Weekly Legislature Adjourns Amid Wide Reports Of Events
The New Hampshire legislature adjourned after another ballot with no choice. Paterson Silk company failed with assets $22,000 and liabilities $50,000. St Louis schools to abolish corporal punishment after Sept 1. Texas lawmakers indicted for poker paid fines. Local mining dividends declared and bank-held paper noted. Fire destroyed John Gibson & Co. warehouses in Gibsonton. Continental guards arrived in Providence. river levels rise in Omaha Kansas City. Archbishop Wood funeral scheduled in Philadelphia Tuesday. Garfield monument site search in Washington. Harvard beats Columbia in four mile straight-ash eight with 24 minutes 45 seconds.
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New Hampshire
Crescent Silk Manufacturing Company
Paterson
N. J
St. Louis
Texas
Argenta
Alexander Mining Company
Lima Consolidated
Homestake
Wm. T. Cook & Co
Foxboro
Mass
Boston
John Gibson & Co
Gibsonton
Continental Guards
New Orleans
Providence
Portland
Omaha
Kansas City
Thomas Scanlan
Common Pleas Court
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harvard
Columbia
New London
M Harvards
Collegians
Columbias
Wasson court martial reinvestigated and Hill testimony details
The judge advocate general reinvestigates the Wasson court martial with no verdict disclosed, though dismissal is suspected. Hill testifies about the Philadelphia building contract with Dix Island Granite, noting 15 percent in force and that workers were timed on each stone. General Sherman and staff depart for Buffalo then tour northern posts, delaying funeral plans for General Ewing.
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Wasson
Hill
March
Philadelphia
Dix Island Granite Company
General Sherman
Tidball
Buffalo
Justice Waite
Justice Gray
United States
Sherman
Ewing
Fire in Elm flax mill sparks panic at Elm facility
A small blaze at the Elm flax mill in New York on June 20 triggered panic among 500 inmates. One girl fell on the stairs and was trampled, while a man jumped from a window. Both were hospitalized.
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New York
Mob retrieves jailed suspect and finds body near town
Pulaski Tennessee June 20. Wesley Warren, a Black man accused of killing young Price near Veto Alabama, was dragged from jail by a mob last night. His body was found this morning hanging from a tree a half mile from town and he was shot.
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Pulaski
Tenn
Wesley Warren
Young Price
Veto Station
Alabama
Judge Indicted for Perjury in Roberson County
Nashville report says Judge John E. Garner of Springfield was indicted at the June term of Roberson county circuit court for attempting to commit perjury and subornation of witnesses in a lawsuit where he led as counsel.
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Nashville, Tenn
Springfield
John E. Garner
Place
Roberson County Circuit Court
Probable Approaching Insanity of the Queen Revealed
The Truth reports the queen has been in mild melancholy for two months and may deteriorate without relief. Anxiety grows due to family concerns as the queen and Princess Beatrice plan an autumn trip to near Florence, Italy, for two months of residence.
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New York
Beatrice
Florence
Italy
Destructive Fires Hit San Francisco and Fresno
June 20 reports two major fires. In San Francisco the Mortons block on Post street burned at six in the morning, O'Connor and Moffatt dry goods below and the Olympic club above, with a loss of about 150000 mostly insured. In Fresno ten buildings burned from a 2 am blaze totaling about 70000 with insurance status unknown.
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San Francisco
Morton
Runaway Texas Steers Stampede Through Chicago Streets
A report from the stock yards says 500 Texas steers stampeded and charged through Chicago streets from Ashland Avenue to Lake Michigan. Citizens with guns attempt to stop them as injuries and at least one death are feared in the frenzy.
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Chicago
Texas
Ashland Avenue
Lake Michigan
Northern Pacific to Open in August
The Northern Pacific railroad plans a formal opening in early September at Muleen's tunnel western portal near Helena Montana after completing 118 miles of track. The executive committee orders a statement on net earnings due to preferred stockholders for the year ending June 30.
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New York
Northern Pacific Railroad
Muleen
Helena
Mont
New York Budget Adopts Noon Saturday Work Halt
Aldermen vote to require city government mechanics and laborers to quit work at noon on Saturdays from June 15 to September 15 each year until further order. The mayor transmits a request from Virginia Military Institute officers seeking return of a flag captured from the 16th Regiment N Y Volunteers. In a Missouri Pacific stock suit, witness Gen Clinton B Fisk testifies bonds and income bonds were diverted to the Atlantic & Pacific road to secure loans.
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New York
Virginia Military Institute
N. Y
Peter Maria
Commodore Gerrison
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Clinton B. Fisk
Missouri Pacific Road
Atlantic & Pacific Road
Fatal Railside Collision Near Minneapolis
A Chicago express on the Omaha line derailed near Minneapolis when a switch was misplaced. Engineer William Harrington of Minneapolis and baggage master Roberts of Elroy were instantly killed. Brakeman Vanderhart was badly hurt. several passengers suffered minor injuries. Roberts left a wife and three children. The train traveled about forty miles per hour on its first trip over the line.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Omaha
Wm. Harrington
Roberts
Elroy
Vanderhart
Rush for Chicago saloon licenses under new ordinance
Chicago reporters noted a rush to obtain saloon licenses to dodge the new state high license law. The clerk’s office opened to a long line of applicants, with preparations speeding the process. In two days authorities issued 3,000 licenses as about four thousand saloon keepers were eligible. Notaries alleged to have winked at irregularities in furnishing sureties.
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Chicago
Disposing of Crook's Captives
General Ruggles informs General Crook that the interior secretary will not permit receiving prisoners at San Carlos agency. Adults to be treated as prisoners of war and kept separate from peaceful Indians, fed from subsisting Indian prisoners funds until full reports are sent with recommendations for final disposition.
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Whipple Barracks
Arizona
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Interior
San Carlos Agency
Secretary Lincoln pushes settlement of Moses reservation
General Miles reports to the Adjutant General from Vancouver Barracks Washington Territory that chiefs, traveling from Spokane Falls under Captain Baldwin, seek an amicable permanent settlement. He proposes paying the Moses band 150000 dollars to relinquish remaining land and relocate to the Colville reservation to avert further encroachment.
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Washington
Lincoln
Secretary of the Interior
Miles
Vancouver Barracks
Washington Territory
Adjutant General
Moses’ Reservation
Spokane Falls
Baldwin
Black Hills
Colville
Philadelphia abortionist case uncovers infant remains
In a Philadelphia cellar at 2248 North Fifth Street authorities found twenty one skulls or skull fragments and other bones. Dr Isaac Hathaway, earlier linked to criminal malpractice in 1881, remains jailed on an assault charge while a coroner detainer is placed on him.
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Philadelphia
North Fifth Street
Isaac Hathaway
Dr. Hathaway
Prince of Wales cites US fishery aid in Europe
London June 20 The Prince of Wales read a paper by the Duke of Edinburgh at the fisheries conference noting Europe faces reduced fish supplies and praising the American government for annually donating funds to breed sea fish as a model for European powers.
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London
Prince of Wales
Duke of Edinburgh
Europe
Railroads to Change Time Across Ogden Corridor
Ogden Utah June 20 the Denver Rio Grande Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Burlington Missouri River railroads announce a joint time change on July 1. Connections will be made with Central Pacific and through time between San Francisco and the Missouri river will be reduced under the Union Pacific schedule. A second daily eastbound passenger train is likely. Competition in fast time across the continent appears imminent.
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Ogden
Utah
Denver & Rio Grande
Atchison & Topeka
Santa Fe
Burlington & Missouri River
Central Pacific
San Francisco
Missouri River
Union Pacific
Floods East Nebraska Deepens Crop and Railway Damage
Reports from southeastern Nebraska show extensive losses to crops, bridges, livestock, and railroads with no precise estimates yet. Rail lines remain crippled as washouts and high waters persist on the South Platte and surrounding low lands, while a heavy hailstorm strikes northern Nebraska, damaging crops.
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Omaha
Nebraska
South Platte
Norfolk
Omaha & St. Paul
Hastings
Great Rowing Regatta in Chicago Draws Elite Oarsmen
Sixteen top American oarsmen have arrived for the Pullman regatta on Friday and Saturday. World champion Hanlan will race in single and double scull events with Lee as his partner. Hanlan faces strong challengers as others are in prime condition. Lake Calumet course praised and expected to draw a large western attendance aided by railways.
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Chicago
Pullman
United States
Hanlan
Lee
Lake Calumet
French Rascal Trial in Belgium Extradited to France
The case at Marche en Famenne, Belgium, concerns a French adventurer who duped a banker out of 600000 francs by posing as an associate of Victor Hugo and Gambetta. He was extradited to France after Belgian authorities pressed the demand. In court he claimed Gambetta paid him for papers on Bismarck and that funds allegedly embezzled were bribe money to French deputies.
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Brussels
Marche En Famine
Boland
Victor Hugo
Gambetta
France
Bismarck
Chamber of Deputies
Remains Found in Doctor Hathaway House
Bones found yesterday are pronounced fetal remains likely from about a dozen babies. Authorities plan to inspect a Sixth Street building once occupied by the doctor, expecting another charnel house. A Bristol Avenue search yielded small phials, a surgical instrument, and an account book dating 1876 to 1882 with about 200 female names and services.
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Philadelphia
Dr. Hathaway
Sixth Street
Bristol Avenue
Fifth
Hathaway
Butte Coach Robbed Near Boulder Mountains
A Butte coach carrying eight passengers was stopped by road agents near the Boulder mountains at 4 o clock yesterday. The passengers were searched and robbed of all money and valuables. The treasure box was taken and the total contents remain unknown.
Riot in Mexico Report Spurs Calm in State Court
The News Bustamento Mexico special says the Sanchez killing probe that sparked a riot against American railroad workers is moving in the state court rather than before the alcalde. Mexican papers suspend judgment pending trial. Ex-Governor Treving is present.
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Galveston
Bustamento
Mexico
Sanchez
Treving
Tornado Hits Low Gap County. Farm Homes Wiped Out
The Times Chillicothe special reports a tornado swept through the southern part of the county about fifteen miles southwest of here in Low Gap county. It wrecked twenty five to thirty farm houses and caused two deaths with fifteen to twenty injured. Communications were cut by flooding, delaying details.
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Kansas City
the Times
Chillicothe
Low Gap County
Gas well strikes strong flow at 840 feet in Struck
The Central glass works in Struck Gas, Wheeling, reports a natural gas well reached 840 feet after breaking sand and rock and flowed vigorously. A blaze thirty feet high was lit from the mouth of the well. The gas will fuel the gas house, marking the fourth successful local gas strike and promising lower production costs.
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Wheeling
Central Glass Works
Confidence Returns as Two Firms Resume on Board of Trade
Confidence returns on the Chicago board of trade as George, Stewart & Co. and M. G. Nichols & Co. resume operations. George A. Eldridge & Co. began an attachment suit against McGeoch, Everingham & Co. for 60343. The English representative has bought 600000 dollars worth of provisions for shipment in the last three days.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
George, Stewart & Co
Nichols & Co
George A. Eldridge & Co
McGeoch, Everingham & Co
Floods rage through Silesia and Bohemia with rising rivers
Floods in Silesia cause water spouts over Hirschberg submerging houses and flooding the Evangelical church school and post office. Neisse rises alarmingly to its highest mark since 1829 at Breslau. Bohemia and Moravia also report disasters as the Danube nears overflow. Linse quay flooded and rail near Salzbrunn washed away.
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Berlin
Silesia
Hirschberg
Salzbrunn
Breslau
Neisse
Evangelical
Pos
Bohemia
Moravia
Inn
Linse
Hoadly Nominated for Governor by Acclamation at Democratic Convention
At Columbus on June 21 the Democratic state convention endorsed Hoadly for governor after heated ballots and tumultuous scenes. Hoadly won by acclamation with about 850 votes, pledging personal liberty and temperance reform, while John G. Warwick of Stark county was named lieutenant governor by acclamation.
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Columbus
Ward
Hoadly
Geddes
Denver
Butler County
John G. Warwick
Stark County
Fire devastates Utah city causing substantial losses
Salt Lake reports a morning fire causing about 70 000 in insured losses plus 30 000 uninsured. The Mormon temple caught fire twice from sparks but suffered little damage. Glass loss reached 22 000 with 7 000 in Co operative window breaks. A half ton of powder exploded wounding twelve people as crowds fled. The Mormon council house is a total loss.
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Salt Lake
Mormon Iater’ Nacle
Co-operative
Disappearance of $40,000 Tied to Erie Railway Route
Susquehanna officials report a missing forty thousand dollars in transit from New York to Susquehanna. A package from the Marine Bank of New York to the Susquehanna bank was opened and found to contain only blank papers, prompting a commotion among regional railway officials.
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Susquehanna, Pa
Erie Railway
New York
Marine Bank of New York
Susquehanna Bank
Railroad Dividends Declared by Michigan Central and Canada Southern
The Michigan Central directors declare a 3 percent dividend while Canada Southern declares 2 percent. Michigan Central shows a surplus of $63,854 after the dividend and Canada Southern has $13,000 remaining. Lake Shore six month report shows a deficiency of $186,823 after these dividends.
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New York
Michigan Central
Canada Southern
Lake Shore
Doubled Duel Minds Await Outcome Near Richmond
In Richmond on June 22 no word by 1:80 o clock from the dueling party. Delays postpone morning meeting with plans for this afternoon or tomorrow. Parties, seconds, and surgeons left Richmond. their locations unknown. Telegrams report Beirne and Page McCarty with W. W. Archer near Hanover Junction, plus Waverly Ragland of Elam party. Beirne posted bail and returned home to Ashland.
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Richmond
Hanover Junction
Beirne
Page McCarty
W. W. Archer
Elam
Ashland
Teller Averts General Crook Captives On Reservation
Secretary Teller refused to place Crook's captives on a reservation beyond some children and unmarried women. He argued locals and the Indian agent oppose it and the plan would merely release and later renew unrest next spring. His budget could not support 400 to 500 captives.
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Teller
Crook
Washington
Important Decision On Railroad Rate Contests
In Denver June 22 Judge McCrary issued an opinion in the contempt case Denver & New Orleans Railway Co v Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Ry Co. He overruled Judge Hallett on all but one point, stating courts should not block rate reductions driven by competition. He held railways may freely lower fares as they compete, if not remunerative.
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Denver
United States Circuit Court
McCrary
Denver & New Orleans Railway Company
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Hullett
Fragmented OCR sketch with scattered names and figures
A garbled historical clipping lists scattered names, places, numbers, and events. It mentions Toombs, Mabie, Wilkensbarre, and Macon with unclear context and dates, along with monetary figures and references to a mine and law terms.
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Archbishop Wood
the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Washington Notes
California
Northern Pacific
General Ruggles
Reservation
Germany
Maer
Dr. McCost Dency
Prin
Tom Ochilt
America
The
Thing
Captain Weer
Trun Uri
Japan
Ueen
Ing
Verno
Atlanta
Bert Toombs
Toombs
de Ilden
Ilden
Dorsey
Loco
Paches
Maho Djusters
Jackie
Mabie
Wilkensbarre
Macon
Thomas
Tahme
B. Brooks
Daas
Aled
Ilver
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