Washington notes and finance from the week
The Pierce era summary reports Henry Walter Evans installed as new Commissioner of Internal Revenue. May debt totals shown with cash in Treasury and monthly and yearly decreases. Business failures numbered 151 in seven days, with geographic distribution. Postmasters urged to attend duties. failures, lynching threats, and various trials noted. Additional items cover mint output, clearing-house sums, Supreme Court delays, telegraph rate cuts, and regional disasters including cyclones and fires.
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Washington
New England States
Middle States
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Burchard
Mint
United States
Waite
United States Supreme Court
Mills Strike Averted In Pittsburgh Cleveland Wheeling Mills
Amalgamated Association members at Pittsburgh Cleveland and Wheeling signed the scale on the 31st, averting a strike. Cincinnati mills refused to sign, triggering a five thousand worker stoppage. Coverage also notes related political, social, and economic items from the period.
Free Trade National Conference Elects Wells President
The Free Trade National Conference met last month with David A. Wells of Connecticut elected president. Opening remarks asserted the right to sell and buy beyond restrictions and warned that fear and stagnation in a land of plenty demand action. The address noted strike pressure and the inevitability of the free-trade issue being forced to an answer. Meanwhile the 31st ult. saw thirty four miners arraigned after a riot at the Collins-Meffli mines. they were fined twenty five dollars with a stay of iron granted on good behavior. A coroner's jury found the militia shooting unjustified but could not determine precise responsibility.
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Board of Trade
St. Louis
Chicago
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fair Association of
Northern Ohio
Cleveland
G. P. Buel
Nashville
Enn
Loco
San Carlos
A. T
Crook
Phil B. Thompson
Harrodsburg
Cincinnati
Walter Davis
Harry Winsola
John Barley
Macon
Robert Henderson
Oxford
N. C
St. Landry Parish
McGeoch, Everingham & Co
Detroit
United States
David A. Wells
Emlen
Shell Point
Fla
Judge Baldwin
Simon Cotton
Philip Preston
Michakl Derour
Atlanta
Johnson
Gardner
Defour
Brown
Stavenger
Baltimore
Hughes
Noremac
Panchot
Hart
Bank of
North Carolina
Fort Wayne
Ind
Clara Cook
Crystal Springs
Miss
Arizona
Sonora
General Crook
Annie Craft
Buckhartz
Tex
William Evans
Oakdale
Minn
Cedar Creek
Bismarck
Dakota Capital Commission
Rio Grande
Hidalgo County
Texas
Henry Quincn
Charles Pennock
Stranger River
Leavenworth
Kan
Austin Grand Jury
Allendale
D. C
Greenville
Free Trade National Conference
Fea
Collins- Me
Rail disaster at Stratford sparks GTR bridge crash
A broken rail on the Grand Trunk at Stratford Ontario sent an engine and thirteen cars through a bridge. The engineer and fireman were injured.
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Stratford
Ont
Grand Trunk Railroad
Multiple 5th Century Disasters and Deaths Reported
A round of 5th day tragedies and incidents across the era: seven sunstroke cases with two fatalities in New York, the Fannie A. Bailey schooner ashore at Cape May with three men and a child dead, and James Fisk's father James Fisk Sr. dying at Brattleboro, Vermont aged seventy one. A circus tent collapse at Suspension Bridge causes injuries, a West Africa witchcraft mob killed fifty, Victoria reportedly ill, and the Saratoga Springs General Council meeting. A boiler explosion near LaGrange kills engineers Harry Roberts and Lee Transcomb, two injured. Moscow mayor banished. a Whitney gang style mob hangs a desperado at Hermann. German troops poisoned at Posen. an old lady crushed in Troy. bandit torture near Lagura Mexico. five girls burned in Santa Clara fire. a fatal shooting in Dover during labor action. Brooklyn bridge inquest blames officers and trustees, calls for road improvements.
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New York
Fannie A. Bailey
Cape May
James Fisk
Stokes
Brattleboro
Suspension Bridge
N. Y
Sherbro
West Africa
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Windsor
Tuer Congregational General Council
Saratoga Springs
Memphis & Charleston
Lagrange
Harry Roberts
Lee Transcomb
Tver
Moscow
Whitney
James Gang
Hermann
Posen
Maxon
Troy
Lagura
Mexico
Eradia Bernal
Terrific Iowa Rain-Storm Destroys Council Bluffs
A severe June rainstorm in Council Bluffs causes Indian Creek to flood the city. Bridges, culverts, homes, and businesses are swept away as many fear drownings. Estimated city loss runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars with widespread inundation.
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Council Bluffs
Council
Iowa
Indian Creek
Bluffs
Broadway
Terrible deed of an insane mother shocks Luzerne County
A Carlisle special reports Huntsville Penn Township in Luzerne County awoke to a brutal tragedy as Mrs. Martin Douglas killed her three children and then took her own life. The nurse-like mother’s insanity was suspected. an inquest by Justice of the Peace Null found the mother killed the children and herself.
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Philadelphia
Carlisle
Huntsville
Penn Township
Luzerne County
Martin Douglas
Pine Grove Furnace
Douglas
Douglas House
Justice-of-the- Peace
Free-Trade Conference Adopts National Structure Plan
At the National Free-Trade Conference session a resolution set the American Free-Trade League as leading body with a National Committee of one delegate per state and a General Secretary in New York. David A. Wells elected permanent president, with many vice presidents. Thomas G. Shearman and Congressman Springer spoke in the evening.
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Detro Ort
National Free-Trade Conference
American Free-Trade League
National Committee
New York
United States
David A. Wells
Thomas G. Shearman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Springer
Illinois
Time-Lock Fails Bank Safe and Heist Under Way
Cleveland reports a Damon safe at City National Bank resists a time lock after three dynamite blasts. Ten tons of iron and steel are hoisted away as a crowd watches, aided by police, while Boston experts and local safemen fail to open the vault. The bank plans a new safe. The Government accepts more Northern Pacific Railroad land in Washington Territory and a Niagara Falls tunnel proposal is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
City National Bank
Damon Make
Boston
Hugh Wain
Terrible catastrophe on the Brooklyn Bridge causes many deaths
A panic on the Brooklyn Bridge Friday afternoon led hundreds to surge toward the stairs. Twelve people died and many were wounded as crowd crush and trampling swept the footway, with bridge officials slow to respond and police delayed. Identified dead include J. E. Busha, Maud Crawford, James O'Brien, and others. wounded span multiple Brooklyn and New York addresses.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Isbister Famed for Breaking HBC Monopoly Passes Away
Alexander K. Isbister, key figure in ending Hudson Bay Company's Northwest monopoly, died recently in England. Delaware increases governor’s salary to 2500 dollars. If you have a place of business, be found there when wanted.
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Alexander K. Isbister
Hudson Bay Company
British Northwest
England
Bourbonism in South Carolina described as plan to disfranchise voters
The piece argues the Registration law aims to strip rights from Black and white citizens, with certificates and residence rules used to undermine electoral power. It claims favoritism by white officials, widespread certificate theft, and a permanent system harming the negro population ahead of 1884 elections. It criticizes Bourbon control and racial tension as tools to retain state authority.
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South Carolina
Calhouns
Prestons
Haynes
Charleston
S. C
Cor. N. Y. Tribune
Tilden and Hendricks In 1876 Democratic Debate
A political column notes a refined pathos in Tilden and Hendricks as Democratic candidates of 1876. It criticizes efforts to rehabilitate ancient history, mocks the idea of reviving 1876 figures, and argues defeat should strengthen party unity despite looming 1884 ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilden
Hendricks
Bookwalter, Cleveland
Mr. Tilden
Mr. Hendricks
Idianapolis
Achilles
Democratic Reform and Bourbon Rule in the Union
The piece argues that Democratic leaders fear a presidential victory amid tariff fights and reform rhetoric. It criticizes New York and Pennsylvania reforms, calls the session discreditable, cites Governor Cleveland’s denunciations of reform governance, and portrays Bourbonism as greed for patronage. Marriage certificates cost $309 each.
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Nere
House of Representatives
Howey
Samuel J. Randall
Pennsylvania
New York
Empire State
Senate
New York Times
Brooklyn
Storm King Bridge
Court of Appeal
Cleveland
Immigration
Society of Honest People
Pelf
Lansing
Mich
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Frank
C. Culley
Defiance
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Barnum’s Circus
Isaac Paradise
Paradise Range
Davidson County
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John Paradise
Grafton Iron Company
Leetonia
Oleggio
Italy
London
Rostoff
Russia
Ricardo Menocal
Cuba
House of Commons
Gladstone
Orange Free State
Transvaal
Cape
Dublin
McCaffrey
Kelly
Phenix Park
Madagascar
Riviere
Hanoi
Tonquin
Narcomo
Republican Brotherhood
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Ireland
Petroffsky Park
Toronto
Thomas Caffrey
Phoenix Park
Kilmainham
Great Britain
France
Count von Moltke
Welland Canal
Davitt
Healy
Quinn
Li Hung Chang
China
Annam
Rio de Janeiro
James Carey
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
W. Va
House of Cummons
Stafford Northcote
Edith
Hamilton Fish
Harvard College
Don
Butler
Hanan
Kennedy
Point of Pines
Hanlan
Philadelphia Mint
Cumberland County
Susan E. Douglas
Standard Oil Company
John Raber
Fishkill
White & Rush
W. Meppaves
Ithaca
Housatonic
Massachhusetts
Conn
Salvationist
National Oil
Blackstone Rm
Theodore Martin
W. S. Gladstone
Pennsylvania Senate
Foreign Intelligence
The
Free-Traders
Northern Pacific Railroad
Washington Territory
Niagara Falls
East River Bridge
J. E. Busha Bazzerano
Plymouth Street
William H. Craft
Grand Street
Maud Crawford
West Thirty-seventh Street
Sarah Hennesy
Washington Avenue
Eliza Karten
Jersey City
Ah la Ling
James O’brien
Laight Street
Ellen Riordas
Montgomery Street
George Smith
Watte Street
Emma Sherwood
Bridgeport
Margaret Sullivan
Monroe Street
Frank Barrett
Mott Street
Otto Bischoff
East Sixth Street
Andrew Dougherty
Peers Street
Charles Eberwein
East Fifty-fourth Street
L. M. Eberet
Manhassett Place
Barbara Oranger
Thomas Reerdon
Bernhard Reichers
Delancey Street
Mina Schmidt
Houston Street
Seering
St. Mark’s Place
Lizzie Tierney
St. Mark’s Avenue
Lester Reque
John Keller
West Farms
Ignacio Antepara
Seventh Avenue
Annie Goldstein
East Broadway
Sarah Gaertener
Suffolk Street
Albertina Bohner
Division Street
City Hall
Flora Davis
Lewis Street
Charles Bligh
Third Street
Bunko-Men
Delaware
Mr. Hendrie
Heducks
Tilden and Hendricks
Democratic Shibboleth
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