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Newspaper

Evening Observer

Location

Dunkirk, New York, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1883

Page

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Dunkirk Trade Notices Prompt Local Openings

Dunkirk announces new businesses including R E HWENERSON at Second and Center Streets offering mechanical dentistry and hairdressing services. Wilson opens a wagon shop at Talcott and Ruggles. Quoinery Goods featured. Kate Lenz at Center 46 promotes hats and feathers with stamping, and Joseph Eldeining advertises a furniture store on Centre between Third and Fourth with repair services.

Kate Lenz Center Street Dunkirk Oseph Eldeinig

Holiday Goods Arrive Daily at Hequembourg's

Daily arrivals of holiday goods at Hequembourg's store with fresh stock and seasonal displays. Consumers expected to find gifts, decorations, and limited items featured for the festive period.

Hequembourg

Milwaukee Fire Disaster Rumors and Murky Smuggling Notes

Reported Milwaukee fire deaths exceed initial estimates amid alleged incendiary causes. A Connecticut murder case threads through the coverage alongside naval and prison reform notes. The Tarriff Commission, silver mining bets, and smuggling schemes by New York operatives appear in fragmented summaries.

Horrors upon Horrors Steadily Developing in Wis

Special Dispatch reports a deadly hotel fire in Moiwackee Wisconsin with at least ninety two known dead and fears of a higher toll. Prof Mason, presumed incendiary, perished in the blaze. prosecutors charge hotel owners with legal neglect. Actor John Gilbert and bride perished. Gilbert’s real name John Demming. Numerous victims hospitalized. crowds surge to ruins as funeral plans begin. Police and railroad men missing are feared dead while the fire department tears down walls.

Evening Observer Moiwackee, Wis Mason John Gilbert John Demming Charles Kelsey Tom Thunil Michigan Cenaver Avent

Tari Commission Report Backed by Association for Committee Review

The association supports the Tari Commission report and will advocate its recommendations before the relevant committees, aiming to secure favorable consideration and ensure formal review extends to the far south regions including Alabama.

Alabama

Multiple Anarchists Examined as Galway Execution Nears

Telegraph notes report Krapothine and others linked to anarchists examined while hangman Marwood arrives in Galway for Huddy murderers execution. Other items include £100000 donation to Lewisburg Baptist seminary, a large armed guard planned highway robbery, and a major Lisbon earthquake aftermath.

Foreign Affairs Notes Shift in Vera Cruz Arrival

In Vera Cruz a ROOTIPS reception is reported with wrecks noted and Sen Ton Soon 70 arriving in America. The item also mentions facts about the city of Zhuis and its selling status, reflecting a mix of diplomatic and local business themes.

Sen Ton America

Inquest Finds Delays Led To Fatal Brussels Sinking

Special Dispatch reports from Tavervoo Eng Jan 12 that two sailors aboard the City of Brussels disobeyed orders and delayed to retrieve baggage. The delay proved fatal and the captain is exonerated of blame.

Inquest Developmenta Evening Observer Tavervoo Eng Brussels Nail

Land League Sends Sexton to Amti fea

Lopechel Dispatch reports that Sexton is sent from London to attend the American Land League convention in New York City in February. The move follows a cablegram from President Money of the American Land League requesting Sexton’s attendance to reorganize the league into a National League.

Land League Sexton Amtifea Mooney The American Land League United States

Booth's Success in the Faderland at Residence Theater

Special dispatch reports Booth opened his engagement at the Residence Theater appearing as Hamlet. The house was crowded and Booth was repeatedly greeted with applause. Prince Frederick William expressed admiration for Booth's incomparable acting.

Smuggling Report Reveals $100,000 Cigar Seizures

Special dispatch notes Treasury Agent Adams reports the annual smuggling tally shows $100,000 in seized cigars and forty arrests. The missive warns that illicit trade remains widespread with daily activity across various kinds of schemes.

New York Treasury Adams

Wooden Nutmeg Fiend Arrests Wife Killer

Special Dispatch to the Evening Obscurer from Srearorn Connecticut reports that on January 12 the sheriff arrested William Brush for murdering his wife. The village is in an uproar with talk of mob action and authorities rushed to prevent violence.

Srearorn To-aday Win Brush Tynehin

Statesman's Fall injures Illinois statesman

While riding horseback near Avening, Hon. BE. B. Washtarn of Chicago was thrown when the horse bolted. He was picked up unconscious and believed seriously injured, primarily internally.

BE. B. Washtarn Chicago Hlinois Lere Enaib le Wae Fou

Three Wrecks In The Gulf Special Dispatch Summary

During the Tuesday storm in the Gulf three vessels were wrecked the schooner Theresa G the steamer fumes Mexican barque Armadila. Crews were saved and harbor improvements suffered damage lighters and small craft destroyed. The Armadila wreck occurred near Auton Lizards with the crew saved.

Evening Observer Vera Crez Dan Americ Garry Theresa G Selmoner Armadila

Tree fall kills Palmyra man in chop field

Henry Pollman of Palmyra was cutting brush when a nearly felled tree toppled and crushed him instantly. The accident occurred today in Rochester in the weeds as he worked with tools. Reporter dispatch from the Evening Observer notes the fatality.

Rochester N. Y Henry Pollman Palmyra Bin

Washington Waifs and Political Disclosures

John Porter ill. The grand jury probes alleged jury bribery. Ways and Means report due today. House votes split Lee v Richardson case. DHL purchase of Lincoln's death house approved for 15000. Census clerks discharged, may be rehired with funds. Boston Republicans discuss US Senate candidates Hoar Long Crane. Folger aids British Columbia in Fort Simpson Indian trouble. Wolcott sent to present violence only on British request.

Folger British Columbia Fort Simpson Wolcott

Frozen to Death on a Fraytien Brig

Reports from New York dated January 13 indicate that during the voyage of the French brig Goak Finder to this country the entire crew perished from cold, with only the captain surviving.

Sage Gok

He Preferred On to Silver and He Got It

Special Dispatch to the Evening Observer reports Henry Miller recently retired from the West where he had earned over twenty thousand dollars mining for silver. He lost his newly acquired fortune by speculating in oil yesterday and is nearly crazy with disappointment.

Evening Observer Lawreservit

Tonawanda Mill Fire Racks Up $25,000 Loss

Special dispatch from Tonawanda New York reports a fire at the Chapin and Co planing mill discovered this afternoon. The blaze spread rapidly and could not be extinguished, causing losses over $25,000 with partial insurance coverage.

Ing Mill of Chapin & Co

Prison Reform Measures Passed at Albany

Albany Jan 12 The Assembly adopted a resolution by Mr McMurphy to thoroughly investigate state prison abuses and charged matters cited in a recent New York Herald issue. A committee will be appointed as soon as the bill goes to the governor.

Evening Observer Albany McMurphy New York Herald

Hunger for Rail Power Signals Vanderbilt Bid

In railway circles it is reported that William H. Vanderbilt is negotiating to purchase the Illinois Central railway. Other companies are taking steps to block such a takeover. The report comes as part of a broader speculation about consolidation in the railroad sector.

Evening Observer Cmence Wi. BH Vanderbilt Mlinois Central Railway

A Dress With 1800 Buttons Incredibly Piled On

A Detroit Free Press report describes a dress with 1800 black buttons arranged in coats, sleeves, body and skirt. Ten days were spent sewing them on, with 1300 buttons on sleeves and bodice and 1350 on the skirt forming triangles and crosses. The dress weighed heavily and was intended to hold 3000 buttons, though the surface could not accommodate more. Detroit Free Press notes the Plymouth Rock fowls as ideal farm birds for general use, citing their reliability, maternal tendencies, and early maturity, though fanciers favor breeds with sharper traits.

New York Detroit Free Press Plymouth Rock

Probabilities Signal Station Wasiixoros Onsenvarion

Weather bulletin reports warmer conditions with cloudy skies in the west followed by rain or snow. Southwest winds bring higher temperatures and lower pressure, signaling changing atmospheric patterns over the Lower Lakes.

Provisions and Supplies in Wholesale Market Listing

A brief market note lists wholesale provisions including White Fish Smokers shoulders bacon and boneless cod. Cement lime salt and Portland cement prices appear with dairy items and various grains. The Oil City oil market summary provides a resume of the day’s business prepared by broker WH Williams.

P. J. Mulholland & Co Akron Cement Eng Portland F.F. Dairy Mei Baga Dar

Fragmentary OCR Reads on Buffalo Patent Numbers

Incomplete text shows patent references and numbers with scattered figures and letters. The readable items include 3280 pat and references to Buffata, Quay, Ong, and various numeric tokens, but no coherent narrative or definite event.

Pat Buffata

New York Money and Stock Markets Fan

The item notes the New York money and stock markets report with performance details for the trading day. It mentions price movements and market activity at 12 hours and at 5 p.m. with reference to the BS3 index and related financial metrics.

New York

Pig Trade Group Expands to New York and East

In a January dispatch from the Pirrs area, the Pig Tren Manufacturer's Association extends membership reach to include areas as far east as New York, signaling broader industry ties and potential growth opportunities.

Pirrs Area The Pig Tren Manufacturer's Association New York

DAIRY AND COUNTRY PRODUCE PRICES LISTED IN MARKET

The page lists wholesale prices for dairy fruit and livestock with includes lows for eggs apples raspberries and poultry meats. It also shows market quotes for hay straw and grain with prices for flour corn oats wheat and dairy items from buyers and sellers including Grocer Heyl and Thomas C Jones.

Heyl Bauer

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