Advices from Ireland on distress and Canal Company news
Reports from Washington describe Ireland as facing widespread poverty in agricultural districts while not in extreme distress overall. Florida Ship Canal Company was formed with ex-Governor Brown as president and William Windom as vice president, projected at 30 million dollars and a three year completion. President Arthur named John Jay Knox acting Internal Revenue Commissioner for ten days. Agricultural data show a 77 million bushel winter and spring wheat shortfall nationally, concentrated in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri. Charles Lyman named Chief Examiner under Civil Service. Weekly business failures totaled 156 nationwide, with regional counts. Promotions in the Navy include Shufeldt to rear admiral and Fillebrown to commodore. Arlington National Cemetery title cleared. $150,000 Congress appropriation paid to General Lee heirs. Silver dollar production and clearing-house exchanges show improved but still lower year over year.
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City Life Tragedies and Disasters Reported Across Nation
A near-constant stream of brief notes from cities and towns recounts accidents and deaths, including a Newark resident killed by a pistol blast, a man dying after prolonged fasting, and a Kansas City cyclone that leveled farms and killed several. Also noted are fires destroying buildings, lynchings, hangings, and notable legal decisions, with foreign reports of Haiti violence, Irish unrest, and imperial politics shaping the broader context.
Cyclone Rips Through Kansas City Killing and Damaging
A violent wind storm struck Kansas City Missouri on May 24 causing three deaths and extensive damage. The cyclone crossed Wyandotte and the Kansas River, then looped through the city and reached the Missouri River with a high water spout. Dozens injured, property losses exceed 300000, Darling and Argentine neighborhoods devastated, and many structures and roofs blown away.
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Wyandotte
Kansas River
Argentine
Missouri
Randolph
Twelfth
Charlotte
David Reed
Joseph’ Burns
James Clellen
Dye
Willie Selvin
Dr. Chapman
Hangit of Joe Brady and Dublin murders 1882
Dusfax May 1 Joe Brady the first Invincible convicted of participation in the Phoenix Park butchery was hanged here this morning. The execution attracted no crowd and witnesses were officials only. Reports note Catholic mass rites planned for the dead in Ireland while Dublin marked Whit Monday with mourning and excursions. Brady’s family and the prison chaplain were present. The article recounts the 1882 Phoenix Park killings of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, Brady’s conviction by a jury aided by informer James Carey, and Brady’s pending execution in Washington news adds a Treasury statement and a Denver project note.
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Phenix Park
Ireland
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Phoenix Park
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Thomas Henry Burke
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Lord Cavendish
Burke
Mr. Burke
Crown
James Carey
Carey
Kavanagh
O'Brien
Quotations, jokes and anecdotes in a late 19th century roundup
A mosaic of brief quips and excerpts from papers including jokes about ballots and tampering, a Pompeii dig note, verse by Dr Holmes, a Winthrop musician, a dog question, a bonnet remark, a Shoshone murder report, a Burlington Hawk Eye take on truth and sleep, a Boston Post warning, a medical pore count, and a railroad tunnel ribbing from the New York Sun.
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Argo
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Winthrop
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Ann Eliza
Archidale
Chicago
Burdette
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Belmont
Nev
Boston Post
Norristown ! Herald
Science and Industry Inventions and Enterprises
Arman in Pittsburgh claims a potato-digger will replace twenty workers. The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. reports $2,000,000 capital and 30 million cans produced last year. Pocahontas County coal reserves are ample for centuries. Sewers should vent through pipes to the atmosphere. Veneer manufacture now favors steaming and shaving thin sheets. New York Sixth Avenue cars stop via window straps and a whistle. A Turin jeweler crafts a tiny pearl-shaped tin product with ruby prow light and diamond accents priced at $5,000. Salamanca opens an embroidery factory backed by $60,000 capital and a tax exemption bid. Petroleum-fuel apparatuses are developed by Hayden of Washington, alongside Amanda Jones’s steam boiler burner. Tea-plant experiments by H W L Lewis show promising yields and flavor from two plants. Two ocean liners, Istrian and Kansas, raced to Boston arriving within hours of each other after an eleven-day voyage.
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Page
Norfolk Virginian
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London Lancet
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Sixth Avenue Railroad
New York
Turin
Salamanca
Switzerland
Rochester
Hayden
Washington
Amanda Jones
H. W. L. Lewis
Mississippi State Grange
Lewis
Jackson
China
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