Vast 19th Century Notes on Mills, Magic Boats, and Sagas
A collage of items: 1880s Manchester cotton mills with thousands of spindles and rising investment. canal boat trials with revolving wheels. rail and military logistics claims. comments on gems and common substances. Jewish population in the Holy Land. U S coin laws. Oklahoma population growth. Hythe window for Lionel Lukin. Columbian exposition funding. trotting horses by swimming. a giant telescope promise for 1900. Terra firmer terrier bread from wood pulp. Torre Nueva in Zaragoza. Buffalo smoke and Niagara power plans. 1664 Jupiter satellite note from Hartford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Niagara Canal and Tunnel Co
Buffialo
Rochester
Eacr
Dopiter
Massachusetts Historical Society
RB. C. Winthrop
John Winthrop
Connecticut
Royal Society
Funeral of Caroline Harrison in Indianapolis
The funeral of Caroline Scott Harrison was held in Indianapolis with a simple service at Crown Hill cemetery. President Harrison, pale and grieving, led the procession from Union Station, followed by ministers, pallbearers, and officials to the church and grave, where a final prayer was offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insprawarous
Ind
Caroline Scott Harrison
Crown ‘Hill
Indianapolis
Union Depot
Commonwealth
Union Station
John B. Elam
Judge Woods
E. B. Martindale
Lew Wallace
Dr. Allen
T. P. Haughey
Depot Square
Ohio Street
N. A. Hyde
Dr. Hyde
Pastor Haines
Washington
President Harrison
RS. McKee
Three Men Die in Air Chamber of Missouri River Bridge Work
Autos Illinois October 27 report three new hands at the Chicago Burlington and Quincy bridge site opposing the Missouri River died when they failed to operate valve doors in the air chamber 75 feet below the river surface. They were unknown and buried after the coroner's inquest on the riverbank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autos
Ill
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Missouri River
Swept by Flames Ravages Milwaukee Business District
A gale-driven blaze in Milwaukee on Oct 29 caused a massive fire that destroyed much of the business district along East Water Street and Broadway. Five alarm fires, hundreds homeless, and several deaths and injuries were reported as crews battled the blaze through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ares
Detroit
East Water
Union Oil Company
East Water Street
Buffalo Streets
Hea
Chase
Plankinton House
Nitroglycerine Factory Explosion Claims Three Dead
A nitroglycerine factory two miles south of Lima exploded at 11 00 am causing a terrific blast heard for miles. Three killed Benjamin Dowling Henry Schafnel Andy Schute and two injured William Potter Tom Matcue Benjamin Dowe. A farmhouse near the blast was wrecked and a plate glass front shattered three miles away. Two teamsters missing, bodies likely in wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lora
Lima
Andy Schute
Bradford
Benjamin Dowling
Henry Schafnel
William Potter
Tom Matcue
Benjamin Dowe
William Hooker
Metropolitan Bank
Chicago & Erie Railroad
World News Briefs From October Weel
Week ending Oct 29 items include a track pace record at Independence Iowa, a death by self harm in Lefidot, and guilty verdicts in Chester Town Maryland. Earthquake devastation in Kutai Russia and new US postal cards on sale. Tragic deaths in Kingston Ontario and Kentucky elopements in Jeffersonville Indiana. Kaiser refuses bands to Chicago world fair. Tobin College Fort Dodge dedicates with 115 students. Henry Irving jailed 74 years in Houston. Stabbing in Ashland Kentucky. Ogden Michigan birth of seventh teen child. Wyoming cattlemen’s war ongoing. Mexican comet sighting from Zacatecas observatory. Steam pipe blast in Chicago injures several. Stamboul records stock trots at Stockton. Two-year-old Palo Alto filly fastest. Fire at American Sugar Refinery in Jersey City. London confession of poisoning spree by Thomas Neill Cream. Mohican wreck near San Francisco. World’s fair machinery dome fire. Telegraph operator Heagey dies en route to Beatty. Western Union votes to raise capital to 106 million. Adams Express to operate on all Burlington lines from January. Wheat receipts across eight markets reach 119 million bushels. Albany court rules Burmese cannot gain US citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Edouard Manners
Lefidot
Chester Town
Dr. Hill
Kutai
Russia
United States
Thomas Liston
Kingston
Ont
Kentucky
Justice Keigwin
Jeffersonville
Ind
Kaiser
Chicago
Tobin College
Fort Dodge
Henry Irving
Houston
Tex
Ashland
George Cook
Vernon Taylor
Peter Minch
Ogden
Mich
Wyoming
Zacatecas
Mexico
Webster Manufacturing Works
Stamboul
Stockton
Cal
Palo Alto
Rowena
Copper Re City
N._J
Thomas Neill Creat
London
Canada
Mohican
Cook's Inlet
San Francisco
James 8. Heagey
Albany
N. Y
Fatal Cleveland Fire Claims Entire Lene Family
Fire in a two story frame building at 1941 Central Avenue consumes the Shy non family including husband wife and two children. Four bodies recovered. front room used as sleeping quarters. blaze started in or near the barn area. building destroyed and victims buried in timbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lene
Converaxp
Central Avenue
Shynon
Shannon
Snea
Joseph Koontz
Henry
Prrrenvnew
D. Ch Atnut & Co
First Avenue
Two Freight Trains Collide on River Bridge
A fiery wreck on the Wabash River bridge at Terre Haute Indiana after a through freight enters from the west and a second freight cannot stop. Two engines and several cars plunge into the river. Engineer Westry Allison missing. Brakeman Joseph Hanfis injured a brakeman. Another crewman narrowly escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash St Terre Beate
Tense Haute
Ind
Wabash River
Westry Allison
Allison
Joseph Hanfis
Epsiinear Flyn
Wrecks, drownings and a marriage reported abroad
Reports from Loxpox and Peniche describe the steamer Roumania wreck at the mouth of the Arelho river near Peniche with 113 drowned and only nine saved, while other maritime disasters near Penmarch and Douro claim more deaths. Also noted is the marriage of Miss Bettie Fleischman to Dr Holmes in Crscmmatt, with details of the groom and ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oss
Portugal
Loxpon
Arelho River
Peniche
Loxpox
Touvre
Bayonne
Penmarch
Finisterre
Lowpox
Douro
Sinfaes
Fleischman
Crscmmatt
Bettie Fleischman
Count Logothetti
Chicago
R Holmes
Scotish Rite
Mr. Thayer
Charles Fleischman
Also Mentioned on This Page
van Wert
Mateams
Lockport
New York Times
Eee
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Americas
Holy Land
Congress
Smar
Oklahoma
South Carolinas
Hythe
England
Lionel Lukin
Lukn
Admiralty
San Teencho
Gol
M. Detwoem
Torre Nueva
Plaza San Felipe
Saragossa
Aragon
Pisa
Indianapolia
Aecney Mill
Sim
President Biarrison
Denver
Frances Willard
Col
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances B. Willard
Lady Somerset
Wonan
IAMS
Pennsylvania
Maa
Prrissurce
W. L. Iams
H. C. Frick
Homestead
J. B. B.streator
J. L. Hawkins
Grimm
H.C. Frick
Sams
Tenth Regiment
Frick
Leiut
Streator
Pursamer
Tams
Porter
Snowden
Cleveland
Teachout
Curverann
M. P. Sullivan
Kate Nolan
Sullivan
A.teachout & Co
St. Jonn’s
N. F
Greenspond
Oswree
Harrison Washington
Waegixeron
Begum
Heinitz
Star District
Fersons
Bob & Kipp
J. E. Patton & Co
Ols Sad Paizia
P. Kissit
Wholazaie HL. Scheftein
J. Wellauer & Co
Miwaukee
Faba
F.P. Coleman & Co
Vilter, Maesty & Sons
Wachini Bey
No Machinery
Imbusch Bros
Fornekes & Bro
Hubert & Co
Racine
Kenosha
Stieboygan
Walker's Point Bridge
Foley
River Street
Nober Fourth Avenue
James Bergenthal
Twenty-ninth Street
Richard Gardner
Humboldt and
Auer Streets
J. H. Roesch
Garfield Avenue
Yin Witte
Avenue
Bohman Company
Bab & Kipp Furniture
Buffalo Street
Broadway
Weisel & Vitter
Bailey Foundry
City Gas Works
Wother
CureaGo
United States Secret Service
Hancock
Fay- New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
William M. Runk
Philadelphia
Emer
Sen
Cmcano
Tina Mobrings
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Huw
Keokuk
Exodus
Mra
Christiana Bordner
Lewistown
National Commission of the
Lexterox
David Dudley Field
New York
John Randolph Tucker
Washington and Lee University
Tucker
Ottawa
Til
Robert Ruleman
Arntzen’s
Ihedron
Dalton
St. Louis
George C. Smith
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Daltons
Coffeyville
Kan
Cleveland, C
Mace Dentery
China
Revue Des Mondes
Inandi
Jacques
Showmay
Joe
Binet
Sue Ee
Insuch
New AN
Potter's Field
Cmicaco
Susie Conrad
America
the Clearing Homes
Nameout
Germany
Itia
Maria Hospital
Hamburg
Baltimore
Dadley
Clubleigh
Dudley
Parkleigh
Mina
Png
Beerever
Tekst Ofice
Iy Clark Bey
SORES
Sina Michigan
Peni
Ars
North Star
Haute Uinokee
Kannan Trost
Aed , Co
Atéhinon
Kag
California
FIG Syrup CO
SAN Frarcisco
OAL
Toummins
York
Beth
Scott
Sarah
Morrow
Harlow
N.C
Moers
Basprisco
Atlanta
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