New York Directory Shows City Population At Least 1 553 000
From the city directory data the population of New York is shown at no less than 1 553 000, about 50 000 more than a year earlier. The record includes other items such as a massive bareknuckle fight near Westfield and educational and political notes.
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New City
New York
New
Kelly
Murphy
Westfield
Mass
John L. Sullivan
James Russell Lowell
Harvard College
Europe
Henry Warp Brecher
Plymouth Church
Philadelphia
Hanlan
Sylvia Lake
St. Lawrence County
Collins P. Huntington
Orange County
Sussex
New Jersey
Bessie Hincks
Boston
Fires, floods and riots rock Midwest towns and rail lines
The issue spans multiple states with receivers appointed for rail lines in Keokuk and Springfield, fires in Peshtigo Manistee Morristown Green Bay and Stoughton cause heavy losses, and severe floods in Kansas threaten crops. Tensions flare as Chicago streetcar strikes disrupt service with police, arbitration debates, and mayoral intervention.
Outrage and lynching sweep Texas and Mississippi
Reports list John Martin among two escaped Blacks implicated in Mrs. Hazell murder being lynched at Grayson County Jail. Six lynchings tally, while Texas vigilantes hang eighteen horse-thieves in two weeks. A colored mob murders Ben Holt at Adams Station Mississippi. A waterspout floods a Texas freight crew. Yellow fever cases surface in New Orleans. In North Carolina, Epwakrp Fixeu and sister aged 75 and 80, and a colored boy are found murdered, likely by ax blows followed by throat cuts amid a robbery.
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John Martin
New Orleans
Epwakrp Fixeu
Provisional Appointments and Prohibition Ticket Noted
The President named Lambert as Minister to Regium and Samuel Hauser as Governor of Montana Territory with several Postmasters suspended for misconduct or partisanship. Prohibitionists of Ohio met in Springfield with a large delegation and a platform urging a prohibition amendment, civil service reform, and a new party focused on banning liquor.
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Lambert Trey
Chicago
Regium
Samuel T. Hauser
Helena
M. T
Montana
Stevenson
Illinois
Malcolm Hay
Pennsylvania
John E. Lamb
United States
Indiana
R. P. Pullman
Eureka Springs
Ark
Frank W. Havill
Mount Carmel
Wabash
Annie Brennock
Dunlap
Iowa
John W. Pence
Anderson
Ind
Charles H. Reed
Corinth
Miss
Alexander M. Dick
West Newton
John T. Kilgore
Lengview
Leslie E. Brooks
Mobile
Ala
J. E. Slaughter
Samuel L.ee
Birmingham
Aijla
Green
George W. McMillan
Mount Sterling
Brown County
Nece Jacob Freindlich
William F. Sharp
Brooklyn Town
George Phillips
Squire L. Major
Ae Aand
A. P. Bone
William Keough
Fort Wayne
F. W. Keil
William P. Hale
Penn
George D. Reed
Es H. McConnell
Dodge City
B. Klane
Frankly Martin
James Russell
Marquet
Samuel L. Billings
Jean Ryan
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
William Scranton
Timothy Killian
Kscanaba
E. P. Barnes
James H. Gee
Norway
L. J. Kimball
Joshua 5. Palmer
Portland Me
C. H. Barker
Timoth Ae Jr
Biddeford
A. T. Clevinger
Clinton County
Board of Public Works
Neville
Hardie County
Friends of Prohibition
Great Liquor Party
Prohibition Party
Union Memorial
Independence Day Celebrations Across the Nation
A wide array of Independence Day events is reported. Chicago hosted 25,000 at Washington Park races and 20,000 at the Baseball Park for Chicago and New York games. In London, Minister Phelps’ reception drew 500 Americans and many dignitaries. A Bloomington monument to Marie Litta was unveiled before ten thousand. San Francisco marked Garfield with a Golden Gate Park tribute.
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Chicago
Washington Park
Base Ball Park
New York
Washington
White House
Phelps
London
Cyrus W. Field
Edmunds
Duke of Argyll
John Bright
Bloomington
Illinois
Singer
Marie Litta
David Davis
General Garfield
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Cleveland
Worcester
Mass
Cornell
Brown
Bowdoin
Pennsylvania
Salt Lake
City Hall
Court House
Mormon Tabernacle
la Harpe
Charley Comstock
Oakland
Iowa
Yankton
Dakota
Marcus Johnson
Mount MacGregor
Long Branch
United States
Colombia
Record of Harvest Expansion and Land Grant Ruling
The report notes the largest corn crop on record with a larger area than ever and a favorable outlook for average yield per acre. It also covers Judge Lawrence's decision in the New York Supreme Court affirming Stephen B. Elkins’s title to one-fifth of the Mora land grant in New Mexico.
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Lawrence
New York Supreme Court
Stephen B. Elkins
Mora
New Mexico
Liberal Plan for National Campaign Committee Follows Tory Gains
The Liberal party, alarmed by Tory parliamentary victories, considers a National Campaign Committee under Gladstone and Chamberlain to direct a unified canvass. Reports say Gladstone may return to office.
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Gladstone
Chamberlain
Toyama
Japan
Spain
St. Petersburg
Russia
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
Marquis of Salisbury
Afghanistan
Bosphorus
England
Bradlaugh
House of Commons
Michael Hicks-Beach
Pall Mall Gazette
Waller
London
Ireland
Paris
Comtesse de Chambord
Indian Territory troops requested as Cheyenne danger grows
The War Department received a telegraph from Fort Reno asking for more troops to guard against Cheyenne action. General Augur at Fort Leavenworth was ordered to send all available forces to the post.
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War Department
Fort Reno
Indian Territory
Secretary of War
Augur
Fort Leavenworth
Remington Armory
Ilion
New York
Treasury Department
Joseph C. Mackin
Chicago
Mackin
Vilas
Gneral
Toledo
Ohio
Cholera toll climbs in Spanish outbreak report from Alcira
Madrid dispatch notes 1322 new cases and 602 deaths in Spain, up 30 and 6 percent from Sunday totals. Alcira reports 320 cholera cases with 130 deaths and 138 recoveries. vaccination patterns show two thirds inoculated, many non inoculated poor. Visitors to Alcira praised Dr Ferran as a savior while locals welcomed them amid fumigation on return to Valencia.
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Madrid
Spain
Alcira
Chicago Tribune
Ferran
Gibier
van Ermingen
Meadier
Bordeaux
Tribune
Akita
Alira
Valencia
Dudley Acquitted by Insanity Verdict in Rossa Case
In New York, Mrs. Yseult Dudley testified she was not insane and described O'Donovan Rossa as a murderer who sought to incite terror. She claimed she acted under mania and a belief in Rossa’s plots, then explained her intent to illustrate dynamite effects with him. The jury acquitted her on insanity grounds after five minutes of deliberation.
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New York Telegram
Yseult Dudley
O’donovan-Rossa
O'Donovan
Land of Liberty
Oscar Craigg
Rosendale
Ulster Co
N. Y
Craigg
Varid Kennedy
Rondout
New York
Dr. Kennedy
Business review shows improvement in six months
R G Dun & Co reports a brighter six month period with fewer large liabilities though total failures rise slightly from 558 to 6004 compared with 1884. A major drop in New York liabilities to 8.8 million from 57.6 million signals local relief, plus lower average liabilities per failure.
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New York Telegram
R. G. Dun & Co
Dominion of Canada
Mexican Finances Consolidate Debt Repudiates Maximilian
The Diario Oficial reports a plan to consolidate Mexico's national debt excluding floating debt. 325,109,000 bonds at six percent are issued, with three percent interest and staged repayments through 1890. Foreign capitalists advised the move to revive foreign credit as Maximilian's debt is repudiated.
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Diario Oficial
National Bank of Mexico
City of Mexico
New York
London
Maximilian
Splinters and Society Notes From the Exposition
The Southern Exposition at Louisville opens August 15. A Barimone man kisses his wife, leaving her deaf. Prince Epwakp of Wales becomes a Master Mason. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes spends summers at Beverly. An Ohio Republican predicts Blaine’s campaign invite. Ren G W P Custis Lee resigns Washington and Lee presidency due to ill health. Frost halts cistern digging near Caledonia. A Crxcryxall wife abandons husband and child after half an hour. A Mitchell South Dakota teacher evacuated pupils to a tree during a storm. In 1862 Mr Charles H Hooper’s letter to Castine, Me., reached his wife last month after 23 years en route from Washington.
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Louisville
Prince Epwakp
Wales
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beverly
Ohio
Blaine
Ren. G. W. P. Custis Lee
Washington and Lee University
Caledonia
Dakota
Mitchell
D. T
Charles H. Hooper
Castine
Washington
Government Economy Doubts Amid Frugal Rhetoric
A critic notes Cleveland spends on daily grooming with a thirty dollar razor and ten dollars per trip for silence, highlighting perceived discrepancies between claimed government thrift and actual costs.
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Cleveland
Tur devil and lightning-rod man in a tense showdown
A dramatic line from a historical page contrasts the untamable Tur devil with the elusive lightning-rod man. The article frame hints at a frontier conflict or tall tale about resilient figures and unpredictable dangers in a rugged landscape.
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Tur
Government probes illegal Indian lands leases in Indian Territory
General Sparks provides a list of cases where public lands were improperly fenced and occupied. He notes leases of millions of acres to non Indians under nominal rents and argues such leases are unauthorized and invalid. The report cites lessees in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservations and condemns trespass by non Indians while defending Indian wards and federal authority.
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Europe
Court of Alabama Claims
Leopo Orse
Gothe
Publc
Keiley
Austria- Hungary
Vienna
United States
Sparks
Aftrian
James Fenner Lee
Maryland
Legation
Garland
Commissioner of Agriculture
Prof
M. 8. Kern
Agricultural Department
Washington Telegram
Chicago Tribune
General Land Office
Lamar
McCook
Colorado
Secretary of the Interior
Thas
Gen
Congress
Indian Territory
Department of the Interior
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Hampton H. Denman
Washington, D. C
Kansas State Senate
Edward Fenlon
Leavenworth
Kas
William C
Briggs
E. M. Hewins
Cherokee Strip Live-Stock Association of Kansas
Kansas Corporation
Gen. McCook
Rapine
Sensational double suicide at Gilson topples lovers
In Gilson a schoolteacher Melissa Steepleton and her fiancé Edward Southerland died after a disputed engagement. She used rat poison then arsenic and died at five this morning. He then shot himself in the head. An inquest is pending as details emerge.
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Galesburg
Gilson
Melissa Steepleton
Edward Southerland
Southerland
Certificates Held as Cash Issued But Not Outstanding
A report notes that certificates are held as cash issued but not outstanding and records the net cash balance on hand.
Storms Ignite Villages and Rain Caused Havoc Across Regions
Twenty villages were set ablaze by lightning during weekend storms with six men killed while fighting the fires. A hurricane damaged crops and a waterspout flooded Pesth as crowds at the Danube baths faced danger but were rescued. The torpedoed H M S Valiant left seven injured, two severely. Germany reports continued storm damage across multiple regions. New Hampshire reports thousands of boys taking a temperance pledge to be placed in a government building cornerstone. Census taker Monroe Corbin notes a woman aged forty who has nineteen children living in Webster, Massachusetts.
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Vienna
Danube
Germany
New Hampshire
Concord
Monroe H. Corbin
Webster
Mass
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