Failures and Disasters Hit Nation in Early September
News of the week reports grain and provision trade failures in New York caused by price drops. A major Colorado mill and elevator at Denver burned with $225,000 loss. Richmond Banking and Insurance Co suspended after a run, with more suspensions feared. A secret steamboat line on the Hudson carries passengers to Poughkeepsie for ten cents. Florida storm damages heavy, cotton ruined, many killed. Wheat production across Ohio Valley and Midwest noted, with large totals. Robbery and theft incidents in Washington and Tennessee. Yellow fever rises in Brownsville Pensacola and Texas floodwaters affect Brownsville. Crime, rail and bank activity, and a Creedmoor rifle match headline the unsettled week.
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New York
Crescent Mills
Denver
Colorado
Richmond
Sons of Columbia
Hudson River
Poughkeepsie
Jacksonville
Florida
Department of Agriculture
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
South
Washington
Office of the Register of the Treasury
Secret Service
Adams Express Company
Chateau
Vinita
Warren
Crocket
Tex
Port Costa
Cal
Canada
Princess Louise
United States Commissioner of Pensions
Hartford
Conn
W. H. Vanderbilt
Aldine
Early Rose
Charter Oak Track
Frank Work
Edward
Dick Swiveler
Ruth
Chattanooga
Tenn
John Taylor
Fletcher
Knoxville
Winsted
James Tracey
Chicago
Huebner
ToLevo
Alabama
United Srates
Stupe- Meyer
Fort Davis
Dwient
Laturer
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Brownsville
Pensacola
Fla
Mier
Mex
Rio Grande
Duantes M. Wellinetton
National Bank of Troy
Creedmoor
Survivors from Jeannette Arctic Expedition Reach New York
Reported survivors with ME and Lyillee arrive in New York on the 13th alongside other expedition members. The South Carolina Republican State Convention at Columbia on the 13th urged voting for Greenback Labor candidate slate for a free ballot. In Washington on the 13th Judge Wylie heard arguments to arrest judgment in the Star route case Miner and Berdell. District Attorney acted on Foreman Dickson’s information.
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Me&lyillee
New York
Tae
Republican State Convention
South Carolina
Columbia
Washington
Wylie
Miner
Berdell
Foreman Dickson
Political Nominations and Conflicts Across States
Reports from New Hampshire to California detail arrests and charges in party fights, conventions nominating governors such as Woodbury and Morton, and platform debates on tariff, prohibition, and silver. A Colorado blast and a Sierra County sheriff shooting reflect era political hostility and violence.
Global and local calamities fill headlines across continents
Reports note yellow fever breaking out at Mier Mexico with citizens fleeing and patients on the Texas side. Other items include a Montreal defaulter case, Greece warning the Porte, St Patrick's Cathedral buttress collapse in Dublin with four deaths, Bank of England rate rise, Irish national movement plans, Thames Rowing Club victory, Swiss astronomer Emite Prantamovur dead, a hurricane at Trieste, Tsarist coronation delayed, death of Sir James Anderson, La Prairie barracks fire, and Manila cholera deaths totaling 457.
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Mier
Mexico
Laredo
Texas
Rio Grande
William McNett
Montreal
Tus
Greece
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin
Bank of England
Dvcsuin
Parnell
Davitt
Dillon
Brennan
River Thames Rowing Club
Hinsdale Club
Emite Prantamovur
Trieste
Council of Ministers
St. Petersburg
James Anderson
Queen Victoria
British Victory in Egypt Ends the War
The report details Wolseley's forces conquering Tel-el-Kebir and Cairo, Arabi Pasha's surrender, and a British claim of victory with 200 British and 2,000 Egyptian losses. It notes surrender phrases, troop movements, and arrests in Port Said, with arabi Pasha in custody and peace ordered.
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Arabi Bey
Alexandria
Kafr-el-Dwar
Mahalia
Ramieh
Meks
Suez
Port Said
Shuluf
Netiche
Serapeum
Ismailia
Magfar
Ramses
Kassasin
Highland Brigade
McPherson
Zagazig
Arabi Pasha
Tel-el-Kebir
Butros Bey
British War Office
Wolseley
Lowe
Cairo
Toulba Pasha
British officers toil in Egypt as troops withdraw
News from Egypt reports Kaffr-el-Dwar occupied by British on the 16th while Damietta reportedly surrenders. Ramleh camp dissolved and Egyptian forces at Mallaha quit. Aboukir commander ready to surrender. Dufferin says operations cease and a convention may be signed. The Egyptian army faces disbanding.
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Kaffr-el- Dwar
Damietta
Ramleh
Mallaha
Aboukir
Lord Dufferin
Porte
Constantinople
Egypt
England
Egyptian Council of Ministers
Greenbackers
Delaware
Wilmington
Milo L. Blanchard
Churches of England
Republican Party
Wisconsin
BE. W. Keyes
George C. Hazelton
Joan McIntyre
Cornelius Thornburn
Gloucester
Mass
Pernambuco
Melville
Sharon Hill
Philadelphia
Brownsville
Tex
Pensacola
Elmira
N. Y
Asia
French River
Sault Ste. Marie
Georgian Bay
Point Au Barrie
British victory at Tel el Kebir portends wider campaign
The official report details a dawn assault on Arabi Pasha's stronghold with 11 000 bayonets 2 000 sabers and 60 guns supported by naval and artillery brigades. Massive Egyptian resistance collapsed as British forces captured trains tents stores and heavy artillery amid fierce close combat.
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Tel-el-Kebir
Zagazig
Trel-El-Kebir
Kassassin
Wolseley
Arabi
McPherson
Arabi Pasha
British War Office
Tel-El-Keurr
Kassassin Locks
Graham
Foot Guards
Duke of Connaught
Willis
Colona Richards
Colville
Midwood
Somervell
Highland Light Infantry
Black Watch
McNeil
Cumberland
Fox
Allison
Hutton
Stirling
Coldstream Guards
Coronel Balfour
Grenadier Guards
Colorergeant
Balbees
Highland Brigade
Cameron Highlanders
Kacheb Pasha
Ali Fehmi Pasha
Foreman Dickson Charges Bribery in DOJ Case
Foreman Dickson details an alleged bribery plot involving Henry A. Bowen aimed at swaying verdicts in the Star private trial. He warns Attorney General Brewster that officers of the Justice Department attacked his character as he pursues the case.
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Washington
Dickson
Bowen
Brady
Dorsey
Bliss
Merrick
Kerr
Brewster
Foreman Dickson
N. W
Benjamin H. Brewster
United States
Henry A. Bowen
Arizona
District of Columbia
Department of Justice
Witsvast Dickksoy
Parisian Artist Seeks Revenge Through Portrait Trick
A famed painter turns a refused likeness into a satire by altering a lady’s portrait with baldness, false hair, and suggestive accessories. He renames it The Coquette of Fifty Years and offers it at private exhibition, prompting the stunned sitter to buy the work to erase the scandal.
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Asj
Lonidon Keho
Saratoga Marvel Couples Southern Visitors Celebrate Marriage
A South couple at Saratoga is highlighted as a long familiar pair, married twenty four years yet still addressing each other as dear and darling. They are sociable, affable, and always together enjoying common interests, drawing mixed reactions from fellow guests and other women.
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Saratoga
South
N. ¥. Times
Alligator Feasts on Gull at the Zoo
At the zoo yesterday a gull wandered into the alligator pond. The alligator fixed its gaze and pulled the bird close. It opened its jaws and gulped down the gull, then sank to the bottom to digest the meal.
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Henry W. Lord
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W. R. Moore
Henry F. Sheridan
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Iowa
B. J. Hall
J. H. Murphy
Greenbacker
James B. Weaver
Prohibition
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E. C. Phillips
Freetrader
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Juper Wyllie
Criminal Court
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Colorado Republicans
Ernest L. Campbell
Garfield
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Congress
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New Jersey
George M. Robeson
J. W. Ganverlink
Kentucky
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David H. Sumner
Pennsylvania
William A. Duncan
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J.B. Campbel
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