09 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1883
Page
1
The Observer announces delivery and subscription rates with sales avenues at local shops and business districts. Rates are available at the office and at Jobe Thom Olguy More, Third Street, for inquiries and display ads.
The item lists professionals and services with addresses on Front and Bearer Streets, including a physician, vocal and instrumental teacher, a hair salon for ladies and children, a petroleum broker with multiple exchange representations, and a margin office with W U Tel Go. Central advertisements reference the Lake Shore Bank area and local streets.
Notices list multiple churches with pastors and service times. Murat Baptist at Fourth and Bugsle. First Presbyterian at Fourth and Ba Ce. John's Episcopal at Fourth and Eagle. First Methodist at Fourth between Elk and Buffalo. German Evangelical at Elk between Fourth and Fifth. German A m E B Church at Deer and Fourth. pastors named, Sunday schools and weekday services. strangers invited.
The Husanic Directory lists Irondequoit Lodge No. 361 FG A M meetings on the first and third Fridays, with officers J. G. Bisley and W. Zummerhann. Edge No. 767 FG A M meets first and third Mondays led by W.P. Mullett and others. H J. Gules Jr presides over Stated convocations of R.A.M Chapter No. 10 on the second and fourth Tacedays. Dankuk Council No.5 KR & 5 Me meets first Wednesdays. tan O second and fourth Wednesdays. additions note local merchants Haynes and Van de Velre offering spring goods, the Emblem cigar, and other ads.
Lawrence mass April 9 the Augustinian society announced plans to file for insolvency and abandon efforts to cut the 567000 liabilities of the savings institution. Assets listed at 69400 support four churches parsonages and school buildings. If sold by court order depositors would receive about five percent, while Father McEvoy claimed full payment would come but take years.
James Grundy a Cincinnati traveler refused to drink in a Nashville saloon. He fought with ex-governor Porter’s son after Porter struck him with a knife. Grundy was wounded behind the ear, Porter fled but was captured by police. Authorities threaten lynching as Grundy’s condition worsens.
Felix Bartlet about 50, an employee at the St Elmo hotel, died suddenly Saturday after choking during dinner. A companion saw him make unnatural motions and be assisted to the hall where he seemed to improve before collapsing and dying. Post mortem found a piece of roast beef in his wind pipe.
Special Dispatch reports burglars broke into Captain Samuels home and stole about $2600 in jewelry. Police have yet to locate the thieves. The Denver exposition is expected to attract many exhibitors with 300 spaces booked. Senator Warner Miller of Lew York delivered the opening address.
Brisk telegraphic notes report over a hundred families forced to abandon homes near Nashville due to the rising Camberlines. The New York Central Labor Union forms a committee to organize an American food and rent league to curb landlords’ high rents. Immigration toward the northwest grows, roads and freight yards are strained, and dangers near the Mexican frontier are noted. Services at Kirtland, Ohio attract 500 Mormons. Joseph Smith Jr speaks on belief in Mormonism, while Rev. Joseph Lambert discusses church origins and polygamy. An attempted blackmail by Dr. G H Marshall against actress Mary Anderson is revealed, with letters offered for sale.
Special report from Ents Pennsylvania describes the death of Ralph Young in a suspected fratricide case. Mary and Samuel Young denied involvement as neighbors reported a gun on a napkin found under a bed. A coroner’s jury investigated the scene and the missing cash from Ralph’s pocketbook.
A 500-person crowd gathered outside a Salvation Army hall last night as officers at the entrance faced harmless missiles while the choir sang. The Presbyterian church service nearby closed early amid disgraceful scenes, with three arrests reported. A separate dispatch from Massillon notes a looming strike or lockout in the coal field over wages, with a possible compromise to avoid open conflict.
A Special Dispatch reports Ottawa on April 9 denying a dynamite bottle thrown at two policemen. The item notes no truth to the sensational claim amid broader coverage of the Phoenni Park murderers and other happenings across the pond.
Special dispatch reports Dostum Brady Kelley Burly and Fitzsimmons on trial for the Phoenix Park murders with Joe Brady to be tried first. Crown lawyers oppose delays as new evidence ties Casey to Tynan and Number One. A house in Chicat Tralee was blown up with gunpowder, no injuries, two arrests. Steamship arrivals from Cork are searched for explosives as government imposes penalties up to twenty years for explosive offenses.
Special dispatch reports a major explosive plot in Britain with police cracking a network linked to Gallagher. Aneburghe, 21, arrested near Waterloo Bridge after arriving from America. threats target gasometers near Millbank prison. Nitro glycerine consignments moved from Glasgow to London. police claim many conspirators and strong safeguards at Milbank. Norman expected to testify. Milbank area guarded by soldiers amid ongoing investigations.
Aveburghe is not the true name of the man arrested today. There is reason to believe that Gallagher has had military training. The documents discovered at Salford and forwarded to Sir William Harcourt are not feuan papers.
Washington items report ex Surgeon General Barnes buried Saturday at Oak Hill cemetery with military honors. Gen Gresham to receive four receptions and serenade on arrival by Indiana residents. Henry A Bowen’s bail of 1000 in star route bribery forfeited after Bowen left city. Petroleum exports February valued at 2,090,000. eight months ending February 28,600,000 versus 34,453,000 prior year. Treasury seeks end of certain fees per Supreme Court ruling. Folger recovering. plans to resume duties Monday. Bermuda trip abandoned. Foreign steamers barred from full inspection certificates, deficiencies to be supplied later. Jus Stowell, 13, jailed for assault on George, an Onondaga Indian. George gravely injured. Stowell awaiting results.
A Special Dispatch reports Henry Napsett a la borer killed by collapsing walls of a three story brick building burned a week prior in Elmira. Albion Lee, property owner, badly hurt. In Sasvern Florida, the president arrived and plans a retreat into the woods for ten days.
A gale at the Edisto River mouth wrecked many rafts and claimed three lives despite rescue efforts. In Kentucky at Prickly Ash a fast rising stream swept a tollgate keeper Martin Marvin and three children from a log. all four died and bodies are not recovered.
Weather forecast notes increasing cloudiness followed by rain, warmer with south to west winds. Stationary to slightly rising temperatures. Markets section shows corrections by telegraph for this evening.
Grain markets show mixed activity with flour steady and corn meal active yet modestly in demand. Milk and dairy supplies are ample with prices unchanged, while milling wheel demand remains dull and prices steady. In Cincinnati pork is dull, wheat shows strength in red bids, and corn and oats trade with quiet to moderate moves amid broad market softness.
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