Tur deposits and flood fears plague cities across the nation
News digest reports Rochester City Bank depositors likely to recover about twenty cents on the dollar while Milwaukee faces a water famine due to a clogged inlet. Texas shootings, New York brewers’ theft raid, sleigh crash injuries, and a string of legal and political notes follow, including prison management testimony, a Newhall House fire inquiry, and national budget items.
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Rochester
N. Y
Milwaukee
Wis
Martyn Guitter
Dallas
Texas
Cherry
Sweetwater
New York
Tsirty
Hawley
Chicago Call Board
Association
Jos. Healy
Northwestern Road
Madison
Healey
Kate
Maggie Coggin
John
B. Calvert
Palmyra
North River
New Orleans
Beazian
Rio Janeiro
Maine House of Representatives
George H. Taylor Paper Company
Chicago
William
James
Richard Thompson
Omantzs H. Cato
M. S. Anderson
Lawrence
Mass
Cato
Boston
New Haven
Conn
James M. Portland
Epwakgo Richardson
New York City
Macon
Philadelphia
Peck
U. S. Marshal
Omaha
Neb
Harry Ross
St. Paul
Ais
Grand Haven
Mich
Grand
Newhall
Antisdel
Linehan
Edward Daily
Columbia
Sarah Pearson
Pearson
Long Island
Sing Sing
Auburn
Illinois
Drex Willis
Metropolis
Ill
Charles Whiteman
We. Bone, Sr
Elmer Folsom
Bloomington
Briton favorably reported to remove Executive and Legislature
A Briton is favorably reported in the Pennsylvania House to remove the Executive and Legislature to Philadelphia. The Boston Longfellow Memorial Association re-elected James Russell Lowell President and accepted land from his family to erect a statue before his late residence.
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Philadelphia
Boston Longfellow Memorial Association
James Russell Lowell
Robert Z. Coox
Jersey City Savings Bank
United States Senate
John W. Foster
Indiana
Spain
Wickham Hoffman
Denmark
Dwight T. Reid
Madrid
S. G. W. Benjamin
Teheran
Persia
W. P. Sutton
Matamoras
L. H. Foote
Corea
Robert G. Dyrenforth
Illinois
Patents
P. B. Hunt
Kentucky
D.N. Speer
Georgia
U. S
Black Hand Society Roots and Rome Bombings Report
Report notes Bit aids De Brazza with arms and Algerian sharpshooters. Rome sees a paper bomb at the Austrian Embassy residence and two more near the Vatican and Quirinal. A supposed priest is arrested. no injuries. Black Hand numbers 49,910 members with 999 minor societies. Geneva as Western Europe hub. Full committee names and 7000 member list in government hands. A special tribunal will try prisoners. about fifteen murderers likely to be hanged, others to face lesser penalties.
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de Brazza
Rome
Vatican
Black Hand” Society
Spain
Geneva
Europe
Senate approves land grant college act amid other moves
In the Senate on the 2d, Carpenter moved to amend the land grant act for agriculture and mechanic arts and the bill passed. The DC Appropriation conference report was agreed to. Conferees on the Post-office bill failed on fast mail and Pacific Railroads. new conferees appointed. Tariff bills passed. House action on DC appropriation confirmed Manning's seat in Mississippi contest. River levels rose with extensive floods. NY Governor Cleveland vetoed Five Cent Fare. Rugby colony borrowing used to secure land. Tennessee financier Pouk claims state injustice. Houmpareys & Co. assets around 600k to 700k. Weekly business failures numbered 272, up from prior week.
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United States Senate
United States
Committee On Education and Labor
Lima
South America
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House
Post Office
Senate
Germany
Sturday
David Davis
Potenivel
Government Printing Office
Committee On Foreign Relations
Secretary of the Treasury
Department of Justice
Conference Committee
Edmunds
Committee On Judiciary
Great Britain
Tabor
Denver
Randall
Morrison
Illinois
Tucker
Virginia
Union
Springer
Calumet River
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Beck
Garland
Allison
Messrs. Voorhees
McPherson
Ommittee
Harris
Morn
Gorham
Davis
Maxey
Jones
Butler
Secretary of the Interior
Hiscock
Yeas
Carpenter
District of Columbia
Plumb
Committee of Conference
Louisville
Buchanan
Manning
Mississippi
Lessinghaus
Frost
Ohio
Memphis
Red River
Shreveport
Vicksburg
Cleveland
New York
Rugby
Tenn
Board of Aid
Henry Kimber
London
Trerasourerr Pouk
Tennessee
Warning to Investors in Government Lands
A 19th century warning explains how land deeds recorded late leave holders with no enforceable title. It details patent flaws, duplicate certificates, and the risk of death erasing rights. The piece urges surrender of certificates to correct errors and warns of land sharks amid a broad warning about government land titles.
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Recorder's Office
United States Land Office
Thrush
Young Slater siblings land at Castle Garden alone
Miss Louise Slater aged three and Master Willie Slater aged five arrive on the Lake Michigan from Liverpool as steerage passengers. They are hailed as the youngest children ever landed unaccompanied there and appear healthy, cared for by a kind shipboard woman while their parents, newly arrived from England, seek a home. Willie quickly causes mischief around Castle Garden.
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Willie Slater
Liverpool
Castle Garden
Rotunda
Slater
England
Wille
Rotor
N.Y
Matt
The New Five Cent Piece Coinage Halted
The Chicago Daily Herald reports that the Philadelphia Mint began striking the new nickel weeks ago and published cuts of both faces. The distribution was expected to spread nationwide, but further coinage has ceased for reasons explained below. The Herald had published the cuts previously.
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Philadelphia
Chicago Daily Herald
Herald
Nickel coin counterfeiters spark halt on new pieces
Counterfeiters noted the lack of value marks aside from "V" on the nickel reverse and gilded the coins to pass as five dollar gold pieces. Authorities halted further minting as demand for the new nickels rose in various regions, with premiums of 100 to 400 percent above face value.
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Soi
New Comet Sighting At Rochester Observed in Night Sky
A private observatory near Rochester reports discovery of a bright Swift comet last Friday night. The central condensation is almost stellar with a faint, long tail and a hazy surround. The object moves eastward and northward, hinting it may pass Earth before heading back toward the sun. More observations are promised before conclusions.
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Rochester
George Gildersleeve
Balimore
Chicago
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Rail travel safety praised by Chicago Times
The article extols an elaborate safety system used on railroads, noting frequent checks and meticulous operation. It admits occasional negligence but asserts the system keeps travelers safer, likening it to a traveler sleeping soundly on a Beetle compared with a six story hotel.
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Ublic
Chicago
Princess Louise Smokes Quietly Aboard Royal Train
A Courier-Journal report details Princess Louise smoking cigarettes during a two hour dinner aboard a special Chesapeake and Ohio train. The narrative notes her beauty and regal bearing, describing her attire, jewelry, and demeanor as she enjoyed the meal and after-dinner chat with the royal party and aides.
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Courier-Journal
Lagrange
Cincinnati Junction
Princess Louise
Mr. Bagot
DeWinton
Tourtellette
Bagot
Lieutenant Bagot
Hagenee
Marquis of Lorne
Miss Hervey
McNeil
Burnett
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
Mary Anderson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Bananas and Plantains as Bread of Millions
Bananas and plantains surpass meat and potatoes in nourishments and yield. Humboldt cites an acre giving food as 33 acres of wheat or 100 of potatoes. In Brazil and Cuba they are staple for workers and slaves. Varieties include platino maranito and platino grandeknown as plantain. Plantains are boiled or roasted, never eaten raw, and some reach eighteen to twenty-two inches. The Metropolitan Horse-Car Company of Boston introduces a registering clock for fares. a large elderly lady pulls the fare strap, registers twenty fares, and the conductor bears responsibility.
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Tropics
Humboldt
Brazil
Cuba
Darien
Metropolitan Horse-Car Company of
Boston
Boston Transcript
One-Eyed Man Pleads Half Price at Buffalo Museum
A Buffalo man with one eye asked the museum door-keeper for half price admission. The keeper refused, saying it would take twice as long to see the exhibit, so he charged double.
Clermont Courier Advertising Rates and Terms
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at one dollar per square for ten lines per insertion, with fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly liberal reduction applies. Business cards up to six lines cost six dollars per year.
Star of Bethlehem foretold to bring wars and floods
The piece recalls repeated notices of the Star of Bethlehem appearing in Cassiopeia. It cites 1887 as a year of renewed sighting with total eclipses, a bright star near the zenith, and prophecies of universal war unless a Napoleon arises. It notes Tycho Brahe’s 1572 sighting in Cassiopeia and the star’s changing colors, ending with a commentary on astrology’s false hopes.
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Cassiopeia
Mars
Saturn
North America
Serge
Napoleon
Tycho Brahe
Tycho
Germany
Oftzwaldt
Palegg
Jupiter
Aldebaran
Chicago Inter-Ocean
The Latest Thing in Swindles and a Kind Stranger
A comical vignette unfolds as Flatley boasts of a new swindle, then interrupts with a tall tale about spotting a girl crying for twenty five cents lost through a plank-walk crack. He pathetically doubles back, offers a coin, and signals others in the crowd, exposing a string of sharp exchanges and a self served charity gesture.
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Flatley
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