Notable World Bits From The Week In Annan And Abroad
A granite tablet marks Edward Irving birthplace in Annan. Frep Arcner, English jockey, rode 57 winners and 95 losses this season. Mrs secretary of state visits the Bayard home in Delaware with part of the family. Sir Samuel Baker reports rich Indian hunting with three tigers and five panthers shot in one day. Jonny Russet laments China post salary as China costs rise in Pekin. Gen Sherman touts a new dish young pig tail fried with oil cayenne pepper and celery. Queen Victoria reached Balmoral and visited Crathie churchyard placing flowers on John Brown's grave.
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Samuel Baker
India
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Crathie
John Brown
Ex Secretary Berknar Reclaims 85 Dollars Arrears
Former secretary Berknar recovers 85 dollars in pay arrears for his father. The case marks his first effort after entering the bar in 1850.
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Berknar
Honorary American named to Royal Society and other notes
Prof James A Dana of Yale is elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of England, a rare honor for an American aside from Asa Gray. Lane, former Buckland St Mary vicar, spent over fifty years restoring churches and schools at a cost near 300000 dollars. Ocean House Savannah sent Howells a massive 500 pound turtle for refusing to leave The Constitution. Maror Kreny lectured Philadelphians on wave plates and etheric vapor but left without converts. Lord Cargys possessions were personal property only, none land. Lords Eldon Bea consfield and Wakwith noted for land questions and family fortunes. Warwick castle may stay well maintained due to his son’s marriage to an heiress. Lord Leigh’s heir was killed in the Rocky Mountains, and his income has fallen.
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James A. Dana
Yale
Royal Society of England
Asa Gray
Harvard
Lord Wakwith
Warwick Castle
Lord Leigh
Rocky Mountains
Warwickshire
Joseph Cuture
Mansfield Wis
F. A. Canfield
Newbury
N.Y
New York
Christine Nilsson
England
Kensington Court
Senator Mahone
Petersburg
Hunter
Donnan
Gladstone
Victor Hugo
Gambetta
Mme
Caterine Gambetta
Rome
Emperor William
Carlsrahe
China
Berlin
London
Thorold Rogers
King’s Col
Cambridge
W. W. Washburn
Palace Grocery
Spring Valley
Daniel J. Welch
Helena
Mont
Silver Bow County
Welch
James Bird
Vinton
Iowa
Chicago
United States
Miller
Sumner County
Tenn
John Bradley
Transcontinental Association
St. Paul
Grand Army
San Francisco
Missouri River
John Wrightson
Biue Earth County
J. B. Allen
Scott County
Watson
St. Cloud Journal-Press
Judge McKelvey
Sherman
Miss McKelvey
Fawcett Says Illness Freed Him From Fear of Death
Waren Mr. Fawcett, England's late post master general, recounts his illness as a close call that restored wealth and erased fear of death. He notes in the gravest moment he felt no anxiety and did not fear pain, believing his heart would quietly stop beating without his awareness.
Outran Life Limits and Wit From Foregoing Minds
A paragraph heavy with 19th century figures discusses why some people live beyond expected years, attributing Gladstone’s longevity to digestion and old age teeth decline to soft food. It shares anecdotes about Wesley and a Oxford professor marshalling humor with a New York memory of Daniel Webster and Jay.
Washington Gossip and Treasury Scandals Reach Washington
Washington gossip reports Tyrer not appointed treasury clerk. frauds in Indiana township bonds found in Washington. Bayard on vacation in Delaware. President as brown as a berry claim exaggerated. W T Boseman a Kansas colored man appointed to a $1600 clerkship. senator Hamilton accuses patent office of frauds in machinery patents. push to oust Dr Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Service. a Hungarian donor offers 100000 florins to debt liquidation. J M Matthews and S H Grant from Louisville visit. a druggist claim swindle circulates. odd mail item a new broom to the treasury. Jerry Murphy travels from waterways convention to press for Hennepin canal. Miss Cleveland visiting in New York and authorship of a novel. Rosecrans seeks resignations in the treasury register’s office. several consul and minister appointments made. Andrew D Hunter shot and killed in the Chickasaw nation. infernal machine found at Tombstone. Salt Lake City coinco incidents. Almeric Paget recounts road agents robbing a Wells Fargo treasure box. Miles City court crowds for Bill Jones trial with fines imposed.
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Tyrer
Treasury
Indiana
Washington
Bayard
Delaware
W.T. Boseman
Kansas
Hamilton
Maryland
Patent
Sergeon
Marine Hospital Service
The
Secretary of the Treasury
Hungary
J. M. Matthews
8. H. Grant
Louisville
Hendrick
J. B. Hamilton
Grant
Louisville Hospital
Treasury Department
Harrisburg
Jerry Murphy
St. Paul
Murphy
Army Engineers
Hennepin Canal
Miss Cleveland
Yeamans
Falmouth
N. Y
White House
Gen. Rosecrans
Register of the Treasury
William P. Titcomb
Register
Hartwell Jenison
Charles Mall
Arthur Hendricks
Henry W. Gilbert
New York
Trieste
James M. Rosse
Three Rivers
Canada
Moses A. Hopkins
North Carolina
Liberia
C. W. Dugan
Orange County
N.Y
John Bigelow
James Mackin
James W. Ross
Washington County
Montgomery County
Almeric Paget
Sidney Paget
London
Miles City
Big Horn Mountains
Fort Custer
Fort McKinney
Forty-mile Ranch
Wells-Fargo
United States
Mont
Bill Jones
Northern Pacific
Mingusville
Clark
Jule Klein
Jack Tisdale
Ireland
Frederick William
Alfonso
William
Thomas Scott
Prince Albert
Regina
Manitoba
Transport Service
New Haven
Conn
Grant Monument
Francis A. Walker
California
Leland Stanford
Calistoga Hot Springs
Washngton Monument
A.M. Keiley
Austria
Charles H. Chamberlain
Burlington & Quincy
St. Louis
Woodburn
Iowa
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Naval Academy
John A. Shock
Greenwich
England
Ensign Rider
New Orleans
James Kincainnon
Mississippi
Mr. Wood
Tennessee
Secretary of the Interior
Indian Territory
Lars L. Gunderson
Cumberland
Wiss
Norway
Winnipeg
Madison
Bann
States
Register Titcombe
Register Rosencrans
Titcombe
Registers Office
Ross A. Fish
District of Columbia
Higgins
Cox
Gossip and notices from the era mix of society and obituary
Personal gossip places Henry V. Lucas amid a $40 000 loss for the St. Louis club while a Sen Teller daughter begins at Wellesley female college In Massachusetts George W Cable vows to stay in Northampton abandoning New Orleans Henry Allen dies Branford Connecticut a former Seventeenth Connecticut regiment colonel The Grant family visitors decline at Mount McGregor Mrs Graham Montrose Connecticut reaches 110 recalling events of nearly a century Capt J H Smith funeral at Walla Walla attended by military groups Edward Burgess Puritan designer aged about thirty five from an old Boston family Harvard Class of 1871 former Benne Sons ship firm member
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Henry V. Lucas
St. Louis
Senator Teller
Female College
Wellesley
Mass
George W. Cable
Northampton
New Orleans
Henry Allen
Branford
Conn
Seventeenth Connecticut Regiment
Edward Burgess
Puritan
Boston
Benjamin Benne & Sons
Burgess
Harvard University
Notable Casualties and Disasters Reported Coast to Coast
A roundup lists J B Sanborn of Twin Grove Wisconsin killed when run over by a wagon. At Eugene City Oregon Mrs S M Yaran and Miss Thompson die in a fatal accident. The steamer Prussia from Fort William to Duluth is burned ten miles northwest of Sand Island light. I H Renshaw of the US Geological Survey survives a lightning strike near Yellowstone Lake. C D M Scott is killed. A Milwaukee Cement works fire destroys three big warehouses and contents worth about $18,000 with $13,400 insurance. Garry Bros dry goods store windows at Grand and Allen streets New York shattered by dynamite Feb 1, labors of detectives lead to arrests of Peter A Daly Thomas Fittrick and David Vaughton.
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J. B. Sanborn
Twin Grove
Greene County
Wis
Eugene City
S.M. Yaran
Yellowstone Lake
I. H. Renshaw
United States Geological Survey
C. D. M. Scott
Milwaukee Cement Company
Milwaukee
Garry Bros
Grand and
Allen Streets
New York
Peter A. Daly
Thomas Fittrick
David Vaughton
Criminal Calender: Lynching and crimes across cities
In Burlington Kentucky a Black man is lynched for outraging a five year old girl. Joseph Charbonneau of Minneapolis indicted for embezzlement of 2300 from an Omaha company. Slugger Sullivan pitches in Cleveland and is arrested for Sabbath breaking. Michael Rossa fatally stabs John Kehoe over a banana payment dispute. Oscar Ayers disappears with 5000 from a Morrison Indiana drug firm. Three clerks linked to a New York Garry Bros. arson attempt. Thomas Huges, Albuquerque editor and former postmaster, under arrest for $1000 post office shortage. At Chester Nebraska a mob moves to lynch Warren Coon for wife beating.
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Burlington
Joseph Charbonneau
Minneapolis
Omaha
Slugger Sullivan
Cleveland
Michael Rossa
Chicago
John Kehoe
Oscar Ayers
Morrison, Ir
Garry Bros
New York
Thomas Huges
Albuquerque
N. M
Chester
Neb
Warren Coon
Foreign News Summary From The British Empire Era
Foreign dispatches report Canadian and British political tensions and imperial affairs. Notes on Indiana trustees in Canada, disallowed Northwest exemption, Cross seeking US economic insight, Gladstone and Rosebery on church disestablishment, Montefiore heirs gifting up to 25 dollars, and a papal intrigue involving Germany and the Vatican. Also coverage of Irish home rule, Hendricks’ Irish stance, Manchester ship canal shares, Riel rebellion medals, cholera relief funds, free trade debate, and rising French Canadian tensions with English speakers.
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Dominion
Northwest Council
John K. Cross
Boston
United States
Great Britain
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Rosebery
Sir Moses Montefiore
Earl Shaftesbury
Baron von Schoerer
Rome
William
Germany
Vatican
Healey
House of Commons
County Monaghan
Glengarilf
Gladstone
Ireland
London
Central
Hendricks
England
Manchester
Eng
Liverpool
British War Office
Riel
Manitoba Free Press
Adolph Caron
War Transportation Service
Mayor Bell
Mansion House
Spain
British Association
Leone Levi
France
Madrid
Ottawa
Ont
Richardson
Wisconsin fair closes and Virginia emigration noted
Miscellaneous items report the Wisconsin state fair’s closure, Texas property values up 100 percent since 1880, Michigan farmers near Hudson planning emigration to Virginia, testimony in a Baltimore divorce case, the St Gregory Roman Catholic church cornerstone ceremony with 10 000 attendees, Arch bishop Gibbons presiding, Newton Hammock of Conyers Ga joining the Baptists by immersion, a banker Samuel B French of Menominee Wis making an assignment with liabilities about 35000 and assets around 50000, the American Architect urging a grand monument design for Grant site, Albert D Swan of Lawrence Mass funding a cemetery monument in his will, a prize fight near Dallas featuring McGregor vs Ross McGraw, and Maud S exhibited at various fairs with Bonner bringing her to New York.
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Texas
Michigan
Hudson
Virginia
Baltimore
St. Gregory
Albert D. Swan
Lawrence
Mass
A. K. Goodwin
McGregor
Citizens’ Committee
St.aul
Minnesota
Ramsey County
Agricultural Society
St. Paul
Minnesota Agricultural Company
Hancock, Minn
Shepherd Hill & Mather
Jacksonville
IIL
J.C. Bertram
Bristol
John J. Bascom
Minneapolis
B. A. Lowell
Waseca
German Agricultural and Horticultural Society of
Great Western
Phil C. Kidd
Fair Association
C. H. Belding
Shonheire
Wis
St. Paul's Day
Fort Snelling
Endowment Drive Aims to Found Catholic University
A committee, appointed by the late plenary council and backed by Miss Caldwell endowment, appeals to Catholics nationwide to fund eight professorships and establish the university courses. The circular is signed by Archbishops Gibbons Milwaukee Boston Philadelphia New York and Bishops Ireland Kearns Spalding and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic University
Kearns
Richmond
Spalding
Peoria
Marty
Idaho
Portland banker reads racist letter from St Paul
A Portland post office encounter reveals a letter from St Paul sent to a jobless man. The writer disapproves of Chinamen, says white labor is cheap, and advises the recipient not to move. He notes Santa Fe offers work and warmth while Portland is cold and hard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Oregonian
St. Paul
Charley
Sam
Santa Fe
Trade and iron demand signal steadier outlook
Bradstreet's Journal reports general trade as favorable with steady demand for dry goods woolen fabrics and pig iron, suggesting confidence in a turning tide without any boom. The Financial and Commercial Chronicle notes five day exchanges nearly unchanged, up 3,515,372 dollars, and yearly gains of 10.4 percent nationwide and 7.4 percent outside New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
Financial and Commercial Chronicle of the 12Th
New York
Mass Meeting at St Boniiface Supports Riel Appeals
Winnipeg special reports over a thousand sympathizers rally around Louis Riel, embracing half-breeds and French Canadians for a twenty eight mile loop. Riel’s counsel and French leaders urge reprieve, warning Ottawa of potential martyrdom if hanged. Concerns rise as scenes from Riel’s cell are described.
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Winnipeg
Riel
St. Boniiface
Privy Council
Dominion
Canada
Ottawa
Lemieux
Regina
John Carey
Confederation
Lawyer Emery A. Storrs Dies in Ottawa Ill at 48
Emery A. Storrs a nationally known lawyer died in Ottawa Illinois where he had gone to argue a case. He did not recover from a pleurisy attack and was found dead of heart paralysis after his wife arrived and assisted him during the night. Born August 12 1835 in Cattaraugus County New York he studied law with his father and M B Champlin, practiced in Buffalo, then Chicago where he gained fame as an orator and advocate.
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Emery A. Storrs
Ottawa
Ill
Chicago
Emory A. Storrs
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Alexander Storrs
M. B. Champlin
Cuba
Allegheny County
N.Y
Young Storrs
Buffalo
Purser
Emerson
Pacific Mail
Acapulco
New York
Colon
Preston
Doughty
Roundtree
Prestan
Crowe
Mound Prairie
Albert Lea College
Herrick Johnson
Fred Brown
Topeka
Kan
Bisbee
Ariz
James Kehel
Joseph H. Wilkins
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Canada
Illinois
Sycamore Creek
Westward aid and European note tone in a crowded 1885 scene
A publication scan reports on European diplomacy involving the Crown Prince and King Alfonso, plus domestic items: trials in Regina and Winnipeg, corruption probes, postal and treasury appointments, burglaries, and a kidnapping case of Lawrance Brainerd with international implications.
Washington Court House Tornado Devastates Rapidly Growing Town
A severe cyclone struck Washington Court House Fayette County Ohio causing near instantaneous ruin after heavy rain and darkness drove residents indoors. Witnesses describe a two minute destructive roar as buildings collapsed and the town’s recently built courthouse and other structures were left in ruins.
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Washington Court House
Fayette County
Court House
Ohio
Kidnapping Case Shocks St. Paul Society Involving Bank President
Lawrence Brainerd, 60, former president of the St. Albans Vermont bank, vanished after being abducted by two Boston detectives who posed as crooks. The arresting pair drove him sixty miles toward the border, then evacuated him to St. Paul and the east as police moved to reclaim him. Brainerd, once a prominent rail and bank figure, was last seen with his wife at the City hotel under an assumed name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Albans Congregational Church
Brainerd
Lawrance Brainerd
Winnipeg
Washington
Newbegin
Repley
Boston
Colorado
Pembina
Assinaboine
Boundary Line
Emerson
Lawrence Brainerd
St. Albans
City Hotel
Jackson
Wiggins & Woods Agency
Davis
St. Paul
Vermont Central Railroad
Lawrence
Miss Smith
Guv. Smith
le Moyle Valley Railroad
Hanging of Preston at Isthmus Scene of Bloody Chants
The report recounts the dramatic execution of Preston on the isthmus, detailing mob pressure, a makeshift gallows on a rail car, and the dramatic last acts as guards and a padre oversaw the hanging. It also notes routine military staff reassignments and state census figures from Wisconsin.
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Tombstone
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Quebec
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Devens
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Gen. Grant
the Society of the Army of the Tennessee
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Logan
Oglesby
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Fletcher
Belknap
John B. Sanborn
M. M. Bone
Clinton B. Fiske
Hickenlooper
Force
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Richard J. Oglesby
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A. 5
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Tennessee River
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David L. Huntington
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Alexander Sharp
Yankton, Dak
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Gen. Schofield
Col
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Gen. Sheridan
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Charles 5. Stewart
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Willett’s Point
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P. M. Adams
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G. W. McKee
Clarkson E. Dutton
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Prairie du Chien
Janesville
Senate
Assembly
Rusk
Minneapolis & Manitoba
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Northern Pacific Road
J. J. Hill
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W. B
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Prince Arthur
Alameda
H. Doner
Minnepolis
August Towsky
State Board of Equalization
Bayfield
Frank W. Hawkinson
Adelaide Nichols
Wabasha Roller Mill Company of
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H.J. O'Neill
C. H. Porter
F. A. Johnston
Mary C. C. Langly
B. H. Langly
A. S. Larrimer
L. A. van Sant
Minneapolis Jewelry Manufacturing Company
Finlay McKercher
Fred B. Dodge
Freeman P. Lane
Concord
Farmington
Mary Mulligan
George R. Elliott
Big Bear
Mercy
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