Norwalk to Bowerston Road Open For Through Service
The new road opens to traffic from Toledo to Bowerston linking with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through car service runs between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta and connects with Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh and Chicago routes. James M. Hall is General Passenger Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Dittchilseeh
New York to Receive Lavella Will For Female School
The State Department has a certified copy of Jose Lavella's last will bequeathing 500000 dollars to New York City to establish and maintain a school for poor girls aged five to fifteen. Other notices include diplomatic appointments, land office registers, revenue figures, pension applications, opium smuggling reports, and St Louis designated as a central reserve city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Jose Lavella
Tima
Peru
New York
D. L. Pringle
South Carolina
United States
Constantinople
William D. Patton
North Carolina
Bahia
Rule Letcher
Missouri
Asuncion
George C. Tanner
Picton
Nova Scotia
Registers of
Samuel Demers
Kansas
Concordia
Kan
John R. Whiteside
Dakota
Deadwood
D. C
James M. Adams
Washington Territory
Spokane Falls
W. T
William Lowrey
Iowa
Des Moines
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Commissioner of Agriculture
Commissioner of Pensions
Treasury Department
Detroit
Suspension Bridge
China
British Columbia
Lakes
National Banks
St. Louis
Ex Secretary Manning and Treasurer Jordan sail for Europe
The report notes Manning and Jordan sailed on the 14th for Europe. It also lists multiple political and legal happenings across the United States, including Maine capital punishment repeal, New York liquor license debate, and various local incidents and investigations.
Miners adopt strike demand at Pittsburgh convention
A resolution by the Pittsburgh district railroad coal miners calls all workers earning below the scale to demand full pay immediately. A four member committee is to represent miners on the arbitration board to settle disputes with operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Board of Arbitration
Maine
Howard Medlar
Pottsville
Daniel Miller
ISS
Conigham
Delaware & Hudson Coal Company
Wilkesbarre
Stephen Saycer
William Bloom
United States
Canada
George G. Sickles
Daniel FE. Sickles
New Rochelle
N. Y
Isabella Furnace
Cleary
Doodle
New York
Wall Street
Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton
Ives-Staynor-Meyer
Baltimore & Ohio
Peter English
Higginbotham
Noted Victim Shot in Dodge County Residence
Colonel James Collins a wealthy cotton planter in Dodge County Georgia was shot through his window on the night of the 18th and died instantly. The assassin remains unknown.
Nihilists Attack Stage Coach in Russia and Other Dispatches
Reports detail a Nihilist raid near Tschita Russia stealing 170000 rubles 40000 in gold after killing the coachman and guards. Also noted are explosive experiments under Russian supervision and political notes from Winnipeg Bracebridge and St. Petersburg including an attempted assassination of the Czar and arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tschita
Russia
Coombs
Salvation Army
Winnipeg
Man
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Bracebridge
Ont
Hugh Denison
St. Petersburg
Rome
Cardinal Taschereau
Knights of Labor
Holy Office
Order
Canada
United States
Canadian Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Congress of
San Salvador
Nemasique
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Various Local Incidents and Notices From Vermont to Ohio
At Bennington Vermont Thomas Stewart fined 10 dollars and costs for ninety one prohibition offenses. unable to pay leads to house of correction. Christian Ax of Gail & Ax died in Baltimore. Turbine explosion at Van Wert Ohio kills two. workers escape. Alabama? no. Miners at Shenango Allegheny back to old wage rate after strike. destitution reported among striker families. Gas explosion at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania injures two. Fire at Curtiss cottage Chautauqua destroys Children’s Temple Amphitheater and many cottages. Lane of St Paul dies at 83. father of Bishop Ireland. Rider plans Niagara Falls jump from various heights. W Seligman commits suicide in St Augustine Florida. Evupremia Mount St Joseph Academy head dies. Schooner A W Thompson sunk in Long Island Sound. three crew drown. Ohio State Teachers Association to meet in Akron late June. Philadelphia police raid six Chinese gambling dens. many arrested and opium outfits seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Thomas Stewart
House of Correction
Christian Ax
Gail & Ax
Baltimore
O. H. Paessler
van Wert
Sam Miller
Frank Burtsfield
Tur Shenango & Allegheny Railroad
Standard
Mount Pleasant
McMasters
Meclone
Curtiss
Chautauqua
N. Y
Summerfield
Simpson Avenues
Ricuary the Lane
St. Paul
Minn
Ireland
Lanny DeNovaux
Brooklyn Bridge
Niagara Bridge
Great Heights
Niagara Horseshoe Falls
Caroline Blenkinsop
Dublin
Tur
A. W. Thompson
Edgeport
Conn
Long Island Sound
Idlewild
New York
Ohio State Teachers Association
Akron
Put-in-Bay
Philadelphia
Poisoning of Harris Family Sparks Voodoo Doctor Fear
Report from MillEdgeville Georgia describes a Harris family poisoning on Mrs Morris plantation. Fanny Peter and Hattie Harris are dead with several others dying or ill while Jim Bonner the voodoo doctor is blamed, as sheriff prepares arrest and locals fear talk of his power.
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Fanny
Peter
Hattie Harris
John
Henrietta
Mary
Joseph
Vine
Ida
Lula
Fletcher
Jim Bonner
Eli Young
Bonner
Young
John Harris
Bonners
Henrietta Harris
Diseases Prevail Across Ohio Counties in Weekly Health Report
Reports to the Ohio State Board of Health from 83 observers across 53 counties show acute bronchitis and measles as prevailing diseases for the week ending Friday noon March 1 1867. New diphtheria cases appear in Monroe Muskingum Adams Ashtabula Crawford Columbiana Hamilton Licking Putnam Ross Franklin Tuscarawas and Union. Scarlet fever is reported in Van Wert Ottawa Hamilton and Ashland, while measles prevail in Shelby Adams Perry Allen and Union counties. C O Prosst Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Board of Health
Monroe
Muskingum
Adams
Ashtabula
Crawford
Columbiana
Hamilton
Licking
Putnam
Ross
Franklin
Tuscarawas
Union
van Wert
Ottawa
Ashland
Shelby
Perry
Allen
C. O. Prosst
Pass Prohibition Set by Pennsylvania Railroad Directors
At Pin apripuia Pa March 17 President Roberts of the Pennsylvania railroad reports directors have directed enforcement of the interstate passes ban. Effective April 1 no passes for free travel or special cars across state lines or into the District of Columbia may be issued except to railroad officers and employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lyman S. Weeks
Weeks
Hugh Breslin
Bellmore Collery
Mount Carmel
Geneva
Connecticut Congregational Club
Hartford
Yung Wing
China
Wheeling
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
Bridgeport
Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
District of Columbia
Elmira, Cortland & Northern Railroad
Parks’ Station
Pin
Pennsylvania
Sisters Flee East. Twenty Mile Journey Ends in Windom
Two fourteen and sixteen year old girls formerly calling themselves Charlie and Bertie Byers of Rochester New York were found in Windom Minnesota. Born in Lindsay Ontario the sisters were taken in by W A Byers of Calgarry after their parents died. They fled east seeking their brother traveled by foot and rail with tramps adopting boys clothing. Friends notified.
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St. Pau
Minn
Windom
Charlie
Bertie Byers
Rochester
N.Y
Tilly Davy
Kate Seeker
Lindsay
Ont
W. A. Byers
Calgarry
Northwest Territory
MURDER NEAR LIBANON INVOLVING NEIGHBORS
Word comes from Dover Boone County of the murder of Ira Alexander at his home a quarter mile west of Libanon. Thomas Hartman a neighbor shot Alexander in the abdomen with a shotgun after a dispute over a clearing job. Alexander died within an hour. Hartman, a young married man, has not been arrested yet.
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Libanon
Ind
Dover
Jefferson Township
Boone County
Ira Alexander
Thomas Hartman
Alexander
Hartman
Lullaby and wit mix in a dated column snippet
A curious fragment blends verse about a sleeping babe with quick news items. It notes William E Demorest returning to Cohoes after misappropriating $2990, having earned $59000 in mining stocks. It also claims Old Town Maine's chief offices are held by Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Demorest
Cohoes
N. Y
Dakota
Troy Times
Old Town
Charleston Siege and Federal Entry Detailed in 1865 Chronicle
The Chicago Herald recounts the Charleston siege and the 1865 Federal entry led by Sherman and Dahlgren. It describes the evacuation of Confederate forces, bombardment on Morris and Sullivan islands, and the city’s occupation amid ruins and cheering African Americans. It notes the first Union troops, the pursuit of Andrews spies, and the later pension provisions for surviving raiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Dahlgren
Charleston
Jef Davis
Beauregard
Hardee
Davis
Carolina
Geo. E. Belknap
Canonicus
Morris Island
Sullivan’s Island
Moultrie
James Island
Otime
Catalpa
Bar Anchorage
Fort Moultrie
Mahopac
Belknap
Meeting Street
Calhoun Street
The
Battery
South Battery
John Brown
Fifty-second Pennsylvania Infantry
Third
Rhode Island Artillery
Charleston News and Courier
Desperate Mitchell Raiders Raid Chooses Fate in 1862
A House report recounts General O. M. Mitchell's 1862 raid by 21 men to destroy railroad bridges between Chattanooga and Atlanta. The mission aimed to cripple Union reinforcement, but pursuit closed in as raiders seized an engine and cars near Marietta, Ga, risking capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrews
Chattanooga
Atlanta
William Knight
Jacob Parrott
William Reddick
John Whallom
Chicago Herald
House of Representatives
Committee On Pensions
McClellan
Richmond
East
Mitchell
J. Andrews
Marietta
Queer Antics of a Soldier Who Ate Glass for Money
A Cincinnati Enquirer account recalls a Civil War soldier at Camp Denison and later Fort Laramie who ate glass for payment. He swallowed glass with bread, drawing paid bets from visitors while doctors observed. The witness left the hospital in November 1863, noting many corroborating testimonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dennison
Morgan
General Hospital
Fort Laramie
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tennessee Soldiers and their Big Feet War Tale
The Union soldiers joked about Tennessee troops during the Civil War saying they never shut doors and had enormous feet. A Belle Isle prisoner recalled Petersburg and a brutal melee where Tennessee soldiers allegedly stood firm despite heavy fire, their big feet preventing collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Chicago
Belle Isle
Petersburg
N. ¥. Tribune
Stamp and postal note figures from recent fiscal year
The fiscal year saw over 1,632,000,000 adhesive stamps issued valued at $33,000,000 with manufacturing cost under seven cents per thousand, vs twenty seven cents twenty years ago. Postal notes sold by postmasters reached about 6,000,000 in value around $12,000,000.
Coal barge sunk off English coast sparks insurance scheme
The Black Diamond reports a barge loaded with coal allegedly sank near the English coast to claim insurance. The incident suggests a foundering for profit and points to possible guilt in the coal scuttle scheme.
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Gambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
Ohio
Mathews
W.8. Heade
Aattorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
Jd. C. Steele
Maglo
Fred. L. Rosemond
Steele & Rosemond
Attorneys-At-Law
Old National
Bank
J.M. Bushfield
Rainey
Court House
W. A. Carpenter
Davis Block
Decis
Sam’l C. Ludcock
Cosgrave
Main Street
D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington
Guernsey County
J. B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
New Taylor Block
Aplo
Physicians and Surgeons
WM. T. Ramsey
M. D
Providence Hospital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D. C
Hutchinson Block
DM. Hawthorne
City Brug Store
Adams Building
Hotels
Joseph Morton
Eagle Hotel
B.S. Herring
Apli&6
Brown House
Cambridge, Ohio
C. Ryle
Markss
Central Hotel
L. J. Cutter
Main ST
Cumberland
Arcade Hotel
Cambridge, Ghio
W. A. Gill
Firatapet
Excnange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Bia Hous
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohioo
Thompson
Crow
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Cor. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
Carnes
Fred
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle's Marble and Granite Works
EE. McPhee EE
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Mosg
Snop
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Frickelton & Graham
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
T. C. Stanley
Ogier
Address True &Co
Agusta, Maine
XN. Y. Ry. Co
M. P.m. Wi
Ian m
Sul
Cumberland Blue
Point Please
Flamford
Senecaville
Morgan Jetlambridge
Zanesville
Barnesq Ie
Bellare -Wheeling
Point Pressant
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad
B.C
Lake Erie
R. R
Eastwaid
Oak Harbor
Fremont Clyde
Bellevue
Monroeville
Norwalk
Wellington Creston
Orrville
Massillon
Valley Junction
New Cumberland
Sherrodaville
Leesville
Canal
New Comerstown
Macksburg
Wee Nee
Pherrodasville
Navarre
Creston
Wellington
Ill
Ja. m.Ly
Clyde
Fremont
Jak Harbor
Oledo
A.m
Huron
Fries Landing
Milan
Ivy
Tee
Daily
ceulrmEy
Toodford
Menage
James M. Hall
Manning
Jordan
Europe
Connecticut
Henry Ward Beecher
New York Assembly
Boston & Providence
Newark
N. J
Michael Weiner
Balbach & Son
Weiner
Lafayette
Albert Parr
Elizabeth
Charles Reynolds
Warr
Reynolds
Horace Peck
Clarendon
Batavia
M. Y
William Morgan
Elie Stacey Charlier
Professor Charlier
Charlier
Pennsylvania House
Yeas
Court of General Sessions
George F. Parker
Rhode Island
Providence
Init
Knights of Labor Committee
Hayward
Williams
John Carlin
West Virginia
W. Va
Thayer
Nebraska
W. Prp, Cody
Buffalo Bill
London
Marmaduke
State Butter and Cheese Association
Blackville
John Lundoff
Pecatonica
Pike Road
Rock Hill
N. C
Michael Kaelin
Louisville
Montgomery
Ala
James Sidney
James Collins
Dodge County
San Francisco
John K. Steies
Sutter Street
Findlay
Stewartville
J.J. C. Dougherty
Albert Bushby
Stewart
Jack McCoy
Early
Vincent
Bushby
William Paxton
Lancaster County
S. C
F. A. Borear
Henry J. Dane
Leserer
J. H. Randall
Knights of Labor of Cincinnati
Union Labor Party
Wabash
Nd.) School Furniture Company
German War Department
Germany
France
James B. Eads
Christ Church, St. Louis
Congress of Churches Aid Christians
William Paxley
William B. Gordon
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Smyrna
Del
Mexico
Tampa
Fla
Southwest
Stockaien
Minnie McManus
Columbus
Summerville
Harry Williams
Robert Hayward
Fort Worth
Tex
Foreign Intelligence
Health Bulletin
Jess Tong
Kb. Denton
Philadelphia Herald
Soldiers’ Department
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