British and Austrian News Roundup
Sixty eight charred corpses were recovered from Stry Austria with twenty more dying in escape attempts. Mandalay reports a British expedition to Kadiyen routed by rebels who seized Meegander Police Station and massacred twenty three. Queensland cattle stocks fell by 465000 head. Greek forces held earthworks and captured two guns before retreat ordered. A London mass meeting backed Gladstone's Irish home rule bill. Dr Frisch urges Austrian adoption of Pasteur hydrophobia remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stry
Austria
Mandalay
Meegander
Queensland
Gladstone
St. James Hall
London
Dr. Frisch
M. Pasteur
Notable Deaths and Labor Strike Notes Across Cities
Obituaries report Charles Mitchell and Ella Hart deaths in Troy and Sandusky, Judge Bennett and Francis Wells among notable figures. A Kansas City editorial notes labor unrest, Knights of Labor activity, and strikes across Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities, with broader economic failure figures and a Kentucky hanging case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mitchell
Maggie Mitchell
Troy
N. Y
Ella Hart
Gotlieb Hart
Sandusky
Ohio
Nathaniel Bennett
California
San Francisco
Cal
Francis Wells
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Florus B. Plimpton
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Abram J. Ryan
South
Louisville
John Phelps
New Orleans
Massachusetts
Omaha
Frances 8. Folsom
Cleveland
Nebraska
Labor unrest and factory fires cross 19th century headlines
A busy financial and industrial update notes experiments in Bessemer steel in Chattanooga. It reports a $50,000 fire at Pebbles, Foulk & Co. in Cincinnati and the Montreal bootmakers Mullarky & Co. failing for the fifth time with $150,000 liabilities. Remingtons and Andrews factories face trusteeships and fires. The Congressional labor committee hears T. W. Powderly and William O. McDowell on hospital funds store abuses, forced hospital enrollment, and coercive discipline along Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessemer
Chattanooga
Tenn
Pebbles
Foulk & Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Mullarky & Co
Montreal
E. Remington & Sons
Ilion
N. Y
Addison Brill
Albert M. Russell
4. H. Andrews & Co
Desplaines Street
Chicago
House of Representatives
Southwest
Washington
T. W. Powderly
Knights of Labor
Powderly
Hall
St. Louis Knights
West
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Iron Mountain Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain Railway
Texas
William O. McDowell
Congressional Labor Committee
McDowell
Southwestern
Political charges filed against Postmaster Kinman in Jacksonville
Citizens lodge charges with Senator Collom alleging Kinman, Jacksonville DC, showed offensive partisan spirit at the recent primary. A Washington note reports wide congressional debate on President Cleveland’s labor-arbitration plan, with senators and representatives offering varied views and naming potential commissioners. Powderly advocates a department of labor to study and act on labor issues and arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullom
Jacksonville
Edward M. Kinman
Washington
Cleveland
Beck
Allen G. Thurman
Joseph E. McDonald
Roscoe Conkling
van Wyck
Neb
Representative Crain
Tex
T. V. Powderly
Department of Labor
Elevator Plunge Hits Fifth Floor of Chicago Bldg. No Serious Injuries
Chicago Board of Trade elevator with passengers dropped from the fifth floor to the basement due to a broken casting. No one was seriously hurt. Washington House committee to report a bill regulating fraudulent butter traffic with fines and imprisonment. Dion Boucicault's The Jilt at McVicker's Theater depicts Yorkshire society and Myles O'Hara in the lead. a racecourse grand stand scene features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
House Committee On Agriculture
Washington
Chicago
McVicker
Dion Boucicault
Yorkshire
England
London
Boucicault
Myles O'Hara
Casualties and Disasters Reported Across Several States
A series of calamities is reported from multiple locations. In Volga Iowa a house burned killing two young children. Paterson New Jersey sees the dyeing works burned with losses around 60 thousand dollars. In Hadley Saratoga County New York three men drown attempting to cross a river as a logs and a dam. In Caledonia Illinois a 13 year old boy dies by lightning. An unknown wrecking incident on East Tennessee track causes a fatality to Shenan. A fatal accident injures engineer Jack Wright. A six story building blaze at Broadway Crosby streets New York costs about 100 thousand dollars plus water damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver
Adel Shearer
Indian Territory
Detroit
Lydia Burnett
Fort Smith
Ark
James Wasson
Joseph Jackson
East St. Louis
St. Louis
C. H. Thompson
Keyport
N. J
J. Monroe Smith
Andrew Nelson
Volga
C. T
Paterson Dyeing and Finishing Company
Riverside
Paterson
James Townsend
Corinth
N. Y
Hiram Davis
Troy
Jones
Hadley
Saratoga County
Luther Hanson
John Hanson
Caledonia
East Tennessee
Silver Creek
Shenan
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Jack Wright
Broadway and
Crosby Streets
New York
Lynching Follows Robbery After Card Game Ruse
Near Axton Virginia a Black man Keilis Moorman used a forged note to lure white man Mike Mahone to a house for cards. Moorman knocked Mahone down and robbed him. Mahone was badly stunned but alive. A party captured Moorman and lynched him. Mahone’s condition feared fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axton
Keilis Moorman
Mike Mahone
Mahone
Moorman
John Carpenter
Tombs
New York
Anthony, Kan
Erie Railway officers spared by judge amid injunction breach
Judge Wallace of the U S Circuit Court in New York refuses to punish Erie Railway officers for delivering traffic from the Chicago and Atlantic in violation of the injunction. Reports note widespread labor unrest, strikes, and related industry turmoil across several states.
Cleveland's Plan for Labor Disputes Arbitration
The president urges Congress to create a three member labor commission within the existing Bureau of Labor to study disputes between workers and capital, favoring voluntary arbitration, with power to investigate causes and advise legislation while limiting federal overreach. Executive Mansion April 22 1886 by Grover Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
House OF Representatives
Bureau of Labor
Grover Cleveland
Executive Mansion
Irish Land Purchase Bill Points in Gladstone Measure
The bill divides into five parts with fifty three clauses and four schedules. It requires landlord applications to state land sale to a state authority which refers to a land commission to fix a price unless agreement is reached. If objections arise the landlord may withdraw with costs. The commission pays creditors first from sale proceeds. minerals may add to the price and vest in the state or local body. The Irish Receiver General and deputies become permanent civil servants under Treasury, paid by the Imperial Exchequer with local collectors by the Irish Government. The treasury may create three classes of permanent annuities at 3, 4, and 4 percent. rules forbid subdivision or subletting of holdings while state charges apply, with relaxations possible. The remaining points follow Mr Gladstone’s speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Commission
Commission
Treasury
Imperial Exchequer
Trish
Imperial Consolidated Fund
Gladstone
National law makers and senate actions summarized
The period covers bills on disability pensions, fireproof records hall, and life pay for senior judges. It notes House delay on Hennepin canal, Cherokee Reservation sale, and railroad tax inquiries. Nominations approved and rejected include West for Utah governor and Wise postmaster candidate. A labor commission proposal from President Cleveland is debated with references to party tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullom
Illinois
Senate
Washington
House of Representatives
Messrs. Browne and Hatch
Hennepin Canal
McRae
Arkansas
Kansas
Henley
California
Union Pacific Railroad Company
United States
Carey
Union Pacific Railway Company
Butler
Mexico
Zach Montgomery
Interior Department
Ways and Means
O'Donnel
Michigan
Committee On
Education
Military
Naval
Territories
District of Columbia
Anderson
Morgan
Alabama
Attorney General
Benjamin Weil
Supreme Court of
Library Committee
House
Daniel Morgan
Commissioner of Agriculture
Plymouth
Mass
W. 8. Rosecrans
Register of the Treasury
E. Gross
New Mexico
A. B. Keith
Denison
Iowa
George Wise
Hamburg
Wise
Coolbaugh
Monongahela
Cleveland
Commission of Labor
Bureau of Labor
Committee On Labor
Butterworth
Committee of
Randall
Congress
Messrs. Weaver
Gibson
W. Va
O'Neill
McCreary
Springer
Irl
Committee
British Races Mapped by Dr Beddoe After Thirty Years Study
Dr John Beddoe reports a county by county survey of Britain’s populations. He measures heads and records hair eye color, arguing hair and eye color offer clues to ethnical descent. He suggests darker Britons may be increasing at the expense of blondes due to westward Gaelic Iberian emigration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Beddoe
Britain
Shetlands
Cornwall
West
England
American Jews Should Embrace an American Identity
A Jewish Messenger piece argues that Judaism in America must be Americanized. It warns against foreign cultural labels and urges Jews born in the United States to think and act independently, shaping a unique American Jewish tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
Children Escaped Blaze At South Clark Pawn Shop
Mr. Israel Switzheimer pawn broker on South Clark Street awoke to smoke and shouted to his wife and three children sleeping in the rear. He fled with his wife as the fire raged calling to rescue the children who, the father believed, could walk. Firefighters snelled their escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel Switzheimer
Clark Street
Rachel
der Showcases
Chicago News
Ohio Legislature Overview of April Proceedings
A gossipy synopsos of the Ohio General Assembly details bills passed and introduced from April 16 to 22. It covers appropriations, education supply controls, lottery restrictions, county auditor terms, and measures against fraud in grain sales, plus Senate resolutions on pensions and districting. Several local bills were enacted and the Payne committee testimony authorized for printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio General Assembly
Senate
Boards of Education
Penitentiary Act
Hovas E
Payne
United States
Harlan
House
Cincinnati
Congress
Pavey
Ohio
Carrick
Old Man Covington Maur Dock Hurt In Railroad Accident
Covington Maur Dock, about 68, near McArthur Junction, was struck by a passenger train on the Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore line while walking west of the junction. Amputation of his right foot and ankle was required after the injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington Maurdock
McArthur Junction
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore
Ohio State News Chronicle Sees Major Local Incidents
Reports detail a Springfield fish dealer Browning injury from a pickerel fin with severe swelling, a captured escaped lunatic Nieswander moving through multiple counties, Clarke and Putnam County crops prospects, a Washington Singer agent mugging, a North Lima burglary with arson, a Fulda tobacco mill fire, a North Fairfield murder mystery, a Plumwood herd sale, a Sidney drowning, Dayton creditor assignment, West Loveland death, and coroner verdict of heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Morrison
Singer Manufacturing Company
Washington
John Wilson
Morrison
Darky
Putnam County
Ruhlman Bros. & Haven
North Lima
Henry Ruhllman
Ruhlman
G. C. Ehlerman
Fulda
Peter Ruppel
Jerome Stevens
North Fairfield
Elmer Ward
Ward
Stevens
R. G. Dun
London
America
Dun
Charley Forsythe
Sidney
Maxwell's Pond
George D. Hanitch
Dayton
Henry E. Weiffenbach
Henry Hilgefort
H. E. Weiffenbach
J. H. Gerdes
Shantz & Bro
Cartwright
West Loveland
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Defiance Co. Express
Defiance, Ohtio
the News
Gould
Western Union Telegraph Company
Assemblies of Knights of Labor
Lake Shore
Frederick 8. Turner
House Select Committee
Mr. Turner
Mr. Bailey
Hoxie
Turner
Bradstreet
Financial and Industrial
Wallace
United States Circuit Court
Erie Railway
Atlantic
Sherman v. Rogers & Co
Buffalo
Kansas City
Pacific Coast
Henry M. Smith
St. Clair County
Port Huron
M. C. Merkel
Pittsburgh
Kinzua Viaduct
Pennsylvania
Marmaduke
Missouri
Washington Territory
Adolph Koenigsberger
St. Paul
Paris
Druid Hill Park
Baltimore
West Adams Street
Frank Sterling
Toronto
Chicago Board of Education
Hermann Lieb
David A. Gage
Great Western Railroad Company
Gage
Deia Hogan
Robert Riley
Milwaukee
Toledo
ST Louis
Pork
Indianapolis
East Liberty
Catrlee
Mr. Gladstone
National
Ohio Legislature
Ohio Senate
General Assembly
Hamilton County
Jordan
Board of Public Works
Hovusz
Ongress
Henry Leanett
Celina
C. E. Hayden
Springfield
Lebanon
E. J. Tichenor
Ohio State News
Mr. Browning
Wooster
Mount Eaton
Samuel Nieswander
Nieswander
Medina
Stark
Trumbull
Romich
Creston
Clarke County
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