Vast miscellany of world notices and curiosities
A mosaic of brief items reports on ex Empress Beginie earning 150000 yearly, bears killed in New Jersey swamps, a skirt dress with nearly 100 yards of material, and German hostility to American pork. Other notes cite Genoa’s scientific traveler academy, Parnell denying America plans, Massachusetts educational spending, a new graveyard in Jefferson City, and fashion trends. Additional items cover ball gown belts, long church work by Bishop Bowman, Lord Salisbury’s daily hours, an American desert remark about Oklahoma, a Dearborn County boy’s 15 inch feet, Glasgow granting city freedom, Sarasate’s $25000 earnings, a Los Guilicos olive oil factory, tobacco cultivation, a Tennessee sea serpent, a Philadelphia cigar store smoking ban, ferns in ice, Siberian exile comforts, high London fees, a New York dinner at $200 a plate, Custer County’s size, Charles Villers’ dinering, sleigh history in Suffield, a Bucharest professors strike, Senator Squire’s income, World’s Fair employment letters, a Milton mob incident, Jaffa Jerusalem rail plans, Sturis Michigan burglars, Mrs E O’Curry large wild-animal dealer, German beer consumption data, Canada maple sugar carload, German pork claims, Dr. Wipner’s Indian claims, expired English telephone patents, William William William? William Emperor William’s Norwegian estate, Bancroft and Munford anecdotes, Schliemann’s death note, Farr Haven growth, French cavalry lances, Mrs. Morris described as world’s most beautiful woman.
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Lord Salisbury
Oklahoma
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Sarasate
England
Los Guilicos
Sonoma County
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Tur
Knoxville
Tenn
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London
New York
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Ore
Jaffa
Jerusalem
Tarsus
St. Paul’s
Sturais
Mich
E. O’curry
German Empire
St. Joseph
Canada
United
Wipner
California
William
Norway
Bancroft
Munford
Schliemann
Pall Mall Gazette
Farr Haven
Washington
Wm. Morris
Windom Secretaries Burial Arrives Washington Tribute
Washington wakes to word of Secretary Windom's death after a storied career in Congress and the Treasury. His remains arrived by special car to Washington from Jersey City and were moved to the home before burial near Rock Creek Cemetery. The State Department ordered mourning and half mast across federal buildings as ceremonies proceeded.
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Crape
Washington
Secretary Windom
Congress
House of Representatives
Union
Senate
Windom
Jersey City
Rock Creek Cemetery
Secretary Windom Dies in Office While Serving Treasury
The seventh cabinet officer to die during service, Windom joins Folger as a Treasury secretary to die away from the capital. The record notes previous deaths among state and war secretaries, with Windom's heart failure linked to overwork in duties.
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Windom
United States
Webster
Upshur
Rawlins
Mr. Brown
Howe
Mr. Folger
the Treasury
Manning
Folger
High Mortality Among Officials Weighs on Administration
Deaths hit top ranks as Supreme Court Justices Matthews and Miller pass away. General Sheridan dies. Within Secretary Tracy, Blaine, and Windom families there are two deaths each, Windom’s grandson buried last week.
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Supreme Court
Matthews
Miller
Sheridan
Tracy
Blaine
Windom
Decoy Letters Nab Mail Room Distributor
Louis C. Mueller, a St. Louis post office mailing division distributor, was arrested shortly after midnight charged with abstracting money from letters. He was ensnared by decoy letters, a discovery that explains numerous prior complaints. The total amount of his peculations is not yet known.
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Louis C. Mueller
St. Louis
Cooperstown Man Dies By Own Action In Kansas City
Edwin J. Bowe of Cooperstown Illinois was found dead late Thursday night at the Baltimore Avenue and Tenth Street corner in Kansas City. A bullet hole in the forehead indicated suicide, with papers in his pocket suggesting he acted in a sane state.
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Edwin J. Bowe
Cooperstown
Baltimore Avenue
Tenth Street
Kansas City
Miners Perish as Iron Mountain Fire Traps Two
In Iron Mountain Michigan all mine openings were shut to smother a fire. Four inmates escaped via the timber shaft but Thomas Edwards and Jerry Bennett suffocated. Their bodies were recovered at the surface.
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Chapin Mine
Iron Mountain
Mich
Thomas Edwards
Jerry Bennett
Lieutenant Schwatka Injured in Hotel Stair Fall
The famed explorer Lieutenant Schwatka suffered serious injuries Friday after tumbling backward over a hotel banister on the Park Hotel staircase in Mason City Iowa. Doctors say his recovery is doubtful.
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Schwatka
Lieutenant Schwatka
Park Hotel
Mason City
Nebraska House Defers Prohibition Recount Bill 81 to 2
The Nebraska House indefinitely postponed the bill to recount votes on the prohibitory amendment by an 81 to 2 vote. A drought relief bill, authorizing 100000 dollars, passed unanimously.
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Nebraska House
Nebraskans Seek Senate Relief Bill Adopting Memorial
The Nebraska Senate adopted a memorial urging Congress to appropriate 1 million dollars for relief of Nebraska sufferers. The measure calls for federal aid to address state needs and relief efforts across communities.
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Nebraska Senate
Congress
Embezzler Captured After Chicago Theft Case
Frederick White was arrested in Kansas City on Friday charged with embezzling 1500 dollars from Morgan & Co., railway ticket brokers of Chicago. He confesses and claims the money was lost in speculation on Change.
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Frederick White
Kansas City
Morgan & Co
Chicago
Bradlaugh Dead Buried in English Politics
English politician Charles Bradlaugh has died in 1891. A report notes his long career and public service. A separate item mentions a discovery of brown hematite iron ore near Mobile Alabama.
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Mobile
Als
Actor Arrests Mark Portugal Uprising in Oporto
In Oporto on Sunday operations followed the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic. Civilians and soldiers were arrested while government reinforcements arrived. The Town Hall faced damage, the royal portrait was destroyed, and 24 000 shots were fired. An actor Verdial and Abbe St Nicholas were among those jailed. theaters began reopening.
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Oporto
Verdial
St. Nicholas
Veiga
Soares
Lute
New Lymph Promises Cure for Typhoid and Cholera Infantum
At Ann Arbor the Koch lymph arrives ready for 1000 injections. Prof Vaughan claims to have identified five poisons behind typhoid and cholera infantum and believes Koch lymph could offer a cure. He cites prior work on consumptive lymph and has tested the new lymph on small animals awaiting human trials pending observed effects.
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Ann = Arbor
Mich
Vaughan
Bicycle Record Broken at Omaha Race Finish
The eighteen hour bicycle record was broken in a Saturday night finish at Omaha. Reading and Martin led the field with 4081 and 3082.5 miles respectively while Gerwig posted 3083 and Ashinger 300.4 miles. Reading and Martin serve in the Second Regiment at Ft. Omaha. this is Martins first race.
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Omaha
Reading
Martin
Gerwig
Ashinger
Ft. Omaha
The Old Tariff Ends as Importers Remove Goods
Saturday marked the final day under the old tariff law for removing merchandise from bonded warehouses. In New York City most leaf tobacco and general merchandise were taken out, leaving only liquors in bond. Weekly duty receipts totaled 5,608,000 dollars.
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New York City
Lymph Theory Questioned by Berlin Physicians
Doctors Hand Guttman and Erlich reported to the Berlin Medical Society that microscopic blood tests on twenty eight patients who received lymph injections found no tubercle bacilli. The findings counter the theory that lymph triggers bacillus formation in the blood.
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Koch
Hand
Guttman
Prof
Erlich
Medical Society
Berlin
Fire destroys famed Novgorod cathedral in Russia
A dispatch from St. Petersburg reports the famous cathedral at Novgorod, modeled after St. Sophia in Constantinople and home to historic treasures dating back to Novgorod's era as a powerful independent city, has been destroyed by fire.
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St. Petersburg
Novgorod
Russia
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Rev Neville D. Fanning Dies After Illness at Sermon
The Rev Neville D. Fanning of Oak Park Congregational Church Minneapolis suddenly fell ill at the end of the morning service Sunday and died shortly after. The cause was apoplexy. His sermon centered on Is Life Worth Living.
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Neville D. Fanning
Oak Park Congregational Church
Minneapolis
Minn
Explosion at Ohio oil well leaves only a hole
A Sunday afternoon blast near St Marys Ohio as an oil well shooter traveling to a nearby well with nitro glycerine detonated. The explosion killed the horses the wagon and the driver, leaving a large hole in the ground as the only evidence of the disaster.
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St. Marys, O
Died From Rope Jump By Youth In West Virginia
The twelve year old daughter of John Tacken of Guyandotte West Virginia jumped rope repeatedly and died from the exertion after performing 120 jumps on Saturday and Sunday.
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John Tacken
Guyandotte
W. Va
Lieutenant Schwatka Improving After Fall
Lieutenant Schwatka, who fell down stairs at Mason City Indiana, is slightly improved. Doctors now think he will recover. His spinal injury may render him a cripple for life.
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Schwatka
Mason City
Another Candidate for Electrocution in New York
Frank Fiske, murderer of Calli nan, was sentenced by Judge Adams to be executed at Auburn during the week of March 22.
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Frank Fiske
Callinan
New York
Adams
Auburn
Hospital Fire Destroys Skopin Facility
A hospital at Skopin was destroyed by fire with four patients reported dead. Fire crews fought the blaze as investigators began assessing the cause and extent of the damage.
Mourning period as Windom death stuns capital
Funeral services for Hon William Windom drew a vast crowd at the Covenant Church after a day of national mourning. Officials from President Harrison's administration attended, and government offices closed. The Senate and House reflected the event with adjournments and prayers as the city draped in mourning.
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See Windom
William
Church of the Gton
Hargison
Congress
Heral
Supreme Court of the United States
Treasury
Dr. Hamling
Presbyterian Church of the
William D. Windom
Windom
Ndom
Hagwison
Blaine
Proctor
Noble
Ohio Senate and House activity in late January 1890
Ohio lawmakers debated new bills and resolutions over Jan 26 to 30. Topics included caseload reforms for justices of the peace, taxation and railroad rates, roadside cleanup, stock yard protections, and public works, with multiple counties authorized to borrow funds for bridges and depots and a failed push to abolish the Board of Pardons. Local actions noted include a Lima farmers convention and a jail guard shooting in Tiffin.
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Columbus
Senate
Cole
Nihols
House
Ohio
Justices of the Peace
Office of Justice of the Peace
Cincinnati
Bryan
Williams County
Paulding County
Butler County
Fourmile Creek
Elliott Turnpike
Council of
Wyoming
Hamilton County
Hovusz
Nelsonville
Brown County
Hocking Canal
Wooster
Franklin County
Hovss
Brooklyn
Cuyahoga County
Milford
Clermont County
Lake Erie
Board of Pardons
Comptroller’s
Cleveland
Toledo
Dayton
General Assembly
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
City of
Council
Cure Or Kill Death Looms In Early Lymph Inoculation Case
George M Bradley the first U S patient to receive the lymph inoculation died in New Haven Conn on Monday. He was about thirty and not in advanced consumption when treated. The throat condition worsened making nourishment painful and hastening death. Injections had begun in early December and his son of Prof Blake, another patient, was near death after two months of treatment.
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Americas
George M. Bradley
New Haven
Blake
Bradley
Sly BO
Three Prisoners Cremated In Friar's Point Jail Fire
Flames swept the Friar's Point Mississippi jail Sunday morning destroying the structure. The marshal lived away and prisoners were beyond aid before his arrival. By Monday only charred bones remained. The three incarcerated men, all negroes, faced minor charges. They reportedly started the fire attempting to burn the door to escape.
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Friar’s Point
Miss
Parliament Dissolution in Canada to Seek Country Verdict
Lord Stanley dissolved the Canadian Parliament at Sir John Macdonald's request. Macdonald will appeal to voters to back his government against Liberal critics. The Conservatives warn unrestricted reciprocity with the United States could lead to annexation by the United States if the policy is adopted.
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Lord Stanley
John Macdonald
Sir John
Liberal Party
United States
Tragic Barrowlin Brakeman Dies From Red-Hot Iron Pressing
Wm Bradley a brakeman, discharged for drunkenness at Barry Illinois, went to visit his sweetheart who spurned him. He then went to his brother’s smith shop, heated an iron red hot hat and pressed his stomach against it. The weapon penetrated his body and he is expected to die.
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Wm. Bradley
Barry
Lll
Two Lives For a Six Dollar Calf
H H Howe and Fine Gilliland quarreled at Alpine Texas over a six dollar calf last Wednesday. Gilliland shot Howe and, during a subsequent arrest attempt, Gilliland and his horse were killed. Deputy Cook and James Putnam were wounded. Putnam unharmed.
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H. H. Howe
Gilliland
Alpine
Tex
Howe
Cook
James Putnam
Putnam
Train Plunges From Embankment Near Griffin Georgia
A passenger train from Griffin on the Savannah Griffin and North Alabama line derailed and tumbled down a twenty foot embankment. About fifteen passengers were severely wounded, none killed. Cause of the crash is not known.
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Griffin
Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama
Newark Accepted as U S Government Sailor Ship
The steel cruiser Newark was commissioned Monday at Cramp's shipyard as a man of war for the United States Government. It will be fitted out in Philadelphia. Cramp's yard also builds two other cruisers and will start two more, with total government work at Cramp's over 11.6 million dollars.
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Newark
Cramp’s
United States
Philadelphia
Sarah Bernhardt Arrives in New York with Trunk Major Load
The actress Sarah Bernhardt landed in New York on Monday amid a heavy baggage arrival. She traveled with 107 trunks and ten other pieces of luggage, creating a notable spectacle for arrival day.
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Sarah
Sarah Bernhardt
New York
Census figures show Ohio county populations by county
Secretary of State Ryan reports a Washington sourced table listing every Ohio county population. The update flags prior figures as inaccurate with totals and county figures including Franklin 124,087, Cuyahoga 309,970, Hamilton 374,473, Stark 54,089, and Lucas 102,296 among others, totaling 3,672,316.
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