07 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1883
Page
1
Report covers a Philadelphia strike by cotton mill operatives and a sensational abduction in Percesnore Virginia involving Maggie Dooley as well as a Florida presidenti al excursion train incident near Jacksonville where a coupling accident left the president’s car behind briefly and was blamed on the bell rope.
Voucher details for vocal and instrumental music including thorough bass and harmony. For particulars see circulars or apply at Studecor Buggles and Talcott.
Directory lists multiple church services with pastors and timings. First Baptist Rev E F Crane 11 am 7:30 pm. Sunday school 12:30 pm. Presbyterians Rev W J Austin 11 am 7:30 pm. Episcopal Rev W Raikes 11 am 7:30 pm. First Methodist Rev O L Mead 11 am 7 pm. German Evangelical Rev G Lorstecher 10:30 am 7:30 pm. German Methodist Rev John Flad 10:30 am 7 pm. weekly prayer meetings noted. strangers invited.
In addition to lodge listings for Lrondequant No 901 and Dunkirk bodies, the page advertises budget Spring goods. It notes mortgages for sale, and local merchants Haynes Schauer and Geri Schauer promoting clothing, overalls, and scented cigars. The items reflect fraternal notices and retail notices from Dunkirk.
Special Dispatch reports Sam Cooper a former post office clerk aged about 40 shot at his divorced wife and her sister in a Walnut Street boarding house. A bullet hit the wife in the arm and lodged in her abdomen after a confrontation in the kitchen. The wives and Cooper had separated two years earlier with Cooper paying occasional visits and money.
Dispatch reports an accident on the DAV and P near Dun Kirk as a train left Seven o clock, ran over a trestle, five cars derailed at the rear. No one seriously hurt. Two brakemen frightened and slightly bruised in the incident reported April 7.
Fire beamers and twisters in about fifteen cotton mills have endorsed the uptown beamers demand for a one dollar weekly wage rise. If owners refuse to compromise, all mills may strike.
Special dispatch reports April 7 gains for the bank with loans up $9 million and deposits up $1.086 million. Specie rises $1.504 million while circulation falls $945 thousand and legal tender decreases $878 thousand. Revenue climbs $304 thousand.
Telegraph notes report the Conkling murder trial postponed to September, the Pennsylvania free oil pipe bill passing the Senate and forwarding to the House, and ex Senator Ferry planning a year abroad for health. Also covered are family poisoning in Alabama, financial scandals in Montreal and Wisconsin, a Missouri execution, a Catholic church shift toward Spiritualism, a mine owner suicide, a Nashville waterspout, Mormon temple services, a dubious Columbia DC trial, an athletic rower’s schedule, Cotwold sheep trends, and other brief items.
A special dispatch reports a deadly Canada Pacific collision near twentythree miles south of here killing engineer William Robinson and injuring several immigrants and passengers. Carmody O Herlihy and Featherstone face dynamite carrier charges with a private re examination ordered, bail denied. Featherstone claims US citizenship and seeks redress through the U S Consul.
A bottle containing an explosive was hurled from above into the hallway of the eastern departmental building in Ottawa. Sergeant Hughes and Police Officer Codd took shelter behind a pillar as the device exploded with tremendous force. The incident had been kept secret until last night.
A police dispatch reports a large dynamite shipment from Liverpool to addresses within the St James Haymarket and Regent streets area. Officials expect arrests soon as an infernal machine is investigated while Birmingham factory nitro glycerine remains untraced and a new bill by Sir William Harcourt seeks penalties for improper possession of explosives.
Stanley Brown prepares Garfield papers for publication as new postlaw cuts could leave up to a quarter of offices earning excess salaries. Treasury cattle commission debunks pleuro-pneumonia in West Virginia as tubercULosis and notes it does not exist west of the Alleghenies. George Albert Mason, a noted counterfeiter, seeks $30,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment after release from Albany Penitentiary. Public notices mix with pricing lines and garbled text.
The legislature debates pro rate rail freight charges and a ten percent state capital stock tax for new railways. A proposed three member labor statistics commission is approved for third reading, with salaries outlined. Other measures include ex-soldier employment on public buildings, a capitol project appropriation, and various vetoes and amendments. President Arthur visits Jacksonville as the party tours Florida.
Lower Lakes forecast shows rain or snow then cloudy, northerly winds becoming variable, with higher barometer and little temperature change. Markets report mixed activity with scarce grain, hogs steady, corn dull, and oil prices in City market, while rail and shipping names appear in scattered quotes. Key entities include Michigan data, Cincinnati quotes, Canada Southern, Del & Lack, Reading, St Paul, Omaha, and Pittsburgh lines.
A safe at Axsel Arnold & Co flour and feed dealers in Wutoranvic, Conn was blown open and robbed of money and bonds checks notes and other papers. A steamer named Broomeyn is ashore on Hog Island Casco Bay Maine. A nine year old son of Buck Jordan accidentally discharged a gun killing Mrs Wheeler and wounding her daughter and killing Mrs Allen and her baby in a separate incident.
The Dominion line steamer Brooklyn from Portland to Liverpool ran aground last night in fog off Hog Island in Casco Bay. She is badly damaged and full of water. passengers were brought ashore at Portland. Sinister Daggett told the government that reports of Chinese sugar arriving at Efonolahi and being re shipped as Hawaiians to dodge duties are unfounded.
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