Turbulent Asia and Europe Dominate World News
Reports from Europe and Asia recount mass casualties at Stry Austria with sixty eight dead and twenty missing. Mandalay dispatches describe a British retreat against the Kadiyen rebels, Meegander police station captured and twenty three executed. Queensland cattle stocks fall by 463000. Grecian forces gain ground then withdraw. a London rally supports Gladstone’s home rule. Austrian official backs Pasteur hydrophobia treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stry
Austria
Mandalay
Meegander
Queensland
Gladstone
St. James Hall
London
Frisch
M. Pasteur
Notable Deaths and Labor Unrest Across the Nation
Obituaries detail deaths of Charles Mitchell and Ella Hart, Judge Nathaniel Bennett, Francis Wells, Florus B. Plimpton, Father Abram J. Ryan, John Phelps, and Frances Folsom heirship notes. Labor coverage notes Knights of Labor activity, strikes in Chicago and funding/stock watering disputes, and a Lake Shore yards settlement. Also reports on New Jersey murder and ratified violent incidents in Arkansas and Missouri.
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
Industrial and Labor Notes From Major Centers
Reports from Chattanooga Cincinnati and Chicago reveal fires at Pebbles Foulk & Co and A H Andrews & Co with losses around 100000 to 150000 dollars. The Remingtons and Montreal bootmakers face trusteeships while Powderly testifies on alleged hospital fund abuses and store pressure on workers along Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain lines. William O McDowell outlines Knights aims and the strike causes broader wage and work practice tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pebbles, Foulk & Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Mullarky & Co
Montreal
E. Remington & Sons
Thon
N. Y
Addison Brill
Albert M. Russell
A. H. Andrews & Co
Desplaines Street
Chicago
House of Representatives
Southwest
Washington
T. W. Powderly
Missouri Pacific Road
Knights of Labor
Powderly
Hall
St. Louis Knights
West
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Iron Mountain Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain
Texas
Pany
William O. McDowell
Congressional Labor Committee
McDowell
Political Charges Against Kinman Raised in Jacksonville
Citizens of Jacksonville DL file charges with Senator Cullom accusing Postmaster Edward M. Kinman of offensive partisan conduct during the recent primary elections and request he not be confirmed. A Washington dispatch covers varied views on President Cleveland's labor dispute arbitration plan from Senators Beck Van Wyck and others, with T. V. Powderly urging a Department of Labor to study and act on labor questions and arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Labor
Frederick Turner
House Select Committee
Washington
United States
Congress
Turner
Bailey
Hoxie
St. Louis
Bradstreet
Cullom
Jacksonville
Edward M. Kinman
Cleveland
Beck
Allen G. Thurman
Joseph E. McDonald
Roscoe Conkling
van Wyck
Neb
Representative Crain
Tex
T. V. Powderly
Department of Labor
Five-Story Elevator Fall at Chicago Board of Trade
A white crowded elevator at the Chicago Board of Trade dropped from the fifth floor to the basement due to a broken casting. No one was seriously injured. Other items note a favorable agriculture committee report on fraudulent butter traffic and a Chicago theater premier of Dion Boucicault's The Jilt at McVicker's Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
House Committee On Agriculture
Washington
Chicago
McVicker
Dion Boucicault
Yorkshire
England
London
Mr. Boucicault
Myles O'Hara
Multiple Disasters Reported in Various Localities
Casualties include a farm house fire near Volga Iowa where two young children perished. Paterson New Jersey dyeing works burned with $60000 loss. Three men and a boy drowned near Hadley New York after their boat met logs and a dam. A 13-year-old Caledonia Illinois boy killed by lightning. A wrecking prank on East Tennessee track near Silver Creek Georgia caused a freight train crash. one fired worker died and the engineer fatally injured. A six story building fire at Broadway Crosby New York caused significant damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Nelson
Volga
C. T
Paterson Dyeing and Finishing Company
Riverside
Paterson
N. J
James Townsend
Corinth
N. Y
Hiram Davis
Troy
Jones
Hadley
Saratoga County
Luther Hanson
John Hanson
Caledonia
Ill
East Tennessee
Silver Creek
Shenan
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Jack Wright
Broadway
Crosby Streets
New York
Lynching of Keilis Moorman Over Card Game Robbery
Near Axton Virginia a black man Keilis Moorman lured white man Mike Mahone with a forged note to a neighbor’s house, robbed him, and was quickly captured by a posse and lynched. Mahone’s wounds were judged potentially fatal. In New York City a prisoner, John Carpenter, killed himself in Tombs prison by slashing his jugular vein. Forty Anthony Kansas citizens took the rest of the sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axton
Keilis Moorman
Mike Mahone
Mahone
Moorman
John Carpenter
Tombs
New York
Anthony, Kan
Various Historic News Briefs From 19th Century America
Judge Wallace refuses to punish Erie Railway officers for delivering traffic in violation of injunction. Sherman Rogers & Co. foundry in Buffalo, 500 workers, shuts amid nationwide labor unrest. Transcontinental railroad war ends. limited tickets to Chicago $62.50, to New York $81.50. Kansas City travelers drive Pacific coast shifts. old coaches used. Henry M. Sorry of Michigan involved in violent incident at Port Huron, shot by a merchant. Tar Grant monument fund reaches $120,648.75. Pittsburgh builders agree nine-hour days in several cases. Prussian inquiry ordered into farmer land taxation complaints. Kinzua viaduct blaze kills six Italian laborers. Missouri Governor Marmaduke urges end to railway strikes with stringent measures. Adolph Koenigsberger attempts suicide in St Paul synagogue basement. Paris exposition tower planned at 943 feet with $1,000,000 cost. Orange mob smashes Glasgow chapel windows. Robert E Perry to explore Greenland with three companions. Baltimore gatekeeper Henry Fryer dies hanging from a tree. Chicago lamp explosion injures Mrs Sterling and others. Toronto mayor proposes licenses for fruit or ice cream peddlers to the nonworking. Chicago Board to appoint Hermann Lieb for school census. Gage debt suit prompts $350,000 bond claim against Great Western Railroad. Dewin Hogan arrested in Milwaukee lottery frauds, sent to Milwaukee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
United States Circuit Court
New York
Erie Railway
Chicago
Atlantic
Sherman v. Rogers & Co
Buffalo
San Francisco
Kansas City
Pacific Coast
Henry M. Sorry
St. Clair County
Michigan
Port Huron
M. C. Merkel
Pittsburgh
Kinzua Viaduct
Pennsylvania
Marmaduke
Missouri
Southwest
Washington Territory
Adolph Koenigsberger
St. Paul
Paris
Henry Fryer
Druid Hill Park
Baltimore
West Adams Street
Frank Sterling
Toronto
Chicago Board of Education
Hermann Lieb
David A. Gagf
Great Western Railroad Company
Gage
Dewin Hogay
Robert Riley
Milwaukee
Cleveland Urges Federal Labor Arbitration Plan
Grover Cleveland's April 22 1886 message to Congress calls for legislative action on labor disputes. He proposes a three member federal labor commission within the existing Bureau of Labor to oversee voluntary arbitration between labor and capital, drawing on railroad commissions as precedents and expanding Congress power over interstate commerce. He stresses careful, nonpartisan handling and the importance of labor's role in national prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Hovush of Representatives
Gress
Bureau of Labor
Grover Cleveland
Executive Mansion
Irish land purchase bill outlines sale process and finance
The bill divides into five parts with fifty three clauses and four schedules. Landlords seeking sale apply to a state authority which forwards to a land commission that fixes a sale price after inquiry, unless an earlier agreement exists. If the price is objected to, the landlord may withdraw paying costs. Creditors are paid before other purchase money. Minerals may add value with royalties to the state. Permanent civil servants administer finance with Imperial Exchequer aid, and three annuity classes are created. The bill also tightens holding subdivision rules unless relaxed by the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Commission
Commission
Treasury
Imperial Exchequer
Imperial Consolidated Fund
Mr. Gladstone
National Law Makers and Congressional Actions
Senate and House measures range from pension boosts and judicial pay limits to rail and land bills. A five story hall of records in Washington progressed. Hawaiian treaty notice. investigations into the Union Pacific and West coroners. labor commission proposal. and a push for monuments, education bills, and veteran protections.
British Races Study by Dr John Beddoe
Dr John Beddoe summarizes thirty years of British race study across counties from Shetlands to Cornwall. He emphasizes hair and eye color as indicators of descent and notes darker-skinned groups may be increasing in Britain. He suggests Gaelic and Iberian peoples are shifting the nation away from the Anglo Teutonic type due to emigration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Beddoe
Britain
Shetlands
Cornwall
West
England
American Jews Embrace Self Reliance Over Foreign Customs
The Jewish Messenger argues that Jews in America should be American in identity, shedding foreign customs and shibboleths. It urges young, especially American-born Jews, to think and act for themselves while preserving core Jewish essentials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
Fire at South Clark pawn shop endangers Switzheimer family
Mr. Israel Switzheimer a pawn-broker on South Clark Street awoke to smoke and guided his wife and three children from the rear of the store. The husband shouted in Yiddish as flames raged, insisting the children could walk as they exited with early reports noting rapid evacuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel Switzheimer
Clark Street
Rachel
der Showcases
Chicago News
Ohio Legislature Capsulizes Pro ceedings in April Sessions
Gossipy synopses show Senate actions from April 16 to 22, with bills passed on appropriations for departments and penalties for lottery advertising. Local measures include road repair, farm fraud penalties, water rents, and educator restrictions. The long session features amendments to the general appropriation bill and a roster printing request for the war of 1812 soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio General Assembly
Senate
House
United States
Cincinnati
Are
Congress
Pavey
Ohio Senate
General Assembly
Hamilton County
Jordan
Board of Public Works
Gress
Ohio
Guoner Carrick
Boards of Education
Payne
Old man Covington Murdock fatally injured near McArthur Junction
About age 68 resident Covington Murdock was hit while walking along the railroad west of McArthur Junction by a passenger train from the Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore line. The accident crushed his right foot and ankle requiring amputation. Henry Leanett was lightning struck in a field near Celina. Springfield businessman C. E. Hayden left for parts unknown leaving creditors. A fire at Lebanon damaged Dr. E. J. Tichenor’s property worth $600 with no insurance. Mrs. Turner’s boarding house lost some items though most furniture was saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington Murdock
McArthur Junction
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore
Henry Leanett
Celina
C. E. Hayden
Springfield
Lebanon
E. J. Tichenor
Turner
Ohio State News recounts infections and crimes across counties
The Ohio State News item reports a Springfield fish dealer Browning injuring his finger with a pickerel fin, lengthy illness, and near amputation. It notes another boy wound death, Samuel Nieswander’s capture after escape, crop prospects in Clarke and Putnam counties, a Morrison assault, burglaries in North Lima, a Fulda tobacco fire, and a Mayo(?) murder mystery at North Fairfield with Ward on bail. It also mentions the Plumwood 100 head herd sale and local deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Browning
Springfield
Wooster
Mount Eaton
Samuel Nieswander
Nieswander
Medina
Stark
Trumbull
Romich
Hear Creston
Clarke County
John W. Morrison
Singer Manufacturing Company
Washington
John Wilson
Morrison
Darky
Putnam County
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
Also Mentioned on This Page
Defiance Co. Express
Ohto
D. ST. Elmer
the News
Gould
Western Union Telegraph Company
Assemblies of Knights of Labor
Lake Shore
Weaver
Adel Shearer
Indian Territory
Detroit
Lydia Burnett
Fort Smith
Ark
James Wasson
Joseph Jackson
East St. Louis
C. H. Thompson
Keyport
J. Monroe Smith
Financial and Industrial
Tenn
Sean Wccnuns Oaeahes
Waurat
Cas
ST. LO
Bree
Indianapolis
National
Illinois
House of Represeves
Browne and Hatch
Hennepin
Butler
Mexico
Zach Montgomery
Kiot
Ways and Means
O'Donnel
Committee On
Education
Territories
District of Columbia
Anderson
Kansas
Mongan
Alabama
Benjamin Weil
Supreme Court of
United States and Mexican Mixed Commission
L’abra
Couny
William C. West
Kentucky
Utah
Library Committee
Daniel Morgan
Commissioner of Agriculture
Plymouth
Mass
W. 8. Rosecrans
Register of the Treasury
EF. Gross
New Mexico
A. B. Keith
Denison
Iowa
George Wise
Hamburg
Wise
Coolbaugh
House of Presentatives
Monongahela
Committee On Labor
Butterworth
Randall
Messrs. Weaver
Gibson
W. Va
O'Neill
McCreary
Springer
Reed
Maine
Voorhees
Ohio Legislature
Ohio State News
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