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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1884
Page
3
The Ohio River's receding waters reveal widespread damage from Cincinnati to Evansville and beyond. Thousands of buildings are ruined, wooden structures removed from foundations, and brick edifices crumbling. Relief is urgent as the flood zone drafts plans for shelter, food, and transportation to aid stranded residents and damaged districts.
Grace Kenn, about twenty, daughter of a New York carriage maker, visiting in St. Louis, left to shop yesterday afternoon and has not been seen since. Police and family search continue amid distress. The second item notes Britain offering the naval vessel Alert to join the Greeley relief expedition, to be brought to the U.S. by naval officers as a store ship, with English explorers endorsing the plan.
Forty thousand orange trees were sold in Jacksonville Florida for twenty five thousand dollars. Other items note a Elendale Dickey County North Dakota postmaster arrested for robbing a registered letter and various regional incidents. The Boston and Savannah Steamship Company seeks damage limits after a loss of the City at Columbus. The Seacouncr Mills in Fall River Massachusetts formed to manufacture print cloths with capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars. A New York attorney general order seeks appointment of a receiver for North River Construction Company. A West Point Mississippi inmate reportedly ate four quarts of China berries, risking convulsions and death. A physician counsels eyeing toes while upright when taking pills. Lighthouse fog bell at New Haven records fifty six hours of ringing. An unusually large egg from Miles City Montana. Emma Burrows of Albany shoots her mother over a ball masque dispute. James B Curle of Cherokee Nation dies from accidental gunfire. Ohio Jim suspected in 1881-83 Sheriff murder case near Cincinnati arrested in Chicago. Rutland Buttonford sues John B Page for two hundred thousand. Prisoners escape Camden jail. four more flee, seven recaptured. Widow Weidel Phillips declines executorship due to ill health. Ivory cane tip of Benedict Arnold’s at West Point in possession of PBBE Wilson of Bethel Maine. Futures dealer builds a house in Seattle in anticipation of riparian rights when territory becomes a state. France embargo notes and various unrelated local items reported.
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