Death of Peter Cooper and his contributions to industry
New York April 9 Peter Cooper died after a pneumonia attack attended by Dr J J ull and Dr Rufus P Lincoln. The report outlines Cooper’s rise from a Brooklyn area craftsman to a major inventor and financier, detailing his early work in carriage hubs, cloth machinery, glue making, iron works, and the Cooper Union, with notes on his family, philanthropy, and the failed cable endeavors alongside Field.
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New York
Peter Cooper
Mr. Cooper
J. J.ull
Rufus P. Linoln
Edward Cooper
Abramss. Hewitt
Cooper
Ife
Sarah Bedell
Hempstead
J. J
Eter Cooper
St. Paul's Chapel
Vesey Street
Broadway
Baltimore
Trenton
N. J
New York, Newfundland and London Telegraph Company
Newfoundland
Cyrus Field
Moses Taylor
Marshall
Roberts
G. Hunt
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Field
England
Ex-wife accuses Gaiteau of dissipation and seeks property action
The former wife refuses to bury grievances and resume marriage. She alleges he illegally disposes of valuable furniture and other effects she claims as hers and threatens court action. She has recently drawn income and circulated photographs and his book, harming former friends who largely refuse to recognize her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaiteau
Peculiar Will Locks Income From New Husband for Widow
In Dedham the 1843 will of Thomas W. Sears bequeaths the property income to his widow until her remarriage, then deprives her of all claim. He warns against wealth drawing wives to predatory men, urges self reliance for his children, and notes the widow later remarried with mixed results for the family.
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Dedham
Thomas W. Sears
Boston
West Hills tragedy ends in pauper fate for Chichester family
Patience Chichester, widow of Platt Chichester of North Carolina, sought aid at the Brooklyn charities office after twelve years apart. She recounts that her husband kept her and their three children with bloodhounds to stop escape, leading to a forced return to Long Island and looming state pauper care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
West Hills
Long Island
Suffolk County
Platt Chichester
North Carolina
Patience Chichester
Charities Commissioner’s Office
Fulton Street
Low Island
Portsmouth
Westville
Singular Coincidences Tie Leominster Deaths
Leominster mourns three family deaths within weeks as Mrs. Charles Morse of Rahway dies after her husband, co owner of Hecla Powder Co., dies suddenly. Morse, visiting California with Nahum Harwood, is summoned home by a fatal chain of telegrams and a mill fire causing $100,000 loss.
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Leominster
Charles Morse
Rahway
N. J
George
Hecla Powder Company
Gardner Morse
Morse
California
Nahum Harwood
North Leominster
Burglars Blow Open Safe at Ansel Arnold & Co Store
Ansel Arnold & Co wholesale flour and feed store in Wixomantic Conn was entered Friday night. The safe was blown open and bonds valued between $25,000 and $30,000 were stolen. No crew has been found.
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Wix
iMantic
Conn
Ansel Arnold &Co
Disowned Son Sets Fire to Polignac Residence in Paris Trial
A 25-year-old Camille Olivier Blanchard de la Bretesche de Polignac stormed the Prince de Polignac’s Paris home on November 9 1882 drenched rooms with petroleum and set fires. He claimed the act aimed to expose his father’s conduct and drew on a dramatic family history linking New Orleans roots to the Polignac clan and a Confederate army period. The case features lengthy testimony from his mother Countess de Vranas and past letters, detailing a troubled lineage and failed civil and religious marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Prince de Polignac
Rue Miromesnil
Camille Olivier de Polignac
Camille Olivier Blanchard de la Bretesche de Potignac
Countess de Vranas
Cecile Leda Blanchard de la Bretesche
Blanchard de la Bretesche
New Orleans
France
Stanislas College
Prince de Pol
Mme. de la Bretesche
M. de la Bretesche
Foucard
Valenciennes
A. Foucarple
America
Mule de la Bretesche
Texas
Camille Olivier
Mile de la Bretesche
Hehatin
Frances
Miles de la Bretesche
Christian de Vranas
Bolas
Not Guilty Verdict Cheers Court After Quick Trial
The trial concluded in one day with a jury deliberating ten minutes before returning a not guilty verdict amid applause from a crowded courtroom.
Beecher Praises Paul’s Conversion In Sunday Lesson
Mr. Beecher discusses Paul as the most remarkable New Testament figure after Christ. He contrasts Paul’s humble origins with his moral force, and notes Paul’s dramatic conversion as a turning point that reshaped his life and mission. He warns against public confessions of past sins and urges honesty about one’s former wrongs.
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New York
Beecher
Paul
Christ
Stephen
Damascus
Saul
Jesus Christ
Mr. Beecher
Via Dolorosa
Settling the Jumel Estate in New York
After more than fifty years of litigation the Jumel estate reaches a practical end. Mrs Eliza Jumel Caryl and her husband Nelson Chase, who occupy the Jumel mansion in Washington Heights, arrange with the French claimants represented by Marquis de Chambrun to settle the remaining cases. Chase and Mrs Caryl will stay in possession of the historic mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jumel
United States
Eliza Jumel Caryl
Nelson Chase
Washington Heights
Marquis de Chambrun
Washington
Smallpox Scourge Strikes Lackawanna Valley Villages
Scranton reports a smallpox outbreak in coal towns north of the city. Throop sees three deaths and fifteen active cases under care after delayed investigation. Dickson City lists fatalities and ongoing illness while Olyphant and Jermyn battle rising cases with vaccination efforts. Local officials push containment measures to limit spread.
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Scrramton
Penn
Lackawanna Valley
Throop
Connor
Dickson City
Olyphant
Jermyn
Remarkable Case of Aphasia in St Louis Man
John McWilliams, a 72 year old Whitener and plasterer, suffered a severe head injury and developed a rare form of word blind aphasia. He cannot name objects or his wife, yet retains understanding and speech with effort. Doctors warn recovery is doubtful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
A. D. Williams
Medical Society
John McWilliams
No.11
North Ninth Street
William B. Hazard
Sixth and
Biddle Streets
Mc Williams
McWilliams
Ellen
Mary
Bridget
McWill
McWhilliams
Thirty Years A Rover Story of Wandering Sailor Cain
Dayton tale recounts Cornelius V. Cain who ran away at fifteen to sea after pirates spared him. He later wandered from shipwrecks to Greece Asia and California mining in vain search for a brother, ending in Oslo workhouse as a vagrant. He resolves to find his father, now an inmate of the Soldiers Home, awaiting a possible reunion.
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L Cornelius V. Cain
Dayton
Cain
Bermudas
Liverpool
Grecian Isles
Asia
South Sea Islands
California
Texas
Oslo
Witch scare shocks Meyersdale. daughter blamed
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports a local witch panic near Meyersdale. The culprit is believed to be Mr Miller's daughter who spent weeks in Somerset and urged him to sell the farm. She acted to frighten him, killing cats with silver bullets and causing neighbors to suspect elderly ladies of witchcraft.
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Pittsburg
Paris to Launch Dual Edition Daily News Journal
A new Paris journal named Paris Midi Paris Minuit will be edited by Octave Mirbeau and Georges Laffon. It will publish two daily editions at noon and midnight, covering business news in the morning and gossip and incidents in the evening, appealing to late Parisians who go to bed after 2 or 3 am.
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Paris
Paris-Midi
Chicago Land Deal Spurs Capitol Plan in Texas Panhandle
About a year earlier Texas ceded 300000 acres in the Panhandle to Chicago capitalists C B Farwell J W Farwell Abner Taylor and A C Babcock in exchange for a proposed Austin capitol building costing 150000, valuing land at 50 cents an acre A London syndicate has been refused the tract until April 15 and the sale is near completion at a stated price of 1000000.
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Chicago
Texas
Panhandle
C. B. Farwell
J. W. Farwell
Abner Taylor
A. C. Babcock
Austin
The Tiniest Baby in the Carolinas
William Bost of Clear Creek Township reports an infant seventeen days old weighing one and a half pounds with a face barely covering by a silver dollar. Doctors note it is perhaps the smallest living child known and the baby remains mostly asleep or in a coma. Also advert for Buchu-Paiba kidney cure.
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Carolinas
Charlotte Journal
William Bost
Clear Creek Township
New Monument for Thomas Jefferson Erected
Mr D McMenamin, a prominent monument builder, left Washington for Charlottesville to set a granite shaft over Jefferson's grave. Congress appropriated 10000 dollars for the monument to replace the one destroyed by relic hunters. The shaft, eighteen feet high and nine tons, comes from Ordway quarries near Richmond.
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Thomas Jefferson
Washington
D. McMenamin
Charlottesville
Congress
Ordway
Richmond
Knill’s Odd Will Directs Biannual Port Distribution
English collector John Knill who died in 1811 left a singular bequest to grant twice every five years two casks of Port from the St Ives stock. The unusual request blends probate whim with maritime fondness for the harbor town.
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John Knill
St. Ives
ELOPING WITH A CONVICT IN A RHODE ISLAND TALE
Mabel Franklin, 16, elopes with Woodhouse a released convict posing as a Western company agent. They wed in Swansea after a failed hotel swindle, then travel to Bristol and Hartford where they are under arrest for defrauding hotels. Woodhouse's parents live in Detroit.
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Mabel Franklin
Rhode Island
Hartford
Conn
Berston
R. 1
JSSL
Woodhouse
Western Manufacturing
Chadwick
New Hampshire
Mabel
Franklin
Swansea
Mass
Bristol
Massachusetts
Bourn Wins Rhode Island Governor Fight by 2215 Vote Edge
In Providence on April 4 Augustus Bourn the Republican candidate is elected governor by 2215 amid statewide results. The tally shows large early leads for Bourn shrinking through the day with final counts in several counties and a Democratic gain in the legislature a joint Republican majority of sixty four.
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Bourn
Legis
Providence
Augustus
Europe
Sprague
Boro
Byrame
Cutler
Providence County
Newport County
Washington County
Kent County
Lristo
State Senate
Hoase
Senate
House
Ex Speaker Keifer Endorses Sherman for Ohio Governor Nomination
Ex-Speaker Keifer says Sherman could win the Ohio governor race if he accepts the Republican nomination. He notes German support and Ohio weak spots in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and suggests Sherman would be strongest to lead the GOP fight. Keifer mentions Democrats might nominate Judge Lloadley of Cincinnati if Sherman runs.
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Washington
The
Star Tonight
Keifer
Ohio
Sherman
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Eee
Judge Lloadley
Beecher Sees World Grow Toward Perfection in Cooper Tribute
Brooklyn April 8 Rev H W Beecher preached on a world moving toward perfection saying violence and destruction would yield to simplicity innocence and love He cited Peter Cooper as a man who served his fellow men and was honored by the city with reverence and gratitude for his life of service
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Brooklyn
H. W. Beecher
Peter Cooper
Grateful Rescuer Receives $40,000 Bequest
A former Wauregan resident Joseph A Barber saved James H Armstrong from death when two cars crushed him on the New York New Haven Hartford line. Armstrong later died leaving Barber a $40 000 bequest after Barber was found serving as a drummer in the U S Army on David's Island.
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Providence
New York
Wauregan
Joseph A. Barber
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
James H. Armstrong
Aresness
Barber
United States Army
David's Island
Court of Appeals rules for city in million dollar tax suits
New York April 6. Court of Appeals decisions total over 1,000,000 in favor of the city against most local corporations. The 1880 state tax on certain corporations remains payable to the State comptroller, undoing their claim of immunity from state and local taxes. Tests cases 1880 and 188 to follow.
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New York
Court of Appeals
Obituary for Patrick Taal 43 in New York
Patrick Taal, longtime employee of Peter Cooper for thirty years, reacted to the philanthropist's death with heartbreak, saying he had lost his best friend. The next morning Taal was found dead in his chair at age 43, unmarried. Skinny Mex.-Well's Heart Renewer is cited for restoring health and vigor and curing dyspepsia.
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New York
Patrick Taal
Peter Cooper
Taal
Peter Ooper
Dynamite Conspirators May Number Seventy to Eighty
London reports indicate seventy to eighty individuals may be involved in the dynamite conspiracy led by a key ringleader recently arrested. Police claim to have secured most nitro glycerine consignments in the city and link Ansburghe to the case via Norman and Gallagher. Six more arrests follow.
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London
Ansburghe
New York
Nelson Square
Gallagher
Norman
Mill Bank
Great Russian Apostle of Dynamite Promotes Harsh Uses
Professor Mezzeroff, a Russian-born lecturer, argues dynamite can outmatch modern naval power and proposes fortifying coasts with the explosive. He claims a secret process makes his tri nitro glycerine far stronger than gunpowder and suggests Irish MPs learn the craft in the United States.
Kilmainham Jail Fears Escape Plot And Exterior Weakness
Dublin reports of a looming jailbreak at Kilmainham Prison as authorities brace for a possible mine and explosion to free Connor suspects in the Phenix Park murders. Observers note strong guards, a nearby culvert, wooded fields, and cottages near the walls raising escape concerns.
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Dublin
Curran
Phenix Park
Bon
Lord Cavendish
Burke
Bill to tighten explosives law to curb possession
London April 6. In the House of Commons Sir William Vernon Harcourt announced a bill to amend the law on possession of explosives. The government aims for speedy passage after recent dynamite seizures and arrests. The announcement was cheered by members and hailed by papers.
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London
House of Commons
William Vernon Harcourt
Home Secretary
House
Evening Papers
Advertising note in The Boston Weekly Globe
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Boston
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