Fire at Steinberg's elevator sparks $55000 loss
Weekly Leader telegraphic news in brief reports Buffalo fire destroying Steinberg's elevator with losses estimated at 55000. Other items include Freder Lovejoy elected president of Denver Rio Grande directors in New York and a Martinique cyclone hitting Saint Pierre harbor with eighteen vessels wrecked.
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Buffalo
Steinberg
New York
Frederick Lovejoy
Philadelphia
San Francisco
J. C. Galt
Wabash Road
Missouri River
Boston
St. Pierre
Martinique
For Sale Stock Horses Cattle Ranch North Platte Nebraska
For sale two hundred head of American stock horses and thirty head of American stock cattle plus a ranch on the north side of the North Platte river at Camp Clarke Nebraska. For information inquire Courtes A. Moorn Sidney Nebraska.
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North Platte River
Camp Clarke
Nebraska
Courtes A. Moorn
Sidney
Reward for information on missing horses in Cheyenne
A five dollar reward is offered for information leading to the whereabouts of horses owned by D C Trevett of Cheyenne Wyoming. Reward per head will be paid to anyone who supplies the location of the missing stock.
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D. C
Public Land Notice for Anson G. Crane in Wyoming
Anson G. Crane files for final proof on his preemption claim No. 1116 for parts of sections 8 and 10 in township 33, north of range 60 west. Proof will be before the Cheyenne Register Oct 15, 1883. Witnesses: Nelson W. Meredith, William J. Hayes, Mason L. Stagg, Marion Marks of Hat Creek, Wyoming. Epcax W. Mann, Register.
Herald Drops Price Mark to Two Cents Margin
The New York Herald, September 26, omits flourishes and changes the margin price from three cents to two cents. Telegraphic general news note reports the adjustment without editorial comment.
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New York
the Herald
Express Messenger J M Barlow Commits Suicide in Ogden
Ogden Utah September 26 J M Barlow express messenger on the Utah Northern railway killed himself at his residence this evening. A certified membership in the Des Moines lodge of Odd Fellows was endorsed For God's sake forgive my rash act but my life is a failure.
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Ogden
Utah
J. M. Barlow
Utah Northern Railway
Des Moines
Lodge of Odd Fellows
Effects of the Storm Reach Detroit Harbor
The barge Arsenal broke loose from her tow water-logged off Grandstone City yesterday. Crew rescued with surf boats. no life boats. tremendous surf. Cargo safe and barge at anchor according to latest reports. The schooner Way State towed into Alpena leaking. The steam barge Glasgow lost tow at Thunder Bay mouth.
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Detroit
Arsenal
Grandstone City
Way State
Alpena
Glasgow
Thunder Bay
Sitting Bull Delays Catholic Rite as Two Wives Issue
Milwaukee reports the planned reception of Sitting Bull into the Catholic church at Fort Yates has been postponed. The chief struggles to decide which wife to part with, as church rules prohibit multiple wives, leaving his conversion uncertain and possibly sending him back toward heathen practices.
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Milwaukee
Sitting Bull
Fort Yates
Morley
Medill Testifies on Labor Welfare at Senate Hearing
Joseph Medill publisher of the Chicago Tribune testifies before the Senate subcommittee on education and labor. He says he has been in the press since 1848 and blames laborers own improvidence for their plight. He argues saving is key and cites $400 million annual liquor spend and $200 million on cigars tobacco and amusements.
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New York
Joseph Medill
Chicago Tribune
United States Senate
Committee of Education and Labor
West Indian Hurricane Toll Reported by New York Guardian
The Nas sau Guardian reports a hurricane near West Indies caused multiple shipwrecks. The schooner Victor from this port to Jamaica was lost. Charles Weech a Balize lady and three men drowned. the Montiggle wrecked with all aboard. the Carleton from Nassau with mails and fourteen passengers wrecked on a reef near Elenthern. numerous drownings listed including Rev. J. Higgs and family and others. Total lives lost reported reach fifty three so far.
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New York
Nassau Guardian
Victor
Jamaica
Charles Weech
Balize
Carleton
Nassau
Tauqua
Elenthern
Orangemen Seize Dungannon for Anti Home Rule Show
At Dungannon, Ireland, MPs Thomas Power O Connor and Small were blocked from speaking as a mob of three thousand Orange supporters took over the town. They declared they would stay overnight to stop the Parnellites platform, with Orange bands playing and police drafted to quell further unrest.
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Dublin
Dungannon
Thomas Power O'Conner
Small
Unwinndy
O’connor
Lancers
Dungamon
Large land sale between Topeka and Marion county
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company closed a large land sale to Watson and Thropp of Topeka. The deal covers all remaining unsold land between Topeka and the western Marion county line about 160 miles. Price paid is 3.19 dollars per acre. total acreage awaiting final determination.
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Topeka, Kas
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Watson & Thropp
Topeka
Marion County
Market closes higher on pool news and short covering
New York September 27 The stock market closed up about one fourth to two per cent on news of a railroad managers pool west of the Missouri River. Reports also said a powerful combination had formed to protect Northern Pacific Western Union and other leading stocks and to force short sellers to cover.
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New York
Missouri River
Northern Pacific
Western Union
Shorts
Convention Extends Reporting Deadline and Adopts Reform Resolution
The National Convention Insurance Commission in Columbus extends report deadlines to January 20. It adopts a resolution denouncing loans on stocks between insurance firms. Elected officers include President John A. McCall and Vice President Charles H. Moore, with officers Swigert Pillsbury Pringle Morris Abbott as executives. The group adjourns to meet in Chicago next September.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Convention Insurance Commission
John A. McCall
Charles H. Moore
Charles P. Swigert
Oliver Pillsbury
New Hampshire
Eugene Pringle
Michigan
A. B. Morris
Kansas
Ephraim Williams
Connecticut
John C. Abbott
Colorado
Chicago
Englishman in Montreal defrauds banks and merchants
Detective hunt follows the escape of C. J. Dewey from Liverpool who built a Montreal trading scheme. He secured $25,000 then $30,000 on forged bills of lading, defrauding a Boston bank, Bristol NY agents, and a London Ontario merchant of cheese. Total losses exceed $100,000. a large eastern states search and reward are in progress.
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Montreal
C. J. Dewey
Liverpool
England
Malson
Dewey
Boston
New York
Bristol Produce House
London
Ont
Railroads Agree on Common West Coast Rates
West of the Missouri River managers met and approved a pact setting common origin points Portland and San Francisco with unified rates to the east. The Northern Pacific gains north of the California line. others gain California routes. The plan, effective next month, runs to December 31, 1884, with 90 days’ notice. A commission will settle disputes and enforce penalties.
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San Francisco
Missouri River
Portland
Northern Pacific
California
Astoria
Lis
Global dispatches report dangerous Bulgaria situation and other events
From multiple cities reports note Bulgaria facing potential disorder. French Madagascar plans questioned. Algerian insurgent leader Siliman killed at a feast. a lord mayor’s daughter wed Mr Aitken. a fatal accident near Denver leaves Captain Hawkins and Blanche Cort dead and a survivor.
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St. Petersburg
Journal de St. Petersburg
Bulgaria
London
Hong Kong
Canton
Paris
Ferry
Marquis Tzeng
Vienna
Oran
Algeria
Siliman
Madagascar
Cork
Peacock Lane
China
France
Aitken
St. Paul’s
Constantinople
Porte
Turkey
Liverpool
James McDermott
Inland quarantine proposed at Yuma to block yellow fever
San Francisco reports a proposal to set up an inland quarantine at Yuma Arizona to prevent Mexican yellow fever entering the United States with railroad authorities said to cooperate. The fever has broken out at La Paz and people flee heat in search of cooler air. Justice Field of the U S Supreme Court departed for the east.
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San Francisco
Yuma
Arizona
United States
la Paz
Justice Field
United States Supreme Court
Priests Intervene in Shore Fight Sparks Follow-up Match
Ottawa, September 27. Two French men named Lavier and Lachafell arranged a prize fight at St. Marys Cove. A parish priest interrupted, ordering the combatants to cease under excommunication, leading to indignation from spectators. A rematch between Martin and Ammond followed, lasting twenty five minutes. Ammond was arrested. Newsdealers and dealers react to war of rates, with commissions falling and protests spreading, as east and west side shops organize to resist price reductions.
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Ottawa
Lavier
Lachafell
St. Mary’s Cove
Father
Martin
Ammond
New York
East Side
West Side
Clerical Forger Arrested in New York
John B. Carroll, formerly a clerk in the bureau of arrears, was arrested on a forgery charge. He is alleged to have appropriated about $100,000 over the two years ending before March.
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New York
John B. Carroll
Bureau of
Officers Killed in Pursuit Near Childers Station
Fort Smith Arkansas reports that yesterday morning Deputy U S Marshals Addison Beck and Merrill were killed while attempting to arrest whiskey peddlers John Bark and Cherokee John M. Jacks between Childers station and Webster's Falls.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Childers Station
Webster’s Falls
Indian Nation
United States
Addison Beck
Merrill
John Bark
John M. Jacks
Judge Hands Rules Taxes Due From Western Union
Judge Samuel Hand, referee in a tax suit for the state against Western Union, decides for the state for 178,397 dollars for one year. The ruling covers remaining taxes, bringing total recoverable to about 626,000 dollars.
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Albany
New York
Samuel Hand
Western Union Telegraph Company
Huntingdon Firm Fails Letting 400 Workers Lose Pay
The Huntingdon car and car wheel works Blair Bros. failed with a $50,000 judgment by Union Bank and total liabilities estimated at $200,000. Assets are about $100,000 and 400 employees have two months of unpaid wages. Efforts will seek to resume operations.
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Huntingdon
Huntingdon Car and Car Wheel Works
Blair Bros. Proprietors
Union Bank
Masonic Hall
Masonic Temple
Louisville
Kentucky
Henry County
Railroad Robbery Near Peru on Wabash Line
Three masked men robbed the Pacific Express car on the Wabash road near Peru Indiana early today. Express messenger Bert Loomis was bound and gagged while the safe was robbed of about $15,000 and valuables. The robbers fled, Loomis released when the train reached Peru. no clue to suspects.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Pacific Express Company
Wabash Road
Peru
Bert Loomis
Loomis
An Ancient Darkey
Chicago September 48. George Lafl ere a colored man who died in New Orleans today 110 years old claimed to have been prince of a tribe of negroes in Guinea and was a full grown man when brought to this city and sold as a slave in 1803. He served Paul Laflere in the war of 1812 and cared for his sons in the Mexican campaign. Before the rebellion he was freed and given money enough to keep him com fortably.
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Chicago
George Laflere
New Orleans
Guinea
Paul Laflere
Fatal Railroad Accident Near Shakopee on Chaska Hill
Four men were killed when two freights collided and a detached portion rolled back into a second train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis line near Shakopee Minnesota at the foot of Chaska hill. The engineer and fireman died almost instantly as wreckage disabled the engine and cars.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Shakopee
Chaska Hill
Bayard Denies Chicago Herald Interview
Senator Bayard declined to acknowledge the Chicago Herald interview and telegraphed extract. He said he would have shown the correspondence before publication to prove its groundlessness and untruths, and stated he did not approve General Butler’s political actions or support public power being placed in his hands.
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Wilmington
Senator Bayard
Chicago Herald
Herald
Butler
Farker's Ginger Tonic Promises Quick Health Fix
An advertisement touts Farker's Ginger Tonic as a universal medicine that keeps the stomach in order and the kidneys and liver active, claiming to prevent and cure disease and to have cured thousands. The claim appears in a Tribune column.
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Farker
Tribune
Notice for Public Publication of Land Claim Proof
Land Office at Cheyenne Wyoming announces final proof in support of Mason L. Stagg pre-emption filing No 1096 for the southeast quarter of section 25 township 84 north range 61 west. Proof to be made before the Register and Receiver October 15 1883. Witnesses: Marion Marks William J. Hays Nelson W. Merdith Anson G. Crane of Hat Creek Wyoming. Edgar W. Mann Register.
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Chyenne
Wyo
Cheyenne
Anson G. Crane
S. W
N. E
N. W
Nelson W. Merdith
William J. Hayes
Mason L. Stagg
Marion Marks
Hat Creek
Epcax W. Mann
Register
Ccieyenne
North Range
William J. Hays
Wyoming
Edgar W. Mann
Dr Wagner & Co Medical Institute in Denver Ad
An old Denver medical ad offers treatment for chronic diseases in men and women, surgical cures without knife or caustic, and eye and ear specialties. It promises a 500 dollar forfeit if seminal weakness is not cured and notes a free consultation with a 35 cent exam. Address Dr Henry Wagner postoffice box 2389 Denver Colorado. The firm notes prior leadership as Dr Spinney & Co at 343 Larimer Street now DR Wagner & Co.
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Aummer Street
Weaver
R. Wagner
Medical and Surgical Institute
Dr. Spinney & Co
Larimer Street
Denver
Colorado
DR. Wagner & CO
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J. O. Prince
Little Rock
van Buren
Colfax Davidson
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Charles Crocker
Robert Mur‘Tay
Nogales
Hermosillo
Mexico
Roderack
Smithsonian
Berlin
Kelley
Irving Hall
Telegraphic
Medill
Western Railroad Pool
Guttenburg
Professor Nordensjord
Captain Hawkins
Blanche Cort
Bayard
DR. Wagner
Wagner
Calvert, Texas
Ayer
Churchill
Vicksburg
J. W. Whurney
Dr.j.c. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mary
Gray & Pearse
Cheyenee
Parker
Parker’s
Finnly
Paviate
Ganges
Higver
Snister
Tana Ponte
Tivonare
Hiscox & CO
Willan &4
Fue
Guaar
Guying Pollat
Enry College
Express
Regisor Post Office
J. J. Douglas
Oulssy
J. M. Care A. H
Reri Thos.stue
Fort Lara
Phil! O
Chey Creek
Seart Cheyenne
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Imal
Totel
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