A Mountain Cabin begins Ben Stantons search saga
In the Sierra Nevada the miner Jake Bradley and sixteen year old Ben Stanton guard Richard Dewey in a mountain cabin. They discuss Deweys gold dust, Florence Douglas, and Ben and Bradleys uneasy plans to share the wealth while Ki Sing, their Chinese servant, tends to the party and may face danger as Ki Sing disappears for a late errand.
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Ben
Jake Bradley
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Jake
Martin
Bradley
Ken
Richard Dewey
Boadley
Dewey
San Francisco
Miss Douglas
States
Ki Sing
Florence Douglas
Florence
Frisco
Len
Astor House
York
Albany
John Campbell
Mr. Campbell
Campbell
New York
Chance
Ken Stanton
California
Jocosely
Rising
Dick Dewey
Weekly Globe subscription offer for 1882 series
The Weekly Globe announces a multiweek issue starting February 14 1882 available only by annual subscription of one dollar. The second original story in the 1882 series includes a Ladies' Department and an Agricultural Department, promising value beyond the book price of 15 to 20 dollars.
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Weekly Globe
Weekly
GLOBE
Boston
Mass
Wits
Indorsing the Present National Bank System and Polygamy Suppression
Washington dispatch reports a Senate House focus on maintaining the national bank system, distributing Geneva award funds, and pursuing anti polygamy laws in the territories. It covers Georgia claim payment, Maine judicial appointment, Utah governance ideas, and pension discussions including Mrs Lincoln. It notes politicans and committees shaping policy on finance law and moral reform.
Murderous axe attack shocks Ontario farm near Cumminsville
Toronto reports a brutal family murder four miles from Cumminsville in Plumboro East. Rourke attacked Maher with an axe after visiting the door, killing Maher’s father Edward Maher and sister Bridget and mangling their bodies. Rourke fled, was captured later, and coroner’s inquest was set for Monday.
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Toronto
Cumminsville
Plumboro
Rourke
Maher
Herman
Watertown
Bridget
Young Maher
Edward Maher
Brooke
Hamilton
Mather
Richardson
Burlington
Patrick Maher
Wedded at Eighteen New Sues for Divorce
New York January 22 A suit for limited divorce has been brought against Milano Tilden by his wife Annette. Judge Barrett ordered alimony of 26 and a counsel fee of 750. The couple married when he was eighteen to pursue Harvard studies. He seeks annulment alleging a provoked marriage. She denies the claims.
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New York
Milano
Tilden
Annette
Barrett
Harvard University
William Tilden
Oberlin druggists vow to sell no liquor in town
In Oberlin Ohio on January 22 a group of local druggists signed a contract to prohibit all liquor sales under any circumstances. A visitor named Bronson ignored the ban and physicians orders, drawing boycotts led by college professors. A delegation visited Bronson, who refused discussion and invited them to leave. He burned red pepper at the door to regain the room. Freshmen have tried to intimidate him but failed, and he has received threatening letters.
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Oper
Ohio
Oberlin
Bronson
Mystery money found in Adams estate pounds the public purse
New Haven reports a dirt stained rag with a verdigris shell unearthed in Charles Addins overcoat. Four greenbacks including a $1000 note and a $500 note plus three $100 bills were discovered. heirs must appear within thirty years or funds go to the State. Cuicano notes Louis P. Smith’s quick actions against three burglars, with arrests of Martin Furlong and Dick Furlong and John Garrity. Topeka contemplates exhibiting Guiteau’s body for profit with large donations from local officials. Pittsburgh reports four I H Marsh cattle in Lanesboro dying from a suspected fever and possible diphtheria.
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New Haven
Charles Addins
Winchester Armory
Adams
Nese
Cuicano
Louis P. Smith
Sulton Street
Martin Furlong
Dick Furlong
John Garrity
Indiana Street
Kentucky farmer slays family then hangs himself
LovuIsvi Lur Ky January 22 Last week in Girard county Ky James R Wilmot a farmer cut the throats of his mother his wife and two daughters with an axe He tried to kill his sons but they escaped Wilmot then hanged himself Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause
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LovuIsvi Lur
Girard County
James R. Wilmot
Wilmot
Singular Coincidence Era Father and Child Born and Died on Wednesday
Anthony Carter of Woburn was born and died on Wednesday, as did his wife and their only child Henry. The couple wed on Wednesday, and the family shared a Wednesday fate in a singular coincidence. Separately, several shipmen entered Delmonico's in New York to gather at a large table for unlimited refreshments on a Wednesday before the scene faded.
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Florence Douglas
Ben Stanton
Ben
Job Stanton
New York
California
San Francisco
Douglas
Richard Dewey
Jake
Anthony Carter
Woburn
Henry
Delmonico’s
Beaver
South William Streets
Ocean wager ship Plymouth Rock beats Therese in Atlantic run
Wagers paid on an ocean race from Trieste to Sandy Hook between the Norwegian park Plymouth Rock, consigned to Slocovich & Co., and the German bark Therese, consigned to H Koop & Co. Both carried empty oil barrels. They sailed November 19 from Trieste and December 1 from Gibraltar. The Plymouth Rock pulled ahead three miles after Gibraltar, reaching Sandy Hook minutes before Therese.
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Plymouth Rock
Slocovich & Co
Therese
H. Koop & Co
Trieste
Gibraltar
Sandy Hook
Missouri farmhouse fire claims six lives in shared slumber
In Lewis Missouri on January 22 Mrs Smith 45 Elizabeth 17 Rachael 18 Bien 6 Theodore 16 all perished when a blaze engulfed their second story home. George C Switch escaped with an 85 year old child leaping from the room as flames ran wild. The family appeared asleep, likely suffocated, while the house burned to furnace heat and a fire from a burning sitting room fed the blaze.
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Missouri
Lewis
Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Rachael Smith
Bien Smith
Theodore Smith
George C. Switch
Elizabeth
Cuals
Supreme Court Hear Argument On Spiritualism Insanity Case
In Hartford last Thursday the Connecticut Supreme Court heard a novel will dispute from Somers. The testator Calvin Matt left most property to nieces and nephews and a small bequest to the Spiritualist Church. Died 1879 after 1866 will. A New York nephew claims insanity due to Spiritualism and seeks a new trial after a jury in Tolland set aside the will. The judge’s failure to instruct that belief in Spiritualism alone is not insanity is under review.
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Supreme Court
Calvin Matt
Somers
Spiritualist Church of
New York City
Tolland
Liis
Smallpox cases surge in New York and across cities
Inspectors report twelve New York smallpox cases uncovered, with several concealed for weeks. A Philadelphia traveler arrived ill and was hospitalized. Five concealed cases found on East Thirteenth Street and four on East Third Street among Bohemian cigar makers. Total weekly cases reach thirty six with vaccination rising to nearly a thousand daily. Reports from Philadelphia New Haven and Amherst College note rising cases, vaccination push and quarantines.
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New York
Board of Health
Lawrence Tooley
Philadelphia
Riverside Hospital
East Thirteenth Street
East ‘Third Street
Field plans sixteen story riverfront office building in New York
Cyrus W Field proposes a sixteen story building with over 500 feet of frontage facing the Battery. The cupola will overlook the city and Sandy Hook lighthouse and sit on about half an acre. Mail-Express offices will feature light air and utility in a modern architectural style. Nashville floods ease as relief efforts continue and a 25 mile walk for sufferers is planned.
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Cyrus W. Field
Washington Estate
Battery
Sandy Hook
Mail- Express
Vield
Nashville
Tenn
Columbia
O'Leary
Dobler
Wisconsin man bonded for alleged witch trances and cattle bewitchment
A Shawano Wisconsin case recalls medieval fears as a neighbor was bound to keep the peace after attempts to mutilate an old woman he claimed was a witch. He said she bewitched his cattle and twice entered his home through the chimney and keyhole, causing terror and distress.
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Shawano
Wis
Golden Medical Discovery Cures Old Shipwreck Abscess Claim
William Ryex of Buffalo New York writes that twenty years of leg abscesses from a shipwreck left him with continuous discharges. After spending extensively without relief he took Golden Medical Discovery and reports complete cure within three months, able to place his left heel on the ground for the first time in ten years.
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R. VY. Pierce
M. D
Buffalo
Sir
Atlantic Ocean
William Ryex
Jefferson St
Buffalo, N.Y
United States Troops Arrested for Invasion
A Santa Fe dispatch says Lt McDonald and twenty scouts crossing the border into Chihuahua were arrested by Mexican authorities and taken to Chihuahua city for trial for invasion. War Department has been informed. A separate report from Littleton New Hampshire notes a snow storm with high winds and temperatures as low as 12 below at the town and 16 below at Bethlehem.
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Col
Santa Fe
McDonald
Nana
Chihuahnna
Chihuahua City
War Department
White Hills
Littleton
N. H
Bethlehem
Lancaster
Fabyans
Death of Clarkson N Potter in New York
Clarkson N Potter died at 9 a m at his residence 16 Gramercy Place after unconsciousness since Friday from Brights disease and apoplexy He was 66 and survived by three daughters and two sons.
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Clarkson N. Potter
Gramercy Place
Bright
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