Ex-Governor Pattison Libel Case Sparks Philly Hearing
Charles H. Houstis of the Inquirer faces criminal libel charges in Philadelphia for alleged 1883 South Penn railroad bribery schemes. Ex Governor Pattison testifies about Judge Black and the veto process, with other editors named and arrests anticipated as the case unfolds.
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Dispatch
Philadelphia
Charles H. Houstis
Inquster
O'Brien
Robert E. Pattison
Houstis
Pattison
James Elverson
Inquirer Company
Claytes McMichael
The
North American
W. F. Jordan
J. J. McLaurin
Harrisburg Call
Vanderbilts
South Penn
Jeremish & Black
Elverson
Sulzberger
Richard P. White
Commonwealth
William §. Stenger
James Gay Gordon
Judge Black
Black
Pennsylvania
Stenger
Silzberger
F. W. McDowell
McDowell
Mr. McMichael
Lewyer Sulsberger
J. J. McLeurin
Clayton McMichael
Pattison Judge Black libel hearing ends with denials
Testimony centers on Pattison defense against libel claims tied to Judge Black and railroad bills. Pattison rejects accusations of pressuring for a punitive paper and denies paid influence for the Pittsburg Natural Gas charter. Court sets bail for defendants and schedules further proceedings.
Indian Sioux Ghost Dance Threatens Settlers
Governor Jon A. Cooper reports rising Sioux excitement over Sitting Bull and a ghost dance linked to the so called Indian millennium. Reports detail medicine men prophecy, urging settlement violence and Ute depredations near Kent County Colorado prompting calls for immediate Interior Department action.
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Washincron
Indian Bureau
McLaughlin
Standing Rock Indian Agency
Indiana
Mth
Sitting Bull
Sheyenne
Denver Eayls
Cooper
Kent County
Col
Interior Department
Uintah
Secretary of the Interior
Jon A. Cooper
Fire causes student plunge at St Francis Xavier School
Panic swept the St Francis Xavier colored school in Baltimore when a basement waste paper fire broke out. As alarms sounded, pupil Katie Smith leaped from a third story window and suffered fatal injuries. Fire units quickly doused the blaze and stopped further damage.
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Baltimore
St. Francis Xavier Colored School
Katie Smith
Baseball Player Shot in Saloon Row Aide to Stars and Inter
Thomas Lynch, former captain of the Stars of Syracuse and later with the Atlanta club and Inter Wilmington, was shot through the breast at 2 o clock today in a saloon row in Conors New York. His condition is critical and the assailant is at large.
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Conors
N. Y
Thomas Lynch
The
Stars
Syracuse
Atlanta, Ga
Wilmington
Del
No Petitions in His Favor Received by the Department of Justice
Ottawa October 27 The Birchall case engages the Minister of Justice No petitions in favor of the prisoner have reached the department and it is believed the law will take its course Big Diamond New York October 27 D H Wickham Co importers of diamonds assigned today The firm’s yearly business aggregated one million dollars
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Department of Justice
Ottawa
Birchall
Minister of Justice
Department
New York
D. H. Wickham & Co
Lost in the Wilderness Near Estawana Ohio
A hunting party from Princeton Illinois and local residents searched the Northwest wilds after Thomas McKinney was left by A Rogg and Martin Myers near Metropolitan. McKinney, exhausted and dazed, survived by foraging and signaling fires but remained unconscious amid exposure and hunger.
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Estawana
Mica
A. Rogg
Princeton
Ill
Martin Myers
Thomas McKinney
Friday Myers
Rogg
McKinney
Meyers
Rogy
Metropolitan
Breach of Promise Case Gets New Trial Hearing
In Scranton on October 27 the Husaboe versus Roberts breach of promise suit resumed with a request for a new trial. Attorney Edwards contends the minister’s confession and Roberts letters were improperly admitted while Colborn accuses the defense of undermining Husabee’s credibility and suggests she could reveal further damaging Yale connections.
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Husaboe
Scranton
Mies
Annie H. Husaboe
Peter Roberts
Edwards
Pitcher
Roberts
Miss Husabee
Wisconsin
Colborn
Yale
Mayor to Name New City Board Despite Injunction
In Cincinnati on October 27 an injunction bid was filed to stop Mayor Mosby from appointing the City Affairs Board members created by a new legislative act. The suit argues the act is unconstitutional by granting corporate powers and limiting selections by the two major parties, naming several Democrats and board members in dispute.
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Cincinnati
Mosby
Board of City Affairs
Judge Hunt
Superior Court
Louis Beemlin
William Montgomery
Ed Dunham
Board of Public Improvements
Aye Mosby
Thomas Smit
Graydon
Rooobhis
Hfid
Gustave Tales
May Fechheimer
Was Quoted Wrongly on Lottery Ad Contests
A Bloomington merchant conducting a guessing contest asked Postmaster General Wanamaker if the new law banning lottery ads also bans such contests. Attorney General Miller said the dispatch misquoted him and he had not stated any opinion on the matter.
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Washington
Bloomington
Wanamaker
Miller
Steamfiters Strike Demands Wage Rise and Recognition
Chicago on October 27 three hundred steamfitters and helpers walk out over a 15 to 20 percent pay increase and official recognition of the Steamfitters Association. They claim two bosses have agreed and expect others to follow with support from the National Association for a long fight.
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Chicago
Employers’ Association
Breamfitters ® Association
National Association
Miller Hearing Postponed in London Banker's Wife Theft Case
Cornelia V E Miller wife of a London banker was arrested in New York on charges of stealing £7000 from John Henry Hoge and other customers. United States Commissioner Shields postponed the examination to November 5 at the request of the British Consul’s counsel.
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New York
Cornelia V. E. Miller
John Henry Hoge
United States
Shields
Han
Delaware Flood Swamps New Jersey Towns
Heavy washouts from a recent storm suspend travel on the Delaware River railroad from Penn's Grove to Woodbury. Meadows along the Delaware between Cape May City Point and Trenton remain flooded, damaging shops and buildings. Timber rafts floated away downstream.
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Delaware
New Jersey
Papeolas
Pexx
S Grove
N. J
Delaware River
Penn's Grove
Woodbury
Cape May
City Point
Trenton
Freight train wreck in Yuma County kills 15 rail cattle
Not one animal escaped the disaster as 15 cars loaded with cattle and horses were derailed from the Burlington line near Yuma in the morning. Wagons report injured riders and a livestock van derailed with many casualties.
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Yuma
Con
Burlington Railroad
Yuma County
Stanley on the Way as Charges Rise Against Him
Loypox October 27 Henry M Stanley and wife depart for Liverpool en route to America. The Globe defends Major Barttelot, citing allegations that Stanley delayed aid and misled Barttelot, inviting public scrutiny of Stanley's actions and duty.
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OY Dunlap
Henry M. Stanley
Liverpool
America
Euston Station
The
Globe
Barttelot
Stanley
Yambuya
Sy Tile
Batttelot
Marttelot
Roti Yambuyna
Tanley
Brelot
Charge Against Sir Thomas Freake Compromised
The assault case brought by W Edward Cousins Gibson against Sir Thomas Freake and three others over letters from a lady to the prosecutor has been settled. The Police Court actions are withdrawn after payments of 1200 pounds and 100 pounds costs, with imputations dropped by both sides.
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Thomas Freake
WNLAP
Loxnell
W. Edward Cousins Gibson
Feast After Celebration Marks Talk Of Von Bottke Dinner
Berks October 27 Field Marshal von Bottke endured his 48 hours of celebration bravely and appeared hale at a dinner for Kolberg Regiment and Seventeenth Hungarian Infantry officers. Von Moltke received 14 proof impressions from imperial photographer during the Emperor's visit. One image shows the Emperor investing the hero with field marshal insignia. Bismarck's absence stirred comment in the evening papers.
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Berks
von Bottke
Kolberg
von Moltke
Bismarck
Disappearance of Archduke Johann Salvador Linked to Sea
Vienna reports the Archduke Johann Salvador, who left his title to marry an actress and took the name Johann Orth, has vanished after departing La Plata on July 11 to join the ship St. Margaret en route to Valparaiso for saltpeter. He has been missing for fifteen weeks and letters to him remain unanswered.
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Vienna
Johann Salvador
House of Hapsburg
Johann Orth
Salvador
la Plata
Monte Video
St. Margaret
Valparaiso
Europe
Emperor of Germany Faces Ear Disease Risk to Brain
The Liverpool Courier reports a Berlin-borne grave account of an ear disease afflicting the German Emperor. A London doctor fears the infection may progress to the brain despite surgeons efforts, a development seen as causing restlessness and anxiety about the ruler's fate.
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Lowpox
Ihe
Liverpool Courier
London
Berlin
Germany
Combining Their Forces
In Chemnitz on October 27 the textile branch of the Workmen's Congress forms a union for Saxony after mass layoffs and expected further dismissals due to the McKinley tariff bill.
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Chemnitz
Workmen’s Congress
Saxony
German Torpedo Boat Punishes British Fleet Activity
Dispatch notes a torpedo boat sent to strike at the English trawling fleet after it destroyed ships at Scholtz and Vorwaerts, causing substantial value losses. Reports also describe a Russian emigrant steamer sinking off Cape St Vincent with 1,000 aboard, and reference doubled frontier guards in St Petersburg as of late October.
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Wilhelm’s Haven
Scholtz
Vorwaerts
Warsaw
Cape St. Vincent
Brazil
Dunlap's Cable Company
St. Peterssurg
Prince Ferdinand Opens the Sobranje With a Throne Speech
Prince Ferdinand opened the Sobranje with a speech from the throne outlining plans to perfect the army, build railways between Sofia Timovo and Kaspuchan, conclude commerce and friendship treaties with the Sultan, grant berates to Bulgarian bishops, and boost national prosperity. Also reports a Siberian convict mutiny near Yakovtsk with guards bound and five recaptured, and notes on Franco Russian alliance talks in Paris and a Greece parliamentary election defeat.
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Ferdinand
Associated” Press
Sorra
Prince Ferdinand
Sofia
Timovo
Kaspuchan
Beratea
Sr. Prerenspunc
Yakovtsk
Siberia
Lena
Minister of the Interior
Secretary Noble Denies New York Population Recount
Secretary of the Interior Noble denied Mayor Grant’s bid for remuneration of New York City’s population. He ruled the municipal census lacked Census Bureau supervision and offered no proof that the U S census was faulty, so the request for a recount was not granted.
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New York
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Noble
Grant
Census Bureau
Bureau
Department
Indians Wants Education For All Children
Commissioner Morgan of the Indian Bureau reports progress on the Indian question and urges compulsory education. He favors compelling every Indian child of suitable age and health to attend school ten months a year when accommodations exist, though a general law cannot yet apply due to limited school facilities.
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Washinetox
Morgan
Indian Bureau
Secretary of the Interior
Woman Who Claimed Elizabeth Ensign Will Dies in Jail
In Rochester on October 27 a jailed woman, Mrs. Andrews, who had claimed to possess Elizabeth Ensign's will leaving $15,000, was found unconscious in her cell after ten days in custody. Doctors could not revive her, following a prolonged medical effort.
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Elizabeth Ensign
Rochesteer
Tarbox
Batavia
Andrews
Italian Mafia linked double shooting in Steubenville
Two Italian men, Gallo and Carute, traveled from Pittsburgh to Steubenville where Carute shot Gallo twice without quarrel. One bullet hit the left lung. doctors fear death. Carute fled toward Wheeling Junction, possibly under Mafia or vendetta influence, while officials hunt him as locals report no robbery motive. Kipling serial rights noted for The Dispatch.
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Ono
West Virginia
Ville
Beidy
Pittsburg
Caruze
High Street
Steubenville
Gallo
Italy
Caruto
Panhandle Is
Wealthy Heath estate tied to Baltimore lawyers plan
Baltimore lawyers visit Exxrox Maryland to review the 1745 will of James Paul Heath. Accountings show £255 10s 4d remaining in the executors hands. Bordley family claimants may recover lands across Sassafras Neck Charlestown and Warwick with valuable farms and lots.
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Bordley
Wye Inland
Talbot County
Baltimore
Sassafras Neck
Charlestown
Warwick
Samoa Crisis Deepens as Chief Justice Delay Stirs Native Discontent
In Apra Samoa on October 7 natives grow frustrated as the three powers delay appointing the treaty Chief Justice after half its term. Germans boast of reopening the Samoan question at treaty expiration. The Sea Wolf sails to San Francisco with metal from the Trenton and Vandalia. natives may gain about $10,000 from wrecks if gear is provided.
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Apra
Samoa
United States
Germany
England
Gamoan Ofeles
San Francisco
Trenton
Vandalia
Fraud probe urged into Putnam county auditor office
A petition from hundreds of Putnam county citizens asks Auditor Poe to investigate the county Auditor’s office. It accuses ex-Auditor W. W. Place of taking illegal fees and charging for services not rendered. C. W. Webster completed a Van Wert inquiry, noting a $10,000 improper borrowing and uncharged funds.
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Corvus
Poe
Putnam County
W. W. Place
C. W. Webster
Webster
van Wert
Big Fortunes From Fraudulent Denver Real Estate Scheme
Deputy U S Marshal Long and Post Office Inspector Lawrence arrested James Pierce and William Stutt for running a fraudulent Plainfield Addition real estate operation near Denver. The company, started in September 1858, offered deeds for a $250 price plus a 2 cent stamp. Four thousand nine hundred seventy deeds were returned and the firm netted about $39,000 over property costs.
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Denver
United States
Long
Post Office
Lawrence
James Pierce
William Stutt
Plainfield Addition
Plainfield Addition Company
Recorder
Compan
Execution by electrical method scheduled in New York
A court-ordered execution by electric chair is set for next week in New York. The appeal has been filed but appears to have been disregarded so far.
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New York
Notte
Attempt to Prevent a Postponement Ispecial Telegnam
Trey October 27 Wood was convicted in Caldwell Warren county of murder first degree for killing his father in law Leander Pasco Judge Fish sentenced him to be executed in Dannemora during the week of November 3 Judge Whiteman warned that no appeal notice was served and Wood was sent to Dannemora Fuller's letter confirms imminent execution unless appeal reaches court Judge Whitman prepares habeas corpus papers and considers charging Warren county officials over the late appeal notices
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Trey
Cal” Wood
Caldwell
Warren County
Leander Pasco
Fish
Danoemora
Whiteman
Wood
Dannemora
Whitman
Fuller
Dennemora
Troy
Sandy Hill
Clere
Clixroyree
DaxxkMona
N. Y
J. M. Whitman
Sin
Joseph Wood
Isaiah Fuller
Clinton County
Weed
Clinton Prison
Apeal
Old Soldier Found Dead In Well At Leadville
Dan McCarthy, an elderly veteran, was found dead in an old well in Leadville yesterday. Neighbors had smelled a peculiar odor from the well as they drew water, and two men who investigated located the body at the bottom, suggesting it had lain there for several weeks.
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Leadpville
Dan McCarthy
McCarthy
Telegraphers Walk Out in St Paul Strike
In St Paul on October 27 the Western Union telegraph office operators, 37 men, walked out at eight o clock and left all wires idle. The walkout followed the discharge of six operators believed to belong to the Brotherhood, as the strike action escalates.
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St. Paul
Western Union Telegraph Company
Welkent
Brotherhood
British Gold for America Returns Home to San Francisco
The steamship Zealandia arrived from Australia with $2,000,000 in English sovereigns destined for the mint. The gold represents payment for American products shipped to Australia and will be retained for the treasury.
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San Francisco
Australia
Mizner Gains Presidential Backing in Burrundia Case
Hixcotx October 27 report that Secretary Blaine approved the Burrundia affair and President’s assent was conveyed to Mr Mizner United States Minister to Central America. The Dispatch also announces Rudyard Kipling in his first serial starting Sunday November 9.
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Rudyard Kipling
THE
Dispatch
HixcTox
Mizner
United States
Central America
Blaine
Han
Cleveland Argues New Orleans Drainage Case Before Supreme Court
Ex-President Cleveland appears as associate counsel for James Wallace Peake in the drainage case. He reads from a printed brief, delivering a businesslike, steady argument before the Supreme Court as spectators watch closely. Carlton Hunt represents the city of New Orleans and will respond in due course.
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WasutxGtor
Cleveland
Supreme Court
James Wallace Peake
New Orleans
Carlton Hunt
Rise of Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Noted
Colonel Sidney D. Maxwell was reelected as Superintendent for another year. The organization grew from a rented hall and minimal staff to owning a building and generating about $80,000 in annual income, marking rapid progress since its early, modest beginnings.
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Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati
Sidney D. Maxwell
Chamber of Commerce
Ier
Disjointed 19th Century Dispatches Reach North Atlantic
A chaotic mix of reports from Edinburgh Three Rivers Quebec and New Orleans notes losses in a Mobile fire estimated at 800000 with 44000 insured. Mentions German torpedo threats, Hennessy mass meeting funds, and a violent murder bid in Oklahoma area with unclear outcomes.
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Marx Twall
Gladstone
Edinburgh
Ireland
Compte de Paris
Three Rivers
Quebec
Baum, Fisner & Co
Milwaukee Dlothiers
North Sea
Quer Ig
Varus
Ware
Hennessy
New Oreleans
K. G. Peters Com
Manistee
Mich
Gotan
Admiral Freemantle
Vita
Zansibar
Joux Wasee
Henry Switeer
Cabn
Oklahoma
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Eerstene
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Shakespeare
Harrisburg
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Dr. Bland
Indian Defense Association
Sitting Ball
Cannon Hall River
Kicking Hear
Cheyenne River
Grand River
Kicking Bear
Trouble
Tommie Lynch
Lost
Thrilling
Upper Michigan Wilds
Cornelia Miller
Bold Explorer
Emperor William
Oren
Russia
Hismarck
Dunlaf
Dunlap
Canln Company
DLE Company
Taypu
Lar's CA
BT Duxlap
Dunlap*s Cable Company
St. Peterspurg
Obruscheff
Paris
France
Straits of Dover
Channel Bridge Company
Greece
Athens
St. Petersburg
Bokhara
M. Moreau
Chamber of Deputies
Death's Door
Robbey
Dged
Great Heath
Mizner All Right
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