Tur Governors Brothers Share Idaho Nevada Link
Tur governors of Idaho and Nevada are brothers. The mail routes in operation in the United States total 375000 miles. An estimated 709000000 will enter new U.S. buildings this year. One hundred thousand more shad were taken from the Hudson River between Albany and Peekskill this year than any prior season. A Russian Pacific railroad is contemplated and five years are needed to build the line. When finished the world can be traversed in fifty three days.
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Tur
United States
Hudson River
Albany
Peekskill
New England
England
Frank Vincent
South America
Europe
Ecuador
National Bank
Peru
Vanderbilts Lease English Estate During Global Watching Trip
W K Vanderbilt leased Lord Lovatt's country seat in England for two months at five thousand dollars per month. The arrangement is a small episode in the Vanderbilt party's around the world watching trip.
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W. K. Vanderbilt
Lord Lovatt
England
New York Real Estate Assessment Rises in 1887 Figures
New York's assessment polls show the assessed value of real and personal estate for the present year to be $1,507,640,668, an increase of $86,672,377 over the 1886 assessment.
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New York
Revised Bible Fails to Sell in Public Demand
A Privapetruia publisher notes the revised Bible has fallen flat with hundreds of thousands still on shelves. He says people cling to the Bible of their fathers and mothers and will not buy the new edition at any price.
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Privapetruia
Pullman
New York
Liberty
London
George Bilwaull
Bank of England
General Sheridan Denies Notion of Dead Indian Policy
General Philip Sheridan told a New York reporter he viewed the Indian as an uncertain quantity and denied ever uttering the oft-quoted line that only a dead Indian is a good one.
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Sheridan
New York
Steel steamships ordered for Duluth to Buffalo line
The Globe Iron Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland will build six steel steamships for the St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company at a cost of 300000 dollars each. The vessels will form a line between Duluth and Buffalo.
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Globe Iron Shipbuilding Company of
Cleveland
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company
Duluth
Buffalo
Growth of Grand Army of the Republic Surges in 1886
Statistics show the Grand Army of the Republic united with 25,000 new members in 1886. First quarter reports of the current year suggest even stronger growth. The order now reports a membership of 350,000.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Order
Railroad telegraphers seek license bill for train direction
The telegraphers demands a Congressional bill to make it a penal offense for any railroad to employ a telegraph operator directing passenger trains without a government license.
Novel coal transfer craft to ship holds near ready
The Pittsburgh manufacturer describes a nearly finished craft for rapid coal transfer from boats to vessel holds. Capable of handling 50,000 bushels daily, it will be sent to New Orleans for use there. Draft is two feet and cost about $10,000.
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Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Salary Totals For Leaders Drawn In Public Notice
Dr. Marvin Green of the Western Union Telegraph Company and Chauncey M. Depew of the New York Central railroad earn $50 000 annually. The best paid New York minister is Dr. John Hall with a weekly speaking reach described as $200 000 000, plus a salary of $20 000 and an additional $5 000 in writing.
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Marvin Green
Western Union Telegraph Company
Chauncey M. Depew
New York Central Railroad
New York
John Hall
Woman Rescues Drowning Girl in New Jersey Pond
Mrs Epward Humpureyes of Bergen Point New Jersey a descendant of Benjamin Franklin witnessed a girl drowning at a nearby pond in Southampton Long Island and without help saved the child though she almost fainted from the exertion.
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Epward Humpureyes
Bergen Point
N. J
Benjamin Franklin
Southampton
L. L
Washington News Roundup From The Week
Reports from Washington note Mayor Francis of St Louis visiting the White House with Missouri guests and inviting President Cleveland to visit St Louis in October. The Interstate Commerce Commission rejects commercial traveler fare cuts as unjust discrimination. Internal revenue for the year reaches $118.84 million, up $1.93 million. The President plans a tour including Chicago and St Louis among others. Pleuro pneumonia stamping shows strong progress. Seven day US business failures total 162, Treasury surplus stands at $45 million with daily receipts over $1 million.
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Washington
Francis
St. Louis
White House
Cleveland
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Tur
Chicago
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Omaha
Kansas City
Atlanta
New Orleans
Tut
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
United States Treasury
Treasury
Floods and fires sweep towns and strike waves in the East
Reports detail floods in Deposit New York on the 26th washing Main street and damaging stores. Beverly Massachusetts sees failed strike settlement in shoe industry. Erie track washed away near Susquehanna Pennsylvania. East and Reading area flood losses mount with estimates around 150000 in and near Reading. Multiple drownings and a fatal Ridgewood Reading crash are noted along with storms and a Philadelphia bank failure.
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Deposit
N. Y
Main Street
Beverly
Mass
Susquehanna River
Susquehanna
Pennsylvania
Finr
Andover
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Great Barrington
Philadelphia
Reading
Spring Valley
Mary A. Kearney
Catherine
Hirsch Harris
Rabbi Harris
Brooklyn
Napoleon
Moscow
Massachusetts
Boston
Ridgewood Station
New York
Wth
Johann Most
Lehigh
Tures
Katy Hallinan
Delia Welch
Maggie Toomey
Concord
North Belle
Eienty
Pinkerton
Wsth
Franklin Falls
N. H
Snow & Co
Towanda
New England
Columbian Bank of
Storms, fires, and crimes reported across the U S
A Moorhead Minnesota wind storm unroofed buildings and damaged crops while a freight car was struck by lightning killing forty mules. John Taylor dies in Salt Lake City age seventy nine. In Chicago boodlers trial witnesses expose wholesale fraud. Girard Allen estate valued at six million with bequests. Russell Arkansas storm ruins crops and damages houses. Comry of Toledo dies aged fifty five. A misplaced switch causes fatal accident at York Indiana. savings bank at Leavenworth Kansas suspends after director absconds with forty thousand. Armour beef house fire at Chicago Stock Yards. Fires burn buildings in Georgetown Kentucky. Lee Jacobs of Atlanta commits suicide after quarrel over sewing buttons. Riverside Iron and Steel Company of Cincinnati files for assignment. Leavenworth Times editor assaulted publicly. A son shoots his father near Falmouth Kentucky over wheat share. Lightning kills three gamblers in Bert ram Texas. Maryland Democrats nominate Elihu Jackson for Governor. Charnel Winway fatally shoots landlady then kills himself. A stockman arrives at Chicago Yards with cattle to sell. conditions unsettled. A railroad accident near Hopedale Michigan kills twelve, injures twenty.
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Moorhead
Minn
Tne
John Taylor
Brigham Young
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Times
Girard B. Allen
St Louis
Hoa
Russell
Ark
J. M. Comry
The
Comercial
Toledo
Baltimore & Ohio
York
Ind
Tur Citizens’ Savings Bank of
Leavenworth
Kan
R. P. Clement
Armour & Co
Chicago Stock Yards
Zimes
Georgetown
Lee Jacobs
Atlanta
Riverside Iron and Steel Company
Cincinnati
D. R. Antun NY
Boni
Jous Nuave
Falmouth
Bertram
Tex
Maryland
Baltimore
Jonce Luxen
Reuben Cole
Surrey County
Reuben Johnson
Ooren
Chicago & Aston
Hopedale
Tedan
Various Disasters and Political Moves Across States
A State Bankers Association organized in Des Moines with George L. Tremain at the helm. A cyclone hit Anson Texas causing $40,000 damage. in Haskell many houses were destroyed with injuries. Mine fatalities occurred near Brazil Indiana. Lincoln Nebraska fires caused $100,000 loss. Jewelers Newer Martsoy died in Clinton Connecticut. The Ohio Republicans endorsed Foraker and Sherman for President. Wisconsin Veterans' Home site chosen at Waupaca. Heat waves, fires, and drought plagued multiple states with extensive property losses and casualties. International notes include the John A. Lawrence disaster and Papal stance on labor questions. Weather and warlike events finished with a broad sweep of incidents across the country.
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George L. Tremain
Humboldt
Iowa
Des Moins
Anson
Tex
Haskell
Somers
Newton Little
John Smith
Brazil
Ind
Hemphrey Bros
Lincoln
Neb
Martsoy
Chicago
Clinton
Conn
National Prohibition Committee
Tur
Ohio Republicans
Toledo
J. B. Foraker
W. C. Lyon
William T. Spear
F. J. Dickman
E. W. Poe
J. C. Brown
Sherman
Tue
A. R. of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Veterans’ Home
Waupaca
Illinois
Cincinnati
Josreph Ricu
Richmond
Tar Wells & French Company
Key West
Ersen
Nelson Trudeau
Mason City
George C. Kleim
Indiana
Davie City
Tne
Nebraska City
Nev
Kansas City
Louisville
Omaha
Champaign
Hamburg
Leavenworth
Kan
State League of Ohio
Republican
Daniel Ryan
Scioto
National League
John Sherman
Ohio Republicans Nominate Foraker and Sherman's Backing
At Toledo memorial hall the Ohio Republican convention solidified support for Governor Foraker for re election with a strong push for John Sherman as a national candidate. The platform denounces Cleveland era policies, endorses protective tariffs, voter equality, and immigration controls while pledging aid to veterans and public works.
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Tokyo
Memorial Hall
Allan Beinsmade
Republican State Committee
W. W. Williams
Beinsmade
Republican Party
Ohno
Foraker
Sherman
Blaine
Toledo
Brinsmade
Dan J. Ryan
Scioto
J. C. Donaldson
F. M. Aiternolt
Summit
A. T. Brinsmade
Cuyahoga
Charles Grosvenor
Keifer
Committee On
United States
J. G. Munson
Zanesville
Ohio
John Sherman
Lincoln Club
Piqua
Europe
Congress
North
South
Republic
Cleveland
Secretary of the Treasury
Union
Gladstone
Purnell
Ireland
Democratic Party of
Indorse
Cleveand
Democratic Party
Oho
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh
Humorous Snippets and Notable Lines From Local Wit
A collage of light anecdotes and quips quotes from Siftings style humor. Topics include courtship delays with Hostetter and Mollie Moberly in Austin Texas, Dutch family pride in New York, a landlady humor note, and a wine cellar project at Senator Stanford’s vineyard near St Helena California with a capacity of 1 700 000 gallons.
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Senator Stanford
St. Helena
Cal
Train wrecks kill and wound dozens in multiple states
A Chicago and Alton freight collided with a construction train near Hopedale causing many deaths and injuries. Names of the dead and wounded are listed, with relief crews arriving as officials investigate. Separate wrecks in Yous, Ind and Pennsylvania also report fatalities and injuries, amid signals and switch tampering allegations.
Destructive Storms Hit Pennsylvania and Nearby Areas
Reports from Rhuapina Colesville and surrounding counties describe the severest storm in years with railroad and private property damage totaling about 15 000. Water works and tracks were lost at Colesville. trains washed out and fields flooded across the region. Several towns report homes barns and mills struck by lightning and submerged lower floors. In Schuylkill falls and Manayunk floods, losses exceed 10 000 and culverts and streets are ruined. Across New York and in Texas lightning fatalities occur with injuries and deaths reported in multiple localities.
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Rhuapina
Colesville
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill
Misku Street
Manayunk
New York
Brrrnam
Tex
G. A. Phinney
M. B. Sinclar
Quinn Sanford
Tragic double death in Grand Rapids over unpaid board
Charles J. Weinman a former Metropolitan Insurance agent from Paterson New Jersey shot and killed his landlady Mrs Susan Honfoly over fifteen weeks unpaid board then killed himself. Mrs Honfoly a 56 year old widow. Weinman leaves a wife and family in Paterson. Whither he was about to return.
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Grand Ramps
Mich
Charles J. Weinman
Rhea Metropolitan Insurance Company
Paterson N. J
Susan Honfoly
Weinan
Telephone Syndicate Wins China Telephony Concession
Count Mitkiewicz representing a Philadelphia syndicate secures a fifty year Chinese decree granting control of a national telephony system. The Chinese government buys half the stock and envoys will tour America to negotiate. Wharton Barker of Philadelphia is named in the decree.
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J. C. Greadner, Jr
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McKinley
Silas A. Conrad
Stark County
Captain Lyon
Pringle
Conrad
Lyon
Major McKinley
Supreme Bench
Grosvenor
Joseph W. Bradbury
Ironton
Franklin J. Dickiman
Cuyahoga County
Dickman
Alphonso Hart
Highland County
Frank J. Esker
E.W. Poe
Bowling Green
Boothman
Bryan County
C. C. Baker
New Lisbon
P. C. Young
Columbiana County
W. L. Curry
Union County
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Marysville
Danforth
C. L. Poorman
Bellaire
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Cyrus Huling
Columbus
Joshua K. Brown
Erie County
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McBride
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Delavan
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Frank Drike
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August Kadel
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W. Kenney
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Hiad
Sherman Atkins
Thomas Kavanaugh
Frank Holmes
Loomington
Thomas DeLong
Maher
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Orendorf Bridge
We.k
Debavan
Yous
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Bugneer C Cramer
South Chcago
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Garrett
W. K. Devine
Grafton
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Floxvene
Pittsburgh & Western Railroad
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Pollack
Texas
China
Citizens’ Savings Bank
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Susan Reed Howland
W. W. Howland
American Board
Jaffna
Ceylon
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