Last Tribute for General Sherman in New York
New York paid tributes as crowds gathered on West Seventy first street for General Sherman. The funeral included a Catholic service, a marching procession with a large escort, and extensive drapery and flags along Fifth Avenue. The line of march involved Marine guards, engineers, artillery, and Grand Army of the Republic contingents, with officials and notable figures attending the services.
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New York
Secor
Sherman
West Seventieth Street
General Sherman
Thomas Ewing Sherman
P. T. Sherman
Thackara
Rachel Sherman
Father Sherman
Father Taylor
Seventy-first Street
Jordan
A. T. Webb
Second ‘Battery
Seventy First Street
St. Francis Xavier
Blaine
Damrosch
Bethel Shermen
Elijah
Ye Son
Irienas
Grant
Cameron
Seventy-first
General Grant
General Shermen
Fifty-seventh Street
Broadway
Tifth' Avenue
O. O. Howard
Loomis L. Langdon
United States Marines
United States Engineers
Regular Army
National Guard
Lafayette Post
Grand Army of the Republic
Kiliaen van Renssalaer
United States
Joseph H. Choate
R. B. Bayes
Chauncey M. Depew
Grover Cleveland
Senate
House of Representatives
Jones
Bull
Gallup
Sons of Veterans
David Morrin
First Street
High Avenue
Fifty Seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Waverly Place
Canal Street
Grand Army
St. Louis
T. E. Sherman
P.T. Sherman
Probasco
Colgate Hoyt
Schofield
Aid
Blocum
Proctor
Noble
Rusk
John Bf. Bacon
J. M. Barrett
T. ‘Alexander
M.D
Rusland
Megugday
Last of the great triumvirate passes away
Comrade of Grant Sherman and Sheridan, a veteran of the U S Army, dies leaving a memory of hard marches and campaigns. Mourning orders issued for thirty days by W G Veasty and J H Goulding. Des Moines notes. others report scarlet fever outbreaks in Center Point and Ely. John D Knox & Co assigns to J B McAfee with liabilities around 340000 and assets about 450000.
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York
William Tecums
United States Army
Department of the
Grant
Rhermset
W. G. Veasty
J. H. Goulding
Des Mores
State Board of Health
Center Point
Ely
Cedar Rapids
Dream of the Specials and a Night of Fires and Fixes
A montage of 1887 news items: Mrs Burn killed after being thrown from a wagon in Greenville Illinois. A Knights of Labor convention planned in Washington on July 29. Express robberies near Temple Texas. Ford James murder site sold for exhibition in Chicago. Rumors of Ohio and Mississippi railroad receiver. A child frozen to death near What Cheer Iowa. Missouri Pacific roundhouse and 18 engines burned in Kansas City Kansas, with $175000 loss. Pacific Short Line sale to Garret syndicate at Sioux City. Knife and hatchet attack in Bluffton Alabama with both men doomed. Edward Gallagher found dead in Janesville mine at Wilkes-Barre. Wheat crop and stored grain in Kansas signaling price moves. Possible strikes on Pennsylvania system lines. 86000 workers involved. demands denied. Alabama legislature adjourns. Confederate monument funded. Wisconsin editors elect a president. support for world’s fair. Ballots in Illinois fail to choose a senator. Grand Opera House in Rochester, burned after interior explosion. loss $75000. Windsor Hotel damaged. Dry goods destruction noted in Michigan.
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Bob Ford
Jesse James
St. Joe
Chicago
Cincinnati
John Kennedy
What Cheer
Iowa
Missouri Pacific Round House
Kansas City
Kan
Pacific
Sioux City
Ogden
U. T
Garret
Bluffton
Ala
D. Good
Ford Johnston
Johnston
Good
Wilkesbarre
Edward Gallagher
Janesville
Kansas
WASTED BY WATER In Pittsburgh and Vicinity
Flood damage estimates rise in Pittsburgh and Allegheny to 1.5 to 2 million dollars as rivers fall. Evansville faces rising water endangering farms and stock. Wheeling reports a third of the city flooded and mills closed. other items note a Vail murder trial development and Balmaceda's unrest in Valparaiso, a Wisconsin house fire with two children dead, and a Walkerton fire loss.
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Pittspvren
Signal Service
Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Johnstown
Owensboro
Union Township
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Legislators clash over county seats and tax bills in Indiana
Reports from Indianapolis and Evansville detail debate on moving Lake County seats from Crown Point to Hammond and penalties for gas line coercion. Senate world’s fair plans include 200000 for Indiana exhibit and 26 commissioners. Local unrest follows defeat of county seat bill. protests, cannons, bells, and bonfires accompany the outcome.
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Inpianapolis
Ind
Drews
Hammond
Lake County
Senate
House
House Committee
Eaff
Fay
Indiana
Crows Point
House of Representatives
Crown’ Point
Opal Treasures and Superstitions Spark Jewelry Demand
The New York Journal notes opals fascinate in the East and Europe, with red tints signaling luck or danger. It traces superstition to Hindu beliefs about color changes and links opals’ vivid hues to the wearer's health and blood circulation, while Tiffany and jewelers report rising interest and scarce high quality stones.
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Far East
New York Journal
Walter. Scott
Tiffany
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