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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1884
Page
3
An old advertisement promotes Pond's Extract and related instruments including a nasal syringe and female syringe. It urges buyers to insist on Pond's Extract and refuse counterfeits, listing the seller H. P. Monroe and the Pond's Extract Co of New York at Fifth Avenue.
April 21 report from Denter details a brutal Apache raid near Jamez and San Miguel Mexico. About eighty Apaches attacked, killed a dozen residents, and looted cattle. Ju and Geronimo were allegedly seen nearby leading warriors. three dozen or more killed in the raid.
Rochester crowds rally after Tan Kee, posing as a Chinese embassy interpreter, deceives churchgoers and officials. He exhibited religion to gain trust, then vanished after a spree prompted by disciplinary threats. Washington telegrams deny his embassy role.
Application will be made for a charter to incorporate the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Drove Yard Company. The firm will erect extensive stock sheds in Allegheny and compete with East Liberty Stock Yard Company. Prominent Pittsburgh & Western and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials are interested.
Henry and George, the writer, arrived in New York from England aboard the steamer Oregon. Yale’s Professor Newton resigns as director of the Yale Conservatory. Pomare V the Queen of Tahiti arrives in Chicago and then departs for San Francisco. Two more indictments are found against ex-U S Marshal Blythe in D C. One hundred miners fired from Bower Mining near Pittsburgh for rejecting the coal trade international award. Rev Dr McCosh of Princeton presides at an installation in Dayton. Three colored girls drown after a dugout capsizes near Cairo Indiana. Sons of the Revolution meet in New York electing John Austin Stephens president and General John Cochran e vice president. A lunatic herding cows on Ward’s Island is shot by thieves. Niagara Falls appraisal says Goat Island is worth one million dollars. A workman from Cincinnati jumps into the Ohio River. body not recovered by midnight. Georgia appoints ten auxiliary commissioners for the New Orleans cotton centennial. Zacatecas revels as Mexican Central train passes. Madrid papers note Badeau’s Havana removal over Cuban sympathy. Frelinghuysen’s letters with Spain satisfy the Foreign Minister. French bombard Totgin and impose a limited protectorate tone without indemnity. Marquis Tseng summoned to Pekin. A York, Maine birch tree near Avc. grows while a granite block is pushed aside at nearly one inch yearly.
Dated notes from Opelia and New York April 2 recount assorted items including Percival Presly meeting someone about sheets, postures on Pacific earnings speculation, Yale Observatory director resignation, a Western Expat meeting in Cincinnati, and weather and local incidents. The fragmentary items touch on rail news, church fire in East Saginaw, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment celebrations in Buenvosp, a Northeastern Railroad train speed, and agricultural outlooks for wheat oats and fruits.
In Worcester Massachusetts on April 21 the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment marked its 23rd anniversary with a march and reminiscences of the Civil War era. Ottawa April 21 governor general prorogued Parliament and approved new legislation. Boston April 21 the 169th anniversary of Concord field was celebrated in Concord. Texas April 21 two Italians in Turkish garb, selling bead work, were attacked after marching toward the City of Mexico. one man killed and the other captured and handed to state authorities.
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