Presidential civil service reform and new appointments
The article notes plans to amend civil service rules to favor residents of states with unfilled quotas for vacancies. It lists presidential appointments including ministers to Italy and the Argentine Republic, consuls in multiple cities, and Navy officers. It also reports relics received by the War Department, a theft recovery in Lewiston, and new officials named at the Mint, Harrison, and Huron districts.
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Civil Service
Treasury Department
Robertson
New York
John B. Stalle
Ohio
Italy
Bayliss W. Hanna
Indiana
Argentine Republic
Charles A. Daugherty
Pennsylvania
Rome
W. L. Alden
Pierce M
War Department
Vilas
Hibbs
Lewiston
Idaho
Israel Lawton
United States
San Francisco
A. L. King
Arkansas
Harrison, Ark
William I. Bancroft
District of Huron
Michigan
William A. Day
Minois
Treasury
Orange Ferris
Heat brings fatalities as New York endures scorching day
The day saw ten people overcome by heat in New York with two deaths, while incidents across states included mine closures in Pennsylvania and a fall at the Bremen dock in Hoboken. A court ruling on oleomargarine is deemed unconstitutional, and notable events range from Depew’s NY Central presidency to a statue voyage aboard the Isere.
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New York
Walton & Co
O'Neil & Co
West Elizabeth
John FH. Heins
Bremen
Hoboken
N. J
Heins
New York Court of Appeals
Nathan
Reuben Pettit
Erie County
Chatham
Ont
Astore
Pettit
New York Board of Health
Hill
Manning
Treasury Department
Baltimore
New York City
Johanna Pervesta
Jersey City
N.J
Hackensack Meadows
Chauncey M. Depew
New York Central Railroad
Isere
Bartholdi
Ith
Rouen
Philadelphia
Lth
Washington Butchers& Sons
Moore Street
Massachusetts House
Pittsburgh
Conference Committee
Robert Stuart
Society of Fine Arts
American Museum of Natural History
Orson
Murray
Lancaster
Wells College
Aurora
N. Y
Folsom
Cleveland
Ward
Guyandotte
Old Dominion Line
North River
Varied 19th Century News Influx From Fire Losses To Trials
A collage of incidents reports floods from a circular pump accident causing ship damage and $25,000 losses, Portland fires, cadet admissions at West Point, Plymouth fever cases, deadly mill explosion in Erie, and a wave of arrests from Ohio to Wisconsin.
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Massachusetts
Portland
8. K. Lyman
West Point Military Academy
Corps of Cadets
Plymouth
Warren Run
Sugar Notch
Penn Mills
Erie
Frank Dyke
Nelson Wing
James Smith
William Jones
United States
Jeddo
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Schuylkill River
Philadelphia
Cornell
Henry A. Bacon
Ohio
Bacon
Exeter
N. H
James T. Fanning
Uncle Tom
Iwan
House of Industry
Boston
Herman Kipp
Newark
N. J
Allen D. Howe
Southboro
Mass
Robert Treat Paine
Harvard College
Multiple incidents reported across regions including theft and deaths
A dispatcher noted Isaac Hibbs of Lewiston Idaho Territory held for U S mail money order fraud in Harrison River Canada. White Springs Florida post office burned destroying stamps and funds. Ex Senator Nesmith died in Polk County Oregon. Baltimore inventor E S Prince died after falling from a second-story balustrade. Akers near Newcomerstown Ohio reported self harm. Arrest of Sam Anderson in Kentucky. Lynching of three men near Heilton Indian Territory. others pursued. Boiler explosion in Wakefield Virginia. Locusts appeared in Wabash Indiana. Convicted George A Pyers sentenced in Baltimore. Assault on two women near Newcomerstown Ohio. suspect, Henry Howard, captured. Rudolf Robins suicide in Peoria Newfoundland. Circus actors Barry and Lawrence shoot each other in Michigan. Death of Arkansas Gazette founder William Woodruff in Little Rock.
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Siebelt
San Francisco
Isaac N. Hibbs
Lewiston
Idaho Territory
Harrison River
British Columbia
White Springs
Fla
Nesmith
Polk County
Oregon
E.S. Prince
Baltimore
Elijah Baltzley
Newcomerstown
Sam Anderson
Wash Osborn
Dry Ridge
Williamstown
Williamson
Pete Moore
George Morgan
Heilton
Indian Territory
J. L. Deal
Wakefield
James Tucker
James Day
John Taylor
James Scott
Wabash
Ind
George A. Pyers
Eliza Bache
Ellen Phillips
Miss Phillips
Miss Bache
Charley Barry
Sam Lawrence
Cole’s Circus
Houghton
Mich
Lawrence
Barry
William J. Woodruff
The
Arkansas Gazette
Little Rock
Ab Paguemine, la
Foreign Intelligence Notes From Europe And Beyond
European fires burn Lautschau and Tyrnau destroying towns. 14 dead. German commander Baron Manteuffel dies in Carlsbad. Lake Manitoba steamer crew saved after fog grounding. French warship Reynard lost with 127 dead. York England earthquake shakes residents. Cholera fears prompt quarantine talks across Austria Russia and Spain border. Toronto banknote counterfeiting scandal grows. French Deputies reject priests in army reserves. Pendlebury disaster relief fund opens as Manchester reports 160 miners dead.
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Lautschau
Hungary
Tyrnau
Baron von Manteuffel
Alsace-Lorraine
Carlsbad
Lake Manitoba
Canada Shipping Company
Southwest Bay
Little Miquelon
Langley Island
Europe
Austria
Russia
Toronto
Ont
French Chamber of Deputies
Manchester
England
London
Pendlebury
Weather tornados and wrecks across several towns
A water spout between O'Fallon and Belleville Ill. drives hundreds from their homes and damages railroads. A Ravenna tornado unroofed fifteen buildings. A coal bank collapse near Richmond kills two and injures one. Port and bank activity noted with fires and dynamite incident in Newtonville.
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O'Fallon
Belleville
Dr. Loring
Ravenna
Richmond
Patrick O’brien
Hugh Phallis
Michael O’brien
New York
Portville
N. Y
Elkhart
Texas
Ccoroner
Randolph Hazell
Andy Jackson
Lizzie
Frank Hayes
Joe Norman
Wiliam Rogers
Frank Wuhrz
Third Avenue
Iris
Civil Service Commission
Gallia
Cox
Roscoe Conkling
B. H. Brewster
Surron & Powelw
Newtonville
Ind
Tur
New York Associated Banks
Delight in the Almighty and Eliphaz’s fault
A sermon on delighting in God from Job 2 26 contrasts Eliphazs judgment with true faith. It warns against judging others by outward fortune, urges recognizing God as omnipotent and merciful, and encourages lifting the face to God with joy and trust.
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God
Charles H. Spurgeon
Job
Uary
Eliphaz
Jehovah
Sin
Satan
Temptation’s Reach Across Life’s Edens and Our Defense
Sunday-School Times argues temptation invades every setting from railways to churches and even personal resolve. It urges constant vigilance and persistent resistance, and calls on faith to bear trials through divine help, likening it to Israel’s journey to Canaan with rest found in love.
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Temptation
Canaan
No man with full sunlight should lament minor light
Sunday School Times argues that one with the sun's full illumination need not envy extra knowledge. Those rich toward God may lack lesser lights, yet God withholds nothing not wisely kept. Grateful believers should not long for dimmer beams in comparison to the sunlit truth.
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Sunday School Times
Experience as a teacher and safer guides in youth
The passage argues that experience can teach harshly through loss while warnings from parents and teachers offer better guidance. It cites moths drawn to flame as a metaphor for repeated self destructive acts and notes that early moral instruction can prevent vice more effectively than bitter lessons learned later.
Lucky She Was No Younger
Two ten year old velocipede riders rocketed down John street and collided with an eighty year old woman. After recovering the shock she spanked one boy then recaptured him for a second dose before releasing him. She sought the first officer to vent her anger as the boys fled.
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Utica Observer
John Street
A Shrewd and Patient Cat in Cornwall
A Maltese tomcat owned by a Cornwall lady is described as a patient bird nest raider. He climbs trees to inspect new nests, pockets eggs, and marks time to raid after nestlings fatten. He avoids the mistress’s grounds and only targets birds when sure, earning the nickname Doctor before being renamed.
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Cornwall
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