30 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1885
Page
1
A three story frame building at Carroll College near Waukesha was burned to the ground yesterday after a noon blaze. It stood about thirty years and the loss is reported at 10000 dollars. No deaths. students evacuated calmly. Cause cited as a defective flue.
Secretary Frelinghuysen reports to the President on why the United States joined the Congo Basin Conference in Berlin. Delegates Kasson and Sanford focus on commercial access, river navigation, and land routes, while avoiding territorial commitments. The goal remains commercial, neutral on sovereignty, with further documents to follow.
The Dominion Parliament opened with the governor general’s speech praising harvests, prosperity, and upcoming land and representation measures. Reports include a wreck of the American schooner Aracana near Quacoa Reef with three dead, and a census plan for Northwest Territories. Additional notes cover a Newfoundland blizzard, a prison escape in Montreat, and a canal works explosion with multiple injuries.
Mutineers aboard the Swedish brigantine Natal killed the second mate and attacked Captain Endstrom during a Boston to Brisbane voyage. The captain was wounded and the first mate and carpenter injured. four days later the mutineers surrendered after a brief standoff. Brisbane authorities released them for lack of evidence, and the Natal sailed to New York with a new crew. Also reported is a Harlem Railroad test of telegraphing from a moving train using induction between car cables.
A string of fires causes damage and injuries across multiple locations. In Jersey City a kerosene spill fire at Jersey City Rubber Works injures two workers fatally. A Milwaukee Avenue dry goods store suffers significant losses, with extensive insurance details. Beacons Street mansion in Boston sustains heavy damage but contents losses are high yet partial salvage occurs. In Kiron Wisconsin a bank block fire devastates Reed's bank block, with Oshkosh engines aiding efforts and a fireman rescued from debris. A proposed National Roman Catholic University in New York sees preliminary talks and fundraising, with committees to visit Washington and plan location and fundraising strategies.
Secretary Teller testifies on pension practices before the House while Melville’s bid for a pole expedition fails to gain official backing due to Jeannette and Greely precedents. Cherokee lessees funded by private citizens eyed, Swaim court martial reports near conviction, and other notices from Albany to Boston detail prosecutions, civic meetings, and a fatal barber-shop poisoning in Brooklyn.
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