Quebec Crises Rise Over Premier Mercier Annexation Threat
Oct. 20 report from Mostra describes a volatile Quebec political scene with the Royal Commission probing Mercier and ministers. A hostile press and looming dismissal of the ministry threaten civil unrest and possible annexation moves as Lord Stanley and British officials face pressure amid a crisis in Anglo French relations.
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Telegnam
Mostra
Quebec
Canada
United States
Royal Comvalitee
Mercier
Tis
Cad Lit
Ottawa
Lord Stanley
Ivetewr
Elopement Ends in Tragedy on Fairmount Farm
Pirmoute Pennsylvania October report describes Jacob Musterman a nearly 70 year old farmer who marries a 10 year old servant girl. She elopes with a young farmhand taking cash. Musterman later dies by self inflicted pistol shot after brooding over the event.
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Pirmoute
Jacob Musterman
Fairmount Township
Miles
Here
da Dimmick
Masterman
William Belas
Morne Mestorsan
Cowles Electric Smelting Plans Litigation And Expansion
Locront Oct 20 Special An important business change at the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company. Matthiessen of La Salle Illinois has invested in stock and will become president while Eugene Cowles serves as resident manager. The firm will press patent litigation with Pettisbarz Reduction Company and build an intensive plant in addition to existing works in this country and Stoke on Trent England capable of producing 20 tons of pure aluminum daily.
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Locront
Cowles Electric Smelting
Cleveland
Matthiessen
la Salle
IML
Anotel
Eugene Cowles
Pettisbarz Reduction Company
Cowles Oo’ Yrival
Eee
Stoke-on-Trent
England
Election Officers Named in City Organization Roll
A list of elected officers includes Vice President Alfred H. Cowles of Lockport, Secretary Horace W. Power of Cleveland, and Treasurer A. F. Osborne of Cleveland. The document records the officers chosen for the organization and their home cities.
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Alfred H. Cowles
Lockport
Horace W. Power
Cleveland
A. F. Osborne
Prison Break Out As Two Convicts Escape Jail Yard
Beatrice Collins an inmate sentenced to two years for counterfeiting and John Miller alias Bush serving 18 months for robbery escaped from a prison during a rainstorm. They passed from the jail yard to a stable then over a board fence aided by an outside party. Warden Mensch was informed at 5 this morning and Night Watchman Rhoads held for questioning. Miller exchanged clothes with another convict and donned civilian garb. Collins, reputedly from Brooklyn, had recently requested $26. Authorities suspect inside help and bribe links. her real name may be Nein and she is said to be married to a Brooklyn broker.
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Reading
Beatrice Collins
John Miller
Bush
Mensch
Wateman Rhoads
Rhoads
Miller
Brooklyn
Nein
Despondent Miss Hecht Jumps From Washington Monument
Baltimore dispatch reports Miss Alice Hecht daughter of Moses Hecht a noted Hebrew citizen threw herself from the Washington monument around noon. Despondent over lost love and shrinking height, she died from a 155 foot fall with a broken backbone and mutilated face. A bystander saw the body and Burns, keeper’s son, assisted.
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Dispatch
Baltimore
Alice Hecht
Moses Hecht
Washington Monument
George Washington
Spreckels Sells Sugar as Prices Plunge to 4 Cents
The Spreckels firm drove sugar prices down to four cents a barrel in a dramatic market move. A broker offered 300 barrels to Spreckels agents for EC Knight & Co, signaling a strategic price drop intended to deter rival refiners from matching. The price briefly held at four cents before easing to 4 1/16 cents as Franklin and Kaighs & Co. joined the decline.
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Marit Lapreernra
Spreckels
EC. Knight & Co
Franklin
F.C. Kaighs & Co
Inter Spreckels
Man clings to engine flag staff in near fatal Stunt
Harry McLaughlin explains he jumped onto a Reading Reading engine as Philadelphia express entered the Reading station at night. He hung from a flag staff with steam obscuring his approach and held on while the train moved about 30 miles per hour. He survived without injuries, recounting a remarkable display of endurance after the dangerous ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamonrix
Philadelphia Express
Reading
Harry McLaughlin
Sisters Kept In Life Through Each Other's Death
In Boston on October 20 two elderly sisters Margaret Breen 75 and Bridget Breen 74 were found dead in their rented apartments. Bridget lay beside the bed in one room and Margaret near the door in another after long years of poverty and charity dependence. A fellow tenant fainted from the shock, and others fear for her condition as investigators consider the possibility Bridget died first and Margaret collapsed en route for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Margaret Breen
Bridget Breen
Bridget
Margaret
Yellow Fever at Santos
Dispatches from Santos report rising yellow fever at the port of Sao Paulo on Engua-Cuncan Island. The Brazilian government ordered vessels away from the harbor until they can discharge, admitting ships only when berths open. Santos, a coffee export hub with about 10,000 residents, faces port restrictions due to the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riope Janermo
Santos
Sao Paulo
Engua-Cuncan
Revising the Discipline at Evangelical Conference
In Indianapolis on October 20 the Evangelical Association conference moved to appoint a nine member commission to revise the church discipline language. Lay representation is set as the tomorrow's special order with four laymen to serve on each church board and significant General Conference recognition. Elgin, Illinois was chosen for the next General Conference.
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Indianapolis
Conference of the Evangelical Association
Elgin
Judgment clears path for Ohio and Mississippi absorption
Ciscrexati Oct 20 Judge Hunt dissolved the temporary injunction in the Ohio and Mississippi dispute with Baltimore and Ohio. The ruling held that the issue must be settled by proceedings in one war rant, and until such proceedings are held the Saturday election stands.
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Ciscrexati
Ohio and
Mississippi
Baltimore and Ohio
Hunt
Parson Downs Slender Slander Suit May Dismiss
Boston Oct 20 special The 50000 slander suit of Parson William W Downs against Deacon Joseph H Story and others may not go to trial. Defendants counsel Chaplin challenged the particulars filed arguing the declaration is defective and the two year statute bars actions for slander. Judge Dunbar gave a week to amend or risk non suit.
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Boston
William W. Downs
Joseph H. Story
Chaplin
Alice Neptune
W. H. Baker
Dunbar
Smaller drinks of whiskey spark trust kentucky clash
In Onrcaco Oct 20 the Whisky Trust crushed four Kentucky distilleries by barring rebates for quick aging whiskey under two years old. A whisky dealer saysKentucky distillers will retaliate by boosting spirit production, prompting proposals to cut saloon pours to smaller glasses.
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Trust
Kentuckians
Onrcaco
Whisky Trust
Kentucky
Internal Revenue Office
Pennsylvania capitalists help build Tuscaloosa rail link to coal fields
A contract closed today between Pennsylvania capitalists and the Tuscaloosa Coal Iron and Land Company plans a railroad from Deepwater and Tuscaloosa north to coal fields and a coke plant at Tuscaloosa. The project aims to haul coal to Tuscaloosa by rail and ship it down the Warrior river to Mobile.
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Touscaloosa
Pennsylvania
Tuscaloosa
Deputies Pass Bill Limiting Paper Money and Abolishing Gold Dues
In the Chamber of Deputies on October 2, the bill restricting the issue of paper money advanced to a second reading by 100 to 12. Deputies also voted to abolish the law requiring tariff payments in gold coin.
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Rope Janeteo
Chamber of Deputies
Boomer Disbandment Delays Land Opening in Cheyenne Arapahoe
Secretary Noble orders disbandment of surveying corps and allotting agents in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations until Congress provides funding. The move postpones land openings by over a year.
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Gutham
C. T
Noble
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Congress
Burlington's Iron Company Sued for Foreclosure
Burlington La Oct 20 Special. A suit was filed today to foreclose a mortgage against the McCosh Iron and Steel company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington's Iron Company
Burington
McCosh Iron and Steel
Burlington Plant Faces Trouble in Major Trust Deed
A trustee deed records a $225,000 debt with interest back to September 1, 189L. The firm’s troubles shock observers, as the concern was viewed as a leading West manufacturing plant and a major Burlington industry.
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Thee
Burlington
Searching for Hoey property linked to $100000 mortgage
In Asbury Park on October 20 experts search county records for John Hoey property on orders from Adams Express Company counsel. Lis pendens show Henry Sanford claiming Hoey land and seven cottages plus hotel fixtures. mortgage details tied to Guaranty Trust, Philadelphia, and transfers to Hubbell then to Sanford and Weir as trustees.
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Safety Trust and Deposit Company
Asbury Park
N. J
John Hoey
Adams Express Company
Henry Sandford
Hoey
Philadelphia
Trust Company
William L. Hubbell
A Day of Resolutions at Trans-Mississippi Congress
At Owawa on October 20 the Trans-Mississippi Congress focused on resolutions. Thomas of Minnesota urged Congress to open a Great Lakes to seaboard channel for large vessels. Bushnell of Nebraska sought a representative for the Inter-State Commission. Buchanan of Colorado backed free coinage of silver. Miller of Nebraska called for repeal of national interstate commerce laws. All were referred to the Committee on Resolutions without debate.
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Trans-Mississippi
Owawa
Thomas
Minnesota
Congress
Great Lakes
Bushnell
Nebraska
United States
Inter-State Commission
Buchanan
Colorado
Miller
Committee On Resolutions
Health Officials Convene Nineteenth Public Health Association
Kansas City hosts the nineteenth annual convention with delegates from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Dr. D McDonald outlines infant mortality causes and prevention while Dr Joseph Sharp discusses glanders in man. Hon Albert Horton argues for stricter legislation to curb empiricism.
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Kansas City
Montizambert
American Public Health Association
Canada
Mexico
United States
D. McDonald
Joseph Sharp
Kansas City Medical College
Albert H. Horton
Kansas Supreme Court
Opium Smuggling Probe Leads to Wall Cavern Find
San Francisco report details a coast steamer Lakme from Seattle seized for opium through a hidden cavity in a wall behind a portrait. A customs inspector recovered 172 boxes of Chinese opium, revealing ongoing smuggling to Pacific ports despite prior beliefs of a halt.
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San Francisco
Sperial
Lakme
Seattle
Victoria
Pugat Sound
Cardinals in council over locality of next conclave
Romer Oct 20. After the Pantheon incident the Pope led six meetings of cardinals with long debates on whether the next conclave should be in Rome or elsewhere and if a modus vivendi with the Quirinal should be set. No decision emerged. The Italian government pledged no disturbance to Holy See but reaffirmed no change to guarantees law.
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Romer
Pantheon
Rome
Jockey in Hungary Exposes Wide Fraud Ring
In Hungary on October 20, sporting circles report a jockey, riding for Blaskovitz the leading pacing stable owner, bet on and against his own mounts. The resulting frauds allegedly netted large sums. The rider confessed to accomplices, with more revelations anticipated.
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Bepa Pesth
Hungary
Err Blaskovitz
Jey
Rye
Erty
Town of Rockow Destroyed by Fire Tragedy Strikes Five Children
Dispatches report Rockow reduced to ashes by a devastating fire. Five children perished while the majority of residents lost homes and possessions and now seek shelter in nearby fields.
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St. Pete Assure
Rockow
Mound Builder Old Fort At Newark Fair Grounds
Licking county Ohio near Newark hosts a rare relic of mound builders called the Old Fort. The circular 27 acre embankment rises nearly 15 feet with a 10 to 15 feet deep ditch inside. An entrance 75 feet wide guards a higher embankment on each side. A central mound resembles a flying eagle.
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Licking County
Newark
Ita
Thunderstorm Speed Surprises City Weather Talk
Detroit Free Press notes that a typical thunderstorm travels about 30 miles per hour, but special storms aimed to disrupt attire move faster. The piece pokes fun at weather lore and the idea of storms targeting fall clothing and hats.
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Detroit Free Press
Patton in a Corner as Doctrine of Future Probation Draws Fire
New York Oct 20 Dr Patton’s 1887 sanctification views cited by Briggs trial defense stir Presbyterian clergy. Editors McQueen Smith attest stenographic report. Smith recalls Patton urged not print to avoid injuring the Church. Swing predicts Patton will deny report or insist he spoke as a man, not a pastor.
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New York
Briggs
Patton
Princeton
McQueen
Frank Hyatt Smith
Smith
Cambridge
Philadelphia Society
Philadelphian Magazine
Dr. Patton
The
Cine
Evesy
Herald
David Swing
Chicago
Dr. Swing
Socrates
Governor Hill Attends Grady Monument Unveiling
Governor Hill and party arrived in Atlanta at four this afternoon to attend the unveiling of the Grady monument, scheduled for tomorrow.
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Governor Hill
Grady's Monument
Atlanta
Grady Monument
Song of the cicada draws insect audience in Natal
Nature Notes recount a correspondent’s tale of cicada singing attracting iridescent winged insects to form a semicircle around the head. The visitors, about 15 to 16, may touch the cicada but are repelled by a swift stomp. Some captured insects resemble Notochrys gigantea, the lace-wing fly, identified by Mr. Kirby at the British Museum.
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Nature
R.T. Lewis
Natal
Kirby
British Museum
A Fad of the Past in New York Furniture Trade
A loyal collector recalls the rise and fall of antique furniture collecting. He traces shifts from clocks to chairs to desks and buffets, noting high prices for slant-front desks and curled maple work. He says country houses and provincial cities now drive demand as old pieces become a fading relic.
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New York
A Miracle by Blavatsky Described by Olcott
Colonel Olcott recounts a London Chronicle remark on Mme Blavatsky’s feats. He recalls a Simla verandah moment when she summoned distant bells by two opposing psychic currents meeting to form a vortex, producing musical notes.
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Mdme
Blavatsky
Colonel Olcott
London Chronicle
Mr. Sinnett
Simla
Ese Blavatsky
Pall Mall Budget locomotive completes millionth mile
The engine "Charles Dickens," built by London and North Western Railway in 1882 for the Manchester to London express, has run its millionth mile. Daily service left Manchester at 8 30 A M and Euston at 4 P M, taking roughly 5 hours over Macclesfield and Stoke. Heads of the LNWR locomotive department note the feat as unparallelled in railway travel.
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Pall Mall
Charles Dickens
London and Northwestern Railway Company
Manchester
London
Euston
Pacer
Macclesfield
Stoke
Lamees
Northwestern Locomotive Department
Ruin of Formal Religion in China Widens Gap
The piece argues formal Christianity in China is collapsing as churches lack decent minister accommodations and are in ruin. It notes widespread ancestor worship and hybrid spiritualism among the masses, with even exercise seen as satisfactory and peaceful. Higher classes are nearly wholly agnostic.
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China
A Railroad Across Trees in Sonoma County Cal
A railroad track in Sonoma County rests on treetop stumps after crossing a 75 foot ravine. The two huge redwoods had branches removed and trunks cut level with the ravine. Engineers declare the timber foundation perfectly secure for the rails.
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Sonoma County
Cal
Estimate of M Grevy's wealth and income
The text estimates Grevy’s wealth at least 10 million francs. It notes an income of about 40 000 francs per year on election, and while in office he received 1 200 000 francs annually plus 600 000 francs of emoluments, 000 for household expenses, and 390 000 francs more for receptions.
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M. Grevy
Edison Praises Women in Electrical Work as He Employs 200
Edison hails the skill of women in shaping delicate details of his electrical inventions. He states that no fingers are more deft and notes he employs 200 women on his projects.
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Edison
Storm News From The Atlantic Cyclone Reports Reach New York
A fleet of driven vessels returns with cyclone news. Cyprus limped to Sydney after sighting the dismasted Clare earlier in September. two crew hurt by falling spars during mast removal. Diadem lost a sailor overboard and sighted wreckage and a 400 ton hulk. Edam in tow expected to port within a week. passengers to transfer to Rotterdam at Queenstown.
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New York
Cyprus
Burrow
Con
St Sydney
Cape Breton
Clare
Carty
Westport
Ireland
Glacier Found on Cloud Peak in Big Horn Range
Johnson of the United States Geographical Survey reports discovering a glacier in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains. From Cloud Peak summit he describes a five mile long ice field feeding a lake, with a 1000 foot precipice above.
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New York Post
Willard (. Johnson
United States Geographical Survey
Big Horn Mountains
Wyoming
Cloud Peak
Beware counterfeit Dr Pierce medicines and fake prices
Do not buy spurious imitations at discounted rates. Genuine Dr Pierce goods are sold only by authorized agents and carry a money back guarantee if no benefit or cure is achieved. Prices listed include Golden Medical Discovery, Favorite Prescription, Pleasant Pellets, and Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Be wary of dilutions or substitutes offered cheaply by unauthorized dealers.
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Dr. Pierce
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