Homesteads Fall to National Leaguers in Amateurs’ Display
The Homesteads lost 9 to 2 to Brooklyn in a County League game. Manager McGunnigle plans to resign after the championship series. Amateur stars Youngman and Rowe starred for Homestead as Dietz pitched well for the visitors. The crowd enjoyed fine weather and spirited play at Recreation Park.
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Pittsburgh
Recreation Park
Homesteads
Staley
Dietz
Gur
Youngman
H. Rowe
Homestead
Rowe
Colgan
Brooklyn manager McGunnighe to resign after World Series
Special Telegram to The Dispatch New York October 14 Brooklyn club manager McGunnighe announced he is weary of the team and will resign after the world championship series ends. He says his goal was to raise the club high and he has achieved it, so he plans to quit.
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McGunnighe
New York
McGumpie
Brooklyn
Ben
Go Howe
Sevier
All Clube
Grants Benefit at Brassway Theater Promises Revenue Surge
In New York on October 1, the Grants benefit for the Brassway Theater is already a financial success as seats sell at a premium. Beautiful souvenir programmes have been provided, and Mayor Grant will attend.
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New York
Brassway Theater
Grant
Local Club Heads to Homestead for Key Battery Showdown
To Day's Seen Game features the visiting team against Homestead with Jones and Hess forming the Homestead battery. Serene the Homestead manager will let the Homesteads manage for a day. Pittsburg's Igee and Sinner will guard the Pittsburg battery. The local club also plays McKeesport on the next two days.
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Homestead
Jones and Hess
Homestead Battery
Ee Eee
Homesead
Igee and Sinner
Pittsburg Battery
McKeesport
Price Fight in Ashlaxa Ends With Jail Suspensions
In Ashlaxa Wisconsin on October 14 Charles Kimmick George Curtis and Donnie Needham refereeing are jailed charged with Keene after a midnight bout. The theatre was packed when time was called in the second round Kimmick delivered a powerful blow that felled an opponent Curtis rose before time and received another blow sending him to his corner. The report ends abruptly with the injured party and setting unclear.
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Ashlaxa
Wis
Charles Kimmick
George Curtis
Donnie Needham
Price
Keene
Kimmick
Jnquiar
Curtis
Murphy Knocked Out By Port Manreux Welter Bout
Port Manreux Louisiana October 6 welterweights Harry Mc Goy and John Murphy fought to a finish in a tight match with Murphy knocked out late in the bout Bees is perty Bovis Margo goensiery row Murphy
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Port Manreux
Harry McGoy
John Murphy
Bees
Perty
Bovis
Margo Goensiery
Row Murphy
Local club signs Frank Glover for upcoming season
San Francisco reports Occidental Tob signs Frank Glover of tone 208 Biz Be in eee too for Sank 7 with finish planned in November 48.
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San Francisco
Occidental Tob
Frank Glover
Tone
World Championship Series Arranged Between Brooklins and New Yorks
The 1889 world championship series between the Brooklins and New Yorks is set for eleven games. The schedule covers Polo Grounds and Washington Park venues from October 18 to October 30, with play to end once a club gains its sixth win. Umpire selection and gate-receipt division to be settled at a later meeting.
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New York
John B. Day
Mutrie
New Yorks
Byrne
Able
Brooklins
Sporting Times
President Day
Day
Shail
Polo Grounds
Washington Park
Moninay
Fron
Exhington Rk
Latonia Race Meet Ends In Close Finishes
Pleasant weather drew a large crowd as the Latonia track hosted seven races. Nannie P led from start to finish in the maiden fillies dash while Koko captured the two year olds division. Estelle won the three year olds race by a length, Kittle E narrowly beat Dutchman in the sprint for older horses, and Fakir edged Eberlee for the colt and gelding event.
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Ciscryxati
Vedano
Catherine C Wu
Spite
Mary K
Fiver
Emily
Martha Page
Nannle P
Bettie H
Posi
Nannle
Atarihe Page
Bettie
Othen
Nannie P
Emily S
Flyer
Ecstacy
Bloscom
Cassella
Wa & IM
Hollendlis
Droid
Roxanna
New Castle
Probus
Harry Glen
Aunt Kate Mills
Estelle
Princess Bowling
Queen of Trumpy
Fatelle
Feldings
Carter Fatty
Scott
Romaine
Eberlce
Fale
Prince Albert
Seaur
Hope
Fakir
Carer Band
Sunny Bray
Great Scott
Eberlee
Balf
Hopeful
Kentucky Fall Racing Meet Opens Amid Finishes and Upsets
Lexington reports the Kentucky Association fall meeting begins Monday marking its centennial of racing in Kentucky. Latonia horses compete for five stakes and 19 purses while prices at W T Woodward trotters sale reach $20,008 average $526. Roy Wilkes sulk race sees Ed Geers replacing Roy before Wilkes triumphs in the later heats.
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Lexington
Kdéntucky Association
Kentucky
Latonia
W. T. Woodward
William L. H. Cunningham
Knoxvill
Corporal Wilk
Alcrone
M.ere Jackson
Miss
Alcymore
W. L. Brown
Waeville
Erminie
Belmont
William Acnewington
Robens
Eee
Roy Wilkes
Sulk
Ed Geers
Roy
Bessemer
Geers
Vaneries
Chicago
Gipey
Ce Edward
Twin
Sterling Wilkes Ite Thalia
Mambri Maid
So Long
Heality and
Kins
Man Pean
Roe Wites Ert Vickaway
Beesomet
Green Lander
Sesseesbrereserssk Ben
Robert Kysda
Ientincky Makes
Sa ‘Ortuneae
Weight-Throw Championship Planned Between Jordan and Ford
A meeting at 26 Broadway New York settled details for a single handed weight throwing contest between A A Jordan of the New York Athletic Club and Malcolm W Ford of the Staten Island Athletic Club. The men favoured to win hammer and shot will decide the 56 pound weight event with Jordan and Ford averaging about 158 pounds. The proposal follows their high placements in the recent general athletic championship.
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Jordan
Ford
New York
W. H. Robertson
Broadway
A. A. Jordan
New York Athletic Club
Malcolm W. Ford
Staten Island Athletic Club
J. & Mitchell
C. A. J. Queckberner
W. L. Condon
Mitchell
W. H. Robert
Con
L. Levien
Robert Stoll
Sam T T
W. H. Roberts
Cornell
William ‘Orr
Pendergast Defeated in Sprint and Dies of Heart Failure
Special telegram from New Brunswick reports Robert Pendergast, a local athlete, beaten in a spring foot race by Miller of Philadelphia. Rumors claim Miller ran under an assumed name as a professional, costing Pendergast’s backers about 5500 dollars. The defeat and loss contributed to his heart failure.
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Distatcr
New Brunswick
Robert Pendergast
Miller
Philadelphia
Pendergast
British Lightweight Murphy Seeks American Fights
Frank Murphy the English lightweight champion arrived in New York from San Francisco and proposed matches in America. He would fight Cal McCarthy at 118 pounds for $1,000 or any man at 120 pounds for $1,000 a side for the Police Gazette belt and featherweight title. He plans to witness Slavin and Smith in the £1,000 championship if rivals agree.
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New York
Frank Murphy
Pugilist
England
Tommy Warren
California Athletic Club
Police Gazette
Murphy
San Francisco
Cal McCarthy
America
Braddock Baseball Club Closes Season in Poor Shape
Braddock Baseball Association reports season proceeds near 1000 dollars but falls short of expenses. Over 1200 dollars paid to players and 875 spent on ground inclosure left about 160 dollars deficit. Next season aims for improved club run on a systematic scale.
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Erappock
Braddock Baseball Association
Tri-State League reorganizes into Ohio league
At Massillon Ohio meeting on October 16 the six cities except Hamilton quit business after dividing a $377 surplus and a new Ohio league was formed with Western quartet Wheel ing Dayton Springfield Steubenville and Eastern quartet Mansfield Akron Youngstown Canton. W H McDermitt of Columbus will remain president.
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Massiion
Hamilton
Wheeling
Dayton
Springfield
Steubenville
Mansfield
Akron
Youngstown
Canton
W. H. McDermitt
Columbus
Objection Filed Over Cesarewitch Winner Primrose Day
An objection to the Cesarewitch Stakes race result, run at Newmarket on October 10, contests bay filly Primrose Day as winner. It argues owner W Goater did not own the filly at the time of entry, despite Primrose Day finishing first.
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Newmarket
Exhibition Game in Indianapolis
An exhibition game held in Indianapolis saw Kansas Citys defeat 4 to 16.
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Indianapolis
Kansas Citys
Pittsburgh Club Hunts for Hockey Phenom in Quiet Season
Sporting notes report pay day for local players and a tentative shift toward Eastern league status. The Pittsburgh club suffers financial strain but pursues new players next season while continuing a long search for a standout prospect amid limited attendance and mixed reactions in Wilkinsburg and New York.
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Pan Hana
Columbus
von der Ahe
Brooklyn
Wilkinsburg
Brooklyns
New York
Nottek
Pittsburg
Louisville
Y. Herald
Slaughtered for the Hides Frontier Troubles Anticipated
A letter from Colorado Governor Acting Governor William G. urging immediate action over Southern Ute depredations on deer hides at West Dolores. The missive warns that Indians are distant from their reservation and killings may provoke serious trouble. requests troop intervention if needed to return them to the reservation and halt depredations.
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Dallas
Con
Job A. Cooper
Denver
West Dolores
Canning
John A. Porter
Denven
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Washington, D. C
West Dole
Colorado
Fort Lewis
Illiam G
Dolgorouki Talks Value of Ferdinand Expulsion
Advices report Prince Dolgorouki, before leaving Sofia, conferred for Russia with Stambouloff on expelling Ferdinand from the Bulgarian zone. The London dispatch notes the potential action as Russia weighs its options in the region.
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Russia
London
Constantinople
Dolgorouki
Sofia
Stambouloff
Ferdinand
Directory publisher seeks swindler preying on advertisers
J. H. Diffenbacher, city directory publisher, aims to catch an accomplished fraud who has been posing as a solicitor for ads. He enters offices with a directory and solicits ads, demanding advanced payment, a practice Diffenbacher never allows.
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J. H. Diffenbacher
City Directory
Body of Irish mill hand found near Stewart Station
The body of a man about 30 years old, 5 6 and 130 pounds, with crushed skull, was brought to the morgue yesterday afternoon after being found beside the tracks at Stewart station. Pockets yielded no identification. Irish face, calloused hands, and clothing suggest a mill or railroad worker.
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Stewart Station
Patrick McNally Struck by Freight Train in Franks Town
Patrick McNally was hit by a freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Franks Town and taken to Mercy Hospital on Monday. Authorities initially feared he would not survive his injuries as of last night.
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Patrick McNally
Mercy Hospital
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Frankstown
Braddock 18 Year Old Dies From Steel Rails Fall
Frank Cole aged 18 who was injured at Braddock Steel Works Monday night by the fall of a pile of steel rails died at his home in Braddock from his injuries.
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Frank Cole
Braddock
Man Injured After Stair Fall at Oakland Avenue Home
John McDermitt fell last night at 55 Oakland avenue sustaining two broken ribs and a deep gash above the right eye. He was treated at the scene and remains under care.
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John McDermitt
Oakland Avenue
Broken Shaft Halts Squeeze Shaft at Clinton Mill
A shaft powering the squeezers at Clinton Mill broke yesterday causing the puddling department to idle until hall repairs are completed. Factory operations face a temporary disruption with the plant seeking prompt fixes.
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Clinton
Solar eclipse expedition sails for Africa voyage to observe December eclipse
Prof. David P. Todd leads a multi expert party from the Brooklyn navy yard aboard the Pensacola bound for Cape Verde and Sierra Leone to coal up and reach Maxima on the Quanza river for the December 22 eclipse. The team includes Bigelow Loomis Carbutt Abbe and Jacobi with a large equipment roster and protective health measures.
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Todd
Africa
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Dispatch
New York
David P. Todd
Oear
Pensacola
Navy Yard
Cape de Verde Islands
Sierra Leone
Fernando Po
St. Paul de Loanda
Maxima
Quanza
Western Union Must Pay City License Fees
Philadelphia court verdict finds Western Union Telegraph Company liable for license fees totaling 14,438 for 1885 to 1888. Earlier cases on 1883 to 1884 and 1885 to 1887 involved referees and appeals, with varying outcomes and a Supreme Court ruling on part of the charges.
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Philadelphia
Western Union Telegraph Company
United States Circuit Court
Hare
Common Pleas Court
Supreme Court
Cunard Steamer Malta Wrecked Off Land's End
The Cunard steamer Malta on a pleasure voyage to Italy ran aground at St Just near Land's End in fog and was a total wreck. All passengers are landed safely except one stokers who was drowned and reported missing. In Lisbon the King of Portugal is described as gravely ill with gangrene and delirium in the latest bulletin.
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Dietz
Panes
Hite
Palarn
Gers
Lonpoxs
Malta
Cunard Steamship Company
Italy
St. Just
Land's End
Allen Hones
Portugal
Lisbon
Bear steals show at Hanover Court House political rally
In Ricumont Virginia Mahone and Julius Cesar Burrows spoke to a crowd while a bear performed antics and danced on a tree limb. The bear, directed by a Turk, drew cheers and laughter as Burrows struggled to regain attention amid the grins of a Democratic audience.
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Ricumont
Mahone
Julius Cesar Burrows
Hanover Court House
Court House
Glove Makers Sue Major Dry Goods House Over Unpaid Goods
Bruno Able and Alex Von Wagner of Chemnitz sue Burnham Hanna Munger & Co. in New York Supreme Court for 10 000 in goods claimed unpaid and 10 000 in damages for refusing to accept other goods. The suit alleges a conspiracy with Jules Arbit of Kansas City to undersell by sourcing goods cheaply. Arbit acted as agent only to sell, not collect.
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Supreme Court
Bruno Able
Alex. von Wagner
Chemnitz
Saxony
Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co
Kansas City
Detroit
Thomas Street
Dam
Charles Putzel
Burnham, Henna, Manger & Co
Jules Arbit
Pottel
Uhie
von Wagner
Putzel
Burnham Hanna, Manger & Co
Uhle & von Wagner
Henbe
Manger Is Co
Germany
Burnham, Hanns, Munger & Co
Murderer Lyon Dies in Jail Amid Abbeville Case
A. C. Lyon of Abbeville county, the stepfather of the victim's wife, murdered D. L. Mabrey last May then died in jail. The Mabrey killing occurred near the town academy as Lyon, after threatening, shot Mabrey twice. The trial was postponed, and Providence likely spared Abbeville county thousands in court costs.
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Charleston
D. C
McDow
F. W. Dawson
Providence
South Carolina
John T. Lyon
Abbeville County
D. L. Mabrey
Mabrey
Lyon
Mabr
Abbeville
Pan American delegates fatigued by Cleveland tours
The Pan American delegates in Cleveland weary of banquets, sightseeing, and late hours as they adjust plans for a lighter itinerary. Two Southern delegates missed a Buffalo departure but rejoined the party. After tours of Euclid Avenue and the Garfield memorial, they depart for Detroit with plans for a yachting excursion and a luncheon in Ann Arbor.
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Buffalo
Chicago
North
Areviews
Cambridge
Boston
Delaware Avenue
Garfield Memorial Monument
Euclid Avenue
Detroit
Curtis
James McMillan
Ann Arbor
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Merchants Fail in Dry Goods Trade
The Tribune reports the failure of Lessing Solomon & Rosenthal of Waco Texas shocks New York traders. Liabilities are estimated in the hundreds of thousands with about 50 creditors. H B Claflin & Co. bought the stock to secure a $350,000 claim.
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New York
the Tribune
Lessing
Solomon & Rosenthal
St Waco
Tex
Boston
H. B. Claflin & Co
Unlucky Wedding Ends in Runaway Crash
New York reports James N Hudout and Emma F Kennedy wed at St Josephs Church on 125th St and 9th Ave. Bridal party departed at 6 30 PM when a horse car collision caused a runaway team to strike Mrs Fannie Lucas aged 63, fracturing her skull and breaking her arm. injuries likely fatal.
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New York
James N. Hudout
Emma F. Kennedy
St. Joseph’s Church
One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Ninth Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Fannie Lucas
Royal Wedding Festivities for Princess Sophie and Greek Crown Prince
In Athens on October 16 a programme outlines the royal wedding of Princess Sophie of Prussia to the Greek Crown Prince. Events include Emperor William's entry on the 26th, a torchlight procession, a marriage service on the 27th followed by a gala banquet, a family banquet and fireworks on the 28th, and a ball with an excursion on the 29th. A general amnesty for over 70 prisoners will accompany the wedding.
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Athens
Sophie of
Prussia
Greece
William
Czar's Visit Stirs German Cities. Mills Fire Hits Smyrna
October reports describe the Czar and Grand Duke George visiting Neufabrawasse and Stettin with public access restricted and troops on streets. Berlin charity gifts 100000 marks to the poor. Separately, Concord Woolen Mills in Smyrna Georgia burned, loss estimated at 100000 dollars with no insurance.
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Czar
Grand Duke
George
Neufabrawasse
Stettin
Berlin
Atlanta
Concord Woolen
Smyrna
Meeting on Mahone policy draws large crowd in Richmond
An anti Mahone Republican committee rally in Old Market Hall Richmond on October 16 featured ex Governor Cameron and ex Senator Riddlberger who were too unwell to speak. The audience dispersed as the band played the air We have both there ictans a time.
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Rhcummond
Old Market Hall
Anti- Mahone Republican Committee
Cameron
Riddleberger
Sheffield Cutlers Fear Imitation Overseas Goods
A Sheffield master cutler warns against foreign manufacturers palming off inferior wares as Sheffield goods while addressing the annual cutlers banquet. The report notes rival American competition is less feared than imitation English wares. Also referenced are a comic scene in a Indianapolis Journal illustration and news of E E Kimball, a Missouri Republican leader and late Governor candidate, dying in St Louis.
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Sheffield
Speclan
Dispatch
St. Louis
E. E. Kimball
West Strict
Missouri
Kimit
Dock Labor Strike Continues in Hampoune
October 16 report from Hampoune notes another dock workers strike beginning this day, extending disruption to city shipping and port activities as labor actions unfold.
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Hampoune
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