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Newspaper

Evening Observer

Location

Dunkirk, New York, United States of America

Date

Feb 03, 1885

Page

1

Large bank building in Marquette destroyed by fire

The First National Bank building in Marquette Michigan burned down on the 1st, with estimated loss of 250000. Elsewhere reports discuss Portugal seeking a warship for Congo claims, Jewelers Awal t Co assigned, John J. Cisco & Son schedules showing liabilities near 3 million, and various federal and shipping actions.

First National Bank Marquette Mich Portugal Congo aAwalt & Co Cincinnati John J. Cisco & Son Wall Street New York Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims Henry Griffiths Pubs Des Moines Iowa Swaim War Department Russia Chicago Morris United States Baltimore Martha Stewart Sue Steamboat Company Norfolk J. F. Wilkinson John Wilkinson

Legislation and hazards ripple through the legislature

In the legislature Corriman proposes boiler safety and engineer licensing after an engineer’s association suggestion. Thompson seeks limits on streetcar passenger loads. Farwar introduces Groundhog Day reform. The Senate convened late. A Pittsburgh gas explosion at Walker & Sons caused window damage and rumors of injuries, totaling under 300 dollars loss. Ottawa reports a fatal toboggan accident. New York updates reveal four suspects in the Garry Bro. store bombing case discharged for lack of evidence.

Corrimans Roche Cuyahoga Engineer's Association of Cleveland Thompson Hamilton Farwar Guernsey Senate Pitteburgh Pirrspman Walker & Sons Third Avenue Ant Dynamiters New York Garry Bro Grand Street Garry

Frightful Suffering of Sailors in Malifax Harbor

Maritime dispatches from Mallifax and Monreac detail frostbitten crews from the Lady of the Lake arriving from Liverpool. Eleven men, three severely frostbitten, suffer exposure as captain forced rope-cleaning without food. several crew to hospital, potential loss of hands and feet.

Ceptain Malifax Dountion Priocess Loulae Quebec Monreac Louise Landseer Prince Consort Grand Trunk Victoria Bridge Hacifax Nova Scotia London Toronto John F. Schales Canada Charles Mitchell Robinson Ontario Manning Schales

Freight trains collide near Kent causing deaths and damages

Collisions on the New York Lake Erie and Western near Kent Ohio demolish both engines and burn cars. Merchandise is destroyed and many cattle killed. Engineers and firemen escape injury. In New York, Sheridan quarrel ends with a pistol shot at his brother. mother wounded and hospitalised. In Purston Georgia a jail escape leads to a prisoner's escape and guard’s death to morning.

Dazras Texas Alvarado B. Allen W. J. Wellborne Allen Wellborne Wellbourne Sand Vincennes Ind Herman Bassmin Otto Grafenstein Cincinnatii Cincinnati San Francisco Grafenstein Bussman Sussman Dayton New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Kent Ohio New York Daniel Sheridan East Fifteenth Street Thomas

Coal Miners Resumed Work in Wyoming Lehigh Region

Wikesparne Pa February 3 Work resumed yesterday at the greater portion of Wyoming Lehigh and Schuylkill collieries to meet the February quota. Companies focus on best paying pits causing distress among miners. Geddes village business district fire causes $15000 loss and about repairs needed.

Wikesparne Wyoming Lehigh Schuylkill Thera

O'Donovan Rossa Shot by English Nurse at Chambers Street

O'Donovan Rossa was shot on Chambers Street near the Stewart building by a nurse from England, 25, who said she shot Rossa because he is O'Donovan Rossa. The prisoner, calm and demure, was arrested at City Hall and later moved to Oak Street Station. Rossa was taken to Chamber Street Hospital with a back wound. doctors say the injury unlikely to prove fatal.

O'Donovan Rossa Stewart Chambers Street Yacuk Hundley Rossa Aken Chamber's Street Clinton Place England Patrick Joyce McAuley Twenty-sixth Precinct City Tal Chambers Degras London Chamber's Street Hospital Reasa Phelan Tessa United States Jones Centre Rousa Hossa Centre Centre Street James McAuley Callahan Hadley City Hall Oak Street Sirs Professor Mezzerof

Congress Debates Pacific Rail Bill and Public Notices

The Senate examined two Pacific Railroad amendments including Sioux City as a route and debt payments, while House actions covered Chinese entry regulations, bribery prevention, deputy marshals costs, Congo communications, and irrigation land grants. Reports from Mexico on a jailed editor’s release and a Beebe Arkansas shooting conclude the items.

Menate and Howe of Representatives Wasninctos Laxare Senate Messrs. Spooner Wisconsin West Missouri Secretary of the Treasury Pacific Railroad Br. Hoar Judiciary Committee Sioux City Deck House McPeorson Cullom Allen Senate Commission Beck iHouse Erates Boda United States Treasury Department Rony Ta Holman Dockery Treasury Kierion Manay Aley Delmont Secretary of State London Cassidy United Nevada Mineral Janda MonAdoo Cox New York Cabell United A Jast Bayne Fiteburgh Randall B&ls Hiouse

Court of Claims Rules Union Pacific Losses in Penetrating Revenue Case

The Court of Claims ruled on Union Pacific Railroad Co vs United States. It sets that mail transport rates be treated as fair and that government travel costs match those paid by private parties. Net earnings deductions and annual percentages are outlined, with a current United States claim of 2,758,002 against the company. Decrease in public debt reported, plus a note on Mrs. Laura De Force Gordon being admitted to the Supreme Court bar.

Wasamincton Court of Claims Union Pacific Railroad Company United States Richardson Treasury Department Council Bluffs Omaha Ogden New York San Francisco Laura de Force Gordon California United States Supreme Court B. G. Riddle Gordon Belva Lockwood William i. Cox House Committee On Foreign Affairs United Press Cox Curtin London Paris Senate House

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