Multiple Local Incidents Highlight 19th Century News
A mail package with 10500 dollars in bonds from New York to East Hampton Conn was rifled between New Haven and destination. Roscoe Conkling relative of the ex senator killed by accidental baseball bat blow at Riverhead Long Island. Mary Emma Babcock adopted daughter of W J Simmons secretly wed coachman W B Bartholemew at Troy. President Arthur attended Mrs Bliss funeral in New York. Mrs Seeley of Sardinia N Y suffered needle injections and four six needles removed after physician relief. Actor Frank Chanfran died in Jersey City aged 65. Breed Edwards Pittsburgh flour firm assigns 70000 liabilities with 100000 assets. Schroeck Bavarian couple in Erie bury household goods and plan crucifixion penance. Braddock Pa fire destroys eleven structures with 25000 loss and a man fatally hurt by a fire hook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East Hampton
Conn
New Haven
Roscoe Conkling
Riverhead
Long Island
Troy
N. Y
Mary Emma Babcock
W. J. Simmons
W. B
Frank
Chanfran
Jersey City
Breed & Edwards
Pittsburgh
Erie County Savings Bank
Leo
Francisco Schroeck
Erie
Schroeck
Bavaria
Braddock
West items span crime to rail news and society events
A streetcar driver resists highway bandits. two shots kill a passenger. Wheat shipments send thousands of tons from San Francisco to New Orleans and England. Detroit citizen Gen William A Throop commits suicide. Judge Hayes targets liquor buyers to enforce prohibition. Chicago corn market volatility and a church scaffolding collapse in Kansas City. Various deaths, crimes, and public notices across cities. theater collapse of John McCullough. Old Settlers reunion. quarantines on cattle. Chinese citizenry case. train and bridge accidents. pacer race records. Utah polygamy trial ruling. murder near Fullerton. St Paul Road earnings. Pike Creek railroad accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
England
Wiliam A. Throop
Detroit
Hayes
Muscatine
Iowa
Society
Chicago Telegram
Chicago
Kansas City
George A. Wilt
Philadelphia
Fort Wayne
Lim
Ohio
Cowles
Bishop Gilmour
Cleveland
John McCullough
McVicker
Spartacus
Gladiator
McCullough
McVicker’s
Newton Gotthold
Micaliz
Keokuk
Justice Miller
United States Supreme Court
Henry W. Strong
Gov. Glick
Kansas
Ashland
Wisconsin
St. John
Carlisle
Terre Haute
Ind
Pacer
Johnston
John Spian
Minnie R
Firebrand
Utah
Salt Lake
Zane
James Dacey
Woodstock
Mil
Ald. Gaynor
Toledo
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Fullerton
Nebraska
Percival
Myer
St. Paul Road
Wis
Pike Creek
Bayfield
Leavenworth
Merriam
Lieut
Clay
Western Maryland Pleuro Pneumonia Scourage And Other News
Reports from Western Maryland detail a pleuro pneumonia outbreak killing livestock, blamed on dead animals dumped in a river. Individual tragedies include Mrs Barbara Becht of Louisville burned to death after her clothes caught fire from a candle. Attachments totalling 40000 are served on Mitchell and Scroggs of Dallas with a Fort Worth branch. A Frenchtown caisson incident leaves seven men rescued after sinking in sixty feet of water. John W Garrett's will names his sons as estate administrators over a 20000000 dollar estate. Baltimore will receive 5000 annually for the poor. sons must fund 59000 yearly for benevolent uses for twenty years. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad family holdings are to be controlled for city benefit. A weeklong cold spell in Lynchburg Virginia has frozen the thermometer at zero. Drought and withered forests, dry streams, and destroyed hay crops afflict the region as stock move toward Tennessee for water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Gov
Hamilton
Barbara Becht
Louisville
Mitchell & Scroggs
Dallas
Tex
Fort Worth
Frenchtown
John W. Garrett
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Lynchburg
Tennessee
London
Association For the Protection
Stock Exchange
J. H. Foy
St. Louis
Christian Church
Episcopal Church
Indianapolis
Citizens’ National Bank
America
New York
James Graves
Graves
Fox Bros., Jewelers
Maiden Lane
Halifax
Sidney
Pollock Rocks
County Harbor
Garrison
J. B. Miller
D. D. Conway
John S. Vimont
Millersburg
Kentucky
Western Trunk
Chicago
Utah
Colorado
Boston and Providence
East Foxborough
Mansfield
Massachusetts
Fred Titus
Master Mechanic Dies in Atlanta Georgia at 56
Obituary notes the death of the Master Mechanic of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in Atlanta Georgia in his 57th year. The item also mentions quarantine petitions for hogs in Maryland with many infected and accusations of diseased swine being sent to Baltimore. It cites drought hurting Virginia tobacco and a fatal train collision in Clayton Delaware with multiple injuries. It also reports the hanging of Wash Fletcher in Paducah Kentucky for the murder of Amanda Jackson in August 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western and Atlanta Railroad
Atlanta
Maryland
Baltimore
Virginia
Clayton
Del
Wash Fletcher
Paducah
Amanda Jackson
Estimates for Indian school maintenance and public debt update
Inspector Haworth's submissions for next fiscal year allocate funds to Forest Grove Oregon Geneva Nebraska Lawrence Kansas Hampton Virginia Carlisle Pennsylvania Chiloeca Indian Territory Alaska and general educational programs with a total near 790 thousand plus 75 thousand for construction. Portraits of Presidents Tyler and Polk wives hung in White House green room. Postmasters commissioned include Adair Meadville Beldon. Court-martial decision expected on Gen Swaim. Monthly public debt statement lists totals for interest bearing and non interest debt, cash in Treasury and September change. Lincoln sent Private Henry's pencil will to William Helms of Chicago. he leaves pay to family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haworth
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Forest Grove
Oregon
Geneva
Neb
Lawrence
Kan
Hampton
Carlise
Chilocea
I. T
Alaska
Tyler
Polk
White House
John D. Adair
North Salem
Ind
S. Moore
Meadville
Albert M. Beldon
Commonwealth
Navy Pension Fund
United States
Treasury
Pacific Railways
Transportation Service
United
Lincoln
William Helms
Chicago
Charles B. Henry
Greely
Political notices and election updates from 19th century sources
Democratic, Republican and third party conventions nominate numerous regional candidates across Massachusetts New Jersey New York Wisconsin Ohio and Iowa. Reports include a Charleston W Va mass shooting and large campaign events in Buffalo Lexington Indianapolis and Cincinnati with Blaine Logan Butler St John and Cleveland featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
J. Nelson Pidcock
New Jersey
Henry G. Burleigh
New York
E. B. Hayden
Charles Luhling
Wisconsin
Thomas Butterworth
Rockford
Council Bluffs
Pusey
Iowa
Marshalltown
Georgia
Charleston
W. Va
J. W. Denver
Ohio
Keifer
Cincinnati
Blaine
Logan
Cleveland
Buffalo
Genesee House
Illinois
John F. Marsh
Springfield
Butlerites
Prohibition
Republican Party
Diverse 19th Century Disasters and Notices Across North America
Alfred G. Isaacson in Montreal flees with investment funds as a defaulter. Four St Catharines Collegiate Institute students drown near Port Dalhousie. Fires wipe Meridian Mississippi shops valued at 250000 and Mount Washington hotel worth 225000. Granger's mill Canton NY and Walsh Devon flour mill Holland MI destroyed. Canal trade worries rise as boats delay due to low water. Welland Canal officials propose dyke feeding from Grad River. US overhauls Canadian schooner Annie Falconer after Island Belle seizure. fine set at 500. Funeral Directors Association holds third convention in Chicago. Engineers' Brotherhood meets in San Francisco. Arthur delivers annual address. Peabody Fund trustees meet in New York with expenditure report. Hurricane alert reaches a son of a terrible Central hurricane. Fishing vessels suffer losses amid disordered accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred G. Isaacson
Montreal
Collegiate Institute
St. Catharines
Ont
Port Dalhousie
Great Northern Road
Meridian
Miss
Glen House
Mount Washington
N. H
Gananoque
Ontario
Bibb
Annie Falconer
Charlotte
Washington
Funeral Directors’ Association of the
United States
Chicago
San Francisco
Brotherhood of Lee Muetiva Engineers
Arthur
New York
Trustees of
The
Peabody Educational Fund
Arent Curry
Pentral
Storm Death Toll Mounts Amid Widespread Damage Notes
The feature of the hurricane was the loss of life with the exact count not yet known but described as very great. Business failures for the week totaled 188, up from 21 the prior week and 169 in 1883. The steamer Texan completed the Liverport to New Orleans run in sixteen days and twelve hours, the fastest on record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texan
Liver 2001
New Orleans
British and World News Briefs Cover Conflicts and Affairs
Reports from Ireland to London to Bengal describe royal plans to inspect troops, guard warehouse security costs, and a dynamite incident in Salisbury. Other items note a medical bequest for pathology education, beef for a London expedition, and railway disaster deaths in Eastern Bengal.
Violent Incidents and Legal Moves Across Cities
Reports detail a West Virginia postmaster shot by A C Osborne with a woman involved, a Cincinnati worker blown to pieces by a mortar, and a New York attachment against Central Iowa Railroad for $150 interest. Other items note New York imports, railway securities plans, a clerical adoption, a bank liquidation, a large jewel seizure aboard the America, a shipwreck off Isaac’s Harbor, destruction in Millersburg Kentucky, tariff talks in Chicago, a Boston rail accident, and a Cincinnati diamond dealer’s assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Richards
Cornsburg
West Virginia
Weekly Telegraph
A. C. Osborne
John Grodurn
Dickle & Johnson
Cincinnati
John W. Weed
Supreme Court of New York
Central Iowa Railroad Company
New York
Cleveland greeted by vast Buffalo homecoming crowd
Gov. Cleveland returns to Buffalo amid a huge public demonstration with cheering at Utica and Syracuse, a 15 thousand-strong procession in Buffalo, Chinese lanterns and banners, and a formal address praising public service. He thanks supporters and urges a pure, patriotic government while noting his ties to the state and city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Buffalo
Cleveland
Utica
Syracuse
E. Prentiss Bailey
Washington
Rochester
Batavia
Genesee House
Henry Martin
Manufacturers and Traders’ Bank
Gov. Cleveland
Niagara Square
Blaine Campaign Tour Through Ohio
Tour among the Buckeyes details Blaine's stops in Toledo Tiffin Kenton Urbana Springfield Dayton Hamilton and Cincinnati with Emory Storrs ex-Senator Bruce ex-Gov Foster Senator Plumb and others. He appeals for tariff protection praising Republican rule and urging support of the 1884 ticket amid large crowds and lively receptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Emery Storrs
Bruce
Foster
Plumb
Toledo
Cincinnati
Tiffin
Ohio
Uon
Messrs. Bruce and
Storrs
Kenton
Gen. Robinson
Repe
Jaine
Urbana
West
Springfield
Dayton
Cape Race
Atlantic Ocean
America
Hamilton
Clay
Polk
United States
Vhio
Hanna
Republican State Committee
Judge Foraker
Mr. Blaine
Fourth Street
Te Blaias
Butler and St John in Indianapolis Campaign Stop
Gen Butler and Gov St John toured Indianapolis drawing large crowds at Circle Park and the state fair. St John spoke to about 15 000 on political topics while Butler addressed crowds in Court House yard. The campaign team plans statewide travel into Michigan and mass speeches before the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John
Butler
Indianapolis
Gen. Butler
Gov. St. John
Carlisle
Ind
Indiana
Woman's Department
Circle Park
Terre Haute
Court House
N. A. Plympton
Worcester
Mass
Michigan
Massachusetts
Belva to Take the Stump on Public Tour
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood announces a campaign tour with speeches in Baltimore Philadelphia New York Cleveland and other big cities She describes the talks as lectures on good government and equal rights for women before the law and at the ballot box The trip includes Baltimore Monday Philadelphia and New York next then Cleveland with Gus Hartz and may visit Chicago Indianapolis and Cincinnati later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Cleveland
Gus Hartz
Opera House
Chicago
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Attempted assassination of Governor St. John near Sullivan
Dispatch from Sullivan Indiana reports an unknown assailant fired at Gov. St. John on a Carlisle to Terre Haute train. The ball pierced a window and lodged near the governor as the train slowed eight o clock. No motive or suspect identified and many passengers did not notice the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. St. John
Carlisle
Terre Haute
St. John
Sullivan
Interior Secretary narrows fees for homestead testimony
Washington telegram reports the Interior Department upholds a General Land Office interpretation that local land officers may collect fees only for testimony reduced to writing by themselves. The decision affects preemption and homestead proofs and requires writing under the direct supervision of Registers and Receivers in towns with local offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Huron
C. T
Caldwell & Smith
Fargo, D. T
Postal Service Receipts and Expenditures for Fiscal Year
Washington report details the Postal Service finances for the year ended June 30 1884. It shows quarterly stamp receipts totaling 42 854 860 dollars and revenues by quarter 1883 84 with amounts for third fourth first and second quarters. Expenditures exceeded the prior year by 1 290 363 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowell
Postoffice Department
Woman Supposedly Poisoned with Needles Discovered
In Sardinia near the Cattaraugus forks Mrs. Seelye reports pain in an arm. Dr George N Kingman found needles in the muscles and treated with poultices. He later removed forty six needles or fragments from the arm. A similar affliction appeared in the other arm and was treated with the same result. The case remains mysterious and the patient denies knowledge of how the needles entered her system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
N. Y
Flood tragedy near Paris as Hickman family swept away
A storm drenched the area and swollen Polk Creek swept away farmer J. J. Hickman, his daughter in law Mrs Brit Hickman, and two small children. Hickman’s body was found near the bank. others remain missing. Hickman was about 60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Hickman
Brit Hickman
Polk Creek
Paris
Hickman
Chinese Laundryman Granted Citizenship After Suit
Wah Lee Lee Yow, a Chinese laundryman who married a white woman, was granted citizen papers after a probate judge heard the case and continued proceedings under the 1882 naturalization act. He exclaimed that he was now “alle e samee Melican man” as he received the documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wah Lee Lee Yow
Tilden
Immigrant Arrivals at New York Share September Totals
Washington dispatch notes 26,872 immigrants arrived in New York from Europe during September. Through nine months, total arrivals reach 267,000, about 20,000 fewer than the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Dispatch
New York
Europe
Figures and Feats in a Global Snapshot
A digest of curious claims and notices: a Panola Florida father of thirty. Anna Dickinson at her mother’s home in West Pittston Pennsylvania. Mormon church growth over two thousand yearly. Weber to receive a centennial statue in Entin. Paris 30 000 women making artificial flowers. Siam king with 263 children under thirty. New York officials find 800 artificial eyes hidden in a voyager’s bustle. Moscow cathedral for Napoleonic departure costing 12.5 million and seating 10 000. a New York bank note firm to engrave 100 000 bonds for Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panola
Fla
Anna Dickinson
West Pittston
Weber
Entin
Paris
Celestial Empire
Siam
New York
Proper Dinner Etiquette From The House Keeper
Juliet Carson notes on table manners emphasize spotless dinner cloth and large white napkins. Napkins should rest beside plates after dining and not be retrieved if dropped. Finger bowls with colored glass may be used with dessert, with perfumed water sometimes added, and napkins used to dry fingers after the bowls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliet Carson
Truth and Tedium at the French Court
An 18th century anecdote from All the Year Round recalls Louis XV testing a lord-in-waiting with the question of how many children he had. The servant first answers four, then four again, finally six after a reticent confession that repeating the same truth would weary the king.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis XV
France
Bandit Tales and a Soap Threat
A traveler who just returned from Mexico describes facing about 200 bandits who surround him as he wields a pistol and then lights a bar of soap with a match to threaten explosion. The bandits flee, terrified by the shimmering danger. The tale appears as a humorously exaggerated vignette in the Philadelphia Call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Philadelphia
Ventilation myths and medical quackery in a 19th century page
A medical writer argues carbonic acid gas is not poisonous beyond poor oxygen levels and notes odor from exhaled matter in crowded rooms. The piece threads through moral quips, advertising patter, and jokes about medical cures including Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Allen’s Lung Hallam, ending with a note on newspaper independence.
Faithfulness and remedies urged for health and home care
A collection of health claims and advertisements urges faithful use of Allen's Lung Balsam for colds and Kidney-Wort for kidney liver and bowel cleansing. Also promotes Caswell, Hazard & Co Juniper Loop for skin and highlights Mason & Hamlin organ and upright pianoforte makers noted by Boston Traveller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
New York
Mason & Hamlin
Europe
Mason & Hamlin Company
Boston
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Breckinridge
Generale
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Walea
Genoa
Vernon Harcourt
Hame
Salisbury
Erastus Wilsey
Royal College of Surgeons
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Irish National League
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China
Young
Nited Kingdom Alliance
Great Britain and Ireland
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Maine
Minister of Customs
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Berber
Soudan
Milwaukee
Mae
Scion Vane
East Liberty
Exposition Building
Commissioners’ Office
Seque Ans
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Foraker
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Louisiana
Tegret
Chamber of Commerce
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Burnett House
Columbus
Belva
Washington Telegram
Sullivan, Ind
Land Office
the Postal Service
Cleveland Dispatch
Immigration
Reynard
Eli
Detroit Free Press
Dr. Pierce
World's Dispensary Medical Associaton
Buffalo, N. Y
Queen’s Theater
Dublin
Edmund Yates
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Whitehall Times
H. C. Mooney
Astoria
Allen
Philadelphia Record
Lupra E. Pinkham
Asia
Wells Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Horsford
Rip van Winkle
Norristown Herald
New Orleans Picayune
Gouverneur Herald
Myron
Ely
Gabriel Ferris
Spencer, N. Y
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard St
Phila
Josiah Davis
North Middletown, Ky
Henry
Robert W. Townley
Elizabeth, N. J
Alf
la Sal
Yak
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
Jeremiah Wright
Marion County
WM. C. Dickes
Bowling Green
Meredith
al Jen
Lloyd
New York Commercial Advertiser
Jon Bull
Suit
Tane Suu
Bull
John Bull
Smith
Ofice
Main St
Louisville, KY
Albayy, N.Y
David Kennedy
Rondout
Sir
Pepson
Alexander Avenue
Albany
Robout
N.Y. A Een
USA
ELY Brothers, Druggists
Owezo, N.Y
U.S.STANDARD. _ OF
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Ards
Boz
Jonas
Abvsees Jones
Binghamton, N
W.G. Erly
Bridgeport
Cau
Valentine Bros
Janesville, Wis
M. WV
Duneam Wayne
Val Ainter- Mason & Haralin
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co
Trmont St
Wabash
Montgomery Ward & Co
Wadachi Avenue
Loomis & Nyman
Clavelett Business Colege
JOS Pally Uuse
Superior St
Dr. Smith
J. A. King «& CO
Coleman Business Colliege
New Yark
N. J
Cirrnara
National Publishing CO
Kinastoyn & Co
Lasall
J. W. Morey
Minneapolis
Redwood Falls
T.paul “Red Wing
Albert Lea
Jefferson
Steven
Madra
Howara
Ebogs
Chicaga
Lea
Ater
Sciry
Rock Island & Pacific R’y
Blue Island
Auburn
Joliet
Seneca
Peoria
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la Salle
Genes
Great Rock Island
Pullman
Missouri River
ST. Paul
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
la Fayette
Council Blunks
Canada
R. R. Cable
Pres
T & Gen
Chicaco
E. ST. John, Gen’'l T
Ag’t
Payne
Ceres
Druggista
Ream
Ada
Ikanger
Business College
Indium
Cottoseeses
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