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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1884
Page
5
W A Croffut recalls a band of Irish rebels who fled to America after the 1848 uprising. The piece profiles Meagher, O Gorman, Savage, Doheny, Brennan, Byrne, Powell, O Mahony, Mitchell, Cavanaugh, and others, detailing their lives, trials, and later roles while reflecting on their ideals and fates.
In Parliament Wooa worth lauded Governor Butler of Massachusetts for aiding an innocent Canadian extradition case. Amero, arrested in Digby for murder, spent nine months jailed before being released amid accusations of wrongful conduct by Attorney General Sherman. Canadians urged investigations and possible compensation, while Sir John called for careful review of the treaty and possible indirect government intervention.
Intense excitement in Norwalk as Huron county treasurer Martin O Vanfleet disappears after boarding a Lake Shore train with two satchels. The safe is empty now showing $60,000 to $70,000 missing including $16,000 in winter tax receipts. District and city funds in National City Bank safe. Suspect fled toward Canada.
Governor Hubbard leaves to Hartford Bar Library Association his law library and 6000 for books. Noros and Ninderman push pension or lieutenant rank in the retired navy, with Davis and Lovering backing. Maryland marks 250th at St. Marys. $10,000 allocated for a monument. Trinity rector restores the fallen mil ferry tree tied to Calvert’s treaty.
Letters describe unusual parity of marriage across Connecticut families with two brothers and two sisters producing first sons born on February 29. A New York man passed a Confederate twenty at par. the taker later traced and charged him with counterfeit. Foosaty pays a Boonsboro shoemaker for shoes bought two decades earlier, plus interest, totaling ten dollars. A Reno Gazette reader reports a bear kept a six year old boy safe through the night. The boy’s parents lived near Inskid on the river in Piumas county Nevada.
The Joliet prison tale profiles Frank Rande the so called Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash who boasted of murders and gunplay across Indiana Missouri and Illinois. His career from 1870 includes robberies multiple killings a dramatic capture in St. Louis and a deadly escape that left deputies wounded. He writes for papers roams in jail and sketches dreams of perpetual motion a crime detector telegraphy advances and a long list of vowed victims including seven in St. Louis and others in Illinois and Indiana.
Miss Calista Hapward, a Baltimore belle, marries William Oberndorfer, a wealthy Jewish man, and converts to Judaism. Her Protestant father urged church membership. the couple eloped to South Miss, Virginia, before the marriage. The Norfolk rabbi reportedly questioned her motive, but she affirmed pure intent as she joined the faith.
A nostalgic sketch traces how figures like George Jones Oswald Ottendorfer James Gordon Bennett Whitelaw Reid and Joseph Pulitzer rose from humble beginnings to powerful newspaper ownership in New York and Vermont. It notes wealth rising with success and hints at careers built from perseverance, shifting fortunes, and the era’s media empires.
A damaged fragment recalls a veteran’s journey at war’s end and his prior life as a coachman in St Louis. It mentions his year earnings from the St Louis Post-Dispatch as nine thousand one hundred twenty dollars per year and hints at past service.
In Atlanta March 6, a German-born former lieutenant and friend of Carl Schurz and Franz Siegel, August Scheffert, who later became Madison Georgia’s barber, amassed an extensive entomology collection over thirty years. His three large frames of specimens adorn an Atlanta shop, priced but unsold, as his past connections and lineage color his unlikely career pivot.
Ottawa March 10 Sir William Ritchie chief justice was named deputy governor general to assent to a bill allocating 30 million dollars to the Canadian Pacific railroad. Lord Lansdowne, displeased, must support the ministry or resign, while critics call the appropriation a robbery burdening each man, woman, and child by eighty six dollars.
Brooklyn March 9 Gottlob Sticker seized for stealing milk to feed a starving home. He argued his sick child required the milk and asked officers to take him to court. The officer, moved by the plight, arranged aid funds and a physician, and Judge Massey discharged Sticker after hearing the case.
In Roene Ester Minn March 10 a cyclone on August 21 killed Charles Quick his wife and two of seven children. The remaining two orphans were placed with their uncle August Quick who later faced a coroner's inquiry into Hermann a 14 year old's death from starvation neglect and exposure. The boy died from cold feet and lack of care while gathering chips for frewood and the uncle faces possible legal action.
In Brooklyn on March 4 the City Court concluded the case by Francis G. Weil against restaurateur Philip Dorlan over injuries to Weil's child in 1881. A game cock escaped, attacked the child, and pecked out its left eye. Jury charge halted as counsel announced a settlement of $5500.
In the legislative investigation of the surrogate’s office in New York City today, a probate clerk was found faulting double legal fees for papers, receiving a salary of 2000 dollars and at least 6000 dollars annually in illegal fees. He claimed ignorance of the legality of his actions and duties. Tomorrow more rotteness is expected to be unearthed.
In Newburyport on March 8 Mrs. William Moore tried to boil chocolate in an oyster can sealed with a wooden stopper. Steam pressure wedged the stopper, the can exploded, scattering contents and injuring her, with fears she may lose her eyesight.
Notes from the Northwest report a strained family in Waitsburg with thirteen ill members, a prolonged five-player poker watch for a gold watch at Watlays garrison, and a peach crop forecast negative for Yakima and Kititas counties due to deep freezes. Reports mention robins killed by a southern Oregon blizzard, a $1000 reward for a Chinaman's capture bound for Blue Mountain, Russian Hebrew settlers near Bismarck needing aid, and a Calgary dentist pulling native teeth with old proscriptions about buffalo-era dental health.
In Wilmington four Gowings sisters aged 84 88 90 and 93 are widows. Their four Gowing cousins include Sally 82 Samuel ? James 90 and Joseph 92. Bucks descendants show Mary 82 Benjamin 86 Nathan 91. In 1883 seven residents died with average age 81. current population about 800.
A Florida discovery misidentified as a petrified saddle-tree proves to be the cheek of a Repawueas statesman who died by his own hand, altering the tale into a warning about misapplied science and political tragedy.
Rev Joseph Cook urges a petition to Congress for a commission to study divorce and marriage statistics to guide future legislation. He argues family strength saves the nation and church, cites rising divorces among churchgoers and emigrants, and condemns Sunday papers as the satanic press disturbing the rest and liberties of citizens.
Nevada reports tell of a snowball rolling down a mountain above Alum Creek, growing to huge size and bursting into pieces that swept rocks and earth into an avalanche. The massive slide buried a cabin and cleared a snow bed fifty feet deep, destroying works and snowsheds across Cottonwood areas and stranding settlers from Rita to Hawthorne.
Thirty five Austrian and Italian families arrived in Galveston from Brazos Santiago aboard the Harris in destitute condition. They say promises of land and aid from the Mexican government lured them to emigrate, but those promises were not kept and they were forced to work on railways for very low wages. Austrian and Italian consuls will be asked for assistance.
Mr C G Sanford of Fall River sold dark Brabmas for 47 to Auckland New Zealand a 700 mile journey. A Hartford hen laid four eggs with shells on them Monday in her nest. Nicholas Groat of Climax Michigan owns 23 hens and has gathered 684 cuus in three months selling at 25 to 31 cents a dozen. Spiritual manifestations by Fappings frightened a Narra gansett Pier family as a hen imprisoned under the house allegedly embodied the spirit. A Bethany Pa man found a buried hen in fresh snow after ten days. A Wheatland Penn woman preserves eggs by sealing contents in bottles. Mrs McDaniel of Dublin Ga broke an egg containing a flat scorpion in white and yolk with four rubs instead of feet. The reptile’s body size equaled a man’s finger.
J T Lovett of Little Silver New Jersey is a leading small fruits grower offering top raspberry Hansell black berry Early Tarvest strawberries Atlantic and Daniel Boone and a new white grape Jessica. Catalogue free and delivery prompt, and publishers extend a four week offer from February 26 via Godey’s Lady's Book.
The week closes on a quiet money market with moderate demand and ample loanable funds. Rates ease for mercantile paper and bank notes, while outside banks discount around 6 percent. collateral loans on call at 84 percent per annum. Clearing-house exchanges total 10,777,500 with weekly 362,043,880. New York gold shipments near 56 million.
Commercial matters from the Boston daily paper detail flour prices for Western superfine and Minnesota patent, various roller and wheat grades, and rye flour. It notes fair demand for beef and mutton, beef hindquarters and veal quotes, hog prices, ocean freight rates to Melbourne Sydney and London, bagging, hay and straw markets, hemp fibers, skins, hops, and varied metal and chemical commodity quotes with steady or firm tendencies.
The New York markets show dull wheat and firm corn and oats futures with mixed spot sales across grains. Provisions soften slightly as lard and pork trade active, while coffee and petroleum show firmer or steady patterns in a volatile trading day.
Special correspondence reports a steady market with large sales to the robbing trade. February fish receipts fell about 250000 pounds below six year February averages. Week totals reach 6942000 pounds, including 223000 pounds of fresh balibut and 460000 frozen herring, with wholesale quotes for various fish and products listed. Prices cover baliout haddock codfish and other staples, along with salt fish, cusk, pollock, and alewives, plus medical oils and byproducts in limited quantities.
Readable totals show livestock arrivals at Brighton and Watertown for the week ending March 7. Western cattle 1856, Eastern cattle 0, Northern cattle 374. Western sheep 7800, Northern sheep 0, Eastern sheep 0. total 10910. Swine 12293, Veals 300, Horses 308. Prices per head varied. oxen and hides noted with rough figures and weights.
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