Fifteen Little Girls Dead In Parochial School Panic
In New York on Tuesday afternoon a fire caused by smoldering sweepings in a closet led to a stampede at the German Church of the Holy Redeemer parochial school. A broken balustrade and crowded stairs caused a deadly crush, killing sixteen and injuring about twenty five. Police and charity officials describe a grim scene as victims were identified and prepared for burial at Calvary cemetery.
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New Yon
East Fourth Street
Sisters of Notre Dame
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Third Street
Lambert
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Fifth Street
First Avenue
Donlin
Adolphe Mandel
East First Street
Apromia
Thomas J. Brennan
Charities and Correction
G. H. Lambert
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Greenwich Avenue
Twelfth Street
University Pints
Calvary Cemetery
Lawrence's Failure Exposes Augustinian Society Debts
Great excitement grips Lawrence depositors as the Augustinian Society collapses under a debt load of about 540000. Attachments on real estate follow, with claims of poor investments and mismanagement. Depositors face loss while church property is mortgaged and schools to be suspended, as talks of settlement continue.
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Lawrence
Order
New York
Elttred Vestry
St. Mary's
Augustinians
Te Order
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Father O'Donnell
Augustinian Society
Elizabeth Ryley
Dennis McKenna
St. Mary’s
City Institution For
Lowell
St. Mary's Church
New Six Story Marble Front Block Planned in Hamilton Place
A handsome six story building will rise on Hamilton place where houses 8 and 4 now stand. Tearing down begins about April 1 and erection will start soon after. The marble front will feature modern improvements and a large block will replace the old dwellings.
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Hamilton Place
Phillips Estate to Build Two-Storey Ground Floor Stores
Executors of Jonathan Phillips estate plan a two-storey building with two ground floor stores and fifty upper floor rooms for offices and studios. One store is already teased by Hewins & Hollis, slated for occupancy next Christmas. Construction cost is estimated at $100,000.
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Hewins & Hollis
Jonathan Phillips
A Vain Search For Heiress Of 10000 A Year In London Standard
The London Standard reports a fruitless hunt for a young woman alleged to be the daughter of an English baronet. Deserted as an infant in Kingstown about twenty years ago, she was found on a door step at Sussex Parade and sent to Rathdown Union Workhouse. Records show an infant’s admission and a later removal by a woman from Green Street, prompting rumors and a £2000 reward for information.
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London Standard
Kingston
Thomas Carey
Sussex Parade
Rathdown Union
Loughlinstown
Kingstown
Green Street
Running Amuck in New York Town Delirious Man
Robert Banks a 35 year old collar maker in Rome New York leaped from a boarding house second story ran naked to his former boarding place attacked a station keeper injuring him then fled to Floyd avenue assaulted a bartender and robbed a room He was rearrested confined and left in a precarious condition with multiple injuries from head to foot
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Rome
N. Y
Robert Banks
R. M. Bingham & Co
Eliza Burleson
Floyd Avenue
Queer Marriage Contract in New York 1879 Record
An ante-nuptial contract dated May 6 1879 and recorded binds Catherine Mace Arthur widow to assign half of her one third interest in James Mace Arthur estate to Alexander Boyd in return for agreeing to marry him on May 15. The widow signed with her mark.
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New York
Alexander Boyd
Catherine Mace Arthur
James Mace Arthur
Boyd
Opium Seized On Steamer City of Tokio in San Francisco
Surveyor Morton seized opium valued at 15000 dollars hidden in a water tank aboard the steamer City of Tokio in San Francisco. The tank's shaft well provided the only access to the contraband.
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San Francisco
Morton
City of Tokio
Water in the HeartCase and Graves Regulator Claim
Water in the heart is described as dropsy related with a floating feeling and irregular pulse. The ad promotes Dr Graves heart regulator as a remedy to relieve and cure heart disease. A call for cooks and girls for general house work appears with a phone or address instruction to apply after 10 am.
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Serre
Gall
Relief Efforts Advance After Flood Loss in Indiana
Cincinnati dispatch reports rapid relief work for flood victims in New Albany and Vincennes Indiana. A coal handout plan aims to cover 125000 bushels valued at 15000 dollars, with funds also set for street cleaning and charity.
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Cincinnati
Associated Charities
Dayton
Flood Strikes Lawrenceburg Banks Halt as Factories Lose Ground
Lawrenceburg Indiana reports five streets remain dry as floodwaters recede. All business, including banks, is suspended while four hundred houses are lifted from foundations and a large carriage factory is moved a mile from its site. Five manufacturers suffer losses totaling eighty thousand dollars.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
River Floods Hit Cities From Louisville to Memphis
February reports show the Ohio and Wabash rivers rising and receding across Louisville Metropolis Vincennes and Memphis. Flooding shuts mills and factories, halts river trade, and forces layoffs while water levels shift across the region.
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Metropolis
Hil
Metropolis, Ill
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash River
Relief for Shawneetown and Shawneetown area funds sought
Evansville special reports the steamer Augusta Isabella carrying relief supplies to Shawneetown and river towns. The boat will appeal to the legislative committee and seek subscriptions, including 8000 from James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald fund. Shawneetown's mayor went to Springfield to request 100000 for the town, with damages estimated in the millions.
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Shawneetown
Lovursville
Evansville
Ind
Legislative Committee
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald Fund
Springfield
New Albany Relief Committee Assures Sufficient Funds
Indianapolis relief committee reports that current funds and New Albany’s share from the legislature will cover needs. Destruction along the Ohio River from Cairo to Laurenceburg persists as relief bouts operate between Evansville and New Albany to aid those seeking help. All entrusted funds will be properly applied.
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Indianapolis
New Albany
Ohio River
Cairo
Laurenceburgh
Indianapolis Relief Committee
Evansville
Wicked Lies Of an Unscrupulous Western Editor
An 1883 Denver Tribune item recounts a Washington poker evening hosted by Senator Edmunds with Senators Tabor Hoar Sherman Cameron Logan Ingalls Beck and a Colorado visitor Mr Hopkins. The tale centers on Hopkins joining a poker game despite limited skill as the others reminisce over literary figures.
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Denver Tribune
Rep
Marcel
Edmunds
K Street
Washington
Tabor
Hoar
Sherman
Cameron
Logan
Ingalls
Beck
Hopkins
Colorado
Rabelais
Boccaccio
Balzac
Mr. Hopkins
Colorado Stranger Bets Big in Senate Card Game
A high stakes poker match among Senators Sherman Hoar Edwards Hopkins and others unfolds with Hopkins suffering a rapid run of losses. Hoar lends support to Sherman, who risks large sums as Hopkins finally loses a decisive hand to four aces. Bowen/Edmunds are drawn into the room as the night of gambling continues.
New Colorado Senator Bowen Revealed in Jokers Mock
In a Washington scene senators laugh at a prank exposing Tom Bowen as the new Colorado senator, misidentifying him as Hopkins and Tabor’s friend. The room includes Plumb Sherman Edmunds and Pilumb reacting with amusement and embarrassment.
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Rowen
Plumb
Mr. Hopkins
Senator Tabor
Senator Plumb
Senator Sherman
Senator Edmunds
Senator Over
Senator Pilumb
Tabor
Hopkins
Tom Bowen
Colorado
America
Southern planters plan to elevate the negro through Calhoun method
The piece reports on a grandson of John C Calhoun who manages the Flowrence plantation in Arkansas 8600 acres with 260 hands. He sells goods to workers at a small advance and rents land to tenants who grow cotton with shared profits. The article praises his policy as raising prosperity, debt reduction, and property accumulation, and notes a new company buying plantations with bonds and 9000 acres cultivated. It claims improved conditions and worker loyalty, implying this may educate and elevate black voters.
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John C. Calhoun
Arkansas
Vrink Wilkeson
New York Sun
Tle
Calhoun
Alabama
Tie
Baying Alco
William Clayton
Death in His Favorite Robe by KR V Pierce
A booster ad describes Dr. KR V Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for consumption. It claims liver purification and blood cleansing defeat tubercular disease, easing coughs, night sweats, and weakness, with cautions against overpromising and praise for the medicine’s broad uses. The piece stresses authenticity and the product’s availability through druggists and stores.
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Golden Medical
Remarkable Phenomena in Bethel Snow Formations
In Bethel Connecticut on a February evening a light half inch snow fell amid ice. The ground showed two to three inches of hard snow. Morning winds from the north left snowbands in curious cone shapes, one eighteen inches long with a circular opening. They lay scattered across rolled paths as if moved by gusts or small whirlwinds.
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Bethel
Conn
Reunion At Westfield Town Farm Ends Estrangement
A long estranged couple reunites at Westfield Town Farm during the year. Sarah Hanchett, once separated after her husband neglected her, has spent years confined in her room and known as Crazy Sarah. Her former husband, also a town charge in old age, now resides at the farm and is expected to remain until death.
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Westfield Town Farm
Sarah Hanchett
Town Farm
Sarah
Swanton Centenarian and Other Oddities
Joseph Greene of Swanton Vermont is 102 and in good health and clear mind. An Auburn Maine man boasts 125 cousins and twenty four uncles and aunts. Ebenezer Collier, 78, found dead in Warwick with heavy snow blocking access. A Hartford Sunday school pupil asks if the teacher is Mrs or Miss. John H. Dutton of Sherburne, an old bachelor, is a shoemaker harness maker and carpenter who sews clothes and pieces quilts, his boss quilt containing 15376 pieces. Frankie Hubbard, 12, son of Dexter Hubbard at New Haven railroad depot, is an expert telegrapher who can read by sound and contact New York easily.
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Joseph Greene
Swanton
Ebenezer Collier
Warwick
Hartford
John H. Dutton
Sherburne
Frankie
Dexter Hubbard
Union Depot
New Haven
New York
Hop Bitters Promise Rich Health From Hops Profit
An old advertisement claims at $125 per pound hops yield $1000 profit per acre and promises health with Hop Bitters. It asserts Hop Bitters contains the same quantity of hops as before, priced the same years ago, despite hops now costing twenty times higher. The pitch urges raising hops to get rich and stay healthy.
Ladies bucket shop swindles lure Chicago women into futures
A Chicago article reports on a women only bucket shop on Randolph Street where middle aged and young ladies trade hog futures and corn. Brokers push margins as losses mount, with examples of Mrs L and a daring Miss who gambled away fortunes. A widow mourning her husband’s death lost her last savings, illustrating how most investors are swallowed by the market.
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ChicaGo
Randolph Street
Board of Trade Commission
St. Louis
Dearborn Avenue
Death of Mrs B P Shillaber
Death announced for Mrs B P Shillaber, daughter of Maximilian John de Rochemont of a noted Huguenot family from Portsmouth New Hampshire. Her father, a scholar and linguist, taught several European languages in New Hampshire before leading a Louisiana newspaper, where he was murdered amid territorial transfer troubles. She died of pneumonia after a week of illness while her husband remains bedridden with rheumatism.
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B. P. Shillaber
Maximilian John de Rochemont
Portsmouth
N. H
New Hampshire
Louisiana
Louisiana Territory
United States
Right-Sided Heart Found In Local Patient
Blooming ton NL February 27 Sam Fuchs aged 20 arrived here Friday from the country for treatment of a lung affection. Medical exam revealed his heart is on the right side and all internal organs are giophacet. He had been in good health until lately.
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Bloomington
Sam Fuchs
Allotted Three Score and Ten News Item in Vermont
A. 8. Need ham, lifelong Democrat and former Vermon House proprietor, died in Montpelier last week. Harry Campion of Lawrence Mass reports Brown's Troy Bitters as an admirable tonic he has used.
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Montpelier
Needham
Lifelon Democrats
Vermon House
Old Orchard Beach
Harry Campion
Lawrence, Mass
To Our Breaders Mentioning Advertisements Helps
The notice requests readers who respond to ads in the paper to state they saw the advertisement in the Boston Weekly Globe. It emphasizes urging readers to mention the paper when answering ads.
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Boston Weekly Glube
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Market Outlook and Prices from Boston Finance Page
Finance and Commerce notes a dull Boston market with steady prices and pockets of firmer tone. It cites improved activity near week end, declines in some leaders, and expectations of a near New York rise with persistent caution from Wall Street brokers. includes extensive commodity, grain, meat, dry goods, and hay pricing for February 24, 1883.
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State Street
Boston
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Vanty
Alton & Terre Haute
Pacific Mail
Canada Southern
Reading
St. Paul
St. Paul Omaha
Jersey Central
Lake Shore
Missouri Pacific
Manhattan
Union Pacific
Vanderbilt
St. Paul & Omaha
Kiernan
Alexander Mitchell
St. Paul Road
Provident Institution For Savings
Lawrence
Boston Markets Report Highlights Trade Quiet Yet Confident
Boston Daily Globe notes light transactions but a confident tone among leading manufacturers. Wool strong with reduced stock on fine fleeces. cotton dull. Apples firm with Baldwins around 3 75 to 4 per barrel. Beans easier. yellow keys light. Boots and shoes steady. rubber goods dull. Butter and eggs varied. cheese, coal, coffee, copper, corn, cranberries, dried apples, and fish markets show mixed yet steady activity across regions and grades.
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Philadelphia
Ania
Boston
Estern
RICE
Carolina
Louisions
Rangoon
Putua
Rye
Ohio
Michigan
Pring Ak
Boston Daily
Stors T
Ned Kidders
Middle States
Franklin County
New York
Vermont
Cumberland
Clearfield
Pueseree & Tb
Java
Maracaibo
Rio
Chicago
Bush
Gloucester Fish Market weekly arrivals and prices
Special Gloucester report lists weekly fishing arrivals totaling 18 ships with 1600000 pounds of codfish and halibut plus 1850000 pounds of frozen herring. Prices quoted for Georges Cod and Bank Cod, halibut, haddock, cusk, hake, pollock, and other items show stable to modest changes with numerous itemized per-quartile rates and frozen goods values.
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Sunday Globe
Gloucester
Western Banks
Georges
the Banke
Newfoundland
Grand Mevan
Haddock
Hake
To Our Readers Notice In The HVsTVN Weary Globe
A brief reader message appears acknowledging a similar item seen in The HVsTVN Wearly Globe. The note directs attention to shared coverage and urges readers to compare sources.
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