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Evening Observer

Location

Dunkirk, New York, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1883

Page

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Prohibition Petition Drives 90,000 Women in Cleveland

Women in Cleveland petition for prohibition reaching 90,000 signers as nationwide pressure grows. Rubber stock climbs with twelve large factories expanding output. A pulp factory burns at Ticonderoga causing $18,000 loss. Flowers substitute a tariff bill cutting revenues by 80,006,060. Snowbound traffic blocks 1,600,000 bushels of corn between Chicago and the Missouri River.

Chicago Missouri River

Notorious Negro Desperado Seized in Brutal Assault

Maud Beenings, nine, found near Paots Kansas in a brutal assault after claiming she was abducted by Henry Smith, a Black man named as the suspect. She survived faint injuries but serious frostbite. A mob broke into the jail, shots fired, sheriff and deputies shot, one son of the sheriff wounded, a colored man killed, and several others injured as authorities attempted to protect the prisoner.

Evening Observer J Paots Kan Maud Beenings Smith Childs Sherff James Milkow

Washington Starts Near Completion of Sundry Civil Bill

The sundry civil bill is nearly finished and will authorize about 21 million dollars in appropriations, a few million less than last year. The president sent to the senate a message with interior department communications urging strict action against public lands evasion and law violations. The Mississippi River improvement committee backs jetties and outlets, with plans for Plum Point and Providence and auxiliary works at Memphis and Vicksburg. Levees are opposed for low water navigation, while a below Cairo appropriation of 2.5 million dollars is anticipated.

Senate Secretary of the Interior Mississippi River Plum Point Providence Memphis Vicksburg Cairo Quartermaster’s Department

Rubber factories suspend operations across five states

Twelve rubber factories in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island will close tomorrow. They employ over 8,000 workers combined as rubber stock remains scarce and prices rise, paralyzing the trade.

The Evening Observer New York New Jersey Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island

Royal Opera House in Toronto Burns Yesterday Morning

Telegraphic notes report the Royal Opera house in Toronto burnt yesterday morning. Lass 875,600 is mentioned among topics, with other items including Cape Cod ship canal charters, deaths of Richard Keese and Rev Dr Mercer, a sparring exhibition at Madison Square Garden, and a fatal flood-ice event in Shelby County Indiana affecting several horses.

Royal Opera House Toronto Lass

What the Matter with Flowers Special Dispatch

The Evening Observer reports Congressman Flowers plans a substitute for the tariff bill. It would abolish internal revenue taxes except on distilled spirits and national bank circulation, aiming to reduce government revenue by over 52,000,000. Maine House considers constitutional prohibition, cider word amendment defeated, resolution engrossed 104 to 37. Clyde orders 30 thousand tons of new shipping, including two steamers for North German Lloyd.

The Evening Observer New York the Herald Washington Special Flowers Maine Clyde North German Lloyd Company Ninosognoga Ticonderoga Paper Company

Opera House Burned at Toronto in Early Morning Fire

The Royal Opera House in Toronto burned early yesterday. Ravel’s Humpty Dumpty company lost all props valued at 10,000. The loss to the opera house stood at 70,900 with 15,000 insured. Lillian Cleaves and Rice’s company were slated for next week. The Kiralty Brothers, then playing Black Crook at Grand Opera House, will present a benefit for the fire’s victims.

Opera House Toronto Evening Observer Toronoo Royal Opera House Ravel Tolantic Kiralty Brothers Grand Opera

Rumors Sweep Sudan and Other Telegraphic Notes

The itemized telegraph notes report a rumored Egyptian surrender near Obeid in Soudan to a false prophet. Frank Budd, once missing for the Pacific Express, is alleged a $30,000 defaulter. Spain frees 49,000 Cuban slaves not liberated by 1870 owners. Capt. Payne’s party captured south of Citamaron, to be retaken to Fort Reno. Illinois fruit crop fears from storm damage to orchards. Warsaw students protest Polish literature in Russian. Oly Owen, St. Louis bank teller, pleads guilty to grain and cotton speculation ruin. sentence deferred. Colorado funds for Grand Army encampment. Denver adds more. Missouri governor refuses to extradite Frank James pending indictments in Minnesota.

Five O'clock Dispatches. Fire and Prohibition News

Ninosognoga reports a Ticonderoga paper mill fire in Olean leaves mill destroyed, losses over 15000 dollars all insured. Cliverano residents report statewide excitement as petitions for a prohibition constitutional amendment reach seventy thousand voters and ninety thousand women in support.

Evening Observer Cliverano

Dunkirk Maberts Reported For Chautauqua Farisee

Report from the corrected weekly notes Dunkirk Maberts involved in a Chautauqua affair. Details on the event and participants are listed in the ongoing community record.

Chautauqua Farsise

Probabilities. Signal Station Updates Worldwide Markets

Latest markets from all over the world corrected by telegraph for this evening. Office of the editor, 9, 1683.

Telegraph Office of the Eaea

Grain markets note no reported transactions

Grain market activity was light with no reported grain trades. Corn values show slight variation while rail-delivered grain remains constrained by port handling. Regional quotes reflect firm wheat and varying corn figures across Toledo Detroit and Cincinnati, with mixed futures pricing observed.

Camples Toledo Detroit Sylow

Hit the Wrong One

Abbeyville S D February 0 This morning Oliver Childs attempted to shoot a large dog. The gun misfired and discharged when the dog was struck, fatally wounding Childs. Three youths 15 Will Turbut Frank Steeves and Dominick Barbero were arrested for robbing a clothing store and confessed to over thirty small robberies in Gleam during the past few months. They were sent to a correctional facility.

Abbeyville Oliver Childs Child Frank Steeves Dominick Barbero Yeatesday Imo Aukhur Reeves

Snowbound and In Transit Corn Stocks Estimated Over 600000 Bushels

Snowbound conditions prompt the tally of corn in transit from mills to the Mississippi River region. An active count across various channels shows the figure above six hundred thousand bushels, with records of shipping logs reviewed to support the estimate. The piece also notes changes to United Workmen laws and a vetoed reserve fund proposal, amid debates on authority and financial governance.

Grand Lodge of United Workmen Supreme Lodge

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