New Trial Ordered in Murray Case and Curious Death Reported
From the Detroit reverder’s court to the supreme court unit new, Murray’s conviction is reversed and remanded for new trial, with jeopardy rules clarified. A banker, Alexander K. Pike, dies under peculiar circumstances after ingesting poison by mistake, prompting an inquiry into the true cause of death. Arrests reported for arson in Brant township, with Goodrich held on bond as a preliminary examination nears. A mass meeting in Grand Rapids supports river improvements and a new Grand River Improvement Association is planned.
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Bork” Murray
Thomas
Turk Murrau
Edward Shoemaker
Reverder's Court
Detroit
Jacksoa
Supreme Court
New Ural
Wayns County
Lin
Alexander K. Pike
Abtey
Huroc County
Tus
Canenover Damages and Courts Hear Wife Redress Claim
The Michigan supreme court halls that a wife can recover damages for personal wrongs after her husband’s wrongful act. The Onion piece notes a legal shift depriving wives of redress when husbands are removed. references to old laws making wives mere servants of husbands. May Shell’s death at Battle Creek is noted with relatives claiming prior suicide attempts by May and friends. Grace Cook and July are mentioned in relation to May’s circle. The Toledo route sale involved Col. Ingersoll for J. Kennedy Todd with $150,000 paid and $15,000 down.
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Canenover Danages
Michigan
Jackson
Mackinaw Cailroad
Bos
Toledo Allmatter
F. Wade
Lucoxaus
Toledo Company
Robert G. Ingersoll
J. Kennedy Todd
Reconstruction
New York City
Col. Ingersoll
May Shell
Tattle Creek
Nuselda
Tour
Mins Bheli
Fret Butler
Stet
Grace Cook
May
Fatal Bailer Explosion Hears Port Austin Mill Disaster
A disastrous blast at John Provose’s shingle mill six miles from Port Austin killed two or possibly three people. The blast destroyed the mill and its machinery. Mrs Provose and her daughter were within forty feet and were killed by fire. Mr Provose was seriously and perhaps fatally injured.
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John Provose
Port Austin
Provose Ual
S’rovose
Around the State News Highlights Various Local Incidents
George Hatebon of Golos died after jumping from a day hot astride a horse. Joseph Haskind of Mairfield gathered bushels of corn from five acres. The elute mites association holds its annual meeting in Lansley. Frank Leland of Whitebull, age 10, lost an arm due to an accidental hunting accident. Frank Matthews of Cadillac, age 10, plans to wed Mawd Crumtal, age 5. The American wheel plant at Kalani damaged by fire, worth 1000 dollars. Peter Cady and Wewile of Alleges planning their sixth wedding anniversary in February. They have four children and all descendants alive. family mourning a death.
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George Hatebon
Golos
Joseph Haskind
Mairfeld
Elute Mites Association
Ue Sin Ath Coumber
Lansley
Niles Bylong
Leland
Whitebull
Kalani
Peter Cady Wid Wewile
Gary
Grand Rapids Buys Belanger Tool Firm For Upland Growth
Grand Rapids secures the Belanger tool and handle company from Ewart A major expansion announced for Tanning with a five story brick structure to house a new state bank and other enterprises in the area. News also reports bank and hotel figures, robberies, farm and rail concerns, and various local incidents across Michigan.
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Grand Rapids
Belanger Tool and Handle Company
Ewart
State Bank
W. DB
Homphrey
Downey
Lansing
Lincoln
Neb
Michigan Board of Health
Gen. Alger
Noted Editor Bonds Balwant Russell Dies at Minneapolia
Aged 19 he moved to Davenport 1947 he edited the Davenport Gazette for over 19 years and served there 17 years His communications bore signatures of Lincoln Grant Hayes and Cleveland He resigned during Johnsons term but was reappointed He later led the Hencepin campaign commission and fought to allow black people to ride in the same railroad cars as whites
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Bonds
Balwant Russell Hus
Minneapolia
Det
Davnoyert
Gotih
Davenport
Gazette
Postenae
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
I. B. Hayes
James
Jotemsen
Washington Letter Plumb Death Shocks Senate Kansas Senator Dies
Washington report notes Senator Preston B. Plumb of Kansas died suddenly in his Washington apartments after long, strenuous service. Details cover his career from early printing to the U.S. Senate, with tributes from Vice President and House Speaker. Contemporaneous items describe House committee appointments under Speaker Crisp and maritime fisheries talks with Britain nearing arbitration agreement.
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Bassas Shnad
Kansas
Preston B. Plumb
Minlab
Krayin
Momory
Orep
House
Senate
Pennsylvania
Capitol City Gossip Chronicles Weathered Politics and Tragedy
Senate and House adjourned on the 28th and will resume January first. Representative Chipman has a letter from President Palmer about a deep water convention tribute to Judge Chipman for improved waterways. Senator Stanford introduces a bill to extend the executive mansion with plans by Mrs Harrison. Last session appropriations include 50,000 for mansion extension and 1,000,000 for a Pacific coast gun factory. Assistant Postmaster General Whiteth has word of a confederate tug at Haleird Critwin County Teagan office. General Whitfield writes the Pistoaster regarding the case with no explanation. John Yeager of Springfield Ohio dies after a work accident in an undertaker’s shop.
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Capitol
Senate
House
Chipman
Palmer
Judge Chipman
Northwestern Lakes
Stanford
Mra Harrison
Pacific Coast
Whitteht
Halrd
Critwin County
Tegan
Whitfield
Hattie Gage A Steamer In Serious Trouble At San Vranchero
The steamer Hattie Gage arriving in San Francisco is in serious trouble following mutiny aboard during a voyage from Coal Harbor. Two passengers including a Tibbey were linked to multiple robberies of a church, mine, and Alaska company storehouse, with plunder valued at about 3,000 and a railroad taken for ore transport. The vessel was later released at Sitka and is now to face wage libel claims, along with the Little Squaw Harbor mine owner.
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San Vranchero
Hattie Gage
San Francisco
Arctic
Alaska Commercial Company
Coal Harbor
Nan ‘Tibbey
Victoria
Tibbeys
Behring Sea
Downs Astore
Andrews
Nicholask
Alaska
Litle Squaw Harbor
Armong
Portage Bay
Gage
Point
Corwin
Sitka
George W. Sessions
Little Squaw Harbor
Trouble for Washington as Chilian crisis grows
News reports show rising tension between the United States and Chile as President Harrison and Secretary Tracy seek a firm stance. Navy plans develop merchant ships into cruisers and torpedo boats, large ammunition purchases, and rapid firing gun trials. The Boston cruiser has arrived, with other warships heading to ports while demonstrations of firmness loom. An explosion in Springfield, Missouri kills Engineer Davis and injures others, caused by turning cold water into a hot boiler, leaving Bauer and Crews gravely harmed or dead.
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Washington
Harrison
Tracy
Navy
Chillan
Congress
Valnunilso Speciale
U.S. Cruser Boston
Quarteston Hill
Honolulu
Robert Bauer
Crews
Pilgrim’s Landing Celebrated by New England Society
The New England Society of Brooklyn held a dinner in the Academy of Music to mark its twelfth anniversary and the pilgrim dedication. About 470 guests were seated as Hon. Calvin E Pratt presided and spoke. Attendees included Fox President Cleveland Gen. Horace Porter Hon. Roswell Horr and Rev. Chas H Hall.
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Pilgrim's Landing
New England Society of
Brooklyn
N.Y
Academy of Music
Calvin E Pratt
Fox
Cleveland
Horace Porter
Roswell
Horr
Chas
H. Hall
Men and things in the era of rapid convalescence and turmoil
A string of scattered items reports McKinley's improving health and wartime finance talks, a suicide at Racine, Verestchagin art dealer theories, a fatal assault in Philadelphia, Whitman at Camden, a flood of boiler and explosion mishaps, advertising strategy shifts, prisoner mutiny at Rock Island with a dramatic light cue, and distressed bread and water meals as prison conditions worsen.
Monster Bridge Plan At New York World Fair Commission
A design for a New York and New Jersey bridge to unite rail routes is unveiled by the World’s Fair Commission. The plan features a suspension cable system with five girders and eight cables, a 120 foot wide deck, and a load capacity of 14 400 tons, built to withstand hurricane forces.
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Aoting
New York and
New Jersey
New York
Union
Dog meat cure tale and Quebec political intrigue
A Shelbyville woman reports seven weeks on a dog meat diet for consumption left her bed-ridden by grip. Despite initial gains she worsened recently. The item also notes Quebec politics with Sinut-Gov Angers dismissing Mercier, alarming claims of harbor works boodle and a $500,000 election fund tied to Sir Hector Langevin’s rivals.
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Maggie Donnagher
Shelby Vile
Quebec
Sinut-Gov
Angers
Mercier
OtLiwa
Tarte
Mercer
Ottawa
Quebec Harbor Works
Hector Langevin
Thomas McGreavy
Hector
Bir A. D. Cards
Pittsburgh grand jury charges two mayors with embezzlement
The grand jury of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, returned indictments against Mayor Wyman and ex-Mayor Pearson of Allegheny City for embezzlement. The charges were preferred by the city solicitor of Allegheny at the request of the investigating commission into the mayor’s office affairs.
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Kubeszioment
Pitteborg
Wyman
Pearson
Allerhary
Alingheny
Coanetia
A Wives Serriticn Josephine Hoey Transfer in New York
A wife of John Hoey of Hollywood N D transfers to Henry Sanford, president of Alums Express, the art and tension at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty second Street, for a nominal 0,000. The deed is recorded in the register's office, indicating a settlement between Henry and the Adams Express Company. Rev C I Baker of Allegan, a Baptist, fell and broke his leg.
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Josephine Hoey
Hollywood
N. 1
John Hoey
Adams Express Company
Henry Sanford
Alums Express Company
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Register
Thia Heema
Hory
Ajams Express Company
London Lands in Thick Fog Grips City and River
London endures brutal cold and heavy fog that halts river traffic and silences streets. Thames banks flood lightly as storms persist and vehicles are scarce. Irish Sea fog grounds Holyhead to Kingstown boats amid transport standstill and several accidents are blamed on the weather.
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Irish Sea
Holyhead
Kingstown
Tragic New York City man dies after fall at Plymouth Place
An officer found Carl Edgar Johnson lying in a pool of blood on Plymouth Place Chicago near a five story building. He died before reaching the station. Letters in his pockets identified him as a furniture painter living in the city for some time. Investigators believe he entered the Manhattan building, climbed to the fifth floor, then jumped through a window to the street. The glass was shattered, Johnson’s head was crushed, and his blood spattered the sidewalls. He is presumed to have been intoxicated.
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Plymouth Place
Chicago
Carl Edgar Johnson
Stiall
Clare Street
Johnsen
Manhattan
Johnson
Nave
Cyclone damages farms and buildings near Marshalltown Iowa
A summer hurricane-like cyclone struck Marshalltown Iowa causing extensive damage. Oleson house southwest of town collapsed and burned trapping a resident. Hughes farm six miles away was lifted 160 feet with no injuries. The storm produced a roaring wind with lightning hail and thunder. Also listed are Senate confirmations including Stephen B Elkins as secretary of war and other federal appointments.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Andrew Oleson
Oleson
Thomas Hughes
Diseased Eforse Meat Exposed at Long Island Abattoir
Agricultural officials in Washington intervene where broken down and crippled hares are slaughtered and their meat offered for export. Many animals show illness including glanders as authorities seize roughly three quarters of the vile stock in New York before shipment. EF Colquitt of Georgia states he has no plan to resign his Senate seat.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Bert
Long Island
Husk
New Yor City
Colquitt
Georgia
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Thomas L. Carl
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George G. Goodrich
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Goveernment Nn
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Springfield
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Racine
Wis
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Preldrichsrahe
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Rev. C. 1
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Baptist
Allegan
Stephen B. Elkins
Eno J. Neboker
Indiana
United States Toeasurer
J. C. Lo Gar
New Orleans
J. Quinn
Calfornia
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Simonds
Confertictt
Aden
Teastia
Anita Wanar
HK Webbl Reese
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Ol Alwaye
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