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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1880

Page

2

Stocks in Brief From the Market Ledger

The list shows BE stocks with mixed values including Mammoth, Manhattan, Northern Belie, Potost, Sierra Nevada, South Bulwer, South Noonday, Silver King, and Union Consolidated. Prices range around 1% to 24% with several 2% to 7% entries. readable items include a few percentages and company-like names amid garbled OCR.

DPB Tannewekesin Duitackbon Ogimong Mammoth Manhattan Ces Northern Belie Dunogugay Casnecsassune Li Syngicale Cnion Consolidated Bove Ccussas Ves Ellow Taackel

Disaster on Long Island Sound Sparks Nationwide Alarm

Early Saturday morning reports from Boston describe a terrible disaster on Long Island Sound with many lives lost. Throughout the day the city and nation remained unsettled due to contradictory despatches from New York Stonington and Providence and statements by survivors. No definitive death toll was confirmed by Saturday night.

Boston Long Island Sound New York Stonington Providence

Collision in fog pits Narragansett and Stonington in Long Island Sound

In dense fog late Friday two Stonington line steamboats the Narragansett and Stonington collided in Long Island Sound with crowded decks. Both vessels gave fog signals and steered left as heard near the Cornfield lightship. the near pass became a crash in heavy mystery seas.

Stonington Narragansett Long Island Sound New York Boston Cornfield Connecticut River Connecticut Bear

Midnight Sights of Suffering and Death

A chilling account describes shocking scenes of suffering and death unfolding at midnight. Eyewitnesses report urgent cries, unattended casualties, and responders effort to aid those affected while authorities investigate the cause and scope of the event.

Twelve Dead at New London and Five Identified

A partial Narragansett victim list names Banks, Carpenter, Miss Dix, Horton, Little, Lockwood, and others across Attleboro, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Philadelphia, and New York. Seaworthy identifications follow among twelve recovered bodies. two dozen missing include Mrs. Stevens and Chesebro. Thirteen bodies recovered at Stonington, with several identified and others described by clothing. One young girl badly burned on a train prompts sympathy and inquiry.

New York Banks Carpenter Attleboro Mass Charles C. Clare Jersey City Marion Dix Brooklyn Carruth Dix Emily Dix Mary James Thompson Hiltz E. J. Horton J. K.little Ensign B. Lockwood New York City Edward Mullholland New Jersey Timothy Murphy Narragansett C. E. Peake Sansom Street Philadelphia Randall William Stevens Hoboken Stillson Atlanta, Ga Florence Sullivan Edward Teed Wood W. H. Wood Brannton Gilbert Chesebro L. E. Bounds Taunton Georges. Bullock Minnie R. Leonard George H. Stanhope F. Stillson Atlanta New London Conn J. Horton Jewelery Drummer William Noyes Alfred A. Reed East Greenwich R. I Boston Highlands J. K. Little Benjamin Noyes New Haven Stonington E. B. Lockwood Checks Boston Undertaker’s J.J. Riley Niantic Luce Bros Exeter N. H N.J William H. Wood Mr. Eldredge Wickford Gilbert H. Chesebro North Hammock

Cause of Narragansett collision remains unclear in fog

New York dispatch reports Providence and Stonington officers refuse to assign blame or explain the collision with the Narragansett. Captains differ on whether speed in fog or management caused the wreck. Officials cite mooted insurance questions while narragansett crew discusses unknowns. Fire cause theories include boiler shock, furnace vault breach, furnace doors opening, or a gas tank explosion.

Narragansett Stonington New York Providence & Stonington Steamship Company Young Cornfield Stonington, Ct

Names List From City and State Mentioned in Ol Crime Notice

A long roster lists individuals and households by name and hometown including Amsterdam New York Elliot Maine Buffalo New York Jersey City New Jersey and many others. The fragment resembles a public notice or directory style aggregation of people across multiple states and cities with no accompanying event or action.

Titusville Fire Losses Mount Toward $1 200 000

Fire at Titusville Pennsylvania rages through the night with northwest wind. Key assets destroyed include Tideout Pipe iron tanks 62000 barrels of oil and Acme No 1 refinery capacity 3500 barrels daily. Total losses estimated at $1.2 million with many homes burned and bridges damaged. City remains on alert as explosions possible and danger persists. Bradford reports control by June 13 with total loss about $1.5 million across multiple firms and structures. Other fires touch St Thomas Ontario and Kinsley Kansas with smaller losses.

Titusville Tideout Pipe Company Keystone Acme No. 1 Acme No Acme The Herald John D. Archibald F. C. Borston Franklin Perry Street Broad Street Octave Oil Company Monroe Street Corey Bradford Acme Oil Co Keystone and Pickering and Chambers Tidioute and David Emery Pittsburg, Titusville and Buffalo Franklin and St. Thomas Ont Penwarden John D. Rysyke Kinsley Kansas Kinsley Hotel Watson & Coblen Morris & Co

Death from Violence Prompts Police Probe in Lowell

Samuel Mackey died after a broken arm suffered in what may have been an assault or a fall. He had been discharged from work and sought refuge in a doctor’s stable before being found insensible and later dying at St. John’s Hospital. Post-mortem to determine cause of death and unclear details remain.

Lowell Mass Samuel Mackey St. John’s Hospital Bernard Delaney Market Street Chase Middlesex Street Williams St. Patrick’s Catholic Church C.D. Barrows Kirk Street Congregational Church John Street Congregational Church Robert Parke Eugene I. Gingrass House of Correction Charles A. Hardy McKay Sewing Machine Association

Tornado hits New York area with minor damage reported

June 13 a tornado swept over New York City around 5 15 PM with heavy rain thunder and lightning. No serious damage logged though telegraph wires were damaged and trees felled as temperatures plunged from 85 to 66. Similar storms struck Pottsville Pennsylvania and Hartford Connecticut with collapsed structures telegraph line obstructions and hail impacts reported in Simsbury and surrounding towns.

New York Pottsville Shenandoah Valley Reading Hartford Conn Simsbury

Tremont Nail Company worker charged after deadly assault in Wareham

In Wareham Massachusetts at the Tremont boarding house Michael Troy allegedly stabbed Dennis Lyons in a drunken frenzy. Lyons suffered a ghastly wound below the navel and a throat cut with an ear cut. Lyons’s condition and Troy’s arrest await medical results. Lyons claims long standing trouble at Bridgewater Iron Works sparked the incident.

Wareham Mass Tremont Michael Troy Tremont Nail Company Dennis Lyons Troy Lyons Bridgewater Iron Works

Leadville Crisis Martial Law Declared by Governor

Denver June 13 The Leadville situation remains tense as the Governor declares martial law via telegrams signed by over one hundred Leadville citizens from both parties. Maj. Gen. D C Cook is ordered to enforce order tonight. Miners plan to resume work tomorrow with full force despite fears of violence.

Denver Col Leadville D. C. Cook Cook

Saloon Altercation Ends In Fatal Wounding In Alley

Jerry Sullivan was badly cut in the back and bowels during a dispute at a Manchester saloon. Thomas Gleason fled, chased Sullivan into an adjoining alley where intestines protruded from the wound, believed fatal. The Daily Union will publish tomorrow in enlarged form.

Manchester N. H Jerry Sullivan Thomas Gleason Sullivan Daily Union

Flood Hits Duke Centre Knapp's Creek Damages in Bradford Area

A sudden afternoon flood in Knapp's Creek washed away half a mile of plank road and undermined a trestle cutting railroad service. Damage is estimated at 50 thousand dollars. The flood is subsiding. Three houses were carried from their foundations.

Bradford Duke Centre Knapp’s Creek

Senate and House show Republicans trailing in latest census

A Portland dispatch reports the Senate at sixteen Republicans to twenty four Democrats and the House at thirty seven Republicans to twenty three Democrats. The tally suggests the Republicans may win seventeen seats in the Senate and thirty seven in the House, though Democrats still lead.

San Francisco Cal Portland Ore Senate House

Tragic double murder rocks Lawrence woods

Indianapolis report says James Williams was found dead with a crushed head in the woods near Lawrence. His wife was found unconscious in their cabin with a crushed skull but alive, though her recovery is doubtful. No clue to the murderer.

Indianapolis James Williams Lawrence This County

No progress in electoral count debate as filibuster looms

The day saw no advance on the electoral count resolution. Hunton of Virginia argued for congressional power to count votes, while Republicans Keifer and White stalled for time. In the Senate, debate over a Mexican veterans pension bill featured Voorhees's rebuke of Blaine and Brown’s strong maiden speech. Rumors say Commissioner Raum may depart, and a veto of the Marshals bill is anticipated.

Hunton Virginia Harry White Keifer White Senate Conkling Blaine Garfield Voorhees Georgia Gov. Brown Union Kirkwood Mr. Ingalls Kansas Mr. Voorhees

Fruitless Daylong Debate on Morgan Joint Rule in House

Washington June 12 The House spent the day debating the Morgan electoral count joint rule with Republicans arguing for a bill and Democrats asserting the two houses constitutional power to count votes. Langdon precedent cited by both sides as the frame of the dispute while filibuster tactics delay action until Monday.

Washington House Senate Congress George Washington John Langdon Adams van Voorhis New York Harry White Pennsylvania Eppa Hunten Virginia Mr. Hunton Democratic House Eppa Hunton Bicknell Indiana Walbridge A. Field Massachusetts Keifer

Postal changes and public notices in New England region

Washington reports week of postal changes listing new postmasters in New England towns including Aroos Me Bradford Cutty Hunk Sea View Coweset and Groton among others. Also notes appropriation bills passed and in conference totaling 184 691 162 dollars and the extension committee for the Capitol with Geddes Cooke and Claflin. Sioux agree to land near Fort Fierro. Ramsey visits West Point. Gen McArthur to be pardoned. pension bill for Horace S Spear reported.

Washington Senate Eaton House Gen. Williams Kentucky Cerro Gordo Williams New England Aroostook Ida W. Brown Cutty Hunk Bristol County Mass Alonzo Daggett Sea View Plymouth County George G. Currell P. M Coweset Kent County R.I Charles T. Greene James Simonds Conference Committee District of Columbia Legislative Military Academy Post Office Capitol Randall Messrs Geddes Ohio Cooke Georgia Claflin Massachusetts Congress Schurz Dakota Central Railroad Company Fort Fierro Missouri River Ramsey Col Burr West Point McArthur Chicago House Committee On Pensions Horace S. Spear Vermont Volunteers

Pastor and plants in Lisbon to London odds and ends

A varied clippings bundle notes a Texas pastor’s sermon on A Tight Squeeze Round Dance, camellia outdoors in Portugal, jockey Archer’s 25 000 francs for Beauminet in the French Derby, a fatal rattlesnake bite in Americus Georgia, and English marriage reform activism. Also listed are Persian Gulf pearl diving losses, a Viking ship in Sandefjord, Archibald Brassey wealth, a Philadelphia detective case, a delirious St Louis woman, and a host of European curiosities from Cabul to Naples, plus a Pompeii house preservation and Beaconsfield’s political favors.

Austin Texas Portugal Archer Americus England Persian Gulf Sandefjord Norway Jim Fisk West Auburn Cabul City Louis Cavagnari Australia Queensland Nadal Des Moines Brassey Mr. Vanderbilt Philadelphia St. Louis Wilhelm Montenuovo Marie Louise Napoleon Count Neipperg Deebling Paris Figaro Howard Iola Kan Hunter India St. Petersburg von Rosenbach Baron Kaulbars Prince Oldenburg Count Kieinmichel Baron Wolff Pompeii Lord Beaconsfield Duke of Norfolk Earl of London Abney Hastings Duchess of Norfolk Countess of London Lord Donington Park of Donington Leicestershire Derbyshire House of Plantagenet Henry IV Lord Hastings

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