Revenue receipts rise as year-end estimates upgrade
News of the Week reports the Internal Revenue Service projects 130 million dollars in receipts for the current fiscal year, about 10 million more than prior estimates. Other items include resignations, naval dismissals, naval auctions, and political appointments, with notes on international diplomacy and local incidents.
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Internal Revenue
Evans
Washington
O. T. Denney
Shanghai
China
State Department
Kenneady
United States Naval Service
Mare Island
Joan B. Turvey
Omaha
Brewster
Philadelphia
National Grange
French- American Claims Commission
Garfield Guard of
Army of the Cumberland
Garfield
Frelinghuysen
Annam
France
John R. Tanner
Minois
Arthur
Frank J. Gilbert
Illinois
New Orleans
McCann
Hazen
Washingington
Allentown
Snyder
South Carolina
Secretary of the Treasury
Folger
Notable escapes and trials mark Pittsburgh region news
Edward Gearing and Tom Blake escaped from Riverside penitentiary in Pittsburgh on the 20th. Embezzler Jacop Nebeleger was convicted in Philadelphia courts the same day. Five-year prison sentence for William Phelan in Boston. Aged Mrs Mullen fatally injured by a locomotive near Erie. her son previously killed by a Nickel Plate engine. Frank Gowan declines re election as Reading Railroad president and names Keim as successor. A cave in near Logan Colliery causes damage. new Bessemer steel process announced at Homestead. Capitan Samuel Richardson Box of the US Navy dies in Boston.
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Edward Gearing
Tom Blake
Riverside
Pittsburgh
A. P. Martin
Citizens’ Convention
Boston
Joseph Wright
Tom Couch
Perry House
Oil City
Wright
Jacop A. Nebeleger
United States Court
Philadelphia
Steeleton
Willliam C. Phelan
West
Washington
Mullen
Erie & Pittsburgh
Erie
George Darrell
Godfrey Brown
Beaver Falls
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Columbia
David Mower
Stickney & Poor
Charlestown Neck
Mass
Franklin B. Gowan
Reading Railroad
George Deb. Keim
Michael
Michael Fridlander & Co
New York
San Francisco
Superior
Bar Mill
Oliver Brothers
Logan Colliery
Lehigh Valley
Bessemer Steel
Homestead
Samuel Richardson Box
United States Navy
Murder or accident rocks Marshall Mich as Siprey found shot
Telegraph operator Byron M. Siprey was found with a bullet hole in his head on a principal Marshall street, likely murdered. The same timeline notes lakes gale losses with dozens of ships, and a string of incidents across Indiana and Missouri, from arson and cyclones to robberies and a jail breakout.
Destructive gales wreck ships and claim many lives
Dispatches from St Johns and Halifax report a Norwegian bark stranded on Green Island with ten dead, numerous wrecks, and bodies washing ashore. A train derailment near Hampton, Canada injures sixteen. O'Donnell slayings trial set for November 20. Many more calamities across Europe and Egypt noted with fatalities.
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St. Johns
N. F
Halifax
Green Island
St. Martins & Upham
Hampton
Canada
O’donnell
Carey
Bay of
Douarnenez
France
Thomas Dana
Liverpool
New York
Fayat
St. Pierre
Miquelon
St. Malo
Eric Belle
Kincardine
Ont
William Osgood
Lorain
Frank Eikenhurst
St. Louis
William Sales
Detroit
Mich
Metropolitan Underground Railway
London
Praed Street
Parnell
Egypt
Hicks Pasha
Elmadhi
England
Khartoum
Turkey
James Russett Lowel
United States
Great Britain
University of St. Andrews
Gibson
Dublin
Univerity
Disparate 19th Century News Snippets From Across America
Reports cover a Pennsylvania express collision killing Mrs Christiana Frey and her son with her husband fatally hurt, a large Jacks Mountain fire destroying timber and homes, Surgeon General appointment for Rogert Murray, cabinet talks on Franco Chinese tensions, a Missouri farmhouse blaze killing a family, a surge of U S business failures, a Utica fraud case tied to McDonald estate, a Terre Haute fatal train accident, Alaska’s civil government petition drive, a Booneville shooting, a Boston prison pardon for Bernard Boland, and a Charleston editor made Knight of St George.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Christiana Frey
William
Mill Creek
Jacks Mountain
Allensville
Lon. KR. B. Foust
A. R. McCarthy
Joseph Straight
Rogert Murray
France
China
United States
T. W. Huston
Unionville
Canada
A. B. Johnson
Utica
N. Y
McDonald
Boland
Bprrot Dawson
Charleston
S. C
News and Courier
Order of St. George
Pops
Four Die in Robber Rage Near Jackson Michigan
Four persons were murdered in Summit Township seven miles southwest of Jackson by revolver fire. Victims include Jacob D. Crouch the 74 year old farmer his daughter and her husband Henry White and visitor Moses Pally from Transfer Pennsylvania. A lone shooter likely carried out the massacre after following Pally who spoke of money. A frightened colored boy hid in a chest as the killings occurred. Authorities investigate as the community reels. Crouch valued at about two million dollars in Jackson County and Texas sheep ranches. A pocketbook with 105 dollars lay on White's window sill.
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Byron M. Siprey
Michigan Central Railroad
Marshall
Mich
Lakes
Danville
Ind
Custer Post
Grand Army of the Republic
Omaha
Paul Vandervoort
Grand Army
Hastings
Vandervoort
Raleigh
N. C
Walter F. Pool
Pasquatank
Pitt
Beauford
Martin
Thomas G. Skinner
Democrat
Secial
Duluth
Manistee
Bayfield
Ontonagon
McCoy
Cleveland
Geerge D. Bovarr
Portsmouth
Columbus
Ashland
Melbourne
John Hinkle
Henry
Hinkle
George Flickinger
Henry Kerback
J. Hanselman
Hanselman
Indianapolis
Parkersburg
Susie Kearn
Chicago
First National Bank of
Rushville
Vincennes
Spring
Alabama
Austin
Texas
Brewster
Consolidated Paper Company
Northwest
United States Marine Hospital
San Francisco
Colima
Mazatlin
Mexico
Oregon County
Missouri
Fort Smith
Ark
Riverside
John Mechanis
Diederick
St. Louis
Iowa
Alpena
Greenough Harbor
Lake Huron
Big Island
Jacop D. Craven
Bremen
Jackson, Mich
Henry White
Moses Palley
Transfer
Mercer County
Palley
Jackson
Crouch
Summit
Jacob D. Crouch
Moses Pally
Pally
Jackson County
Crouch’s
White
Byron
Fort Worth
Negro Boles
Destruction of Hicks Pasha’s Army by El Mahdi Forces
Telegraph dispatches from Cairo report the army of Hicks Pasha annihilated near El Obeid by El Mahdi the False Prophet after three days of battle. Estimates place El Mahdi’s forces at hundreds of thousands with Dervisches Bedouins and regulars. only one European artist is said to have escaped.
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London
Reuter
Cairo
Hicks Pasha
el Mahdi
Khartouf
el Obeid
el- Mahdi
New York
NoTre
Khartoum
Berari
Duem
The
Nile
Corn crop reports across midwest show mixed results
Reports from Illinois Indiana and Iowa describe a poor harvest with frost and thaw causing soft grain unfit for human use and likely waste as cold approaches. Nebraska Kansas show better yields with Kansas harvest described as the largest ever though seed quality concerns persist.
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New Albany
Ind
Alabama & Great Southern Railway
Coaling
Ala
Indianapolis
Andy Taylor
Taylor
Loudon
Tenn
Knoxville
Sheriff Foote
Chicago
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Nebraska
Kansas
Cuhicago
Frivolous Exchange Between Miss Fisher and James from Indiana
Miss Belle Fisher apologizes for a misunderstanding as Young James from Indiana boasts of past rejections. He jokes about asking many girls and says he reads signals before proposing. They discuss the pleasant afternoon and proceed with light banter.
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Belle Fisher
Young James
Indiana
Miss Fisher
B. F
Young J
Serieux
Santa Barbara collector preserves peculiar dental curios
A Santa Barbara man keeps in his cabinet several sets of false teeth exhumed from graves on the Santa Barbara Islands. Each tooth is made from a shell shaped to fit the roof of the mouth and can be adjusted outside the gums.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Santa Barbara Islands
Repairs on the White House Cost 272000 in Thirteen Years
The Washington Post reports repairs on the White House have totaled 272000 dollars over thirteen years. The article notes ongoing maintenance and the long term cost burden on federal property upkeep.
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White House
Washington Post
Niehaus Wins Garfield Statue Poll for Capitol Work
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette reports Charles Niehaus won the selection for the Garfield bronze statue in Cincinnati. No. 3 model shows Garfield in dignified repose with a scroll, favored over the speaking pose. Niehaus will pursue marble carving in Italy while casting remains in America, noting American bronze quality rivals Munich.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Charles Niehaus
Garfield
Washington
Niehaus
Rebisso
Powers
Doyle
God
Capitol
Italy
Munich
Poole Convicted in Irish Rights Motive Murder Trial
Joseph Poole was found guilty of murdering John Kenney after testimony by William Lamie and others. The jury imposed death. Poole proclaimed Fenian ties and Irish republican aims, saying he would die proudly for Ireland. He faces execution December 18.
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Francis Geoghan
Poole
Kenney
Brady
Webb
England
Fenian Brotherhood
Ireland
Joe
Officers Dismissed for Disgraceful Conduct
PuILADELPutTA Nov 20 Mayor King discharged City Detective Thomas Whiteman and District Special Officers Thomas Alexander and Thomas Bye for corruption charges. Whiteman allegedly coaxed a German boy to steal a horse to trap a thief, but the boy was instead jailed for six years by Alexander and Bye. Whiteman also took money from the boy’s father and sought reward money, prompting suits against the city. The probe questioned officers accepting gifts or rewards.
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Whiteman
Farmers’ Protective Association
Death of an Old Citizen
William G. Harrison of Maryland died in Baltimore at age eighty two. He led the B and O Railroad as president for years and secured the city loan of five million dollars. He also presided over the Baltimore Fire Insurance Company and the Union Railroad Company. Harrison served in the Legislature and ran for Congress during Know Nothing times against Henry Winter Davis. He built a large commercial fortune over many years.
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Baltimore
William G. Harrison
B. & O. Railroad Company
Jarrett
Baltimore Fire Insurance Company
Union Railroad Company
Know Nothing
Congress
Henry Winter Davis
Slaughtering "Big Jaw" Cattle Near City Limits
Authorities found eleven cattle sick or disabled slaughtered in an abattoir near Kansas City limits and offered to city butchers. Four animals showed signs of big jaw. Charles Hoene, an employer, was arrested and officers seek George Byers, the proprietor.
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Kansas City
Charles Hoene
George Byers
Wheeling Officials Drop Search For Gas Vein
City authorities in Wheeling West Virginia end efforts to locate a gas vein after extensive surveys. No further leads or digging planned.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Loss of steamer Manistee sparks great lakes search
Aboard the steamer Manistee were about fifty souls and a full cargo when it disappeared after leaving Bayfield on November 15. A tug recovered charred pilot-house pieces and a bucket marked Manistee but found no survivors. officials fear the ship foundered in rough seas or was burned in mid lake. The Leopold Austrian line owned the vessel, valued at 25000 dollars with 20000 dollars insured. crew included commander John McKay and engineers George L. Seaton and P. C. Cullen, among about twenty five other hands and twenty five passengers feared lost.
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Milwaukee
Manistee
Duluth
Ontonagon
Nuaythan
Houghton
Hancock
Mich
Bayfield
China
John McKay
George L. Seaton
P. C. Cullen
Leopold & Austrian Line
Great Lakes
E. M. Peck
Cleveland
Engleman Line
Grand Haven
Detroit
Humphrey
Leopold & Austrian
Manitowoc
Chicago
Miller’s Dock
Lake Superior
Danville Riots Court Finds Blacks Aggressors In 1893
The Committee of Forty in Danville reports after examining thirty seven witnesses that blacks acted as aggressors in the riots of November 3. It notes pre election circulars guaranteed voting rights, federal forces ensured protection, and the election was quiet and fair with the Coalition ticket winning.
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Danville
Alleged Annexation Schemes Stir Toronto Debates
A Le Verite Quebec article on French policy by Chapleau and Senecal sparks controversy. The Globe and Mail linkage to Paris Chicago and St Paul press is labeled “unveiled treason” and accused of undermining Canada abroad.
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Toronto
Ont
le Verite
Quebec
Ultramontanes
Castors
Messrs. Chapleau
Senecal
France
Globe
the Mail
Canada
Chicago
St. Paul
Canadian Cattle Lloyds seek incorporation to insure cross border livestock
The Canadian Cattle Lloyds announce plans to obtain incorporation and authority to insure livestock against sea perils and other risks for shipments between Canadian ports and Great Britain Ireland Europe the United States and back again.
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Monitireal
Can
Lloyds
Dominion of Canada
Great Britain
Ireland
Europe
United States of America
Great Britain Or Ireland
Collapsed Capitol Jury Finds Negligence in Disaster
A Madison dispatch reports the coroner jury found contractor O. E. Newton of Jamesville guilty of gross negligence for improper pier repairs and charged Supervising Architect Jones of Madison and Consulting Architect H Xoch of Milwaukee with designing the internal construction without due care, contributing to the Capitol collapse on November 8.
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Milwaukee
Madison Dispatch
Capitol
O. E. Newton
Jamesville
Jones
Madison
H. ©. Xoch
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Cambridge, Guernsey County
Ohio
M. R. Patterson
Attorney-at-Law
Cambridge
Shaffner Building
J. C. Steele
Hutchison Block
Sam’l GC
Ludcock
Cosgrave
Main Street
Physicians and Surgeons
A. Moore
Postoffice
L. C. Wells, M. D
Flameoeopathist
Taylor Block
J. J. Blair, M.D
Cambridge, Ohio
Davis Block
Herald Office
Warne, M .D
Wall’s
Apie
WM. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Hosital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D. C
Hutchinson Block
J.B. Downar
Eagle Hotel
Hotels
Hagle Hotel
B. S. Hering
Antrim
William Smith
John W. Robinson
Eirix Eiouse
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
Zanesville, Ohio
WM. Kirk
Thompson
Crow
Farmers’ Hotel
Mill Street
Win Rainey & Son
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher
Col. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Annie Recan
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
Peers
Globe House
Cumberland, Ohio
James Canady, Prop
S. S. Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Bis
Parmers
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Lambert Thomas. E. Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
North Water St
N. Wharves
McoPpersw
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
Janis
William Ogier
Public Square
Davis
E. McCollum
True & CO
Augusta
Maine
F. J. Cheney
Adams Street
Toledo
John R. Downar
Stinson & CO
Portland
Cumberland
Senecaville
Pleasant
Lys
Pt. Pleasant
F. M. Atkinson
Dr. Sanford
Duane Street
N.Y
O. Addre
Duane $T
Dan
Boone
L Crook
Ken- Ton
Davy Crocket
Kit Canson
Wisp Bil
Texas Jack
Cart
Jack
Buffalo Bill
Coburn & Newman Publishing Co
Ll. Bolran
A. J. Holman & Co
Weite
J. E. Shepard & CO
Elm St
Watertown
News OF the
Charlestown
Massachusetts
Union Mutual Insurance Company
John Steinhilber
Thomas Kerns
Kerns
Mhn Chisholm
Essex County
N.J
John McKeonn
Foreign Intelligence
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