Week in Review: Fires, wrecks, storms and political moves
A wide spread roundup reports a New York death from morphine and alcohol, a major canal break in Delaware and Hudson, a Saddle River bridge collapse near Hackensack with multiple fatalities, a fierce New Jersey Midland wreck, and numerous fires flooding across towns. Also noted are aircraft and rail accidents, legal actions against media figures, tornadoes, earthquakes, and legislative probes including Bullock finances and postmaster elections.
Queen's London Visit Aims To Quiet Royal Scandal
A London letter claims the Queen's trip to Germany has a hidden purpose to hush a royal family scandal. Reports say Prince Teck travels with a noted actress and Princess Mary of Cambridge near divorce, prompting the Queen to visit Baden.
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London
Germany
Hohenbohe-Langeberg
Prince Teck
Prince Alexander of
Wurtemburg
Teck
Princess Mary of Cambridge
Baden
Mount Vesuvius
Naples
Senate and House actions on war, land, and postal bills
In a busy session on April 9 1873 the Senate discussed remonstrances on the Wilson sewing machine patent and adopted a War Department information request about the Duluth canal and harbor. Numerous bills passed including enlistment consent for minors pay for women nurses and pay for Glasgow losses. The House approved a postal card bill with a one cent rate and proposals for bids and a flap design. Debates covered elections and civil service expenses as the two houses adjourned.
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Senate
Virginia Constitutional Convention
Farra
Bay Dela and
St. Croix
United States
Stewart
Japan
Legation
Wilson
Agricultural College
Indiana
Hazlieton
House
Ute
Merrick
Committee On Elections
Ordere Sage
John M. Baker
Baker
Brazil
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Mississippi River
Quincy
Trumbull
Council Bluffs
Port Huron
Hancock
Texas
Davis
W. Va
BalmApes
Peniegut
Lowe
Hamlin
Stevesson
Dent
Pomeroy
Minnesota
Dakota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago
Diang
Colorado
Corning
Cox
Petion
Dunnell
Grand Haven
Flint
Cragin
New Hampshire
Windom
Secretary of War
Duluth
Mina
Superior
Fort Collins Military Reservation
Lawrence
Kan
Fort Stanton
New Mexico
Glasgow
War Department
Nevada
California
Kearsarge
Moon
Hill
Post Office Committee
Randall
Potter
Perry
Ohio
Select Committee On Elections
J. M. Wilson
Sumner
Massachusetts
Howe
Committee On Public Lands
Ofit
McCrary
Schenck
Campbell
Witon
Terrible Boiler Explosion on Oceanus Near Brook's Point
The steamer Oceanus from Red River to St Louis exploded its boiler near Brook's Point thirty miles above Cairo at 4 a m on Wednesday April 10. The wreck caught fire and survivors were rescued by Belle of St Louis with seven dying en route to St Louis. Three pilots and the first engineer perished, and officials planned an inquest for the bodies.
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Davenport
Jersey City
Richard Cain
New York
Boston and Albany
Grantville
Mass
J. W. Stoughton
Michael Manney
Hitchcock & Freese
James Caulfield
Georgia
Bullock
Cere
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Windsor
Ayer
Pottsville
Metropolitan Paper Collar Factory
Newton
Jaspar County
Ill
Ezra Mehaney
D. Wooster
United States Marine Hospital
San Francisco
Lone Pine
Cal
Owens Valley
Tur
Oceanus
Red River
St. Louis
Brooks’ Point
Cairo
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mount Bree Iridge
Oregon
Central America
Sierra Nevadas
Inyo County
Joan Savarr
Morgan County
John Paradise
The
Sentinel
Dap Oy Bale Themachoabrio Job Printing Press
Prof
Faber
Hi Wonderful
Chicago
John C. Lang
John F. Carr
Isaac Price
Milton H. Seward
St. Joseph
Missouri River
Little Cottonwood Mine
Utah
George D. Oxxer
Fifth District of
Missouri
Bradford
Warrensburg
John Lay
Union Pacific Railroad
Laclede
Wm. Hewer
Napoleon
Thomas Palmer
Marcus Combs
Exeter
Nicholas Heigh
Combs
Nicholas
Red Bluff
Pearce
Nellie Brooks
Perkins
Vrontos
London
St. John
Flint Rocks
Clam Harbor
Antiolch
Paris
London Times
Thiers
Tichborne Estates
Queen’s Bench
Newgate
Alsace
Lorraine
Bismarck
Arthur O'Connor
Queen Victoria
Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Company
Telegraph Maintenance and Construction Company
Europe
AmericBessear
House of Commons
John Bright
Andeman
Bath
St. Marie
Haiti
Geneva
United States
Great Britain
Appen Station
Great Western
D. W
Brook’s Point
Pilot Thompson
John Lumsden
Keightly
Texas
Harris
Harry Tripp
Reeder
Belle
George Keightly
Death-bed Wish Missing Falls of Niagara
Old Mr. Thompson feared he would die without ever seeing the Falls of Niagara. He believed his one regret was not visiting the falls, a wish he never fulfilled, even after recovering and living fifteen more years.
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Brownsville
Tenn
Boston
Baltimore
Huston
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Mr. Thompson
Thompson
Max
Nia-Gayra
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