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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1884
Page
3
A West observer recalls Pawnee cunning in a Chicago Herald tale about stolen gear. A surveyor’s instruments vanish, locals suspect Indians, and Texas prospector Cowen offers to help for brandy. They search tepees and cabins, finally recovering the missing items after following Cowen’s lead.
In Cincinnati the City Infirmary’s Superintendent recounts a patient’s remarkable history. A dying French Count, exiled from his estate, entrusted a hundred year old family watch to him before death. The heirloom, carried through generations, kept perfect time and was finally given its keeper a farewell interment to honor the tale.
A brief report notes a brief white rainbow seen around 9:15 am amid snow and rain, a rare optical phenomenon also observed in France recently. The piece mentions similar sightings in the area twice in the past year and explains why white rainbows occur more in mountainous regions and elevated viewpoints.
Anthony Arnoux, who killed himself in New York, was the first man to sell baggage carrying slow incoming trains. A 30 foot salt bed near Matisteo, Mieh, is said to yield brine of 100 percent. The Dutch Cabinet plans a bill to appoint a queen regent if the king dies before Wilhelmona’s majority. Charles E. Brown faces attestation in Boston for buying English shilling pieces, passing them as gold. An auction sale of James I. Deane’s bankrupt New York real estate opened, totaling $593,120. Captain W. B. Chew was arrested in Baltimore for embezzling funds. Newburyport workers seek higher wages, risking layoffs for 400–500. An assassination attempt on Emperor Francis Joseph failed. rail tracks near Pol were removed in time. Joseph J. Williams of Raleigh was found guilty of murdering Willie Watkins. A bread loaf that can be pulled into slices without a knife is introduced. Stiles shot City Marshal John G. Morton in Saylor, Texas. Morton says it was provoked, Stiles claims self defense, Monroe Stiles also implicated.
A compilation of brief items from various locales dated July including Judge Blando dissolving an injunction in Cievecann. Lizzie Emmerich's suicide in Pierspunen. cornerstone laying in Lincolx with 10,000 attendees. a postponed game in Baseln. miners’ convention plans. a fatal shooting in Cooperstown. a saloon robbery in Swanton. three deaths in Chicago worksite accident. body snatching in Cosmopochesx. a bank burglary in Swanton. Judge Shaw gravely ill in Vincennes. author Lincoln Phelps’s death in Bar mont. and economic decline in Allentown with Alleghany oil field downturn.
An editorial staff member endorses Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tone, claiming full health restoration after two doses. The notice promotes Fenner's Kidney and Back Ache Cure for kidney and urinary issues, nervous debility, and related ailments, urging readers to obtain the memorandum book and buy through U P Monrot in Dunkirk.
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