Vast 1883 News Digest From Defiance County
The issue reports A E Woon summoned to attend Franco-American maneuvers near Paris in September. It notes bond redemptions under the 121st call, silver certificates exchange rules, and navy yellow fever updates. also covers fires, wrecks, emigration cuts, crime cases in multiple states and the Garfield monument ceremony in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Woon
Fourth Cavalry
Paris
United States
EB. Beaumont
Owice
Wyman
New York
Treasury Department
United States Treasury
Spain
Washington
Barea
Dupuy de Lome
Amaires
General Washington
Mount Vernon
Miss Cunningham
South Carolina
Edward Everett
Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association
the Union
The
Patriot
Navy Department
Pensacola
Fla
Warrington
Expulsion of American Jew in St Petersburg and Other Foreign Notes
A St Petersburg dispatch says an American Jew was expelled under a policy forbidding Jews to reside in the city. Protests by Britain and the U.S. have not altered the ban, as many Jews live there by privilege or evasion. Other items include an Indian assault on Huancayo, Peru with 400 killed and wounded, a scaffold collapse at Lake Chicm killing 23 workers, Earl Spencer in Cork urging peace, and British troop movements toward Natal. A Canton incident involving a European gunmen causing deaths prompts relief from the British Consul, and a sloop sails from Hong Kong to Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Beattie
Elizabeth Cameron
New York
Beattie
Erie
John Mooney
Amon
Liverpool
Canada
Lord and Lady Carnarvon
Welsh Quarrymen’s Union
Rocky Mountains
Fort Calgary
Brashear
Ogunquint Beach
Wells
Greenough Thayer
North Cambridge
Mass
Emma Gould
Andover
Kittie Safford
Eddie Little
Washington
D. C
New Jersey
Paterson
Board of Inspectors
Hilarro Balsav
Niagara Whirlpool
Webb
Balsau
France
Redhouse
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Salamanca
N. Y
Brokers’ Express
George Johnson
Jnr Brices
Eagle Grove
Marcus Station
Illinois Central Railroad
Sioux City
Rochester
Minn
St. Charles
Utica
Winona
Hamilton
Pensacola
AB Ranams
Houston
Texas
Memphis
Dr. J
Martin
Cincinnati
Knights Templar
San Francisco
Robert E. Wither
Virginia
Charles Roome
John P
The
Gar
London
Ies
St. St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Huancayo
Peru
Lake Chicm
Cork
Ireland
Earl Spencer
House of Commons
Lord Hartington
Durban
Zululand
Natal
Canton
China
Hong Kong
Sr. Paul
Pioneer Press
Romnel’s
Dodge
L. Foxdre
Zumbrota Planing
John M. Cole
Cole
Zumbrota Street
Pleasant Grove
Salem
Here
Congregational Church
G. W. Vandusen & Co
H.J. Horton
Whitten & Judge
Rochester Harvester Works
Sanborn
Zumbrota
Rochester and Northern
Chicago , & Northwestern
Owatonna
Kassex
Ole Anderson
Christian Olson
Canisteo
Massive fire devastates Farman Hotel area in Mifflintown PA
Fire swept from a stable connected to the Farman Hotel in Mifflintown burning the hotel post office residence and a block of brick stores. Loss about 70000 with 50000 insured. Two horses perished in the stable. Also reports on oil strike near Zanesville etc and a spate of other incidents including robberies abductions and a Minnesota cyclone disaster with dozens killed and hundreds homeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farman
Miffletown
Zanesville
Clifton
Arizona
Death of Judge Jeremiah Black in York in 1810 era
Judge Jeremiah Black died after a prolonged illness from poxemia following an operation. He faced death with faith, recalling his family and finishing with a prayer for peaceful rest. Born January 10, 1810 in Glades Somerset County, he rose to Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and served in political life before resuming legal practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah Black
Mary
Jigs Black
McKennon
York
Meissenhelder
Judge Black
Te Red
Jeremiah 8
Black
Glades
Somerset County
Supreme Court of
Penn
Presidcy-General
Civil Rights at the Capital Case in Washington Court
Judge Mills in Washington fined Bell five hundred dollars or thirty days in jail for denying Civil Rights Act accommodations to a colored patron named Rev. George H. Smith of Norwich Connecticut. The ruling marks a first in this section and a second overall in U S history. Bell appeals the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saington
Mills
Smith
Bell
Washington
United States
George H. Smith
Norwich
Conn
J W. Bell
Bravery and foolhardiness contrasted by Webb tales
The piece argues lines between bravery and foolhardiness through examples from Matthew Webb and other acts. It weighs rescuers against daring stunts, noting endurance and risk taken for others as noble, while self-serving displays are condemned as foolhardy.
A Vocation to Keep Out Of and Other Whimsical Notes
A Philadelphia judge warns young men against law as a career citing overcrowding and uneven fortunes. He notes only a minority earn a comfortable income, with many earning little, while a few reach high salaries. The column discusses public attitude to manual labor and vocational choices. Also includes brief sketches of a Hamburg man losing legs in Montana and a quip about trade-dollars from the Texas Siftings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Lewis Jaeger
Hamburg
Montana
Little Rufus Botts
Texas Siftinas
Notable Lives and Literary Anecdotes in London and America
A collage of brief notes reports Mrs Pincott Grace Greene in London tied to a Queen Ka biography, a Brooklyn death and a $500000 estate for H Howard, James Marian Roche caring for author Frederick W Crouch, and Elizabethan society updates. It notes General Stark’s granddaughter joining the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, a canoe accident involving Boyle O Reilly, and Sen. Austin Pike described in New Hampshire terms. Also mentions Thackeray’s Reminiscences birth of Vanity Fair, Mrs Webb’s marriage to Captain Webb and Clemenceau’s Connecticut tie with W H Huntington and a campus French chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Quinn
Roches~ter
Rochester Expo
Austin F. Pike
New Hamp
Shire
Boston
Post
London
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
W. H. Huntington
Connecticut
Mme
Clemenceau
Paris
Humorous Anecdotes Flash Across City Papers
A collage of lighthearted jests and quips from newspapers including the Boston Commercial Bulletin Boston Star Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Press. Jokes cover telegraph workers moonlight meteors and misread sayings plus a hotel bell-boy mix up with a pretend colonel and other whimsical miscommunications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Commercial Bulletin
United States
Boston Star
Susan
Chicago Tribune
Smith
Gilholy
Harlem
N. Y
Toledo Blade
John Henry
Burlington Hawkey
San Francisco
Rearly
New York
Philadelphia
Broad-street
Hanson
Philadelphia Press
Hegin
Chicago
Stele of the French sparks a test of wealth and love
In a witty exchange on Wall Street lines a father cautions his daughter about marrying for money. A young man boasts of cash and bonds but the talk reveals fear of poverty and social status. The wife-to-be weighs wealth against romance as a plan unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
William
Wall Street News
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Defiance County Express
Defiance
Ohio
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Bar’ Harbor
Wright, Worster & Co
Empire Oil Works
Long Island City
Patrick Cooney
Buffalo
J. M. Hayes
Rutland Railroad
Atarnt Honrox
Dunnell’s
Pawtucket
R. L
Horton
Albany
N.Y
American Bar Association
Saratoga
Stevenson
Kentucky
United States Supreme Court
Chambersburg
J. McDowell Sharpe
South
William Andrews
J.P. Rex
Andrews
Rex
David Woops
Maroon
Ill
John Gorman
Jamestown
Robert Tuppener
Madison
Ind
Trow & Co
Sureron Owen
United States Army
Richard Fanning
Sherman House
Park House
Austin Corbin
Lexington Flats
Lowellville
Grand Masonic Lodge of
California
Golden Gate Park
Foreign Intelligence
Watch Hill Beach
Indiana
F. S. Burnette
Burnette
Baldwin
J. R. Paddock
Henry Herxer
Savannah
Park City
Utah
Utah Eastern Railway
Coalville
Jack Murphy
Brennan
Treasury
Pacific Mail
Garfield Memorial
Grr
Jington
Caves Lincolly
Saginaw City
Mich
Charles
Minnesota
Limur Rock
Ark
Memphis & Little Rock
Little Rock
Forest City
H. Goldberg
J. B. Salenger
John Adair
Wile
Memphis & Charleston Railroad
Charter Oak Park
Hartford
William Rockafeller
Cleora
Whence
Louisville
Aus
George L Langley
John R. Burgee
Langley
Ottman Compromise Fund
George Bliss
Western Union , Telegraph Company
Hamistone
Mitchell
Casey
Engineer Corps
Davis
West Moreland County
Washington, Homestead
Congress
Eugenie
Duke of Edinburgh
Royal Humane Society
Matthew Webb
Niagara River
Atlantic City
Leeds
Brooklyn
East River
Livingstone
Captain Webb
Courag
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