Weekly Call: News Bits From 19th Century Rail and Trade
Apprehension grows among street railway workers as women in bloomers may soon steer trolleys. An electric automobile plow marks progress toward the horseless age, while the southwest seeks a new steamship outlet to Mexican ports including Coatzacoalcos. Also: debate on Anglo American war prospects over payments to British citizens with American brides. Gen Cassius M. Clay, once ambassador at St Petersburg, writes to counter Seward on the Alaska purchase.
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Galveston
Coatzacoalcos
Nothern
Tehuantepec Railway
Cassius M. Clay
Kentucky
Alaska Purchase
William H. Seward
Clay
St. Petersburg
Modern courtship fruit gesture reappears in social scene
The article notes new expectations in youthful courtship requiring a generous young man to present fruit to his beloved. It comments that the modern fruit seller, florist, and confectioner are no longer trusted as direct guides or allies in this social ritual.
Missouri apple crop leads national yield surge
The 1895 Missouri apple crop is estimated at 3,664,000 barrels, about twice 1894. Only New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio report larger yields, signaling Missouri's rapid rise as a leading fruit state.
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Missouri
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Territorial Restitution Talk Amid Chile Peru War
The last war between Chile and Peru ended with Bolivia losing coastward territory. A proposed partial remedy would restore thirty miles of land, a modest restoration viewed as preferable to harsher outcomes by many observers.
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Chile
Peru
Bolivia
Gold-Stick-in-Waiting Title Carried by Lord Wolseley
The colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, Lord Wolseley, holds the duty title Gold-Stick-in-Waiting. Originating with Charles II, the role requires carrying a gold-headed ebony staff on state occasions and safeguarding the sovereign’s personal safety.
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Royal Horse Guards
Wolseley
Charles II
Holmes Case Eclipses Durrant Trial In Public Interest
San Francisco trails in claiming the label The Crime of a Century for the Immanuel Church murders. Durrant faces murder charges as the sensational Holmes case dominates public attention and headlines.
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San Francisco
Immanuel Church
Durrant
Churchill family noted for nerve and clear view on pounds
From the first duke of Marlborough to Lord Randolph Churchill the family have long shown boldness and a firm sense of what pounds sterling are for. Miss Vandercbilt's prospective husband lacked much of the family brains but his nerve seems near the standard.
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Duke of Marlborough
Lord Randolph
Churchill
Miss Vandcerbilt
Merve
England’s View on Newfoundland Manitoba and Maximilian
If England will consider the situation of starving Newfoundland and of Manitoba kept from rebellion by evasive measures it might drop the idea of acquiring fresh American territory. A glance at the fate of Maximilian would help in understanding what awaits European intruders on American soil.
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England
Newfoundland
Manitoba
Secret threads in U S bank note paper thwart counterfeits
The paper used in American national bank notes includes minute red and blue silk threads distributed over the surface. This feature, added by a secret process, provides an extra safeguard against counterfeiting, with counterfeiters unable to imitate the threads despite copying other features.
Turkish riots quelled by night boats on Bosporus
Report from Constantinople says students prone to rioting are seized at night by Turkish warships. They are dropped into the Bosporus in weighted bags, a historic form of execution. The situation remains chaotic and described as barbaric.
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Constantinople
Bosporus
Turkey
Corn as fuel sparks Minnesota debate on food use
A Minnesota paper argues corn could yield 25 percent more heat than coal per ton and cautions against using a food crop for fuel when price differences are minor. It says the sentiment persists despite 28 years of human habit, noting corn may burn in emergencies but is wasteful and farmers should prefer nonfood uses of nature's bounties.
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Minnesota
Jong Os
Man’s
News in Brief Highlights from 19th Century World Events
Celso Caesar Moreno jailed in Washington on libel conviction as motion for a new trial proceeds. Cardinalate created for SATOLut with beretta to be conferred by Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. Czarist concerns deepen as czarowitz health declines. Behring Sea talks end. Tupper and Bowell return to Canada. Vanderbilt gifts favoring Blenheim estate liabilities. US ambassador Eustis family funeral reaches New York. Prince of Wales attends anniversary mass for Czar Alexander III. Broadhead bids farewell as US minister. First woman named county physician in Kansas. Reichstag to open December 3. Pennsylvania Railroad declares semiannual dividend. Albanian guards executed in Constantinople plot fallout. National debt shows October rise. Crimes and accidents reported across Europe and North America including train crashes, arson in Ontario, and a lynching in Texas. Fire destroys factory and a theatre accident in Milwaukee. Holmes defense rests in Philadelphia. Durand murder verdict returned in San Francisco. Rumors of a Wales yacht for America’s Cup. China indemnity paid. Asiatic fleet moves to Swatow-Amoy. Spain’s Guadalquivir floods and Rome shaken by earthquake.
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Washington City
Baron Fava
Mer. Satolut
United States
Berretta
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
St. Petersburg
Czarowitz
Charles Tupper
Mackenzie Bowell
Washington
Julian Paunecefote
Canada
Behring Sea
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Hammersley
Beresford
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheimecastle
James B. Eustis
France
Ireland
Queenstown
New York
Majestic
Mabe. Spencer
Mary Cunningham
Sedalia
Riley County
Kas
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Constantinople
Ist
Yidliz Idosl
London
Prince of Wales
Watson
Hendersons
Japan
Bank of England
China
Swatow
Amoy
St. Paul (Minn.) Gas Light Co
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Braddock
Guadalquivir
Spain
Heretics burned in Mexican town of exucapa
Telegram from Pachuca, Mex on the 3d reports ten persons executed as heretics in exucapa by order of the local judge claiming a God given vision and divine wrath against immoral lives. Also noted are Arkansas peace warrants dismissed for Corbett Fitzsimmons Julian Brady injunction remains. Various brief items follow.
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Chicago
Pachuca
Mex
Exucapa
State of
Arkansas
Walcott Mills
Rice County
Minn
Sheffield Bros
Burrell Bono
Crittenden County
Ark
Memphis
Tenn
Inez
Windsor
Essex County
Ont
Independence of Canada
Dominion
Joan W. Capmnn
Cleveland
Chile
Spain
Henry H. Holmes
Philadelphia
Benjamin F.pietzel
Tax
London Daily
News
Illinois Supreme Court rules on Australian ballot cross form
The Illinois Supreme Court holds that voter intention governs if possible and that section 23 does not mandate a specific cross shape. It allows marks such as a capital X, a plus-like cross, or a T-shaped mark and notes that accidental unclear crosses should not invalidate a vote.
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Illinois Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Lincoln Monument Traced as Veneered Fraud at Springfield
The Lincoln monument trustees report the Springfield memorial is built with thin veneer over brick, making repairs impossible. The 1874 costly project, funded by subscriptions, is deemed nonpermanent, raising questions about the state’s ownership and future care.
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General Assembly
Springfield
Abe
Mexican Heretics Burned by Auxiliary Judge in Texacapa
A Pachuca dispatch reports ten residents burned at Exacapa for heresy by order of an auxiliary town judge who claimed a divine vision. Local officials later jailed six men, three women, and an infant before burning them. twenty-one more were arrested as mobs gathered for a trial in Mollango. The Texacapa populace accepts the tale, with bones forming saints in the burnt jail ruins.
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Jalil
Carasso
Pachuca
Mex
Exacapa
Indiana
Mollango
Toton
Texacapa
Two die in Cincinnati Express wreck near Wheeling
Two persons were killed outright and twenty five to thirty passengers injured when a Baltimore & Ohio Cincinnati express derailed at Elm Grove near Wheeling after a flange broke on a combination car. A relief train with doctors rushed to the scene and injured were taken to hospital.
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Pittspunch
Cincinnati Express
Elm Grove
Wheeling
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Theospital
Holmes convicted in Philadelphia murder verdict delivered
Nov 4 Holmes was found guilty of first degree murder for the killing of Benjamin He. The verdict came at 8:15 last night with Holmes coughing slightly as it was read.
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Philadelphia
Holmes
Benjamin BP
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