Plague Cause Linked to Typhoid Drains at Plymouth
Medical experts in New York link Plymouth Pennsylvania plague to typhoid discharges carried from a vault by rain into the river and reservoir, sparking disease for about six hundred residents. Also: city planning talks, health notes, and local crimes and misfortunes including taxes on telephones and a fatal shooting in Deposit New York.
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New York
Plymouth
Philadelphia Council
Barker Street
Sixteenth
Pennsylvania Road
Broad Street
Baltimore
Thomas Warner
Cobocton
N. J
Bath
F. A. Palmer
Newark
Boston
Massachusetts
Joe L. Sullivan
Thomas Brown
Erie
George Axbeil
Deposit
N. Y
Albert
West crash and fires rage across towns and frontier fights
A series of deadly incidents and disasters unfold including suicides of Ryhynder & Co. partner Maurice Hourey and railway auditor Charles F. Gay. Fires devastate Medford Wisconsin and Whitehall Michigan, Phoenix Arizona. Apache attacks near Fort Bayard kill dozens with reports of massacres, captures, and brutal mutilations amid war warnings and new Mexico dispatches.
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Maurice Hourey
Ryhynder & Co
Highland
Ill
Charles F. Gay
Marquette
Mich
Medford
Wis
Nufer
Whitehall
Phenix
A. T
St. Louis
Flora E. Downs
England
Cleveland
Ohio
New Mexico
Arizona
Tucson
Ari
Phillips
Fort Baynd
Silver City
Geronimo
Nana
Naetcha
Chihuahua
Bear Creek
Fort Bayard
Gila
Horsia
Joseph Bunting
Bunting
Black Range
Washington
Indian Bureau
Northwest
Indiana
Wisconsin
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Terry
Gabriel Dumont
Fort Assinaboine
Montana
John Motter
Friday
Louis Reaume
Peoria
Chicago
Barrett
Lieut
Laughlin
Gila River
Crook
Col. Phillips
Locusts, floods and storms sweep Arkansas and Texas
Thousands of locusts hatch in tree tops across Crittenden and Phillips Counties Arkansas. Tornado rains flood Waco Texas area with eleven deaths and five missing. McLennan County losses reach 250000 dollars as Brazos River rises two feet. East Waco residents flee as relief efforts begin. Northeastern parishes report locusts and cotton worms.
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Crittenden
Phillips Counties
Arkansas
Southern Presbyterian Assembly
Confession of Faith
Waco
Texas
McLennonty
Brazos
Texas storms and hangings noted in sweeping account
The report recalls executions at Richmond Texas where Archie Gibson was hanged for murder and cites John Terry’s controversial last words in Barnwell D C. It notes a large theft of indictments from Wheeling West Virginia and details a historic Texas rainstorm with record rainfall in Waco and Brazos River floods causing massive crop damage and real estate losses possibly exceeding 20 million dollars.
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Louisiana
John Terry
Barnwell
D. C
John G. Sessions
Archie Gibson
Richmond
Fort Bend County
Texas
Wheeling
W. Va
Waco
Brazos
Cabinet Sickness Delays World’s Fair Extension Vote
Secretary Lamar fallen ill with a malarial chill after months of strain as Cabinet keeps focus on whether to extend the New Orleans World’s Fair. President argues there is no legal authority to reopen the exposition. Navy reports Dolphin’s fourth trial trip meets contract terms.
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Lamar
Washington
New Orleans
H. B. Butte
Ward & Co
Louisiana
George Mayo
Chicago
Blisher
Post and Courier
Ilinois Agriculturist
Secretary of the Treasury
Gibson
Cabnet
Belknap
Secretary of the Navy
Dolphin
Postmaster shakeup and Cleveland appointments amid scandal
The Postmaster General vows to remove officials tied to the presidential scandal for indecency. President Cleveland names Edward Campbell Jr as U S Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa and revokes J L Meade as Hazlehurst postmaster. Additional appointments include collectors, postmasters, land office handlers, and envoys to China, with a broad wave of nominations across states.
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Vilas
Washington Dispatch
Cleveland
Edward Campbell, Jr
United States
Iowa
C. L. Williams
J. L. Meade
Hazlehurst
Miss
Meade
Jah County
Mississippi
Matthews
Wmr
Fam
South
Owen A. Wells
Wisconsin
John B. Malony
Min
A E. Eichholtz
Sunbury
Jacob Odell
Youngstown N. Y
George W. Evans
Kehrer
Leavenworth
Ind
Franklin Coit
North Liberty
Frank Scheper
Oldenburg
Elizabeth E. Buckles
Primrose
N. Meldrum
Chesterville
Ill
Dennis Deneen
Hammond
Wis
J. Mierswa
Baren
John Wetherhall
A. Ti
Coppock
Goldsmith
Weber
Bio
Indiana
China
Wendell A. Anderson
Mon
James W. Whelpsey
United
Riel and others featured in scattered 19th century dispatches
Telegrams report General Gabriel Oumont captured near Fort Assiniboine and held by orders. Regina medical officer says Riel is sane. Riel family mourns, archbishop may save him. Creditors listed include Warner and Ashenhast. City of Rome sinks John George in collision. 22 of 24 crew lost. Filibuster expedition in Cuba flees to mountains while peace prevails. Bradstreet notes 161 US business failures, mainly small traders, with Decoration Day observed nationwide. Grant salutes veterans in New York windows amid commemorations.
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Gabriel Oumont
Riel
United States
Fort Assinaboine
Terry
Dr. Jukes
Mounted Police
Regina
Winnipeg Dispatch
St. Vital
Archbishop Tache
Thos. Warner
Coshocton
N. Y
Ashenhast, Roush & Co
Manchester
Ohio
City of Rome
New York
John George
Santiago de Cuba
Bradstreet’s
Bradstreets Journal
Grant
Cleveland
Washington
Bloomill
John A. Loag
Hagers Md
George B. McCiellana
Chicago
Severe Thunderstorm Hits Chicago Suburbs and City
A Chicago special dated the 3d reports a heavy thunderstorm with lightning wind and rain lasting about an hour. Damage occurs mainly on the outskirts with several buildings struck and a few demolished. One watchman at McCormick Repertories died after a shock. others injured but nonfatally. Additional deaths from lightning noted. Debris and washouts affect the southwest, and a Transit House flagpole is splintered.
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Chicago
John Montague
McCormick
Lake
Hungary
Carter Harrison
R. H. Witter
St. Louis
International Typographical Union
Baptist Missionary Union
Sartoga
Edward Judson
New York
The
Missionary Union
Denver
Colorado
R. Davis
Davis
Bombay
Cashmere
India
Serrinigar
Gunn
Cllege of Medicine and Surgery
Coggeshall
Uica
Senate Committee On Miscellaneous Corporations
Divorce Grounds Narrowed by Presbyterian General Assembly
Reports from Cincinnati say the Presbyterian General Assembly endorsed adultery or willful desertion as the only proper ground for divorce. Other items mention a tax plan on public revenues, slave-owner compensation, and a clash near Fort Pitt where Gen. ac re’s forces failed to dislodge Big Bear’s group after hours of fighting with several wounded.
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Disby Service
Cincinnati
Big Bear
Fort Pitt
Explosive device patterns arrive in Paris and frontier talks progressed
New York dynamiters arrive in Paris showing a three spring explosive. Ameer frontier disputes persist as Penjdeh and Zulficar border issues hover. Russia and Britain inch toward peace with frontier delimited north of the Russian claim. Cholera cases rise in Valencia and Ireland raises funds for James Stephens.
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New York
Paris
Gistalinas
Penjdeh
Zulficar
Afghanistan
Russia
Merachak
Penjceb
Engand
France
Chna
England
Maruchak
Tulfikur
Boundary Commission
Valencia
Spain
Ferrans
Ireland
James Stephens
Survivors of George Jeanne Sunk by City of Rome in Dense Fog
The French bark George Jeanne, with crew including captain Joseph Biondin, sank after a collision with the City of Rome off Newfoundland on May 25. Two French sailors Hubert Albert and Marie survived after being rescued, while four others disappeared in the icy waters. The City of Rome, with 821 passengers, backed away to rescue the lifeboat stragglers as crowds urged lifeboat duty and a brave rescue by Fourth Officer Turner.
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George Jeanne
City of
Rome
Newfoundland
Hubert Albert
Marie
Liverpool
Queenstown
Jeanne
Turner
Joseph Biondin
Albert
Nine Drowned by Water Spout Near Indianola Neb
A Bohemian Mennonite party of seventeen camping near Richmond Canyon was swept away by a waterspout on the Republican River. Nine people, three women and six children, drowned. one wagon carried away with $1200 in a coffee pot washed downstream. Only two bodies of the eleven missing were recovered by morning.
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Indianola
Neb
Mennonites
Dundy Creek
Richmond Canyon
Republican River
John Macek
John Osmer
Joseph Havelic
Havelic
Osmer
Macek
United States Co
Dairy Industry Circular Aims Monthly Production Records
The Commissioner of Agriculture in Washington urges cheese and butter production reporting. He seeks monthly factory outputs and adulterations to present to Congress, proposing October as a cutoff with six months for seasonal adjustments to compare states.
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Washington
Colman
Congress
Mother and Daughter Sentenced for Contempt in Philadelphia
Margaret Brooks was convicted as a common scold in Philadelphia and sentenced to four months in prison. Her 18 year old daughter leapt up, struck an elderly witness, and, after the mother was taken away, the daughter also received four months for contempt. The girl resisted officers as she was taken to the van.
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Margaret Brooks
Philadelphia
Four Colored Men Sworn as Attorneys by South Carolina Supreme Court
A Columbia dispatch reports Johnson C Whittaker E C C Washington E J Sawyer and E E Watson, all colored young men, passed the court examination and were sworn enrolled as attorneys in all South Carolina courts. Whittaker, once the West Point cadet with slit ears, has led a Charleston colored military school for two years and previously failed a law exam.
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Columbia
S. C
Johnson C. Whittaker
E. C. C. Washington
E. J. Sawyer
E. E. Watson
Supreme Court
Whittake
West Point
Charleston
Two Boys Die In Gas in Reading Well Rescue
In Reading Pennsylvania Charles Smith twelve enters a twenty five foot well to recover a knife. Gas overcomes him and Isaac Doyle twenty six descends to save him and also is overcome. Both men die at the scene.
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Reading
Charles Smith
Isaac Doyle
Vast City Cat Count and Notable 19th Century Notes
A scattered collection reports 180000 cats in New York City, a lady in waiting for Queen Victoria earning 2500 dollars yearly, and the Dakota Bar Association forming in Yankton. Mentioned are premiums on actors, Stephens vault plans, cremation beliefs, and a Grant era Philadelphia house sold for 22500 dollars under Vanderbilt mortgage proceedings.
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New York
Bar Association of Dakota
Yankton
Bayard
Galilee Fishermen and Modern Dutch Courage Partially Trimmed
A New Orleans correspondent muses on the lake’s sparse sailing craft and scarce Galilee fish despite waters said to teem with life. He contrasts biblical toil with contemporary laziness, lamenting lost shipbuilding skill and urging enterprise over donkeys or camels for faster crossings.
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Galilee
Christ
Simon
New Orleans Times Democrat
Why Ministers Oppose the Skating Rink
The New York Times questions ministerial hostility to skating rinks noting past attitudes toward circuses and menageries. It jokes ministers deem wild beasts in scripture but treat ice skating as biblical while a rink remains unknown to biblical writers.
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New York Times
Handshakes reveal character says Willis and suffrage debate stirs
Prof Willis argues hand-shaking exposes heart and mind through touch and tone. Boston women push reform as opposition cites school voting apathy amid a remonstrance. A Holbrook House hen yields a peculiar discovery with pistol cartridge shells and gold buttons found in the bird’s craw.
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Willis
Boston
Pittsburgh Telegraph
Holbrook House
Teras Valley
Miserable Cough Lingers While Jimmy Bears a Barrell Cough
A laundress complains of shared pain with her child Jimmy who coughs badly. She begs for relief as both suffer, the mother expressing misery and the boy haunted by a harsh sounding cough. The scene captures hardship and illness within a family unit.
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Guysotts
Dr Rh V Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Ad
An advertisement touts Dr Rh V Pierce of Buffalo and his Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for bou taints poisons and humors including scrofula pimples eruptions swellings ulcers and kindred affections. Sold by druggists.
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Rh. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Four Husbands Boost Thibet Dress Goods Popularity
In Thibet a woman has four husbands and that quirk helped popularize Thibet dress goods years ago. The remark notes how items from that country delighted the ladies in a land filled with eight old maids, as observed in the Somerville Journal.
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Somerville Journal
Washington hotel gag about baggage and trust
A hotel clerk asks a guest for the key to a trunk after registration. The guest confirms baggage, triggering a quip about discerning trust among acquaintances and friends while reflecting on choices of who one knows.
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Washington Hotel
Odd Claims and Patent Remedies in 19th Century Ads
An advertising fragment laments persuading men to pay for cures and cites Dr. Sage and a catarrh remedy. It promotes Pure Cod Liver Oil by Caswell, Hazard & Co claiming purity and superiority. A wartime rights remark closes the piece, linking injury to lost rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sage
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
New York
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H. Dawson
Cambridge
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