The Dead Statesman in Chicago and Detroit, 1879
News of Zach Chandler death spreads from Chicago to Washington and Detroit. Reports attribute cerebral congestion as the cause after a campaign. Coroners and doctors discuss postmortem, while tributes, funerals, and official mourning follow in Michigan and national capitals.
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Detroit
Detroi
Zach Chandler
Chicago
Board of Trade
Mr. Chandler
Chandler
Cresswell
A Gallant General Gone in Garden City
Major General Joseph Hooker died suddenly in Garden City Long Island after a day in usual health. He planned travel to New York and hosted a large dinner on the 25th. His body will be buried in Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati as arranged by the deceased.
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Garden City
L. L
Joseph Hooker
New York
Cincinnati
General Hooker
Long Island
Spring Grove Cemetery
Storming All Day at Columbus Coldest Night of Season
A Columbus report notes continuous snowfall since noon with a rapid seven degree drop in one hour, predicting the coldest night of the season as the sky clears. Providence sees light snow, Chicago reports two inches as the season opens, and Jacob Abbott, eminent author, dies at seventy six in Bangor after a long career as teacher and writer of children’s books and histories.
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Columbus
Chicago
Cutcaco
Jacob Abbott
Bangor
Farmington
Bowdoin College
Andover Theological Seminary
Amherst College
Roxbury
Boston Highlands
New York
Rollo
Lucy
Franconia
Harper's Story
J. S.C. Abbott
Two Hundred Quarrymen Strike at Clarksburg Quarry
Two hundred men employed in the stone quarry at Clarksburg are on strike, and it is probable that work will be entirely suspended at the quarry.
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Cumberland, Me
Clarksburg
Instant death from falling tree in Plympton
Plymouth November 1 Joseph P. Clark while popping wood in Plympton today was suddenly killed. The tree fell and broke his neck in the accident.
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Plymouth
Joseph P. Clark
Plympton
Mishaps And Misdeeds A Serious Scandal In The Border City
Fall River reports a high life scandal involving a former hotel keeper and his wife of a leading druggist family. Improper relations with a purser triggered debts, anonymous sheriffs, and a long absence. The husband, accused of being deceived, faced mounting losses while the wife fled to Rhode Island with her lover. The press has remained silent as neighbors watch for developments.
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Newronr
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Fall River
Boston
New York
Egun
Bristol Ferry
R.I
Eistol Ferry
Providence
Accidental Self-Killing in Woburn Ends Career
A well known Woburn citizen, Samuel O Pollard, shot himself by accident while loading a gun to shoot a woodpecker near his home. He died in his wife's arms. he had suffered reverse fortunes and left a widow and three daughters. The article recounts a history of misfortune including injuries, a burglary, and a previous town damages award.
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Wolbury
Samuel O. Pollard
Pollard
Eastern Avenue
Portsmouth
Charles C. Johnson
York
Johnson
Canada appoints Galt as new minister to London
A Canadian ministerial appointment to London is offered to Sir Alexander Tulloch Galt, now en route to assume duties. Born in Chelsea in 1817, Galt is seen as a premier financier in the colonies, with a track record in British American unification and fisheries commissions.
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London
Alexander Tulloch Galt
Canada
Alexander Galt
Chelsea
British and American Land Company
B. W. Head
Galt
British America
Great Britain
Washington
Halifax Fisheries Commission
Needle peddlers swindle in Lawrence and Andover
Law rence October 27 The Eagle reports two needle peddlers promising gifts swindled residents across Spicket and near Methuen. They sold needles and issued tickets for chamber sets pianos and a silk dress pattern claiming delivery in 30 days. Arrested in Andover before a Boston train they face police scrutiny after traveling from New York and operating in Lowell and Worcester.
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Andover
Neal
Philbrick
Boston
Samuel Nathan
Daniel P. Edwardson
New York
Lowell
Worcester
Massachusetts
A Confiding Individual Taken In by a Sharper
A man named John C. Roraback reported to Station 5 that after meeting a stranger on Brookline street they went to a drink, he grew intoxicated and unconscious, and woke to find his silver watch and gold chain gone. He described waking early and wandering cold, with more details left unfinished in the report.
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Station 5
John C. Roraback
Hotel Eliot
Brookline Street
Montgomery Street
Ile
Prisoner Acquitted in Lounsbury Murder Case
In Bridgeport today Judge Martin and Judge Caron acquitted a New Haven woman charged with murdering her husband Rev. Dexter L. Lounsbury on grounds of insanity after brief medical testimony. She will be moved to the Middletown retreat for the insane next week.
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Philadelphia
Blcock
Daniel Sullivan
Jovie Lrwin
New Haven
Lounsbury
Martin and
Caron
Bridgeport
Dexter L. Lounsbury
Middletown
A Heroic Woman Identified in Draft Riots Martyrdom
New York on November 3 identifies the body found in a cellar as Miss Carrie Cornell. During the 1863 draft riots she stood at her parents’ window and aided Police Officer McCarty, pushing rioters aside and trying to drag him inside before the mob seized him. She tended his wounds afterward. Her body will be taken to her brother and sisters' home today.
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New York
Carrie Cornell
McCarty
Miss Cornell
Indian Depredations Ex-Governor Shepherd’s View on Mexican Raids
Ex Governor Shepherd describes Apache raids into Chihuahua in a Washington Post letter. He notes Mexicans face raids across the Rio Grande, urges restraint, and cites Chihuahua’s population of about 90,000 Tarumar Indians with 30,000 whites as evidence of peaceful local relations.
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WasuiInaton
Shepherd
Sheridan
Chihuahua
Washington Post
Louis H. Scott
United States Department
Mexico
Kid Grande
Turbulent Wheat Market In St Louis Trading Collapse
The St Louis wheat market opened at 12834 and leaped to 12044 amid a bull surge, then plunged to 12314 as frantic selling pushed totals to 600000 bushels. From there prices swung in half to four cent ranges, ending around 125 to 126 as traders drained nerve and leverage.
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St. Louis
Italian Beggar importer seen at Castle Garden
An Italian named Ancola landed at Castle Garden with seven Italian boys. The superintendent alerted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The man fled when trouble began. The boys gave identical answers about their names and destinations, implying a fictitious Montreal uncle. The youths will stay with Mrs Webb at the police central office until sent back to Italy.
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New York
Ancola
Castle Garden
Italy
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Francesco Libonatim
Montreal
Man Bitten by Pup Falls Victim to Hydrophobia
Michael McLean of Dearborn Street was bitten three months ago by a small dog that was not mad and later killed. His arm grew painful yesterday and today he foams at the mouth and chokes on phlegm. After coughing up froth he grows quiet and lucid but doctors say recovery is impossible.
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Whch
Jordan
Chandler
Mr. Boulding
Janesville
George Schneider
Grand Pacific Hotel
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Chicago
Detroit
Senator Logan
Spalding
Logan
General Logan
Mr. Storey
Mr. Spalding
Tam
Senator Chandler
Syracuse
Adolph Auer
Amelia Auer
Adolph
Michael McLean
Dearborn Street
McLean
Battle Riot and Flood Ravage Jamaica Coast
Panama dispatch reports the Huascar captured after a six hour action off Mejillones and Debolivia. Admiral Grau and most officers killed. only four survived. Jamaica endures a catastrophic storm with up to a million dollars in damages, widespread landslides, and disrupted transport. hundreds left homeless.
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Boston Globe
Panama
Mejillones
Debolivia
Cochrane
Blanca Encalada
Union
Arica
Gran
Huascar
Iquiqui
Huasear
Arion
Grau
Reguirre
Lima
Admiral Grau
Jrow Cvea
Rafael Nemezling
Republic
Bucaramangan
Alcade Pedro J. Collazes
Fires Destroy Wheeler and Wilson Building and Large School Factory
Fire in Chicago at the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company on State Street gutted the building, with possible repairs ahead. The A H Andrews & Co factory on Market Street burned for hours, leaving a total loss and 200 workers unemployed. Losses across cities include Manchester residence destruction, Philadelphia warehouse fire, Dubuque depot and lumber yard blaze, Mound City town damage, Webster Linen Works near miss, and Budd’s Lake Wagner House incendiary fire with substantial losses.
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Chicago
Wheeler and Wilson
CuicaGco
Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company
State Street
Palmer House
Farrar & Wheeler
A. H. Andrews & Co
Lto
Market Street
Philadelphia
Nathan Brook & Co
Eighteenth
Market Streets
Dubuque
W. Carr & Co
Minois Central Railroad Company
Richmond and Jackson Railroad Company
Carr & Co
Webster
Stevens Linen Works
New Jersey
Jersey Ciry
Wagner
Budd's Lake
Suffering Survivors of a Wreck Reach New Orleans
The Spanish steamer Enrique from Matanzas brought two survivors to New Orleans, Gustavo Michel and Antonio Diaz, the sole survivors of the American brigantine Sally, Captain Alcarez. Capsized in a gale about one hundred miles southeast of South Pass light, they clung for five days, suffering hunger and thirst, drinking only salt water and cat meat, and broke six spoonfuls of blood among the eight crew.
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New Orleans
Enrique
Matanzas
Gustavo Michel
Antonio Diaz
Alcarez
South Pass Light
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