Passaic Sleepless Man and Other Notes From Abroad
News notes report Jacob Casteline, 67, of Passaic N J, claiming 20 years without sleep. A Plano Texas double murder and suicide follows a husband’s assault on his wife and her mother. A Field monument tax sale in Tappan New York. Fires in New York West Fifty fourth street and a Baltimore blaze injure many. Plus Whitney stable sale and rail crash injuries near Portland Colorado.
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Passaic
N. J
Jacob Casteline
Casteline
Plano
Tex
William Cochran
Cochran
Jane Skelton
Cyrus W. Field
Tappan
N. Y
Maj
Andre
Andre Hill
Field
Nellie Ferguson
Baltimore
John Smith
West Fifty-fourth Street
New York City
Trans- Rocky Mountain States
Venezuela
Castro
Frank Hadsell
Robert Bailey
New Marlboro
Mass
Lugnn
Hadsell
W. C. Whitney
H. B. Duryea
Morris Park
Portland
Admiral Goodrich
New York
Magdalena Bay
Mexico
Pittsburg
Utica
Fulford
Alonzo B. Cornell
Ithaca
Billow
Lockport
L. L
Little Beach Island
Biddeford
K. A. Nash
Carnegie Steel Co
South Sharon
Barber
Common Pleas Court
Toledo
Toledo Fire Underwriters’ Association
Hwlegal
Faust
St. Louis
Hubert
Barbadoes
Kelvin
Montevideo
Glassport
Pittsburg Steel Foundry Works
Fatal Brooklyn tenement fire blamed on incendiaries
A Williamsburg Brooklyn five story tenement fire killed six people, mostly children, and injured nearly twenty as alarms to other fires surfaced during rescue. Police reserves aided evacuations while firemen lowered victims from the hallway and roofs amid blazing rooms. The five Warkolsky children were found burned in a blaze filled room.
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New York
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Warkolsky
Mohawk Yard Riot Delays Railroad Connecting Work
About 150 laborers from Oneonta and Richfield Springs tried to connect their tracks with Utica and Mohawk Valley lines at Mohawk New York on Oct 18. Village officers had an order from Receiver Jennings restraining interference. firemen were driven off when water was thrown, hoses cut, and missiles hurled. State militia was ordered to help the sheriff, while the tying work continued.
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Mohak
N. Y
Little Falls
Mohawk
Oneonta & Richfield Springs Railroad Co
Utica & Mohawk Valley Railroad Co
Jennings
Fire Department
Duel on Mosby Street Ends with Two Killed in Memphis
In Memphis on Mosby street three officers chased fugitive John Pop. Pop opened fire injuring Patrolman Moncreith and Capt. Perry. Jamieson died in hospital after a rifle battle. Pop was killed during the fusillade as the pursuit continued.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mosby Street
John Pop
Jamieson
Pop
Moncreith
Perry
Double murder shocks Brookline on Boylston Street
In Brookline Massachusetts on October 18 Harry Bowles a laborer shot and killed his wife at 105 Boylston street then killed Policeman Joseph MacMurray who tried to arrest him. Bowles barred exits but was captured after police forced entry and found him hiding under a bed.
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Brookline
Mass
Harry Bowles
Boylston Street
Joseph MacMurray
Fire on a Receiving Ship Hancock
Fire was detected early Monday at the New York navy yard on the Hancock the United States receiving ship. Firemen shifted coal to reach the seat of trouble and the blaze was finally extinguished in the afternoon. The Hancock is described as the navy’s most important receiving ship.
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New York
United States
Hancock
New York Navy Yard
Episcopal bishops approve divorce remarriage ban
The Boston meeting of the Episcopal general convention saw the house of bishops adopt an amendment to the marriage and divorce canon forbidding remarriage of divorced persons. A second proposal would deny sacraments to a divorced person except in imminent death or when the innocent party asserts fault. Clergymen must follow state marriage laws and require two witnesses. A deputies’ version creating a court of review for diocesan appeals was adopted.
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Boston
House of Bishops
Episcopal General Convention
House of Deputies
San Francisco
Slow but steady progress in manufacturing and trade
Dun and Co weekly review notes gradual gains in manufacturing with more distant deliveries and fewer idle machines. Iron and steel centers improve, wholesale apparel expands, building permits rise, labor remains fairly employed, foreign commerce up, and October railway earnings up 6.9 percent year over year. Failures total 208 in the U S and 24 in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Fall River
Iron and Steel Industry
United States
Canada
Startling drug fraud disclosures hinted in Lyons case
In New York on October 18, lawyer George Battle sought release on a suspended sentence for Clarence R. Lyon a drug clerk who pleaded guilty to selling bogus goods. Battle claimed Lyons would reveal the names of those behind imitations of major drug articles potentially triggering major disclosures in the drug trade. Lyons was released after the statement.
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New York
Clarence R. Lyon
George Battle
Lyons
Battle
Burgoyne Surrender Anniversary Fetes Civil War Monument
Schuylerville N Y October 18 observations marked the 127th anniversary of Sir John Burgoyne s surrender to General Horatio Gates with the dedication of the Saratoga county civil war veterans monument beside the Saratoga battle monument.
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Schuylerville
N. Y
Sir John Burgoyne
Gen
Horatio Gates
Saratoga County
Saratoga Battle Monument
Newfoundland Gale Strands Eleven Schooners Along Coast
A weekend gale along the Newfoundland coast left eleven schooners ashore and ruined much fishing property along the seaboard near St Johns Newfoundland.
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St. Johns
N. F
Newfoundland
Kite Flying Contests at the World’s Fair Start
At St. Louis the first international kite flying contest opens with 18 entries from America England and Japan. Fourteen flyers compete and two keep kites aloft for the required two hours. J B Wardwell of Stamford Conn and Silas G Coyne of Chicago meet the duration rule. Novel kite forms are showcased.
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St. Louis
America
England
Japan
J. B. Wardwell
Stamford
Roosevelt orders action after General Slocum findings
President Roosevelt, after the General Slocum disaster report, directs removal of key steamboat inspection officials and punitive action for neglect. He calls for immediate replacement and a thorough review of the New York port inspection force to weed out unfitted personnel.
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Roosevelt
Metcalf
Washington
United States Commission of Investigation
General Slocum
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
George B. Cortelyou
Department of Commerce and Labor
Robert S. Roche
Steamboat Inspection Service
James A. Dumont
Thomas H. Barrett
New York
Commission of
United States
Department of Justice
Slocum
Knickerbocker Steamboat Co
Henry Lundberg
John W. Fleming
Lundberg
Fleming
Department
Cork Works
Camden
N. J
Second District
Boche
Port of New York
Messrs
Dumont and
Barrett
Port of
Boston Milliner founder slain in Back Bay murder
Larkin Wyman Hall a 35 year old millinery proprietor at 47 Winter street was murdered in his Back Bay lodgings Saturday night but found Sunday. Police arrested two Coast Artillery privates Fred Watson and Eugene Sennett both about 21 years old from Fort Warren, held pending investigation.
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Boston
Larkin Wyman Hall
Winter Street
Back Bay
Fred Watson
Eugene Sennett
Coast Artillery
Fort Warren
General William Scott Worth Dies at Clinton Home
Brigadier General William Scott Worth US Army retired dies after long illness at his nephew's home in Clinton Staten Island. He served in the Civil War several Indian campaigns and in Cuba.
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New York
William Scott Worth
Clinton
Staten Island
Worth
Cuba
Elwood Burton Schooner Lost in Northeast Gale
In a furious northeast gale the schooner Elwood Burton struck Peaked Hill bar Saturday morning. Captain Williams and three crew members perished.
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Highland Light
Mass
Elwood Burton
Williams
Peaked Hill Bar
Woman Recovers From Rheumatism Using Pink Pills
Mrs. E. M. De Long of Council Bluffs Iowa reports severe rheumatism in 1896 and paralysis of movement. After six boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills her joints pain and strength return, with claims the pills improve blood and nerve function and cure related ailments. She recommends the treatment and says she has had no need to use them since.
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E. M. de Long
Broadway
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Dr. Williams
Ell
Enormous pumpkins grown by Pennsylvanian gardener
John Weir of Philadelphia Misses seeds on a hillside, grows 230 pumpkins weighing 350 pounds in a tree troughs and shelves. The pumpkins, totaling nearly 400 pounds, are set for a large batch of pumpkin pies.
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Pennsylvania
John Weir
Philadelphia Vacant Lots Association
Philadelphia
Weir
Color of Adam and Eve Debate Sparks Letters
Buffalo Express notes testimony holds that Adam and Eve were colored, green at the serpent’s temptation and blue after being cast from Paradise, reflecting a playful dawn era discussion.
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Adam and Eve
Adar
Eve
Buffalo Express
Paradise
Grape-Nuts Endorsed For Convalescence And Digestive Ease
A recovering typhoid patient testifies Grape-Nuts provides all nourishment in a digestible form. The ad claims pre digested starches through grape sugar aids weak digestion, boosting strength and recovery with 10 days trial.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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Ebenezer B. Beecher
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Chicago
William F. Fette
Milwaukee
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Fette
Kanawha
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Wheaton
John Creech
Watervliet
Martin Lavendusky
Pacific States Telephone Co
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W. Va
Brooklyn Bridge
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Paul Godard
Trinidad
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Supreme Court of Michigan
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Bird
Wiley
Department of Agriculture
American Hide and Leather Co
Gen. Worth
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