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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1885
Page
2
The notice explains that the Evening Observer relies on Associated Press despatches and wires, invites trustworthy communications with authors, and requires name and address for publication. It covers advert insertion, circulation payments, and job printing orders, stressing responsibility for paid subscriptions and delays in stopping issues.
The Buffalo Express summarizes Chautauqua crop conditions. Winter wheat may be below average, while hay, oats, corn, fruit trees, and small fruits show promising yields. Grapes and peaches face disease and market challenges, with some belts hit by winter damage and yellows. Overall fruit crops look uncertain but strawberries and other berries show strong potential if markets hold.
The July Harper features the start of Howells new Indian Summer, more Woolson East Angels, and a Silk Dress article on silk manufacture with many illustrations. It includes Buffélo with nineteen images of Buffalo and four full pages on Cleveland, plus outdoor pieces A Day's Drive with Montana Cowdoze and Ampere and Adirondack scenes, reflecting outdoor life.
A collage of literary notices and ads from The Morning News Paris to The Albany Citizen, praising books from Roberts Brothers and The Literary News, noting Bartholdi statue unveiling in France, political campaigns in Albany, new ferries near Buffalo, forthcoming Lasell Seminary commencement, and local curiosities like hair pins and donkey meat, with varied venomous fancies and civic notes.
In a New York typesetting contest at a Thursday event Joseph McCann of the Herald set 6 325 ems without paragraphs in three hours beating Ira Sommers of the World who produced 6 022 ems The first hour saw McCann print 2 122 ems surpassing the previous record of 2 064 set by Aaronsberg years ago A German medical journal quotes Peche approving that six drugs commonly deemed as specifics are germicides The named specifics are iodine nerveury quinine sulfur and arsenic
The Stockton Hotel changed hands with Harry Simmons of Jamestown succeeding Landlord Haskies. A new gas well by the Fredonia Natural Gaslight Company near Clinton Avenue proves productive, yielding over 7 000 feet daily. A Cleveland traveler, Robert Stanson, died after a platform fall while fares were being collected in Erie. Judge Farnum earns growing respect in Allegany County. Beach-bound Judge Lambert to speak next week. Allegany harvest prospects look bright with sizable apple shipments from Wellsville and nearby counties. Camp meeting of the Second Adventists at Lake Chautauqua runs through June 9 with hundreds in tents. The Rev. C B Clark of Jamestown, Universalist minister since 1845, dies, veteran of Civil War service and longtime Masons and GAR member. An advertisement from the World's Dispensary Medical Association offers nervous debility cure with reply request.
Charles Gilmore, detained since February 16 on perjury charges tied to Mackin election fraud, has confessed and swore an affidavit admitting his lies. The confession details that he was moved to the Second precinct of the Eighteenth ward and manipulated information to mislead investigators. Detective Faber sought a warrant for Scott’s arrest, a New York teller suspected in default, with a farm house near Prescott, Ontario noted as a likely location.
Ferdinand Ward appeared before Judge Barrett yesterday to plead not guilty to two more grand larceny indictments joined with James D. Fish. The district attorney urged custody in the city prison, but Ward remains at Ludlow Street jail with no custody change.
A cyclone struck Victory New Albin Wisconsin and nearby settlements forty miles south of Lacrosse on the 8th, destroying dozens of houses and injuring many. Loss projected at $60,000 as residents recover. Meanwhile a mass meeting at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia urged granting travel through the city for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with speeches and resolutions adopted.
A Boston telegraph operator recounts a 1866 voyage aboard the Henry Chauncey with a passenger named Charles Hastings. He discovers Hastings and a New York post office thief, Emmons, are one and the same, swallows a telegram, Hastings confesses, and later dies in Nevada. The writer, now wealthy, seeks restitution to the government for Emmons’s embezzlement. The letter ends with forwarded funds for the principal and interest.
June 9 reports say the Union Rolling Mill in Cleveland began lighted fires and workers not bound by the Amalgamated Association went to work while others held out. At Etna Iron Mills in Pittsburgh the foreman failed to appear and the mill closed. finishers were ready to resume today. Deaths noted include Commander Lewis Clark of the U S Navy in Key West and a New Orleans train wreck injuring several passengers. A young New York physician, Walter C Whipple, killed himself amid religious mania. Rev Daniel Dennison Wheden, D D L L D, former editor of The Methodist Quarterly, died. A Chinese man, Yoo Fang, found hanging in his cell after an assault case.
Daily train schedule lists No. 31 and No. 3 service with intermediate stops including Hornellsville Cuba Hinsdale Olean Allegany Vandalia Carrollton Great Valley Salamanca Little Valley Catuurauma Dayton Peru Salisbury Forestville Sherman and Dunkirk arrival times. No. 19 and No. 18 provide additional daily service with Sunday exceptions and specific stop patterns.
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