Tea vessels bring large cargo to Tacoma and Puget Sound
The report notes a surge in urban occupancy in Los Angeles with 600 more people than beds. New York wholesale trade surpasses seasonal highs, echoed across other cities. Tacoma, Washington reports a tea boom and welcomed the largest vessel yet to Puget Sound carrying 4000 tons valued at about 1.5 million dollars bound for eastern merchants.
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Los Angeles
New York
Tacoma
W. T
Puget Sound
Philadelphia
Mt Washington Signal Service Station Is Discontinued
An inspector in Boston announces the Mt Washington station will be discontinued next winter. The site has little bearing on surface weather and is a desolate place in winter, prompting observers to likely rejoice.
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Boston
Mt. Washington
Wisconsin Employers Digest on Immigration Regulation
A report by Hon. Frank A. Fowler summarizes about 500 letters from Wisconsin employers on immigration. Sixty three express satisfaction with current rules, seventy endorse prohibition, and the rest propose various restriction measures.
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Frank A. Fowler
Wisconsin
United States
Pension payments across seceded states exceed a million
In eight of the eleven seceded States annual pension expenditures surpass $100,000, with Tennessee above $750,000 and other states nearing or exceeding substantial amounts. Totals approach two and a half million, and payments are spread beyond cities into rural areas.
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Tennessee
Lead Region Size and Mining Prospects in Missouri
The lead region of Missouri covers an area rivaling several New England states and is far larger than Delaware and Rhode Island. Of 5,000,000 acres, only about 50,000 have been prospected for lead, with approximately one acre in 100 showing any mining effort.
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Missouri
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oil Producers Seek Binding Countrywide Production Halt
Oil producers aim to form a satisfactory binding agreement to halt crude oil output nationwide. A determined effort will be made to lift prices, but once prices rise, many producers cannot resist resuming drilling. Given diverse companies and individuals controlling oil lands, limiting production by agreement seems nearly impossible.
Cholera From Alesia Reaches New York Harbor
Asiatic cholera arrived in New York on the steamship Alesia from Naples. The ship carried 561 steerage passengers and a crew of 45, with several deaths and many sick aboard. Medical authorities said a single infected ship need not alarm the public if proper isolation and disinfection measures are followed.
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New York
Italy
Naples
Luiga Maria
Alesia
Marseilles
France
Genoa
Palermo
Sicily
Swinburne’s Island
Offman’s Island
Hoffman's Island
Castle Garden
Hamilton
Marine Hospital Service
Minnesota High License Law takes effect July first
The Pioneer Press reports the first comprehensive summary of Minnesota’s new high license law. Licenses rise to 1000 in cities over 10,000 and 500 in smaller cities, with strict penalties and state enforcement. Early data show a one third drop in saloons where the law is in force, with Minneapolis Duluth Stillwater and Winona showing sharp declines. St Paul will see effects after January 1 1888.
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Pioneer Press
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Duluth
Stillwater
Winona
St. Paul
Financial centers show no real harm from tight money Bradstreet reports
Bradstreet reviews indicate that while some merchants in New York Philadelphia and Boston feel pressure from scarce discounts and tighter loans, widespread harm to general trade is unfounded. Reports from Pittsburgh Cincinnati Detroit Chicago St Louis Kansas City St Joseph St Paul Minneapolis show no actual crisis and note steady bank customers.
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Bradstreet’s
Bradstreet
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburg
Cincinnatii
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Dingley Breaks World Bicycle Records On Roadster Wheel
At Lynn Massachusetts on the 22d of the month Frank F. Dingley of Minneapolis set world marks from 51 to 100 miles in a race against Knapp of river. He clocked 2 hours 42 minutes 89 seconds for fifty miles and then reached 100 miles in 5 hours 38 minutes 44. 7 seconds ahead of Fay of England and 25 minutes 1 second ahead of Ives of Meriden. The feat used a roadster wheel while previous records used racing wheels.
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Lynn
Mass
Frank F. Dingley
Minneapolis
Knapp
Fay
England
Ives
Meriden
Conn
California sugar king eyes beet industry in US
Claus Spreckles, the California sugar magnate, arrived by steamer and plans to study German beet sugar for a California factory to process 850 tons of beets daily and produce 40 tons of sugar. He bought 35 tons of beet seed for December shipment as he aims to make the United States a leading beet sugar producer. The Interior Department appeals backlog persists with fourteen clerks and limited adjudications.
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the Tribune
Claus Spreckles
California
Spreckles
Europe
Germany
United States
Treasury reports bond purchases yield early gains
Treasury department bond purchases show early gains while Office is 2300 cases behind and facing blockage. Hanlan the oarsman arrives Sydney after a boisterous voyage, slight sickness, no arrival celebration. Illinois jury law challenged as unconstitutional by Gen. Prayer lawyer argues to Supreme Court. Milwaukee divorce suit proceeds in California superior court. Two fatal accidents in Binghampton Dak: a boy and a 14 year old girl die from accidental gun discharges. Justice Dept special examiner cites Banks accounts delay. Indians crops vary by mixed and full blood tribes. compulsory education urged. Manitoba adds through sleeper service. New Richmond man killed by train while intoxicated. Dakota Central railway opens Faulkton to Gettysburg. Postmasters appointed in Minnesota and Montana. Internal Revenue Miller notes whiskey tax fall, beer rise. beer brands to be analyzed. French cabinet moves on expelling peace princes if manifesto circulation occurs. Captain Sears ordered to BismarckDak to Puan diy. American Board reports Ponape mission issues.
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Treasury Department
Sydney
Supreme Court
Ilinois Court
Illinois
United States Supreme Court
Fdna F. Lane
Milwaukee
Superior Court
San Bernardino County
Cal
B. Lane
Binghampton
Dak. Dispatch
Department of Justice
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Manitoba
St. Paul
Fort Assinaboine
Mont
New Richmond
Wis
Thomas Huff
Wisconsin Central
Dakota Central Railway
Faulkton
Faulk County
Miller
Rouvier
Percepe
Paris
Clinton B. Sears
Corps of Engineers
Bismarck, Dak
To &J. Pauan
Enemnes Kr
Death Order of the Chicago Anarchists
The supreme court affirms the judgment in the Chicago anarchists case and fixes November 11, 1887 as the date to execute the death sentences in Cook County. The sheriff is ordered to carry out the execution.
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Chicago
Cook
Supreme Cour
Sheriff Matson
Supreme Court
Ottawa
August Spies
Michael Schwab
Samuel Fielden
Albert R. Parsons
Adolph Fischer
George Enrle
Criminal Court
Cook County
Criminal Court of
Trial and Sentence of William OBrien in Mitchelstown
William O'Brien was found guilty under the crimes act in Mitchelstown Ireland and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. He appealed the judgment while defending his guidance to tenants asserting evictions were timed to passage of the land bill. He claimed his advice saved homes and praised his place in a long line of men who made prison a holy place.
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William O'Brien
Mitchelltown
Ireland
O'Brien
O’brien
Kingstown
Mitchelstown
Forest area totals for Minnesota and Dakota area report
The Forestry division reports Minnesota has 30,000,000 acres of forest, 59.3 percent of state area, with 2,030,726 acres on farms and 15.1 percent of farm land forested. Dakota shows 3,000,000 forest acres, 8.2 percent of territory, and 80,264 farm forest acres, 2.7 percent of total forest area.
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Washington
Division of Forestry
Agricultural Department
Minnesota
Dakota
President's Excursion Train Washington Special Details
The train will consist of three cars Allarata Velasco and Pullman private car with vestibules. Electric lighting and a small dynamo engine in the composite car. Described as hansomest train on rails ever. A Sunday paper claimed Cleveland would pay his own expenses.
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Washington
Allarata
Velasco
George M. Pullman
Pullman
Pennsylvania Railway
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Aps
Minnesota National Guard units head to Chicago camp
Col. Joseph Bobleter of the Second regiment Minnesota National Guard leads life equipped companies from Faribault Iona Albert Lea Mankato Austin St Peter and Sluth to an international military encampment in Chicago next month. The units arrive Oct 3 and will form the Second regiment band and drum corps to compete for the international battalion prize.
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Joseph Bobleter
Minnesota National Guard
Faribault
Iona
Alet Lea
Mankato
Austin
St. Peter
Sluth
Twill
Chicago
Talten
Bobleter
Dawes Urges Dakota Open Sioux Reservation for Settlement
Senator Dawes writes from Pittsfield Mass praising a bill to open 11 000 000 acres of Sioux land to white settlement and secure Indian title to remainder. He warns opponents in Dakota and urges support for a plan fair to both sides to advance territorial growth and Indian benefits.
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Pittsfield
Mass
B. G. Caulfield
Deadwood
Dak
Congress
Senate
House
Dakota
Great Sioux
H. L. Dawes
Aberdeen Pioneer notes retirements strikes and local events
The Aberdeen Pioneer reports on a retirement, Drake Marble Works strike at Sioux Falls, Yankton agency tensions, and E. E. Hamlin’s disappearance. It cites a Catholic cathedral plan at Yankton, a Bohemian farmer’s suicide near Faulkton, Sioux Falls street railway news, and a Canton railroad coroner’s inquest.
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Drake
Sioux Falls
Yankton
E. E. Hamlin
Elk Point
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Warner Weekly Sun
Fred. C. Kile
Warner
Bors Bicycler
Interior Department
William O’brien
Minnesota and
Dakota Territorial News
Sioux Reservation
Senator Dawes
W. C. Plum
Marty
George Rumpel
Canton
Barney Caulfield
Black Hills Fair Association
Charles 8. Cooley
Tower City
Judge Caldwell
Huron
Hattie B. Wright
W. Jones
Buttzville
Pleasant View
William B. Mann
Soner
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