Governor Hard on Hayward Mordere r Confession Publicized
Minnesota’s governor says Hayward’s confession confirms the murder of Catherine Ging and implicates him in three other killings. Newfoundland reveals an 11,000,000 ton coal seam in a newly found area. Carr Bagsert, long Senate aide and last elected by ballot, dies after a career as a senate employee.
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Minnesota
Hayward
Catherine Ging
Newfoundland
Carr. Bagsert
Senate
Chamber
Notable 1895 Necrology Heads Thurman McCulloch Douglass
A list notes Hugh O. Thurman, Hugh McCulloch, and Frederick Douglass among 1895 deaths. Though from different parties, the men are described as patriots, able and honest, reflecting their historical regard.
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Thurman
Hugh McCulloch
Fred Douglass
Dynamite shells tested for San Francisco defense
Reports say dynamite shells are fully effective within three miles, a destructive agent still unknown in warfare. Meanwhile Spanish forces in Cuba fear its potential. Abyssinians and Cubans score minor victories against Italians and Spanish, casting doubt on long range rifles. A St Louis social leader proposes eight to midnight invitations to cut costs. Iowa debates a divorce bill tied to a husband's deemed provision.
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San Francisco
Cuba
St. Louis
Thurman and Edmunds contrasted in senate careers
The piece notes Thurman and Edmunds as leading senators with Edmunds praised for dissecting bills and Thurman valued for amending to remove evils. It quotes a judiciary committee associate on their differing traits and influence.
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Thurman
Edmunds
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Philadelphia Woman Invents Wrinkle Removing Device
A Philadelphia woman received a patent for a facial wrinkle remover using two bowed arms with an adjusting back arrangement and facing pads. The device fits around the back of the head to draw the flesh back and smooth wrinkles, though critics note the potential discomfort of two bowed arms grinding the neck.
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Philadelphia
Boundary dispute under an independent Ireland or Scotland
The passage envisions a scenario where an independent Ireland or Scotland would resist conquest by England. It argues that if the United States had a colony in part of what is now Ireland or Scotland and a boundary dispute arose, England would insist that the clash could not be settled by US force alone.
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Ireland
Scotland
England
United States
Senate Debates Exchange Differences and Cuban Armenian Questions
In the Senate on the 16th Stewart urged inquiry into exchange differences between gold and silver standard nations and their impact on U S agriculture and manufacturing. House debates included printing memorials on Cuban Armenian questions and a rules amendment creating three elections committees. Through the 18th to 19th, appropriations and Venezuela related bills dominated, with the president’s message read and applauded. recesses set for December 20 to January 3.
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Senate
Stewart
United States
House
Ryan
Okla
Smith
Venezuela
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Chandler
Rep
N. H
Committee On
Hill
Dem
N. Y
United States Army
Hitt
Rep. Il
British Guiana
Morgan
Ala
Voorhees
Ind
Committee
President appoints Willis Moore to Weather Bureau post
The president sent to the senate on the 18th the recess appointment of Willis T. Moore of Illinois as chief of the Weather Bureau. The same day Capt. Isaac Bassett, veteran assistant doorkeeper of the senate, died in Washington of stomach cancer. The senate confirmed Moore and Wheelock G. Veazey as interstate commerce commissioner on the 19th. Also noted were discussions of Monroe doctrine policy and Venezuelan commission funding. Baron Knightly died on the 19th at Fawsley Park, Coventry. Ambassad or Bayard's Boston remarks spurred recall rumors.
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Senate
Willis T. Moore
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Isaac Bassett
United States Senate
Washington City
Gov. Rice
Michigan
United States
Venezuela Commission
House of Representatives
Hitt
Rainald Knightly
Baron Knightly
Fawsley Park
Coventry
England
Willis S. Moore
Wheelock G. Veazey
Washington
Cleveland
Olney
Ambassador Bayard
Actors’ Club
Boston
Bayard
Tragic Midvalley derailment claims many lives
On the 18th a locomotive coupling pin broke on the Midvalley colliery track near Shamo kin Pa causing a 134 mile descent of a train with 30 men aboard. The wreck left the train as kindling wood and many workers were scalded or crushed. Separate incidents include a Chicago theft victim crushed by an elevator rope and a Greensburg area incendiary fire destroying the Hecla Coke Co stables with heavy losses.
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Shamo
Kin
Hugh McCaull
G. W. Hoof
South Water ‘Street
Chicago
Upo
Hecla Coke Co
Tranger Plant
Greensburg
Multiple 19th Century Crime Notes From U.S. Reports
A 94 year old Idaville resident TeW Bunny was killed operating a corn husking machine. A farm hand named Sunsbrunk, arrested at Ottawa Kansas, confessed to attempting to wreck a passenger train on Santa Fe. Morristown asylum keepers Henry Convery and William Mack were convicted of murdering an inmate Nicholas Dolfus. each got 14 years hard labor. Buffalo burglary leader Gro Frermont confessed a year of railroad robberies averaging $12,000 in goods monthly, with plunder sold to second hand dealers including one buyer of goods worth $12,000.
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Tew Bunny
Idaville
Ind
Sunsbrunk
Ottawa
Kas
Montgomery
Santa Fe
Henry Convery
William Mack
State Asylum For the Insane
Morristown
N. J
Nicholas Dolfus
Gro. Frermont
Buffalo
N. Y
Coal mines closed by strikers threaten Texas fuel supply
On the 18th all coal mines in the Indian territory were shut by more than five thousand strikers. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Co ordered coal shipments stopped and stocks held for railroad use, risking a fuel famine in northern and central Texas. Foreign bourses fell after President Cleveland's Venezuelan boundary message. The Cologne Gazette says European states will stand by England against Cleveland's stance. At Anderson Indiana the Columbia Rifles were mustered in, and all 80 soldiers pledged to back the Monroe doctrine. The Manchester Guardian reports Britain will push indemnity claims against Venezuela, if needed enforced by the West India squadron.
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Indian Territory
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Co
Texas
Congress
Cleveland
Cologne Gazette
England
Great Britain
Anderson
Ind
Columbia Rifles, Co. C
Indiana
Manchester Guardian
Foreign Office
Venezuela
West India Station
Senate Telegrams and World News Flash from the Day
The senate opened with a prayer urging peace as war between two Christian nations looms. A $100,000 Venezuelan commission bill passed without opposition, then executive session followed by a presidential-finance appeal. In the house little was done. News includes railroad executive claims, a Chicago mayor’s son reporting cannibalism in the Solomon Islands, a deadly Tennessee mine explosion killing 29, counterfeiting arrests in multiple cities, a senate confirmation in executive session, and a German yacht purchase denial for the America’s Cup race.
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Senate
House
Cuaucey M. Depew
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Venezuela
William Preston Harrison
Carter H. Harrison
Chicago
San Francisco
Antipodes
Solomon Islands
Nelson
Dayton
Tenn
Secret Service
Kansas City
St. Louis
Paola
Kas
Frank A. Branagan
Ohio
Bureau of Accounts
Department of State
Illinois Obits and Education Notes From State Roster
Died. Daniel W Tickner 75 Rockford resident half a century Amos Jackson Danville wealthy citizen blood poisoning Edward E Day prominent attorney Kankakee Chicago from surgical operation Mrs George H Edwards 61 resident of Moline 49 years George H Reed Mount Vernon heart disease Walter Bailey president of Peoples Bank Galesburg old settler paralysis James McKelvey Randolph county at son in law Coulterville Wm Weber 63 Stanton J D Hawkins 70 Stanton Elmus Beker 66 Freeport area Solomon Siple 85 Marion county sudden death Wilson Carlile 6 farmer near Litchfield Simon Grant ex mayor Carmi state teachers examinations August 5 6 7 1896 Chicago Freeport Galesburg Springfield Normal Effingham East St Louis Inglis circulars special subjects general history Greece 146 BC England 447 1600 ALD English literature American Lowell Emerson Webster Greek German French Latin Sallust Vigil Aenid etymology syntax prosody translation to Latin Greek German French best known works five year certificate minimums 70 average 80 percent Centralia colored schools dispute truant officer Randolph Cass Perry Livingston teachers institutes Illinois Central corn shipments to New Orleans freight trains busy shops running at full capacity Edwardsville Coulterville Tamaroa Chatsworth Livingston County institutes L Audley Welton Irene Ryrie license marriage Alton Bloomingtn normal shotgun accident Ridge township Shelby county condemned cannon Cannon bill Ridge Farm anniversary Rockey Joliet photographs Killed by the Cars Morgan Ches bakeman Beardstown Springfield Litchfield
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Daniel W. ‘Tickner
Rockford
Amos Jackson
Danville
Edward E. Day
Kankakee
Chicago
George
H. Edwards
Moline
H. ‘Reed
Mount Vernon
Walter Bailey
People’s ‘Bank
Galesburg
James McKelvey
Randolph County
Coulterville
Wm. Weber
Stanton
J. D. Hawkins
Elmus Beker
Freeport
Solomon Siple
Marion County
Wilson Carlile
Litchfield
Simon Grant
Carmi
Illinois
Springfield
Normal
Effingham
East St. Louis
Inglis
Greece
B. C
England
Lowell
Emerson
Webster
Bunker Hill
Shakespeare
Julius Cresar
Dickens
Sallust
Vigil
Daytons Nelson mine disaster claims 29 lives
In Dayton Tennessee, twenty nine miners were killed at Entry No 10 of the Nelson mine after a fire damp explosion and roof collapse. Rescuers labored through the day and night to reach entombed workers while women and children gathered at the drift mouth in grief. The mine, three miles from Dayton, has operated for over a decade and employed both white and colored workers.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Nelson
Dayton
Dayton Coal
Iroin: Co
William Raddy
Tom Hawkins
Hawkins
No. 10
Morgantown
Dayton Coal and Iron Co
Cumnock Mine Disaster Claims Many Lives
United Press reports from Rapztan North Carolina that by 11:30 am 35 bodies have been recovered with several more missing. A mine explosion amid gas and dynamite is blamed by officials and miners alike. Rescue work is hampered by danger and rough conditions, with timbers possibly trapping additional victims.
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Rapztan
N.C
United Press
Cumnock
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Virginia
John Pearn
Perry County
Teachers’ Association
Tamaroa
Supt. Kinzey
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Chatsworth
Illinois Central
New Orleans
L. Audley Welton
Irene Ryrie
Alton
Edwardsville
Early
Ryrie
J. A. Ryrie
the Normal
Bloomington
Jacob
John Kneller
Ridge Township
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Cannon
Charles A. Clark
Grand Army of ‘the Republic
Ridge Farm
George E. Rockey
Joliet
Ches
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Liteh
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