Washington Pension Scandal Nets Clerk and Agent
From Washington a pension bureau clerk and a city pension agent were arrested for conspiring to defraud pensioners. Treasury reports show large quarterly receipts and deficits across federal departments, while a Port Townsend smuggling arrest prompts deportation orders. Railroad expansion slows, silver reclaims, and new money orders expand international payments. Postmasters surge as six month commissions rise.
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Washington
Pension Bureau
Post Office Department
Department of Agriculture
Treasury Department
Port Townsend
W. T
British Columbia
California
Montana
Philadelphia
New Orleans
San Francisco
Civilized Nations
United States
Mexico
Teller
General Land Office
Northern Pacific Railway
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Canada
New England States
Western
Middle
Southern
Pacific States and Territories
New York City
Record of varied 19th century incidents and deaths
A digest of multiple brief reports: a sixteen year old boy dies from hydrophobia after a cat bite. a Boston Herald stereotyper is attacked. a missionary returns to New York with the first Burmese woman. accidents and fires across states including a mill, sash factory, and a university building. train crashes, bank burglaries, and a cyclone sweep causing heavy damage. politicians and conventions noted plus labor and immigration items. weather events, drownings, and notable deaths mentioned.
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Walpole
N. H
Slade
Selden
Sage
Rome
N. Y
New York
London
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
William Lindsey
Jerome B. Niles
Arthur
Buffalo & Southwestern
Jamestown
Franklin
Phinney & Jackson, Merchants
Portland
Philadelphia
Thomas Lecompte
Springfield
Orange Judd
Horace Greeley
Chappaqua
Rufus 8
Mann
Lansingburg
N.Y
May Stultz
Waterford
United States
New Hampshire
W. E. Chandler
Rep
Harry Bingham
Dem
Louis Walso
Lake George
Two Ton Stone Falls at Fall River Killing One Wounding Four
A stone weighing two tons fell about forty feet at Fall River Massachusetts killing one man and severely wounding four. Nearby a lightning strike injured several children at a Un derhill Vermont schoolhouse. A girl became deaf and a boy lost shoe parts.
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Fall River
Mass
Underhill
Foreign Intelligence and Global Calamities Update
Reports from the era span political clashes in France and Britain, with Ferry called a liar and a fortnightly expulsion, while Gladstone mentions apologies over consular banishment. A French astronomer finds a red star amid eclipse studies, and global disasters include floods in London Ontario killing dozens, cholera deaths in Egypt, and raids in Tripoli.
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Paul de Cassagnac
Chamber of Deputies
Ferry
Caroline Islands
Thames
London
Ont
Damietta
Egypt
Mansurah
Samanoud
Shirbin
Tantah
Tripoli
Cetawayo
Cham
South Africa
House of Commons
Gladstone
France
Tamatave
Vera Cruz
Lucan
Zifteh
Cairo
Menzaleh
Lord Dufferin
Canada
United States
General Moore
Atj
Lisbon
Pimpon
Boston
Fayal
Tonquin
China
Malta
Rostov
Huarica
Peru
Purley
Assassins Captured after Polk City Postmaster Murder
In Elkhorn Grove Shelby County Iowa the two alleged killers of R L Clingan post master at Polk City were seized on the 14th. One man Benjamin Gates fatally wounded confessed to shooting Clingan and Mayor Stubbs about a year ago. his companion Smith was taken to Shelby County Jail. Gates died before trial.
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Bon Humme
Hutchinson
Dakota
Baltimore
John Maguire
James Clinton
Maguire
Clinton
Zion’s Savings Bank
Salt Lake
David Seeling
Milwaukee
James B. Weaver
Sanford Kilpatrick
D. W. Church
Abbie O. Canfield
Purcell
Cincinnati
Polk City
R. L. Clingan
Topeka
Kan
Epward Winnrne
Steubenville
Dodge County
Andrew J. George
Dovclass Dowey
Buck Williams
Burnt Prairie
White County
Ill
Dowdy
Williams
Kansas
Soldier City
Jackson County
Ree
Cimarron
Gray County
Stites
Volga
C. T
Hamilton County
Neb
Berry
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
George Boozer
Laurens
8. C
Louisiana Colored Baptist State Convention
Baton Rouge
Africa
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
United States
Indianapolis
Apollo Commandery
Chicago
Falls City
Alice Gunn
Reepport
Illinois Department of Agriculture
N. S. Tempie
Jackson
Miss
San Francisco
Iowa
Illinois
Scott County
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Moberly
St. Louis
Lincoln
Malden
Harrisonburg
Maryville
Presbyterian Church
Browning
Minnie Brown
Crawford
Calhoun County
Fla
Elkhorn Grove
Shelby County
Benjamin Gates
Smith
Gates
Clingan
Stubbs
Roanoke
N. Y
Phelps
Phelps, Jr
Lackawanna Road
Ghizeh
Cairo
Mansourah
Damietta
Paducah
Barnsley
Eng
Cokato
Minn
Havana
Cuartes Heywood Stratton
Tom Thumb
Middleboro
Mass
Liptoszentmiklo
Hungary
Frederick Smith
Tonawanda
Buffalo
Frederick Schuldt
Reading
Hayvens
Rutland (Vt
Minnesota Fire Destroys Cokato Boarding House Three Die
A early morning blaze in Cokato Minnesota devastates the boarding house killing three railroad laborers. About twenty guests escape through a hole blown in the side as doors fail in smoke and flame. Waverly reports and relief teams aid the injured and homeless families with no fire department in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cokato
Minn
Shepard
Willingham
Kelly
Montrose
Storm
Waverly
Capture of Polk City postmaster murderers in Shelby County grove
A dispatch details the capture of two murderers who killed Polk City postmaster Clingan. After a long chase across Angus to a 150 acre grove in Shelby County, Willis Halleck spotted them. They fired, wounded Halleck. a volley killed one fugitive, Gates, who confessed to shooting the mayor and postmaster. Hardy alias Smith was captured, his attempted lynching halted by a crowd. he addressed the mob from a railroad bridge before being taken to Harlan jail. One accomplice, Wess Maddy, was shot.
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Des Mores
Polk City
Shelby County
Angus
Willis Halleck
Halleck
Gates
Stubbs
Clingan
Hardy
Smith
Crawford
Littleton
Harlan
Wess Maddy
Maine
Home Sweet Home line attributed to Payne dialogue version
A stanza claimed years after the original Home Sweet Home poem by John Howard Payne is said to have been given to an American lady met abroad. It contrasts blessed fate with Payne’s woes, while echoing the refrain Home, home, sweet home and the line Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Howard Payne
Home
Columbia
Lawsuit Considered Over Brooklyn Bridge Pier Infringement
A suit threatens action against the Brooklyn Bridge for infringing a page in erecting river piers where the bridge ends rest. A similar case against the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad years ago netted $32,000 for the plaintiff, per the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
Brooklyn Eagle
Duration of a surety on a note in the Burlington Hawkeye
A young merchant asks how long a surety lasts on a note. The response notes that a surety remains valid as long as the note or the surety lasts, but in practice a surety can be good only once. The Burlington Hawkeye presents this guidance on surety obligations.
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Burlington
Terrific storms sweep Missouri Valley with wrecks and injuries
A sequence of powerful storms struck the Midwest July 14. Widespread damage reported across Missouri towns including Browning Linneus Ashburn and Maryville with trains wrecked and many injured. Tornado-like winds leveled buildings wrecked churches and crops while cattle were killed and depredations extended to Clinton and Scott counties.
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Here
Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City
Burlington
Browning
Watson
Linneus
Keokuk
Ashburn
St. Louis, Keokuk
Perry
Talley
Sullivan County
Alex Craig
St. Joseph
Theodore J. Shea
Cincinnati
S. T. Smith
Ottumwa
J. C. Ross
A. Ross
Sr. Lovuts
Missouri Valley
Moberly
Pacific Junction
Percival
Plain Hollow
McPaul
Paul Bros
Kansas City Railway
Hamburg
I.a
Westboro
Atchison County
Stanberry
Normal School
Baptist Church
Maryville
Presbyterian Church
Roseberry
Morehouse
McCloskey
Posley
Reynolds
Malden
Union Church
Spencer
C. H. Phillip
C. F. Herring
E. van Quash
William Davis
Clington
Clinton
Scott
Wapsipinicon
Prinee
Grove
Princeton
Toronto
Chicago & Northwestern
Grand Mound
Missisi River
Money Order System to Expand Domestic Limits
Washington says the money-order system will allow single domestic orders from 1 cent to 100 dollars, with new postal notes of 5 and under to start September 3. Domestic fees drop to 8 cents for orders up to 10 dollars, offsetting higher costs on larger sums. international orders unchanged. The system aims to boost public use while the government recovers losses from clerical mistakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McDonald
Post-office Department
Congress
Cable road over Brooklyn Bridge nears completion
The Brooklyn Bridge project advances toward completion as the cable road structure rapidly nears final setup. Officials report steady progress and expect opening soon with improved transit capacity for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bridge
Tricks of Bertha Heyman Exposed in Full Story
New York July 11. Mrs Bertha Heyman the Continent Queen was arrested in Paterson on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses from Edward Sanders. Her criminal history dates to 1869 with a $200 loan to Charles Brandt, later claiming vast wealth and swindling across states. She was convicted in 1881 in General Sessions, sentenced to two years, and after release moved to New York living as Mrs Richards at the Hoffman House, a stout 24 year old with a striking but ordinary appearance.
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New York
Bertha Heyman
Paterson
Edward Sanders
Brandt
George Curtis
Poughkeepsie
Karko
Heyman
Albert Blatz
Milwaukee
Wis
Kouitz
Perine
Lena Schwartz
West
Chicago
Bertha
Robert Bonner
Canada
Staten Island
Pauline Schlaibaum
Schlaibaum
Broadway
Morris
Charles Karpe
Karpe
Fox
Agriculture Shows Strong Wheat and Crop Improvements
Washington reports crops improving with winter wheat at 300 million bushels and spring wheat at 125 million. Corn area up 2.5 million acres. oats and barley near last year. Irish potatoes up five percent and good. tobacco down seven percent. cotton improved though moisture hindered cultivation. Overall crop condition advanced from 86 to 90 with some regional rainfall issues.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Hero Fireman Saves Child From Train on St Paul Road
A train moving north at thirty miles an hour neared a child near the rails. Fireman Tom King leaped through the cab window, braced the pilot, and toppled the child into the ditch just in time. The mother looked up gratefully as he steadied the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuhicagoo
St. Paul Road
Tom King
Forecast of floodplain occupancy near Mississippi and Missouri
A contemporary notes that repeated floods may force relocation of permanent settlements from low-lying river lands to cultivation like the Nile’s bottom lands. He suggests periodic overflow will recur and shape future land use along the Mississippi and Missouri.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Nile
Needle In Palm Worked Its Way Back To Hand
A resident of Argyle in Washington County New York injures her hand when a needle is driven into the palm. It remains lodged about an inch and a quarter then surfaces on the back of the hand three weeks later and is removed with her teeth.
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John Hughey
Argyle
Washington County
N. Y
Troy
Texas paper notes three drownings in separate trips
A Texas newspaper suggests the fatal number remains three after three separate incidents where groups of three girls went bathing and drowned. It speculates the tragedy might have stopped if four had joined each outing.
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Texas
Pigeon Travels 334 Miles From Steubenville to Orange
A homing pigeon escaped in Steubenville Ohio and flew to Orange New Jersey covering 334 miles. It maintained a pace of one mile in one minute and twelve seconds, setting a swift endurance record for a messenger bird.
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Steubenville
Orange
N. J
Thames flood and Kansas cyclones devastate towns
London Ontario reports 32 dead as the Thames freshet swamps western suburbs. A tornado and heavy rain disrupts railways and bridges, with dozens missing and $5 million in property loss. Simultaneously in Kansas, Soldier City and Cimarron endure killer cyclones, killing four and injuring many while destroying stores and barns.
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LonDon
Can
Thames
Miss Wright
Orr
Hopkins
Kensington
R. F. Lacey
London West
Mr. Orr
Ann Street
George Stratford
Napier Street
D. T. McLean
Blackfriars Street
William Maylon
James
Ingersoll
Lake Ontario
Niagara
Kansas
HousTon
Kan
Soldier City
Here
Stephenson
Cimarron
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Dodge City
Postmaster Assassinated in Polk City
In Des Moines July 12, two unknown men shot Polk City Postmaster H. K. L. Clingan as he closed his store. He was killed instantly. killers fled. The county is in an armed manhunt with riders and scouts deployed. Residents, furious over other local murders, vow to hang the culprits if found.
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Des Moines
I.a
HK. L. Clingan
Polk City
Clingan
Odd Fellows' Lodge
D. C. Hauger
Stubbs
Sheldahl
Runaway Horse Dashes Into Chicago River One Life Lost
In Cui s ao on July 12 four children Stephen George and Amelia Gigg and Artzenia Theuan rode a light buggy along Harrison street at Fifth avenue. The horse bolted after boys playing in the street and plunged the buggy over the drawbridge into the river. George and Amelia jumped free and escaped with minor injuries. The driver and another occupant vanished below the surface. Theuan was saved by Captain O Niel, while Gregg boy drowned and body not recovered. The horse and buggy remained uninjured.
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Cuiisao
Stephen
George
Amelia Gigg
Artzenia Theuan
Harrison Street
Fifth Avenue
Amelia
Theuan
O’niel
Gregg
Railways Reach Vast Span Around the Earth
The railways now constructed and operated cover a distance that would reach eight times around the earth, highlighting the vast scale of expansion and the reach of rail transport in the era.
Tin Mine Found in Black Hills Discovery Shocks Region
A new tin ore deposit has been found in the Black Hills prompting immediate geological surveys. Local authorities anticipate potential mining development, citing favorable ore grades and accessible terrain. Expert panels note the find could boost regional industry and employment amid existing mining activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
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Defiance County Express
Ssgir
Frank C. Culley
Defiance
Ohio
Nashville
Foreign Intelligence
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