Fires, kills, and trials fill busy week at home and abroad
Ballston Spa scythe works burned on Tuesday morning with losses under 50 000 partly insured. Ex sheriff O'Brien found liable for 3 391 in Ludlow street jail escape case. Bark Lutchen burned and scuttled in East River. Avery fatally shot wife over jealousy in Harlem. Snyder mills burned for 40 000. Ocean shipping and rail accidents noted along with court cases and hospital fair receipts. Multiple fires, drownings, and legal rulings color a hectic news week across the country.
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Kyixersocxer
Ballston Spa
O’brien
New York
Ludlow Street
Matanzas
East River
Charles Avery
Pleasantville
Snyder
Phelps
Ontario County
N. Y
Fanny Hyde
Brooklyn
Watson
Boston
Augustus Bisner
H. J. Bishop
Madame Anna Bishop
St. Michael’s Church
A. H. Hart & Co
E. P. Seward
Seward
Florida
Bos McCauthy
Anderson
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Sioux City
Pierce Bros
River Falls
Wis
McKan Buchanan
Beaver
Col
J. H. Daggett
Springfield
Ill
Chenoa
John Tullberg
Toledo, Peoriaanarsaw
Northfield
Minn
Falk & Finkelson
Coffeyville
Ross
Vernon
Mich
W. D. & A. Garrison
Bell & Ives
J. Yerke
T. Winans
James Turk
W. D. Livermore
Larry & Benjamin
Evita Compocs
Salt Lake City
J. D. Smith
Lincoln
Nebraska
Chicago
Thos
Sheriff Cook
San Diego County
Cal
Anam Dentzler
Milwaukee House of Correction
Matilda Dentzler
Portland
Sitka
Alaska
Lake Pepin
Mississippi River
Dolan
Liam Hindell
Girard
Irc
California
Deputy Plaza
North San Diego
Franklin House
Colorado House
Schiller & Mannasses
Besley & Burdett
Lake City
Texas
Supreme Court
Stephen Ballou
James P. Golden
Adams County
Cluck
Indianapolis
Shrewsbury
Madison, Ind
Cronstadt
New Orleans
Wheeling
W. Va
Stratter Taylor
Nashville and Decatur
Athens
Ala
Wilson
Tennessee
Winfield
Normandy
Tenn
Nashville and Chattanooga
Proceedings in Congress and World News on Antioch
Senate and House actions span April 16 to 23 with votes on land sales direct taxes and customs reforms. Highlights include budgets for Venus transit observation, civil service reform, West Point, and the Mississippi river channel project. A feature sketch details ancient Antioch’s geography, economy, walls, and heritage.
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Senate
United States
Scofield
House
Holmian
Ketcham
Mr. Holman
Mr. Scofield
Zene
Naga
Yreasian Construction
Yokohama
Butler
Cameron
Committee On
France
Germany
Wright
Committee On Finance
Helena
Mont
Alcorn
Committee On Mines and Mining
Dawes
St. Croix
Lake Superior
Ames
Mississippi
Banks
Cox
Military Academy
West Point
Mississippi River
Minneapolis
District of Columbia
Great Salt
Windom
Committee On Appropriations
Pacific Mail
San Francisco
China
Ameri
New York
Rio Janeiro
Rameey
Committee of Conference
Pribe
South Carolina
Great Britain
North Carolina
Indiana
Gooding
Wilson
Yeas
Farnsworth
Conference Committee
Committee On Rules
Congress
Antioch
Syria
Aleppo
Jesus Christ
Paul
Selucus Nicator
Christ
Chrysostom
Orontes
Apollo
Notable Deaths and Maritime News from London and Abroad
Nine masons suffocated in a building accident. Emigrants sailed for Canada under Miss Rye's colonization project. M Bodisco, secretary of the Russian Legation in Brazil, dies. Agassiz party briefly detained in Montevideo over pockets of rocks. London papers note the Great Western Telegraph cable project with cheaper rates. U.S. Minister and Austrian foreign minister exchange ratifications of a tariff memorandum. The Tichborne claimant is admitted to bail and faces perjury and forgery charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Geneva
Washington
Court of the Queen’s Bench
John Duke Coleridge
Chas. Reade
Shelley Shelley
Mancha
Spain
Don Carlos
Kiotto
Iwakura
America
Sherman
Andenreidh
Grant
Constantinople
Russia
Bombay
Maria
Liverpool
House of Commons
Thomas Hughes
Frome
Cuna
Mersey
Periere
d’Harcourt
Turkey
Odessa
Sebastopol
A W. Thayer
United States
Trieste
Tientsin
China
Canada
New York
Montevideo
Agassiz
Great Western Telegraph Company
Atlantic
Hooper
Telegraph Works
England
Joan Jay
Austria
Count Andrassy
Marquette Banker Donates 10000 For Fountain And Library
Peter Waite a wealthy Marquette banker contributes 10000 to fund a public fountain and establish a public library in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Waite
Marquette, Mich
Post Roads Committee backs postal telegraph expansion bill
The Senate Committee on Post Roads approves Senator Ramsey’s telegraph bill to place stations at all post offices, empower the Postmaster General, set prepaid rates, and form a Postal Telegraph Company led by Hubbard Miller Tracy Fisk and others. It envisions government messages, rail contracts, and newspaper dispatch rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On
Ramsey
Postmaster-General
Postal Telegraph Company
Gardner G. Hubbard
Massachusetts
O P. Miller
Ohio
John F. Tracy
Illinois
C. B. Fisk
Missouri
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Arthur
Boutwell
Maher
Greenbush
Joseph
Timber Creek
Charlton T. Lewis
New York Evening Post
Parke Godwin
Faulkner
Allegheny City
Tas International Typographical Union
House of Delegates
Richmond
Exchange Hotel
Chester
D. C
Joseph Angelo
Souders
Edward Nixon
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
Parkerbury
Milton Parker
Daniel Nelson
Mike Eagan
St. Petersburg
Catacazy
Council of the Empire
Paris
House Committee On Appropriations
Coast Survey
Genera Banks
Fish
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Department
General Banks
Tar
John Jay Knox
Tax House Committee On Pacific Railroads
Texas Pacific
Kirkaldy
Scotland
Proceedings In Congress
Abbott
Carpenter
Department of Justice
Minnesota Point
Duluth
Houe
Slocum
Secretary of War
Court of Inquiry
Buell
Central Pacific Railroad
Goat Island
Harbor of
Postal Telegraph
Warwickshire
London Telegraph
London News
Pittsburg
Penn
Erienne Desnares
Belleville, Ill
George W. Peck
la Crosse
Niagara Falls
International Hotel
Edwin Forrest
Big Rapids
Thunder Bane
la Superior
Con. J. W. Forney
The
Washington Chronicle
Philadelphia Press
Sunday Chronicle
Mobile
Tensas
Salem
Mass
Pacific
Canton
Dr. Batcom
J. E. Platt
Manitowoc
Avery Smith
Aur
Newark
N. J
Cincinnatl
Fourth Street
Port Rowan
Louisville
Henry Dexter
Aveling
Dexter
Timothy
Jones
Mr. Jones