09 Aug 1883
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1883
Page
1
Various brief items include murders, shipwrecks, fires and riots. Notable notes on a Joliet convict suicide, a Dover sea tragedy, a Cedar Rapids arson death, and a Detroit shooting mistaken wife. Also reports on strikes, rail and telegraph disruption, and a broad array of international events.
Last night a major wire-cutting attack hit the Western Union lines from Passaic to Elizabethport and Kings Bridge to Scarsdale. Dozens of circuits failed, leaving hundreds of miles of line useless while detectives hunt the perpetrators amid denials from the Brotherhood of Telegraphers and union groups.
A writer argues that municipal county and state taxes on the homestead discourage freeholding and urges reassessment of assessments and taxation to protect homeowners. The piece critiques current revenue methods and stresses home stability for good government and citizenship.
Aug 7 reports from Cedar Rapids Iowa three men burned to death in an old hay storage mill after a fire. Joliet Illinois convict George Kellogg hanged himself with wire at a wire drawing plant. St Paul and Bismarck reports describe mob action against telegraph offices and worker removals. Additional items note mill resumptions in Pittsburgh and various crimes and disasters across Illinois Michigan Indiana and Kentucky.
A lively day of railroad fare cuts sees the Chicago & Alton and Wabash selling tickets at six dollars, with Air Line and Ohio & Mississippi dropping to four and a half to Louisville. A severe hail storm devastates Nishnabolany valley in Des Moines area causing crop and property loss and fatalities. trains blocked and damage likely exceeds half a million dollars.
The annual meeting convened in the capital building with President George B. Loring presiding. Delegates from Maine Alabama Florida New York Iowa and Quebec attended as officers were elected including President George I Loring View presidents U S Lelty and George J Becker recording secretary and treasurer Charles Mote. Resolutions urged the agriculture commissioner to call a winter meeting in Washington of forestry associations and institutions.
Treasury officials plan silver vaults to hold accumulated dollars with one vault to be placed in New Orleans and another in the Treasury basement. An appropriation of 100000 dollars funds the project. Meantime the Treasury secretary received a report from the collector at Tacoma about Chinese smugglers and a seizure on the northern frontier.
The issue reports a cholera increase in Alexandria with deaths in Egypt rising. It notes a Dover collision where two Norwegian ships sank, thirteen crewmen drowned, and mentions further global unrest including riots against Jews and pirate activity in the Black Sea.
The report notes steady to higher activity in markets with beef and sheep prices advancing. Shoppers see firmer tones in beef futures and retail markets while grain and broad commodity prices hold to gains. The tone remains cautious with demand described as moderate as traders watch export demand and currency shifts.
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