Norwalk to Bowerston road opens linking Toledo and East
The new through route connects Toledo to Bowerston and on to the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through service runs between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta and Bowerston via Akron and Youngstown to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Generals Woodford and Hall announce the class agents and general managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Woodford
James M. Hall
Ageps
Consuls Named and Budget Talks Dominate 1887 Briefing
President appoints Lewis G. Reed at Barba does and H A Ehringer at Cienfuegos as consuls. Treasury monitors unexpended balances to finish cruiser work Atlanta and Chicago. Senate seat shifts show Republicans 38 Democrats 37 Independent 1 after gains in California Indiana New Jersey Virginia and loss in Nevada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis G. Reed
New York
Barbadoes
H. A. Ehringer
Cienfuegos
Whitney
Atlanta
Chicago
Senate
Republicanea
California
Indiana
New Jersey
Virginia
Nevada
Stewart
Fair
Navy Department
Foreman Terry
Secretary of the Treasury
Dunham
Multiple 19th century incidents span politics crime and transport
The report covers missing freight clerk Edgar Thompson in Allentown amid stock dealings, a Albany Republican caucus vote on liquor, Logan memorial in Brooklyn, missionary Howland’s death, Rhode Island convention nominations, Western Union dividend stance, a Sharon NJ rail wreck with casualties, Floyd County Chicago legal actions, fraud findings against Victor Watch Co, Castle Garden immigrant influx, Boston streetcar strike, Marion furnace explosion, drownings near Brownsville, New York suffrage defeat, railroad leader Lamb’s death, and various regional notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Thompson
Lehigh & Susquehanna
Allentown
Albany
N. Y
John A. Logan
Brooklyn
William S. Howland
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Madura
Ind
Auburndale
Mass
India
Rhode Island Democratic State Convention
Providence
Suh
John W. Davis
Pawtucket
Samuel R. Honey
Newport
Edward JD. McGuinness
Ziba O. Slocum
Gloucester
John G. Parry
South Kingston
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
Pemberton & Huntington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sharon
N. J
A. A. Perrine
Wilson
Daniel Rogers
Aaron Rogers
Victor Watch Company
Maiden Lane
James T. Fitzgerald
Bennington
House of Correction
Fitzgerald
Castle Garden
Cheirbon
Boston
Knights of Labor
Marion
Norwegian Iron Company
Minersville
Frank Crawford
Thomas Pearsall
Bridgeport
Monongahela River
Brownsville
New York Assembly
Erastus Lamb
Providence & Worcester Railroad Company
R. C
Travelers’ Protective Association
M. J. Pickering
National Railroad Committee
Cleveland
National Pipe and Tube Association
Pittsburgh
George G. Sickles
Daniel E. Sickles
Stephen Hutton
Hutton, Stutsman & Co
Ligonier
Hutton
Joseph F. Mayes
West Alexander
Pennsylvania
West
Alexander
Squire Mayes
Hudson
Newbury
New Hampshire
E. H. Abbot
Supreme Council
Royal Templars of Temperance
Buffalo
Hannah Blanchard
Egypt
Lisbon
Blanchard
Massachusetts House
Range of disasters and legal actions sweep 1886 region
A blast wrecks a North Chicago mill injuring Frederick Allen and James Ryan, and fires devastate Garden City Kansas with losses over 55000. A shingle mill explosion in Alpena kills Emory Carr and fatally scalds Waldo Carr. Texas rail and wage bills pass, while Oscar Neebe leaves jail. A Chicago court awards damages in a land case and a Missouri-Pacific wreck injures passengers near Hillsboro. Disasters also hit the Yazoo Valley steamer, and violence ripples through Kentucky and Virginia politics as embezzlement cases proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frederick Allen
James Ryan
Carr Brothers
Alpena
Mich
Emory Carr
Waldo Carr
Eugene Carr
Robert Mesen
St. Louis
Garden City
Kan
Yazoo Valley
Red River
Gibbs
Edmere
Austin
Tex
George W. Russ
Joseph Telfener
Paris
Nebraska
Chicago & Ohio River Pool
Western Nail Association
Oscar Neebe
Texas
Louisa
Lawrence County
Samuel Smith
Stephen Hammond
Hammond
Jeffersonville
Supreme Court
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Hillsboro
Wichita
John McClure
Youngstown
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Company
William Cunningham
Durango
Mex
Cincinnati
Webster
Armour & Co
J. 8
Sweeney
Elyton Land Company
Birmingham
Ala
Arthur Demong
Vigo County
Ind
Tna Life Insurance Company
Greencastle
Indianapolis & St. Louis Railway
Bee Line
11Th
Globe
A. T
San Pedro Valley
Charles Bouquet
Smith
Robertson
Supreme Court denies rehearing in Indiana lieutenant governorship dispute
Courts defer to the General Assembly as the sole tribunal to decide the disputed Indiana lieutenant governorship. Texas moves toward a prohibition amendment as temperance campaigning begins with large funds. William Walker, 103, dies in Adams County Ohio. Typhoid fever outbreak grows in Marseilles Wyandot County. B&O railroad brakemen strike nears end with trains running and crews refreshed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Supreme Court
Smith
General Assembly
Texas
Dallas Liquor Association
William Walker
Adams County
Winchester
That County
Hth
Marseilles
Wyandot County
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Road
World Skating Match Challenge Heads to Christiana Norway
Alex Paulsen the Norwegian skater has challenged Frank Dowd the Canadian champion to a world title race in Christiana Norway next year. The distance ranges from two to fifty miles as the men pursue the championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Paulsen
Frank Dowd
Christiana
Norway
Galway
Hamilton
Toronto
Kingston
Montreal
James P. Eads
Nassau
N. P
Daniel N. Stewart
Ont
French Chamber of Deputies
Beltirt
France
Stanley
Emin Bey
Cape Town
Congo River
Christine Nilsson
Miranda
Vatican
Russia
Wilna
Lytton Edward Sothern
E. A. Sothern
London
Nice
Porto Maurizo
Mentone
Italy
Cannes
Alexander Hamilton
Kilsyth
Rustchuk
Bulgaria
Rasgrad
Court of Queen's Bench
Can
United States
Canada
Indictments and incidents mark Morris Illinois grand jury case
The Morris grand jury returned an indictment on the 12th charging Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt with the murder of Kellogg Nichols, an express messenger on the Rock Island railroad, about a year ago. The report also notes various other legal and public events including a fatal shooting in Baltimore, a New York embezzlement arrest, and factory fire losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Ill
Henry Schwartz
Newton Watt
Kellogg Nichols
Rock Island
Treasury Department
Baltimore
Carrie Pelz
Benjamin Berwang
Grovor Batsry
Lila
South Evanston
George
Firr
Lippert Furniture
South Williamsport
Dauntless
Coronet
Owl's Head
Staten Island
Cork Harbor
Roche’s Point
Matthew C. Julien
Trinitarian Church
New Bedford
Mass
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
R. A. Wrest
Detroit
Mich
Canada
Wincar & Frost
Delchi
N. Y
Congress
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Whitney
Bureau of Construction
Chester
Oscar Neebe
Dissatisfied Workmen Threaten Strike on Baltimore and Ohio
In Pittsburgh and Connellsville area the Baltimore and Ohio Railway faces widespread unrest as engineers and conductors stay, but brakemen firemen and yard crews push wage demands of twelve and a half percent. Coke operatives refuse to load cars until settlements. officials offer no resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Pitrsnurena
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Glenwood
Connellsville
Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio
Brotherhood of Brakemen
Health Board observers report weekly disease prevalence
Reports to the Ohio State Board of Health from 74 observers across 50 counties detail diseases prevailing for the week ended Friday noon March 4 1917. The last two columns show the previous week based on 77 observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Board of Health
Sanitary Convention Planned by State Board in Warren
The Ohio State Board of Health and Warren county citizens announce a sanitary convention in Warren Trumbull county on March 30 and 31 1887. Topics cover hygienic eating and drinking rural sanitation typhoid fever prevention water pollution vaccination and school ventilation among others. Details from secretary C O Probst M D Columbus and T Clark Miller M D Massillon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Board of Health
Warren
Trumbull County
C. O. Probst
M. D
Columbus
T. Clark Miller
Massillon
Lady Jumps Headlong From a Train in Wooster
A well dressed woman about forty leaped from a Pitts burgh and Fort Wayne train near Shreve as it ran at full speed. She struck her head on the ground, was picked up unconscious, and doctors fear a skull fracture. She is identified as the wife of Elias Esenberg of South Bend and was traveling to visit her brother at Lakeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Esenberg
South Bend
Ind
Lakeville
Man murders wife then captured in Cincinnati
John Heine a Cincinnati butcher attacked his wife at No. 22 Madison street slitting her throat in a jealous frenzy. He fled but was caught and jailed at Oliver street station. The wife survived though injuries were severe and near fatal. A separate note from Red Hook reports a hog guessing match arrest under the state lottery law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
John Heine
Madison Street
Oliver Street
Povankeersk, N
Anthony Comstock
Red Hook
Flea Phobia and Sunlight Timeline Cited by Historians
John Philpot Curran’s fear of fleas is recounted with a Comical anecdote about bedchamber infestations in Carlow. A lecture by Sir William Thompson argues against precise sun history, suggesting at least twenty million years of sunlight in Earth’s past and five to six million in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Philpot Curran
Carlow
William Thompson
Earth
The Spy Anna at Knoxville and the Longstreet Dinner
The narrative recounts Anna the spy in Knoxville aiding Confederate Longstreet’s plan. She ferried messages across the Holston River and arranged a dinner for Longstreet that ended with Union surprise at the Russell house. General Burnside’s troops later seized the moment, concluding the fateful episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bragg
Longstreet
Chattanooga
Burnside
Cumberland Gap
Knoxville
Mills
Concord
Russell House
Anna
Holston
Russell Mansion
Elgin
Ill
Cor
Chicago Journal
Anna Laws Dinner
In winter 1863 4 Union officers forage near Concord Station Tennessee crowding Mills along the Holston valley Anna Law a 22 year old English housekeeper feeds officers and gathers intelligence aiding Union forces during Burnside operations near Knoxville. Colonel Dan Cameron commands the Sixty fifth Annis Infantry in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Tennessee
Burnside
Knoxville
Lee
Virginia
Thomas
Chattanooga
Holston
Twenty-Third Corps
Concord Station
East Tennessee
Trench
Broad
Little Tennessee
Rankin
Chicago
Treasury Department
W. F. Sylla
Elgin
Ill
Concord
Russell
Anna Law
Faces of the Dead on the Battlefield
A Private recalls the moment of combat on Brock road describing how dead and dying soldiers appear after death. He notes the face’s changing expressions as muscles relax, sometimes smiling or staring, and argues death’s face cannot reveal the true mental state before dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brock Road
A Colored Veteran Reunites with Family After 33 Years
A former slave named George Washington Monisty, born in 1853, living in Lafayette Indiana, recalls his Union service and glad reunion at the Wabash railroad station when two colored women he believed were his mother and sister passed through to Iowa. Tears and embraces mark the long separated family reunion after thirty three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Monisty
Mississippi
Lafayette
Ind
Wabash
George
Iowa
I. Y. Sun
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
Ohio
E. W. Nathews
W.8. Heade
Attorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
J. C. Steele
magis'Shte
Fred. L. Rosemond
Steele & Rosemond
Old National Bank
J. M. Bushfield
Rainey Block
Court House
ORIO
W. A. Carpenter
Orice
Davis Block
Otto
Sam’l C. Ludcock, Attorney-at
Cosgrave
Main Street
Wv. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington
Guernsey County
B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
Aply
Physicians and Surgeons
WH. T. Ramsey, M. B
Providence Hoaface
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D. C
Hutchinson Block
Aplusely
Deusgist
DM. Hawthorne
City Dreg
Adams Building
Joseph Morton
Delipite
Eagle Hotel
B.S. Herring
Epls
Brown House
Cambridge, Ohio
Co. C. Kyle
Tauris
Central Hotel
L. J. Cutter
Main ST
Arcade Hotel
W. A. Gill
Exchange Hotel
Birek
Zanesville, Ohio
Mill Street
Wm.Bergey & Son
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Mark Ts
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
God Eaching
Carnes
Fred
Pine Street
Main
D. K. Kyle
BE. McPhhkz
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
Janis
William Ogier
Public Square
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
Jambridge, Ohio
Tt. C. Stanley
kPaper Fangier
Ogier
Stora
Mone Yisteress
Grand Ant&t
True &Co
Agusta, Maine
N. Y. Ry
P.m
Blue Bel
Point Pleasant
C. & M. Junction
Hartford
Senecaville
Morgantechn
Zanesville
Barnesville
Cleveland & Marietta
Yoledo
E.C. Winstanley
Wheeling & Lake Erie R. R
Oak Harbor
Fremont Clyde Helleyue
Monroeville
Norwalk
Wellington
Creston
Orrville
Navarre Valley Junction
New Cumberland
Sherrodsville
Leesville
Dover
New Comerstown
Cambridge Mackaburg Marietta
Ly Ar
Valley Junction
Navarre
Bellevue
Salt Harbor
Oledo
P. Mn
A. m
Huron
Fries Landing
Milan
Lyv
Dal
Louis Bieral
Port Hans
Beattie
New York Custom House
C. M. Newton
R. Levenson & Co
Wheatland Rolling Mill
Stewart Tron Company
West Point
Sandy Hook
Beecher
Peekskill
Foreign Intelligence
Health Bulletin
Tee
Ted Cee
Perry
Logan
Paulding
Knox
Pike
Seneca
Ashtabula
Crawford
Wayne
Jefferson
Damascus
N. Straitsville
Farmer
Fincastle
C. O. Prost
Soldiers’ Department
Army of the Gray
O'Er the River
Pallant Boys In
Blue
Columbia
Union Band
Dixie
Army of the Blue
Heaven
Brooks
T. T. Kenower
Toledo Blade
Tenn
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