War Department tests transfer weight through a knapsack
Washington reports a trial of a knapsack to transfer weight from shoulders to hips for army use. Other items note Creek treaty funds dispute, court-martial sentences, Chinese transit policy, pardons, and Treasury duty cases. Public notices include naval contracts and treasury shortages corrected by responsible officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Vic
Army
Oneral
Land Ofice
United States
Schofield
Robert Schrout
Frank Crosby
Umbus
Bawreeksy
Treasury Department
Charles W.smith
Federal Court of
Eastern Michigan
Smith
Dinsmore
State Department
Herron
Corea
Ray O'Hara
William Tally
Tracy
Union Iron Works of
San Francisco
William P. White
Harrison
Congress of American Republics
Wide range of 1889 New York and national events
The six month earnings of rail lines east of Pittsburgh show a drop of 252,693 dollars while western lines miss the target by 137,309 dollars. Police raid Burns’s Moore Street office netting almost 5,000 in cash from a green goods ring run as Ellis. English syndicate buys five Paterson breweries for 2.38 million. Dallas lands funded by Philadelphia capitalists. Paterson silk mill strike ends with 5 percent wage cut. Mrs Irwin killed in crossfire accident near Washington Pa. Midway cargo wreck recovered valued at 15,000. Ex Senator Dorsey arrested in NYC for contempt. Gilman charged with robbing his own safe. tower Charlemagne dies at 81. Weekly business failures rise to 210. NH Supreme Court invalidates licensing for medicine and dentistry. Blackberry crops rot near Laurel and Delaware line. Chauntey Knifin, 22, shoots himself after wounding wife at Lake Mahopac. Princeton professor Alexander Johnson dies at 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Erie
William C. Burns
Moore Street
New York City
Burns
Ellis
Paterson
N. J
John C. Bullitt
A. J. Drexel
Elmwood Crossing
Irwin
Midway
Cape Henlopen
London
Philadelphia
Shetirm
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Laurel
Delaware
Maryland
Lake Mahopac
Chauntey Knifin
Alexander Johnson
Princeton College
Noted Clergyman Slated for Insanity Hospitalization
Rev Thomas G Strong ex president Wells College Ithaca NY a prominent Reformed Church divine has become insane due to brain softening and has been sent to an asylum. Also reports of various legal financial and criminal cases including a New York banker death and a NY lawyer’s imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas G. Strong
Wells College
Ithaca
N. Y
Reformed Church
E-Graves
New York State
Auburn
John R. Dunn
New York City
2Cashier Scott
Manhattan Bank
Finleyy Dunn
Oliver 8. Roberts
Lynn
Mass
Franklin
Saugus
England
London
Christopher Carter
New Hampshire
Worcester
Carter
New England
Vermont
Heo
Fourth.avenue
Dewark
Joseph Starck
New Jersey Central Railroad
Easton
Thetis
Philippine Islands
New York
Rio Janeiro
Conrad Watson
Meadville
Engagement Announced Between Nowell and Garfield
Miss Helen Nowell daughter of John C Nowell general manager of the Lake Shore railroad becomes engaged to James R Garfield second son of the late President. A fire at the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe building in Topeka Kansas on the 26th caused 25000 dollars damage and loss of records. Several other incidents include a fatal accident in Goshen Indiana a 40 percent cut in passenger rates by Pennsylvania Lines and a train wreck near Waterloo Virginia with serious injuries.
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Helen Nowell
John C. Nowell
Lake Shore Railroad
James R. Garfield
Garfield
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Topeka
Kan
Goshen
Ind
Mamie
William Popke
Pennsylvania Lines
Chicago
Indianapolis
New Albany
Louisville
Cincinnati
Frankfort
Jackson
Tenn
Douglas G.mckenn
London Financial Times
London
Northwest
ReoRea
Waterloo
Midland Railroad
Matthew Acton
Finks
Fred Droenke
Northwestern Railroad
Elmhurst
Wabash
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Sacramento
Cal
Tolchester
Baltimore
Coal Island
Fort Carroll
Mary Kolb
Mary Weiner
John Bilbe
J. Howell
Rutledge
Royal Jubilee Notes and World Events Highlight 19th Century Britain
On the 26th Mr and Mrs Gladstone celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with telegrams of congratulations from the Queen and Princess of Wales. The same day royal gifts were displayed at Marlborough House totaling £150000, with £120000 in jewels. A warehouse fire in Liverpool destroyed vast cotton stocks. Parliament defeated Labouchere's amendment shielding royal grants. Princess Louise of Wales wedding reported for the 27th. Internationally, a Russian war vessel raised near Malta and Bulgarian negotiations for American railroad financing continued. A Liverpool indictment charged Florence Maybrick with poisoning her husband. A devastating cyclone struck Hungary Transylvania and Bukovina, killing hundreds and causing widespread destruction.
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Gladstone
Waberns
Princess of Wales
bio-royal_ house sci
Prince of Wales
Red —Cross
Grundy Streets
Liverpool
House of Commons
Princess Louise of Wales
Earl of Fife
Buckingham —Palace
London
Archbishop of Canterbury
New York
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
Family feud ends in two deaths at McRae Georgia
In McRae Georgia on the 20th alt three members from each of the McRae and Lancaster families fought. Ioas Isiled Wright Lancaster and Ed McRae were fatally wounded. Both families held political prominence and a long standing feud preceded the clash.
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McRae
Lancaster
Wash Lancaster
Ioas Isiled
Wright Lancaster
Ed McRae
Worsted Mills
Scheppers Bros
Philadelphia
Yeadon Mills
Chester
Todmorton Mills
Bancroft's Bank Pa
Lewis Bros. & Co
L. A. May Company
Lynn
Mass
Boston
New York
Jonathan M. Ripenour
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Ohio
Indianapolis Journal
Rock and
Jefferson Counties
Wis
Danie Bexpy
Farmington
Bates
Lewiston
St. Louis
New Mexico
California
Coronen Wincham B. Fourney
Simon Cameron
Fishback
Pottsville
Frank Kowat
Hannah Shearer
Peoria
Ill
Chraven
Chicago
Wichita
Kan
Cannon Fruit Commission Company
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company
Grocery Company
Cannon Company
Santa Barbara
Val
Prohibitionists Nominate State Ticket at Ohio Convention
The Ohio Prohibition convention met in Zanesville with 444 delegates and adopted a 15-point platform. Nominations were set for Governor J B Holwig, Lieutenant Governor J B Logan, Supreme Judge Gideon F Stewart, State Treasurer D M Trowbridge, and Attorney General E J Penney. The State Central Committee elected the executive slate and evening speeches closed the session.
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Zamravite
Organi- Zaps Waddes
Dustin
Cincinnati
Dunierman
Committee On Resolutions
J B. Holwig
Springfield
J B. Logan
Alliance
Gideon-F-Stewart
Norwalk
D. M. Trowbridge
Toledo
E. J. Penney
Ashtabula
Prohibition State Central Committee
E-J-Morris
Case
Cleveland
Sharp
Washington D. H
Me. Colvin
Woolen Waste Classified as Wool for Duty Purposes
The Treasury Department upheld a New York collector decision taxing garnetted wool waste at thirty cents per pound. The gar netting process yields material nearly identical to scoured wool and usable as wool, supporting the higher duty rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Washington
United States
Hendryx Dominates Detroit Free for All Stakes
In Detroit the Merchants' free-for-all for a $10,000 purse draws fifteen entries with Hendryx the Dowagiac gray horse winning all three heats. About $100,000 changes hands as Gene Smith defeats Rosaline Wilkes in the $2,000 race after Smith was guarded all night. Twenty thousand witnesses attend.
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Detroit
Detnoit
Detroit Driving Club
Merchants
Hendryx
Dowagiac
Mich
Gene Smith
Rosaline Wilkes
Smith
Wilkes
Chicago Deluged by Greatest Rainfall in History
A historic Chicago storm brought unprecedented rainfall from July weekend across the city. Wrecked brick houses toppled, several deaths occurred including a family crushed in a Leavitt and Twenty-Heat street cottage. Dozens injured, extensive property loss feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cnicaco
Prairies
Chicago
Avas
Leavitt _and
Gornelius- Ferdinands
Charles Buck
Ilo
Gustaf
Resnim
Introler
Linda Ferdinands
Cohen
Rockwell
Sixteenth Streets
Northenast
Oaktoynyonroe
Twenty-first Street
Leavitt Street
W. H. Keefe
John Hayes
Charles Shaffer
Yorktown Street
Raging Waters Cause Massive Damage in West Virginia
Reports from Parkersburg West Virginia describe a severe flood on the Little Kanawha with Grantsville Calhoun County devastation. Cited damage includes crops fences and houses washed away. Several lives reported lost as the river rose to fifteen feet and continued rising along tributaries and creeks in Pleasant County Bear Run and nearby areas. Loss estimated at not less than 250000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Rarons
West Virginia
Parkensterna
W. Va
Little Kanawha
Grantsville
Calhoun County
Middle Island
Pleasant County
Bear Run
Ritchie County
LAW DEFYING SALOONISTS ARRESTED IN CINCINNATI ON SUNDAY
Cincinnati July 20 A mass meeting of saloon keepers planned to operate Sunday as usual but police arrested many. About 130 saloons were shut and their owners held for bail after repeated reopenings. By evening every saloon in the city had closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ltayas
Steamer W Whilden Sinks Derby in Fog Off Lis ton s Point
The steamer W Whilden collided with and sank the coal laden schooner Billy Derby near Lis ton s Point in Delaware Bay. No injuries were reported. The Whilden carried sixty excursionists to Cape May and returned to Baltimore after landing forty passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape May
Baltimore
Derby
State News Items From Early Ohio Bursts With Tragedy
A rundown of Ohio incidents reports a runaway wagon injuring Clarke Eastem near Bloomingburg, a youth John Hall aged twenty three shooting himself near Hartford, and multiple fatal or serious accidents across towns like Orrville Hillsboro Steubenville and Steuben ville.
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Clarke Eastem
Bloomingburg
John Hall
Hartford
Greene County
Teter McDonovan
Kenton
Cincinnati
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Ecelsior
Gas City
Race & Rosier
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JHY Dalton Carriage Works
Ee Eee
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Kosier
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Bey
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Monroe
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Epwakp Kane
Athens
Danine Bensanty
Tion —Township
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Shelby
John Dallas
Tiro
Lawrence Dyrer
Dallas
May
Otto Pack
Barnesville
Spencer Station
Fils
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Christopher
Mra. Uorna Wravver
J. C. Weaver
Greenville
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Linwood
Hamilton County
Grant Hartman
Yvice
A. W. Cosgrove
Sharonville
Long
Alonzo McGraw
Dayton
Cuyahoga County
Hamilton
Montgomery
Stark
Lucas
Cunsonronaven
Nettle Holtgraven
Dina Kruser
Kalida
Putnam County
Fred Morman
Morman
Holtgrave
Misa Nettie Holtgraven
Miss Kruser
W. H. Monahan
G K. Crumit
Gustaux Huspinoux
Camp Washington
Charles Cocxhaln
Ohio River
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