Vast, oddball miscellany fuels a curious era snapshot
A collage of stray notes and rumors spans many topics from royalty and politics to science and weather. It mentions Kaiser Wilhelm’s beard color, a Persian standard, U.S. towns named Washington, cholera notes, wild horses in Canada, a Paris executioner, educators in Tokyo, New York housing, and a Dutch Indies or American invention boom, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismmaarrck
German Kaiser
Senator Quayy
Florida
Persia
Central America
Tyrere
Washington
United States
Tokio
New York
Sam Jones
Richmond
British Columbia
Hen Peck Valley
Marshall County
Kan
M. Deibler
Paris
Tucson
Ariz
England
Manitee River
Queen Victoria
Rose du Barrichina
South Dakota
Tyr
Austria
Empire
United States Patent Office
Germany
Congress
Texas
Pascal
St. Paul
Carrollton
Rockland
Robinson
New Orleans
Popocatepetl
Mexico
Turkish Commission
Alaska
Puget Sound
Flathead
Barnard
Lick Observatory
America
North America
South America
Cuickens
J. A. Me
Vermont
Parade One Death and Black Troops Shine in Washington
Washington reports describe a grand army parade on Pennsylvania Avenue with U S regulars in artillery, cavalry, infantry and naval display. The black troopers receive praise for endurance and horsemanship, while the bicycle corps impresses with swift noiseless moves. Cholera breaks out at Camp Low with a Normannia passenger dead and others ill in quarantine.
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Washington
Army of the
U. S
Bicycle Corps
Army
Grand Army Place
Capitol
Suspected cholera case reported in Eizatetu hospital
A case of suspected Asiatic cholera is in a hospital in Eizatetu New Jersey. John Cusick, a Pole employed in Staten Island chemical works, was admitted after Sunday. Doctors expect cholera and the New York board of health was asked to send an expert. Nurses and patients fled the building Monday, and quarantine is planned.
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Eizatetu
N. J
John Cusick
Staten Island
New York Board of Health
Weather Summary for Ohio to Illinois and Nearby States
Washington dispatch reports warmer conditions in the extreme west of Ohio and in the southeast Kentucky area. Showers and fair weather in Tennessee and Kentucky, with slightly warmer readings in the southeast. Western Virginia and western Pennsylvania observed fair skies with cooler air, while Indiana and Illinois stayed fair and warmer in the far north, with winds shifting eastward.
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Washineton
Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
Prison yard accident injures Knapp at Columbus Penitentiary
Alfred A. Knapp a four year term inmate from Hamilton county narrowly escaped death when a bell broke and its flying end struck the back of his neck Monday morning. He was rendered insensible and carried to the hospital with a two inch skin wound.
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Columbus, C
Alfred A. Knapp
Hamilton County
Knapp
Famous Horse Dead at Tilden Homestead
Blackstone, the favorite saddle-horse of the late Samuel J. Tilden, died of old age at Graystone. The 32 year old stallion was found dead in the pasture after a period of feebleness that left him unable to eat.
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New York
Blackstone
Samuel J. Tilden
Graystone
Tilden Homestead
Monday's Games Record Shows Mixed Pro Results
The brief sports item lists fixtures and scores among teams including Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, Washington, Boston, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Details are fragmented but indicate outcomes across several matchups with varying point totals.
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Cleveland
New York
Pittslarch
Washngton
Boston
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Chicago
Ieee
Graveyard mix up ends in county burial scandal
In Indianapolis a pauper child named Rooker was buried at county expense. The father exhumed the body and found it hidden in a candle box while the county paid for a Christian burial. Undertaker Girtov resigned after blaming grave-digger Buckenridge. An old man Hamilton died. his wife, unable to pay, kept the corpse for two days. Buckenridge then died while digging Hamilton’s grave, and the cortege found the grave already occupied.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Rooker
Chas. Girtov
Buckenridge
Hamilton
Bank Raid at Dexter Brings Robbery to Arkansas City
Masked men robbed the bank at Dexter near Arkansas City Kansas on Monday afternoon. At 1:35 PM the cashier J W Watkins was alone when two masked robbers entered and forced him to surrender the cash from the drawer and safe after a bullet whizzed past his head. Approximately three thousand dollars were taken.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Dexter
J. W. Watkins
Explosion Destroys Ground After Gas Well Blast Near Kokomo
A gas well explosion near Jerome eight miles east of Kokomo Ind on September 20th sent a roaring flame over two acres of ground at Lily creek and Wildcat river cratered earth filled with fire. Residents were jolted from sleep as fire and debris shot skyward, flames quickly extinguished.
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Kokomo
Ind
Jerome
Lily Creek
Wildcat River
Niagara
Swineburn Island Quarantine Dispatch Report
Dr Byron reports two deaths from Scandia and one new patient from Bohemia on Swineburn island as quarantine eases. Regina Gistoff aged 66 died of heart failure Christine Delson eight months merasmus Selene Chasen sixteen-year-old among current cholera patients. Orinoco and Canada released. Bridgham from Port Antonio allowed entry.
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Byron
Swineburn Island
Jenkins
Abbott
Scandia
Regina Gistoff
Christine Delson
Merasmus
Bohemia
Selene Chasen
Orinoco
Canada
Bridgham
Port Antonio
Panther Kills Two Children Near War Saw
In Sr. Paul Minn Sept 20 a panther escaped from Bar num's circus and killed Kittie Yancy 12 and her brother while they walked with a dog through a wooded area. The dog alerted the trio and all were found dead at noon. The panther was later killed.
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Paul
Minn
Warsaw
Kittie Yancy
Barnum
Strike on Iron Mountain Branch at Van Buren Ark
Sept 20 Arkansas Valley division brake men strike after order cuts crew to two brakemen per train. Engineers firemen and conductors support the brakemen.
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Iron Mountain Branch
van Buren
Ark
Arkansas Valley
Iron Mountain Road
Doctor’s Mistake Burns Eyes With Carbolic Acid
Kokomo Indiana September 20 James Tarkington who tends eye trouble picked up a bottle he believed to be eye wash and applied it instead. The container held carbolic acid and both eyeballs were cooked destroying sight.
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Kokomo
Ind
James Tarkington
Harmless mouse trap misidentified as infernal device
A mysterious package sent to the Auditor of State Pee in Columbus was initially feared to be an infernal machine. Upon inspection it proved to be a harmless mouse trap from a facetious friend.
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Columbus
Mysterious Box At Cholera Headquarters Causes Alarm
New York City reports a mysterious box believed to hold an infernal machine received by Governor Flower at the Windsor hotel. A cholera death case is suspected at 291 North Eighth Street with two more suspicious cases on Fulton and McKibben streets. Mayor Grant seeks to halt immigration from infected European ports and urges President Harrison to enforce travel restrictions.
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New York
Asheley A. Webber
Brooklyn
Board of Health
Miss Meyer
North Eighth Street
Fulton
McKibben
Health Board
Hamburg
Altona
Grant
President Harrison
Ben J. Harrison
Washington
D. C
Newark
United States
Hvey J. Grant
Tennessee Woman Delivers Six Babies in One Birth
Exoxville Tenn Sept 17 Mrs Charles Billings wife of a poor illiterate mountaineer living in Ashe County NC twenty eight miles from the nearest railroad station has surprised the region by breaking a record in child bearing She recently gave birth to six baby boys weighing four and a half to nine pounds all alive Mrs Billings 37 has four other children born singly and Billings supports his family by hunting and fishing.
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Exoxville
Tenn
Charles Billings
Ashe County
North Carolina
Billings
Cleveland Denies St. Buzzaro's Bay Attitude Report
Editor S. E. Morse of Indianapolis was the sole caller at Gray Gables. President Cleveland dismissed rumors about his stance on tariff plank modification in his forthcoming letter of acceptance, saying the paper had no ground for the statement and no authorization to forecast such a theory.
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Cleveland
St. Buzzaro’s Bay
Mass
S. E. Morse
Indianapolis
Gray Gables
Bullet finally exits mouth after long lodged injury
Casey Illinois September 17 Jessie Gossett who was shot in the left cheek months ago has recovered but lately complains of throat soreness. Friday morning while coughing the bullet he was shot with flew out of his mouth. It was indented slightly on both sides and large enough to have torn his head off.
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Casey
Ill
Jessie Gossett
No More Immigrants to Come
Secretary Foster announced the agreement signed by steamship companies to halt sending immigrants to the United States. Tele grams urged a ninety day quarantine for all European arrivals. In New York cholera concern grows with thirty suspected cases reported in a day. Maria Sposati of 340 East 115th Street was tested and found not yet ill.
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WashineTon
Foster
United States
Europe
New York
Health Department
Maria Sposati
East 115Th Street
Louisiana's Gift Delivers $314500 State Tax Payment
Baton Rouge Sept 17 The governor received a check for the direct tax due by the United States to Louisiana amounting to 314500 dollars. Pending committee action on distribution the funds will be deposited in the state treasury under a law enacted by the last legislature.
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Louisiana
Baton Rover
United States
Quarantine to halt ships from north of Hatteras
Brunswick Ga Sept 17 Beginning Thursday all vessels from north of Hatteras will be stopped for inspection at quarantine If sickness is found aboard patients will be sent to Sapelo island.
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Brunswick
Hatteras
Sapelo Island
Collision ends in wreck of B&O train at Kent
A rear end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Pittsburgh and Western division near Kent Ohio injured eight passengers. The first section carrying G A R Nebraska and other excursionists from Omaha Lincoln Hastings Pawnee City and eastern Nebraska stalled at Allegheny. A following train failed to stop and struck the rear sleeper, crushing the end of the sleeper and injuring passengers who were just waking. Dozens suffered bruises as they were thrown about amid wreckage and shattered glass.
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Kent, O
Pittsburgh and Western
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
Washington
Western Points
Washington City
Nebraska
Allegheny
Livett
Crooks
Hardin
Sippy
Iowa City
Omaha
Lincoln
Hastings
Pawnie City
Fire destroys Cincinnati cruiser machinery at Brooklyn yard
A major blaze at the New York navy yard in Brooklyn damaged the three story wooden machine shop and the two story brick shop. Machinery for the new cruiser Cincinnati was stored there and destroyed. Loss estimated about half a million dollars. The ship was to be launched October 26.
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New York
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
National Capital Welcomes Grand Army in Blue Parade
Washington residents witness Grand Army of the Republic veterans arriving for a grand observance. The Kearsarge model ship, temporary barracks, and tents fill Grand Army Place as Maj. Michael’s replica celebrates Yankee veterans. Barracks house over 30,000 men with canvas walls and bedless bunks. meals cost fifty cents per ticket, with full three meals for a dollar.
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Boys In Blue
Washine Ton
Grand Army
Grand Army Place
White Lot
Maj. W. I. Michael
Kearsarge
Maj. Michael
Manderson
Ohio
Unconscionable Liars Van Rensselaer Testifies
Van Rensselaer recounts being deceived in Southampton by Hamburg American officials on the Normannia. He describes a preemptive denial of taking steerage passengers from infected ports before he could inquire. He and his wife endured suffering aboard the Cepheus, and he vows not to return to Europe soon.
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van Rensselaer
Southampton
New York
Europe
Cepheus
Transcontinental Air Line Scheme Proposed
Wm Dallin of Chicago, vice president and general manager of Atlantic and Pacific Construction Co, outlines an air line railroad from New York to San Francisco. Grading begins 1893 with completion and operation by 1900. New York to Chicago segment priced at 160 million dollars, Chicago to San Francisco segment at 600 million dollars.
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Detroit
Mich
Wm. Dallin
Chicago
Atlantic and Pacific Construction Co
New York
San Francisco
Chicago- San Francisco
Naval veterans press ten year immigration halt
Baltimore September 19 Naval veterans hear Rear Admiral W. E. Wells report a gain of over 2000 members in the past year A resolution asks the president to stop immigration for ten years until those already here are naturalized and civilized especially regarding health laws.
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Baltimore
Naval Veterans
W. 3. Wells
Pastor R M Deming Resigns from Tabernacle Baptist Church
Boston September 19 Rev R M Deming pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church has formally tendered his resignation. He has four calls for consideration including an invitation to join Dr Pierson at the London tabernacle of the late Rev Spurgeon. His final decision is pending.
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Spurgeon
Boston
R. M. Deming
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Pierson
London Tabernacle
Weak Quarantine Report From Aveusta Board Visit
Aveusta Maine September 19. The city board of health members return from a provincial tour and report that the dominion quarantine at St John New Brunswick is almost worthless.
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Aveusta
Board of Health
Dominion
St. John
N. B
FREE FROM CHOLERA BULLETIN REPORTS NO NEW SUSPECTS
New York health board says no suspected cholera cases since the last bulletin and no cholera deaths since Tuesday. It notes a suspected Peter Callahan case may be due to diarrhea and exhaustion, and Mary Conerty shows no cholera spirillum. Mayor Grant and officials toured quarantine areas by boat to Sandy Hook.
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New York
Board of Health
Peter Callahan
Mary Conerty
Grant
Byrnes
Martin
Police Board
J. Seargeant Crane
Bayg
Jenkins
Sandy Hook
Decrease in Hamburg Cholera Cases and Deaths Reported
Reports from Hamsure show 286 fresh cholera cases and 127 deaths on Saturday, including earlier-day totals, indicating a sharp drop in patients and mortality. Public confidence returns as concerts resume in St Paul beer garden and other venues after weeks of pause.
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Hamsure
St. Paul Beer Garden
Grave disorders reported in Corocoss Bolivia Indians sack town
Reports from Corocoss Bolivia describe a horde of Indians entering the town, sacking commercial houses, burning several, and killing many. Gen Camalbo is said to be with the Indians near Challgata while disavowing revolutionary aims in a letter to Pacheco. Meanwhile Clinton’s long bridge opens to the public after years of construction.
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New York
Corocoss
Bolivia
Camalbo
Challagata
Pacheco
Mississippi
Clinton
Clinton and Illinois High Bridge
Three Marines Injured in Navy Hospital Explosion
ForTRESS Monroe Va Sept 19 The cruiser Philadelphia rushed three men seriously injured by a Saturday gun explosion at the Naval hospital. It then proceeded to Norfolk Sunday morning and passed Newport at 4 p m
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Fortress Monroe
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Naval Hospital
Newport
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St. Louis
S. Eustis
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L’art de la Mode
W.J. Morse
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Os T Well & Clement Hepo & Ah
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Harrison, Ohio
Harrison, O
Peter Ebertz
Joseph Bernhard
State Street
Farrison, Ohio
John Knepie
Market St
Harrison, C
Dair Bros
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Citizens’ Bank
General Banking
Frank Bowles
Ueshtar
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Army Hake & Magnificent Display
Camp Low
Sandy
Sboox
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Swinburne Island
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Normannia
Convict
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Gov. Flower
New York City
the Veterans
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