Star Steal Brings Brady Resignation From Post Office
Washington reports Brady resigns as second assistant postmaster general amid a broad fraud probe into Star routes. The scheme overpaid for routes across Indian Territory New Mexico Arizona Colorado and California with contractors including J M Peck J B Price and W Dorsey. The case touches congressmen editors lobbyists and Senate caucus plans loom over GOP leadership and executive moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas J. Brady
Dorsey
New Mexico
Brady
James
Post Office Department
New York
Indian Territory
Vinita
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Camp Supply
Las Vegas
Caddo
Fort Sill
Arizona
Colorado
Texas
California
Oregon
Nevada
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
J. M. Peck
J. B. Price
St. Louis
Dorsey-Arkansas
Crease
Peck
Miner
Cen
Democratic Senators on Eve of Victory in Senate Deadlock
Washington April 23 An analysis notes Democrats gain ground as the deadlock persists. The Fabian strategy by opposition and resistance to party disruption is highlighted with names like Bayard Beck Pendleton Harris Cockrell. Republicans face internal stress and executive session pressures amid stalled confirmations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
California
Hate
Frye
Maine
Piatt
Connecticut
Plumb
Kansas
Sewell
New Jersey
Harrison
Indiana
Blair
New Hampshire
Allison
Iowa
Gorham
Riddleberger
Conkling
Washington
Senate Chamber
Messrs
Bureh
Bright
Shober
Peyton
Ney
Senate
Bayard
Beck
Pendleton
Harris
Cockrell
Simon Cameron
Parnell
Kilmainham
Delny
Statue Unveiled of Admiral Farragut at Farragut Square
Washington April 25 A vast crowd gathered as the Farragut statue was unveiled at Farragut square in a ceremony marked by naval and military display. Ships, cadets, marines, and volunteers formed a long procession while Vinnie Ream Hoxie was lauded as sculptor and the statue stood on a granite base with metal from the Hartford. President Garfield and dignitaries attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Farragut
Alliance
Vandalia
Yantic
Kearsarge
Portsmouth
Wynan
Navy Yard
Capitol
Cava
Naval, Academy
Annapolis
Marines
Arsenal
Executive
Admiral Farragut
Hartford
Maine
Vinnie Ream
Hoxie
Congress
General Sherman
Pennsylvania Avenue
United States
Farragut Square
Army and Navy
Army
Navy
Garfield
Vinnie Ream Hoxie
Senator Voorhers
Horace Maynard
Arthur Brooks
Quartermaster Knowles
Movile
Mesmerism Attempt at Clarendon Hotel Failures
A New York professor and aide tried to mesmerize Mile Jeanne Bernhardt at the Clarendon Hotel. Mile Jeanne remained unmoved, while Mile Sarah Bernhardt was expected but did not appear, and the physician reported a nervous collapse followed by recovery. The professor’s further efforts were dismissed as impractical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jeanne Bernhardt
EK. B. Jennings
Mile
Clarendon Hotel
Mre. Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Mule
Sarah
Jeanne
Professor Jennings
Jennings
Death of James Thomas Fields the Boston publisher and poet
James Thomas Fields died at his Charles Street residence. Born December 31, 1817 in Portsmouth New Hampshire, he moved to Boston at 14 to work in a bookstore. He read poems for Edward Everett and Daniel Webster, joined Ticknor Reed & Fields, then Fields Osgood & Co. He published volumes of poetry and edited De Quincey's works and the Atlantic Monthly for years before turning to authorship and lecturing. He toured Europe in 1848 1851 and 1859.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Thomas Fields
Charles Street
Portsmouth
N. H
Boston
Boston Mercantile Literary Association
Edward Everett
Daniel Webster
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor & Fields
Fields, Osgood & Co
Fields
de Quincy
Veral
Atlantic Monthly
Europe
Death of Benjamin Disraeli Beaconsfield Lord Dies in London
Foreign news reports the death of Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield ex prime minister of the United Kingdom. He died at his London residence after a long career in politics and letters. His burial at Hughenden Manor beside his wife is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenpox
Benjamin Disraeli
Earl of
Beaconsfield
United Kingdom
London
Westminster Abbey
Hughenden Manor
Suppression of the Press in St Petersburg
St Petersburg reports reveal a press raid on the 10th with ten to twenty three arrests. A Nihilist paper The Will of the People tied to further arrests. Three printing notices tied to an execution led to more detentions. The executioner faced punishment after rope failures. Russia seeks a conference with powers on anarchists. London notes rising revolutionary sentiment with placards in Moscow urging uprising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Lonpoy
Will of the People
Frobloff
Michalioff
Russia
Vienna
London
Moscow
Chateau
Gatschena
Objectionable Features of the Gladstone Land Bill
Reports from Dublin and Delny detail the Land League executive committee critique of the land bill. Parnell and others condemn provisions on bequests intestacy and emigration, warning the bill would raise rents and burden tenants, with motions for condemnation and calls for labour protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dvuni
Executive Committee of
The
Land League
Drustin
Parnell
Peruvian Crisis Deepens as Arequipa Remnant Backs Pierola
From Lima reports the Arequipa army detachment of about 70,000 men, with half unarmed, backs Pierola as dictator. Calderon’s decrees face municipal resistance in Lima, causing governing chaos. Chilean occupation may persist. Calderon plans congress May 16 to choose a provisional president. Rumors suggest Peru-Chile confederation talks. Two Peruvians hanged in Lima. General Campos advances toward Arequipa. a Chilean mine may have destroyed a first assault, triggering potential renewed conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calderon
Panama
Lima
Arequipas
Pierola
Congress
Charrillos
Peru
Chili
San Lazaro
Campos
Arequipa
Trouble at the Durham collieries in 1900s report
Stoppage of the Durham collieries looms as the New Seaham strike fallout prompts calls to bar union leaders and trigger a countywide strike. Masters may close all pits. decision expected today amid tensions among colliers and employers. Additional items note Bradford workers emigrating, a Paris monetary conference, and Times Durban dispatch on Kruger and Pretorius splits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
London
New Seaham
Lord Londonderry
Natal War Terms and Pretoria Emigration Rise
Territory and indemnity for goods pillaged in Natal are agreed with Joubert and party abiding by peaceful conditions. The Cape Upper Chamber shelved an adjugation to Queen's peace approval by the president's casting vote. In the Assembly English residents in Pretoria flee amid fears of a native war in the Transvaal. In Tunis the Bey declines Marines and cannon from the Jeanne d Arc to restore order. Said Pasha reports the Sultan approves the course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natal
Joubert
Cape
Pretoria
Transvaal
Tunis
Jeanne d'Arc
Said Pasha
Constantinople
Keely Engine Impresses In Public Philadelphia Exhibition
The first public display of the Keely engine drew New Yorkeans including J Nelson Tappan and Thomas Rowland. Commander Gorringe called the showing remarkable and genuine. The device, built of steel, generated pressure claimed at 15 000 psi and powered a 700 pound load, with vibrations and energy reversals demonstrated over a three hour session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
J. Nelson Tappan
Thomas Rowland
Continental Iron Works
George H. Peabody
E. F. Searls
John Carrier
American Wrecking Company
J. J. Smith
Edward W. Denny
Conway
United States Ordnance Department
Gorringe
United States Navy
Keely
Tappan
Avicts Chicago Equines Stricken by Malignant Hoof Disease
The North Side street railway stables report a new horse ailment described as a swelling and suppuration that forms running sores. Veterinarians say it begins with chilling from dissolving snow and spreads to limbs or body, often fatal. Dr Threipland notes it mirrors epizootic patterns and mostly affects hind feet, with left hind feet most common. expect decline as spring dries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CuicaGco
North Side Street
Threipland
Russia
Murderous Work by the Islanders Two Captains Killed
The New Bedford whaler Leslie reports a Solomon Islands landing where Captain Schwartz was killed by tomahawk blows during talks with traders. Islanders seized the boat. the crew escaped. A Melbourne captain’s murder is unconfirmed. The American bark Janus wrecked at Awanui heads after a year from New Bedford with 300 barrels of oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
San Francisco
Leslie
South Seas
Solomon Islands
Schwartz
Janus
Awanui Heads
Railroad developments in stock reshuffle shows Texas Pacific ties
The Missouri Kansas and Texas company plans two shares for each International and Great Northern share on proper notification by I G N stockholders. Iron Mountain may join Texas Pacific consolidation though it may not be needed. Philadelphia Texas Pacific holders seek an extra per cent, while a Gould controlled pool could absorb 30000 shares of floating stock. Vanderbilt reportedly delivers about 5000 Lake Shore shares amid a 60000 share sale before Europe trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Company
International & Great Northern
Iron Mountain
Texas Pacific
Philadelphia
Gould
Lake Shore
Vanderbilt
Europe
Mortgage for 20 Million Publicly Revealed in Chicago
A 20 million dollar mortgage on April 1 by the Pennsylvania Company surfaced in Chicago after the document was dropped in a Grand Pacific Hotel washroom, swept up with waste paper, then found by an Italian ragpicker. The loan secures 20 thousand bonds of $1,000 each to trustees Wistar Morris Edmund Smith and Samuel L Felton of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGo
Pennsylvania
L. L. Gilbert
Pittsburg
Ooe
Grand Pacino Hotel
Wistar Morris
Edmund Smith
Samuel L. Felton
Philadelphia
Singular Worm Ball Found in Cincinnati Fish
A Cincinnati man bought fish and found a ball of worms in the backbone of one fish. He showed it to Dr. Rowe who confirmed the worms as trichinae and reported the fish was full of parasites. Physicians say the case is singular and the first of its kind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Dying Fastered Fasting Woman Mrs Hodson Dies
Mrs Hodson of WaAvpAca Wisconsin died after a long fast lasting seven days and four hours with no food or liquids. The report notes she had been the fasting woman and died today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WaAvpAca
Wis
Hodson
Two Years on His Second Century
The death is announced in New York on April 26 in Lewis G. Penda city at the age of two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewis G. Penda
Tragic Express Train Wreck Near Albany Illinois
At 6 am the night express on the Rock Island line plunged from a trestle over the Meredoala river south of Albany Illinois. Eight people died, including the engineer and fireman. Several others injured, with passengers and crew scrambling from wreckage as boats comb the river for bodies amid floodwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Rock Island
Chicago, Milwaukee & St
West
Freeport
Enggaeman Samuel Flanigan
Henry Myers
Daniel Ellithorpe
Thomas Fuller
Pine River
D. W. Lundy
Albany
H. W. Gordon
Rochester
N. Y
G. W. Chapman
Newark
N.J
Henry Warren
Boston
F. C. Butler
Passenger Car Derails on Denver & Rio Grande Line
A passenger coach with fourteen aboard left the track near Rock tunnel two miles east of Purse Colorado, plunging 150 feet down an embankment. Five men and one woman were killed, three slightly injured and three seriously harmed. no employees were hurt except the fireman riding in the coach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purse
Col
Denver & Rio Grande Road
Tere
Chama
Rock Tunnel
Collision Between Italian and New Brunswick Bark
In mid ocean 500 miles southeast of the Central bank the Italian bark Bunin capt Capurro was cut down on the 20th by the bark Arkle of St John NB. Bunin bound Havre Baltimore Arkle timber laden New Brunswick Dublin. Arkle bows stove in waterlogged unable to render aid collision occurred in dense fog with heavy seas. Bunin crew saved by passing vessel landed St Johns Saturday night. Little hope Arklo crew survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johns
N. F
Powder Works Explosion Near Binghamton NY
A massive blast struck the Dittmar Powder Works near Binghamton on April 21, destroying two buildings and injuring several others. The blast, felt across miles, originated in the apparatus room, allowed many workers to escape, and caused about 50,000 dollars in damage. Separately in Bridgeport, a powder magazine blew up near West Stratford causing earthquakesike shaking and window damage with no fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brnchamton
N. Y
Dittmar
Smithboro
Union
Bridgeport
Conn
West Stratford
Uniont Metallic Cartridge Company
Comnet
Egbert Pinney
CureaGo
Elgin
Rockford
Council Bluffs
Union Pacific
Many Drown in Capsized Dneister Ferry Across River
From LeMberg April 24 a capsized Dneister river ferry left as many as sixty three dead according to one report while another account lists thirty drowned. Other items note a fatal quarrel over divorce in San Francisco with gunfire, and an opium overdose death at Massachusetts General Hospital. A buried alive case in Yoonestown Missouri is also described with a coffin opening revealing the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chandler
Cunningham
Zach Chandler
Mia
Fitchburg
Massachusetts General Hospital
Samuel Kelly
Mills City
Montana
Orono, Me
Russell Street
Bunker Hill District
Heartlett
Yoonestown
Clarksville
Illinois
Blackwood Bend
Panama set back as canal treasurer flees with funds
Panama report says the De Lesseps Canal Company treasurer disappeared with a large sum in French gold. Another official allegedly absconded with $800. Discontent grows over company practices. workers report forced board, inflated meals, and credit charges depleting salaries. Strikes frequent amid poor diet and disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
de Lesseps Canal Company
Canal Company
Chagres
Matachin
Himeelf
Striking conductors attack street car chief in St Louis
In St Louis on April 25 a mob of saloon men attacked a Fifth street line car as Superintendent Fuqua acted as conductor. Windows were smashed and a blow struck Fuqua with a chair. Police arrested a rioter who was rescued by the mob. Fuqua continued the route after reinforcements arrived and the mob dispersed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Fuqua
Fifth Street
Harrowing trance case ends with awakening and collapse
In Reading Pennsylvania Gyumber the Hungarian awakens from a two month trance at the Lehigh county almshouse to dress and eat little before remaining prostrate. In Allentown he awakes, bolts from a window, and falls twenty five feet, breaking ribs and injuring the spine with likely fatal outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Penn
Gyumber
Lehigh County Almshouse
Noom
Gyamber
Allentown
John Guymphere
Counterfeiting ring found in jail plot investigation
During an inquiry into an escape plot a gang of counterfeiters was uncovered among white convicts with the cell containing plates and coins. Large quantities of light coins were seized and guards implicated. William Lowrey, a guard, is under arrest. In Abbeville a mob threatened to hang a negro to extract a confession in a mock court, with a young Indiantown judge presiding. The man was briefly hanged and released as part of the alleged fun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lowrey
Abbeville
8. C
Lynch’s Creek
Indiantown
A Knotty Question for Underwriters
A fire at 6 Gold Street destroyed $10,000 worth of cotton bales stored after Beaver street fires. The bales, bought by Thomas Walsh and insured, were not picked and smouldered despite watering. Insurers question their responsibility and security for the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gold Street
Beaver Street
Thomas Walsh
Woman in Ragged Garb Cited in Boston Husband Case
A woman calling herself Mary Russell from Boston appeared in New York court wearing ragged, police-provided clothing. She claimed to have lodged at 61 Spring Street Friday night and was robbed of her clothes and $6, leaving only her night garment. Police say neighbors reported she shared a room with a man, which she denied. Investigation ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorks
Mary Russell
Boston
Spring Street
Trinity College Gift for New Dormitory Project
Hartford April 25 trustees report a donation offer of 40000 from Colonel Charles H. Northam for a new dormitory. The building will occupy the space between existing halls enhancing campus beauty and usefulness. Northam has long supported Trinity College as a trustee and friend. Newark April 23 Bishop Spaulding of Peoria writes to Rome opposing a transfer to Newark citing attachment to his current see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Trinity College
Charles H. Northam
Northam
Spaulding
Peoria
Newark
N. J
Rome
Flooded Lands Report Severe Damage Across Midwest
The Minnesota river basin stays high with towns Ortonville Montevideo Mankato St Peter flooded. Omaha area sees rising water threatening rails depots and buildings. Sioux City water recedes slightly while city districts remain isolated by mud and flood waters. Rail lines and bridges washed out complicate services between Chicago and the West. Many towns fear crop harvests as levees and lowlands fail. Local relief efforts intensify as communities evacuate to higher ground.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Ortonville
Big Stone
Montevideo
Bluff
Kanite Falls
Mankato
St. Peter
Omaha
Sioux City
Chicago & Rock Island
Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Troster Depot
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Iowa
Union Pacific Road
Eirikhorn
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