John M. Palmer
Ilinois
Tinois
Grove
Iilmers
Springer and Cable
Achaie Stevenson
Crafts
Messrs. Green and Chase
Chicago
Judge Green
North Dakota’s Quandary Over Presidential Electors
The North Dakota Legislature failed to provide for electors as required by law. With the January meeting only days away a special session seems needed for a lawful election. The split Legislature may delay or force a partisan compromise to select electors.
Hoodlums Beat Silk Stockings in St Louis Primaries
In St Louis on April 4 the Hoodlums led by Chauncey L Filley won the city primary for State Republican Convention delegates with 76 State and 145 Congressional delegates against the Silk Stockings 38 State and 6 Congressional. Filley himself failed to win a State convention delegate seat.
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St. Louis
Sedalia
Chauncey L Filler
John W. Noble
Silk Stockings
Filley
New York Redistricting Faces Final Delays
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan said reapportionment of Senate and Assembly districts would not be completed before tomorrow afternoon. The report notes corruption concerns and a surge of cases in New York and Kings counties where whole families were listed as heads of households in whiskey-related records.
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Amasy
N. Y
Sheehan
Senate
Assembly
New York
Kings Counties
Fam
New Yorkers Debate Assembly Seat Distribution
The text notes a claim that some were born abroad yet naturalized earlier and mentions five hundred thousand people returned as aliens from counties. It also states New York leaders favor 2 percent assemblymen and outlines a proposed distribution giving a county 31 members and Kings County 19.
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Ily
New York
Kings County
Voorhees Sees Mixed Indiana Convention Results
Senator Voorhees reports the Indiana Democratic Convention produced a sound platform with free coinage support, a strong state ticket led by a practical farmer, and a Chicago delegation favoring Governor Gray. He notes Cleveland’s influence without explicit instruction and Gray’s significant delegate support.
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Voorhees
Indiana
Washington
Eveland
Mr. Voorhees
Wall Street
Chicago
Gray
Cleveland
Ex-Chairman Andrews Defends Moves After State Convention
Harrisburg report says ex-Chairman Andrews claims loyalty to friends and denies intent to nominate Henderson for judge. He describes pulling Jack Robinson away from Dean and asserts a personal stake in the Henderson fight. The piece notes alliances with Charles A. Porter and David Martin and hints at John Taylor’s gubernatorial potential.
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Phillapetrain
Harrisburg
Andrews
Henderson
Jack Robinson
Dean
Delaware County
Robinson
Charles A. Porter
David Martin
George A. Castor
Philadelphia
Captain Taylor
Jersey Solid for Harrison at New Jersey State Convention
New Jersey Republican State Convention scheduled in Weston with delegates to the National Convention to be elected and a new State Committee to be appointed. General Sewell consolidates support for Harrison, promising a solid delegation, while bids for governor begin with General Burd Grubb seeking another chance and returning soon. John Kean Jr. is noted as gaining potential support after previous renomination efforts.
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Sewell
New York
New Jersey
Weston
William J. Sewell
Harrison
E. Burd Grubb
Spain
Joh Kean, Jr
Call to Colored Republicans Meet in Chicago Conference
A meeting in Chicago yesterday of prominent colored men from across the nation issued a call for a national conference of colored Republicans to be held in Chicago next. The call urges united knowledge and action to address Southern laws and outrages against African Americans and to discuss plans to redress these wrongs. Invitations will go to five persons in each state and territory and the District of Columbia.
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Carcaco
Chicago
Sean
Cam i
District of Columbia
Urging Depew to Run for President in New York
Western New Yorkers push Chauncey M. Depew as a potential presidential candidate. Erie county Republicans press for his official announcement while a Buffalo party led by O G Warren of the Commercial Advertiser urges his candidacy.
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New York
Zimes
Chauncey M. Depew
Erie County
O. G. Warren
Commercial Advertiser
Depew
Blair County Prohibitionists Meet in Altoona Nominate Ticket
Blair County Prohibitionists convened in Altoona and placed a ticket in nomination for Assembly Hiram Neffer James Patterson District Attorney L Pascoe Register and Recorder Jester County Treasurer J F Flisco Delegates to State Convention John Clark A A Stevens F D Beyer W A Long Thomas Suckling Mrs G W Stratton Miss Ide McAllister and Dr J M Bunn.
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AuToona
Blair County
Assembly
Hiram Neffer
James Patterson
L. Pascoe
Jester
J. F. Flisco
John Clark
A. A. Stevens
F. D. Beyer
W. A. Long
Thomas Suckling
G. W. Stratton
Ide McAllister
J. M. Bunn
Murdered for Nothing in Pine Street Cigar Store
Edward Drexler, a Pine Street cigar-store owner, was found with a fractured skull after burglars broke in through a vault light. Two bootblocks were arrested, they claimed alibi with two women who deny it. Drexler died at 11 this morning leaving unpaid money.
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St. Louis
Edward Drexler
Pine Street
Drexler
Roast At Latonia Track Causes Moral Dilemma
In Covington Kentucky Rev Dr Robinson spoke at Union M E Church about Latonia Race Track and its patrons. He rebuked a race-track governor who was a church member, sending a quiet letter urging him to sever ties, but the member did not end his connection.
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Robinson
Union M. E
Latonias
Letonia
Union M. E. Church
Rovingon
Reverend Declines Honor Amid Turf Club Controversy
A church clergyman refuses to join a distinguished honor from turfmen and offers to erase his name from church rolls if needed. A preacher notes he does not want the member removed but opposes involvement with what he deems an evil influence. The governor of the Jockey Club remains a member of the Union M. E. Church, and the church’s moral standing is unchanged.
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Jockey Club
Union
M. E. Church
Slumming Reversed A Mission To Learn Rich And Poor Life
New York April 24 Special An expedition for Eastside workers to observe Fifth Avenue life was arranged at the Florence building led by Rev Father Huntington. A shirtmakers convention backed the plan to form a national shirt trade body and to establish boards of conciliation between employers and employees. Delegates from eastern cities approved the plan as girls at the meeting cheered and Vice Chairman Maggie Mahoney praised the idea.
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Florence
Julius Simons
Cutters’ Assembly
Maggie Mahoney
S. A
Philadelphia
Huntington
Father Rorig
Father Huntington
Holman Faces Naval Spend Doubts In Senate Fight
Senate Naval Affairs committee signals support for larger ship program resisting Holman’s pared budget. Dalzell’s tin plate report argues duty may lower consumer prices and spur domestic competition. Cameron’s health and absence cited as Senate focus shifts to conference.
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Great Britain
Venezuela
Holman
Senate
Cameron
John Dalzell
United States
Dalzell
Ind
Admission Fees Begin At World’s Fair Grounds
The first revenue at the World's Fair grounds was collected last week as an admission fee of cents charged to all visitors. Passes had been issued to those with favors or influence. Pressed crowds disrupted building work and passes were stopped. Ten thousand entered on opening day amid cold wind, with guard tightened and no new entrances. A daily attendance of about ten thousand is expected until May first, potentially bringing in nearly a million dollars.
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Congress
Treasury
Foster
Treasury Department
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
House
Boutelle
Senate
Unitedates
Lee
Chcaco
Utah Uncle kills niece then shoots himself in Park City tragedy
In Park City Utah Miss Grace Fluelling was shot by her uncle Mr Trottman as she walked with Paradise near a railway. He then shot himself after realizing the crime, and lay unconscious as hope for recovery faded. The family had suspected no crime until the fatal encounter.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Park City
Umah
Grace Fluelling
Paradise
Trottman
Speculating at Mesaba Kimberley to control Mesaba mines
A deal near completion would place Mr. Kimberly of Sharon Pennsylvania in charge of the Biwabik Mine in the Mesaba range under a lease of all properties. He is also expected to lease the Shaw and Hale mines after visiting Duluth to assess the Berkis lease. J T Soman acts as his agent and right hand man in the Mesaba operation.
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Kimae Tee
J. T. Soman
Menombes Ok
Kimberly
Glittering Tiffany Cross Adorns All Angels Church
In New York at All Angels Church Tiffany crafted a Gothic cross memorial over four feet high and two feet wide. Centered with a 13 inch Spanish topaz, it features 33 rare topazes Brazilian amethysts and garnets, celebrating the deceased wife of Thomas R. Keator of the city.
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New York
America
All Angels’ Church
Tiffany
Thomas R. Keator
Home Rulers aim Irish amnesty appeal to US Presidential candidates
At a Corn meeting today supporters urged amnesty for Daly and other dynamite prisoners. A resolution was carried asking Irish Americans to present the issue to the presidential candidates.
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Ireland
Corn
Daly
Redmond
Sunday Morning First Canadian Sunday Paper Debuts
Canada's first Sunday newspaper, Sunday Morning, appears this morning in Monttreat marking a historic debut. The publication arrives as a novelty in the Canadian press landscape, signaling a new weekly schedule for readers.
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Canada
Monttreat
Anarchist Munoz Tarna Infemor
Mapai reports on April 24 that Munoz the Anarchist has been libeled to Deconine with a police agent, reflecting a charged political intrigue.
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Tarna Infemor
Mapai
Theosophical Society Chooses New Leader at Convention
Delegates from American and international theosophical groups convened at the Palmer House. They endorsed permanent New York headquarters for Blavatsky ashes and named William Q. Judge as life-long successor to leadership tied to Henry S. Olcott, with possible resignation revocation for Olcott and a life residence at Adyar.
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Theosophical Societies
United States
Palmer House
Henry S. Olcott
Madam Blavatsky
London
Annie Besant
Mr. Judge
New York
America
Olcott
Adyar
Madras
William Q. Judge
Life
Colonel Olcott
Madame Blavatsky
Meade
India
Mr. Jn
Theosophical Society
Ths
Baby with single eye sparks mysterious illness in New Mexico
In Puerto de Luna on the Rio Pecos, Miguel Terraza’s family report a newborn girl with a single central eye and a string of sudden illnesses. Donna Inez dies after a hour long illness and the nurse’s replacement flees claiming the child’s eye casts an evil curse.
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N. M
Puerto de Luns
Rio Pecos
Fort Summer
Miguel Terraza
Donna Inez
Marianna Castano
Bkita
Marianna Stone
Electioneering Doce Warns on Harrison Silver Talks
The Times condemns President Harrison's rumored silver conference negotiations as evasive and illusory, aimed at soft money partisans and mercantile interests. It argues such moves provoke uncertainty, predict an artificial price rise, and delay a real international settlement, urging a natural market level and eventual American handling of silver.
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Loxnon
the Times
Harrison
Goschen
India
America
Brodie's Face in Danger Prompts Teen Jump Plan
Michael Ryder, 18, of 495 West Forty-fourth Street, was arrested near the bridge after claiming he planned to imitate Steve Brodie and jump. He appeared before Justice Walsh in Brooklyn and was sentenced to 30 days in Raymond Street Jail, vowing to punch Brodie on release.
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New York
Michael Ryder
Steve Brodie
Justice Walsh
Brooklyn
West Forty-fourth Street
Brodie
Ryder
Walsh
Raymond Street
From a Family of Criminals Ravachol Ruled by Fear
In Paris Ravachol the arch anarchist grieves amid inquiries into his lineage. His grandfather and ancestors were hanged as part of a Dutch robber band that terrorized districts for years. He is among last week's wholesale arrests of anarchists, reports say.
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Paris
Parm
April
Netherlands
Deine
Guiteau Lawyer Charles H Reed Dies in Baltimore
Charles H Reed, counsel for Guiteau in the Garfield assassination trial, died in Baltimore aged 53. He had lived in the city for several years and married Miss Fanny Daniels, daughter of a local brewer, after the trial. Cholera reports from London note spread in Afghanistan and Persia with arrivals from infected regions.
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Garfield
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Baltimore
Fanny Daniels
Bec
Eed
Orient
London
Afghanistan
Persia
Pursued by Police in Belgian Borrowe Fox Dueling Affair
Loxspan April 24 Belgian police frantically pursue the Borrowe Fox dueling party amid a row between Fox and Colonel Tom Ochiltree. They fought yesterday in a Belgian sand hollow with poor aim. The incident, legal penalties, and public reaction are detailed with humorous exaggeration on their sizes.
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Loxspan
Borrowe-Fox
Belgium
Fox
Tom Ochiltree
Ochiltree
New York
Edward Fox
Hallet Alsop Borrowe
Borrowe
Coleman Drayton
Drayton
First Body Found After Minersville Disaster
Reports from Portsville detail the Lytle colliery collapse with pumps ongoing to reach other victims. The body of Thomas FE has been recovered and prepared for family. Italian workers may contest the remains amid a dispute over estate funds and influence surrounding contractor Labella.
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Lytle
Minersville
Thomas FE
Cepe Craton
Perom
Labella
Myrtle Sturtevant's Funeral In Columbus After Mysterious Disappearance
Commius Ohio April 24 Special The body of Myrtle Sturtevant was found in the Cincinnati river and identified by her father after over two weeks of search. A crowd greeted the funeral train as it arrived, with officers aiding the procession. Threats loomed against T F Connell alleged to be involved, who vanished Friday and is feared to face vengeance.
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Commius
Myrtle Sturtevant
Cincinnati
T. F. Connell
Delaware
Columbus
German War Minister Resigns Amid Health Report
The April 4 note reports General von Kaltenborn Stachau, Minister of War, intends to retire likely due to ill health and army reform disputes. It notes his parliamentary aversion and the government’s plan to replace him with General von Blume to secure a more active defense leadership.
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On Blume
Woman Tries Arson at Crescent Avenue Church
Priarrreco New Jersey April 24 Maria Manan rushed into Crescent Avenue Church just after service began and scattered liquid from a container onto the floor as kerosene odor drew attention and alerted worshippers to an attempted fire.
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Priarrreco
N.J
Crescent Avenue
Maria Manan
Coean
Urgent Church Scare as Woman Sets Steps Ablaze
An usher ejected a woman from a church after she threatened to burn the church over the pastor. She poured kerosene on the steps and sides of the building and set it on fire, quickly quenched. She was taken to the station house for sanity examination. she is a servant girl employed by George Wharton Jr.
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Richard
George Wharton, Jr
All in Good Spirits Cheyenne War Prisoners at Fort Russell
Cheyenne reports prisoners of the Wyoming war quartered in the regimental gymnasium at Fort Russell after arrival at 3 30 this noon escorted by three companies of the seventeenth infantry United States army. Texans voice peril yet promise equal protection. leaders discuss raid plans and fort defenses with distance correspondent.
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Fort Russell
Wey Seventeenth Infantry
Edin QO
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Atv
White Caps
McKinney
Fetterman
Frank Canton
Major Wolcott
W. C. Irvine
Hesse and Ford
Jack Tisdale
T. A
al Allison
Missing New Orleans Judge Marr Believed Dead Or At Long Last Hidden
In New Orleans on April 4, the search for venerable Judge Marr has yielded no sightings since Tuesday evening near Carrollton. No one believes he is alive, with theories he fled to evade murderer's backers or reprieve demands. Friends continue efforts to locate him despite scant clues and lingering worry.
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Friends
Judge Marr
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Marr
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Oes Bas
Sapphire lands sold to English syndicate amid gem rich tract
A Houston area report states Spratt Bros transfer of sapphire lands to an English syndicate for 2 million dollars. Deeds to be recorded and property turned over to A B Wood, with 4000 acres originally, now expanded to about 8000 acres along the Missouri River near Helena.
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Mext
Eldorado Bar
Missouri River
Helena
Immigrant Family Delivers Varioloid Case in Dernorr
An eight year old German girl Minnie Rhoda in Dernorr is diagnosed with varioloid, a disease as contagious as smallpox. Physicians warn exposure risks to many in the immigrant family from Germany aboard the steamer Weimar that reached Baltimore sixteen days ago. The child is removed to a hospital and measures taken to stop spread.
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Minnie Rhoda
Minnie
Germany
Weimar
Baltimore
Residents Move Against Prince Michael Followers in Detroit
A Northside Detroit meeting on April 24 drew many residents seeking to curb the residence of Prince Michael and his followers known as the Flying Bell. Speakers condemned the group for immorality and property ruin and a committee was formed to raise funds to prosecute Prince Michael.
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Prince Michael
Tin Plate Hegira Moves Welsh Factories to America
April 4 Swansea reports Welsh tin plate manufacturers plan new plants in the United States as McKinley tariff depresses trade. Proprieties of several large Welsh tin plate factories intend building works abroad to escape adverse market conditions.
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Swansea
Wales
America
Montreal police seek Bunko OBrien after NY alert
Montreal police received a New York warning to watch for Bunko OBrien a noted confidence man now believed to be in Canada Detectives obtained what they think is a clue to his presence in Montreal and continue inquiries extradition possible if arrested
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Montaxat
Montreal
New York
Immigrant Landings Reported at New York Port
A New York port recorded the arrival of two thousand two hundred fifty nine immigrants during today’s landing. Officials documented the event as part of the port’s routine intake.
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New York
Trusts and consolidations shake iron trade in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia reports unrest in the iron industry over new consolidations in Pennsylvania and the South. Five firms control locomotive tire production and a South wide trust is rumored with Alabama mills and Tennessee Coal interests. Prices rise amid speculation of coordinated action and dividends.
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Dispatch
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
South
Nashua Iron Company
Standard Iron and Steel Company
Lewistown
Latrobe Steel Company
Latrobe
Midvale Steel Company
Chicago Fire and Steel Spring Works
Chicago
Parade at Washington to Be Largest in Peace Time
The Grand Army of the Republic encampment parade in Washington is expected to draw at least 60,000 veterans in peace time, surpassing any previous G A R or national parades. Officials forbid participation by certain designated G A R members and affiliated groups.
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Wasnixatox
Grand Army
Anarchist Bomb Plot Alarm in Bulgaria Reported
A Bulgarian bomb conspiracy tied to both the prince and the sultan emerges after arrests at Rustebak. An inquiry uncovers a serious plot with seized bombs intended to strike high officials. Further details remain scarce as authorities investigate the network and motives.
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Rustebak
Prince Fordinead
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