23 Jul 1883
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1883
Page
1
Telegraph corrected market notes list Duluth wheat prices for various grades and futures, Toledo and Cincinnati markets with wheat, corn, and oats quotes, plus extensive railroad and bond listings. Government bonds and U S news appear with current values and coupons.
The article notes the Corry Presbyterian church ground broken with room for a 400 seat auditorium and 550 total, located at Pleasant and Center streets with a tower. It also lists street dimensions, maps of surrounding streets, and seating capacities for the new church building.
The Electric Knights express no sign of resenting the situation in the principal city as a severe tenement fire rages in New York, causing alarm and drawing concern from officials and residents alike. The blaze highlights housing and safety issues facing the metropolis tonight.
Nine hundred striking telegraph operators took an excursion to Long Branch while others met in New York to hear dispatches from Philadelphia and Vandewater Street fire reports. The Brotherhood foresees victory as Western Union claims continued operation with no compromise. Initiations, mass meetings, and potential allied strikes spread across cities as a cooperative telegraph idea and financial support roll out.
A major blaze gutted the Munroe building at 97 Vandewater and adjacent Rose Street structure in New York. Estimated losses reach $300,000 with destruction on upper floors eight and nine, two buildings of brick and iron. Fire spread through the Vandewater six floor, forced evacuations, and yielded two to three serious escapes, with 22 firefighters rescued by rope. Cause suspected spontaneous combustion. no lives lost, though tenants suffered significant losses.
A heavy storm and tornadoes sweep through the Midwest with rail damage near Green Bay and Dodgeville, wrecked buildings in La Crosse, and a schooner sunk offshore. Lightning hits a Grand Trunk shed at Seaforth, Ontario, causing $30,900 loss. Multiple fatalities reported, including two women near Dodgeville, crops flattened, and washouts interrupt rail traffic.
The Central Trades and Labor Union joined the action as 700 to 890 strikers gathered for a meeting. Promises of financial aid were offered, and 200 members including Western Union clerks attended. Messages from Detroit Buffalo New York and other cities were read outlining the strike situation. Many railroad operators reportedly arrived in the city and joined the strike after hearing the case.
Wire copy reports a Virginia tragedy with a burglary shooting. Officials say the incident occurred in Va and a victim was shot by a burglar. The rough wording notes conflict with telegraphers and Western Union staffing, while Baltimore & Ohio reports halted negotiations. Unclear details follow as the wire dispatch summarizes labor tensions.
Secretary Teller reaches agreement to transfer Census Bureau staff to Interior as vacancies arise. Reports of smallpox yellow fever in Mexican ports and cholera in Campeachy Oaxaca. Eleven passengers from City of Washington land in Havana sick. five die. Hill investigation on records and alleged document suppression. conduct of official inquiries debated. Treasury notes bonded whisky export/import issue. U S holds that US grown goods exported and reimported cannot be stored in bonded warehouses. duties seized if unpaid.
Special to the Dispatch Press, July 33. Early yesterday morning burglars entered the Latama Corners hotel and attacked James Latham. He was shot once, and the report indicates the wound was probably fatal.
A. P. dispatch from Parkersburg West Virginia dated July 23 reports Jehu R. Coe shot and killed Calvin William, after accusing him of slandering Coe’s daughter. The incident underlines volatile reactions to alleged defamation.
A train on the Knoxville branch of the RE and NLR Ro passed a bridge near New Haven Kentucky this evening. Five spans collapsed sending the engine and two cars about fifty feet. The engineer fireman and brake man are reported fatally injured.
A block of nine stores in Newberry, D.C. burned Saturday causing about 50 003 dollars in losses. Other items note Columbus Georgia Associate Justice Martin J Crawford died yesterday morning and various brief local incidents including a gas inhalation accident in Seabright and a stabbing in Bordentown New Jersey.
Angusta Georgia Adziin Underwood was killed by Dr FE Scruggs in Scrugesville Saturday amid a family feud with no details. New Orleans reports the steamer Margaret lost on the Jamaica coast. a salt mine explosion unleashed 1000 pounds of dynamite with major damage but no deaths. Rochester notes a guilty verdict in the Upton trial on two counts. Huanuco battle details show Caceres with 4000 men and Garastega with 7600. Chileans with 50 killed and 104 wounded. Peruvians suffered many killed. artillery and standards captured.
Special Dispatch to the Evening Observer reports Deputy Sheriff Michael Quinn was killed while attempting to save a woman walking on the Long Island Railroad track last night.
Special Dispatch reports from Fiona Indiana that Alexis Keyea was forced to marry Daniel Stewart's daughter after Keyea allegedly ruined her. Stewart confronted Keyea yesterday and assaulted him. Keyea fatally shot Stewart during the quarrel.
A Dennison special to the Evening Observer reports that near Red River a four man party boarded a Missouri Pacific freight train. One man shot a brakeman fatally and wounded another named Grumble under the heart. Grumble was mangled when he fell from the train. the killer fled into the brush.
Jersey City police report eight arrests after a brawl among excursionists with two badly beaten men. St Petersburg cites an enquiry mission to gather civil rights reports on Jews in Germany France and England. Lowell man, a drunken former key witness in Tewksbury dies in custody. Eric Pa man risks death by mistaken dose after taking medicine from the wrong bottle. Mer cy s Grove Jersey City picnic riot leaves two dead and forty wounded. Havana reports thirty nine yellow fever deaths in the week. Gen BE O C Ord among ill passengers removed from a steamer to a private hospital in Chicago. Citizens League sues a prominent Antwerp keepers to test licenses issued before the July 1 reform.
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