Duke of Cumberland claims Brunswick throne disputed
Bundesrath discusses Brunswick succession with a majority opposing the Duke of Cumberland. Hanoverian deputies favor Guelph influence, while the Gazette cites foreign complications and treason concerns. Prince Alconoronéa emerges as Brunswick claimant favored by the Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berrurr
Brunswick
Bundesrath
Duke of Cumberland
Hanover
Guelph
Goets
Prussia
Prince Alcon
Roneia
Duchy of Brunswick
Duke of
Nee
Ponauthese
Aoberanante
Imn
Eser
China
Lin
Death of Captain R. Radford in Kansas City
Captain 5S. R. Radford a well known young real estate man died in his West Tenth street room after a three week illness. He was engaged to Miss Ragland of Liberty and a telegram was sent urging marriage before his death. Miss Ragland arrived in Kansas City Tuesday, and the ceremony took place in the presence of close friends and a band. Captain Radford served with the Virginia Military Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
5S. R. Radford
West Tenth Street
Ragland
Liberty
Virginia
Mise Ragda
Captain Raditis
Virginia Milit Institute
National Wholesale Drug Association elects officers in St Louis
The National Wholesale Drug Association reconvened in St Louis and discussed routine drug trade management. Officers elected for the ensuing year include President C. F. G. Meyer of St Louis, Secretary A. B. Merriam of Cincinnati, and Treasurer S. F. Sepee of Cleveland, with five vice presidents named to the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
National Wholesale Drug Association
C. F. G. Meyer
A. B. Merriam
Cincinnati
F. Sepee
Cleveland
The President's Engagement Denied
Washingoton October 23. Secretary Frelinghuysen says he will not become father in law of the President unless the couple have a mutual understanding not shared with other family members. This denial counters the Times claim about Sena te Frelinghuysen and President Arthur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingerton
Frelinghuysen
New York Times
Sena E 2Uysen
Arthur
Pennsylvania barber wins huge family inheritance claim
In Prerssure Pennsylvania on October 23 a barber Herman Haupt learned by telegram from Hesse Cassel Germany that his uncle left him 280000 dollars. A second message from his parents confirmed the fortune and urged immediate travel to claim the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prerssure
Herman Haupt
South Side
Hesse Cassel
Ger
Brakeman Frank Avery Dies After Blow Suspected
In Gangssura Illinois on October 23 a brakeman named Frank Avery died on the Lindell Hotel steps. A companion heard a blow from behind while another man heard a sound but saw nothing. A coroner's jury did not confirm the cause of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gangssura
Ill
Frank Avery
Lindell Hotel
Corox~ner
Wind and Snow Detain Six Vessels on Great Lakes
A heavy wind and snow from Lakes Huron and Michigan ports disrupts shipping with a jam at St Clair state detaining six vessels and steamers, blocking passage on Lakes Erie and Huron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Lakes Huron
Michigan
St. Clair State
Lakes Erie
Huron
First Snow of the Season Across Ontario
Snow fell in several Ontario areas this morning with Brussels reporting six inches of accumulation. The day began with brisk winds though not unusually strong for late October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ontario
Brussels
Runaway Wagon Crashes Into Coal Train In Cleveland
Charles Kimball a local butcher was asleep in his wagon when his team bolted at a railway crossing in the Eighteenth Ward. They collided with a coal train causing the wagon to derail four cars and tearing up track. The man and horses were killed in the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Charles Kimball
New Hebrew Ban Asylum on the Hudson Opens in New York
The asylum on the Hudson River in this city was dedicated today. It cost $600,600 and can accommodate five hundred patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hebrew Ban Asylum
Hudson River
Ned Moeller Found Dead in Bed at O. Delphos
Ned Moeller aged thirty, unmarried, was found dead in his bed this morning in Delphos Ohio. He retired in distress after a dream he could not dismiss and likely suffered an epileptic fit that may have caused his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphos
Ned Moeller
Henry Myers
Connorton
Canton
Myers
Cleveland
Express Train Collides at Point Claire Station
A fatal collision occurred at Point Claire Station Montreal as an express train struck a freight train. One man died and many cattle perished. several passengers were injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Clermont Gourier Advertising Rates and Terms
Advertising notice lists rates for Clermont Gourier including all transient ads at 1 dollar per ten lines, with per square and additional insertions. Business cards limited to six lines, priced at 4 dollars per year, and year-long reductions offered for advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont Gourier
Venta
Hazen faults Greely relief plan in Lady Franklin Bay expedition report
General Hazen in his annual signal corps report criticizes the handling of Arctic relief for Greely’s Lady Franklin Bay expedition. He argues the Yantic departure and lack of rations doomed survivors and urges inquiry by a broad tribunal, citing failures by Garlington and the Proteus rescue mishaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hazen
Littleton Island
St. John’s
Greely
Garlinger
Greel
Signal Bureau
Cape Sabine
Schley
Congress of the Uni
Lady Franklin Bay
Nerazen
Arms
Garlin
Emppecing
Self
Garlington
The President Captured
The marriage of President Arthur to Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen is arranged for January in Washington. Tillie Frelinghuysen, about thirty, is secretary Frelinghuysen’s eldest daughter with noted grace, manners, and linguistic skill. Arthur, fifty four, has been a widower for five years since his first wife Ellen Herndon died at sea aboard the Central America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Arthur
Tillie Frelinghuysen
Washington
Tillie
Frelinghuysen
Reece
Sieoken
Ellen Herndon
Herndon
Uni States Navy
Central America
Invention Battle Over the Telephone Patents
Washington October 24. Examiners Fischer Clarke and Bates issue a decision in Voelker vs Gray et al a patent interference over the speaking telephone. Bell holds the only valid patents, with Edison Gray Voelker Irwin Mcough and others as remaining parties in the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Messrs. Fisher
Clarke and Bates
Patent Office
Voelker
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Edison
Boys Die in Tragic Philadelphia Shooting
In Philadelphia on October 24 James L. Clayton aged eighteen shot and killed his teen friend John S Baker aged seventeen at Baker’s home near Seventeenth and Brown streets. Clayton died soon after from a head wound. The boys were friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
James L. Clayton
John S Baker
Seventeenth
Brown Streets
Baker
Clayton
Horse Smuggled Into Worchester Institute Prayer Pew
Worcester, October 4. Mischievous students sneaked a horse into a chapel via two winding stairs. Professors and students spent the day removing the intruder, hiring men to tie the animal and slide it down on skids while the onlookers cheered. Police were summoned to disperse the boisterous crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcrster
Mass
Institute
Geese Crash Electric Light at Court House Dome
October 22 Wasasa Inc reports a night accident leaves the city dark for days. Fifteen wild geese, dazzled by the glare from the Brush electric light on the courthouse dome, struck the apparatus and broke four globes. Three geese died. others fled. Repair will take time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasasa, Inc
Ors
Woman Regains Voice After Scarlet Fever Attack
Ellen Ashworth of Bridgewater Pa who had spoken only in whispers for twelve years recovered her voice in a remarkable way. While running a millinery shop in East Liverpool Ohio, a spark of anger over rebellious employees caused her to exclaim in a loud voice and her speech fully returned to normal.
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Rocasster
Ellen Ashworth
Bridgewater
East Liverpool
Miss Ashworth
Fifteen year old Middleton Moore held on poisoning charge
In Philadelphia on October 24 a 15 year old colored boy named Middleton C Moore was arrested on the charge of poisoning Mrs Wright. He was arraigned and held for trial for attempting to poison the family. A nurse drank water from a teakettle prepared food and fell ill vomiting blood. Teakettle content analysis showed corrosive sublimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Middleton C. Moore
Attempted wreck on General Logan train near Knoxville
Pron. Inc October 22 reports an attempt to wreck the train carrying General Logan and party. As the train neared Knoxville at forty miles an hour the engineer saw an obstruction on the track. Brakes failed to stop the train before it ran over two of four ties laid across the rails.
Reform Church minister and cattle drover charged with alms house fraud
In Reapine Pennsylvania Detective Lyons swore warrants for Martin Luther Fritch a Reform Church minister and Chaplain at the County Alms house and Samuel G Wenrich a cattle drover who supplied large consignments of cattle. They face bribery and conspiracy charges as alms house fraud investigations continue with more arrests expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reapine
Lyons
Martin Luther Fritch
Samuel G. Wenrich
Mother Poisoner and Child Die in Gas Fatality
Philadelphia report says Mrs Annie Logan twenty eight killed her three year old son by laudanum then ingested poison herself and released gas to suffocate them. Letters imply poverty and husband abandonment as motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Annie Logan
Sawmill Boiler Explosion Kills Three in Atora Area
October 23 report cites B Scratches & Co sawmill boiler explosion as cause of death for J B Oliver F Choate both of Atora and John Radcliff engineer from Clayton Ill. Three men killed with large families left behind. Damage put at 1200 dollars with no insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arora
I. T
B. Scratches & Co
J. B. Oliver
Frank Choate
Atora
John Radcliff
Clayton
Ill
Oliver
Choate
National business failures rise across regions in week
New York reports that failures nationwide in the last seven days total 258, up from 218 last week. The increase spans the Western, Southern and Pacific States and New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Red
R. G. Dun & Co
Unitetates
Canada
Pacific States
New York City
Insane asylum quarrel ends in fatal blow
W F Walker struck Nash B Hargis with a floor rubber during a dispute at the Indianapolis insane asylum. Hargis died from a crushed skull shortly after, with medical examiners confirming fatal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis, Inc
W. F. Walker
Nash B. Hargis
Insane Asylum
Walker
Hargis
Temperance vote defeat in County eel Canada
October 23 report from Toronto notes the Scott Temperance act was voted on in County eel and defeated by a 160 vote majority. In St Louis on October 22 Minnie Cummins actress won $25000 for false arrest against Police Officer Deems and Della Murphy of Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Toronto
Eel
St. Louis
Minnie Cummins
Iato
Deems and Dellaurphy
Missouri
Three Men Cremated In Coke Oven Cave-In
Three men were precipitated into a coke oven at Tunnelton West Virginia and burned to ashes when the oven heated to a white heat. The top of the oven caved in trapping them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Tunnelton
Pope to create eight new Cardinals at secret consistory
October 21 report says the Pope will elevate eight new Cardinals. Honorees include the Archbishops of Vienna Saville and Palermo and Monsignors Massaia Merosigori Laurenzio Massotti and Verga. seven College of Cardinals seats remain vacant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tome
Vienna
Saville
Palermo
Massaia
Merosigori
Laurenzio
Massotti
Verga
College of Cardinals
Prohibitionist Boone Claims Sanity Probe Ties to Cleveland Assault
Albany reports Samuel Boone, who attacked Governor Cleveland on the street after a pardon dispute over his brother in law, is identified as a thorough Prohibitionist. Medical experts have been appointed to determine whether he is insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Samuel Boone
Cleveland
Boone
Postoffice Revenue Deficit Cited After 1884 Year
Washington reports fiscal year 1884 posts receipts totaling 42,818,635 with expenditures at 46,411,772 creating a 3,593,137 shortfall. The deficiency is attributed to reduced postal rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Postoffice Department
Oregon sails to New York with large transfers
The Oregon will sail from Liverpool tomorrow carrying $500,000 to Brown Bros. & Co. of New York and $600,000 to the Bank of British North America.
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New York
Oregon
Liverpool
Brown Bros. & Co
Bank of British North American
Hog Cholera Ravages Farms Near Saxmoxin
Hog cholera spreads with alarming rate around Sxanmoxin Pa causing rapid swine deaths on local farms and prompting concern among farmers and veterinarians.
Sixty Unmarried Girls Cited By Fashion Leader
A Boston Globe report quotes a leading woman of fashion claiming she counted sixty summer resort girls who will never marry. She links the fate to upbringing focused on spending money, and notes men in their circle seek only great advantage before marriage. The piece references NY based Workingwomen's Protective Union spending 65,000 over twenty years to prosecute for fraud against working girls, collecting 25,000 in unpaid wages, funded by donations. A NYTimes note mentions a lady buying 10,000 dollars worth of rare articles from a large Japanese establishment in New York.
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Boston Globe
Workingwomen’s Protective Union of
New York
N. Y. Times
Hendricks
Republican Party
Brother Hendricks
Logan
England
France
Europe
Congress
Democratic Party
Ro P Ho
Mr. Hendricks
New Jerusalem
Coal Oil Gang
Ohio
Haven
White House
Missouri
Crittenden
Ford
James Bay
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
South
Tige
James A. Garfield
Morey
James G. Blaine
b.Hingsgate
Pennsylvania
Raees Ponecestene
Th Hon
America
Lincoln
Aeroniic
Notable Ohio Deaths and Incidents Reported Across Counties
A broad set of Ohio news items details the deaths of Garfain Avucustus Cash near Cornersville and Eva Gerneal Dalty in Cincinnati sewers. Also reported are accidents in Lorain harbor and Milan, arson charges in Millville, and a range of legal actions, robberies, and public notices from Canton, Columbus, and Cincinnati.
Logan in Philadelphia Capitulates Republican Case for Change
General Logan speaks in Philadelphia warning that Democrats would harm national credit, free labor, and domestic industry under free trade. He cites tariff gains, steel rails, and slave emancipation as Republican achievements, argues for protecting ballots, and attacks Hendricks and Democratic calls for change as self-serving.
A Call for Change Reverberates Across Indiana and Ohio
The piece portrays Thomas A. Hendricks urging change as a unifying call for Democrats in Indiana and Ohio. It describes his message as a hopeful, hunger driven appeal that resonates with supporters amid a lack of concrete platform and broad principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Ohio
George William Curtis
Mr. Hen
Remarkable Letter from Mr Tilden on Cleveland Refused
The Philadelphia Press analyzes Mr Samuel J Tilden’s letter to the Democratic National Convention regarding reform and party unity. It notes Tilden avoids praising Mr Cleveland, hints at contempt for Republicans, and argues reform comes from within or without, citing Tilden’s record against the Tweed and Canal Rings. The piece cautions the letter may hurt the Democratic canvass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel J. Tilden
Mr. Tilden
Mr. Cleveland
Tilden
Republican Party
Cleveland
Tiden
R. Tilden
Philadelphia Press
Record of Treason and Infamy by the Democratic Party
A Lancaster speech by John H. Landis denounces the Democratic Party as treasonous and corrupt. It claims the party supported slavery, resisted the Union, undermined the war effort, defied civil rights, and attacked Republican leaders, elections, and reform efforts.
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John H. Landis
Lancaster
Democratic Party
South
America
Union
New York City
Salisbury
Libby
Bellee
Fort Pillow
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
Sherm Sheridan
Meade
Thomas
Lincoln
Ignress
u-Klux An E
New York
Ross
Weed
New York Senate
Tweed
Sweeney
Connelly
Jeff Davis
Congress
Nalewoynee Treasury
National Treasury
Aed
Buchanan
England
Sena
Utah
Ohio Election Hails Republican Surge and McKinley Victory
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes a strong Republican lead in Ohio with 30 000 margin expected for Blaine and Logan in November. It credits national ticket strength, GOP unity, and predicts McKinley’s election while analyzing Democratic woes and district shifts in the state.
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Ohio
Blaine
Logan
Kame
New York
Congress
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Chicago
LeFevre
Seney
Converse
Wilkins
Foran
Hurd
Toledo
McKinley
Demagogue Springer Attacks GOP From Illinois
A New York Commercial Advertiser critique calls Mr. Springer of Illinois a persistent demagogue who parades old fraud charges against the Republican Party and Federal departments. The Hartford Post notes Cleveland’s stance on Mr. Tilden’s letter framing.
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Mr. Springer
Illinois
Republican Party
Whitthorne
Glover
Davis
Springer
Navy
Mulligan
N. Y
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Foreign News
National Drug Association
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Otty
Professor Bell
Ellen
Indiana Insane Asylum
Garfain Avucustus Cash
Washington County
Cornersville
Waite
Selah Chamberlain
Lorain Harbor
Sam Wallace
Rute ToLue
Steubenville
Michael Likes
Mansfield
Henry Dilhaus
Regiment
Piatt Zouaves
Evagernee Dalty
Ryan Brothers’ Slaughter-House
MicHarr McLuen
Hammond Street Station
U. S
Springfield
Heady
Palmer
Hoffman
EpWard Fanger
Christ
Fanger
Celina
James M. Fouces
Mantua
North Springfield
Institution For the Blind
Columbus
Smead
College Corner
Frederick Arnold
Ashtabula
James Rutherford
Millville
Fraank Warthort
Charles W. SxHort
Hamilton County
North Bend
Avucust Henry
Longview Asylum
Cleveland Express
Elmwood Station
Steubenville Bottle Works
James Patterson
Ridgeway
Burton
North Lawrence
Massillon
Ashland
Robert McNabb
Catherine Stepha
Milan
Reuben R. Springer
David Gibson
Art Museum Association
Postoffice
Art Museum
Eden Park
Chamber of Commerce
Canton Cutlery
Deitrich Bros
Fayetteville
Main Street
Nannie T. Coxteman
Clara Boyd
Defiance
Albert Wikle
John A. Logan
the Democratic Party
John H.landis
Gloria In Excelsis
Axe
Grover Cleveland
Buffalo
United States
Hartford
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