Emperor sends costly cross to Pope over Caroline dispute
The Pope received a gold cross from Emperor William as thanks for Germany's mediation in the Caroline Islands dispute with Spain. Austria reports wholesale fires in multiple towns with deaths and damage. Baron Headley of London is bankrupt. The Greek Minister of War has resigned over a rift with colleagues.
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William
Austria
Friedland
Moravia
Dobrowlaney
Bojaniec
Chyrow
Sanok
Baron Headley
London
Germany
Vatican
Caroline Islands
Spain
Heiress Minnie Squires Weds Henry Downie in Adrian Michigan
Minnie M Squires an Elyria heiress escaped her guardian and married Henry B Downie in Adrian Michigan. Jonathan D Stevens, who arrived from San Francisco, once led a regiment in the Mexican campaign and has not returned until now. M F Bigney editor in chief of the New Orleans City Item died in New Orleans at 61. Hatton says ex President Arthur is bright, cheerful and likely to live many years.
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Minnie M. Squires
Elyria
Ohio
Henry B. Downie
Adrian
Mich
Jonathan D. Stevens
New York
San Francisco
California
Milwaukee servant girls form union for higher wages
Milwaukee planing mills yielded to eight hour demand by shutting down. Bank of Marietta Ohio closed due to real estate embarrassment with deposits over 100000. Empire Protective Association executives in New York surrendered and posted bail after indictments tied to a street railway strike.
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Milwaukee
Bank of Marietta
Ohio
Empire Protective Association
New York
Republicans in Oregon nominate Hermann and Waldo in Portland
The Oregon Republican convention at Portland names Binger Hermann for Representative in Congress and John B. Waldo for Supreme Judge. Thomas R. Cornelius is chosen for Governor and George W. McBride for Secretary of State. The platform attacks Postmaster General Vilas policy and civil service reform while urging a Mexican War veterans pension bill and condemning secrecy in removals. In Indiana, Sixth District renominates Tom Browne for Congress.
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Committee On Territories
National
House of Representatives
Senate
Dakota
Union of States
Oregon
Portland
Binger Hermann
Congress
John B. Waldo
Thomas R. Cornelius
Washington County
George W. McBride
Columbia County
Vilas
Indiana
Muncie
Tom Browne
Pan Electric probe notes at Washington hearings
Gen Sypher testifies about Pan-Electric inquiry and confirms E N Hill connection to a New York World article. Whitelaw Reid cites Major Clark as author of an article on Garland. T C Crawford says a senator supplied facts for a World letter. Carlisle reports stock credit for Rogers Telephone work. Randall recalls no letter or stock. Hewitt recounts being offered a tenth share but declined.
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Sypher
New Orleans
Pan-Electric
Prof. Bell
New York World
E. N. Hill
Arkansas
Whitelaw Reid
The
New York Tribune
Garland
Pan-Electric Company
Major Clark
Tribune
Washington
Tribne
T. C. Crawford
Mr. Goode
United States
Carlisle
Rogers Telephone Company
Congress
Samuel J. Randall
Rogers
Abram 8. Hewitt
Major fires strike across towns causing heavy losses
The Williamsport Furniture factory burned with 55000 in losses and 40000 insured. In Erie, Ephraim Lawson’s children set a fire that killed a baby and badly burned two siblings. three firemen were injured saving them. The Hondur as steamship wrecked on Seneca River bar with cargo of coffee worth 75000. Natick four story brick building burned for 59000. Baltimore ware house of S W Floss Co burned with 600000 losses. Keystone Iowa post office and ten other buildings destroyed ending business district fire.
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Williamsport
Ephraim Lawson
Erie
Honduras
Pacific Mail Company
Seneca
Natick
Mass
Baltimore
S W. Floss & Co
Keystone
Iowa
Mill Fire at Lindsay Ontario Destroyed Paper Plant
A Scugog paper mill in Lindsay Ontario burned, with losses put at 35000 dollars and insurance at 20000. A separate fire in San Francisco at L E Emanuel furniture store and A L Bancroft publishing house caused 750000 dollars in damage. a spectator died when a wall collapsed.
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Scugog
Lindsay
Ont
San Francisco
L . E. Emanuel
A. L. Bancroft & Co
Multiple Executions and Murders Across States
In a labor dispute at St Louis a striker named John Gibbons killed by a fellow worker after Gibbons assaulted William E Withers a cab. In Caledonia Wisconsin an elderly farmer Joseph Uhler killed his wife then shot himself amid divorce suit. James Walker a colored man was hanged at St Augustine Florida for murder of Charles Harper. Other executions followed in Perryville and Searcy Arkansas and Washington. Giuseppe Scoma an Italian murderer killed himself in a Hudson New York jail cell. Several others including Kit Ross Lincoln Sprolla Calvin James and Blue Duck were sentenced to be hanged at Fort Smith Arkansas on July 23.
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St. Louis
John Gibbons
William E. Withers
Ascab
Gibbons
Caledonia
Wis
Joseph Uhler
James Walker
St. Augustine
Fla
Charles Harper
J. M. Armstrong
Perryville
Chicago eight hour strike tops peaceful day as unions march
May 1 dispatch from Chicago reports thousands of workers marching for the eight hour day without violence. Some factories closed for a holiday while others faced wage and hour demands, with police and militia kept in readiness and freight houses visited.
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Chicago
South Side
Eastern Illinois
Chicago and Grand Trunk
Wabash
Louisville
New Albany
Rock Island and Pacific
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
United States Court
United States
New York
Findlay
Elmer Rowley
Baltimore and Ohio
Zanesville
Ohio
Paul Wilzig
Carl Sahm Club
Life and career of William Ewart Gladstone
A concise biographical sketch of William Ewart Gladstone born in Liverpool on December 29 1809. It traces his education at Eton and Oxford his entries into Parliament in 1832 his rise through government posts and his repeated terms as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister including key leadership transitions up to his long tenure as premier.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Liverpool
Mr. Gladstone
Eton
Oxford
Newark
Quarterly Review
Treasury
Privy Council
Board of Trade
Mint
Robert Peel
Earl of Aberdeen
Lord Palmerston
Gladstone
Ionian Islands
House of Commons
Mr. Disraeli
Jefferson Davis Addresses Montgomery Parade After Confederate Memorial
Crowds fill Montgomery to hear Jefferson Davis on a day commemorating Alabama secession and Confederate founding. Davis recalls war service, gratitude to supporters, and vows that Southern liberty lives as applause resounds across the crowd.
Longfellow Letter Appears in New Biography
A newly published biography reproduces the first letter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written in Portland in 1814. Dated January 1814 just before his fourteenth birthday, the missive to his father mentions Ann and Betsy, a request for a Bible, school progress, a billet for Monday, and a desire to buy a drum in Boston.
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Longfellow
Portland
Papa
Ann
Betsy
Boston
Wage-Workers' War Drives Eight-Hour Movement Across Factories
A May 1 summary from Bradstreet's tracks widespread eight-hour agitation in Chicago and beyond. It notes factory closures, strikes, and threats among 105,000 to 185,000 workers, with 62,000 in Chicago and Milwaukee alone, and 35,000 miners in eastern Pennsylvania ready to strike.
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Metropolitan
Chicago
Burlington and Quincy
Chicago and Alton
Furniture Manufacturers’ Association
Grand Rapids
Mich
Woodburn-Larken Wheel Company
Indianapolis
Clearfield
Columbus
Ohio
Milwaukee
New York
Bradstreet
Pennsylvania
Luzerne and Lackawanna Region
Baltimore
Detroit
St. Louis
Louisville
Philadelphia
New York City
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
W. Va
Eight Hour Movement Roots and Progress in Labor History
The article reviews the origins and spread of the eight hour idea from pre 1856 days of ten hour work to the anniversary celebrations in Australia and the United States. It notes post Civil War labor market shifts, 1866 Baltimore convention backing eight hours, and broad union support with varied wage views.
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Australia
Baltimore
United States
Knights of Labor
Trades Unions
Central Labor Union
Socialists
Knights of Labor Leader Denies Official Eight Hour Action
George Rodgers of the Chicago Knights of Labor says the organization has not taken official action on the eight hour movement. He cites Powderly stating the order has no involvement, endorsing eight hours when achievable by labor strength, and argues the demand should be humane with eight hours pay for eight hours work. Rodgers notes no connection to the Central Labor Union, some delegates in the Trades Assembly, and traces the movement to the Federated Trades in 1884 with an eight hour committee and emphasis on eight hours for eight hours’ wages.
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George Rodgers
Chicago
Knight of Labor
Knights of Labor
Powderly
Knights
Central Labor Union
Trades Assembly
Federation of Trades
Federated Trades
Ohio General Assembly Gossip and Proceedings
A gossipy synopsis covers Senate and House actions from April 19 to 28. It notes bills passed and introduced on liquor sales near fairs, heat pipe use, mutual aid insurance, tax and road powers, private wharves, trademarks for slaves logs and lumber, and eyes of physicians. Also detailed are resolutions on copyright defense, Morrison tariff, Walhending Canal, and comparisons of board governance in Ohio.
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Senate
House
Congress
Ohio
Hamilton County
Thomas McDougall
Charles Reemelin
D. N. McClung
John A. Gano
H. P. Boyden
S. A. Miller
A. E. Carr
F. W. Spiegel
Cincinnati
Board of Public Works
Kohler
Supreme Court
New Board of Education
City of
Cleveland
Common Pleas
D. N. Kinsman
Live Stock Commission
Ohio Senate
State Dairy Commissioner
A Swedish Town and a Treatise on Water Quality
A traveler extols Throndtjem Sweden as Europe’s northernmost railway hub and home to St Olaf’s cathedral with a famed graveyard tended by families. The piece also lists Belgian scientific commission criteria for ideal portable water, detailing taste, temperature, air content, organic limits, ammonia, microbes, nitrites, and mineral salts per litre.
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Throndtjem
Sweden
Europe
St. Olaf
Belgium
Impecunious figures and sailors' tales in humor
An Austin gentleman questions Pennybunker about fishing while Pennybunker boasts that twenty collectors called at his house on the wharf. The item echoes a humorous quip from Texas Siftings and a separate note from Dio Lewis about sneezing.
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Pennybunker
Austin
Texas Siftings
Hollow silicious Loire pebbles contain trapped water
M. Stanislas Meunier notes many quaternary gravels in the Loire valley yield hollow siliceous pebbles with a loose nucleus containing liquid water. The water can be heard when the pebble is shaken. no cracks are visible, suggesting water seepage through pores rather than through fractures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Stanislas Meunier
Loire
France
M. Meunier
National lawmakers debate post office bill and river projects
The Senate and House clash over the post office appropriation with subsidy and mail contracts under review. Senators discuss prohibition, railroad debts, and appointments while measures extend Indian, river, and port projects and consider land and labor proposals.
Boy Poet Faces Critic and Growth Amid 19th Century Press
A thirteen year old writes a war tribute poem about Lovell's Pond and sees it printed in the Portland Gazette. He endures harsh critique from a neighbor but continues writing as other pieces appear. He later gains wider fame than Bryant, though his early efforts w ere modest.
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Lovell’s Pond
Portland Gazette
Henry
Gazette
Bryant
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Wurat
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Robert E. Rodes
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Peoria
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Henry B. Payne
Payne
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Youngstown
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Monroe County
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Cooper Cotton
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Marquis of Queensbury
Charlotte Alexander
Sadie
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Dayton Glucose Factory
Grand Army of the Republic
Woman’s Relief Corps
Middleborough
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Asylum For the Insane
Frederick Blazer
Crestline
Akron
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