Treasury notes and naval bids feature in Newark ledger
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury records a conscience payment of 677 dollars and lists the 142nd bond redemption call for 15 million dollars on 1882 three per cent bonds with detailed serial ranges. Other items note awards to the master of the Fannie EB and Phantom for services to the Oregon, postal route changes, star route bids, a Dolphin payment, pension office appointments, tariff treaty updates, naval ship plans, a caterpillar infestation in Washington, and local political shifts including the New York legislature result and Buckalew’s nomination. A death by suicide is reported near Girard, Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Second District of
New York
State Department
Fannie EB
Graham
Belfast
Phantom
Oregon
Fire Island
N. Y
Yucatan
Vera Cruz
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
John Roach
Roach
Pension Office
Civil Service
Thomas C. Early
Colorado
James A. Watson
William L. Wilson
Arkansas
George E. Woolsey
Ilinois
Florence McCarthy
Chancellor J. Brewer
Abram Myers
United States of
Colombia
Secretary of the Navy
Washington City
Pisvaren
Eagle Pass
Tex
el Coyote
Monterey
General Reyes
Twenty-first
Amos Townsend
Congress
Louisiana
Douglas Smith
Port of
Magone
Cardinal Jacobini
Joan C. Worth
E. C. Worth
Portsmouth
N. H
Asner B. Durand
South Orange
N. J
Jefferson
Prof. Morse
National Academy of Design
New Hampshire convention nominates Sawyer for governor
At the state convention Charles H. Sawyer of Dover was nominated for governor with a platform backing ten hour laws wage exemptions from trusts process abolishing child labor and a referendum for a constitutional prohibition amendment. A mix of other items include labor strikes and political updates across New England and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Charles H. Sawyer
Dover
Adams
Mass
Charles F. Kimball
Ambrose B. Jenks
Paterson
N. J
McNab & Harlins
Knights of Labor
Women’s National Temperance Union
New York
Congress
Jacob Schaefer
George Slosson
Slosson
Newburgh
N. Y
Coney Island Jockey Club
Brooklyn
Lake View
Buffalo
Central Ohio Rail Service Opens Through Route East
The Toledo to Bowerston line now open connecting with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through car service established between Toledo Cambridge Marietta and Bowerston and extending to Akron Youngstown and Pittsburgh. General Managers M D Woodford and James M Hall announce the schedule details and key stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
M.D. Woodford
James M. Hall
Agen
Large fire destroys most of Brooklyn business district
Fires on the 15th leveled nearly all of Brooklyn Iowa's business core. Holmes & Son elevator, post office, Chronicle office, and First National Bank suffered heavy losses, estimated at about 75000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Holmes & Son
Chronicle
First National Bank
Lewis Luther
Charles Mutchler
Lake Erie
Toledo
Presque Isle
Thomas Lowery
Minneapolis
Joseph Morse
Pulaski County
Ark
Henry
American Forestry Congress
Denver
Col
G. W. Miner
Illinois
H. G. Jolly
Quebec
Martin Allen
Kansas
H. G. Parsons
Colorado
R. H. Warder
Ohio
L. Weitz
Congress
District of Columbia
Milton Barnes
Youngstown
United States
United States Pension Office
Louisville
Buell
Marius D. Richardson
Milton
Michigan Air Line
South Lyon
Mich
Neuman
Campbell
Chippewa Lumber and
Leslie Cummins
Jackson County
W. Va
Prank
Cummins
Edward Jenks
Knights of Labor
Frank Young
Oscar Harron
Fred Hundhausen
Southwestern
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
St. Louis
John Wyatt
Demis Loftin
Marshall County
Lth
Loftin
Wyatt
James 8. White
Miwaukee
Milwaukee City
First National Bank of
Chicago
Portland
Cook
Julius Baum & Co
Several European and local incidents reported in brief
The Belfast Albert Bridge collapse on the Lagan river caused four drownings as hundreds crossed. Dispatches indicate Bulgaria and Roumelia avoided foreign intervention and Vienna reports rising cholera in Austria. A Moravian suspension bridge collapse kills seven and injures many. Berlin hosts a large German scientists congress. The British plan tours of American petroleum trade. An assassination attempt on Romanian Prime Minister Bratiano wounds Robesco. the assailant is captured.
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Albert
Lagan River
Belfast
Ireland
Constantinople
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Cox
New York
King
Vienna
Austria
Lic
Agram
Ostrawitg
Ostrau
Moravia
Berlin
Marendis
America
Mr. Bratiano
Bucharest
Bratiano
M. Robesco
Chamber of Deputies
Robesco
M. Bratiano
Tragic Fires and Losses Highlight Late News
Reports detail a Dakota house fire that killed two children while parents were away, a Lehigh Valley freight derailment injuring two brakemen and a conductor who swam ashore, and a series of financial and political developments including a Portland bank defalcation and an Ohio district convention nomination.
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Ler W. Hanver
Highmore
Dakota
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Gap
Horrific Nickel Plate train wreck near Dunkirk leaves many dead
A Niagara Falls excursion train collided with a local freight near Silver Creek on the Nickel Plate line. Eleven coaches telescoped the baggage car in a deep cut, killing nineteen and injuring many. survivors describe a chaotic scene as rescue teams arrived from Buffalo and Erie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrato
N. Y
Silver Creek
Niagara Falls
J. W. Butler
Dunkirk
Lewis Brewer
William Harris
Lake Erie
Ashtabula
Lake Shore
Nickel Plate
Buffalo
Erie
Davie Sharp
Charles McSparren
Stearns’ Manufacturing Company
St. Vincent's Hospita
W. W. Loomis
David Sharp
Willie C. Sharp
Charles Hersch
John Meyers
Rossiter
George Heiller
John W. Seifert
U. S
W. P. Reynolds
Willie Heidel
Henry Gebhardt
Pittsburgh
John F. Gebhardt
Stephen Culbertson
Waterford
J. W. Cedar
Adam Parkhurst
Mayville
Jacob Rostalles
Henry Winyck
Steeritina
Samuel Tracey
Eric
William Zimmerly
Louis Linse
Martin Rostatler
Arch. Campbell
Edwin W. Marble
Charles Diller
J. P. Herrington
Joseph Toffer
Summit
Philo Lonte
Coburn
Itusville
J. H. Sigel
Fire Destroys House. German Woman Found Strangled
In Geneva on September 15, a fire destroyed the home of Mrs. Bueckmire. Her body was found in a nearby chicken house with a cloth around her throat, suggesting murder for robbery. Authorities believe the arson aimed to erase evidence of the crime. Mrs. Bueckmire was known to keep substantial savings at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Terrific storm strikes Michigan towns causing deaths and major damage
A cyclone swept across southwestern Michigan counties including Livingston and Wayne, damaging farms and structures. Four houses wrecked in Howell, Fred Smith killed as a house collapsed. Widespread ruin to barns, windmills, fences, and crops. Brighton Lutheran church damaged. lines down between towns. Separate reports from Tonono and Pirrsprren note further destruction and high damage estimates.
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Demnarr
Michigan
Livingston
Washtenaw
Wayne
Lenawee
Monroe
Howell
Fred Smith
Brighton
Island Lake
Flat Rock
Tonono
New’s
Herald Price
Savoy
Nickel Plate collision toll rises to nineteen in Burrato
The death list for the Nickel Plate wreck grew to nineteen with three more bodies recovered mangled beyond recognition. Engineer Brewer remains missing. A letter to the editor claims the excursion train was to meet the freight at Silver Creek but diverted due to side tracks. Officials say Brewer ordered passing Liver Creeks and disobeyed. Coroner Blood opened the Dunkirk inquest.
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Brewer
Silver Creek
Burrato
Lake Shore
Buffalo
Cleveland
Liver Creeks
Coroner Blood
Dunkirk
Mrs Parsons Husband Oliver Gathens Portrait in Chicago
Oliver Gathens, a Black Waco man, had his photograph taken and sent to Chicago where a friend will publish it. He claims Mrs Lucy Parsons deserted him to become Albert Parsons’s mistress, denying her Indian and Mexican ancestry, and recounts his own past attempts to dissuade her from Parsons. He stayed in Waco, regarded by many as a hardworking, well liked man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Tex
Oliver Gathens
Chicago
Lucy Parsons
Albert R. Parsons
Parsons
Wihin
Gathens
Revolutionists Suffer Heavy Losses Near Camargo
A private telegram reports Commander Vicente Pena and Mauricio Cruz with about fifty five men were attacked fifteen miles south of Camargo by Colonel Nieva Hernandez with 800 troops. Seven revolutionaries were killed or wounded. Pena and Cruz escaped. Adolpho Gonzales died on the field. his brother Juan Gonzales was also killed. The fighting suggests revolutionaries seek refuge in Texas.
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Brownsville
Tex
Santa Maria
Vincente Pena
Revolutionary Army
Mauricio Cruz
Camargo
Nieva Hernandez
Pena
Texas
Adolpho Gonzales
Hernandez
Gonzales
Juan
President plans two day fishing trip in rainy Adirondacks
Saranac InN New York reports heavy rain all day as the President stays indoors with cribbage and papers. Colonel Lamont and wife arrived from Paul Smiths after a seventeen mile ride. If rain stops, the party will fish on Tupper Lake for two days and may return next Tuesday by a special car via Vermont Central and Delaware Hudson routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saranac Inn
N. Y
Colonel Lamont
Paul Smith
Tupper Lake
Vermont Central
Rouse Point
Delaware Ghudson
Albany
Seismic Activity Reports Multiple Shocks in Charleston
Observers note a sequence of seismic disturbances over two days. Shocks at 2:15 am and 9:30 pm on Wednesday, and 11:25 pm, with a stronger tremor at 1:20 pm on Thursday near Ten Mile Hill. City streets masked the later quake but quieter areas felt it clearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Ten Mile Hill
Obstruction at Canton channels sparks treaty dispute
Washington reports Chinese obstruct ships at Canton despite protests from the United States and Britain. Officials debate rights to close ports in peace and warn that such actions undermine treaties and commerce. Secretaries Manning and Bayard face questions over Austria appointment amid broader naval and imperial tensions.
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China
Washington
State Department
Seymour
Canton
England
Department of State
Pekin
Thomas F. Bayard
Consul Seymour
Denby
Frater
John Walsham
H. B. VM
Yamen
Charles Dinsy
Foreign Office
United States
Shalee
Port
Whampoa
Manning
State
Treasury Departments
Bayard
Austria
Fairchild
Jordan
Treasury
United States Treasury
Treasury Department
Alaska
Huge Coke Syndicate Formed By Major Steel Firms
The Connellsville Coke and Iron Company plans a new coal pit fifty coke ovens and extensive works at Leisenring to boost output. Frick Co Union Rolling Mills and Joliet Steel form a large coke company with Frick owning half, shifting all coke trade to them and spurring region activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Frick & Co
ofHittsburgh
The
Rolling Mills
Chicago
Joliet Steel Company
Pitrspuren
Connellsville
Union Rolling Mills
Lino's
Frick & Co
Chestnut Crop Seen As Largest Ever This Autumn
The Albany Argus reports the chestnut harvest this autumn is expected to be the largest on record. The Boston Post meanwhile asks humorously if more funny papers will be started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany Argus
Boston Post
Russian Army Court-Martial Punishes Over Two Percent
More than two per cent of all soldiers in the Russian army were punished by court-martial last year. Among the offenses were five thousand robberies.
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
Mafaffey & Ogier
Mathews
W.S. Heads
Attorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
Sweele
Fred
L. Rosemont
J.M. Bushfield
Ratney Block
Court House
W. A. Carpenter
Attorney-at-Law and Notary Publice
Camberimgy
Davis Block
Sam’l C. Ludcock
Cosgrave
Main Street
Norse
V. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Guernsey County
Taylor
Aplo
Physicians and Surgeons
Wi. T. Ramsey, M. D
House
Providence Fieshe
Washington, D
Hutchinson Block
Main
Ambridge
Coh
J. M. McGill
City Drug Store
Adams Building
Hotels
Joseph Morton
Dels
Beagle Hotel
Herring
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
Brown House
Cambridge, Ohio
G. ©. Kyle
Central Hotel
L. J. Cutter
Main ST
Cumberland. CO
Arcade Hotel
W. A. Gill
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell, Oho
John W. Robinson
Miire Eloush
Gorover Market
WM. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson $. Crow
Tarmers Hotel
Btr
Woestees Eben Oan Geet En
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Gov. Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
S. S. Carnes
Pine Street
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle
Camibridge
Mark Ts
Cumberland Tannery
Geo. E. McEnprexe
Cumberland
Ee. McPweese
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Cgexulme Singer Machine
Ogier
H. H. Veitch
E. Necollum
South End Mill Street
T. C. Stanley
Aply
Charles R. Buckalew
Bloomsburg
Mary Godfrey
Rufus Godfrey
Girard
St. James
Rochester
Greenbackers
J. F. Houston
Lancaster
John Parker
Mahanoy City
D. S. Early
Harrisburg
Seth Hoagland
Mercer County
D. N. Thompson
Venango
T. 8
Rynders
Center County
Chester
William Lewis
Joseph Mullen
Carpenter
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Kilrain Street
Lewis
Hartford
Wise & Melander
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Boston
Canada
Maine
Bodwell
A.m
Blue Belt
Point Pleasant
C. & M. Junction
Senecaville
MorganJeth
Zanesville
Barnesville
Wheeling
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad
E.C. Winstanley
R. R
Oak Harbor
Fremont
Clyde
Bellevue
Monroeville
Norwalk
Wellington, Creston
Orrville
Massillon
Navarre
Canal
Dover New Comerstown
BO Macksburg
Macksburg
New Comerstown
A.m. P
Ja. M.ia
Anal
Bowerston, Leesville
Sherrodsville
New Cumberland
Valley Junction
Ar Wit Vlg
Sccnwss
Sopho Isc Cpa Teki
Wellington
Oak Harbo
Huron
Liv
Fries Landing
Milan
Ip. m. A.m
Gilmore
Neb
Union Pacific
E. M. Jones
Neely
Laredo
Manuel Vela
Valdez
Santo Domingo Ranch
Tampas
Mexico
Missouri Pacific Regiwal Company
George Fix
Big George
James M. Bayley
Merchants’ Police
B. W. Jordan
Fix
Crawford
St. Paul
Minn
St. Mary’s Lake
Canadian
Northwest
Senate
Samuel D. Bates
Marion
Garfield
Ridgeville
Ind
Hillsdale, Mich
William FE. Gavin
Granrce T. Serrer
Board of Public Works of Cincinnati
Board of Publc Affairs
Sth
Joan C. Larnwill
Mansfield, C
A. A. Taylor
Larwill
Tolono
Mrs. Parsons
the Presidential Party
Huge Coke Company
United Presbyterian
Christian
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