Damages Filed For Great Falls Water Rights
GenERAL B. F. Burer representing Great Falls Manufacturing Co files in Washington with a claim of 1,000,000 dollars for property and water rights to be used by the Government in extending the District water supply. Included items cover immigration shifts and pension statistics across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Burer
Great Falls
Department of Justice
Washington
ApMiral Cruz
Navy
Alva H. Dean
Signal Service Bureau
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Ireland
Germany
England
Wales
Secretary of State
Civil Service Commission
Secretary of the Treasury
Notorious burglars Walsh and Irving kill each other in New York saloon
A violent double tragedy reports Joan Walsh and John Irving dying from revolver shots fired simultaneously in a New York saloon. The incidents also note a street egg assault in Princeton, a fatal home intrusion in Columbus Pennsylvania, and various other 16th and 17th events including a Paris Atlantic cable contract and Washington army centennial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Walsh
John Irving
New York
Irving
Walsh
Princeton
N. J
Winfield
George Smith
Henry Struck
Columbus
Lancaster
J. W. Mackay
James Gordon Bennett
Paris
Atlantic
Washington
Newburg
N. Y
National Convention of Locomotive Engineers
Buffalo
J. Henry SmyrnHe
Philadelphia
New York State
Bartholdi
Minooka
Ernest Astin
Sessions
Albany
Conkling
Mercantile Agency
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
New England States
Nathan I. Wright
Erie
Evening Herald
Edward Hovey
New York Academy of Medicine
Gerald Massey
Liverpool
New Orleans
Galveston
Moline
Memphis
St. Louis
Chicago Cashier Confesses Theft From Instrument Firm
Florence H Peters a Chicago musical instrument firm cashier was arrested after confessing to stealing twelve thousand dollars from the company and losing it at fare. Police notes from St. Louis Grand Jury investigation were stolen and later returned by a messenger to the Circuit Attorney. A sheriff report mentions a Texas mite and road agents.
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Florence H. Peters
Chicago
St. Louis
Sleepwalker’s Fatal Fall in Richmond At Seventeenth Birthday
Elnora Jones, seventeen, died after falling from his father’s third story window in Richmond on the night of the 19th while walking in her sleep. The General Land Office prosecutes land cruisers in the West. thirteen Washington Territory entries canceled amid fraud allegations, with multiple parties and a notary implicated in a single transfer after confirmation.
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Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Richmond
Elnora Jones
General Land Office
Washington Territory
Illustrious Events Across World Fronts and Disasters
Reports from Durban battle mark Cetewayo’s defeat and surrender to British forces. International Fisheries Exhibition awards US exhibitors medals and diplomas. Alaska trespass and cargo capture case follows. Miners in Avr Vignon demand pay rise. Port Hope theft of 10000. Valencia crowds demand Republic. casualties in dispersal. Hamilton, Ontario hangs Maria McCabe for drowning child. Smyrna gulf quake devastates villages with 2000 dead. Wheat in Manitoba frozen, crops uncertain. Bracken and Holmes arrested in Halifax with dynamite, linked to Fenianism. Canton port closure prep by Cuba. Tonquin troops land at Whampoa. Altata afflicted by yellow fever and hurricane wreckage. Battles in Madagascar between Hovas and Sakalavas. Galiber readies offensive. Palermo brigands sentenced to death. Archipelago relief ships sent. 120 bodies at Chesme. Atlatasa destruction. Wharncliffe colliery explosion kills twenty.
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Durban
South Africa
Cetewayo
Natal
London
United States
Alaska
Alaska Commercial Company
Avr Vignon
England
Canadian Express
Port Hope
Ont
Valencia
Spain
Hamilton
Maria McCabe
Chesme
Asia Minor
Vourla
Gulf of Smyrna
Porte
Constantinople
Manitoba
Canada Line
William Bracken
James Holmes
Halifax
N. S
New York
Cuba
Canton
Tonquin
Whampoa
Altata
Mexico
Madagascar
Galiber
Palermo
Italy
Grecian
Anabolia
Atlatasa
Multiple disasters and notable events sweep across states
A boiler explosion in Mount Pleasant Iowa kills two and injures five, the planing mill blown apart and windows shattered. News from Lisbon Dakota reports a rich gold lead stirring crowds. Senator Sharon is acquitted in San Francisco on a secret marriage claim. Porter consecrated NY Bishop with broad clergy participation. Carroll? Orrin A Carpenter linked to Zora Burns murder near Lincoln Illinois. New York customs seize lace smuggled by milliners. A Brooklyn loom explosion kills a watchman Lick. large boiler fragments found afar. Henry Irvine arrives in New York for a US tour. Harvard crews boat platform collapse injures spectators at Boston. Grand Haven shops burn destroying Stearns Manufacturing. A northeast squall damages a fishing fleet off Princeton Massachusetts. White River overflows near Batesville Arkansas inundating 12000 acres threatening destitution for farmers.
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Fort Sill
Fonda
New Orleans
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Edward Bagley
Elmer Blanchard
Charles
Geronemus
Chicago
Vanwarkle
First National Bank of Chicago
Association For the Advancement of Women
House
Wyoming
James B.steedman
Toledo
Chickamauga
Ohio
Weston
W. T
Joplin
Theodore Davis
Flora Noblett
Dave Morton
Vandalia
M11
G.G. Arnold
North Solon
Denver
Col
African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference
United States Supreme Court
Milton
N. C
James Paul
Association of the Army of the Tennessee
Cleveland
Lake Minnetonka
Minn
W. T. Sherman
W. B. Leach
Madison Miller
H. L. Barnum
William S. Burns
H. C
Columbus
Joseph M. Goodspeed
Athens
Samuel Stocker
Williams
Newark
C. M. Godfrey
Ottawa
W. J. Akers
Charles Brown
Cincinnati
John D. Caldwell
Leander Burdick
Edward H. Kirk
Lafayette van Cleve
John Campbell
Union Company
Sulphur Springs
Texas
Estelle
Gratiot County
Mich
Drake & Tucker
Tucker
Margaret Harris
Calhoun
Monroe
Taylor Bryant
Leavenworth
Kansas
D. L. Payne
United States
Mount Pleasant
Lisbon
Dakota
Sharon
San Francisco
Aggie Hill
Henry C. Porter
Episcopal Diocese of
New York
Orrin A. Carpenter
Zora Burns
Lincoln
Ill
Carpenter
Devastating Asia Minor Earthquake Leaves Smyrna in Ruins
Reports from Constantinople describe a powerful earthquake that struck the Island of Chios and the Anatolian coast near Smyrna. An estimated 20,000 people are homeless. Smyrna's losses include a castle hall cathedral railway stations and several villas damaged with many lives lost across Chios and surrounding towns.
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Asia Minor
Its
Constantinople
Smyrna
Chios
Anatolia
Mount Pegasus
Burnabad
Budja
Kastro
Aswan
Malassa
Eskihissar
Sart
Gevia
Sonyena
Porte
Remarkable Gallaher Brothers Arrive in Louisville
Report from the Louisville Courier Journal describes two Gallaher brothers moving to Louisville. The older stands about six feet seven inches and the younger six feet one inch. Their England-based family includes twenty brothers and one sister all living under one roof. The two tall brothers together with their siblings yield an average height of six feet two inches. The family’s parents are described as not larger than ordinary size and still living.
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Louisville
Gallaher
England
Lowisville
Chile
Atlanta Constitution
Aggie
Whitehall
N. Y
Texas
Norristown Herald
Lowell
Victorine
Paris
Folger
Chicago Tribune
Rates for letter postage across distances decades ago
A hundred years ago the lowest letter rate for forty miles or less was eight cents, rising to twenty-five cents for distances over five hundred miles. Such high rates stayed largely unchanged for over fifty years, as noted by Boston Fast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Washington Centennial Parade at Newburg Inspires Multitude
Immense crowds gathered for Newburg New Yorks centennial celebration with a four mile procession of governors generals marines veterans civic societies and visiting troops. The event featured ship salutes from Navy vessels a lantern lit bay and a full program including Bayard Evarts and Bruce poetry and a Te Deum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburg
N. Y
Washington
Ward
Washington’s
Hudson River Road
Massachusetts
Virginia
Cleveland
Albany
West Shore
Arthur
Conkling
Brown
Rhode Island
Hawley
Connecticut
New York
Bayard
Seventh Regiment
Irenaeus Prime
Columbia
Wallace Bruce
God
William M. Evarts
Evarts
Weather Signals for the Country Invented by Pension Office Clerk
Alva H. Doan proposes farmers flag signals shown from mail cars along the national rail network. White signals clear weather blue fair weather red doubtful weather and black stormy or high winds. The system would be ordered from Washington by telegraph and cost is said to be insignificant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alva H. Doan
Pension Office
Signal Service Bureau
United States
Dying Pottsville Mother Oversees Daughter’s Wedding
Mrs. Thomas Cooch of Pottsville Pa. died after severe burns from clothing catching fire. Two hours before death she requested her daughter’s wedding be held at her bedside, and the solemn ceremony was performed as she wished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Cooch
Pottsville
Pittsburgh Post
Russian Literary Names Split Fame and Bugle
A literary jab notes how authors like Joukovsky Lomonossoff Griboyc hoff Dostoiyevsky and Pissemskyskot fill the Russia fame scene, contrasting with the sacred bugle’s status in a Chicago Inter Ocean piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joukovsky
Lomonossoff
Griboychoff
Dostoiyevsky
Pissemskyskot
Russia
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Million daily match output at Utica factory
Utica factory produces about 1,000,000 matches daily. Articles note vast investments in Canadian lumber and New York real estate, with figures on capital, production, and notable properties. The item surveys commerce from Canada to Georgia and highlights large private residences and colonial holdings.
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Utica
N. Y
Rochester
Canada
Georgia
Chicago Herald
Fifth Avenue
New York
Paris
Sun
England
Europe
India
Australia
Cape
Chicago Tribune
New York Herald
The
New York Tribune
Charles Goodnight
Red River
Texas
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Manhattan Island
London
Legion
Ohio
Detroit Post
Wit and Wisdom Parade Across Sects and Streets
A collage of humorous clippings from multiple papers notes quips on reputation shaving anger straw hats librarians and dates from cities like Indianapolis Philadelphia Boston Atlanta Chicago Lowell Paris Norris Town and Whitehall highlighting the era’s social foibles and wry observations.
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey County
Mamaffey & Ogier
Editors and Proprietors
M. R. Patterson
Attorney-at-Law
Cambridge
Shaffner Building
C. Steele
Hutchison Block
Marlett
Marletf
Sam’l C. Ludcock
Cosgrave ‘Building
Main Street
Physicians and Surgeons
C. A. Moore
Cambridge, Ohio
Postoffice
L. C. Wells, M. D
Taylor Block
Mar
EJ. Blair, M.D
Cambridge, Onrio
Davis Block
Herald Dutice
J.C. Warne, M.D
Wall's Drug Store
WH. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Hoartal
National Medical Dispensary
Washinton, D. C
Hutchinson Block
J. RB. Downar
Eagle Hotel
Hotels
Hagle Hotel
Hering
Antrim
William Smith
Exchange Hotel
John W. Robinson
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
Proprieto of
Zanesville, Ohio
WM. Kirk
Thompson
Crow
Farmers Hotel
Mill Street
Wm Rainey & Son
J. W. Leppincott
Beecher House
Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop'r
Globe House
Cumberland
James Canady, Prop’r
Aurlo Rtf
James Stevens
Scott’s
S. Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Lambert Thomas. E. Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
North Water St
N. Wharves
Me. McPeese
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Moss
Manuufacturer of
City
Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Davis
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
True & CO
Augusta
Maine
F. J. Cheney
Adams Street
John R. Downar
Stinson & CO
Portland
Lys
Senecaville
Pleasant
Pt. Pleasant
F. M. Atkinson
DR. Sanford
Duane Street
ALL Drugg
Duane ,J
Dan
Outfit
Coburn & Newman
St. Holman’s
A. J. Holman & Co
J. E. Shepard & x CO
Elma St
Ad, Moore &*Suiru
Watertown
News OF the
Foreign Intelligence
John Loomis
Brooklyn
Lick
Henry Irvine
Harvard College
Charles River
Stearns Manufacturing Company
Grand Haven
Princetown
Mass
White River
Batesville
Ark
Centennial
Revolutionary Army
Newburgh
WN. Y
National Guard
Falkenwood Club
Niagara Falls
Coleridge
Sir Walter ‘Raleigh
United States Senate
Lord Coleridge
Sir Walter Raleigh
Indianapolis Journal
Nat
WIT and Wisdom
Philadelphia Bulletin
N. ¥. Herald
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