Not Ready to Give In and a Satisfactory Understanding
Information from Loon Lake reports stalled negotiations between President and New York Boss Platt. The piece notes antiwar factions and labor troubles threaten Republican unity, with Harrison’s reluctance cited and alarms about strikes. It references Cleveland’s influence on Tennessee clemency decisions and impending political funerals.
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Wasnrxotos
Loon Lake
Republican National Committee
New York
Boss Platt
Platt
National Committee
Grand Old
Pratt
Harrison
Local letter sparks dispute over Poston murder case
A contentious letter inflames controversy as a writer defends a suspected killer in the Poston murder case, opposing the prosecutor and accusing another party of grave interference.
Seven Railroad Fatalities Reported in One Day
A day of fatal rail accidents records seven deaths. Henry Fisher of Bower Hill was mangled on the Chartiers Railroad at Leasac and Woodsdale, with remains scattered along the track. Arthur Hanlon, 26, died en route to hospital after injuries from a depot incident. investigators will probe unknown causes. Other victims include Michael Bigan, 60, at Manfield. Charles E. Duffy with a crushed foot. Andrew Koler drowned at Braddock. H. K. Thompson died of apoplexy. Aloys Meiss injured at Carnegie Lower Mills. Elmer Sidney with a fractured shoulder. Thomas Wagoner with head cut and an ankle sprain. Ephraim Gonchour killed crossing tracks. Louis Corwin fatally injured after leaping from a train. and an unidentified man struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad express at Twenty-sixth Street.
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Henry Fisher
Arthur Hanlon
Bower Hill
Fisher
Chartiers
Leasiaic
Woodsdale
Haxtos
Union
West Penn Hospital
McDowell
Bioas
Michael Bigan
Manfield
Curryl
Charles E. Duffy
P. KR. R
Kotrer
Andrew Koler
Braddock
Monongahela
Booth & Inn
Forbes Street
Ann Street
Dr. Barckley
Wacorem-Thomas Wagoner
Soho Street
Fifth Avenue
Brady Street
Goncuoun
Walls Station
Ephraim Gonchour
B. R
Gonchour
Louis Corwin
Bellevernon
Southside
Osxons
Pennsylvania Railroad
Twentysixth Street
Fireflies May Power Everyday Light Says Smithsonian Secretary
Langley of the Smithsonian reports Cuban fireflies could provide a cheap, nearly heatless light source with minimal energy waste. Insects of two inches glow from thoracic spots, blinking to sustain illumination when placed in a case. If harnessed, they could outshine candle and gaslight many times and even rival electricity in efficiency.
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Goldthwaite
Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Cuba
True Honesty Rewarded for Treasury Clerk Sophie Holmes
Sophie Holmes, an early African American employee in the Treasury building, found a concealed box of greenbacks. She resisted temptation to steal, alerted General Spinner, and was rewarded with appointment papers and a $50 monthly salary for 30 years after her honesty saved at least fifty thousand dollars.
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Treasury
Sophie Holmes
Sophie
General Spinner
Spinner
Mussels Not Always Bad in Light of New Poison Findings
Tests show mussel poisoning stems from mussels in stagnant waters like docks and canals. Five deaths occurred after eating from a tidal pool near Dublin. Virchow notes poison fades in pure water, while carbonate of soda may neutralize toxins during cooking or exposure.
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Mr. Fryer
Dublin
Prien
Virchow
Erman
No Nearer a Choice The Stolen Horse and Congressional Confrence
A Punxsutawney dispatch reports the looming stalemate in the Congressional Conference with eight ballots in the afternoon and eight more votes by evening as counties stick to their men. Indiana and Jefferson counties fend off shifts while Westmoreland backs Colonel Huff. James B. Laux proposes a district wide vote with a majority winner or tribunal to decide, a plan favorably received but not acted on. The senatorial conference at Brookville also stalls awaiting Ponxsutawney's outcome.
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Congressional Committee
Washington
FPO
Armstrong
Indiana
Nesbit
Patton
D. B. Heiner
Heiner
Armstrong County
Dispatch
Jefferson County
Huff
Tians
Greensburg
Jefferson
Indiana County
Srekers
BA. Smith
Indiana Afenenger
James B. Laux
Brookville
Ponxsutawney
Stolen Horse Recovered in Latrobe Area Chase
Latrobe report details a rig stolen from Osborn's livery stable last Friday night being recovered after owner Osborn and driver Charles Braden traced it from Uniontown to Mt Pleasant Connellsville Leisenring and back to Uniontown. A posse led by J Beatty captured the gang's saddle and buckboard. the yellow horse was saved and placed in Sheriff McCormick care.
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Osborn
Charles Braden
Uniontown
Braden
Pleasant Unity
Mt. Pleasant
Connellsville
Conne Haville
Leisenring
Mr. Braden
J. ©. Beatty
Yellow Horse
Beatty
McCormick
Governor Pattison's Outing to Cresson and Hawksburg
Governor Pattison and family left here this evening for Cresson in the private car of General Superintendent Sheppard. Mrs. R. B. Brown and wife of Pittsburg accompany the party and will go to Hawksburg to attend to matters before joining the governor in the Alleghenies for ten days.
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Pattison
Cresson
Sheppard
R. B. Brown
Pittsby
Hawkburg
Alleghenies
Franklin Woman Kills Herself In Rockland Township
Mia James Watson aged 21 committed suicide at her Rockland township home early today. Authorities report she shot herself in the head with a revolver while temporarily insane after a period of illness.
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Franklin
Mia
James Watson
Rockland Township
Tragic Notices Cloud Busy Local Ledger
A jumble of brief items reports a mother with a three week old infant, a man who hanged himself, grasshopper plagues, a fatal lamp explosion, a divorce suit, a head injury from a colt, ice cream poisoning, a highway robbery, a doctor’s arrest, tax fund embezzlement, a mall robbery partner sought, a disappearance, a scalding death of a child, and a jail suicide with iron beds and a rope.
Occupation life spans: who lives longest
A Washington star interview with a chief life insurer’s mathematician uses insured careers to rank longevity. Commercial travelers and agents top the list, followed by dentists teachers and professors, with auctioneers boarding house keepers barbers and drivers among the shortest lived.
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Washington Star
Birds With Aesthetic Sense In Australian Bower Birds
The text discusses the remarkable aesthetic behavior of Australian bower birds who build play galleries decorated with shells feathers leaves and other bright objects. It notes Lumbholtz and a description from Among Cannibals detailing leaf lined play spaces created by the birds and their careful maintenance of a dark background to enhance the display.
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Lumbholtz
Duquesne Traction Sells Big Electric Cars to Elkins-Widner
The Duquesne Traction Company has sold its entire stock of large electric cars once adopted at road start and later abandoned for steep grades. The Roland Lake Elevated line, part of Elkins-Widner holdings in Baltimore, purchases them. Cars are being remodeled at Craig Street car barn with cabs removed and platforms added, matching small electric cars. Some of the remodeled cars will ship this week.
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Duquesne Traction Company
Roland Lake
Elkins-Widner Syndicate
Baltimore
Craig Street
Castle Garden Embrasures Offer Airy Harbor Beds
The deep embrasures of Castle Garden reveal roomy sleeping alcoves for travelers who dodge the guards. A short man can lie almost straight in one embrasure and many facing the harbor hold pillows of nest.
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Castle Garden
Illinois Central Stock to Rise to Fifty Million
AHackstaff informs Illinois Central stockholders that capital will be increased from 45 to 50 million dollars with 50 thousand new shares of ten dollars each. Shareholders on record September 20 1892 may subscribe at par for one new share per nine held, with payment due October 13–31 1891. Frac tions receive scrip convertible to full paid stock, not paying dividends. Additional Chicago office and shop costs and expo related railway upgrades are outlined.
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New York
A. G. Hackstaff
Ilinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Chicago
Burnside
Jackson Park
Lake Michigan
Hillnots Central
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Rates and foreclosures echo shift in rail and steamship moves
The text notes a 50 percent rate cut proposal for canned goods wines and other items from the Pacific coast to New York by Tar Southern Pacific despite Western Traffic Association signals. Baltimore and Ohio plans a 20 excursion Chicago to Atlantic City with 38 return amid Niagara Falls round trips. United States Rolling Stock Company foreclosure sale at New York Exchange for 225000 to John C Bates. New York and Texas Steamship replies to ICC suit denying continuous carriage agreements with railways.
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Southern Pacific
Pacific Coast
New York
Western Traffic Association
Baltimore and
Olio
Chicago
Atlantic City
Niagara Falls
Erie
Nickel Pirate
Wabash
Tur Securities
United States
Central Trust Company
New York Rent Estate Exchange
John C. Bates
United States Rolling Stock Company
New York and Texas Steamship Company
Inter State Commerce Commission
New England
Middle States
Flour mill output and demand steady with higher prices
The Northwestern Miller notes flour output last week at 193,100 barrels, near the prior week, with eighteen mills operating. Demand abroad and at home improved, firms liberalized rules, and prices advanced about 10 cents. Some mills resist selling for September, while cash wheat remains high and patents see mixed sales. Foreign shipments reached 100,930 barrels, with bakers’ flour shipments around 35,000 barrels.
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Minneapolis
Crop report counters scare stories amid bearish stock talk
New York August report from the Agricultural Bureau challenges ruin fears and notes possible mis estimates in July figures. The piece observes critics question the government report yet highlights ongoing market skepticism and the fragility of street dispatches in grain and stocks.
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New York
Agricultural Bureau
Levis Resigns as Wells Fargo Express President
At the annual meeting in San Francisco Lloyd Levis tendered his resignation after 20 years as head of the Wells Fargo Express Company. John J. Valentine, previously the manager, was elected to succeed him. Levis will retain the presidency of Wells Fargo & Co. Peck.
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San Francisco
Welle- Fargo Express Company
Lloyd Levis
John J. Valentine
Levis
Express Company
Wells, Eerse & Co
Peck
Railway interests clash and expansions on the table
The Tex Southern Railway and Steamship Association will meet in Atlanta on Wednesday to decide whether to dissolve. An Indiana Illinois and Iowa extension from Knox to South Bend is planned. The Northern Pacific will absorb the Wisconsin Central, consolidating the line.
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Tex Southern Railway and Steamship Association
Atlanta
Indiana,linois and Iowa
Knox
South Bend
Ind
Mixed Crop Forecasts and Legal Actions Dominate News
The report cites optimistic wheat yields in South Dakota, with projections between 50 and 60 million bushels, alongside large mackerel catches for New England and several legal actions. A strike in St Louis over hours without pay cuts ends, while Edison and Thomson Houston merge. A Lebanon Pennsylvania injunction concerns Cornish ore shares, and a court action in South Dakota seeks to sell 100000 acres to satisfy a 45000 judgment.
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New England
Tar Edison
Thomson-Houston
John J
New York
St. Louis
South Dakota
Lebanon
Bertram Coleman
Robert Coleman
Fire losses across several towns devastate mills and homes
Fire records report Griffin Wheel and Foundry in Chicago sustaining 44000 loss and 300 workers left jobless. Harris Manufacturing in Rutland faces 75000 damage with 25000 insured. Bender Bros planning mill in Hamilton losses reach 80000 with insured coverage light. Israel Hill dwelling in Hickeby Westmoreland county burns with 1000 loss. Mrs Hugh Thomson residence in Clinton Belver county suffers worse fate with small insurance. Deaf and Dumb Institute laundry in Connell Blaffa Iowa incurs about 10000 loss.
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Chicago
Griffin Wheel and Foundry Company
Rutland
Harris Manufacturing Company
Laws
Saurance
Central Vermont
Hamilton, O
Bender Bros
Ihs
Hickeby
Westmoreland County
Israel Hill
Clinton
Belver
Hugh Thomson
Ars Thomson
Les
Connell Blaffa
Iowna
The
Deaf and Dumb State Institute
Franklin Liked China and Tea Traditions in Early America
The Chicago Herald recounts Benjamin Franklin collecting hare, porcelain, and tea related items for Deborah. It notes his frugality and love of good things, describing gifts shipped to Philadelphia in 1758 including fruit desserts a beer jug and tea china. Deborah’s letters mention a blue room tea set and mahogany stand for the kettle.
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China
America
Benjamin Franklin
London
Philadelphia
Alice Morse Earle
Deborah
Doyle story dramatized by Irving based on A Straggler of ’15
Dr Conan Doyle Istely dramatized A Straggler of 15 originally in a weekly. Mr Irving saw it and, captivated by the Waterloo veteran, bought the piece and will appear in it himself.
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Dr. Conan Doyle
Irving
Waterloo
Arrests Highlight City Disorder On Last Night Patrol
Prisr Garnst was jailed for fighting on Fifth avenue and ten youths received ten day suspensions for offenses at yesterday's event. A man on Given street fired a revolver recklessly on Pride street. An East End boy was arrested for stealing, and a crowd on Butler street extension saw assault and robbery. Rogers was left unconscious. A 15 year old was arrested for liquor theft from Elinordlinger's store, fifth such theft this week. Sullivan wandered drunk on Forty third street and was jailed as a vagrant. James Boo ers and family found wandering near Skunk Hollow. Rogers intoxicated, mother and child nearly died. They were taken to Seventeenth ward station.
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C. M. Bell
Frederick
W. Holt
M. McGaw
M. McKaith
Erie
Brwerront
Charlea Sinder
Slader
Jaurstrows
Mia
Beiley
Waynesburg
Canton
Laycock
Prisr Garnst
Fifth Avenue
Ten Eee
Pelea
Taomison
New Given Street
Pride Street
Caantes Attux
East End
Constas_e Ropeers
Butler Street
Rodgers
Duarlns Kosnins
Elinordlinger
Pennaverius
Meants Sullivan
Forty-third Street
Residents push for Lang avenue improvements and bridge
Lang avenue area property owners demand action from the Pennsylvania Company to build a Lang avenue bridge over its tracks and macadamize the street. They cite long-standing need, safety fears for children, and past contracts that required crossings and paving.
Strawberry juice in cream offers cooling relief for sunburn and throat
A writer of household hints notes that ripe strawberry juice mixed into thick sweet cream cools sunburn and should be good for sore throats. The suggestion encourages swallowing the mixture without objection.
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Household Hints
Good Advice to Spiders
A whimsical reflection on a spider that endures dust in two eyes yet smiles, while still watching flies with the remaining six. The piece notes the irony that a creature with many eyes cannot see its own nuisance and should depart.
Lactated food offered for trial to physicians
Of Interest to Pittsburg Physicians that every physician and patient may test lactated food with no charge for a thorough trial. The product is not a secret preparation and its composition appears on each package. Physicians prescribe it for infants invalids the aged and all needing strengthening and easy digestion. Wells Richardson Co Burlington VT
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Pittsburg
Fred
Richardson & Co
Burlington
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