06 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1883
Page
1
James S. Crow was convicted by jury of complicity with ex city treasurer Borkin in robbing the city. The trial stretched over ten days with lengthy testimony and a long jury summation. Judge Barker has not yet pronounced sentence.
Directory lists First Baptist First Presbyterian St Johns Episcopal and First Methodist with service times Sabbath at 1 a m and 7 p m and Sunday School at noon. midweek prayer meetings. visitors welcome. notes errors and space saving request to office.
A noisy page fragment lists Masonic lodge meetings and officers for Penkirk and Dunkirk chapters plus civic ads for Haynes’ goods and cigars. It includes court notes on embezzlement charges against City Treasurer Bork and a Sing Sing prison superintendent incident, plus a nun seeking release from vows with a papal referral.
A Releigh and Western Railway conductor failed to get timely instructions yesterday and tried to collect 47 from the presidential party who had been extended railroad courtesies by officers.
Aged 74 Mrs William Thorpe dies at Mespoirre Pa with funeral set Saturday. Daniel F Wheeler elected president of Allegheny College over Rev Williams and Prof Graff. Stanley Weller arraigned in New York for forged checks. bail posted at 1006. Various items include a shot elephant in New York, Senate committee on Perry nomination, Adirondack Murray in New York, and Chicago race results. Additional notices report fires in Peru, a riot among loggers, and local assaults. A wide array of criminal and political updates from New York to London follows, with mentions of Norman and dynamite plots and a Londres dispatch on British investigations.
Senate debates include a capital project estimate at 4 790 900 to finish the building and a quarantine department reform with a single head at 4000 salary. Bills address fraud in dramatic religious representations, lending by insurers, Niagara Falls land preservation, licensing for medical practitioners, and fraudulent sales of medicines. The session advances several civil code amendments and related measures.
Special dispatch reports a Long Island prize fight between Harry Weston the Black Diamond of Cincinnati and Sese McLoughlin. They fought seven rounds with Weston winning in the final round. A blow from the Black Diamond felled McLaughlin and left him unconscious for several minutes.
West Astor town April 6 Specrel dispatch reports a man arrested on suspicion of murdering Doyle and his two children. He faces bail for threatening to kill Doyle over alleged seduction of his wife. Lynch threats noted. Doyle ran a grocery used as a blind for a hotel business. The Hawaiian law against direct Chinese import from Hong Kong is cited with plans for a Chinese regiment from California to Hawaii. The steamer Geenie will sail next to Honolulu direct from Hong Kong carrying a thousand Chinese laborers. over three thousand already contracted.
President and Secretary Chandler Heft traveled to Jacksonville while Brigadier General Joseph Barnes died of Brights disease. Surged General Barnes burial planned with military honors. A. W. Sheldon named Associate Justice of Arizona Supreme Court, replacing Hoover. Indian Commissioner orders peaceable conduct at Pine Ridge. Kellogg indictment rumor denied. Gresham nomination as postmaster general favored by president and cabinet.
Weather notes report local rains and cloudy conditions with nearly stationary temperatures. Winds shift from northeast to northwest as a higher barometer appears in the western area. Market corrections predicted by Teten graph for this evening.
Wheat and corn futures show minimal change while oats and millfeed hold firm with light demand. Local markets report steady or firmer tones in Minneapolis Des Moines Cincinnati Toledo and Detroit amid cautious trading. prices for No. 1 hard durum and corn on track show limited movement.
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