Furious Flames Sweep Southern New Jersey
Fire devastates Hanover Whitings Woodmansie and surrounding areas across a 27 mile front. Destruction includes Great Republic and Iron Mills with extensive timber, berry bogs, and vineyards lost. Three children burned to death in Pennsylvania. Fire rekindled by NW winds. hundreds flee as lines span Colwell tract to May's Landing and Milville.
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Grosox
Mints
N. J
Hanover
Whitings
Woodmansie
Atchinson
Great Republic
Bennett’s Mills
Iron Mills
Cedar Lake
Hammonton
Elwood
Mullicus River
Great Egg Harbor River
New York
Jersey
Colwell Tract
Egg Harbor
Mazecom
Tuckahoe
May's Landing
Milville
Egg Harbor City
Camden and Atlantic Railroad
Elmwood
Great Egg Harbor
Hammaton
Egg Harbor River
Colwell
New Jersey
Cumberland
Omehy Geen
Uite
Grieg
Mane Hanns
Terrifying fire destroys Murray works and Milton blaze
A morning fire at Murray Donegal Co's car works in Miron Penn and a later blast at Milton Penn devastate central town areas. About 666 buildings are lost, with $2,000,000 in damage and widespread homelessness. Aid pours in from multiple cities as authorities deploy tents and relief. Incendiary attempts spark fear, rewards offered, and military precautionary orders discussed.
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Milton
Penn
Planing Mill
Relief Committee
Lee Williamsport
Philadelphia Relief Committee
McClure
Hoyt
Three Children Burned to Death at Angola Indiana
Angola Indiana May 17 The house of Mrs Smith burned while she was away at a dance. Her three children a boy fourteen and two girls aged nine and five perished in the cellar along with David Frye a cigar dealer. The tragedy follows oil fires elsewhere in Pennsylvania and Canada reporting heavy losses and incendiary blazes.
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Angola
Ind
Indian Creek
Fredericton
N. B. St. Joan
N. B
Edgecombe Brothers
Colter & Sons
East Weymouth
Weymouth Iron Company
Iron Hill
Fire destroys stock and tent barn in Quincy incident
The blaze caused the loss of five valuable horses two yoke of oxen and a cow with $4000 in damage and only $700 insured on the barn. Two suspicious men were seen prowling after the fire and Officer Hayden arrested them. They face incendiarism charges in Quincy court this morning as officials pursue the guilty parties.
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Hayden
Quincy
Experiments Try to Reanimate a Bridgeport Murderer
The New York Sunday Sun reports physicians conducted electro galvanic tests on Edwin Hoyt, executed in Bridgeport, to test resurrection. They simulated respiration, moved limbs, and elicited facial expressions with a battery, but could not revive the heart. An autopsy revealed a fatal cervical fracture with ligaments torn between the second and third vertebrae. The doctors concluded death was instant and painless.
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New York Sunday Sun
Edwin Hoyt
Bridgeport
Conn
Robert Lauder
N. E. Warden
G. L. Porter
F. M. Wilson
Marshall
Stamford
Noony
Stratford
Benedict
Bethel
Hoyt
Kidder
Han
Infernal machine target Spanish consul in New York
Spanish consul general Hypolite Uriarte narrowly escaped a deadly infernal device sent to his office at 29 Broadway. The package contained gunpowder nitro glycerine and a percussion cap with a fastened top to trigger sparks. Private detectives investigate while authorities suspect a Cuban plot to kill Spanish officials.
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New York
Hypolite d’Uriarte
Broadway
Chevalier Hypolite
Uriarte
N. Y
Philadelphia
Miracle Cement Cures Connecticut Crippled Girl
Norwich reports a bed ridden twelve year old, Mary Ellen McNamara, cured after cement from Knock Chapel Ireland was applied to her neck. Within hours she stood and walked, attending the circus the next day. The claim sparks religious excitement as others seek the miraculous cement.
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Norwich
Mary Ellen McNamara
Knock
Ireland
Public Whipping in New Castle Del May 15
In New Castle Delaware about 300 spectators watched public whippings for one hour. Two colored criminals Sewell Starkey and Lewis Tobias faced the pillory and whipping with Starkey later attached to the whipping post receiving forty blows. John Henry, a Philadelphia pickpocket, got twenty blows and others, including two youths aged ten and fourteen, were punished.
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New Castle
Del
Sewell Starkey
Lewis Tobias
Starkey
Herbert
Orty
John Henry
John Kiesler
West Point Cadet Whittaker on the Witness Stand
At West Point May 15 J S Paine testified on handwriting in the Whittaker court of inquiry noting strong similarity to the warning note and papers. Cadet Whittaker, calm and self poised, faced probing questions, read an eight page letter, denied guilt, and named Cadets Blake and McDonald as possible suspects. He showed marked distress when asked about the note and noted that replies reflected his heart.
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Boston Globe
West Point
N. Y
Whittaker
Paine
Southworth
Gaylor
Ames
Greener
Knight
Flipper
Blake
McDonald
Academy
Army of the United States
Sears
New York
Webster
Mr. Southworth
Mordecai
Court martial possible in Whittaker case amid shock
A Boston expert Mr Southworth warns that Whittaker might face a court martial or that the secretary of war could order one. Southworth, struck by heart disease, grew agitated while noting fittings and the warning on a sheet from Whittaker’s unfinished letter to his mother, and Recorder Sears feared he might collapse.
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Whittaker
Secretary of War
Boston
Mr. Southworth
Sears
Proclamation From Cuban Patriot Leader Garcia Yniguez
The Evening News in Philadelphia publishes the full text of General Calixto Garcia Yniguez proclamation to the people of Cuba announcing the reestablishment of a Cuban republic with a provisional government. It lists the president and ministers and notes successful landing of troops and arms.
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Philadelphia
Calixto Garcia Yniguez
Republic of Cuba
Cuba
Garcia Yniguez
Cuban Republic
Holguin
Pio Rosado
Fonsica
United States
Key West
Senor Bavastro
New York
Jose Francisco Lamadriz
Matanzas
Exec
Murdered Miners: An Eye-Witness Account of Ute Massacre
Leadville, May 16. John Allendorf recounts the killing of seventeen prospectors in the Ute reservation seven weeks ago. He describes a brutal massacre, looting, and mutilation, the cremation of clothing, and the removal of buried gold, as he vows revenge and names the murdered men.
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Leadville
Col
John Allendorf
Ute Reservation
Linn County
Kansas
Ute
Colorado
Gunnison
Sequel to a Sensation in Divorce Case at Montreal
Richard Wulff a prominent Montreal merchant and foreign consul filed in superior court to annul his wife’s marriage settlement of 20 000 dollars. The wife eloped to New York, obtained a divorce, remarried, and the couple now resides in Germany. The case questions transfer of funds to children and doubts relief can be granted.
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New York
Germany
Wulff
United States
France
Vast Time on the New Jersey Central
A special express train on the Central railroad of New Jersey achieved record speeds on a trial run from Philadelphia to Jersey City and back. The four car train with a Baldwin locomotive completed 59 2 10 miles to Bound Brook in 64 minutes and 30 2 10 miles in 34 minutes, totaling 80 42 miles in 97 minutes. Returning with five cars, the trip from Jersey City to Bound Brook and back covered 89 44 miles in 1 hour 80 minutes 35 seconds.
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New Jersey Central
Bergen Poit
N. J
New Baldwin
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Jersey City
Bound Brook
Ree
Fair Neilson to Forswear the Stage for New York
The morning papers report Adelaide Neilson plans to quit the stage and America after Booth's Theatre engagement. She expresses readiness for private life and excitement for California before departure.
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New York
The
Morning Papers
Adelaide Neilson
America
Booth’s
California
Summer Boarders Ad Wanted in New England Towns
If you want summer boarders and live in any New England town, send your ad dress at once to Tux BosToN Daily Globe, Boston, Mass, Eucla stamp.
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New England
Boston Daily Globe
Boston
Mass
Boston Daily Goons
Terrific boiler explosion at Birhills iron works
Loxprox May 16 A boiler explosion at Birchill's iron works in Walsall Staffordshire eight miles from Birmingham killed ten and injured thirty five. Cause suspected as low water though workers had run on full time for iron revival. Locals say owners risked repairs for production amid fear and grief.
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Loxprox
Birchill's Iron Works
Walsall
Staffordshire
Birmingham
Horrible Suffering in Aleppo Described by Swiss Resident
A Geneva letter from Aleppo recounts extreme misery as Christians, Jews, Arabs, and Turks struggle for bread. Women surround governor Said Pasha’s barracks while families starve, and merchants hoard grain, pushing wheat to 33–35 piasters per bushel. Famine also worsens in Azerbaijan with 600 deaths and 1200 Christians fleeing.
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London
Geneva
The
Bund
Aleppo
Pasha
Terai
Kerim Allah
Teneran
Persia
Azerbaijan
Urumiyah
Defeat Reported for Chilean Army in Andean Clash
May 16 Lonpox dispatch claims Peruvians and Bolivians under General Montero routed Chilean forces between Moquequa and Lacua. Chilians reportedly retreated to mountain passes and were trapped, though doubts arise about source reliability amid Peru invasion strains.
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Lonpox
Peru
Bolivia
Montero
Moquequa
Lacua
Moguequa
Capi
Cordilleras
Russian unrest and British alerts in May reports
A London dispatch outlines the Commons committee deadlock over Charlies Bradlaugh and oath admission. Other items note Russian denials, a nobleman killed by his father during arrest, student marriage bans, a shipwreck near Grand Canary, and European strike talk. The Paris assembly debate and Bulgarian incursions are reported alongside the Czar reviewing 40,000 troops.
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London
House of Commons
Charlies Bradlaugh
Bradlaugh
Parade Scene Shows Order Under General Melikoff Rule
Mounted troops lined the avenue for a long stretch while the czar, in good health, observed a notably fine parade ground. No disorder appeared as the day's performance suggested disorganized elements were settling under General Melikoff's rule before the czar returned to the palace.
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Melikoff
Jealousy and murder shocks Jersey City dockside
Patrick Duffy a fifty five year old longshoreman was arrested for deadly assault with intent to kill Patrick Duffy attacked Morris Welsh with a sledge hammer at O Kiefs saloon on Morgan street Welsh collapsed with a crushed skull and was removed to Charity hospital where surgeons operated removing ten skull fragments Duffy claimed he acted after Welsh violated his wife and said he intended to kill him before being taken into custody Welsh is thirty and unmarried Duffy says the hammer was his and used previously for driving spikes at the dock
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New York
Patrick Duffy
Morgan Street
Jersey City
Morris Welsh
Charity Hospital
Reynolds
O'Kief
Welsh
Duffy
Dr. Watson
A Frenchman's Honor in Lawrence Blackmail Case
Eugene Gingras a 37 year old Lawrence saloon keeper was arrested on blackmail charges. He extorted about 1500 dollars from Charles Hardy paymaster of the McKay sewing machine factory by threatening to prosecute for an alleged indecent assault on Hardy's daughter. Hardy paid 200 dollars this evening after a detective and Hardy’s wife and family remained unaware of the affair. The case centers on an alleged assault when the girl was fourteen.
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Lawrence
Eugene IL Gingras
Hampshire Street
Philbrick
Gingras
Charles 8
Hardy
McKay Sewing-Machine
McKay
Thong
Gomenene
Philorick
Whitbrick
McKay Works
Drunken Hartford Mother Tries to End Her Children’s Lives
Rose Nichols, recently from Hartford, arrived in Providence with her two daughters. In a delirium caused by drink she attempted to kill her kids and herself, was arrested near the river, and later fined for drunkenness. The children may be sent to the Dexter asylum.
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Providence
Rose Nichols
Hartford
Tallman
Dexter Asylum
Central Police Station
From Wealth to Poverty A New York Broker's Rise and Fall
A NY stock broker Max O Platt after leaving a $60 000 yearly salary with L Van Hoffman Co for speculation lost $1 000 000 and his life. His father in law committed suicide after losses. Platt's body found near an undertaker's shop as household goods were sold. A Calvary Cemetery ruling denied burial due to Freemason Protestant status. Oklahoma invaders captured on Indian lands near Canadian River.
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New York
Max O. Platt
Platt
L. van Hoffman & Co
Calvary Cemetery
Supreme Court
General Term
Denis Coppers
Cemetery Corporation
Calvary
Fort Ouachita Postmaster Shot in Night Ambush
Henry A. Rich the Fort Ouachita Chickasaw Nation postmaster was waylaid on his return home and shot six times by a gang of murderers and horse thieves last night. The assault occurred near the town of Capport I T as reported on May 17. Investigators seek clues to identify the attackers and bring them to justice with authorities coordinating across the Chickasaw Nation.
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Capport
I. T
Henry A. Rich
Fort Ouachita
Chickasaw Nation
Dress at Once to The Boston Daily Goons
A brief wartime appeal urges readers to dress at once and send it to The Boston Daily Goons in Boston Massachusetts with an enclosed stamp.
Discontent at Adjournment Moves Through Senate Deliberations
Political tension rises as opposition to the adjournment grows and doubts about Senate concurrence spread. The House debates ongoing appropriation bills, a post office measure, and a star route service clash, while various committees and readings shape expected delays and potential suspensions.
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Senate
House
Agricultural Department
Military Academy
Fighting for a Child in a Custody Battle
Lawrence May 17 Valentine T Sellers a printer separated from his wife in March 1879 and divorce proceedings are pending. They have a daughter five years old and custody is disputed. Mrs Sellers with several men took the child from Sellers home last night while he was away. She resisted and his grandmother, aged eighty two, was knocked down stairs. Sellers returned with relatives and retrieved the child in a tumultuous scene. He plans warrants for those who assaulted his grandmother and the mother threatens to arrest the male Sellers family. The child reportedly does not wish to live with her mother.
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Lawrence
Valentine T. Sellers
Mr. Sellers
Giant Powder Explosion Kills Three In Central City Mine
An explosion of giant powder at Central City mine in D. T. killed Samuel Kimble foreman. Joseph Trudell and Jonas Gilmore also died. Over 1000 pounds of powder were in the building. spark from anvil likely ignited it. Kimble from Janesville Minnesota leaves wife and two children. Gilmore unmarried. Trudell from Nicollet, Canada East, leaves a family.
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Deadwood
D. T
Central City
Samuel Kimble
High Lode
Joseph Trudell
Jonas Gilmore
Kimble
Gilmore
Janesville
Minn
Trudell
Nicollet
Canada East
Washburne Denial Fuels West Coast Support Push
Chicago May 14 The Evening Journal notes Washburne refuses a presidential candidacy while supporters in Maine and Portland press for his nomination. The paper argues his stance is clear yet supporters insist on the push, believing he would accept if nominated and would serve if elected.
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Chtcaco
the Evening Journal
Washburne
Grant
Maine
Portland
Mr. Washburne
Summer Boarders Wanted at New England Farm Houses
People in New England country towns seeking summer boarders should mail their addresses with a return stamp to The Boston Daily Globe in Boston, Massachusetts, indicating how many boarders they could accommodate.
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Boston Daily Globe
Boston
Mass
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