Feats and follies span a crowded world wide
A collage of 19th century notes reports fever in Spain and a near unreadable signature, about Haiti’s costly rebellion, a Springfield Mass wedding altar, Imperial visits, Tigers in India, Gulf depths, and a raft of curiosities. It mentions a white voters law scare in Chickasaw Nation, Royal salaries, a circus clown's death, and many odds and ends from science to crime.
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Spain
RicHard Wagner
Springfield
Mass
Japan
Prince Albert Victor
India
Gulf of California
Malietor
Epison
Storm Abating and Food Sent to Cutoff Areas
Atlantic City reports the storm abated after five days with trains resuming service and relief supplies delivered. Officials note no famine or loss of life, but property damage along the coast totals about 150000 dollars. Several rail lines and sea walls remain wrecked, with towns like Sea Isle City and Long Port cut off and boats and ferries aiding stranded residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Philadelphia
Ocean Front
Camden
Atlantilway
West Jersey
Reading
Chas. Smith
Peters
Brigantine Beach
Palestine
New York
Chincoteague
Middle Inlet
Ocean City
Sea Isle City
Sea Isle
Draw Bridge
Ricker
Newland
Star and Shakespeare
Turf Hotel
Avalon
Townsend Inlet
South Atlantic City
C. Hugh
Sullivan
Guyer
Aberdeen
Long Port
Remains of Hon S Cox Lie In State in New York
The body of Congressman Cox lay in state at the First Presbyterian Church in New York from 4 to 10 pm with guards of honor from Steinwehr Post 192 G A R and 3000 clerks from the post office presenting a large floral emblem on the coffin.
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New York
Cox
First Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue
Twelfth Street
Guard of Honor
Steinwehr Post
Post-Office
Clerks’ Association
New York Post-Office
Left at the altar in Buffalo church wedding couple
In Buffalo yesterday Thomas Quinlan failed to appear for his marriage to Miss Katie Newman at St. Bridget Church. Guests waited as the bride cried, police searched for Quinlan, and he had not been seen since the morning.
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Buffalo
Thomas Quinlan
Katie Newman
St. Bridget
Quinlan
Hamburg Street
Floods in Texas Stop Rail Traffic Across Regions
Dispatches from Northern, Northeast and Northwestern Texas report widespread crop and property damage and transportation delays from rainwaters that have fallen for a week. Bridges washed away impede rail traffic with some areas cut off from outside communication for up to forty eight hours.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Danish authorities tighten guard for Czar visit
Rumors spread of many Nihilists arriving in Denmark prompting Copenhagen officials to take extraordinary precautions for the protection of the Czar during his upcoming visit amid fears of an assassination attempt.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Immigrants Land At Castle Garden Many Reach Utah
At Castle Garden yesterday 3089 immigrants landed including 154 Mormons who headed to Utah. About half of the arrivals were women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Castle Garden
Utah
London Strikers Near Return as Wage Concessions Agreed
London reports a conference between Cardinal Manning and dock company directors. The joint committee backs a wage increase to take effect November 4, signaling a near return to work once ancillary interests are arranged. Telegraph notes £2,000,000 lost and port prospects. Tailors end strike with ten and a half hour day. Australian strikers fund rises to £4,523.
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London
Cardinal Manning
Mansion House
Daily Telegraph
Australia
Four Million Acres Open to Settlement in Minnesota
Major James Whitehead arrived with news that four million acres in Northern and Central Minnesota will be opened to settlement. Commissioners Lice Whiting and Marty clashed with Leech Lake Indians, prompting Whitehead to assist. Reservations opened include Leech Lake Prairie Point Cass Lake Winnebagosish White Oak Pogegama Falls and Sandy Lake, with Bois Forte yet to be secured. The land is fertile well watered and forested with pine and hardwoods.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
James Whitehead
Lice
Whiting
Marty
Leech Lake
Major Whitehead
Northwest
Prairie Point
Cass Lake
Winnebagosish
White Oak
Pogegama Falls
Sandy Lake
Bois Forte
Into an Old Cave. Chattanooga Excited Over Ancient Lead Find
In Rossville near East End Chattanooga workers uncover a cave while digging for a new lake. An old Cherokee tradition says a galena-rich cave was mined by Indians and filled when moved west. Officials believe lead ore may lie within and will conduct a thorough exploration.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Rossville
John Ross
East End
Mississippi
Chance
Tragic Pulp Mill Joke Kills Worker in Ticonderoga
In Troy dated Sept 14 John Gordon of Lake George Paper and Pulp at Ticonderoga was killed when two coworkers tied a rope to his feet and threw it over a rapidly turning shaft. The rope could not be cut in time and Gordon's body was horribly mutilated. One participant reportedly lost his reason from the shock.
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Troy
N. Y
John Gordon
Lake George Paper and Pulp Company
Ticonderoga
Gordon
Mrs Dunsford Dies After Laughing Spasm In Theatre
Reading Pennsylvania report says Mrs George H Dunsford died after a theatrical performance when she suffered spasms from laughing hard. Post mortem reveals she swallowed missing artificial teeth, found lodged in her stomach.
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Reading
Geo. H. Dunsford
Madison County Grand Jury Indicts Two Clergymen For Murder
The Madison County grand jury indicted Rev. M. G. P. Nickens for the murder of Baptist preacher David Carmet dated August. Nickens, a Methodist minister, is jailed in Huntsville. Both men are described as white and of good local reputation.
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Little Rock
Ark
Madison County
M. G. P. Nickens
David Carmetto
Nickens
Huntsville
Minnesota dressed beef law struck down by judge
Judge Blodgett ruled the Minnesota dressed beef law unconstitutional and awarded Augustus Swift of the Swift Packing Company $7,500 in damages against Duluth mayor John B. Sutphin. Sutphin had contracted to handle Swift's meats but stopped after the law's passage.
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CubcaGco
Blodgett
Minnesota
Augustus Swift
Swift Packing Company
John B. Sutphin
Duluth
Swift
Juror Selection in Cronin Case Continues
Cubcanco reports that at adjournment last evening no juror had been secured in the Cronin case. Twenty men were examined during the day as jury selection proceeds.
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Cubcanco
Cronin
Sham Naval Battle at Fort McHenry Memorial
Baltimore marked the seventy fifth anniversary of the Fort McHenry bombardment with a counterfeit naval engagement featuring three war vessels against the fort. Fifteen inch guns roared, producing deafening noise as spectators observed the staged clash.
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Baltimore
Fort McHenry
Death of a Brave Judge in Avenstn Georgia
Judge W Milc Olin died in Avenstn GA at age seventy six after serving during yellow fever epidemics in Norfolk Wilmington Savannah Memphis and Jacksonville nursing the sick without pay He volunteered his services during those crises and died here September 14.
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AvenstTn
W. Milc Olin
Norfolk
Wilmington
Savannah
Memphis
Jacksonville
Fastest Ship Afloat Baltimore Breaks Records at Trial
The steel cruiser Baltimore completed a four hour trial reaching about twenty knots as Captain Schley praised its engines. Tests measured an average around 20.2 knots, signaling the fastest vessel of its tonnage and possibly the fastest man of war afloat. Officials will review horsepower projections and final calculations in coming weeks.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cramp’s
Delaware River
Delaware
Schley
John Light
Joseph Steel
M Board
United States
Joseph exposition fire destroys main building at St Joseph
Fire at the St Joseph exposition destroys the main building and its contents, with officials stating nothing saved. Estimated loss exceeds a quarter of a million dollars. Spectators packed the grounds last night as authorities struggled to control the blaze, origin tied to electric lights. A historic carriage from 1842 was also burned.
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St Joseph
St. Joseph
Jnath
General Lafayette
Exposition
Million Dollar Fire Destroys City Wholesale District
In Louisville on September 16 a blaze ripped through the wholesale district shortly after 11 p.m. destroying six or seven lives and about a million dollars in property. It started behind Bamberger Bloom & Co. on Main near Sixth, quickly engulfed a four story brick, and spread to Bretzfelder Co. hats and Higgins Co. leather. The Louisville hotel suffered minor damage while Bretzfelder’s building and contents were wiped out.
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Lovuisville
Bamberger, Bloom & Co
Main Street
Sixth
Bretzfelder & Co
Higgins & Co
Louisville
Bretzfelder
Counterfeiters Rendezvous Found Near Decatur Indiana
Three laborers chopping timber three miles south of Decatur unearthed a brick furnace and several counterfeit half dollars dating to 1845 along with the metal used to cast spurious coins discovered beneath the ground.
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Decatur
Ind
Petrified snake found embedded in sandstone rock
PARKERSBURG September 16 Mr W G Mann of Harrison County discovered a petrified snake a day or two ago a curiosity embedded in solid sandstone about eighteen inches from the rock top the reptile not fully secured with tail and part of the head missing the obtained portion measures about fifteen inches long
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Parkersburg
W. G. Mann
Harrison County
Mann
Dockmen Parade Honoring Victory In London
Celebrated workers marched in a procession to the Mansion House in London. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress reviewed the display as the dockmen passed the balcony and cheered enthusiastically.
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London
Mansion House
Noted bandit Morales pleads guilty in robbery case
Sylvestro Morales, once a feared figure in Southern California, pleaded guilty to robbery. Judge Pu terbaug sentenced him to life at Folsom State Prison.
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San Drego
Cal
Sylvestro Morales
California
Puterbaug
Folsom State Prison
Imitator of Brodie Falls From Cable at Park
Cleveland dispatch reports Steve Brodie fell one hundred feet into fourteen feet of water at Beverle’s Park yesterday and escaped unhurt. A youth named August Roskopf attempted the same stunt and was dangerously hurt.
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Brodie
Cleveland
Steve Brodie
Beverle’s Park
August Roskopf
Deaf Trumpet Hearing Aid Aids Allegheny Church
In Pittsburg Sept 17 Rev J W Sproull of the Central Reformed Presbyterian Church Allegheny introduced a self designed device to help deaf parishioners hear sermons. A system of organ pipe like tubes and car trumpets transmitted speech from the pulpit to pews enabling several deaf members to hear clearly.
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Allegheny
Pittspurnen
J. W. Sproull
Central Reformed Presbyterian Church
Sproull
David Gregg
Mr. Sproull
Ssproull
Terrible Passenger Train Wreck at Tioga Junction
A southbound Elmira train of seven coaches collided with a Fall Brook engine at Tioga Junction on Sept. 17, killing two and injuring about twenty-five. Slippery track and failed air brakes prevented stopping. engines and cars were wrecked and burned. Rescue efforts followed as doctors arrived from Lawrenceville and Tioga. Eugene Dague and Harry Olney died.
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TioGa Junction
Elmira South
Fall Brook
Elmira
Lawrenceville
Tioga
Eugene Dague
Newsboy
Harry Olney
Union
N. Y
Nagle Discharged From Custody in San Francisco
Judge Sawyer in the United States Circuit Court ordered Deputy Marshal David Nagle released on his own recognizance pending appeal to the Supreme Court. A bill of exceptions filed by the State was allowed and bonds set at $5,000.
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Nagle
San Irancisco
Sawyer
United States Circuit Court
David Nagle
United State Supreme Court
Strike of workers praised as peaceful national pride
At the opening of the old Daily court the recorder told the grand jury there were no cases on the calendar arising from the recent strike. He noted many men had been out of work for weeks and suffered privations, yet their conduct was peaceful and a matter of national pride.
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London
Old Daily Court
Recorder
Grand Jury
Ile
Unknown vessel sunk near Currituck beach sighted
Norronk Virginia reports an unidentified ship sunk about ten miles northeast of Currituck Light. Three masts loom above the water amid wreckage, with no details on the captain or crew. Authorities have not confirmed survivors.
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Norronk
Currituck Beach
Currituck Light
Bob Younger Dies in Minnesota Incarceration End
Bob Younger, the famed Missouri outlaw, died of consumption at 10:20 p.m. after thirteen years of imprisonment in Stillwater Minnesota. He was thirty four. His brothers Jim and Cole Younger and sister Retta were at his bedside at the time of death.
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Bob Younger
Stillwater
Minn
Missouri
Jim
Cole Younger
Retta
Resents Being Called Aunty Memos
Annie Evans and husband Green KE Evans sue Patrolbyan Conway for 5000 damages claiming he addressed Annie Evans as Auntie. The suit highlights sensitivity of a colored woman to terms reminiscent of slavery days.
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Annie Evans
Green KE. Evans
Patrolbyan Conway
Coal Trust Scheme Progressing in Pennsylvania
Negotiations for the sale of large Monongahela river coal interests to an Eastern syndicate are progressing satisfactorily and many coal men believe the deal will close by January 1 in Pirrspuren Pennsylvania on September 17.
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Pirrspuren
Monongahela River
Arabs Arrive on Edam Steamer in New York
On the steamer Edam which arrived yesterday there were 100 Arabs from Syria. They are locked up pending action as to their admission.
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New York
Edam
Syria
Heavy frost hits cranberry region in Necepau Wis
Necepau Wisconsin reports a heavy frost last night halting cranberry harvests as growers note the crop was only half harvested. The frost disrupts progress across the area and may affect yield.
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Necepau
Wis
Warner Declines Pension Commissioner Post
Washington September 17 General Warner will not accept the Pension Commissionership due to business obligations.
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Warner
WashiIngton
State News Items With Murders and Nominations Across Ohio
A series of Ohio brief items reports fatal falls and suicides near Tiffin and Columbus, a hydrophobia death in Circleville, a 600-strong Mahoning Valley pioneer reunion, and multiple political nominations in the Thirteenth and Tenth districts. Also noted are burglaries, a track collision fatalities, postmaster changes, an organ mortgaging case, rattlesnake killings, a rolling mill accident, and various town notices from Fos toria to Cambridge.
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Tiffin
Joseph A. Nolan
Peter Devarue
Columbus
Circleville
Mahoning Valley
Youngstown
J. N. Soncrar
George F. Brady
Senate
Clermont-Brown
Thomas Q. Ashburn
John Jaminson
Portsmouth
McKeown
L. Wise & Son
Henry Klingman
Nation
Jaminson
Ohio
East Palestine
Cuyahoga
Z. Rogers
Rogers
Sunshine
Mary Clarke
Harry
James Clark
Marion
James Lickins
James Derrell
Findlay Iron and Steel Company
Derrell
Toledo
Ffollowey
Belmont County
Wea
Staggs
Jos. Bryson
Stryker
Williams County
John Keller
N. B. Stubbs
Suffield
Portage County
Ira H. Shanafelt
F. Geidlinger
South Bloomfield
Irna Welch
Marysville
English
Bellefontaine
Fostoria
Alexis Nolan
Milt Johnson Place
Frankie McDougall
Mary McDougall
Akron
Theresa
Tony Mohr
Cincinnati
J. W. Nicholls
Thos. M. Bigger
Knights of Labor of
Humorous Bits From 19th Century Ragbag Excerpts
A collage of old-time quips and cartoons from diverse papers, including quips about detectives, rustic humor, and social scenes. It compiles snippets: a Chicago detective joke, a pun about water and onions, a time reference, a Texas jail scene, a San Francisco belle delaying a train, and light exchange about ice at a Boston household.
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Clubbins
Chicago
Berry
Webber
Texas
Santa Cruz
San Francisco
Sam Johnson
Gabe Snodgrass
Gabe
Dar
Texas Siftings
Jacob Oopstein, Jr
Fader
Von
de Vorkmen
de Vars
Jacob Oopstein
Vich
Jacob
Boston Transcript
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Hood
B. Sanderson
Newhall St
Lowell
Amlod
Sarsaparilla
Weepar
Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Maar
ADWAY
Bradfield
Quinne
Atlanta GA
L’art de la Mode
Paris
W. J. Morse
East 19Th St
Alabama
I& Chulor
T Land & Development CO
Henry Co
Mobile
Ala
J. N. Eberle
St. Louis
Mobile . R
R.R
S. Gen
Act
Itis
Eis
Ruskirert
Gig
F Street
N.W
Washington
U. S
Chadwick
Te Holland
P.O
Phila
W. T. Fitzgerald
Oe At Law
Washington, D
Drs. Gratigny & Bushy
Elm Street
Bulalo
Llegh Ot Law
H. Boruth
Bryant’s College
N. Fe
Valentine
Janesville
Tlett’s College
Fourth St
M. Bartlxt
Praia
Usiness College
Jisvill
Zeba Wog
Kennett
Lincoln’s Inn
Burrago
Cak
I. B. Barnhart
Pettis County
Sam Dickey
Tom’s River
Johnstown
Kansas City
M. Barberienne
Henry M. Filagier
Standard Oil
Florida
Flipper
West Point
Moundsville
W. Va
Eiffel Tower
Pasteur
University of Edinburgh
Java
Michigan
George Nasez
National Department of Agriculture
Amarist College
John H. Southwark
Antwerp
Tracy
Congress
Navy Yards
Bulgaria
Manone
Virginia
Richmond
Virginia Military Institute
Emily Paxton
Pike County
Gridley
Col
Chica@o
Crespen Bank
Isthmus
Tehuantepec
Krupps
Lancaster County
L. D. Shephard
Behring Sea
Revenue Marine Service
Massachusetts
Hon. S. & Cox
Czar
Sham
Bandit
Kendall
Thomas H. Benton
Hughes
Joseph Bonaparte
Naples
Gill
Mulberry Street
Edgar F. Lincoln
Topeka
Kan
Allison
Plumb
Andrew Clark
London Hospital
Por 'Stotch
Sir Andrew Clark
England
Bill Webster
Togus
Daniel Webster
Marshfield Statesman
Libby
Massachusetts Cavalry
Lord Salisbury
Hatfield
Russia
Siberia
Pittsburgh Chronical
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