News of the Week from Washington and beyond
A broad digest of late 19th century events from Washington and elsewhere. Huntley sues Bradley & Barstow over Star route contracts with $100,000 in play. Jameson leads Garfield Hospital Fair transport efforts. Treasury calls for redeeming bonds. War legal questions. Patent Office figures. freight and postal changes. fires, deaths, and notable incidents across the U.S. and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranves C. Huntley
Washington
Bradley & Barstow
Northwest
Huntley
Barstow
John Jameson
Railway Mail Service
Garfield Hospital Fair Transportation Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
The
Treasury
Treasury Department
San Francisco
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Secretary of War
Judge Advocate General
Marble
Patent Office
Secretary of the Interior
Postoffice Department
Arabi Defends self over Alexandria massacres claim
Cairo dispatch reports Arabi outlines his defense denying knowledge or responsibility for massacres in Egypt during the war. He accuses the British fleet of improper bombardment of Alexandria and asserts British responsibility, while detailing his loyalty to the Sultan and Khedive. He argues mob violence was sparked by a Maltese stabbing and cites efforts to maintain order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Arabi
Alexandria
Tantah
Seymour
Various 19th Century American Church and Trade Events
Reports from Philadelphia Harrisburg and Pittsburgh describe a string of events on the 18th and 19th including fires in Trenton and a New York post office sale. Synods in Pennsylvania Ohio Maryland and other states convened with officers elected. The Carriage Builders Association reported 537 members and urged Congress to protect timber. The Second Maine Regiment placed a Gettysburg monument. The Universalist General Convention preached by Rev. E L Rixford. Frank Queen of the New York Clipper died in Philadelphia. The Presbyterian Synod met with 450 ministers and elders present. The New York Post noted stock speculators turning bullish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood
Trenton
New Jersey
East Sampson
Lancaster County
New York City
H. H. Camman
Tuk Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania
Ohio
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Indiana
Minois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh
M. Lay
Columbus
C. H. L. Schutte
C. Huebner
Carriage Builders’ National Association
Philadelphia
J. W. Britts
Second Maine
Gettysburg
The
Universalist Church of the United States
E. L. Rixford
Detroit
Washburn
Maine
Z. L. White
Miner
Massachusetts
Frank,queen
New York Clipper
Presbyterian Synod of
Pennsylvania
Market Square
Harrisburg
H. G. Butler
Clearfield
New York Post
Carriage Builders’ Association
Congress
R. O. Starrs & Co
Dedham
Mass
Heine Hellicker
Erie
Vermont
Presbyterian Synod of New York
Utica
National Convention of the Sons of Veterans
New York
T. H. Towley
Charles Durfee
Decatur
Ill
Will R. Byers
Charles Dowling
Albany
N. Y
Henry Wills
Brooklyn
Thoesen & Uhl
Third Avenue
Matthew Conner
Patrick O'Connell
Auburn
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Provisional Council Named for New Grand Division
A Provisional Council has been chosen to act until the Executive Council is organized for the new Grand Division. Members include M. Loth, Moses Krohn, M. H. Marks, Henry Stix, Joseph Abraham, Joseph Trounstine, Alex Strauss, Max Isaacs and Henry Loewenstein. Sixty frame buildings were destroyed by fire in Durango Colorado on the 20th, starting in a Chinese laundry. Rev. Robert Paine, Senior Bishop of the M. E. Church South, died at Aberdeen Mississippi on the 20th. Eleven starch factories in the West signed terms of consolidation at Cincinnati on the 20th to form the National Starch Company, leaving three in Indiana to decide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Loth
Moses Krohn
M. H. Marks
Henry Stix
Joseph Abraham
Joseph Trounstine
Alex Strauss
Max Isaacs
Henry Loewenstein
Durango
Colorado
Robert Paine
M. E. Church
South
Aberdeen
Miss
Eicur
West
Cincinnati
National Starch Company
Madison
Franklin and Elkhardt
Indiana
Widespread 19 Hurt in Massachusetts Rail Accident
A caboose with workmen on the State Route Railroad near North Adams Massachusetts was struck by an engine on the morning of the 21st. Nineteen men were badly scalded and crushed. eight died. The report lists numerous other incidents from the same date including lawsuits, fires, and political notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Route Railroad
North Adams
Massachusetts
Charles A. Straut
Bowdoin College
Hammond & Mason
Corry
Tragic duel on Gay Street ends in triple death
In Knoxville at the Mechanics Bank area General Joseph Mabry Major Thomas O Connor and Joseph Mabry Jr were killed in a swift shooting affray. O Connor and Mabry clashed over a long feud regarding property transfer. The encounter began yesterday and escalated this morning as Mabry fired first at O Connor who shot Mabry and then both Mabrys fell. A bystander and two others were wounded as Gay Street evacuated in fear. O Connor and Mabry had just been acquitted in prior killings of Moses Lusby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Parsons
Kansas
Soldier's Home
Dayton
Ohio
Salt Lake City
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
of the Saints
England
Scotland
United States
Portland
Oregon
Dealy
Frost
Minnesota City
Minn
Winona
South Carolina
Thomas Goff
Louisville
Pensacola
Northern Pacific
Missouri River
Bismarck
D. T
Lucas
Bercuer
Ohio Bar
Sandusky
Iowa Baptist State Convention
Davenport
J. B. Thomas
Knoxville
Tenn
Thomas O'Connor
James A. Mabry
Mabry
O'Connor
Fair Grounds
O’connor
Gay Street
Tennessee
Jacon Link
Cincinnati
Joan D. Defrees
Hayes
Berkeley Springs
West Virginia
Hintz
Appleton
Wisconsin
National Liquor Dealers’ Association
Milwaukee
Prohibition Party
Joseph A. Mabry
Joseph A. Mabry, Jr
Mab
Young Mabry
General Mabry
Joe
Moses Lusby
Don Lusby
Will Mabry
Sydney Smith
Boston Post
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road
Chicago Herald
Texas Siftings
Kate
Turfa
Yale
Johnny
Austin
Darkey
Texas
Binghamton
Asia
Patent Office Report Seeks Fixed Patent Terms Abroad
Commissioner Marble presents the annual Patent Office report noting 30 052 applications in the last fiscal year with 17 713 patents granted and 1 709 trademarks registered. He urges a twelve year patent term when foreign prior art exists and calls for clear laws to remove doubt in label and trade mark registrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marble
Patent Office
Secretary of the Interior
Supreme Court of the District
Commissioner of Patents
Romatic nuptials at deathbed seal Judge Bowie's last wish
At Judge William Bowie's Montgomery County home the dying judge, ill with typho malarial fever, arranged for his daughter Ella to wed Dr. N S White. Ella wore a wedding dress beside the bedside as the clergyman joined the couple in a bedside ceremony before the judge died, granting his final wish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
William Bowie
Montgomery County
N.S. White
Ella
Dr. White
Public Lands Report Notes Large Land Disposals and Repeal Prospects
The General Land Office reports disposals of public and Indian lands totaling 14.31 million acres with $8.39 million in receipts, up from last year. It urges repeal of the Pre-emption law to improve economy and curb fraud, notes unsurveyed lands near 984 million acres, and discusses railroad grant forfeitures and urgency of new penalties for unlawful land entries. Commissioner MacFarland requests $455,940 for next year, up slightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Land Office
MicFarland
Territory of
Alaska
Congress
United States
MacFarland
Slayback Death in Post Dispatch Shooting at Marble Hall
In St Louis on October 13 Colonel A W Slayback a leading lawyer was shot fatally by John Cockerill managing editor of the Post Dispatch during a confrontation in the paper building. Slayback entered the editor room with a pistol and was shot as he approached, dying soon after. Cockerill surrendered at midnight claiming self defense. witnesses describe a heated political quarrel earlier that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
A. W. Slayback
John Cockerill
The
Post-Dispatch
Henry W. Moore
Colonel Cockerill
John M. McGuffin
Victor T. Cole
Colonel Slayback
W. H. Clapton
Mr. Moore
Slayback
Cockerill
Moore
Slay Back
McCarty
McGuffin
Coronel Slayback
Fourth
Market
Tha
Vast array of global economic tidbits and agricultural notes
A digest of varied statistics and curiosities notes Vermont banks and depositors, New York fair receipts, California rail rates, Guatemalan president salary and debt, Pennsylvania steel output, a Delaware County hen farmer, rising U.S. glass demand, extensive New Jersey orchards, Dead Letter Office activity, Nebraska oddities, Missouri wheat prospects, and the Duke of Athole’s tree planting legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrios
Guatemala
N. Y. Sun
Pennsylvania Steel Association
Philadelphia
Delaware County
Philadelphia Press
United States
France
Bohemia
John Rapp
Glassboro
N. J
Detroit Free Press
Nebraska
St. Louis Republican
Missouri
Candid Austin Suitor Says He Needs Money for Marriage
A vivid matrimonial item reports Nicodemus Murphy, a bold young man in Austin, announcing to a rich citizen that he wishes to marry his daughter. He claims he cannot live without her due to heavy personal expenses and asks for financial support. The exchange highlights social expectations and early courtship gambits in local life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Nicodemus Murphy
Zeras Siftings
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey County
Ohio, Br
I. A. Tannehill
Shaffner Building
Marris
M. R. Patterson
Cambridge
J. C. Steele
Hutchison Block
Marlétf
L. C. Wells, M. D
Taylor Block
Main Street
Lambert Thomas. E. Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
North Water St
N. Wharves
Mill Street
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Newnom & Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
B. Allen
Jewelry
Ferbrache
PINE
H. L. Williams
Main St
Carines, S
Pine Street
Main
Mark
Dr. A. Moore & Co
Weaver
Green
Eagle Hotel
W. B. Hays
N. L
South 7Th Street
Hotels
B.S. Hering
Antrim
J. M. Albaugh
WM. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Farmers’ Hotel
Wn. Rainey & Son
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher
Col. Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith
Prop
Globe House
Cumberland, Ohio
James
Shoe ‘Store
Is Now Offering
Ladies and Gentlemen's
A. L. Moore
Court House
Hwan Romans
Ann Arbor
Mich
DR. Moore
Pine and
Steubenville Streets
Allegheny Mountains
Eastern Ohio Railroad
Eas East
Cumberland
T. Pleasant
Senecaville
Aneiy E Cumberland
News OF the
Bay City
A. B. Cornell
Leavenworth
Grand Lodge of Ohio Masons
Cleveland
Charles C. Kiefer
Urbana
Joseph M. Goodspeed
Athens
C. M. Godfrey
Ottawa
W. J. Akers
Charles Brown
John D. Caldwell
Monmountaa
Illinois
Monmouth College
Ross
Chicago
Mitchell
United States Senate
Suza Binkowski
Ridgely Powell
Simon Ozguinn
Joseph King
Robert Donaldson
Elia Moore
Bab’tman
Georgia
James Harvard
Isaac Shipman
Eastern
East Chicago
Lake Michigan
Forsythe
Maccabees
Foreign Intelligence
Trieste
Overbank
Barkyy Sullivan
Berlin
Carro
Broadley
Eve
Napier
Arabi Pasha
Joan Hipsarp
Goodrich
Ontario
Canada
Huan O’donnel
M. P
Dublin
Austria
Hungary
Hamilton
Baker Pasha
National Party
William
Parnell
House of Commons
E. Dwyer Gray
Custom House
Lamparas
Mexico
Monterey
Milneos
Zoar
American Homestead Aid Society of
Memphis
B. F. Hancock
W. 8. Hancock
Townsend
California
Joan D. Dervers
Crownhill
Indianapolis
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Enterprise Flouring Mills
Compress and Storage Company
Faubourg Saint Antoine
Paris
Sonora
Leicester
Arrell
Lima
Niner
Khediye
Pension Report
W. W. Dudley
Commissioner of Pensions
CMS Y Paa
Commissionere
Patent Office Report
the Public Lands
WIT and Wisdom
Herat
New York State
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Land
Duke of
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