News of the Week Highlights From 1884
A round of naval honors and civic notes mark the week. Medals awarded to Commodore Schley and Lt Emory signal relief feats, while the Marine National Bank dividend aids creditors. Immigration, debt, post office revenue, and Treasury notes trend downward. silver purchases signal miner activity. Public funerals, education grants, local politics, and canal freight shifts add to a wide tapestry of 1884 events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore Schley
Emory
Greely
Massachusetts Humane Society
Marine National Bank
New York
Commodore Fillebrown
Oak Hill Cemetery
Almy
Jenkins
Pattison
Franklin
Queen
Hagner
Palmer
Gunnell
Chandler
Waller
Schley
Crowell
Post Office Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Department
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Convent backs fusion in state politics
The East reports that at the Pennsylvania Greenback State Convent on the 1st a resolution approved fusion with the Democrats with a minimum half of electors. an eight-member committee was named to carry out the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Lehigh
Lancaster
Lebanon
Montgomery
Merritt Wrecking Company
Edgartown Harbor
Catawissa Valley
Riverhead
L. L
Roscoe Conkling
Eugene Halleck
Springfield
Mass
Bradley, Garrison & Co
Philadelphia
Glen House
Mt. Washington
N. H
W. & C. BR. Milliken
Ist
Knights
Templar
Miss Kurtz
Franklin County
Colored War Veterans
Central New York
Jerry
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Sanders
Haverhill
J. S. Morgan
Boston
Henry Carter
London
Cholera in Italy, French poll tax, and ship fires report
Within twenty four hours ending nine p m on the 1st, Italy reports 430 new cholera cases and 197 deaths, the Pope contemplates using the Latein Palace as a cholera hospital. A French toll on arrivals at Calais Boulogne funds harbor improvements. Irish National League in Dublin discusses limited subscriptions and reliance on Ireland. A Volga steamer fire near Kostroma triggers broader blaze, killing and injuring several, with multi million rouble losses. Train collisions near Calcutta kill fifteen and injure seventeen. A September hurricane in Leeland causes many ship losses and unknown deaths. The Bowhead whaler sinks in Arctic ice. crew saved. ship valued at $120,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Latein Palace
Calais
Boulogne
Irish National League
Dublin
Harrington
Ireland
Volga
Kostroma
Russia
Eastern
Bengal
Calcutta
London
Leeland
San Francisco
Arctic
Pacific Steam Whaling Arctic Oil Company
Fire destroys warehouse in Philadelphia and damages adjoining homes
A six story warehouse owned by William Heacock and stored goods for six hundred owners burned in Philadelphia, with losses around 500000 dollars. Fifteen nearby dwellings were destroyed as walls failed, and several areas faced blast damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William Heacock
Railroad Accident Near Pike's Creek Claims Two
A construction train struck a washout three miles south of Baymen Wisconsin on Thursday afternoon, killing two men and injuring several others. The engine and tender plunged into the washout, with the crew on board as the boiler and firebox were crushed. Rescue work followed, including a funeral party arriving from a nearby lodge. Dr. Hannum tended the wounded and many scalded men likely faced death. the wreck will delay trains for days.
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Baymen
Wis
Pike’s Creek
Washburn
Masonic Lodge
Hannum
Danish voyagers reach Victoria after 1500 mile seal skin voyage
Peter Mueller and N Petersen, two Danes from Kodine off Alaska, arrived in Victoria after a 105 day voyage in a fragile seventy five pound canoe. They battled storms near Cape Spencer and Cape Elizabeth, evaded Behring and Hairy Indian threats, hunted two bears, and then prepared to sail to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Peter Mueller
N. Petersen
Victoria
B. C
Kodine
Cape Spencer
Cape Elizabeth
Behring’s Bay
San Francisco
Villain in Lakeside Pension Fraud Exposed
Detroit October 4 Special examiner Paul F. Williams returned from Lakeside Berrien County with details of a bold pension fraud. James McGuire of Lakeside swindled Robert Redmond a mentally limited man into believing he was his brother in law and induced Redmond to draw back pension totaling 500 dollars. McGuire, a pensioner, lived prosperously while continuing to draw Redmond's quarterly payments for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Paul FE. Williams
Lakeside
Berrien County
Pension Department
James McGuire
Robert Redmond
Warsaw Ind
Redmond
McGuire
Mormon Converts Petition Red Cross for Extra Days
Sunday last in Nashville converts urged the Red Cross Vigilance Society to grant five additional days to leave Tennessee. After a forest conclave the masked Knights extended the time six days, with midnight Tuesday set as the departure deadline. Converts showed patrol tickets as they passed East Nashville, signaling the extension. Authorities in Tennessee appear to have addressed the Mormon accommodation in the three counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Red Cross Vigilance Society
Lewis, Hickman
Maury Counties
Masked Knights
Red Cross
East Nashville
Tennessee
Vegetation Parched and Cattle Suffering for Water
Lyoncuburan Virginia October 4 The weather is oppressive with temperatures around ninety. Drought in Piedmont scorches vegetation and dries ground delaying fall seeding and destroying hay. Grazers drive stock to Tennessee for water as forests burn and the tobacco year closes with sales near twenty one million pounds, three million less than last year. The coming crop is expected larger but drought confines growth.
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Lyoncuburan
Piedmont
Virginia
Tennessee
Drouth
Fire destroys twelve Brappock homes. one killed in collapse
A blaze in Brappock Virginia at three AM destroyed twelve frame dwellings, three used as saloons and boarding houses, most housing Edgar Thomson Steel Works workers. Loss estimated at 550000, insured. Tim Conner, 40, aiding removal of debris, was fatally injured by a falling wall and an iron hook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Hickman
Monroe County
Winterer
Gipman
The
Hudson
Joan Goodwin
Dieh & Johnson
Cincinnati
Miss Carpenter
Brooklyn
N. Y
Liverpool
Daughlter
Bothnia
Duluth
Minn
St. Louis
W. F. Richards
Clarksburg
W. Va
Telegram
A. C. Osborne
Copenhagen
Christianborg
Binghamton
George Turner
Ernest Gibson
Jamie Livingstone
Turner
Brappock
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Tim Conner
Missionaries and Emigrants for Liberia
The bark Monrovia sailed from New York for Liberia with Rev William Fair an Episcopal missionary his wife and forty seven emigrants. They will settle in Bowerville near Monrovia. The African Colonization Society funds yearly emigrations averaging forty to two hundred people. Founded in 1816 Henry Clay was an early member and its president at his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Weideman
Lyons
N. Y
Frank Chanfrau
Jersey City
N. J
Benjamin Thomas
Indian Council
Charlestown
Wood River Junction
R. L
Albert Bowen
New Haven
George Crosby
New York
Henry Bancroft
Newport
R. C
United States
Canada
Monongahela River
Monrovia
Liberia
Wmn. Fair
Bowerville
African Colonization Society
Henry Clay
Narrow Escape From Caisson Rescue By Superintendent O'Brien
Six men were trapped sixty feet under water when the caisson wall gave way during bridge foundation work over the Susquehanna River. Superintendent John O'Brien and John Burns devised a fix, bailed water, and descended through a makeshift pipe to rescue Patrick Kelly and five others, with only minor injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O'Brien
Havre Dr Grace
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Susquehanna River
Patrick Kelly
Maguire
Shoredel
Dillon
Welsh
Conner
John O’brien
O’brien
John Burns
Burns
Peabody Fund Trustees Report and Funded Distributions
The Peabody Education Fund trustees met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with leaders including Winthrop Fish Grant Waite Bayes Manning Curry and Greene. Curry’s report shows annual income distributions totaling 57995 across states from Texas to Tennessee. Hampton Virginia plans a new work course for teacher preparation with one year of practical teaching for each student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Peabody Education Fund
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Robert C. Winthrop
Hamilton Fish
U. 8. Grant
William M. Evarts
M. R. Waite
R. Bayes
Thomas C. Manning
J. L. M. Curry
L.L. D
Board of Trustees
Samuel C. Greene
Winthrop
Curry
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Total
Hampton Normal School and Agricultural Institute
Global figures shape world stats across cities and crops
A compendium of urban areas and economies cites Philadelphia and London sizes, Paris census totals, youth associations assets, world sea and land areas, crop yields, Florida orange production, and historical railroad growth. It notes Nevada capital from foreign investment, tobacco output, and massive cigar manufacturing activity with millions of pounds produced and billions in dividends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
London
Paris
N. Y. Sun
Florida
Hicago Herald
Eureka Leader
Nevada
England
United States
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
N. Y
Will of John W. Garrett Filed In Baltimore County
The will dated August 8, 1884, from Deer Park Ind. bequeaths about 20 million dollars to his three children Robert Thomas Harrison and Mary Elizabeth Garrett. The estate includes Baltimore and Ohio Railroad securities and is divided equally. Trustees must invest or select 100 thousand dollars in securities to yield 6 thousand dollars yearly for Baltimore’s poor. Fifty thousand dollars of net income goes to benevolence and education. Thirty thousand shares of B and O common stock are to be used with city and Johns Hopkins University interests.
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John H. Flynn
Western & Atlantic Road
American Association of Master Mechanics
Atlanta
Funeral Directors’ Association
Chicago
States of the Union
Canada
Cuba
Mexico
Harrison
Benjamin
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Dinwiddie County
Virginia
Michael Shay
Clark Street
Shay
Indianapolis
Ind
Albert Mullman
Newcomb-Buchanan Company
Lotisville
Cleveland
Garfield
Ohio
Exchange National Bank of Cincinnati
Cincinnati National Bank
M. Kirki
United States
San Francisco
Ist
City of Pekin
Lancaster County
National Committee
The
Irish American Republican League
Cincinnati
A. I. Morrison
John §. Geghan
Raleigh
Hawley
Connecticut
Salt Lake
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver
Robert McFarland
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Knoxville
Edward Mair
Fredericksburg
Texas
John Beck
George Gendes
Knapp
Wah Lee Lee Yaw
Sandusky
Thomas Sturgis
National
Cattle Breeders’ Convention
Baltimore
John W. Garrett
Orphan's Court
Baltimore County
Deer Park
Robert
Thomas Harrison
Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Hopkins University
Immigrant Chinamen Cite Naturalization as Shield in New York
Twenty or so Chinese arrivals from Havana claim they are naturalized Spaniards, not Chinese, arguing U S law targets only Chinamen. They report residence on Mott Street in New York and charge prejudice against Chinese in America, citing naturalization papers bought in Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ilavana
Custom House
Havana
West
Woo Kees
Mott Street
Mercer Plow A Family Heirloom Through Generations
W H Mercer of Webster County Georgia preserves a plow used annually in crops that has remained in his family for over one hundred fifty years. The tool was forged in England by his great grandfather and brought to America with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Mercer
Webster County
Georgia
England
Prompt payers praised by Interior amid fire scare
The Interior extols men who pay promptly for confidence given, calling them more reliable than those acting from selfish motives. In another note, a fire at Mission St. Jose, California, was extinguished with claret wine due to a water shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission St. Jose
Cal
Jobwork and Advertising Services Offered by Hero Office
The Hero office announces a full outfit of modern job material and readiness to perform all kinds of job work on the shortest possible notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Steubenville Street
Wit and Wisdom From Humorous Verse And Tales
A collage of comic snippets from letters and columns, with jokes about wallets and bellies, a farmer and Miss Gusherton exchange, a child wishing to be twins after pudding, and humorous vignettes about trains, a bold orator, and a Paris blind man remark on birth and accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Clara
Tom Brown
Delia
Veston Globe
Pont Des Arts
Paris
Popular Brand Man Buys Large Fodder Stock
A man with business vigor arrives at a farm gate to purchase a large amount of top quality fodder. The farmer confirms it is bright, well cured, and undamaged, and the buyer plans to send for it tomorrow. A bystander reveals he is the manufacturer of a popular tobacco brand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poe
Arkensaw Ura, Gilers
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge
Guernsey
Aes
J. C. Steele
Ucambridge
Hutchison Block
W. A. Carpenter
Cambridgee
Davis Block
Sam’l C. Ludcock, Attorney-at
Cosgrave
Main Street
Miorney-at
Washington
Guernsey County
Febitt
Physicians and Surgeons
C. A. Moore
Cambridge, Ohio
Postoffice
Ije2s
L. C. Wells, M. D
Taylor Block
Blair,m.d
Herald Fice
J.C. Warne, M. D
Wall's Drug Store
Wi. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Hosital
Medical Dispensary
Washington, D
Hutchinson Block
J. R. Downar
Eagle Hotel
Cumberland Tannery
Gero. E. McEndree
Cumberland
Hotels
Eklagle Hotel
B.S. Hering
Marlo-Tf
Antrim
William Smith
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell, Ohio
John W. Robinson
Biire
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Mar
Zanesville, Ohio
Farmers Hotel
Mill Street
Y & Ben’s
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Cor. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Mark-Tf
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
Globe House
Cumberland, Ohio
James Canady, Prop
S. S. Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Lambert Thoomas
Harper Jefferies, Lambert Thomas & Co
North Water St
Wharvea
Adelphia
Bk Mor EE
West Main St
Belis
William Ogier
Public Square
Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Ogier’s Drug Store
Hy. Veitch
Tron & Co
Augusta
Maine
E. McCollume
U.S
America
Timmense
Hallett Book Co
Portland
T. C. Stanley
Otto
Ogier
BUTE
H. Hallberr
N. Y. Ry. Co
m.Ja. m
P. m
A.m. Il
Blue Bell C.& M
Point Pleasant
Hartford
Senccaville, Morgan
F. M. Atkinson
Men Iger
Pichon Slous
New Comerstown
Cincinnati Express
Columbus
Express Mail Express
Limited
Eastern Express
Dennison
New Comnerstown
Pullman Palace
Central Standard Time
W. Ti
Kier
James McOrea
Manawer
WORD
Puss. Agt
News OF the
John F. Slater
Charles Boswell
West Hartford
Conn
Greenpoint
Sarah Carpenter
National Convention of Drummers of the
Louisville
James Mulhatten
Kentucky
Z.T. Collier
Northeastern Railroad
Meridan
Miss
Hulskampf
Morosini
East Haven
C. F Mitchell
Kairos
Antwerp
Seymour, Sabin & Co
Washington County
Minnesota
Danville
Texan
Alliance
Donald
William Hall
Cameron
Gotlieb Broze
Stillwater
Broze
George Hamilton
Morrow
Blaine
Delaware & Chesapeake
Clayton
Del
Leon Fitzgerald
Cardovia
Eliza Hall
Warwick
Edward Slaughter
Charles B. Henry
William Helms
F. H. Kissingbury
Joel Bender
Mr. Helm
Sullivan
St. John
Fopeicn
the Peabody Fund
WIT and Wisdom
Lurlington Free Press
Bridget
Arper’s Bazar
Job Shuttle
Cagerly
Shuttle
Hartford Post
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