World News Digest Widespread Unrest and Disasters
A warrant is issued for Franklin county Ala tax collector R Tompkins on embezzlement charges. Derbyshire Derbyshire miners resume work under old terms. A skiff capsizes near Collingwood Ontario. eight die. Wheeling WV runner Zimmerman sets time record. Dolcoath mine shaft collapse entombs 80. 72 escape. New York reports ten smallpox cases including Dr Richards. Saskatchewan freighter destroyed by fire valued 25000. Dr Charles Pierce commits suicide in Dover NH. W County NY Van Amber nominated for assembly. Montgomery steamer boiler explosion kills crew. Lakewood NY fire damages barns and power plant. Haggerty nominated for NY state senate. Leonardi indicted for murder in Amsterdam NY. Fulton KY dispatch notes no train robbery truth. Judge Putnam acquits Maverick bank ex-president for insufficient evidence. Utah statehood bill advanced. Riots in Hednesford England. police repulsed. mob in control.
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News Of The Week Capsule Sept 20 26 1890
Nine killed and twenty wounded in a Big Four collision near Manteno Illinois. Flood damage along the Rapidan in Virginia. Cholera deaths in Galicia and England. Fires deaths robberies and forgeries across the U S and abroad. Politicians judges and a vast list of disasters and strikes through Sept 26 1890.
Prince Bismarck to Return Home After Improving Health
The condition of Prince Bismarck has improved significantly and he plans to leave Kissingen tomorrow to return to his home at Friederichsruhe near Hamburg.
Money and Bond Rates Mixed on Currency Exchange
The market shows money at 2 3 per cent with bar silver at 75.44. Exchange actual business bids 60 day bills 4.8514 to 4.8534 and demand 4.8714 to 4.8734. Posted rates 4.86 4.884 commercial bills 4.8514 to 4.8414. Government bonds quoted 4.88344 to 4.8914 for 60 days with bid 4s coupon 1.1334, extended 2s registered 1.00 bid. Pacific railroad bonds Union firsts 1.05 1.05 bid Centrals 1.03 bid.
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Pacific Railroad
Union Firsts
Centrals
Market Prices for Flour and Grains in New York
New York Sept 25 market report shows flour prices across grades from fair to patents with values from 2.05 to 4.60 and various mills. Rye and cornmeal quotes, barley and wheat spot and option figures, along with oats hay pork butter cheese eggs and dairy notes. Northern and western prices are listed with f.o.b and elevator levels for multiple grain types.
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Minnesota
City Mills
Canada
Titéc
Chicago
Buffalo
Graham
Osborn Named State Treasurer and Thompson for Supreme Judge
Harrisburg, Sept 20. The Democratic state convention adopted a broad platform praising Cleveland administration and calling for repeal of the silver purchase clause. Frank C. Osborn of Allegheny nominated for state treasurer and Samuel Gustine Thompson of Philadelphia for supreme judge as the gathering adjourned sine die.
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Democratic Party of
Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Congress
House of Representatives
United States
Republican State Convention
Pattison
William F. Harrity
Frank C. Osborn
Allegheny County
Samuel Gustine Thompson
Philadelphia
Five Men Dead in Plymouth Coal Mine Blast
Wilkes-Barre and Plymouth miners suffer five fatalities and five serious injuries when a gas ignition by Joshua Golightly triggers an explosion at the Lenigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company mine near Plymouth. Names and ages of the deceased are listed. rescue efforts and mournful scenes follow as families gather at the shaft mouth.
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Wilkes-Barre
Lenigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
Plymouth
David M. Jones
William Jones
Rock Miner
John Flagagan
Mason
Wilkes- Barre
Owen P. Jones
Miner
Joshua Golightly
Golightly
Morgan
Fallsington Whitecaps Case Disagreement Delays Justice
In Doylestown Pennsylvania on September 25 the Fallsington Whitecaps jury failed to reach a verdict in the assault case of Hannah Charles. Widow Charles and James Neal were convicted of the offenses the group alleged. The whitecaps will be retried in Crim. Court in December.
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Doylestown
Fallsington Whitecaps
Hannah Charles
Charles
James Neal
Whitecap
Whitecaps
Italian waiter arrested for swindling New York merchants
Reading Pa Sept 25 Charles Auguste St Claire a good looking young Italian waiter was arrested on a charge of swindling New York merchants out of 2009 dollars worth of silks and other goods A search of St Claires room uncovered three wagon loads of silks shirts hosiery buttons notions and mens furnishings
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Reading
Charles Augustine St. Claire
New York
St. Claire
Valentine Iron mill resumes work in Bellefonte
Bellefonte Pa Sept 23 After two months of idleness the rolling mill of the Valentine Iron company has again been put in operation.
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Bellefonte
Valentine Iron Company
West Virginia Foreman Faces Murder After Coal Camp Altercation
In WeElch West Virginia on September 26 William Steff foreman of Peerless Coal at Vivian shot and killed James Wilson a Black worker. Wilson was Steff’s eighth victim. Steff was arrested.
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Weelch
W. Va
William Steff
Peerless Coal Company
Vivian
James Wilson
Steff
Wilson
Electric propulsion experiments approved on canal at Pittsford
The Westinghouse Electric company has been granted permission to start experiments in electric propulsion on the canal at the Rochester level in Pittsford New York.
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Albany
N. Y
Westinghouse Electric Company
Rochester
Pittsford
Victory Mills Resume Operations After Seven Week Pause
Saratoga reports the Victory Manufacturing Company mills in Schuylerville have restarted after seven weeks of suspension, with more than 500 workers returning to duty at the two large print cloth cotton mills.
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Saratoga
Victory Manufacturing Company
Schuylerville
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