Stanley Lectures Explores African Perils in Springfield
Henry M. Stanley spoke before about 2000 at City Hall on The Rescue of Emin Forests Cannibals Pigmies and Perils of Africa. The talk echoed In Darkest Africa with no new details. Governor Brackett and Mayor Bradford introduced Stanley. the explorer left for Boston at 2 a.m. with his party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Henry M. Stanley
City Hall
Emin
Africa
Stanley
Brackett
Bradford
Explorer
Boston
Tennant
Sali
Major Pond
Jephson
New York
Board of Trade
A. H. Goetting
Municipal debt and resources in New England and nation
A Census Bureau bulletin reports Massachusetts leads 2500-plus population cities with resources exceeding debt. It covers bonded and floating debt, sinking funds, and annual interest across 858 cities and towns, noting New England gains and overall debt shifts from 1880 to 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Massachusetts
Bridgewater
Dedham
Dennis
Dudley
Easton
Franklin
Harwich
Hingham
Leicester
Malton
Needham
North Brookfield
Orange
Pepperill
Quincy
Wareham
Westport
Wrentham
United States
New England
Middle States
Nevada
Vague Atlantic Passage Ship Arrivals and Departures Listing
A dense maritime log from mid November records numerous ships arriving and departing ports globally. Vessels including Nova Scotian Liverpool New York Bristol Havre Philadelphia London and others traverse from Liverpool Rotterdam Boston Montreal Halifax and Singapore with various origin and destination pairs noted alongside dates around November 15 to 17. The fragmentary item reads as a roster of ships such as Alaska Eider British Princess Werra La Normandie Mascotte Rheinland and more, with minor remarks on coal shortages and detours via Cape Race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Nova
Mascotte
New York
Singapore
Liverpool
Italy
Bremen
Werra
Southampton
Eider
Kremen
Sewark
Philadelphia
Father Point
Sportsman
Hamburg
Montreal
Lake Euron
Liverpol
Wieland
London
Oranmore
John’s
Rugta
Gid Liavre
Cape Race
N. F
Boston
Glasgow
State of Pennsylvania
Halifax
Portland
St. Ronans
Amsterdam
Lumen
Glagow
Uve
Moneal
Parnell's Predicament and Irish Leadership Strife
London dispatches summarize the O Shean divorce verdict with details on Parnell's leadership status. The Times, Telegraph, Standard, and Daily News debate whether Parnell remains leader or steps aside. Reports note possible commission leadership, Gladstone influence, and bishops' anticipated protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
O’shea
O'Shea
the Chronicle
Ireland
England
Gladstone
Parnell
Justin M’carthy
the Times
Gladstonians
The
Daily News
Dundee Advertiser
Gladstonian
Liberal Party
Dupri
Plot to Steal Army Exam Papers at Aldershot
London reports a plot to steal army education examination papers before the set time has been uncovered at Aldershot camp. Secretary of State for War Edward Stanhope offers a £100 reward and a pardon to any conspirator who confesses and names accomplices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Aldershot
Edward Stanhope
Lord George Hamilton Praises Navy After Serpent Disaster
LondonNovember 17 Lord George Hamilton first lord of the admiralty praised the British navy as superior to Europe and America. He lauded the Serpent crew and captain noting disasters are the price of mastery of the seas and said widows and families will be pensioned. Maprip reports a government plan to station a lightship near Cape Finisterre by the Serpent wreck site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Iamilton
Admiralty
Bedford
Europe
America
England
Maprip
Cape Finisterre
Fourteen Evicted Tenants as Bailiff Assaults occur
In Dusuin on November 17 fourteen tenants were evicted from the Olphert estate. One tenant and his daughter were arrested for throwing missiles at and wounding a bailiff. The government plans to begin relief works in Gweedure once Parliament sanctions the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dusuin
Olphert
Gweedure
Log of Stanley expedition rear guard report in Times
London reports a Times excerpt from the rear guard log detailing June mutiny risk as Barttelot, Benny, Bonny, and Jameson shift command during the Stanley expedition. It notes rifle confiscation, Bonny’s death threat tactics, and Bonny urging Jameson to Unaria after Barttelot’s death while Assad Farran’s retraction is labeled voluntary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Times
Barttelot
Tippoo Tib
Benny
Bonny
Jameson
Unaria
Emin Relief Committee
Assad Farran
General Booth Addresses Exeter Hall Audience
London November 17 General Booth Salvation Army leader spoke to a large Exeter Hall audience. He confessed surprise at the favorable reception of his plan for improving the poor's condition and ridiculed related statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Booth
London
Scheme to use fund for charity by deed of chancery
The speaker rejected claims that the sum desired would not be provided calling such talk a libel on national generosity. He said the fund would be used by a chancery deed and predicted twenty years of trial would leave no able-bodied person without work or food noting subscriptions already reach £38000.
Thirty-Eight Men Drowned Off Dalematian Coast
A ship carrying laborers bound for Brazza to harvest olives capsized off the Dalematian coast during a sudden gale. Thirteen men and thirty four animals were rescued, while thirty-eight people and a hundred animals perished in the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Brazza
Barings Guarantee Fund Aims To Raise 15 Million Pounds
London ledgers report Barings seeks a 15 million pound guarantee for acceptances as Argentine woes trigger market tremors. Funds have reached about 14 million with three Scotch banks pledging 250 thousand each. Management of Barings to go into commission. Lord Revelstoke withdraws as chief while remaining adviser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baring Bros
O’shea
London
Stock Exchange
River Plate
Barings
Lord Revelstoke
Bank of England
John Baring
Lord Northbrook
Henry Mildmay
Rothschilds
Republic
Paris
The
Times
the Times
Russia
Buenos Ayres Water and Drainage Syndicate
Lisson
Las Navidiades
Portugal
Tragic Nihilist Trial Verdicts Echo Across Russia
Nov 17 St Preferssure report concludes the trial of Nihilists tied to an anti Czar plot. Sophie Guenzberg and two accomplices Stoilanofsky and Freifeld found guilty and hanged with the czar's mercy urged for the other two to Siberia. Bank robbed of 130000 roubles from Credit Bank of Dunaburg, thieves fled toward London. A riot near Moscow left a hundred peasants wounded as troops fired on marchers resisting new district officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
St. Preferssure
Czar
Sophie Guenzberg
Paris
Stoilanofsky
Freifeld
Siberia
Credit Bank
Dunaburg
London
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Russia Faces Tariff Clampdown Threatening Trade Isolation
Nov 17. The tariff committee's decisions sharply raise restrictions on commerce, risking Russian trade isolation from the world. Even farming machinery now carries a high tariff, signaling broader economic constriction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Perprspura
Tuberculosis Patients In Berlin Described At Clinic
A visitor to Dr. Cornet’s consulting rooms in Berlin paints a crowded scene with a narrow corridor and anteroom filled with coughing tuberculosis patients. Three assistants work at a table while patients await examination, some undressed, as Dr. Cornet moves through the crowd maintaining order. The writer urges city authorities to quickly erect temporary TB hospitals to handle the avalanche of cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Berry
Cornet
Vossische Zeitung
Final Peace Treaty Signed Between Central America and Guatemala
San Salvador reports that the final treaty of peace between the republics of Central America and Guatemala was signed in Guatemala City. The accord reaffirms mutual autonomy and independence and non interference. It becomes binding after ratification by both governments and remains subject to assembly approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
Guatemala
Leader of famed counterfeit moonshiner gang captured in West Virginia
William Fausier, head of a long running West Virginia gang, was arrested after a siege at a fortified wilderness hideout in the Canaan region. Officers demolished the fort, captured the gang except Fausier, who surrendered after a tense pursuit and struggle with Marshal Miller. Indictments could confine him for life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kyle
Tex
West Virginia
Hyde Park
Yale
Parkersburg
W.iva
William Fausier
Canaan
Fausier
Marshal Miller
St. George
Miller
Ausier
Cheat River
East Florida Lana & Produce plant burns in Buena Esperanza
Sr. Augustine, Fla. The East Florida Lana & Produce Company plant and a large quantity of lumber were burned tonight. Loss estimated at $107,000 with partial insurance. Biddeford, Me. A slight fire damaged an upstairs tenement in Shaw's block this afternoon. Mrs. Thomas Warren's residence above and J. C. Walker's drug store were affected by water with total loss about $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sr. Augustine
Fla
East Florida
Lana & Produce Company
Buena Esperanza
Biddeford
Shaw’s
Thomas Warren
J. C. Walker
Crashes in New York rock brokers and banks records
New York brokers Randall and Wierum at Exchange Place assigned to Henry W Barnes citing illness and aid delays. Gregory Ballou Co bankers at New Street also assign to Dickson, expecting full payment. North River Bank to not resume. Mills Robeson Smith creditors to meet with liabilities about 600000 and assets 385000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gould
Atchison Road
United States Supreme Court
Cambridge Democrats
A. B. Alger
Brunswick Fur Club
Newton
New York
North River Bank of
Walthamn Board of Aldermen
Danbury
Conn
Randall & Wierum
No. 50
Exchange Place
Henry W. Barnes
Randall
Gregory, Ballou
Gately
Ballou
Preston
North River Bank
Mills, Robeson & Smith
Glass Works Sold in Bourne Auction
The Electrical Glass Company works, formerly the Boston and Sandwich, were sold at public auction for 7000 dollars. The sale included all dwellings and about 250 acres of woodland in Bourne. Purchaser is George Bb. Jones of Abram French & Co. of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich
Electrical Glass Company
Boston and Sandwich
Bourne
George Bb. Jones
Abram French & Co
Boston
Dominion Customs Case Returns Deposit to Rochester Firm
The Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester New York and Montreal won their Exchequer Court suit against the Dominion government. The judge ordered the return of a $5000 deposit made in June 1885, less undercharged dues on certain Prescott entries. The court held wholesale pricing in exporting markets makes entries dutiable at wholesale. The company may sue for about $20,000 in overpaid dues since 1885 at Brockville and other ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Vacuum Oil Company
Rochester
N. Y
Montreal
Prescott
Brockville
Women in Temperance Session In Atlanta
In Atlanta the Women's Christian Temperance Union held a morning session featuring Miss Willard on Social Purity and Rev. Crafts on Sabbath Observance. Officers were reelected including Frances Willard as president and Caroline Buell as corresponding secretary. Resolutions backing Senator Blair’s reelection sparked debate before committee review as the convention neared its close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Mearning
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Miss Willard
W. F. Crafts
Frances FE
Willard
Caroline E. Buell
Mary A. Woodbridge
Miss Pugh
Blair
Committee On
Weather signals and forecast for New England and New York
Weather indications from Washington forecast rain and warmer temperatures in eastern New York and New England until 8 p m Tuesday. Southwest winds. Signals shown from Boston to Eastport with cautionary signals at Narragansett, Woods Hall, New York City and Sandy Hook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New England
New York
Boston
Eastport
Narragansett
Woods Hall
New York City
Sandy Hook
Weather Forecast and Synopsis from The Post
Northern New England experiences continued rainfall with easterly to southerly winds and steady temps while the southern region sees rain end by noon and warmer temps. Tonight partly cloudy with varied winds. Tomorrow unsettled to fair, cooler, westerly winds. The synopsis tracks a Lake Ontario storm originating near Chicago, moving east with heavy rainfall around the Great Lakes and Northeast, with scattered totals from Buffalo to Boston and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Lake Ontario
Chicago
Michigan
Buffalo
Oswego
Lakes
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Norfolk
Halifax
Hastport
Portland
Northfield
Boston
Nantucket
Block Island
Middle States
Nova Scotian
Pittsburg
Lake Michigan
Virginia
Rocky Mountains
Minnesota
St. Vincent
Colorado
Gulf Coast
Yale's Eleven Changed for Navy Game
New Haven Conn Navy Yale changes in the eleven see Rhodes replace Crosby at right end with Mills moving to Rhodes old right tackle. Captain Rhodes trains under Yale sprint coach while Mills steadies the line. Yale lineup listed and about a thousand tickets sold for the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Navy
Yale
Crosby
Rhodes
Mills
Morrison
Holcomb
Heffelfinger
Wallis
Hartwell
Barbour
McClung
Bliss
Harvey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Governor Brackett
Isa Moat
Figur
Leonard & CO
Menn Estate
Bromfield Street
Chestnut ST
Brussels
W. Carter
Corot
Y, Diaz
Claus
T. Rousseau
Troxon
LA Farge
Moormans
Bonnat
Ricci
Weber
Homer
Wolkins, Browne & UC
Mass
Piedmont Safe Deposit & Trust Company
Equitable Building
Derby & Kilmer Desk CO
Lowell Depot
Causeway St
Sheppard Homan
Pure Insurance
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York
D. H. Buckley
Devonshire Street
S. R. Niles of
Minneapolis, Minn
Lumbermen’s & Manufacturers’ Fire Insurance Company
Mutual Fire Association
Wisconsin
Illinois
Cuiiaco
R. Wagoner & Co
Wagoner
Arsany
Prudential Wire Association of New York
Superintendent of Insurance
Civil Service Commissioners
Page
Silver
Burlington Road
Union Pacific
Porcupine
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Peoria, Jr
South Hadley Weavers
Yale University
Kaw River
Robert Ray Hamilton
Martztown
Penn
Minneapolis
Census Office
Salvador
Rai
Young Men’s Democratic Club
Burdette
Dr. Gay
Rome
Harvard
Methodist Missionary Committee
Music Hall
John A. Kasson
Lowell Institute
Unitarian Sunday School Union
Lauriat Avenue
New England Road
Frank Leslie
Tremont Temple
Miner
Father Ignatius
Jose F. DE Navarro
Navarro Flats
Mary Anderson
O’brien
Supreme Court
Navarro
Harper
J. W. Fish
Grover
Golden Rule
Boyle
Bangor
Kennebunkport
Smith Darien
Mark
Marion Harland
Native Life Ins. Co
J. T
Phelps
Dev
Bostom
United Kingdom
Barings’ Guarantee Fund
Central America
San Francisco
Best & Selcher
North Belle Izle
Ophir
Potosi
Cal
Savage
Crown Point
Eureka
Union Con
Gould & Curry
Yellow Jacket
Hale & Norcros
Dominion
Women IN Temperance
Their
Christian Union
Ometer
Albany
Cheyenne
Cincinnati
Vaso
Marquette
Mich
New Orleans
Dccade
Salt Lake City
Clear
Umington
N.C
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!