The News Highlights From Around the World
Multiple items report on events across nations and leaders. Gladstone withdraws from campaigning due to illness while a new Chinese ambassador arrives in Paris. A deadly lightning storm in Torre Cajetani, Italy kills thirteen and injures twenty two. A London man faces charges over threats to Princess Beatrice. Bank of Ireland dispute stirs nationalist rhetoric amid Munster Bank concerns. Oxford boat voyage from Dover to Calais recorded. Welsh coal miners face job losses from weak trade. Banquet honors Earl Spencer with over two hundred MPs in attendance. Nihilists in Kiln near Moscow torch buildings incurring heavy losses. British military bands skip Sunday selections in sympathy for Gen Grant. Editorial on Grant’s postwar reflection notes heroism amid ruin. Queen Victoria condemns crimes against the poor. Salvation Army petition to Parliament gains 500000 signatures. Congo reports debunk fanciful resource claims. Spanish storms worsen cholera, with daily deaths near one thousand. mass exodus and nurse shortages persist.
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France
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Torre Cajetani
Italy
London
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Calais
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Ireland
House of Commons
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Moscow
Russia
Gen. Grant
England
London Daily Telegraph
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Walter Scott
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Victoria
Henry M. Stanley
Sanford
Belgium
Congo
Spain
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Illinois Judge Dickey Dies. McCullough In Mental Custody
The commission on John McCullough finds him insane and orders custodians for his person and estate valued at 44504 dollars. Judge T Lyle Dickey of the Illinois Supreme Court died at Atlantic City after months of illness. An Associated Press telegraph from Mount MacGregor recounts Dr Douglas reading Grant's note about his health and writing abilities. Gen Logan buys a mansion on Clifton Heights overlooking Washington.
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T. Lyle Dickey
Dr. Douglas
Gen. Grant
Douglas
Appomattox
John W. Grey
Ohio Supreme Court
Clifton Heights
Washington
Financial woes hit firms across the United States
Soss & Lanning of Cincinnati assigns amid $125,000 liabilities and $80,000 assets. Eau Claire Child Plow Co of Wisconsin makes an assignment. Hay crop hardship in New Hampshire drives grass sales at $20 a ton. Babodok & Andrews of Syracuse suspend with about $200,000 liabilities and no assets. Tantermann & Stewart millers of Grayville report $50,000 liabilities and $30,000 assets. Business failures rise nationwide.
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Soss & Lanning
Win
Cincinnati
Eau Claire Child Plow Company
Eau Claire
Wis
New Hampshire
Babodok & Andrews
Syracuse
N. Y
Jtantermann & Stewart, Millers
Grayville
United States
Assignment by San Francisco contractor with $450,000 liabilities
John A. Bengon, a civil engineer and contractor, made an assignment at San Francisco. The liabilities total $450,000. Imports of merchandise for the week at New York, excluding dry goods, were valued at $5,910,768. The week’s imports and regional figures for Canada and the United States are noted in the report.
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Canada
New York
San Francisco
Grant Death and Nation Mourns Across The Country
News of General Ulysses S. Grant's death at Mount MacGregor prompts global mourning. President Cleveland and Cabinet order mourning requirements, flag half mast, and a thirty day mourning period. Memorial services and plans for a Lincoln Park monument in Chicago surface amid tribute from leaders and citizens.
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Maine
United One Express Company
Winterset
Iowa
Gen. Grant
London
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Cleveland
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Washington
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Mount MacGregor
New York
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Grant remains coffin exhibition and letter from General Grant
A grand coffin for General Grant’s remains was shipped to Saratoga after an exhibition drawing about 20,000 visitors. Dr. Douglas showcases a remarkable Grant letter from July 2, 1885, expressing gratitude, resolve, and acceptance of possible death, while praising national unity.
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N. Y
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Ohio
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New York Telegram
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Jesse Grant
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City Hall
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Albany
Philadelphia Dispatch
George W. Childs
Philadelphia
Washington
West Point
Eads Ship Canal Company
Jersey City
William Windom
Rook
Cincinnati Volksblatt Joins Independent Journalism Movement
The Cincinnati Volksblatt, long a Republican organ, shifts toward independent journalism. A related Indianapolis postmaster, Jones, faces charges from Independent Republicans that are claimed to be false.
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Jones
Indianapolis
Es Ar
Hentdricks
Massive blast and flood disasters reported in multiple cities
Reports describe a deadly explosion near Louisville causing many injuries and property losses, a cloud burst near Denver destroying property with numerous presumed fatalities, and flood damage at Cherry Creek in Denver with bridge and train damage as the region reels from disasters.
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Bartied
Ork
Colorado
Denver
Cherry
Mob violence reports from Minden Polk County and What Cheer
A mob of about 150 men rode into Minden Louisiana at midnight and forced entry to the jail where two Black prisoners held for murder were shot. In Nebraska a crowd of 5000 witnessed the hanging of William W. Smith for wife murder in Polk County. In Mound City Illinois masked men overpowered the sheriff, released and hanged Joseph Maupin after he had killed John Daniels. A band of fifteen men tried to seize confiscated liquor at What Cheer under Temperance League warrants.
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William W. Smith
Polk County
Nebraska
Mound City
Sherif
Joseph Maupin
Maupin
John Daniels
Temperance League
Riverside Park site chosen for Grant tomb in New York
Mrs Grant selects a Riverside Park promontory in Manhattanville as the tomb site. The hill offers a broad view of Riverside Park with Fort Lee across the Hudson, while surrounding factories, ferry routes, and historic landmarks frame the setting.
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Thirtieth Street
Fort Lee
Manhattanville
Riverside Park
Fort Washington
H. P. Young
Minnesota
Evansville
Indiana
Albert J. Kelley
Patent Office
Samuel Mulliken
New Jersey
Warren
Jehr. H. Manning
Mexico
South America
United States
Washington
Thatcher
Associated Press
Tha
Chile
Surprise of a Rich Man Bones and a Texas State House Plan
An Austin dispatch reports Indiana matters as the Building Commissioners and Capitol Board meet to approve Colonel Taylor’s Texas granite state house project. The plan costs $500,000 extra, omits two porticos, provides granite and 500 convicts, with a 15 mile railroad to reach the quarry. Knights of Labor protest convict labor. Taylor says he will hire granite cutters at union rates. The project aims for completion in two years.
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Austin
Texas
Ireland
Swain
Lubbock
Templeton
Walsh
Col. Taylor
Convention of
Knights of Labor
Col. Ylor
m?Kong
Gov. Ireland
Bank bookkeeper embezzles in Sedalia bank scandal
A Sedalia Savings Bank bookkeeper R E King embezzled 10000 on July 3 and fled. An audit shows five years of defalcations totaling about 38000, plus 10000 already returned, bringing the total to 43000 near the bank’s capital. King is jailed on a director’s warrant with bond raised to 5000. Bank funds later reassured depositors they may withdraw with interest, while criticism grows over keeping King employed.
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Sedalia
Sedalia Savings Bank
R. E. King
King
Buried Like a Pauper Funeral of Edward Gillan
A Cleveland Ohio tragedy ends in a bare funeral as Edward Gillan shot his wife and killed himself. Excommunicated in Catholic faith his daughter forbade a Protestant minister and no service or hymn was held. The silent ceremony saw six pallbearers and a plain service at the Catholic cemetery.
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Edward Gillan
Cleveland
Ohio
A Plucky Woman in Lafayette Kitchen Defends Honor
A Lafayette dispatch describes a rough man entering a house seeking the lady of the house. The hired girl says she is away, and the man flirts with her. The girl then hurls boiling suds from a dipper, scalding his face, as he exits in retreat.
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Lafayette
Tooth Pick Boom Turns Gas Into Blaze at Richmond Grocery
A Richmond Indiana grocery reports a bizarre accident when Billye Stump Hold lit a tooth-pick with a match while a customer asked for gasoline. The flame ignited the gasoline can, setting him ablaze and ending with onlookers rushing him to safety.
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Richmond
Ind
BillyeStump
Proclamation Aims to Stop Livestock Imported Cattle
Gov Martin of Kangas issues a proclamation to curb infectious disease import in the state. Sheriffs and deputies ordered to seize cattle driven across counties in breach of law and report sums to the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. Sanitary Commission ordered to adopt active enforcement regulations.
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Kangas
Live Stock Sanitary Commission
Sanitary
Three Drowned in Storm in Colorado Crossing
Heavy rain swollen aroya between Trinidad and El Moro Colo. a wagon with man woman and child capsized and all perished. No bodies recovered. likely swept to the Arkansas River. No crew to the second entity.JU CHIPMAN of Detroit opposes residency gains for divorce. Cincinnati Enquirer drops mottoes over dog fight illustration.
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el Moro
Colo
Arkansas River
Iron interests in Mahoning Valley stifle settlement
A Youngstown correspondent notes two months of talks fail to settle the iron workers strike. Twelve mills idle, 6000 men idle. Brown Bonnell Co. receiver Fayette Brown holds the key as to startup vs winter idle. Old rails clause and 10 percent extra remain disputed amid Pittsburgh lodges influence and proposed splits.
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Mahoning Valley
Western Association
Valley Lodge
Amalgamated Association
Pttsburg
Brown, Bontell & Co
Pittsburgh
Brown
Pom oy Coal Company Placed in Trustee Hands
Pom oy Coal Company, once large employer of about five hundred miners, places its property in the hands of trustee H H Swallow to protect against wage suits. The firm has suffered floods in 1868 and 1884, low water last summer, ice damage this winter, and a fire destroying tow-boat Condor in April. No asset statement has been issued.
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Pom ‘Oy Coal Company
H. H. Swallow
Probay
Law Shortens Quail and Prairie Chicken Season
The last Legislature failed to craft the quail and prairie chicken law correctly and limited shooting to twelve days from November 1 to 13. The old thirty day season was reduced causing disappointment among sportsmen. no other errors are noted in the law.
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Symptoms of hydrophobia drive man to suicide attempt near New Market
William McConnaugney, a farmer and stock-dealer near New Market, stabbed at himself but was stopped by a son who broke the blade. A dog bite years ago preceded recurring odd behavior each year, with fears of hydrophobia though no definite symptoms have appeared.
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William McConnaugney
New Market
The Story of a Needle Misadventure and Local Incidents
A missing needle is recovered after months, a drowning at Hanging Rock is confirmed with body recovered, libel suits arise in Chicago against two firms, a compromise settles a Belair feeder dispute, a team injury occurs near Charleston, a railroad declares a dividend, a hunter sustains a leg wound near Mount Vernon, a cruelty case in Hillsporo yields fines, and a wife imprisoned for failure to pay fines.
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