Treasury issues warrants and notes in March reports
Warrants issued include 150000 for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to fund a western branch. The Lighthouse Board plans major improvements to the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty lighting with a powerful torch lamp and thirteen electric lights. A Brooklyn note marked for customs duty arrives at the Treasury. March debt declines by about 12 million. The Interstate Commerce Commission is formed with Cooley as chair. Charles S. Fairchild named Secretary of the Treasury. March coinage totals 5195996 with 3020380 in standard silver dollars. Pension Office issued 1000 certificates on the 1st and the bureau records its largest one-day pension output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Board of Managers
National Home For
Rocky Mountains
Lighthouse Board
Brooklyn
N. Y
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Messrs. Cooley
Morrison
Schoonmaker
Walker
Bragg
Interior Department
Offce
Judge Cooley
Charles S. Fairchild
New York
the Treasury
Manning
Isaac H. Maynard
Treasury
Pension Office
Treasury Departments
Vast list of 1887 events including crimes, politics and deaths
The bulletin covers theft confessions, pension notes, politicians and court actions, with details on John Godfrey Saxe, Mrs Tilton age count, New Jersey school suffrage, Grant Monument funds, Judge Cuppy death, pool law in New Jersey, quarantine rulings for cattle, YMCA tax exemption, a Long Island Railroad fraud, and numerous crimes, fires and legal developments across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Registry Department
John Godfrey Saxe
Albany
N. Y
Abigail
Tilton
North Woodbridge
N. H
New Jersey Senate
Grant Monument Fund Association
New York
Francis P. Cuppy
Hot Springs
Ark
Montgomery County
Washington City
Cuppy
Garfield
Monmouth Park
Jersey City
N. J
Massachusetts
Vermont
Supreme Court of New York
Young Men’s Christian Association
Joseph G. Parr
Long Island Railroad Company
Taunton
Mass
Rice M. Blakely
J. Edgar Hall
Philadelphia
Independence National Bank
Ist
Ireland
Richmond
Buffalo
United States
Canada
Americas Club
Pittsburgh
General Grant
Roscoe Conkling
Governor Foraker
Ohio
Af Irwins
Pennsylvania Railroad
John Talbot
Miller & Co
Snow blockade and imperial intrigue dominate distant fronts
Snow blockade halts an International Railway train after 100 hours for two miles as telegraph poles vanish under drifts. Canada plans a geological expedition along the Alaska frontier while a Czarist assassination attempt at Gatschina Palace is reported. Creeks attack American missionaries in Smyrna prompting a plea for a protecting warship. Newfoundland faces a three quarters of a million budget deficit amid winter relief. In Dublin, prosecution of Dillon and allies for the plan of campaign is abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International
Canada
Department of the Interior
British Columbia
Alaskan
St. Petersburg
Gatschina Palace
Smyrna
Constantinople
Porte
Newfoundland
Dublin
Dillon, O'Brien
Crilly
Redmond
Countless items from a busy period in 19th century news
A sprawling digest reports embezzlement by Supervisor Bate fleeing to Canada, the Irish aid fund totaling near zero, the Connecticut ten hour law for women and children, hymnist Dr Ray Palmer's death, and the United States train incident. It covers mine blasts in Scranton, a Brookhaven fire with child fatalities, Port Byron blaze, a convicts confession in Cochranton, Dwight Insurance litigation settlement, Pennsylvania National Guard plans, Jewish conversions and weddings in New York, rail and court news, and multiple arrests and fires across cities like Philadelphia Erie Shenandoah and Brooklyn. The item sketches a wide map of crime, lawmaking, disasters, and social changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Bate
Gardiner
N. Y
Canada
Trish P. Fund Association
New York
Walters
Green Isle
Connecticut Senate
House
Massachusetts
Ray Palmer
Newark
N. J
United States
York
James G. Blaine
von Storch
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
Scranton
Thomas Lewis
Edward Owens
Betsy Cook
Brookhaven
Mass
Port Byron
Armstrong Bros
Hopkins’ Black- Smith
Presbyterian Church
Clayton Moyer
Western Penitentiary
Cochranton
Dwight
Walton Dwight
Binghamton
Pennsylvania
United States Army
Patrick Walsh
Lena Levi
Philadelphia
J. Edgar Hall
H. F. Hall & Son
Governor Hill
New Y
Brooklyn
Assembly
Charles Hendrick
John Hendrick
Harry Goldspink
Norwalk
Conn
Broome and
Mulberry Streets
New York City
New York Carriage Company
Pennsylvania House
Ireland
Charles Frederick
Shenandoah
Michael Hertzel
Jefferson
Molly Maguires
Hertzel
F. Newman
Michael Levinson
Erie
EB. L. Sturtevant
Cleveland
Supreme Court of New York
Charles A. Herpich
Herpich
William A. Clarke
Registry Department
Through service opens Toledo to Bowerston rail route
This road is now open through from Toledo to Bowerston connecting with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through car service between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta and Bowerston and Akron Youngstown and Pittsburgh. Woodford James M Haln Gen Manage Genl Pass Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Woodford
James M
Haln
Gen
Notable Ohio and regional incidents and court cases
A year after a murder in Cleveland Alfred Smith received a life term. Ohio Supreme Court upholds $15,050 damages for Harriet E. Morgan against Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad for a Troy crossing injury. Chicago grand jury weighs indictments over a public school sewer project. West Point Cotton Mills burned in Georgia, $100,000 loss. Cecil aqueduct near Defiance robbed and set. repairs may take months. Ozark prepares for Bald Knobber trials. Detroit factory Pingree & Smith’s burned. $325,000 loss, 250k insured. 725 workers displaced. three firemen injured. South Carolina suffers fruit crop damage from a cold wave. Texas Senate approves rail penalty bill for consolidations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Smith
Louisa J. Wilson
Crocker
Cleveland
Supreme Court of Ohio
Harriet E. Morgan
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company
Troy
Chicago Grand Jury
West Point
Cecil
Defiance
Ozark
Bald Knobber
Springfield
Charles Green
William Edens
Christian County
Pingree & Smith
Detroit
Mich
South Carolina
Texas Senate
Mine Explosion Kills Three in Scranton Coal Shaft
An explosion in the Von Storch shaft of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co in Providence near Scranton Pa crushed doors and caused extensive injuries. Three workers died and about twenty others were hurt as rescue efforts and ventilation repairs followed the blast near the Clark vein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Scranton
Clark
Delaware & Hudson Company
von Storch
Thomas Lewis
Michael Murtaugh
Edward Owens
Lewis James
Llewny Jones
Daniel E. Lewis
Andrew Davitt
Cush
Michael McGuire
John Jones
Patrick Mearin
John Phillips
Dickson
William Littlejohn
James Morgan
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Health Board report shows bronchitis lead week ending March 25
Ohio State Board of Health observers across 49 counties record bronchitis as the top form of disease for the week ended noon March 25. New measles and scarlet fever cases appear in several counties. typhoid noted at Marseilles. Warren County reports severe measles. Remarks detail specific county incidences and ongoing totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Board of Health
ISS7
Ieee
Ain Sacha
Ashtabula
Pike
Crawford
Seneca
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Columbiana
Ashland
Richland
Summit
Montgomery
Erie
Highland
Fulton
Marseilles
Wharton
Warren County
C. O. Proust
Pennsylvania Company Issues Circular on Inter State Rates
The Pennsylvania Company west of Pittsburgh issued its official circular to restore passenger rates to the regular tariff and to abolish special rates and mileage tickets. Sub agents are discharged. contracts with local newspapers for 1887 remain. Local minister tickets continue at two cents per mile. Dated March 30, effective April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittspurcch
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Orders
Sisters of Charity
Express Messenger Shot and Robbed on West Shore Train
Utica report says Express Messenger Lake was shot in the shoulder and the safe rifled aboard train No. 36 between Clark's Mills and Utica. The robber fled after binding Lake, who was later treated. one assailant suspected, details pending. A brief Boston Globe note followed about a local prank election attempt in Sharon, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica
Albany
Lake
West Shore Road
Clark's Mills
Frankfort
Here
Two Drummers Sought Hidden in Musical Ad
A historic line from a printing office foreman shows an advertisement labeled Musical seeking two drummers, yet the context reveals the note was for two commercial travelers. The Ledger notes the whimsical mislabeling reflecting newsroom humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. ¥. Ledger
Meeting friends by running to catch a train
A Philidelphia Call quip notes that to meet all friends one should run along the street to catch a train, implying every man you ever saw will be on hand to pass the time of day. The fragment mentions forty thousand women belonging in Granges in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
United States
A Barren Victory and the Chickamauga Lesson
General D. H. Hill argues in his Chickamauga account that the great blunder was not pursuing after the 21st. The Confederate effort collapsed into disarray while Rosecrans’s retreat held Chattanooga. The piece laments a lost Southern dash and declares the barren victory sealed the Confederacy’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickamauga
Hill
D. H. Hill
Forrest
Rosecrans
Chattanooga
Georgia
Longstreet
Lee
The Headless Rider Behind Stuttering Captain Cheesman
A Lawrenceburg correspondent recalls Captain Joseph Cheesman of Aberdeen C who served in the Mexican War under Jim Lane. During Buena Vista he was stunned by a spent ball then rode a riderless horse while stuttering. He allowed a wounded soldier to ride behind him to safety before being left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Pulaski
Kennesaw Mountain
Kennesaw
Dixie
Columbia
Chattanooga
Mission Ridge
Chicago
Mexico
Cheesman
Deuce
Joe
Cinennati Enquerer
Aberdeen
Joseph Cheesman
Lawrenceburg
Ind
T.e Lucas
Jim Lane
Buena Vista
Carip
Cheosman
Jackson's War-Horse Old Sorrel on Exhibit in Richmond
The taxidermist Frederick Webster displays the mounted figure of Old Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson’s war horse. Born obscurely, he joined the Confederacy, served alongside Jackson, and died at thirty six. The city of Richmond funds the mounting for the Confederate Soldiers’ Home trustees.
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Frederick 5
Webster
Stonewall” Jackson
Manassas
United States
Washington
Harper's Ferry
Jackson
Confederacy
Maryland
Generalackson
Chancellorsville
Sorrel
J. E. B. Stuart
Confederate Soldiers’ Home
Richmond
Washington Posty
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
E. W. Mathews
S. Heade
Attorneys-At- Law
Hutchison Block
J. ©. Steele
Fred. L. Rosemond
Steele & Rosemond
Attorneys-At Law
Old National Bank
J. M. Bushfield
Rainey
Court House
W. A. Carpenter
Cambridef, Ohio
Davis Block
Sam’l C. Ludcock, Attorney-at
Cosgrave
Main Street
W. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Guernsey County
Febitt
B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
New Taylor Block
Apm
McPeee
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
Aple's
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
P Block
Noble Public Square
Davis
Frickelton & Graham
Athlea
E. McCollum
Mill Street
Physicians and Surgeons
WM. T. Ramsey
M. D
Providence Hosital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D. Cc
Hutchinson Block
Am, Hawthorne
City Drug Store
Adams Building
Joseph Morton
B. S. Herring
Aply
Brown House
Cambridge, Ohio
Co. C. Kyle
Central Hotel
L. J. Cutter
Main ST
Cumberland, Co
Arcade Hotel
W. A. Gill
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Kirek House
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
marZet
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Parmer ® S
Wm. Jiainey & Ben’s Dry Goods
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Cor. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Gary
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, CO
P. m
N. Y. Ry. Co
Cumberland
Aya
Eae
E Blue Belt
Pleasant
BOO& M
Hartford
Necaville
Ar, Morgan. Jetn
Cambridge Ic, & M
Zanesville
Breeks Loken
Barnesville
AS -Bellaire
Alvostegoe
Wheeling
Point Pleasant
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad
E. C. Winstanley
DR. Kyle
Thomas ©. Reynolds
Missouri
Custom House
St. Louis
James Hodges
Grand Opera House
Patti
Reddock
Sioux City
Charles P. Hildebrandt
Evansville
Wisconsin Assembly
Cameron
Augustus Cameron
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Wis
St. Paul Packet Company
A. M. Stanton
George K. Sistare
Sons’ Bank
Corinth
Miss
Kahlo
Castleburg
John W. Harris
Galveston
Tex
Texas
Republic
Stonecutters Association
Cincinnati
Covington
Newport
New Mexican Territory
Colorado
H. Hurst
Ohio State Dairy and Food Commissioner
G. C. Ashman
William Dickson
Charles L. James
Eau Claire
James
G. P.R. James
J. G. Moore
Crab Orchard
T. C. Stanley
Ogier
Grand Outfit Free
Address True &Co
Agusta, Maine
Wheeling & Lake Erie
R. R
Central Standard T.me
Ayde Norw
Creston
Ly Harbor
Orrville
Massillon
Navarre Ooo
Valley Junction
New Cumberland
Sherrodsville
Leesville
Canal Dover
Hiss
New Comerstown
Macksburg
Ven dl
Frew Neee
Canal
Dover
Navarre
Massilion
Wellington
Bellevue
Oled O
A.m. A
Huron
Milan
Tur
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Plumper’s Pass
Vancouver
Art Chicago
Hermann Knauff
Lizzie Zeinke
Scythia
Cunard Line
Scituate
Boston
Joun Miller
Columbus
Alsace
Channel
Smith’s Block
Wylie Avenue
Linguaglossa
Sicily
Brazos River
Hotel del Monte
Monterey
Cal
Southern Pacific Railway Company
America
Charles Blarr
Avoca
Pension Bureau
O'Rourke
Suspension Bridge
Health Bulletin
Soldiers’ Department
INTER
Pennsylvania Company
Darkey
Burgess
Sharon
Boston Globe
Joe Cheesman
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