Anti coercion meeting in London stirs Irish tension
The London gathering drew a massive crowd and ovations for Gladstone as Irish freedom advocates led by Lord Mayor Sullivan and William Redmond spoke against coercion. Michael Davitt warned of continued resistance if the Crimes Act passes, while London workers voiced solidarity with Irish tenants and condemned royal measures. Authorities reported Irish agrarian crime figures and other global notes including a Dieppe disaster and Lincoln body transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Gladstone
Piccadilly
Sullivan
Dublin
Messra Conybeare
William Redmond
Ireland
Michael Davitt
Irish Sea
England
Victoria
Dieppe
France
Queenstown
United States
War Office
Kilmarnock
Chamberlain
Parnell
Davitt
Naval reserve plan and notable society notes
Secretary Whitney faces a proposal to organize a naval reserve force. Mrs. John Herbert of Joliet has lain near death for three months, rarely speaking, and receiving fluids by mouth. Alfred Lee, Bishop of Delaware, died in Wilmington at eighty. born in Cambridge and Harvard graduate, he aided Union regiments in war and published theological works. Treasurer Jordan to return from Europe in May with possible successor. Blaine’s strength rising. Rabbi Geratman, a St. Louis lieutenant in Florida war, received $8000 pension arrears. James F. Gleason of Chicago arrested in Springfield for drunkenness and jostling women, resisted officers attempting transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney
John Herbert
Joliet
Alfred Lee
Delaware
Wilmington
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
New London
Jordan
Europe
Blaine
Fort Gibson
Geratman
St. Louis
Florida
James F. Gleason
Chicago
Springfield
Illinois House passes bill to ban poolselling and bookmaking
In Illinois the House approved a measure prohibiting poolselling and bookmaking. Jersey City polling saw the election board of the Eighth Precinct arrested for attempting to stuff the ballot. Four men posted bonds of 2400 dollars each. A Pennsylvania Senate joint resolution backed a woman suffrage constitutional amendment. Michigan's Lansing special reported a Republican caucus forming a committee to draft liquor license fees with set amounts by locality and no signups for brewers. drug stores paying same as saloons discussed. Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois House
Jersey City
Eighth
Pennsylvania Senate
Lansing
Mich
Wisconsin
Interior Dept Rejects Texas Cattle Trail Petition
The Interior Department in Washington ruled no law enables appropriation of Chickasaw Territory land for a Texas cattle trail. Large Irish American sympathy meetings protested coercion in Parliament, with addresses by Springer Crain Snively Rosecrans Broderick Sheridan and others. Sympathetic letters from lawmakers were read as resolutions condemned coercion. Similar gatherings occurred in New York Baltimore and other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interior Department
Washington
Texas
Chickasaw
Ireland
United States
Washington City
Springer
Masonic Temple
Congressman Springer
Crain
Snively
Indiana
Rosecrans
Broderick
Virginia
George A. Sheridan
van Wyck
John Sherman
Sibin
Fi Cox
Gov
McGill
Braul
Wilson
McDonald
Gen. Platt
K. Davis
Konte Nelson
New York
Baltimore
Pickett
Rail robbery evidence links Pittsburgh line tools to lootings
A St Louis paper traces the Pennsylvania Railroad robbery to a government bonded car broken open with a steel chisel. The tool bears the initials P L and the Pittsburgh St Louis and Chicago Mailroad. Goods were consigned to 8 C. Davis & Co. and Simmons Hardware Co. Guns matched serials, indicating deliberate, well timed thefts and shadowing by the gang. A string of fires and disasters across towns follow, including fatalities, large property losses, and a cyclone near Wheeling with heavy damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Louis
St Ll
Pittsburgh
Chicago
8 C. Davis & Co
Simmons Hardware Company
J. P. Taylor
Owen
Erie
Elmira
N. Y
Janesville
Minn
Farnham
Greenville
Ala
Lebanon
Raymond Shay
Camden
N. J
James Baird
Trempealeau
Wisconsin
Williams Hotel
Montesano Springs
Missouri
Onancook
Ainsworth
Iowa
Newfoundland
Charles Baumbach Company
Milwaukee
Amsterdam
Wheeling
W. Va
St Clairsville
Ohio
Financial and industrial notes from the era
Minneapolis flour trade dreads downturn as Goodrich and Wagner assign for $170000 with unknown liabilities. Clapp and Davies jewelry firm, Chicago, shut by Sheriff. assets about half liabilities estimated at $101000. Knights of Labor plan iron and steel workers assembly in Pittsburgh seeking Powderly charter. Coffee markets rise. U S weekly failures at 146, Canada 20, total 175 versus prior weeks. Senator Allison warns of large upcoming surplus if Congress adjourns before December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Goodrich & Wagner
Milwaukee
Knights of Labor
Pittsburgh
Powderly
Clapp & Davies
Washington Street
Chicago
United States
Canada
Allison
Committee On Appropriations
Finance Committee
Congress
Treasury
Crimes and criminals in Sipley and New York
A mob of twenty five seized the Sipley jail and killed Williamson, a Union County venue case. In New York a brownstone flat housed four men forging currency and packing substitutes with bricks and envelopes. Also noted: Sarah E Howe, Boston banker, fled with deposits and Union City details of John Thoms’s brutal assault on a colored girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sipley
Miss
Williamson
Union County
New York
Sarah E. Howe
Boston
Union City
Toon
John Thoms
Spectacular court room lynching and multiple executions across states
Densely crowded courtroom ends with a lynching as a colored man is hanged by a rope from a beam after a shout. Coroner’s jury cites unknown hands. Reports also recount Joseph Burch killing his wife and himself, Daniel Jowell’s execution, Ben Brown’s Nashville death, and a triple tragedy in Viana Indian Territory where Creek Jim kills Christie and McCoy then fatally shoots himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Burch
Lima
Daniel Jowell
St. Louis
Ben Brown
Frank Arnold
Nashville
Tenn
Viana
Indian Territory
James Christie
John McCoy
Creek Jim
Christie
McCoy
Peoria Delegation Seeks Suspension of Long and Short Haul
A Peoria delegation asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend the long and short haul clause, arguing no grain can be shipped out of the city and whisky cannot reach California. The report covers various other incidents including fires, strikes, and notable legal actions.
Geronimo Band at Fort Pickens Described by New York Tribune
The New York Tribune depicts Geronimo and Mangus with respect, detailing their six foot plus stature, calm demeanor, and forced captivity at Fort Pickens. It notes their band’s orderly work, use of tools, encounters with cameras, and the unusual humane treatment amid tensions with Arizona justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Pickens
Mia
New York Tribune
Atcher
The Man Who Captured Chief Mangus Excerpt
Captain Charles L. Cooper captured Chief Mangus in fall 1886 after a daring chase from Fort Apache Arizona starting October on the mountain summit pursuit over five mountains and fifteen miles. Cooper, born in New York in March 1545, served in the Seventy first New York Regiment and later the United States Army rising to captaincy with the Tenth Cavalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangus
Charles L. Cooper
Cooper
Fort Apache
Arizona
New York
Seventy-first
New York Regiment
One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Birney
Petersburg
John A. Dix
Thurlow Weed
A. A. Low
United States
Regular Army
Thirty-ninth Regiment
United States Infantry
Tenth United States Cavalry
Crop Prospects Report From Ohio Winter Wheat
State reports show winter wheat prospects below last year across Ohio. Central counties expect around 16 percent above average yield, northern counties about 2 percent, and the great wheat belt just over three fourths of an average per acre. Overall, the Board notes a twenty five percent drop in central wheat counties with significant winter kill in the northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfeld
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Columbus
State Board of Agriculture
Strange Story of Grime Kissane Escape from Justice
A sweeping nineteenth century tale follows Billy Kissane a notorious con man whose life spanned Canada Cincinnati Arkansas and New York. He plotted the Martha Washington arson to claim insurance while a witness battled for justice. He betrayed allies fled to Nicaragua was believed shot and later appeared as Col Rogers a California merchant connected to Walker Nicaragua and Sonoma gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy” Kissane
Canada
Cincinnati
Martha Washington
New Orleans
Helena
Ark
Kissane
Hubbard
Ohio
Arkansas
Sidney C. Burton
New York
Cleveland
Rogers
Sonoma Valley
Sing Sing
Nicaragua
Burton
United States
Billy Kissane
Brazil
North Pole
Destiny
Walker
Col
W. K. Rogers
Panama
California
Wolf
Pacific
Sacramento
Comstock
Sonoma
Tions ‘Tevis
Haggin
Reuben Lloyd
San Francisco
Smyth
Nolle
William Kissane
Chemical Bank
Telephonic Detective Probe Sought To Find Garfield Bullet
A New York Sun report recalls Prof Bell’s failed electrical method to locate Garfield’s bullet. A modern test with a telegraphic probe under a metallic mattress supposedly traced lead near the wound, sparking hope the device could have saved the president. A veteran’s chest bullet was also found after twenty years using the same principle. Dr Girdner presented the instrument’s potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Elberon
Graham Bell
Bell
New Yorkk Academy of Medicine
Jel
John H. Girdner
New York Sun
Lincoln's Body at Lincoln Monument Finally Placed
Springfield correspondent reports the Lincoln Guard of Honor moved the remains of Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln to a sealed tomb beneath the monument. The process followed prior security measures after the 1876 theft attempt, with certificates exchanged between the Guard and the Lincoln Monument Association. The transfer included a detailed description of caskets, vault dimensions, and final placement in the north hall vault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Guard of Honor
Lincoln
Lincoln Monument Association
Guard of Honor
O. M. Hatch
George N. Black
Lincoln Dubois
John W. Bun
Trust
Monument Association
Memorial Hall
Irwin
United States
Mrs. Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln
Mullins
Hughes
Chicago
Chanernes Puting
Ohio State News Feeds On Dreadful Acreage Of Local Accidents
A string of Ohio items reports Fred Kindle’s crushing injury at Haffner Bros tannery in Cincinnati with amputation feared and death risk from lockjaw. Other notes cover a Preble County swindle, a Celina murder-suicide, large fortunes from intestate heirs, Exposition plans, church property talks, a kick from a horse in Gin Dale, a new Third National Bank of Piqua, Fannie Merion injury in Lancaster, and various industrial accidents, with rail derailment fatalities, gas wells, and state appointments and business ventures across multiple towns.
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Fred Kindle
Cincinnati
Haffner Bros
Findlay
Dunlap Streets
Kindle
Preble County
Joseph Burch
Celina
Washington Park
Music Hall
Xenia Presbytery
United Presbyterian Church
Xenia College
Byron Butler
Gindale
Piqua
Third National Bank of
Piqna
Fannie Merion
Old City
Lancaster
Gov. Foraker
Harrison Monumen
Leopold Burckhardt
Edward F. Noyes
W. 8. Grosbeck
John Simpkinson
Andrew Hickenlooper
T. A. O'Connor
A. E. Jones
Doylestown
H. E. Loomis
Akron
Pat Madigan
Springfield
Doddridge
Manchester
Blue Creek
Jack Hinkle
Cincinnati Police Force
Ohio River Railway
Pomeroy
Tappan
W. 8. Matthews
Gallia
Col
A. B. Brittain
Lima
St. Johns Road
Ohio
Junction
Mingo
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Bowling Green
Hamilton J. Carr
Freewill Baptist Church
Jackson
Leipsic
Ripley
John Bussard
Clinton Longstaff
Dayton
St. Marys
James D. Langdon
Linwood
Hamilton County
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Defiance Co. Express
Defiances, Ofmto
the News
Gettysburg
Lincoln Board of Honor
Kansas City
Si Pan
Fpinanouial and Industrial
Peoria
Inter State Commission
Salvation Army
Central Railway
Sixty-seventh Street
Kennebunkport
Maine
Rudolph Steedar
Willie
Rochester
Grace
Trinity Episcopal
Broadway
Miss Wolfe
Grace Church
Coshocton
Amanda Murphy
William Dresbach
John W. Mackay
Nevada Bank
Raleigh
North Carolina
St. Joseph
H. C. Busny
Dennison
Detroit
Ishpeming
Manistee
Emeline Baths
Micuam H. Muneny
Hoboken
Coxnpvcron
Baltimore and Ohio
Bellaire
Mount Vernon
Chicago Stove Works
Gronor Baxenor
James K. Polk
Lou Win Poy
Bischencrnvegne
Mena
Toledo
Wurat -Cash
G& BS
Cennach
Assat Adel Co
Tieri
Dbexv CaArrLe
Peeder Pene
Renee Neers
PUREY
Wee
Louis
Athy “ Aly Uabtem S Sivssivacccess Hsepsopewers
Ian Sidaaades
Geronimo's
Pensacola
Geronimo
Angus
Barkis
Willin
Chief Mangus
Illinois
Kissane Rogers
Ohio State News
Maumee
Posteria
Marysville
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