Quiet conferences boost Quay and Watres for Republican win
Senator Quay and State Chairman Watres held private meetings at the Continental Hotel while transitioning from Atlantic City. They expressed confidence in the Republican ticket and discussed organizational activity across Pennsylvania as the campaign proceeds.
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Philadelphia
Quar
Atlantic City
Washington
People’s Bank
Continental
Watres
Republican Campaign Committee
Quay
Tim
Sar
Center Quay
Ovation for Sherman Responds to North Central Republicans in Ohio
A large Fayette County crowd heard Senator John Sherman praised today as he defended Republican governance and warned Democrats about alleged voter suppression and gerrymandering in Ohio. He urged support for McKinley, urged vigilance on electoral districts and tariff policy, and praised Governor Campbell.
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Fayette County
John Sherman
Jets House
Sherman
McKinley
Ohi
Ohio
Rehivens
McKinler
Campbell
Major McKinley
Tin Plate Talk Spurs Ohio GOP Support for McKinley Tariff
An Ohio campaign meeting at Opera House features remarks by Congressman Dalzell praising McKinley tariff policy. Speakers tout protective measures benefiting tin plate workers and National Treasury strength, arguing tariff revisions favor American wages and industry.
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Ohio
Vorsastownn
Dalzell
W. Rice
Q. Mills
Serrani
Daleell
McKintey
Kerstone
McKinley
Campbell
McKinley Bill Reciproc ity and Free Tin Plate Debate
A speech criticizes the McKinley bill for favoring tin plate production and reciprocity, arguing against English or Welsh influence and praising James G Blaine as the driver of the policy. The speaker asserts the bill will extend American trade and make the flag wave over many lands.
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Campbell
Wales
Pennsylvania
James G. Blaine
How to Cast Ohio Ballots in Newark
Newark Republicans open a voter education school on the Kangaroo voting law. A booth at headquarters on North Third Street offers a bureau of information to answer questions and explain the new law as election day nears. The article notes widespread ignorance of the law and the risk of illegally cast votes due to confusion.
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Newark
North Third Street
Bureau of Information
Secretary Blaine to Speak in Massachusetts Campaign
Reports say Secretary Blaine will deliver three speeches in Massachusetts during the current campaign in Boston Worcester and Springfield outlining policy and rallying support.
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Boston
Blaine
Massachusetts
Worcester
Springfield
Ghost challenge to spiritualists by the Psychical Society
The letter from Rev. T Ernest Allen and colleagues urging open scientific study of modern Spiritualism prompts a reply from J W Fletcher of the Spiritual Research Society. Fletcher plans to answer Allen and asks Spiritualists to engage, not dismiss, the investigation.
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J. W. Fletcher
Spiritual Research Society
New Yor
T. Ernest Allen
First Unitarian Church of
Providence
Hh. II
American Psychics Society
Heber Newton
Minot Savage
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
New York
American Psychical Society 14
Fke
Nazareth
Societ
W. Fletcher
The
Allen
President Grants Pardons and Commutes Several Cases
The President pardons George Kimes for counterfeiting offenses and reduces Downing’s Arkansas larceny sentence to expire November 1. A pardon takes effect October 15 for G W Andrews convicted of misusing the mails. The request for H L Barker’s pardon was denied.
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Washington
George Kimes
Ohio
Downing
Arkansas
G. W. Andrews
Colorado
H. L. Barker
Texas
Fires Rage Across Cities Destroy Homes and Businesses
Across multiple cities fires destroy homes, barns, warehouses, and a borough depot. Santander reports 15 houses and a hospital burned. Newark sees loss of a barn and granary insured for 200. Columbus Junction suffers $10,000 blaze in a blacksmith shop. Natchez records $51,000 in total losses. Ottawa clients lose wholesale grocers warehouses. Snow Shoe depot burns with all contents. Manhattan Malting Company barn fire injures horses. Johnstown brewery destroyed with insured loss of about $15,000.
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Santander
Spain
Allegheny
Frazier Street
Xean Newark
Elizabeth Higgins
Columbus Junction
Natchex
Moses
Natchex Coffin Company
A. & F. Jacobs
Ottawa
Ont
Barkerville Brother
Kenneth McDonald
Snow Shoe
Bellefonte
Pennsylvania Railroad
Manhattan
Mont
Manhattan Malting Company
Johnstown
Lawrence Kort
German Day Celebrated Across District Amid Rain
In Pennsylvania and Washington German Americans filled streets for German Day events. Governor Boies and General Siegel spoke as parades, bands, and floats moved through Central Park and past the White House grounds. The day featured concerts, fireworks, and a monster Germania Hall meeting with speakers Udo Brachvogel and E. Rosewater.
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Fort Marison
Boies
Keokuk
Ca. F
Seigel
Central Park
General Siegel
Mississippi River
Washington
National Guard of District of Columbia
Lair Graerieman
White House
Proctor and Rusk
Omaha
Germania Hall
Udo Brachvogel
E. Rosewater
The Whisky Tester Who Beat Alcoholism to Judge Spirits
A famed liquor expert, once a Minnesota drunkard, rose to become the country’s top authority on whisky and brandy. He learned by tasting and smelling, grading up to 50 whiskies, and now earns more in a year than in two decades of drinking, working for a major New York liquor house.
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Minnesota
Northwest
Chicago
Kentucky
Peoria
New York
Splendid Socials Compared to European Royal Courts
The author notes Honolulu winter scenes rival New York and Paris for brilliance and recounts balls and palace receptions at the Queen's residence, likening them to famed European royal palaces.
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Honolulu
New York
Paris
Aransas Harbor Bubble Revisited and Ruinous Promises
A St Louis Republic report traces the Aransas Harbor scheme led by Russell B. Harrison, detailing grand promises of a deep water port, town boom, and lavish development. Investors bought lots at inflated prices. early sales showed profits then collapsed, with a grand jury investigation looming.
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St. Louis
Aransas Harbor
Wheeler
Prince’ Russell
Bernhardt Rebuked by Ocean Thrills Aboard Mariposa
The theater star Sarah Bernhardt endured a wild voyage to San Francisco aboard the Mariposa. She clung to rigging as waves splashed over the deck and even joined a tropical tank bath in a daredevil plunge. Her entourage and the captain arranged the spectacle to satisfy her demand for water fun.
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Sarah Bernhardt
San Francisco
Bernhardt
Mariposa
Tropics
Bernhard
Hayward
Mme
Wesley's Disciples Great Ecumenical Methodist Council
Washington to host the Ecumenical Methodist Council starting tomorrow with 500 delegates from 29 divisions across 29 branches. Early sessions focus on temperance education tensions capitalism science and social issues without binding legislation. Four permanent conference secretaries were selected tonight: Kind Ryckman Lond and Snape.
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Washington
Ecumenical Methodist Council
England
Wesley Brothers
London
Methodist Church
France
Australia
Ireland
South Africa
West Indies
New World
J. M. Kind
D. D
New York
Er. B. Ryckman
Ottawa
John Lond
Thomas Snape
Liverpool
Alcohol with dinners and health cautions from Dr. Marcoe
Dr. 8 T Marcoe of New York warns against drinking claret with meals calling it digestive enemy. He favors neat whiskey or gin and says claret harms digestion while beer Rhine wine or champagne are better. In Winner Wasn to story reports a two story frame building fire killing Mrs Wagner and two children. another child severely burned.
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8. T. Marcoe
New York
Sen
Wasn
Wagner
Primitive whale hunting by Washington Indians reported
The San Francisco Examiner describes six canoes of Indians hunting a whale near Fuca Strait as the schooner Robert Lewers passes. Harpoons with yew staffs, hair buoy skins, and lanyards keep the catch afloat while long lances finish the kill. The whale is towed ashore for flensing and meat, with the tribe celebrating their success as snow falls in Olympia and the Cascades.
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San Francisco Examiner
Robert Lewers
Penhallow
Hono- Inu
Fuca Strait
Knights of Labor Moves to Boycott Niedringhaus Works
District Assembly No 4 in St Louis votes to press a general boycott on Niedringhaus Stamping Company over tin plate mill labor troubles. They condemn Niedringhaus importing workers and pledge moral aid to striking employees, with outreach to General Detan W Hayes and the executive board.
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St. Louis
Knights of Labor
St. Lewis
Detan W. Hayes
Niedringhaus
District Assembly No. 4
Hawaiian Islands Popular Resort for Fashionable Visitors
A native traveler in America says the Sandwich Islands are now a fashionable resort for social pleasure without organized efforts or excitement, attracting many seeking leisure amid agreeable surroundings.
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Sandwich Islands
America
Fourteenth ward police station on Forbes street completes construction
The new Fourteenth ward station on Forbes street beyond Atwood has its building finished and turned over to the city. Wires will be installed today and furnishing with carpets and furniture will begin, with occupancy expected in a week to ten days.
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Fourteenth Ward
Forbes Street
Atwood Street
Nineteenth Ward
Western Kansas Flood Damages Hit Rail Lines and Camps
Heavy rains in Western Kansas raise rivers swallowing camps along streams. Boomer operations lose horses, wagons, and cattle as over a mile of Santa Fe Railroad track washes out near Wayne. Purcell bridge faces urgent danger of failure.
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Guthrie
C. T
Kansas
Territory
Wayne
Purcell
Grateful patients praise Electrical and Medical Institute
A sequence of testimonials extols treatment at 42 Penn avenue corner Fifth street Pittsburgh. Patients mention nervous prostration paralysis rheumatism and weight gain as outcomes and endorse the Electrical and Medical Institute. Names include G. Selden L. Turner L. Laughlin H. Bamberge R. N. Flanegin.
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Electrical and Medical Institute
Penn Avenue
Fifth Street
P. Boye
Seventh Avenue Hotel
Cal Institute
Selden
Wylie Avenue
City
Turner
Stanwix Street
Mt. Washington
Tam
Penn Ave
Pittsburg
United States
L. BR
Laughlin
Dennison
Mel Calventiente
H. Bamberge Mansfeld
Mt. Clemens
Mich
R. N. Flanegin
Munda
May Lawrence Braddock
The
Electrical and Modane Institute
Corner Firth * A Haxelwood
Weity
B. le Lamb
Ae Ogetananer
Ee Oe Avenue
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Jlughes
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Youngstown
Biaine
Psychical Society
Siegel
Orator
Stempel
Hamilton
Horace Boies
Franz Siegel
Vienna
Holland
Germantown
William Penn
Germany
West
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Russell Harrison
Neptune
Wesley
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Methodism
Ecumenical Council
Olympia
Cascade Mountains
Medrinhaus
Society At
Bandon Bella
JAS. S. Kirk & CO
Popular Society
Walts
Klein
Duquesne
Max Klein
Federal ST
WM. Ayres &4 Sons
Boomers
Grubbs
Thomas Hatton
Putnam
Allegheny County
Far West
Catarrh
Epes Institute
Mars
Toomas Hattos
Grubbe and Associates
St. Tod P
Catarah and Dyspepsia Institute
Penn Avenues
Pasel
Fwwr
Sixth Street
Aires & CO
Poiladsiplia
D. Lewis
Fifth Ave
Smithfield
Nodelay
Liberty ST
Star Corner
Wren
Griffith
Grant St
Corner Third Av
Pittsburg, Pa
Oseph Fleming & Son
Liebig Company
Milin
Elon Aithredee
Justus von Liskin
Stanley
Qistos
James Means & Co
James
Goodyear
U. S
Sylwa J. Means & CO
Matta
GEO. K. Stevenson &Co
Ixth Avenue
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