Trade and Markets State Evening Corrections Buffalo Detroit Toledo
Trade and Commerce notes updated market quotations across several cities. Buffalo shows steady flour oats and millfeed with white and red wheat sales. Detroit lists mixed wheat and corn activity with fluctuating cash values. Toledo records mixed wheat and corn levels with prices for cash and futures. Cincinnati notes unsettled pork and steady whisky with weaker hogs.
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Buffalo
Duluth
Detroit
Toledo
Cincinnati
Fleet notes on fevered ship voyage and wrecks
Galveston reports the fever scow Sa tome fully supplied will sail to Hampton Roads. Rumor of three more crew down with yellow fever denied. Ingersoll Ontario Grand Trunk line washed away wrecking train near here heavy damages. New York police detain wealthy young lady claiming marriage. Tilsonburg flood triggers dam breaks causing property losses around 40,000.
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Galveston
Hampton Roads
Ingersoll
Tilsonburg
Hamilton & Son
Gust
Ward Going
Graves
Levy’s Center Street trade dollars appeal for par value
Wanted five thousand Trade Dollars at par for clothing and gents’ furnishings at Levy’s 57 Center street. Also notes poultry, oysters, ham sausages and lard as vivid ad lines. A mix of trades and materials appears with odd spellings and imperfect OCR.
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Levy
Center Street
T. de
Canadian Floods Hit London St Thomas and More Cities
N E Sackett a leading Erie County attorney was accosted by two detectives seeking a California bank defaulter. Believing it a joke he fought back until overpowered and manacled. He was taken to a station before the error was found. Afterward he identified himself and was released.
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Batz. Pa
New York
N. E. Sackett
Erie Bar
California
Dunn's Mercantile Agency
Union City
Sackett
Tornado wipes Soldier City. three women and child dead
A tornado demolished buildings in Soldier City, harming fifteen and killing three women and one child. The Kanaas Central Railroad is mentioned in connection with the disaster. Nearby reports note a river improvement conference in St. Louis with Senator Miller of New York in attendance.
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Holton
Neb
Soldier City
Kanaas
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Senator Miler
New York
Washington Waifs. Various federal actions and liquor risks
The Vandalia has quarantined at Norfolk over a suspected yellow fever case. President Arthur weighs action on Pierson stock complaints, while Teller forms a committee to study Creek faction differences in the Indian Territory. Civil service examinations begin. Pension Bureau staff faces dismissals and nolle prosequi, with Horton urged to resign. Banks fear whisky risks, warning of foreclosures and forced exit from bond due to export limits and storage abuses.
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United States
West Indies
Norfolk
Water spout devastates Peteraville. half a million in damages
A London wire dispatch reports a unprecedented water spout near Peteraville at two A M. A cloudburst sent a torrent flooding the village twelve feet, destroying 200 dwellings and forcing residents to refuges on roofs. A cradle carried away with a dead baby, a bridge struck, and fifty people missing amid losses totaling about $500,000.
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Associated Press
Loxnox
Ont
Peteraville
Misa Wright
Telegraphic topics mix of global incidents
A digest of terse reports: drownings in Binghamton and Baltimore, a washout in Credit Valley near Harrietaville, cholera deaths in Damietta Mangurah Samanoud and Shirbin, tunnel blast injuries in Scranton, deaths from an accidental bomb in Tripoli, landslides in Beckenried, a drowned body found near Meadville, Veintemilla possibly deposed, North German Gazette critique of American pork, Cetewayo battle and Oham capture, cholera deaths in Samanoud and Fan tah, Egypt rejects British aid, rail collision near Bainbridge injuring six Italians, and William Hope sentenced to ten years in New York.
List of flood losses in London West area
Luckless London reports up to now several missing due to the flood. Names include Mrs Hopkins and four Lacy children, a unnamed woman, a seven year old daughter of Mrs Orr, three Strat ford children, three McLean children, a Moylan child, James Spackman and wife with their three year old son. London West remains flooded and no full casualty count is available. More bodies are feared beyond the list.
Fight in Cemetery Over Marriage Sparks Knife Duel
Frank Cole and John Bently, in Marterva Georgia, dueled with bowie knives in a cemetery to decide who would wed a woman. Their seconds clashed and toppled, and the gathering was broken up.
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Associated Press
Marterva
Frank Cole
John Bently
Arrest of a Swindler in Small Town
Special to the Associated Prose Beerace July 12 Charles Dailey once wealthy swindled widely here recently borrowing money on land he claimed to own He was arrested at Silver Creek last night for an old swindle against Leroy Oatman dating twelve years back Taken to Angola for examination Dailey was a Nashville native from Hanover County where his home now lies
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Beerace
Charles Dailey
Silver Creek
Leroy Oatman
Angola
Nashville
Hanover Tins County
Upton Trial Progress in Rochester Jury Panel
Rochester July 11 Eleven jurors have been obtained in the trial of Charles Upton president of the defunct City Bank. The District Attorney challenged a sworn juror over a midnight transaction with a man tied to defense interests. The juror was discharged, and a third panel has been consumed with 140 talesmen summoned without completing the jury.
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Upton
Rochester
Charles Upton
City Bank
Murdered for Revenge in Polk City
Des Moines July 11 reports the murder of R. Clingan of Polk City as he closed his store two men fired a fatal shot and fled. Squads are in pursuit. Clingan had helped ferret out masked men who killed Polk City’s mayor last year, and authorities believe this connection may lie behind his death.
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Des Moines
R. Clingan
Polk City
Clingan
Electric Sparks in Cimarron Station Wreckage
A cyclone struck Cimarron Station in Kansas destroying six buildings and a large livery barn. In Ireland, paupers were shipped back on Furnessia and Spain ships by American authorities. In New Haven, telegraph operator Charles Welch is missing after a wreck caused by his neglect and a warrant was issued. John Hull died after being struck by a train at the scene.
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Dodge City
Kan
Cimarron Station
Here
Queenstown
Ctniciams
Ireland
Furnessia
Spain
New Haven
Cono
Charles Welch
New York
The Wife's Influence on a Political Career
Two old college mates discuss a leading politician in New York last winter. One says the wife’s pervasive energy shapes his public life, comparing her to Napoleon’s marshal. The other notes his classmate’s marriage, wealth, and decline, warning young men to beware sparkling influence and its grip on life.
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New York
Napoleon
Burnie
Oray'g
Farm Straddling Three States Overland by Delaware Line
William Smith owns land that crosses into Delaware Maryland and Pennsylvania creating a three state farm. The disputed homestead near New Castle County once sparked a famous corner stone relocation, with debates over whether his house stood in Delaware or Pennsylvania. He later lived on Delaware soil, facing mob pressure and a century old question of his citizenship.
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William Smith
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Mr. Smith
New Castle County
Philadelphia
Reign of Terror In Texas Ku Klux Case Report
A July dispatch reports a Ku Klux reign of terror in among county Texas with a political motive for removing men. Judge Haugh is named as the latest victim, being pursued on political offenses. A separate dispatch notes Rufus Munn of Lans ingburg's suicide with no stated cause. Elijah O Neil stole 3000 dollars from a woman in whose house he lived and offered a bribe. the money was recovered.
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Evening Observer
Wasaxetox
Texas
Judge Haugh
Pannpyrama
Elijah O'Neil
O'Neil
Paternal Solicitude
The girl abducted from Syracuse by her mother lives here and has inherited five thousand dollars. The mother seeks control of the funds and previously drove the daughter from the house.
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Miystaroris Mian
Syracuse
Weather bulletin signals for Great Lakes stations
Local rains cooler and partly cloudy with south to west winds. Signals issued for stations on Lake Erie Huron and the west shore of Lakes Michigan. Storm centre expected near Mackinaw.
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Washington
Lower Lakes
Lake Erie
Huron
Lakes Michigan
Mackinaw
Lightning strikes M E Church tower in Wayland
In a violent thunderstorm in Wayland the M E Church was struck by lightning. The tower was riddled but no fire occurred. A separate note reports district attorney Downing of Queens County facing malfeasance charges for failing to prosecute bribery cases. The dispatch also mentions unrest in Ecuador and a railway collision near London with injuries.
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Wayland
M. E
Albany
Downing
Queens County
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