Battle at Tracy City leads to deadly clash at stockade
Desperate miners assault the Tracy City stockade in Grundy county Tennessee with about seven hundred men. A guard battle ensues leaving one miner killed and five wounded. Deputy Shriver is wounded. The siege ends with miners withdrawing by morning after sustained firing and a rain delay.
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Tracy City
Tenn
Grundy
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Stockade
Baxter
Nashville
Fite
Annment
Warden Burton
Shriver
Sanders
DeJarnett
Byice
Bob Irvine
Joe Grantham
Walden
Irvine
Rey Sats
Arkansas Cyclone Destroys Boles Town Seven Dead
A cyclone struck Fourche valley in Scott county Arkansas on Tuesday, nearly annihilating Boles and killing seven people with many injured. The half mile wide path swept away structures as news reached Little Rock. A separate Osage City dispatch reports a cyclone that day caused further destruction and loss of life.
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Little Rock
Ark
Fourche Valley
Scott County
Boles
Osage City
Carlisle's Statement On Gold Payments For Silver Notes
Secretary Carlisle announced continued gold payments for coin treasury notes used to buy silver bullion, and said gold would be supplied as long as lawfully available. He noted about 800,000 in gold shipped abroad, with total U S gold reserves around 740 million, and urged public support to maintain a sound currency.
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Washington
Carlisle
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Treasury Department
Sub-Treasury
New York
Servia Installs King Alexander Elects New Ministry
Cable from Belgrade reports King Alexander declares majority and arrests regents and ministers at a palace banquet. Soldiers seize deposed officials as loyal army supports the new ruler. He dissolves the skuptisa and calls for a new election with M Doketch as prime minister.
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Alexander
Belgrade
Servia
Skuptisa
Goyptry
M. Doketch
Skuption
Fourteen Men Drowned In Lake Michigan Gale
Milwau kee special reports one of the worst easterly gales in years on Lake Michigan. Fourteen laborers on the Lake Tunnel were swept to their deaths as a crib house with engines and tools was torn from its moorings and hurled into the icy waters. Waves tossed the harbor, and debris from the crib washed ashore in the storm’s fury.
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Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Wis
Lake Tunnel
Cyclone Wreaks Havoc Across Mississippi and Arkansas
Meridian Mississippi reports a north eastern cyclone sweeping Jasper Clarke counties destroying negro cabins and farms. Homes and plantations damaged, many killed or wounded. hundreds of thousands in losses as entire families perish under debris. In Fourche Valley Arkansas the storm devastates Polles Quitman and Quitman area with buildings lifted and lives lost. railroad lines blocked and telegraph wires down.
Kansas Town Wrecked by Severe Cyclone at Osage City
A devastating cyclone struck Osage City Kansas on Tuesday afternoon destroying forty buildings and killing several people. About twenty persons were seriously injured with many likely to die. The southern area near the Santa Fe tracks bore the brunt with both business and residence structures leveled. Over one hundred houses barns and stores in suburbs were demolished. Telegraph and telephone lines were down and streets littered with debris. Damages estimated at 850000 dollars.
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Kansas
Osage City
Santa Fe
Secretary Carlisle May Stop Gold Payment for Treasury Notes
Discussion states Secretary Carlisle may halt gold payments for treasury notes under the 1890 act. Report notes the government’s stance to issue bonds only as a last resort, with gold shipments seen as pressuring bond issuance. Treasury discretion to redeem notes in silver could curb gold access and reduce monthly gold redemptions from about four million dollars.
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Carlisle
Treasury
Cregton
Treas
Secretary of the Treasury
New York Sub-Treasury
Treasury Department
New York
Department
Washington
Ways and Morase Committee
Trade Review. Weekly business report by Dun and Co
Dun and Co reports a huge gold outflow of 3.5 million Tuesday and 1 million more Saturday with expectations of further declines in Treasury reserves. Imports vastly exceed exports, bond doubts persist, and cotton goods and boot and shoe trades show weakness. Wheat prices rise in Chicago, with large receipts. pork oil and coffee mixed. Iron outlook softens in Pittsburgh, but glass and other trades hold steady. Regional results vary from brisk lumber in Minnesota to slow collections nationwide. Seven day business failures total 209, down from 233 last week and 226 a year ago.
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Dun & Co
R. G. Dun & Co
Treasury
Chicago
New York
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Kansas
St. Joseph
Sioux City
Denver Fair
Little Rock
New Orleans
Cugar
Train Carries Jefferson Davis Remains to Richmond
The funeral train bearing Jefferson Davis will stop in Atlanta on May 29 for in state viewing at the state capitol before continuing to Richmond for burial on May 30. Confederate camps statewide will attend the interment in a day Richmond historically recalls from the Civil War era.
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Jefferson Davis
Atlanta
New Orleans
Richmond
State Capitol
Old City
Supreme Court to rule on Chester liquor license fight
In a Chester case two bar keepers urge the city to issue annual licenses under the new liquor law ahead of July 1. The state’s dispensary law is challenged as the supreme court reserves decision until May 1 after hearing arguments.
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Columbia
Supreme Court
Chester
Washington Gossip Highlights in Departments
Secretary Herbert sidelined by grip while postmasters named in Georgia and several western states. Port Townsend customs warns Chinese passengers must prove exemption. Chile asylum case sparks debate. Morton crop report clarifies no major changes. World's Fair Post Office opens for collections and money order work. Civil service urges broader classified service and anti political meddling in postmasters. State Railway Commissioners convene in Washington with measures on rates and safety.
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Herbert
Grip
Navy Department
Georgia
Hancock
Burke County
J. Z. Daniels
Lang
Carroll County
W. T. Richard
Thomas
T. Flagstaff
Ariz
James H. Menefee
Arcati
Cal
George W. Harris
Wardner
Ida
John Eddy
Bloomington
Ill
Samuel A. McKnight
Flora
Albert J. Ostrander
Galesburg
Harry E. Wescott
Lacon
J. H. Brown
Leroy
Alvin Scott, Jr
Naperville
Til
Port Townsend
Washington
Egan
United States
Santiago
Chile
State Department
Hamlin
Canada
Cape Vincent
N. Y
Morton
Chicago Board of Trade
Bissell
Chicago
Civil Service Commission
Navy Yards
District of Columbia
Internal Revenue Service
Custom Houses
State Railway Commissioners
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Accounting Officer's Association
George M. Woodruff
Connecticut
Permanen
Mr. Woodruf
William S. Cantell
Edward 8. Moseley
Woodruff
Blizzard Sweeps Iowa With Three Foot Snow Drifts
Terrible blizzard strikes central Iowa beginning Thursday morning with northwest winds and dropping temperatures. Snow drifts reach three feet in places, telegraph and telephone wires down, business paralyzed as Marshalltown reports the ferocious storm. Dispatch from Honolulu notes royalists claim facts about Mr Blount and possible reinstatement of the deposed queen.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Hawaii
Kansas City Times
Honolulu
San Francisco
Blount
United States
Wonders of Olden Times in Ancient Cities and Structures
In a St. Louis Republic excerpt the sheer scale of Nineveh and Babylon is described with walls towering 100 feet, Gates and brass shutters, a vast Temple of Diana at Ephesus nearly 460 feet to the roof supports, a Titan pyramids base of eleven acres, and the Labyrinth of Egypt with 300 rooms. Thebes and other ruins are noted for colossal stones and daunting remains unmatched by modern means.
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Nineveh
Babylon
Diana
Ephesus
Egypt
Thebes
St. Louis Republic
Curious Statistics of the Blind in Europe and Russia
A St. Louis Republic report notes that Russia leads in blindness with 21 per 10 000, citing 1886 European census figures. It highlights higher female blindness in the Caucasus, Poland’s 25 men per 14 women, and compares totals across Europe and the Americas.
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Russia
Europe
European
Caucasus
Poland
Germany
France
Spain
Holland
Belgium
Great Britain
Americas
St. Louis Republic
Coloring Butter Reaches Golden Hue Across State
The article notes that most butter sold nationwide is doctored with coloring, typically annatto, to achieve a rich golden color. Natural variation due to season, cow breed, and feed means few butters are truly the color buyers expect, and initial adopters prompted widespread imitation by other merchants.
A Little Management in a Child's Bargain
In a street tale from Street & Smith's Good News the boy Little Johnny asks his mother to urge request of a bicycle before a Paris bonnet. He argues that if papa buys the bonnet first he will be too poor to buy the bicycle, but if the bicycle comes first the bonnet will follow.
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Johnny
Paris
Street & Smith
The New Bread Boosts Royal Baking Powder Use
Readers applaud the new bread made with Royal Baking Powder for its quick, light, and wholesome loaf. Testimonials from housekeepers praise ease, freshness, and anti-dyspeptic qualities, with a detailed recipe and offer from Royal Baking Powder Co. for a free cookbook.
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Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
New York
Surprising the Gas Man in Biddeford and Saco
A gas company meter reader in Biddeford and Saco was startled when a swill bucket exploded at a house. A woman, thinking the swill man was arriving, opened the door quickly. The gas man touched off a noisy reaction, and the incident ended with both men shaken but uninjured.
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Biddeford
Saco
Bangor
An Experienced Parson and a Comical Bargain
A humorous exchange ends with a minister joking about what a wife is worth. The text promotes patent medicines like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Brown's Iron Bitters as remedies for dyspepsia, malaria, and general health, touting their benefits for travelers and weak or ill individuals.
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Atlantic
Emi
Toursts
New York
Brown
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Thomson Mfg. Co
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