Baldwin Locomotive Works Lands Russian Rail Contract
Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia wins a major order from Russian railways for forty engines, twenty passenger and twenty freight. Government-controlled Russian railways may be included, with engines designed for oil fuel rather than coal. This marks stronger American competition in Europe and follows prior work for Trans-Caucasian lines and armor plate for ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Baldwin
Central
South America
Australia
Japan
Bethlehem Iron Company
Vanclain
Russia
Bloodstone legend and sea travel tales in one page
A collage of historical snippets on superstition about bloodstone linking to Christ’s blood, jokes about city board rates, Goop cooking and economy, sea travel woes with Hostetter’s Bitters, Kilmer’s Swamp Root cures, Hall’s Catarrh Cure claims, and Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy endorsements.
Bell of Liberty Arrives in Atlanta After Southern Tour
The Liberty Bell reached Atlanta at 2 pm on Tuesday amid cannons, bells, whistles, and a citizen ovation marking the end of a patriotic southern journey. Guards from Philadelphia kept the bell safe on a special platform car as crowds swarmed Union Depot and the Pennsylvania Building for a grand ceremony with Mayor King, Governor Atkinson, and other dignitaries.
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Atlanta
Philadelphia
King
Conqurer
Union Depot
Robert Moffitt
James A. Robinson
Harry Heteroth
Francis Westphal
Quaker City
Pennsylvania
Pryor Street
Pennsylvania Building
Wall Street
Peachtree
Wall and
Warwick
Georgia Line
Exposition Grounds
Columbia
B. 0. Davis
Campbell
America
Gilmore
Mayor Warwick
Or King
Cuba
Venezuela
President Collier
Collier
Dixie
Atlanta Artillery
Georgias
Growth of the South Industrial Conditions Weekly Report
The week ending Oct. 7 shows strengthened southern iron markets from tests of low grade basic iron for steel, plus new pig iron grades boosting furnace business. Coal mining remains active with steady demand and prices. lumber, railroads, and general business are firm. Numerous new southern ventures are noted, including cotton and woolen mills, rope and twine plants, foundries, mills, and mining outfits across multiple states. capitalizations range from 20,000 to 500,000 dollars, with infrastructure projects in glass, ice, fertilizer, flour, water works, and urban utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tygert River Manufacturing Company
Woodruff
8. C
Bennettsville
9. C
Big Stone Gap Iron Co
Louisville
Capital
Texas Briquette and Coal Company
San Antonio
Texas
Pioneer Tobacco Manufacturing Company
Goldsboro
N. C
Lone Star Ice Company
Austin
Winston-Salem Granite Company
Winston
Waco
Improved
Searcrift Gold Mining Company
Petersburg
Shelby
Little Rock
Ark
Roanoke
Little Rock Ark
Moss Point
Miss
Black Mountain
Georgetown
Berkley
Houston
Macon
Dublin
Greenup
Paducah
Does Death End Divorce An Interesting Point To Be Raised
Rev Dr George Carter faces a Southern Methodist conference scrutiny in Richmond Virginia over a marriage to a Lynchburg society lady. Carter, once secretary to Pinchbeck, had a divorced husband or wife alive at the time of his union, challenging church law. Rev Alex G Brown supports the prosecution against Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Southern Methodist Conference
George Carter
Carter
South
Lynchburg
Pinchbeck
Methodist Church
Alex G. Brown
Factory Collapse Buries Forty in Bocholt Ruins
Advices from Cologne report a spinning factory in Bocholt, forty five miles from Manchester in Westphalia, collapsed burying forty workers. Ten died instantly, nine were seriously injured, with the remaining workers escaping with minor injuries.
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Cologne
Bocholt
Manchester
Westphalia
National Mission Union Convened in Washington This Month
Washington hosts the first annual National Mission Union convention with rescue workers from across the land. Justice Hagner rules on Potomac flats title cases confirming government ownership. Government receipts for ten days total 9 157 668 while expenditures reach 16 573 000, leaving a near 7 415 331 deficit likely to shrink. Mrs A S Grant plans Washington home on Massachusetts avenue near fashionable western district. Grand jury weighs case of Elizabeth M Flagler who shot a 12 year old boy, indictment not likely. Consul Chancellor at Havre urges peat industry as a new wealth source. President Cleveland may travel to Washington on the 17th then to Atlanta for expo on the 23rd with cabinet. Spencer Bates promotes Sumatra tobacco for U S wrappers, seeks seed via private sources. Carlisle and Harmon confer on filibustering moves, stronger neutrality enforcement planned. Contests for seats in Congress listed for fifty fourth Congress across multiple states.
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Justice Hagner
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Potomac Flats
A. 8
Grant
Washington
Europe
Cleveland
Gray Gables
Atlanta
E. Spencer Bates
United States
Singapore
State Department
California
Agricultural Department
Carlisle
Harmon
Gulf Coast
United States Collectors of Customs
United States Marshals
Congress
W. ©. Robinson
George P. Harrison
Alabama
W. F. Aldrich
Gaston A. Robbins
A. T. Goodwyn
James B. Cobb
T. H. Aldrich
Oscar W. Underwood
John I. Rinaker
Finis E. Downing
Illinois
W. H. Felton
John W. Maddox
Georgia
George Deny, Jr
William C. Owens
Kentucky
N. T. Hopkins
Joseph M. Kendall
H. Dudley Coleman
Charles F. Buck
Louisiana
Taylor Beattie
Andrew Price
Alexis Benoit
Charles K. Boatner
William A Booze
Harry M. Rusk
Maryland
Robert T. Horn
John C. Tarsney
Missouri
J. Murray Mitchell
Jas. K. Walter
New York
Timothy J. Campbell
Harry C. Miner
South Carolina
Joshua E. Wilson
John L. MacLaurin
Thos. B. Johnson
J. William Stokes
Jerome C. Kearby
Joseph Abbott
Texas
A. J. Rosenthal
Miles Crowley
R. L. Thorp
William’. McKenny
Virginia
George W. Corbett
Claude A. ‘Swanson
J. Hampton Hoge
Peter J. Otey
Jacob Yost
Henry St. G. Tucker
Hugh B Dknap
Lawrence Berryman
Policeman's Fatal Shot In Atlanta Incident
In Atlanta on Wednesday night Patrolman W H Hudson fired at a fleeing thief. The bullet struck an innocent white man in the head and lodged in the brain of a black man, killing the latter and seriously wounding the white man.
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Atlanta
W. 4H
Hudson
Mob Lynches Convict After Georgia Assault
A lynching occurs near Cole City Georgia after a 16 year old girl Miss Maggie Henderson is assaulted by a Black convict named Neal Smith. A mob of armed men seizes the convict from guards, shoots him fifty two times and burns the body. The case prompts an official investigation by Georgia penitentiary officials to determine how the convict was trusted. The mob conditions include mutilation of the attacker and severe injuries to the victim.
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Maggie Henderson
Zeaves
W. A.enderson
Cole City
Smith
W. A. Henderson
Winchester
Jake Moore
Moore
Judge Turner
Atkinson
Neal Smith
Captain Armes Freed as Judge Bradley Denounces Schofield
Judge Bradley of the district supreme court orders Captain George A. Armes discharged, denouncing General Schofield’s arrest as unlawful and oppressive. The ruling notes no charge existed against Armes and criticizes the president’s powers over retired officers. An appeal to the District of Columbia court of appeals is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schofield
Bradley
Washington
District Supreme Court
George A. Armes
Army
Armes
Armes, Whose Arrest and Confinement General Schofield
United States
Judge Advocate General’s Office
War Department
Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
Grand jury abstains on Butler indictment in New Orleans
An extraordinary grand jury report questions its failure to indict District Attorney Butler after Judge Ferguson’s clear charge. The foreman Revusewx G. Busz states the jury was guided by Ferguson on law about nolle prose fees, but other points influenced their action. Butler resumes control. impeachment articles are said to be in preparation.
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Grand Jury
New Orleans
Ferguson
Butler
Revusewx G. Busz
Indianapolis Democrats Win City Ticket by Plurality
In Indianapolis the Democratic ticket won the municipal election by a plurality between 3200 and 4000 votes. Republicans had carried the city by 3100 two years earlier and by 2479 on the state ticket last year. Republicans blame the defeat on enmity stirred by strict liquor law enforcement.
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Indianapolis
Real The Last Cuban Rebellion Overview
The text recounts 1858 Cuban independence efforts lasting about a decade, noting Spanish promises not kept, and the rise of a large insurgent force. It cites casualties, arrests, and atrocities, mentions foreign recognition by Mexico and South American republics, and describes events around Virginias and Santiago. The piece compares ongoing rebellion potential to the 1868 surge and questions Spain's ability to quell it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cerspedes
Spain
Mexico
United States
Santiago
Fry
Birth Month Charms and Witty Household Quips
A fragmentary page combines nursery verse on children days with January to December prognostications for wives and a brief joke about remarriage. The mix includes baking powder branding, fortunes, and a quip about a husband’s silence, framed in a humorous, domestic tone.
The Carnegie Steel Plant at Homestead Pa
The Carnegie steel works at Homestead covers 300 acres with 89 000 horsepower of developed machinery. It pays workers five times German wages and, with 4000 men, ships more freight daily than the entire Boston and Albany system. It produces six times Krupp output with 12 000 men, using natural gas for fuel and 390 electric motors in various departments.
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Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Germany
Boston and
Albany
Krupp
Street Car Horse Extinct and Grain Demand Decline
Electric railways have displaced at least 275,000 horses in the United States. A Topeka paper estimates that these horses would consume about 125,000 bushels of corn or oats daily, reducing grain demand by 45,000,000 bushels per year and cutting railroad tonnage by roughly 62,000 carloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Topeka
Money In the West and a Drug Store Fortune
A New York Weekly item tells how a fortune was made after buying a drug store for $500 and selling it for $100,000 when Prohibition hit. The piece contrasts lost wealth from bad money sense with sudden gains from shrewd speculation in the West.
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Wanderer
West
New York Weekly
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Christ
New York Ledger
Air
Hall
F. J. Canary & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Sean
Jib
Watpwg
Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
T. J. Meador
Tyner
Hood
Hood’s Pills
Ossip
National Mission Union
Capt
Democratic
Leavening Powe
U.S. Gov't Report
SUDI
Priday
Anas
The
Carnegie Steel Plant
Indianapolis Journal
Bride
McElree
Cardus
San Antonio Hospital
Kingley
D. Y. Young
Appleby, Texas
Kane
Dr. Kline
Arch St
Phila
Parker
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Tlanta
Stilson & Collins Jewelry Coc
Whitehall St
Phillips & Crew CO
Peachtree Street
Eiseman Bros
Whitehall Street
Colothiens
Bowman Bros. Fine Millinery
Savannah
Coas
O. Tyser’s
J. Stovall Smith
Corner Mitchell
Sullivan & Crichton
S & Crichton
Busines Liege
School OF Shorthand
Amet
Bumaivan & Chucityon
Kiser
Atlnnti
Bloodworth Shoe
Varitt Mfg. Co
Alanta
Moses
W. D. Beatie
Canada
W. G.T. Weymouth
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Commercial College
Sowinden
Elwood
Gs & Sass
Pearline
Kali Works
Nassau Street
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