Twelve Pages MR Shiras For Supreme Bench
The President nominates George Shiras to the United States Supreme Court. He is a respected Allegheny county attorney with long experience, modest public presence, and a strong mature intellect suited to judicial duties. His varied federal court experience and thoughtful mind are highlighted as qualifications for the high court.
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The Democratic Banking Idea Explains Risks of State Banks
The piece argues that while avoiding free silver, Democrats in Congress back a return to unreliable State bank circulation. It warns this would destabilize currency, spread worthlessness through notes and deposits, and hurt industrial prosperity by inviting widespread financial instability and uncertain paper money.
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Congress
Utes Bid Banished From Colorado Reserve For Utah Land Grab
The closing days of the session push a bill to remove the Utes from their Southern Colorado reservation to Utah mountains. Advocates of justice urge defeat of the land grab as Colorado settlers seek the fertile territory, ignoring treaty pledges and decades of peaceful cultivation.
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Colorado
Utah
Friends of Justice
United States Congress
Canadian Dispute and Senate Bill Echo Tone of Retaliation
The piece discusses Canada’s discriminatory canal policies and U S retaliation, focusing on Senator Higgins' bill. It notes the suspensive clause of the interstate commerce law as a key point, arguing caution to avoid harmful self-sabotage by railroads and commerce interests.
Canadian rail traffic rule criticism in editorial debate
The editorial argues against suspending a transport clause for through traffic, saying it would not hurt Canadian railroads but would undermine the rule's purpose. It notes trunk lines also have exempt traffic and says the Higgins bill is unlikely this session, urging readers to remember these points next winter.
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Higgins
Chile pays 75000 to settle Baltimore incident derisive claims
The Chilean government offers 75000 distribution among families of two seamen who perished and surviving crew members amid the October 16 Baltimore attack. The move contrasts with earlier rumored U S demands for two million dollars and is praised as sensible and just.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Baltimore
Santiago
United States
Sun Defends Democratic Free Trade Platform Amid Tariff Debate
The New York Sun argues the Democratic platform is as close to free trade as possible with some duties left. It downplays tariff as a canvassing issue while labeling force bill and negro domination as dominant topics. It contends a Democratic victory would push tariff cuts despite party divisions.
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New York Sun
the Sun
Sun
N. D
Congress
Bailey in the House and Absenteeism in Congress
The piece critiques Mr. Bailey of Texas for opposing absenteeism in the House and urges reconsideration of lawmakers who skip sessions. It notes Washington Post suggestions that absent members could be paid without seating and hints that public savings hinge on member presence. It also mentions Norway’s home rule struggle reaching a critical stage.
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Mr. Bailey
Texas
House of Representatives
Representatives
Tts
Bailey
Washington Post
Treasury
Post
Congress
Littte Kaiser Wilhelm and His Whale Hunt Feats
The passage notes that Littte Kaiser Wilhelm shows a fondness for hunting big game and, after a literary pursuit with Bismarck, turns to whaling. It remarks he reportedly caught a fifty four foot long whale, implying he should limit displays of prowess to safer sports.
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Littte
Kaiser Wilhelm
Bismarck
Gas safety valves signal brighter supply in Homewood find
The article notes safety valves on gas mains indicate a surplus versus demand and highlight a first in six years at Homewood. It mentions Cleveland Stevenson awaiting gentle news to avoid shock and references Somerset jail as a county savings measure.
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Homewood
Congress drains under vacation season voice
The piece laments Congress faces a vacation period as senators and representatives bear heavy burdens. It notes sympathy for lawmakers and suggests retreat into breaks may be welcomed if work shifts occur swiftly. It also mentions Canada considering retaliation over toll discrimination as a reciprocal tactic.
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Congress
Balfour to Lead Opposition in Commons Next Session
The article notes Balfour will be in a more congenial position as opposition leader in the House of Commons when Parliament reconvenes, contrasting with his prior role as a government leader defined by inactivity. It mentions Russia’s new horrors after famine typhus and cholera, Harrison’s anticipated success, and McGarrisan claim moving through Congress after thirty four years.
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Balfour
House of Commons
Stephen B. E Xiss
Harrison
West Virginia
McGarrisan
Congress
Free Country
Celebrities in Clover Chronicle Snippets
Abner McKixie looks like his brother the protectionist. Abelix M. Inuson retires from Cambridge teachers after 80 years. Prefect Ledochowski rests yearly in Lucerne. Wisconsin Governor Peck, once a printer, lives in the old house. The Pope mails a letter about his participation in the woman’s exhibition. Ex president Chapin near death at Beloit College. Manuel Antonio Matra, former Chilean foreign minister, has a 300 page book in press. Joseph Cook, Boston author, described as broad shouldered with blue eyes and side whiskers. Monsignor Zarpetti follows Ledochowski to Lucerne hoping to outmaneuver Rome rivals.
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Abner McKixie&y
Abelix M. Inuson
Cambridge
Mass
Candinal Ledochowski
Propaganda
Lucerne
Governor Peck
Wisconsin
Ole Bill
Fred
Potter Palmer
Chicago
Chapin
Beloit College
America
Cox Manuel Antonio Matra
Chili
Baltimore
Harrison
Jooseph Cook
Boston
Monsignor Zarpetti
St. Cloud
Minn
Cardinal Ledochowski
Rome
Monsignor
Ireland
St. Paul
Tot at police station with missing mother tale
A tearful young girl waits at the Fourth and York police station for her mother who vanished Saturday after wandering the streets with no shoes or stockings. Lieutenant Scott cannot identify the child named Katie. she says her name is Tatie and that her mother is lost.
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Paraperata
Mommer Tomin
Fourth
York Streets
Scott
Tatie
Mommer
Firth and
Chestnut Street
Tors
Ofcer
Cara
Affectionate Pair Nabbed by Chief Over Street Embrace
New York July 19 Chief of Police John Y. McKane spotted a young man and a pretty girl hugging and kissing across the street from police headquarters in West Brighton. The pair identified as Elia Kissing of Montclair and Alfred Gannon of East 126th Street. The chief ordered them home, warning of trouble if they lingered together.
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New York
John Y. McKane Ant
West Brighton
Mr. McKane
Elia Kissing
Montclair
Alfred Gannon
East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Ella
Try
Gannon
Congress Considers Adjournment Amid Political Scheming
A Chicago Inter Ocean report notes Congress is ready to think about adjourning but fears the motive is to craft votes for a party. The tone suggests skepticism about the lawmakers’ true aims and the timing of any adjournment.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Congress
Blaine Expected to Deliver Rousing Speeches for Ticket
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes a likelihood that Mr Blaine will give two or three energetic speeches for the ticket before the campaign ends and asserts there will be no sulking among Republicans nationwide this year.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Blaine
Underground wires promise a new Pittsburg telephone era
A talk on buried cables notes 8000 instruments in service in the Western Pennsylvania Telephone Co. and predicts major improvements with underground lines, long distance tools, and a metallic system. It also covers new water companies around hillside suburbs and political notes from Homestead including Mr Harrison and labor leaders.
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Pittsburg
Snd
Harry Metzgar
Central District and Printing Telegraph Company
Western Pennsylvania Company
Inman Line Vessels to Pl y Atlantic Waters
Clement Griscom, head of International Navigation, reports Britain releases steamships City of New York and City of Paris from military contracts. The ships will be reflagged American with American crews, measured for tonnage, and registered by U S customs. Four American built ships of equal tonnage planned by Cramp & Sons. Griscom to return to the U S in August to finalize details.
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G Com
Tytwonnshe International Navigation Company
William Cramp & Sons
Griscom
United States
England
International Navigation Company
Mt Gretna Feast of Reason at Chautauqua
A literary and musical day at Mt Gretna Pennsylvanias Chautauqua features lectures by Dr Clarke Robinson on Lessing and Dr Weidner on Zacharias and English Literature. Dr Grandison misses his afternoon talk on Negro Moods and Tenses. Dr Max Hark fills in with a Tennyson talk. Dr Charles Young from Princeton discusses the Moon with illustrations. Prof David C Crozier offers piano entertainment at 6 40 PM.
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Gretna
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Clarke Robinson
Robinson
Weidner
Chicago
Biblical Science
Zacharish
Grandison
Max Hark
Tennyson
Charles Young
Princeton University
Question of Figures in Illinois Election Doubt
The Illinois result remains uncertain with the Republican majority estimated between 25,000 and 85,000. The St Louis Globe-Democrat notes strong county returns yet wide variances persist in final tallies and political implications.
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St. Louis
Smithsonian Secures Rare Sea Cow Skeleton
Sealed by the Fish Commission steamer Albatros at a cost of 150 dollars the Smithsonian Institution acquires a near perfect sea cow skeleton from the Commander Islands in the western Bering Sea. Discovered in 1741 the extinct species weighed up to 8000 pounds and reached about 30 feet in length with a bark like hide.
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Smithsonian Institute
Wasureton
Fish Commission
Smithsonian Institution
Commander Islands
Bering Sea
Bering
Kille
Jaeger
National Museum
Prof. Agassiz
Sweden
St. Petersby
Foun
Elevation of false fortune fooling Cincinnati elevator boy
Hugh F. Campbell, once an Emery Hotel elevator boy, inspired a grand sham with letters claiming a 75 000 dollar European fortune. He wooed Annie Whittcamp and married her, but the hoax collapsed when Annie’s mother died and a small cash hoard revealed the ruse. Warrants are out for him in Evansville Indiana.
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Chnemmati
Hugh F. Campbell
Evansville
Ind
Fairmount
Annie Whittcamp
Evaneville
Annie
London
East End
Hugh
Warranta
Cincinnati
Women of Chautauqua Held on Home Life Topics and Lectures
The Woman's Club led with a focus on home life and homemaking topics while the Girls Club staged a burlesque on parliamentary rules. Young women debated resolutions on lunches and shopping, and programs covered Browning and revolution literature. Dr. J T Edwards spoke on trees with illustrations including California redwoods.
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Cuautauqua
Woman's Club
Emily Huntington Miller
Everlasting
America
J. T. Edwards
Red
California
Polite man Sneezes, Suffers Severe Head Injury on Orange Car
Peter M. Jackerson a colored man from Newark aged years rode an Orange electric car home. He sneezed leaning from the window to avoid offending two ladies, struck his head on an iron pole and was knocked senseless with a deep gash across the skull. Surgeons caution a similar blow could be fatal for a white man.
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Ornanoz
Peter M. Jackerson
Newark
St. Michael's Hospital
Conductor Carried Injured Leg. Dies After Train Crash
In Hawtrax Nova Scotia a freight train derailment near Shubenacadie fatally injured Conductor P. Y. Christian. He dislocated a shoulder when thrown from a van, then bound his badly injured leg with a kerchief and a sleeper sliver before dying after reaching Trane su ven.
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Hawtrax
Shubenacacadie
P. Y. Christian
Tranesu Uenwee
City Solicitor Rules Dogs as Property in Tax Case
Chicago Herald reports City Solicitor Elphinstone of Allegheny City delivers an opinion stating dogs are property and cannot be killed for non payment of taxes. The stance follows a mayoral request and is described as logical and sensible.
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Chicago Herald
Elphinstone
Allegheny City
Notable Ohio Publisher John T Shryock Dies at 73
Obituary notes report John T Shryock a prominent Ohio newspaper publisher who died in Zanesville after moving there in 1888 from Greensh Pa He owned the Dolly Courier and was a respected figure in local publishing Also noted are deaths of coal operator John Flynn in Ireland and others in Sandusky and Kentucky politics figures Thomas Cook and Thomas Robertson with brief biographical hints.
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John T. Shryock
Ohio
Zanesville
Greensh Pa
Pittsre
Dolly Courier
John Flynn
Wilkesharre
Ireland
Persmine
Mears & Firm
Thomas Cook
London
LB. Massey
Sandusky
Chicago
Thomas Robertson
Kentucky
K ¢Ouarday
Leakey
Tacky
Lagisia
Argonaut Club Summer Retreat at Burt Lake Michigan
The Argonaut Club schedules its August retreat to Burt Lake Michigan with a yacht, new cottages, and a guest list including Dr and Mrs French and families, Mr and Mrs McCreery, Miss Maud McCreery, and other Pittsburgh social figures. A separate party plans a weekend trip to Ligonier chaperoned by Mrs Lloyd and Mr Slocum with guests including Miss Stephenson and Miss Davis. A quaint anecdote recalls a Pittsburgh girl and her grandfather over a candy drawer, while exposition hall improvements promise expanded seating and a doubled audience view. A curious chase in Homestead ends with a visitor questioned by workers before being escorted away by locals.
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Argonaut Club
Burt Lake
Michigan
Pittsburg
French
McCreery
Maud McCreery
William Laird
Dorbin
Donald Bennie
Join Robbins
W.G. Griffiths, Jr
W. M. Pollock
Mra. Paenelte
Shalienberger
Mra. McCarty
Ligonier
Lloyd
D. P. Black
Frank Slocum
Misses Stephenson
Kinter
Oil City
Allan Stevenson
Franke
Joseph McCance
Miss Davis
Carl Davis
Norman Wooldridge
Miss Stevenson
Notable residents and visitors frequent Atlantic City
Mr. Frank Burger and Mr. Harry M. Laughlin enjoy weeks at Congress Hall Atlantic City. Laughlin plans to return to Pittsburg via Washington City for a brief visit. A Maple Shades lawn fete may raise about 1000. Idlewild picnic to involve five to six hundred at Shady Avenue and Sandusky Street Baptist Sunday schools. Oliver A. Guirrris of Western University Baseball Club leaves for Deerfield today to September. Mrs. Max Becuxn and Miss Becker and Miss Armstrong depart Saturday for Morgantown West Virginia. Dr Groner Proctor of Point Breeze at Eureka Springs Hotel Sagerstown Mn. and Mrs Hacan and family at Arden stock farm. Norcross family arrived in England yesterday. Doxalp Mrixer returns home from Atlantic City.
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Frank Burger
Harry M. Laughlin
Congress Hall
Atlantic City
Laughlin
Pittsburg
Washington City
Shady Avenue
Sandusky Street
Idlewild
Oliver A. Guirrris
Western University Baseball Club
Deerfield
Max K. Becuxn
Ellaworth Avenue
Miss Becker
Misa Armstrong
Morgantown
W. Va
Groner Proctor
Point Breeze
Eureka Springs
Sagerstown
Hacan
Arden
Attias H. Norcross
England
Atlantic Ty
Goddess of Liberty Ink Scheme Leads to Arrest
Thomas Dufly, jailed at East St. Louis police station, faces charges of swindling John Miller by promising to print a Goddess of Liberty image on his forearm with white ink for 10 dollars. Miller waited on Vandalia trestle after paying, then alerted police and found Duffy in a saloon. The episode follows chatter about a presidential candidate's origins and the Chicago Tribune report on Rourke Cochran.
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St. Louis
Thomas Dufly
East St. Louis
John Miller
Miller
Duffy
Goddess of
Liberty
McKinley tariff touted as text for free trade campaign
The double leaded edition of the McKinley tariff is presented as a textbook for the campaign of education that the free trade party plans to begin. It frames tariff policy as a public education effort and positions the edition as a key resource.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Free Trade Party
Cleveland and Stevenson miss war record advantage
The piece notes that Cleveland and Stevenson are not relying on their war records and implies they would not fare well if they did. It critiques their lack of strong past combat credentials and suggests this weakens their position.
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New York Press
Cleveland
Stevenson
Basa
Curious Condensations From a Bygone Era
A compilation of curious facts sourced from various fields includes Moon counts, speech rates, meteor-origin theories for diamonds, rainy seasons, Shakespeare tourist visits, saloon glass losses, waltz distances, almanac notices, parasol trends, servant labor data, and artesian wells. The piece surveys science echoes and odd statistics with period newspaper flair.
Miss Footlights and Public Pursuits in Patchwork Verse
A collage of quirky bits features Miss Footlights reacting to jewelry, a jocular jab about envy, stray lines about water and sand, a ria of a millionaire’s daughter, a street scene with a police caution, and street slang on property and public meetings.
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British Museum
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