Christ's Finishing Work Triumphs Over All Obstacles
Rev. Dr. Talmage extols Jesus finishing the mission with triumph over adversity. He notes Jesus labored from Nazareth with carpentry roots, poverty, and no formal schooling yet spoke boldly, healed the sick, commanded nature, and defeated death. The preacher warns against rejecting this mission and urges belief for eternal life.
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Gennescaret
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Sanhedrim
American Charity praised by British Quarterly Review
The British Quarterly Review lauds American charity for aiding the sick and aged and for private and public responses to disasters. It notes Americans’ readiness to fund and supervise public institutions and relief after fires, floods, and epidemics, suggesting transatlantic comparison could shame domestic generosity.
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England
British Quarterly Review
Guarding a Reputation A Moral Plea From Momelette Monthly
A sermon-like admonition extols the prestige of a good name above wealth and fame. It urges constant vigilance against scandal and indiscretion to protect one’s reputation for Christ and society, warning that a single act can destroy years of virtue.
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Earth
Momelette
Sanctified common sense and sound judgment in faith
A preacher urges sanctified brains alongside holy hearts to improve church life. He envies balanced minds, prayers for discernment, and disciplined teaching to enhance financial resources and spiritual work across congregations. He calls for awakening and reform in Our Church Home.
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Israel
The Small Blade’s Promise and the Hardened Stone
A reflective piece contrasts a humble blade sprouting near the earth with a great dead stone beside it. It argues growth is possible from small beginnings and urges youths to seek higher aims, better associates, and progress toward worthy goals.
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Jref. Drummond
Riot In Chicago as Pinkertons Fire on Crowd Killing Man
The Chicago stockyards strike ends with Pinkerton guards firing into a dense Halsted street crowd. Terence Begley dies from a gunshot as 160 Pinkerton and 40 non union guards are arrested after the attack. Witnesses allege rocks and a pistol preceded the volley.
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Cucaco
Halsted Street
Terence Begley
Armour
Frank Joy
Thirty-ninth Street
Halsted Street Crossing
Lake
Wallace Street
Central Station
Twenty-second Street
Harrison Street
William Pinkerton
Robert J. Bartram
R. D. Loomis
Guy Seivers
Emmons—Shaw
Joseph Hill
Walter Andrews
Commission
Cudahy
Burke’s Hall
Barry
Richmond
Blazing Forests Ravage Acres Across Regions
The wire reports widespread fires in New Jersey and surrounding areas. In Grange Mountains about thirty acres burned threatening homes. Mercer County bear swamp and Sussex timberlands in flames. Lawence Mills and nearby farms battled to protect property. Akron notes four hundred acres burned in Cope ly swamp. total eight thousand acres afire. culprit youth started the blaze. Densritu prairie fire roars back into mountains destroying houses and vast timber and hay. over 100 square miles burned with losses expected above one million dollars. mountain towns saved by citizen effort.
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New York
New Jersey
Grange Mountains
Mercer County
Lawrence Mills
Sussex County
Blue Ridge
Cleveland
Akron
Copely
Densritu
D. T
Broadway Bribery Arrests Shuffle Rail Plan
Jake Sharp of Broadway railway notoriety was arrested on a bench warrant after grand jury indictment for bribing aldermen to back the Broadway railroad franchise. James W. Foshay and James Richmond were also taken into custody. bail set high but bonds posted and all released.
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New York
Jake” Sharp
Broadway Railway
Grand
Broadway Railroad
James W. Foshay
Broadway Road
James Richmond
Sharp
Foshay
Richmond
Failure of a Milling Firm in Boston
The D. R. Sparks Milling Company assigned to F. D. Melner of Litchfield Illinois. Dorr Allison & Co. vice-president and director, whose firm failed yesterday, own National Mills in Alton Illinois and elevators at Carrollton Medora and Plainfield Illinois. The failure stems from a poor wheat crop and low flour prices. liabilities not stated and capital listed at 125000 dollars. Dorr Allison & Co. liabilities given as 13000 pounds. French infantry to be equipped with new rifles costing twenty million dollars next spring.
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Boston
D. R. Sparks Milling Company
F. D. Melner
Litchfield
Dorr
Dorr, Allison & Co
Allison
National Mills
Alton
Carrollton
Medora
Plainfield
Five Men Killed in Railroad Wreck Near Fairfield
A Burlington & Missouri River construction train plunges down a 25 foot embankment nine miles from Fairfield. Five men die and nine are injured. Among the injured is John Fitzgerald, president of the Trish Land League in America.
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Lincoln, Neb
Fairfield
John Fitzgerald
Trish Land League In America
American Fat Stock Dairy and Horse Show Opens in Chicago
The event will be held in the real Exposition building with dates November 8 to 14. Organizers anticipate a major exhibition of fat stock dairy and horses across multiple classes and competitions in Chicago.
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Chicago
Real Exposition
Haddock Murder Theory Deepens as Bismarck Confesses
Sioux City police reveal Kosnitski known as Bismarck has confessed to aiding a saloon plot and to witnessing the fatal shot, corroborating Leavitt's account. He says a brewer Arensdorf and others plotted the crime, while another man fired the shot. Otto Greiber corroborates the shooting scene.
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Bismarck
Leavitt
Arensdorf
Drs Moines
Haddock
Sioux City
Kosnitski
San Francisco
Larrabee
Sylvester Gauder
George Treiber
Fourth
Waller
Peters
Gander
Weiber
Gauder
Otto Greiber
Greiber
Statue of Liberty Unveiling Preparations Under Way
The Bartholdi statue is nearing completion with an October 28 unveiling. Fireworks will light Liberty and Governor’s Islands and calcium and colored lights will illuminate the fortifications. A vast naval parade led by the Dispatch with President Cleveland and Admiral Luce is planned, with a grand marshal and aides named.
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New Yor
Bartholdi
Liberty
Governor's Islands
Old Castle William
North Atlantic Squadron
Dispatch
Cleveland
Luce
General Stone
Brooklyn
Fire at Columbus prison wheel shops devastates buildings
Fire swept the Columbus wheel shops inside the penitentiary walls early this morning, spreading to the J. W. Dann Company chair shop. The wheel shop walls collapsed, trapping workers briefly. State losses reach 20000 dollars for buildings and 20000 for contents. no insurance on the structures.
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Ohio
Columaus
Columbus
Penitentiary
J. W. Dann Company
Knights of Labor Adjourns After Broad Reforms
The Knights of Labor general assembly in Ricamono Va adjourned after adopting the Committee on Woman's Work report. It created a women’s investigation body led by Lenora Barry with Mary Hanafin as president and Mary O'Reilly as vice president. Resolutions called for mercy for seven condemned Chicago anarchists, endorsed peaceful reform, and funded practical cooperation. The group urged legislations on land money railroads telegraphs and demanded limits on Congressional or state legislators acting as attorneys in relevant cases, along with silver coinage to the legal limit and woman suffrage.
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Ricamono
General Assembly
The
Knights of Labor
Committee
Mary Hanafin
Mary O'Reilly
Nettie Hardison
Lenora Barry
Committee On Co-operation
Congress
United States
China
Baltimore & Ohio and
Pennsylvania
Powderly
Illinois Silk Industry Emerges With Department Machinery
The Department of Agriculture started silk-reeling machinery to cheapen silk production by replacing hand labor. Illinois leads cocoon receipts with others including New York Ohio Missouri and Kansas. Cocoons pay up to $1.50 per pound with Illinois producing high quality lots.
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Wastixeron
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
United States
Illinois
New York
Ohio
Missouri
Mississippi
New Jersey
Texas
Louisiana
Kansas
North Carolina
Department
Elections Set For November 2 With Races in Many States
The first Tuesday in November selects state officers, Congress members and state legislators in California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Illinois Indiana Kansas Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas Wisconsin. Some states elect only Congressmen Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Oregon Rhode Island Virginia. West Virginia and Florida pick Congressmen and state legislators. Illinois votes on a prison contract amendment. Minnesota on county and school building amendments. New York chooses Court of Appeals judge Assemblymen and Congressmen and may vote on a constitutional convention.
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California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Miinois
Indiana
Town
Kansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Gampshire
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Oregon
Rhode Island
Virginia
West Virginia
Florida
Illinois
New York
Court of Appeals
Contagious Diseases in Japan and Pacific Crimes Reported
News from October finds cholera raging in Japan with 9500 new cases and 6200 deaths between Sept 16 and 26. Tokyo shows 560 cases and 606 deaths while Seoul appears to have seen the disease fade. Smallpox hits Okinawa with 257 cases and 47 deaths. Pirates and clashes near Tonquin are noted, and Geronimo is to be shipped to Fort Pickens, Florida, with others moved to Fort Orion.
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San Francisco
City of Peking
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Japan
Tokio
Seoul
Corea
Okinawaken
Geronimo
Florida
Washcton
Secretary of War
Sheridan
Fort Pickens
Fla
Fort Orion
Watery Graves Toll in Gloucester Fleet Losses
Since September 1885 twenty six Gloucester district vessels totaling 1 761 000 tons valued at 164 000 dollars have been lost. The catastrophe has claimed 104 lives leaving twenty two widows and fifty fatherless children.
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Gloucester
Mass
Edmunds Accepted as United States Senator
The Vermont legislature met in joint session and completed the election of Hon. George F. Edmunds as United States Senator for six years from March 4, 1887. Edmunds addressed the assembly to accept the office.
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Edmunds
Afonrage Limt
Joint Assembly
George F. Edmunds
United States
Bill Mustered In in a Brave Civil War Tale
The poem recalls Bill a farmer’s lad who joins a volunteer regiment as a raw recruit and earns honor through valor at Gettysburg in July 1863. It contrasts his awkward start with his brave end, ending with a wish for a peaceful rest among brave men like Bill.
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Bill
Stumpter
Mongst
Buttine
Old Bay
Gettysburg
Southern press calls for 1888 Democratic Nominating Voice
The Alexandria Gazette argues the South must name the Democratic presidential candidate, strong in electoral power and distrustful of New York control. It cites Carlisle as the South’s favored choice, warns Northern Democrats, and predicts a declared sectional fight at the National Convention.
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Democratic Party
Alexandria
New York
South
Newark
New Yorker
Carlisle
Kentucky
Mr. Cleveland
Bayard
Gazette
Cleveland
Political Notes From a Newspaper Collage
A compilation of editorials and commentary snippets from Detroit and Indianapolis newspapers criticizing government and civil service reform. Highlights include Garland’s absence, Charleston’s recognition, civil service doubts, and Benedict’s printing office measures amid party politics.
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Garland
Detroit Tribune
Cleveland
Charleston
Bev
Indianapolis Journal
Manning
Republic
Via Media of Truth
Buffalo Express
Bea
Benedict
Democratic House of Representatives
Benedict Hag
Hag
Mail and Express
Outrageous Discharge of Civil War Veteran Captain Sheibner
The Chicago Tribune denounces removing Captain Sheibner from a government clerkship after twenty years service including firing the first Union gun at Fort Sumter. It accuses Collector Seeberger of pursuing party goals over merit and patriotism, calling the action wanton and unpatriotic.
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Ellsworth
Andrew Green
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Port Sumter
Sheibner
Union
United States Military Service
Fort Sumter
Chicago
Seeberger
Scberger
Democratic Party
Chicago Tribune
Reform in Washington Targets Postal Service and Engraving
Post Office Department reports general orders criticizing lower grade railroad mail staff for rule violations and misconduct. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing replaces chief engraver O'Neill amid alleged counterfeit silver certificates, with experts noting implausible timing and calling for explanation or investigation.
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Washington
Post Office — Department
Cleveland
Post Office Department
Bammers
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
O'Neill
Casilear
Treasury Department
Chicago Tribune
Cleveland Criticized for Favored Appointments and Spending
Editorials denounce President Cleveland for appointing relatives including Benny Folsom to Sheffield and for alleged nepotism. Critics say he violated Civil Service norms by politics and mock his restraint while spending lavishly on a private palace for his wife, contrasting with his public charity.
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Cleveland
Benny” Folsom
Sheffield
England
Whitney
Manning
Lamont
Mikado
Japan
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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