August Drolls and Diverse Notes From Illinois to Cuba
The Weekly Gall and August Droll columns mix satire on Spain’s Cuba reforms with local notes. A new mayor in Commason Kansas, an Aseptolin TB treatment tested on Western Penitentiary convicts, and an old Easter sermon resurfacing in New York are touched on. An Atlanta visitor cites Georgia gold mines potentially yielding vast sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Heavenly Rest
New York City
Georgia
Atlanta
Soorthern
State
Notable killer to be hanged as famed rat in state crime
The passage describes a condemned man’s notoriety as a phenomenal rat rather than posterity as a murderer. It asserts he will be hanged for a murder, which would answer all purposes. Separately, peach outlooks are strong: Delaware anticipates its largest harvest since 1875 and Georgia expects a huge crop.
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Hounxs
Delaware
Georgia
Leap Year Marriage Boldness Inspires Maidens in New York
A New York woman brought her suitor to a justice of the peace and requested a marriage, setting a leap year example intended to inspire other lonely maidens before the next year ends.
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State of
New York
Justice’s Office
Alaska gold production estimate and Seward investment
The report estimates Alaska gold output for the year between 3 million and 10.09 million dollars, suggesting a total that would exceed the territory’s 1867 cost. It notes Mr. Seward never reached the presidency but displayed business sense by investing 7.2 million dollars.
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Alaska
Surging Import of Shoddy Hits U S Markets
Imports of shoddy into the United States rose from 4,170,041 pounds in 1894 to 20,718,108 pounds in 1895. The public is unknowingly using the material in some form and paying far more than its value, with no disclosure of its final destinations.
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United States
Paris consumes horses for food in daily figures
Official figures indicate Paris consumes an average of 63 horses and one donkey daily and one mule every ten days. A rising European demand for horse meat exists, and a sizable amount is secretly marketed in the United States, a fact well established.
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Paris
Europe
United States
Fire and sword devastate Cuba sugar plantations
The article recalls months of ruin in Cuba where sugar estates burned and taxation worsened misery. It notes Armenian Christians tied to the Greek church under Russian ecclesiastical influence, with tensions on missionary control and Moorish persecution. It mentions wealth and figures in New York society amid the chaotic report.
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Cuba
Armenia
Rus
Senate and House Debates on Legislation and Appointments
The text outlines multiple days of Senate and House actions including amendments to the legislative appropriation bill, extending the Patent Office Gazette printing contract, and a protest against British action. It notes adjournments, debates on DuPont’s Delaware seat claim, coast defenses funding, and ongoing discussions over the National Soldiers Home board, pension bills, and bond issue investigations.
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Senate
Patent Office ‘Gazette
Gorman
May‘brick
Dupont
Columbian
House
Squire
Wash
Delaware
Chandler
N. H
Gray
Del
W. B. Franklin
National Soldiers’ Home
Col
A. J. Smith
Leavenworth
Kas
Peffer
Hitt
Gen. Franklin
The
Committee ‘On
WB. Franklin
George W. Steele
Gen. Henderson
Illinois
Black
G. L.' ‘Beal
Maine
Francis Fessenden
Hill
N. Y
Hoar
Mass
Court of Claims
Notable 19th Century Briefs Highlight World Events
Recalled events include Rev George P Knapp arriving in Aleppo after expulsion, Carnegie Steel chairman funding a 500000 dollar children hospital in Pittsburgh, sculptor Victor Tilgner dying in Vienna before Mozart monument unveiling, and Montana exposure of Captain John Shepherd’s death. Also noted are a Greer County land bill amendment, Chapman bail grant in D C Court of Appeals, papal nuncio Cretoni mediation proposal to Spain over Cuba, Chicago wheat speculator Pardridge’s death, and Korea’s envoy seeking $8 million loan from Russia.
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George P. Knapp
Bitlis
Aleppo
H. C. Fricx
Carnegie Steel Co
Squirrel Hill
Pittsburgh
Victor Oscar Tilgner
Vienna
Mozart
John Calhoun Shepherd
California
Montana
Butte
Toe House Committee On Public Lands
Greer County
Okla
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Elverton R. Chapman
Supreme Court
Monsiexor Cretoni
Madrid
Spain
United’ States
Cuba
Ba ‘Pardridge
Chicago
Bright
Teast
Corea
Corean
Japan
Russia
Coréan
Hamgying Agi Security
Bizarre Night Burglary Targets Pioneer and Pay Banks
Reported crime describes a night raid on private banks in Pioneer and Pay, where burglars opened the vaults without explosives and altered the combination to prevent future entry. The incident allegedly left authorities puzzled but indicated significant theft.
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Powier
Burglars Blow Safe in Ta Bank and Fire Lose Loot
Reported at Diagonal Ta burglars exploded a safe wrecking a bank building at 1 am on the 15th Citizens defended the scene with gunfire the burglars fled leaving their tools and no booty A bottle of nitro glycerine remains in the safe frightening bank staff. On the 16th a landslide hit Trubbach Switzerland causing heavy property damage.
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Diagonal
Trubbach
Switzerland
Clifton House
Chicago
Turners Falls
Mass
Miscellany of 19th Century News Bits and Facts
In Ellis Island crowds and immigration figures, post office printing contracts, Chicago school census, Havana dispatches, streetcar mail service plans, a warrant in Easton for robbery, weekly failures by R G Dun & Co., and a quarantine in Kansas. Noting shifts in population, infrastructure, and public health across the United States and Canada.
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Ellis Island
N. Y
Bolivia
Alesia House Committee On Post Offices
Chicago
Havana
Madrid
Imparcial
Sagua
St. Louis
Pioneer City
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Canada
Morrill
Kansas State Penitentiary
Shawnee
Wyandotte
Congressional Telegrams Trim House Session and World News
The senate was not in session on the 18th. In the house Mr Cannon reported the general deficiency bill and would seek early consideration. The house suspended business at two, then eulogies for Gen. Corgswell followed before adjournment at 2:30 p.m. Reports cover Mrs Dyer’s tie to infant murders in Reading and a Venezuela cable on the Rivas voyage. Obituaries note ex governor Boreman’s death in Parkersburg. A candidate for the presidency is named, and financial figures for gold and silver outputs in 1805 and 16945 are cited amid other dispatches from various locales.
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Senate
House
Cannon
Corgswell
Massachusetts
Tur
Russepyy
Massachussetts
John
Melbourne
Ghéckeie
Valparaiso
Gol
Illinois State News Drowns of prominent residents noted
Ill tidings report the deaths of Louis E Schmidt of Woolferson County promoter and banker S M Warner of Centralia aged 66 R Fikskabrick of Nashville and Mrs J Harley Stewart of Bloomington aged 94 Ante Nuptial notices show Julian Stevenson Letitia Stevenson traveling to Europe for study and upcoming marriage of Miss Stevenson and Mr Hardin The wage dispute over Mamie Bunich's salary is resolved with county board ordered payment Whitechapel club founder C G Perkins dies and funeral for Dr John F McKenzie of Leroy noted Vice President Stevenson attends pallbearers and mourners include Adlai Ewing and John Ewing of Chicago
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Louis BE. Schmidt
Woolferson County
S.M. Warner
Illinois
Centralias
National Bank
Illinois Central
Fikskabrick
Nash+ville
J.harley Stewart
Bloomington
Los Angeles
Cal
Julian
Letitia Stevenson
Europe
Berlin
Julia
P. Wat Hardin
Kentucky
America
John F. McKenzie
Leroy
McLean County
Stevenson
Masons
Knights of Pythias
William W
Thomas W. Stevenson
James B
Charles T. Stevenson
William G. Ewing
Chicago
Adlai T. and
John Ewing
How He Sweetened Death and Other Local Notices
A Chicago baker named Charles Vieth suffocated by molasses in his attempt to drink from a barrel. The report also covers the first Southern Illinois High School Oratorical-Athletic Association meeting in Centralia with competitions among Cairo Duquoin Murphysboro Flora Nashville and Centralia, won by Duquoin for points and by Centralia for second. Also noted are a converter explosion at the Americans Glucose Co Peoria killing John Hoey and William Burks, with others injured. a Chicago school census figure of 200 000 and the 1895 directory listing. a Methodist minister’s death in Buffalo Sangamon county aged 65.
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Charles Vieth
Chicago
Southern Illinois High School Oratorical-Athletic Association
Centralia
Cairo
Duquoin
Murphyeboro
Flora
Nashville
Fair ‘Grounds
Opera House
Glucose Co
Peoria
John Hoey
William, Burks
John Wilson
Mat Connelly
John Dooley
Orr
Buffalo
Sangamon County
Honolulu Spars with Government Over Editor’s Paragraph
A Honolulu report details friction between Foreign Minister Cooper and the Advertiser over an editorial excerpt from the Washington Star. The piece, printed without consent, sparked claims of government influence, with calls for apologies and health concerns for Willis, the American representative. Nine Portuguese were injured in a police club incident on the 5th, amid a riot of Portuguese with no political significance.
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Unite Lepocts Ua
Giselio
Honolulu
Ib Aixty
Sae Lough
Hci
Areve
Cooper
Willis
Theington Star
Wino
United States
Wiington Star
Cartain
Killer burglars claim life of German grocer in Indianapolis
Leo Hirth a wealthy German citizen and grocer at 1020 West Washington Street was shot and killed in his home by two masked intruders who were found in his bedroom. Mrs Hirth awakened during the attack and escaped as the assailants fled after a third shot. Police note Hirth kept large sums of money at the house.
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Leo Hirth
Indianapolis
Indianpolis
Ind
Washington Street
Hirth
Bhenel Bors
Deiwar Hirth
Memorial call to President and Congress on church arrest
A Memphis Tennessee report notes a memorial from Central Baptist church members to the President and Congress. They voice pain and alarm over a recent arrest and urge civil church rights and protection for their denomination and members.
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Cdngress
Alberto
Je Diaz
Memphis
Tenn
Diane
Aventue
Central Baptist’ Church
Sitalie Berry J
Dig
Notur United
Atsiat Baptist Convention
Ryowde Pall
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GALL
August Droll
Ust Droll
Commason
Is & ‘Rich
Western
Pennsylvania
York
Tipene
John Peter Pond
Sion
Illinois State News
Miss Bunch
Mamie Bunich
Douglas County
Judge Vail
Circuit Court
Tuscola
Board of Supervisors
Whitechapel Club
C. G. Perkins
Dallas
Tex
Whitechapel
Eatiwate
Aaverna
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