New Justice Rufus Peckham Named to Supreme Court
Rufus W. Peckham is named associate justice of the supreme court. The Albany native, 58, is the son of the late Justice Rufus W. Peckham who served as district attorney and supreme court justice. The article traces his rise, political activity, and anticipated confirmation.
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Ustice
Rufus W. Peckham
Supreme Court
Albany
Albany County
Congress
Peckham
Ville de Havre
Albany Academy
Peckham & Rosendale
Tilden
Court of Appeals
Onondaga County
Hill
Maynard
Wheeler
$15,000 Gravel Walk Sits Amid St Louis Business
A St Louis coffee firm owner builds a gravel walk valued at 15000 dollars using Brazilian pebbies imported through regular shipments. The project showcases a humble yet notable urban feature amid the firm’s trading of green coffee beans and related goods.
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St. Louis
Bicycles and Baggagemen
Denver baggagemen complain about un tipped bicycle riders on the Rio Grande line. July checked 1 664 wheels, averaging over 53 daily, prompting calls for tips or a transport fee to ease fatigue on the staff.
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Alfred Hasmer
Denver
Centropolis
Denver and
Rio Grande
Kansas City Times
A Picture of Abdul Hamid II Sultan of Turkey
The article sketches Abdul Hamid II aged about fifty one, tall yet stooped, and famed for mystery about his private life. It notes Armenian outrages heightening his paranoia and assassination fears for eighteen years. Those granted private audiences describe his voice as soft and his manners as courteous.
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Abdul Hamid II
Turkey
Bosphorus
Heroic Policeman Rescues Rag Baby From Well
Policeman Pontius of Roxborough and Officer Clegg rescue a rag baby from a disused well on Monastery avenue after a distressed call from a color woman. The crowd assists lowering Clegg to the bottom and pulling him up with ropes to recover the improvised infant. The hoax is revealed by a nearby laugh as the prankster watches.
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Pontius
Roxborough
Monastery Avenue
Clegg
Terra Firma
Pittsburg
Senator Wetmore Elected U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Hon George Peabody Wetmore about fifty from Rhode Island was elected United States senator on June 14 1894 by unanimous vote of Republican lawmakers in the Rhode Island legislature. He has previously served as governor of the state.
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George Peabody Wetmore
Rhode Island
Wetmore
United States
Banner County claims GOP banner status in Kentucky county
The mountain county of Leslie in Kentucky proclaims itself the banner Republican county in the United States. It reports Bradley receiving 786 votes to 70 for Hardin in the recent election.
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Banner County
Leslie
Kentucky
United States
Bradley
Hardin
Dog Watch Keeps Vigil as Texas Boat Murders Baffle Officers
In Paris Texas marshals investigate a grim massacre aboard a shanty boat on Wild Horse Creek near the Indian Territory. Three men and a boy killed, clothing burned, dog guarding the scene, no clues, suspects unlikely to be caught. Names tied to the victims include E C Conody and Henry Thomas Rice. boat origin traced to Clifford at Ragsdale Texas. Officers pursued a dog to the scene and recovered the animal.
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Paris
Tex
United States
Williams
Arthur City
Red River
Wild Horse Creek
Indian Territory
Tom Carter
Arthur
Marshal Williams
Jim Chancellor
Red Harper
E. C. Conody
Conody
Chicola
Henry Thomas Rice
Clifford
Ragsdale
Maddox
Atlanta
Bachelors Run Haze Initiation Of Married Member
A Cincinnati Enquirer report describes A. H. Gillespie, a newly married bachelor, being forced into a Queen’s ware crate and paraded through the streets by the Bachelors club. He endured face blackening and marching, then fainted during the ritual but was reported fine the next morning.
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A. H. Gillespie
Knight of the Orient
Cincinnati Enquirer
Prohibitionists Plan Music and Coffee Rally in Flint
In Flint Michigan the prohibitionists prepare a counter attraction to saloons for Saturday afternoon. A church will be opened to serve music and hot coffee to farmers and traders who come into town.
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Flint
Mich
Return to Jersey City Mirrors Enoch Arden Tale
A New York paper reports a man who after ten years away returns to Jersey City to find his wife remarried. The incident is described as paralleling Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Enoch Arden in vivid terms.
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New York
Jersey City
Enoch Arden
Henry W. Longfellow
Bold Women In The Prize Ring Fashion And Boxing Insight
The piece notes boxing as a popular sport among stylish women and cites Professor De Soto on female strength and self defense. It describes boxing costumes in vivid terms, highlighting red moire gray outfits with scarlet accents and black and white ensembles with fitted skirts, striped jerseys, and elegant hosiery.
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de Soto
Chicago Chronicle
The Average Murderer’s Cheerful Endurance
Washington Post reports a paradoxical calm in condemned killers like Harry Hayward of Minneapolis. It notes weight gain, restful sleep, and hearty appetite as evidence of mental state, while contrasting isolated cases of fear before execution.
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Harry Hayward
Minneapolis
Hayward
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Fitz
Jim
Washington Post
London Postoffice Cats Story of Cat Colony at St Martin's-le-Grand
The postoffice estimates include a sizable annual sum for cat meat to feed a colony of cats at St. Martin's-le-Grand. Nobody knows exactly how they arrived, but it is thought their ancestors were from private offices razed when the G. P. O. was built and later became strays housed by the rising walls.
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London Postoffice
Postoffice
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
France Pays for Rights to Dig Up Antiquities
The French government paid the Persian shah 10000 dollars for permission to excavate antiquities across the ancient empire. Archaeologists believe the sites contain treasures from biblical cities and may surpass any earlier discoveries in value.
Labor Unions Form Central Body and Expand Reach
Camden unions unify into one center while Chicago bricklayers join a national union. The International Printing Pressmen’s Union backs the AFL with 2500 members. Journeymen Tailors move headquarters to Bloomington Illinois. Counterfeit cigar label fine paid in Chicago after local cigarmakers’ union action.
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Camden
N. J
Bricklayers
Chicago
Co-operative Society
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Board of
American Railway Union
International Printing Pressmen's Union
American Federation of Labor
National Union of Retail Clerks
Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America
Bloomington
Ill
St. Louis
Joseph Bernstein
Cigarmakers’ Union
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