Important Intelligence From All Parts Prank Culley Editor
Defiance County Exprestress reports from Washington and across the country. Notable items include General Miles urged to settle with Spokane chiefs, 224 Chief Moses arrivals seeking land payments, Star-route trial costs, and various weather, flood, and political developments. Also noted are stock exchange failures, railway accidents, and public notices amid a broad, rapid-news digest.
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Washington
United States
Charles Wine
Thomas L. Tullock
Geral Sherman
Ohe
Miles
Moses’ Reservation
Black Hills
Tex
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Congress
District of Columbia
Moses
Washington Territory
New England
Middle States
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Peru
Richard Gibbs
New York
Bolivia
Madison levee breaks flooding Illinois farmland
From Ede Missouri June 25 reports describe the Madison levee failure between Venice and Mitchell causing a sprawling flood. Thousands flee to bluffs as water rises from a 20 foot wall. hundreds of farms, mainly German owned, are inundated across Venice Chouteau Namcoka townships with extensive losses and localized deaths. The disaster strains rail lines, markets, and local livelihoods as residents race to save family and stock.
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Madison
Alton
East St. Louis
Illinois
Bluffs
Pullman, I
Pullman, I., Om the 23d Haulan
Lee
Teemer
Vera Cruz
Mex
Havana
Cubs
Lovuts
Venice
Mitchell
Horseshoe Lake
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Wabash
Chicago & Alton
Cal
Chouteau
Namcoka
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Bowman Dyke
Fish Lake
Mississippi
Missouri River
Here
Cairo
Kansas City
Coun
Burlington
Denver
Leavenworth
St. Joseph
Creve Cear Lake
Missouri
Crewe Coursee Company
Carolina Island
Fragmented miscellany of 19th century notes and incidents
A collage of brief items from late 1800s newspapers. It cites odd curiosities and local anecdotes, including a New York showboat idea, a wheat region salt bed, drought cocoanuts, a Delaware boy’s foot amputation, accident statistics, a water-sprinkling tree near Rome Georgia, Arkansas society news, a German baron’s daughter’s tragedy, Gould’s quip about fortunes, a Paris wedding day shooting and suicide, and a Parisian wedding incident pending further account.
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Easil
Herald
New York
N. Y. Graphic
Genesee Valley
N. Y
United States
Chicago Journal
Philadelphia Press
Rome
Atlanta Constitution
Society News
Arkansas
Jack Muggle
Black Fork
Higtores
Blowgill
Arkansaw
Royal Medical College
Saxony
N. Y. Tribune
Death From Eating Raw Ham in St. Louis
Mrs Annie Schmerelin of 1825 Jackson Street died after six weeks of trichinosis from eating raw ham. Her husband fell ill but recovered. the meat was found to contain live trichinae. The case began with sudden illness and progressed to a lingering death with muscle decay.
Singular Freak of a Boiler at Behymer Saw Mill
A boiler at Behymer Stiles saw mill seven miles from here on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway exploded, lifting eight men safe, destroying lumber, tearing a switch, and damaging main track. Loss set at 1500 with no insurance. Causes linked to mumps in order. report notes other items on labor rates and New Hampshire manufacturing output.
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R. H. Parks & Co
New York Stock Exchange
John Wallace
William Hayler
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
Albany
New York City
John Devoy
Irish Nation
Hibeling
August Belmont
Belmont
Democrats
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Port Henry
Wong Ching Foo
New York
el Wy Chan Pond
Tipp
International Military Rifle Team
England
Columbia College
Harvards
New London
Conn
James F. Wood
Philadelphia
Ellen Rizpah
Provincetown
Mass
Ezekiel M. Paterson
New Brunswick
N. J
Hathway
Union
Bay State Manufacturing Company
Tae
Charls Backas
Boston
New England
Joan Gimsox & Co
Gibsonton
William ‘T. Cook
Lancaster
G. M. Horkrys
Troy
N. Y
Adeline
Tex
Hughes
Thomas
Wesley Warren
Prospect
Tenn
James Trice
Minneapolis
Chicago Express
Omaha
William Harrington
Roberts
E. L. Stewart
Fayette
Morton
San Francisco
Fresno
Cal
Dakota
Huron
Sioux Falls
St. Louis
Tar Democrats
Ohio
Columbus
George Hoadley
Cincinnati
John G. Warwick
Stark County
Indiana
Knickerbocker
Indianapolis
Cleveland
American Homeopathic Institute
J. C. Senders
Wheeling
W. Va
Mississippi
Bluffs
W. D.tuorx
Adams County
Neb
Salt Lake City
Butte
M. I
Nea Chillicothe
Robert. Williams
Greenville
D. C
Ned McBrayer
Minn
Kansas City
Gove
James Johnson
Monroe McDonald
James Herndon
Clarksville
Ark
Conauctor Cain
Lewis Carter
Jerusalem
Fish Lake
East Carondelet
Friar’s Point
Miss
Jefferson City
Pullman
Chicago
Nike
Ar Veto
Als
Kyle Walker
A Fremont
Wneetows
Lil
Behymer, Holbrook & ‘Stiles
Ohio & Mississippi
Cobbler Preachers Shape English Religious Thought Across Eras
The article notes a notable link between shoemakers and religious leadership in England, highlighting figures such as George Fox the Quaker and Thomas Shillitoe. It describes how cobbler preachers influenced dissenting circles, gained royal audiences, and impacted biblical scholarship, with others like Huntingdon Morrison Burnet Kitto among their ranks.
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England
George Fox
Society of Friends
Thomas Shillitoe
Fox
Shillitoe
Prussia
Denmark
Russia
Napoleon
France
Huntingdon
Robert Morrison
John Burnet
John Kitto
St. Louis
Glove-Democrat
How to Make Fashions Increases Individual Style This Season
Fashion signals bold individuality as women craft their own looks from art inspirations rather than copy others. A beautiful woman proclaims courage to wear what suits her, while a middle aged shopper notes the joy of selecting fabrics for summer entertainments and recalls childhood prints with fondness.
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Chicago Journal
A Boy's Lofty Tumbling At Me lliard Falls
A Leesville youth from Robeson County slipped near Me lliard's Falls two miles from Rutherford College while students bathed in a stream. He tumbled a series of cliffs totaling about two hundred feet, landed on a ledge, then plummeted again, only to scramble from the water with scant injuries as classmates watched in alarm.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Sane
St Charles County
Seneca
Kane
John
Gribb
Gallatin
Frank James
Chicago Board of Trade
W. S. Nichols & Co
Peck & Bausher
Creomatt
Kelly
James Toal
Ren. T. Jexxtis, Jr
J. Lane Borden
Mandela
Inter Te Ant
Mr. Borden
Jenkins
Rme
Grant
Orezeit
ST la
New York
Castle Garden
James Glidden
Perry P. Long
Dover
N. H
Glidden
Samuel Rutherford
John Ryan
Brady’s Lake
Stapleton
N.Y
Rutherford
Atchison, Kan
Omaha
Neb
Silesia
Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
New Zealand
Waitara
Alexander Sullivan
Arthur
United States
Echt
Brockway
Mitchell
Oakum
Ant
Judge's
Pegasus
Philadelphia
Gould
Tiffany
Brooklyn Bridge
Rue St. Denis
Paris
Mairie
Rutherford College
Melliard’s Falls
G. O. Floyd
Leesville
Robeson County
Lenoir
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Defiance County
Culley
Defiance
William Dicely
Catlettsburg
Dallas
R. E. Cowasit
Thurmond Hy
W. B. Thompson
Chattanooga
Emma Key
Ware
Kansas City Electric Light Company
John Parrey
Halsted Street
Fortieth Street
George Sweeney
Williamson & Stewart Paper Company
Yoxing Wii
Fanny Conley
M. Field
Nanea
Ix Gant
Boonville
Francisco Landa
Pueblo Viejo
Vincente Reyes
Jarimello
Coolta
Lorenz Liburio
Victoria Hall
Sunderland
Eng
Hayti
Jacinet
Miragoane
Lyons
Franca
Great Britain
Longfellow
Walsh
Tralee
Ireland
Campbellford
Natale
Colenso
Amsterdam
Holland
Royal
A. Durant & Co
London
Pictou Bark
Bank of Nova Scotia
George Hepburn
Stockbridge
Aranza
P. Lorillard
James Carey
Dublin
Madagascar
Germany
Hirschburg
Neisse
Tyrol
Nova Scotia
Shanghai
China
Quebec
St. Lawrence
St. Gall
Switzerland
Athens
Cornell University
Rochester
Brooklyn’ Bridge
East River
Albert Downs
Connecticut
Texas
Wacado
Libby
McNeil & Libby
Porral
Halsted
40Th Streets
Wentworth Avenue
Sweeney
Thirtieth Street
South Park Avenue
Bridgeport
Twelfth Street
Ashland Avenue
Rebecca Street
Wood
Nineteenth Streets
Morgan and
Harrison Streets
Blue Island Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Stewart Avenue
Mary Mulholland
Maggie Carney
Maxwell Street
Maxwell Streets
Meagher
Fifteenth Street
Winnie Wing
Blue Island
Center Avenues
Mason Slip
South Fork
Libby, McNeil & Libby
Chicago Typographical Union
New Hampshire
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