Vast World Events Span Wars, Disasters and High Society
A sweeping digest lists calamities and curios from around the globe: a Charlotte boiler blast kills three. locusts devastate New Grenada crops. Egypt sees renewed exodus. Hones in Alexandria faces death by self action. a 200 mile Iowa tornado. a Montreal fire razes property near a million. crown jewels sold in Paris. Mormon sailings from Liverpool. Vanderbilt funds railroads. wars, elections, and storms ripple through nations with updates on health, crime, and finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Nixsson
Charlotte
N. C
New Grenada
Egypt
Hones
Alexandria
Iowa
Montreal
New York
Brooklyn
Liverpool
United States
Mason Wm. Notson
United States Army
Columbus
Ohio
Marie Antoinett
Hamilton
London
Great Tornado Disaster Urges Nationwide Aid
Des Moines Register appeals for help after a devastating Iowa cyclone. Deaths total 64 with many feared dead as 120 wounded, 50 homeless. Grinnell, Malcolm, Mount Pleasant, and surrounding areas suffer massive losses. a million dollars or more needed to shelter and reconstruct. J S Clarkson, Editor Des Moines Register, asks readers nationwide to fund relief and reconstruction efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Grinnell
Malcolm
Mount Pleasant
Burnington
Boone
Nevada
Story County
Kellogg
Jasper County
Grinnell and
Malcom
Brooklyn
Deep River Township
Poweshick County
Des Moines Register
Associated Press
United States
Iowa
New England
Town College
J B. Grinnell
J. S. Clarkson
Senate and House Patchwork Legislation Items
The session saw multiple measures advancing or stalled including a War Department headquarters project in Washington for the Newburg Memorial column, a $12,000 road appropriation to connect New Albany to a National Cemetery, and a $300,000 grant to extend the Executive Mansion. Credits and credentials surfaced for Senator Anthony, while banking and tax reform measures faced action or recoil, with debates on silver in settlements and internal revenue reductions amid partisan divides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Secretary of War
Washington
Newburg
N. Y
New Albany
Ind
National Cemetery
Anthony
Davis
Young
Internal Revenue Law
Updegraff
Committee On Law
Lynchburg
Harrisonburg
Abingdon
Committee On Education and Labor
Nationa
Clearing House
Kelley
Thompson
Kentucky
Kentucky’s education paradox tops state boasts
The Louisville Courier-Journal argues Kentucky should claim not only beauty, speed, and whisky but also a paradoxical mix of more and longer school commencements with less overall education than any other state in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky
Boston Public Library
Boston
Tuxpan
Mexico
Whitehall
N. Y
Sheen’s Mountain
WN. Y. Sun
Bangor
Penobscot County
Mlle
Rhea
Chicago News
Chicago Herald
Chandler
National Capitol
Secretary of the Navy
Chicago Journal
Clinton
F. W. Putnam
Cambridge
Mass
Chicago
Ohio
Putnam
Fs . Nicholas
Burlington
Rock City Falls
George Kilmer
George
Betsey
Sevier County
Arkansas
Edna Goodman
Tamah Brooks
Atlanta
Chicago Times
A. H. Best
Savannah
Bath
Baltimore
Blackstone
Kent
Potato Bush Grows Potatoes in Columbia Pa United
A potato bush bearing genuine potatoes above ground is successfully cultivated at Columbia Pennsylvania. The potatoes are described as equal in quality to those grown in soil, marking a notable horticultural achievement reported by the Detroit Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Abbey
Okmulgee
Indian Territory
Independence
Iowa
Baltimore
Paul Vandervoort
Omaha
Neb
Cuba
United States
China
Joliet
Ill
Fitzarrapp
Charles Francis Adams
Boston
Tur
Vermont
John L. Barstow
Samuel E. Pingree
W. H. Dubois
Tennessee
Helmbold
America
Norway
Sweden
San Francisco
Columbia
Detroit
Ohio News in Brief Wide Range of County Incidents and Legal Cases
A wide scan of Ohio notices covers drownings and deaths from whisky and heat, legal actions, burglaries, suicides, accidental deaths, jail sentences, and court proceedings. It notes jails being built in several counties, a tidal lakefront wave at Cleveland, lightning damage near Yellow Springs, and various railroad and public works developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houlmes
Pup Yost
Findlay
Frank Lister
Elyria
Iva Vincent
Noble
Erie
Morrow
Crawford
Jackson
Fayette
Champaign
Saran J. Forsyth
Andrew Scorr
Bellefontaine
Charlotta
Grorce Herlfetter
Spring Hill
Champaign County
Tar Smithwaite
Steubenville
Jos. Kuper
Totogany
Wood County
Foster Stickier
London
Harry Smith
Taos
Maury
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
New Straiteville
Mt. Vernon
W. M. Koons
Delphos
Union Schools
E. W. Hastings
Willliam Bucsxeyr
Carlisle
Cleveland
Wm. H. Collins
Yellow Springs
Joan Brapney
Mansfield
Lincoln N. Crane
Nettie G. McAdams
A. Hines
Thomas Barger
David Young
Owen Barnes
Sawyer
Nash
Supreme Court
Columbus
William Dennison
Florence W. Hunt
Athens County
Columbus, Hocking Valley and Tuscarawas Railroad
West Virginia
Hiram Crumvey
Stillwater
Ohio Central Committee
A. L. Conger
Akron
J. C. Donaldson
George K. Nash
Charles Foster
J. F. Oglevee
Alexia Cope
E. L. Taylor
D. K. Wilson
W. 8. Cappeller
Fred. Schlottmann
Cincinnati
David Morrison
J. K. Tramitton
Toledo
The Joy of Fishing Says The Angler’s Life Is Best
The Chicago Inter Ocean extols fishing as an ideal escape for body and mind. It contrasts idle summer leisure with angling passion, praising anglers as honest, generous, and devoted to home and country, noting the thrill of a strong bite feeds life and vigor.
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Zululand
Dabuko
Cetawayo
Usibepan
Oham
John Dunn
Congress
Jeanette Crew
Melville
Cork
Ireland
Galilee
Igor
Joe Jefferson
Chicago
Inter- Ocean
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Odley Co
Allenta
83Odley Co
Water Sts
Hausert & Co
Portland
Mery Y
Ess Trus & Co
Augusta
Ted
Scy Ste
N.Y
P.O
San L É& Coe
Chiccago
Serincox & Co
Maine
Sammy Tubbs
Boydor
E. B
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Umatism
Iran
Jen
PRICE
Richardson & Co
Arlington
Astor Place
New Yore
Amy
Agen Swan
Sonet Huei Temondye Xore A
SON & CO
CAL
Buffalo
Et. Rocheste
Willy Feend
Nam Allen
State &T
Owen Organs
Dare Eye
New Jersey
Ands Ag 1
Pindge
Fashington
Athieda
Orpera
Ian
News OF the
Mr. Vanderbilt
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Toronto
Erasmus. Winan
Atu
Butler County
Illinois
Charles G. Sensenly
John Wilson
Charles G. Holmes
Alaska
Philadelphia
Masonry
Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Russell SaGe
Memphis and
Little Rock
Howes
Indianapolis
Knights of Wise Men
President Garfield
National, Deaf Mute College
United States Treasury Commission
Baltimore County
Maryland
Cherry Grove
Warren Co
Felton
Marinor Brosius
Lancaster County
Harrisburg
B. Frank Biceson
National Bank of the Republic
Gustav Wiieeckx
Perong
Garrett
Memphis
Louisville
Ark
Sells Brothers
Canada
Cardinal Manning
James Traccey
Tracy
Utah Commission
Alexander Ramsey
Minnesota
Algernon
Paddock
Nebraska
George Godfrey
James R. Pettigrew
Ambrose B. Carlton
Indiana
Osey Owens
Third National Bank
St. Louis
Turre
Clay County
Ilinois
Swing
The
Alliance
George C. Milo
Unity Church
Henry Ward Beecher
Knights of Labor
Workingmen’s Unions
Anderson Singleton
Lucinda Casdale
Abraham Anderson
Boston Singletarry
Kingston
South Carolina
Phoebe Teasdale
George N. Woods
M. G. Buchanan
Durango
Colorado
Hamiltton
Ontario
Alexander Forbes
George Ralston
Mittee
Vincegnes
Marshalltown
Ironton
Council Bluffs
Danville
Hoar
Lowell
Hewitt
Keller
Arthur
Reed
Justice Bradley
Dr. Hicks
God
John WieGall Diseau
Charles J. Guiteau
Guiteau
Ann Arbor
St. John’s Park
New York Central Road
New Orleans
Barr
Mediterranean
Conaness
N. M
Morrow County
Pendleton
Allison
Butterworth
Randall
Des Moines “ Register
Congressional Proceedings
Utah
M. A. and Inter-Ocean Railroad Company
White
Morrison
Hatch
Missouri
Ohio State News
Jack Carson
Canton
Joan Putnam
Logan County
London Journal of Mental Science
City of
Great Metropolis
Durma
Tyndall
Emerson
A. R. Thomson
St. Nicholas Magazine
Paris
John Hall
Lord Frederick Cavendish
Talbot
University of Oxford
Keble College
Oxford
Joseph W. Coburn
Bunker Hill
Quincy
Tidewater
F. R. Glover
A. B. Grimaldi
England
Queen Victoria
David
Philadelphia Times
C. L. Wolfe
George Brown
Bellevue
Wolfe
Vanderbilt
Don Cameron
Boston Traveller
Gainesboro
Duchess of Devonshire
Altoether
Courier-Journal
Darwin
Oscar Wilde
Rockland Courier
Jay Gould
Railway Magnathan
Railwa
Emily
John
New Haven Register
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