Norwalk and Huron Line Opens Route to East Coast Access
Norwalk and Huron Fries Landing Milan and Toldeo area announces the road is now open from Toledo to Bowerston connecting with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through car service offered between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta and between Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh and Chicago. D. Woodford and James M. Hall announce general manager and general passenger agent roles.
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Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Lambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
D. Woodford
James M. Hall
Gen
Gem! Pass
Congressional activity and memorials across Senate and House
Senate passes twenty two House bills including railroad settlement and opium import ban. House considers Chinese indemnity, naval ordnance, and public buildings while adjourning after eulogies for late Representatives Beach Dewdney Arnot. Senate honors John A Logan with tributes and adjourns.
Marriage of Miss Annie Randall to Charles Calvert in Washington
Miss Annie Randall daughter of Representative Samuel Randall married Charles Calvert of Lancaster Pennsylvania on the 8th at the family residence in Washington. The Secretary of the Treasury appointed Isaac Weavery of Georgia chief of division in the First Auditor's office. The Commissioner of Pensions began requisitions for 318 789 000 to pay pensions due March 4 the largest quarterly pension payment in history. Representative Randall opposes an appropriation for coast defenses and rejects the Senate plan of 21 million proposing 10 million. The late General W B Hazen's will was admitted to probate leaving 209 annually to his sister and the rest to his wife.
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Columbus Times
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Strike Settlement Ends Coal Miner Walkout
The 6009 Monongahela river coal miners strike nears settlement with work resuming on the 10th in the three pools at the rate set by the Miners' Executive Board. Pierce Bushnell of New Bedford announces indefinite suspension of payments. Rhode Island Supreme Court allows plurality voting by the people to choose electors or officers, confirming plurality for electors.
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Pierce & Bushnell
New Bedford
Mass
New Englad
Supreme Court of
Rhode Island
Tragic tolls mark a day of accidents and trials
Reports recount deaths from a New Salem railroad strike, a St. Louis fire killing a fireman and stable workers, and a Dayton streetcar death of Captain Lilly. Courtroom cases include Edward Loew’s contempt sentence and forgery guilty pleas in Chicago. Across locations from Des Moines to Montana, mishaps, legal actions, and political moves fill the day’s notices.
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National Sugar Growers’ Association
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Sun
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Western Nail Association
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Yth
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Nicholas Mumbaugh
Girard
Youngstown
Chicago
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Joseph C. Mackimn
Nevada
University
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Oshana van Jesus
Teheran
Persia
Memphis
Tenn
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Willie Finley
Daniel Gisling
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Cuyahoga River
Luckum
Jefferson
Janesville
Court House Hill
S. Lilly
Florida
Dayton
Night Express
Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Mill Creek
Cleveland
Syndicate forms vast Ottawa farming empire
A powerful syndicate organized at Ottawa by Sir John Lester plans ten farms of 10,000 acres along the Canadian Pacific rail line in the Northwest Territory with capital of £1,300,000, offering employment to thousands. Other items note robberies in Montreal, bulls in Mexico City, a Dublin fire, and other world events.
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Craig
Emily
Japan
Ferdinand von Miller
Rangoon
Burmah
Estimates of losses and a series of incidents across the nation
Bradtstreets estimates losses from strikes total 7 248 608 dollars with wages sacrificed and coal price impacts. Anaconda Montana sees thirty buildings burned for a 75 000 dollar loss. Other items include a bishop's death Sewanee and a Prince Edward Island roof collapse injuring many. Senate passes portsmouth public building and naval armament amendments. House bills on post office funds, trade dollar retirement, and other measures proceed with adjournment.
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Grand Ledge
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Detective Hulligan Dies From Train Attack Wounds
Cleveland police mourn detective William Hulligan killed after four days of suffering from head injuries suffered on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh train at Ravenna Ohio Detectives McMillan Gallagher and others react with sorrow and vow to pursue those responsible while the force honors a brave officer leaving a wife and five children.
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Ravenna
Guerin
Cleveland
William Hulligan
Cleveland && Pittsburgh
Hulligan
Gates
McMahon
McMillan
Gallagher
Skeels
Billy Hatligan
Health Bulletin from Ohio Board of Health Week Ending Feb 4
Reports from 52 counties show bronchitis and pneumonia still prevalent with acute rheumatism and measles rising in Gallia Defiance and western Champaign. Measles epidemic in several counties. one varioloid case in Dayton. Consumption and erysipelas decreased. scarlet fever and other diseases noted. Proust, Secretary.
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Etsy
Gallia
Defiance
Champaign County
Dayton
C.O. Proust
Great Rocky River Flood Swamps City After Sudden Rise
Water in Rocky river rose noon yesterday covering the south side with about three feet within minutes. Residents fled homes while several farmers stayed last night. Bridges on the Northwestern and St Paul roads were swept away blocking trains. The flood is the worst in over twenty five years.
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BrLorr
Rocky River
St. Paul
Central Traffic Association Adopts Rules Revisions
In Cleveland Ohio the executive committee met with Commissioner Blanchard and President Newell of the Lake Shore presiding. They adopted resolutions to continue the association, revise its rules to align with interstate commerce law, and accept the law with regard for public interests and faithful observance of all provisions.
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Cleveland
Central Trafic Association
Blanchard
Newell
Lake Shore
Shipwreck at Say Brook Point Leaves Only Captain and One Sailor Alive
The schooner Samuel Daley from New London was crushed by ice off Say Brook Point in Harrronp Connecticut. Captain Samuel Spaulding escaped in a yawl with his wife and child and three sailors, but the yawl sank with all but the captain and one crewman. Mrs Spaulding was found floating, her clothing still gripping her.
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Arnot
St. Louis
Dakota Council
Friends of
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Jacksonville
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Jacob Miller
Atlanta
George W. Voice
East St. Louis
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Bowman
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Nevada
Comstock
Indiana
Youngstown
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad
Harrronp
Conn
Saybrook Point
Samuel Daley
New London
Samuel Spaulding
Detroit man seeks pauper subsistence in Kalamazoo
Augustus Littlejohn formerly a famed temperance lecturer applied to Kalamazoo poorhouse officials for subsistence. The piece notes his relation to Bishop Littlejohn of Long Island and the late Honorable D. C. Littlejohn of Oswego as nephews.
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Augustus Littlejohn
Gough
Kalamazoo
Littlejohn
Longsland
D.C. Littlejohn
Oswego
Senate OKs anti strike interference bill in Austix
In Austix Texas on February 9 the Senate passed a bill to punish interference with lawful employment. The law imposes fines up to 500 dollars and imprisonment up to six months for any striker who interferes with another's work.
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Tex
Senate
Pocket-book left in box. police guard prevents delivery
Miss Hattie Morgan reports dropping her wallet in a street-letter box on State Street near Polk. A policeman watched the box but the carrier refused to deliver the wallet to the post office, and Morgan later recovered her purse. The note cites the Chicago Mail and a New York Post item on 1886 US Bessemer steel ingot production rising to 2,041,400 net tons from 1,701,762 in 1885.
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Hattie Morgan
State Street
Polk
Arch
Miss Morgan
Chicago
Bessemer
United States
Ravenna assassination reward debated in Ohio legislature
Feb 8 9 Senate and House debates on a $10000 reward for Ravenna train outrages. Ely proposes $10000 reward or $2500 per arrestee. Feb 9 10 Senate sustains $10000 reward after amendments. House passes nominations and local option debates amid broad bill activity.
Alarmed by lone travel French plan guards new door alarm
Officials propose railway measures to prevent crimes and suicides. A new door alarm activates when carriage doors open during travel. The dial in the guard's van displays the carriage number and side of the opening to locate the incident.
Mysterious Charged Rock Near Santa Cruz Fla Powers Battery
A rock near Santa Cruz Florida is described as heavily charged with electricity. When touched to a battery it allegedly produces strong electric currents, and a small piece could keep a battery running for about three weeks.
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Santa Cruz
Fla
Secret Window Frost Remedy Revealed by Shopkeeper
A St. Louis shopkeeper shares a simple method to keep window panes frost free. He rubs them once or twice a week with a rag damp with glycerine, claiming it has saved him many dollars over time.
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St. Louis
Keper
Nation honors Union dead in national cemeteries
The Bloomington Leader reports on the vast network of national cemeteries holding Union soldiers graves many marked unknown. Arlington Annapolis and others across the North and South hold tens of thousands with high unknown rates. Total remains about 80 000 and costs to maintain reach 5.17 million dollars reflecting national memory and humanizing war’s costs.
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Antietam
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Quartermaster General
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Bloomington
One Touch of Nature in a Washington Letter
A veteran officer’s gratitude spans generations as a second cousin of General Lee, living in Washington, cares for a young, frail woman left alone. An old protector, touched by past kindness to a schoolmate, brings the orphaned daughter into a home of comfort, linking Civil War divides with enduring fraternal care.
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Washington
Parrott shell pierces Macon bank during Sherman siege
A Parrott gun shell whistled across the river during Sherman's assault on Macon striking a south Mulberry street bank pillar then piercing a dwelling post through a window but causing no major damage. The pillar hole was neatly patched and the old bank crater later filled with Bermuda grass.
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Mulberry Street
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