News of the Week Highlights and Early 1886 Events
The article reviews numerous items from late June including 119 Bureau of Engraving and Printing employees discharged due to efficiency gains, a grand parade for G A R Commander-in-Chief S B Burdette in Washington, army actions against Indian trails near Opute Mexico, district debt refinancing plans, record pension approvals, Alaska expedition updates, cholera related naval redeployments, postmaster bond renewals, several presidential appointments, and large oil exports before May 31 1885. It also notes a Boston eye surgery, a confinement order for Mrs. Dudley, coal price cuts at Monongahela River, and Harvard College receiving James Russell Lowell's 688-volume Spanish collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Burdette
Washington
Masonic Temple
War Department
Crawford
Opute
Mexico
Guadaloupe
Sierra Madres
Woodward
United States
Jordan
Black
Ist
Pension Office
Navy Department
Stanley
Hlinlink
Ounalaska
Behring Sea
Lisbon
Madeira
Vilas
Edgards. Wilson
Mississippi
Evanston
Wyoming
E. S. Jackson
D. H. Ingraham
Maine
Cadiz
James Fenner Lee
Maryland
Legation
Austria
Nathan B. Gatchell
District of Buffalo
N. Y
Hay
A. F E. Stevenson
Bloomington
Ill
Stevenson
Center College
Danville
Congress
Bald Ridge
L. J. Orcutt
Massachusetts
Boston
Dudley
O'Donovan Rossa
Middletown
Gildersleeve
Monongahela River
Harvard College
James Russell Lowell
Passaic Zine Works shut down after 30 years of operation
The Passaic Zine Works in Jersey City ceased operations indefinitely on the 30th, putting 225 workers out of employment after three decades of continuous work with no prior strikes amid dull trade conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Passaic Zine
Jersey City
N. J
Nickel Plate Railroad
Springfield
John Denton
Babe
Sadie Mahony
Wisconsin
New York
H. J. Hanson
Edward L. Hedden
New
Ist
Pittsburgh
National Convention of Manufacturers
John F. O'Connor
S. J
St.Francis Xaviers College
New York City
Marah
Fredericks
New York City Board of Health
Postoffice Department
Co-operative Carpet Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia
Knights of Labor
Dexter
Yale Corporation
William M. Evarts
Evarts
McKeesport
Black Brothers
York
Multiple incidents of crime fire strikes and political notes across the Midwest
A rash of events unfolds from Armourdale to Cleveland and Chicago. Masked shooters tested a Kansas home while a Prohibitionist figure Schauk enberg remains active. The Bethune charity case over Blind Tom heads to appeal. Rail consolidations and a major railroad shop fire in Trenton cause large job losses. Medical society exhibition reveals leprosy in Wisconsin. Court actions include Utah ex–Chief Justice Drummond’s stamp theft conviction. Strikes flare in Chicago and Cleveland as officers and workers clash over staffing. A Buckhannon family poisoned by arsenic coffee faces illness and possible motive. Obituaries include ex‑Attorney General Washington Bushnell. A fatal fire in Cleveland claims three children’s lives. Italian murder trial verdicts in Chicago seat executions while other inmates face acquittals. Trains kill workers near Pittsburgh and a long‑serving Ohio prisoner dies. Finally, political figures and lawyers are arrested in Indianapolis for bribery attempts amid a wage dispute and a fatal Florida blaze closes with several dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity Wiggins
John Bethune
Tom
E. M. Spillman
Tonquin County
General Bethune
Columbius
Hocking Valley
Toledo
Central Ohio
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Trenton
Dane County
Wis
Medical Society
Iverson
A. M. Drummond
Utah
Chicago
Lebanon
Frank Long
J. W. Nixon
S. K. Bradley
Nixon
Bradley
West Division Street Railway
R. F. Pinnell
Buckhannon
W. Va
Washington Bushnell
Illinois
Ottawa
Broadway
Cleveland
Rosa Meisel
Fanny Rosenberg
Nolle
Patrick Blifford
James Miller
Western Express
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Miller
James Lockey
Ohio Penitentiary
Lawrence County
Thomas Cogan
Cincinnati
Michael Karey
Indianapolis
Hiel
Cleveland, (C.) Rolling Mill Company
J. O. Matthews
Citra
Ila
Martha Lewis
Gracie Lewis
Matthews
Lewis
Reuben Ellwood
Ilinois
Sycamore
New York
M. C. Dow & Co
Hoop Works
Cleveland, O
Fire Destroys Peshtigo Block and Damages Railway Property
In Peshtigo Wisconsin fire largely wiped out the western riverfront district and adjoining property of the Valley Railway Company. Sixteen businesses and three hotels burned. losses reach about 150000 with insurance around one third. Ohio Prohibitionists held a Springfield state convention naming a ticket led by Leonard Frost Stewart and other officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vailey Railway Company
Peshtigo
Wis
Springfield
Dr. Leonard
W.S
Canadian loan fully subscribed in London market
The four per cent loan of £4,000,000 opened in London on the 29th alt. was subscribed three times over and taken up at about 101 35. The Montreal Irish National League backs Mr Parnell against the new British Government and supports the Parliamentary fund collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Montreal
Irish National League
Parnell
National League of America
Spain
Manitoba Court
Riel
Manitoba
Regina
General Bouet
Tonquin
Tientsin
France
China
Dominion of Canada
Diet of
Brunswick
Duke of Cumberland
Churchill
Leonard Jerome
New York
Woodstock
Lord Randolph Churchill
India
Mexican Central Railroad
United States
National Bank
Reynard
Gulf of Aden
Penjdeh
Germany
Duke of Cambridge
Duchy of Brunswick
Madrid
Alfonso
Aranjuez
Senate
Pittsfield official found murdered in street near gas house
The body of George Dunbar, longtime Pittsfield Coal Gas Company superintendent, was found in the street with a pistol wound. Police suspect murder and robbery as he carried substantial funds. No suspect is identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Dunbar
Pittsfield
Mass
Fultonville
N. Y
William van Voast
Charles Maxwell
Philadelphia
Stk
Underwood
Kentucky
Board of Health of
New Orleans
the Sun
Taylor
Denver
Durango
Col
Eaton
Henry Cooney
William Connell
Boston
Connell
Cooney
Willie
Joan Lum
Perry
Owasso
Mich
Public Debt Decline in June and Year Overview
The June reduction in public debt totals $8,993,993, with the yearly decrease at $63,494,708. Receipts from all sources reach $322,590,776, about $7.5 million below estimates, while cash in treasury drops to $488,612,429 and available cash to $1972,800,851.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineron
Treasury Department
Treasury
Pacific Railroad
Alabama Claims
New Orleans
Benjamin F. Jonas
Louisiana
James B. Hays
Wisconsin
Supreme Court of
Territory of
Idaho
United States
William Cabell
Texas
James M. Liddell
Mississippi
Robert S. Shields
Ohio
Charles B. Pearce
William W. Rockhill
Maryland
China
Charles Denby, Jr
Indiana
Department of Justice
Frank Strong
District of Columbia
Leigh Chalmers
J. Monroe Haskill
D. A. Fisher
Edward W. Watson
H. J. May
Benjamin Wilson
West Virgins
Lewis Cochran
New Jersey
F. P. Dewees
Pennsylvania
Felix Brannigan
New York
William Dorsheimer
Martin McMahon
Stanley
Navy Department
Stinlink
Ounalaska
Behring
Indians and whites clash near Fronteras with heavy losses
A miner from Fronteras reports an engagement Thursday thirty miles southeast of Fronteras leaving thirty six Indians and sixteen Americans dead and several wounded. Later from the San Bernardino ranch another battle with Lieutenant Davis yields sixteen Indians killed and fifteen to twenty prisoners. white casualties are not stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ToompBstonr
A. T
A. J. Haneke
Fronteras
Thomas Crogher
San Bernardino Ranch
Fort Bowie
Sonora
Davis
Mackin Found Guilty of Perjury in Five Year Term
The Mackin perjury case jury retired at 8:30 p m yesterday and returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty of perjury as charged and sentencing him to five years in the penitentiary Judge Moran then moved for a new trial to preserve the prisoner's rights in his absence from counsel Mackin spoke briefly with relatives and was jailed in cell twenty five Murderer's Row promising to continue the fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGco
Mackin
Moran
Spreckels Jury Finds Not Guilty in Shooting Case
Adolph Spreckels is acquitted after a week long trial for shooting N H DeYoung, proprietor of the Chronicle. Claus Spreckels, president of Hawaiian Commercial Company, is implicated as attacked by the Chronicle prompting the shooting. DeYoung survived two bullet wounds and has recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Adolph Spreckels
N. H. DeYoung
Claus Spreckels
Chronicle
DeYoung
Spreckel
Sunday school funds funded by eggs charm Georgia minister
A young Oglethorpe County minister raises money for his Sunday school by paying scholars to bring an egg each Sunday and reselling them to cover school expenses. The note appears in the St Paul Globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight
Columbia Law School
Advocate
M. Y. Tribune
Morris County
N. J
John Hil
New Jersey
Asi
John Hill
Oglethorpes County
St. Paul Globe
Pall Mall Gazette
Ruskin
Oxford
N. Y
N. Y. Limes. Miss Kate Gleason, of Rochester, N. Y
Cornell University
Rochester Express
Boston Advertiser
Massachusetts
The
Advertiser
Market Samplers and Clever Folklore From Daily Life
A collage of anecdotes from old newspapers describes market samplers who wheedle goods at stalls, a Green Mountain farmer quip about land, a German lamp quip, and humorous exchanges with a Philadelphia Times tone. It captures rustic wit, vendor cautions, and social manners of the era.
Difference Between Accident and Surprise
Mrs Spelter asks what separates an accident from a surprise at breakfast. He answers all accidents are surprises but not all surprises are accidents. If I topple the lamp it is an accident, if you stay silent it is a surprise. Returning home sober would be both an accident and a surprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh Billings
Vermont
Green Mountain
Zroy Times
Baltimore
Philadelphia Times
Oil City
N. Y. Herald
Noah
Arkansaw
Boston Courier
Smith
New York Sun
Giddigirl
Dovecote Seminary
Joan of Arc
Florence Nightingale
Miss Flyaway
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W. Mathews
W.A. Heade
Attorneys-At- Law
Hutchison Block
Cambridge
W. A. Carpenter
Cambraider, Ohio
Davis Block
Osc
Sam’l C. Ludcock
Attornecy-at-Law
Cosgrave Building
Main Street
V. D. Craic
Cinernsey Co Yunty
Febitt
BR. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
Attorneys-At-Law
Physicians and Surgeons
L. C. Wells, M. D
Filomoeopathist
Taylor*Block
J.C. Warne, M. D
Wall's Drug Store
WM. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Hospital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, DC
Hutchinson Block
Ady
J. M. McGill
City Drug Store
Eagle Hotel
Cumberland Tannery
Geo. E. Cendree
Cumberland
Hotels
Joseph Morton
W. A. Gill
Arcade Hotel
Cambridge, Ohio
William Weaver
Prop
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Bire
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WN. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Farmers’ Ee
Mill Street
Ana
Wm, Ramey & Some Dry Ty Goods
Mart’tft
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Cor. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith
Globe House
James Canady, Prop
Hovee
S. S. Carnes
Marn's
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Lambert Thomas
E. Harper
EE. McPee Ts
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
Calpress
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Stinson & Co
Portland
Derst Ly
Ogier
Fells Tf H. H. Veitch
America
H. Hallett? & Co
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
Fortune
RUS & Co
Augusta
T. C. Stanley
Ozier
Terms Lett Book Co
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W. & Ney. Ry. Co
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Blue Bell, '& M
Junction Point Pleasant
Hartfore
Senecaville
Morgan Jet
W.H. Atkinson
Batesville
E.C. Winstanley
Independence
Everett
Akron
Uniontown
Greentown
Berlin Lake Park
Canton
Valley Junction
Ene Junction
C. Crossi
Xron
New Berlin
East Akron
Isaac Reynolds
R.A. Curran
Gen
Ge! Pass
M. Smith
Master Transportation
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Armourdale
Kas
J. Schaukenberg
Kansas
Schaukenberg
Foreign Intelligence
the Fashions
N. Y. Evening Post
Redskins
Herald Office
University of Mississippi
Inter Ocean
Russia
Methodist Episcopal
WIT and Wisdom
Dock Street
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