Cholera Plague Strikes Normannia Passengers and Crew
Plague aboard the Normannia grows with 11 new cases among crew and steerage as deaths occur on Swinburne Island. Officials report cabin passengers face danger from the infected crew. a transfer ship may be sought and Sandy Hook floated as a refuge camp for cholera passengers.
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Yor
Hoffman Island
Swinburne Island
Ernst Thiele
Normannia
Regia
Moravia
Adelaid Merries
Gertrude Scharm
Ernst Thiel
Nornmannia
Hoelney Ferita
Franz Baumbach
Rugia
Mayor Grant Pushes Plague Prep and Eastern Port Guards
New York Mayor Grant orders enhanced plague preparation after telephonic links with Health Department officials. He and Health Board leaders consider separating cabin passengers from the sick and whether healthy travelers should be held on chartered ships during quarantine. He urges federal help and suggests eastern ports like Boston and New Haven guard against importation by equipping revenue cutters with quarantine powers. He notes risks to paper rag imports from Hamburg via New Haven and urges stronger safeguards for the port system.
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Grant
New York
Health Department
Jenkins
Wilson
Health Board
Barker
Department of Taxes
Frank Ferguson
State Board of Health
Croton
Secretary of the Treasury
Boston
New Haven
Long Island Sound
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Egypt
Tisly
Hamburg
Chicago Officers Vigilant on Immigrant Health Schemes
Chicago health officers discuss establishing cholera hospitals as a precaution. A meeting is planned to plan the scheme. Officials monitor Grand Trunk trains for August 16 immigrants from Brewen to Montreal. A train with 300 plus passengers was cleared of disease and sent to the depot. another train with about 70 immigrants arrived, moved to the West after inspection. Dr Montgomery met the first group at Blue Island.
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Chcace
Chicago
Grand Trunk
Brewen
Montreal
Europe
A Raive
Wabash Road
Maisbiy
Montgomery
Blue Island
Berlin
The
Times
Moabit Hospital
Cory
Guttman
Virechow
Prof. Koch
Bremen
Hamburg
Hambu Qlaus
Gente Ena
Quarantine Extended at Detroit for Canadian Immigrants
The Board of Health in Detroit imposes a twenty day quarantine for immigrants arriving from Canada under Surgeon General authority approved by President Harrison. Detention length depends on circumstances and may not always reach twenty days. A child’s death from suspected cholera linked to the India voyage from Duluth is noted.
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Detroit
Mis
Board of Health
Harrison
Canadia
United States
New York
India
Duluth
Tightening the Cordon Warns of Quarantine Evasions
General Kimball of the Life Saving Service orders all keepers to stop attempts to land from foreign vessels outside official ports. The telegram directs establishing effective cordon roadblocks to enforce quarantine and prevent evasion.
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Washington, D. C
Kimball
The
Life Saving Service
United States
Grain cargo blocked at Port Horon by Treasury rule
Local elevator workers protest a Treasury Department decision to withhold a certificate allowing unloading of grain from the Canadian steamer United Empire. The ship carried Manitoban wheat from Port Arthur and aimed to bypass canal tolls. customs officials cited a block and the cargo was left at Sarnia.
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Port Horos
Mich
Sept
Treasury Department
United Empire
Empire
Ehe Esnal
Port Arthur
Sarnia
Plague Bulletin Warns of European Outbreak Spread
Reports detail an extensive measles like plague across Europe with Havre Pieris and St Peterssvee showing rising cases and deaths. Dordreath records first cholerine death while Bulgaria imposes quarantine on Danube arrivals and bans Russian food products alcohol and petroleum.
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Europe
Rorrerdamm
Dordreath
South Holland
St. Peterssvee
Empire
Danube
Russia
Descriptions Of Hamburg Cholera Plague And Suffering
Hamburg reports describe a divided city with a thriving new quarter and a decaying old town. cholera spreads irregularly amid poverty, with many untraced deaths and calls to raze the old pestilent quarter. authorities warn against panic while monitoring hotel and market closures and hospital strains.
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Hamburg
the News
Barmbeck
Cholera Epidemic Spreads Across Europe and Asia
Hamburg reports no abatement as deaths rise in prisons and lunatic asylums. The Stand ard notes 200,000,000 in business losses. Rome warns Harrison's circular threats Italy with 40,000 emigrants, while France reports cholera in Limoges garrisons and Malta vessels face health checks. Simla notes epidemic at Murree and reports Major Dimond dead.
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Imperial County Bureau
Hamburg
Standard
Chronicle
Rome
Harrison
Italy
Limoges
Olctters
France
Malte
Porta
United Kingdom
Tuna
Simla
Murree
Dimond
Paris Cholera Outbreak Grows With 15 New Cases
Fifteen new cholera cases were reported in Paris yesterday with 100 suspected. Four patients died at Trousseau Hospital, two at Tenet Hospital, and three at St Antoine Hospital. Outbreak affects eastern and southern quarters. Havre tracing to steamer Eugin. Total deaths since outbreak reaches 305.
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Paris
Trousseau
Tenet Hospital
St Antoine Hospital
Havre
Eugin
Board of Health
Sfinira
Cholera Toll Rises in Panic Stricken City
In HamsunrG on Sept 6 officials report 674 new cholera cases and 284 deaths since yesterday noon. Total figures reach 6798 cases and 2940 deaths but the data are confusing with mixed references to hospital removals and daily versus since noon tallies. The rough trend is disputed as officers may seek to suppress clarity.
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Hamsunrg
Je Ms
Bedford Springs Sold Plan Big Improvements for Next Season
About two weeks ago H. Frick and other Pittsburg stockholders sold their Bedford Springs stake to George B Hill for Eastern capitalists who plan nearly 200000 in upgrades. A new hotel for 800 to 1000 guests will rise on the hill behind the current inn with rates from five dollars. A second express train and an electric railway will boost access, expanding capacity from 1000 to 5000 visitors within two years.
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Pittsvurg
Enatero
Bedford
Ngs
Whittier Still Alive After Night Of Improvement
Dr. J A Douglass reports poet Whittier spent a comfortable night, pulse stronger and limbs freer. Physicians are noncommittal but hope for recovery as nourishment remains the main difficulty. a change for the better is hoped tomorrow.
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Hampron Fars
N. H
J. A. Douglass
Social Sensation Col umbus Ohio Divorce Case Leads News
Mary B. Vanderveer, niece of Justice Bradley, files for divorce from Garret Vanderveer once living in New York and now reportedly in Massachusetts. She cites three years of habitual drunkenness and abuse, seeks custody of three children and alimony. husband left her a year ago.
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Columesus
Mary B. Vanderveer
Justice Bradley
United States Supreme Court
Garsit Vanderveer
Massachusetta
New York State
Vannerveers
Explosion at Keeneys Glass Works Kills Two
Powder explosion at Keeney's in Fauquier County today kills two men and wounds six others. Fire officials report no further casualties and investigators begin work at the scene.
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Chanteston
Keeney‘s
Blaine Letter Urges Tariff Backbone and Reciprocity
The Blaine letter to Joseph H. Manley argues the tariff as key Republican strength and defends reciprocity. It credits the McKinley tariff with rising business and asks voters to support protection against Democratic opposition. It cites Jefferson on tariffs and explains the reciprocity plan to secure valuable trade.
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Jefferson
Augusta
James G. Blaine
Manley
Republican State Committee
Bar Hanson
Joseph H. Manley
Stir
United States
Committee On Resolutions
Democratic Party
Calhoun
South Carolina
Rave
Gabe
Porto
Sicorin
Leends
British Guiana
Jamaica
San Domingo
Deni Tris
France
Germany
Eggers
Blainke Letter Outlines Three Pressing Economic Issues
James G Blaine argues three central issues in the 1890s economic policy debate. He critiques Democratic state banks, praises a national currency, and reasserts tariffs under McKinley as key to protecting workers and preserving financial stability. He urges voters to understand the implications for the poor and for national economic integrity.
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United States
Democratic Party
James G. Blaike
Garfield Park raid ends in tragedy and gun battle
Chicago police raid Garfield Park race track leads to a deadly confrontation. James M Brown, a Ft Worth turfman, is killed after refusing arrest and exchanging fire with Policeman Powell and McDowell. Brown had warned he would kill or be killed.
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James M. Brown
Chrcaco
Chicago
Garfield Park
Ft Worth
Tex
John Powell
Henry McDowell
Brown
Powell
McDowell
Wood
BobKit
Fortieth Street
War Among Telegraphers Divides Order Over Chief Officer
Kansas City dispatches report a split in the Order of Commercial Telegraphers with two rival candidates for the top post. AJ Bear of Topeka was elected last Saturday, while E L Randall of Kansas City was chosen the next day at a separate meeting. Bear plans to confer with followers to decide next steps amid a disputed leadership.
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Kansas City
Order of Commercial Telegraphers
Order
J. Bear
Topeka
Kan
E L. Randall
Bear
Brotherhood
Death by Own Action Of A Woman Suffragist
Elizabeth Underhill a 66 year old Quaker and advocate for woman suffrage poisoned herself with strychnine at her New York home on September 6. She had voted earlier that day and told her husband I have taken strychnine but I could not help it. Bellevue Hospital doctors failed to save her.
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New York
Elizabeth Underhill
East Twenty-seventh Street
Bellevue Hosital
Mra Underhill
Sam Small Shot by Troublemakers in Indiana
noted temperance evangelist Sam Small was wounded in the thigh by a shooter at Hazelton near Vincennes after a prohibition meeting. A mob from the White River bottoms disrupted the rally, then Small was struck while returning to his hotel. authorities seek the assailant.
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Vincenses
Ind
Sam Small
Hazelton
White River
Small
Three Negroes Lynched Near Pans Texas
Courier reports three Black men Jack Walker Bill Armor and John Ransom were lynched nine miles east of Pans Texas last night. Authorities head to the scene to investigate a quarrel weeks earlier between a white man Jeff Ashley and a Black man Jarrett Barnes. Great excitement follows with few details available.
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Pans
Tex
Jack Walker
Bill Armor
John Ransom
Here
Isis
Jeff Ashley
Jarrett Barnes
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Strains London Hospitals
Scarlet fever in London continues to worsen with daily rising patient loads. The city reports 3 645 patients under treatment as hospital space runs out and many more await admission to new facilities.
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Lowpor
Ndw
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