Germany Faces Military Bill War as 1893 Elections Loom
Berlin reports a new German military bill ready in the Emperor’s cabinet. It proposes a two year service term, expanded standing army by 50,000 recruits, 63 million marks more annual budget, and 50 new artillery batteries. Government seeks funds via tariff tweaks or whisky monopoly, wary of 1893 elections and clerical opposition. Von Caprivi and the Emperor push the plan amid broader political fragility.
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von Caprivi
Wilhelm
Russia
Berlin
Berit
Reichstag
Count von Caprivi
Bismarck
Caprivi
Windhorst
Bavarian Disaster Notes and Political Shuffle
The Hi Sisien pinot affair ends royal retirements while Rotenburg’s chairmanship shifts hands. A Bavarian castle raid saw 18 000 marks stolen as a key figure took his own life to escape torment. A house of cafe Rohrmeier collapsed killing three and injuring many. A Bavarian village church storm left several dead and many unconscious after lightning struck the steeple.
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Imperial
Rotenburg
Cafe Rohrmeier
Straubing
Elsinwaisch
P S
Combating Cholera Prompted Calls for Physicians Across Russia
In St Petersburg on August 7, Russia reports 6741 new cholera cases and 3496 deaths for August. A Ministry of the Interior circular summons all medically trained Russians to assist authorities. Nijni Novgorod distributes boiled water laced with 10 percent wine to encourage drinking. Moscow logs nine cases and four deaths Saturday and ten cases with seven deaths Sunday. Spain tightens northern frontier precautions. Teheran notes mild cholera near Tabriz with up to 20 daily deaths. Armenians and Europeans flee the town while Teheran Hebrew quarters suffer 15 to 30 daily mortality.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Ministry of the Interior
Nijni Novgorod
Moscow
Spain
Adi
Teheran
Tabriz
Queen's Speech Is Briefest Read In Parliament
Aug 7 The Queen's speech to party chiefs is the shortest throne speech on record. It notes Parliament has not met to transact business and mentions no upcoming legislation. It omits foreign affairs and Ireland, noting no immediate work after last session and the general election fatigue.
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Lowpos
Ireland
Brutal Moorish Soldiers Attempt Kidnapping Girl
In Tanaree on August 7 three soldiers of the Sultan tried to abduct an eight year old English girl. The mother chased the assailants after hearing the cries and confronted them. A sword attack on the mother failed as locals came to help, but the child was dropped and wounded. Local authorities say they have no jurisdiction over the soldiery.
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Tanaree
Wous
Work on the Panama Canal To Resume With Private Funds
Aug 7 report states M Monchicourt liquidator of the Panama Canal Company signed a convention with a syndicate of financiers and former contractors to resume canal work. It is rumored that there will be no public appeal for funds until significant progress is made.
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M. Monchicourt
Panama Canal Company
Panama Canal
Mt Etna flare renews lava flow and tremors at Catania
At Catania on August 7 the eruption intensifies with loud subterranean rumblings and streams of lava increasing down Etna’s slopes. In Pants, August 7 Don Carlos abandons opposition to the Republic and says he will no longer maintain a representative in France.
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Catania
Mt. Etna
Don Carlos
Republic
France
Bounced the Rabbi Preached Christ in a Hebrew Synagogue
A converted Polish Hebrew named Nathaniel Friedman preached Christ in the Synagogue of the Sons of Jacob at St. Paul on August 7. He was forcibly ejected after a dispute over his message. Friedman plans to sue the Sons of Jacob for damages.
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Christ
St. Pavut
Jacob
Nathaniel Friedman
Sons of A Reach
Friedman
Sons of
Town Board Arrested for Embezzlement in Superior Wis
Warrants issued for arrest of the entire Superior Town Board John Walker Martin Kornstad and Frank Desmond on embezzlement charges. Officials allegedly misappropriated funds since late 1891 with tax levy in the town reaching about 70000 last year, leaving questions on town improvements and missing sums.
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West Surmnion
Wis
Superior
John Walker
Martin Kornstad
Frank Desmond
Junkets in season picnics for everybody
Was Hiscrox Aug 7 Senatorial junketing trips are fashionable this summer with over 20 special committees authorized to investigate during recess at government expense. Senators Gallinger Hiscock Allen Gorman Manderson Felton Perkins Dawes Wolcott Stewart Dawes and Cockrell lead ventures into labor laws trade with Canada federal land disputes and immigration as plans to fund these excursions unfold through the next session.
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Hiscrox
Senate
Gallinger
Congress
Judge Oates
Hiscock
Harrison
Cockrell
Senator Allen
Washington
Canada
Gorman
Democratic Campaign Committee
District of Columbia
Eratic Peters Eee
York
Committee On Territories
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Benator Manderson
Mahone
Felton
California
Perkins
Plumb
Kansas
House of Representatives
Senate Committee On Finance
Maverick Bank of
Boston
Bar Harbor
Vicinny
Chandler
Wolcott
Geological Survey
Ator Stewart
Dawes
Pettigrew
South Dakota
Co. Grevisten
House of Represents
Sipe
Peanine Doves
Government Seeks Re Election Amid Expiring Fifty-Third Congress
The country, at the government’s expense, the majority are obliged to go home and hustle to try and secure a re election to the Fifty third Congress.
Free Sons of Israel Leader Urges Rigid Alien Laws
Julius Harburger, Grand Master of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel, denounces anarchists and nihilists arriving with immigrants. He urges strict deportation of known Nihilists and dynamiters, warns against moral contagion, and insists Jews embrace law and order while guarding the nation’s gates.
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Berkman
Free Sons of Israel
New York
Julius Harburger
Independent Order
Roumania
Imperial
Russia
American
Carnegie Works
Homestead
Two Stranger Craft Under Construction at Toledo for Railroad
At Toledo Shipbuilding Company two large hulls, 180000 dollars each, are under construction for the Toledo Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad. The ships, feet long, 62 feet beam, and 19 feet deep, will be completed this fall and tested in winter to shift Great Lakes coal and ore traffic from water to railroads.
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Detroit
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
Shipbuilding Company
Toledo
Ann Arbor
North Michigan Railroad
Pinkerton witness testifies in Coeur d'Alene miners case
Charles A. Sirings a Pinkerton detective testifies under alias Allison as Secretary of the Gem Miners' Union. He says leaders warned of upcoming bloodshed before July 9 and describes a plot against nonunion workers. He recounts witnessing the first shots near Frisco mill and Bean's death as rioters surround the mill. He fled to the hills after union threats to burn him.
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Frisco Mill
Bean
Allison
Anderson Tin Plate Works Sold Under Sheriff Hammer
Anderson Tin Plate Works, started after the McKinley act, were sold yesterday afternoon to satisfy debts. The plant, begun July 1, employed four men and several workers. The case drew state attention as a promising new industry, with Democrats using the embarrassment for political gain. At least one Pittsburgh creditor is listed.
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Anderson, Inc
Anderson Tin Plate Works
Pittsburg
Hard Work For Pilots Between Cairo And Vicksburg
A traveler returning from a business trip along the Mississippi reports pilots face serious navigation after widespread channel changes from Cairo to Vicksburg. Island 98 has vanished, the river channel shifted across the waterway, and two million dollars would not restore washed away farmland and improvements or fund the necessary new levees.
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Crxcissatti
Mississippi River
Cairo
Vicksburg
Island 98
Iron Mines Shut Down In Wisconsin Coal Dispute
Ashland Wisconsin August 7 All Wisconsin Central Railroad Company mines on the Gogebic range except Ashland were closed last night leaving about 2000 men unemployed. The closure is linked to the Homestead strike with ore shipments halted until the dispute is resolved.
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Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin Central Railroad Company
Cogebic Range
Wisconsin Central Company
Revolt in Bolivia Proclaimed Martial Law Across Republic
The Department of State reports a serious revolutionary conspiracy in Bolivia. A large number of prominent men, including many Congress members, have been sent beyond the frontier and martial law is proclaimed throughout the republic. No Bolivian minister remains here, and further details are unavailable. An envoy nabbed at Monmouth race track faces embezzlement charges. Walter Pendleton, real estate and insurance agent of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was arrested at the track. alleged to have misappropriated thousands of company premiums as a former St. Helena Island agent.
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Herr von Herrfurth
Miguel
Prussia
Thielen
Republic
Washington
Department of State
Bolivia
Congress
New Yorke
Walter Pendleton
New Baghton, & J
Monmouth Race Track
Frederick C. Wright
Cee Caereae and Ne Insurance Company
Ndleton
O'Donnell in Boston Talks Labor Fight and Politics
Hugh O'Donnell leader of Homestead iron and steel workers arrives in Boston with wife to meet labor men at the United States Hotel. He discusses the Homestead lockout, denies urging a boycott, and says arrests aim to intimidate but strengthen resolve. He notes daily contact with the advisory committee and plans to tour New England.
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Boston
Hugh O'Donnell
Iron and Steel Workers of
Homestead
United States Hotel
Iron and Steel
Carnegie Company
Carnegies
O'Donnell
Carnegie
Frick
Pinkerton
New England
Carnegie Steel and Iron Company
Europe
Eee
Harrison
McKinley
Resort to the Ballot Not Ballet in Labor Union Resolutions
New York delegates revise radical Homestead resolutions into a milder platform. They urge use of the ballot to challenge monopolists controlling mills, mines, and transport, arguing legislation favors the few while workers suffer. They call on workers nationwide to join in a peaceful, electoral fight against monopolistic power.
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New York Central Labor Union
New York
Committee On Laws and Legislature
Central Labor Union
Clarendon Hall
Wueneas
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
Homestead
Arrom Tbs
My Ae
Ryote
Wesselve Tate
Mexicans Refugees Rally for New Revolution Near Rio Grande
On August 7 Rio Grape City reports Mexican refugees on the U S side stirring for a new revolution against Mexico. General Lorenzo Garcia at Mier orders action after word of a revolutionary band at Jabaline ranch near the city. Fort Ringgold probes, while U S Marshal Paul Fricke and posse hunt Gatarino Garzo northwest of town.
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Rio Grape City
Mexico
Lorenzo Garcia
Mier
Jabaline Ranch
Ft. Ringgold
Rilo Grande
United States
Paul Fricke
Gatarino Garzo
Here
Chautauqua Tragedy Ends With Murder Suicide At Hotel
In Jamestown New York Patsy Dowd of Dunkirk after an alcohol fueled dispute with two women at the Florence Hotel in Flavana three miles above Jamestown shoots George Bass who dies from a heart wound. Dowd then returns and fatally shoots himself. Police were alerted. The incident follows a confrontation involving Dowd striking a woman in the mouth amid prior quarrels. The tragedys events unfolded in the hotel parlor as bystanders threw bottles. Dowd dies shortly after the self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Florence
Flavana
Patsy Dowd
Dunkirk
Dowd
George Bass
Bass
Hill to be heard from in New Haven harbor visit
Senator David B Hill and his party arrived aboard the Fra Lag in New Haven as guests of the Pequot Club. In an interview Hill said Cleveland’s prospects look favorable for the Democrats but noted many considerations. He declined to commit on a potential Senate vote and would likely respond later.
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Heligoland
Berlin
England
Bebel
Lichknecht
Singer
Elberfeld
Wildcat
Social Democrats
Ftion
Vollmer
Wusterhausen
Emil Manantenu
Blumel
Manantean
Mananteaa
Forester
Mananteau
Mapantesu
Jean
Saxony
Association of
Iety
Schurow
Krata Gictyoeetiene
The
Herk
Emr
Rexing
Dr. Vouarg
New Haven
Conn
David B Hill
Pequot Club
Diavalo
New York
Hill
Cleveland
Buzcard’s Bay
Ken
Democratic Party
Big steel combine formed by Carnegie competition
Wheeling is to witness a large steel and iron combine take formal possession of the four concerns properties tomorrow. The Wheeling Iron and Steel Company comprising LaBelle Benwood and Top Hill interests and the Wheeling steel plant joins with a total capital above 8 million dollars making it the largest in the Ohio Valley after the Carnegies. Projectors claim Carnegie Steel pushed the merger to crush smaller rivals.
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Wheeling
Wheeling Iron and Steel Company
LaBelle, Benwood
Top Hill Companies
Wheeling Steel Plant
Ohio Valley
Carnegies
Carnegie Steel Company
Strike for Recognition in Monongahela Valley Mine
Fairmont West Virginia August 7 Thousands of miners in the Monongshela valley and Wheeling district prepare to strike to force recognition of their labor organization. Operators vow a hard fight and may close mines permanently. Dissatisfaction exists among Kaniwha valley miners and the strike may spread to involve 10 000 men.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Monongshela Valley
Wheeling
Kaniwha
Reed Beyond Doubt Not One of the Cool eys
Washington county officials plan prosecutions for those who aided Reed after his jail escape. The body of Martin Reed, killed after a shootout and self-inflicted wound in an icehouse at Noblestown, was identified in Washington. Coroner reports detail the autopsy, post mortem findings, and the disfigured remains. Detectives McBride Williamson and Chief Orr confirm Reed’s identity and outline the chase, reward, and forthcoming inquest and prosecutions.
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Martin Reed
Washington County
Noblestown
Hugh Coyle
Orr
Washington
McDowell
W. B. McBride
McBride
Cheng
Washington County Commissioners
Reed
Cooley Boys
Williamson
Fee House
Parker
Burleigh
Torday
Fda
Wil
Thomas McCoy
Raccoon Creek
McContee
George White
White
McCoy
Lot
Mechanicsburg
Belver County
Ion
Stone
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Hailroad Company
Gem Miners’ Union
Odonnell
Baliwt
Pattison
Philip Kelly
Theatrical Protective Union
Homestead Ried
Labor Day Committee
Woodside Park
L. L
Steel
Reed Beyond Doubt
Seemler
Dames
Corle
McDonald
Cratton
Enna
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