Norwalk and Huron Through Car Service Opens East
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 Marietta and Bowerston and Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh. Woodford M Wall Gen's Manager nD Pass. Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
D. Woodford
M. Wall
Gen
Cleveland to attend Piedmont fair in Atlanta in October
Washington notes President Cleveland has accepted an invitation to the Piedmont fair to be held in Atlanta during the first two weeks of October. Other items include donations to St John’s Orphanage, cotton and mineral oil export totals for March, and a hospital plea by Calhoun Semmes family.
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Cleveland
Atlanta
Whitney
Navy
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Dorothy
St. Johns’s Church
United States
B.E. Calhoun
Calhoun
U.S. N
Eleanor M. Semmes
Washington City
Bethlehem Iron Works Company
Pennsylvania
Treasury Department
Department
William Henneck
Baltimore
Washington
Albany Democrats win charter election in New York
Report covers a Democratic victory in Albany charter election with average supervisor majorities around 1,480. Also noted: Jersey City precinct election board arrests for ballot tampering, bail set at 1,200 each. New York customs crackdown on smuggled cigars. various local incidents and legal actions across several states.
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Albany
N. Y
Jersey City
N. J
Patrick Golden
Patrick McGinnis
Owen McCabe
C. T. Dolan
Limited
Connecticut Black Rivers
Vermont
Benjamin F. Glidden
David T. McNamara
T. F. Mulcahy
Typographical Union No. 47
New Haven
Conn
Journal and Courier
C. V. Morris
United States Navy
Robert Morris
Sackett's Harbor
Pottsville Company
Philadelphia
Kirkpatrick, Kinsey & Co
American Wheel Manufacturing Association
Pittsburgh
Tom
New York
Washington
Phelps Induction Telegraph and Railway Telegraph and Telephone Company
Consolidated Railway Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania Senate
Atlanta
Camden
Camden & Atlantic Railroad Company
George Grace
Western Union
New Jersey Central Railroad
Easton
J. P. Taylor
Owen
Erie
Waverley
Taylor
R. B. Lobdell
City
Sweeney
Miner
Lobdell
Lebanon
Raymond Shay
Ernst
Michael H. Murphy
Hoboken
Cocheco
Dover
N. H
Century Company
Piscatawa Township
Destruction of Mill and Farms Amid National Business Failures
The 15th wrecked the Collier and Green mill and five ice houses, grain elevators, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, large corn barns, and valuable machinery. Loss 35000 dollars, insurance small. National business failures totaled 175 for the seven days ending April 15, with 146 in the U S and 29 in Canada, compared with 182 the year before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier & Green
United States
Canada
Burned children result of house fire after father fled
A man left five children aged eleven and younger alone at a Greenville Alabama home on the night of the 11th. While he was away the house burned and all five children perished. An armed mob stormed a Mississippi jail, killing Bud Williamson in his cell. Reports also note various accidents, fires, and legal actions across multiple states.
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Greenville
Ala
Ripley
Miss
Bud Williamson
Jo Collins
New Alb
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver & Rio Grande Jail Retaliation For the Boycott Ness By the Eastern Lines
Grand Chicago
Joseph Burehan
Coldwar
University of Te of the State Normal Home
Nashville
Texas
Colorado
St. Lou
Mercer County
Hent
Eben S. Stearns
Lh.d
Nnessee
President College
Hig
New Mexico
Army of the Republic
Missoula
M. T
Frank Chambers
Graney
Freig
Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley Railroad
William
Alfred Conrad
Lancaster
Epic
Napa
Cal
Elijah Walters
T. Wagner
East Saginaw
Mich
Salt Manus
Chicago
Wew
County
Neb
Joseph Bohan
Sargent
Stat Arnold
Episcopal Church
John
Michigan
Walters
Brown
Arnold
James E
Bohan
Igiants Wasdanger
New Orlean
Miss Barton
Georg
Henry Sengbusch
Trempelan
Wis
Louisville
United States
New York
Werner
Asfaltus
Charles Taylor
Onancock
Grand Central Hotel
Ohio St
Illinois House
Lhave
Ohio River
Parkerso
John Holden
Joseph Reese
Washington M
Kynes
Higbee & Bernard
Midland Glade
Buena Vista
Col
Mr. Bernard
John Christian
James Christian
Tex
de Pottsboro
Alex. du Russell
Lutter Aller
Zen
Steve Christian
Dr. Bruil
Dodgeville
John Thomas
Union City
Tenn
Bertha Turner
Lee
Wilmington
Del
Carl Schoena
Evansville
Ind
Collins Brown
Fitchy County
News Briefs From The County And State Events
A chain of untidy incidents: a Lamar Missouri jail escape by four prisoners via sawn bars and a plank floor, a New Albany pouch robbed at Jeffersonville depot with unknown loss, Ainsworth Indiana’s business district burned with estimated $40 000 to $75 000 in damages, Lincoln’s 22nd death anniversary observed in Illinois Hall with speeches by Bishop Seymour and W H Cullom, a Delaware state bill to prohibit imitation butter, Goethie Michigan’s pro prohibition majority 2 155, Fort Robinson Nebraska set to review Major Bash conduct after a Wyoming highwaymen robbery, Robbins gas well near Lima Ohio shot expanding flow from 4 000 000 to 10 000 000 cubic feet daily, Des Moines police judge L J Labour fled to Canada over 34 000 alleged misappropriation.
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Lamar
New Albany
Louisville
Jeffersonville
Madison & Indianapolis
Ainsworth
Abraham Lincoln
Ilinois Hall of Representatives
Seymour
Springfield
W. H. Cullom
House of Representatives
Delaware
Can
Goethie
Major Bash
United States Army
Wyoming
Robbins
Lima
L. J. Labour
Des Moines
Canada
Dr McGlynn Lectures in Cincinnati on Land Theory and Rome
Dr Edward McGlynn spoke at Music Hall before about 2900 listeners on Henry George land policy and his stance toward Rome. He defended his actions as a Catholic priest and said health permitting he would go to Rome to shed light on questions raised by subordinates and critics.
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Cincinnati
Rome
Edward McGlynn
St. Stephens Parish
New York
Henry George
Music Hall
Land and Labor Club
McGlynlan
McGlynn
Henry George Land
Alien Land Bill Clears Second Reading in Senate
Springfield dispatch reports the alien land bill advanced to third reading in the Illinois Senate. The measure would require aliens to declare US citizenship before buying land and compel current landholders to naturalize within three years, with lands reverting to the state if naturalization fails within six years. It targets rack-renting landlord Scully amid widespread farmer opposition.
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Cincago
Springfield
Senate
Oglesby
United States
Scully
Tipperary
Ireland
Gladstone Land
Illinois
Logan County
Foreign Intelligence Briefs From Around the World
Late advices report Dutch and Acheen clash near Acheen on the 41st with 33 natives dead and Dutch losses of 3 killed and 26 wounded. Shanghai to become a major Chinese military depot with new arsenals planned. The steamer Saragossa abandoned at sea. all aboard rescued. Ireland agrarian crime figures show 72 in 1884, 44 in 1885, 1,055 in 1886. Russian 100 million rouble loan planned. Victoria wrecked off Dieppe. 20 drowned. Indian affairs deny Northwest frontier rumors. Archbishop Croke and Cashel clergy protest coercion laws. Dominion Parliament opened. fisheries negotiations with the United States discussed. MacLellan & Co. of St Johns fails with liabilities near 590,000. Northumberland miners vote 4,100 to 3,000 to continue strike.
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Dutch East Indies
Acheen
Shanghai
Empire
Saragossa
Port Antonio
Baltimore
Ireland
St. Petersburg
Victoria
Dieppe
France
Canadian Department of Indian Affairs
Northwest
Croke
Cashel
Dominion
Mth
United States
MacLellan & Co
St. Johns
N. B
Fires and figures mix in broad 19th century press notes
A wide array of incidents darken the period: a Maur Manufacturing fire at Erie cripples jobs, Bates the killer shot dead in Tennessee, a Chicago carpenters strike drift, a broker’s cashier pleads guilty to forgery, a boiler blast near Lancaster, a district judge’s death in Washington, and a massive New York Central docks blaze. Additional items report a foundering English steamer, long-time locomotive engineer Henry Inner’s death, a fatal railroad crossing accident at Eaton, and casualties from a Chicago Northwestern train tank rupture near Palestine Illinois.
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Maur Manufacturing Company
Erie
Jit Bates
Pell County
Tenn
Bates
Georgia
D. IK. Caryren
District Court of
Washington, D. C
Cleveland
New York Central Railroad Company
Sixty-seventh Street
Twelfth Avenue
New York City
London
Bonifacio
Corsica
Henry Inner
United States
Whistler
Ala
Charleston
Hamburg Road
Charles Bitter
Michael Nash
Eaton
Bitler
Nash
Wiile
Chicago & Northwestern
Palestine, Jr
Chicago
Health Bulletin Shows Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever Spread
Ohio Board of Health observers across 45 counties report acute bronchitis and measles prevailing for the week ending April 1917. New diphtheria cases appear in Muskingum Morgan Pike Athens Stark Hamilton Cuyahoga Licking. scarlet fever in Medina Hamilton Morgan Wyandot Defiance Franklin. Cincinnati records 15 diphtheria cases and Columbus 5.
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Ohio State Board of Health
Muskingum
Morgan
Pike
Athens
Stark
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Licking
Medina
Wyandot
Defiance
Franklin
Cincinnati
Columbus
C. O. Prosst
Two Policemen Cleared in Ex Mayor Bowman Murder Case
The trial of G. W. Voice and Patrick O Neil, accused of ex mayor Bowman murder in East St Louis, was halted after a nole prosequi when witnesses failed to appear. The men had been linked by confessions from East St Louis suspects. The report also notes morgue refrigeration improving identifications and an unrelated quip about a youth named Pea Blossom.
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Bowman
East St Louis
Belleville
G. W. Voice
Patrick O'Neil
Nole
Voice
O'Neil
East St. Louis
Smith
Banks
Pea Blossom
Austin
Mose
Escape from Camp Douglass detailed by a Confederate prisoner
The account recalls a January 3 1861 entry at Camp Douglass near Chicago where six Confederate prisoners tunnelled under a twelve foot fence seeking freedom. The group faced cold, cold winds, conducted the digging at night, drifted dirt under the shanty, and endured a guard capture when the tunnel was breached. The attempt failed and the six men were returned to the guardhouse with half rations for thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Douglass
Chicago
Arkansas
Jack Frost
Washington
Detroit Free Press
Private Smith recounts humorous incidents at Fredericksburg
A Wisconsin soldier notes odd scenes during the Battle of Fredericksburg. A round shot bursts a knapsack scattering clothing and cards as soldiers joke deal me a hand. The brigade halts on the river bank, then resumes attack as gamblers play at cards amid the bombardment and a paymaster is struck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksborg
Smith
Wisconsin
Exposed to Weather in Civil War Service on Front Lines
A Fifth Ohio cavalry veteran recalls Shiloh to the march to the sea, enduring mud and rain with no tents. He notes cold nights, river swims at zero, and winter campaigns in East Tennessee without shelters, claiming exposure did not bring colds but comfort built them.
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Fifth Ohio Cavalry
Shiloh
Tennessee
Mountanous
East Tennessee
Ohio
Teven
Daxies
Miss
Corinth
Colorado
Utah
Rome
Cor
Scientific American
A Veteran's Excuse From the March to the Sea
General Sherman tells a humorous incident near a Methodist bishop's home during the march to the sea. A soldier laden with gear and a large Greek lexicon asks for reading material, claiming the camp is dull. The soldier offers the book to Sherman, calling it Dutch, to avoid trouble.
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Sherman
Gineral
Chicago Tribune
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Heade
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J. C. Steele
Mayla
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J.M. Bushfield
Rainey
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Notary Public
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Guernsey County
Febutt
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R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
Cambridge, Ohio
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Physicians and Surgeons
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National Medical Dispensary
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Macksburg
New Comerstown
Creston
Navaere
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Health Bulletin
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Blade
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Soldiers’ Department
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