Scientific optimism on plentiful natural gas supplies
Chicago interview with Henry Freeman, a civil and mining engineer, outlines vast untapped gas fields across Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and southern Illinois. He explains Devonian and Trenton limestone sources and anticlinal axes driving future production with careful pressure and depth assessment.
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Cincinnati
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Lillinois
Trenton
Deaping the Statuary at Detroit Museum
A Detroit dispatch reports the Detroit Museum of Art ordered plaster casts of Venus and the Dying Gladiator to be clothed. Prudes backed by two ministers prompted the directive, drawing city laughter and likely reversal as public opinion weighs in.
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Detroit
Detroit Museum of Art
Forgery Suspect Bennett Arrested in Denver
Benjamin Bennett, former book-keeper for brick manufacturer William K. Hammond at 624 West Thirtieth Street, is arrested in Denver for about 36000 in forgeries. He fled with Hattie Stedfield, a dime museum whistler, after a May vacation and was traced from St Louis to New Orleans before Denver capture. He has a wife and two children in Denver.
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New York
Byrnes
Denver
Col
Benjamin
Bennett
William K. Hammond
West Thirtieth Street
Hattie Stedfield
Dime Museum
St. Louis
New Orleans
Freak Lightning Strikes Martins Point Injuring Family
A lightning strike near Martins Point Berkley County kills a man and fatally shocks his wife and gravely injures their 2 year old child while a nearby workman also dies. Weather shock during a thunderstorm sizzles through a home sending family members to hospital and ground workers to their graves.
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Digrarce Cotumara
Martins Point
Berkley County
Pegro
Legal polygamy a family noted for many divorces
An Indianapolis telegram reports the city’s most divorced woman, 87, has eight divorces, two from the same man, and a ninth husband. Her mother has six divorces, and an uncle and two aunts each married five times are still young in a family famed for divorces.
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TRE Dispatch
Indianapolis
Hes
Four Drowned in McKeesport River Boat Accident
A holiday boat trip on the Youghiogheny in McKeesport ends in tragedy as four members of two families drown. Robert Smith, aged 18, frees his mother and child, then Allen Smith saves them, while the two fathers and two daughters die. Wives and an infant survive. Both victims work at the Tube Works.
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John Thompson
Richard Smith
McKeesport
Youghiogheny River
Bessie
Alice
Eleventh Avenue
Mr. Smith
Robert Smith
Thompson
Robert
Mrs. Thompson
Bessie Thompson
Alice Smith
Unfortunate Explosion Injures Young Fickles Son
In Steubenville a contractor’s young nephew, son of George Fickles, lost his right arm below the elbow while experimenting with a dynamite mixture. The blast occurred as he pounded the powder to test it, and the accident shocked the community. He was noted as a bright curious youth and a nephew of the late David Fickles of Pittsturg.
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Steubenville
George Fickles
David Fickles
Chronicle Herald
Pittsturg
One Little Firecracker Blazes Kinney Hotel Fire
A July 4 blaze at the Kinney Hotel in East Sacarwan Michigan started when a firecracker was ignited in a bedroom. James Benham, a 28 year old Canadian and unmarried, died in the flames. John Miller, Thomas Lynch, William Reagan, and Archie Kinney were badly burned. Loss estimated at 5000 dollars, partially insured.
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East Sacarwan
Mich
Kinney Hotel
Washington Avenue
James Benham
Canada
John Miller
Thomas Lynch
Illiam Reagan
Archie Kinney
Young man killed in cannon blast on Independence Day
Sylvester Young, 20, son of a widow, was instantaneously killed at 5 AM while celebrating July 4 in Ohio City. A 60 pound cannon he fired exploded, causing fatal injuries.
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OH City
Om. Crry
Sylvester Young
Sky rocket strikes man in alley leaves him critically hurt
Crocrswall notes that John McMallen was struck on the head by a sky rocket while passing through an alley. The rocket stick penetrated his brain. he was taken to the hospital where the stick was removed and he remains in critical condition.
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Crocrswall
John McMallen
Skiff Attempt Ends in Drowning for Annie Turner
Miss Annie Turner of Walnut Hills fell from a skiff into the river while boarding the United States snag boat and drowned. The body has not been recovered as of last night.
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Pell
Annie Turner
Walnut Hills
United States
Storm on Lake Michigan Puts Vessels Aground and Drowns Captain
A Chicago Fourth of July gale on Lake Michigan wrecked ships and forced steamers to seek harbor. The schooner Gladiator capsized with Captain Loreton drowned. Naiad collided with Surprise and White Cloud, suffering heavy damage, while City of Chicago with 1000 passengers rode out the storm outside the breakwater. Life-savers aided wrecked crews amid widespread damage to vessels including Wissahickon and others.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Gladiator
Loreton
City of
Grand Haven
Gross Point
Evanston
Harry Berkley
Surprise
St. Peters
Wissahickon
Probably Fatal Accident at McKeesport Parade
Special telegraph dispatch from McKeesport reports John M. Kinkaid a popular young local member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics was injured when his horse was frightened in the parade. The horse toppled him, he vanished into unconsciousness and doctors fear internal injuries may prove fatal.
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McKeesport
John M. Kinkaid
Kinkaid Alse
United American Mechanics
Poisoned ice cream injures twenty at Fairmount Park
A July 4 picnic at Fairmount Park left about twenty young people poisoned after eating vanilla and chocolate ice cream from Edward Mulford. The group of roughly thirty traveled in an open wagon to Ridgeland woods and became violently ill in the afternoon. They were taken to a hospital in Philadelphia and officials fear some may die.
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Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Ridgeland
East Park
Edward Mulford
Ali
Eva
Bessie Campbell
Panther Hollow
Copenhagen
Pittsburg
Married in the Clouds A Massachusetts Balloon Wedding
In Lowett Massachusetts on July 4 Professor J. K. Allen launched a balloon from the fair grounds at 4 PM with Charles G. Stowell and Miss Lottie E. Anderson aboard. They were married in view of over 10 000 spectators by Reverend W W Downs of Boston. The balloon drifted northward and landing is not yet reported.
Beaver’s praise and Pattison view in national dispatch
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania comments on the Democratic nomination of ex-Governor Pattison. He calls Pattison able and personally honest but says a Republican victory is likely, praising rival candidate Delamater and noting no clear disaffection within the Republican rank and file.
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New York
Beaver
Pennsylvania
Astor House
Pattison
Delamater
Republican Party
Republicans Consider Nominating Ticket in South Carolina
A telegram from Columbia reports growing belief that a Republican state ticket may field a candidate for governor as Ellery A. Brayton contemplates a governor bid. Brayton, previously eyeing Congress, pivots to state leadership amid Democratic splits and cross-party appeals.
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South Carolina
CoLumpBia
8. C
Ellery A. Brayton
Republican Executive Committee
Brayton
Congress
Tillman Party
Capt
Tillman
Through the Rapids A Michigan Crank Conquers Whirlpool Swim
Samuel Soules of North Muskegon Michigan swam the Canadian current through the Whirlpool rapids near Suspension Bridge. He avoided death after a fatal eddy and rocks and sustained a knee wound and a cut to his foot. Spectators witnessed his near fatal feats and he plans to try again once healed.
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Michigan
NiaGara Faris
Samuel Smith
Lewiston
N. Y
John L. Soules
North Muskegon
Mich
Soules
William Leary
Suspension Bridge
Grand Trunk
Leary
Webb
Union Labor party holds State Convention ticket chosen
The State Convention of the Union Labor party met today with E. M. Davis named Permanent Chairman and Charley Davis as Permanent Secretary. Ezekiel T. Curtis was chosen Secretary of State, William Baker for Supreme Court, Joseph W. Leavitt for Clerk Supreme Court, and Eli Raub for Board of Public Works. The convention adjourned to meet July 4 1891 at Newark.
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E. M. Davis
Cincinnati
Charley Davis
Knox County
H. F. Hickson
Kansas
Farmers’ Alliance
Ezekiel T. Curtis
Farmington
Trumbull County
Supreme Court
William Baker
Newark
Joseph W. Leavitt
Columbus
Board of Public Works
Eli Raub
Wood County
John Seitz
Tiffin
Albert E. Bauer
Bogus Commission Men Swindle Farmers On Levee Scheme
Two men named C. A. Post and Joseph Foster were arrested in St Louis for a fraudulent commission scheme targeting Illinois Missouri and Arkansas farmers. They sent circulars claiming long established offices and urged drafts on produce arrivals. Shippers paid 10 to 25 percent above normal rates and received nothing after a small trial shipment, leaving authorities with numerous complaints and an estimated $5 000 profit for the culprits.
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Sioux City
Brad Street
Mercantile Agency
Express Companies
Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Kisner Slams Ballot Reform Plank as Weak
Scranton reports ex chairman Kisner denounces the Democratic platform ballot reform plank as insufficient and weak. He calls for removal of the marked ballot provision from the Constitution and urges continued agitation until party leaders concede the right course for Pennsylvania Democracy.
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Scranton
Kisner
Democratic Platform
Eisner
Pennsylvania
Killer Husband kills wife in Chrystie Street tenement
New York July 4. Martin Loppy a Canadian husband living with his wife in two rooms on Chrystie street is suspected after Mrs. Loppy is found stabbed to death. Loppy, drunk and by the body, claims she killed herself. Blood splashes and head wounds are reported with a cleared-up scene indicating foul play.
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New York
Martin Loppy
Chrystie Street
Loppy
Hersel
Fire at Mohler’s Confectionery on Sarah Street
An alarm from box 156 shortly after one this morning reported a fire in M. H. Mohler’s confectionery store at 2718 Sarah Street Southside. Fire started from shooting crackers. Flames were subdued with damage to stock, which was insured.
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M. H. Mohler
Sarah Street
Southside
Not Exactly a Paradise Woes of Americans in Central America
A special telegram from New Orleans reports 262 passengers arrived aboard the Professor Morse after ten days in quarantine due to malaria bilious fever and dysentery. Many were unacclimated, worked on banana plantations in Sacate Honduras, faced harsh treatment poor food and housing, and debt to employers. Ten died and several were carried ashore in frail condition.
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New Orleans
Professor Morse
Central America
Oteri
Mitta
Sacete
Honduras
Historic Fourth of July Picnic At Pittsburg Park
About 30 000 to 40 000 celebrate at Schenley Park with patriotism and families. Speeches by Allegheny county figures draw large crowds despite afternoon rain. Mayor Gourley leads, park logistics praised, no incidents reported.
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Gourley
Schenley Park
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