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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1884
Page
3
A late news item from the Evening Observer reports on Senator Logan for president. The piece covers various 19th century events including a collapsed iron bridge at Keller's Station Indiana, a Pittsfield Massachusetts mill shutdown, and legal and political matters across multiple states.
Fisher the surviving partner of Michel and Fisher proprietors of the Bennington Wooten Mills died suddenly in New York on Saturday. The mills employ about five hundred hands and their closing will be a heavy blow to local business interests. Substantial pledge of peace offered by Apaches of San Carlos agency as four chiefs accompany family to Carlisle and Washington for school visits with Dr Oly Givin and Agent Wilcox.
M Knox of J F Seiberling works found unconscious from gas in his East Market Street home. Colonel John H. Fery, once with General Dumont’s staff, dies of heart disease in the Occidental Hotel. The fishing schooner G W Stetson is overdue near Gloucester with twelve crew. Albany Trap Works resumes, employing fifteen hundred. Detroit man dies from napka explosion at Hamtramck gas works after a quarrel. Bubear beats Elliott in a £406 sculling match in Loupon. Cristle wreck reported near Lande End.
A morning shooting at a dance hall left O. Kurtz dead after Frank Williams and Jobe Grey fired at him following an earlier disturbance. The pair were jailed amid fears of lynching as the case stirs high tension. Other reports note fence-cutting outrage in Burnet County and rate scalping by rail brokers.
Rockvory OL Jan 20 Mrs Charles Salene left two daughters under three with their father. The older girl poured carbolic acid down the infant sister’s throat. The child died tonight in terrible agony.
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