Cholera in Italy and World News Digest
Cholera deaths rise in Italy with April onset and July surges, but experts see limited spread beyond Italy. Reports also cover Irish rent worries for farmers, Nagasaki ethnic clashes, Chicago postal defaulter jailed, British Parliament reconvening, Turkish-German talks, anarchism sums in Belgium and the Netherlands, court judgments against Judson & Co., a $15 million 3 percent loan call, and a wave of business failures across the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Toulon
Naples
Spain
Ireland
Nagasaki
Japan
W. H. Bolton
Chicago
Belfast
Parnell
Lord Salisbury
Turkey
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Judson & Co
Philadelphia
Treasury Department
Lewiston
W. H. Judson & Co
Montreal
Adolph G. Morris
L. Isaacs
J. A. Gaynor & Co
Tiree Rivers
United States
Canada
Political shifts and notable deaths across states
Hon. George D. Wise declines a renomination for Congress in Richmond Virginia. R M Yardley is nominated by Republicans in Pennsylvania seventh district. John T Doyle named Secretary of the Civil Service Commission. President Cleveland and party depart Washington for Adirondacks on the 16th. Dolores Fossa widow of Santa Anna dies. At Fort Wayne Dr John W Young fined and jailed for contempt over a soldiers reunion dodger. Thomas Hurley of Mollie Maguire death in Gunnison Colorado. Henry Y Lucas sells St Louis Baseball Club stock losing seventy thousand dollars. Mrs Ann St Stevens novelist dies in Newport aged 74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Wise
Congress
Richmond
R. M. Yardley
Pennsylvania
John T. Doyle
New York
Civil Service Commission
Cleveland
Washington
Adirondacks
New York Limited Express
Dolores Fossa
Santa Anna
Fort Wayne
Ind
John W. Young
Tri-State Veteran Association
Young
Dodgers
Thomas Hurley
Mollie Maguire
Gunnison
Colorado
Henry Y. Lucas
St. Louis
Ann St. Stevens
Newport
R. L
Party nominations flood early election scene across states
Democratic and Republican delegates name nominees in Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois and Washington Territory. Samuel Kirkwood T O Meara win in Iowa Second District. W T Price renominated in Wisconsin Eighth. McBride picked in Michigan Fifth District. E P Allen named for Michigan Second. Joseph Glidden leads Illinois Fifth. John Little chosen in Ohio Seventh. Voorhees renominated in Washington Territory. Dr Hatton tops Iowa Ninth for Greenbackers. Benedict rumored for Public Printer in Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey F. Black
Pennsylvania
Jere Black
Hiram College
Garfield
Iowa
Samuel J. Kirkwood
T. J. O'Meara
Wisconsin
W. T. Price
G. W. McBride
Congress
Michigan
E. P. Allen
Ypsilant
Illinois
Joseph Glidden
de Kalb
House of Representatives
Ohio
Thomas E. Benedict
Cleveland
Benedict
New York
Mahone
Petersburg
Minnesota
John A. Lovely
A. J. Holmes
Ilinois
Daniel B. Turney
Methodist Protestant Church
Guraoey
Financial and Industrial Developments This Week
During the week ended Aug 14 660427 silver dollars were coined. Providence Rhode Island reports a jewelry trade boom with principal manufacturers working twelve to thirteen hours daily and employing more men than since 1881. Augusta Georgia cotton manufacturers and operatives plan a wage committee and striking workers will return to work. Peoria Illinois Brick-Layers Union sets nine hour days on Saturdays starting Sept 11, raising bricklaying costs by five cents per 1000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. L
Augusta
Peoria
Foreclosure Ordered on Chicago and Atlantic Road Debt
The first mortgage bondholders move to foreclose on a $6,500,000 indebtedness with a purchasing and reorganizing committee named. T. A. McKinnon of the Southeastern Railway in Canada will replace Egan as General Superintendent of the Pacific Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & Atlantic Road
T. A. McKinnon
Southeastern Railway
Canada
Egan
Pacific Road
Niagara daredevil Graham rides whirlpool rapids in barrel
The cooper C D Graham again navigated Niagara in the whirlpool rapids with 10 000 spectators as he rode a barrel toy downriver head first. Rival fisher man P J Scott drowned trying a cork suit while attempting the feat and was recovered at Lewiston on the Canadian side. General Sedgwick arrived at Paso del Norte Aug 20 to investigate the Cutting case and meet Consul Brigham before heading to Mexico City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper
C. D. Graham
Niagara
P. J. Scott
Graham
Lewiston
Sedgwick
Mexico
Brigham
Paso del Nort
Bayard
State Department
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Congress
Montreal
Fabre
Knights of Labor
Seculiar Association
Lou
James
MecVicker’s Theater
Chicago
Marie Wainwright
Jame
Chicago Daily News
Louis James
Terrible Explosions and Disasters Hit Several Cities
Ashland Wisconsin reports a boiler explosion in a carpenter shop killing five and wounding two due to low water. Other items include Barney Lynch's Queen of the Lakes burned on Lake Vermillion with a 49000 loss, a fatal drowning in Marion County West Virginia, a Tulare California blaze causing 250000 in damages, a Dakota cyclone destroying most of Newark, four dead, a Walkerton Indiana batter killed by a pitched ball, a Medford Massachusetts umpire killed by a foul ball, Barnum's Circus accident in Madison Wisconsin injuring Mrs Reif, and a Galveston Texas storm damaging streets and flooding the Beach Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Wis
Perinier & Webster
Duluth
Barney Lynch
Lake Vermillion
Dundalk River
Marion County
W. Va
John Snowderry
Tulare
California
Newark
Sargent County
Dakota
Frank Doolittle
Walkerton
Ind
Medford
Mass
Barnum
Madison
Henry Reif
Embezzler Boston Treasurer Faces Large Losses in Mills Cash
William Gray of Boston, treasurer of the Atlantic Mills Company, confesses to embezzling over a half million dollars, much of it reinvested in Roxbury building projects. Separate incidents include a Holmes County home robbery, a fatal shooting in Princeton Indiana, a Nebraska horse-thief hanged, and a lynching following the murder of railroad agent John S. Davis in Huron Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gray
Boston
Atlantic Mills Company
Roxbury
Robert Post
Holmes County
Ohio
Princeton
Ind
Frank Stout
A. C. Stout
Charles Emmons
Stout
J. P. Olive
Nebraska
Trail City
Colorado
Huron
Lawrence County
Indiana
Johns. Davis
Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Mr Davis
Mr. Davis
Burglar Chased and Lynched After Fatal Knife Fight
A pursued burglar stabbed Mr. Davis after a highway clash and he died fifteen minutes later. Infuriated citizens hanged the assailant to a walnut tree. In Indiana a lynching occurred in Aurora Dearboro County with bricklayers killing Louis Hilbert in a crowd. George Snelling, treasurer of the Lowell Bleachery, was arrested for embezzling $40,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Davis
Jackson
Tenn
Eliza Woots
Indiana
Aurora
Dearboro
Wm. Watkins
Louis Hilbert
Watkins
Hibbert
Mexico frees Cutting after two months in prison
Supreme court backing allows Judge Castenada and Judge Zubin to release Cutting immediately. If Mexico pardons, the United States would seek renunciation of extraterritorial claims. Consul Brigham in El Paso is held in high esteem by Secretary Bayard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Tribunal of Mexico
Castenada
Zubin
Cutting
United States
Brigham
el Paso
Bayard
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Washington
J. D. Buckner & Co
Jay Street
New York
Corea
Mayflower
Lamar
Sparks
Wisconsin Farm and Land Mortgage Company
Dc. C. Beers
Boston
Conan
Robinson
Lizzie A
Texas
Victoria
Indianola
Galveston
Geronimo
Arizpe
Volga
Saratov
Russia
Salonica
Austria
Berlin
Lake Michigan
Hering
Chicago
Hyde Park
Michigan
Rospert L. Taylor
Tennessee
Knoxville
Pittsburgh
Bessemer Steel
Democratic State Central Committee
Indiana
Bynum and Bailey
Congress
Leith
Ferguson
Jacks
Murphy
Febre
Montreal
Canada
Knights of Labor
London
Paris
America
Irish National League Convention in Chicago Ends Harmonious Session
The Irish National League of America's Chicago convention opened with calls for unity and home rule for Ireland. Key figures included Patrick Egan, J. P. Sutton, Michael Davitt, and John Devoy, with notable speeches by Rev. Father O Reilly and J. E. Redmond. Delegates debated policy toward armed action, adopted unanimous resolutions supporting Parnell, and reported substantial Irish-American fundraising and branches across the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish National League of America
Central Music Hall
Chicago
Patrick Egar
Lincoln
Neb
National League
Father O Reilly
Detoit
League
J. P. Sutton
Leange
Michael Davist
Parnell
Tog. T. Er
J. E. Redmond
Wiliam Brien
J. Kensy
Egan
Judge Fitzgerald
Cincinnati
Fitzgerald
Concord
William O Brien
M. P
Dublin
India
California
Norway
New Zealand
Europe
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
St. Petersburg
London
England
Ireland
Home Rule
Gladstone
Ieland
America
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish National League
John Fitzgerald
Euraska
Alexandr Sullivan
Patrick Egan
Hugh McCaffrey
Wsit
McCaffrey
Mr. Parnell
Mr Gladstone
William J. Hynes
John Fierty
Pugnacius
Finerty
Teeling
Michael Davitt
Davitt
Father Gannon
Iowa
Alexander Sullivan
Great Britain
George W. Peper
Convention
John E
Redmond
Pia Aly
Inon’d
John Devoy
Exst
John F. Finerty
Mr. Finersy
Redmonds
Mr. Davitt
Searemadion
Cranon
Fitzgeralds
Ovary
Be Ooe
Louis
House of Commons
Gladstine
Irel
Urer
Irish National League In
Irish National League Convention of America
Canada
O'Reilly
Boston
Connecticut
Ilinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New York
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Virginia
Wisconsin
Janes P. Sutton
United States
William Ewart Giladstone
From a Poor Farm Boy to Millionaire: Maurice Flynn’s Rise
The biography traces Maurice Bennett Flynn born November 3 1848 in Malden New York. He rises from farm boy to Brooklyn bookkeeper to partner in Hotchkiss Field Company and influential contractor and politician in New York City. He marries Theodore Moss’s daughter in 1873 after meeting at Monmouth Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Bennett Flynn
Malden
Columbia County
N. Y
Maurice
Chatham
Christian Brothers’ School
Troy
New York
Williamsburg
Novelty Iron Works
Guy C. Hotchkiss & Son
Charles H. Field
J. B
W. W
Flynn
Brooklyn
Guy Co. Hotchkiss, Field & Company
O Ment of Public Works
Agerega
County Democracy
Hubert O. Thompson
Rollin M. Squire
Squire
Edson
Tammany
Alderman O'Connor
Kirk
Mr. Flynn
Ohio State News Roundup: Accidents and Local Scandals
A gas explosion injures several boys near a well in Ohio. Garfield Monument height cut to 150 feet to reduce costs. A Dayton asylum escapee surrenders in jail after walking from Dayton. Tramps burn a straw stack and loot nearby homes. Five masked robbers take $400 from a Holmes County farmer. A Ironton brewery boiler explodes causing damage. A Tiffin shooting injures a bystander. a man near Franklin is jailed for his daughter’s murder. Rail sale, brick accident near Tontogany, and various other incidents fill the week’s Crime and Public Safety items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fostoria
Garfield Monument
Dayton
Toledo
Greene County
Lima
Holmes County
Millersburg
Ironton
Tiffin
College Hill
Champagne County
Reform School
Jeffersonville
Fayette County
Claysville
Tontogany
Franklin
Lockburn
Cincinnati
Association
Richfield
Newark
Gov. Foraker
James Hayden
Hamilton County
Miami County
Troy
Springfield
Ashtabula
Northwestern Oil and Natural Gas Company
Ohio State Sinking Fund
Stephen van Sickle
Daniel Boutson
Findlay
Daisy” Carroll
Champion Mill Company
City Machine Works
Cleveland
Little Jennie Rescued After Boat Capsize
A girl named Little Jennie nearly drowned when her boat capsized but kept moving to stay afloat until help arrived. Her mother records Jennie’s gratitude to God and her own strength for saving herself from a deadly grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie
George Washington Shares Honors Of Bunker Hill
The messenger to Philadelphia from the Bunker Hill fight asks if the regulars withstood enemy fire. Washington replies that they held their own until the foe was within eight rods, declaring the liberties of the country safe. Star signals red eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Bunker Hill
Philadelphia
Battle of
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Defiance Co. Express
Defiance, Ohio
D. T. Elmer
the News
Financial and Industrial
Railroad Intelligence
Cc Geeschchves
Costassastate
Costassastate Eneee G 5.0 FF. Wrrat
Carrie
Erin GO Bragh
National Irish League
Casaisse
Maurice B. Flynn
Ohio State News
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