Demographic shifts and notable 1880s events across nations
Census figures show Towa population at 2,200,000, with 1,614,000 in 1880, while Mrs. Beck of the Towa Supreme Court dies at Fort Madison after months ill. Reports note German carp disdain by Kentuckians, English legal adviser for China, honey fraud in Massachusetts, Douglass on Lincoln’s birthday, and London vice unrest. War prep, geological finds near Omaha, and death statistics across New York and English cities are cited along with U.S. debt, Princess Beatrice annuity, and new U.S. note redemption rules.
Fright at Chinese Laundry as Woman Reaches for Ice
A colored woman carrying a child drank ice near a Chinese laundry. An officer assisted her while the child was passed to the laundryman. The man recoiled, exclaiming in broken English that he did not want the baby and feared it would stain his shirt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyer
John
J. W. Sayers
Department of Pennsylvania
Heavenly Father
Jesus
Jesus Christ
H. Clay Trumbull
Harris
Tennessee
Newman
Norristown Hotel War Haiku Patchwork
Fragmentary wartime note discusses Penjdeh and a cannon ball altering the name of a hotel. Mentions Afghanis, a possible rearrangement of letters, and a playful idea to add a suffix imitating Wil u. Overall tone speculative and encoded in terse wartime slang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown Hotel
Penjdeh
Obsequies of Gen Grant Parade to Riverside Park
Long procession marked by military units civic societies and dignitaries. Generals Porter Ingalls Comstock and Parker rode with Grant staff as the vast pageant escorted Gen Grant’s casket through the city to Riverside Park amid crowds viewing draperies and purchasing memorials.
A Picturesque Glimpse of the Line at Madison Square
A New York Special Telegram report describes a vast grand parade through Madison Square. The block wide crowd, densely packed for nine miles along the procession route, filled pavements, steps, balconies, and windows with an immense, human tide.
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New York
Madison Square
America
Vast New York Pageant Honors General Grant
Swarms filled avenues and roofs with auctionlike pricing for vantage points as miles of troops from the North and South marched in tribute. Gen Hancock led the parade toward Madison Square, bands played Nearer My God to Thee and Funeral March as catafalque and casket passed, while cities nationwide draped in mourning and held memorial services for the nation’s fallen leader and president.
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Brunswick
Fifth Avenue
Hancock
Nebody
China
Orient
Third New Jersey
Fourth Connecticut
Pleyel
Chopin
Catafalque
Madison Square
Gen. Grant
New York
National Corps
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
City Hall
Randolph
Henry L. Abbott
United States Engineer Corps
Lieut. Kimball
Omaha
Swatara
Tennessee
Powhattan
National Guard
Schaler
Louis Fitzgerald
Col. Austin
Governor's Foot Guard
One
Washington Continental Guard
Capt. Williams
Pennsylvania
Molineaux
Christensen
Brownell
Pennsylvania Contigent
Col
Fred Grant
Senator Evarts
Senator Miller
Presidentleveland
Bayard
Grantpos
Mount McGregor
Alexander Seed
Meadepost
No. 1
Philadelphia
Grant
Grand Army of the Republic
St. Paul
State Capitol
William McKinley
Hobart
Colvill
E. M. Wilson
Brainerd
B. Gratz Brown
A. C. Hickman
Owatonna
Fargo
J. B. West
H. Capehart
Austin
Gov
Pierce
Bismarck
Hughes
William Thompson
Clare and
Bentley
Dubuque
Iowa
Hilenderson
D. E. Lyon
H. B. Fowke
Staples
A. Y. McDonald
E. A. Guilbert
J. K. Graves
Helenna
Mon
Senator Harrison
Indiana
Jones
Arkansas
Contresa Toole
Maginnis
E. D. Weed
A. J. Craven
Madison, Wis
R. M. la Follette
HL. &. Norton
David Atwood
Burr W. Jones
A. C. Parkingon
E. A. Keyes
J. D. Butler
Friday Night Crowds Fill New York For Dead Hero’s Funeral
Large throngs fill the city as New Yorkers and visitors converge for the funeral procession of a celebrated hero. Rail and water traffic strain to move the crowds, with estimates ranging up to a million visitors arriving by early trains. Broadway crowds swell four to five abreast while hotels run well beyond capacity and even top inns share beds.
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New York
Broadway
A Surprise for Army Officers Regulates Detachments and Duty
Secretary Endicott amends army regulations to limit staff detachments to under four years and require three years service with a regiment before any staff appointment. Officers below field grade absent four years will be relieved and recalled to their regiment. Generals must prefer line officers not barred by regulations for aide-de-camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endicott
War Department
Crop Report Details Wheat Yield Decline Across States
Government crop report notes hot humid weather after July 15 harming spring wheat in Northwest especially Wisconsin and Minnesota. County averages vary from 100 to 48 bushels in Pierce Wisconsin, while Minnesota counties mostly report 75 to 90. Dodge 50. Overall average decline four points, totaling about 6 million bushels less than July 1 forecast, with Texas above expectations for winter wheat results.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pierce County
Dodge
Iowa
Dakota
Territories
New England
South
Texas
Twain poised to profit from Grant biography sales
Mark Twain, head of Webster & Co., publishers of Grant's life, has orders for 300,000 copies and anticipates 500,000 sold in the U.S. and Europe. At $5 retail, $2 to middlemen, 75 cents to the Grant family, and $1.50 manufacturing, Twain and partner expect 75 cents each, totaling a quarter to a third of a million dollars. Twain attended the funeral in a solemn, decorous manner.
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Grant
Mark Twain
Webster & Co
Army of
Europe
Twain
Mark
Washington War Department Orders Reshape Staff Detachments
The War Department issued an order restricting staff detail of officers. No officer may detach from their company without at least three years with their regiment, nor stay detached beyond four years unless given special duty. Officers under major who have been away four years must rejoin promptly, affecting many long serving aides at general officers’ staffs.
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Washington, Special
War Department
Army
Grant’s Favorite War Horse Cincinnati to Be Buried in National Museum
Cincinnati, General Grant’s famed war horse, will receive a ceremonial sepulture as its bones are moved from Admiral Ammen’s Washington area farm to the National Museum. Grant valued the animal highly, even lending it to Ammen to ride to the Richmond front, and credited Cincinnati with almost human intelligence. The horse survived battle dangers but sustained a broken leg on Ammen’s farm and was later shot.
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Cincinnati
Gen. Grant
Admiral Ammen
President Cleveland Proclaims Access on Public Lands Prohibited
President Grover Cleveland issues a proclamation banning unlawful enclosures on public lands and prohibiting obstruction of entry and settlement. The order commands officials to enforce the act and ensure peaceful settlement under U S laws, dated August 7, 1885, in Washington.
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Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
The
United States
City of
Washington
United States of America
Washington News Highlights a Wide Span of Public Appointments
The president appoints 467 postmasters including 195 replacements for suspended officers. Frank Moore presents Col. Fred Grant with a father’s shoulder straps. Secretary Manning may replace Supervising Architect Bell amid pressure. other reforms affect civil service exams and medical positions. Multiple postmasters named. post office burglaries reported in Turner Indiana and Southport Illinois. Austria declines U S minister Kelley. cabinet meets briefly. Krupp guns for Italy. London and European diplomacy news follow.
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Frank Moore
Washington
Col
Fred Grant
Bell
Manning
Whitney
John Roach
Chicago
Atlantic
Boston
Civil Service Act
Joseph Stanley Brown
Geological Survey
Lamar
Brown
Garfield
New Haven
Secretary of the Treasury
James R. Lake
Secretary's Office
Frederick Washington
New Orleans
Nelson Pierce
San Francisco
John Laughton
Philadelphia
Postoffice Department
Turner
Southport
Post Office Department
George Wise
Hamburg
Iowa
C. Colbaugh
Edward B. Miller
Pierre, Dak
T. M. Laird
Henry ©. Huot
Reedsburg
Wis
John Kellogg
Charles H. Burroughs
la Crosse
B. T. Bryant
KE. D. Feno
Nevada
Theodore J. Rosa
Francis G. Horton
Eliendale
Dak
A. G. Finer
Cornelius Carr
Woonsockett
A. H. Tyner
Paris
Austrain
Lee
Kelly
Secretary of State
Fires claim many lives and big losses across towns
The Eastern Men's Home in Eau Claire burned for a loss of 5000 dollars while the Montezuma hotel in Las Vegas New Mexico burned for 250000 dollars with eight people reported dead. A Chicago distillery fire destroyed Phenix distillery with a 75000 dollar loss. A Cascade Locks Oregon drowning occurred when a sailboat capsized killing Jarvis Snyder his wife and a daughter and two men. In Livingston Montana sixteen buildings burned with total losses near 20000 dollars. In Jacksonville a physician Dr James Brown was killed when his carriage team ran away. Emil Berchner of Clinton County Pennsylvania survived after applying gunpowder to a rattlesnake bite on his thumb.
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Las Vegas
N.M
Chicago
Phenix
Clybourn Place
North Branch
Ames, Burrows, Dickinson & Abel
Jarvis Snyder
William Heffron
George Hanson
Cascade Locks
Oregon
Iia
Livingston
Mont
Jacksonville
James Brown
Emil Berchner
Clinton County
Graphic Crimes and Sudden Deaths Across Several States
Reported violence and vigilante action amid a string of incidents from Iowa to Washington. James Saltz killed his wife. a lynching talk surfaces. Robbery of mails at Wheatland depot. Richard Anderson flogged in Georgia. J A Shond shot in Kentucky. Ed McLaughlen charged. A Washington Territory man commits suicide. Burglars steal from farm during a circus procession in Michigan. Schanno fatally shoots a former employee in Tacoma. Carpie Barehead executed in Indian Territory. A Creek outlaw, 18, dies on his coffin. A Reading man hangs himself after family tragedy. Milwaukee man confesses to self-inflicted shooting after alleged highwayman attack.
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Smith’s Mills
J. A. Shond
Ed. McLaughlen
Shond
James Reynolds
Washington Territory
Olympia
Niles
Mich
John Blanchard
George Funk
North Tacoma
Wash
Charles Schanno
Adam Goldstein
Schanno
Goldstein
Carpie Barehead
Eufalia
Ind
Ter
Creek Light Horse
Carpie
Llewellyn
James Scarlet
Reading
Philadelphia
William Mey
Milwaukee
Oak Creek
Meg
Halifax Tax on Commercial Travelers Sparks Debate
Halifax enforces a $100 tax on commercial travelers stirring debate among merchants and travelers. In Berlin, Jacques Stern, a Berlin banker, weds actress Sophia Crossett in an announced marriage. Riel’s family mourns a conviction while Archbishop Tache seeks clemency. Michael Davitt fights a bitter clash with O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, accusing him of misconduct.
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Halifax
John Bingham
Japan
Berlin
Jacques Stern
Sophia Crossett
Riel
Archbishop Tache
Michael Davitt
O’brien
United Ireland
Notable Obituaries and Tales From Public Life
A collection of brief notes including James Garfield’s son studying law in New York and Former President Arthur’s salmon fishing feat in Restigouche. Nina Batchelor of Louisville earns praise as Paris Salon’s youngest exhibitor. Judge James Garland, a famed old jurist and Mason, dies in Lynchburg at 95. Also noted are Grant’s reading habits and Lieut. Greely’s extended leave due to illness in Massachusetts.
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James Garfield
President Garfield
New York
Arthur
Restigouche
Nina Batchelor
Louisville
Senator West
St. Pierre
C. Durkee
Kenosha
Wis
Charles Durkee
United States
Wisconsin
Utah
Northern Hospital
James Garland
Lynchburg
Miscellaneous News Notes Sparsely Highlights052
D Elwell Co of Sioux Falls assigns. Wisconsin rail plan Freeport Ironton Mauston Northern latest. Montana wool clip pegged at 5,000,000 pounds with 2,000,000 marketed. Ohio cadet John Hanks Alexander wins place in West Point second class. another colored cadet in fourth class. Grant house in Detroit still stands at 253 Fort St east, occupied by Mrs John McGuire. Wheat prices may rise later. no immediate advance expected. Mrs P M Shindel in Sunbury climbs belfry to toll for Grant. H D Allen of Waterloo Iowa swallows arsenic by mistake. antidote given. believed out of danger. Bradstreets notes 102 failures week of Sept 5. small traders under 5k capital most affected. Col Denby inspects Chinatown San Francisco. remarks East labor social disadvantages. Lion escapes Texarkana menagerie. attacks, cow killed, carcass partly eaten. bloodhounds trap, lion killed five miles out.
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Hancock
New Volumpter National Guard
Old Guard
New Y City
Governor's Foot Guard
Veteran Association
New York Volunteers
Olege Domaven
Washindontinental Columbo Guards
Garibaldi Legion
Columbia Guards
National Guard of
New York
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Invincibles
Atlanta
Connecticut
Massachusetts Infantry
Virginia
Union Veteran Corps
District of Columbia
Capital City Guards
Minnesota Guards
Division National Guards
New Jersey
Cleveland
Hayes
Arthur
United States
Congress
Jouett
Commodore Chamber
Grant
Sherman
War Department
Schofield
Supreme Court
Hitnins and
Michigan
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Vermont
Pennsyvania
Newy
Sram
Rhode
Franklin
Soldiers’ Home
Messrs
Drexel and Childs
Board of Indian Commissioners
Brooklyn
New York City
Common Council
Boston
St. Louis
Hartford
New Haven
Jersey City
Elizabeth
Order of Cincinnati
Wheeler and Grant Pests
GAR
New York Historical Society
Union League Club
Aztec Club
United States Christian Commission
Citizens’ Law and Order League of Boston
Association of Exempt Firemen
Delegation Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Excelsior Council
U. A. M. Valley Forze Council
U. A. M. Societa del Fraterno Amore
Excelsior Association of
Stock Exchange
Cotton Exchange
Produce Exchange
Board of Trade and Transportation
Mercantile Exchange
Maritime Association
Metal Exchange
Republican County Committee
Republican Club of
Republican Club
Kings County
Baltimore
Lincoln League
Third Ward
Lincoln Club
Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Excelsior Association
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Sherwood Forest
Sons of Veterans
Washington
Carlisle
Randall
Hiscock
Reed
John DeLong
Randolph Tucker
Ben Butterworth
Ohio
Gen. King
Louisiana
Merrill
Cockrell
Missouri
Ransom
North Carolina
Ingalls
Kansas
Harris
Tennessee
Palmer
Miller
Wade Hampton
South Carolina
Manderson
Nebraska
Eustis
Blake
Brown
Georgia
Evarts
Bush
Ward
Chicago
Gen. Bingham
Wheeler
Alabama
Lowrey
Indiana
Horace Porter
Rufus Ingalls
C. B. Comstock
William Henry Smith
Gen. Parker
Lee
Appomattox
Hendricks
East
Depew
Blair
D. Elwell & Co
Sioux Falls
Freeport
Ironton, Mauston & Northern
Montana
John Hanks Alexander
West Point
Detroit
John McGuire
Fort Street
G. S. Barnes
Fargo
Northern Pacific Elevator Company
Bradstreet
Col. Denby
China
Chinatown
San Francisco
Texarkana
Tex
Staul
William D. Allen
Col. Allen
Merchants Hotel
Presley
Bart Presley
Allen
Memphis
Tenn
Big Stone
Granville
P. D O’ Phelan
A. Sullivan
Bierman
Internal Revenue Office
Fargo, Moorhead & Northwestern
Crookston, Polk Co
Moorhead
Clay
Norman
Ada
Minnesota
St. Paul
William Crooks
Platt B. Walker
Minneapolis
E W. Durant
Stillwater
Col. Graves
Duluth
Col. Sleeper
Brainerd
Senator Comstock
E. T. Wilder
Red Win
William F. Phelps
Winona
Gen. J. Baker
Mankato
C. B. Turrell
Redwood Falls
M H. Dunnell
Owatonna
P. J. Smalley Caledonia
H. E. Stocker
Lake City
W. B. Brown
Pipestone
J K. Moore
St. Peter
A. C. Forbes
Marshall
Eel farming proposed in South Yar mouth pond
In Cape Cod Item style notes, two locals stock a freshwater pond with 20 000 saltwater eels. They feed the eels with river horse feet and weekly rations, expecting threefold growth by October for New York market demand. The venture meets village skepticism amid coastal culinary novelty.
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Cape Cod
South Yarmouth
New York
Minnesota State News Highlights and Veiled Tragedies
Capt James Hunter of Faribault resigns from the guards and a census roll reveals Minnesota growth with St Louis County tallying 20 453 population. Yellow Medicine Fair slated for Granite Falls Sept 15 17. Reports of elopement. lightning deaths. heat and sunstroke incidents. a Chinaman and German woman wed in St Paul. a fatal gun accident. new rail line plans. and state delegation to a waterways convention.
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James Hunter
Faribault
M. N.G
St. Louis
Duluth
Park Point
Breitung
Tower
Yellow Medicine
Granite Falls
Luella B. Kibbe
Aerm
Clarissa
Harry Mosier
Ferns Falls
Mosier
Kibbe
Ida
Alexandria
Hudson
Orange
Douglas County
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Towa
Louisville. Courier-Journal
London
Massachusetts State Board of Health
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Pall Mall Gazette
Secretary of War
Sheridan
Wlattsmouth
Rocky Mountains
Hamberg
Brussels
Munich
England
Scotland
Beatrice
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Victoria
Herr Battenberg
Wfe
National Cotton Exchange
Mr. Elkins
Great Britain
Gladstone
Riverside Park
Sorrow
Tenth Regiment
United States Infantry
Plvn
Guard of Honor
Grand Army
Georgia Company
Gate City Guards
Central Park
Hudson River
Manhattanville
Rive Park
Manhattan Island
Gatling
Staunton Grays
Stonewall
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Hoffman House
Upper Broadway
Wall Street
Sub-Treasury
Mutual Life Insurance
Nassau Street
Great Mills
Fields
Equitable
Trinity Church
Grace Church
University
Union
Manhattan
Claremont
Gen. Hancock
Squires
Post
Irvine Wright
Degrarta
Amendirge
Alexander Reed
Republic
Lewis M. Moore
John A. Weidersheim
A. J. Sellers
Anne
Krouse
Gen. Sherman
Nellie Sartoris
Joe Johnston
Gen
Arthur and
Senator Sherman
Admiral Porter
Fitzhugh Lee
Gordon
Buckner
Philharmonic Hall
Snow
D. Sinclair
Judge Mitchell
Sheardown
Thomas Simpson
O. B. Gould
Germania Band
Philharmonic Society
Fort Totten
Devin’s Lake
Oak
Bacon
Collier
Mr Read
Streator
Government Crop Report
Washington News
Krupp
Charles Dilke
Chelsea Liberal Association
Cologne
Germany
France
Field
James G. Blaine
Marseilles
Pyrennes
Spain
Willian
Duke of
Edinburg
Ernest of
Saxe
Austria
Kremsier
Moravia
Grand Hotel
Montreal
George Stephen
Sir Henry Tyler
Grand Trunk Railway
Canadian Pacific
Jeffries
House of Commons
Philip Cullan
Louth
Lord Hartington
William Vernon Harcourt
James Saltz
Viroqua
Northern Pacific
Wheatland
Cak
Richard Anderson
Villa Rica
Foreign News
George W. Childs
Levers
Charles Malley
A. W. Greely
Arctic
Minnesota State News
Fd O'Brien
Butte
Bradford
Isanta County
Nels Engquist
Engquist
Swanson
Clarke
D. E. Bailey
Minnesota Commission
Charles Miller
Lac Qui Parle
Sleepy Eye
Brey
Robert Hilletheim
Stephen Gluth
Eden
George Dayton
Murfin
Kerkhoven
Andrew Munson
W. Mc Connolly
Sauk Center
Munson
Connolly
Isso
Lincoln
Murray
Cottonwood
Nobles
Nicollet
Watonwan
Lyon
Frontenac
Eaton
St. Cloud
John F. Appleby
Minneapolis Harvester Works
G. E. Haarstad
Rothsay
Blue Earth County
John Johnish
Janesville
Emma Meyer
Homer
Eva Reil
Cattle Bluff
le Sueur
Wurst
Hong Wah
Mary Schroeder
Hong
Ham Wong Hong
Wong Hong
Newman Chapman
Oneida
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