Weekly Seater St Johns: M O Andrews Lost With Crew Of Seven
The fishing schooner M. O. Andrews is lost with a crew of seven men. Mobile reports two deaths from yellow fever at Brewton and two new cases. Female nurses are needed. Concord notes the Congregational convention adjourned sine die with next session in Chicago on October 17, 1886. New York mentions heavy fog affecting vessels and the Oregon steamship is expected. Other items include a colored men’s convention in Springfield, a bank statement from New York, and a lynching risk in Arkansas as Wyatt Ames is pursued. The Denver Rio Grande directors accept VP Myer’s resignation and name August Engler. Denver stockholders have until November 8 to subscribe.
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Mobile
Brewton
Concord
Congregational Convention
Union Wark Church
Chicago
New York
Oregon
Uuion
Langtry
Mother
Springfield
Associated Banks
Frank R. Sherwin
Albany
New Orleans
Helena
Ark
Livingstone
Sanders Blount
Wyatt Ames
Ames
Denver & Rio Grande
Myer
August Engler
Denver Securities
Kuhn
Texas Pacific Bonds Advance on Scrip Interest Announcement
New York October 13 The advance in Texas Pacific bonds results from the company announcing payment in scrip interest due July 1 1882 and July 1 1883 on income of the land grant bonds. This ends the suit to force interest payment. Incomes rose from 34 percent to 534 and Rio Grande division firsts from 11 percent to 724.
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New York
Texas Pacific
Hill Adultery Case Against Sharon Is Postponed
In San Francisco on October 13 Miss Hill claimed to be Sharon's wife and charged adultery. With Neilson absent the prosecution sought a one week continuance, Sharon's counsel pressed for October 16. The court granted the delay and the case may proceed as a misdemeanor rather than a felony after it was found the alleged spouse is single.
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San Francisco
Miss Hill
Sharon
Neilson
Lyceum Theater Fire in Chicago Causes Heavy Loss
The Lyceum on Desplaines Street formerly Globe burned at four this morning destroying stage and roof. Building and furniture losses estimated at 12 000 to 25 000 with 18 000 insured. Tenants including six Grenier family members escaped. Harry Perry suffocated in the rush. Grenier owner of a basement saloon also suffered losses.
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Chicago
Lyceum Theater
Desplaines Street
Globe Theater
Thomas Grenier
Harry Perry
Grenier
Mamie Gordon Drowns After School Reprimand
Teulagraphic dispatch from Trenton reports 14 year old Mamie Gordon drowned herself after a school reprimand for circulating improper ballads and the warning that her parents would be informed.
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Trenton
N. J
Mamie Gordon
Burned to Death After Larceny Arrest in Franklin
A Journal special reports Charles Nance colored was jailed in Franklin after larceny arrest. Last night a fire destroyed the building and Nance burned to death. Unclear if the blaze was started by Nance or others. In Boston Edwin G. Walker colored lawyer filed a $10,000 libel suit against the Boston Post Publishing Company for defamation in today’s issue.
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Kansas City, Mo
Booneville
Charles Nance
Franklin
Nance
Boston
Edwin G. Walker
Boston Post Publishing Company
Post Publishing Company
Jealousy Leads to Double Tragedy in Denver
William Harrison of Ninth Street shot his sixteen year old wife and then killed himself this afternoon in Denver. Both died instantly. Jealousy and intemperance were given as the causes, with domestic issues blamed on his mother in law. The couple married in Shawnee Kansas last March and had been in Denver a month.
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Denver
William Harrison
Ninth Street
Shawnee
Kansas
Gas strike by Washington shovelers threatens supply
Thirty three coal shovelers of the Washington gas company struck today over added work without higher pay. The company aims to hire new workers from Philadelphia and Baltimore and warns that failure to recruit within forty eight hours could curtail or cut off gas supply.
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Washington
Washington Gas Company
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Prohibition Amendment Defeated in Ohio statewide vote
The Commercial Gazette reports statewide results with 809,335 total votes and 309,413 on the prohibition amendment, showing it defeated. All counties except Stark contributed figures.
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Cincinnati
the Commercial Gazette
Stark
Strike by St Louis switchmen demands ten hour day
The switch men on railroads centering in St. Louis and east St. Louis begin a general strike at noon. They seek ten hours as a day, Sunday pay, thirty cents an hour for overtime, and sixty five dollars monthly for twenty six workdays. About six hundred are involved, with a likely freight blockade in east St. Louis.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Panic at Elm Street School injures many children
At Elm Street School in Waterbury on October 15 six hundred pupils evacuated in a panic when a fire broke out in the waste paper room near the furnace. Several students suffered injuries including a broken collarbone an eye cut and internal injuries as others were bruised. The flames were quickly controlled.
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Waterbury
Conn
Elm Street
Irish American Meeting in Chicago Seeks US Action for Fair Trial
A 3000 strong gathering of Irish-Americans in Chicago on October 15 passed resolutions urging the US government to secure a fair trial for k?Donnell, the Carey slayer on trial in Britain. They call for instructions to the American legation in London to aid and protect him as a US citizen and ex-soldier. They request relaxation of bar rules to allow US counsel to plead in court alongside British defense lawyers.
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Chicago
Donnell
Carey
United States
Great Britain
England
Ireland
London
Secretary of State
Mexico Secures Ten Million Dollar Loan Negotiated Abroad
Mexico reports a new loan of ten million dollars arranged with American and German financiers. Bonds will be issued at eighty five cents per dollar with nine percent interest. An agent in charge of finalizing the deal sails for New York within days.
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Mexico
New York
Three Men Killed Crossing Tracks in Castaha Ohio
In Sandusky Ohio on October 16 three men named Martin Koch Charles Schwochern and Henry Carsons were killed instantly while attempting to cross the railroad tracks ahead of an Indiana Bloomington and Western train. A boy named Thomas Lanman in the wagon was badly injured.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Martin Koch
Charles Schwochern
Henry Carsons
Castaha
This County
Indiana, Bloomington & Western
Thomas Lanman
Yellow fever fears ease as Herm Ville to tighten graves
Telegrams report a decline in fever at Guaymas. Hermsville will enforce strict sanitary rules around graves to curb future danger. Sanitation aims to prevent yellow fever spread next year as Hermsville returns to normal activity. Only two deaths in the last two days.
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San Francisco
Guaymas
Mex
Hermsville
English Ship Owners Eye War Freight Jump
In San Francisco on October 15, ship owners calculate a possible European war. Captains report wheat charters may be refused at current rates, forcing higher freights if war materializes.
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San Francisco
Pryor Denies Withholding O'Donnell Defense Funds
General Roger A. Pryor lobbies Patrick Ford via cable from New York on October 15 stating he did not advise against further subscriptions for O'Donnell's defense. He warns supporters to beware malicious reports and notes money is needed for distant witnesses and other expenses as the defense aims to postpone the trial to mid November.
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New York
Roger A. Pryor
Patrick Ford
O’donnell
Fast Driving Pace Star Sold for Record Price
Chicago reports pace horse John ston broke mile pacing records with 2:10 last Tuesday. Sold to Commodore N W Nutson of St Paul for 25000. Driver Peter V Johnston claims confidence in faster speeds, citing controversial quarter and half mile splits.
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Chicago
Johnston
Commodore N. W. Nutson
St. Paul
Little Brown Jug
Vonarnim
Fanny Witherspoon
Peter V. Johnston
Riot at Canton San Francisco October 15 1891
A coolie mob attacked foreign residences and firms in Canton on September 11. The Hankow steamer crew faced drowning as a Chinaman fell overboard. Mob violence burned Thomas Rowe Smith & Co. and officials homes, then Hankow, wharf, and French cathedral. 3 Chinese and 1 foreign victim reported. Viceroy dispatched 3000 troops. violence ended when troops arrived.
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San Francisco
Canton
Hankow
Thomas Rowe
Smith & Co
W. Sanders
Imperial Customs Examiner
Howell
Dr. Wales
Custom House
J. Grundy
Hong Kong
Dem five-year-old Hoadly readied for 1880 Cincinnati race
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes George Hoadly, a Democratic candidate mocked for his shifting affiliations and a fractured record. Groomed by Alexander Sands, with jockey Samuel J. Tilden aboard, the piece portrays him as a well funded but controversial entrant in the era's political contest.
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George Hoadly
Bill Allen
George H. Pendleton
Cincinnati
Alexander Sands
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Cincinnati Enquirer
Democratic
Wyoming crop notes from Fort McKinney and Buffalo county
The Omaha Republican reports notes from Mr Shortiff at Fort McKinney Wyoming describing local agriculture. Mr Uasplin in Buffalo county grows 400 cabbage heads weighing 4000 pounds. Potatoes Snowflake Early Rose Peerless Manhattan Early Vermont Triumph average 1.5 pounds per tuber. Four red onions total 3 pounds 4 ounces. Larry Fee of Laramie sends large turnips and will share per acre yield once harvested. J T A
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Shortiff
Fort McKinney
Wyoming
Uasplin
Buffalo County
Peerless
Manhattan
Vermont
Triumph
Larry Fee
Laramie
Reclaiming Land for Pasturage and Wealth
In Arizona and western New Mexico vast capitalists from the east and Pacific coast are investing in cattle ranges. They buy up millions of acres, pipe mountain water to form reservoirs, and create viable pasturage where water access was scarce. C. W. R. notes these monopolies, though large, have useful roles in regional development.
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Arizona
East
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
New Mexico
Courier- Journal
Items From Buffalo Reported In Echo Chronicle
Echo notes 97000 pounds of freight by ox teams arriving Tuesday aimed mainly at Fort McKinney. W H Davis sighted a rare spotted bear near Goose Creek, fired at it but missed. Charles Bilderback builds a log house on North Main, with another by C H Burritt to follow. W J Sturgis yields potatoes from Piney, 150 bushels from half an acre, each potato weighing 2 1/2 pounds. Paint Rock cafton west of Cloud's Peak reports dead buffalo butchered for sport. skins left. English outfits blamed. Question raised on Wyoming game association's activity.
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The
Echo
Fort McKinney
W. H. Davis
Goose Creek Cation
Charles Bilderback
North Main Street
C. HI. Burritt
W. J. Sturgis
Paint Rock Cafton
Cloud’s Peak
Wyoming Game Association
Final proof notice for Orrin P. Hale land claim
Land Office Cheyenne announces Orrin P. Hale has filed for final proof on his preemption claim No. 1180 for parts of sections 80 and 81 in township 32 north range 62 west. Public testimony from Henry Burdick Willis Olney Julius Jerome and John Fitzgerald, all of Rawhide Butte, Wyoming, is required on November 9, 1883 before the Cheyenne register or receiver.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Orrin P. Hale
Township
Range 62
Henry Burdick
Willis G. Olney
Julius N. Jerome
John J. Fitzgerald
Rawhide Butte
Wyoming
EnGar W, Mann
Register
Bear Hunt Returns Big Load of Meat for Local Dealer
A cowboy from Major Babbitt's outfit arrived in town with a large bear meat shipment after a bear and elk round up near Iron Mountain. Three bears and two cubs took shelter in a cave, the cowboy pelted the cave entrance with stones until the bears fled. foreman returned with firearms and the bears were killed. The largest bear weighed about a thousand pounds and the meat was sold to a local dealer.
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Babbit
Iron Mountain
Dudes vs Cowboys in a Western Versus Eastern Contrast
A humorous clash pits the Western cowboy against the Eastern dude. The scene notes locals standing by a stone church on Sunday as a voice ridicules a man with a rusty hat while two youths in extreme fashion observe worshippers and puff smoke at the sanctuary. The piece ends with a call to favors for the cowboy.
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Captain Kidd
Copper King shaft advances as cross cuts reach fifty feet
Work continues vigorously at the Adams Copper King shaft with cross cuts extended to fifty feet and the main shaft down to 103 feet. Ore quality improves as a company forms to push ahead with all planned work. A new disease named meutia has appeared in Indiana cattle, causing dry grass to harden and kill livestock with no known cure. several deaths reported.
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Adams Copper King
Indiana
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